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  • Lil Red puts a modern musical spin on a classic tale Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

    "Li'l Red" is not exactly the Brothers Grimm's storybook version of "Little Red Riding Hood." In Richard Kinter's modern adaptation of the classic fairytale, which opens the summer season for Johnny Appleseed Children's Theatre at Apple Hill Playhouse, the wolf that frightened the little girl on her way to see her grandma is more "cool dude" than ...

  • Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

    Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...

  • Munhall police update abandoned-homes list

    Officer Dan Boehme said police have been notified of 15 vacant properties since posting a request for the public's assistance on the Munhall Crime Watch Facebook page on ...

  • Police find burglary suspect’s cellphone at crime scene

    That's what happened in a burglary incident over the weekend at a trailer owned by a contractor working on the new ATI-Allegheny Ludlum hot-strip ...

  • Glassport council president resigns

    DiMarco was in his second year as president. Vice president Eugene Skerkoski assumed the role of acting president. He ran Tuesday night's meeting and plans to continue to do so unless council wishes to reorganize and chose a new president and vice ...


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Les enfants terribles [DVD]

Les enfants terribles [DVD]

Les enfants terribles is fascinating primarily as an unexpected meeting of two brilliant, but vastly different minds: the iconic independent French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who is best known for his numerous crime films, including Bob le flambeur (1956), Le ... ...

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  • Chamber to become regional with merger

    Mary Bowlin, (left), from the Allegheny Valley Chamber of Commerce, Charmin Worthington of StrongLand Chamber, Frank Amato of StrongLand and steering committee spokesman for the new AKRCC and Lynda Pozzuto from the Armstrong Chamber gather during the local Chambers of Commerce, Armstrong, StrongLand and Allegheny Valley press conference on Tuesday June 18, 2013 at the Belmont Complex in East ...

  • West Mifflin council tables plan to regulate borough resale shops

    Council on Tuesday considered, then unanimously tabled a plan that would require dealers to wait a full 30 days before they could resell items brought into their shops. Dealers now must wait five ...

  • Pittsburgh Pirates battling through injuries to pitching staff

    Pittsburgh Pirates ' Opening Day rotation remaining in his current role on June 19, pat yourself on the back. Injuries have reshaped the starting staff as individuals have gone on both the disabled list and come off of it to take vacant ...

  • Secretary hired in Charleroi

    While preparing to pass its final 2013-2014 budget next week, the Charleroi Area School Board made sure someone will be recording its actions and organizing its ...

  • Cheswick settles on firetruck

    Borough council voted 4-0 Tuesday to buy the firetruck from Rosenbauer America of South Dakota for about $354,000. Councilmen Jonathan Skedel, Neal Hohman and Brian Harvanek were ...

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