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Features
Why have reformers suffered so many disappointments?
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Feature Extras
A high-profile race for an often-overlooked job
- by Charlie Deitch and Chris Potter
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Two challengers take on a controversial incumbent
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A rematch in an unwieldy district
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An upstart takes on a familiar name
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Twanda Carlisle's legal problems draw a slew of challengers
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A quiet election season -- for a change
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Two challengers take on a controversial incumbent
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Dining Reviews
The Continental menu reminded us of occasional dress-up restaurant dinners from our childhoods, with chestnuts like duck á l'orange and Virginia spots.
- by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
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New Releases
And really, who more appropriate to sing a hiccupping chorus that ends, "psycho rat fink fuck a go go"?
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Music Features
Many believed Bill Leeb's trademark aggression had run out of gas. Boy, were they wrong.
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Under The Wire
Pittsburghers drink like fish, but they're also tightwads about it.
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New Releases
It places the full capabilities of electronic and synthetic instrumentation against the full capabilities of the human voice.
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Music Features
Antibalas had a lot more on its collective mind than some '70s throwback or Fela-tribute act.
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Music Features
Magali sings with a timbre of conviction that's impossible to misread.
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With its blue-collar approach to rock-opera theatrics, the band has attracted like-minded fans beyond the hallowed halls of art-metal.
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Small Screen
A Kafka-esque journey into the rarefied world of capital-A art is the subject of Harry Moses' entertaining documentary, now available on DVD.
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Movie Reviews + Features
How entertaining is this all? Sufficiently.
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Movie Reviews + Features
This is the latest flick from the WWE's film unit, designed to celebrate huge, no-neck men who grunt one-liners and pummel their opponents.
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Movie Reviews + Features
Zbanic keeps the sadness and tragedy well below the surface of what we see, until now and then it casts an ominous breeze, like an approaching storm.
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Movie Reviews + Features
Contributing bands and musicians include: David Bernabo (of Vale and Year), Black Moth Super Rainbow, Boca Chica, Centipede E'est, Ben Opie (of Opek) and Shade. The contest also includes pieces by sound artist Steve Boyle and spoken-word artist Vanessa German.
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Movie Reviews + Features
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Movie Reviews + Features
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Art Reviews + Features
Weissberger is not out to say: Oh, hey, look how retro those afghans are, and isn't it funny that I've put bodybuilders next to butterflies?
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Architecture
EDGE's renovation has re-opened the lobby from its worst days of double-knit-era dropped ceilings to make it airy and expansive.
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Art Reviews + Features
In Full Bloom is an ambitious roundup of many deservedly familiar local names of the past 15 years.
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Left Field
Could the Pittsburgh Marathon be getting a second wind?
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Potter's Field
Just don't say you didn't have a choice this May 15
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Revelations
... Deserves a decent wage
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Highlights from the local TV news.
- by Frances Sansig Monahan
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Book Reviews + Features
King Everything is, ineluctably, a book about here circa now, or at least Collins' slice of it.
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Chapter and Verse
A poem by Joe Clark.
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Theater Reviews + Features
In the real world, it'd be impossible to watch this show without a huge smile plastered on your face from start to finish.
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Theater Reviews + Features
Like watching a 17th-century Syriana, we scratch our heads over where the characters are and what they're talking about.
