By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Brian Broome’s literary voice is the kind he and I were both denied growing up. Our school curriculums didn’t include any Black…
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By Jody Diperna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Like the history of America itself, Alaina Roberts’ family history is knotty, astonishing and, to a large degree, hidden. With her first…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com More than a full year into the new reality of pandemic living, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures has upped their game in order…
By Nick Eustis Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com In 2009, 50 of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations declared April to be Genocide Awareness Month, because six different genocides have anniversaries…
By Nick Eustis Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The great writers of theater, from Euripides and Sophocles to William Shakespeare, are known today not just for the quality of their…
By Nick Eustis Pittsburgh Current Contributor info@pittsburghcurrent.com Bakery Square in Larimer is growing. The mixed use complex home to Google Pittsburgh and UPMC offices, among other tenants, will be unveiling…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com For most hearing people, Alexander Graham Bell is the guy who invented the telephone. But in Deaf culture, he is the man…
Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Ron Donoughe has devoted much of his career to chronicling Western Pennsylvania with a canvas and brush. A plein air painter, Donoughe spent…
By Nick Eustis Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Few other forms of artistic media were forced to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic more than the theater community. With small spaces…
By Matt Petras Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com When Jesse Andrews, a Pittsburgh-native book and film writer, spoke with Pittsburgh Current, he treated his interview answers like a rough draft…