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Letter to the Editor Editor, Here’s a suggestion [for] people like Chris Potter who condemn Keith Rothfus’ vote against aid to Hurricane Sandy victims: Take out a huge personal loan, donate the money to the Salvation Army or Red Cross for hurricane relief, and leave the debt for your children to repay. No? But that’s what you want Congress to do. The federal government is broke. Last year it spent $1.1 trillion more than it took in, and now owes over $16 trillion. No one planned such a huge debt. It’s the cumulative result of countless smaller, often “compassionate,” decisions. Bail out that corporation to save its employees’ jobs! Attack that country because its rulers oppress its people! Subsidize that industry because its products are good for us but nobody wants to buy them! Send federal dollars to victims of that disaster, without knowing or caring how much they’re getting from their state and local governments, charities or insurance! And never ask if the budget could be cut elsewhere to offset this compassionate spending. That would be heartless! This is how Washington has operated for decades, under both parties, and it [has] left us, and our children and grandchildren, with enormous and evergrowing debt. Voters elected people like Keith Rothfus in the (perhaps futile) hope of changing course before the U.S. ends up bankrupt, like Greece. He’s trying to do just that, and I applaud him for it. — Thomas Gillooly, Forest Hills
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RE: Ferlo: Port Authority board now “consumed by politics” (Jan. 31, online only) Honestly, I don’t understand what Fitzgerald is doing. Does he seriously think there is someone out there that can [do] better than Bland in the given salary range? Granted, Bland isn’t the greatest, but given the intense pressure from all kinds of different groups of people and the highly erratic funding for PAT, I honestly think he’s done about the best he can do. Without Bland, who knows how much worse PAT’s service would have become during the past few turbulent years? — Web comment from “Jim”
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PAT CEO’s ouster shows who’s in charge of county’s authorities {BY LAUREN DALEY}
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OR ONCE, the turmoil at the Port Au-
thority wasn’t over massive transit cuts and layoffs. Only one person was set to lose his job on Feb. 1: CEO Steve Bland. Ultimately, five board members voted, at the behest of Allegheny gheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, to terminate Bland “without cause.” That at designation means Bland exits with a severance package worth $92,500. Three board members mbers voted against the firing, arguing it was a political maneuver to unfairly y remove a capable leader. “I’ve received nothing thing to demonstrate that Steve’s teve’s imperfections warrant rant termination without
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hearing,” board member and County Councilor Amanda Green Hawkins said before the vote. “What I have witnessed has been a concerted and methodical effort to get rid of Steve.” Bland’s departure wasn’t the end of the shake-up. In a narrowly divided vote, board chair Jack Brooks — a Bland backer — was replaced with a Fitzgerald ally, Jeff Letwin. The rest of the board’s leadership positions were also turned over to Fitzgerald
appointees: Thomas Don Donatelli, John Tague and Constance Parker. Parke All had voted for Bland’s ouster. Fitzgerald firmly Those moves place Fitz agency. in the driver’s seat at the transit tr held hours afAnd at a press conference h ter Bland’s removal, Fitzgerald Fitzgera made clear that that he intended to keep his hands on the wheel. “I, as the elected county executive, and county council as elected cou council — we set policy,” he told reporters. said he appointAnd while Fitzgerald sai with technical ed authority members w good, solid adexpertise “who can give go policy and direcvice,” he added, “The poli going to be set tion of the agency is go administration … and by by my administratio county council. think that these “So for people to thi authorities should be independent, that’s not the case.” Some board members aren’t happy with such oversight. “The problem with Mr. Bland is he’s an administrator and not a politician. That doesn’t work in this tow town, evidently,” after Bland’s firBrooks told reporters afte as board chair. ing and his own removal a wanted.” “Fitzgerald got what he want BLAND’S DEPARTURE migh might have been a change that Fitzgerald ha has wanted for some time. Tensions with tthe county executive bubbled up for the first time, at least publicly, last May, when a weekend shortage of operators caused massive light-rail delays on the newly launched North Shore Connector during the Pittsburgh Marathon, a Pirates game and a Stage AE concert. Fitzgerald said that his office heard the outcry from constituents. “People were losing confidence in that system,” Fitzgerald said. “They y g y didn’t call the nine board members. … The calls came to me.” And that, Fitzgerald says, is why he wants a hand in how
county agencies operate. Among other criticisms of Bland: a “disconnect” between management and workers; broken-down contract talks with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85, into which Fitzgerald inserted himself; and Bland’s resistance to Fitzgerald’s ideas, like converting the fleet to natural gas, posting better signage around town, changing the flow of bus routes Downtown and obtaining more corporate sponsorships. “The agency wasn’t going in the direction I’d like it to go,” Fitzgerald added. But the reason most widely cited by board members and county administration is an apparently strained relationship between Bland and state lawmakers. Letwin said that the primary reason the board terminated Bland was because he didn’t lobby effectively enough for statewide transportation funding. “I don’t think any of us have criticisms for Steve in his role as operating executive,” Letwin told reporters Feb. 1. But “we have not had much success in getting a dedicated funding source.” State Sen. Jay Costa doesn’t fault Bland for that specifically, but local lawmakers did chafe at how Bland criticized them for not finding steady funding. Publicly, Bland often said that state politicians were the ones who had to act to find funding to preserve service. At a March 2011 board meeting, for example, Bland told angry protesters, “This problem lies in Harrisburg, not in Pittsburgh.” “It wasn’t [Bland’s] role to deliver [a solution]. However it was clearly his role to maintain the relationships and set the table for a positive outcome,” says Costa, senate Democratic leader. Meanwhile, Costa says, local legislators were lobbying then-Gov. Ed Rendell to flex funds to the agency to avert devastating service reductions. In 2010, for example, Rendell flexed nearly $45 million to the agency, enabling it to avert the worst of a planned 35 percent service cut. “Nobody else [got flex funding]. Colleagues around the state, especially in Philadelphia, said, ‘What the hell is going on here?’” says Costa. “It’s frustrating. We’re working … to bring home large chunks of money and still getting blamed.” Costa said that lawmakers were also shut out from offering input on route changes and other day-to-day operations that affect constituents. “It was sort of like a closed shop as to what they did, but when it came to find fault, they laid at the doorstep of the legislators,” Costa says. “There does need to be a little diplomacy, if you will, or political acumen that goes with the position,” Fitzgerald said. Transit advocates say that it’s hard to gauge Bland’s performance at the state
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level. “There’s not a director out there who does not walk the halls of Harrisburg,” says Chris Sandvig, regional policy director for the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group. “It’s important when you’re in a funding crisis that you’re educating lawmakers about what the real issues are. I also think you need a community behind you.” Sandvig praised Bland’s accessibility to community groups, and said that the transit-advocacy movement grew “arguably more robust than it’s ever been.” But he adds that there is a political dimension to the job of running a transit agency. “Anybody that thinks just being a good administrator or just being there for the good of the order is enough to carry you … [is] deluding themselves,” Sandvig says. “You’ve got to be a politician.” Bland isn’t the first authority head to be cut by Fitzgerald’s axe. Fitzgerald also engineered the firing of long-time Department of Health head Bruce Dixon. Fitzgerald maintains such maneuvers are needed to put in place key leaders who can guide the county. And political observers say it’s in Fitzgerald’s purview to appoint people who are in line with his agenda. “There has to be some agreement” between the board appointees and the county executive, says Gerald Shuster, a politicalcommunications professor at the University of Pittsburgh. And an executive has to exercise that authority on the front end because, “By law, these authorities are independents and [appointees] can thumb their
noses at him as long as their term.” But maybe not entirely. Fitzgerald says he asks board and authority members to sign undated letters of resignation, which would allow him to remove a board member whenever he wishes. He says no board member has stepped down or been removed as a result, and that he has “disagreements all the time” with members. Authorities were created to issue debt that finances new projects, and they can have other governmental powers like eminent domain, says Moe Coleman, a professor and former director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics. And while their boards are supposed to be semi-independent, “Executive leaders have always had some leadership responsibility,” he says. Mayor David L. Lawrence, Coleman notes, chaired the Urban Redevelopment Authority, while Mayor Tom Murphy chaired the Housing Authority. Still, Coleman says, Fitzgerald has had an “aggressive” approach. Demanding that appointees give him unsigned resignation letters “is powerful stuff” that treats an authority as if it were a “line agency” or county department. And those moves could damage efforts to attract top-flight candidates to head the agencies, Coleman warns. “You need to run these organizations [with] highly skilled professionals,” he says. “If they think they’ll be second-guessed by political considerations … recruitment becomes an issue.” L D A L E Y @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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me, in my situation, it turned out to be a good thing. “There are definitely pros and cons, [but] it helped me get back on track.” Opinions on the need and effectiveness of using tracking apps this way vary. Dr. Neil Capretto, medical director at Gateway Rehab, has mixed emotions about the Roses’ experience. While he says he’s happy things worked out for this couple, he would not recommend this as a standalone method for ensuring a loved one’s sobriety, especially over counseling for both the addict and the addict’s spouse. “These apps could lull you with a false sense of security. And, people with addiction can be ingenious when finding ways to use,” Capretto says. “Just trust your gut on whether they are slipping into addiction.” Capretto says people who love someone with addiction may be better served by joining a support group such as Al-Anon, rather than using these types of apps to keep their loved ones out of bars or away from drug dealers. “I would caution spouses against thinking they are the only defense. There is only so much you can do for the other person,” Capretto says. “Ultimately, the only person you have control over is you.” As for the makers of these tracking apps, they are quick to tout the advantage of knowing where your loved ones are. Amanda Zweerink, vice president of marketing for Life360, said her company’s product is an app that allows families to stay connected. “We are not a sneaky Big Brother app,” she says. “It is an application that allows families to stay in sync throughout the day.” Life360 is free for Android, IOS and Blackberry. There is a $4.99 monthly fee for non-smartphones. Zweerink says that is because they are harder to track. Though it is marketed primarily to parents, Zweerink says she receives feedback about the app being used in other ways. “We get a lot of email from wives whose husbands are truck drivers [and] who love that they can see where their spouse is on a map. And, we have heard some dramatic stories. Users are able to track down lost purses and stolen cars with police.” But even Zweerink says she recommends having a conversation with family members about how the app will be used before it’s pressed into service. All Life360 users in a family have avatars that appear on map. It is possible to know where all linked phones are at any given time.
