Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from September 2007:
CORRECTION
Sep 05, 2007; ... Our Aug. 29 Main Feature, "Making the Grade," misstated the time frame for a comparison between black and white student test scores. The article noted that ...
Written-word obscenity case will proceed to trial
Sep 05, 2007; ... COURTS It will be up to a Western Pennsylvania jury to decide whether the written works of a 55-year-old Donora woman are obscene. * On Aug. 30, Judge Joy Flowers Conti declined to dismiss obscenity charges against Karen Fletcher, who formerly operated a text-only Web site ....
School of Hard Knocks
Sep 05, 2007; ... Tension between partiers, neighbor near Pitt campus boils over into violence THE BRICK HOUSE across from St. George's Church in Oakland has cheerily painted green and yellow trim, a riot of vegetables and flowers growing to the side and a porch filled with toddler toys. It also has an ...
Some former Duquesne students relishing change of scenery
Sep 05, 2007; ... EDUCATION In mid-July, Tiondra Suiter and Christina Seaton stood in a narrow Duquesne High School hallway, telling a reporter they staunchly opposed leaving the school district they'd attended all their lives and transferring to a district where they felt unwanted. But in late ...
Buccaneers Seek Booty
Sep 05, 2007; ... PERFORMANCE The ad was crystal clear. "We are a new fetish company in the Pittsburgh area, Fetish Fantasy Island. We are looking for people that [sic] would like to participate in our up coming [sic] fetish event ..." Such a spam-ish casting call is standard fare on the ...
Some Tips on How to Destroy a City
Sep 05, 2007; ... HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N' @ Yinz keep bloggin'. From: http://pittsburgh.metblogs.com/archives/ 2007/08/some_tips_on_how_to_destroy_a.phtml One bunch of people who are likely to want to come to Pittsburgh are urban planners. This isn't a complement; Pittsburgh is almost a lab ...
THIS JUST IN
Sep 05, 2007; ... TRUCK OVER TROUBLED BRIDGE SUMMARY: Treatment of a local incident that ties in perfectly with the national topic du jour. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Ross Guidotti, "Live" WHEN IT AIRED: Aug. 29 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 45 seconds VISUALS: * The headline, "Bridge Blunder." * ...
Harsh Medicine
Sep 05, 2007; ... Taking on healthcare giants requires swallowing a tough pill WHEN IT COMES to giant nonprofits like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, we're told, things aren't what they seem. A $618 million profit - such as the one UPMC recently posted - isn't really a profit: It's "excess ...
(Pre-)Season's Greetings
Sep 05, 2007; ... Sizing up the NFL season SIT DOWN, because I wouldn't want anybody to faint in the face of the innovative notion of . . . writing an NFL playoff-predictions column. Here's who I think will be vying for the right to bookend Bruce Springsteen's halftime performance in Glendale, Ariz., this ...
A Conversation with Adam Gorzelsky and Katie Wilson
Sep 05, 2007; ... Between them, University of Pittsburgh graduates Adam Gorzelsky, 21, and Katie Wilson, 22, endured seven years of renting from tin-eared landlords while living off-campus. The couple channeled their rage into creating a Web site that allows tenants to grade their landlords. The site, ...
STREET WISE
Sep 05, 2007; ... Local band The 9th Ward makes some noise - and a difference - on the Lawrenceville streets IT'S LATE AUGUST, 92 degrees and muggy - the dog days of summer. Not that Hobo seems particularly enthused about it: The dog won't venture past the doorstep onto the sizzling alley. Instead, he ...
under the WIRE
Sep 05, 2007; ... THE BABY BOOMERS are a traitorous, vacillating generation. As 30-somethings, they changed en masse from hippies to yuppies; in the '80s, they dumped the vinyl LPs of their youth for the sterile convenience of CDs. Yet while boomers cling to their mirrored beer coasters, CD sales are plummeting, ...
World Saxophone Quartet
Sep 05, 2007; ... Total Sound CITY OF ASYLUM FREE JAZZ-POETRY CONCERT featuring Oliver Lake and The World Saxophone Quartet, and writers Horacio Castellanos Moya, Huang Xiang and others. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 8. Sampsonia Way near the Mattress Factory, North Side. Free ....
