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» Author Barry Lopez discusses a writer's responsibility in a time of environmental crisis.
"You've got to have some kind of perspective, and you've got to have compassion for people whose frame of reference is different from yours."
By Bill O'Driscoll |
February 4, 2010
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
» Accomplished short narratives and experiments screen at Film Kitchen.
The sight of a figure seemingly borne aloft by a bouquet of helium balloons is both more and less than it seems.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
February 4, 2010
(On Screen: Movie Reviews & Features)
» Space gallery is filled with artworks by the men and women who keep galleries and museums humming around town.
Rendered in unfired clay, tumbled on the gallery floor, it's mutely defiant.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
February 4, 2010
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» A chemical engineer and sustainability advocate seeks cultural solutions, not technological ones, to the environmental crisis.
"We cut up the world into increasingly smaller pieces, and we believe we understand the world if we put the pieces back together."
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 28, 2010
(News: News)
» A local photographer's new book captures the often surprising beauty of the region's state parks.
Then there are surprises like the stunning Frankfort Mineral Springs, in Raccoon Creek, and the beauty of newly minted Erie Bluffs State Park.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 21, 2010
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
» George Aiken's
The best spin on this Downtown eatery: its rotisserie chicken
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 21, 2010
(Food: On The Side)
» WQED TV debuts a new showcase for local filmmakers.
"This will really reach the ultimate audience."
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 21, 2010
(On Screen: Movie Reviews & Features)
» Lawrence C. Connolly's fantasy and science-fiction shines in the retrospective collection Visions.
The latter is a genre hybrid slamming low-rent crooks into a space-alien scout via a convenience-store holdup.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 14, 2010
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
» Explaining Climate
"You can't look at a particularly cold winter in the Northeastern U.S. as evidence against global warming."
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 7, 2010
(News: News)
« Cover story Jan. 7, 2010
» Two authors offer a fresh take on Warhol in the '60s
To attain the art-world acceptance he yearned for, Warhol had to remake that world in his own image(s).
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 7, 2010
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
» Lost in the The Hype: African Americans in a Super Sports Town
A documentary explores Pittsburgh sports in the context of racism and inequality.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
January 7, 2010
(On Screen: Movie Reviews & Features)
» With a new bound retrospective of his 25 years in the field, the Post-Gazette's Rob Rogers talks editorial cartooning.
"I'm always trying to find ways to look at these people and say, 'Well, where's the hypocrisy?' And it's usually pretty blatant."
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 24, 2009
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
» Two bands perform an evening of live film scores for nine silent shorts.
The rising musical maelstrom becomes something more complicated: moaning guitars and truculent drums the score for rapid, wrenching images of natural disaster and warfare.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 17, 2009
(On Screen: Movie Reviews & Features)
» Julien Maire's Matter and Memory explores the media that carry the messages.
Meanwhile, the camera's pre-programmed cuts -- close-ups, wide shots -- confer seeming significance upon what are really unmotivated views of the miniature scene.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 17, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Best place for a deli-style sandwich
Smallman Street Deli
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 10, 2009
(Main Feature: Main Feature)
» Best Day Trip
Ohiopyle State Park
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 10, 2009
(Main Feature: Main Feature)
» A new Carnegie Museum of Natural History exhibit has the buzz on crane flies.
Lord of the Crane Flies reminds us why we should also care about animals we wouldn't notice if one landed on our heads.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 10, 2009
(News: News)
» Bella Sera
A new restaurant goes green: saving energy and reducing waste
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 3, 2009
(Food: On The Side)
» A preteen Jewish secret agent, and a local filmmaker's unlikely first effort, highlight Film Kitchen.
Cohen sells copies mostly in Judaica stores in and around New York City, where the devout buyers typically don't even have televisions.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
December 3, 2009
(On Screen: Movie Reviews & Features)
» Hilary Masters ranges wide and delves deep in a new essay collection.
The title essay explores memory as falsehood, even dramatizing how Masters himself purposefully fleshes out his own memoirs with invented detail.
By Bill O'Driscoll |
November 26, 2009
(Books: Book Reviews & Features)
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