Victoria Repice, a spokesperson for NQ Mobile, says her company’s app encourages more conversation between family members. “We believe parents in this digital world need help,” Repice says. “Our product provides that. The location feature makes it easy to know where your kids are.” NQ Family Guardian has a feature called Geo-Fences that allows users to set up a specific area that family members should be in. If they leave that area, an email message is sent to the parent who set the boundaries. In addition to the location services, however, NQ Family Guardian also offers the ability for a user to remotely monitor, by computer or phone, all calls, texts and pictures another family member gets on another linked phone. And what’s the price tag for this level of tracking? Family Guardian costs $34.99 per year after a 30-day free trial. For the ACLU’s Hoover, one of the main concerns is not what an individual will do with the data collected, but rather what the company that collects it will ultimately do. “Technology is presenting new and intriguing ways to collect information about private citizens,” Hoover says. “The real concern is when that intersects with
the government. The data could be mined. When people are using this technology, an electronic trail is created and that info could be found or used.” Hoover said consumers should know what kind of company they are allowing to collect this information. He said people should read the user agreements and be well informed about what they are signing up for. “When private companies have all of this data, they could turn it over to the government,” he says. “Some companies will fight to not turn the info over, like Twitter did recently, but some may not.” For their part, the Roses said they are happy that Jeanne found the app. They credit it with helping Jeanne catch Brad’s slide back into addiction earlier than they could have without it. Now, they are working on rebuilding trust. Jeanne Rose says the app is still installed on the smartphone, and it can be difficult for her to avoid the temptation to locate Brad’s phone when he is home on a weekend pass from the rehab recovery house. “It’s addicting,” says Jeanne Rose. “I want to do it now to ease my nerves when he does not answer the phone. But, I know he’s sober now. I have to trust him.”
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Corbett finally finds a target even less popular than he is: state stores {BY CHRIS POTTER} MAYBE WE shouldn’t be surprised. Gov. Tom Corbett’s popularity, never high, now sunk to new lows. Less than 50 percent of Republicans think he should be re-elected, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll. Women especially despise him. So maybe it’s no wonder he’s turned to alcohol to solve his problems. Yes, with his re-election prospects in jeopardy, Corbett is finally moving forward on a promise made during the 2010 go-round: privatizing Pennsylvania’s state-store system. Perhaps he’s realized that the Liquor Control Board may be the only thing in Pennsylvania less popular than he is. Either way, he came to Pittsburgh last week to announce, “It is time for Pennsylvania to lift the rules that have been in place for 75 years.” Under Corbett’s proposal, the state would sell off licenses for the wholesale and retail sale of alcohol: Corbett estimated proceeds could be up to $1 billion. Grocery stores, convenience stores and other retailers could sell small amounts of wine, beer and liquor. The LCB would focus solely on enforcing liquor laws, and state stores would be shuttered, prompting the layoff of 3,500 employees. And as Corbett is learning, alcohol really can make you feel more popular. Laissez-faire conservatives loved his proposal, naturally: “Pennsylvanians would finally be able to buy bread, beer and Bordeaux all in one stop” asserted Commonwealth Foundation head Matthew J. Brouillette, whose grocery-shopping experiences have apparently not been as alliterative as they might have been. But liberal outlets, like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial page, sung hosannas too. “Retrograde special interests have fought hard against privatizing the LCB,” enthused the paper, whose 2010 endorsement of Corbett was couched almost entirely in touting his privatization pledge. “[T]hose days are over.” Maybe not quite. Already some are objecting to a linchpin of Corbett’s proposal: using liquor-license proceeds to fund education. Corbett wants to earmark the license revenue for spending on programs like early education, school safety, and science/math classes. As the Philadelphia Daily News put it, “With education funding under stress, Corbett believes that taking the
extra money from the sale of licenses … and giving it to school districts as block grants is a game-changer.” The problem is Corbett is a big part of the reason education funding is “under stress” in the first place. In his first budget, you’ll recall, Corbett cut education by $1 billion. Corbett argued, rightly, that federal stimulus money had dried up, prompting the shortfall. And yet when it came time to set a tax on naturalgas drillers, for example, Corbett seemed less concerned with ensuring a windfall for districts than he seems to be today. Understandably, the Pennsylvania State Education Association issued a statement likening the gambit to “holding students hostage.” Even the state’s top-ranked senator, Republican Joe Scarnati, decried the move to link as “Washington-style politics.” I’ll be honest. Newspapers like this one stand to gain from increased liquor advertising. What’s more, it turns out that Scarnati worries that in a private market, there’d be fewer liquor stories in rural areas like his own Jefferson County. So as things stand, it seems, we’re propping up the drinking habits of a county where voters went 3-to-1 for Mitt Romney last year — presumably while decrying socialism and repeating anecdotes about people buying vodka with food stamps. Maybe there’d be less cognitive dissonance if there weren’t so much liquor close to hand? Then again, those 3,500 state-store jobs are union posts, with solid wages. And for all the privatizers’ predictions about job creation, it’s hard to imagine a workforce gain just because Walmart adds the liquor aisle to the work burden of some long-suffering “associate.” Meanwhile, some studies — not all of them union-funded — have also predicted an increase in excess liquor consumption if liquor stores are privatized. And while efforts to privatize liquor sales come up every decade or so, the only sure winners are the politicians. Corbett gets to take up a popular cause, for once, while every elected official can hope for additional campaign contributions — from unions, sure, but also from Harrisburg players like beer distributors and bar owners. At this point, it almost looks like a form of dependency. And maybe boosting privatization is just a form of enabling.
WHILE EFFORTS TO PRIVATIZE LIQUOR SALES COME UP EVERY DECADE OR SO, THE ONLY SURE WINNERS ARE THE POLITICIANS.
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California activist Jonathan Frieman finally got his day in court in January, but a Marin County judge quickly rejected his argument that he is entitled to use the state’s carpool lanes accompanied only by a sheath of corporate papers in the passenger seat. (During the 2012 Republican primaries, Mitt Romney famously asserted a corporation’s general right under the law to be treated as a “person.�) The judge decided that the state legislature’s carpool law was intended only to reduce traffic clutter and that driving with no passenger except corporate papers was unrelated to that goal. Frieman told reporters that he had been carrying the papers around for years, hoping to be challenged.
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Many Japanese men seem to reject smartphones in favor of a low-tech 2002 Fujitsu cellphone, according to a January Wall Street Journal dispatch — because it can help philanderers keep their affairs from lovers’ prying eyes. The phones lack sophisticated tracking features — plus, a buried “privacy� mode gives off only stealth signals when lovers call and leaves no trace of calls, texts or emails. A senior executive for Fujitsu said, “If Tiger Woods had [this phone], he wouldn’t have gotten in trouble.�
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China’s national legislature passed a law in December to establish that people have a duty to visit their aged parents periodically. China’s rapid urbanization has not developed nursing homes and similar facilities to keep pace with the population, and sponsors of the law said it would give the parents a legal right to sue their children for ignoring them.
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Middleburg Heights, Ohio, consisted merely of volunteer teen-agers who are students at the local religious Buckeye Education School. State regulations require that asbestos (known to cause deadly respiratory illnesses) be handled only by certified contractors using hazardousmaterials gear. Buckeye and other officials, while emphasizing that the students were volunteers, declined to say who authorized them to work.
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In November, Tokyo’s Kenichi Ito, 29, bested his own Guinness World Record by a full second (down to 17.47 seconds) in the 100-meter dash — on all fours. Ito runs like a patas monkey, which he has long admired, and which (along with his self-described monkeylike face) inspired him nine years ago to take up “four-legged� running. He reported trouble only once, when he went to the mountains to train and was shot at by a hunter who mistook him for a wild boar.
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Generally, clients are held to account for their lawyers’ errors because the lawyers are their “agents,� but death-row inmates might be treated differently, for they usually do not select or pay for their lawyers — and because the stakes are so high. Alabama, though, looks at the problem unsympathetically, according to a January New York Times report. When an Alabama death-row inmate misses an appealsfiling deadline only because of his lawyer’s error (in murder client Ronald Smith’s case, only because lawyer C. Wade Johnson was an oftenincapacitated methamphetamine addict), the client forgoes the appeal. The Smith case is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. (Alabama also remains the only state in which judges overrule juries and impose the death penalty instead of life in prison.)
Senior pastor Claude Gilliland III was forced to admit to his flock at the New Heart church in Cleburne, Texas, in January that he is a convicted sex offender and that he and his ex-wife had worked in the pornography industry. Gilliland, 54, served four years in prison in the 1990s for sexually assaulting his ex-wife, but in January was nonetheless defended by his congregation. “If we believe in the redemptive work of Christ,� said one parishioner, “then this man is a miracle.� (Gilliland believes he needs no redemption for the assault, for he was innocent of that — but that he had done other bad things during that time that did require redemption.)
William Michael Martin, 45, was charged in January with burglary of the East Texas Medical Center in Lufkin, Texas, where he went apparently in search of women’s underwear and employees’ personal photos, which police said he used as masturbation aids. At his home, police discovered a cache of women’s underwear and several beach balls, which officers learned from photos were so that Martin could put them under his clothing and pose as pregnant.
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God and Shoes: (1) “Prophet� Cindy Jacobs said in a January Internet broadcast that God has revealed Himself to her by mysteriously removing critical shortages in her life, such as her car’s well-worn tires that just kept rolling. “I remember one time that I had a pair of shoes that I wore and wore and wore and wore and wore and it just — for years, these shoes did not wear out.� (2) Dublin, Ireland, inventor David Bonney recently decided to change the marketing of his new shoes to “Atheist Shoes.� Two years earlier, he had started the business with the idea of selling “Christian� shoes that contained water in the soles so that wearers could walk on water.
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In December, the Illinois Times reported that emergency workers were called to a Springfield, Ill., church to rescue Father Tom Donovan, who said that he had been playing with a pair of handcuffs in the rectory and accidentally got stuck. He was also wearing “some sort of gag,� according to the police report. The church told reporters that Father Donovan immediately went on administrative leave and was unable to answer questions.
