Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from November 2007:
CLARIFICATION
Nov 07, 2007; ... In our Oct. 17 issue, editor Chris Potter wrote a column about WDUQ-FM's decision to reject $5,000 in underwriting from Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania. The rejection was ordered by the administration of Duquesne University, which holds WDUQ's license, because Duquesne is a Catholic ...
Environmental group finally gets billboard targeting local grocer, for now
Nov 07, 2007; ... ENVIRONMENT A nonprofit environmental group has finally found a company willing to post its billboard critical of Giant Eaqle. But how long it stays up is anyone's guess. * Earlier this year, Washington, D.C.-based Oceana began targeting the local grocery giant because of how the ...
Failure Is an Option
Nov 07, 2007; ... Museum celebrates the world's and the area's biggest blunders THE MUSEUM OF Modern Failure looks like an old-fashioned malt shop: There's a simple bar, a row of narrow stools, dusty wooden floors and a couple of tables. The prices are almost turn-of-the-century: Six cents for a cup of ...
General says U.S. is losing war of words in the Middle East
Nov 07, 2007; ... IRAQ WAR The most important front in the "war on terror" is the one the U.S. is most in danger of losing, says Gen. John Abizaid. In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 31, the retired Army commander told more than 200 people that extremist ideologues in the Middle ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Nov 07, 2007; ... We watch City Council so you don't have to (Oct. 31 & Nov. 5) BY THE TIME you read this, you'll either be bracing yourself for the sweeping changes headed to your city government by a new Republican mayor ... or moaning about how things in city government never change, and the latest ...
Apartment Complex Situation
Nov 07, 2007; ... East Hills residents concerned about changes at neighboring apartment building WHEN EAST HILLS resident Gina Robinson saw an argument taking place at the Bry-Mard Apartments building across from her home last July, "It was like, 'Here we go again.'" She wasn't even all that ...
THIS JUST IN
Nov 07, 2007; ... FRIDAY, BLOODY FRIDAY SUMMARY: "Black Friday" is getting a jumpstart, thanks to some colossal chain stores. STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Aaron Saykin, Live WHEN IT AIRED: Nov. 1 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 42 seconds VISUALS: * A decorated Christmas tree inside a giant discount store. * ...
Looking Glass
Nov 07, 2007; ... Reflections on Dale Chihuly's exhibit at Phipps Conservatory 1) DALE CHIHULY'S traveling Gardens & Glass exhibit first took root in Chicago five years ago. But since coming to Phipps Conservatory last May, it's become a Pittsburgh phenomenon. Phipps says 220,000 visitors have already ...
Building Consensus
Nov 07, 2007; ... Cleaning up the Hill - without cleaning out its history I'M SITTING HERE a bit despondent as the homes and buildings keep coming down in my neighborhood. You know the one, you've heard about it for months now: the historic Hill District. It's strange to be "en vogue" and so heavily ...
A Conversation with DJ Gallo
Nov 07, 2007; ... A sports satirist comes to Pittsburgh - and offers his take on Steely McBeam, wedgies and Ray Lewis CREATOR OF THE satire site sportspickle. com, DJ Gallo lampoons the world of sports with headlines like, "Chad Johnson Quits Bengals to Pursue Solo Career," "Ray Lewis Excited to Unveil ...
THE OTHER SIDE EL OTRO LADO
Nov 07, 2007; ... DEMONIZED ON ONE HAND, EXPLOITED ON THE OTHER, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SAY THEY DESERVE BETTER THAN THE TREATMENT THEY ARE GETTING FROM REPUBLICANS ARELIN'S LEFT ARM GENTLY HOLDS her eight-month-old daughter, who smiles and swings her Winnie the Pooh pacifier through the air. Her right arm ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Nov 07, 2007; ... IF THERE WAS one night most people chose to stay home last week, it had to have been Thursday: perched between two weekends of costumed decadence, and the hangover-day after the real Halloween. In any case, the parking was plentiful on the South Side - always vaguely unsettling. Yet melodious ...
A Conversation with Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Conversation with Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene KEVIN DREW with ARTHUR & YU 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 (doors at 7 p.m.). Weigand Gymnasium, University Center, CMU campus, Oakland. $12 (free with CMU ID). All ages. www.activitiesboard.org BEFORE SPEAKING WITH ...
