Keeping up with the Joneses

• by Chris Briem

Gut Shot: Cancellation of UPMC vaccine center was unwanted surprise to Hazelwood

"You have no idea how this is being felt in the hearts of the people of Hazelwood."

• by Chris Young

POG Disbands: Anarchist group calls it quits after nearly a decade of protests

"POG may be history but the ideals that gave POG identity thrive"

• by Marty Levine

Hanlon's Café

An Uptown diner institution stakes out new territory Downtown

• by Chris Young

Beaver Brewing Company has big ambitions

"Make the beer taste good, but make it unique."

• by Brian Tierney

Bigham Tavern

This Mount Washington spot offers all the pleasures of a neighborhood pub in a neighborhood best known for dress-up, date-night venues

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

Innervenus rolls out a new compilation of Pittsburgh metal bands

"I think this will be introducing a lot of people to some different stuff in the city."

• by Andy Mulkerin

Craig Boliver's I Am Shark manages punk and emo bands local and national

"My goal is to kind of control everything."

• by Andy Mulkerin

CD Reviews

New releases from The Chad Sipes Stereo, Slices and Matatu

• by Andy Mulkerin

Critics' Picks: July 29 -Aug 3

Local shows from Hayes Carll, Bilal, Wye Oak, Phantom Family Halo and Brain Idea.

• by Andy Mulkerin

The Black Lips bring retro rock and onstage hijinks to Mr. Small's

Even more than the fury of The Stooges, it was Pentecostal abandon Swilley wanted to replicate onstage

• by Nick Keppler

Friends With Benefits

While amusing, Will Gluck's film hasn't got the cojones to really subvert the rom-com genre

• by Al Hoff

The Trip

A sort-of road-move buddy comedy that is a delectable and contemplative postmodern entertainment

• by Harry Kloman

Captain America: The First Avenger

Entertaining, but more a prelude than a full realized narrative

• by Charlie Deitch

Daylight

Picking up a hitchhiker leads to predictable trouble in this not-quite predictable drama

• by Al Hoff

Viva Riva!

Dishonor among thieves in this gangster pic set in the Congo

• by Al Hoff

Pennsylvania photographers get a new biennial

ontemporary photographers demonstrate a wide variety of styles and processes at Silver Eye

• by Nadine Wasserman

By the Book

Making the case for a (gasp!) new tax

• by Chris Potter

A radical independent bookstore expands

The Big Idea moves to bigger digs in Bloomfield

• by Robert Isenberg

Quantum locates another unlikely makeshift stage, this time for Twelfth Night

"It's all these grieving people who then just behave like lunatics."

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Dead Man's Cell Phone

Ricardo Vila-Roger has directed with fine insight, keeping the multi-dimensional satire well paced yet never overplayed

• by Gordon Spencer

The Full Monty

Just as the characters in Full Monty win us over with determination and sincerity, the Stage 62 company have us rooting for them from the beginning.

• by Ted Hoover

The Moral Abyss Strikes Back

The most promising one-act is an inventively modern perception of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

• by Michelle Pilecki

Short List: Week of July 28 - Aug 2