Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from April 2007:
Pierogie: It's All About the Dough
Apr 04, 2007; ... CITY PAPER'S MAYORAL CANDIDATE UNVEILS HIS FINANCIAL GOALS There are some differences between me and other politicians. First, unlike anyone else, I'm challenging incumbent Luke Ravenstahl this May. That's why I hope you'll vote for the real bobblehead by writing in "pierogie" on the ...
Taking a Gamble
Apr 04, 2007; ... Pa. slots are raking in the cash, but will players who lose too much get the help they need? ARE STATE OFFICIALS rolling the dice on gambling addicts? When the state's slots-casino legislation was enacted in 2004, the state Department of Health was tasked with developing ...
Panel debates use of the n-word
Apr 04, 2007; ... NEIGHBORHOODS A discussion about an "ugly, awful, hateful word" revealed differing perceptions about its use among panelists, and an audience of several dozen. Rather than providing pat answers, the discussion, held at the North Side campus of Community College of Allegheny ...
Hitting the Brakes
Apr 04, 2007; ... Port Authority scales back transit cuts, for now THE PORT AUTHORITY of Allegheny County voted unanimously on March 30 to scale back transit cuts from 25 percent to 15 percent, sparing 95 of the 124 daily routes initially targeted for elimination. But the revised plan, effective June 17, ...
THIS JUST IN
Apr 04, 2007; ... GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT! SUMMARY: Those wacky, lovable Pittsburgh Public Works guys show they can "think outside the pothole." STATION: KDKA REPORTER: John Shumway, "Live" WHEN IT AIRED: March 27 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 4 seconds VISUALS: The tagline "Pothole Plague," as footage reels of ...
Counter-Coulter
Apr 04, 2007; ... Listening to a speaker with nothing to say WHAT DID I EXPECT from Ann Coulter's April 1 appearance at the University of Pittsburgh? I'm not sure. But it wasn't the mind-numbing boredom I got. Delivered in an upper-class-Connecticut drone, Coulter's remarks were obviously canned ....
Safe At Home
Apr 04, 2007; ... Preserving the Clemente legacy I'M STANDING WITH Duane Rieder, the local keeper of Roberto Clemente's flame, in the spot where Lou Gehrig once slept. We're in the old Pittsburgh Engine House No. 25, at 3339 Penn Ave., in Lawrenceville. Rieder, a professional photographer, uses ...
ALMOST ALMOST FAMOUS
Apr 04, 2007; ... CHASING THE BUZZ AT AUSTIN'S SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL ONE WEEK EACH SPRING, the center of the musical universe occupies an area measuring some 12 blocks by 10 blocks in the heart of Austin, Texas. For five days, the music starts at noon and ends just before dawn ... or when you simply ...
under the WIRE
Apr 04, 2007; ... PASSOVER IS very goth: plenty of high drama and gnashing of teeth, plagues, suffering and blood. The Egyptians play "Master and Servant" with the Hebrews, and Pharaoh's daughter wears lots of eye makeup and ankh necklaces. * Pittsburgh's goth scene experienced an Exodus of its own when ...
Sodajerk
Apr 04, 2007; ... SODAJERK CD RELEASE with THE MAVENS 10:30 p.m. Sat., April 7 (doors at 10 p.m.). Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $7. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com A Tale of Two Cities WHEN SODAJERK FOUNDERS Bucky Goldstein and "Poppa" John Tucker relocated from Pittsburgh to ...
Gutrench
Apr 04, 2007; ... Re-Ignition PITTSBURGH HAS always liked its punk, hardcore and metal, and probably always will. Reunions of Half Life and Battered Citizens have been well received, and now one of the frontrunners of Pittsburgh's third hardcore wave - Gutrench - is also attempting to return to the scenes ...
Punk's Raw Underbelly
Apr 04, 2007; ... Revolution Rock IT SEEMS THAT more and more people, especially younger audiences, are tuning in to the idea that, as G.G. Allin once said, "rock 'n' roll is the fury within you." The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, and Daughters - stopping at Club Stratus this week - are currently touring ...
