Pittsburgh

Hunters Sign to Mom Pop, Announce Tour With JEFF the Brotherhood

File Under: BIG THANGS POPPIN'! Brooklyn cool kids and Voice cover subjects Hunters have just inked a deal with the Mom Pop record label, the home of Big Deal bands like Sleigh Bells, Wavves, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, FIDLAR, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, etc. etc., so on and so forth. They've a ... More >>

Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

By Nate Jackson Hey, we can all appreciate a quality guitar god. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of music knows the joy of watching their favorite axe man/woman go on a tear and destroy the crowd with their fast-fingered prowess, signature style and lush mane of flowing hair. It's the textboo ... More >>

Hello Deli's Extreme Frank: FiTR Tries the MegaDog

Last night, David Letterman riffed on the Subway Footlong shortfall scandal by sending the camera down to the Hello Deli on 53rd Street, where a foot-long hot dog called the MegaDog has been offered for the last six months. Letterman makes the proprietor, Rupert Jee, take a tape measure to the thing ... More >>

What's Happening: Dine Around Eataly and Sierra Nevada Tasting

Monday, January 14 Whole Hog Butcher Dinner at Louro Louro celebrates the next Nossa Mesa Supper Club Monday night with a four-course meal from chef Justin Severino of Pittsburgh's Cure. The fun starts at 6:30 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and the butchering starts at 7 p.m. and dinner at 8:30 p.m. Dinne ... More >>

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Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Olive Garden Reviewer, Speaks

Marilyn Hagerty isn't the first person to review the Olive Garden--in fact, Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Jonathan Gold did that very thing in the LA Weekly last April--and she won't be the last. But for some reason, her very factual review of the "long-awaited" franchise in Grand Forks, North Da ... More >>

One for the Money

The Bunker's Bryan Kasenic On The Berliniamsburg Era, Throwing Parties For Electronic-Music Nerds, And "Amateur Night"

This week, the Voice profiled Bryan Kasenic, who throws the monthly Bunker party—the city's premiere techno event—which celebrates its ninth year tonight at Public Assembly with a bash featuring Chicago house legend Derrick Carter and Dutch techno great Legowelt. Below are some outtakes ... More >>

Why I Hate Fashion! It's To Die From!

We have to hear 'I'm Too Sexy' again, and 40 other angry reasons

New World's Tallest Building Will Be Very Tall

via Gulf News​Saudi Arabia will soon be home to a mile-high building, dubbed "The Kingdom Tower." Gulf News reports that it will be erected (you can say that about a building in Saudi Arabia, right?) in the Obhur Gulf, just outside of the port city Jeddah. Kingdom Holding Company is funding th ... More >>

Mohammed Saleem, Wandering Guy, Found Safe and Unharmed

Missing for a week. Found unharmed.​Good news, for a change. Cops and/or relatives found Mohammed Saleem, a 24-year-old guy who is deaf, mute, and suffers from either autism or Down syndrome (news accounts differ) and who had gone missing February 15, wandering off from a relative's home in Kew G ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Nicki Minaj Add a Second March Show at the Nassau Coliseum

​Good news: Lil Wayne's traveling it-rapper circus is tacking on another night in March at the Nassau Coliseum, adding March 28th to March 27's long since sold-out show and adding all sorts of "who will guest on which night?" wrinkles to each evening's slate. Tickets are on sale even as we spe ... More >>

In The Next Three Days, Paul Haggis Will Show No Improvement

Remembering the Sad Story of Elizabeth Hartman

​Freckle-faced beauty Elizabeth Hartman debuted in 1965's A Patch of Blue, earning an Oscar nomination as the blind girl who's tortured by her mother (Shelley Winters) but learns about the brighter side of human nature when she's befriended by the nice black man in the park, Sidney Poitier. H ... More >>

Heinz's Curry Beanz

​Leave it to the British to invent baked beans with raisins.

