Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from August 2008:
Cymbeline
Aug 06, 2008; ... Cymbeline CYMBELINE continues through Aug. 24. Mellon Park Rose Garden, Fifth Avenue and Beechwood Boulevard, Point Breeze. 412-394-3353 or www.quantum theatre.com PACK A RAIN poncho so you don't risk missing any of Quantum Theatre's outdoor production of Cymbeline. One ...
Our Caves, Our Selves
Aug 06, 2008; ... Our Caves, Our Selves LIFE ON MARS, the 55th Carnegie International, continues through Jan.11. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Fortes Ave., Oakland 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org CURATOR DOUGLAS FOGLE'S title for the 55th Carnegie International, Life on Mars, doesn't suggest a ...
Lend Me a Tenor
Aug 06, 2008; ... Lend Me a Tenor LEND ME A TENOR continues thru Sun., Aug. 9. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Dr., Canonsburg. 412-561-4402 or www.littlelake theatre.org. IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, you love to watch people fall down. There's something delightfully silly about grown men ...
Changes at Phipps' Cafe
Aug 06, 2008; ... ON the SIDE ONE OF THE brightest spots of a day at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, In Oakland's Schenley Park, is no more, with no official word on Its replacement. * For almost four years, Café Phipps had been run by local restaurant group Big Burrito. The company's ...
The Star-Spangled Girl
Aug 06, 2008; ... The Star-Spangled Girl THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL continues through Aug. 16. Apple Hill Playhouse, 275 Manor Road, Delmont. 724-468-5050 or www.applehill playhouse.org IT SAYS SOMETHING about my OCD-like nature that I would consider it absurd to have reviewed theater for 20 ...
EVERYONE is a CRiTIC
Aug 06, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) Event: First Fridays at the Frick: Pittsburgh Symphony Brass Venue: The Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze Critic: Sam Sinharoy Age: "Senior citizen" Neighborhood: Monroeville Occupation: ...
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Aug 06, 2008; ... The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Best Left Undiscovered WHEN YOU WERE a kid, did you ever come across a lame off-brand comic book you'd never heard of-maybe at the doctor's office, a church basement or some other suspect place? You read it because it was there, but all along ...
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
Aug 06, 2008; ... PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. In David Gordon Green's shuffling but still raucous comedy co-penned by R-rated-comedy king Judd Apatow, two everyday dudes - slacker Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) and his pot dealer, Saul Sliver (James Franco) - run afoul of big-time drug dealer, after witnessing a crime. Rogen ...
BEER FOR MY HORSES
Aug 06, 2008; ... NEW THIS WEEK BEER FOR MY HORSES. Thirty years ago, nobody could have foreseen a film featuring the unlikely combination of Mac Davis, Ted Nugent, and Willie Nelson. But country-music mega-star Toby Keith is that visionary, co-writing and starring in this law-enforcement comedy, which is ...
MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER
Aug 06, 2008; ... MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER. The latest film from Italian gore-horror master Dario Argento - the last of a trilogy - doesn't offer a compelling story, quality acting or skillful pacing. However, It does give fans what they've likely come to see: disemboweling, the forcible removal of ...
OSS 117
Aug 06, 2008; ... OSS 117. This wry, zippy comedy from Michel Hazanavicius is set in 1955 Cairo, Egypt, where French secret agent OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) is on the job. Cairo's a poisonous nest of International interests ranging from the colonial French to the English, the Soviets, the Americans, the Germans and ...
THE LAST MISTRESS
Aug 06, 2008; ... THE LAST MISTRESS. In Catherine Breillat's lushly detailed period drama, adapted from Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th-century novel, the aristocrats of Paris we meet are riven with feverish sexual desire - or at least. In the case of the elders, enjoying the show from the sidelines. Penniless ...
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD
Aug 06, 2008; ... POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD. To paraphrase one of this film's characters: There hasn't been such a lethal combination of Indian and chicken since the introduction of tandoori. Seems building a fast-food chicken joint on top of a Native American burial ground is a bad idea: You get a ...
