Right on for Left
Whether or not the Iraq War is another Vietnam, John Clendaniel says the anti-war movement he is helping to organize has begun to resemble protests from the end of the Vietnam War. Clendaniel, of Squirrel Hill, works for the local chapter of the Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee, and he helped fill one of…
Sarafina!
The show erupts with humor and heart, thanks in no small part to Ngema’s infectious, expressive score.
Paranoid romantic thriller Bug is the latest play from barebones productions.
Its thriller structure notwithstanding, Bug‘s emotional core is a desperate love story, and Cochran says she understands Agnes better than when she first played her.
Savage Love
I regard this column, gentle readers, as a sacred calling and I would never intentionally do anything that would cause you to question my judgment. Sound judgment, after all, is the professional advice columnist’s most precious commodity. Nevertheless, I have — once again — stupidly auctioned off the right to give advice in this space.…
Sort Of Records launches Woodlab bi-weekly showcase
Remember how, on Prince’s most recent tour, you got a free copy of Musicology with each ticket?
Venus
The gratifying friendship that develops between Ian and Jessie is lovely and sad and funny, just what you want from an intimate drama that distills human experience into 90 minutes.
Coaching Tips
Tomlin will need patience to woo the fans over the long haul. On the bright side, it only took Bill Cowher about 14 years.
Catch and Release
Director-writer Susannah Grant says that her film “isn’t a drama and it isn’t a comedy … but a lot of both.” Allow me to add that whatever hybrid it wants to be, it just isn’t very good.
Anger Cuisine
Poetry by Fred Shaw
Bodiography Contemporary Ballet’s new show heralds big changes.
Caruso feels that the way she and her company deliver their message is in need of renovation.
Blogosphere of Influence
I am amazed — and freaked out — that something I do sitting around in my underwear made news. I have a blog. You know, one of those stream-of-consciousness rambling babbling yippety-yap things on the Internet. At last count, there were eight hundred billion kajillion blogs on the earth. Some blogs have credibility, allegedly. Some…
Little Asia
At Little Asia, there is a separate page listing what appear to be the “secret” dishes the other Chinese restaurants don’t want you to know about.
Robert Karstadt’s The Illuminations Series paintings shine at the Brew House.
Viewed from the street, the paintings are the perfect lure, suggesting an entirely separate, and strangely exalted, world inside.
This Just In: Jan 31 – Feb 7
Frosted Layers Summary: Tips for surviving January in Pittsburgh. Station: KDKA Channel 2 Reporter: Harold Hayes When it Aired: Jan. 25 Running Time: 1 minute, 46 seconds Visuals: * A man riding a bicycle … in frigid temperatures! * A nicely dressed Hayes, outside, braving the cold in style. Highlights: * When Hayes intones, “Well,…
Pittsburgh N’@
From http://www.tunesmith-anthony.com/ Potential Names for Donnie Iris Tribute Bands Donnie Eye Membrane The Jimmy Krenn of Music Ellwood City House Rockers Rockin’ Eugene Levy Ah Leah Me Alone Not Marshall Crenshaw Yinzvis Presley The Muhammad Ah Leahs The Original Rappers From http://a-day-late-and-a-dollar-short.blogspot.com/index.html Here’s a Mastercard commercial I’d like to see: Age of the Mayor: 26…
Old Joy
Kelly Reichardt’s film walks softly, its sadness echoing like footfalls in an empty corridor. (Capsule review)
Trib’s Call on Steelers Coach: A Losing Bet
First with inaccurate call still source of confusion
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 is a mosaic of words, images, philosophical ruminations and occasional moments of studied absurdity. (Capsule review)
Free Beats Fee Any Day, But Especially April 15
Half a dozen agencies now offer tax preparation services to low income residents
Pulitzer-winner Michael Chabon, visiting Pittsburgh on Feb. 5, continues to evolve as a novelist.
With his successful shift from semi-autobiographical novels to fantastic fiction, Chabon has set himself apart from other novelists.
Gun Confrontation Case on Hold
Mother’s complaint about a traffic stop involving police weapons is postponed as she faces trial
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
“We could be talking about Strayhorn’s music for the next 200 years if you really want to get into it.”
Bill Dorsey’s Blues
One week before Christmas, Bill Dorsey goes Downtown to sing. He sits, as he has for years, on the sidewalk of Smithfield Street near the Kaufmann’s clock. His seat is a large portable stereo, switched off for now and swathed in layers of duct tape. He holds a big cup, also encased in duct tape…
Crust-punks Behind Enemy Lines release One Nation Under The Iron Fist of God
Simply the facts, ma’am, and it don’t look good.
Smokin’ Aces
This is all pretty good stuff, if you like watching a thunderstorm of rapid gunfire ripping bodies apart now and then.
Scum punks The Dwarves delight and disgust
A heavy dose of “nudity, violence and dwarf love.”
