Music Feature
East Liberty Quarters revives electro-boogie
Three vets of the hip-hop scene team up to play "future funk"
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Food+Drink
Poor Richard's Wexford Alehouse
This Wexford bar and restaurant delivers top-notch version of pub grub
Soup For You
Delivering vegan soup — for lunch, and community
Draai Laag: The new brewery with an old-school approach
"People think it's about the hops. It's all about the yeast."
Art
Ten More Years on Penn addresses the ups and downs of arts-based gentrification.
A Pittsburgh Glass Center exhibit explores the effects of the redevelopment the center helped spark.
On Stage
Through the Night
Daniel Beaty mesmerizes in his one-man show
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A Kuntu production of the August Wilson classic wasn't ready to open
Books
In The Torah Garden, poet Philip Terman finds a place worth staying
Terman arrives, in convincing moments, at something rarely well expressed in poetry: earned peace with a measure of joy.
Stewart O'Nan's new novel is a funny, touching portrait of a marriage on the brink
A bankrupt couple travels to Niagara Falls in the comic novel The Odds: A Love Story.
In My Old West
A poem by Celeste Gainey
Music
East Liberty Quarters revives electro-boogie
Three vets of the hip-hop scene team up to play "future funk"
Atlanta-based Rotating Souls Records keeps a Pittsburgh heart
Owner Curt Jackson moved south in 2007, but preserves his local ties
Critics' Picks: January 27 - 29
Local shows by False Icons, Yellow Dubmarine and Gardening, Not Architecture, plus a CD-release show by Of an Empire.
On the Record with Nicolay
The multi-instrumentalist and producer discusses his new jazz record.
Bach to the Future
Bach Choir of Pittsburgh takes a novel approach to the Baroque master
On Screen
Haywire
This reputed actioner is talk-talk-run-talk, punctuated by its star beating the hell out of some guy
Albert Nobbs
Gentle drama about a 19th-century Irishwoman who lives life as a man
A Dangerous Method
A well-produced, if dull, drama about the friendship – and later feud – between Freud and Jung
Man on a Ledge
Preposterous comedy-thriller offers some entertainment
Red Tails
WWII action-drama about Tuskegee Airmen doesn't quite soar
Roadie
Coming off the road proves bumpy for a fired roadie
News+Features
Vanishing ACCESS: Massive cuts planned for county's paratransit service
"It's going to be like being on house arrest."
Policy questions: Miles lawsuit raises issues about city's undercover units
"You're asking for trouble if you're sending officers out there looking for guns and drugs without any guidance."
Taking a Second Look: Is the high-profile case against SCI Pittsburgh guards weaker than it seems?
"This case sounds like it comes down to a question of who do you believe."
In Focus
In the Carnegie Museum of Art's ongoing exhibit Teenie Harris, Photographer, the image below appears briefly — a graffiti-marred jail cell wedged between photos of black-owned storefronts in a continual slideshow projection. But as with much of the legendary Pittsburgh Courier photographer's work, the photo is framed by the stories of Pittsburgh's Hill District.
Pieces of Pittsburgh
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