Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from August 2007:
Despite lack of county council support, needle exchange will continue
Aug 01, 2007; ... HEALTH Allegheny County Council, upset with Its lack of Involvement with the region's sole needle-exchange program, rejected earlier this month a health-department bill that would put stricter regulations on the program, further lengthening a debate that started more than a year ...
Picket Fences
Aug 01, 2007; ... Are home protests an effective expression of free speech - or neighborhood harassment? WHERE DOES FREE SPEECH run afoul of the right to privacy? In recent months, protests have moved from the street and the courthouse to local churches and homes, and have many asking that exact ...
One Hill lines up CBA priorities
Aug 01, 2007; ... NEIGHBORHOODS As the One Hill coalition gears up to take the community's demands to the negotiation table, coalition leadership made one last attempt, on Sat., July 28, to garner input from the people it is fighting for. * One Hill is a grassroots conglomerate of nearly 100 ...
Too Hot to Handle
Aug 01, 2007; ... Data shows Pittsburgh, and the rest of the country, just keep getting warmer WE'VE ALL noticed that temperatures in Pittsburgh have seemed a little warmer in recent years. A lot of that, according to data compiled by the National Climatic Data Center, has to do with the fact that ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Aug 01, 2007; ... We attend City Council meetings so you don't have to (July 24 & 25) THIS IS IT: the last time that cat licensing will be written about In this column. (That is, until the next time one of your city councilors needs a hot-button issue to score some ink and TV ...
THIS JUST IN
Aug 01, 2007; ... I'M OPEN! SUMMARY: Women participate in their own football training camp. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Lynn Hayes-Freeland, "Live" WHEN IT AIRED: July 29 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 50 seconds VISUALS: Women vigorously engaged in football training exercises. HIGHLIGHTS: * When anchor ...
Hart Attack
Aug 01, 2007; ... Looking forward to an ousted Republican's comeback attempt MISSY VS. JASON: the grudge match. Welcome to the sequel, coming to a voting booth near you in 2008. Melissa Hart had been sailing along in the 4th Congressional District as its congresswoman since the legendary ...
Power Surge
Aug 01, 2007; ... Women's football team creates yet another Pittsburgh sports legend ONLY ONE THING came close to dimming the shining, perfect 2007 championship season for the Pittsburgh Passion women's football team: a power outage just as the second half of the championship game was about to ...
A Conversation with Katie Bulger
Aug 01, 2007; ... Katie Bulger's got an eye for fashion. The 27-year-old proprietor of SUGAR - a former customer, she bought the Lawrenceville store in February - stocks the shop with unique and mostly locally created women's fashions. She's also an optician at Eyetique, and eyeglasses are her favorite ...
Facing the Music
Aug 01, 2007; ... Busking could help revitalize Pittsburgh ... if only Pittsburghers knew what it was HERE'S ONE TIP every Pittsburgh street performer can count on receiving: "Get a real job." "Pittsburgh is a tough place for buskers," says Sean Miller. He should know: Miller is a professional ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Aug 01, 2007; ... BAD WEATHER, great weather; lots going, on the same night or nothing else to do - eh, you never really know what will spook a Pittsburgh authence. The crowd was uncharacteristically thin at Lava Lounge last Thursday for established local inthe acts Shade and Life In Bed. Perhaps the wind of ...
Lez Zeppelin
Aug 01, 2007; ... In Tribute LEZ ZEPPELIN 6 p.m. (doors). Tue., Aug. 7. Diesel, 1601 E. Carson St., South Side. $13 ($15 day of show). 21 and over. 412-431-8800 or www.theselpgh.com DARK STAR ORCHESTRA 8:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 6 (7 p.m. doors). Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., ...
Black Family Reunion
Aug 01, 2007; ... Vibin' Together BLACK FAMILY REUNION Mellon Park Community Festival. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat, Aug. 4 and Sun., Aug. 5. Mellon Park, Point Breeze. Free. 412-371-3689 or www.ceapittsburgh.org LAST YEAR'S Black Family Reunion Community Festival drew some 2,000 attendees from ...
