Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from April 2008:
District mistakenly sends adjudicated students to CEP
Apr 02, 2008; ... EDUCATION Pittsburgh Public School officials admit they didn't do their homework when they sent court-supervised students to the North Side's Community Education Partners, a school for students with learning and disciplinary problems. According to Dr. Kaye Cupples, the district's ...
The Significance of the Bobby Casey Endorsement
Apr 02, 2008; ... HTTP://PiTTSBURGHT N'@ Yinz keep bloggin'. From: http://diondega412.blogspot.com/2008/03/ significance-of-bobby-casey-endorsement.html Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey endorsed Barack Obama for president in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm thinking it is an interesting ...
Battling On
Apr 02, 2008; ... Hundreds march through Oakland for war's fifth anniversary MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS gathered outside the University of Pittsburgh's student union March 29 to prepare for a larger march and rally marking five years of war in Iraq. In front of the crowd, sociology professor Mike Epitropoulus ...
New school also will get new class structure
Apr 02, 2008; ... EDUCATION Students headed to Pittsburgh's new universitypartnership high school in the Hill District next year won't just be switching schools - they'll also be changing schedules. In an effort to focus more attention on core subject areas (i.e. math, reading), the district will ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Apr 02, 2008; ... We sit through City Council so you don't have to (April 1, 2008) After spending much of March fighting over issues like LED billboards and take-home vehicles, councilors started April in what appeared a cooperative and amicable fashion. In fact, the unanimous vote on placing a ...
THIS JUST IN
Apr 02, 2008; ... R.I.P. BIG MO SUMMARY: A beloved animal is no more. STATION: KDKA Channel 2 REPORTER: Kristine Sorensen WHEN IT AIRED: March 28 RUNNING TIME: 22 seconds VISUALS: * A still portrait of "Big Mo," a tortoise whose irrepressible joie de vivre practically leaps off the screen, in the tall, ...
Long Division
Apr 02, 2008; ... Dick Scaife: Uniter LAST WEEK, Pittsburgh got a visit from a politician with the rare ability to transcend partisan divisions, and to remind us that - no matter what our political differences - Americans share a vision of a Shining City on the Hill. I'm talking, of course, about ...
COURTING CONTROVERSY
Apr 02, 2008; ... Why is Jim Ecker always in the news? Because he can't say no to a good case MUNICIPAL COURT on a Thursday afternoon is not a glamorous place. There are no TV cameras. There's no mahogany and no robes. There are only unhappy people in uncomfortable chairs, moping, napping, reading novels, ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Apr 02, 2008; ... THEY GROW UP so fast! At least that seems to be 'Joshua Bakaitus' m.o. The Charleroi native was only 12 when he started promoting punk and hardcore shows in his hometown and surrounding suburbs. Since then, his company Bridgeport Entertainment has steadily expanded, hustling mainly punk and ...
Kathleen Edwards
Apr 02, 2008; ... SOMETIME IN THE past year or two, Kathleen Edwards stopped caring about what you think. Stopped caring if a song might seem too long; stopped caring if her subject matter might "piss someone off." And, with a little help, she stopped worrying about whether her voice - balanced and smooth, with ...
Dale Watson
Apr 02, 2008; ... Nashville Rash AS COUNTRY MUSIC consumes itself in tireless cycles of big hats and arenas, alt-roots and college bars, the question of authenticity comes up as often as the question of talent; earning that cowboy hat is often more important than writing a decent song. For Dale Watson, ...
Curiouser and Curiouser
Apr 02, 2008; ... Curiouser and Curiouser DANCE ALLOY THEATER'S FEED YOUR HEAD CAFÉ continues through April 13 New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side. 412-363-4321 or visit www.dance alloy.org. At Dance Alloy Theatre's Feed Your Head Café, the black-and-white checkered ...
Endangered America
Apr 02, 2008; ... Endangered America ICONS AND INCONGRUITIES continues through April 13. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 Despite their long association with religion, icons are no longer instantly linked to gilded Orthodox Madonnas or forbearing saints ....
Fiddler on the Roof
Apr 02, 2008; ... Fiddler on the Roof FIDDLER ON THE ROOF continues through Sun., April 6. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or www.pgharts.org FROM THE VIEWPOINT of musical-theater junkies (which I consider myself to be), certain types of shows are best summed up by the words ...
Smoke Show
Apr 02, 2008; ... Triggers Smoke Show SELF-RELEASED WITH ITS NEW full-length, Smoke Show, local band Triggers has more than made good on the promise of its 2007 debut EP, Elude the Suits. Traces of that EP carry through in reworked versions of "Body English," "Change It Up," and that ...