The Melodians
Apr 04, 2007; ... Sweet Sensations JAMAICA'S music industry of the 1960s was a story of Svengali producers operating gang-like, cutthroat studio stables. While some of the 20th century's most influential popular music came out of those studios, the number of careers left languishing in each boss man's ...
Making It
Apr 04, 2007; ... For years, Pittsburgh has been trying to shake its reputation as a stodgy old city. Rarely has it been viewed as a hotbed of indie culture; the hipster badge is typically bestowed upon places like Portland, Ore. and Brooklyn. But a crafty group of local women is doing its part to revitalize ...
Designs of the Times
Apr 04, 2007; ... Designs of the Times I'M IN LOVE WITH PROCESS, and one of my favorite processes is architecture. Drawn In, an exhibition at 209/9 Gallery, explores how the art of architectural practice uses design to investigate social issues. Including the work of 23 architects, from the highly ...
Meter Readings
Apr 04, 2007; ... Meter Readings TED KOOSER reads at the International Poetry Forum. 8 p.m. Wed., April 11. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $12 ($8 seniors/students). 412-621-9893 or www.thepoetryforum.org BY BILL ...
Miles Davis And The Art Of Love
Apr 04, 2007; ... cHaPTeR & verse Miles Davis And The Art Of Love blow a horn if you can i can't and there's a reason but "it's a long story and not very interesting" in fact let's not talk about what we can't do at ...
Royal Caribbean
Apr 04, 2007; ... Royal Caribbean 128 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. 412-362-1861 This storefront Caribbean restaurant has a mellow, welcoming dining room and a takeout counter built of bamboo to evoke a beachside cabana, though it's strictly bring-your-own-fruity-cocktails. Such libations should ...
Station Brake Café
Apr 04, 2007; ... Station Brake Café 500 Station Road, Wilmerding. 412-823-1600 The Station Brake Café proffers a lengthy menu that comfortably straddles the banal and the exotic - from familiar favorites at modest prices to such Euro-flavors as mussels Amontiliado and seafood salmagundi. As a ...
Chef Steff's Ristorante
Apr 04, 2007; ... Chef Steff's Ristorante WE'RE JUST GOING to come right out and say it: We don't expect much from restaurants in mega-malls. If context is everything, then how, we wonder, can a restaurant in a mall offer the uniquely conceived, custom-crafted, five-senses-satisfying dining experience we ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Apr 04, 2007; ... BLADES OF GLORY. A mere swoosh of a plot holds this comedy together: Two self-absorbed male figure skaters with wildly different personalities and styles pair up as an ice-dancing couples team. If that tickles your funny bone, then the other ingredients in Will Speck and Josh Gordon's gag-heavy ...
Inland Empire
Apr 04, 2007; ... Inland Empire City of Dreams AFTER A DEBUT that all but defined independent film, quickly followed by an uneven sojourn in mainstream cinema and then career-defining success with Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, David Lynch has spent the past decade cultivating a serious obsession ...
The Hoax
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Hoax Larger Than Life HOWARD HUGHES defined "eccentric billionaire." He was a high-profile industrialist, Hollywood playboy/producer and record-breaking pilot. But from the mid-1950s on, he became notorious for disappearing entirely from the public sphere and for his reputed ...
Shooting War
Apr 04, 2007; ... IT'S A feature-length documentary about U.S. soldiers in Iraq, it's called Team Predator, and it opens with a series of voice-over quotes from President George W. Bush - lofty words meant to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation. Yet Shawn D. Bronson, the Pennsylvania National ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Apr 04, 2007; ... * THE WEST TENNESSEE Detention Facility (Mason, Tenn.) made a video pitch for California inmates, hoping some would volunteer to be outsourced under that state's program to relieve overcrowding. The hard-timers should come east, the video urged, because of West Tennessee's "larger and cleaner ...
Dowd fighting to get in same room with Bodack
Apr 11, 2007; ... ELECTIONS Over the past few weeks, the campaign rhetoric of Patrick Dowd, vying for incumbent Len Bodack's District 7 seat, has ratcheted up - so much so that Dowd's camp has taken to calling his opponent "Boduck," to suggest the councilor has dodged invitations to participate in ...