TV on the Radio and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Aug 01, 2007; ... TV ON THE RADIO with DIOS 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 3; $22; all ages. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB with JESSE MALIN: 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 4; $16; all ages. Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. AFTERPARTIES: 11 p.m. Fri., Aug. 3 and 11 p.m. Sat., Aug. 4. Brlllobox, 4104 Penn Ave., ...
Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies
Aug 01, 2007; ... Steve Goldberg Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies SELF-RELEASED NO MATTER what happens to Steve Goldberg in his musical career, he can certainly be proud of one thing: This eponymous album with his band, the Arch Enemies, is possibly the most elaborate, orchestrated ...
Esse
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Shanks Esse UH-OH TWO ARCHETYPES of SUV-driving boomers give Pittsburgh its distinctively aged, smoked-beef flavor: the suburban office drone with three rugrats and a beer gut who lives for the Stillers, and the more sophisticated art-fancier who listens to WYEP, ...
Some Girl(s)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Some Girl(s) THE "HERO" OF Neil LaBute's 2005 comedy Some Girl(s) is rather like the Hobbesian view of nature: nasty, brutish and short. But Thomas Hobbes is far less well known for a sense of humor than is hotshot bad boy LaBute, who probes relationships like a dentist doing root canals ...
Hay Fever
Aug 01, 2007; ... Hay Fever IF MY FAMILY and friends are any judge, the real world looks upon theater people with, to put it charitably, a wary eye. The situation would be unsupportable - if theater people themselves didn't have an even lower opinion. If you ever wanna hear real invective, get a bottle of ...
Chantecler
Aug 01, 2007; ... Chantecler WHEN WE THINK of Edmond Rostand, normally we assume that the author of Cyrano de Bergerac lived in Cyrano's time. Not so. Rostand lived until 1918 and wrote much more, including the equally timeless Chantecler, one of his last works, widely acclaimed back then. So we can be ...
Mural Obligation
Aug 01, 2007; ... The mural, over 100 feet long, stretches along the barrier of the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway where Ellsworth Avenue meets Shady Avenue, in East Liberty. Bright, vibrant colors and smiling faces cover the wall, with images including a small jazz band. The mural has a professional look ....
The Mirrored Sea
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Mirrored Sea ON THE SECOND FLOOR of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts one encounters a dramatic, almost theatrical, installation set in a dimly lit room. The work, by glass artist Lindsay O'Leary, consists of five clusters of mirrored glass objects displayed on an ultramarine blue ...
Life Lines
Aug 01, 2007; ... Life Lines CONTEMPORARY POETRY is often auto biography by other means. Few poets, after all, write much about personages mythical, famous or fictitious any more; usually their poems are about themselves and the people they know, and when nature or current events come up it's typically a ...
Goddess
Aug 01, 2007; ... CHaPTeR & verse Spanish colonial doorstep reworked from Aztec stone sculpture Mexico City, 1350-1521 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Make yourself useful, they said, slapping you down for eternity. You were the ...
Tom Friday's Butcher Shop
Aug 01, 2007; ... ON the SIDE 3639 California Ave., Brighton Heights 412-766-4500 THE MODERN quest for meat can lead one down many paths. Ordinarily, these paths lead to cellophane, Styrofoam and unnatural shades of red. * The path to the village butcher shop has been paved ...
King Tut
Aug 01, 2007; ... King Tut WHILE OUR SMOKING BAN languishes in legislative limbo, one small coterie of the local dining trade is surely exhaling a hazy sigh of relief: the area's hookah bars. To think that this emergent trend could have been snuffed almost before it was established! As nonsmokers, ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Aug 01, 2007; ... BLACK SHEEP. New Zealand is a charming country with spectacular scenery but things do go horribly wronq there occasionally. Like when a greedy farmer begins genetically altering sheep and unleashes a flock of crazed, bloodthirsty killer woollies. Well, actually, It's the hippie animal-rights ...
Sunshine
Aug 01, 2007; ... Sunshine Leave the Light On SOMETIME IH THE HEAR FUTURE, Earth is suffering through a solar winter. The sun is dying, and our planet is a gloomy, cold place. Without adequate sunlight, mankind and all his biological kin will perish. Thus a huge bomb, designed to re-ignite the ...
