One of the joys of a Saturday night in Pittsburgh is sitting on the deck at the Hofbrauhaus on a nice night, away from the raucous noise inside. And I don't even drink beer. It's always party time inside, where the music and the revelers make it impossible to have a conversation. But on the deck, it's still boisterous without being ear-splitting
The release date of "The Road" has been moved again! Now it's scheduled for release on Nov. 25.
While I lament that I will probably miss Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig on Broadway in "A Steady Rain" -- Wolverine and James Bond as Chicago cops! -- it was announced today that the 2010 Tony Awards will be held Sunday, June 13, at Radio City Music Hall. No word yet on a host. Last year's talented MoC, Neil Patrick Harris, will be the
Having trouble keeping up with all that there is to see and do, what with the NFL preparing for its big kickoff concert practically right outside the doors of the Post-Gazette and the G-20 Summit looming large in the near future. But I did get a chance to spend a few minutes on the phone yesterday with Sandy Duncan, who's in Jennerstown at the Mountain
Adweek reports that Summit Entertainment, the studio that brings us the "Twilight" movie franchise, has a deal with Habbo, "a Web-based virtual playground popular among tweens and teens in more than 30 countries." Starting in November, a few weeks before the scheduled release of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon's" on Nov
I was e-mailing with Barry Alfonso of Swissvale about his experiences returning to Comic-Con decades after he was a co-founder of the San Diego convention. It's grown by the tens of thousands since Alfonso was a teen who loved comic books; he wrote about those early Comic-Con years for the Post-Gazette before he left for S.D. Comic-Con International
Some of the best buzz at Comic-Con came from a panel I couldn't make: It was for the action-comedy film "Kick-Ass," starring genre fan-fave Nicolas Cage and"Superbad's" Christopher Mintz-Plasse and based on a Mark Millar/John Romita Jr. comic book. The premise is a comic-obsessed teenager who decides to become a real-life
The demise of the deal that would have had the "District 9" team create a movie version of "Halo" left the door open for a new crew of filmmakers -- and Steven Spielberg may have just stepped through as producer. At Comic-Con, Peter Jackson talked of how studio politics killed his "Halo" project and gave birth to the new
I'm excited about this, having listened to folks who saw David Tennant in "Hamlet" rave about it. So: (AP) "Doctor Who” star David Tennant is bringing his portrayal of Hamlet from the stage to the small screen. Tennant won critical acclaim for his performance in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production of “Hamlet
My friend Barry Fisher, a comic-book aficionado from way back, called last night to ask if I'd heard that Phantom of the Attic on Craig Street in Oakland was a finalist for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, given to an individual retailer considered outstanding in its support of the genre in the community and within the industry.