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Donald Blood III, 55, was charged with DUI in December in Dorset, Vt., after driving into a yard, thinking it was a parking lot. It was actually historic property: the 1852 home in which Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born and which is “a place of sanctuary where people can come to give thanks to God for their new lives.�
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TWO GUYS AND PIE {BY LAUREN DALEY} For the record, there are two guys behind Pittsburgh Pie Guy: Wren McGalliard and Louis Butler. Since last year, the two Greenfield residents have been peddling their pies around town, mostly at pop-up markets and through custom orders. Their pies can also be found at Zeke’s Coffee, in East Liberty, delivered fresh on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The pies include both savory and sweet, and are based on seasonal and as local-as-possible ingredients. Wintertime options include apple crumb, coconut cream, carrot-ginger meringue, pecan and shoofly, among others, while offering custom combinations. Pies range from $18-25, depending on ingredients. Meat pie selections are growing too, McGalliard says. Among the current offerings are: chicken pot pie, English steak and mushroom, and English pork pies. The pair are also experimenting with paleo and vegan pie versions, and are willing to try gluten free, or other nutritionally diverse pies. As their website says: “Challenges are accepted.” But at the end of the day, says McGalliard, their love of pie stems from its established role as a comfort food. And that means some pies weigh out on the side of delicious rather than healthful. Pies are made with a standard flour crust, but requests will be honored for crusts made with chocolate, sweet pastry or homemade graham crackers. “We wanted to make pies the way we would want to eat them,” McGalliard says. “The way we thought was best.” LDALEY@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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ENEATH A SIMPLE awning embellished with kanji, the restaurant window glows with the lights of tableside lamps, while a sushi chef works at a blond-wood sushi bar. Yet at Little Italy’s latest Asian restaurant, the Japanese Fukuda, all is not as traditional as the first glance suggests. The lamps are not bamboo and rice paper, but translucent plastic printed with enlarged fragments of text and imagery, Andy Warhol-style. Tacked to the wall, where we might expect to find a calligraphy scroll, are overlapping sheets of torn floral wallpaper in a display of punk shabby-chic. The sushi is served on slabs of slate, not raku-fired dishes, and the sushi chef is a Caucasian woman. Let these updates prepare you for a menu that is inspired as much by modern American cuisine as it is by ancient Japanese tradition. At Fukuda, roasted beets are powdered, kale is crisped, and pork belly gets its own entrée. Perhaps the word “entrée” is a bit misleading. Fukuda’s brief menu is organized into hot, cold and “special” dishes, and most
Chef’s nagiri/sashimi sampler
every portion is of a size we usually associate with appetizers. This wasn’t noted on the menu, leading us initially to expect the specials to be more like entrées. But once we understood Fukuda’s tapas-like, a la carte approach, we found it ideal for sampling a menu that spans traditional sushi, charcoalgrilled skewers, ramen soup and neatly prepared, sliced proteins.
FUKUDA 4770 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-567-5050 HOURS: Wed.-Sun. lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Wed.-Sat. dinner 6-11 p.m., Sun. 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. late night 11 p.m.-2 a.m. PRICES: Small plates $3-10.50, specials $21-26 LIQUOR: BYOB
CP APPROVED And while the flavors hew closely to those of traditional Japanese preparations, executive chef Matt Kemp isn’t afraid to up the ante on any item, whether by grilling edamame (a delicious innovation that we’ll be trying at home), toasting shiitake slices into crisp chips, or applying foie gras butter
to the traditional street snack of grilled octopus (takoyaki). The result is brilliance. Perhaps it was the attention to detail afforded by the gem-like portions, or perhaps the Japanese ethos of everything being just so, but all offerings were cooked to perfection, flavored so that each component balanced every other, and plated beautifully, to boot. A cold slab of tofu was saved from vegetarian drudgery by salty-peppery shards of crispy kale, pungent garlic, nutty sesame oil, savory sambal and katsuobushi (shaved fish flakes). Another cold dish featured rare slices of tender, rich duck meat in house-made ponzu, or citrus soy sauce. Grilled strips of scallion formed a smoky bed for the meat, while crisped shiitake slices provided a snappy, slightly earthy counterpoint to the salty-tart ponzu. To describe chicken robatayaki as chicken skewers is to give an impression of ordinariness, when in fact the morsels of chicken were impossibly juicy and coated with a bold abundance of salt and pepper that nonetheless did not overwhelm CONTINUES ON PG. 20
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the mild meat; presumably the hot grill was the secret to their success. Ramen, likewise, put the packaged soup usually associated with this name to shame. The broth was densely fortified with poached egg, scallions, garlic paste, simmered young bamboo and succulent, fatty pork belly, in addition to a satisfying skein of the eponymous noodles. Pork belly was also available outside of soup, in a simmered preparation. The kitchen handled it nicely by laying it, fat-side down, on a drizzle of spicy mustard sauce; the fat and sauce almost melted into one another, so that the richness of the meat blended seamlessly into the spicy kick of the mustard, while cilantro, chili and crispy ginger added top notes. It was so delicious that we didn’t want to see it go, yet so rich and intense that eight small slices were ample.
Executive chef Matt Kemp
The aforementioned takoyaki was served as a trio of tiny octopi, each encased in a sort of soft dumpling of foie gras butter, dolloped with house-made, Worcestershirelike takoyaki sauce. This was sprinkled with burgundy beet powder and paper-thin shaved scallion, adding hints of pungent brightness to this rich dish. In addition to the kitchen menu, Fukuda serves sushi and sashimi. The standout of our order was the ikura (Skuna Bay roe), served “battleship” style, with a seaweed wrap to keep the little scarlet bubbles atop their rice; an optional quail egg was a wonderful addition, its rich yolk playing off the salty brightness of the roe. A hamachi-negi (yellowtail-scallion) roll was also excellent, showcasing the excellent quality of the sushi bar’s fresh fish. For those who think Japanese food is either too exciting (raw eel!) or not exciting enough (teriyaki salmon), there is Fukuda. It rests comfortably between the extremes, and there is no place else like it in Pittsburgh. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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MASTERING THE CRAFT
Newly arrived sommelier John Wabeck has big ambitions There are currently only 129 certified Master Sommeliers in the United States. If John Wabeck has his way, he’ll be joining their ranks this year. And luckily for local wine enthusiasts, he’ll be preparing for the rigorous final exam in Pittsburgh. Wabeck is the new wine director at Spoon, the East Liberty restaurant where he’ll refine the wine list and provide guests on“EVERYONE IS the-floor knowledge ON THE about pairing wines their meals. SAME TEAM, withWabeck comes EVEN THOUGH to Pittsburgh via THEY WORK Washington, D.C., and FOR DIFFERENT Northern Virginia, RESTAURANTS.” where he worked first as a chef and, more recently, as wine director of several restaurants. He says that it was a stint working in Napa Valley — the epicenter of United States wine culture — that propelled him to focus his career on wines. “Going to staff tastings at the [legendary Napa restaurant] French Laundry was eye-opening,” he says. Look for his culinary background to come in handy at Spoon; he says that many of the new wine selections for the restaurant will be focused on complimenting executive chef Brian Pekarcik’s cuisine. “It’s going to be a cook’s mentality regarding what goes with what,” he says. That shouldn’t be too tough a challenge for Wabeck, who was awarded a 2009 Food and Wine Magazine “Sommelier of the Year” award. The magazine lauded him for having “compiled an incredibly thoughtful, food-friendly list” at Virginia’s now-closed Inox restaurant. Although Wabeck hasn’t unpacked his moving boxes, he already recognizes that Pittsburgh’s cutting-edge bartenders are “a tight-knit community.” He hopes to see the same thing happen with servers at restaurants featuring wine-focused bar programs. Becoming a Master Sommelier isn’t easy: Only 10 percent of those who take the final exam pass. But by promoting the Court of Master Sommeliers in Pittsburgh, Wabeck says he hopes to encourage a “sharing of ideas. Everyone gets better. Everyone is on the same team, even though they work for different restaurants.” First, though, “I have to pass.” INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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BAR MARCO. 2216 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-471-1900. At this former firehouse-turnedrestaurant, a small but wellcurated menu makes a perfect complement to this venue’s wine and cocktail list. The tapas-inspired roster ranges from charcuterie plates and classics, like patatas bravas, to smoked-pork tamales and grilled radicchio and endive salad. KE BRADDOCK’S AMERICAN BRASSERIE. 107 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-992-2005. Aiming for the theater crowd and the casual diner, the menu at this clubby venue ranges from hot sandwiches to steak and seafood dinners. Some of the creative offerings include a local twist: The mussels and frites “Strip District style” combines shellfish with kielbasa and beer, and the Pittsburgh Reuben sandwich incorporates a pierogie. KE THE CARLTON. 500 Grant St., Downtown. 412-391-4152. A mainstay of Downtown dining for two decades, The Carlton delivers the hallmarks of fine dining in an atmosphere refreshingly free of attitude or affectation. The menu is neither stodgy nor cutting-edge; while dishes may verge on the decadent — risotto with lobster and brie? — the flavor and ingredient combinations offer a classic Continental cuisine with contemporary inflections. LE
Bar Marco {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} offers a flexible menu, suitable for all ages, ranging from pub nibblers and wood-fired pizza to nouvelle American entrées. KE CORNERSTONE. 301 Freeport Road, Aspinwall. 412-408-3258. The contemporary American fare at this warm and welcoming venue offers a creative take on a traditional menu. Every dish is served with a twist, but none — such as fancified mac-n-cheese, slow-roasted brisket sliders, grilled lamb burger or pulled-pork nachos — is too twisted. KE DITKA’S RESTAURANT. 1 Robinson Plaza, Robinson. 412-722-1555. With its wood paneling, white tablecloths and $30 entrees, Ditka’s aims for the serious steakhouse market — but never forgets its sports roots: Aliquippa-born Mike Ditka is the former Chicago Bears coach. Try the skirt steak, a Chicago favorite, or a fine-dining staple such as filet Oscar. LE
by adding barbecue to its lineup of sandwiches, pasta and pizza. Now, the lip-smacking BBQ sauce — offered on a variety of dishes — gives the sweets competition. JE KOUS KOUS CAFÉ. 665 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-563-5687. This small Moroccan restaurant mostly eschews clichés like kebab and falafel, instead offering sophisticated preparations such as lamb osso bucco and salmon in sharmoula. Worthy starters include harira (meat and lentil soup), eggplant zaalouk (similar to ratatouille) and grilled sardines. KF
LEGUME BISTRO. 214 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-621-2700. The former Regent Square bistro now has a more urbane Oakland location. To its inspired cuisine based on fresh, seasonal and local, Legume has also added a full bar and in-house butchering. The expanded menu GATTO CYCLE might include: steaks, www. per pa DINER. Wood Street lamb kielbasa with pghcitym .co and Seventh Avenue, celeriac puree, grilled Tarentum. 724-224-0500. escarole and lemonThis lovingly restored 1949 verbena panna cotta. LE vintage diner, now appended to a motorcycle shop, serves THE LIBRARY. 2304 E. Carson St., breakfast, sandwiches and South Side. 412-381-0517. The burgers, all re-named in honor entrée list at this bookish-themed of motorbikes. Nitro chili gets bistro is short, usually a good its kick from onions, hot sauce sign that the chef is focusing on and sliced jalapenos; the Barthe strengths of both his kitchen B-Q Glide sandwich is topped and the season’s freshest foods. with bacon, barbecue sauce and Dishes revolve around the staples cheddar; and the Sportster is a of meat, seafood and pasta, delicious tuna melt. J but in fearless and successful preparations that make the menu GULLIFTY’S. 1922 Murray Ave., a worthwhile read. KE Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8222. Gullifty’s desserts are so well MAURAMORI CAFÉ. 5202 known that people go to this Butler Street, Lawrenceville. neighborhood mainstay for 412-408-3160. This café-style nothing else. But Gullifty’s has breakfast-lunch spot serves, spiced up its dining experience as expected, bacon, eggs,
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OLIVES AND PEPPERS. 6052 William Flynn Highway (Route 8), Bakerstown. 724444-7499. This casual Italian spot that offers pizza, pasta and sandwiches as well as more refined entrees. The meat-andcheese sandwiches are a forte, with ciabatta “panini” and hoagies options. The lasagna is enormous, its homemade noodles laden with a creamy five-cheese mix and a savory Bolognese sauce with meatballlike chunks of beef. KE SMOKE BARBECUE TAQUERIA. 225 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead. 412-205-3039. This venue combines fantastically smoked meats on freshly made tortillas, dressed with updated traditional toppings. The simple menu consists of a few tacos and sides: The meat — pulled pork, chicken, brisket and ribs — is uniformly tender and flavorful, and the sides (beans, potato salad, apple-jalapeño coleslaw) are top-notch. JF
“IT’S REALLY ABOUT WAKING PEOPLE UP TO EATING GOOD FOOD.” “We just thought it was really neat that a chef from a big restaurant in Pittsburgh would offer a class,” Owens says, adding that they both like to cook but had never tried fermenting. With little to be made in direct profit, those offering the classes say it’s about sharing the passion behind what they do. “If you get involved in food, it’s politics,” says Rosemarie Perla, a committee member for Slow Food Pittsburgh who has started a monthly cooking class for kids and adults ($10 per student) at Marty’s Market, in the Strip District. She focuses on basic skills, such as how to use a knife and how to cut vegetables. The class then cooks a simple meal together, usually a rice or capellini pasta dish made with vegetables and olive oil, crushed garlic and grated Parmesan. “It’s really about waking people up to eating good food,” she says. Luke Shaffer, owner of 21st Street Coffee in the Strip District, just began offering $5 coffee cuppings, a formal evaluation of aroma and taste, every other Sunday. He says his classes are a way to carve out time for customers who have questions about coffee and brewing methods. “I don’t think our job is to educate customers as much as it is to make what we enjoy accessible to them,” he says.