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Nov 07, 2007; ... Casiotone for the Painfully Alone CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE TO BAD CATHOLICS, STEVE GOLDBERG & THE ARCH ENEMIES, ELLIOT SUSSMAN 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10. Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $7. All ages. 412-361-2262 or www.garfield ...
The Balmoral Classic
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Balmoral Classic Pittsburgh the Brave WITH THE exception of the tone-deaf, I suppose, the prospect of some lone bagpiper hacking his or her way through "Amazing Grace" or "Scotland the Brave" is enough to set one's teeth on edge. Worse yet: a pack of them parading through the ...
Horseback
Nov 07, 2007; ... Golden Drones RECORDING AN ALBUM doesn't seem an activity particularly well suited to the perfectionist, given the myriad problems that can, and will, pop up. Yet it's no secret that many musicians - many of the best, in fact - tend toward perfectionism. Jenks Miller is on a plane beyond ...
The Blues Orphans
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Blues Orphans Root Rot (SELF-RELEASED) BLUES ORPHANS CD RELEASE 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 9. Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial St., North Side. Free. 412-237-9400 X120. IN THE 1980s, all the punks and Gen X alt-rockers heaped endless scorn upon Pittsburgh's established ...
Buddy Nutt
Nov 07, 2007; ... Buddy Nutt Buddy Nutt and His Musical Saw RUSTY BLADE BUDDY NUTT CD RELEASE with UKULIZZY, GREG CISLON and THE HOWLING BROTHERS 9 p.m. Wed., Nov 14. Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $7. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com PITTSBURGH ...
Lunar Expedition
Nov 07, 2007; ... Lunar Expedition For a child, a refrigerator box is a rocket to the moon. A tattered blanket doubles as cape gifting the wearer with powers of flight and invulnerability; a cardboard tube emits rays that decimate a target with searing lasers. * We grow up. Boxes, blankets and ...
Streets of America
Nov 07, 2007; ... Streets of America THE OTHER NIGHT I was talking to a friend about the new musical Streets of America, presented by the Point Park University Conservatory Company. Set in 1969, it's about the Vietnam War, specifically the lives of a handful of anti-war activists. Unlike other theater ...
Happy to Be Here
Nov 07, 2007; ... Happy to Be Here WHEN YOU LEAVE Happy to Be Here, you will probably say something like, "Wow, that was amazing. Randy Kovitz and Paul Bernstein are really talented guys. But what the hell is it?" Kovitz and Bernstein created Happy to Be Here, and they probably wouldn't be ...
Fiddler on the Roof
Nov 07, 2007; ... Fiddler on the Roof OUR MULTI-NEIGHBORHOOD city is home to a number of semi-professional and community theater groups, enriching cultural life across the rivers and up the hills. When such groups thrive, they acquire devoted followers who return again and again. Among such ...
White, Black and Red All Over
Nov 07, 2007; ... White, Black and Red All Over INDIA: NEW INSTALLATIONS, PART I continues through Nov. 25. The Mattress Factory Annex, 1414 Monterey St, North Side. 412-231-3169 or www.mattress.org PERHAPS THE MOST surprising feature in the first segment of the Mattress Factory's two-part ...
The Next Step
Nov 07, 2007; ... Sophie Klahr's____ Versus Recovery is a long poem about recovery from addiction. If, in content, it's what you'd expect - an intoxicanthaunted journey through fear, isolation, 12-stepping, relapse and redemption - stylistically this debut chapbook isn't what you might fear. The poem is told in ...
"Hallowed Secularism"
Nov 07, 2007; ... IF YOU COHSIDER politics and religion the third rails of sociability - touch them and the conversation dies - you might want to reconsider asking Bruce Ledewitz to your next party. The Duquesne University law professor is a secular Jew and anti-death-penalty activist whose recent book American ...
ON the SIDE
Nov 07, 2007; ... Urban Apple Festival SLOW FOOD PITTSBURGH and the Urban Apple Festival go together like apple pie and windowsills, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sat., Nov. 10, at the Union Project. * What's slower than baking an apple pie? Assuming, of course, that the apples will be freshly plucked from a ...
