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Features
Now that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are off the air, will we actually have to start reading ... newspapers?
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News
After passing the county's 10 percent drink tax, some members of Allegheny County Council may soon realize that a bar's "right to refuse service" sign is more than just words.
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Feature Extras
As Colbert prepares to cross picket lines and return to the airwaves, enjoying his book just got harder
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News
After the Pittsburgh Organizing Group announced plans to march outside the inauguration in protest, the police turned out in full force for the event. Upwards of 60 officers were dispatched to the Dec. 20 event at the Carnegie Music Hall. The POG contingent numbered only 15, and there was roughly one officer for every protester. The group marched without incident down Forbes Avenue to the front of the Carnegie auditorium where they were greeted by a contingent of officers.
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Feature Extras
A local satirical news Web site is slowly being assimilated by mainstream media outlets
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Dining Reviews
On a Main Street that most Pittsburghers never see, you can find a neon streetcar and The Taste of New Orleans Café. The menu is simple, focused on the classics of Creole cuisine: fried chicken, pork chops, jambalaya, gumbo and rice. Half of the twin storefront is dedicated to takeout, with a few tables in the bright red-and-green-painted space on the other side. Laurel Turner told us that many customers arrive for takeout, but stay to enjoy the hospitality, and we don't doubt her for a minute.
- by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
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New Releases
As someone whose day job is writing, Vellucci surely thinks a lot about clichés.
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Under The Wire
"It's gonna be over the top."
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Music Features
"It's more when I sing my own material that I really change."
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New Releases
You just have to enjoy good-time rock 'n' roll without expecting any flashy hipster trappings.
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Music Features
"If the rules have changed, I believe there should be something to make up for the fact that I was humiliated needlessly."
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New Releases
Blustery pirate sea shanties for gothic landlubbers dressed in tall boots and corsets.
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Movie Reviews + Features
In 1935, a team of African-American debaters from a tiny Texas college took on the national champs and beat 'em. But, as Debaters takes pains to show, the victory was won not simply in the halls of academe, but in each footstep the team trod through the dusty streets of Jim Crow South. But the feel-good film is missing sharper analysis, not just about race, but also gender, class and opportunity, that might have made it a more provocative film. Yet while deeply indebted to formulaic inspirational films, Debaters also feels like the smallest bulwark against the ongoing flood of our misguided cinematic imperatives to celebrate wealth, looks, brutishness and individualism over a team effort of intellectualism. It's heartening to hear applause for a film that trumpets "quiet" victories -- those won through education, reasoned argument, everyday courage and the support of social institutions -- rather than those won by another quipping, gun-toting anti-hero action star. [2.5 out of 4 stars]
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Movie Reviews + Features
In order to prove that his great-great-grandfather was not part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) must find a hidden pre-Colombian city of gold. From the high-octane, low-intellect House of Bruckheimer, the film moves at a good, engaging clip, especially since the screenwriters don't waste much time on exposition of character. It's only when someone isn't careening, falling, kidnapping the president or otherwise engaged in action that the film flatlines. This is just a goofball romp, and when Book of Secrets finds its groove -- in that slot between Indiana Jones and The Da Vinci Code -- it can be enjoyable brainless fun. The film is just barely fast enough that hopefully you won't notice what a deadweight actor Cage can be, how witless the "snappy" repartee really is, or how the supporting cast of pros is wasted. [2 out of 4 stars]
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Art Reviews + Features
The sound of toes throbbing audibly, of hammer strikes and piercing cartoon screams fills the tiny space, making the sense of violence -- despite the sugary animated coating -- painfully evident.
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Architecture
Before the first slot machine is even plugged in, this city already has a gambling problem.
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This Just In
Highlights from the local TV news: Ringing in the holidays with stories about hunger, utility shut-offs, and dead geese.
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Vox Pop
Here's a thought, pro-lifers: Back off
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Left Field
Pitt deposes Duke on a huge night in local sports history
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Incoming
Feedback from our readers: Bigotry in the immigration debate.
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Book Reviews + Features
Bathanti offers the texture of the physical world, teen-age angst in straightforward terms, the rhythms unforcedly jazzy, the characters hard-edged but never definitively settled, always capable of surprise.
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Theater Reviews + Features
And there's something to be said about the silly songs of the 1950s -- when, at least, you could understand their goofy simplicity.
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