TAMARIND FLAVOR OF INDIA. 257 N. Craig St., Oakland (412-605-0500); 2101 Green Tree Road, Green Tree (412-278-4848); and 10 St. Francis Way, Cranberry (724-772-9191). This menu combines southern Indian cuisine with northern Indian favorites, including meat, poultry, seafood and vegetable curries with rice. Chief among its specialties are dosas, the enormous, papery-thin pancakes that are perhaps the definitive southern Indian dish. JE WINGHART’S BURGER AND WHISKEY BAR. 5 Market Square, Downtown. 412-434-5600. Big, beefy burgers, wood-fired pizza and a selection of whiskeys make this sliver of a bar and restaurant a welcome addition to Market Square. Burger toppings range from standard cheeses and fried onions to arugula and truffle oil. And don’t miss the pizza, with its excellent crust, that balances nimbly between pizzeria-grade and gourmet. JE
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AMIGOS ADAPTATION Composers Elmer Bernstein and Randy Newman aside, few will ever know the score to the movie ¡Three Amigos! as well as Orion Czarnecki. This week, Czarnecki and an impressive collection of local musicians will unveil ¡Amigos Live!, a colossal rock ’n’ roll adaptation of the entire western- and Latin-themed soundtrack. With the live show, Czarnecki hopes to promote and fund the completion of his independent documentary chronicling the history of ¡Three Amigos! Czarnecki began work on the documentary in 2011, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the 1986 comedy — which, for the uninitiated, stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Chevy Chase as silent film stars who are mistaken for real heroes by Mexican villagers. “[It] wasn’t celebrated like Rocky Horror Picture Show or any of those cult movies, and I kind of took offense to that,” Czarnecki says. Despite being a filmmaking novice, he managed to set up an interview with Alfonso Arau, who played El Guapo, the movie’s villain and the personification of all challenges. (As Martin’s character puts it, “We all have an El Guapo to face someday!”) With Arau on board, Czarnecki remembers, “all these other actors started coming out of the woodwork.” Now in need of a soundtrack for the documentary, bassist Alan Barker suggested adapting and performing the original score themselves. Czarnecki — who has worked as a session drummer in Nashville and played in local rock bands — assembled his favorite Pittsburgh talent, and began the work of transposing the music for a sevenpiece ensemble. Though many fans could doubtless hum a bar or two of “My Little Buttercup,” Czarnecki says, “a lot of people who watch the movie don’t hear the score and how beautiful it is.” ¡Amigos Live! will also feature a choir, special guest musicians and a preview of the documentary. Naturally, Czarnecki has not been without his own El Guapo in the face of these ambitious projects. “Self-doubt is something that I think we all struggle with,” he says. “These guys [in the movie] had to decide if they were men or mice. As soon as we can celebrate those struggles, we can be the people we want to be.”
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Living the myth: Coheed and Cambria (Claudio Sanchez, foreground)
embraced their destiny: They would henceforth make concept albums based on Sanchez’ fantasy adventures, and renamed the band after the two main characters, Coheed and Cambria. An unlikely gambit, but psychologically necessary for the shy, private Sanchez.
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“I was the frontman in a band, but I didn’t have the right personality,” says Sanchez. “The one thing I could do was create a fiction or front to hide behind.” At the time, “I didn’t envision it would become as big and as eclectic.” Coheed’s fantasy-space-opera, dubbed
The Amory Wars, has earned them a uniquely epic niche. Today, it comprises six concept albums, a novel, a graphic novel and two comic series. And, of course, a rock ’n’ roll band — yea, of mortal men. The band debuted in 2002 with The Second Stage Turbine Blade, followed by the more assured In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. Switching from indie label Equal Vision to Columbia Records, Coheed began toughening its sound, adding a metallic sheen still evident today. “There are moments of complexity, certainly,” Sanchez says, “but at the same time, there is the release through that. And that’s sort of what I like: the contrast, the release of something so simple, and then the intensity of something so jarring.” In 2005, Coheed’s major-label debut hit No. 7 on the Billboard 200. The market for Coheed’s multi-part epics has remained strong, and shows no signs of slowing for the band’s February release, The Afterman: Ascension.
As the band grew, it looked for ways to add visuals to the experience. “For Floyd, it was The Wall,” says Sanchez. For him, it was comics; as a child, he’d wanted to illustrate comics, but lacked the skill. “I thought, why not try my hand at writing them?” In comics and novels, The Amory Wars has become a labyrinth of mythic themes and messianic plots, popcorn sci-fi/horror action and sprawling casts of characters with names like “Evagria the Faithful.” “I’ve always liked stories like that,” says Sanchez. “I just like when things branch off and you can see things from other people’s perspectives,” he says. Lots of people apparently agree. Whether we’re watching Lost, reading A Game of Thrones or listening to Coheed, we take pleasure in unraveling, perhaps more than in discovering whatever substance (or lack thereof) lies beneath. Now the Coheed saga may hit the big screen: Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson have announced they’ll produce a live-action film. “It just grows,” says Sanchez, “and it’s become my own sort of mythology.” While he’s indebted to Star Wars and Stan Lee’s Marvel mythology, classical sources come second-hand to Sanchez. “I know George Lucas had this fixation with Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, so all of those archetypes spill into these pop-culture myths, and then I consume them.” While few can match Coheed’s singlemindedness, the band wasn’t the first to pair music and comic books. “I’ve always seen a real connection between rock ’n’ roll and comics,” says aficionado Wayne Wise, taking a break from his work at Oakland’s Phantom of the Attic Comics. “At their best, they have a subversive quality.” Emerging in the 1940s and ’50s, rock and comics were products for a newly discovered demographic: teens. Glam’s rise in the ’70s blurred the lines between comic-book superheroes and rock stars like David Bowie and Alice Cooper. Wise’s first concert? Seeing KISS in 1978, at the Civic Arena. “I was drawn to that kind of music because of the costumes,” he says. KISS began its ongoing comics in 1977 (the first issue’s cover proclaims, “Printed in real KISS blood”). The crossover continues today, notes Wise, pulling out an issue of Orchid, written by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. The Amory Wars seems to sell primarily to fans of the band, Wise says. He’s found more appeal for the Umbrella Academy series, by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. N E W S
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music, there would be none of the other stuff, so I would say that is the gateway.” But with each new album or book, Coheed’s universe grows richer — and perhaps more like the myths Joseph Campbell popularized in his lectures and broadcasts. The Amory Wars suggests that behind our tidy suburbs and domestic routines lies a mystical universe of monstrous deeds and complexity. And for Sanchez at least, The Amory Wars offers psychological tools for navigating life’s stages. The saga serves as “some parallel or extension” for his life, “and it’s allowed me to overcome some of those trials, maybe see myself in a different light,” Sanchez says. “In a way, it helps power me.”