Jerome Bettis' Grille 36
Nov 07, 2007; ... Jerome Bettis' Grille 36 LOCATION: 375 North Shore Drive, North Side. 412-242-6287 HOURS: Sun.-Thu. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-midnight PRICES: Appetizers $5-9; sandwiches $6-9; entrees $10-23 FARE: Schizophrenic: game munchies & high ...
The Three Rivers Film Festival
Nov 07, 2007; ... THE 26th ANNUAL Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers, continues through Nov. 15. The program includes foreign-language works, American independents, documentaries and experimental cinema, as well as several programs highlighting local filmmakers. The festival concludes ...
Anger Us
Nov 07, 2007; ... AMONG THE PAST century's major film artists, Kenneth Anger surely has one of the strangest relationships with Hollywood. He grew up in Beverly Hills, took childhood dance classes with Shirley Temple, watched at least as many classic-Hollywood movies as any other kid born in 1927, and has long ...
Family Ties
Nov 07, 2007; ... ON MAY 11, 2004, Don Diego Ramirez and his wife, Karla, were driving his grandmother home from the doctor's office where she'd just learned she had cancer, and only months to live. The ride was silent, but the artist in Ramirez sought a voice. "All I had to document that moment," he ...
Lions for Lambs
Nov 07, 2007; ... Lions for Lambs Dead Men Talking REGARDLESS OF WHAT you conclude about Lions for Lambs - whether you find it to be a thoughtful polemic, or an exegesis of things we already know, or a scolding for not already knowing them - you'll have to admit that it's certainly the year's ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Nov 07, 2007; ... * CRIME-FEARING FEMALE pedestrians in Tokyo can soon protect themselves with fashion designer Aya Tsukioka's skirt that opens into a realistic-looking (except made of fabric), full-size vending machine that she hopes thugs will pass right by. It's one of several fanciful crime-avoiding creations ...
Braddock's spot for free art space locks its doors
Nov 14, 2007; ... REAL ESTATE Like roughly 30 other area artists, sculptor Ben Acree was glad to accept rentfree studio space in downtown Braddock's Ohrinqer Building earlier this year. * Now, he just wants to get his stuff back out. * The "Ohringer Project" was the brainchild of ...
A Conversation with Mark DeSantis
Nov 14, 2007; ... EVERYONE SAID THERE was no way a Republican could become mayor of Pittsburgh. As it turned out, they were right. But the Republican who tried, Mark DeSantis, sat down with City Paper three days after the Nov. 6 primary to talk about his race against Luke Ravenstahl, and his potential future in ...
Washie's
Nov 14, 2007; ... So last night I was hanging out with my Dad at his recording studio (it's called Washie's, btw, and it's in East Liberty), and as the night went on, more and more random people just started showing up. I haven't talked about my Dad much on this site, but he's an interesting fellow - probably ...
ELDI buys apartments originally tagged for ex-con housing
Nov 14, 2007; ... NEIGHBORHOODS Four months after fending off an attempt to move ex-convicts into an East Liberty apartment complex, residents and a communitydevelopment group are envisioning radical changes for the decrepit building. Meanwhile, federal officials continue to search for exoffender ...
THIS JUST IN
Nov 14, 2007; ... WHAT A PIG! SUMMARY: A pearl of a pig is stranded. STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Shannon Perrine WHEN IT AIRED: Nov. 6 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 28 seconds VISUALS: » The caption, "Wandering Pig Found." » "Jellybean," in all her swinish splendor, socializing at a local shelter ....
Recurring Night-mayor
Nov 14, 2007; ... Maybe the fault lies not within the machine, but within ourselves? YOU WERE WONDERING, weren't you, about what Richard Florida thought of our recent mayoral election? Since Mayor Luke Ravenstahl won by nearly two-to-one, everyone's been asking: "What did Richard Florida, the former CMU ...
Opie-and-Shut Election
Nov 14, 2007; ... Pittsburgh misses a rare opportunity FINAL SCORE, Pittsburgh Mayor Opie: 1; Snarky Columnist: 0. The Boy King has been officially crowned. Readers of this column are aware that I've been hammering this kid since day one because I think he's underqualified and lacks maturity. I ...
