Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from October 2007:
CORRECTION
Oct 03, 2007; ... Our Sept. 19 Fall Arts Preview misstated the cost of the Oct. 27 "Down ...
South Sider files complaint with city ethics panel against city ethics panel
Oct 03, 2007; ... GOVERNMENT Mark Rauterkus, a South Side political activist and vice chair of the Allegheny County Libertarian Party, doesn't do anything by half measures. He is running in not one, but two races on the November ballot. And last month he filed not one, but three complaints with the city's ...
Hitting a Wall
Oct 03, 2007; ... North Side group's quest for communitybenefits agreement making news, but not headway WHEN A BAND OF NORTH SIDERS rebelled against the scripted agenda of a Sept. 25 public forum on the proposed North Shore casino, once again nearly all of the city's media outlets were on hand to ...
DA investigating Post-Gazette's use of Scaife court records
Oct 03, 2007; ... COURTS Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala is deciding whether to file criminal charges against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and reporter Dennis Roddy for their reporting on the divorce of rival newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife. After Allegheny County ...
City council to begin debating police domestic-violence legislation
Oct 03, 2007; ... POLICE This summer's promotions of Pittsburgh police officers with domestic-abuse incidents in their pasts drew a firestorm of criticism from the community. In response, last week City Council President Doug Shields introduced legislation to amend the city code, providing departmental ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Oct 03, 2007; ... We cover city government so you don't have to (Sept. 24 & Oct. 2) DESPITE WHAT your mom always said, apparently wishful thinking does get you somewhere. When Mayor Luke Ravenstahl released his 2008 city budget and five-year financial forecast on Sept. 21, he slotted in a ...
Protester has misdemeanor charges dismissed
Oct 03, 2007; ... COURTS Misdemeanor charges have been dismissed in the case of an anti-war protester who had maintained he was only trying to photograph a Pittsburgh police sergeant in action when he was arrested April 3. The protester, Noah Willumsen, a University of Pittsburgh student from ...
Independent council challenger accuses opponent of "hiding" from debate
Oct 03, 2007; ... ELECTIONS The independent challenger for the District 9 council race is looking to stir things up in the campaign to replace the district's indicted lameduck councilor, Twanda Carlisle. East Hills resident Dave Adams sent out a Sept. 27 press release accusing the Democratic ...
THIS JUST IN
Oct 03, 2007; ... WAX ON, WAX OFF SUMMARY: Larry on the Job: A day in the life of a car-wash "detailer." STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Larry Richert WHEN IT AIRED: Sept. 28 RUNNING TIME: 3 minutes, 41 seconds VISUALS: Richert performing assorted vehicle tasks, such as vacuuming and shining tires ....
Rich Irony
Oct 03, 2007; ... What goes around comes around for Trib publisher YOU KNOW IF there's a big bully in school, and he always seems to get his way, you think to yourself, "Just once I'd like to see that big bully get his comeuppance?" OK, maybe you don't use words like "comeuppance," but still, you'd like ...
Reversing the Field
Oct 03, 2007; ... Fans reveal sports heroes on the other side of the ball JOHN LENNON SAID all you need is love, which proves he was never a football fan. American football is a grave matter. It is a serious game played with rage and attention to minutiae. The object is not merely to win, but to impose ...
Front Lines
Oct 03, 2007; ... A multimedia theatrical production tries to make sense of Iraq - by relying on the voices of those who have been there NO DOUBT THE DRIVE from Baghdad Airport is more perilous. But driving through New Kensington with Jeff Carpenter offers at least a whiff of danger. Carpenter, ...
under the WIRE
Oct 03, 2007; ... CHANGE IS AFOOT among Pittsburgh venues. But change can be good. * Everyone should be done with the protracted mourning for Oakland club closings (Laga, Graffiti, Decade, Banana, Upstage, Beehive); the action long ago moved outward - witness Mr. Small's, Diesel, The Rex and Club ...
Middle Distance Runner
Oct 03, 2007; ... Going for Speed ALTHOUGH MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER hails from Washington, DC, the quintet's sharp hooks and retro Britpop stylings would seem at home among current and recent Pittsburgh groups - alongside say, Camera, Triggers, Donora, The Silver Thread, Black Tie Revue and many more. But ...