SWING VOTE
Aug 06, 2008; ... SWING VOTE. In a bizarre turn of events, the presidential contest comes down to the vote of one man. Of course, it's the vote of an utterly disinterested rural doofus (played amiably if unconvincingly by Kevin Costner). That premise sets up the film's best bits: the craven pandering of the two ...
EDGE OF HEAVEN
Aug 06, 2008; ... ONGOING EDGE OF HEAVEN. Fatih Akin, the German filmmaker of Turkish heritage, has carved a niche making provocative films that navigate the experience of other German Turks. In this drama. Akin intertwines two narratives, each set in both northern Germany and Istanbul, and featuring the ...
Brideshead Revisited
Aug 06, 2008; ... Brideshead Revisited To the Manor Borne IT'S BEEN at least 25 years since I read Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, and I can't even recall if I saw the 1981 British television series based on the book. Therefore, Waugh purists beholden to the book and/or television ...
Encounters at the End of the World
Aug 06, 2008; ... Encounters at the End of the World Living to Tell WERNER HERZOG WILL NOT be happy unless he dies in front of the camera, making one of his own films. He's scaled volcanoes, then apologized when they didn't erupt onto him. He's hauled a boat over a mountain. He's threatened an ...
THE WACKNESS
Aug 06, 2008; ... THE WACKNESS. It's not that whacked: Writer/ director Jonathan Levine has made a very sincere and often enjoyable movie about Manhattan teen Luke (Josh Peck), who deals drugs and has fallen in love with the step-daughter Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby) of his best customer, Jeffrey (Ben Kingsley). As ...
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?
Aug 06, 2008; ... WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? For middle-aged Blake (Colin Firth), the question is less literal than suggestive of a life-long relationship In which he and his father, Arthur (Jim Broadbent), never quite saw each other. Set during Arthur's final days, Anand Tucker's family drama, based on ...
HARD CANDY
Aug 06, 2008; ... HARD CANDY. In David Slade's psychological thriller, 14-year-old Haley (pre-Juno Ellen Page) entices thirtysomething Jeff (Patrick Wilson), a man she believes to be a pedophile. Once alone in his home, she abruptly switches the game, and through a series of unlikely moves, makes Jeff the ...
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
Aug 06, 2008; ... THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, The beauty of this film, adapted from the popular TV series, Is Its ability to stand alone as an intelligent, interesting and engaging thriller. Its pedigree is still solid and familiar: The film was directed and co-written by series creator Chris Carter and stars ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Aug 06, 2008; ... * AMONG PRESIDENT Sarkozy's recent moves to trim the size of the French government was the layoff of half of the 165 physiotherapists at the taxpayer-funded National Baths of Aix-les-Bains. The pink-slipped masseurs warn that the country's health will be at risk if people are unable to get the ...
Ferlo hopes to stop National Guard deployments
Aug 06, 2008; ... IRAQ WAR A statewide effort at reducing troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan officially kicks off at a press conference in Pittsburgh Aug. 9, coinciding with a national Democratic Party platform event taking place here. State Sen. Jim Ferlo will hold a press conference at 4 p.m ....
We Are Scientists and Oxford Collapse
Aug 06, 2008; ... WE ARE SCIENTISTS with OXFORD COLLAPSE and LIFE IN BED 6 p.m. (doors open) Mon., Aug. 11. Diesel, 1601 E. Carson St., South Side. $12 ($14 day of show). All ages. 412-431-8800 or www.dieselpgh.com A DOUBLE BILL of We Are Scientists and Oxford Collapse is a study in ...
Dumpling Ground
Aug 06, 2008; ... CP'S DISH ON LOCAL EVENTS State conservation officials are annoyed that folks have been Illegally camping on three undeveloped islands In the Allegheny River. It would cost a fortune to station someone there to dissuade campers, but just a few cents to play a continuous loop of "Dueling ...
Deerhunter
Aug 06, 2008; ... Turn It Up DEERHUNTER with HARANGUE, THE LAMPSHADES and DISCUSS 8 p.m. Sun., Aug. 10. Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $8 ($10 at the door). All ages. 412-361-2262 or www.garfieldartworks.com NOISE-ROCK godfather Thurston Moore once said, "You are ...
NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTTS
Aug 06, 2008; ... THIS JUST IN SUMMARY: Neighbors fed up with smokers take action - as in "lights, camera, action!" REPORTER: David Highfield, KDKA Channel 2 AIRTIME: 2 minutes, 3 seconds on July 31 VISUALS: Amateur photos taken of outdoor smokers - including two women with their IV poles in tow. * ...
Pirates: The Ship Has Sunk As Jason Bay Lights Up Beantown
Aug 06, 2008; ... HTTP://PiTTSBURGH N'@ Yinz keep bloggin'. from http://bleacherreport.com/articles/43739-pirates-the-ship-has-sunk-as-jason-bay-lights-up-beantown The MLB trade deadline has passed, and so far the easy winner is the Boston Red Sox, making the ultimate loser on the day the ...
Flood of Interest
Aug 06, 2008; ... On the anniversary of the 2007 Millvale fioods, what's being done to prevent recurrences in creeks like Girty's Run? ... admit that the waters around you have grown. - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" BRIAN WOLOVICH doesn't need many more reminders about how ...
Tapes 'N Tapes
Aug 06, 2008; ... Tapes 'N Tapes Walk Hard TAPES 'N TAPES with BR'ER FOX 10:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 8. Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $13. 412-431-3950 or www.clubcafelive.com. WALK IT OFF, the sophomore release of Tapes 'N Tapes, may conjure thoughts of bands past ...
Burndowns
Aug 06, 2008; ... Nothing But a Good Time BURNDOWNS AND BRAIN HANDLE RECORD RELEASE with WEIRD PAUL ROCK BAND 10 p.m. Sat., Aug. 9. Gooski's, 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $5. 412-681-1658 EVERY BAND HAS a philosophy, right? "Burndowns are about killin' it," explains ...
Region may be taking new angle against drug trafficking
Aug 06, 2008; ... CRIME PREVENTION While giving a presentation In Baltimore on crime prevention, East Hills community activist David Adams received an invitation from an audience member to come talk with him about "social neighborhood decline." Not knowing what he meant, Adams agreed to meet the ...
Alternative Film
Aug 06, 2008; ... Duquesne students document America off the beaten path WHILE PRESIDENTIAL POLLS and Sunday-morning pundits talk about the nation's economic and political despair, a group of Pittsburgh filmmakers found something slightly different outside the Beltway - and off the ...
All Cauc'ed Up
Aug 13, 2008; ... National Dems come to Pittsburgh, and blow opportunity PITTSBURGH HAS long been the place where good government goes to die. So for would-be reformers, it was ominous that the Democratic Party hammered out its national platform at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Aug. 9. And ...
The Next Chapter
Aug 13, 2008; ... Could a local plea on written-word obscenity charges erode free-speech rights? SHOULD A WRITER whose stories depict child molestation be treated the same as someone who actually videotapes or photographs it? The federal government apparently thinks so. That's why Mary Beth ...
Judas Priest Prophet Margins
Aug 13, 2008; ... Judas Priest Prophet Margins JUDAS PRIEST AND THE METAL MASTERS TOUR 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 16. Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown. $20-125. 412-323-1919 or www.ticketmaster.com "IT'S BECOMING something of a blur." Rob Haiford, über-frontman for metal legend Judas ...
Biennial Roundup
Aug 13, 2008; ... Biennial Roundup THE PITTSBURGH BIENNIAL continues through Aug. 24. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or www.pittsburgharts.org A THEME AS amorphous as "Life on Mars" barely holds together the Carnegie International. So it was probably wise ...
Muffling Mondrian
Aug 13, 2008; ... Muffling Mondrian PIET (MONDRIAN) IN PITTSBURGH continues through Aug. 31. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org IN THE APRIL 7, 1945, issue of The Nation, critic Clement Greenberg wrote that Piet Mondrian's clean, rectilinear ...
Lunch a la Popeye: Greens and Beans
Aug 13, 2008; ... ON the SIDE Lunch a la Popeye: Greens and Beans LEGENDS OF THE NORTH SHORE, 500 East North Ave., North Side. 412-321-8000 ZARRA'S, 3887 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland. 412-682-8296 COLANGELO'S, 207 21st St., Strip District. 412-281-7080 SOME PEOPLE collect ...
