Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from January 2008:
Not Fit For a King
Jan 02, 2008; ... As MLK Day approaches this month, his challenge to us remains unmet MONTHS BEFORE his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. embarked upon his most evolved political movement: the Poor Peoples' Campaign. King wanted to assert not just civil rights but human rights, especially at a time ...
Yay for Fearmongering!
Jan 02, 2008; ... HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N'@ Yinz keep bloggin'. From: http://pqhisacity.blogspot.com/ On a national level, the housing slump Is hurting the nation. That sucks. It makes me really happy I sold my condo in Connecticut to buy a house in Pittsburgh. ' Unfortunately, the ...
Living Up to a Promise
Jan 02, 2008; ... Distrust of UPMC will linger LET'S SAY THIS up front: Thanks, UPMC. And not just for the $100 million. The money's great, of course: Your pledge to help fund the Pittsburgh Promise, a college scholarship program for city students, is a big deal. It's even bigger now that you've ...
Local nonprofit wants outdoor activities more accessible to a diverse population
Jan 02, 2008; ... NEIGH BORHOODS In the blog account of her June day kayaking at North Park, Donna Baxter wondered "Why don't WE come out here?" » Baxter, who is CEO and Webmistress of www.thesoulpltt.com, Pittsburgh's premier black community Web site, noted that she and her companion were the ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Jan 02, 2008; ... W watch City Council so you don't have to (Dec. 27, 2007) AS DEPARTING members Len Bodack and Jeff Koch cast their final votes at council on Dec. 27, it was hard not to think about what the future holds for the panel. The previous panel tended to fall with a majority on the side ...
2007: THE YEAR IN LISTS
Jan 02, 2008; ... A guide to the political and cultural events that defined the year ... in hardy list format for those who've already started to forget it. Five shortest purchases -former Councilor Tvoncrfa. Carlisle hvule wifA taxpayer Money JEWELRY: Acording to prosecutors, Carlisle spent ...
CHaPTeR & verse
Jan 02, 2008; ... I Followed Clea Duvall to Youngstown, Ohio Her hooded flannel faux fur lined, her girlfriend's dyke hair black like naked tattooed mural girl. The bar was called Cedar. Hetero couple all tongue-kissing, fondling finally, gone before Lola Ray's guitars were ...
Whiskey Weed and Trucker Speed
Jan 02, 2008; ... Whiskey Weed and Trucker Speed Whiskey Weed and Trucker Speed SELF-RELEASED UNLESS "whiskey weed" is an actual thing, and I'm a step or two behind on my illicit substances (which certainly can't be ruled out), there are some major commausage issues in the name of John ...
ON the SIDE
Jan 02, 2008; ... ON the SIDE Noted Fish and Fowl of Beaver County BACK DOOR TAVERN 128 Beaver St. New Brighton 724-843-4918 ZOOKY'S SPORTS TAVERN 450 Constitution Blvd. New Brighton 724-843-WING SOME SAY The Creator endowed chickens ...
A Conversation with Devra Davis
Jan 02, 2008; ... AFTER LOSING BOTH of her parents to cancer, Devra Davis merged her roles as scientist, researcher and investigative reporter to wage war on the cancer war itself. According to Davis, millions of lives, including those of her parents, could have been spared if not for our nation's misguided war ...
Ford Fairlane
Jan 02, 2008; ... Sue Gartland Ford Fairlane SELF-RELEASED LOCAL singer/songwriter Sue Gardand released her first album, Ford Fairlane, in September. The songs call to mind any number of folkie adult-contemporary artists, but her writing also establishes her personality, indulging her own ...
Family Guy
Jan 02, 2008; ... Kokayi THERE'S MORE than one way for a rapper to spread his name around the world. The quick and easy method might involve moving to L.A. and cozying up to Jay-Z. But freestylist Kokayi ("summoning the people" in Swahili - although his given name is Carl Walker) discovered a truer, if ...
Fertile Ground
Jan 02, 2008; ... Fertile Ground NEW SOIL EXPERIMENTS continues through Jan. 25. Modern Formations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield. 412-362-0274 AS A TEEN-AGER, Jairan Sadeghi, the artist responsible for New Soil Experiments at ModernFormations Gallery, moved to the United States, from Iran. As ...
