Vol. 21, No. 30
Pennsylvania photographers get a new biennial
ontemporary photographers demonstrate a wide variety of styles and processes at Silver Eye
By Nadine Wasserman
Gut Shot: Cancellation of UPMC vaccine center was unwanted surprise to Hazelwood
"You have no idea how this is being felt in the hearts of the people of Hazelwood."
By Chris Young
Keeping up with the Joneses
By Chris Briem
POG Disbands: Anarchist group calls it quits after nearly a decade of protests
"POG may be history but the ideals that gave POG identity thrive"
By Marty Levine
Beaver Brewing Company has big ambitions
"Make the beer taste good, but make it unique."
By Brian Tierney
Hanlon's Café
An Uptown diner institution stakes out new territory Downtown
Bigham Tavern
This Mount Washington spot offers all the pleasures of a neighborhood pub in a neighborhood best known for dress-up, date-night venues
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
A radical independent bookstore expands
The Big Idea moves to bigger digs in Bloomfield
By Robert Isenberg
Innervenus rolls out a new compilation of Pittsburgh metal bands
"I think this will be introducing a lot of people to some different stuff in the city."
By Andy Mulkerin
Critics' Picks: July 29 -Aug 3
Local shows from Hayes Carll, Bilal, Wye Oak, Phantom Family Halo and Brain Idea.
Craig Boliver's I Am Shark manages punk and emo bands local and national
"My goal is to kind of control everything."
CD Reviews
New releases from The Chad Sipes Stereo, Slices and Matatu
The Black Lips bring retro rock and onstage hijinks to Mr. Small's
Even more than the fury of The Stooges, it was Pentecostal abandon Swilley wanted to replicate onstage
By Nick Keppler
Quantum locates another unlikely makeshift stage, this time for Twelfth Night
"It's all these grieving people who then just behave like lunatics."
By Bill O'Driscoll
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Ricardo Vila-Roger has directed with fine insight, keeping the multi-dimensional satire well paced yet never overplayed
By Gordon Spencer
The Full Monty
Just as the characters in Full Monty win us over with determination and sincerity, the Stage 62 company have us rooting for them from the beginning.
By Ted Hoover
The Moral Abyss Strikes Back
The most promising one-act is an inventively modern perception of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
By Michelle Pilecki
Friends With Benefits
While amusing, Will Gluck's film hasn't got the cojones to really subvert the rom-com genre
By Al Hoff
The Trip
A sort-of road-move buddy comedy that is a delectable and contemplative postmodern entertainment
By Harry Kloman
Captain America: The First Avenger
Entertaining, but more a prelude than a full realized narrative
By Charlie Deitch
Daylight
Picking up a hitchhiker leads to predictable trouble in this not-quite predictable drama
Viva Riva!
Dishonor among thieves in this gangster pic set in the Congo
Savage Love
By the Book
Making the case for a (gasp!) new tax
By Chris Potter
Short List: Week of July 28 - Aug 2
By Mars Johnson
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: The g-word edition
By Michael Machosky
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
A love letter, via Stormy Daniels, to the women and femmes who did not say no
By Jessie Sage
