Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble launches 2007 season
“We’ve done over 30 commissions in just the last five or six years and some of them are just mind-blowingly wonderful, and the audience has been requesting that we do some of these things again.”
Rush puts on an old-school spectacle at the Post-Gazette Pavilion
Highlights included a mind-melting version of “Subdivisions” and spotting a bunch of women who looked just like Geddy Lee. Next time, I’m taking drugs.
On the Pipe
A recent study by the World Health Organization (WHO) casts doubt on those claims, saying hookah is not a harmless alternative to cigarettes. According to the WHO study, which was released in late May, preliminary research reveals some serious misconceptions about the dangers of hookah smoking.
Autumn Grace
A poem by Erika Similo
The Perfect Party
Tony’s maniacal pursuit of the trivial, alongside stylized American vernacular commenting on the “American character,” makes Perfect Party certainly one of Gurney’s most interesting plays.
On Your Mark …
When Mark DeSantis jumps into a political campaign, he does it almost literally. Speaking beneath the grand rotunda of the Pennsylvanian on Grant and Liberty on June 26, announcing his candidacy for mayor, he could barely stand still. Throughout the 14-minute speech, his words were deliberate, but his movements never stopped, swaying from left to…
La Vie en Rose
From a humble, messy upbringing that would give Dickens pause, singer Edith Piaf rose to become among the most beloved figures of 20th-century France. Olivier Dahan’s bio-pic takes a less conventional approach — jumping around in time to unveil Piaf’s tumultuous personal life and heady fame; at times, the technique is distracting. Not so Marion…
Pittsburgh N’@
from: http://darnnews.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-about-bobbleheads-not-baseball.html It’s about bobbleheads, not baseball Only an estimated 1,000 attendees left their seats during the fourth inning at the Saturday night protest. I was one of them.I participated because I’m a loyalist, contrary to what Bob Nutting and some wackjob fans define loyalty as . . .I can’t stop buying tickets or listening…
Attrition
Attrition’s early output presaged trends that would emerge as genres of their own in the ’90s gothic/industrial resurgence.
Going Through the Motions
With Independence Day looming and that warm tingly feeling of national togetherness in the air, City Councilor Bill Peduto did something July 2 that was a bit surprising. The progressive Democrat introduced a resolution to support a White House initiative. “It’s a revolutionary day,” quipped Council President Doug Shields.It’s not that surprising that Peduto started…
Skateboard, Monster, Nightmare
“We went [and shot] every place we could think of that a monster might go,” says Moore.
Sage Francis
With his newest album, this year’s Human the Death Dance, Sage channels some of the angst from 2005’s A Healthy Distrust into more personal desolation.
Programs on horizon to help reduce risk of home foreclosure
This month, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) will roll out a loan program that aims to help those who are likely to fall behind on house payments because they’re locked into mortgages whose rates are soaring, such as the adjustable-rate mortgages.
Homewood residents get lowdown on SWAT team
After planned saturation patrols of high-crime city neighborhoods made headlines and ruffled feathers, the Citizen Police Review Board and the police SWAT unit did some outreach into Homewood last week. A SWAT officer took questions and detailed the history and tactics of the elite unit for about 20 attendees.
Shutter To Think
Despite its name, the city of Pittsburgh’s “Port Security Project RFI” doesn’t have much to do with ports. And while the initials RFI stand for “Request for Information,” the document’s entire purpose is that the next time the city wants information, it won’t have to ask. It can just look at the tape instead. The…
Sassy Marie’s
Dinner at Sassy Marie’s was an uneven affair bracketed by inspired appetizers and desserts.
Savage Love
I’m a 29-year-old married man. My wife and I are both active people (rock climbing, cycling, and kayaking) and our sex life is good. However, since high school I’ve been turned on by thick, big-butt, big-tit, ugly, trashy girls. In my 20s, I would secretly go to bars in the suburbs to pick up these…
McIntire De-bunked
Feedback from our readers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper photos tell their stories in Capture the Moment, at the History Center.
The images work only partly because of what they document; mostly, it’s a matter of how.
This Just In
Highlights from the local evening news.
Chuck Klosterman visits Pittsburgh for a reading and book signing
“If this thing that you’re using as your vehicle to find self-awareness is this constructed culture, it probably does make a person unhappy.”
A Conversation with Nina Marie Barbuto and Carrie Nardini
Nina Marie Barbuto, 23, fresh out of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, and Carrie Nardini, 31, who has an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, teamed up earlier this spring to create an outlet for young, entrepreneurial-minded artists and other creative types.Called “I Made It!,” the roaming Sunday market aims to encourage artistic exchange…
Transformers
If you want to see huge metal things from outer space fight, drag race and cause mega-mayhem, Michael Bay’s latest action film, based on the popular 1980s toys, should satisfy those base desires. But even as a mindless summer romp, Transformers really tries our patience.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
You know the problem with Downtown Pittsburgh? There aren’t enough signs. Because you know what absolutely makes a skyline? Giant advertisement signs adorning skyscrapers. In the past, the people who designed cities didn’t realize how screwed-up they were when they just erected giant buildings with cool designs and interesting façades. But now that we’re more…
