Complaint against police idling
More than a year after her Shadyside traffic stop galvanized community members and drew cries of racist police, Pamela Lawton was found not guilty of disorderly conduct. Still up in the air, though, is the status of her complaint with the Citizen Police Review Board about the incident. Lawton was stopped in Shadyside, in August…
Oh Dad, Poor Dad …
The “theater of the absurd” is always challenging, but Duquesne’s Red Masquers have more than succeeded.
Going through the Motions: October 3 and 8, 2007
City council heads to a showdown with the state over the city’s parking tax … will council conduct a seance to consult with the ghost of Mary Schenley?
Three Sisters
If you simply must see Chekhov, Carnegie Mellon’s Three Sisters is your best bet:
For Now
A poem by Dorothy Holley
The August Wilson Center launches a new festival for black artists.
“It’s a way for us to help small arts groups and local artists by presenting them in a festival format and increasing their production values.”
Remedial Math
Looking for a quick refresher course in math? Here’s a fun word-problem for college grads: Check the amount of student-loan debt you owe the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Association. Then figure out how many perks PHEAA could purchase with it. For bonus points, decide whether state politicians are going to make things even worse. All…
Australia’s Circus Oz goes somewhere over the rainbow.
Circus Oz brought the DIY procedures of punk and the tenets of ensemble theater to its art, flavoring it with elements of sideshow, vaudeville and burlesque.
Pitching Relief
So soporific is the effect of Pittsburgh baseball that I promised myself I wouldn’t write another Pirates column until they were .500. But now that the season is over for them, I guess 0-0 counts. And really, the mandate of the team’s new general manager, Neal Huntington, intrigues me. As we all are painfully aware,…
The Gullah/Geechee Nation’s Queen Quet and local performers stage a show about a unique slice of African-American heritage.
“I am working with the children of the African diaspora there to dig deeper into the soil of their souls and their existence in order to bring healing to them as fruits of the African tree that has grown in North America.”
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old female, and I’ve been going out with my boyfriend for four years. He wants me to masturbate for him, but I don’t feel comfortable doing it. I love my boyfriend and plan on marrying him, but I cannot find a way to do this. I would like to do it. I just…
Pittsburgh n’@
From: http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/ Juvenilia How many Pittsburghers are wishing that Mayor Luke Ravenstahl would just grow up? Or go away? I haven’t surfed through the blogs for recent commentary on what we might call the American Pie incident (Luke and his pals drove a Chevy to the levee — well, he drove a GMC to the…
A Conversation with Millie Gregor and Jajean Morgan
You suddenly find yourself in need of, say, a nurse costume, a vibrating egg or an oral-sex instructional video — what’s a girl to do? Sure, there’s the Internet, and the sleazy adult boutiques, but those options weren’t cutting it for Millie Gregor, 23, of Point Breeze and Jajean Morgan, 34, of Squirrel Hill. In…
Letters to the Editor: Oct 10 – 17
Feedback from our readers
The Twilight Sad leaves Gooski’s wanting more
As when The Twilight Sad played Gooski’s before, they quit after perhaps five songs and politely declined an encore.
David and Layla
It takes a mature humorist to make sophomoric jokes about sex, and that’s not Jay Jonroy, who wrote, directed and produced David & Layla, one of the most witless cross-cultural romantic comedies I’ve ever seen — and it’s based on a true story.
This Just In: October 10 – 17
A dog disappears … and WPXI is there!
The Heartbreak Kid
Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s new yuk-fest — a slog through a postcard-pretty honeymoon-from-hell — is mean-spirited, and worse, not funny.
Behind a new album, comedian Steven Wright plays Pittsburgh for the first time in five years.
“One of the main rules is that the audience should know there is going to be comedy.”
Acclaimed dancer Bill Shannon and film essayist Roger Beebe screen their work.
The videos document not only Shannon’s thrilling dance technique — in which he achieves the illusion of weightlessness — but also his sly deconstructions of social interaction from the perspective of a disabled person.
Punk vets Teddy Duchamp’s Army reunite for benefit show
“When it comes down to the whole DIY ethic, I felt that project really embodied that.”
Muriel’s
This charming Art Deco-ish venue offers lively updates of local favorites, including crab cakes, steak and ravioli, with the addition of southwestern American and Asian flavors. Among the appetizers the addition of barbecued pulled pork, with a delicately spicy, agreeably sweet sauce, made the nachos a signature dish. Muriel’s offers eclectic cuisine prepared by a…
Icelandic punks I Adapt play the Roboto Project
I Adapt maintains much of the D-beat energy it started out with, but also has, in keeping with its name, morphed some to keep from growing stale
A Tough Row to Hoe
Farming is pretty simple. Someone buries a seed in dirt; moistened by rain and fed by the sun, it grows until it’s ready to sell. But standing where sunlight strikes earth on a hilltop near Natrona Heights, watching Greg Boulos kneel to pick a 100-yard row of peppers by hand, you begin to grasp how…
Czech rebels Uz Jsme Doma play Garfield Artworks
When the band was founded in 1985, rock shows were essentially prohibited in their country, the then-Communist Czechoslovakia.
Oct. 11 Mayoral Debate Transcript
Text of the Oct. 11, 2007 debate between Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Republican challenger Mark DeSantis.
The Carnegie Science Center unveils Bodies … The Exhibition … but what are you seeing?
The exhibit seems less about the risks of smoking than about the perils of being poor in China.
Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear performs at the Warhol
As in a good Miles Davis tune, the spaces between licks and phrases are often more compelling than the riffs themselves.
Kirk Nesset’s short stories shine in the Drue Heinz-winning Paradise Road.
Nesset can bewitch you with one word. But he can also make 100 sing like a chorus.
In Service
In a way, In Service feels like Dr. Strangelove with the War Room scenes edited out.
School board members squabble over minority inclusion
Does the Pittsburgh school district do enough to give minority contractors a chance to bid on work? It depends on who you ask.
Top Girls
The host is a woman named Marlene, about whom virtually nothing is revealed for a long time, even though she turns out to be a central character. Not a strong way to engage an audience.
