Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from May 2006:
FEEDBACK
May 03, 2006; ... BEATING AROUND THE BUSH The interview of Eman Ahmed Khamas [April 12] was a textbook example of how supposed liberals will ignore their own principles in attacking the president and his policies. Let us count the ways. 1. The Hejab: Khamas stated that it was not oppressive for ...
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 03, 2006; ... THE ROAR AROUND TOWN. ROARING HOT JAM Friday, May 5, 6pm - 9pm, at Pittsburgh Glass Center See heat-defying acts of art in Pittsburgh Glass Center's flame-working and glass blowing studios! Watch artists twist and turn, block and blow while they tame the molten glass and ...
In Face of Suit, City Re-Charges Police Dog Bite Victim
May 03, 2006; ... POLICE Carole Wiedmann is being arrested a second time - for the alleged crime of letting a police dog try to bite her in the ass. Wiedmann, of Ohio Township, was arrested on a failure-to-disperse charge last Aug. 20 during a counter-recruitment protest in front of the Armed ...
Giving a Good Name to Lobbying
May 03, 2006; ... GOVERNMENT In this Age of Abramoff, some grassroots activists find themselves going unheard in Harrisburg and Washington. But on Mon., May 8, they can receive plenty of training to further their causes, as the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter hosts a workshop featuring ...
Getting a Handle on Bars to Cycle-Commuting
May 03, 2006; ... TRANSPORTATION While every week is Drive Yourself Alone to Work Week for most Americans, May 15-19 is Bike to Work Week ... and Bike Pittsburgh is making an effort to help commuters realize commuter cycling can be simple, fun and doable. The week, part of the League of American ...
THIS JUST IN
May 03, 2006; ... GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FIGHTS SUMMARY: A MySpace.com video features two girls engaged in heavy-duty fisticuffs. STATION: PCNC REPORTER: David Johnson WHEN IT AIRED: April 27 RUNNING TIME: 37 seconds VISUALS: * The tagline, "Girl Fight." * Pointless, graphic video of two girls beating the ...
Object Lesson
May 03, 2006; ... Never mind the details - let's find someone to blame MAYBE YOU DON'T know exactly what happened in Mount Lebanon, where a group of high school boys stands accused of humiliating a group of high school girls by treating them as sex objects. Maybe you don't know any of the details, or any ...
Birds of a Feather
May 03, 2006; ... In the slots debate, jailbirds back the Penguins IN THE 1990S, when New Orleans was debating whether to allow casino gambling, a pundit commented that since New Orleans already had organized crime - along with an abundance of prostitution, drug abuse, crooked cops, corrupt politicians ...
Following Suit
May 03, 2006; ... The Pirates may suck, but at least they're natty dressers I SAW SOMETHING nasty in Cleveland last month. I went to watch the Pittsburgh Passion women's professional football team take on the Fusion, and I saw something so horrible as to defy description. Even more shocking than the sight ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
May 03, 2006; ... TUESDAY NIGHTS in Pittsburgh aren't typically big party nights, but you wouldn't know it from the 200-plus people who crammed Gooski's last Tuesday to see Brooklyn's Slavic Soul Party. When I showed up during the second set, the neo-Balkan brass band had turned the back room into a humid, ...
State of Discontent: THE 2006 PRIMARY GUIDE
May 03, 2006; ... AT LAST: a non-presidential election that matters - that gives you choices worth making. In recent years, voters in state-level and even national-level elections have grown used to primary contests that were either desultory or nonexistent. But this year, incumbents are beset on all ...
Like Summer
May 03, 2006; ... Like Summer Warming Up LIKE SUMMER CD RELEASE with IDIOSYMPATHY. 7 p.m. Sat., May 6. Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $7. 412-431-4950 or www.club cafelive.com MANY LOCAL BANDS operate with the "young people leaving Pittsburgh" axe hanging just above their heads, waiting for one ...
Minus the Bear ... Equals What?
May 03, 2006; ... Minus the Bear ... Equals What? MINUS THE BEAR with ME WITHOUT YOU and RUSSIAN CIRCLES. 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) Sun., May 7. Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $12 ($14 day of show). 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com WELL IT'S NOT quite math-rock, but it's, you know - ...
