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Life after WAMO By Chris Young - March 11, 2010
Traditonal, online outlets trying to fill void left by loss of historic station
On the Record By Lauren Daley - March 11, 2010
Music has always been part of city councilor's life
Bad Timing By Marty Levine - March 11, 2010
Some G-20 defendants get charges dismissed, others get fines
This Just In: March 11 - 18 By Frances Sansig Monahan - March 11, 2010
Highlights from the local TV news: The Truth Laid Bare
Savage Love By Dan Savage - March 11, 2010
I am a girl who sabotaged my relationship. My real issue was a store of repressed childhood trauma, and I was working it out on the closest person to me, my BF.
The Mercy Seat By Ted Hoover - March 11, 2010
If it was LaBute's desire to upstage 9/11, he needed something stronger than unfunny characters expelled from a Ray Cooney farce.
"The Proposal" & "To Hell and Back" By Ted Hoover - March 11, 2010
It's a soaring, heartbreaking piece, an incredibly beautiful -- and painful -- bit of theater.
A Conversation with Megadeth's David Ellefson By Aaron Jentzen - March 11, 2010
"When I was a kid, Christians, they burned all the records I listened to, so I had complete disdain for Christianity as a movement."
The Bar at 2132 By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth - March 11, 2010
The menu here is an intriguing, idiosyncratic take on bar food
Maple Sugaring By Charlie Deitch - March 11, 2010
As our friend the maple tree awakens from his long winter slumber, the time has come to welcome him back to the world -- by tapping him with a spigot and draining his sap. And, explains Tammy Watychowicz, a naturalist and horticulturalist with the Allegheny County Parks Department, as long as you do it right and don't take more sap than you need, the tree really doesn't mind that much. "It's a nice sweet treat from nature," says Watychowicz.
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival By CP Staff - March 11, 2010
The annual festival offers films from Israel and around the world, representing Jewish experiences from the comic and dramatic to the inspirational.
Alice in Wonderland By Al Hoff - March 11, 2010 There are few wonders in Tim Burton's loose adaptation.
Police, Adjective By Al Hoff - March 11, 2010 A spare study of one Romanian policeman's internal struggle
Remember Me By Al Hoff - March 11, 2010 A rather slow melodrama reminding us to carpe diem
She's Out of My League By Al Hoff - March 11, 2010 Pittsburgh stars in a sweet, amusing comedy
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Short List: Week of March 11 - 18 March 11, 2010
Over the years, Pittsburgh-based Squonk Opera has established a reputation for topping itself, with each production by the musical phantasmagorians seemingly more elaborate than the one before. It couldn't last.
