Artists surprised to be locked out of building
Local artists say they understand why Braddock’s Ohringer building and its free spaces for artists had to close. But, they say, a little warning would have been nice. The “Ohringer Project” was the brainchild of Braddock’s mayor, John Fetterman, who signed a two-year lease for the building in January, 2006. Fetterman hoped to help revitalize…
This Just In: Nov 14 – 21
Highlights from the local TV News: Save that pig! … Joe Hardy is just and wise.
Apartment complex may be reborn as “cohousing” development
The U.S. Marshals Service had hoped to use the building at 5620 Rippey St. as transitional housing for non-violent offenders being reintroduced to the community. But fierce community opposition from the tight-knit neighborhood killed the plan in late July. Now, the building’s fate lies in the hands of East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI). “Our number-one…
Moveable Feasts
Aaron Austin and Lauren Urbschat are part of an underground culinary movement in Pittsburgh. By day, Urbschat is the marketing director at Dance Alloy Theater. By night, she and Austin, her partner, pirouette around their tiny, dishwasherless kitchen in Bloomfield, known as The Nitty Gritty Test Kitchen (www.yinzhungry.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/Sunday_night_suppers). You might know them from…
Chunky Move shows how to “Glow,” and listens when Australian men say “I Want to Dance Better at Parties.”
“What stuck me in listening back to these interviews is that they began as a discussion about these men’s experiences with dance, but quickly evolved into a discussion about their private lives.”
Did the famed Louis I. Kahn design a house in Fox Chapel?
Surely the man who concealed his offspring might also have lost track of a project or two over the years.
Letters to the Editor: Nov 14 – 21
Another take on the “Bodies” exhibit.
Escanaba in da Moonlight
As Reuben and Remnar, Scott Van de Mark and Matt Marceau remain right dere with him, making you think they’re so funny because they’re real and don’t know they’re funny.
Opie-and-Shut Election
Final score, Pittsburgh Mayor Opie: 1; Snarky Columnist: 0. The Boy King has been officially crowned. Readers of this column are aware that I’ve been hammering this kid since day one because I think he’s underqualified and lacks maturity. I was on Opie’s case before just about everybody else, and as a result I endured…
Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief
So you could call the thing an intellectual exercise, like, say, Tom Stoppard’s overrated Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Savage Love
You neglect generic guy/girl/girl threesomes. My friends talk about these threesomes all the time, ’cause they’re the “Holy Grail” of sex for us straight guys. Here are some of our questions: 1. What is up with threesomes? 2. How do I arrange a threesome? 3. How do I get my girl to agree to a…
Playwright Amy Hartman credits many influences for her wild new play, The Chicken Snake.
“I never feel my writing is about me. … It’s just sort of going through me.”
Instrumental quartet Cellofourte wins WQED band battle
“We have the driving rhythms reminiscent of heavy rock, and then over the top of that we’ll throw in a gorgeous melody that’s classically derived.”
Comedian Richard Lewis discusses insomnia, why strangers are better than family, and finally getting married.
“I was in these boxer shorts with long, black socks, it was like a Jewish porn movie.”
Recurring Night-mayor
For two elections now, local “progressives” have waited impatiently for the city to catch up with their own beliefs.
Pittsburgh Connections is a diverse showcase for five choreographers with local ties.
The 10-minute contemporary-dance duet — set to music from both Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte and a 1951 U.S. Department of Defense cartoon “Duck and Cover” — juxtaposes two very different kinds of human sheltering.
Symphonic pop army The Polyphonic Spree marches on the Rex Theatre
“We need get back to the life, and basics, and people. I kinda feel there’s some change coming around the corner.”
Mary Miller makes dance with something to say.
“My work comes from having something to say,” says Sharp-Nachsin. “It’s not just arbitrary movement in the middle of the floor.”
Go straight to hell with Flaming Fire
For the Flaming Fire have arrived not to call you to heaven, but to bring you down. Way down … but in the best way possible.
Mio Kitchen and Wine Bar
Few restaurants treat the pairing of food and drink — specifically, wine — as equals in the way of Mio.
The Pipettes go past formulaic pop without forgetting the pop formula
Golden-age-of-pop finger snaps and group vocals with lyrics updated to the current plight of the gal-on-the-street.
Crazy Love
Pugach and Riss have that gift peculiar to some New Yorkers whereby every recounted banality is juiced with perfect deadpan delivery.
Chuck D. to speak at the Stand Up Now! Urban Roots Hip-Hop Arts Symposium
Chuck D.’s music career, incisive social commentary, and business (especially Web) savvy have made him an in-demand speaker.
Charged Debate
In the YouTube video, De’Anna Caligiuri writhes on her back. She kicks and arches, seemingly trying to sit up. She screams briefly, and tries to grab at the twin wires that are attached to her leg through a pair of metal barbs. For several seconds, she recalls, she felt “a stabbing, burning pain in my…
Velocity Ramblers bring ’60s psychedelia to the Warhol
There’s real precedent from the ’60s for the bucolic weirdness espoused today by the frilly-shirt-and-flowery-dress set.
Six artists project a variety of approaches in Emission Theory.
Antis’ acrylic-on-panel work “Model” is the consummate expression of the tension between three-dimensional objects depicted in two dimensions.
I’m Not There
If there is a better way, for instance, to connote the teen-age Dylan’s precocity, naivete and self-mythologizing cultural presumption than to reincarnate him as a world-weary, rail-hopping adolescent African-American troubadour, I’d like to see it. Haynes’ triumph is to both express each Dylan in such distinctive terms and yet show, prismatically, that they’re one. [3.5…
Pittsburgh n’@
From: http://www.theblurgh.com/ Washie’s So last night I was hanging out with my Dad at his recording studio (it’s called Washie’s, btw, and it’s in East Liberty), and as the night went on, more and more random people just started showing up. I haven’t talked about my Dad much on this site, but he’s an interesting…
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
A pair of Manhattan brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke), both mired in personal and financial struggles, opt for a robbery — of their parents’ jewelry store. Things like this, as they say, can only come to no good, and they certainly do. When the heist goes south and their lives unravel, screenwriter Kelly Masterson…
A Conversation with Mark DeSantis
Everyone said there was no way a Republican could become mayor of Pittsburgh. As it turned out, they were right. But the Republican who tried, Mark DeSantis, sat down with City Paper three days after the Nov. 6 primary to talk about his race against Luke Ravenstahl, and his potential future in the public eye.…
August Rush
In Kirsten Sheridan’s whimsical tale, a wide-eyed, overly sensitive orphan boy (Freddie Highmore) pines intently for his misplaced parents (oh, he knows they’re waiting for him somewhere). So, he takes off alone for New York City. There, he’s revealed as a musical prodigy, and, in no short order, finds a creepy mentor (Robin Williams, channeling…
