Pittsburgh City Paper back issues from September 2009:
Eagle Twin: Therianthropic Vibrations
Sep 09, 2009; ... EAGLE TWIN opening for SUNN O)M 8 p.m. Thu., Sept 17 (doors at 7 p.m.). Mr. Small's Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmallsxom EAGLE TWIN may not be the first to find musical inspiration from Ted Hughes* Crow, a 1970 collection of poetry in ...
A Conversation with Sherrie Flick
Sep 09, 2009; ... BOOK SHERRIE FLICK reads from RECONSIDERING HAPPINESS 8 p.m. Wed, Sept. 16 (The New Yinzer Presents, ModemFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave, Garfield; $5 or pot-luck donation; www. tnypresents.bloqspot). Also 1 p.m. Sat, Sept 19 (Gypsy Café, 1330 Bingham St, South Side; includes ...
Algorithms vs. Minds
Sep 09, 2009; ... ART Algorithms vs. Minds PHYSICAL CONDITIONS continues through Sept 25. Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St., Downtown. 412-471-5605 or www.wood street qalleries.org YOU MAY FIND yourself compelled to tread lightly, as though among large beasts that can and do stampede ....
AMERICAN CASINO
Sep 09, 2009; ... AMERICAN CASINO. The economic meltdown that dominated the news last year was rooted in pretty complicated financial activities spread across several complicated industries that implicated everybody from home-buyers in Arizona to mayors in small Swedish towns. I know this because I watched a lot ...
In the Loop
Sep 09, 2009; ... In the Loop Beltway Blokes SOME DAY THE historians will figure out exactly who got us into the current war in Iraq and why. Oh, OK, we know who and why: Uncle Rummy and Cousin Dick told a few fibs, and Little Georgie didn't get enough of Daddy's attention during those ...
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG
Sep 09, 2009; ... YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG. I'll confess: I'd never heard of Gertrude Berg or Molly Goldberg until I saw Aviva Kempner's engaging documentary about one of the pioneering women of 20,h-century entertainment. In the 1930s, Berg created, wrote and starred in a radio show that followed the daily lives ...
MY ONE AND ONLY
Sep 09, 2009; ... MY ONE AND ONLY. It's not that the events in this dramedy sort of based on the youth of overly bronzed actor George Hamilton couldn't have really happened; it's just that not one moment depicted on screen feels authentic. All the dreamy vintage gowns and chrome-tipped Cadillacs can't lift ...
UNMISTAKEN CHILD
Sep 09, 2009; ... UNMISTAKEN CHILD. The titular child is the rein- carnation of a recently deceased Buddhist master, and Nati Baratz's documentary is about the five- year quest to find this elusive entity. Tasked with finding the child - a mere baby - is 28-year-old Tenzin Zopa, a Nepalese monk who was the (ate ...
SOUL POWER
Sep 09, 2009; ... SOUL POWER. In 1974, as part of the "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match in Zaire, a three-day concert featuring African and African-American acts was held. Jeff Levy-Hinte has compiled a film of that concert from the outtakes of Leon Gast's 1996 boxing documentary When We Were Kings. Music fans ...
Law School
Sep 16, 2009; ... Young attorneys helping students avoid online legal minefield TEENS AND YOUNG adults have always been masters at finding new ways to get into trouble. Last year, a comprehensive national study showed that splashy news stories were actually indicative of some fairly common ...
Home Economics
Sep 16, 2009; ... If state legislators don't pass a budget soon, those that depend on agencies like Ward Home could be left out in the cold MAZARAE SMITH'S small efficiency in Friendship is fairly neat, for an 18-year-old's first apartment - except for those two stuffed white garbage bags propped up near ...
News Outlet
Sep 16, 2009; ... Indy Media wants to provide G-20 news for the 'voiceless' THERE WILL SURELY be an abundance of media coverage when the G-20 comes to town later this month. And with it, say members of the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center, will come a wealth of lackluster local and national news ...
