Bill O'Driscoll
Arts & Culture ReporterBill is a long-time Pittsburgh-based journalist specializing in arts and the environment. Prior to working at WESA, he spent 21 years at the weekly Pittsburgh City Paper, the last 14 as Arts & Entertainment editor. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and in 30-plus years as a journalist has freelanced for publications including In Pittsburgh, The Nation, E: The Environmental Magazine, American Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bill has earned numerous Golden Quill awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. He lives in the neighborhood of Manchester, and he once milked a goat.
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Celebrate Earth Day with the day-long Wild Earth Music, Art and Culture Festival, check out the Pittsburgh debut of Israel's Vertigo Dance Company or watch a new stage work with "science, puppetry and stagecraft" — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.
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Pittsburgh instinctively repurposes steel metaphors for pretty much everything, from actual heavy industry to sports teams and even restaurant menus. But with her new installation at the Carnegie Museum of Art, visiting artist Marie Watt thinks she has found a fresh way to revisit the city’s favorite alloy.
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Pittsburgh's big new music festival, Sudden Little Thrills, names SZA and The Killers as headliners.
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Why will folks still shell out to see their favorite bands — often at hundreds of dollars a pop — while many fans of theater, classical music and even musical theater are still staying away?
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Checking out art commenting on race, womanism and identity at “Where Did Your Christ Come From?”, watching a 45th-anniversary re-release screening of George Romero's 1979 hit “Dawn of the Dead” or seeing Bodiography, a dance troupe that blends classical and contemporary styles — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.
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Pittsburgh CLO will offer trolley shuttles, discounted tickets for kids and free child care during shows in an effort to bring back audiences lost since the pandemic shutdown.
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Her new book is a collection of 40 humorous essays that draws on her reading experiences from childhood to the creative writing classes she teaches as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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The 45th-anniversary re-release of Pittsburgh-shot zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" includes the first local theatrical screenings in years.
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An unprecedented collaboration between the Frick Pittsburgh and New York's Frick Collection features the Pittsburgh premiere of works by Vermeer, Rembrandt and more.
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An axiom holds that explicitly political art is a tough sell. And such works can be heavy-handed. Yet artists who engage their material with open hearts can overcome such barriers. That’s what the folks at the National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section say they have in “The Abortion Monologues.”