Vol. 22, No. 4
Ten More Years on Penn addresses the ups and downs of arts-based gentrification.
A Pittsburgh Glass Center exhibit explores the effects of the redevelopment the center helped spark.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Vanishing ACCESS: Massive cuts planned for county's paratransit service
"It's going to be like being on house arrest."
By Lauren Daley-Maurer
Policy questions: Miles lawsuit raises issues about city's undercover units
"You're asking for trouble if you're sending officers out there looking for guns and drugs without any guidance."
By Chris Young
Taking a Second Look: Is the high-profile case against SCI Pittsburgh guards weaker than it seems?
"This case sounds like it comes down to a question of who do you believe."
By Matt Stroud
In Focus
By Chris Potter
Draai Laag: The new brewery with an old-school approach
"People think it's about the hops. It's all about the yeast."
By Hal B. Klein
Poor Richard's Wexford Alehouse
This Wexford bar and restaurant delivers top-notch version of pub grub
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Soup For You
Delivering vegan soup — for lunch, and community
In The Torah Garden, poet Philip Terman finds a place worth staying
Terman arrives, in convincing moments, at something rarely well expressed in poetry: earned peace with a measure of joy.
By Mike Schneider
Stewart O'Nan's new novel is a funny, touching portrait of a marriage on the brink
A bankrupt couple travels to Niagara Falls in the comic novel The Odds: A Love Story.
In My Old West
A poem by Celeste Gainey
East Liberty Quarters revives electro-boogie
Three vets of the hip-hop scene team up to play "future funk"
By Andy Mulkerin
Atlanta-based Rotating Souls Records keeps a Pittsburgh heart
Owner Curt Jackson moved south in 2007, but preserves his local ties
Critics' Picks: January 27 - 29
Local shows by False Icons, Yellow Dubmarine and Gardening, Not Architecture, plus a CD-release show by Of an Empire.
On the Record with Nicolay
The multi-instrumentalist and producer discusses his new jazz record.
By Kate Magoc
Bach to the Future
Bach Choir of Pittsburgh takes a novel approach to the Baroque master
By Margaret Welsh
Through the Night
Daniel Beaty mesmerizes in his one-man show
By Ted Hoover
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A Kuntu production of the August Wilson classic wasn't ready to open
By Alan W. Petrucelli
Haywire
This reputed actioner is talk-talk-run-talk, punctuated by its star beating the hell out of some guy
By Al Hoff
Albert Nobbs
Gentle drama about a 19th-century Irishwoman who lives life as a man
A Dangerous Method
A well-produced, if dull, drama about the friendship – and later feud – between Freud and Jung
Man on a Ledge
Preposterous comedy-thriller offers some entertainment
Red Tails
WWII action-drama about Tuskegee Airmen doesn't quite soar
Roadie
Coming off the road proves bumpy for a fired roadie
Savage Love
Lynn Cullen Live 01/25/12
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 01/26/12
Lynn Cullen Live 01/27/12
Lynn Cullen Live 01/30/12
Lynn Cullen Live 01/31/12
East Liberty Quarters - CP TV
Short List: January 26 - 31
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
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck