WRCT’s What Would Your Mother Say
It’s Tuesday night on WRCT and a Carnegie Mellon student panel is explaining to host Susan Morris about “sexiling.” Sophomore computer-science major Amy Quispe says it’s when one roommate kicks out the other for the purpose of hooking up. Morris gets the idea, but she calls it “sexting” instead, which provokes laughter from the college…
New Formula 412 video
Hey! Good morning. Just popping in to alert you of a new video from local live-band-rock-hip-hop outfit Formula 412 — Gotta Give was just released today and features some gorgeous/harrowing shots and montages of natural and man-made destruction. And speaking of man-made destruction, their last video, Step To the Rear, was filmed on a Port…
MP3 Monday: Lovebettie
Hey guys! I hope you’re not letting the cold weather, global warming and/or the world’s potential end in 2012 get you down. But if you are suffering from a bad case of seasonal depression I’ve got an mp3 to cheer you up! Pittsburgh natives Lovebettie are taking the indie music world by storm with their…
Schedule Change for Quantum Theatre’s Maria de Buenos Aires
For the first time in its 20-year history, Quantum Theatre has had to delay the opening of a show. That doesn’t sound so impressive unless you know that Quantum is a theater company homeless by choice: It creates a new theater space for each show, usually in nontraditional venues, whether cemeteries, old swimming pools or…
An Evening with Ragnar Kjartansson and Friends
Performance art has a reputation, not entirely undeserved, as the opposite of entertaining. So what to make of Ragnar Kjartansson, who’s definitely a wacky performance artist — he’s sung songs for days on end in an abandoned theater — but also a born entertainer? In other words, should we be glad that a man jouncing…
Short List: Week of March 24 – 31
Thu. March 24 — Words You may have heard of Phillis Wheatley, the ex-slave who became a respected poet. Wheatley is just one of the poets (if among the earliest) represented in the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Contemporary poets represented include Nikki Giovanni and Yusef Komunyakaa. Camille T. Dungy,…
The Lincoln Lawyer
Too many Hollywood thrillers use over-the-top attempts to build suspense — the dark room, the concerned look on the protagonist’s face, the pulse-pounding music. But here, director Brad Furman doesn’t rely on parlor tricks because he’s got a great combination of script, actors and pacing that successfully builds a believable, satisfying legal thriller. Matthew McConaughey…
Kaboom
Ah, college — it’s all parties, hook-ups and scary cultists wearing animal masks. At least it is in the irreverent universe of writer-director Gregg Araki (Doom Generation). His latest film, a colorful, if low-budget, indie, plays like a mash-up of sex-filled campus comedies and wink-wink neo-horror like Scream topped off with a cultish apocalyptic film…
The Strange Case of Angélica
What kind of sexual fantasies does a 102-year-old man have? To find out, see Manoel de Oliveira’s The Strange Case of Angélica, the centenarian filmmaker’s beautifully shot, slowly paced and rather trite story of Isaac, a photographer asked to take pictures of a young woman who’s just died. As he looks through his viewfinder, she…
JFilm
The annual festival offers nearly two dozen films from Israel and around the world representing Jewish experiences from the comic and dramatic to the inspirational.
Rosa Parks Was One Woman
A poem by Michelle Stoner
Blue Water Tavern
Large portions and hearty entrees counter disappointing appetizers
Letters to the Editor: March 23 – 30
“Anything for a buck disguised as a noble cause for society.” — Posted by “Silent Anger” on a CP story about a regional paper that prints police mugshots in an effort to help curb crime
Blithe Spirit finds new life in local production
Noel Coward’s classic comedy of manners provides a showcase for actresses and for the backstage crew.
Precious Little mesmerizes at City Theatre
Just sit in your chair and let Madeleine George’s ideas and words flood over you and raise you up.
Reviews of Brooke Annibale, Cello Fury, Will Simmons and Gene Ludwig.
We review releases by locals including singer-songwriter Brooke Annibale, classically trained pop enthusiasts Cello Fury, versatile Will Simmons and the late jazz organist Gene Ludwig.
Critics’ Picks: Papercuts, Matt and Shannon Heaton, Danielson, Kurt Vile and Matt Wertz.
Music highlights the week of March 24-31, from from the laid-back Papercuts and the Irish airs of Matt and Shannon Heaton to a possible Kurt Vile freakout and more.
Steel City Soils proves that compost beats food waste
Let microbes, not landfills, eat your food scraps
When Life Gives Him Lemons, Carlo Dozzi Makes Limoncello
If you follow Dozzi’s instructions exactly, he claims, you’ll have “the same as the Italians in Italy”; if you don’t, you’ll have “bad lemonade.”
On the Record with Carnegie Mellon Robotics Professor and electric car converter Illah Nourbakhsh
CMU students convert first gas-powered car to electric.
Corbett’s education cuts would also hit adult-literacy programs
“Cuts in family literacy would be very detrimental.”
Corbett budget has college students, officials wondering what the future will hold for higher education
“It’s a scary time to go to college”
Project Runway co-host Tim Gunn lands in Pittsburgh
The style expert to host fashion show locally, dispense advice
A local artist’s Egypt initiative bookends a revolution
“The revolution changes everything about this project.”
A small gallery showcases an intriguing array of African-American artists, many self-taught.
It’s a tribute to artists whose work has often gone unhung and unsung.
Pittsburgh metal band Sistered releases debut
“If you hear an album that sounds metal but has other shit going on, it keeps your attention. That’s what we were going for.”
A night of “Ingmar Bergman-style vaudeville” with Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson
The March 24 performance at Carnegie Music Hall is modeled on informal evenings of poetry, music, theater and performances held at Kjartansson’s mother’s house outside Reykjavík.
The gals of the Bridge City Bombshells try their burlesque chops out on live jazz.
Live burlesque with live music hits Belevedere’s.
Sugar Café
A new bakery/café in Dormont offers both light fare and sweet treats
Savage Love
Three months ago, my girlfriend dumped me because I was going into the military. The one great thing about her was that she opened me up. At 22, I’d been in only a few other relationships. The sex with her was amazing, and she opened me up to different things (kinks, dirty talk, foreplay). I…