Forward Thinking
Oct 03, 2007; ... Matthew Shipp IN "QUIVERING with Speed," on Matthew Shipp's new album, Piano Vortex, the pianist launches into John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" in the middle of a solo. For most jazz musicians, this wouldn't be unusual, since Coltrane is a touchstone for all manner of improvisers. But for ...
Space Invaders
Oct 03, 2007; ... Boris BETWEEN MUSICAL progenitors Sunn O))) and Earth, a black hole named Boris churns forth entire galaxies of space-age psychedelic drone. Ransacking massive soundscapes to rearrange the constellations, tone by tone, Boris has become an unrelenting anomaly of the metal ...
The Distance
Oct 03, 2007; ... Anthony Rankin The Distance ARKON ENTERTAINMENT ANTHONY RANKIN CD-RELEASE SHOW with PAT VULGAMORE 9 p.m. Thu., Oct. 4 Hard Rock Café, Station Square. $5. 412-481-ROCK IS THERE STILL a niche in popular music for an '80s-style masculine rock ...
Full Tilt Boogie
Oct 03, 2007; ... Douglas Brothers Full Tilt Boogie GRANDPA DOUGLASS RECORDS THE DOUGLASS BROTHERS CD-RELEASE SHOW with CHAD SIPES STEREO 10 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 Club Café, 57-59 S. 12th St., South Side. $5. 412-431-4950 WHO ARE THE Douglass Brothers? Based on this new four-song EP ...
Odissi Steps
Oct 03, 2007; ... India's classical arts originated primarily in temples, and once were seen only within their confines. Likewise, only fairly recently have those ancient art forms been widely exhibited in places outside India itself. Yet even in Pittsburgh, the vibrant contributions of the subcontinent - with ...
Thérèse Raquin
Oct 03, 2007; ... Thérèse Raquin THÉRÈSE RAQUIN continues through Oct. 14. Quantum Theatre at the Braddock Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, 412-394-3353 or www.proarts tickets.org SEX, DECEIT AND DEATH - they've been the makings of good entertainment for Io these many centuries. So ...
Almost, Maine
Oct 03, 2007; ... Almost, Maine ALMOST, MAINE continues through Oct. 13. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South (off Route 19), Canonsburg. 724-745-6300 IT'S PROBABLY important to say that from curtain up, the chances of me really enjoying Almost, Maine, by John Cariani weren't too good ....
Art
Oct 03, 2007; ... Art ART continues through Oct. 14. South Park Theatre, Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road, South Park. 412-831-8552 or www.south.park theatre.com MOST OF South Park Theatre's 2008 season looks familiar: Harvey, A Tuna Christmas and something called Golf: The Musical. Across the ...
Mother Teresa Is Dead
Oct 03, 2007; ... Mother Teresa Is Dead MOTHER TERESA IS DEAD Oct. 4-28. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $20-39 (student/seniordiscounts available). 412-431-CITY, www.citytheatrecompany.org SOMETIMES, playwrights just get you. When Tracy Brigden visited London some ...
High Planes
Oct 03, 2007; ... High Planes ARTIST OF THE YEAR and EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR shows continue throuqh Nov. 4. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or www.pittsburgh arts.org OVER A DECADE AGO, during a discussion about where contemporary art was headed, I ...
LEED-ing Indicators
Oct 03, 2007; ... ONCE YOU GET THE SENSE that Pittsburgh is becoming unstuck in time, like a vignette from Vonnegut or French cultural theory, you start to see the phenomenon everywhere you look. Or at least you will in the future. Maybe it's just that uncertain times lead to romanticizing the past. More likely, ...
ON the SIDE
Oct 03, 2007; ... ON the SIDE Modern Veggie IF I WERE a cucumber, I'd want to die In Kevin Sousa's Blgelow Grille kitchen, squeezed into a naoañero-infused vivid green gazpacho and reunited with my erstwhile vine-neighbor, now a tiny scoop of sorbet. * Let's face it - life can be a ...
