Finding art on campus
With a gallery crawl coming up next Friday, exhibits rolling in and out of the Carnegie Museums every couple of weeks, and the Summer of Glass less than...
Midway map
Prepare yourself for a week of "Small Things Made Large" with our map of Midway.
Philharmonic to perform in Cleveland
On May 3, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic will travel to Severance Hall (home of the Cleveland Orchestra) in Cleveland, Ohio. The orchestra will play...
The ins and outs of AB Concerts
AB Concerts co-chairs Brian Belardi and Eileen Angulo have plenty of reasons to be angry. Dealing with recent budget cuts resulting in a loss of about...
For Colored Girls is uplifting, for any audience
Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company is performing For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. Playing at...
The Sound of a Voice, coming up at the Warhol
This season, as Pittsburgh celebrates glass, the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh — in conjunction with The Pittsburgh Glass Center — is celebrating Philip...
Visions of Hell
Presented by the Pittsburgh Dance Council, Emio Greco | PC (a contemporary dance company based in Amsterdam) presented its latest performance-based construction,...
Factory Girl suffers from flawed script
Director George Hickenlooper’s biopic Factory Girl documents the rise and fall of the iconic Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick played by Sienna Miller (Casanova)....
Judge a book by its cover
They’re simple: facts that we are meant to read, take in, think about. Books published in 2006: 180,000. Books that have really nice covers (according...
The Oresetia Project: Adapted, modernized, and fused
As the School of Drama gears toward a more progressive repertoire, this season’s production of The Oresteia Project is a breathing example of cutting-edge...
Suburbia, meet Disturbia
Three months under house arrest. What’s the best way to waste your time? Spy on the neighbors — obviously. Last Monday, McConomy Auditorium hosted an...
Beer in the ’Burgh
Carnival is coming, and what could be more relaxing than a cold one at a local bar? Below are some suggested locations for your drinking pleasure. (And,...
Poetry month
When T.S. Elliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month,” he must not have heard about National Poetry Month, a celebration of writing that has inspired...
Everything you need to know
Dear Janet, I’m a first-year and I guess I’m having an all right time at college, but I feel like I haven’t made any really good friends yet. I hang...
'Let me tell you a secret'
Since 1987, SPIRIT, the student organization dedicated to spreading African-American awareness in the community, has commanded Carnegie’s catwalks for...
Aftertaste
In cold, rainy weather, nothing beats a bowl of hot soup — just one of the options for lunch or dinner at Kazansky’s Delicatessen. Kazansky’s Deli is...
Paperhouse
Last week I read online in The Washington Post about world-famous violinist Joshua Bell, who decided to play in the Washington, D.C. metro for change....
Did you know?
100 years ago April 17, 1907 An ad by Haller’s Bakery advertises Brain Bread. According to the promotion, this bread is a “perfect health bread made...