Arts Feature
Close to Home gets intimate
Silver Eye offers a provocative exhibit on the problematic concept of home
Pittsburgh Dining
Bistro 9101
This North Hills bistro offers a fresh take on familiar fare, in a white-tablecloth-casual setting
It's Beaujolais Nouveau time again
Savoring the pleasures of a wine's annual return
Harris Grill and East End Brewing celebrate 10 years, with a joint fundraising dinner
"Expect some music, food, beer and silliness."
Arts
Close to Home gets intimate
Silver Eye offers a provocative exhibit on the problematic concept of home
Books
A review of Craig Bernier's story collection Your Life Idyllic
These straightforward stories about ordinary people still move and surprise us
Novelist Richard Ford, foreign-policy expert Robert Kaplan and mystery writer Jeffrey Siger visit
Ford visits the Monday Night Lectures with his new novel, Let Me Be Frank With You
Don Wentworth's new collection of brief poems explores the transitoriness of life
In the less-is-more philosophy, concise form makes for unique reading
Music
Hugh Twyman wraps up his yearlong concert series with a big lineup
"The whole thing was having bands share a stage who never play together."
For musicians, age can be an obstacle
Bands like The Nox Boys have to fight to establish themselves in a world where being under 21 is a liability
Critics' Picks, Dec. 4-10
Local shows by Demos Papadimas, GWAR and Netsky, plus a final show for The Mon River Ramblers
New Releases
Recent music from Donora, Jason Davis
On Screen
Citizenfour
For Edward Snowden completists, Laura Poitras' doc puts the viewer in the Hong Kong hotel room for the big reveal
The Babadook
A new indie horror film from Australia taps a troubled mother-son relationship for some unsettling truths
Jingle Bell Rocks
A new doc finds the gooey center behind the obsessive collecting of Christmas music
Film Kitchen
Short local film selections include a cop-movie spoof, and experimental films about fishing
Short List
Short List: December 3 - 9
Holiday stage offerings commence; Romeo and Juliet ballet returns to the Playhouse; Handmade Arcade at the Convention Center; new storytelling series
News+Features
Did a security firm hired by the city go too far to gather info on Jordan Miles?
"My initial instinct is it sounds not kosher."
More than thirty years after The Fonz, Henry Winkler is still cruising along
"I decided long ago that I wasn't going to wait for people to call me"
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