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The Menzingers stop at Roxian Theatre in support of ‘Hello Exile’Video

The Menzingers are well known within punk rock circles, having landed multiple albums, including their 2017 release, “After The Party,” on best album lists from such outlets as “Noisey,” “Clash” and “Kerrang!” But in the mainstream rock world, the Menzingers, despite being among the very best punk-centric bands of the...
Saint Vincent community welcomes holidays with 3 performances

A trio of musical performances will herald the Christmas season at Saint Vincent College. All three will begin at 7 p.m. in Saint Vincent Basilica on the Unity campus. The schedule includes: • Sixth Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, performed by the Saint Vincent Camerata, Dec. 5. The Camerata...
Pittsburgh stations to play Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young marathon, ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ on Thanksgiving

Turn on the Thanksgiving tunes Thursday for a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young marathon on WYEP and the annual WDVE airing of Arlo Guthrie’s 18-minute-plus song “Alice’s Restaurant.” As much a tradition as turkey on Thanksgiving, WDVE will air “Alice’s Restaurant” at noon Thursday when cooks throughout the region pause...
Coasters, Drifters, Platters headline Holiday Hop at the Palace

Three classic rock and doo-wop groups will help kick off the Christmas season at a “Holiday Hop” concert presented by Latshaw Productions on Dec. 5 at The Palace Theatre, Greensburg. Cornell Gunter’s Coasters, The Drifters and The Platters – all Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees – will perform...
Review: Ominous ‘Dark Waters’ is like ‘Chernobyl’ for AmericaVideo

Todd Haynes’ “Dark Waters,” about the prolonged (and ongoing) legal fight to uncover the environmental damage of cancer-inducing “forever chemicals” and hold their corporate makers accountable, is a sober and ominous docudrama. On its surface, it’s an unspectacular one. Its lead character, a corporate defense attorney played by Mark Ruffalo,...
Singer Goo Hara’s death shines light on dark side of K-popVideo

The death of South Korean singer and actress Goo Hara, whose body was found at her home in Seoul this week, has again shone a spotlight on pressures that stars, especially females, face in the cutthroat K-pop industry and in deeply conservative South Korean society. Goo’s death at age 28...
Rock all-stars bring Beatles ‘White Album’ tribute to Greensburg

Fifty years ago today, Jason Scheff was 7 years old. At that age, the former Chicago vocalist/bassist says, he wasn’t really aware of The Beatles. “Back then, I was listening to Dionne Warwick, because that’s what my mom was playing,” he says. But 50 years on, he’s not only a...
Pittsburgh Symphony celebrates annual Thanksgiving concert series

When Manfred Honeck became music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 2007, the Austrian conductor experienced Thanksgiving for the first time. He enjoyed the turkey and pumpkin pie all right, but what really touched him was the warmth of the family gathering he was invited to join and the idea...
Mark Milovats brings annual holiday show to the ByhamVideo

During the Christmas season, two annual events are inevitable in the Pittsburgh region: Santa Claus will visit good girls and boys – and Mark Milovats will perform his holiday spectacular. Milovats, a Trafford native and graduate of Penn-Trafford High School and the University of Pittsburgh, has done his holiday show...
Review: In ‘Queen & Slim,’ bad Tinder date makes for great movieVideo

Rarely has a Tinder date ended so poorly than the one shown in “Queen & Slim.” Even more rarely has a bad Tinder date produced such a great film. The remarkable “Queen & Slim” is a romance and a road movie, a film about outlaws on the run, two journeys...
Review: ‘Knives Out’ an old-fashioned whodunit made devilishly newVideo

Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” unravels not just a good old-fashioned murder mystery but the very fabric of the whodunit, pulling at loose threads until it has intricately, devilishly woven together something new and exceedingly delightful. For all the detective tales that dot television screens, the Agatha Christie-styled whodunit has gone...
Jason Aldean says owning his records was a priority to himVideo

Country star Jason Aldean learned the hard lessons about the music business when he first signed a record deal with Capitol Records that ended up never producing any music. Years later, he signed to Broken Bow, a Nashville-based indie label that has gone on to release all nine of Aldean’s...
‘This Is Us’ actor Blake Stadnik in Pittsburgh holiday paradeVideo

When he was a boy, Blake Stadnik marched with the Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars in the WPXI Holiday Parade. On Nov. 30, the actor and “This Is Us” cast member and Ellwood City native will again participate in the parade, this time as a featured performer. “I was 10, 11...
AARP releases the names of its Movies for Grownups nominees

NEW YORK — A new batch of film nominations are out from an influential media organization — but superhero flicks and “Frozen 2” need not apply. AARP has released nominations for its annual Movies for Grownups awards, which is designed to reward films that resonate with older viewers and fight...
Review: ‘School Girls’ tackles universal themes of racism, body image

I was born and brought up in Pakistan, a country that I suppose is known to the world as very traditional and, in some ways, rigid. But as I spent a week in Pittsburgh as a visiting reporter, I saw how things are no different here: Thousands of miles away...
Regent Square, Harris theaters shuttered; Pittsburgh Center for Arts closes main building

The Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media on Monday closed the Regent Square Theater and the Harris Theater, Downtown, and will cease operations at year’s end in the Marshall Mansion, its main building at the corner of Fifth and Shady avenues in Pittsburgh’s East End. In a letter to its...

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