Ballet al fresco
Aug 13, 2008; ... PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE presents BALLET IN THE PARK 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 21 (Hartwood Acres, Hampton Township) and 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. Aug 22 (Cranberry Rotary Amphitheater, Ernie Mashuda Drive, Cranberry Township). Free. 412-281-0360 or www.pbt.org. Pro-football fans have come ...
SPUTNIK MANIA
Aug 13, 2008; ... SPUTNIK MANIA. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets amazed the world by successfully launching a small satellite named "Sputnik" that began orbiting Earth. The Space Race - and its darker corollary, building weapons to be potentially deployed in space - was on, as the United States rushed to catch up ....
West Side Story
Aug 13, 2008; ... West Side Story WEST SIDE STORY continues through Sun., Aug. 17. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-456-6666 IN A QUASI-LEGENDARY interview he gave to Frank Rich in 2000 on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Stephen Sondheim lamented the evolution of the American ...
American Teen: True or False?
Aug 13, 2008; ... American Teen True or False? AMERICA'S FIRST GREAT documentary filmmaker was something of a fraud. In Nanook of the North and Man of Aran, Robert Flaherty depicted, as they say, authenticated fact. He just didn't do it while it was happening. Instead, he had his subjects, chosen ...
BEER FOR MY HORSES
Aug 13, 2008; ... ONGOING BEER FOR MY HORSES. Thirty years ago, nobody could have foreseen a film featuring the unlikely combination of Mac Davis, Ted Nugent, and Willie Nelson. But country-music mega-star Toby Keith is that visionary, co-writing and starring in this law-enforcement comedy, which is not ...
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Aug 13, 2008; ... BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. Julian Jarrold's handsomely filmed feature is a fine piece of melodrama-plus, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel. There's the entertaining aspect of beautifully dressed people engaged in family dysfunction and troubled romance, but also more thoughtful critiques of ...
THE LAST MISTRESS
Aug 13, 2008; ... THE LAST MISTRESS. In Catherine Breillat's lushly detailed period drama, adapted from Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th-century novel, the aristocrats of Paris we meet are riven with feverish sexual desire - or at least, in the case of the elders, enjoying the show from the sidelines. Penniless ...
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
Aug 13, 2008; ... WHAT WE DO IS SECRET. Darby Crash, lead singer of 1970s Los Angeles punk band The Germs, left the classic résumé to become a minor cult legend: Make a glorious mess, be misunderstood in your time and die young (Crash died in 1980 from an intentional drug overdose). Now, Crash's Germs days are ...
BLOW UP
Aug 13, 2008; ... BLOW UP. In some aspects, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 arty thriller is dated, particularly its setting in Mod London at the birth of the sexual revolution. But this provocative tale of a self-absorbed fashion photographer (David Hemmings) who becomes obsessed with unraveling the "truth" of a ...
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Aug 13, 2008; ... ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD. This documentary about Antarctica at times feels like a parody of fllmmaker Werner Herzog's canon. He opens his film: "Who are the people I was going to meet In Antarctica at the end of the world?" he asks in his lugubrious voiceover narration. Well, no ...
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD
Aug 13, 2008; ... POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD. To paraphrase one of this film's characters: There hasn't been such a lethal combination of Indian and chicken since the introduction of tandoorl. Seems building a fastfood chicken joint on top of a Native American burial ground is a bad idea: You get a ...
MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER
Aug 13, 2008; ... MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER. The latest film from Italian gore-horror master Darlo Argento - the last of a trilogy - doesn't offer a compelling story, quality acting or skiUful pacing. However, it does give fans what they've likely come to see: disemboweling, the forcible removal of ...
Caroline Smith and The Good Night Sleeps
Aug 13, 2008; ... Caroline Smith and The Good Night Sleeps OPEN MIC featuring CAROLINE SMITH and THE GOOD NIGHT SLEEPS 9 p.m. Wed., Aug. 20. Shadow Lounge. Free for 21 and over; $5 for ages 18-20. 5972 Baum Blvd., East Liberty. www.7thmovement.net TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Caroline Smith lost no ...
