This Just In: November 5 - 12 By Frances Sansig Monahan - November 5, 2009
Highlights from the local TV news: Dispensing Forgiveness
Savage Love By Dan Savage - November 5, 2009
I'm a 20-year-old girl, and I've been dating my boyfriend for two years. Like most straight guys, he's happy to be with a girl who likes girls.
A local writer offers an unsettling new short-story collection. By Bill O'Driscoll - November 5, 2009
"Evolution" -- the one about waterborne hormones undermining male DNA -- creates an unsettling tension between the coolly satirical and the earnestly elegiac.
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom By Ted Hoover - November 5, 2009
Neighborhood 3 is an amusement-park ride -- you're strapped in at the beginning and propelled through a series of twists, turns and dips.
A Conversation with Jill Sobule By Justin Jacobs - November 5, 2009
"I think today, instead of everyone being famous for 15 minutes, everyone will be famous for 15 people."
Learning German through music? By Manny Theiner - November 5, 2009
Christine Fréchard attempts to combine art with music and linguistics, offering language lessons with a unique artistic component.
Billu's Indian Grill By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth - November 5, 2009
At this Monroeville Indian restaurant, the welcome is warm and the tandoor is hot.
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Short List: Week of October 5 - 12 November 5, 2009
With its vibrant sets and costumes, and the lighthearted musical synthesis of Eastern European folk and jazz, it's hard to imagine Brundibár staged in a concentration camp. But this weekend, Pittsburgh Opera Theater and a cast of CAPA high school students decked out in vivid clothing and animal costumes restage the opera that premiered at the Theresienstadt camp, in 1938.
