In search of true believers: The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, and Daughters
“I mean, it could only be good news for us, ’cause they’re paying attention at least.”
Saturday goth night “Ceremony” returns from exile
“We’re still scratching our heads, trying to figure out what the kids want.”
Genre-defining Jamaican group The Melodians perform in Pittsburgh
That the group still exists today is nothing short of a miracle.
The Craft Congress shows off Pittsburgh to DIY-ers.
“So many of us have ‘met’ online, and as vendors at each other’s craft fairs, but to create a space for open dialogue is inspiring personally and professionally, and crucial to the movement’s evolution.”
This Just In
Get It While It’s Hot! Summary: Those wacky, lovable Pittsburgh Public Works guys show they can “think outside the pothole.” Station: KDKA Reporter: John Shumway, “Live” When it Aired: March 27 Running Time: 2 minutes, 4 seconds Visuals: The tagline “Pothole Plague,” as footage reels of assorted vehicles hurdling over what appears to be the…
Getting inside architecture with Drawn In, at 209/9 Gallery.
Drawn In truly blurs the line between art and design.
Letters To The Editor: April 4 – 11
Big fat lie In “Lard to Believe” [March 22], CP devotes substantial space to helping Sally Fallon and the Weston A. Price Foundation in their attempt to convert us back to a diet rich in animal fats. It is regrettable that readers were not offered a better balance of the arguments involved. As regards Fallon’s…
Amidst controversy over poetry’s future, former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser visits.
Kooser’s poet laureateship, like his 2005 Pulitzer Prize and his partnership with Barr, make him a target in the argument over what poetry ought to be.
Inland Empire
Cinema, Lynch suggests, is an engine that consumes real lives to fuel fake ones.
Safe At Home
I’m standing with Duane Rieder, the local keeper of Roberto Clemente’s flame, in the spot where Lou Gehrig once slept. We’re in the old Pittsburgh Engine House No. 25, at 3339 Penn Ave., in Lawrenceville. Rieder, a professional photographer, uses this building as his studio, and he’s now converted it into the Roberto Clemente Museum…
The Hoax
The tale of the Irving-Hughes autobiography hoax is a fun story, a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction number, even if this is a truth-about-a-fiction.
Savage Love
I’m a 22-year-old male from Canada and in a long-term relationship. The sex is fantastic, we’ve always been GGG, and our bedroom habits include talking dirty and light bondage, which she loves. However, my girlfriend sometimes complains that I “degrade” her in the bedroom and she thinks that this represents a larger lack of respect…
A local National Guardsman’s Iraq documentary screens at Film Kitchen.
Bronson — whose friend Randy McCauley was the company’s lone member killed in action — says he felt obliged to simply show the soldiers as they were.
Taking a Gamble
Are state officials rolling the dice on gambling addicts? When the state’s slots-casino legislation was enacted in 2004, the state Department of Health was tasked with developing education, prevention and treatment programs to deal with problem gamblers. The agency was even allocated $1.5 million a year to offer programs like a 24-hour hotline and counseling…
Chef Steff’s Ristorante
The sausage is a Chef Steff specialty, a finely ground blend of pork and distinctive spices that creates a brilliant flavor without much heat.
Hitting the Brakes
The Port Authority of Allegheny County voted unanimously on March 30 to scale back transit cuts from 25 percent to 15 percent, sparing 95 of the 124 daily routes initially targeted for elimination. But the revised plan, effective June 17, may give riders little relief — because transit officials admit that they are merely buying…
Blades of Glory
Two self-absorbed male figure skaters with wildly different personalities pair up as an ice-dancing team. If that tickles your funny bone, then the other ingredients in this gag-heavy film are also apt to delight. (Capsule review.)
Panel debates use of the n-word
“The n-word is part of our holocaust; it is part of our history. To eradicate it completely is mindless.”
Meet The Robinsons
Not even the deliriously winsome retro-future set pieces can make the story pop off the screen. (Capsule review.)
Pierogie: It’s All About the Dough
There are some differences between me and other politicians. First, unlike anyone else, I’m challenging incumbent Luke Ravenstahl this May. That’s why I hope you’ll vote for the real bobblehead by writing in “pierogie” on the ballot May 15. Second, I’m supposed to be all squishy inside. Other officials don’t have that excuse … yet…
Almost Almost Famous
One week each spring, the center of the musical universe occupies an area measuring some 12 blocks by 10 blocks in the heart of Austin, Texas. For five days, the music starts at noon and ends just before dawn … or when you simply can’t take it any more. This is the mammoth music conference…
Pittsburgh N’@
From: http://annoyingpittsburgh.blogspot.com/index.html As if there isn’t enough traffic between the neverending job on the Homestead Bridge, and the construction on the Parkway East, wait, there’s more! Now you can expect monstrous delays on the Boulevard of the Allies and the Birmingham Bridge. Can someone tell me, are there like 10 Penndots that don’t really talk…
Miles Davis And The Art Of Love
Poem by Mike James
Counter-Coulter
What did I expect from Ann Coulter’s April 1 appearance at the University of Pittsburgh? I’m not sure. But it wasn’t the mind-numbing boredom I got. Delivered in an upper-class-Connecticut drone, Coulter’s remarks were obviously canned. The speech included references to Jimmy Carter’s “killer rabbit” incident, which took place before much of the audience was…
Expats Sodajerk return to Pittsburgh to release new album
“They all just thought, ‘We’ll just hang out in Pittsburgh and play, and eventually someone will come down and give us a million dollars.'”
Local hardcore band Gutrench stages comeback
“When people saw us back in action, it reminded them of how strong we were back in the day.”