Emmai Alaquiva: Hip Hop and Beyond
Sep 05, 2007; ... EMMY NOMINATION/RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BENEFIT PARTY 5-8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7. Olive or Twist, 140 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-255-0525 HIP-HOP PRODUCER, engineer and entrepreneur Emmai Alaquiva is watching some of his childhood dreams come true. On ...
Icarus Witch: Out for Blood
Sep 05, 2007; ... ICARUS WITCH CD RELEASE with DOFKA 6 p.m. (doors open). Fri., Sept. 7. Diesel, 1601 E. Carson St., South Side. S10 ($12 day of show). All ages. 412-431-6800 or www.llveatdiesel.com IF IT SEEMS we haven't heard from the members of Icarus Witch much lately, I think they can ...
Ha-Yang Kim and Marco Cappelli: And So They Went to Pittsburgh
Sep 05, 2007; ... "RADICAL RIFFS" featuring HA-YANG KIM, MARCO CAPPELLI and EDEN MCNUTT 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7. Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St., Downtown. $6 suggested donation ($4 students with ID). 412-471-5605 or www.woodstreetgalleries.org DESPITE CELLIST Ha-Yang Kim's professional ...
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Sep 05, 2007; ... The Last Night of Ballyhoo THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO continues through Sun., Sept. 9. Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont. 724-46T-5050 or www.applehill playhouse.org IT SEEMS SO MEAN to slap down people as earnest as the folks in the Apple Hill Playhouse production of The ...
Found in Translation
Sep 05, 2007; ... OUTSIDE INN Wed., Sept. 12-Sat., Sept. 15 (three performances in English, two in German). Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow, Oakland. $22 ($15 seniors/ $12 students). 412-624-PLAY Were you asked to short-list cultures that don't understand ...
Students advocating green casino
Sep 12, 2007; ... ENVIRONMENT Pittsburgh is a leader in green-building technology, boasting the first green convention center and numerous new green buildings like the Pittsburgh Glass Center and the Welcome Center at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Now, two local high school students hope to ...
24/7 Protest
Sep 12, 2007; ... Arrests, citations mark start to POG's 26-day around-the-clock fast "I'M HERE AND I DON'T INTEND to leave until Sept. 30 at noon," said Mike Butler at 6 p.m. on Sept. 5, after his first 24 hours of fasting in front of Oakland's military recruiting station. As of Sept. 10, as City ...
48-Hour Film Project drawing criticism
Sep 12, 2007; ... FILM It took just 48 hours for local filmmakers to create entries for the Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project last month. It took only slightly longer for Oscarstyle scraps to break out over the contest's winners. More than 100 posts on the competition's Web site ...
From: cleveland-sports.spaces.live.com
Sep 12, 2007; ... Sept. 10 I Agree ... It's Not a Rivalry I guess It could be worse. Just think if you [are] one of the Browns' zealots who predicted a 10-6 or TI-5 record for this season. You would have to be sick to your stomach this morning. Your football team wiped out an off season of ...
THIS JUST IN
Sep 12, 2007; ... ANIMAL HOUSE SUMMARY: A local college has gone to the dogs - and cats - by permitting them in on-campus housing. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: John Cater WHEN IT AIRED: Sept. 4 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 59 seconds VISUALS: * Idyllic campus scenes from the Washington & Jefferson ...
Split Decisions
Sep 12, 2007; ... Hill District advocates may be divided, but they won't be conquered FOR A LONG TIME, I have been trying to find a way to talk about the divisions in the Hill District without subjecting it - and all of black Pittsburgh - to the ignorant commentary that plagued us during the debate about ...
YOU HAD TO ASK
Sep 12, 2007; ... How did the Marquis Duquesne, a long-ago governor-general of French Canada who as far as I know never set foot here, get so many things - like a university, an old-boys' club and a now-defunct beer - named after him? QUESTION SUBMITTED BY: ROB DOMENICK, Jeannette YOU'RE NOT THE first ...
Instant Replay
Sep 12, 2007; ... Instant Replay Two recent books put local sports into historical perspective SPORTS HAVE BEEN a part of history ever since cavemen started clunking one another on the head and other cavemen stood around cheering. But you don't have to look back that far to get a sense of ...