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
Aug 13, 2008; ... THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE. Sylvain Chomet's brilliant film ranges from the whimsical to the macabre, and captivates without resorting to cutesiness or stereotyping. When some ne'er-do-wells kidnap Madame Souza's cyclist grandson, Champion, she and faithful, overfed dog Bruno follow the trail to ...
SMILEY FACE
Aug 13, 2008; ... SMILEY FACE. After a long dry spell, we're now awash in stoner comedies, including this doper epic from Gregg Akari, getting its Pennsylvania theatrical premiere. Anna Paris (Scary Movie) stars as a slacker-cum-actress who spends one very, very stoned day trying to navigate through her life: ...
Pencil-Pushing It
Aug 13, 2008; ... Pencil-Pushing It MICHELLE DRESBOLD'S career sounds fascinating. She's an abstract impressionist painter, but also the only civilian to attend the U.S. secret Service's advanced document-examination training on forgery and handwriting identification. It's expertise she's used to spot ...
SWING VOTE
Aug 13, 2008; ... SWING VOTE. In a bizarre turn of events, the presidential contest comes down to the vote of one man. Of course, it's the vote of an utterly disinterested, rural doofus (played amiably if unconvlncingly by Kevin Costner). That premise sets up the film's best bits:'the craven pandering of the two ...
NeWS OF THE WEiRD
Aug 13, 2008; ... * BROTHER CESARE Bonizzi, 62, of a Capuchin Friars monastery near Milan, Italy, is the lead singer in a heavy-metal band that recently released its second album, Misteri (Mysteries), following a successful performance at Italy's "Gods of Metal" festival (headlined by Iron Maiden and, ironically, ...
Wai Wai
Aug 13, 2008; ... Wai Wai LOCATION: 4717 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-0133 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. Noon-10 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $2-5; entrees $6-10 FARE: Classic Chinese-American ATMOSPHERE: Asian Modern LIQUOR: ...
Conversation in Tobacco
Aug 13, 2008; ... Every day the mills are fed Tiny wafers of their flesh. - Ed Ochester, "The Miners at Revloc" He doesn't need to speak English, one word hanging like a pipe from an open lip, heavy to burden the chapped teeth, she understands him transparently, he is ...
Tropic Thunder: War Games
Aug 13, 2008; ... Tropic Thunder War Games THINGS ARE GOING wrong on the set of Tropic Thunder, a war actioner based on the memoirs of disabled Vietnam vet "Four Leaf" Tayback. The actors - faded he-man Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller); puerile funnyman Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black); and acclaimed ...
ELDI moving forward with cohousing development
Aug 13, 2008; ... NEIGHBORHOODS In many ways, cohousing is a lot like dormitory living, only without much of the adolescent nonsense. So if you're yearning for those college days of shared space and communal meals, but you're more interested in "green" living than binge drinking, Pittsburgh's first ...
THIS JUST IN
Aug 13, 2008; ... IT'S ENOUGH TO DRIVE YOU TO DRINK SUMMARY: A new group enters the drink/property tax debate! REPORTER: Marc Willis, WPXI Channel 11 AIRTIME: 1 minutes, 41 seconds on Aug. 7 VISUALS: Assorted scenes along Shadyside's bustling Walnut Street. HIGHLIGHTS: When Willis introduces his story ...
Turned Out
Aug 13, 2008; ... For some in foster care, turning 18 means hitting the streets IN SOME WAYS, Tina Tyler is a lot like many other 19-year-olds. She works at a clothing retailer; she treasures her independence; and she'd like to go to college. But what distinguishes Tyler from her peers is how far she's ...
Planned development at Murray and Forward could mean losing what's already there
Aug 20, 2008; ... DEVELOPMENT A planned development could dramatically reshape the corner of Forward and Murray avenues. Its developers say it will revitalize the area, but some patrons are more worried about what Squirrel Hill might lose. "This street just shows a part of Pittsburgh that embraces ...
Changing Reels
Aug 20, 2008; ... Documentary follows local transman's surgical, emotional journeys ON THE DRIVE IN to have major surgery, fAe Gibson cracks jokes and shoots the goofy ironic finger-guns at his companions. In a post-anesthesia haze, he somewhat deliriously asks for "rough sex and beer." After his brother ...