Simply Kenia
Apr 02, 2008; ... Kenia Simply Kenia MOOKA BRAZILIAN MUSIC has contributed a great deal to the melodic expanse of jazz, in terms of both composition and its languid mood, even if the latter quality has resulted in numerous easy-listening albums that smooth over the -subtle power of the ...
The Fervor
Apr 02, 2008; ... Moment of Truth OVER DRONING guitars, strings and simple changes reminiscent of the Velvet Underground's "Heroin," vocalist Natalie Felker toys with a phrase: "So long as it all stays the same ..." It's tempting to think of that phrase as a mantra for her band, The Fervor, whose debut ...
Greetings From ...
Apr 02, 2008; ... Greetings From ... IN SEARCH OF AMERICA continues through April 12. Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 E. Carson St, South Side. 412-381-4310 In Search of America, a collection of photographs by David Graham at Silver Eye Center for Photography, might be better titled "In ...
CORRECTION
Apr 02, 2008; ... CORRECTION: In last week's issue, the times for the Living Legends show held at ...
ON the SIDE
Apr 02, 2008; ... Nied's Nied's Hotel, 5438 Butler St. Lawrenceville, 412-781-9853 THIS IS A fish story, but every word is true. It's the story of Nied's Hotel in Lawrenceville, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and is home to the fish sandwich with a cult following. * ...
Spadafora's
Apr 02, 2008; ... Spadafora's LOCATION: 3932 Route 8, Allison Park. 412-486-1800 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat 4-11 p.m.; Sun 8 a.m.-8 p.m. PRICES: Starters $6-9; entrees $9-21 FARE: Calabrian and ...
Bettering Baum
Apr 02, 2008; ... AFTER MORE THAN 50 years under the same family ownership - and in two buildings that have served as a car showroom for over 80 years - the Don Alien Auto dealership is dosing. Recently, developers DOC-Economou unveiled preliminary plans for a multi-use condo-hotel-retail-office development to ...
THE COUNTERFEITERS
Apr 02, 2008; ... NEW THIS WEEK THE COUNTERFEITERS. From the strange-but-true files comes this Holocaust drama from Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky about the secret Nazi war strategy to destabilize the Allies' economies with forged currency. To that end, they sequestered skilled men, including top ...
STOP-LOSS
Apr 02, 2008; ... STOP-LOSS. I wanted to root for a film designed to hep the MTV crowd to the mental and physical anguish and bureaucratic shitstorms faced by some of their contemporaries, who are now veterans of the ongoing Iraq war. But director Klmberley Pierce (Boys Don't Cry) can't marry her obvious good ...
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Apr 02, 2008; ... STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING. An elderly, nearly forgotten New York City novelist named Lionel Schiller (Frank Lanqella) finds the comfy but safe twilight of his life jarred by an ambitious and somewhat aggressive graduate student, Heather (Lauren Ambrose), who has made him the subject of her ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
Apr 02, 2008; ... THE 15TH ANNUAL Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, offering films representing Jewish experiences from Israel and around the world, continues. Films screen through Sun., April 13, at five area theaters including SouthSide Works Cinema, on the South Side (412-381-7335); Cranberry 8 ...
ALICE NEEL
Apr 02, 2008; ... REPERTORY ALICE NEEL. The life and quixotic career of contemporary portrait painter Alice Neel is examined In this family-style documentary shot by her grandson, and occasional participant, Andrew Neel. Employing interviews with surviving family members, colleagues and art historians, as ...
Philosophy on Wheels
Apr 02, 2008; ... THE SUITE OF skateboarding videos Andrew Nelson collectively titles "Oathbreaker" opens with a montage of skaters falling, failing, blowing moves, getting hurt, and hurling their boards and bikes in frustration. But it's no bloopers reel (or not just a bloopers reel): Nelson says he based ...
PARANOID PARK
Apr 02, 2008; ... PARANOID PARK. Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Good Will Hunting) often explores the lives of fringe young men In their teens and 20s. He's rarely done It as effectively as he does here with Alex (Gabe Nevlns), a disaffected Portland skater teen whose dream of riding the rails goes horribly wrong. Van ...
MARRIED LIFE
Apr 02, 2008; ... ONGOING MARRIED LIFE. Bored middle-aged Harry (Chris Cooper), rather than put his loyal wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) through a painful divoroe, decides to humanely poison her. Then he can marry his beautiful young mistress, Kay (Rachel McAdams), who has also aroused the interest of Rich ...
21
Apr 02, 2008; ... 21. Robert Luketic's film takes the cautionary true tale of MIT students involved In an organized, elaborate card-counting blackjack venture and turns it into a bouncy, pretty-people comedy. As adapted from the best-selling book Bringing Down the House, 21 is very light entertainment that ...
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Apr 02, 2008; ... C.R.A.Z.Y. Jean-Marc Vallée's 2005 comingof-age film follows Zak, the odd-boy-out In a large Quebec family, through the tumultuous 1960s and '70s. This films screens as part of ...