Sunburned Hand of the Man
May 03, 2006; ... Sunburned Hand of the Man Shamanimal Collective SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN with SHOPLIFTING and MIDNITE SNAKE. 8 p.m. Thu., May 4. Paint and Body, 915 Penn Ave., Wilkinsburg. $8. 412-951-0622 or www.paintandbody.org WHEN IT COMES TO John Moloney and his band, Sunburned Hand of the Man, ...
Kem
May 03, 2006; ... Kem Ancient Kem: Classical Civilization KEM'S INTO YOU TOUR 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.). Thu., May 4. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave, Oakland. $40-60. 412-622-3131 FOR A NO-FRILLS RSiB artist like Kem, you get in where you fit in. But where would he fit in T-Pain's 'I'm N Luv ...
Da Buttonpusha - Who?/The Big Money Project/My Testimony
May 03, 2006; ... Da Buttonpusha Da Buttonpusha - Who? JUST PUSHING BUTTONS Big Jus and Deezil Money The Big Money Project 7 FIGURE ENTERTAINMENT Tee-Jay My Testimony SELF-RELEASED ONE OF the hardest workers in the Pittsburgh music scene has ...
THE PILLOWMAN
May 03, 2006; ... THE PILLOWMAN Thu., May 4-May 28. Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland. 412-394-3353 or www.pict theatre.org Sweet Dreams Stuart Garden was eager to direct The Pillowman. After months of phone calls, Andrew, 5. Paul, artistic ...
Golda's Balcony
May 03, 2006; ... Golda's Balcony GOLDA'S BALCONY continues through Sun., May 7. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 IN WILLIAM GIBSON'S one-woman show Golda's Balcony, based on the life of the fabled Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir quotes a thought from Pope Pius XII. The Pope ...
FEEDBACK
May 10, 2006; ... 15222 SPACED-OUT REVIEW Just a few corrections on Greg Knepp's review of Space Crafts [May 3]. Regarding "Kellstadt's mixed-media portrayals of a ... Butthead-esque youth at a school desk" - the character in mention is actually drawn from Butthead's ill-fated life ...
CORRECTION
May 10, 2006; ... Our April 19 cover story, "Ray of Hope," mischaracterized the ...
Mount Lebanon Has Lost Its Mind
May 10, 2006; ... #285 MOUNT LEBANON IS now the joke of the free world. I do my best to avoid the news. But even I was unable to avoid the vortex of silliness entitled "Mount Lebanon's Top 25 of 2006." This story (which, if you haven't heard it yet, please contact me with the address of the rock ...
Casing Casey Chances
May 10, 2006; ... POLITICS Democratic state Sen. Jim Ferlo isn't backing Rick Santorum in his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate. That's not exactly news to anyone remotely familiar with the Lawrenceville legislator. But Ferlo wants to make sure that fact is clear ... despite a recent e-mail ...
City Neither Zoning Nor Condoning Methadone Clinics
May 10, 2006; ... DRUGS It hasn't been easy to open a methadone clinic in the city, and it's about to get even tougher. Since late last year, Pittsburgh City Council has been pushing for new zoning restrictions for the clinics, which administer methadone to curtail addicts' cravings for drugs like ...
More Protest Arrestees Walk - Back to Picket Lines
May 10, 2006; ... ACTIVISM Two more of the six protesters arrested or cited during the Aug. 20 anti-military recruitment protest in Oakland walked out of court without a trial or any further punishment than time served. "It frees us up to keep doing counter recruitment," says De'Anna Callgiuri, ...
Doing the Math on Sprawl
May 10, 2006; ... CITY LIFE Academics from Toronto and London have finally proven scientifically what visitors to Cranberry have long suspected: Pittsburgh tops the nation in sprawl. They presented their findings in the May issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics in a paper called "Causes of Sprawl: A ...
THIS JUST IN
May 10, 2006; ... ALL EARS, PART I SUMMARY: Weight-loser wannabes have staples driven into their ears. STATION: WPXI Channel 11 REPORTER: Becky Thompson WHEN IT AIRED: May 4 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 31 seconds VISUALS: A montage of women and men being subjected to "ear-stapling" by women in scrubs ....
Casey At Bat
May 10, 2006; ... Is the Democrat striking out? I'M BEGINNING TO get that sinking feeling that tricky Ricky Santorum is going to stage a major comeback - and perhaps pull off a major-league upset. Despite everything. Despite his shameless public display in Florida with Terry Schiavo's parents, pandering ...
