DISH
In a former corner bar tucked into the residential streets off of busy Carson Street, Dish is a welcome addition to Pittsburgh’s growing list of flexible and sophisticated dining venues that are open late. Need a martini after 11? With tiramisu? A sea scallops appetizer or a filet mignon with sides? Dish can accommodate you…
CHICAGO
The new film of the Kander & Ebb musical Chicago is a posthumous work: Bob Fosse first staged the show on Broadway in 1975, Ann Reinking (Fosse’s star and lover in ’75) revived it 20 years later, and now Rob Marshall has directed and choreographed it for the screen with more aplomb than anyone had…
ABOUT SCHMIDT
Quiescent and nearly depopulated at dusk, downtown Omaha in the opening frames of About Schmidt suggests Ground Zero for an incompletely effective neutron bomb. Traffic lights blink at lonely cars barely audible in the distance; a gray sky grows imperceptibly grayer. Director Alexander Payne cuts to a close shot of a tall office building, viewed…
Article of Faith
It’s 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 15 and I’m sitting in the lobby of the North Hills Holiday Inn, an insipid space that looms over a McKnight Road strip mall. I have a pit in my stomach, the kind I usually get when I have to catch a flight at an uncivilized time of day.…
