Domestic Spying: Tracking your loved one's cell may give you peace of mind, but what are you giving up in the process?

"We should all be concerned that we are losing our privacy."

• by Dan Sleva

Run Out on a Rail: PAT CEO's ouster shows who's in charge of county's authorities

"For people to think that these authorities should be independent, that's not the case."

• by Lauren Daley

Donor Bases

In mayor's race, following the money back home

• by Chris Potter

Fukuda

In Bloomfield, a neo-traditional Japanese restaurant excels at re-invention

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

Cooking School: Classes allow the city's food community to share its knowledge

"It's really about waking people up to eating good food."

• by AmyJo Brown

Spoon's newly arrived sommelier, John Wabeck, has big ambitions

"Everyone is on the same team, even though they work for different restaurants."

• by Hal B. Klein

Custom-made pies are the specialty of Pittsburgh Pie Guy

Sweet or savory, fruit or meat — there's a pie for you

• by Lauren Daley

Coheed and Cambria sets a soundtrack to comic mythology

"The one thing I could do was create a fiction or front to hide behind."

• by Aaron Jentzen

Caleb Pogyor's Terra EP gets help from a local comic artist

Artist Nate McDonough self-publishes a comic called Grixly

• by Aaron Jentzen

Local musicians pull together ¡Three Amigos! rock adaptation

They don't just want to be famous; they want to be infamous.

• by Margaret Welsh

Critics' Picks: February 6 - 12

Local shows by Frontier Ruckus and Matisyahu, plus an anniversary show for The Show, and the third annual Pittsburgh Rock Music Awards

On the Record with Reid Paley

"There's always a crowd for a genre band; I'm not a genre guy."

• by Andy Mulkerin

Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Films

The 2013 films are uplifting and tear-jerking

• by Al Hoff

Side Effects

An entertaining melodrama-thriller about pretty people with ugly insides, and a popcorn-friendly loop-de-loop plot

• by Al Hoff

The House I Live In

A documentary looks at the social and economic costs of the "war on drugs"

The Waiting Room

A day spent in emergency room of a urban public hospital proves illuminating in this doc

• by Al Hoff

With temporal-spatial sleight-of-hand, he manages to be both a realist and a surrealist.

Cooper's drawings distort and dramatize as they convey essences, not unlike theater.

• by Robert Raczka

Hitting the Bottle

Corbett finally finds a target even less popular than he is: state stores

• by Chris Potter

Lynn Cullen Live 02/06/13

Audio & Video Archive

Bloomfield

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

Lynn Cullen Live 02/07/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 02/08/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 02/11/13

Audio & Video Archive

Lynn Cullen Live 02/12/13

Audio & Video Archive

Poet Aaron Smith whets his Appetite

Smith tends to focus on the erotic nature of pop culture while using a speaker who's still coming to terms with his own sexuality

• by Fred Shaw

Space Bugs

The Public's 1776

The musical about the American Revolution is highly regarded by theater cognoscenti but rarely performed.

• by Ted Hoover

Quantum Theatre's John Gabriel Borkman

Martin Giles boldly directs a perfect cast in this Ibsen drama.

• by Michelle Pilecki

Becky's New Car, at The REP

A potent comedy is performed with charm and confidence

• by Matthew Zurcher

Attack Theatre surprises with a poignant Soap Opera

The imaginative work ranks as one of Attack's best in years.

• by Steve Sucato

Short List: February 7-14