Rough Draft
May 10, 2006; ... Baltimore will wish it could rewrite this chapter of history WILL SANTONIO HOLMES provide the deep threat the Steelers want, drawing coverage away from Hines and Ced? Will safety Anthony Smith be able to replace the talents of Chris Hope? Will Florida State's Willie Reid be a viable ...
YOU HAD TO ASK
May 10, 2006; ... There's a strange little message embedded into Oliver Avenue, by the Saks Fifth Avenue, just before the intersection with Smithfield St. It looks like a mosaic. What's this? QUESTION SUBMITTED BY: MICHAEL DAVIES, SQUIRREL HILL YOU HAVE STUMBLED - literally - onto a ...
A Conversation with Ann Rose
May 10, 2006; ... Ann Rose believes in getting her hands dirty. The 61-year-old retired Shaler Elementary School librarian started picking up trash near her Squirrel Hill home late last year. But soon enough she was joined by Bicky Goldszer, Ceci Sommers and Barbara Grover from the neighborhood. Together the ...
IDENTITY CRISIS
May 10, 2006; ... Dogged by a decade-old scandal, a local rabbi tries to redefine himself SEARCH GOOGLE FOR Pittsburgh rabbi Gershon Freidlin and you'll have to scroll far down the list for the first mention of his work on Irving Howe's book, World of Our Fathers, the classic account of 20th-century ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
May 10, 2006; ... ONCE LOS ANGELES basically invented "pay-to-play" after the glut of Aqua-Netted rock groups during the hair metal boom. (Controversy over the practice continues even here to this day.) But now, apparently, bands are in short supply in that town. Or at least so I surmise, in that local R&B/ ...
Thomas Dolby
May 10, 2006; ... Breaking the Silence "ONE-HIT WONDER" is what we often call the aging pop stars with short-lived careers who ultimately wind up as footnotes on compilations shilled in late-night infomercials. Just don't include Thomas Dolby - the man behind Reaganera smash "She Blinded Me With Science" ...
Sound Kitchen
May 10, 2006; ... Raunch 'n' Roll THIS MONTH, Sound Kitchen (a CP-sponsored event) relocates from Quiet Storm to the North Side's Mattress Factory museum space. It's only appropriate that one of the featured acts should also be a reinterpretation: The Four Seasons Boys, a rarely seen amalgam of Pittsburgh ...
Measles Mumps Rubella
May 10, 2006; ... Dance Dance Evolution HEY, DANCE-PUNK HIPSTERS! Afraid that The Killers, The Bravery and Bloc Party buried your feverish floor moves six feet under with their encroachment into the mainstream? Don't lose the white belt, denim jacket or ironic mustache just yet - Measles Mumps Rubella has ...
Icarus Witch
May 10, 2006; ... Icarus Witch In Through the Out Door YNGWIE MALMSTEEN with ICARUS WITCH and ORANCE SKY. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 11 (doors at 7 p.m.). Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. All ages. $20 ($23 day of show). 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com LONG BEFORE Matthew Bizilia ...
¡Ay Caramba!/Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions
May 10, 2006; ... Ska Cubano ¡Ay Caramba! CUMBANCHA Maurice El Médioni Meets Roberto Rodriguez Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions PIRANHA AS SEVEN-YEAR-VETERAN A&R headfor Putumayo Records - the world's leader in global-music coffeehouse compilations, and ...
As You Like It
May 03, 2006; ... As You Like It AS YOU LIKE IT continues through Sat., May 6. Philip Chosky Theater, Carnegie Mellon University campus, Oakland through May 6. 412-268-2407 or www.cmu. edu/cfa YOU KNOW SOMETHING I don't get? This whole back-to-nature thing. I listen as friends tell me about the ...
Così Fan Tutte
May 03, 2006; ... Così Fan Tutte Pittsburgh Opera presents Mozart's COSÌ FAN TUTTE 8 p.m. Sat., May 6 (also 7 p.m. Tue., May 9; 8 p.m. Fri., May 12; and 2 p.m. Sun., May 14). Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $16.50-125.50. 412-456-6666 or www.cultural district.org OZZY OSBOURNE AND Wolfgang ...
