AltWeeklies Wire
Pennsylvania's Hate Zonesnew
In some areas of the state, bigotry based on sexual orientation is still legally acceptable.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
10-23-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
A Conversation with John Schmersal of Enonnew
Now located in Philadelphia, Enon is breaking the silence with the corrugated clatter and dark grooves of Grass Geysers ... Carbon Clouds, just out on Touch & Go.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
10-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kirk Nesset's Short Stories Shine in the Drue Heinz Winnernew
What makes Paradise Road most pleasurable is Nesset's supple style, capable of bluntness and lyricism alike. In any mode, he hardly seems capable of writing an uninteresting sentence.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-15-2007 |
Fiction
Leave the Dick Jokes to Woody Allennew
Jay Jonroy, who wrote, directed and produced David and Layla, created one of the most witless cross-cultural romantic comedies I've ever seen -- and it's based on a true story.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Harry Kloman |
10-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David and Layla, Jay Jonroy
Punk Vets Teddy Duchamp's Army Reunitenew
Teddy Duchamp's Army became one of Pittsburgh's most respected straight-ahead punk bands, alongside the likes of Anti-Flag and Punchline.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
10-15-2007 |
Music
Tags: Teddy Duchamp's Army
A Tough Row to Hoenew
Four beginning organic farmers plow through, plant and harvest their first season in Natrona Heights, Penn.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-15-2007 |
Food+Drink
George Saunders Talks Fiction, Vonnegut, & Johnny Tremainnew
Saunders is an anthropologist of American culture who issues his findings in terms of crazily inventive fiction.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pittsburgh Reaches Settlement with Antiwar Demonstratorsnew
The agreement will keep the 24-hour antiwar protesters within two marked sections of sidewalk along Forbes Avenue, and will keep city police officers from citing any more protesters for "obstructing passageways" while sitting or lying there during the rest of their nearly month-long fast and picket.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
10-01-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Post-Gazette Breaks Judicial Seal in Scaife Divorce Casenew
Despite his best efforts, some of the most sensitive documents filed in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's divorce are now a matter of public record -- but Scaife is fighting to have those documents hidden again, with a legal petition that is itself sealed.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
10-01-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Why'd an All-Woman Variety Show Ban a Trans Magician?new
Jessi Seams expected everyone to embrace her identity as a transwoman, but she didn't expect this.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
10-01-2007 |
Sex
Kathryn Miller Haines Creates Winner in Rosie Winternew
Pittsburgh mystery author's Miss Winter was published in June; Haines has completed a sequel, The Winter of Her Discontent, due out next June.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Staff |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Danialewski Challenges Readers with Second Novelnew
Even seasoned readers might feel a twinge of confusion, frustration or panic upon first opening Only Revolutions. Each page offers either three or four patches of text, rendered in as many different fonts and type sizes; at least one patch is upside down.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
50 Years of Janus Filmsnew
Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents a two-week film festival -- 16 films that offer a primer on what came to be known as "arthouse cinema."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
09-25-2007 |
Movies
New Invisible Joy Hits Road After Two Years in Studionew
From the conceptual packaging to the interwoven themes of mortality and loss, Kontakt is a pop-rock record by a Pittsburgh-based group that has no business in the local CD section; bearing traces of The Psychedelic Furs, U2, Coldplay and The Verve.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kontakt, New Invisible Joy
Erotic Story Obscenity Case Goes to a Jurynew
Karen Fletcher's text-only website included six stories depicting the rape, torture and murder of young children -- her attorneys say she's being charged with a thought crime.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
09-11-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