CHINA BLUE
Apr 02, 2008; ... CHINA BLUE. It's easy to pay lip service to the ills of globalization, but Micah X. Peled's documentary quietly and effectively places us directly in it. His cameras track the underpaid, overworked employees of a Chinese jeans factory, where tiny profit margins trump labor laws and basic human ...
FARGO
Apr 02, 2008; ... FARGO. In the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning 1996 dark comedy (and affectionate send-up of the upper Midwest), a pregnant, down-to-earth cop (Frances McDormand) ...
ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI: SELECTED WORKS
Apr 02, 2008; ... ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI: SELECTED WORKS. To examine how automated the very actions of human life have become, filmmaker Artur Zmijewski trained his camera for 24 hours on an individual - through work, leisure, sleep. A series of 12- and 16-minute clips of various people, screened ...
CARTUNE XPREZ
Apr 02, 2008; ... CARTUNE XPREZ. The Portland-based group tours with an 80-mlnute show of animated videos by emerging and established artists, plus live "cartoon theater." A preview sampler contained such highlights as: Gretchen Hogue's "Where Is My Boyfriend?," a hilarious porno send-up composed of magazine ...
TEETH
Apr 02, 2008; ... TEETH. Mitchell Lichtenstein's Indie feature, a dark comedy about a teen-ager named Dawn who discovers she has a toothed vagina, is an off-beat hybrid of ancient myth, domestic horror and female empowerment. Also In the mix, a critique of teen-chastity programs and a wink at eco-thrlllers. (It ...
THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
Apr 02, 2008; ... THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. Mika Taanila's 2003 documentary profiles fellow Finn Erkki Kurenniemi, a pioneer in the genre of electronic arts, who built musical instruments, digital synthesizers as well as an ...
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
Apr 02, 2008; ... BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL. Spring means the return of the annual outdoors-andadventure film festival, offering two different nights of short films sure to inspire, amaze and, hopefully, motivate. April 4's featured film looks at the mysterious coastal wolves of British Columbia; the quest to ...
DEREK
Apr 02, 2008; ... DEREK. The late British artist and Independent filmmaker Derek Jarman (Blue, Jubilee) is profiled in ...
GOLDEN DOOR
Apr 02, 2008; ... GOLDEN DOOR. Emanuele Crialese's beautifully filmed drama about Italian immigrants at the turn of the century draws its power from both its grubby naturalism and its shimmery dreamlike state. Italian widower Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato) leaves his rocky farm, ragtag family in tow, for America ....
SAVING FACE
Apr 02, 2008; ... SAVING FACE. With a nod toward the televised soap operas popular in Chinese-American culture, Alice Wu's debut feature ups those traditional family melodramas about marriage, tradition and honor a notch or two. At its heart, Saving Face is a familiar but pleasant comedydrama about a tight-knit ...
UNCOUNTED
Apr 02, 2008; ... UNCOUNTED. There's likely always been election fraud, but both recent close political contests and new voting technologies have put the issue in the forefront. David Earnhardt's new documentary examines suspected voter fraud ...
SPEEDY DELIVERY
Apr 02, 2008; ... SPEEDY DELIVERY. Certainly anyone who ever watched Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Is familiar with the peppy mailman Mr. McFeely (and his catch phrase "Speedy delivery!"). Paul Germain's affectionate new documentary lifts McFeely's blond wig and underneath finds David Newell, veteran Neighborhood ...
VIER MINUTEN
Apr 02, 2008; ... VIER MINUTEN, An elderly woman teaches piano In a women's prison, and connects with a troubled young woman, a former musical prodigy, now Imprisoned for ...
YELLA
Apr 02, 2008; ... YELLA. In Christian Petzold's recent feature, the titular protagonist leaves East Germany for new opportunities in the West. Also screening, Rita ...
LA BOHÈME
Apr 02, 2008; ... LA BOHÈME. Puccini's tragic opera recounting starving artists in love, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramon Vargas, will be ...
MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA
Apr 02, 2008; ... MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA. The concept behind director David Redmon's cultural-exchange project was certainly admirable. First, shoot video of grossly underpaid Chinese workers making Mardi Gras beads in a compound-like factory. Then show the video to drunken Mardi Gras revelers themselves. But ...
LA ANTENA
Apr 02, 2008; ... LA ANTENA. Writer-director Esteban Sapir's award-winning Argentine film about a future devoid of human voices is certainly singular, yet cineastes will thrill to its many influences, among them: German expressionism, film noir, Saturday-morning serials, surrealism, science fiction and early ...