Judge refuses dismissal of Young Voters discrimination lawsuit
Apr 11, 2007; ... COURTS These days, you might expect the cash-strapped Port Authority of Allegheny County to take a few bucks from just about anybody. But instead of raking in advertising revenues, the transit agency might expect to shell out money for refusing ads. * In August 2006, the League ...
Last Holiday
Apr 11, 2007; ... Pittsburgh's oldest gay bar closing its doors DAVID BYRD GRADUATED from Carnegie Mellon University with his art degree more than 40 years ago, but he still remembers the day he traded his artistic talents to the Holiday bar on Forbes Avenue for a day-long party. "When I first ...
Councilor wants periodic review of diversity hiring practices
Apr 11, 2007; ... COUNTY COUNCIL A new ordinance introduced to Allegheny County Council seeks to require periodic review of county authorities and agencies to ensure racial, gender, age, disability, religious and sexual-orientation diversity. The 11 authorities, 20 agencies and 10 nonprofits that ...
Police Reaction
Apr 11, 2007; ... Picketers claim aggressive officer made protest not so peaceful MEMBERS OF the Pittsburgh Organizing Group aren't strangers to confrontations with police: The group often demonstrates outside military recruitment centers and at antiwar protests. But Noah Willumsen says he was surprised ...
Managing the Heat
Apr 11, 2007; ... Our write-in candidate - this bobblehead pierogie - talks public safety IF ANYTHING could get Luke Ravenstahl burned, public safety might be it. This is the mayor who had an altercation with police outside a Steelers game in 2005, and things haven't gotten much better since. Last year, ...
THIS JUST IN
Apr 11, 2007; ... THIS JUST IN "TRACTOR TROUBLES" SUMMARY: Two local high school seniors find themselves in a fine mess after driving farm equipment to school. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: John Shumway WHEN IT AIRED: April 3 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 48 sec onds VISUALS: » Horses grazing in a ...
On Target
Apr 11, 2007; ... Behind Regola headlines, a more widespread problem THERE ARE MANY questions surrounding the death of 14-year-old Louis Farrell, who apparently killed himself last summer with a gun taken from the home of state Sen. Robert Regola III. But judging from the coroner's report, one thing seems ...
Smoke Out
Apr 11, 2007; ... A smoke-free opening day at PNC Park, like it or not BEATING A DEAD HORSE: It's what the news media does. Why? Because so many millions of humans are in denial, and the only way to wake them up is to hammer home the obvious, ad infinitum. That's why the constant drumbeat of ...
The World's a Stage
Apr 11, 2007; ... Thinking global politics, and acting locally; with Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre Artistic Director Andrew Paul The Roman Empire, circa 44 EC, standing at a crossroads ... Iatel6lh-century England poised on the brink of imperial expansion ... a modern-day America tottering even ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Apr 11, 2007; ... ALCOHOL AND minors don't mix easily in Pittsburgh clubs, thanks to Pennyslvania Liquor Control Board restrictions. While under-the-radar all-ages shows may allow the odd smuggled-in six-pack, venues such as Mr. Small's use physical barriers to segregate over-21 drinkers from the kiddies ....
Paul Labrise
Apr 11, 2007; ... Dancing In and Out of Sight BY HIS OWN ACCOUNT, Paul Labrise has never given an interview until now. Which, given both his talent and his history in the local music scene, is mildly astonishing. Especially since talking with him is how I'd imagine a conversation with the protagonist of a ...
Gamelan Ensemble
Apr 11, 2007; ... Rock the Bells ASK EVEN A well-informed person about Indonesia, and you might get something about tsunamis, political turmoil, or that it's the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. But to a connoisseur of culture, the country represents a glorious history of art and music, most ...
Mono
Apr 11, 2007; ... Mono No Excuses HEY, YOU! Yes, you - the khaki-wearing, nine-to-fiving late 20s-early 30s dude with a taste for The Office and a sensitive collection of Radiohead and Sigur Ros CDs. Take a break from posting Dilbert cartoons in your cubicle and listen up. You had an ...
