Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from December 2007:
Co-op café losing its vegan menu emphasis
Dec 05, 2007; ... BUSINESS The café at the East End Food Co-op is getting a makeover, in the hopes it can become a profitable part of the store, instead of a financial drain. But the change, along with a shift in management philosophy, is leaving a sour taste in some people's mouths. * "We are ...
On the Brink
Dec 05, 2007; ... Polish Hill housing market seems ready to take off, if only a few more homes were available AT FIRST BLUSH, Polish Hill wouldn't seem like a particularly hot real-estate market. Nestled between the Strip District, the Hill District, Lawrenceville, Bloomfield and North Oakland, Polish ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Dec 05, 2007; ... We attend City Council meetings so you don't have to (Nov. 28-Dec. 4) THE FIRST TIME members of several women's groups packed Pittsburgh City Council chambers this summer, they brought outrage over the promotions of three officers with histories of domestic violence. When they ...
'Burgh apparently key for the revolution of human consciousness 'n' 'at
Dec 05, 2007; ... CULTURE It's the dawning of a new age, baby: specifically, yes, the Aquarian one, say some interpreters of indigenous prophecies. And Pittsburgh has a role to play, as do women whom Pittsburgh already has plenty of: grandmothers. Thirteen women from around the world representing ...
THIS JUST IN
Dec 05, 2007; ... WHOLE BODY VIBRATION TRAINING A HAUNTING WE WILL GO SUMMARY: An investigation that delves into the great beyond. STATION: WTAE Channel 4 REPORTER: Jim Parsons WHEN IT AIRED: Nov. 28 RUNNING TIME: 5 minutes VISUALS: » Paranormal investigators praying before an investigation. » An ...
Fast Talk at Schenley High
Dec 05, 2007; ... Why the big hurry to close down a beloved school? SAVING SCHENLEY High School is as much about preserving our future as it is about preserving our past. Given that this asbestos-ridden structure is an historic landmark, it cannot be demolished. So will it simply be abandoned, along with ...
Forgetting Our Roots
Dec 05, 2007; ... Heinz Field is muddy ... but it's the fans who are getting soft I DON'T LIVE in the lawn-obsessed suburbs or a college dorm with a bong-wielding slacker, but everywhere I go, grass is all anybody talks about. Ever since the Nov. 26 Monday-night game against the Dolphins, you can't swing a ...
A Conversation with William Lassek
Dec 05, 2007; ... Dr. William Lassek is an unlikely celebrity: He's a soft-spoken adjunct at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Epidemiology. But he also co-authored a widely publicized recent study, "Waist-hip ratio and cognitive ability: Is gluteofemoral fat a privileged store of neurodevelopmental ...
PIPE DREAMS
Dec 05, 2007; ... Pittsburgh could be at the epicenter of a bagpiping renaissance RYAN PRASKOVICH reaches up over his shoulder to fine-tune his bag-pipes; he's adjusting the pitch of the drones, which give bagpipes their characteristic low humming accompaniment. They need to be perfectly in tune, and ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Dec 05, 2007; ... LOCAL INDIE-ROCKERS Lift in Bad have been part of Pittsburgh's scene since 2001 - even longer, If you count the years founding members Sean Finn and Bill Merante spent in another local band, Manifold Splendor. In that time, Life in Bed has done what many local bands do: touring a bit regionally, ...
A Conversation with Todd Rundgren
Dec 05, 2007; ... TODD RUNDGREN 8 p.m. Fri. Dec. 7. Rex Theatre, 1602 E. Carson St, South Side. $40. 21 and over. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com TODD RUNDGREN'S eclectic and critically lauded albums, which range from pop and rock to soul, acapella and zany experiments (often all at the same ...
Life and Death
Dec 05, 2007; ... Life and Death IRON LUNG SLICES, THRAK, SOFT SICKLE 7 p.m. Thu, Dec. 6. The Mr. Roboto Project, 722 Wood St., Wllkinsburg. $7. All ages. 412-247-9639 or www.theroboto project.org Iron Lung ON IRON LUNG'S 2004 LP, Life. Iron Lung. Death., the title track is 16 ...