Coal Front
Sep 16, 2009; ... Activists will be protesting conference's 'clean coal' message ENVIRONMENTAL activists protesting the 26th' annual Pittsburgh International Coal Conference might be surprised to learn that, on at least one point, the conference's director agrees with them. "There is no clean coal ...
G-20 Activism
Sep 16, 2009; ... A list of events in the days leading up to the summit ALTHOUGH MANY of the activist events surrounding theG-20 Summit will be hefd on Sept. 24 and 25, there are several events that will be held in the days leading up to the meeting. THOSE EVENTS INCLUDE: Sept ....
Up in the Air
Sep 16, 2009; ... As G-20 looms, protest groups still hanging in limbo WITH LESS THAN a week before protests are set to begin against the G-20 summit of international leaders Sept. 24-25, city and federal officials are still making decisions - where protesters can march, whether they can camp and exactly ...
THIS JUST IN
Sep 16, 2009; ... FORE! SUMMARY: A man on an ATV ambushes some golfers and gets away with a whopping $80 - for an entire 24 hours. REPORTER: Bob Allen, KDKA Channel 2 AIRTIME: 2 minutes, H seconds on Sept ti VISUALS: The scar on a robbery victim's face where the robber hit him with a shotgun. * The 14m ...
News OF THE WEiRD
Sep 16, 2009; ... * BREAKTHROUGHS in Eye Hain The pharmaceutical company Allergan has introduced eyelash-thickener Latisee, a $120-per-month prescription "medication" to help a woman overcome feelings of inadequacy if she suffers from scrawny lashes. Alternatively, eyelash transplants are now available in the ...
BAND-AID FIXES
Sep 16, 2009; ... Despite Obama's speech, a cure for what ails the health-care system seems a long way off THE WESTIN CONVENTION CENTER'S ballroom was only half full on the night of Sept. 13, but the crowd was boisterous. Roughly 100 people, many in town for the AFL-CIO's national convention, were on hand ...
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Sep 16, 2009; ... LIKE THE PITTSBURGHbased dub outfit itself, projects undertaken by Soma Mestizo seem to resist easy, linear explanation ... though perhaps a few choice words can convey the essence. Here's the short version: borderless music; indigenous peoples' rights; free vinyl; local connection. If that's ...
Mary Anne Hobbs
Sep 16, 2009; ... Dub Echoes ANYONE WHO STILL believes DJs can't be of any importance because they only play other peoples music doesn't comprehend the influence wielded by BBC Radio 1 's Mary Anne Hobbs. Thousands worldwide eagerly await Hobbs' Thursday night "Experimental" show, which touches the very ...
A Conversation with Melvins' King Buzzo
Sep 16, 2009; ... BUZZ OSBORNE, a.k.a. King Buzzo, has been at the helm of influential sludge metal band Melvins since their inception in 1982, and is as recognizable for his Don King hair and sardonic outlook as he is for his music. On Fri., Sept. 18, Melvins will headline Mr. Small's - a break from their tour ...
Boca Chica
Sep 16, 2009; ... Many Hands PLENTY OF GREAT music has come from bands helmed by benevolent dictators, control freaks and tyrants. Something different happens, though, when that central figure adopts a more generous approach with a loose coalition of musicians. For local Americana act Boca Chica, many ...
The Weathered Road
Sep 16, 2009; ... The Weathered Road A New Road Home (SELF-RELEASED) THE WEATHERED ROAD CD RELEASE with RISING REGINA and TOH BREIDING 830 p.m. FrL1 Sept 18. Hard Rock Café, Station Square. $5. 412-481-7625 ON ITS DEBUT album, A New Road Home, young acoustic trio The ...
African-American Culture Re-Centered
Sep 16, 2009; ... ARCHITECTURE ON SEPT. 3, landscape architect Walter Hood presented his landscape and urban design master plan for the HiU District. The plan was sponsored by the Find the Rivers community coalition and prepared in collaboration with Pittsburgh's Studio for Spatial Practice. The authence ...