Space Crafts
May 03, 2006; ... Space Crafts MY SPACE continues through May 13. SPACE, 812 Liberty Ave. Downtown, 412-325-7723 Vague exhibit contains worthwhile work DON'T GET ME WRONG: I like generic goods. Whether it's canned com or com chips, it's pretty much the same as costlier products. But ...
The Renovation Will Be Televised
May 03, 2006; ... A televised local home renovation gets bang for the buck ON GENERATION RENOVATION, one of the many spruce-up-your-house shows on HGTV, the premise is that Gen X-ers have endearingly quirky yet fascinating methods of home refurbishing. So how lucky we are that the show chose the 'Burgh's ...
Confessions of a Former Dittohead
May 03, 2006; ... Confessions of a Former Dittohead By Jim Derych Ig Publishing, 189 pp, $13.95 (paper) JIM DERYCH visits Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1723 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill, at 7 p.m. Tue., May 9 (412-521-3600). On radio, he visits The John McIntire Show, KDKA 1020 AM, at 8 p.m. Mon., May 8, ...
Pruning Roses in March
May 03, 2006; ... cHaPTeR & verse Today I began to prune the roses, ragged canes above the slums winter has left behind, a wreckage - soggy leaves, twigs, bits of paper, the odd plastic cap, a mildewed newspaper, still in its plastic jacket - air ...
New Moon Fusion Restaurant
May 03, 2006; ... New Moon Fusion Restaurant 20 E. General Robinson St., North Side. 412-321-3525 The menu here focuses on traditional Asian components and preparations informed by occasional Western ingredients and techniques. An appetizer of Peking duck quesadilla showcased New Moon's ability to ...
Drew's Family Restaurant
May 03, 2006; ... Drew's Family Restaurant 2060 Ardmore Blvd., Forest Hills. 412-271-1556 Mostly traditional diner fare, the menu has a homey feel, with a few nods to post-1950s dining trends and some Greek specialties. The spanakopita appetizer was a delicious big wedge of crisp phyllo ...
We're Smokin'
May 03, 2006; ... We're Smokin' LOCATION: 2312 Babcock Blvd., Ross Township. 412-931-3190 HOURS: 6:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., daily PRICES: Starters $3-10; sandwiches $4-7; entrées $6-18 FARE: Smoked meat, fried vegetables, and salads with ...
SHORT LIST
May 03, 2006; ... FOR THE WEEK OF 05.04-05.11 2006 FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO SUBMIT LISTINGS AND PRESS RELEASES, CALL 412.316.3342 EXT. 172. THU 04 * We know the Three Rivers Arts Festival is weeks away. But tomorrow is the final day - we're telling you early, see - to sign up to help ...
EVERYONE is a CRiTIC
May 03, 2006; ... Event: Queer Game Night Venue: Quiet Storm, Friendship Critic: Ehrrin Keenan Age: 33 Neighborhood: Troy Hill Occupation: Girl Friday Date: Sun., April 30, 2006 Interviewer/Photographer: Amanda Waltz THIS IS THE FIRST ONE in four or ...
The Promise
May 03, 2006; ... The Promise Dim Sum ONCE UPON A TIME, the People's Republic of China turned obedience into a culture. So after a while a group of young filmmakers found ways to create luscious-looking films that still managed to eke out an idea or two about the state of things (i.e., things ...
Amazing Grace
May 03, 2006; ... Amazing Grace CMU Grads Create a Half-Student, Half-Indie Film GRACE screens 8 p.m. Fri., May 12. Philip Chosky Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. $10 ($5 students). www.grace-the-movie.com IF YOU HAD SEEN the shoot at Gooski's, in Polish Hill, on a cold, windswept March ...
Full of Beans
May 03, 2006; ... Full of Beans FILM KITCHEN A COFFEE MOVIES CONTEST AND MINI-FESTIVAL 8 p.m. Tue., May 9 (7 p.m. reception). Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., N. Oakland. $6. 412-316-3342, x178 or www.filmkitchen.org COFFEE, LIKE TOBACCO, contains a drug as perfect for the postindustrial era as ...
FREE WiLL aSTROLOGy
May 03, 2006; ... FREEWILLASTROLOGY.COM FOR THE WEEK OF 05.03-05.10 ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Any idiot can face a crisis," said Russian writer Anton Chekhov. "It is the day-to-day living that wears you out." Your main assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, will be to use your ingenuity ...
SaVAGE LOVe
May 03, 2006; ... I'M A GAY MAN in a relationship for two years. I would say that we are in love. Love in the sense of the emotional kind of love and not so much in terms of the sexual. I do think of him as my husband and we had a commitment ceremony. We want to start a family and have started to look into ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
May 03, 2006; ... * SALT LAKE CITY fashion designer Jared Gold recently began offering jeweled brooches featuring brightly colored Swarovski crystals affixed to a live, three-inch-long Madagascar hissing cockroach that a woman can allow to roam a short distance around her dress or jacket via a silver chain ...
Giving Improv Props
May 10, 2006; ... Giving Improv Props BRING A PROP NIGHT with THE AMISH MONKEYS 8 p.m. Sat., May 13. Gemini Theater, 7501 Penn Ave., Point Breeze. $7 (cash only). 412-243-5201 or www.amishmonkeys.com. The guidelines for the objects audience members may contribute to The Amish Monkeys' Bring A Prop ...
The Pillowman
May 10, 2006; ... The Pillowman THE PILLOWMAN continues through May 28. Stephen Foster Memorial Theater, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland. 412-394-3353 SOME PLAYS HAVE A MESSAGE to impart or an argument to make or a social problem to dramatize - and some plays are meant to entertain ....
Rounding Third
May 10, 2006; ... Rounding Third ROUNDING THIRD continues through May 21. Little Lake Theatre, Route 19 and McDowell Lane, Canonsburg. 412-745-6300 WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE summer's just around the corner. I know this because I recently found myself driving out to the country - in this case, McMurray - ...
Burton
May 10, 2006; ... Burton BURTON continues through May 21. Open Stage Theatre, 2835 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-394-3353 LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT: Open Stage Theatre presents the local premiere of Paul Harvey Aurandt's one-man show about Richard Burton, called Burton. It features Joe Warik in ...
Re-newed Yinzer
May 10, 2006; ... WHEN SCOTT SILSBE announced he was undertaking the transformation of The New Yinzer, a friend replied, "I've heard of The New Yinzer. But what the hell is it?" Lots of Pittsburghers are confused about The New Yinzer's identity, says Silsbe, the new editor of the local literary ...
Imagi-Nations
May 10, 2006; ... Imagi-Nations NORMAN BROWN: STAGE ONE continues through May 25. 709 Gallery, 709 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412- 471-6070 NORMAN BROWN IMAGINES enchanted worlds, lands far away where all things are right and righteous, where creatures great and small play freely and nature's colors ...
THE RAPTURE
May 10, 2006; ... ARTIST: DORIAN CLEAVENGER TITLE: THE RAPTURE MEDIUM: CLAY WITH BRONZE PATINA DIMENSIONS: 13'' X 9'' ART SEEN » features artwork from local visual artists including painting, sculpture, art glass, fiber art, ceramics, collage, photographs - you name it ....
We're Smokin'
May 10, 2006; ... We're Smokin' 2312 Babcock Blvd., Ross Township. 412-931-3190 The menu includes Pittsburgh-themed "sammitches" alongside Southern icons like gumbo and greens. The gumbo here met our high standards - thick and chunky with rice, okra and slightly spicy sausage. We sampled three of ...
New Moon Fusion Restaurant
May 10, 2006; ... New Moon Fusion Restaurant 20 E. General Robinson St., North Side. 412-321-3525 The menu here focuses on traditional Asian components and preparations informed by occasional Western ingredients and techniques. An appetizer of Peking duck guesadilla showcased New Moon's ability to ...
Lot 17
May 10, 2006; ... Lot 17 LOCATION: 4617 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-687-8117 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat. noon-11 p.m. PRICES: Starters $5-8; sandwiches $7-9; entrées $13-17 FARE: Refined bar ...
SHORT LIST
May 10, 2006; ... FOR THE WEEK OF 05.11-05.18 2006 FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO SUBMIT LISTINGS AND PRESS RELEASES, CALL 412.316.3342 EXT. 172. THU 11 * In her multi-venue photography exhibition, Lynn Johnson seeks to take us From Intolerance to Understanding. The award-winning photographer, with ...