Zaiaka
Oct 03, 2007; ... Zaiaka LOCATION: 924 Presque Isle Plaza, Rt. 286E, Plum Township; 724-325-1247 HOURS: Daily, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; 5-9:30 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $3-6; entrees $10-15 FARE: Indian ATMOSPHERE: Spacious, open and ...
Key to a Stein-way
Oct 03, 2007; ... A LEADING FIGURE from Pittsburgh's theatrical past returns for the first time in a quarter-century, playing another lifelong role: keeper, and lone qualified interpreter, of likely the most intriguing remaining piece of the legacy of Gertrude Stein. From 1968-1981, Leon Katz taught ...
The Jane Austen Book Club
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Jane Austen Book Club The More Things Change HAVING BEEN BORN in the 18th century, to a reputable family of sufficient means, and having received her education from the most adequate of teachers, Miss Jane Austen never had to worry about security wands that scanned her when ...
Manufactured Landscapes
Oct 03, 2007; ... Manufactured Landscapes New World Order MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES opens without preamble, with a slow pan past aisle after aisle after aisle of workers in a Chinese factory. We note the intent laborers in their brightly colored smocks, the clean and tidy workspaces, the low hum of ...
News OF THE WEiRD
Oct 03, 2007; ... * IN AUGUST, a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands, Martinus Muskens, suggested that Christians start referring to God as "Allah" as a way of relieving world tensions. "Allah is a very beautiful word .... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem." A priest in Rome said ...
Future of Lawton's police complaint murky
Oct 10, 2007; ... POLICE More than a year after her Shadyside traffic stop galvanized community members and drew cries of racist police, Pamela Lawton was found not guilty of disorderly conduct. Still up in the air, though, is the status of her complaint with the Citizen Polle· Review Board about the ...
Testing Patience
Oct 10, 2007; ... Board members squabble over minority inclusion TRUE OR FALSE: City schools do enough to provide job opportunities to minority-owned businesses. Actually, that's a trick question. After months of debate by Pittsburgh Public Schools board members, the answer depends on whom you ...
HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N'@Yinz keep bloggin'
Oct 10, 2007; ... Fmm: http://pawatercooler.com/?p=2614 Re: Reason 81 October 4 http://pawatercooler.com/?p+2614 - comments As another 27-year-old Pittsburgh man, I am offended by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's comment that going to bars is somehow a normal part of life for people who are our ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Oct 10, 2007; ... We watch City Council so you don't have to (Oct. 3 & Oct. 8) PITTSBURGH CITY COUNaL is headed toward a showdown with the state legislature over the city's 45 percent parking tax. On Sept. 25, Councilor Jim Motznik introduced legislation to freeze the tax at 45 percent ...
THIS JUST IN
Oct 10, 2007; ... THE SPIEL THING SUMMARY: The first Sonic restaurant has opened in Pittsburgh, meaning an end to years of headscratching by locals who have been asking, "Do we even have one of those around here?" after viewing one of the hilarious TV commercials. STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Ari ...
Remedial Math
Oct 10, 2007; ... College loans are a mess. Privatizing them would be worse LOOKING FOR A QUICK refresher course in math? Here's a fun word-problem for college grads: Check the amount of studentloan debt you owe the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Association. Then figure out how many perks PHEAA ...
Pitching Relief
Oct 10, 2007; ... New Pirates GM has to sell us, and his bosses, on smarter ball SO SOPORIFIC is the effect of Pittsburgh baseball that I promised myself I wouldn't write another Pirates column until they were .500. But now that the season is over for them, I guess 0-0 counts. And really, the mandate of ...
A Conversation with Millie Gregor and Jajean Morgan
Oct 10, 2007; ... You suddenly find yourself in need of, say, a nurse costume, a vibrating egg or an oral-sex instructional video - what's a girl to do? Sure, there's the Internet, and the sleazy adult boutiques, but those options weren't cutting it for Millie Gregor, 23, of Point Breeze and Jajean Morgan, 34, of ...
