Vol. 22, No. 7
Seeing Pink: Planned Parenthood fracas brings out questions about Komen
Breast cancer remains 20 percent more common than it was when the Komen foundation was created 30 years ago
By Bill O'Driscoll
Horsing Around With Jobs: Corbett raids racing fund for AG programs
"We're facing a huge reduction in our funding and I'm really afraid we're going to go downhill fast."
By Charlie Deitch
Missing the Bus: Corbett saying, doing little to handle state's mass-transit crisis
"He has to put his political capital on the table to get it done."
By Lauren Daley-Maurer
Tough Love? Corbett cuts higher ed, chastises schools for tuition hikes
"This is the classic case of closing the barn door once the horse gets out."
By Chris Potter
Negative interest rates? Money backed by water? Charles Eisenstein wants to reform our money system.
Harrisburg author discusses ideas from his book "Sacred Economics"
Chartreuse a popular, if mysterious, option at local bars
The precise measurements of the ingredients are known by just two monks at a time
By Hal B. Klein
Kiva Han coffeehouse closes
The venerable Craig Street fixture was good 'til the last drop
Papaya
A local Thai restaurant makes a worthy addition to the Pointe's big-box corridor
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
The Come Up tours with Mac Miller, gets Billboard attention
The duo from Braddock met in junior high
By Rory D. Webb
Dean Cercone and Ivory Weeds look in from the outside
They jokingly call the sound they co-created "Renfrew folk," after the small community where they grew up
By Nick Keppler
CD Reviews
New releases from Before You, Committee for Getting Attention and The Tilt Room
By Andy Mulkerin
Critics' Picks: February 16 - 21
Local shows by Dia Frampton and Cut Hands, plus a couple of homecomings (More Humans and Andrea Parkins) and a Baroque quartet walks into a bar
By Andy Mulkerin and Nicole Chynoweth
Playwright Young Jean Lee takes to the stage — fronting a rock band — in We're Gonna Die
"I realized, ‘Hey, I am a terrible performer, and I hate performing.'"
Dutch arts fest opens with U.S. premiere of a sexually charged dance work
Dance Works Rotterdam/André Gingras presents Anatomica
By Steve Sucato
The Gammage Project
Though effective at times, the docu-drama loses its point in onstage clutter
By Ted Hoover
Elder Hostages
Ray Werner's trilogy about older folks plays well
By Robert Isenberg
Hi-Hat Hattie
An effective if mostly misty-eyed portrait of pioneering entertainer Hattie McDaniel
By Michelle Pilecki
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
A 3-D family action-adventure loosely based on the Jules Vernes story and featuring Michael Caine flying around on a giant bee
By Al Hoff
Shame
Steve McQueen's character study about sex addiction doesn't find any new positions
By Harry Kloman
Declaration of War
A young French couple find their relationship tested by a sick child
Safe House
Spies, mercenaries and double-secret spies clash in this action thriller
The Vow
What if your new wife suffered a brain injury and forgot all about you?
Savage Love
A woman who spanks her pets goes to jail, but a woman who spanks her husband goes to GGG heaven
Lynn Cullen Live 02/15/12
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 02/16/12
Lynn Cullen Live 02/17/12
Lynn Cullen Live 02/20/12
Lynn Cullen Live 02/21/12
Short List: February 16 - 21
By Mars Johnson
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: The g-word edition
By Michael Machosky
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
AG candidate Keir Bradford-Grey wants to be "the People's Lawyer"
By Maia Williams
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