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When Caleb Pogyor finished the rough mixes for his new EP, he immediately sent them to Nate McDonough, a comic artist and illustrator. Newly released, Terra comprises seven songs and a booklet of McDonough’s illustrations. Unlike Coheed and Cambria’s sprawling epic (see main feature, “Drawing Inpiration”), no single narrative unites Terra; to Pogyor, it’s “more of a poetry book of visuals.” Pogyor, a West Newton native, debuted as a singer-songwriter in 2010, releasing I’m Talking to You. When he began Terra, in early 2012, he focused on character-driven songs over autobiography. “I tried taking friends’ stories, writing from their perspective,” says Pogyor, and derived imagery and ideas from his meditation practice. The situations he describes can be extreme, such as “Land of the Free” — a Nick Cave-influenced song narrated by a paranoid killer. Pogyor and McDonough met while working at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, soon realizing they shared a similar creative work ethic. McDonough self-publishes a comic called Grixly, volunteers at Polish Hill’s Copacetic Comics Company, and has collaborated on illustration projects including a graphic novel. Terra “is definitely Caleb’s thing,” says McDonough, but the collaboration “felt like a natural thing.” He enjoyed working within the project’s constraints, and developed his visual ideas while listening to the music; “it’s different listening to songs looking for imagery,” he says. For “Terra Revisited,” McDonough brings the lyrics to life: “a vacant house / no sheets to make a bed / where you rest your dizzy head.” In others, like “Streetwalker,” his oblique references create “something lonely and desolate, surreal.” “I was always a fan of looking at the booklet while listening to the music,” says Pogyor. For listeners, they hope the Terra package “shows we took some time.” Terra is available for free download on Pogyor’s Bandcamp page (calebpogyor.bandcamp. com), and includes the comic book as a PDF. A limited physical edition will also be available.
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In the 1980s, Reid Paley led the Pittsburgh-based band The Five; the group later moved to Boston. He’s now on a short tour with Black Francis, of The Pixies, with whom he’s collaborated in the past as Paley and Francis. A longer version of this interview appears on FFW>>, our music blog. DID YOU MEET BLACK FRANCIS WAY BACK WHEN YOU WERE IN BOSTON? In the Boston music scene, [The Five] did pretty well. We were weekend headliners. And at one point somebody put this band I’d never heard of on a bill. And I walked in and there he was, and that was how we met. That was The Pixies. And I watched them and said, “Hey, this is a really fucking good band!” IT WORKED OUT FOR THEM. Yeah, and it’s great — it’s a rare thing when something good and something smart gets recognized. A LOT OF CRITICS REFER TO YOU AS UNDERAPPRECIATED. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS? I think my life would be a hell of a lot easier if I just put on a cowboy hat and decided I was a country-western guy, or dressed “x” way and became “x.” If you go to any town, there are a bunch of hardcore kids with shaved heads who dance in a circle, and if you’re a psychedelic band, you go to any town and there’s a certain amount of vaguely effeminate guys with paisley shirts and pointy shoes and bowl haircuts and semi-attractive girls in short dresses — you know what I mean? There’s always a crowd for a genre band; I’m not a genre guy. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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REID PALEY with BLACK FRANCIS. 8 p.m. Tue., Feb. 12. Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. Sold out. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com
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FRI 08 ALTAR BAR. Before You Exit, Hello Highway. Strip District. 412-263-2877. BAVINGTON ROAD HOUSE. Marino Erwin. Burgettstown. 724-899-2448. BRILLOBOX. Johnny Naples Trio, Dirty Charms, The Williams Band. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. CLUB CAFE. Ben Hackett, Dustin Hook (Early) Household Stories, Antimony, Steve Hawk (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950. FRANKIE’S. Killroom. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. GOOD TIME BAR. The Kardasz Brothers. Millvale. 412-821-9968. HAMBONE’S. The Dressed Frets, Charm & Chain. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. HEY ANDY’S. Fungus. Monongahela. 724-258-4755. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Driftwood, The Armadillos, Modern Nature. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Dancing Queen. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini w/ Guitar Zack. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. MR. SMALLS THEATER. 3rd Annual Pittsburgh Rock Music Awards. Millvale. 866-468-3401. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. The Olga Watkins Band. Downtown. 412-471-9100. PLUMA. Aces Full. Irwin. 724-864-7450. REX THEATER. Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Dopapod. South Side. 412-381-6811. SMILING MOOSE. Action Item Shatter Messiah, Shrouded In
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Neglect (SIN), Curse the Wicked, Klaymore. South Side. 412-431-4668. STAGE AE. The Lumineers. North Side. THE KINLOCH FIREHALL. Timinem. Lower Burrell. 724-335-6715. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Fourth Rvier Revival, CMB. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. THE WOODEN NICKEL. No Assembly Required. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.
SAT 09 31ST STREET PUB. Supervoid, Slaves BC, Meth Quarry. Strip District. 412-391-8334. BALTIMORE HOUSE. E-Z Action. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800. THE BRONZE HOOD. Daniels & McClain. Robinson. CLUB CAFE. Almost Astronauts (Early) Westward Hollow, Parachute Adams (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950. THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Angels of Osirus, Motometer, Driftwood Shotgun. Aliquippa. 724-375-5080. FRANKIE’S. Neids Hotel Band.
Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Arvo Zylo, Satyr/Elfheim, Liability, Wasp Nest Head Dress. Garfield. 412-361-2262. HARVEY WILNER’S. Ancient Bloom. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Awful Waffles, Middle Children, Porno Toungue. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MOONDOG’S. TheCause. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. NEW HAZLETT THEATER. ¡Amigos Live! w/ Miguel’s Mariachi Fiesta, Guaracha. A rock interpretation of the Three Amigos score. North Side. 412-320-4610. THE R BAR. The Dave Iglar Band. Dormont. 412-445-5279. REX THEATER. The Show. South Side. 412-381-6811. ROOSTERS ROADHOUSE. Day Break. Bridgeville. 412-221-1543. SMILING MOOSE. LETLIVE letlive., HRVRD, This Is Hell, Conditions, Rescuer Big Gypsy (late). South Side. 412-431-4668. SPEAL’S TAVERN. Ben Shannon. Unknown. THE VALLEY HOTEL. Kings
MP 3 MONDAY WHITE LIKE FIRE
Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local band. This week’s offering comes from White Like Fire, who released an EP called Lies last month. Stream or download the title track on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.
Ransom. Jefferson Hills. 412-233-9800. WATERWORKS - GREENSBURG. Friction. Greenfield. 724-216-5408. THE WOODEN NICKEL. Radio Tokyo. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.
SUN 10 CLUB CAFE. Carrie Rodriguez. South Side. 412-431-4950. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. H.R., The Pressure, The Scotch Bonnets. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
MON 11 MELWOOD SCREENING ROOM. Jozef Van Wissem. With the films of Diego Barrera. Oakland. 412-682-4111.
TUE 12 CLUB CAFE. Black Francis, Reid Paley. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Little War Twins, Household Stories, Antimony. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series presents Girls, Guns, & Glory. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
WED 13 ALTAR BAR. Allstar Weekend. Strip District. 412-263-2877. BRILLOBOX. Arlo Aldo, Emily Rodgers Band, Sleep Experiments. Arlo Aldo CD release show. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. HARD ROCK CAFE. Jerad Finck, DaDa Dada. Station Square. 412-481-7625. ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Ken Stringfellow, Karl Hendricks, Will Simmons & The Upholsterers. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
DJS THU 07 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Throwdown Thursdays w/ Tracksploitation. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. FRANKIE’S. Mike Fazio. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side. 412-596-2743.
FRI 08 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. Downtown. 412-456-6666. BELVEDERE’S. Dj Zombo Sexplosion! Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Salsa Friday. Downtown. 412-325-6769. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat Friday’s Reggae. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. House Music w/ Hana. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Mt.
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Washington. 412-431-3730. REMEDY. Chocolate Boombox. w/ Newtronn. Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.
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HIP HOP/R&B SAT 09 CJ’S. The Old School Band w/ Flo Wilson. Strip District. 412-642-2377.
WED 13 INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. JE double F. South Side.
1139 PENN AVE. Hot Mass. Late Night Dancing. Disco, House, Techno. 21+ BYOB. 2am-8am Sunday morning. Downtown. BELVEDERE’S. Humanaut Presents CAFE SUPREME. The Usual Suspects. Concert & chili cook-off. “Out of Order”. Lawrenceville. Irwin. 724-861-0990. 412-687-2555. BRILLOBOX. Title Town Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & guests. HARD ROCK CAFE. Lyndsey Smith, Mahajibee Blues, The Booze Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. Brothers Show Band. Station CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Square. 412-481-7625. Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip LEGACY LANES. Ruff House. Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul. Baldwin. 412-653-2695. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. PETER B’S. Sauce Boss. Sarver. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 724-353-2677. 412-431-8800. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Do Sum’n Saturday DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Reggae w/ Dan .32-20 Fully Loaded Dabber. Lawrenceville. www. per pa Blues. Robinson. 412-251-0097. pghcitym .co 412-489-5631. LAVA LOUNGE. FRANK’S PUB & GRILL. Motown Night. w/ Jill West & the Blues Attack. PghSoulDj. Classic Motown, Bethel Park. 412-833-4606. Rare Soul, Funk. South Side. HAMBONE’S. Midnight Special. 412-431-5282. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. THE NEW AMSTERDAM. INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. Billy Pilgrim. Lawrenceville. The Rhythm Aces. South Side. 412-904-2915. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3730. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. & SPEAKEASY. Sweaty Betty. South Side. 412-431-2825. North Side. 412-904-3335. S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-481-7227.
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CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CJ’S. The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL. NAT w/ Walt Maddox. A tribute to Nat King Cole. Bethel Park. 724-746-1178. LITTLE E’S. Lilly Abreu. Downtown. 412-392-2217. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Phat Man Dee w/ Tony DePaolis, Michael Murray & Poogie Bell. Downtown. 412-471-9100. THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Second Saturdays. Jazz-happening series feat. live music, multimedia experimentations, more. Hosted by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze. 412-225-9269.
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FOURTH RIVER REVIVAL PLUS CMB SAT, FEB 9 • 9PM BLUEGRASS
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CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL. NAT w/ Walt Maddox. A tribute to Nat King Cole. Bethel Park. 724-746-1178. ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Jazz at Emmanuel. North Side. 412-231-0454. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Lucarelli Bros. & Peggy Wilson. North Side. 412-904-3335. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Jazz Conspiracy. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.
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SUN 10 BELVEDERE’S. DJ Heather & DJ Ruckus. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara & Digital Dave. North Side. 412-231-7777. SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8. Electro, post punk, industrial, new wave, alternative dance. South Side. 412-431-4668.
MON 11 FRANKIE’S. Ivory Hustle. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027.
TUE 12 BELVEDERE’S. DJ T$. Lawrenceville. 724-312-4098. ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Groove Tuesdays. Djs provided by 720 Music. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.
