Vol. 19, No. 3
Ice Picks
By CP Staff
Worth Showing Up For
By Melissa Meinzer
Neighborhoods: Neighbors say city is allowing new UPMC facility to skirt around zoning codes
Education: Board members waiting on CEP progress reports
By Chris Young
The Café at the Frick
By Chris Potter
Ditka's Restaurant
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Activist and author Devra Davis talks cancer, cell phones, plastics, Donora and Kennywood.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Hillman Center adds new arts programs under director Sarah Rubin
By Manny Theiner
Knot Feeder draws on strong local pedigree for debut full-length, Light Flares
By Andy Mulkerin
Fall head over heels for metal again with The Sword
By Margaret Welsh
Alia Musica's chamber concert offers new compositions for two and three instruments
Experimental ensemble No Triangle incorporates "inside-piano" techniques
Pittsburgh-born dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham is going places -- and performing here this week.
By Steve Sucato
With booze, cards and the devil, a lauded play by acclaimed young Irish playwright Conor McPherson makes its Pittsburgh debut.
The life of Pittsburgh-born jazz drummer Joe Harris gets a workout in Kuntu Repertory's Clean Drums.
LABCO Dance's Holding Passage tackles some tough topics.
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke makes a comeback in this downbeat study of a professional wrestler.
By Al Hoff
Defiance
A tale of Holocaust survival gets by-the-numbers treatment
By Harry Kloman
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
This dumb-cop yuk-fest is not funny; it's just scraping the bottom of the entertainment barrel.
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Letters to the Editor: January 21 - 28
Name of the Game
Pittsburgh n'@
This Just In: January 22 - 29
By Frances Sansig Monahan
By Mars Johnson
Pittsburgh’s street trees are free upon request. So why do they often go to the city’s wealthiest residents?
By James Paul
Sophie Masloff seldom talked about her childhood. Were seedy family ties the reason?
By David S. Rotenstein
Mrs. Soffel was a cougar who might still haunt The Shiloh Gastro, pining for her Biddle brothers boy toy
By Rachel Wilkinson
Dave and Andy's says goodbye, Construction Junction turns 25 with wine, and more Pittsburgh food news