Blue Cheer
Apr 11, 2007; ... Blue Cheer Deep Cuts IT seeMS THERE are two types of late-'60s hard rockers: those who died young and those who have grown old in an embarrassing fashion. Jimi Hendrix lies in a grave in Seattle; Ozzy Osbourne jogs in place in an oversized Patriots jersey, singing "Crazy Train" ...
McQueen Bear EP
Apr 11, 2007; ... David Bernabo McQueen Bear EP SORT OF RECORDS DAVE BERNABO'S FREEFORM JAZZ TRIO DBL D performs at Flux 14. 8 p.m. Sat., Apr. 14. Braddock Avenue and Library Street, Braddock. $10 ($8 students/kids under 10 free), www.arts festival.net/flux AFTER ...
Stirrin' Up Bees
Apr 11, 2007; ... Robert Peckman Stirrin' Up Bees BONEDOG RECORDS ROBERT PECKMAN may not be a household name, even in R&B circles, but his work certainly is. As a multi-instrumental go-to guy, he spent decades with the likes of the Skyliners, the Jaggerz, Pure Gold and Hoodoo ...
Handle With Care
Apr 11, 2007; ... Handle With Care IN HER FOUR YEARS as artistic director of Dance Alloy Theater, Beth Corning has presented important original and classic dance works including Per Jonsson's Schakt, Joe Goode's I don't want to be there and José Limon's The Moor's Pavane. With their new production, Coming ...
See You at Hell
Apr 11, 2007; ... See You at Hell IN THE OPENING scene of Emio Greco/ PC's critically acclaimed dance work Rimasto Orfano, a dancer proclaims: "Emio Greco is dead." The pronouncement reported not the literal death of Greco, but rather the demise of preconceptions surrounding dance works the Italian ...
Oil Futures
Apr 11, 2007; ... Looking around a classroom at The Academy of the South Side, a new art school at the Brew Mouse, you won't see the kind of experimental art you'd expect from young Pittsburghers. The classroom is typical enough of the brewery-turned-artist's-co-op: a large industrial space filled with old ...
Flow Chart
Apr 11, 2007; ... Flow Chart WITH HIS 50 GELATIN silver prints of photographs taken along the Seine between October 2000 and November 2006, Bruno Réquillart's Silver Eye exhibition Paris on the Seine reveals the accidental aesthetics of nature and circumstance. , Réquillart has captured the kind ...
Chef Steff's Ristorante
Apr 11, 2007; ... Chef Steff's Ristorante Pittsburgh Mills Mall, off Route 28, Frazer Township; 724-275-7833 The menu at this mall-based but handsome restaurant may look like a typical Italian selection, but closer examination reveals the hand of a chef with personality. Leeks, champagne and a ...
Royal Caribbean
Apr 11, 2007; ... Royal Caribbean 128 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. 412-362-1861 This storefront Caribbean restaurant has a mellow, welcoming dining room and a takeout counter built of bamboo to evoke a beachside cabana, though it's strictly bring-your-own-fruity-cocktails. Such libations should ...
Leena's Food
Apr 11, 2007; ... Leena's Food LOCATION: 121 Oakland Ave., Oakland. 412-682-1919 HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. PRICES: Sandwiches $3.50-5; dinners $5-9 FARE: Falafel, gyro and a bit more ATMOSPHERE: Mostly provided ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Apr 11, 2007; ... NEW THIS WEEK ABSOLUTE WILSON. Katharina Otto-Bernstein's profile of Robert Wilson is as straightforward as the avant-qarde dramatist is genre-busting. We begin with Wilson's boyhood in Texas and move chronologically through various artistic epochs: 1960s New York; the 1970s Downtown ...
Grindhouse
Apr 11, 2007; ... Grindhouse Zombies! Chicks! Wrecks! Double-Feature of Death! POP WILL EAT ITSELF, some mocking wags sneered a couple decades back. Indeed, the self-consuming culture buffet continues apace. And the freshest menu item, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's film Grindhouse, is a ...
Avenue Montaigne
Apr 11, 2007; ... STARTS FRI 13 Avenue Montaigne School of Life [ BY HARRY KLOMAN ] INFO@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM A HIGH-STRUNG, bipolar actress, rehearsing a play and rewriting Feydeau as she goes along. A% hunky, middle-aged concert pianist,-wearying of this "snooty" world of ...
