Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2003

Vol. 19, No. 44

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Oct 30, 2003
News

Liberation Won't Be Televised

From Digable Planets to Dead Prez, Liberation's black radical precursors have been locked out from the music industry. Still, this rap group believes they hold the key.

By Brentin Mock
Oct 30, 2003
News

One-Man Stand

Just in time for the election, a new dose of local politics hits

By Chris Potter
Oct 30, 2003
News

Organize Locally, Annoy Globally

Fundamentalist street preachers who shut down a Somerset-area gay bar in 2001 are now multiplying, boasting of arrests across the country

By Marty Levine
Oct 30, 2003
News

An interview with Jenny Toomey

By Justin Hopper
Oct 30, 2003
News

Liberation Won't Be Televised

From Digable Planets to Dead Prez, Liberation's black radical precursors have been locked out from the music industry. Still, this rap group believes they hold the key.

By Brentin Mock
Oct 30, 2003

Literary Arts

Writing Life

Creative nonfiction guru Lee Gutkind plunges into memoir

By Bill O'Driscoll
Oct 30, 2003
Music

David Byrne

Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Music from the film YoungAdam
Thrill Jockey

By Dan Eldridge
Oct 30, 2003
Music

The Dismemberment Plan

A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan
DeSoto

By Dana Vinson
Oct 30, 2003
Music

Jenny Toomey

Tempting Misra

By Justin Hopper
Oct 30, 2003
Screen

Sylvia

Lives of the Poets

By Al Hoff
Oct 30, 2003
Screen

The Human Stain

Blot driven

By Bill O'Driscoll
Oct 30, 2003
Screen

Buffalo Soldiers

War games

By Bill O'Driscoll
Oct 30, 2003
Screen

In the Cut

Love Hurts

By Al Hoff
Oct 30, 2003

Opinion

Caviar Emptor

The budget-solution horse Roderick and Hillman rode in on proves to be lame

By Chris Potter
Oct 30, 2003
You Had to Ask

I've heard that former KDKA reporter Marie Torre was put in jail for refusing to name an informant regarding a news story. How long did she spend in jail?

Question submitted by: Larry Pergzola, South Side

By Chris Potter
Oct 30, 2003
Local Vocal

Woodward and Bernstein took down Nixon, Upton Sinclair blew the lid off the meatpacking industry, and Geraldo Rivera exposed the mystery of Al Capone's secret vault. But all these feats of journalistic courage pale beside that of Marie Torre. I mean, it's

By Dan Eldridge
Oct 30, 2003
Vox Pop

Double the Negatives!

More attack ads, please, before voters die of boredom

By John McIntire
Oct 30, 2003