ODE TO A STEELTOWN
Apr 02, 2008; ... ODE TO A STEELTOWN. "What is the poetry of Braddock?" Acclaimed filmmaker Tony Buba, who's spent his career documenting life in the distressed, formerly bustling mill town, asked that question of many locals and condensed their responses into this 12-minute short, which screens tonight as part ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Apr 02, 2008; ... * WHILE MARCH Madness dominates intercollegiate athletics, another group of collegians works out amidst coaches' whistles, endures bloody, 12-hour practices, and cheers on teammates preparing for the national championship in meat-judging, in which about 40 colleges compete, according to a March ...
Center of Controversy
Apr 09, 2008; ... Carlow's decision to close part of a respected daycare center has parents crying foul A GROUP OF PARENTS who send their kids to a Carlow University daycare center feel like they've had the naptime rugs pulled out from under them. "My plan when I chose a daycare was that I would ...
Pens back at table after threat of playoff protest
Apr 09, 2008; ... CBA TALKS As word spread in recent weeks that the One Hill Coalition planned to stage "the mother of all protests" during one of the Pittsburgh Penguins' first two playoff games, coalition leaders say team officials felt the heat - and made a move they haven't made in ...
Methadone clinic helping clients with java therapy
Apr 09, 2008; ... NEIGHBORHOODS Inside what seems like a small warehouse in the North Side is a coffee shop where dozens of people enjoy conversation, card games and a flat-screen plasma TV alongside coffee and pastries. But what looks like a run-of-the-mill coffee shop is actually a program ...
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Apr 09, 2008; ... We sit through City Council so you don't have to (April 8, 2008) APPARENTLY Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's "spirit of cooperation" in cutting the city's number of take-home vehicles to 29 was neither spirited nor cooperative enough for some city councilors, who tried to override his veto of ...
THIS JUST IN
Apr 09, 2008; ... HOMESTEAS BOOFROUGH SUMMARY: Some local officials claim there's something spooky happening in their municipality! STATION: WPXI Channel 11 REPORTER: Renee Kaminski WHEN IT AIRED: April 6 RUNNING TIME: 2 minutes, 13 seconds VISUALS: * A shot of Kaminski outside the borough building ...
Test Your Presidential Passion
Apr 09, 2008; ... STARTING A NEW RELATIONSHIP can be exciting, but confusing as well. Is she or he the right one for you? You agree on things like paying for college and the war in Iraq - but what about No Child Left Behind? If you still can't give your heart to the Democrats battling it out for the ...
Congressional District 18
Apr 09, 2008; ... FOR LOCAL Democrats, Congressional District 18 is a piece of unfinished business. In 2006, a year when archconservatives like Melissa Hart and Rick Santorum went down in flames, Republican incumbent Tim Murphy cruised to victory over Chad Kluko, a little-known Democrat, in the 18th. This ...
State House District 19
Apr 09, 2008; ... "SOMEBODY'S RUNNING against Jake?" That was Hill District resident Rick Davis' reaction upon hearing that his Democratic state representative, Jake Wheatley, faced a challenger, Deidra Washington, to represent District 19. Davis' next thought: "What can she do that he can't ...
State House District 21
Apr 09, 2008; ... ON THE bread-and-butter issues, there doesn't seem to be much argument between the candidates for state House District 21. Everyone is for more affordable health care, for example, and supports examining the state's tax structure. The real debate in this sprawling district boils down to ...
State House District 24
Apr 09, 2008; ... SAY WHAT YOU want about state Rep. Joseph Preston, but you can't say he's been able to take his job for granted. The 24th House District includes Wilkinsburg and some of the poorest neighborhoods in the East End, including Homewood, Lincoln-Larimer, Garfield and East Liberty. Not ...
State House District 27
Apr 09, 2008; ... VANILLA PASTRY Studio on Main Street in the West End serves a chocolate-andpeanut-butter cupcake that is moist and divine, studded with jimmies and capped with a peanut-butter cup section. But neighbors better hurry to buy one. "We're moving to Shadyside," says employee Christen ...
under the WIRE
Apr 09, 2008; ... YOU'D BE hard pressed to find greater musical diversity this week than at the University of Pittsburgh, which is celebrating both Gamelan WMk and Hip-Hop Week. * Thanks to ethnomusicology professor Andrew Weintraub, an expert on Indonesian culture, Pitt has become a center for the study ...
American Music Club
Apr 09, 2008; ... Skeletons Who Grin AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB with LOHIO 8 p.m. Tue., April 15. The Andy Warhol Museum, H7 Sandusky St North Side. $12. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org IN "SICK OF FOOD," the song's narrator has wearied of basic human appetites - food, drink, love ...
The New Pornographers
Apr 09, 2008; ... I Know It When I See It THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS with OKKERVIL RIVER 8 p.m. Sat., April 12 (doors at 7 p.m.). Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead, 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $27-$30. 412-462-3444 or www. homesteadlibrary.org THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS might not be a ...