Stripping Away: Will tighter rules make strip clubs safer, or extinct?

"There is always going to be a market for looking at beautiful, naked people."

• by Lauren Daley and Charlie Deitch

Recent Transplant

• by Abby Mendelson

Duke's Station

Like the trains of yore, Duke's appeal is its atmosphere: causal and comfortable, yet utterly idiosyncratic.

Tiki standby Lemon Hart 151 due to hit Pennsylvania soon

"I'd liken it to grilling with gas versus charcoal."

• by Brian Tierney
• Tags: On The Rocks, On the Rocks, Taste, 151, Rum

Summer Is For Blueberries

Now is the time to stock up

• by Chris Potter
• Tags: On The Side, Blueberries, Summer, Taste

R. Stevie Moore leaves his bedroom after 40 years of musical diaries

"There’s nothing on the cutting-room floor and no outtakes. It’s a vanity project but it’s also that I'm a diarist of sound, and that's pretty much why it's 400 albums."

• by Mike Shanley

Critics' Picks June 17 - 21

Local shows from Jasmine Solano, Earth, Milk Music, Mount Peru and Iceage

Website brings the Pittsburgh music scene more of everything -- except sniping.

"Burghsounds is something more akin to Internet Movie Database than Pitchfork."

• by Margaret Welsh
• Tags: Local Beat, Art Baron

Those Darlins bring their Southern charm to Brillobox

"People think that everyone in the South is stupid, but there are rednecks in any rural area"

• by Justin Jacobs

On the Record With Haley Bonar

When I talked to my sister about doing the artwork for the record, I thought, "You should paint my face, and make me have a gold grill!"

• by Andy Mulkerin

Super 8

A small mill-town in Ohio, 1979: Six middle-school pals are making a zombie movie one night when they witness a very mysterious train derailment. Soon, weird stuff starts happening in town: Cars go dead, dogs run away, the sheriff goes missing -- and a military clean-up crew moves in. "What on earth?!" is the central query of Super 8, written and directed by J.J. Abrams. But the purpose of this kid-based sci-fi comedy-adventure seems to be celebrating the genre that the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, helped define: This is straight-up, un-ironic homage to such matinee faves as E.T., and The Goonies (with a bonus nod to classic alien-invasion movies of the 1950s). For a hot summer night, this film makes a perfectly decent piece of entertainment. It's all thrills and laughs until Abrams gets sappy, with so much overdone, super-shiny sentimentality that it felt like amateur hour with a zillion-dollar budget. Thus, your appreciation of Super 8 will likely be in direct proportion to how soft you are for Spielbergian "wonderment."

• by Al Hoff
• Tags: Movie Reviews + Features, Super 8

13 Assassins

A visual gorgeous samurai flick that's often sluggish

• by Harry Kloman

The Art of Getting By

High school is for moping

• by Al Hoff

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Filmmaker Werner Herzog visits Chauvet Cave

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Hobo With a Shotgun

It's a non-stop bloodbath in this vigilante pic

• by Al Hoff

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

Discover New Zealand's twin lesbian, yodeling, cross-dressing, sheep-, dog- and horse-loving singers-performers-activists

• by Al Hoff

Artists grapple with the uses and misuses of water.

"Among the most compelling works are those that achieve balance between the artistic, the informational and the political."

• by Robert Raczka

Reviewing Eric Singer's mechanized visitors from the near future.

"If there's a People's Choice Award for nerdy high-art gizmos, Singer is a serious contender."

• by Robert Isenberg
• Tags: Art Reviews + Features, Space Pittsburgh, Art

Raising the Bar: Friends, athletes pitch in for out-of-town Steelers fan

"I've got the best all-star team on my side."

• by Jim Shearer

Drinking the Guava

A poem by Joan E. Bauer

• Tags: Chapter and Verse, Joan E. Bauer, Poem, Chapter and Verse

Comic Davon Magwood, on the eve of a by-the-bootstraps national tour.

"It's like the Model U.N. on crack."

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Violet Sharp

"The play's long interrogation scenes are riveting, because Theo Allyn and Sam Turich are such perfect sparring partners."

• by Robert Isenberg

The Book of Liz

"The play's sweet disposition and somewhat sappy ending are certainly not something I anticipated."

• by Ted Hoover

Out of This Furnace

"Despite sturdy, believable performances, the play has no power."

• by Gordon Spencer

Short List: Week of June 16 - 23