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The general chaos of 2020 made it easy to miss the release of new books, movies, and other works. This is especially due to the fact that any promotional events, like in-person readings or premieres, were canceled, or simply became lost in the shuffle. To make up for it, Pittsburgh City Paper is highlighting three new(ish) collections by local poets, all of which were released in 2020. The History of Our Vagrancies, Jason Irwin (Main Street Rag) Jason Irwin delivers his third collecti...

CP photo: Jared Wickerham A horizontal well for a natural gas drilling site in Butler County On Jan. 24, oil-and-gas giant Energy Transfer shelled out some serious money to re-run one of their commercials during the NFL conference championship games. The commercial implies that oil and natural gas lines are necessary to keep tanker trucks off of ...

CP photo: Jared Wickerham People wait for a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus in Downtown Pittsburgh Everyone complains about traffic or long commutes, but Pittsburghers might have the least to complain about. Not only do Pittsburgh drivers travel relatively short distances for work, new data is showing that Pittsburgh-area transit users have so...

CP photo: Aaron Warnick Lindsey Williams According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pennsylvania ranks 34th among the states in the number of coronavirus vaccine doses administered per 100,000 people. Allegheny Health Network recently told WTAE that the large hospital group has stopped scheduling for doling out ad...

Apr 14, 2021 Being a Black person at the helm of a marijuana-based business is important to Jimil Wilson. It’s “critical to the health of the industry,” as he describes it...

Laurie Halse Anderson’s Shout (Penguin) is not a typical young adult novel. A memoir composed of a series of poems, it’s a stunning, heartbreaking, and...

Audio & Video Archive

Maria Baranova Suzuki I : I director and choreographer, Janessa Clark In the midst of the pandemic, Attack Theatre relocated from the Strip District to 212 45th St. in Lawrenceville. Now just a few months after its big November move, the dance company will introduce audiences to its new space with the premiere of , a film made in collaboration with Brooklyn-based choreogr...

CP photo: Jared Wickerham State Rep. Ed Gainey Last week, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto officially announced his re-election efforts with a virtual event, and on Tue., Jan. 19 Peduto has received his most formidable challenger in the form of state Rep. Ed Gainey (D-Lincoln-Lemington). Gainey has served as state representative for the 24th Pennsylva...