Graphic Account

Munhall's Ed Piskor talks about illustrating famed comics writer Harvey Pekar's new graphic novel, Macedonia

Macedonia is literally new terrain for American Splendor author Harvey Pekar.

"I'm a writer and I get carried away maybe," admits Pekar.

Tall Union Tries Venti Organization of Starbucks

A national campaign to organize the coffee giant and protest the firing of five New York baristas, allegedly for union activity, arrives here.

Stories Clash in Contentious Police Stop

The case of Pamela Lawton, which has led to demands for greater oversight of city police, is no clearer after a preliminary review.

Profit From Non-Profit?

The deed to a North Side halfway house includes a provision barring the sale of the building until 2037.

No News is Fake News

UUBU6

An old social hall has been converted to serve our generation's finest communal function: fine dining in a funky atmosphere.

The Ex: 27 years of Dutch art-punk

The band's openness has made The Ex's penchant for collaboration and musical diversity legendary.

Quiet Storm, a local mainstay, unplugs music

No more will the Cubano sandwich and the gyro burrito live in harmony with rock 'n' roll. The reason? Renovations to three apartments attached to the rear of the venue.

Theremin virtuoso Eric Ross visits The Warhol

Ross' odyssey came full circle in 1991, when he met and performed for Leon Theremin himself.

A Celebration of New Orleans Music at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

Not only do the artists represent the city's music with vigor and history, but together, they tell the story of musicians' post-Katrina struggles.

Local releases from Shade and The Gothees

"Bubblegoth" is how The Gothees describe their music -- though it's almost more of a musicological experiment disguised as a band: Where does '60s and '70s bubblegum meet goth?

Signal To Noise

Terry Gilliam's Tideland comes in, and it's dark.

Gilliam is habitually free with the lens, but here it is positively, madly, joyously anchorless: floating, fisheyed, drunkenly lurching as if attempting to rationalize what's senseless.

Blood Diamond

There's requisite action scenes and battles, but in Blood Diamond, they're backlit by the country's chief resource: diamonds.

Unknown

Call it Reservoir Dogs meets Memento meets a twist on Stockholm Syndrome, with some climactic surprises.

Results from the 29-hour Film Frenzy, and the documentary "Portrait of a Campaign," screen at Film Kitchen.

The surreal pseudo-narrative climaxes with a waterfall of white paper and a dramatic shot up through a brick passageway to blue sky.

Multicultural Celebration of Visual Traditions fails to define its terms

How does it make sense to talk about contemporary work as a continuation of traditions?

Letters to the Editor: Dec. 6 - 13

The deer in West Park has been around since I was a kid. What can you tell me about it?

Question submitted Frank S. Bruno, Penn Hills

No Surprise

As many predicted, Air America done in by its own predictability

A Conversation with Joseph Wilk

IUP Makes a Substitution

Local school poised to make overdue change

Savage Love

David Griffith considers Abu Ghraib in light of Pulp Fiction, Flannery O'Connor -- and a Halloween party in Friendship.

When "Graner" conscripted a passerby to pull a hood over his head, and asked Griffith to join him in a thumbs-up Polaroid tableau, the faux Kirk complied.

"Barrel Man," Part 2

Quantum Theatre parties with El Paso Blue.

If El Paso Blue is a sprawling, disjointed play, it's a highly entertaining one.

Pittsburgh Playwrights investigates Corps Values.

Carnegie Mellon sideswipes Side Show.

Dance Alloy Theater revives two favorites.

Choreographer David Shimotakahara "told us to picture what the Jerry Springer television show would look like if [Shimotakahara] choreographed it."