By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Kathryn Fleisher’s passionate opposition to gun violence didn’t start with the Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting on Oct. 27, 2018; that only heightened…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Rows of candles said what words couldn’t. It had been six days since 11 were slain and Pittsburgh turned upside-down by the…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The headquarters of Pittsburgh Police Zone 4 is an aging, brick-faced building on tree-lined Northumberland Avenue; it sits around the corner from…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com It took Benedict Killang 20 years to find a home. Killang was displaced from his hometown in native Sudan at age 13….
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The photo’s resolution dates it a bit, but its message remains crystal clear. In the image, Shannon Foley Martinez, then a teenager…
“As soon as I heard the songs, I knew it was something I wanted to be involved with.” By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Sean Atkins understates things. …
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com When Buzz Osborne visits Pittsburgh Saturday, Oct. 5 for punk-metal veterans Melvins’ concert at Rex Theater in South Side, he won’t hit…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com When Chariot Fade formed earlier this year, it was contained mostly to three musicians and two rooms of home-recording equipment. Listening to…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Shy Kennedy’s Pittsburgh-bred metal band Horehound is releasing a new EP this month. But you shouldn’t expect to catch a preview of…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Pittsburgh’s Urns descends from the dirgy, often glacially paced punk-metal of Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))) and other icons whose guitar riffs are…
