Jovenes sin Nombres mural
Jovenes sin Nombres is a group of first-generation Latino youths with a dream: achievement. They’ll unveil their collaborative mural called “Pintando Para un Sueno” (“Painting for a Dream”) this Sat., Nov. 13, at the Ava Lounge in East Liberty. The group (“Youth Without Names”) formed in early 2009 when Michal Friedman and Argentinean artist Alfonso…
Das Racist tonight at The Shop
Hey blogreaders! Sup? Just dropping you a line to let you know about an Important Event that did not make this past week’s print edition. You know Das Racist? That funny smart Brooklyn hipster hip hop outfit that does the song about being at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell? The one that’s all…
Joseph-Beth Bookstore Closing
Just got the news that the SouthSide Works outlet, part of a nine-store Midwestern and Southern chain, is closing its doors. The place opened six years ago this month. According to a brief press release, the closing is effective “sometime in November,” or whenver it draws down inventory enough. “The continuing weak economy and resulting…
Short List: Week of November 4 – 11
Among Pittsburgh’s more reliable monthly venues for good art and lively company is Unblurred, the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative gallery crawl in Friendship and Garfield. Like most crawls, it’s mostly free, and some of the couple dozen venues even feed you snacks. The Fri., Nov. 5, offerings of visual art, music and more look especially…
About that college turnout …
One of the reasons Democrats got pummeled this week is that their GOTV efforts — which relied heavily on reaching out to voters excited by Barack Obama — simply didn’t pan out. It wasn’t for lack of trying, either. Take college voters. PennPIRG, a public-interest group that engaged in voter-outreach efforts on campuses nationwide, went…
Fiddlers Bar and Grill
This old house serves refined pub fare in a cozy atmosphere
Megamind
Going second is a risk, and there’s no escaping the fact that much of Tom McGrath’s 3-D animated comedy about a mean, bumbling super-villain who discovers his inner good guy bears some resemblance to this summer’s superior Despicable Me. But Megamind isn’t a bad film: For light entertainment, it’s everything you’d expect from a test-marketed,…
Inside Job
The financial mess — from Icelandic banks and foreclosed homes in Vegas to credit crunches and mega-bucks corporate bailouts — is hardly the stuff of entertainment. But despite its occasional skimming of complicated economics, Charles Ferguson’s new doc film is a compelling, two-hour financial horror show. As he did with his earlier how-we-got-into-this-mess film about…
The Chief
In its original incarnation as a hit stage play, The Chief appears to have run its course. Pittsburgh Public Theater says the January staging of the one-man show starring Tom Atkins as Steelers patriarch Art Rooney Sr. — its sixth encore since the 2003 premiere — was the last. But Atkins’ performance will live on:…
The Three Rivers Film Festival
More than four dozen films are on the slate as the long-running local film festival kicks off
Traffic Trouble
How Transit Cuts Will Affect Your Daily Commute
Dance troupe Bodiography mixes and matches art forms in its annual showcase Multiplicity.
The program features nine dance works, three poetry readings and a performance-art piece, living up to the title that means “a large number or variety.”
Slasher
No one overplays. And no one seems funny.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Cutting through all this glitz and glamour is one performer who still manages to steal the show.
This Just In: November 4 – 11
Highlights from the local TV news: Pop Tart
Cleveland duo mr. Gnome tempers aggro-rock with baby-doll sweetness
These are lullabies for the damned — hushed and lovely, then fiery and tortured.
Local band Code Orange Kids releases doomy punk-metal debut
“I love stuff that’s big-sounding, but raw-sounding.”
Silkworm alums build on indie-rock legacy with Bottomless Pit
Within Bottomless Pit resounds the legacy of Silkworm, but the echoes bounce back in another language, bearing a thicker accent of experience.
Building Dispute
Property fracas could be sign of things to come in the West End
Heidi Taillefer’s surreal beings, photorealistically rendered, will amaze.
Each creation is portrayed in the act of mutation.
A Conversation with Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz
“By the time I got into punk rock, at 14-15 years old, I was already champion of Kiev twice in long-distance running.”
Literature and music meet in events from The Pittsburgh Symphony and The New Yinzer
Each book discussion features a different member of the PSO — someone whose particular skills relate to the book in some way.
USA B.B.Q. of Pittsburgh
717 E. Warrington Ave., Allentown 412-904-3626 When I arrived at Allentown’s USA B.B.Q. on a recent Wednesday morning, I knew exactly what I wanted: my favorite, a pulled-pork sandwich. Assuring me from the small window of his red, white and blue trailer that I’d made a smart choice, owner Mike Bodnar quickly grabbed a…
Rallying Cry
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs … you’re probably going to lose the election.
Savage Love
I’m a 23-year-old heterosexual male, and I am married. My wife and I also happen to have a girlfriend now, making our arrangement a polyamorous triad. We all love each other very much, and we are thinking about how we are going to tell our parents about our relationship. My parents have already been told.…
