Sorry, no Gavin
Tonight’s show at Club Zoo cancelled
Fostering Hope
The living room of Tina Miles’ house in Homestead is full of reminders of the kids who call it home. Mostly they’re at dance class right now, but bags with their names on them and toys and playsets are everywhere — neat and orderly, but everywhere. Miles is raising five kids — an 11-year-old girl…
Mantini’s Wood-fired
A new location and a revamped menu spell success for this South Side eatery.
Shear Madness
What takes place becomes a snappy, funny experience, full of unsophisticated material and shtick played with the right sense of style.
Politics: Bush’s ‘legacy’ promoted in traveling museum
At first glance, you might think that the “Bush Legacy Tour” is an endorsement of the soon-to-be-departing president. That is, until you step inside.
Courts: Judges get their own verdicts from lawyers
Every day lawyers get verdicts from judges, but every four years, thanks to the Allegheny County Bar Association, they get to dole out a little justice of their own.
Peonies
A poem by Liane Ellison Norman.
A local artist translates an obscure but significant poet from Madagascar.
“Finding a meaning, in quotes, in a surreal poet in another language can be a challenge.”
School’s Out
Even if the Schenley building reopens, the school will never be the same
The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly’s Not For Sale
A new HBO documentary looks a talented painter, undone by his own defiant personility
Sylli G and tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE parody movie epics and more in Start, at Film Kitchen.
But such Monty Python and the Holy Grail silliness as a guinea-pig oracle and a menacing giant owl aren’t the film’s only attractions.
Hancock
There’s one passable thing about Hancock, and that’s Will Smith: The bankable, likable star seems game, if somewhat off-the-mark. Everything and everybody else can’t break through this jumbled-up mess from Peter Berg. Smith portrays Hancock, a pissed-off superhero whose bad reputation inspires a PR agent (Jason Bateman) to help rehabilitate his image. You can almost…
WALL*E
In the future, a small, still-functioning trash compactor known as WALL*E is virtually the only form of life on a ruined Earth. But a visit from another robot known as EVE catapults WALL*E into both a romance and a grand adventure in outer space where the fate of mankind in the balance. This latest animated…
Booking the hits
Opus One and Secret Eye team up with the Brillobox to bring more touring acts
Local bands chip in for Support the Troops compilation
It’s hard to knock someone for trying to support wounded troops and their families.
Dead Sea Effect releases cross-continental collaboration
A great alternate soundtrack for the Michael Douglas vehicle Falling Down.
Chet Vincent explores Americana’s darker side
One part William Faulkner, one part Louis L’Amour.
Canadian quartet The Coast headlines PGHPOP Festival at Brillobox
And “pop” The Coast certainly is.
Underground Music Festival Buried
JamBaloosa’s cancellation has resulted in confusion and angry denunciations.
Iranian underground band 127 featured at Brillobox
“I’m not trying to get on a bicycle and spread a peace message. That’s irrelevant, and it’s not going to stop the war.”
This Just In: July 3 – 10
Highlights from the local TV news: When lawn care goes bad.
Going Through the Motions
After a vicious June 25 fight over a legal bill four councilors incurred by taking on Lamar Outdoor Advertising, a compromise began taking shape July 1. The $10,000 bill stems from legal action initiated by councilors Doug Shields, Bill Peduto, Ricky Burgess and Bruce Kraus. The four filed suit to stop Lamar from erecting, on…
More sugary treats sweeten up Market Square
They say cupcakes are the new cultural currency of cities, but you just can’t beat that new doughnut-shop smell. And on Mon., June 30, Market Square Downtown was filled with the sugary, coffee aroma being pumped out from the grand opening of a new Dunkin’ Donuts, the highly fetishized New England cruller chain. Even a…
Local music collective Atomic Family launches online zine
“You’re part of the zine, and part of the Family, if you say you are.”
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I both like porn and toys, and we often play with them together. But recently he posed an interesting question that left me feeling like a prudish conservative: If virtual-reality technology is developed such that one can have a sexual encounter with a computerized person (insert favorite famous wanna-fuck object here: Brad…
Who is the Fink?
In the end, the debate over whether to close Schenley High School came to this: Superintendent Mark Roosevelt was accused of hatching a nefarious plot to … to … help students pay for college. And that wasn’t even the weird part. The June 29 broadcast of KD/PG Sunday Edition — yeah, I watch it sometimes,…
African-American ceramicists are showcased in Black Clay.
Carpenter’s “Old Soul” is a beautifully colored reddish-brown clay piece that resembles an animal figure or the slope of person’s back, depending on the angle.
The Miller Gallery’s Nancy Crow retrospective finds her taking quilts to a new level.
Crow’s inventiveness while working within the stylistic parameters of a particular series is rather remarkable.
