Want to privatize schools? You might want to buy up an election cycle or two first.

"If people follow the money trail, they'd learn a lot about what's really going on."

• by Chris Potter

Silence

Fifty years later, what have we really learned from Rachel Carson's master work?

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Cut backs in state funding mean leaner times for area food banks and pantries

Budget cuts affecting food banks at peak time

• by AmyJo Brown

Slate Bistro

At this comfy-cozy neighborhood spot, the modern menu proves a bit uneven

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

Veteran bartender Marie Perriello can teach you to craft your own cocktail

"Anything you can put into a dish, you can also put into a cocktail."

• by Hal B. Klein

Phipps walks the walk, switching out soda at its café for a healthier fruit sprizter

The Phipps Splash is fresh fruit juice and local, sodium-free seltzer water from the Pittsburgh Seltzer Co.

• by Charlie Deitch

Heavy-metal band Lamb of God soldiers on despite running into trouble in the Czech Republic

"You're told in the same breath that someone's dead and you're responsible. Those are some pretty heavy things to process."

• by Margaret Welsh

Carousel takes a new EP for a spin

"I always just really wanted to be in a good rock 'n roll band. And this is the first time it's ever happened."

• by Andy Mulkerin

Black Yoga brings Om and om together

"Not everyone wants to listen to birds and waterfalls."

• by Margaret Welsh

CD Reviews

New releases from The Homeless Gospel Choir, Ray Dawn, and Don Strange

• by Andy Mulkerin

Critics' Picks: November 21 - 27

Local shows by Dance Gavin Dance and Sum 41, plus a book release by Robby Lester and a Beatles tribute at Club Café

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell's film is poignant and incisive drama about mental illness

• by Harry Kloman

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part Two

The final chapter fails to bring any satisfying closure to this endless vampire melodrama

• by Al Hoff

Keep the Lights On

A drama looks at a rocky relationship that tries to survive addiction

• by Al Hoff

Red Dawn

In this not-very-good remake of the Cold War "classic," America is taken hostage by North Koreans

• by Al Hoff

Rise of the Guardians

Jack Frost joins Santa, Easter Bunny and others to save kids' hopes in this animated adventure comedy

• by Al Hoff

Smashed

A woman struggles to save her marriage after getting newly sober

• by Al Hoff

Life of Pi

Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel is a moving, absorbing, thoughtful cinematic adventure

• by Harry Kloman

White Cube, Green Maze explores how architecture can open up to nature.

Reclaimed brownfields are among the global sites documented.

• by Charles Rosenblum

Deborah Kass wrestles with Warhol's legacy ... at The Warhol.

This exhibition takes a bold step in placing Kass' Warhol-inspired pieces side by side with Warhol's own work.

• by Nadine Wasserman

"If you're going to use river water as your drinking water, you shouldn't discharge bromide."

Salts of the Earth

• by Bill O'Driscoll

Lynn Cullen Live 11/21/12

Audio & Video Archive

Shadyside

• Tags: Pieces of Pittsburgh, Shadyside, street art

Lynn Cullen Live 11/26/12

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 11/27/12

Audio & Video Archive

Local Vocals - Episode 8 - CP TV

Pittsburgh Lights Up

Braddock Avenue Books joins the indie-publishing fray.

"Writing is serious business."

• by Bethany Hensel

City Theatre's South Side Stories

The one-woman show is just a big, fat, evening of bliss.

• by Ted Hoover

Pittsburgh Public Theater's Good People

David Lindsay-Abaire's lastest ably explores class divides in Boston.

• by Robert Isenberg

Point Park Conservatory's Seven Guitars

Even if the story is hackneyed, the dialogue in Seven Guitars is as sumptuous as the blues music that inspired it.

• by Robert Isenberg

Short List: November 21 - 27