WED 13 AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Outtareach. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. SAVOY RESTAURANT. Latin Savoy Night. Strip District. 412-281-0660. SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
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FRI 08 ANDYS. Maureen Budway. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL. NAT w/ Walt Maddox. A tribute to Nat King Cole. Bethel Park. 724-746-1178. LITTLE E’S. The Skip Peck Trio. Downtown. 412-392-2217. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Tony Campbell. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. THE ZONE PITTSBURGH SPORTS BAR & GRILL. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet feat. Barbara Ray. Green Tree.
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CARNEGIE LECTURE HALL. The Seldom Scene. Oakland. 412-361-1915. OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525. PENN BREWERY. Derek Davis. North Side. 412-237-9400. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Rick Bruening. Strip District. 412-281-4505. ROMAN BISTRO. Blake & Dean. Forest Hills. 412-871-3704. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Tiger Maple String Band, Midnight Drive. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
SUN 10 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Matisyahu. Munhall. 412-368-5225.
WED 13 THE R BAR. The Flow Band. Dormont. 412-445-5279.
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SUN 10 HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. James Parenti, Keenan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Meara, Mistr Bojangles, more. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.
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SAT 09 BUTLER COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Passionate Russians concert feat. Shostakovich, Ragonese & Tchaikovsky. Butler Intermediate High School, Butler. 724-283-1402. CARNEGIE MELLON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. An Evening of European Dances. Palace Theatre,
Greensburg. 724-836-8000. CHATHAM BAROQUE. Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Library: Works by Geminiani, Purcell, Arne, Haydn & others. Synod Hall, Oakland. 412-621-6204. MUSIC FOR ORGAN, PIANO, & TENOR. w/ Edward Alan Moore, Nathan Carterette, Joseph Gaines. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800. OPUS II STRING ORCHESTRA. Beulah Presbyterian Church, Churchill.
SUN 10 CHATHAM BAROQUE. Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Library: Works by Geminiani, Purcell, Arne, Haydn & others. Laughlin Music Center. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-365-1100.
OTHER MUSIC FRI 08 STRAND THEATER. The Music of Boublil & Sheonberg. Broadway Concert Series. Zelienople. 724-742-0400.
SAT 09 LEMONT. Jason Miller & Steve Jackson. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. STRAND THEATER. The Music of Boublil & Sheonberg. Broadway Concert Series. Zelienople. 724-742-0400.
TUE 12 MAD MEX. Renaissance City Choirs. Choral Carnaval. Fundraiser for RCC. Shadyside. 412-345-0815.
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February 6-12 WEDNESDAY 66 Walk The Moon
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Pacific Air. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
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My Funny Valentine HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. Through Feb. 10.
Matisyahu
CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225. With special guest Levi Robin. All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com. 8p.m.
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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Before You Exit, Paradise Fears & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6p.m.
STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.
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Carrie Rodriquez The ‘Give Me All You Got’ Tour CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.
REBECCA LUKER, VOCALIST
MY FUNNY VALENTINE
REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. With special guests Consider the Source. Over 17 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 10p.m.
Dopapod REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. With special guests Ultraviolet Hippopotamus. All ages show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
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Coheed and Cambria STAGE AE North Side. With Between the Buried and Me & Russian Circles. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
OFF THE WALL 2013: Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10
Dancing Queen JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333. $7 cover. For more info visit jergels.com. 9p.m.
John Pinette - Still Hungry Tour BYHAM THEATER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.
ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. 412-237-8300. Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.
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Dark Star Orchestra
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Millvale. 412-821-4447 With special guests Devin Townsend Project & The Atlas Moth. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb. com/opusone. 8p.m.
Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra - An Evening of European Dances
Love 3 Ways featuring Tiger Maple String Band Sean Jones, Gregory Porter & Carolyn Perteete / Midnight Drive
PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. Free. For more info visit music.cmu.edu. 8p.m.
THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-6820177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
Gojira MR. SMALLS THEATRE
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CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225. With special guest Levi Robin. All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com. 8p.m.
CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE Downtown. 412-4566666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 7:30p.m. & 9:30p.m.
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HEAD GAMES {BY AL HOFF}
OSCAR SHORT-DOCS PROGRAM LENGTHY, UPLIFTING AND TEAR-JERKING
Steven Soderbergh’s latest (and, he says, last) film, Side Effects, is a throwback to those twisty-turny, sex-and-murder-andbusiness melodramas of the late 1980s. It begins with a bloody crime scene at a New York apartment, and flashes back to show its residents — emotionally fragile Emily (Rooney Mara) and her husband, Martin (Channing Tatum), just released from prison for insider trading. Emily suffers a breakdown, is treated by a kind but ambitious psychiatrist (Jude Law), and winds up on a new wonder drug recommended by her former doctor (Catherine Zeta-Jones). As soon as you can say, “may cause confusion,” the story starts enjoyably slipping and sliding through truths, lies, backstories and devious intentions.
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The happy couple? Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum
Just as Soderbergh’s 2012 film, the male-stripper romp Magic Mike, ever-so-slightly flirted with larger issues like the economic downturn, so too does Side Effects lightly tap current concerns about psycho-pharmaceuticals and how they’re deployed and marketed. (This is a thriller that rewards those who sit through all those mystifying TV ads for drugs that make clouds go away.) And, if like me, you’re sentimental for Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and their many imitators, this film should make an excellent diversion for a cold February night: pretty people with ugly insides, and a popcorn-friendly loop-de-loop plot. Starts Fri., Feb. 8. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
THE FRESHMAN. A college newbie will do anything to be popular on campus. Harold Lloyd stars in this 1925 silent comedy, from Fred C. Newmeyer. 2 p.m. Sun., Feb. 10. Hollywood
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OR THIS YEAR’S program of Oscarnominated short documentaries, you’ll get your money’s worth. Each of the five films is 40 minutes long (there will be an intermission). And you may want to pack an industrial-sized handkerchief. That’s not to say these films don’t celebrate the human spirit, and the fortitude of those who struggle (and sometimes succeed), but there’s no escaping that this year’s selections all have roots in the downbeat. Inocente. “Just because I’m homeless doesn’t mean I don’t have a life.” Fifteenyear-old Inocente has a troubled home life, shifting from shelter to shelter in San Diego. But the bubbly teen finds joy and release in art, particularly the colorful, large-scale paintings that depict her dreams. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s film finds the heart in Inocente’s struggle, as she ties her hopes to an arts program. In English, and Spanish, with subtitles. Mondays at Racine. Once a month, Long Island’s Racine salon opens its doors to women with cancer. Besides providing beauty “pick-me-ups,” the salon functions
From top, clockwise: “Inocente,” “King’s Point,” “Mondays at Racine,” “Open Heart” and “Redemption”
as an informal support center. In Cynthia Wade’s film, the women — including one who’s in her second decade of living with cancer, and a young mom, newly diagnosed — give candid interviews, sharing how the illness affects their marriage to the feelings of distress at losing outward signs of femininity.
OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS Screens over two weekends: Feb. 8-10 and Feb. 15-17 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org for schedule Starts Fri., Feb. 8. Melwood
CP APPROVED Open Heart. In Rwanda, eight gravely ill children are picked to receive free heart operations at a hospital 2,500 miles away in Sudan. Filmmaker Kief Davidson travels with these frail and under-sized children as they embark on a journey both exciting
and terrifying. They leave behind hopeful, if shell-shocked parents. One dad says he doesn’t know where Sudan is, and numbly agrees when told if his child dies there, the body will not be returned. In English and various languages, with subtitles. King’s Point. Retiring to sunny Florida sounds grand, but Sari Gilman’s film looks at some of the emotional costs for a group of seniors, living for decades at the King’s Point retirement village. Loneliness, boredom and a reluctance to form lasting relationships leave some less than satisfied with this isolated “paradise.” Redemption. In New York City, redeemed bottles and cans earn five cents each. Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill film looks at a variety of folks who make their living scavenging through New York’s garbage (there is a surprisingly fraternity). Long shots up Gotham’s canyons traversed by tiny people pushing shopping carts piled high with bags of cans recall a nature documentary about other lowly, unseen and yet useful shifters of debris. In English and various languages, with subtitles. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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NEW BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. What are the otherworldly secrets in this small Southern town? Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons star in this gothic melodrama, directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You). Starts Thu., Feb. 14. ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH. In this animated comedy, astronauts on the planet Baab have daring adventures, including a mission to a dangerous place known as Earth. Cal Brunker directs. Starts Thu., Feb. 14. A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD. It never ends for kick-ass cop John McLane (Bruce Willis). Now he’s got to travel to Russia to sort out his son, a CIA agent, and hopefully stop nukes from going off. John Moore directs the fifth film in the “Die Hard” franchise. Starts Thu., Feb. 14. THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. The term “war on drugs” was coined by Richard Nixon more than four decades ago, and Eugene Jarecki’s searing documentary-slash-essay takes a cleareyed look at the economic and social costs of this so-called war. Jarecki weaves personal stories together with numbers and interviews with offenders, jailers, judges, cops, academics and families caught up in the ripple effects. Throughout the film, David Simon, a former police reporter who made his street-level study of the drug war the basis for his HBO series The Wire, offers an underscoring refrain about the systemic failure of the war.
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The Waiting Room IDENTITY THIEF. We know comic actress Melissa McCarthy can steal a scene, but is she playing a real thief here? Jason Bateman co-stars in Seth Gordon’s comedy. Starts Fri., Feb. 8.
