Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from March 2007:
Ravenstahl refutes claims that he's against birth control
Mar 07, 2007; ... POLITICS Mayor Luke Ravenstahl makes no bones about his personal beliefs: He follows the teachings of the Catholic Church, and is pro-life. He does, however, object to a rumor about those beliefs that's been bouncing around Pittsburgh blogs and e-mail in-boxes. He also says - and ...
Gift Ideas for the Party Hack Who Has Everything
Mar 07, 2007; ... Maybe we're sentimental, but the city Democratic Party endorsement seems to bring out the best in all of us. It's not just the backslapping and bonhomie that make this season so festive; it's the gifts that candidates give Democratic committeepeopie, in hopes of receiving an endorsement. Don't ...
Federal bill would insure mental-health treatment
Mar 07, 2007; ... HEALTHCARE If you break your leg, you can usually count on your health insurance to pay for the treatment. But if you have depression or another mental-health problem, you often have to foot the bills for medication and therapy yourself. Under federal law, private insurers are not ...
Carlisle trailing the pack in re-election bid
Mar 07, 2007; ... ELECTIONS It hasn't been an easy year for District 9 Councilor Twanda Carlisle. Last May, the district attorney began investigating her spending habits, which included paying nearly $60,000 for consulting work to a friend and a man who owns a home with Carlisle's mother. District ...
THIS JUST IN
Mar 07, 2007; ... ALL SYSTEMS NO-GO SUMMARY: A tale of red lights and red tape. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Andy Sheehan WHEN IT AIRED: March 1 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 48 seconds VISUALS: * A motorist passing the time while stuck in traffic by reading The Pennysaver. * Snarled traffic in the Golden ...
Filling the Bill
Mar 07, 2007; ... Peduto needs to reach out ... now WHEN BILL PEDUTO'S SUPPORTERS walked into the Democratic Party endorsement gathering on March 4, they thought they had 350 committeepeople backing his run for mayor. It might not be enough to win the party's endorsement, they knew, but it would make ...
Giving the Devil Its Due
Mar 07, 2007; ... Violence takes many forms ON FEB. 8, a press conference was organized by local black activists to address the fact that Pennsylvania has the highest black murder rate in the nation. It was inspiring to see leaders and citizens voicing their concern and expressing their desire for ...
Just Checking
Mar 07, 2007; ... Don't turn back the clock on hockey's progress I ADMIT IT: Hockey fighting appeals to my primal side. But because the violence was always presented as an indicator of toughness, I thought of it as a harmless part of the game. Now I think it's obsolete. It's one thing to applaud ...
A Conversation with Deanna Hitchcock
Mar 07, 2007; ... Thirty-year-old Deanna Hitchcock, of Wilkinsburg, works as a secretary, pursues women's studies part time and rocks out in the all-girl pop band Flotilla Way (after one of Pittsburgh's charmingly named alleys). Yet she still finds time to make cookies. Lately, the call of the oven has been most ...
Breaking Down Defense Mechanisms
Mar 07, 2007; ... Activists shed light on CMU ties to defense industry WHEN THE FIRST Carnegie Mellon University police officer arrived at CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center in Lawrenceville at 5:12 a.m., two groups of anti-war protesters were already in place. It had taken just five ...
under the WIRE
Mar 07, 2007; ... CLUB KIDS stride through a record store, past racks of new 12-inch dance singles on their way to the disco. It's a fast-food commercial. A cough drop placed on a turntable needle causes a scratchy record to suddenly sound clear and pristine. In a child's cartoon, the young hero accidentally ...
Political Veteran
Mar 07, 2007; ... John Soltz is leading a new chorus of Bush critics. Just don't call him anti-war. JOHN SOLTZ, the cofounder of VoteVets. org, is against the way the war in Iraq is being handled. Just don't call him "anti-war." "VoteVets is a pro-military organization, and if I see 'anti-war' ...
Life in Bed
Mar 07, 2007; ... Sleeping Beauties ALTHOUGH THEIR NAME was randomly chosen from among the magnetic poetry snippets covering a refrigerator door, the inspirations which have driven the members of Life in Bed remain unmistakable. Though the Pittsburgh-based band spurns any use of the word "emo," its ...