Talk to Me
Aug 01, 2007; ... Talk to Me Go, DJ FIRST, LET US PRAISE DOH CHEADLE. The actor, who never seems to give a bad performance, is riveting in Talk to Me as Petey Greene, the ex-con who became an influential radio DJ in Washington, DC, during the 1960s and '70s. It's easy for Cheadle to grab ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Aug 01, 2007; ... * SOME PARENTS feel "unprecedented levels of angst" to pick cool-enough names for their kids, with some even hiring consultants, according to a June Wall Street Journal report. Baby-book authors charge clients $50 for a list of "special" names, and half-hour phone consultations go for $95 ....
CORRECTION
Aug 08, 2007; ... In last week's main feature, "Facing the Music," the name of ...
POG organizing 26-day fast
Aug 08, 2007; ... ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT After more than two years and dozens of pickets, Pittsburgh Organizing Group will announce Aug. 8 what POG calls its most ambitious protest effort yet: a 26-day campout and fast in front of Oakland's main military recruiting station, on Forbes Avenue. * Mike ...
Against the Clock
Aug 08, 2007; ... Local filmmakers try to make movie magic in just two days IT'S 4:30 P.M. on Fri., Aug. 3, and sitting side-by-side in a booth at King's Restaurant in Bridgeville, amateur filmmakers Ted E. Haynes and Ephraim Stockwell are optimistic about their chances in Pittsburgh's first-ever 48-Hour ...
Dean speaks to local Dem party in flux
Aug 08, 2007; ... POLITICS The Democratic Party is in flux, perhaps more so locally than nationally - and, say some active in the party, that's a good thing. While Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean speaks of his party sweeping in and fixing America and its tattered image abroad, local Dems ...
City Wants Pedestrians to Turn in Dangerous Motorists
Aug 08, 2007; ... NATIVE Manhattanite and San Francisco transplant Alina Del Pino considers herself a seasoned pedestrian, but she says the rude drivers on Bigelow Boulevard have turned her leisurely 10-minute commute into a daily crucible. Many times Del Pino has found herself stuck between lanes of ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Aug 08, 2007; ... We attend City Council meetings so you don't have to (July 31 & August 1) IN WHAT STARTED as an uneventful Aug. 1 city council meeting, Councilor Jim Motznik took a brief journey back into time. Citing a dire emergency involving animal control, Motznik attempted a series of ...
THIS JUST IN
Aug 08, 2007; ... STOP AND SMELL THE ONIONS SUMMARY: A new "fine food" grocer is expected to open in Downtown Pittsburgh this October. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Harold Hayes WHEN IT AIRED: July 31 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 22 seconds VISUALS: * The empty space where the store will be housed. * A ...
What the Puck
Aug 08, 2007; ... Why is it so hard for the NHL to market a great product? WHAT A wonderful world it would be if illegal steroids, point shaving and dog fighting merely made up the landscape of a Sopranos episode or the next season of Laguna Beach. But they are grave matters on the plate for major sports ....
Honey, Let Him Stay
Aug 08, 2007; ... A Pittsburgh singer's journey from doo-wop kid and almost-famous crooner to soul survivor UNDER THE HARSH stage lights, Chuck Corby's face is strained, reddened as he crouches and begs over the end of a musical phrase: "Honey, let me stay." It's a plea he's been making for over 40 years, ...
under the WIRE
Aug 08, 2007; ... WHEN IT COMES to running a free-improvised and experimental music scene, Pittsburgh can learn a great deal from Baltimore. Since the 1980s, when the fringe in Baltimore consisted of a few pioneers like instrument-builder Neil Feather, conceptual artist tENTATIVELY, a CONVENIENCE (who moved to ...
A Conversation with Pete Yorn
Aug 08, 2007; ... PETE YORN and MINIBAR with BEN JELEN 7:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 14. Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead, 510 E. 10th Ave., Homestead. $22. 412-462-3444 or www.homesteadlibrary.org DESPITE THE CLAIMS of chat lines and tele-personals, it's absurd to think you can learn much about someone ...