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SAFE HAVEN. North Carolina beach house. A woman with a mysterious past. A hot young widower. Dancing in the rain. If you guessed, “a new film adapted from a Nicholas Sparks’ novel,” you’re a winner. Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough star; Lasse Halsström directs. Starts Thu., Feb. 14. TOP GUN IN 3-D. Can Tom Cruise, the machosensitive, supersonic Navy pilot, still take your breath away? Find out whether Tony Scott’s 1986 actionromance still flies high — now with added 3-D. Starts Fri., Feb. 8. WAITING ROOM. Peter Nicks’ new CP THE documentary depicts a day at the emergency room of a public hospital in Oakland, Calif., exposing the hard work and frustration that make up one of health care’s thinly stretched safety nets. The film unfolds with no narration, stitching together scenes from the waiting room, triage desk and examination rooms. Despite this lack of frills, it’s a surprisingly humanistic approach; you’ll want to know how it all works out for these people you meet — patients and staff — who fight to maintain dignity and composure in an environment inclined to cause frustration and anger. Ailments run from strep throat and chronic diseases to gunshots and vague complaints; patients include a drug addict picked up on the street to a young man bounced from a private hospital after being diagnosed with a testicular tumor. But far too many “health” challenges involve fighting the system — paperwork, bills and the Sisyphean task of finding available beds and doctors. The film neatly encapsulates how leaving the emergency room as the last resort for the uninsured is an imperfect solution for providing health care. That’s infuriating and depressing, and rightly so. Yet this film also underscores the humanity beneath the bureaucracy, and the commitment of the staff to processing an endless stream of hurting people. Health care is an ugly, sprawling social, political and economic battle, but the frontline — this waiting room — is still made up of, as one nurse calls them, “all these beautiful people.” Thu., Feb. 7, through Sun., Feb. 10. Hollywood (AH)
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EAST OF EDEN. Elia Kazan’s truncated 1954 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s multigenerational novel stars James Dean, in his other sensitive, troubled teen role. But in fairness, he’s got some burdens: His dad favors his “good” brother; his mom is a noted madam; and every time he tries to do something right, it turns out all wrong. (This is surely the only film that will make you feel bad about lettuce.) Dean slouches, mumbles and weeps through all the melodrama, winning the hearts of sweet girls, bad boys and method actors the world over. 7 p.m. Thu., Feb. 7. Melwood (AH)
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BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES. Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore’s new documentary looks at a group of women who, in the early 1970s, taught themselves midwifery while living on a commune. The film also looks at how the nature of giving birth has become more medically oriented, amid the struggle to keep midwife traditions alive. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 9. Shining Light Prenatal Education, 3701 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10 donation (benefits scholarship fund). 412-915-6167 TAXI DRIVER. Ride around New York City with Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), nightshift cabbie and severely disengaged paranoid, in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 neo-noir classic. The city’s a cesspool, a literal manifestation of the nation’s moral decay. No way to fix it but to arm up and get violent. Scorsese captures the full-senses assault with jump-cuts, swoopy cameras and mad colors, and is ably aided by Bernard Hermann’s moody score. Pure America, on a dark, dark day. 9 p.m. Fri., Feb. 8; 9 p.m. Sat., Feb. 9; and 7 p.m. Sun., Feb. 10. Hollywood (AH)
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CASABLANCA. In this 1942 classic directed by Michael Curtiz, an American guy has a café in Casablanca, where everybody goes. By rights this film should have been a disaster: It all takes place in one room; the love story is hokey, based on ridiculous coincidence and interrupted by complicated war details, cheesy patriotism and one-liners; and there are dozens of bit players plus Bogart — this tough guy as a romantic lead nursing a busted heart?! Yet, it’s as close to perfect as a Hollywood film ever was. Screens as this month’s Cine-Brunch. 11 a.m. Sat., Feb. 9. (Brunch at 10 a.m.) Oaks. $6 (film only); $12 (film and brunch). (AH)
PULP FICTION. Quentin Tarantino’s nonlinear, darkly comic 1994 celebration of crime, coincidence and fast-food hamburgers has many noted players, quotable lines and memorable scenes. (If you’ve never seen the film, you can’t go wrong with Christopher Walken’s soliloquy about the Vietnam War … or with Travolta’s bumbling.) Often imitated, Pulp Fiction still holds its own against the scores of pale pretenders that followed. The film continues a Saturday-night series of Oscar classics. Midnight, Sat., Feb. 9. Manor AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER. Leo McCarey’s weepy 1957 romance has long been one of the classic, glossy Hollywood tearjerkers. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, both engaged to other people, fall in love during an ocean voyage. They agree: If they’re still madly in love in six months, they’ll leave their respective betrothed and meet at the top of the Empire State Building. Seems simple enough, but the course of true love rarely runs smooth. Bring a hankie. 8 p.m. Sun., Feb. 10. Regent Square (AH)
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FILM KITCHEN. The series for local and independent artists has a food theme this month, highlighted by Bethany’s Story: The Power From Within, by Janet McKee and Kamen Bonev. The new 70-minute documentary (bethanysstory. com) tells the story of a soccer-loving local teenager who was severely debilitated — paralyzed, at one point — but dramatically returned to health after adopting a raw-food diet. The film features extensive interviews with Bethany, her parents and a variety of health experts, from alternative practioners to mainstream doctors. Also screening is Sean Ferris’ short film “Lunch Time” and two shorts by Ivette Spradlin: “á la créme,” featuring a vegetarian animal puppet, and the comedy “Isobel Gowdie Is My Roommate.” This month’s Film Kitchen will be catered by Whole Foods. 7 p.m. Tue., Feb. 12. Melwood. $6. 412-682-4111 (Bill O’Driscoll)
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5 CENTIMETRES PER SECOND. In this comingof age tale from Makoto Shinkai, two childhood friends meet again as young adults. The 2007 film continues a month-long anime series presented by Pittsburgh Anime Film Series. In Japanese, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Mon., Feb. 11. Frick Fine Arts Building, Oakland. Free. www.ucis.pitt.edu
Film Kitchen NUCLEAR AFTERSHOCKS. This recent Frontline documentary examines the safety of nuclear energy worldwide, especially in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The film screens as part of Duquesne’s Human Rights Film Series. 7 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13. 105 College Hall. Duquesne University, Uptown. Free. www.duq.edu MOULIN ROUGE. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman star in this razzamatazz 2001 musical, set in the fabled Parisian nightclub and scored with modern pop songs. Baz Luhrmann directs. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13. AMC Loews. $5 PURPLE RAIN. If you’ve never seen this deliriously demented autobiographical vanity production about the Rise of Prince on the big screen, consider making a date. All his purple majesty’s highlights — riding his motorcycle, pitching a hissy fit, bleating out the title song and getting upstaged by Morris Day deserve to be writ large. Albert Magnoli directs this 1984 cheese-o-classic. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13. Hollywood ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www. warhol.org
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Douglas Cooper’s “Forbes Field” (2012)
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OUGLAS COOPER makes big draw-
ings for a good reason: namely, that there’s a lot he wants to cram in. Cooper’s celebration of Pittsburgh’s natural and built environment, with past and present co-mingled in a kind of creative non-fiction, seems inexhaustible. His ongoing series in this vein has evolved over the decades but — forays into builtup reliefs and the animation “Pinburgh” notwithstanding — hasn’t changed much in the past 10 years. A survey titled Douglas Cooper: The Eye’s Journey is on exhibit now at Concept Art Gallery. At up to 4 by 8 feet — his murals run much larger — Cooper’s charcoal drawings on paper are as expansive as the view from Mount Washington and as dizzying as a drive down Rialto Street. The handling of perspective ranges from
relatively normal to near-fisheye distortion, often in a single picture. The inclusion of his pencil studies here shows how he carpenters together the various views and perspectives.
DOUGLAS COOPER: THE EYE’S JOURNEY continues through March 3. Concept Art Gallery, 1031 S. Braddock Ave., Edgewood. 412-242-9200 or www.conceptgallery.com
In “McKee Street” (2012), the city’s Oakland neighborhood is rendered in a view approximating what you might see from a low-flying helicopter, with the swirling eddies of road, railroad, river and hillside wrapping around homes and churches, mills and factories, cars, barges and bridges.
Details pop out, such as abandoned appliances in a yard, or a porch with a magnificent yet commonplace view. The curves capture the local terrain with a cartographic quality, but they go beyond that, creating the sense that everything is dynamic and interconnected. Yet where exactly are these scenes, in time as well as space? There’s a “suspension of disbelief,” as they say about movies, and in Cooper’s drawings there’s plenty of freedom taken with space. Neighborhoods and their boundaries are pushed around like a gerrymandered city-council district. Meanwhile, there’s also a layering of time. In his generic renderings of people and automobiles, Cooper withholds details of design and fashion that we rely on to precisely locate images in time. Additionally, things that are long gone, such as Forbes Field or steel mills, CONTINUES ON PG. 36
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coexist with modern buildings and signage, though the dominant presence seems to be somewhere back around 50 years ago. There is some nostalgia tinged with a sense of loss and regret, but it’s really more of a pastiche of memory that commemorates the past without disdaining the present. Unexpectedly, these drawings don’t depict a single time of day, or night. The closer distances are set in darkness with windows aglow and headlights slicing across roads, with the drawings seguing into full daylight in the farther distances. By using a full range of contrast throughout the picture, Cooper’s developed a way to make the transition seamless, and it can be hard to pinpoint exactly what’s creating the slightly disorienting effect even as we know there’s something strange going on. This is not a spoiler; the technique is fully satisfying once you’ve grasped it. Considering that he’s an architecture professor who’s been teaching drawing at Carnegie Mellon University for more than 35 years, it’s not surprising that his work emphasizes buildings, infrastructure and landmarks. His drawings include aspects of cartoons and cartography too, and they look like they could even be studies for paintings, though for Cooper the drawing’s the goal. His style does have limitations, perhaps self-imposed. But that’s a non-issue as he plays to his strengths, relying on the image as a vehicle for visual information to carry the day. He appears to find pleasure in representation, and the pictures feel more expository than expressive. There’s no Matisse-ean elegance of sinuous lines or unexpected marks. All is rendered with the texture of charcoal scratching back and forth, consistent from corner to corner and from year to year. The shading renders three-dimensional form in light and space but says little of the varied nature of matter, which is an omission that’s essential to the diagrammatic, illustrational quality that is Cooper’s signature and strength. Cooper’s drawings distort and dramatize as they convey essences, not unlike theater. With temporal-spatial sleight-ofhand, he manages to be both a realist and a surrealist. If you’re familiar with the locale, there’s a great deal of pleasure to be had in puzzling over the relationship between Cooper’s drawings, with their willful inaccuracies, and what we know to be there. Here. While Cooper’s strategies have been adapted to mural projects depicting Rome, Seattle and elsewhere, Pittsburgh’s roller-coaster terrain seems ideally suited to his approach. On my way home from the gallery, I noted the views of piled up hills and distant houses, and my surroundings seemed different. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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HUNGER GAMES {BY FRED SHAW} When I teach freshman literature, I focus on promoting empathy. And if the better angels of poetry keep alive the possibility of a walk in another’s shoes, then Aaron Smith’s new collection Appetite will leave you feeling like you’ve stepped around the block, laced into the life of a gay speaker looking both inward and outward. Appetite (University of Pittsburgh Press) is Smith’s second book. The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winner for his first collection, Blue on Blue Ground, Smith (an associate professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan) tends to focus on the erotic nature of pop culture while using a speaker who’s still coming to terms with his own sexuality in a country of mixed messages. Smith’s work owes a debt to poets like Reginald Shepherd and Frank O’ Hara, while never settling on a style or tone. In “Safe,” the speaker reminisces about growing up in a house where guns were kept under the parents’ bed, pointing to an easily recognizable all-American lifestyle. In a playful tone, he points to a shameful uneasiness many feel when hormones kick in and bodies change. Speaking of the potential threat that is both firearm and teen-ager, Smith writes, “Sometimes I’d face / them, a microphone, or love / their tiny lips — tongue deep / between my teeth — practicing the kiss / the way my sister used her fist.” It’s a remarkable reminder about the darkness and innocence of puberty. While Smith sometimes wallows in the sexuality to be found in abundant pop-culture references, he’s no one-trick pony. The 72 pages of Appetite deftly utilize poetic forms in funny and painful ways that permit a confessional approach. “What it Feels Like to be Aaron Smith” is effective stream-of-consciousness, while “Fat Ass” is a list-y language poem that plays on that oft-used phrase. And there is enough alternative analysis of cinema to make a reader consider many films in new ways. It’s Smith’s conciseness that stands out in his use of the psalm as a poetic device when considering the impact of life’s small moments. “Psalm (Queer)” is the best example: “Mom held the belt / in her hand, said she could // smack my face over / and over and enjoy it. // Yes, she really said that. / Yes, she loved God that much.” It’s enough to leave a reader slack-jawed, as if slapped by the honesty of an image. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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When in the course: George Merrick (as John Adams) in the Public’s 1776
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DECLARATIONS {BY TED HOOVER} YOU GOTTA love musical theater. A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Les Miz, which is about one of the French Revolutions. Now it’s Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of 1776, the Sherman Edwards (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (book) musical about the American Revolution. Well, really, the crafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here the fiery John Adams, aided by Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, are pushing the Second Continental Congress to break free from England and declare American sovereignty.
