Lucy Leitner Author of "Working Stiffs"
When we heard about Lucy Leitner and her upcoming Burgh-centric novel about zombies, a press-release wasn’t enough. A Pittsburgh based author, Southside setting, yinzer zombies? This sounds likes it’s gonna be awesome! The book will be officially launched this June, so Boring Pittsburgh immediately got in touch with the local writer to get the scoop and all the juicy details about Working Stiffs…
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Batman: The Dark Knight Rises won’t hit theaters until July 20th, but at least you get this epic trailer to tide you over. Recognize anything from the Steel City? Point it out in the comments below…
The Dark Knight himself Christian Bale recently returned to the Burgh (currently in Braddock, PA – the fire hall to be exact) for the filming of Out of the Furnace. The whole Batman thing was Anne Hathaway’s second big trip to Pittsburgh. Boring Pittsburgh captured loads of pics and videos from the making of this movie, but Morgan Freeman was nowhere in sight. If you catch a Hollywood celebrity on film, send it to us and we’ll post it here for everyone to gawk at.
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Are you in love with all things fabulous? Then you’ll love City Theatre’s new rock musical about Andy Warhol. Anthony Rapp (Rent, Without You) will star as the legend himself in POP! right here in the Burgh…
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Sisters of the Lattice
This Pittsburgh based Kickstarter project recently exceeded their goal of raising $5,000 in funding. The Sisters of Lattice will use the proceeds to begin their TransAmerican Tour and corresponding film (Fall 2012). Va and Vaa (Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle) are synthetically conjoined twins determined to travel across the globe sharing a groundbreaking futurist theology based on the universal power of Silicon crystal. Thanks to all of the generous backers, now you can join the sisters in their quest to spread Wisdom of the Lattice around the world.
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First Kiss (2012), was written and directed in Pittsburgh by local filmmaker Yulin Kuang. First Kiss is the story of Adam Schoenberger, a fourteen year old romantic who finds out a pretty girl wants to kiss him at his best friend’s spin the bottle party. Coming this May!
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