Cellos and Corsets
Dec 05, 2007; ... Cellos and Corsets RASPUTINA 7:30 p.m. Thu., Dec 13. Rex Theatre, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $15. All ages. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheatre.com Rasputina WHAT DO Porno for Pyros, Nirvana, Bob Mould and Marilyn Manson all have in common? For one, Rasputina's ...
Swingin' the Season
Dec 05, 2007; ... Boilermaker Jazz Band Swingin' the Season (SELF-RELEASED) EVEN IN AN America obsessed with its youth - a country in which griping about "better days" is a matter of childhood memories rather than dusty history - once a year we get to look back a few decades. From the ...
Tales From the Southland, Tales From the Sea
Dec 05, 2007; ... Satanic Bat Tales From the Southland, Tales From the Sea OSSR IN THEORY, stoner rock should have nearly matched the popularity of grunge. After all, grunge was a revival of '70s hard rock with an injection of punk spirit, and stoner rock is the continuation of its slower ...
Guys and Dolls
Dec 05, 2007; ... Guys and Dolls GUYS AND DOLLS continues through Sat., Dec. 8. Philip Chosky Theater, Carnegie Mellon campus, Oakland. 412-268-2407 AS I TOTTER toward my twilight years, I find that I care less and less about heavy-duty drama. I've been around long enough to realize what a ...
Bang the Drum
Dec 05, 2007; ... Bang the Drum DANCE ALLOY THEATER presents A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Fri., Dec. 7-Mon., Dec. 10. Kelly-Strayhom Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. $20 ($15 students/seniors; the Dec. 9 show is paywhat-you-can). 412-363-4321 or www.dancealloy.org DANCE PERHAPS ...
Tangible Results
Dec 05, 2007; ... KYLE ABRAHAM/ ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION presents FADING INTO SOMETHING TANGIBLE 8 p.m. nightly Thu., Dec. 6; Fit, Dec. 7; and Sat., Dec. 8. New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side. $15 ($10 students/seniors). 412-391-2060 or www. newhazletttheater.org DANCE KYLE ...
Domestic Exposures
Dec 05, 2007; ... Domestic Exposures PICTURING CHILDHOOD: PICTORIALIST FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY, C. 1890-1940 continues through Jan. 13,2008. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org AN INTIMATE EXHIBITION of small, personal photographs, images perhaps not ...
Rachel in the World: A Memoir
Dec 05, 2007; ... Rachel in the World: A Memoir By Jane Bernstein University of Illinois Press, 267 pp., $26.95 JANE BERNSTEIN'S Rachel in the World: A Memoir is a sequel to 1988's Loving Rachel, a book about raising a special-needs daughter. The readiest audience for the new book, which details ...
Eat n 'At
Dec 05, 2007; ... ON the SIDE YOU WONT FIND Marsha Dugan Kolbe and Gall Nesbitt Jones huffing and puffing at Curves on a Saturday afternoon. Their passion for Pittsburgh food outweighs their desire for a size-four skirt. * The authors of Where We Like to Eat n 'At Celebrating Pittsburgh's ...
Sakura Teppanyaki & Sushi
Dec 05, 2007; ... Sakura Teppanyaki & Sushi * TAKE YOUR ENEMIES ** TAKE YOUR FRIENDS *** TAKE YOUR DATE **** TAKE YOUR TIME LOCATION: 5882 Forbes Ave, Squirrel Hill; 412-422-7188 HOURS: Mon-Thu. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m; Fri. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and ...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Dec 05, 2007; ... Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten * REEL WASTE ** REEL POTENTIAL *** THE REEL THING **** BETTER THAN THE REEL THING STARTS FRI 07 HARRIS Career Opportunities WHEN CLASH FRONTMAN Joe Strummer died in late 2002, another ...
Ira and Abby
Dec 05, 2007; ... Ira and Abby Altared States THE OPENING SCEHE of Robert Grant's Ira and Abby is not Something you want to see when you see as many movies as I do: a whiny, neurotic New York Jewish guy prone on his therapist's couch, comically explicating his inability to commit to a long-term ...