Cyber Wars VI
Aug 08, 2007; ... In Lust We Trust CYBER WARS VI. 9 p.m. Sat, Aug 11. Featuring Android Lust, Interface, Nyarlathotep, Surviving the Odyssey and DJ Crash Zero. Also 9 p.m. Sun., Aug. 12, featuring Stromkern, Agnes Wired for Sound, Terror Firma Sky, Wreckcreation and DJ Hiem. Pegasus, 818 Liberty ...
The Subjects
Aug 08, 2007; ... School's Out THE SUBJECTS with BLACK TIE REVUE and THE BREAKUP SOCIETY 10 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11. Gooski's, 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $5. 412-681-1658 ONSTAGE AT a small bar, bassist and vocalist David Sheinkopf is a tangle of curls and cascading syllables, his ...
Artimus Pyle
Aug 08, 2007; ... Rebel Yell? ARTIMUS PYLE, REGULATIONS, KIM PHUC and ICON GALLERY 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 8. Braddock Elks Lodge #883, 424 Library St., Braddock. $8. All ages. 412-271-1335 THERE'S ARTIMUS PYLE, the man - Lynyrd Skynyrd's drummer with the epic name. Then there's his band, aptly ...
The Budos Band
Aug 08, 2007; ... Soul Providers THE BUDOS BAND with DJs JMALLS and JUSTIN HOPPER 9 p.m. Wed., Aug. 15. Ava Lounge, 126 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. $7. 412-363-8277 REMEMBER THOSE adolescent band geeks who played during halftime at football games, and maybe practiced on the ...
Le Grand Meaulnes
Aug 08, 2007; ... Le Grand Meaulnes LE GRAND MEAULNES continues through Aug. 26. The Stables, Hartwood Acres Park. 412-394-3353 or www. quantumtheatre.com IN FRANCE, Le Grand Meaulnes is considered a classic novel. No student would graduate from a French école without reading it, just as every American ...
Cabaret
Aug 08, 2007; ... Cabaret CABARET continues through Aug. 18. Apple Hill Playhouse, 275 Manor Road, Delmont. 724-468-5050. LIKE MOST PEOPLE who've worked in theater, I have very little sympathy for the audience. From a theater person's point of view, the audience has one job: To sit there and marvel at the ...
Have Art, Will Travel
Aug 08, 2007; ... MOBILE MUSEUM APPEARANCES INCLUDE: BikeBike festival, 10 a.m. -1 p.m. Fri., Aug. 10 (Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland; 4?2-682-4111); Beleza Café (1501 Buena Vista St, North Side), 8 p.m. FrL, Aug. 10; East End Food Co-op C7516 Meade St, Point Breeze), 7-9 p.m ....
Echo Systems
Aug 08, 2007; ... Echo Systems ECHO continues through Sept. 15. Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St., Downtown. 412-471-5605 or www.woodstreetgalleries.org FOR MICHAEL HARDESTY, whose four installations comprise Echo, at Wood Street Galleries, an avowed influence is light artist James Turrell. Turrell's ...
Like the Hurricane
Aug 08, 2007; ... ALONG WYLIE AVENUE IN THE HILL, the Lou Mason Jr. Apartments by Rothschild Doyno Architects have the names of jazz greats inscribed in cast stone above the first-floor windows. It's a welcome permanent reminder that, at its height, the neighborhood jazz scene welcomed artists from and ...
Bodily Functions
Aug 08, 2007; ... Almost Human By Lee Gutkind (W.W. Norton, 284 pp. $25.95) Are You a Machine? By Eliezer J. Sternberg (Humanity Books, 176 pp, $16) Thumbs, Toes, and Tears By Chip Walter (Walker & Co., 256 pp, $25.95) THE HUMAN HEART was ...
ON the SIDE
Aug 08, 2007; ... Pound Cake Lady PITY THE POOR pound cake. It wears no feather boa, no three-inch heels. It sits on a rickety wooden chair in the corner of the gym. In a car full of cheesecake, the pound cake is the girl who drives. * The pound cake is the confectionary Golden Girl. Its timorous ...
The Shiloh
Aug 08, 2007; ... The Shiloh LOCATION: 123 Shiloh St., Mount Washington. 412-325-2722 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 4:30-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 430-11 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers, soups and salads $4-12; entrées $15-29 FARE: American and continental ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Aug 08, 2007; ... BECOMING JANE. (See review.) Starts Fri., Aug. 10. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM. (See review.) EL CANTANTE. Real-life entertainers and spouses Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez star in this bio-pic about troubled 1970s salsa singer Hector Lavoe and his longtime love. Leon lchaso directs ....
The Bourne Ultimatum
Aug 08, 2007; ... The Bourne Ultimatum Spy vs. Spy JASON BOURNE IS TIRED of being pursued by shadowy hit men: "Somebody started all this ... I'm going to stop it." The bills come due in Paul Greengrass' The Bourne Ultimatum, the third in the current series of films adapted from Robert Ludlum ...
Vitus
Aug 08, 2007; ... Vitus The Shining IN THE OLDEN DAYS we called them eggheads: kids who knew too much and weren't afraid (or didn't know enough) to hide it. Vitus, age 6, is such a child. When he hears his parents, Leo and Helen, use the word "paradoxical," he wants to know what it means ....
Becoming Jane
Aug 08, 2007; ... Becoming Jane The Price of Fame IN THE OPENING scene of Becoming Jane, the young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) has writer's block: The words just aren't coming. The problem, it turns out, is that neither is she. But soon she'll meet Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), a raffish young ...
SMaLL SCReeN
Aug 08, 2007; ... SMaLL SCReeN Cashback ROMANTIC COMEDIES are prevalent and popular. We may not all meet cute, enjoy sublime dances In inclement weather and reunite in dash-tothe-train-station nail-biter, but we understand the thrill of finding the right lovematch and having an exciting ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Aug 08, 2007; ... * A NEW DELHI, India, glaciologist said in June that global warming in the Himalayas is at least partly responsible for the melting of the stalagmite in the Amarnath cave in Kashmir, which is one of Hindus' holiest pilgrimage sites because the giant icicle is said to symbolize Lord Shiva (the ...
Hill District youth come out against neighborhood violence
Aug 15, 2007; ... NEIGHBORHOODS When JaMay Blackwell stood up to rap about stopping violence in city neighborhoods, he was barely tall enough to reach the mic: "[I]t's not even right When you kill somebody Just to go to jail You shouldn't get bail So what are you going to do? The choice is up to ...
Awards handed out in 48-hour film contest
Aug 15, 2007; ... FILM Before entering the Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project, Ephraim Stockwell and Ted E. Haynes had never won an award for filmmaking. But while waiting anxiously for the Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project awards ceremony at Bridgeville's former Star City Theater on Aug. 11, the director and ...
Fishing for a Controversy
Aug 15, 2007; ... Group says pressure killed ads targeting Giant Eagle policy IS THERE SOMETHING fishy about the fact that local advertising firms are refusing to run ads targeting Giant Eagle? Or is a nonprofit organization throwing around a red herring? When Oceana, an international nonprofit ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Aug 15, 2007; ... We attend City Council meetings so you don't have to (August 7 & 8) PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL voted Aug. 7 to lease the Bob O'Connor Golf Course at Schenley Park to First Tee, a nonprofit organization that teaches children, many from low-income neighborhoods, how to ...
Police investigators clear officer who pulled gun on woman during traffic stop
Aug 15, 2007; ... POLICE The officer accused of pulling his gun on a Hill District woman during a traffic stop in Shadyside last August has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Pittsburgh Police Bureau's Office of Municipal Investigations. Pamela Lawton was slated for trial on charges of disorderly ...
Hearing Problems
Aug 15, 2007; ... Court delay for POG protester who says he was choked by cop AN ANTI-WAR protester who says he was choked by a Pittsburgh police officer had his Aug. 9 criminal hearing postponed while the officer found a "riot specialist" to testify at the rescheduled hearing. Noah Willumsen, a ...
THIS JUST IN
Aug 15, 2007; ... I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND SUMMARY: Some local law-enforcement officers learn "hand-to-hand combat." STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Andrew Stockey WHEN IT AIRED: Aug. 7 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 54 seconds VISUALS: * Police officers grappling on a gym floor in Beaver County. * Footage from ...