Vol. 20, No. 33
Press Releases of the Week
Notes from Underground
A journey through Western Pennsylvania's show caves
By Al Hoff
I Love You, I Love You Knotweed
The Knotweed Project excoriates -- yet cultivates -- an ornamental plant run amok
By Julie Mickens
Bush League
A Modest Roundup of (Im)pertinent Media about the Current Administration
By Bill O'Driscoll
Criminal Checks Cleared
Case against police violence protester, family dropped
By Brentin Mock
Communist Rot
Joe McCarthy has nothing on our Speaker of the House
By Chris Potter
Sun After Dark
By Pico IyerAlfred A. Knopf, 223 pp., $22.95 (cloth)
A Girl Called Eddy
A Girl Called EddyAnti- Records
By Justin Hopper
Terror Squad
Based on a True StorySRC/Universal
Without a Paddle
Nó³i
UNDER THE WEATHER
By Harry Kloman
Zatoichi
Garden State
Down In the Dumps
Open Water
Free-floating anxiety
Broadway: The Golden Age
By Ted Hoover
Touch of Pink
How to Cary On
Grass Rootless
Trouble for Nader
Many Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods have nature-oriented names, such as Squirrel Hill, Fox Chapel, Beechview and Oakmont. But one area -- the Mount Lebanon/Bethel Park region -- has only religious names. This is a pretty good observation, isn't it?
Question submitted by: Moshe Zvi Marvit, Oakland
A Conversation With Jason Fate
By Heather Mull
Dysfunctional Relationship
Sorting out mixed feelings about Pittsburgh
By John McIntire
By Mars Johnson
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: The g-word edition
By Michael Machosky
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
AG candidate Keir Bradford-Grey wants to be "the People's Lawyer"
By Maia Williams
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson