Vol. 21, No. 9
Illuminating Shadows: Wood Street Galleries show projects seismic awe and oceanic dread
By Justin Hopper
Seth Clark's Ruination finds compelling art in postindustrial fragments.
By Christopher L. McGinnis
On the Record with Mike Dawida, executive director of Scenic Pittsburgh
By Charlie Deitch
Cut Above: North Side barber Earl Baldwin offers more than just a haircut
By Jane McCafferty
Keeping Watch: Wisconsin labor issues have Pa. unions on high alert
By Lauren Daley-Maurer
Public Display: Are mugshot tabloids newsworthy or just sensational?
By Chris Young
Selling Wine After Its Time
By Brian Tierney
Café Vita
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Bus Fare
By Chris Potter
Schwartz Market
The longtime East Carson Street grocery store gets ready to close.
Pitt graduate fiction students honor a professor with a collection of stories.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Critics' Picks
Chatham Baroque stages Bach's controversial St. John Passion
By Andy Mulkerin
A Path so Twisted: When musicians like Patti Smith win awards ... for books
By Aaron Jentzen
DJ FreQ Nasty and Monsters of Bass take the low road to Pittsburgh
School's Out ... For Now: Shows for students who aren't out on Spring Break
On the duo's new album, Ennui's psychedelic pop recalls Pink Floyd and Bowie
By Patrick Bowman
Interview: Flogging Molly's Bob Schmidt
Flogging Molly's banjo and mandolin player talks about the life in the beloved Celtic-rock group and its album Speed of Darkness, due May 24.
By Bethie Girmai
Just Kids in the making: Interview with Patti Smith, July 2007, unpublished excerpt
Choreographer Nora Chipaumire and African music legend Thomas Mapfumo team up on a new work.
In the Voodoo Parlour of Marie Laveau
By Ted Hoover
Mahalia Jackson: Standing on Holy Ground
By Robert Isenberg
After a long absence from Pittsburgh stages, Ballet Hispanico returns with a new artistic director.
By Steve Sucato
Rising-star playwright Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, at the Public, is largely about its silences.
Outside the Law
An ambitious docudrama covering the Algerian-independence movement in 1950s France
By Al Hoff
The Adjustment Bureau
A thriller that asks: What if your life was already mapped out?
Film Kitchen
Drive Angry Shot in 3-D
It's mayhem ... right in your face!
Hall Pass
This raunchy comedy is a dud.
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
A documentary about the influential 1960s folk singer
Rango
A gorgeously produced kiddie tale, with shades of Chinatown
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
One-Way Traffic
Running out of Options: Just how desperate are things getting for the Penguins?
By Jim Shearer
Short List: Week of March 3 - 10
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
Dave and Andy's says goodbye, Construction Junction turns 25 with wine, and more Pittsburgh food news