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Exhibition Games
Exhibition Games
By Robert Isenberg - March  4, 2010
Group hoping obscure sports catch on in city
What's in a Name?
By Lauren Daley - March 4, 2010
CMU students say their identity
Stirring Support
By Chris Young - March 4, 2010
Students fight for union food workers
Pittsburgh Views
This Just In: March 4 - 11
This Just In: March 4 - 11
By Frances Sansig Monahan - March  4, 2010
Highlights from the local TV news: Soldiering On
Savage Love
By Dan Savage - March 4, 2010
OK: Female, married 15 years, one young child. No sex with husband over last five years.
Pittsburgh Books
Race is just one part of the story in Rebecca Skloot's real-life "medical thriller" The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Race is just one part of the story in Rebecca Skloot's real-life "medical thriller" The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
By Kathy M. Newman - February 18, 2010
Skloot explicitly refuses to lump the story of Henrietta Lacks in with the truly heinous legacies of racist science experiments (like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment).
A Pitt professor's new book explores the roots of movie-celebrity culture in India.
A Pitt professor's new book explores the roots of movie-celebrity culture in India.
By Anna Reilly - February 18, 2010
"On the one hand, they want cultured ladies, but if they work in the movies, they would be talked about and no one would see it."
Pittsburgh On Stage
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
By Michelle Pilecki - March  4, 2010
Neither snow nor sleet nor the harshest February in Pittsburgh history will stay Phase 3 Productions from launching its second season, with Frank McGuinness' 1992 drama, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. Alas, the past 18 years have not dimmed the timeliness of this story of modern Westerners kidnapped and held hostage by more medieval-minded extremists. To be fair, though, the unseen Lebanese of this play seem a lot more human than today's "religious" terrorists.
Time After Time
Time After Time
By Ted Hoover - March  4, 2010
Nearly every time physical peril is at hand, the characters sit down and sing love ballads to each other ... and poof! goes dramatic tension.
With a new DVD, the LGBT youths of Dreams of Hope look to heal -- and to teach.
By Anna Reilly - March 4, 2010
"Like, it really doesn't matter which bathroom you go in."
Pittsburgh Music
Calliope presents the Mick Moloney's Green Fields of America 
Calliope presents the Mick Moloney's Green Fields of America 
By Andy Mulkerin - March  4, 2010
Combining music, dance and folklore, Moloney is able to combine a talent for music with his passion for education. 
Local songwriter Nik Westman releases debut with his band, the Central Plains
Local songwriter Nik Westman releases debut with his band, the Central Plains
By Mike Shanley - March  4, 2010
"I really grew up listening to Indian music," Westman says. "My parents listened to that and Bob Marley."
Bristol's Zun Zun Egui bring post-modern psychedelia to Brillobox
Bristol's Zun Zun Egui bring post-modern psychedelia to Brillobox
By Justin Hopper - March  4, 2010
"Bristol has a history of welcoming creativity," says bassist Luke Mosse. "It's cheaper, more relaxed, and quite racially integrated compared to other places in the U.K."
The Carolina Chocolate Drops balance old-time music and modernity
The Carolina Chocolate Drops balance old-time music and modernity
By Justin Jacobs - March  4, 2010
"Things have not changed that much -- songs are still written about love and disappointment and goin' to jail and gettin' out and killin' somebody and almost gettin' killed."
Pittsburgh's Caress of Steel City and Distant Signals pay tribute to Rush
By Aaron Jentzen - March 4, 2010
Some in the audience play air drums; one group requests songs and bellows along with the singer. Two women high-five and dance to "Tom Sawyer."
Pittsburgh Food
Bella Sera
Bella Sera
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth - March  4, 2010
A restaurant with a conscience that also pleases the eye and the palate.
JT's Rib Shack
By Lauren Daley - March 4, 2010
A unique "chunky chunk" sauce rules this BBQ joint.
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Pittsburgh On Screen
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
By CP Staff - March  4, 2010
The annual festival offers nearly two dozen films from Israel and around the world representing Jewish experiences from the comic and dramatic to the inspirational.
Film Kitchen
Film Kitchen
By Bill O'Driscoll - March  4, 2010
Short docs, including some from P-G photographers, highlight this local film screening
Brooklyn's Finest - The drama is heavy when good cops go bad
Brooklyn's Finest
By Al Hoff - March  4, 2010
The drama is heavy when good cops go bad
Cop Out - This unfunny buddy-cop parody should be locked up
Cop Out
By Al Hoff - March  4, 2010
This unfunny buddy-cop parody should be locked up
The Crazies - The whole town's turned into crazed killers!
The Crazies
By Al Hoff - March  4, 2010
The whole town's turned into crazed killers!
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Real-life political thriller set during the Vietnam era
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
By Al Hoff - March  4, 2010
Real-life political thriller set during the Vietnam era
Pittsburgh Art
Group exhibition Cluster shows a wide swath of local artists in fine form.
Group exhibition Cluster shows a wide swath of local artists in fine form.
By Curt Riegelnegg - March  4, 2010
The twitching canvas is intermittently obliterated by a grasping green hand that serves as both enforcer of order and demon-guide to the flummoxed viewer.
Amidst gloomy news about libraries, the North Side's new Carnegie Library is a bright spot.
Amidst gloomy news about libraries, the North Side's new Carnegie Library is a bright spot.
By Charles Rosenblum - February 25, 2010
This space's central volume is characterized by a roof structure, essentially invisible from the street, that rises at an angle on elegant wooden beams to create clerestory windows at the top.
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Short List: Week of March 4 - 11
Short List: Week of March 4 - 11
March  4, 2010
You won't need opera glasses to feel close to the performers for Pittsburgh's newest opera troupe. As its name implies, the Microscopic Opera Company intends to draw you close to the contemporary operas it performs.
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