Music on the Edge
Jan 02, 2008; ... Fourscore and More MUSIC ON THE EDGE MUSIC OF EZRA SIMS: 8 p.m. Tue., Jan. 8. MUSIC OF EUGENE PHILLIPS, ERIC MOE AND DANIEL FELDER: 8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20. Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield, Oakland. $10-$15 (free for Pitt students). 412-394-3353 or ...
Birthday Punching
Jan 02, 2008; ... IT'S NOT A birthday party until you rib the guest of honor. Why else invite the satirists of The second-City to give your town the once-over for its 250th anniversary? The first high-profile guests for what Pittsburgh's civic panjundfums envision as a year-long, regional celebration were ...
Joseph Tambellini Restaurant
Jan 02, 2008; ... LOCATION: 5701 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-665-9000 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 4-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 4-11 p.m.; Sun. 4-9 p.m. PRICES: Starters $7-12; entrees $14-36 FARE: Traditional Italian, with grace notes ATMOSPHERE: Convivial white linen LIQUOR: Full ...
Romance and Cigarettes
Jan 02, 2008; ... Romance and Cigarettes Life as Karaoke I SUSPECT Romance and Cigarettes, like its titular components, will be a matter of personal taste. Some may find writer-director John Turturro's genre-busting comedy-melodrama-musical to be giddy fun, structurally clever and emotionally ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Jan 02, 2008; ... * PINK JUSTICE: In parts of India's Uttar Pradesh state, according to a November BBC News dispatch, women are hopelessly oppressed by poverty, abusive husbands and corrupt officials, but two years ago, Ms. Sampat Pal Devi got fed up. She organized bands of vigilante women (with several hundred ...
The 2007 Movie Review
Jan 02, 2008; ... The 2007 Movie Review LIFE HAS FINALLY become too short to see every movie released in Pittsburgh. I think my revelation coincided with the second term of the Bush administration, which seemed intent on getting us into more wars that even Rummy could fight at one time. With Condi playing ...
Performing Video
Jan 02, 2008; ... ONE MEMORABLE passage in Squonk Opera's stage show Pittsburgh: The Opera featured a series of small white discs held aloft, lollipop-style, on long sticks, each reflecting projected video footage of a single human eye, blinking or peering about. The Squonky bit of accessible surrealism resulted ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Jan 02, 2008; ... HELVETICA. People who are into fonts and typefaces are often quite passionate about the designs' effect on aesthetics and perception. The rest of us don't notice - at least not consciously. Gary Hustwit's documentary might change your mind: In it, the filmmaker (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) ...
THIS JUST IN
Jan 02, 2008; ... YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST: PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR AHEAD IN LOCAL NEWS AS WE PUT yet another year of local television news to bed, we can only ponder what we will wake up as the next year dawns. As is my tradition, I do the prognosticating for you - so you can roll over and go back to ...
Card Games
Jan 02, 2008; ... Highmark's gift of good health can actually be used for stuff you really want IF YOU'VE SEEN recent media reports about Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark's latest product, chances are you think the Healthcare Visa Gift Card truly is the gift of good health. After all, according to ...
Reformers come out on top in council leadership battle
Jan 09, 2008; ... CITY COUNCIL At about 10:05 a.m. on Mon., Jan. 7, City Councilor Jim Motznik flew out of council chambers and rushed toward his office. * "Do you have the votes, Jimmy?" asked one man in the spillover crowd gathered around a television set in the hallway. * "I don't ...
Fiery Response
Jan 09, 2008; ... Controversy ignites over Hill District CBA FIRST THEY BERATED IT. Then they burned it. That was the response of Hill District community members to the Community Benefits Agreement proposal made by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and County Executive Dan Onorato on Jan. 3. At a press ...
Panel discusses the future of African-American theater in Pittsburgh
Jan 09, 2008; ... THEATER Even though he's won an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Award (among others), you have likely never heard of Woodle King Jr. He helped found the acclaimed New Federal Theatre in New York City and he's called the "Godfather of Black Theater." Yet despite his prolific Broadway ...
THIS JUST IN
Jan 09, 2008; ... BEFORE SUMMARY: Spirits and hopes soar as Steelers fanatics prepare for our first playoff game! STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: John Shumway WHEN IT AIRED: Jan. 5 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 43 seconds VISUALS: * Rootin,' tootin' rowdy Steelers fans swarming outside Heinz Field. * The ...
