Second shot: Gun lobby taking aim at local firearm ordinances

"You don't give one single special-interest group a special set of rules for how to use Pennsylvania courts."

• by Lauren Daley

Wealth and Welfare: As budget ax prepares to fall on social services, big business gets a hand up

"I think it shows very clearly what the priorities of this administration are."

• by Charlie Deitch

Out in the Streets

From Pridefest to the Pride Awareness march, LGBT Pittsburghers and supporters celebrated their city, and each other.

A family-owned winemaker joins the Strip District's mix

"We wanted to be in the middle of things."

• by Hal B. Klein

Teppanyaki Kyoto

A new Japanese restaurant goes beyond sushi, offering entrees drawn from the menus of the lunch counters, train stations and family kitchens

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
• Tags: Dining Reviews, Slideshow

Wilson's Bar-B-Q

For more than 43 years, this North Side spot has offered "Riblicious Spare Ribs & Chicken"

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Noise rockers Microwaves return with a fourth full-length

The album is both a noisy, visceral trip and a technical feat

• by Andy Mulkerin

Of Montreal keeps it eccentric

What results is a delightful mélange of complex pop arrangements, androgynous glam-rock fashion, ninja tumbling passes and occasional forays into mock Greek orgies and pig sacrifices

• by Allie Goolrick

CP's Sounding Board series returns

Triggers, Tracksploitation and Bluebird Midwest play the June 14 show

• by Andy Mulkerin

CD Reviews

New releases from Brandon Locher, The Nancy McKeen Bluz Machine and The Nied's Hotel Band

• by Andy Mulkerin

Critics' Picks: June 15 - 19

Local shows by Snarky Puppy, Santigold, The Bynars, Childish Gambino and The Weeknd

• by Gregg Harrington, Andy Mulkerin and Margaret Welsh

Prometheus

Ridley Scott's prequel to Alien goes mildly into deep dark space

• by Al Hoff

First Position

An engaging doc about young ballet dancers is both inspiring and a little troubling.

• by Al Hoff

Beyond the Black Rainbow

A film seemingly inspired by the most obtuse sequences from 2001, Solaris, TX1138 and other 1960s and '70s sci-fi think-pieces

• by Al Hoff

The Extraordinary Voyage with A Trip to the Moon

A doc recounting the making and influence of Melies' 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon"

• by Al Hoff

Hysteria

A period rom-com about the English doctor who invents the vibrator

• by Al Hoff

Keyhole

Guy Maddin's new film has plenty of style, but not much coherence

• by Harry Kloman

Author Kirk Savage discusses the politics and history of Washington's monuments.

Controversies over monuments like the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial are the rule, not the exception.

• by Charles Rosenblum

Ley Line takes a novel approach to one of Pittsburghers' favorite subjects: Pittsburgh.

Charting Oakland less like a map, more like a poetic natural history.

• by Robert Raczka

Going Private

As public schools suffer, big tax breaks for private education

• by Chris Potter

Lynn Cullen Live 06/13/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 06/14/12

Audio & Video Archive

Shadyside

• Tags: Pieces of Pittsburgh, Shadyside, Fence

Lynn Cullen Live 06/15/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 06/18/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 06/19/12

Audio & Video Archive

Bloomfield

• Tags: Pieces of Pittsburgh, Bloomfield, street art, pole

Punkass Wildfire

Shakespeare in the Raw

It's really Shakespeare Without a Net

• by Michelle Pilecki

Book of Tricks

Alex Galatic's clearly a writer of enormous potential

The House of Blue Leaves

The 1971 comedy still offers laughs and bitter insights

• by Michelle Pilecki

Short List: June 14 - June 21

• by Andy Tybout and Bill O'Driscoll