Frontlines of Healing

Helping civilian victims of Afghanistan's worsening violence

• by Marty Levine

Hill May Face Mountain of Development with New Group

Members envision the Greater Hill Development League as a unifying voice on housing and economic development.

• by Violet Law

Machine Nation

Will our electronic voting machines in November perform better or worse than they did in May? And how can we know?

• by Marty Levine

Marching To Prevent the Prevention of Marching

A local activist contends police are wielding "potentially deadly force against non-violent protesters to scare people out of protest activity."

• by Marty Levine

Fuel & Fuddle

Fuel & Fuddle serves up good food and good times in an atmosphere that is clever without being condescending, themed without being imagineered.

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

CD reviews: Mary Celeste, Microwaves

What Mary Celeste does best is flirt with trends while staying grounded in older post-punk and hardcore styles.

• by Aaron Jentzen

DJ Spaed

"Come face to face with underground hip-hop and electronic music and realize yinz been wrong all along!"

• by Omar-Abdul R. Lawrence

Petra Haden

In Haden's music there's a tension between the humble interpreter of others' music, and the quirky creator of her own unorthodox sound.

• by Aaron Jentzen

Blindsider

With the dual male/female vocals in place, the band's high-energy, riff-heavy sound has taken shape.

• by Erik Price

The Melvins

"There's a lot of people who think we're nothing more than a two-mile-an-hour Black Sabbath train to nowhere."

• by Ed Masley

All Grown Up

Previewing the Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

• by Al Hoff

Lunacy

Lunacy is a depiction, the filmmaker tells us, of the extremes of complete freedom and utter repression.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Flags of Our Fathers

What constitutes a hero? Is it a specific action, or simply surviving? Is living a "heroic" lie for the greater good an admirable sacrifice?

• by Al Hoff

A Conversation With TV Scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach

An interview with a CMU grad who's spent the past 11 years as a television writer and producer, for critically acclaimed and cult-hit TV shows.

• by Al Hoff

Novel Tease

This year's design-awards program from the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects presents an intriguing blend.

• by Charles Rosenblum

Mirror, Mirror

• by Gregory M. Knepp

Bullet Points

How about gun rights for ex-cons?

• by Joe Martier

Political Exorcise

Mark it down: The 2007 mayoral campaign began last week

• by Chris Potter

This Just In: Oct. 19

A deeper look into the life of a man who "lives in filth" ... send your holiday cards now!

• by Frances Sansig Monahan

Tigers By the Tale

A baseball story you have to love, for a change

• by Jody DiPerna

A Conversation with David Nasaw

The author of a new Andrew Carnegie biography speaks about his subject

• by Chris Potter

The Steps of Pittsburgh

• by Shirley Stevens

The Good Body

According to Eve Ensler, from the moment of birth women are taught that something is "bad" about them. And in developed countries, at least, that judgment manifests itself in body image.

• by Ted Hoover

Pagliacci

I shudder to think of the truckloads of cash the opera must have shelled out. But whatever it cost, it was worth it

• by Steven Singer

Muses and Monsters at the Black Sheep Puppet Festival

Local puppet festival includes exploration of Alice in Wonderland.

• by Bill O'Driscoll