Not-Very-Selective Prosecution
Jan 09, 2008; ... Wecht isn't the only official with something to answer for IF YOU WANT to accuse Dr. Cyril Wecht of being abrasive, you'll get no argument here. Tacked to my cubicle wall is a letter the former Allegheny County Coroner sent us back in 2001. "Perhaps some of the Muslim terrorists took ...
Swallowing Resentment
Jan 09, 2008; ... Drinking the Kool-Aid on the drink tax I DON'T KNOW if you've noticed, but people here like to drink. More than one comic has noted that there's an abundance of churches and bars here ... plus some churches that get turned into bars. Now, if you were trying to raise money - for ...
A Conversation with Jeremy and Tim LeDonne
Jan 09, 2008; ... JEREMY LEDONNE is a pretty typical 10-year-old ... except for the fact that the Glenshaw youth has been a competitive ATV racer since the age of 4. When the national touring season begins this spring, he'll enter it as the No. 2-ranked racer of 51-70 cc ATVs, having scored 109 points in the ...
ESCAPE ARTIST
Jan 09, 2008; ... After a stint in jail, aspiring musician Francois Lighty is pursuing a new life. How can we help more ex-cons do the same? Francois Lighty should be back in jail by now. At least, that's what the numbers say. When he was arrested in 2003, on charges stemming from a gunpoint ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Jan 09, 2008; ... HOME RECORDING used to mean saving up months of paper-route money and purchasing a costly cassette 4-track. But with recording software now ubiquitous, powerful and dirt cheap, any musician with a laptop and a little know-how can make decent recordings for next to nothing. If YouTube is any ...
The Von Bondies
Jan 09, 2008; ... The Von Bondies THE VON BONDIES with FREER and SSM 6 p.m. (doors open) Sun., Jan. 13. Diesel, 1601 E. Carson St, South Side. $12 ($15 day of show). All ages. 412-431-S800 or www.dieselpgh.com Shelf Life YPSILANTI MIGHT NOT seem like much: A little university town ...
Screaming Females
Jan 09, 2008; ... Screaming Females SCREAMING FEMALES with DIRTY FACES and THE LIBRARY IS ON FIRE 7 p.m. Thu., Jan. 10. The Mr. Roboto Project, 722 Wood St, Wilkinsburg. $6. All ages. 412-2479639 or www.theroboto project.org Punk by Default ONLY ONE OF the Screaming Females is ...
Ball of Flame Shoot Fire
Jan 09, 2008; ... Ball of Flame Shoot Fire Grumpy Little Bird SELF-RELEASED BALL OF FLAME SHOOT FIRE CD RELEASE with DONORA 10 p.m. Sat, Jan. 12. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $5. 412-621-4900 VERY RARELY have I seen a local band and been able to retain the entire ...
The Working Poor
Jan 09, 2008; ... The Working Poor Eat the Middle Class NEW ANARCHY BACK IN 2004, the then-members of local underground band The Working Poor trekked to Erie to record with John Johnston, of Telefonics, at his home studio. Some of those recordings were later released on local labels New ...
Photo Lab
Jan 09, 2008; ... Photo Lab PROOF! PHOTOGRAPHS BY CALEB CHARLAND continues through Feb. 2. The Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson St 412-431-1810 or www.silvereye.org CALEB CHARLAND'S photographs offer a series of playful experiments in the laws of physics, often involving ...
Ohio River Dialogues
Jan 09, 2008; ... Ohio River Dialogues By William Zink Suqarloaf Praia, 271 pages, $16 ANYONE WHO'S ever talked deep with a small group of friends and thought it might make for art should look into Ohio River Dialogues. William Zink's experimental novel illustrates both the pitfalls and the potential ...
ON the SIDE
Jan 09, 2008; ... ON the SIDE by Colleen Van Tassell Make Bread ... and Mistakes at Enrico Biscotti 2022 Penn Ave., Strip District 412-281-2602 www.enricobiscotti.com UNLIKE MOST teachers, Larry Lagattuta encourages his students to fail. * Out of crushing ...
