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'The Hoax': Howard Hughes' Fake Biographynew
An enjoyable pop-history recap, one of those odd throwaway stories.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lasse Hallstrom, The Hoax
'Inland Empire': David Lynch Keeps Us Ill At Easenew
Empire peels back new layers of shadow inside the little boxes where dreams flourish like bacilli.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Lynch, Inland Empire
Counter-Coulternew
When shock and outrage is all you can offer, it gets increasingly difficult to top yourself.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
04-05-2007 |
Politics
In Search of True Believers: The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, and Daughtersnew
Are 15-year-old "Brittany Brutals" really into gore metal?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Jake McGee |
04-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Locust
Pittsburgh Panel Debates Use of the N-wordnew
In doing so, it explored the fascination and fear surrounding the notorious word.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
04-05-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Taking a Gamble on Gambling Addictsnew
Pennsylvania's slots are raking in the cash, but will those that lose too much get the help that they need?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
04-05-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
A Wintry Tone-poemnew
This Too Will Pass is, if not a somber affair, a reserved one -- the electronic beats pulse rather than skitter, never breaking above a gentle mid-tempo.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
03-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The One AM Radio
Courtroom Election Challenges More Like Early Primarynew
Spend a morning in the courtroom of Judge Joseph James, listening to lawyers demand that candidates be removed from the ballot, and you'll wonder why we bother with elections at all.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
03-29-2007 |
Politics
Private Dicknew
You're not likely to hear much about the legal proceedings of Richard Mellon Scaife's divorce in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -- or anywhere else.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
07-28-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Katrina Relief's Unlikely Alliancenew
Rainbow Tribe and Christian Church members successfully teamed up to feed and heal Katrina victims, to even their surprise.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Renee Rosensteel and Marty Levine |
01-11-2006 |
Disasters
Hip Hop-portunity: A Pittsburgh Film Festival Gives Hip-Hop Its Duenew
Hip-hop was once about public access to the creative cultural expressions of the city, but that element has become increasingly less accessible to the public. Nowhere is that truer than in independent hip-hop documentaries and narrative films.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
11-18-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Hip Hop Film Festival
Screwed and Chopped, Not Stirrednew
Screwed and chopped music proves that slow motion is better than no motion.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
11-12-2005 |
Reviews
Pennsylvania May Get Its Turn to Consider a Celebrity Guvnew
Lynn Swann, the Hall of Fame wide receiver and catalyst for four Steelers Super Bowl titles, is the all-but-declared Republican candidate for governor.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
09-23-2005 |
Politics
Pimpin' Ain't Easynew
Forget trying to knock the hustle, because you can't. And please resist the Rocky comparisons, because it's not. More like Purple Rain, this humid film about the blood-work of a ghetto pimp's comeuppance could use a little drizzle.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
07-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Growth Experiencenew
A worldwide association of farmers, Willing Workers on Organic Farms, feeds travelers and give them a place to sleep in exchange for roughly six hours of work a day.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Dan Eldridge |
07-20-2005 |
Travel
