Graphic Account

Munhall's Ed Piskor talks about illustrating famed comics writer Harvey Pekar's new graphic novel, Macedonia

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Tall Union Tries Venti Organization of Starbucks

A national campaign to organize the coffee giant and protest the firing of five New York baristas, allegedly for union activity, arrives here.

• by Charlie Deitch

Macedonia is literally new terrain for American Splendor author Harvey Pekar.

"I'm a writer and I get carried away maybe," admits Pekar.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Profit From Non-Profit?

The deed to a North Side halfway house includes a provision barring the sale of the building until 2037.

• by Violet Law

Stories Clash in Contentious Police Stop

The case of Pamela Lawton, which has led to demands for greater oversight of city police, is no clearer after a preliminary review.

• by Melissa Meinzer

No News is Fake News

• by Marty Levine

UUBU6

An old social hall has been converted to serve our generation's finest communal function: fine dining in a funky atmosphere.

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

The Ex: 27 years of Dutch art-punk

The band's openness has made The Ex's penchant for collaboration and musical diversity legendary.

• by Justin Hopper

Local releases from Shade and The Gothees

"Bubblegoth" is how The Gothees describe their music -- though it's almost more of a musicological experiment disguised as a band: Where does '60s and '70s bubblegum meet goth?

• by Erik Price

Quiet Storm, a local mainstay, unplugs music

No more will the Cubano sandwich and the gyro burrito live in harmony with rock 'n' roll. The reason? Renovations to three apartments attached to the rear of the venue.

• by Manny Theiner

Theremin virtuoso Eric Ross visits The Warhol

Ross' odyssey came full circle in 1991, when he met and performed for Leon Theremin himself.

• by Manny Theiner

A Celebration of New Orleans Music at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

Not only do the artists represent the city's music with vigor and history, but together, they tell the story of musicians' post-Katrina struggles.

• by Justin Hopper

Terry Gilliam's Tideland comes in, and it's dark.

Gilliam is habitually free with the lens, but here it is positively, madly, joyously anchorless: floating, fisheyed, drunkenly lurching as if attempting to rationalize what's senseless.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Blood Diamond

There's requisite action scenes and battles, but in Blood Diamond, they're backlit by the country's chief resource: diamonds.

• by Al Hoff

Unknown

Call it Reservoir Dogs meets Memento meets a twist on Stockholm Syndrome, with some climactic surprises.

• by Harry Kloman

Results from the 29-hour Film Frenzy, and the documentary "Portrait of a Campaign," screen at Film Kitchen.

The surreal pseudo-narrative climaxes with a waterfall of white paper and a dramatic shot up through a brick passageway to blue sky.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Multicultural Celebration of Visual Traditions fails to define its terms

How does it make sense to talk about contemporary work as a continuation of traditions?

• by Janera Solomon

The deer in West Park has been around since I was a kid. What can you tell me about it?

Question submitted Frank S. Bruno, Penn Hills

• by Chris Potter

No Surprise

As many predicted, Air America done in by its own predictability

• by John McIntire

Letters to the Editor: Dec. 6 - 13

A Conversation with Joseph Wilk

• by Al Hoff

IUP Makes a Substitution

Local school poised to make overdue change

• by Jody DiPerna

David Griffith considers Abu Ghraib in light of Pulp Fiction, Flannery O'Connor -- and a Halloween party in Friendship.

When "Graner" conscripted a passerby to pull a hood over his head, and asked Griffith to join him in a thumbs-up Polaroid tableau, the faux Kirk complied.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

"Barrel Man," Part 2

• by Dan Arp

Dance Alloy Theater revives two favorites.

Choreographer David Shimotakahara "told us to picture what the Jerry Springer television show would look like if [Shimotakahara] choreographed it."

• by Steve Sucato

Quantum Theatre parties with El Paso Blue.

If El Paso Blue is a sprawling, disjointed play, it's a highly entertaining one.

• by Ted Hoover

Pittsburgh Playwrights investigates Corps Values.

• by Ted Hoover

Carnegie Mellon sideswipes Side Show.

• by Ted Hoover