Frank Bienkowski: Slow and Steady
Mar 07, 2007; ... SOME SINGER-SONGWRITERS begin documenting their writing skills almost as soon as they pick up their instruments, resulting in a tentative progress report rather than a finished product. Frank Bienkowski took the opposite route: The local songwriter let the ideas for 16 songs géstate and grow ...
Frida Hyvönen: Serene Swede
Mar 07, 2007; ... MODERNIST POET Djuna Barnes made a career penning both poetry and a brand of journalism that was a precursor to the "new journalism" of the 1960s. Yet she never quite achieved the notoriety of friends and contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce - perhaps intentionally, as Barnes ...
Jean-Louis Costes and Cock ESP: The G.G. Allins of Noise
Mar 07, 2007; ... NO DOUBT, the punk-rock drinking denizens of the Smiling Moose regard themselves as edgy outlaws in the South Side's sea of frat-boy conformity. And to some extent, that's true. But no amount of Misfits or Crass in the jukebox can adequately brace them for this Wednesday's double ...
A Little Red
Mar 07, 2007; ... A Little Red IT'S AN INTERESTING IDEA: Take a classic fairy tale - in this case "Little Red Riding Hood" - have playwrights rethink and revise, and throw up the results as an evening of theater. And The Rage of the Stage Players production oí A Little Red turns out, all in all, to be an ...
Ambivalence the Beautiful
Mar 07, 2007; ... Ambivalence the Beautiful Robert Raczka's latest series of photographs, American Brain, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, unravels a quest for sublime ambivalence. Raczka has extracted his images from a blazing media-saturated American culture scattered with drug-store displays, urban ...
Point of Protest
Mar 14, 2007; ... Someone is working to make sure NREC activists pay more for their actions THE 14 PROTESTERS ARRESTED March 2 outside of a robotics research center are facing more serious criminal charges than they expected because they chose to link themselves together with chains and PVC piping - ...
New push for Downtown living won't just mean condos
Mar 14, 2007; ... Amidst the mad rush to build luxury condos Downtown, some developers and foundations are striving to build affordable housing to make for a more inclusive community. * Over the past few weeks both TREK Development, an Oakland-based developer, and the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks ...
Sheriff candidate says he'll focus on foreclosures
Mar 14, 2007; ... Ed Kress isn't the big, club-swinging, Buford Pusser-esque bruiser that you might expect to run for sheriff. Of average height and build, he looks more like a 35-year-old attorney specializing in bankruptcy and estate planning. Which is exactly what he is. Kress, of Shaler, also doesn't ...
Women's roles in protest celebrated at International Women's Day
Mar 14, 2007; ... Wearing a pink coat and cowboy boots against the cold, Francine Porter of Codepink Pittsburgh Women for Peace shepherded nearly a dozen local women activists onto the stage in Market Square on March 8 for International Women's Day. She said the Bush administration's color-coded terror alerts ...
THIS JUST IN
Mar 14, 2007; ... JUDY-CIAL REVIEW SUMMARY: A local woman appears on the syndicated court TV show, Judge Judy. STATION: WPXI Channel 11 REPORTER: David Johnson WHEN IT AIRED: March 7 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute VISUALS: * A graphic featuring an illustration of Judge Judith Scheindlin, superimposed over the ...
Open Season on Opie
Mar 14, 2007; ... Time to bring out the big guns in mayor's race I WAS STANDING in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall on March 4, shortly after it was announced that the great majority of the Democratic party machine - sheep who have the power to endorse candidates in upcoming races ...
Double Dribble
Mar 14, 2007; ... Can Pitt, like Tennessee, build synergy in men's and women's basketball? IT'S MY FAVORITE time of the year: Spring is around the corner, hockey is in a pre-playoff frenzy, and the most consistently exciting event of the year is about to tip off. I'm talking, of course, about ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Mar 14, 2007; ... THERE'S NOTHING like turning the clock forward to subtly distort your sense of reality for the next several days. We all "agree" on it (if you don't count Indiana, and who does?), yet physically, it feels a bit off. Here's some more consensus-based reality that feels wrong: According to ...
