Promote Ethical Eating: A majority of food-service workers lack reasonable wages and benefits

"We're saying this year, don't just eat right, eat just"

Bring the PedalPub to Pittsburgh

This Bar on wheels is a social, sustainable way to see the sights

• by Lauren Daley

Put All City and County Data Online

"This whole movement, it's a change in the way governments think of themselves as managers of data"

• by AmyJo Brown

Final Thoughts

Five quick hits worthy of consideration

Packing Heat

In Harrisburg and D.C., the NRA has opponents outgunned

• by Chris Potter

Locked and Loaded

Gun-worship shows no signs of abating

• by Chris Potter

#EatForFree

Pitt students sharing their free food knowledge

• by AmyJo Brown

Vallozzi's Pittsburgh

The venerable Italian restaurant from Greensburg now has a Downtown outpost on Fifth Avenue

• by Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

Burgh'ers mixes up cocktail improvisations in Harmony, Pa.

Orange fig bitters, anyone? You don't find that every day, even inside city limits.

• by Hal B. Klein

ThreeFiftyDegree Bakery offers baked goods through its website

But the South Side operations hopes to move to an expanded shop later this year

• by Charlie Deitch

Ben Opie's Flexure takes up residence at the New Hazlett — at least for a few days

"We so believe in what Ben is doing, so we wanted to find a way to make it happen."

• by Andy Mulkerin

Parquet Courts are an American band

The band aims to bring new life to another slice of Americana: rock 'n' roll.

• by Nicole Chynoweth

Revival Series fill Mr. Small's with local bands — for free

"Bands always think there's a catch, but there's really no catch."

• by Margaret Welsh

Critics' Picks: January 2 - 8

Local shows by Jessica Hernandez, Saviours and Arabesque Winds, plus Rock 'n' Bowl

On the Record with Dessa

"There are so few constraints when you sit down to make a song where three-and-a-half minutes of silence used to be."

• by Andy Mulkerin

The Impossible

A solid and frequently stirring example of its genre: a film about a disaster, the 2004 tsunami

• by Harry Kloman

Promised Land

Gus Van Sant's fracking film is less a muck-raking piece than a character study

• by Al Hoff

The Loneliest Planet

A spare drama in which the relationship of a couple trekking in the Caucasus Mountains is tested

• by Al Hoff

From "Super Mario Clouds" to cats playing Schoenberg, YouTube packrat Corey Arcangel's work comprises a fascinating retrospective at the Carnegie.

Stylistically, these are updated Pop art themes given a Conceptual art treatment.

• by Robert Raczka

Anti-capitalists host weekly discussion series in Lawrenceville

Capital's End seeks alternatives to a free-market society.

• by Catherine Sylvain

Paul Chojnowski's images are made on wood and paper with a propane torch.

Rather than exercises in realism, these works are studies in light.

• by Nadine Wasserman

North Side

• Tags: Pieces of Pittsburgh, North Side, street art, pole

Lynn Cullen Live 01/02/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 01/03/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 01/04/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 01/08/13

Audio & Video Archive

Local author Michel Sauret mines everyday life more than his military experience.

"If things are connected, they are connected for a reason."

• by Catherine Sylvain

Short List: January 2 - 8