Vol. 20, No. 25
Shock to the System
By Marty Levine
Metal Riffs
By Aaron Jentzen
GuitarBot: a heavy-metal guitarist with robochops to burn
Dogged by Controversy
By Amy Whipple
Going Solo: Guitarist Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Project
The Hot Button
By Chris Young
Jerry's Curb Service
By Charlie Deitch
Mi Ranchito
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
A father and son recall life on the road in a new memoir.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Austin's Woven Bones bring dark, feral rock to Brillobox
By Chris Parker
Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea headline the 13th annual WYEP Summer Music Festival.
By Kelsey Shea
Andres Ortiz-Ferarri's new label releases post-rock by Mother Sun and Discuss
Dallas "Stonegaze" band True Widow plays ModernFormations
By Andy Mulkerin
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By Ted Hoover
Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
By Robert Isenberg
Lion in the Streets
By Gordon Spencer
Gritty barebones productions and rocker Joe Grushecky team up on the very dark stage comedy Killer Joe.
Toy Story 3
Pixar delivers again, with this sweet, heartfelt, funny tale
By Al Hoff
Jonah Hex
This adaptation of a dusty DC comic isn't ready for the big screen
No One Knows About Persian Cats
The beat goes on, in secret, in Tehran's pop-music scene
The Ultimate Wave Tahiti
Join pro-surfer Kelly Slater as he hunts for gnarly swells
By Jenelle Pifer
Smashing the State
By Chris Potter
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
This Just In: June 24 - July 1
By Frances Sansig Monahan
Short List: Week of June 24 - July 1
By PJ Patella-Rey
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
Bicycling with beer, pink Heinz "Barbiecue" sauce, and more Pittsburgh food news
Now Hiring in Pittsburgh: The Talent Group, Chatham University, American Eagle, and more
By Morgan Biddle
By some metrics, Fox Chapel is a sundown town
By David S. Rotenstein