Serpenteens
Mar 14, 2007; ... Serpenteens Soon You'll Be One Too SERPENTEENS with THE CHEATS and HI-WATT HEX 10 p.m. Fri., March 16, 31st Street Pub, 3101 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-391-8334 or www.31stpub.com ONE OF THE FIRST underground bands I remember seeing - definitely the first I ever wrote ...
The Bad Plus
Mar 14, 2007; ... The Bad Plus Suspicious activities? THE BAD PLUS with JOE LOVANO 8 p.m. Fri., March 16, and 8 p.m. Sat., March 17. Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, 1815 Metropolitan St., North Side. $37.50. 412-322-0800 or www.mcgjazz.com THE MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S Guild received a ...
The Hold Steady
Mar 14, 2007; ... The Hold Steady Do-or-die [ BY ED MASLEY ] INFO@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM THE HOLD STEADY 7:30 p.m. Mon., March 19 (doors at 7 p.m.). Rex Theatre, 1602 E. Carson Street, South Side. $13. All ages. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com THE HOLD STEADY'S music ...
Jaggery
Mar 14, 2007; ... Jaggery Spiral Staircase [ BY AARON JENTZEN ] AJENTZEN@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM JAGGERY with AVIATOR and COLTER HARPER TRIO 8 p.m. Sat., March 17. Garfield Arworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $7. All ages. 412-361-2262 or www.garfield artworks.com A SYRUPY ...
A Closer Look
Mar 14, 2007; ... A Closer Look [ BY STEVE SUCATO ] INFO@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE presents MOMENTS & MORE Thu., March 15-Sun., March 18. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $16-78. 412-456-6666 or www.pbt.org WHEN Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre chose to ...
Discovering Japan
Mar 14, 2007; ... Discovering Japan MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS (1868-1989) continues through April 15. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org THE WEST'S FASCINATION with Japanese art is as evident now as it was in the late 19th century, when Europeans ...
Look Who's Talking
Mar 14, 2007; ... Look Who's Talking DEBORAH TANNEN at the DRUE HEINZ LECTURE SERIES 7:30 p.m. Mon., March 19. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Fortes Ave., Oakland. $19 ($8 students). 412-622-886 or www.pittsburghlectures.org Deborah Tannen's best-selling relationship books feature bold, snappy titles ...
Now a Major Motion Picture
Mar 14, 2007; ... Now a Major Motion Picture PATRICK MCCABE at PITTSBURGH CONTEMPORARY WRITERS SERIES 8:30 p.m. Thu., March 22. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Plaza, Oakland. Free. 412-624-6506 or www.english.pitt.edu. THE VIRTUES OF FIDELITY: FILM ADAPTATION AS LITERARY TRUTH conference ...
CHaPTeR & VerSe
Mar 14, 2007; ... On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Boy by the Umpire in the Little League Conference Championship I had learned quickly how to spit through the jail-like bars of the catcher's mask so looking back I can't say as I blame the umpire who, after seeing me spit ...
Double Wide Grill
Mar 14, 2007; ... Double Wide Grill 2339 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-390-1111 As if eating in a former auto-body shop weren't novel enough, we found true ingenuity in the fantasia of junkyard finds and auto-related ephemera that filled the place. Less so with the menu that proffered a heapin' ...
Orchids International Vegetarian Restaurant
Mar 14, 2007; ... Orchids International Vegetarian Restaurant 4519 Centre Ave., Oakland. 412-688-8383 This is "fast, fresh, casual" international vegetarian, with a welcome new approach. Though Orchids claims to specialize in Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and American food, it's really an ...
Bistro 19
Mar 14, 2007; ... Bistro 19 LOCATION: 711 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-306-1919 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. PRICES: Starters $4-10; entrées $13-32 FARE: Comfortable contemporary ATMOSPHERE: Comfortable ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Mar 14, 2007; ... REVIEWS BY Al Hoff, Harry Kloman and Bill O'Driscoll BECKET. England's King Henry II and his Saxon consort Thomas Becket are great pals, partners in boozing, hunting and wenching. Then Henry, attempting to curtail the power and purse of the dominant Roman Catholic Church, appoints Becket ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
Mar 14, 2007; ... THE 14TH ANNUAL Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, spotlighting films that represent Jewish experiences, continues through Sun., March 25. Films screen at four area theaters: SouthSide Works Cinema, on the South Side (412-381-7335); the Galleria, in Mount Lebanon (1500 Washington ...
