Vol. 21, No. 18
Cautionary Shale: Flaherty, Fitzgerald say they differ on drilling -- but activists say you get fracked either way
By Charlie Deitch
Last Word
By Terelle Lewis
2011 Primary Election Guide
Hola, blanco and sangrita
By Brian Tierney
Waffles, INCaffeinated
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Oram's Donut Shop
Pawpaw Trees
By Andrew Moore
A conversation with novelist Gary Shteyngart.
By Savannah Schroll Guz
To breathe
Author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick discusses his book The Last Stand, about Custer, Sitting Bull and Little Big Horn.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Get Hip re-issues Meeting of Important People's debut
By Andy Mulkerin
CD Reviews
Baby Dee is on her best behavior
Critics' Picks: May 6 - May 11
Dee, meet Dee
Beth Corning's new dance-theater work asks, "How do you know when you are an adult?"
By Steve Sucato
Black men's voices are foremost in the play Testimony.
Always ... Patsy Cline
By Michelle Pilecki
In a Better World
In this earnest drama, revenge is a dish best not served.
By Al Hoff
Film Kitchen unearths first and early films by local artists.
Silk Screen Film Festival
A slate of nearly two dozen recent Asian and Asian-American films
American: The Bill Hicks Story
A new doc provides welcome, if bittersweet, time spent with the late comedian
Even the Rain
Ancient troubled histories repeat on in Latin America, in this contemporary drama
Fast Five
Cars, girls, guns and beefy men hit Brazil for another round of the Fast and Furious franchise
Lebanon, PA
An indie dramedy that asks: can you really go home again?
Prom
The trials and tribulations of attending the big school dance
There Be Dragons
In this lugubrious drama, a writer uncovers family secrets about the Spanish Civil War
By Harry Kloman
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Short List: Week of May 5 - 12
By Mars Johnson
A love letter, via Stormy Daniels, to the women and femmes who did not say no
By Jessie Sage
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
Pittsburgh’s heaviest hardcore band No Reason to Live will never die
By Eli Enis
Pittsburgh’s top 420 events
By CP Staff