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Despite being the shortest month of the year, February is also often the coldest, which can sometimes make it feel like the longest in a city like Pittsburgh where everything comes to a halt when the show starts falling. February, and, to a similar extent, March, are a barren landscape of waiting out the cold. This feels especially true during pandemic times, when braving the winter means huddling inside a home until it's warm enough to go outside and interact with other humans again. So while Valentine's Day is rarely anyone's favorite holiday, it's something to latch onto in the midd...

Mrs. Kasha Davis (second from left) with her fellow RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Local artist Angela Washko has a complicated relationship with reality television, at once feeling weird about how much of it she watches while also being willing to become the subject of it. “I do feel some embarrassment and insecurity as someone who does consume a lot of it,” she says, adding, “I've auditioned many times for Survivor.” It makes sense then that Workhorse Queen, Washko's first documentary feature project, set to debut on...

Delana Flowers in Sojourner Being cast as a historical figure is one thing, but getting approval from the figure's descendents adds a whole other level. This is what happened when Delana Flowers took on the role of Sojourner Truth for Sojourner, a new production at Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre. Set in 1851, the one-woman show, written by Richard LaMonte Pierce, stars Flowers as the abolitionist preparing to give her most famous speech at a women's rights conference in Akron, Ohio. “While I am waiting to go out and speak, a Black journalist comes i...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I've adopted some lines from poet Walt Whitman for you to use in composing a love note. Send it to a...

The Cartoon Academy logo, featuring a cartoon-ified Joe Wos, who will teach the course. Comics and cartoons are finding new life outside of the Sunday funnies. As the art form becomes more accessible from artists posting their work online, offering artistic and creative breaks in people’s feeds, Pittsburgh cartoon artist Joe Wos wants to teach anyone, regardless of age, how to get started drawing, too. Through WQED Education and the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s “Learning at Home” initiative, Wos will teach six courses that ...