Rivertowne Inn
Jan 09, 2008; ... Rivertowne Inn LOCATION: 500 Jones St., Verona. 412-828-3707 HOURS: Mon. 3 p.m.-2 a.m.; Tue.-Fri. 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sat.-Sun. Noon-2 a.m. PRICES: Appetizers $5-10; sandwiches, salads and burgers $6-10; pizza $5-15; entrees $12-17 FARE: Pub grub ...
NEW THIS WEEK
Jan 09, 2008; ... NEW THIS WEEK THE BUCKET LIST. (See review.) Starts Fri., Jan. 11. THE DIVING BELL AND THEBUTTERFLY. (See review.) Starts Fri., Jan. 11. Manor FIRST SUNDAY. Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play buddies who hatch a plan to resolve their money woes: Rob the local church. David E ....
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / The Bucket List
Jan 09, 2008; ... The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / The Bucket List Life's Last Chapters BECOMING GRAVELY ILL or incapacitated; dying with life left unfulfilled. We fear such scenarios, and one way we exorcise the dread is to vicariously celebrate somebody else's triumph over these ...
King Corn
Jan 09, 2008; ... King Corn What Butz Hath Wrought IN 1973, Earl Butz, Richard Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture, announced a new policy: No longer would the government pay farmers not to produce. Now it would subsidize production. It's likely that few non-farmers cared, or even noticed ....
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Jan 09, 2008; ... * IN DECEMBER, inmate Michael Polk (serving time for robbery and aggravated assault) filed a federal lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections for denying him the right to properly practice his religion, Asatru. According to its teachings, adherents must communicate with ancient Nordic ...
CORRECTIONS
Jan 16, 2008; ... Due to an editing error, the Jan. 9 Vox Pop column ["Swallowing Resentment"] misidentified the talk-radio host who has referred to Dan Onorato as "Dan Dan the Tax Man." It was Kevin Miller, not Fred ...
Anti-strike Web site publishes Pittsburgh teacher salaries
Jan 16, 2008; ... EDUCATION The salary your child's homeroom teacher earns is a matter of public record. Even so, that doesn't mean most parents, or taxpayers, actually go to the trouble of finding out what it is. * But in Pittsburgh, the task just got a lot easier, thanks to a Web site launched ...
Visa Declined
Jan 16, 2008; ... Is it red tape or good old-fashioned racial profiling that is holding up the visas of local Saudi students? IN 2005, when Tawfiq Ali accepted a full scholarship from the government of Saudi Arabia to study at the University of Pittsburgh, he gave up a good job working in the health-care ...
Panel discusses how to make Pittsburgh livable for all residents
Jan 16, 2008; ... NEIGHBORHOODS Much has been made of Pittsburgh's recent designation as a "Most Livable City," but, some say, it's unclear for whom it's so great. On Mon., Jan. 7, at the Union Project in Highland Park, the Core Center hosted a panel to get to the root of that question. Panelists ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Jan 16, 2008; ... We watch City Council so you don't have to (Jan. 15, 2008) AS THE NEWEST Incarnation of Pittsburgh City Council got down to business on Jan. 15, It also received one of its first pieces of legislation - a bill that will test exactly how reform-oriented the new council ...
HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N'@
Jan 16, 2008; ... Yinz keep bloggin'. From: http://bloq.myspace.com/lndex.cfm?fuseaction=bloq.vlew&frlendlD=74 331733&bloglD=345435254 Bus? Bike? Walk? It shouldn't be this difficult I have to make a quick trip to the other side of town in the next day or so, pick up a package and ...
THIS JUST IN
Jan 16, 2008; ... SAVE THE ANIMALS SUMMARY: An area animal shelter rallies to win a contest that could greatly improve its facility. STATION: WPXI Channel 11 REPORTER: Stuart Brown WHEN IT AIRED: Jan. 7 RUNNING TIME: 1 minute, 37 seconds VISUALS: * Outside the Washington Area Humane Society facility - and ...
YOU HAD TO ASK
Jan 16, 2008; ... I grew up in Pittsburgh, and noticed something when I was home for Christmas: What is up with the toilets in everyone's basements? I have never seen this in any other city! QUESTION SUBMITTED BY: COLLEEN COWAN, La Palma, Calif. THE "PITTSBURGH Shitter," as I've heard it called - ...