300 Thus Fought Zarathustra
Mar 14, 2007; ... 300 Thus Fought Zarathustra [ BY HARRY KLOMAN ] INFO@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM BEFORE YOU NOTICE anything else about 300 - which is based upon Frank Miller's graphic novels, and directed by Zach Snyder - you'll notice the sound of it. From start to finish it rumbles with stereo ...
SMaLL SCReeN
Mar 14, 2007; ... Video Futures NEW WAYS OF ACQUIRING home video have left local independent video stores retrenching - and some leaving the rental business entirely. Two of the city's oldest outlets recently went separate paths. In February, Squirrel Hill's venerable Heads Together left its ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Mar 14, 2007; ... * MOUNT DIABLO HIGH SCHOOL (Concord, Calif.) students met in racial groups in February to prepare for upcoming statewide tests, to motivate them to improve their race's "team" score from the year before. Principal Bev Hansen defended the strategy of dividing whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians, ...
Adrift
Mar 07, 2007; ... THE REGINA GOUGER MILLER GALLERY provided no explanatory text beyond artists' names and titles for Tides, an exhibition of work from Northern Ireland. So after walking all three floors, I knew there was only one thing to do: Find an Irishman. Antoine Leyn, born in the Irish Republic in ...
New Brew
Mar 07, 2007; ... "Everyone's doing their own thing, but it fits together," says Morgan Cahn, one of the artists in the Brew House's new Distillery Program. The six-month residency program's culminating exhibition, Higher Proof, features work by Cahn and Anne Angyal, Adam Grossi, Nicholas Hohman, Jeremy Radtke ...
Convention-al Thinking
Mar 07, 2007; ... ARCHITECT OF THE NEW YORK'S spired and inspired Woolworth Building, Cass Gilbert was also a pragmatist who described the skyscraper as a "machine for making the land pay." Sure, he gave us iconic architecture, but that structure stands to this day because it is still functional and still ...
Provocational Guidance
Mar 07, 2007; ... THE DEAD BODIES of two deer, thickly coated with white spray-paint: The pair of photos by Jude Vachon, each tinted blue and smaller than a business card, are mounted on a sheath of ivory cardstock, compellingly aestheticized and quietly disturbing. Likewise the poems tucked inside, printed on a ...
Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab
Mar 07, 2007; ... Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab By Kenneth Warren, University of Pittsburgh Press, 285 pages IF YOU ASKED PITTSBURGHERS to name the city's most important steelmaker, most would probably answer Andrew Carnegie, or H.C. Frick. Mention the name Charles ...
Double Wide Grill
Mar 07, 2007; ... Double Wide Grill LOCATION: 2339 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-390-1111 HOURS: Mon.-Wed. 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Thu.-Sat. 11 a.m.-mldnight.; Sun. 10 a.m..-10 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers and salads $7-9; entrées $14-27 FARE: Sophisticated ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Mar 07, 2007; ... FLANNEL PAJAMAS. (See review.) Director Jeff Lipsky will lead a discussion following the 4 and 7 p.m. shows on FrL, March 9, and Sat., March 10. Starts Frl., March 9. SouthSide Works MISS POTTER. Chris Noonah's adoring bio-pic tells the story of Beatrix Potter, the early 20th-century ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
Mar 07, 2007; ... THE 14(TM) ANNUAL Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival opens its 17-day run on Thu., March 8, with the Pittsburgh premiere of Monsieur Batignole, a dramedy set in France during the German occupation. The festival also offers more than 20 films from Israel, Europe and North America ...
Flannel Pajamas: Over-Tailored
Mar 07, 2007; ... Flannel Pajamas: Over-Tailored FOR ALL OF, the ground that writer/director Jeff Lipsky covers in Flannel Pajamas - they meet, they date, they fall in love, they live together, they marry, it all falls apart - I somehow felt at the end like I'd just spent two hours running in ...
