German electro-industrial duo Haujobb plays Pegasus Lounge
Haujobb’s as-yet-untitled upcoming fall release will be its last, as will this current U.S. tour.
The Brothers Solomon
This comedy dishes out enough silly, repetitive and unfunny jokes to make 90 minutes feel like three hours
Photographer Dean M. Beattie’s Elemental Persona blurs the lines between portrait subject and environment.
What we connect with is not the barflies, stagnant behind their mugs of vital liquid, but rather the smoke that winds from cigarettes held aloft, sinewing and curling from between stony fingers.
Storytelling poet Jim Daniels scores with Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies
In the book’s final section, Daniels offers poems on his neighborhood, his kids, the city — soulful but still funny stories about race, violence, compassion.
Shoot ‘Em Up
This is a hyper-violent, quip-laden cartoon that embraces the genre’s conventions as gamely as it rushes to shoot ’em full of holes.
Outside the Lines
He says he chose work that was “based on stronger ideology than the local newspaper expects.”
The Rustlanders harmonize and pick their way to Big Pink
If The Rustlanders are as good live as on their CD, they’re on to something a lot of people are gonna want to hear.
Red Road
Red Road does suggest that the act of watching, particularly when abetted by fancy technology, may be as destructive to the viewer as to those under surveillance.
How did the Marquis Duquesne, a long-ago governor-general of French Canada who as far as I know never set foot here, get so many things — like a university, an old-boys’ club and a now-defunct beer — named after him?
You’re not the first person to wonder about this. In his book The Spirit that Gives Life: The History of Duquesne University, Joseph Rishel quotes a local ditty that once noted, “No one knows the reason, no one can explain / but everything you look at is named Duquesne.” And you’re right: Despite spending most…
August and Everything After release the art-rock full-length
Surfy, delay-drenched guitars cascade down the minor and diminished chords, over a rhythm section that can introduce ideas of its own or lay back as needed.
In Early Afternoon
Poem by Lois Greenberg
This Just In: Sept 12 – 19
Highlights from the local TV news.
Two books about the early days of football right here in Pennsylvania help provide sense of historical perspective.
“The Indians’ contributions to the game were original, and the game belonged to them as much as anyone.”
echo::system — The Desert
The Desert is a transcendent experience — a polysensory epic of struggle and evolution.
Genesis turns it on again at Mellon Arena
I’d imagined that Genesis would be a show I’d see and not confess to anyone.
Ah, Wilderness!
The performances make clear that O’Neill wrote these people with thorough perception.
Pittsburgh n’@
cleveland-sports.spaces.live.com Sept. 10 I Agree … It’s Not a Rivalry I guess it could be worse. Just think if you [are] one of the Browns’ zealots who predicted a 10-6 or 11-5 record for this season. You would have to be sick to your stomach this morning. Your football team wiped out an off season of optimism…
Ancestral Voices
If I can indulge in a little armchair psychology, maybe it’s because the story is so personal that he’s unconsciously chosen to make it as impersonal as possible.
Savage Love
A close friend of ours is a gay male in his 40s. About seven years ago, our friend met and briefly dated a not-too-bright, conniving guy about 10 years younger. Our friend threw himself into this relationship with his new “trophy husband” and did everything he could for his new boyfriend. He financed his apartment,…
Dracula: Dragon Prince
Even with the modern modifications, we know what’s going to happen.It all turns to camp — or worse.
Split Decisions
For a long time, I have been trying to find a way to talk about the divisions in the Hill District without subjecting it — and all of black Pittsburgh — to the ignorant commentary that plagued us during the debate about whether to put a casino in the Hill. The normative white gaze is…
With war live from Iraq still raging, the Army brings its live stage show Spirit of America to town.
Active members of an elite regiment, kitted out in full battle dress, pop off dummy rounds within the safety of an arena while a crowd packed with patriots ooohs and aaahs.
24/7 Protest
As of Sept. 10, as City Paper went to press, Butler and others picketing the station from the Pittsburgh Organizing Group had continued their 26-day protest against the war in Iraq, and the presence of military recruiters in the community, even though their one-day city permit expired as Butler spoke. They are maintaining a 24-hour…
Kretchmar’s Bakery
It is not known how Kretchmar’s Bakery makes its butter-flake rolls. For those who have any regard for their arteries, it’s probably unwise to ask. The answer might just frighten one away from the most perfect dinner rolls in Western Pennsylvania. The possibility exists that the Beaver boulangerie simply takes one flaky roll molecule and…
Environment
Pittsburgh is a leader in green-building technology, boasting the first green convention center and numerous new green buildings like the Pittsburgh Glass Center and the Welcome Center at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Now, two local high school students are hoping to keep the streak alive with the new casino. The students say they’d like…
Tomato Pie Cafe
With fresh ingredients and an uncomplicated approach to Italian cooking, Tomato Pie Café is a pizzeria plus.
Fight Scene
It took just 48 hours for local filmmakers to create entries for the Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project last month. It took only slightly longer for Oscar-style scraps to break out over the contest’s winners. More than 100 posts on the competition’s Web site (www.48hourfilm.com/pittsburgh/blog.php) turned what was supposed to be a lighthearted blog into a…
Ron Paul: Libertarian Apostle
Growing up in Green Tree, Dr. Ron Paul was a milkman, making deliveries to houses from his family’s local dairy operation. It’s not hard to believe, even looking at him now at age 72: You can picture his mature face and skin-on-bone physique clad in the trademark white pants with a thin black leather belt,…
Local rock threesome Medic Medic releases studio debut
Hard rock that is polished enough for WXDX-style radio, but smart enough to remain independent in an industry with too many rules.
The Brave One
Neil Jordan’s drama about a NYC reporter turned vigilante killer is familiar genre fare, while remaining uneasy: It’s a different sort of revenge pic, wrapped up in a lukewarm critique of our fears and our desire for instant justice.
From Between Trio performs at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ In-Tent series
Much of what’s going on — the squeaking, scraping, banging and whooshing — can’t be attributed to any conventional instrumental method.
2 Days in Paris
The story of Marion and Jack — on their way home to New York, and spending two days in Paris — may not sound familiar, though it owes its inspiration to Annie Hall. French bathing habits, and the American obsession with cleanliness, are among the myriad cross-cultural topics on which Delpy’s breezy screenplay wittily riffs.
PowerSolo opening for Jon Spencer’s Heavy Trash
PowerSolo takes on all things American with what seems a mix of jeering mockery, fascinated admiration and puzzling absurdism.
Strange Culture
While Leeson and her subjects are appalled by Kurtz’s plight, they’re too smart to be shocked: After all, exposing governmental and corporate abuse of power is a CAE specialty.