Fan Dance
Dec 05, 2007; ... Fan Dance FILM KITCHEN 8 p.m. Tue., Dec. 11 (7 p.m. reception). Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland. $4. 412-316-3342, x178 or www.filmkitchenpgh.org FILM KITCHEN AS FAR AS 21-year-old Pittsburgh natives go, Jason Georgiades doesn't ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Dec 05, 2007; ... * THE MODERN MOTHER: Style- and environment-conscious Canadian mothers insist on doth diapers, especially designer labels of flannel, fleece or wool-knit, according to a November report in Toronto's Globe and Mail. Handmade embroidered diapers (perhaps in tie-dye or camouflage) are priced at up ...
Fulton Test Scores Steam Ahead
Dec 19, 2007; ... EDUCATION Modest district-wide gains in state-mandated test scores have pleasantly surprised city school officials over the past year, but drastic increases in one elementary school's marks have educators wondering whether they can be repeated elsewhere. * According to statistics ...
CORRECTIONS
Dec 19, 2007; ... In our "Best of Pittsburgh" issue, the name of the second-place ...
History Repeating?
Dec 19, 2007; ... Hill District community groups say arena construction without CBA will be 1950s all over again FOR NEARLY TWO HOURS, Eugene Taylor patiently waited his turn to speak at the Dec. 11 City Planning Commission public hearing, inching his way from the back of the cramped room to the podium at ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Dec 19, 2007; ... We watch City Council so you don't have to (Dec. 18, 2007) WE SHOULD HAVE seen it coming. Anytime you have the mayor, the school superintendent and officials at UPMC gathered together, shaking hands, and announcing a landmark charitable agreement, alarm bells should go off In your ...
THIS JUST IN
Dec 19, 2007; ... MEATY DELIVERY! SUMMARY: A woman discovers a deer head in her mailbox. STATION: WPXI Channel 11 REPORTER: David Highfield WHEN IT AIRED: Dec. 12 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes VISUALS: » The caption, "Disturbing Delivery." » The mailbox where the "surprise" was discovered. HIGHLIGHTS: » When ...
Taking Back a Promise
Dec 19, 2007; ... Thanks for nothing, UPMC! THAT SOUND YOU heard on Mon., Dec. 17, was the other shoe dropping. It was a golfing shoe, of course: one of the pair that Mayor Luke Ravenstahl wore this summer, when he was out at a charity golf event with UPMC representatives who paid for his ...
A Fistful of Dollars
Dec 19, 2007; ... If the Penguins want to play, someone has to pay I ALWAYS ENJOYED it when Clint Eastwood squinted, flicked his cigarette and faced his enemy down with a cold, hard stare. Well, here in the Hill District we're at that point with the city, the county and the Pittsburgh Penguins. On ...
Performance Anxiety
Dec 19, 2007; ... Maybe now baseball will do something about drugs A FEW YEARS ago, I was in the company of a handful of Yankees fans when the subject of steroids in baseball came up. The topic was dismissed by the Yanks fans with a shrug: They were all juicing, obviously. Not so fast, my ...
The Wecht Files
Dec 19, 2007; ... The controversial coroner goes on trial next month ... who will try the system that judges him? Former Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht has never been afraid to offer a contrary opinion, even when everyone else seems lined up against him. He came to national prominence in the ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Dec 19, 2007; ... Even the gruff 31st Street Pub seems ready for the holidays, with loads of Christmas lights brightening the usually rather forbidding skull decor - just one reason to head to Black Tit Revue's annual Christmas show at the Pub, featuring seeing Eyeballs and Bullet Parade, on Sat, Dae. 22. The ...
Festivus III
Dec 19, 2007; ... For the Rest of Us FESTIVUS III featuring LEONARD COHEN ENSEMBLE ONE, THE MERIDIANS, ENDLESS MIKE & THE BEAGLE CLUB and BUDDY NUTT 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 22. Howler's Coyote Cafi, 4509 Liberty Ave, Bloomfield. $6.21 and over. 412-361-2262 IN case YOU HAVEN'T tuned ...
Pyre of Dreams
Dec 19, 2007; ... Persephone's Dream Pyre of Dreams PROGROCK RECORDS IN THE GREEK pantheon, Persephone (whose name means "light destroyer") is the beautiful goddess of the underworld, abducted by Hades and forced to live in darkness one-third of the year as the sun fades and the plants ...
