• Issue Archive for
  • Aug 8-14, 2012
  • Vol. 22, No. 32
Digital Edition

News+Features

  • Battered and Bruised
  • Battered and Bruised

    The beating Jordan Miles took in court may take longer to heal

Food+Drink

Music

  • Making a scene ... on the web

    ThePittsburghScene isn't specific to one or two genres — just one or two area codes
  • CD Reviews
  • CD Reviews

    New releases from Polish Hill Strangler, Charm & Chain, composer William Thomas McKinley and Brett Staggs
  • Critics' Picks: August 8 - 14
  • Critics' Picks: August 8 - 14

    Local shows Pat Metheny, Trombone Shorty, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and Band of Skulls, plus a reunion for Once Nothing, and the departure of Mary Mack

On Screen

  • Total Recall
  • Total Recall

    Despite amusing dystopic trappings, this actioner doesn't leave an impression
  • Chinese Take-Away
  • Chinese Take-Away

    A winsome Argentine comedy about a grumpy man who takes in a Chinese refugee
  • Hope Springs
  • Hope Springs

    Ride along as an older married couple goes through counseling and "sexercises"
  • Ruby Sparks
  • Ruby Sparks

    A quirky rom-com that also offers a mild critique of the quirky rom-come genre
  • This Is Not a Film
  • This Is Not a Film

    A dispatch about artistic freedom from inside the home of censored Iranian filmmaker Jafa Panahi

Art

Views

  • A case of mistaken identity

    Courtroom testimony proves voter ID isn't an effort to hurt Democrats. It's worse that that.
  • Savage Love

    Lots of straight boys have crushes on their friends' mothers. It's a fantasy that fuels entire porn genres.

Books

  • Session #3

    [In which I am informed of my identity]

On Stage

  • <i>The Golden Dragon</i>
  • The Golden Dragon

    Eccentric as it is, every arty choice in Quantum's show has purpose, and the personal becomes so political it hurts.
  • <i>reasons to be pretty</i>
  • reasons to be pretty

    The problem with playwright Neil LaBute is that it's impossible to take him seriously.
  • <i>Ivanov</i>
  • Ivanov

    If you can stand Nikolay's morose monologues, Ivanov is surprisingly funny.

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