CHARGED DEBATE
Nov 14, 2007; ... Stun guns were supposed to make both police and citizens safer. But critics in Pittsburgh and elsewhere say they are dangerous - and that police are too quick to use them. IN THE YOUTUBE VIDEO, De'Anna Caligiuri writhes on her back. She kicks and arches, seemingly trying to sit up. She ...
under the WIRE
Nov 14, 2007; ... USUALLY, ROCK competitions are a waste of time - pay-to-play, rigged popularity contests that don't help a band's career. But here's a refreshing change: At WQED's recent College Battle of the Bands, an instrumental quartet called Cellofourte beat out four mainstream pop acts. » ...
A Conversation with Tim DeLaughter of The Polyphonic Spree
Nov 14, 2007; ... A Conversation with Tim DeLaughter of The Polyphonic Spree THE POLYPHONIC SPREE with ROONEY and THE REDWALLS 7:30 p.m. Thu., Nov. 15. Rex Theatre, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $15. All ages. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com WHEN THE POLYPHONIC SPREE entered mass ...
Flaming Fire
Nov 14, 2007; ... Flaming Fire Killing Spree FLAMING FIRE with DIRTY FACES, AMOEBA KNIEVEL and MACHETE 10 p.m. Fri., Nov. 16. Belvedere's, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $6. 412-687-2555 THIS BAND DRESSES up in identically colored garments, plays high-energy music with ...
The Pipettes
Nov 14, 2007; ... The Pipettes I Hear a Symphony THE PIPETTES and NICOLE ATKINS & THE SEA 7 p.m. Mon., Nov. 19 (doors at 6 p.m.). Diesel, 1601 E. Carson St., South Side. $10 ($12 day of show). All ages. 412-431-8800 or www.dieselpgh.com FOR OVER A CENTURY, the south-coast ...
Stand Up Now! Urban Roots Hip-Hop Arts Symposium
Nov 14, 2007; ... Stand Up Now! Urban Roots Hip-Hop Arts Symposium STAND UP NOW! URBAN ROOTS HIP-HOP ARTS SYMPOSIUM 6:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 16. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Free (non-perishable food donation requested). 412-657-3327 or www.stand upnowtour.com EARLIER ...
Velocity Ramblers
Nov 14, 2007; ... Velocity Ramblers Old Folks at Home VELOCITY RAMBLERS 7:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 16. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $12. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS, with their Pitchfork ratings and their Arthur magazines, might think ...
Hartman's Beat
Nov 14, 2007; ... THE CHICKEN SNAKE Thu., Nov. 15-Sun., Nov. 18, and Nov. 29-Dec. 3. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $24-27. 412-621-4445 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com Hartman's Beat Amy Hartman is a top Pittsburgh playwright. But ask about her new work, The Chicken Snake, ...
Escanaba in da Moonlight
Nov 14, 2007; ... Escanaba in da Moonlight ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT continues through Nov. 24. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South (off Route 19), Canonsburg. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelaketheatre.org "IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS with guns!" says yooper Remnar Soady when he, his brother Reuben ...
Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief
Nov 14, 2007; ... Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief DESDEMONA: A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF continues through Sun., Nov. 18. Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow, Oakland. 412-624-7529 or www.play.pitt.edu PAULA VOGEL WON a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned ...
"Glow" and Dance Better
Nov 14, 2007; ... DANCE "Glow" and Dance Better CHUNKY MOVE performs "Glow" (7 and 9 p.m. daily Thu., Nov. 15, and Fri., Nov. 16; $20; 150 seats per performance) and I Want to Dance Better at Parties (8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17; $19-40). Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or ...
Kindness of Strangers
Nov 14, 2007; ... RICHARD LEWIS Thu,Nov.15-Sua, Nov. 18. The Improv, 166 E. Bridge SU The Waterfront, West Homestead. $20-22. 412-462-5233 Richard Lewis is one of the most recognizable and sought-after acts in standup comedy, with more than 50 appearances on Letterman and several HBO specials to ...
Homecoming Dance
Nov 14, 2007; ... PLAYHOUSE DANCE COMPANY presents PITTSBURGH CONNECTIONS 3 Fri., Nov. 16-Sun., Nov. 18. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $18-20. 412-621-4445 or www.pittsburgh playhouse.com One is a former dancer with Dance Alloy. Another is originally from Beaver County. A third is ...
