Vol. 18, No. 32
Thomas Hirschhorn's Cavemanman locates the modern primitive in Life on Mars.
By Melissa Kuntz
Architecture students get hands-on preservation experience with an historic Friendship mansion.
By Charles Rosenblum
Alternative Film
By Chris Young
Flood of Interest
On the anniversary of the 2007 Millvale floods, what's being done to prevent recurrences in creeks like Girty's Run?
Iraq War: Ferlo hopes to stop National Guard deployments
By Melissa Meinzer
Crime Prevention: Region may be taking new angle against drug trafficking
Changes at Phipps' Cafe
Mullen's Bar & Grill
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Local punks Burndowns celebrate new EP on Big Neck Records
By Andy Mulkerin
Instrumental trio 3 Apples High plays two reunion shows this weekend
By Aaron Jentzen
"Ambient punk" band Deerhunter plays Garfield Artworks
By Margaret Welsh
Brooklyn's We Are Scientists and Oxford Collapse sound an ocean apart
By Chris Parker
Indie darlings Tapes 'N Tapes perform at Club Café with Br'er Fox
By Mike Shanley
Cymbeline
By Michelle Pilecki
The Star-Spangled Girl
By Ted Hoover
Lend Me a Tenor
By Robert Isenberg
Encounters at the End of the World
Filmmaker Werner Herzog finds ice, and not much else, in Antarctica
By Harry Kloman
Brideshead Revisited
A sumptuous period melodrama of a wealthy English family's collapse
By Al Hoff
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
This third version of The Mummy is dead on arrival.
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Potheads on the run provide laughs in this stoner action comedy
Beer for My Horses
Singer Toby Keith headlines this road comedy
The Last Mistress
In this period drama, desire -- not convention -- dictates decisions
Mother of Tears: The Third Mother
Evil overtakes Rome in this gore-heavy horror flick.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Zombie chickens go wild in this horror-comedy from Troma
Swing Vote
Comedy about bungled voting starts funny, ends maudlin
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Pittsburgh n'@
This Just In: August 7 - 14
By Frances Sansig Monahan
By PJ Patella-Rey
Pittsburgh’s top 420 events
By CP Staff
How to roll the perfect joint
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
When cannabis becomes "too much of a good thing," it might be time for a "T-break"
By Amanda Waltz