A Tough Row to Hoe
Oct 10, 2007; ... FARMING IS PRETTY SIMPLE. Someone buries a seed in dirt; moistened by rain and fed by the sun, it grows until it's ready to sell. But standing where sunlight strikes earth on a hilltop near Natrona Heights, watching Greg Boulos kneel to pick a 100-yard row of peppers by hand, you begin ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Oct 10, 2007; ... GOOSKI'S CAN BE either a great place to see your favorite band, or the worst place, depending on your personal-space and oxygen requirements. But last Tuesday was just about perfect, as Scottish phenoms The Twilight Sad played to a comfortably sized crowd of true believers. Starting with the ...
Teddy Duchamp's Army
Oct 10, 2007; ... Confidence Builder TEDDY DUCHAMP'S ARMY with ALLIES, THE CODE, KIM PHUC and MODERN RIFLES 6 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13. Belvedere's, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $6. All ages. 412-687-2555 IN THE FILM STAND BY ME, Corey Feldman plays Teddy Duchamp, the loyal friend ...
I Adapt
Oct 10, 2007; ... Party Line ADAPT with MODERN LIFE IS WAR, TRASH TALK and TRAP THEM 6 p.m. Sun., Oct. 14. The Mr. Roboto Project, 722 Wood St., Wilkinsburq. $8. All ages. 412-247-9639 or www.theroboto project.org IN THE FIRST five years of I Adapt's existence, the Icelandic punks ...
Grizzly Bear
Oct 10, 2007; ... Grizzly Bear Nature Calls GRIZZLY BEAR with BEACH HOUSE 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St, North Side. $15. All ages. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org IF SOMEONE SANG "Chin up! Cheer up!" to you in a song called "Lullaby," you'd ...
Uz Jsme Doma
Oct 10, 2007; ... Prague Rock UZ JSME DOMA with RUINS, MADE IN MEXICO, CAPILLARY ACTION and CADAVER EYES 8 p.m. Tue., Oct. 16. Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $12 ($15 at the door). 412-361-2262 or www.garfield artworks.com UZ JSME DOMA holds a certain cred that most ...
Tending Roots
Oct 10, 2007; ... Queen Quet Is chieftess of the Gullah/-Geechee Nation, a culture occupying parts of South Carolina and Georgia and tracing its roots to Af rica. The nation's forebears - slaves who lived in relative isolation along the coastal Sea Islands - maintained a considerable amount of African culture. On ...
In Service
Oct 10, 2007; ... In Service AT ITS BEST, theater can immediately connect an audience with unknown and unseen parts of the world. On this level, In Service - an evening of images and spoken words about the occupation of Iraq, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Bricolage Theatre - does a remarkable job ...
Top Girls
Oct 10, 2007; ... Top Girls PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE Conservatory companies have earned major reputations for talented performers - especially recently, when directed by the perceptive and imaginative Sheila McKenna. Now they are doing their best with material by a British playwright who also boasts a major ...
Oh Dad, Poor Dad ...
Oct 10, 2007; ... Oh Dad, Poor Dad ... WE CAN GUESS, watching Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad, that playwright Arthur Kopit had some issues with women. His two female leads are lunatics: First, a mother so fastidious and overbearing that she locks her son in a hotel ...
Three Sisters
Oct 10, 2007; ... Three Sisters THREE SISTERS, by Anton Chekhov, is about more than three sisters. There are also two lieutenants, a bunch of maids, a new mother, a teacher, a doctor, a compulsive gambler, a troupe of mummers and a lovesick baron. Over the course of three breakneck hours, we watch the ...
Over the Rainbow
Oct 10, 2007; ... "Running away to join the circus" was once an act of dissidence - a step toward a life of sawdust and carnies, riding the rails and living on the wrong side of the tracks in a shadowy subculture. In recent years, however, the circus has become a valid career path, the tinsel replaced by 24-carat ...
Who's in First?
Oct 10, 2007; ... PITTSBURGH HOSTS a variety of festivals parading art in all its forms, from narrowly focused expositions of 10-minute plays or bebop jazz to far-reaching celebrations gathering a broader scope of disciplines. The tradition continues, and further broadens, when the August Wilson Center for ...