Marigolds and Doves
Sep 16, 2009; ... CHAPTER + VERSE I didn't write this poem to tell you that the Saudis approved a marriage of an eight year old girl, nor did I wish to relate how when the militants bombed Islamabad, the whole city square singed red. I almost ...
Dorn-Shui
Sep 16, 2009; ... DANCE Lately, when he is not stacking dancers each on the other, or sandwiching them neatly inside the crevasses of office buildings to create human sculptures, Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner is thinking about apartment furniture. Mot to purchase, but as the focal point of his ...
Crime & Punishment
Sep 16, 2009; ... PLAY REVIEWS Crime & Punishment SURE, EVERYBODY wants to read Crime & Punishment. We would all love to brush up on Russian literature, so we can talk at length about the beautiful sadness at the heart of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece. What cocktail party would be complete ...
That Championship Season
Sep 16, 2009; ... That Championship Season THIS IS CREEPY but as a child I was obsessed with The Exorcist. Both the book and the movie occupied my pre-teen years and I absorbed every bit of info I could. So I knew that Jason Miller, who played Father Karras, was the son-in-law of Jackie Gleason. (He later ...
Moll Flanders
Sep 16, 2009; ... Moll Flanders A BUNCH OF convicts sulk in a prison. They're filthy and ragged, and each has a different mental illness. Then, a heroic prisoner appears: This new culprit is char ismatic and world-weary, and for two hours, we hear the culprit's story. Many years ago ... Moll ...
Pittsburgh: A New Portrait
Sep 16, 2009; ... BOOK Pittsburgh: A New Portrait By Franklin Toker University of Pittsburgh Press, 512 pp., $34.95 IM NOT SURE whether G-20 dignitaries get goody-bags, like they hand out at other conventions. But if they do, one thing I'd slip inside - along with a copy of Anti-Flag's 2006 album For ...
From Farm to Sidewalk
Sep 16, 2009; ... ON the SIDE ITS AN overcast day at the Addison Terrace farm stand in the Hill District, but the heady aroma of sautéeing garlic and greens fills the air. * This is one of several farm stands operating from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday or Thursday across the region. (Other ...
Smiling Banana Leaf
Sep 16, 2009; ... Smiling Banana Leaf FAIRY TALES TRADE in transformations: a servant into a princess, a frog into a prince. In these stories, inner goodness is ultimately revealed as outer beauty. But, of course, fairy tales are just that: magical yarns spun of wonder and enchantment. Every generation ...
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Sep 16, 2009; ... CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. Actually, the trtle of Phil Lord and Chris Miller's animated family comedy Isn't exactly correct There will absolutely be meatballs. And hot dogs, and Ice cream, and steaks and all your favorite foods falling from the sky: (And It you see this film in IMAX 3-D, ...
THROW DOWN YOUR HEART
Sep 16, 2009; ... THROW DOWN YOUR HEART; This project would probably make a better soundtrack than a movie. Which isn't too harsh a criticism, since as a soundtrack, it would be fantastic The premise here is simple: Despite its toothtess-whlte-guy connotations, the banjo comes from Africa - and Gramrrtywinnlng ...
The Informant!
Sep 16, 2009; ... The Informant! The Lighter Side of White-Collar Crime FOR THE PAST DECADE or so, director Steven Soderbergh has employed his switch-hitting technique. His small-scale, indie-ish, idiosyncratic and even head-scratching films (Che, The Bubble) have been interspersed with pure-pop, ...
Street Shooting
Sep 16, 2009; ... PREVIEW IN ADVANCE of the G-20 summit next week, plenty of journalists, activists and ordinary folks are polishing their cameras, hoping to capture something of interest occurring around the controversial event. Today, we expect newsworthy footage to be streamed live on TV or the ...