Ron Paul: Libertarian Apostle
Sep 12, 2007; ... Is Pittsburgh native Ron Paul the champion that libertarians have been seeking? Or just an Internet flash-in-the-pan? GROWING UP IN GREEN TREE, Dr. Ron Paul was a milkman, making deliveries to houses from his family's local dairy operation. It's not hard to believe, even looking ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Sep 12, 2007; ... I'D IMAGINED that Genesis would be a show I'd see and not confess to anyone; I certainly wouldn't be able to find anyone who wanted to go. Boy, was I wrong. There's a lot of closet fans out there, tike Black Tie Revue bassist Matt Hanzes, who ended up ringside at Mellon Arena with me for the ...
Medic Medic
Sep 12, 2007; ... Medic Medic MEDIC MEDIC CD RELEASE with THE FITT and THE SMUT PROJECT 10 p.m. Fri., Sept. 14. The 31" Street Pub, 3101 Penn Ave., Strip District. $5. 412-391-8334 or www.31stpub.com Horses and Lambs MEDIC MEDIC'S DEBUT STUDIO full-length CD easily conjures the ...
From Between Trio
Sep 12, 2007; ... From Between Trio Extended Play FROM BETWEEN TRIO 8 p.m. Tue., Sept. 18. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside $12. 412-361-0873 FOR THE UNINITIATED, the terms "free jazz" or "free improvisation" on a concert poster don't imply that the event ...
Hillbilly Danes
Sep 12, 2007; ... PowerSolo Hillbilly Danes POWERSOLO with HEAVY TRASH 8 p.m. Tue., Sept. 18 (doors at 6 p.m.). Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $14 ($16 day of show). 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com TO DISMISS POWERSOLO as pure goof rock is tempting. After all, the ...
Escape From Noise
Sep 12, 2007; ... Haujobb Escape From Noise HAUJOBB with ANTI-MECHANISM, REIN[FORCED] and PARALYZED CIRCUITRY 9 p.m. Thu., Sep. 13. Pegasus Lounge, 818 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $12 ($15 day of show). All ages. 412-726-2925 CD LINER NOTES are often there just to ensure that everyone ...
The Rustlanders
Sep 12, 2007; ... The Rustlanders The Rustlanders SELF-RELEASED THE RUSTLANDERS CD RELEASE with THE PAWNBROKERS 9:30 p.m. Frl., Sept. 14. Thunderbird Café, 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177 or www.thunderbird.net REMEMBER how great The Band's Music From ...
The Manor
Sep 12, 2007; ... August and Everything After The Manor SELF-RELEASED THE MANOR, the ambitious 10-song CD by August and Everything After, opens with "Run," a song that tries to kindle the kind of slow-burning adolescent angst that makes a whole new crop of eighth-graders buy Pink Floyd's ...
Theater of War
Sep 12, 2007; ... Theater of War SPIRIT OF AMERICA 10:30 a.m. and 730 p.m. Fri., Sept 14; and 2 p.m. and 730 p.m. Sat., Sept 15. Mellon Arena. Free; ticket required. 412-323-1919 or www.mellonarena.com "War is hell." * A sentiment voiced in the distant past resonates into the ...
echo::system - The Desert
Sep 12, 2007; ... echo::system - The Desert ECHO:: SYSTEM - THE DESERT continues through Sat, Sept 15. New Hazle« Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. 412-394-3353 ECHO::SYSTEM - THE DESERT is a, uh ... science fiction? About migratory humanoids? On Mars? Who wander a long, long ...
Ah, Wilderness!
Sep 12, 2007; ... Ah, Wilderness! SOME PEOPLE DISMISS dismiss Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! as simple-minded and inconsistent with the greatness of his other work. Maybe, having witnessed productions which fail to do it justice, they haven't been able to see and hear how well he wrote the play ....
Ancestral Voices
Sep 12, 2007; ... Ancestral Voices ANCESTRAL VOICES continues through Sept. 22. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South (off Route 19), Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. PLAYWRIGHT A.R. OURNEY himself owns up to the problem with his Ancestral Voices in its opening monologue. He (the ...
