Is City Ethics Code Unethical?
Mark Rauterkus, a South Side political activist and vice chair of the Allegheny County Libertarian Party, doesn’t do anything by half measures. He is running in not one, but two races on the November ballot. And last month he filed not one, but three complaints with the city’s Ethics Board … and one of those…
Front Lines
No doubt the drive from Baghdad Airport is more perilous. But driving through New Kensington with Jeff Carpenter offers at least a whiff of danger. Carpenter, the artistic director of Bricolage Theatre Company, is trying to find the home of Cpl. James Stuck. Periodically he’s also on his cell phone, talking about the set…
Art
South Park Theatre has taken a risk and reaped some great rewards.
DA investigating Post-Gazette’s use of Scaife court records
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala is deciding whether to file criminal charges against the Post-Gazette and reporter Dennis Roddy for their reporting on the divorce of rival newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife. On Sept. 16, P-G reporter Roddy wrote a story based on sealed court documents outlining all of the gory details of…
Westerners take charity to the Third World in City Theatre’s season-opener.
“It’s about two very intense days, the most meaningful days in these people’s lives.”
“First Step” Taken Against Domestic Violence by Police
This summer’s promotions of officers with domestic-abuse incidents in their pasts drew a firestorm of criticism from the community. In response, last week city council president Doug Shields introduced legislation to amend the city code, providing departmental “zero tolerance” policies on domestic violence. While not everyone is satisfied with the legislation as it now stands,…
Srishti Dances of India presents its latest premiere.
Odissi, says Dey, is “very sculptural,” intended to replicate religious icons; Manipuri has a wider lexicon and range of motion.
Protester has misdemeanor charges dismissed
Misdemeanor charges have been dismissed in the case of an anti-war protester who had maintained he was only trying to photograph a Pittsburgh police sergeant in action when he was arrested April 3. The protester, Noah Willumsen, a University of Pittsburgh student from Bloomfield, was among 25 demonstrators picketing Shadyside’s Marines recruiting station, on Ellsworth…
D.C.’s Middle Distance Runner performs at Garfield Artworks
You’ll definitely find yourself mentally adding in the “chika-chik — ahh”s.
District 9 Challenger Seeking Debates
The independent challenger for the District 9 council race is looking to stir things up in the campaign to replace the district’s indicted lame-duck councilor, Twanda Carlisle.
Matthew Shipp brings “forward-thinking” jazz to Warhol
“You listen to a playback and you think, ‘How did I get here?’ So that’s what’s really cool about this.”
Two new local housing developments anticipate greener times.
What these projects show, though, is that many aspects of traditional architecture and planning do make palpable environmental sense.
Boris is from Japan and out of this world.
The record moves like a shape-shifting force of nature, as narrated in existential Japanese.
Therese Raquin
But while these petit bourgeois types are indeed confined — an important theme — the actual size of the space negates the sense of claustrophobia.
Duquesne U alum Anthony Rankin seeks mainstream success
Unlike music students with their hearts set on a classical or jazz career, Rankin clearly wants to be a rock star.
Almost, Maine
Cariani’s characters all possess hearts as big as the outdoors in which they live, and he’s theatrically smart enough to inject sufficient bittersweet notes to vary the play’s emotional schematic and break up what could have been an exercise in monotony.
The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ Artist and Emerging Artist of the Year shows enliven two-dimensionality.
Jenkins has achieved a multi-sensory experience through entirely visual, two-dimensional means.
Douglass Brothers’ release offers simple dreams, a sense of humor
On weekends, they just want to kick back, drive to small bars around the tri-state area and purvey their basement-crafted bar rock.
Local theatrical legend Leon Katz returns to discuss his controversial project revolving around a century-old notebook of Gertrude Stein’s.
Katz, now 88, began deciphering the notebooks more than a half-century ago, after befriending Stein’s life-partner, Alice B. Toklas, in Paris.
This Just In: Oct 3 – 10
Highlights from the local TV news.
Under the Wire: Local music venues in flux
Change is afoot among Pittsburgh venues. But change can be good.
Letters to the Editor: Oct 3 – 10
Readers lash out at last week’s cover story on transwoman Jessi Seams.
Rich Irony
You know if there’s a big bully in school, and he always seems to get his way, you think to yourself, “Just once I’d like to see that big bully get his comeuppance?” OK, maybe you don’t use words like “comeuppance,” but still, you’d like to see the tables turned. That’s why I get so…
Zaiaka
Kumar’s personal selection includes a few dishes unfamiliar to us and others that are rare in local Indian establishments.
Reversing the Field
John Lennon said all you need is love, which proves he was never a football fan. American football is a grave matter. It is a serious game played with rage and attention to minutiae. The object is not merely to win, but to impose one’s will on the opponent, to punch him in the mouth,…
Manufactured Landscapes
Photographer Edward Burtynsky documents “the landscape that we change [and] disrupt in the pursuit of progress.” This documentary about his work isn’t a rallying cry, or even an indictment, so much as it is a visually stunning record of fact. Yet I couldn’t help wondering whether the film might have benefited from some outrage.
Modern Veggie
The chef who transformed Pittsburgh’s signature meat-and-potatoes dish into pierogie Dippin’ Dots can make a plate of vegetables into high art — or, at the very least, something to exclaim over.
The Jane Austen Book Club
Yes, it’s a chick flick, but it’s also surprisingly entertaining, as though you’d genuinely enjoyed a Jane Austen novel after someone forced you to read it.
Savage Love
More than a few times, you have implied that if one’s partner is unwilling to satisfy, the deprived person has a right to seek it elsewhere. My sex life with my wife, despite my best efforts, is infrequent and uninspired. I recently met a married woman who has had a nonexistent sex life for many…
King of California
A teen-age girl and here mentally unstable father search for buried Spanish treasure beneath South California’s concrete retail pods, in Mike Cahill’s dramedy.
North Siders Want More From Casino
Don Barden, the Detroit businessman whose company, PITG Gaming, won the city’s lone slot license plans on building a casino on the North Shore. The band of North Siders organized under the umbrella of Pittsburgh UNITED wants Barden to sit down with them to negotiate a community-benefits agreement. However, even though their fight for an…
Manda Bala
This vibrant essay depicts Brazil as a nation so off-balance politically and economically that a new order has evolved: a symbiotic ecology where the rich steal from the poor, the poor steal from the rich, and all live in various states of protracted misery