SON OF THE SHEIK
Sep 16, 2009; ... SON OF THE SHElK. Millions wept when he died - just 31! - but Rudolph Valentino left fans one final role to swoon over. In fact, like all great loves, it was both exotic and familiar: George Fitzmaurice's f926 silent film was a sequel to 1921's hit The Sheik. Once again, Valentino, divinely ...
CASABLANCA
Sep 16, 2009; ... CASABLANCA. In this 1942 classic directed by Michael Curtlz, an American guy has a café in Casablanca, Rick's, where everybody goes. By rights this film should have been a disaster It all takes place in one room; the love story is hokey, based on ridiculous coincidence and interrupted by compli- ...
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Sep 16, 2009; ... THE BREAKFAST CUIB. These two free screen- ings are billed as both a tribute to the recently departed director John Hughes and a thank-you to theater patrons. A little sad, a little happy - which is one way to sum up this 1985 dramedy about high school. You" don't ...
COAL COUNTRY
Sep 16, 2009; ... COAL COUNTRY. Miners vs. activists, residents of jobless towns vs. residents of ruined countryside, mining executives vs. environmentalists, our way of life vs. the cost of maintaining it in Appalachia, coal is at the center of these bitter wars. Today, the battle is more fraught than ever - ...
1877: GRAND ARMY OF STARVATION / OUT OF THIS FURNACE: A WALKING TOUR OF THOMAS BELL'S NOVEL
Sep 16, 2009; ... 1877: GRAND ARMY OF STARVATION / OUT OF THIS FURNACE: A WALKING TOUR OF THOMAS BELL'S HOVEL. The 1877 railroad strike was an historic event, not just in Pittsburgh, but for the nation and future labor struggles. In the 30-minute documentary "1877,1' rare photographs and documents help re-tell ...
IN THE LOOP
Sep 16, 2009; ... IN THE LOOP. Wag the Dog meets The Office in this pungent satire from Armando lannucci about how wars get started. Set in London and Washington, D.C., (t crisscrosses the ocean as bureaucrats, politi- cians, aides and generals double-cross each other, all in the name of - well, basically, their ...
9
Sep 16, 2009; ... 9. Shane Acker's animated feature about a bleak, post-apocalyptic world has much surface charm to recommend it. However, the film could use more plot and character development - though perhaps such aspects of storytelling matter less when the ground is still smoking and there isn't a human being ...
AMERICAN CASINO
Sep 16, 2009; ... AMERICAN CASINO. Leslie CocKburn's documen- tary about the current economic meltdown has good intentions. Its principal aim is to show how the unregulated "instruments" making Wall Street rich impacted folks at the other end of the lad- der, primarily through the encouragement of sub- prime ...
EXTRACT
Sep 16, 2009; ... EXTRACT. Follow this if you can: A nice guy (Jason Bateman) who's bored with his marriage opts to trick his wife (Kristen Wiig) into having an affair, so that he can have an extramarital dalliance - all so his domestic life gets the spark it needs. Inspired, he hires a gigolo, and sets his ...
MY ONE AND ONLY
Sep 16, 2009; ... MY ONE AND ONLY. It's not that the events in this dramedy sort of based on the youth of overly bronzed actor George Hamilton' couldn't have really happened; it's just that not one moment depicted on screen feels authentic. All the dreamy vintage gowns and chrome-tipped Cadillacs can't lift ...
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG
Sep 16, 2009; ... YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG. I'll confess: I'd never heard of Gertrude Berg or Molly Goldberg until I saw Aviva Kempnei^s engaging documentary about one of the pioneering women of 20""-CeOtUiY entertainment. In the 1930s, Berg created, wrote and starred in a radio show that followed the daily lives ...
ADAM
Sep 16, 2009; ... ADAM. Max Mayer's debut feature is hard to cat- egorize: Mostly, tfs a coming-of-age story, with grace notes of romance. Adam (Hugh Dancy), a 27-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome, meets Beth (Rose Byrne), a lively neighbor, and the two embark on a relationship. The film does run the ...