Open Liar
Dec 19, 2007; ... Cameron Lister Open Liar (SELF-RELEASED) CAMERON LISTER was born in Montreal, grew up in Pittsburgh, resides now in Boston and plans, like so many, to head west soon. But he still calls himself a Pittsburgh musician, and doesn't hesitate to visit to play a show and ...
BETA version 0.9
Dec 19, 2007; ... Ryan Skyy BETA version 0.9 (SELF-RELEASED) TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Ryan Skyy has several advantages in his quest to become a mainstream show-biz pro. He's got the look, the piano chops and a knack for melody. And he's got the voice: a slightly nasal, melismatic R&B vocal ...
A Musical Christmas Carol
Dec 19, 2007; ... A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL continues through Sun., Dec. 23. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or www.pittsburgh clo.org A Musical Christmas Carol HE IS THE ORIGINAL grinch who stole Christmas. Almost. Ebenezer Scrooge, he of the "gloomy visage," and a ...
Decade
Dec 19, 2007; ... Decade TEN YEARS OF COURAGEOUS NONSENSE continues through Dec. 31. Gallery on 43rd Street, 187 43rd St., Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488 Ten Years of Courageous Nonsense, at Lawrenceville's Gallery on 43rd Street, unites the paintings of Mark Gualtieri with those of T.K. Mundok. The ...
Blog Jam
Dec 19, 2007; ... THE BLOGGER SHOW continues through Jan. 12. Digging Pitt Gallery, 4417-19 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-605-0450 or www.digging pitt.com Blog Jam THE ARTISTS IN Digging Pitt Gallery's current exhibition have one thing in common, according to the show's statement: "clarifying ...
Poet Laureate
Dec 19, 2007; ... for Ted Kooser Self proclaimed Hobbit, downward sloping mic, Ted, the poet laureate, catches my eye as we walk down glistening back road memories, through the natural and side step lightly over dead mother issues. His mouth caresses my ears with orgasmic pleasure, until I quiver ...
Where We Stand
Dec 19, 2007; ... Where We Stand By Seymour Garte Amacom Books, 290 pages, $24.95 IMAGINE THAT YOU launched a prolonged war based on bad faith, flawed information and faulty thinking. Then, some years later, with things going badly, you employ a new strategy, and soon only 1,000 civilians are dying each ...
ON the SIDE
Dec 19, 2007; ... Food Blogs SINCE IT'S BEEN named the country's third Bloggiest City, much fuss has been made over Pittsburgh's political blogs. Lost in this sea of local punditry, however, are many food blogs dedicated to another type of kitchen debate. * Filled with magazine-quality photos and ...
Azzeria
Dec 19, 2007; ... LOCATION: "Retail Store," 3033 Banksville Road, 412-344-3090; "Factory Store," 3025 Banksville Road, 412-344-3420 HOURS: Retail Store, Mon-Sat 630 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Factory Store, Mon.-Thu. 3:30-9:00 p.m.; Fri-Sat ....
NEW THIS WEEK
Dec 19, 2007; ... ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM. If you think your holidays are contentious, they're nothing compared to the ongoing war between these two fearsome outer-space creatures, now creating mayhem in a Colorado town. Greg and CoIIn Strause co-direct. Starts Tue., Dec. 25. ATONEMENT. In the late ...
The Kite Runner
Dec 19, 2007; ... The Kite Runner Pulling the Strings ONE THING THE CINEMA can do is take us to places we need to see but would never want to go. For about 15 minutes, near the end of its two hours, The Kite Runner, based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, recreates Afghanistan in 2000, in ...
Margot at the Wedding
Dec 19, 2007; ... Margot at the Wedding Complex Electras THE CHARACTERS in Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding are a second-generation Freudian train wreck, with the third generation racing down the track, probably unable to stop in time. They say everything that's on their minds, especially if ...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Dec 19, 2007; ... Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow OF ALL THE things that get cut in Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton's faithful filming of the superlative Stephen Sondheim musical, the only one that doesn't bleed is the title song. "Attend the tale of ...
Charlie Wilson's War
Dec 19, 2007; ... Charlie Wilson's War Of Fun, Funds and Fundamentalists IN THIS SEASON of dour political films, Mike Nichols' Beltway-based satire about U.S. involvement in the Soviet-Afghanistan war is a welcome and entertaining diversion that still gets a few well-placed kicks in. It helps that ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Dec 19, 2007; ... * SMALL-TOWN MAYORS: (1) Mayor Ken Williams resigned in Centerton, Ark. (pop. 2,146), in November and revealed that he is actually Don LaRose, an Indiana preacher who abruptly abandoned his family in 1980 because, he said, Satanists had abducted and threatened him, and brainwashed him to rub out ...
