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Flipping Through Mass-market Titles for Summer Readsnew
Teen novels ... celebrity biographies ... murder mysteries sold by the pound ... what goes on inside those lurid covers? We were by turns bemused, appalled, and sometimes even touched, by what we found. Includes reviews of Elton: The Biography, Beautiful Boy, Bratfest at Tiffany's, The Dark Tide, and more.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Staff |
07-21-2008 |
Books
Mark Doty Shies Away From the Title 'Political Poet'new
"Because when you say 'political poetry,' it sounds sort of dutiful, like, 'Oh, that's going to be work to read that,'" he says.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Paul Ruggiero |
06-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Shoegaze Outfit Aydin Releases 'Cyclones and Honey' LPnew
On this album, Aydin sinks deeper than ever before into rhythmic cacophony and melodic decomposition -- a fact with a good and bad side.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
06-30-2008 |
Reviews
Pittsburgh's Bread Man: Jody Freyvogelnew
Until recently, only coffeehouse staff and private clients would see him in the morning's wee hours, delivering batches of freshly baked goods. Now, the chemical-engineer-turned-baker can be heard educating folks on the lifespan of baked goods at The Twilight Market, a burgeoning farmers' market in the Central North Side.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Colleen Van Tassell |
06-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Group Hopes to Start Homeless Newspaper in Pittsburghnew
There's just one hitch: Selling the paper could require each vendor to get a license that costs about as much as an overnight stay in a luxury hotel.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Adam Fleming |
06-30-2008 |
Media
Unnamed Resourcesnew
The Pittsburgh-Tribune reports on Barack's Obama's alleged ties to communists in his youth. But why aren't they diclosing that the group launching the attacks is funded by billionaire publisher Richard Mellon Scaife. Or as they call him, boss.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
06-19-2008 |
Politics
Mates of State have Second Baby and Still Tournew
Of course, the baby-toting thing is old hat to the wife-and-husband duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel: They took their first-born daughter, Magnolia, on the road when she was 10 months old.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Mike Shanley |
06-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Singer-songwriter Jaymay Offers Prime Mixtape Materialnew
With her clear, sophisticated voice -- not to mention her undying allegiance to New York City -- Jaymay is Feist-ish, if Feist were a bit less Jane Birkin and a little more Diane Keaton circa Annie Hall.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Margaret Welsh |
06-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: singer-songwriter, Jaymay
'The Carbon-Free Home' Explains How to Really Go Greennew
The Hrens' 320-page book categorizes shows how, on a budget, they stopped contributing to global warming and resource depletion, and also saved money.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
06-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
Building the Parkour Movementnew
Parkour is edging into the public consciousness, thanks in part to vehicles like the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, which opened with a spectacular construction-site foot chase featuring parkour pioneer Sebastian Foucan and events like the Memorial Day Weekend International Parkour Expo.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
06-16-2008 |
Sports
Using Community Gardens to Stop Illegal Dumpingnew
The work is unglamorous by nature -- digging up waste that's been tossed aside or recklessly plopped into overgrown weeds -- but its location doesn't help any: Frankstown Avenue marks the border between Pittsburgh and Penn Hills, with each side of the street belonging to a different municipality in some places.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Adam Fleming |
06-16-2008 |
Gardening
Election '08: Post-Pennsylvania Primary Wrap-Upnew
Many storylines emerged from the primary election that thrust Pennsylvania into the national spotlight. However, one of them wasn't "Who's going to be the nominee?"
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
05-06-2008 |
Commentary
Misplaced Cell Phones and Lies Create a Twisty Thriller in 'Deception'new
If you can handle another fatal attraction, Deception ambles along companionably, pretending, if not quite succeeding, to be smarter than it is.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
05-05-2008 |
Reviews
Bouncing Souls Get Happynew
Though a bit better produced and more melodic than their debut, songs from 2006's The Gold Record still pound away with that familiar pogo beat and sing-along choruses. What has changed is that Bouncing Souls aren't bratty punks anymore -- they're forefathers of a genre.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Justin Jacobs |
05-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Carnegie International Looks at Life on a Lonely Planetnew
For 112 years, the Carnegie International has been Pittsburgh's pre-eminent contribution to the art world. The exhibit is the planet's second-oldest exhibit of contemporary art, and in all that time, no one has seen fit to dub it with a theme until this year's Life on Mars.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
05-05-2008 |
Art