A Conversation with Daisy Balawejder
Jan 16, 2008; ... A graphic designer by day, Daisy Balawejder founded Hello Bully (www.hellobully.com), an advocacy and education organization dedicated to "rehabilitating, rehoming and repairing the reputation" of pit bull terriers. They offer free programs, such as "Pitbull 101," to groups in the Pittsburgh ...
under the WIRE
Jan 16, 2008; ... PITTSBURGH PUNK icons Anti-Flaq plan to return to the spotlight soon with tours of Australia, Europe and Russia, and their sixth album, The Bright Lights of America, drops on April 1. But what happened to their DIY label A-F Records, which at one point included locals Tabula Rasa, The Modey ...
Scythian
Jan 16, 2008; ... Scythian SCYTHIAN 9 p.m. Wed., Jan. 23. Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle, 2329 Penn Ave., Strip District. $6. All ages. 412-642-6622 or www.harpahd fiddle.com Immigrant Stomp IF YOU TAKE the band's word for it, "scythian" means a "bunch of pre-Mesopotamian barbarians ...
The Birthday Massacre
Jan 16, 2008; ... The Birthday Massacre THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE with SCHOOLYARD HEROES and CREATURE FEATURE 7 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20. Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $13. All ages. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com This Is Neo-Goth WHAT IF I were going to high school now, ...
A.P.P.L.E.
Jan 16, 2008; ... A.P.P.L.E. A.P.P.L.E. with DISHONOR, OH SHIT THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US, BLOOD VESSELS TO WIRES and MACHETE 6 pm. Fri., Jan. 19. Belvedere's, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. All ages. 412-687-2555 Love Resurrection JERRY SPRINGER has three claims to fame: He was ...
DJ Cutups
Jan 16, 2008; ... DJ Cutups SHAME ON ... feat. DJS CUTUPS and ED UM 10 p.m. Sat, Jan. 26 at Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfleld. $4.412-621-4900 FUZZ feat DJ CUTUPS (DRUM 'N' BASS) 10 p.m. Wednesdays at Bloomfleld Bridge Tavern, 4412 Liberty Ave., Bloomfleld. $2 ....
Strangers Touch Him
Jan 16, 2008; ... Strangers Touch Him JON REEP Fri., Jan. 18-Sun., Jan. 20. Pittsburgh Improv, 166 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, West Homestead. $20. 412-462-5233 Jon Reep may come from the small town of Hickory, N.C., but he's had some big successes, including his own Comedy Central ...
The Vagina Monologues
Jan 16, 2008; ... The Vagina Monologues THE VAOINA MONOLOGUES continues through Feb. 17. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. 412-431-2489 or www.citytheatre company.org I'M A BIT WORRIED - when you're as twisted as I am and find yourself reviewing a show called The Vagina ...
Menopause: The Musical
Jan 16, 2008; ... Menopause: The Musical MENOPAUSE: THE MUSICAL continues through Sun., Jan. 20. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 www.pgharts.org THESE DAYS, women of all ages are concurrently howling in cities around the world. They've howling with laughter about ...
Substance and Style
Jan 16, 2008; ... Substance and Style ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH 97th ANNUAL EXHIBITION continues through Jan. 21. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 NEARLY 130 ARTWORKS appear in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 97th Annual Exhibition, selected by juror and ...
Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn
Jan 16, 2008; ... Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn By Andrew O'Toole University of Illinois Press, 322 pages, $32.95 ANDREW O'TOOLE signs Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn 7 p.m. Tue" Jan. 22. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2705 E. Carson St., South Side. Free. 412-381-3600 WHEN CONTEMPORARY ...
A Cup of Russian Tea
Jan 16, 2008; ... CHaPTeR & verse is simply that and the curve of any arm will do when wisteria's in bloom. But each tender brush of fingertips weaves an intricate design the tatting of a ghost left hanging in the air. For all the careless moments you ...
The Ravioli Lady
Jan 16, 2008; ... ON the SIDE Grocerla Italians 237 Cedarvllle St., Bloomfleld 412-681-1227 GLORIA M022ETTA despises pasta. She doesn't care for its taste or smell. Pretty scandalous considering her nickname: "The Ravioli Lady of Bloomfield." * The 70-something Mozzetta, ...