Vol. 19, No. 30
The Smithsonian's touring Modern Masters bypasses some big names to focus on other luminaries.
By Melissa Kuntz
Playing for High Stakes
By Charlie Deitch
Public Displays of Dissension
By Chris Potter
Machine Politics
Hot Zone
By Chris Young
Overreaction News
By Marty Levine
Free Money?
Fallout Shelter
Gathering Steam
Activist and author Frances Moore Lappé discusses how reviving democracy can aid the environment
By Bill O'Driscoll
Tokyo Japanese Food Store
By Melissa Meinzer
Hofbräuhaus
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Comedian Jim Breuer stays funny as a family man
Pseudo Slang offers hip hop for the heads at Most Wanted Fine Art
By Manny Theiner
A Conversation with The Low Anthem's Ben Knox Miller
By Aaron Jentzen
Josh Beyer showcases original sessions by local improvisers on WRCT
Chicago's Baby Teeth offers synths, syncopation and snark on Hustle Beach
Alt-country siren Neko Case plays the Riverplex Amphitheatre
By Margaret Welsh
Barry Manilow's Copacabana
By Ted Hoover
The All Night Strut
By Robert Isenberg
Séraphine
An early-20th-century artist claims divine inspiration in this fine biopic from France.
Departures
A cellist turns undertaker in this gentle Japanese dramedy about living and dying..
By Harry Kloman
Amarcord
Fellini's 1973 eulogy for his boyhood surely has more fart jokes and fast-moving vehicles than the rest of his oeuvre combined.
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Pittsburgh n'@
This Just In: July 30 - August 6
By Frances Sansig Monahan
Short List: Week of July 30 - August 6
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