Vol. 19, No. 37
It's Your Funeral
Lord & Taylor's closing should be the epitaph for bad redevelopment policy
By Charles Rosenblum
Mayor Strangelove
Or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love the layoffs.
By CP Staff
The Highest Height
For 9/11, a kid's diversion becomes a memorial.
By Marty Levine
Brand O Trims Taxes!
But how low can county levy really go?
By Rich Lord
Conversation Starters
Two years after 9/11, local Muslims still work to introduce Islam to Pittsburghers.
Charges Not Enough, Too Many
An activist protests two deaths, then faces charges herself ...and it's all related, she maintains.
Meet and Defeat
Local Internet organizers for Democratic hopeful Howard Dean are diverse...and almost divergent.
By Julie Mickens
Circle of Dead Children
Human HarvestMartyr Music
By Manny Theiner
Quasi
Hot ShitTouch and Go
By Julie Wesolowski
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
God Is in the House (Live DVD)Mute
By Justin Hopper
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Deadly Guitars, Part Three
By Al Hoff
American Splendor
Panel discussion
By Bill O'Driscoll
Holy Land
A separate piece-nik
By Harry Kloman
Matchstick Men
Pros and Cons
Public Enema
When citizen participation gets stuck in too late
By Chris Potter
I would like to know why so many companies and hospitals don't pay their fair share of taxes to Pittsburgh. The taxpayers are burdened enough.
Question submitted by: Rose Marie Goyak, Millvale
A conversation with Ruth and Charque Newell
Ruth and Charque Newell have run The Upper Room: A School of Mysticism in Regent Square since 1999, offering classes in tarot, meditation, dreams, I Ching and "practical mysticism," as well as individual readings.
By Mars Johnson
Both the Evergreen Cafe owner and his adversaries are calling authorities over the new loading zone
By Matt Petras
Confessions of a non-monogamous, compulsively caregiving eldest daughter
By Jessie Sage
Ed Piskor exhibition postponed over sexual misconduct allegations
Is Pittsburgh headed for a Catholic renaissance?
By Colin Williams