Practice Makes Perfect
Oct 10, 2007; ... IT'S 1979. You're at the disco club jerkin' and jivin' to "Stayin' Alive." Coke's in your veins, and your bell-bottoms are kicking up dust. Nothing can keep you from groovin' the night away. Suddenly, the music dies, the room goes dark and a mic-stand hits the center of the dance ...
Bodies - $22
Oct 10, 2007; ... Bodies - $22 BODIES ... THE EXHIBITION UPMC SportsWorks (Carnegie Science Center), North Side. $22 ($16 children). 412-237-3400 or wwwCarnegieScienceCenter.org ON SEPT. 6, the Carnegie Science Center held a press conference promoting its upcoming Bodies ... The ...
Paradise Road
Oct 10, 2007; ... Paradise Road By Kirk Nesset University of Pittsburgh Press, 139 pp., $24.95 KIRK NESSET AND DRUE HEINZ JUDGE HILARY MASTERS The Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading and Award Ceremony 8:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 17. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Oakland. ADMITTEDLY, three-fourths ...
For Now
Oct 10, 2007; ... CHaPTeR & verse The peach tree heavy with fruit this summer now only one on the tree. I've cooked and canned, others went back to earth. Will it produce next year? I'll enjoy, for now, that one still with pink skin. - Dorothy Holley Dorothy Holley lives in Squirrel ...
Muriel's
Oct 10, 2007; ... Muriel's LOCATION 856 Western Ave., Allegheny West. 412-322-0476 HOURS: Lunch Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; dinner Wed.-Sat. 5-9 p.m.; Champagne brunch Sun. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. PRICES: Lunch $7-12; dinner $15-24; brunch $6-9 FARE: Pittsburgh, updated ATMOSPHERE: ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Oct 10, 2007; ... ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. A 1960s love story inspired by and set to the music of The Beatles. Evan Rachel Wood and Martin Luther star In Julie Taymor's musical romance. Starts Fri., Oct. 12. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD. Andrew Dominik directs this Western drama ...
David and Layla
Oct 10, 2007; ... David and Layla Bedroom Politics THEY SAY THAT little boys play with their penises in the womb. When they begin to develop motor skills as infants, they continue to do so, with noticeable fascination. And we all know - from reading books and watching movies, of course - that ...
The Heartbreak Kid
Oct 10, 2007; ... The Heartbreak Kid Mis-Match THE ANTECEDENTS to Peter and Bobby Farrelly's new romantic yuk-fest The Heartbreak Kid should give one pause: five screenwriters working to update a 1972 film penned by Neil Simon, who had adapted Bruce Jay Freidman's short story, the meat of which ...
Video-/Choreography
Oct 10, 2007; ... FILM KITCHEN 8 p.m. Tue., Oct. 16. Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., N. Oakland. $4. 412-326-3342, x178 or www.film kitchenpgh.org FOR AN INTRODUCTION to performer and choreographer Bill Shannon, you could do worse than the music video "Work It Out." The piece opens on ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Oct 10, 2007; ... * RALPH WHITTINGTON, 57, retired in 2000 as curator of the main reading room at the Library of Congress, but was better known as the "King of Porn" for his private collection that he recently sold (500 boxes' worth) to the Museum of Sex in New York City. Whittington's home (which he shares with ...
Anti-death penalty group brings message of forgiveness
Oct 17, 2007; ... The phrase the Rev. Watt Everett wanted to hear most in the trial of his son's murderer wasn't "life in prison" or "execution by lethal injection." It was something that the man convicted of the crime, Mike Carlucci, said at the sentencing hearing itself: "I'm sorry." * "I believe I ...
Scare Tactics
Oct 17, 2007; ... Are the city's ghost bikes really scaring motorists into being safer around cyclists? AT FIRST GLANCE, it'd pass as a forlorn abandoned bike. Chained to a utility pole on Craig Street near Fifth Avenue in Oakland, a road bike is painted all white with plastic geraniums tucked in its ...
Hate Zones
Oct 17, 2007; ... Tolerance of LGBT discrimination depends on the zip code CHARLES MORRISON, executive director of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, gets calls all the time from lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people who've been discriminated against by potential landlords or ...