Brewed On Grant: UPMC Slaves
UPMC is using the 14th Amendment as a defense against the mayor's lawsuit. I've heard of reverse racism, but this is ridiculous.
'Out of the Furnace' gets new release date
Guess we’ll have to wait a little longer to see “Out of the Furnace,” the movie that brought Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and a host of others to North Braddock, Braddock, Rankin and other Pittsburgh area neighborhoods.
It had been expected to open Oct. 4 but now has been bumped to Nov. 27 in limited release and going wider on Dec. 6, according to www.deadline.com (which also had this poster).
That puts it in the heart of awards season and indicates confidence in the movie written and directed by Scott Cooper. It’s a gritty dramatic thriller about fate, circumstance and justice, according to the description released during filming in late April 2012.
Bale and Affleck are brothers living in the Rust Belt who have dreamed of escaping and finding better lives.
But a twist of fate lands Bale’s character, named Russell, in prison and his brother is lured into one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast – a mistake that will almost cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risk it all to seek justice for his brother.
The cast also includes Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe and Sam Shepard.
See 'Dark Knight Rises' for $3 at AMC, part of summer program
Play it again, SamIf you somehow missed “The Dark Knight Rises” when it played in theaters almost a year ago or simply want to look for yourself again at Heinz Field, AMC Theatres is bringing it and seven other movies back as part of its AMC Summer Nights program.
Tickets are $3, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Will Rogers Institute, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks.
Patrons can see these movies for $3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesay nights at 10 p.m.:
“The Dark Knight Rises,” June 24-26
“Django Unchained,” July 1-3
“The Amazing Spiderman,” July 8-10
“The Hunger Games,” July 15-17
“Olympus Has Fallen,” July 22-24
“Oz the Great & Powerful,” July 29-31
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” Aug 5-7
“Oblivion,” Aug. 12-14.
The Will Rogers Institute will use its share of the money to fund cystic fibrosis research at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and to fund other hospital grants. The program will support medical research through Autism Speaks and improve access to services and support through the Austim Society.
Mark Cuban praises Pittsburgh entrepreneur Lani Lazzari of Simple Sugars on 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael'
Life just keeps getting sweeter for entrepreneur Lani Lazzari, 19, of Fox Chapel (pictured above in photo by Robin Rombach/Post-Gazette).
The teen's all-natural handmade line of Simple Sugars body scrubs recently earned her an investment on the ABC reality TV show "Shark Tank" with Mark Cuban, another Pittsburgh native.
Mr. Cuban said every ounce of success that has come her way she has earned. During an appearance today on the morning talk show "LIVE with Kelly and Michael," the Dallas Mavericks owner mentioned Simple Sugars as one of his best investments on "Shark Tank."
She did $600,000 in business in three days after the "Shark Tank" episode featuring Simple Sugars aired, Mr. Cuban told the show's hosts.
"Her business is killing it," he said. "This girl is so smart."
Watch the full segment below, or check out my interview with Miss Lazzari here to learn more about how she started the business.
A baaa start for Art Cart's 40th summer
The Citiparks’ Roving Art Cart is more than a cart. It’s an entourage of people under tents leading children in creating various forms of art, from puppetry to easel painting, for nine weeks in a different park each week day.
Art Cart has been rolling out its free summer program for 40 years and it started its first day of the summer this morning in Allegheny Commons Park on the North Side under leaden skies.
Opening day featured something completely different — sheep shearing and wool spinning.
Near the Story Mobile, Jean Adams and her sons had corraled eight sheep from their family farm in Perryopolis. Greenfield Farms trots out its sheep for petting zoos and provides its Belgian horses for carriage rides but it is primarily a farm that has been in the same family for five generations.
Carol Cragos of Manchester set up her spinning wheel and baskets of supplies under a tent to demonstrate to children how the rough, dirty-looking piles of wool that are sheared from a sheep can become yarn for a sweater. She had clean examples that had already been carded.Jean set the first of six sheep she would shear today up on it’s bum with its front legs in the air, explaining to a bevy of open-mouthed children that when their feet leave the ground, they are disabled enough for her to work on the belly without too much fuss.
"This isn't their normal way of relaxing," she said. "But this way they don't mess with me."
As she shaved the first animal down to its birthday suit, several children sat, fascinated. One little boy had a worried look as he watched.
The wool was clearly ready to come off; it had already begun to hang from the animals' flanks in dull ropes like the hair of anarchist hippie chicks. As Jean sheared down the belly of one ewe, the animal tussled mildly.
“It’s like a 2-year-old getting his hair cut,” she said. "They don't mind it a lot, but they’d rather be doing something else.”