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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Heinz History Center opens "Pittsburgh's Hidden History," highlighting 300 rarely and never-before-seen artifacts and curiosities from its collection. -
Composer Jennifer Higdon discusses "Woman With Eyes Closed," her opera about an art heist making its world premiere at Pittsburgh Opera. -
“We follow the empty donated buildings” is the way Art All Night’s Lisa Fuciarelli describes how the folks behind the annual if nomadic weekend-long festival decide where it will live each year. -
Check out the 32nd annual JFilm international showcase, stop by the August Wilson Birthday Celebration Block Party or enjoy Comedy at the Carnegie — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend. -
Leaders from Pittsburgh called on the more than 600,000 members of the Pittsburgh Diocese to pray for the Pope's soul following his death Monday. -
The National Endowment for the Humanities is less well known than the National Endowment for the Arts. But the Trump administration’s recent gutting of the NEH so far looks even worse for Pittsburgh than its attacks on the NEA. -
Cuts to a federal cultural agency have hit the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka and the Children's Museum -
See the latest cohort of Brew House's Distillery Emerging Artist Residency, "On The Edge Of," check out a production of Rajiv Joseph's "King James" at City Theatre or listen to the Dover Quartet Downtown — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend. -
Jim Rooney, the son of Rooney Rule namesake Dan Rooney, discusses the diversity-promoting rule with American University professor and sports-law expert Jeremi Duru at a public event April 17. -
Kathryn Spitz Cohan has announced her retirement as head of Film Pittsburgh, the nonprofit she founded that organizes multiple area film festivals.