Our Daily Bread
Apr 11, 2007; ... MON, APRIL 16-THU., APRIL 19 REGENT SQUARE Our Daily Bread Factory Food [ BY AL HOFF ] AHOFF@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM EXAMINING OUR FOOD - where it came from, exactly how it got to us and at what costs - is currently a trendy sub-set of pop culture ....
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Apr 11, 2007; ... * IN MARCH, a jury in Los Angeles listened to nine psychiatrists testify, along with other witnesses who openly described their sex lives, before finally deciding that neither party in the shrink-vs.-shrink contest was all that emotionally healthy. Dr. David Martorano had sued the UCLA ...
Carlisle hitting campaign trail following criminal charges
Apr 18, 2007; ... One day after she was indicted on theft and criminal conspiracy charges, Councilor Twanda Carlisle attended an April 12 candidates' forum sponsored by the Black Political Empowerment Project. * Several supporters, and even some rivals, seemed happy to see Carlisle at the B-PEP forum, ...
Code Red Tape
Apr 18, 2007; ... Many immigrants come here for medical treatment only to face bureaucratic pains after surgery BARELY FIVE MONTHS AGO, Pierre Habib was a ghost of a child. After he woke up with a bellyache last summer, Pierre, now 11, was diagnosed with a rare ailment that ravaged his vital ...
Workshop will teach women the tricks of biofuel conversion
Apr 18, 2007; ... If you dream of tooling around Pittsburgh in a less-polluting set of wheels, your choices have just increased. Fossil Free Fuel is setting up shop in Braddock to help people convert their vehicles to run on biofuel - vegetable oil. They make modifications to regular vehicles that harness the ...
Taking the Lid Off
Apr 18, 2007; ... The Pierogie on the new Penguins arena When I began my write-in campaign for mayor, I was met with bemused indifference. But thanks to grassroots support, I'm proud to say I'm now riding a wave of apathy. * So I empathize with the Hill District as it faces plans to build a new ...
The Luke Ravenstahl "Move Forward" Drinking Game
Apr 18, 2007; ... HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N'@ Yinz keep bloggin'. From: http://www.theburghblog.com/ I GET E-MAILS all the time from people wanting to tell me where they heard the phrase "move forward" and asking if they are permitted to drink in honor of said occasion. I think it's ...
THIS JUST IN
Apr 18, 2007; ... POL DANCING SUMMARY: Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields tours a part of Greenfield prone to landslides. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Keith Jones WHEN IT AIRED: April 13 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 36 seconds VISUALS: The subsiding hillside, replete with debris, and the road ...
Overdue Charge
Apr 18, 2007; ... It's about time someone took ethics seriously I'LL CONFESS: I almost admire Pittsburgh City Councilor Twanda Carlisle. Sure, she's facing a slew of charges in an alleged kickback scheme. Carlisle is accused of paying city money to friends who supposedly performed services for her ...
Wish List
Apr 18, 2007; ... A baker's dozen of commandments THERE'S SO MUCH to say these days, especially after a glitch that caused me to disappear from the paper for far too long. Judging from the comments posted on the City Paper Web site, my words have inspired a need for your responses, and I thank you for ...
Star Power
Apr 18, 2007; ... Strong ensemble cast carries the Pens to the playoffs THE STANLEY CUP is a long way off; the Penguins will have their hands full just beating Ottawa in the first round. But given how this captivating team has already surpassed expectations, it's not too early to fete the players with ...
Spilling the Beans?
Apr 18, 2007; ... As fair-trade coffee and other products become more popular, some worry the term is being watered down LEONARDO BRAVO AND LUIS LOJA are different from most banana farmers in Ecuador. In contrast to workers on big plantations, many of whom are paid little and are exposed to dangerous ...
Gaining Ground(s)
Apr 18, 2007; ... Coffee bought in Pittsburgh could help improve life half a world away DURING HIS DECADES selling life insurance, Worth Helms never imagined he'd spend his retirement as a Ugandan coffee mogul. Actually, "mogul" may be too strong a word: Helms receives no compensation for his role ...