APPELL OF DISCHORD
Dec 26, 2007; ... Re Kathleen Appell's Nov. 27 letter ["Alien Notions"] about immigration: Her barely concealed bigotry is precisely why the immigration debate has gone stale. The letter was so saturated with racism that the remark "How many tortillas would [an immigrant's mother] have to prepare for $5,000? A ...
POG members protest Ravenstahl inauguration
Dec 26, 2007; ... POLITICS The day before his inauguration Mayor Luke Ravtnstahl said he was looking forward to a "lowkey" event. Apparently that memo never made it to the desk of Police Chief Nate Harper. * After the Pittsburgh Organizing Group announced plans to march outside the inauguration in ...
Unwanted Poster
Dec 26, 2007; ... Anti-drink tax campaign could leave 11 public officials very thirsty BARTENDERS, AS THE thirstiest among us may know already, reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. And a cadre of pissed-off local hootchslingers plans to use that right to protest Allegheny County's contentious ...
Keeping the Mt. Lebanon Ladies' Neighborhood Happy Hour Lively
Dec 26, 2007; ...... One tradition we have on our street is the Ladies' Neighborhood Happy Hour, recently changed to Ladies' Neighborhood Respite Hour for reasons unknown to me. We rotate homes and get together every Friday at 5:00 for an hour of socializing. I can't make them all, but I get to as many as ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Dec 26, 2007; ... * IN JANUARY, the town of Herouxville, Quebec (pop. 1,300), famously enacted a "code" of expectations for immigrants, seemingly aimed at Islamic laws and rituals (for example, requiring gender equality, permitting alcohol, rejecting special diets for prisoners and reaffirming laws against ...
THIS JUST IN
Dec 26, 2007; ... THE COLD FACTS SUMMARY: You may be able to keep warm this winter, but your neighbor might not-and your chances of being "your neighbor" are rising. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Mary Robb Jackson WHEN IT AIRED: Dec. 20 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 58 seconds VISUALS: * The shadow of ...
Choice Words
Dec 26, 2007; ... Here's a thought, pro-lifers: Back off I HATE TALKING about abortion. There's no middle ground, and it's an endless, predictable argument. I'm pro-choice. I'm one of those nuts who believe in stem-cell research. I'm just crazy enough to believe that, since we throw away frozen ...
A Night to Remember
Dec 26, 2007; ... Pitt deposes Duke on a huge night in local sports history ON A NIGHT when the Steelers were literally playing for their post-season lives in St. Louis and the Penguins were in Boston, desperate for points within the Eastern Conference, 5-foot-10-inch Levance Fields upstaged them ...
BREAKING NEWS
Dec 26, 2007; ... Has the disappearance of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart affected the election? IT'S EASY TO be flip about the deep implications of the Writers Guild of America strike, which is now stretching into its second month. After all, what's the harm in missing a few episodes of Two and a Half ...
THE BOOK ON STEPHEN COLBERT
Dec 26, 2007; ... THE BOOK ON STEPHEN COLBERT As Colbert prepares to cross picket lines and return to the airwaves, enjoying his book just got harder THE PROBLEM with parodying pop culture, of course, is that pop culture keeps upping the ante. Yesterday's Dairy Show spoof becomes today's lead ...
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Dec 26, 2007; ... A local satirical news Web site is slowly assimilating mainstream media outlets DON'T FRET, FOLKS: Nothing you read on page 30 of the Dec. 10 Trib PM is true. Staph infections are not caused by staff meetings. The Pittsburgh Pirates are not replacing their first- and third-base coaches ...
under the WIRE
Dec 26, 2007; ... IF YOU'RE wondering how to kick off the New Year, stop by the 31" Street Pub, where Rob Tabachka will reconvene his garage-punk quintet, Silver Tongued Devil, for a New Years' bash that also features Atomic Drops and Devil Moto. * In the late '90s, on Get Hip and German label People Like ...