Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2014

News

• Community Profile

  Haylee Ebersole's Porous Sediments entices

  The effect is that of stumbling upon a beach at low tide and discovering a universe of organisms.

  By Lissa Brennan

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Community Profile

  Jennifer Myers' new and recent work emphasizes the spirit of Everywoman

  This exhibit has a feel of immediacy, more akin to outsider art than to academic finesse

  By Robert Raczka

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Environment

  Public Trusts: Proposed fracking under Deer Lakes Park could run afoul of state constitution

  "It would be prudent for the county to investigate those questions"

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Mar 26, 2014
• News

  Blight Plan: Is a proposed land bank the best way to deal with city's dilapidated properties?

  City Paper roundtable: City councilors discuss land-bank proposal

  By Alex Zimmerman

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• News

  Court of Public Opinion

  Sick of politics as usual? Spend your day watching neighbors try to knock each other off the ballot

  By Chris Potter

  Mar 26, 2014

  

Food+Drink

• Drink

  Sarah Thomas brings diverse experiences to Bar Marco's new wine room

  "Organic chemistry has actually paid off."

  By Hal B. Klein

  Mar 26, 2014
• Food

  Legume broadens appeal with "ridiculously cheap" lunch specials

  "We're trying to feel out how to have a really nice-valued lunch, always."

  By Jessica Server

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Food

  1844 Restaurant

  A restored farmhouse in Leechburg offers a classic fine-dining menu with intriguing updates

  By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Food

  The Quiet Storm sets up a new front at North Oakland's AVA Café + Lounge

  Once the kitchen is fully built, the popular home fries and brunches should return

  By Alex Zimmerman

  Mar 26, 2014

Arts+Entertainment

• Literary Arts

  With his latest graphic novel, Pompeii, locally based Frank Santoro is better received overseas than at home

  "I've had more of an emotional response to this book than anything I've ever done."

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Literary Arts

  Traveling

  A poem by Wendy Scott Paff

  Mar 26, 2014
• Music

  PigPen Theatre Co. remembers its CMU roots

  "We're just actors who just picked up our instruments five years ago."

  By Julia Cook

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Music

  Hugh Masekela still "just making good music" nearly 50 years after "Grazing in the Grass"

  "When I started playing music, there were no categories."

  By Mike Shanley

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Music

  Moemaw Naedon produces his own tracks

  "The Chronic changed a lot for me and made me interested in the production side of it."

  By Kayla Copes

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Music

  Critics' Picks: March 26 - April 2

  Local shows by Mindless Self Indulgence and Tacocat, plus Bobbito Garcia stops for a DJ set and book-signing, CureRock presents music to help fight adolescent cancer, and Jenesis Magazine celebrates 7 years

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Music

  New Releases

  Recent music from Microwaves, Whoovez, City Love Story and Essential Machine

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Theater

  The REP's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

  The first act is certainly one of the funniest I've ever seen on stage.

  By Ted Hoover

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Theater

  Rage of the Stage's Dorothy in Oz

  Any play whose first line is "Shut the fuck up, Toto!" will appeal to the 12-year-old in everyone.

  By Colette Newby

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Theater

  In her first period novel, Kathleen George tackles the Johnstown Flood

  Set in 1989, The Johnstown Girls unravels a century-old mystery

  By Angela Suico

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Screen

  JFilm

  The annual festival offers nearly two dozen films from Israel and around the world representing Jewish experiences from the comic and dramatic

  By Al Hoff

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Screen

  Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1

  Minus the graphic sex, Lars von Trier's film is just a heady, if mannered drama

  By Harry Kloman

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Screen

  Bad Words

  A mean adult invades a kids' spelling bee in this dark comedy

  By Al Hoff

  Mar 26, 2014

  
• Screen

  Divergent

  In a dystopic Chicago of the future, a teen makes a life-changing choice

  By Al Hoff

  Mar 26, 2014

  

Columns

• Opinion

  Savage Love

  Mar 26, 2014

Podcasts

• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/01/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 1, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 03/26/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Mar 26, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 03/27/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Mar 27, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 03/28/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Mar 28, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 03/31/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Mar 31, 2014

Listings

• This Week's Top Events

  Short List: March 26 - April 3

  The Carnegie asks "RACE: Are We So Different?," Cirque du Soleil returns, Pittsburgh Opera does La Bohème, and a book-launch for local author Dave Newman are among this week's events.

  Mar 26, 2014