Vol. 23, No. 2
The artists of Keystone West make a strong showing at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
The works in this show overlap with many approaches, from cartoonish figuration to conceptual-ish materialism.
By Robert Raczka
Numbers Game: Tom Corbett wants to bet on keno; are your wallet and well-being worth the risk?
"This is just another addiction for the state coffers to feed off of."
By Charlie Deitch
On the Record with Rustbelt Radio reporter Don Carpenter
"I've seen special-interest groups get involved in trials but I've never seen them come out firing using media as a weapon."
By Lauren Daley-Maurer
War Without a Winter Coat
A poem by Jimmy Cvetic
A few simple cocktails help you stay warm while staying at home
"These types of drinks call more for a well-stocked spice cabinet."
By Hal B. Klein
Heading South: Strip taco vender opens South Hills Mexican eatery
"The Spanish community is growing up in Pittsburgh."
By AmyJo Brown
Janice's Sweet Harmony Café and Catering
A musically themed diner in Ambridge offers home-style comfort
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Another solution for green tomatoes, besides frying and discarding
Green tomatoes are easy to pickle, tasty to eat
Guns, Germs and Steel author Jared Diamond returns to contend we have much to learn from traditional societies.
The World Until Yesterday offers practical advice from diet and child-rearing to the justice system.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Poet Paola Corso explores work — and the conditionality of breathing.
Corso's laundress' existence, accounted in articles of clothing and spats with the people in her life, is a fight for air.
On Being Asked for a Poem that Embodies
Non-Anthropocentric Spirituality
Feels like the right time for a Freakwater tour
"We're always planning on making a Freakwater record; we just haven't done it. We're just very ... disorganized."
By Andy Mulkerin
Mysterious Mr. Mangum returns to Pittsburgh
A surprise visit to Brillobox was the Neutral Milk Hotel frontman's most recent appearance here
By Mike Shanley
WuLords combine hip hop and The Art of War
"WuLords know what lyrics is about, they know the history, they paid attention and they dissected."
By Rory D. Webb
New Releases
Recent work by Western Pennsylvania, The Red Western and Jupiter Vinyl
Critics' Picks: January 9 - 15
The Darkness comes to town, Grand Buffet reunites, Touchfaster presents its Solstice event, and Red Bull Thre3style holds its qualifiers
Pittsburgh Public Theater's The Chief
Collier and Zellers have written Steelers patriarch Art Rooney as a self-mocking Average Joe who hides blistering intelligence behind a Will Rogers-esque aw-shucks showman.
By Ted Hoover
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's docu-drama recounts the search for Osama Bin Laden
By Al Hoff
Any Day Now
A period melodrama about two gay men trying to adopt is flawed but heartwarming
Not Fade Away
Another familiar re-tread of growing up in the 1960s
Savage Love
You did the gayest thing a guy can do, but that didn't make you gay.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Corbett suit proves just how out-of-bounds sports culture has become
By Chris Potter
Lynn Cullen Live 01/09/13
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 01/10/13
Lynn Cullen Live 01/14/13
Lynn Cullen Live 01/15/13
Short List: January 9 - 15
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
