I ran across Barbara's reporting and film blog, Mad About the Movies, in a news alert. I like that her reporting covers a range of movies from blockbusters to smaller films or those that might fall in between, and especially that she always points out when a film has a Pittsburgh connection, whether it was filmed there or if the story takes place there or if an artist grew up in the area. Recently she reported about the renovation of a local theater and a couple of new indie films.
Her columns also appear to be syndicated to other papers, so her work is not just shown to a local audience.
Here is her bio from the Pittsburgh Gazette website:
Pittsburgh native Barbara Vancheri learned to love the movies at the Bellevue and North Hills theaters, McKnight Cinemas and Wexford Drive-In, now all fodder for a "Things That Aren't There Anymore" documentary. A journalism graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she worked at newspapers in Ashtabula and Columbus, Ohio, Beaver County and Rochester, N.Y., before joining the Post-Gazette in 1984 as a feature writer. She has chronicled a wide range of subjects, from the recovery of two brothers badly burned in a fire and Fred Rogers' puppet diplomacy to the end of "Seinfeld," the opening and closing of local movie houses and Pittsburghers with Hollywood connections. She previewed Universal Studios theme park in Florida before its 1990 opening and has reported on the Academy Awards from the fabled red carpet and the independent-minded Spirit Awards from a tent at Santa Monica Beach. Vancheri also attends the Toronto International Film Festival and keeps readers apprised about Pittsburgh's many homegrown film festivals.In 2005, Vancheri was named movie editor of the Post-Gazette.
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