- Issue Archive for
- Nov 9-15, 2006
- Vol. 16, No. 46
News+Features
Three-Year Protest Against Publishing Arrestee Names Continues
The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation is hardly alone in placing faith in the power of public information sharing -- or public shaming.
Downtown Janitors Sweep Up New Pact
After three years fearing owner rebellion against the old contract, a new agreement is hailed.
Juggalos Are Us
Insane Clown Posse has earned hero status among its self-identified outcast fans, called juggalos, and Pittsburgh is a juggalo hotbed.
Freedom Corner Push: Freedom from Casino
A few voices are raised against a slots parlor for the Hill District
Food+Drink
Franco's Trattoria
At Franco's, the menu features traditional Italian-American cooking, with an emphasis on pasta, veal and seafood, with a dozen or more options for each.
Music
The Dirty Faces
Get Right With God
Brah Records
Jon Check
Jon Check's gruff baritone belies his 22 years. But that starts to make sense when the first influence he name-drops is Otis Redding.
Ruff Creek
No Regrets
Beacon Hill
Body Without Organs
On Jan. 1, Bulgaria will join the EU, becoming part of an international community with shared interests. Yet its music has already found such a community -- in the Bulgarian Bar.
Garage rockers from the Holy Land
You get the feeling The Genders believe that, if it wasn't for all that religion and history bunk, Jews and Palestinians could reach a peace agreement over a classic Ramones riff.
Danava
So, I don't know ... Danava = metal for people who don't like contemporary metal?
On Screen
Babel
Babel is about as good as an expensive, globe-trotting, Brad Pitt melodrama can get.
The Three Rivers Film Festival
Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a new soundtrack; a study of old stag films; new films from Chris Marker and the Quay brothers; a drama from Burkina Faso; and a kandy-kolored tribute to the late "Big Daddy" Roth -- the Three Rivers Film Festival continues.
Art
Views
The Penguins are exceeding our wildest hopes.
These Pens look even better than we'd hoped
New Uses for Steelers Sundays
You could consider actually devoting some of your Sunday to doing something productive, instead of drinking yourself into a stupor and eating yourself into a new pants size