NUNSENSE

Get into the habit

The Top 10

Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears

Battle of the Dishes: Big Mac vs. The Whopper

​ One bag telegraphs purity, the other an earthy earnestness. Which will win? Could it be a tie? And why do they insist on calling them "sandwiches"? The Big Mac was born in 1968, when a burger modeled on the Big Boy invented by a Pittsburgh franchisee was nationalized. It has been the flagsh ... More >>

FBI raid on G20 Twitter anarchist seizes mercury, ammunition, and pictures of communists

U.S. District Court Judge Dora Irizarry has halted FBI examination of materials seized in a Thursday raid on the Queens home of Elliot M. Madison, who was arrested outside Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit for allegedly using social media to help protesters avoid police. The FBI is said to have conf ... More >>

My One and Only For Those Who Still Swoon For George Hamilton

Ciinton Heckled on Don't Ask Don't Tell and DOMA at Netroots Nation

Bigtime leftwing bloggers and web apparatchiks are at Netroots Nation (aka NN09) in Pittsburgh, and in these palmy Democratic days they get big speakers, including former President Bill Clinton. But the Big Dog's reception at a talk last night was not trouble-free. He was heckled by Lane Hudson, w ... More >>

"Nice Guy Must Die" -- Video of George Sodini Getting Dating Advice

Yesterday, we told you that George Sodini, the pathetic piece of shit who walked into a Pittsburgh gym and opened fire on a classroom of women, killing three and then himself, was a student of How to Date Young Women guru R. Don Steele.Steele's book is prominently displayed on Sodini's coffee tab ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by ethanvk. Well, our week was awful, but apparently we were in good company. Mayor Bloomberg came up with a wide-ranging, expensive transit plan including crosstown buses that would move slower than ever. He slapped back Bill Thompson's schools charges -- not convincingly to ... More >>

Health Club Killer's Site Shows Him to Be Typical Blogger, Only More So

​The Post has generously posted what they say is all of the text from Pittsburgh gym shooting suspect George Sodini's blog. which has understandably been shut down. (Update: Good news! You can now get on the blog here.) It reveals the programmer-madman to be anti-social, sexually frustrated, a ... More >>

Autolux Supposedly Coming to New York This Fall, May Actually Play All Tomorrow's Parties NY This Time, Babies Be Damned

Maura Lanahan Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>

'Detroit Loves New York. Hard’

New York Finally Named City with Worst Road Rage; Honking, "Obscene Gestures" Cited

For the past three years New York ceded first place to Miami, which shamed us all, but the fourth annual In the Driver's Seat AutoVantage Road Rage Survey results are in it looks like we're number one again -- as America's Road Rage Capital. Making victory sweeter, Miami slipped to seventh place, wi ... More >>

The Dishwashers Shine Up 59E59's New Festival

Next to Normal and Joe Turner: Visions on Broadway; Yeats Project: Near Myth

WTC Facade Glass Will Be Made in Red China

At least part of 1 World Trade Center -- formerly known as the Freedom Tower -- will be made by our friends in Communist China. According to the Sentinel, PPG of Pittsburgh was hoping to make facade glass for the new tower. But Solera Construction/DCM Erectors of New York instead gave the sub-contr ... More >>

New York Named Least Manly City

The compulsive listmakers at Sperling's Best Places have come up with "America's Manliest Cities." The #1 butchtown is Nashville, and at the bottom of the list of 50 towns is New York. Nashville took the warm, sticky crown with "its high number of NASCAR enthusiasts" and "popularity of hunting and f ... More >>

HE'S BAAAACK

A revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

New York Times Takes on David Mamet's "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'"

Lawyer Death Match in Pakistan

Terrence Howard's Latest Hustle and Flow

Black people revive the Great White Way. Plus a hue and cry from Mel Brooks.

Mass Hysteria

In which Gustavo posits a Catholic theory for Lou Dobbsism

Let's All Get Drunk Together

It's for our city's own cultural good, a new (only slightly sluggish) academic study asserts

AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Day 2

Meet the porn-industry buyer

Quiet Centers

Wilson's Two Trains and Mamet's Voysey keep the storms offstage and the moral crises on

Pittsburgh Living Blues

August Wilson's panoramic vision: Love, music, food money—and omnipresent death

Horoscope

The Moving Camera Writes

A New Book Covers Dance on Film From Every Angle

Sports

NY Mirror

Learning from Queer as Folk

This Series Is Not Just About Gay Sex. It’s About the Bond Gay Sex Creates.

One-Bedroom Co-op Apartment in 1938 Building

The Family That Sings Together...

Desperate Men and Twisted Sisters

Trump's Gamble for Indian Wampum

The Self-Proclaimed 'Biggest Enemy of Indian Gambling' Has Suddenly Backed a Plan To Build Casinos on Seminole Land