- Issue of
- May 15-21, 2008
- Vol. 18, No. 20
News
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Hi, Tech
Program introduces kids to the world of robotics
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Going Through The Motions
We sit through City Council so you don't have to.
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Gambling: Group says gambling may be legal, but not mandatory
One anti-gambling advocacy group is trying to convince residents that just because the state legalized gambling, doesn't mean you have to play.
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Neighborhoods: One Hill ratifies CBA, but not everyone is happy
Despite some dissenters, One Hill's vote inches the Hill District one step closer to a completed Community Benefits Agreement.
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Summer Guide 2008 - Summer Films
Another season of mostly remakes and comedies
Food+Drink
- Restaurant Reviews
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Wine Time
A Strip storefront helps demystifies wine -- and PLCB restrictions.
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- Restaurant Reviews
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Golden Palace
Among this Chinese restaurant's offerings: dim sum daily.
Music
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Local songwriter Brooke Annibale releases religious album The In Between
This collection of songs has one foot in a church pew and the other in a Starbucks.
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Several Pittsburgh acts prepare for local and national releases this month
Garage-pop foursome Takeover U.K. makes its case as a Steel City success story with the brash, fiery EP It's All Happening.
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Jim White performs his Southern Gothic songs at Club Café for WYEP broadcast
"While other models where dancing in the discothèques and using cocaine, I was in my hotel room reading Dostoyevsky."
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Burnout Warcry mines 19th-century tokens of affection for Overcome
Overcome's status as an objet d'art is cemented by the inclusion of a lock of Storch's own hair.
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British Sea Power brings triumphant, wordy indie-pop to Mr. Small's
"It's about resisting evil in different forms, with a comic undertone."
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Philadelphians The Breaks combine blues, edgy pop and tight arrangements
The main thing that comes across on The Brakes' debut album, Tale of Two Cities, is the cohesion between the five musicians.
Film
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Silk Screen Film Festival
The festival of Asian and Asian-American films enters its second week.
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Redbelt
David Mamet sets his latest drama in the realm of sanctioned body blows.
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Life of Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical monologue is funny and illuminating.
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Then She Found Me
Domestic woes fail to ignite or entertain in this dramedy from Helen Hunt
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What Happens in Vegas
If this was funny in Sin City, it sure isn't here
Arts+Entertainment
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- Features
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On the North Side, activists -- and some neighbors -- want to preserve an historic former bank.
Preservation needs to be a requirement, not just a hope.
Views
Stage
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- Theater
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A Marriage Minuet
Wiltse knows a lot about men and women and about couples. And he knows a lot about what's funny.
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- Theater
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West Side Story
The ending still stuns, still shocks, still packs a wallop.
- Theater
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The Importance of Being Earnest
It may also simply be that The Importance of Being Earnest has seen its day.
