Shark Sucker

• by Lori Jakiela

Vicious Cycle

Recent incidents involving bicyclists are, sadly, nothing new

• by Violet Law

Summer-y Offenses

What I did on summer vacation: suffer

Total Carnie-age

• by Al Hoff

Scathing Bonds

Former Pirate may soon be baseball's home run king, but Pittsburgh has no love for Barry

• by Charlie Deitch

Community says jobs needed to curb Homewood crime

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl offers more police to crime-plagued neighborhoods ... but residents say the key to reducing violence is more jobs. "It looks like every other meeting we've had," worries one Homewood resident.

• by Charlie Deitch

Paradise Lost

• by Erin Lee

Local "Wiki" master done in by "sock puppets"

• by Melissa Meinzer

The Wrong Track

• by Brian Butko

Cleaned Out

• by Tracy Brigden

Deep Trouble

• by Michele A. Cunko

Fairs, Festivals and Special Events

By the Numbers

Sequels Highlight Summer Films

• by Al Hoff

Summer Music Roundup

• by Aaron Jentzen

Concert Listings

Sports and Recreation

Kids Activities

Art

Theater

D's Six Pax & Dogz

D's big, beefy hot dogs are well seasoned with noticeable garlic notes, and the sauerkraut is a cut above.

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

Pittsburgh Net Radio changes its format

Cosgrove restructured the site as a blog format, where different Pittsburgh personalities program their own online mixtapes.

• by Manny Theiner

Matthew Rosenblum's avant-opera RedDust debuts

"I don't know if I succeeded -- the jury is still out, because I don't have any distance from the piece."

• by Manny Theiner

Battles' Mirrored features Don Caballero alum

Every note seems locked into some pointillistic, polyrhythmic groove; even a sharp intake of breath can become a song's main pulse.

• by Aaron Jentzen

The Department of Good and Evil blends jazz and contemporary pop

It's a bold set, yet it doesn't come off as novelty.

• by Mike Shanley

Literate, rootsy trio Low Water

The helpless (but not hopeless) feeling that life makes sense ... even if you're royally fucked tomorrow.

• by Aaron Jentzen

CosmoSonics' debut, Junk Rock ... For Lovers!

An unapologetic, bombastic, raunchy ride, bursting with rock anthems.

• by J.E. Rosenfeld

The Old Haunts

If the independent music scene in Olympia, Wash., had a family tree, there would be a whole lot of inbreeding in it.

• by Andy Mulkerin

Fay Grim

Hartley has always made films with a wink, but this one threatens eye strain.

• by Harry Kloman

Away From Her

Polley's film is no disease-of-the-week hanky-buster; it turns over its themes of memory, devotion, guilt and sacrifice with a refreshing lack of easy sentimentality.

• by Al Hoff

Silk Screen Film Festival

The festival presents 20 films, from North America, the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, representing the diversity of Asian and Asian-American experiences.

The Ex

Jesse Peretz's featherweight film is two parts workplace comedy to one part domestic piffle.

• by Al Hoff

28 Weeks Later

Plenty of style -- a pounding score, rapidly edited attacks, gore galore and huge special effects -- goes a long way to covering up a rather silly plot.

• by Al Hoff

Walls Flower

The backbone of this stunning show is a meticulous constructed environment composed entirely of salvaged scraps from abandoned lots near the gallery.

• by Adam Grossi

Two student shows celebrate the possibilities in overlooked materials.

It's starting to look as though Oscar the Grouch got his own home-makeover show on HGTV.

• by Charles Rosenblum

This Just In: May 16 - 23

Highlights from the local TV news.

• by Frances Sansig Monahan

Under the Gun

Let's call all victims of the city's violence "casualties of war." It's a death march with an entire soundtrack.

• by Dr. Goddess

Jumping the Gun

Republicans draw a blank on gun violence

• by Chris Potter

Thrown-Away Talent

Pirates have better pitching than they deserve

• by Jody DiPerna

Zine hero Dishwasher Pete dishes on his new book.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

For Momma

Poem by Rimma Hussain

Area native's debut novel evokes coal country.

Her novel smartly evokes the isolation of a place like Banning, where even Pittsburgh seems mythically remote, and the people most likely to harm you brush shoulders daily with your protectors.

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Stuff Happens

The true brilliance of Hare's work is that he never lets us forget that at every juncture, each man involved had the opportunity to stop the rush of history he was helping to (mis)shape.

• by Ted Hoover

Intimate Apparel

This is revisionist history at its happy-go-luckiest, and if you don't mind comfort and predictability, Intimate Apparel is a pleasure to watch.

• by Robert Isenberg

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson is an agreeable lesson in good intentions.

• by Robert Isenberg