Get Happy
Mar 07, 2007; ... Get Happy WITH THE RIGHT INSPIRATION, it's true: A script really can almost write itself. So Zoje Stage learned while watching the documentary Bukowski: Bom Into This shortly after viewing another portrait of "an asshole genius": Tell Them Who You Are, Mark Wexler's film about ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Mar 07, 2007; ... * ABOUT HALF THE STUDENTS who attend the Jewish primary school King David, in Birmingham, England, are Muslims, and in fact, their parents work hard to get them in because they so respect the school's ethos and its halal-like diet. All students learn Hebrew, recite Jewish prayers and celebrate ...
No April Fool's joke - Coulter coming to Pitt
Mar 21, 2007; ... Fresh from her knee-slapping reference to presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot," Ann Coulter is coming to Pittsburgh on April 1. The conservative brick-thrower was invited by the University of Pittsburgh chapter of the College Republicans: She is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. in ...
Lard to Believe
Mar 21, 2007; ... Can high-fat diets really promote healthy lives? FARM TO TABLE: NOURISHING A SUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., March 31. Bidwell Training Center, North Side. 412-563-8800 VEGETABLES ARE DELIGHTFUL. But they're even better - and much healthier - if you smother them in ...
Doyle 'puzzled' by protest vigil outside his office
Mar 21, 2007; ... U.S. Congressman Mike Doyle says he respects the work done in the past four years by anti-war protesters. But the vigil by protesters outside of his Downtown office has him a little puzzled. From roughly 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, activists have been protesting Doyle's decision to ...
THIS JUST IN
Mar 21, 2007; ... THIS WEEK: Answering some of your most pressing weather-related questions. What, exactly, causes a "water-main break"? - Maria, Brookline I am so glad someone finally asked this question. Because on the news, all we ever hear about are the things that water-main breaks ...
In the Cold
Mar 21, 2007; ... How about some help for the rest of us? WELL, FINALLY JUSTICE has been given unto Penguins owner Mario Lemieux, the long-suffering millionaire from Sewickley. Nice to see the guy get a break for a change. And that's one Pennsylvanian down, 12,440,620 to go. Many ...
Mayor May Not
Mar 21, 2007; ... What stake do black citizens have in this year's election? An open letter to mayoral candidates Luke Ravenstahl and Bill Peduto: I'M YOUNG, gifted and black. Why should I vote for you? What do you have to offer me? You both have track records, but what have you done for ...
Skating By
Mar 21, 2007; ... The Pens help bind a region together COUNTY EXECUTIVE Dan Onorato and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl can cancel their enrollment in the witness-protection program. We don't have to put our Sidney Crosby jerseys in mothballs or enshrine them behind glass. The Penguins are staying in ...
A Conversation with Cole Lea
Mar 21, 2007; ... Cole Lea, 25, is an environmental organizer by day, spoken-word poet by night ... and a full-time feminist dyke. Lea, of the West End, is a force to be reckoned with at shows and open mics all over town. HAS "FEMINIST" BECOME A DIRTY WORD? For some people, I think it has. I think ...
MILITARY POLICE
Mar 21, 2007; ... Military-style police tactics reflect - and arguably worsen - distrust between black neighborhoods and police THE LENCO BEAR measures 11 feet tall, 9 feet wide and 25 feet long. Its roomy interior includes an on-board communications center, with power ports for laptop computers, a ...
under the WIRE
Mar 21, 2007; ... EVER GET UP in the morning, look in the mirror, and ask yourself, "I wonder what Mike Lavella's been doing?" I did. To my surprise, I found out that the San Francisco music enthusiast, Pittsburgh native and founder of '80s punk legends Half Life was, in fact, no longer involved with music. Now ...
A Conversation with Freestyle
Mar 21, 2007; ... ACT FAMOUS TO GET FAMOUS - it's a well-worn path to success that's been navigated by entertainers from David Bowie to, well, East Liberty emcee Freestyle. After only three years at the mic, the 21-year-old rapper has been moving up in the music industry with the same tenacity and audacity that ...