Dracula: Dragon Prince
Sep 12, 2007; ... Dracula: Dragon Prince DRACULA: DRAGON PRINCE continues through Sun., Sept. 16. Rage of the Stage Players at the Brewhouse, 2100 Mary St., South Side. 412-851-0922 or www.myspace. com/rageofthestage YOU JUST CAN'T KEEP a good dead man down. The hematophagic aristocrat has ...
Habitats for Humanity
Sep 12, 2007; ... Habitats for Humanity ELEMENTAL PERSONA continues through Sept. 22. moxle DaDA Gallery, 1416 Arch St., North Side. 412-682-0348 THE PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED in Dean M. Beattie's Elemental Persona, at moxie DaDA gallery, explore not only the human, figurai element ...
Outside the Lines
Sep 12, 2007; ... Outside the Lines AMERICAN CARICATURE: AN EXHIBIT OF POLITICAL CARTOONS Openinq reception: 5:30-9 p.m. Fri., Sept 14. Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-365-0270 THE HANDOUT ART for American Caricature - an exhibit of international ...
Habitat for Humanity
Sep 05, 2007; ... Habitat for Humanity echor.system - THE DESERT Thu., Sept. 6-Sept. 15. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $20 ($10 students/seniors). 412-394-3353 or www.echo-system.org August-afternoon heat notwithstanding, Grisha Coleman asks to go outside to ...
Misery Loves Comedy
Sep 05, 2007; ... LOUIS CK with TODD BARRY 7:45 p.m. Thu., Sept. 6. Rex Theatre, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $25 ($30 at the door). 412 381-6811 or www. elkoconcerts.com Louis CK grew up without a lot of money, but even when he got some of his own he wasn't very responsible with it ....
Caricature Witness
Sep 05, 2007; ... Caricature Witness BUSH LEAGUERS OPENING RECEPTION 6:30-9 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7. The Framery, 4735 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-687-2102 These days, the challenge for editorial cartoonists - and anyone curating an exhibit of their work - is staying ahead of the ...
Great Ants
Sep 05, 2007; ... Great Ants FORUM 60: QUARTAFEIRA DE CINZAS/ EPILOGUE continues through Oct. 28. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org CARNIVAL IS OVER. The world is no longer turned upside down - order is to be restored. The streets are paved ...
Justly Informed
Sep 05, 2007; ... PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY SKILLSHARE JENNA FREEDMAN and BOOK 'EM MOVIE SCREENING 7-9:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7 (Kiva Han Cafe, 420 S. Craig St., Oakland) SANFORD BERMAN, INFORMATION FAIR and SKILL-SHARES 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., Sept. 8 (Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave., ...
Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater
Sep 05, 2007; ... Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater By Lynne Conner University of Pittsburgh Press, 221 pages IT'S A SAD IRONY THAT, as far as the world is concerned, Pittsburgh's most important contribution to theater history is August Wilson - a playwright who spent much of his adult ...
Farmers' Market
Sep 05, 2007; ... ON the SIDE No wonder Americans are so fat. Tossing a Hot Pocket into the microwave is kinder to the lower back and the balls of the feet than boiling beets from the farmers' markets. » I learned the hard way. My assignment was to breezily cobble together a meal at the local ...
The Chelsea Grille
Sep 05, 2007; ... The Chelsea Grille LOCATION: 515 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont. 412-828-0570 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.9 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Sun. 4-8 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers, soups, salads $4.50-10; sandwiches $7-8; entrees ...
No End in Sight
Sep 05, 2007; ... Bad Beginnings SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT THE IRAO WAR, but there's no shortage of information and analysis about it. Whether we're getting all - or even the right - data is another argument; as it is there's plenty of media available to support all sides. While I enjoy like-minded ...
The 11th Hour: Our Convulsing Planet
Sep 05, 2007; ... The 11th Hour: Our Convulsing Planet FILMS ABOUT BIG PROBLEMS usually offer alarm and hope in equal doses. But while a new documentary about arguably our biggest problem, ecological collapse, is much more convincing at the former, it's probably the message we need to hear. "We ...
Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body
Sep 05, 2007; ... Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body RAW TACTICS OF THE SUBVERSIVE BODY 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 8. $6 ($5 students). Melwood Screemng Room, 477 Melwood Ave., N. Oakland. 412-682-4111 RAW TACTICS of the Subversive Body is an impressive new anthology of videos in which the human ...
