Screeing of Faith Pennick's Silent Choices to be held in Pittsburgh

Filmmaker explores experiences of black women and abortion

• by Melissa Meinzer

Sick Transit

The voices behind the debate over Port Authority service cuts

• by Violet Law

Local clergy, KDKA have meeting of the minds -- sort of

A deceased pastor's behavior "was outside what the Christian church expects of him," says a clergyman who met with KDKA. "We were not happy with the way the story was pursued but the behavior was a matter of serious concern."

• by Melissa Meinzer

P-G unions ratify new three-year deal

Mike Bucsko, president of the Newspaper Guild, called the deal "concessionary" and said all involved were just glad the negotiation process was over.

• by Charlie Deitch

Darfur activist: Ongoing campaign still not enough

he most important thing Americans can do, activists say, is financial divesture -- not buying from companies that in any way do business with Sudan.

• by Melissa Meinzer

Orchids International Vegetarian Restaurant

We quickly concluded that the real meat of the menu -- if you'll pardon the phrase -- is in the two pages of Indian selections, dense with dosas, uttapams and curries.

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

Johnstown's Mike Miller takes a personal journey with The Beagle Club

Perhaps Miller speaks for a generation that aspires to greater tasks than just serving lattes to the boomers.

• by Manny Theiner

Local music-scene vets unite in Hi-Watt Hex

"It's an exercise in bridging the gap between the power of our youth and the reality of our adulthood."

• by Manny Theiner

On the ground at Harrisburg's Millennium Music Conference

Squabbling bands, self-promoting musicians, suits, svengalis and hustlers. Ah, the drama.

• by Aaron Jentzen

More-is-more on School of Athens

Surely, My Chemical Romance doesn't have that one sewn up yet.

• by Aaron Jentzen

Irish trio Buílle blends the contemporary and the traditional

The concertina isn't the most graceful instrument in the world.

• by Aaron Jentzen

Zodiac

Fincher needed to make a slower, denser, psychological drama that lasted for three hours or so. Nobody would go see it, of course, but at least those few who did might leave feeling satisfied.

• by Harry Kloman

The Lives of Others

With a few deft strokes, von Donnersmarck conveys the joyless claustrophobia of living in a socialist paradise turned police state; even the prostitutes run on an ordered schedule.

• by Al Hoff

Acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky visits Pittsburgh.

In reminding viewers of the artificiality of conventional film narrative, Tscherkassky manages to at once distance us from and more deeply immerse us in the experience.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Black Snake Moan

If you’re gonna make a hootin’-and-hollerin’ sex- and race-tinged exploitation feature, just go for it: Save the lessons for church. (Capsule review.)

• by Al Hoff

Breaking And Entering

It’s sudsy entertainment for a while, but Anthony Minghella’s drama quickly devolves into a muddle of predictable musings. (Capsule review).

• by Al Hoff

The Number 23

In Joel Schumacher’s murder-mystery thriller, everything, it seems, is made of 2s and 3s. (Capsule review.)

• by Al Hoff

Reno 911!: Miami

The film transplants the Reno Sheriff's Department's hi-jinks to more exotic locales, such as Topless Beach. (Capsule review.)

• by Al Hoff

Wild Hogs

Four middle-aged dullards hit the blacktop on their weekend hogs for some open-road excitement in this tepid comedy. (Capsule review.)

• by Al Hoff

The vanishing ecosystem of the Arctic National Widlife Refuge is beautifully documented in Subhankar Banerjee's Terra Incognita.

The trails left by the caribou on the snow, and the linear patterns that their progression forms, are undermined by a sinister grey crack in their icy path, intensifying our concern for the conservation of this area.

• by Samantha Archetti

In Space gallery's Home/Away, artists stake a generation claim to the idea of "home."

To the 18 artists and groups who've contributed works, concepts of home seem rooted as much in generational time as in place.

• by Justin Hopper

I'm not from around here, but from what I hear, H.C. Frick oppressed a lot of Pittsburghers. Yet I live by this big beautiful park named after him. Why keep these names if Frick was such a bad guy?

We'll use Frick Park on account of our kids ... but we'll decry Frick himself, on behalf of our parents.

• by Chris Potter

A Conversation with Matt Mihalcin

• by Aaron Jentzen

Party Time in Race for Pittsburgh Mayor

The good news for Mr. Peduto-head is, if he loses the endorsement, it's no surprise ... and if he wins, it'll be an amazing victory.

• by John McIntire

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 28 - March 7

Penguins Hope the Kids Are Alright

The youth that makes the Pens so bewitching can cut both ways, particularly in the net.

• by Jody DiPerna

This Just In

Highlights from local TV coverage.

• by Frances Sansig Monahan

Michael Pollan parses The Omnivore's Dilemma

Our collective eating disorder, Pollan says, stems from too many options too far from their roots: What the hell is a Twinkie, anyway?

• by Melissa Meinzer

One of These Days, We Should Give Her a Medal

Linda Pastan explores the spectre of death stalking home and hearth.

"My main subject [has been] the possibility of loss that's always lurking," Pastan says. Wryly, she adds, "Not just the possibility, but in my case the expectation."

• by Bill O'Driscoll

The legendary Joffrey Ballet visits with a program of classics.

The three-movement tour-de-force set to the music of Prince is a shining example of the mathematically minded Dean's fascination with geometric pattern and repetition.

• by Steve Sucato

Footloose: The Musical

Considering how forgettable the music is, that the Footloose cast could get through it without having the lyrics written on their shirtsleeves is a small miracle.

• by Ted Hoover

Imagining Bubbe

What gives this play its dramatic weight is the manner in which the grandmothers are presented as women first, rather than iconic dispensers of wisdom and love trotted out on the holidays.

• by Ted Hoover

Asparagus

Drennan's done a remarkable job of using just about every theatrical device there is to obscure the fact that the actual focus of her play is an inert stack of paper.

• by Ted Hoover

I, Hustlebot

"I like the fact that it's a group mentality, we're creating something that didn't exist before, and tomorrow it'll be gone."

• by Maura McAndrew