Making a Run: Candidate focusing on women's health issues in suburban senate race

"She's an excellent candidate, but it will be a tough race."

• by Charlie Deitch

Dollar Signs: County, city weighing separate plans to monetize city assets

"Every city in this country has some sort of market-based revenue plan."

• by AmyJo Brown

Anti-Social Media

Wholey New Business: Luke Wholey puts seafood experience behind Wild Alaskan Grille

"My favorite pastime other than cooking is fishing."

• by AmyJo Brown

Piacquadio's

A re-opened family Italian restaurant, in Mount Lebanon, is a keeper

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

After 70 years of distributing beer, the LaRusse family calls it quits

"Anything we could do to give back, we did," says Phil LaRusse Jr.

• by Hal B. Klein

Changing bulbs

A Beaver County farm offers forty shades of garlic

• by Chris Potter

Julia Holter gets comfortable with working together

"In situations [in school] where you were supposed to be working with instrumentalists, I was really reclusive."

• by Margaret Welsh

Being Beedie

Born into a musical family, and after helping Mac Miller cut his teeth, the Pittsburgh rapper is ready for the big time.

• by Rory D. Webb

Macro mixes Jesus and the X-Men

The track titles are changed to reflect the subject matter: "The Phoenix Must Die," "Magneto's Dream," "Cyclops' Denial," etc.

• by Andy Mulkerin

CD Reviews

New releases from Instead of Sleeping and The Silver Thread, plus Sean Jones plays on a new record by Brandi Disterheft

Critics' Picks: September 26 - October 2

Local shows by Danielle Ate the Sandwich, 4 Wheels, The Barr Brothers, The Afghan Whigs and Aesop Rock

Beauty Is Embarrassing

A documentary portrait of artist Wayne White shows the fun, upbeat side of the biz

• by Chris Potter

[REC]³: Genesis

This Spanish zombie film can't find its footing in horror or laughs

• by Al Hoff

Hotel Transylvania

Adam Sandler shlocks it up as an animated Dracula.

• by Charlie Deitch

House at the End of the Street

Jennifer Lawrence can't salvage a cheap thriller

• by Bill O'Driscoll

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Adaption of YA novel is a little too adolescent

• by Catherine Sylvain

Erika Osborne's work explores place as a concrete manifestation of nature.

The context created here suggests that "place" is where we might be moved to consider our effect on nature.

• by Robert Raczka

Rich Ironies

On Voter ID, a Democrat exposes a GOP law's weakness

• by Chris Potter

Lynn Cullen Live 09/27/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 09/28/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lawrenceville

• Tags: Pieces of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville, street art

Lynn Cullen Live 10/01/12

Audio & Video Archive

With pointed humor, Dave Newman's new novel portrays the life of a lowly college writing instructor.

Much of Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children is a satirical send up of today's student, as well as Pittsburgh's literary scene.

• by Fred Shaw

Midnight Radio returns with Secret Agents & Spies

Bricolage has found an ingenious way to make a staged reading actually entertaining.

• by Ted Hoover

Japan's chelfitsch Theater Company sends up office life.

It is Monty Python-esque in its absurdity, and brilliant in the nuances the movement adds to the dialogue.

• by Steve Sucato

STREB: Forces is part dance, part circus, part stunt show.

Elizabeth Streb's company makes a rare Pittsburgh stop.

• by Steve Sucato

Short List: September 26 - October 2