On Screen Feature

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

A slate of more than two dozen recent Asian and Asian-American films

Pittsburgh Dining

Parker's PGH

At this Dormont stop, it's all-day sandwiches made with care and locally sourced ingredients

A "wild beer" specialist expands production and adds a biergarten

"We have yet to push what we can do in this field."

Marshall-Shadeland chef starts neighborhood cafe

"My passion is to build my community"

Arts

With a new owner, and alterations under discussion, much-maligned Allegheny Center Mall faces the future

The question remains whether planned changes will improve the fate of the greater neighborhood

On Stage

Opera Theater's SummerFest features Rachel Carson-inspired work

A New Kind of Fallout launches a "music that matters" series

Swingtime Canteen at South Park Theatre

It's an enjoyable revue of 1940s pop music

Books

Reviews of new chapbooks by Ellen McGrath Smith and Kristofer Collins

"Forget you once had angles, let / your head engulf the rest of you"

Music

In its third year, the Deutschtown Music Festival continues to grow

"We're doing this for the love of local musicians and the North Side."

For Long Island's Mr Twin Sister, transition is the norm

"We're always saying, ‘This next one is going to be where we arrive at our destination.'"

On sophomore release After, Lady Lamb gains focus

As always, Spaltro proves herself a deft surgeon, peeling just enough flesh away to reveal the vividness of the viscera

Critics' Picks, July 9-15

Concerts by Liturgy, Talib Kweli and some Nickelback stand-ins

On Screen

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

A slate of more than two dozen recent Asian and Asian-American films

Amy

Asif Kapadia's heartbreaking documentary profile of Amy Winehouse lays bare the complicated life of the late singer

A Poem Is a Naked Person

The never-released Les Blank-Leon Russell musical and cultural journey is finally in theaters

Self/Less

Interesting ideas about the mind-body and bioethics devolve into boring chase thriller

Stung

What to do about 7-foot-tall wasps?

Terminator Genysis

The saga of man-vs.-machine just gets more ridiculous, and incoherent

Short List

Short List: July 8 - 11

Downtown Gallery Crawl and Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh; Sherlock's Last Case on stage; Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble season-opener; Stoop Is a Verb fetes the North Side

Listings

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News+Features

Law changes will make urban farming easier in Pittsburgh city limits

"This isn't about people toying with their hobbies. This is about food. This is serious stuff."

Concert photos: Wiz Khalifa and Fall Out Boy

Pittsburgh's own Wiz Khalifa played to a packed house July 2 at the First Niagara Pavilion for the Boys of Zummer Tour with Fall Out Boy. Our summer photo intern Mike Schwarz was right up front to catch the action.

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Lynn Cullen Live 7/10/15

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Savage Love

"I am ashamed of the person I was and have worked hard to be a better person."

Lynn Cullen Live 7/08/15

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