Mike Vargo

EC Summer Guide 2025 (Mid-to-Late Season): Festivals, Fairs, and Events

There’s still a lot of summer left, so get out and soak it in.

Shinedown, L. to R.) Barry Kerch, Eric Bass, Brent Smith, and Zach Myers. (Photo by Ebru Yildiz )

July ’25 Concert Guide: Shinedown, Wiz, Teddy Swims, Frankie Valli, Kesha, Vince Gill, and The Wallflowers

July’s shows are diverse and legendary.

Beyond a great wall of rubble, Gateway Center's new towers rise in a cavalcade.

Artful Echoes of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance: ‘Eyes on the Point’ at Benedum-Trees Gallery

A singular art show offers a ramble through history combined with one artist’s expressions.

Roy Scheider endeavors to center a dislocated Dreyfuss, asking him to fixate upon the flame from a lighter.

Barebones Lands a Big One with ‘The Shark Is Broken’

This newer, popular Broadway production is based on the making of the movie ‘Jaws.’

Concert Guide June 2025: Megan Moroney, Phish, Jack’s Mannequin, Bret Michaels, Jon Pardi, Halsey, and The Clarks

This month the larger concert venues are quiet, but the others are busy with top notch shows.

Kennywood's vintage Racer still rocks the coaster scene.

Entertainment Central Summer Guide (Early-to-Mid Season) 2025

Summers in Pittsburgh are packed with fun events and activities.

Pearl Jam performing in concert in Amsterdam in 2012. (photo by Lugnuts and Wikipedia)

Concert Guide May ’25: AC/DC, Pearl Jam, George Strait and Chris Stapleton, Post Malone and Jelly Roll, George Clinton, and Herb Alpert

This month’s shows features several legendary performers.

PNC Broadway's 'Come From Away' will get your foot tapping at the Benedum Center. (Photo by Evan Zimmerman.)

Theater Guide May ’25: Come One, Come All; Many Stages; Many Choices

This month is chock-full of interesting theatrical productions.

'Why are we like this? Why do we care so much? I don't want to be this person!' says Shawn (Robert Hunter, L) ... while Matt (Michael Patrick Trimm) tries to console him with the news that there are worse tragedies in the world than your favorite sports hero letting you down.

Good Sports: ‘King James’ at City Theatre

In a comedy about basketball fans, two guys play one-on-one in the game of life

Abercrombie, a jazz-loving bohemian, often pictured herself as a bewitched woman in black. She painted 'The Church' in 1938. (Painting loaned for the exhibit by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; photo by Edward C. Robison III)

Visions of Strange Worlds Within Ourselves: Gertrude Abercrombie’s Paintings at Carnegie Museum of Art

A long-neglected artist’s work gets an intriguing revival in Pittsburgh

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