Recently added articles from Pittsburgh City Paper:
Nueva Voz
Feb 18, 2009; ... Spanish-language newspaper providing a "new voice" for Hispanic community AS ANY PUBLISHER will tell you, if you're going to launch a newspaper in Pittsburgh, you'd better find an untapped market. Fortunately for Brian Wiles, he thinks he's got one. In January, Wiles and a media ...
Fighting Back
Feb 18, 2009; ... Rankin's Meza-Clay looks to get back on top after tough loss IT'S BEEN A tough few months for Rankin boxer Monty Meza-Clay. In November, boxing officials denied him the chance to fight for a championship belt. And on Jan. 29, Clay suffered a controversial technical knockout to ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Feb 18, 2009; ... * ONE INDUSTRY That Needs No Stimulus: (1) Drug officials in California's Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity, counties (north of San Francisco) estimated in January that two-thirds of the area's economy is based on probably illegal marijuana farming (illegal under federal law, but permitted for ...
THIS JUST IN
Feb 18, 2009; ... HOT-OMOBILES SUMMARY: An inside look at the auto show. REPORTER: Jon Delano, KDKA Channel 2 AIRTIME: 2 minutes, 14 seconds on Feb. 13 VISUALS: Archival black-and-white footage from a Pittsburgh car show in 1958. HIGHLIGHTS: When anchor Stephanie Watson begins, "The 2009 International ...
Dowd-Hearted
Feb 18, 2009; ... A campaign gets underway at the 11th hour SITTING IN his Highland Park home, Pittsburgh City Councilor Patrick Dowd has a confession. "There's a bit of panic here," he says. No wonder. In the previous few hours, he'd confirmed plans to challenge Mayor Luke Ravenstahl in ...
under the WIRE
Feb 18, 2009; ... FOUR YEARS ago, local musician Brian Kruman started his own boutique label, Extant Music, and has since issued six wide-ranging CDs. The Look of Love is dedicated to the music of Burt Bacharach, but delivered from the psych-pop angle of George Martinproduced Beatles albums. The Great Came ...
Flash Bulbs
Feb 18, 2009; ... AT THE BIDWELL CENTER, ORCHIDS INSPIRE PASSION AND PROMISE YOU WOULDN'T expect to find Eden tucked away behind a UPS facility in Manchester. On a chilly January day painted over with Pittsburgh Gray, there isn't much to inspire warmth at the Drew Mathieson Center's acre-sized lot. If you ...
A Conversation with Martin Bisi
Feb 18, 2009; ... MARTINI BISI'S LIFE in music seems to mirror his description of the creative process: part spontaneous eruption, part sustained intellectual effort. Raised in Manhattan on classical music by his Argentinean parents, he turned teenage tagger in the mid-1970s before taking to recording in 1981 ....
Br'er Fox
Feb 18, 2009; ... Band of Brothers IN THEIR BAND'S four years of existence, brothers Aaron and David Bubenheim have played under no fewer than four names. The one that finally stuck for their guitarand-drums duo, Br'er Fox, sounds at first like a simple reference to a character from the Uncle Remus ...
Between Liberties
Feb 18, 2009; ... Between Liberties BETWEEN LIBERTIES CD-RELEASE SHOW with CHAI BABA, BOCA CHICA, MACHETE and ZACK SIMMEN 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 20. Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $8 ($10 at the door). 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com Everybody Works, Sometimes IT ...
Beautiful Music
Feb 18, 2009; ... DANCE REVIEW Beautiful Music ATTACK THEATRE presents PASSION REFLECTED 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 20, and 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 21. New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side. 412-394-3353 or www.proartstickets.orq. A most compelling reason to see ...
Martin R. Delany: The Pittsburgh Years
Feb 18, 2009; ... Martin R. Delany: The Pittsburgh Years MARTIN R. DELANY: THE PITTSBURGH YEARS continues through Feb 28. History's Flipside at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, 542 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-394-3353 or www.proartstickets.org AMONG THE MOST remarkable things about Martin R ....
FreeMan in Paris
Feb 18, 2009; ... FreeMan in Paris FREEMAN IN PARIS continues through Sun., Feb. 22. New Horizon at Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. 412-431-0773. AS BEBOP musicians go, Carter Freeman has a pretty typical life: He grows up poor, his father and brother are murdered by white ...
The Lark
Feb 18, 2009; ... The Lark THE LARK continues through March 1. Phase 3 at The Brew House, 2100 Mary St., South Side. 412-567-5033 or www.phase3 productlons.org IT WOULD appear that Andrew Lloyd Webber is the only person who hasn't created a work about Joan of Arc. Such writers as Friedrich ...
Abstract Concerns
Feb 18, 2009; ... Abstract Concerns FUSION continues through Sat., Feb. 21. Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, 477 Melwood Ave, North Oakland. 412-681-5449 or www.pghfilmmakers.org FUSION IS AN invitational exhibition presented by Group A, a Pittsburgh artists' guild whose "A" stands for "Abstract." ...
Soup's On ... the South Side
Feb 18, 2009; ... HOT SOUP is the perfect tonic for a chilly winter's day, and at the upcoming South Side Mid-Winter Soup Contest, you can get your soup on up to 23 times. * The fifth annual event, held this Sat., Feb. 21, is a showcase for neighborhood eateries and shops, a fundraiser for the Brashear ...
Freedom Square Diner
Feb 18, 2009; ... Freedom Square Diner LOCATION: 1185 Freedom Road, Cranberry. 724-591-5080 HOURS: Sun.-Sat., 7 a.m.-3 p.m. PRICES: $2-8 FARE: Ail-American breakfast and lunch ATMOSPHERE: Casual family restaurant LIQUOR: None * * ...
STRANDED: I'VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS
Feb 18, 2009; ... STRANDED: I'VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS. It Was one of the most astonishing news stories of the 1970s - and eagerly devoured in full detail In Piers Paul Read's best-selling book. Alive. In 1972, a small plane carrying 45 people - mostly members of a Uruguayan rugby team - ...
WENDY AND LUCY
Feb 18, 2009; ... WENDY AND LUCY. A young woman named Wendy (Michelle Williams) and her dog, Lucy, are en route from the Midwest' to Alaska. Though she's somewhat disaffected, Wendy has bought into the myth of going West, where there will be gold (or decent jobs) and wide open spaces, perfect for re-booting one's ...
Waltz With Bashir
Feb 18, 2009; ... Waltz With Bashir Sketchy History THE SUBJECT MATTER of Ari Folman's unusual documentary Waltz With Bashir is no less important for being so often told: If the particular massacre at the center of his film isn't well known to everyone, wartime atrocities are. But Folman, ...