Back to School
Sep 05, 2007; ... FILM KITCHEN 8 p.m. Tue., Sept. 11 (7 p.m. reception). Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., N. Oakland. $4. 412-316-3342, x.178 or www.filmkitchenpqh.org EVEN ON HER first trip overseas - just after her first time on an airplane - and in a country where she didn't really ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Sep 05, 2007; ... * RIC HOOGESTRAAT is married to Sue and works at a call center in the Phoenix area, but spends 30-plus hours a week inside the online Second Life video game, pretending that he is the digitally drawn Dutch Hoorenbeek, a muscular, 6-foot-9 babe-magnet who lives on his own island. That unnerves ...
Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies
Sep 12, 2007; ... Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies By Jim Daniels (Eastern Washington University Press, 84 pp, $15.95) JIM DANIELS' POEM Try Room, St. Mark's Church" navigates a world toured inside-out: from an enclosed space to outdoors, where a weary mother indulges a smgle-minded child. The kid is ...
ON the SIDE
Sep 12, 2007; ... Kretchmar's Bakery IT IS NOT known how Kretchmar's Bakery makes its butter-flake rolls. For those who have any regard for their arteries, it's probably unwise to ask. The answer might just frighten one away from the most perfect dinner rolls in Western Pennsylvania. * The ...
Tomato Pie Cafe
Sep 12, 2007; ... Tomato Pie Cafe LOCATION: 885 East Inqomar Road, Allison Park. 412-364-6622 HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 1130 a.m.-8 p.m. PRICES: Starters $2-6; pizza and sandwiches $4-10; entrees $6-10 FARE: Simple ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Sep 12, 2007; ... NEW THIS WEEK THE BRAVE OHE. (See review.) Starts Frl., Sept. 14. THE BROTHERS SOLOMOH. Two thirtysomething brothers must provide their comatose dad with a grandchild. Since the pair has zero social skills - they were home-schooled in the Arctic, then took jobs In Antarctica, ...
The Brave One
Sep 12, 2007; ... The Brave One Fear This STARTS FRI 14 AS A GENRE, revenge pics often present a combo platter of killing for maximum emotional satisfaction - lay on the brutal crime of a likable innocent, then indulge our need for payback as the criminals are summarily executed by the ...
2 Days in Paris
Sep 12, 2007; ... 2 Days in Paris French Disconnection EXCEPT WHEN SHE says "Polaroid," or when there's an "s" at the end of a word, the French actress Julie Delpy speaks English perfectly and almost without accent. She knows our country, and its language, very well. That could be the ...
Strange Culture
Sep 12, 2007; ... Strange Culture Homeland Insecurities SUN, SEPT. 18 -THURS., SEPT. 20 REGENT SQ. IN TWO DAYS in May 2004, Stephen Kurtz lost his wife, his life's work, his home and his freedom. The Buffalo-based, internationally known artist is again free, at least for now. But Lynn ...
SMaLL SCReeN
Sep 12, 2007; ... SMaLL SCReeN Red Road GREAT BRITAIN, having built a comprehensive CCTV network, Is under zillions of "eyes." Jackie (Kate Dickie) works at a CCTV center, her dull eyes flitting across dozens of screens, moving and zooming the camera as necessary. She watches over the dodgy Red ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Sep 12, 2007; ... UNTIL A JULY FLORIDA appeals court ruling, Mark O'Hara, 45, had been in prison for two years of a 25-year mandatoryminimum for trafficking in hydrocodone, based solely on the 58 tablets found in his possession in 2004, even though his supply had been lawfully prescribed by a physician. The state ...
P-G obtains, prints sealed Scaife divorce papers
Sep 26, 2007; ... COURTS Thanks to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, you no lonqer have to wonder why Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife worked so hard to have his ongoing divorce proceedings sealed: earnings of $3.9 million per month; annual losses at his downtown paper totaling $20 ...
Split Decision
Sep 26, 2007; ... Motorist acquitted, but judge says claims against officer are 'preposterous' ALTHOUGH SHE WAS FOUND not guilty of the most serious charge against her, Hill District resident Pamela Lawton won a bittersweet courtroom victory on Sept. 21. For more than a year, Lawton has faced a ...