Get Together
Nov 14, 2007; ... Get Together MARY MILLER DANCE COMPANY presents TOGETHER 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 16; and 2 and 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17. Open Stage Theater, 2835 Smallman St., Strip District. $18 ($15 seniors/ $10 students/ $5 students Nov. 17 matinee). 412-394-3353 or www.MaryMiller ...
Emission Theory Energizes
Nov 14, 2007; ... Emission Theory Energizes EMISSION THEORY continues through Dec. 2. La Vie, 3609 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-253-7365 or www.lavie pittsburgh.com THE TERM "emission theory" can be traced to the ancient Greeks, who hypothesized that objects are made visible by light emitted by ...
Pitt SGB reopens the polls on newspaper vote
Nov 21, 2007; ... UNIVERSITIES IT'S NOT JUST the mayor's race that's been greeted with the deafening silence of miserable turnout. Students at the University of Pittsburgh gave a resounding "eh" when asked if they'd like to continue receiving daily copies of USA Today and The New York Times. The president ...
Home Remedy
Nov 21, 2007; ... Doctors hope that in-home treatments will take some of the pain - physical and emotional - out of dialysis SANDY WHITE'S NIGHTMARE started when her kidneys stopped working, and it's been going on for more than a decade since. Diagnosed with kidney failure in 1990, the 65-year-old Oakdale ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Nov 21, 2007; ... We watch City Council so you don't have to (Nov. 13-19) THIS WAS SUPPOSED to be this column's very special holiday edition: City Hall's top turkeys. But instead we have to make it the very special conviction edition, after Twanda Carlisle threw in the towel on her fight against ...
A Conversation with Marjorie Cohn
Nov 21, 2007; ... WHILE MARJORIE COHN may have been a cheerleader growing up, today she's anything but. The political activist, social-justice attorney, author and Court TV analyst has become one of President George W. Bush's staunchest critics. A few hours before a Nov. 16 debate at the University of Pittsburgh, ...
THIS JUST IN
Nov 21, 2007; ... NOT CHICKENING OUT SUMMARY: A North Huntingdon teen fights to keep her pet chickens. STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Jennifer Miele WHEN IT AIRED: Nov. 14 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 42 seconds VISUALS: * The chickens, and a rooster, scattering about. * Lucy the chicken - who was hatched ...
Kahn-founded?
Nov 14, 2007; ... FILMMAKER NATHANIEL KAHN'S 2004 documentary My Architect is a study as much in lost patrimony as in found architecture. The film examines the buildings of the director's father, Louis I. Kahn, an acknowledged master of mid-20th-century architecture whose works combine the rigid restraint of ...
Moveable Feasts
Nov 14, 2007; ... ON the SIDE AARON AUSTIN and Lauren Urbschat are part of an underground culinary movement in Pittsburgh. * By day, Urbschat is the marketing director at Dance Alloy Theater. By night, she and Austin, her partner, pirouette around their tiny, dishwasherless kitchen in Bloomfield, ...
Mio Kitchen and Wine Bar
Nov 14, 2007; ... Mio Kitchen and Wine Bar LOCATION: 225 Commercial St., Aspinwall. 412-781-3141 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 5-11 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $10-14; entrees $28-37 FARE: Contemporary ...
I'm Not There
Nov 14, 2007; ... I'm Not There Busy Being Born IN HIS 1998 rock 'n' roll fantasia Velvet Goldmine, about a reporter investigating a mysterious old rock star, Todd Haynes cheekily updated Citizen Kane, in part to restate its contention that human character defies analysis. Haynes revisits the ...
SMaLL SCReeN
Nov 14, 2007; ... SMaLL SCReeN Crazy Love AMONG THE fascinations in Crazy Love, Dan Klores' documentary now out on DVD, is noting what a crazy press circus there was in 1960 when just one relationship went kaput in the Bronx. In a nutshell: Nebbishy thirtysomething lawyer Burt Pugach loves ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Nov 14, 2007; ... * TERRYE CHEATHEM, a criminal-defense lawyer and adviser to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, has developed a line of greeting cards for a Hallmarkignored demographic: the recently incarcerated. Among her selections are cards reading, "Sorry to hear about your arrest"; "Honestly, I never ...