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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The Three Rivers Arts festival has a new Downtown footprint, with its mage stage relocated to Fort Duquesne Boulevard at Stanwix. -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.'s "Rosette" is a gallery-sized installation evoking a fictive film script about art forgery.
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Many arts administrators cite formative experiences in museums, theaters, classical-music halls or college classrooms. But the new head of Pittsburgh’s main arts-advocacy group traces his arts awakening to punk rock.
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Celebrate Pride, visit the Three Rivers Arts Festival, or check out an art crawl on Penn Avenue.
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CREATE PA: Film & Theater Works! is a joint project of the Pittsburgh Film Office and Pittsburgh Public Theater.
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Artists object to Friends of the Riverfront painting over years of legal street art at a South Side park.
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Essential Pittsburgh is a new monthly screening series courtesy of Pittsburgh Sound + Image. The annual series will showcase the work of local independent filmmakers from the 1960s through the '90s.
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Take a ride on a 305-foot water slide or skateboard to the South Side — here's what to do this weekend in Pittsburgh
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In the new book “American Deadline: Reporting From Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era,” McKeesport journalist and resident Jason Togyer describes seeing his reporting branded “fake news” … by his own neighbors.
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The Allegheny Regional Asset District on Thursday awarded $3.8 million in grant funds to libraries serving some of the region’s most impoverished communities.
