Apr 23-29, 2014

News

• Community Profile

  "Secret Cinema" combines mystery movie with cinematically inspired art

  Hollywood Theater hosts Bill Murray-themed event

  By Gwendolyn Kiste

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• News

  In a Bind: Arbitration gives officers a method of fighting termination, but what recourse does the public have when they're rehired?

  "By the time the process is over, no one is disciplined unless they're sitting in jail."

  By Alex Zimmerman

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• News

  Food for Thought: Social justice and environmental issues intersect at MOSAIC convergence

  "People who care about one [issue] should sort of care about the other as well."

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• News

  Calling the Question: Point Park adjuncts eyeing summer unionization vote

  "We think winning here is inevitable."

  By Chris Potter

  Apr 23, 2014

Food+Drink

• Drink

  Beers of the Burgh Festival celebrates hometown brewing

  The festival exclusively celebrated Western Pennsylvania beer, drawing more than 1,000 people to sample beer from 30-plus breweries and homebrew clubs

  By Hal B. Klein

  Apr 23, 2014
• Food

  Off the Hook

  A fine-dining fish restaurant from the founders of Monterey Bay lands in the North Hills

  By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Food

  Reid's Fresh Express food truck helps bring healthful fare to suburban office workers

  "That's the target market and I believe one that's underserved."

  By Charlie Deitch

  Apr 23, 2014

Arts+Entertainment

• Comedy

  What do you get when you combine Dungeons & Dragons and improv comedy?

  Knights of the Arcade is a good way to die.

  By Angela Suico

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Literary Arts

  I wanted to see how things die outside my house.

  Apr 23, 2014
• Music

  Wye Oak hangs up the guitar for bass and synth on new record

  "If all we could do is be a guitar band doing neo-folk, I don't think we'd still be a band. I think we would've just called it a day."

  By Andy Mulkerin

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Music

  Aimee Mann and Ted Leo unite as The Both

  "If I start the stem of a song and hand it to him, it always comes back having gone in a very interesting direction, one that I never would have thought of."

  By Margaret Welsh

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Music

  DJ Afterthought makes local hip-hop moves with Elevator Music team

  He's also a minority partner of Daily Bread, a clothing line often sported by Mac Miller

  By Seth Pfannenschmidt

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Music

  Critics' Picks: April 23 - 29

  Local shows from Wolf Eyes, The Werks, Deerhoof and M.I.A.

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Music

  On the Record with Robert Glasper

  "If you're not an actual jazz musician, I can tell by the first measure that you play."

  By Mike Shanley

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Theater

  With his novel approach to neuroscience and perception, renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor and Random Dance return to Pittsburgh

  "There are different types of images: acoustic, kinesthetic."

  By Steve Sucato

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Theater

  Alarum Theatre's Slowly

  Ever-oscillating emotions bring a devastating dilemma into sharper focus

  By Gwendolyn Kiste

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Theater

  Carnegie Mellon Drama's Lives of the Saints

  David Ives's interestingly nutty concepts are marred by flat jokes and flabby writing

  By Ted Hoover

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Screen

  Transcendence

  A sci-fi thriller about a super-smart machine has a provocative premise but fails to deliver

  By Al Hoff

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Screen

  Under the Skin

  An attractive alien is the locus for this sci-fi-ish meditation on being human

  By Al Hoff

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Screen

  Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

  A slate of more than two dozen recent Asian and Asian-American films

  By Al Hoff

  Apr 23, 2014

  
• Screen

  Finding Vivian Maier

  A new documentary looks at Chicago nanny who was also a prolific street photographer

  By Al Hoff

  Apr 23, 2014

  

Columns

• Opinion

  Savage Love

  A time when everyone will have a few incriminating images circulating online is quickly coming.

  Apr 23, 2014

Podcasts

• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/29/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 29, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/23/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 23, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/24/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 24, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/25/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 25, 2014
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 04/28/14

  Audio & Video Archive

  Apr 28, 2014

Listings

• This Week's Top Events

  Short List: April 25 - May 1

  New dance at Point Park Connections; Downtown's Spring Gallery Crawl; the 17^th annual Art All Night; Philip Glass' opera Orphée; Risk!-y storytelling; and a birthday party for August Wilson

  Apr 23, 2014