1776 continues through Feb. 24. Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15-60. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org
1776 is something of a cult show — highly regarded by theater cognoscenti but rarely performed. It’s an interesting work, written with intelligence, integrity and humor. But it’s also massive: There are 13 colonies sending two representatives per … so you’re looking at a cast of at least 26 men. (Plus Martha Jefferson and Abigail Adams!) There’s not another musical like it. It might be true that it would work better as a non-musical — the numbers feel tacked on — but those songs are undeniably entertaining. Interestingly, 1776 is also about 1969, the year it premiered, with obvious references to the ’60s political divide, Vietnam, the women’s movement and a particularly
scalding section about liberty-spouting men purposely looking away from the enslavement of blacks. What’s most interesting is that there’s no mention of what the American Revolution was really about — Europeans and their offspring fighting for the right to commit genocide and steal native land. Director Ted Pappas does terrific work keeping this large cast and divergent work on task and up to snuff. He does just as well with the sprawling ensemble numbers as with the intimate character scenes. Each of the secondary legislators are giving identifiable, and usually amusing, quirks and this mammoth group hits all available beats. Libby Servais, as Martha, and Trista Moldovan, as Abigail, contribute welcome bright notes and Hayden Tee’s indictment of hypocrisy “Molasses to Rum” is startling and frightening. The role of a Franklin is written almost as a randy burlesque comic, and Steven Vinovich doesn’t miss a laugh. And while George Merrick’s Adams could use a touch more gravitas, ultimately he’s very entertaining — and moving — as the show’s ringleader. I NF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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{BY MICHELLE PILECKI} HENRIK IBSEN rarely conjures a chucklefest, but Quantum Theatre’s ambitious production of the Norwegian giant’s late play John Gabriel Borkman pulls dark humor from the drama of familial angst. Credit director Martin Giles’ bold direction of a perfect cast in a postindustrial space transformed by designer Tony Ferrieri into images ranging from sterile gentility
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to raging snowscape, with sound by Ryan McMasters evoking underground mines to suitable storms. The 1896 play’s backstory is that the title character, driven by lusts for power, played funny business at the bank he ran, leading to the economic ruin of untold innocents. Back then, such adventurous financiers were not rewarded because, alas, they were not too big to fail. Borkman went to prison in disgrace and left an unemployable pauper. Only the charity of his sister-in-law keeps a decent roof over his and his extravagantly estranged family’s heads. Deep dark secrets ensue. Rising tensions and clashes predicted. Once again Ibsen (translated by Michael Meyer) provides the meatiest roles for women. Robin Walsh and Bridget Connors drive the action as sisters and rivals for the affections of ultimately unworthy men. Daina Michelle Griffith vamps as the scheming seductress. Carly Otte abandons much of the reality of the play, becoming a dancing sylph as well as a guileless pawn.
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN continues through Feb. 24. Quantum Theatre at the Hart Building, 6022 Broad St., East Liberty. $18-48. 888-718-4253 or www.quantumtheatre.com
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This is not to overlook the guys. Ken Bolden draws on his repertoire of Shakespearean buffoons to create Borkman’s only sympathetic character, a cheerful nebbish. As the title character, Malcolm Tulip looms over the first act and (metaphorically) bursts into flame in the second, engulfed in his sins, his betrayals and his delusions. Luka Glinsky as the younger Borkman echoes his family’s misplaced dreams. Those of us who remember Giles’ long tenure as artistic director of the scruffy New Group Theatre in the 1980s see his youthful ambitions, and his long conversance with Ibsen, maturely fulfilled in Borkman. He exploits the many tools of the theater for a distinctive and engrossing exploration of a classic. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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STABLE, BORING marriages and mid-life crises have probably sold more cars than every car salesman in history. The REP’s production of Becky’s New Car isn’t subtle about this message. Shoes, flower vases, cups, books and a toilet seat
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are only a few of the banal, everyday commodities that dangle from the ceiling, mocking all the characters. In this 2008 work by Steven Dietz (Fiction, Shooting Star), Becky is a relatively happy wife and mother, employed by a local car dealership. She’s in an ordinary mid-life rut until a filthy-rich widower wanders into the dealership and mistakes her for free game. Does she take a spin in this new, flashy ride or drive back home to her perfectly dull, blessed life? Despite being structured around a quaint, condescending metaphor, Becky’s New Car is a potent comedy, directed by Kim Martin and performed with charm and confidence by The REP. The best parts of Becky come when it swan-dives straight into screwball territory, and The REP has found two spectacular screwball actors in Michael Fuller and Tony Bingham. Fuller plays Steve, one of Becky’s superiors at the dealership. He navigates a series of breathless monologues with panache and charisma without falling into total caricature. Bingham, on the other hand, plays Becky’s average-Joe husband with a deft deadpan.
BECKY’S NEW CAR continues through Feb. 17. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $24-27. 412-392-8000 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com
Jodi Gage, as Becky, is given the impossible task of playing a much older woman. This renders her tryst with Walter (played admirably by Randy Kovitz) less convincing, but her youthful amiability proves to be a comic asset and she carries the production well. The show lends itself well to the arenatheater configuration, allowing the characters to directly address and involve the audience. Their cynicism is all too familiar, but their humor is uncommon. This is an enjoyable night of theater with a laugh for every minute. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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of Almaviva. Jillian Marini and Becky Belczyk alternate in the role of Rosina. JI 7 p.m. Performances continue through Sun., Feb. 10 . Seton Center Auditorium, 1900 Pioneer Ave., Brookline. $20-35. 412-422-7919 or www.undercroftopera.org
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In performance artist Shana Moulton’s “Whispering Pines” series, she portrays her hypochondriac alter ego, Cynthia, who “relishes the lifechanging potential of home décor, beauty routines and self-help mantras.” Consumer products — antiques, footbaths — become objects of devotion, even healing. The latest installment, Whispering Pines 10, is billed as a oneact opera, starring Carnegie Mellon grad Moulton in collaboration with composer
{OPERA} Undercroft Opera brings Rossini’s popular comic opera The Barber of Seville to the Seton Center Auditorium, in Brookline, for four performances this weekend. Directed by Patrick Brannan and accompanied by the Undercroft Orchestra, the opera tells the classic story of the complex schemes that one Count Alamviva weaves to get close to his love, Rosina. Among Undercroft’s cast of trained locally based professional singer, Jeff Gross and Chris Nickell alternate in the role
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likely Pittsburgh debut for this program exploring the vast musical library of the famed polymath and third U.S. president. The program’s two performances this
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{COMEDY} “If you’re here for WikiLeaks jokes, you’ve got the wrong guy,” observes John Pinette in his 2012 Comedy Central special Still Hungry. He’s joking, but he’s not kidding: This is the guy who had titled previous tours Show Me the Buffett and I’m Starvin’! The rotund, baby-faced comedian, whose credits include Hairspray on Broadway and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, brings his gigundo Still Hungry tour to the Byham tonight. Prepare for a full course of humor about stuff like dieting, gyms, restaurants, cruises and the irreducible joys of gluten. BO 8 p.m. 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $40.25. 412-4566666 or www.trustarts.org
+ SAT., FEB. 09 {MUSIC} In Jefferson’s Library, Chatham Baroque investigates the musical world of Thomas Jefferson. The quartet’s performance includes a sonata for violin and continuo by Francesco Geminiani, songs by Franz Josef Haydn and more. The pear-shaped 18th-century instrument known as the English guitar will make a
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weekend also feature two special guests — soprano Laura Heimes and harpsichordist Andrew Appel. JI 8 p.m. (Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland). Also 2:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 10 (Laughlin Music Center, Chatham University campus, Shadyside). $30. 888-718-4253 or www.chathambaroque.org
singles alike are welcome. JI 9 p.m. $25 ($45 per couple). 164 Fort Couch Road, South Hills. www.horrorrealmcon.com
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{ART} Architecture centers get birthday cake, too. At least, the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center does. Tonight’s the opening of 20/20: Celebrating Two Decades of the Heinz Architectural Center, which includes items recalling the Center’s history, plus a video with non-museum folk remembering personal experiences deeply affected by architecture. (Visitors can contribute their own thoughts for an online forum.) The festivities include CAKEitecture, a Hall of Sculpture contest featuring architectural cakes created by five pairs of local architects and designers.
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If cold-weather camping — and bundled-up performers spinning fireballs before a 15-foot-tall sculpture of a snowman — is your bag, check out Frostburn. Western Pennsylvania’s five-day wintertime answer to the famed Burning Man festival is all about art, music, pyro, parties, antics and sharing stuff, Fahrenheit be damned. The sixth annual incarnation is in a new location: Camp Kevin, situated on private grounds near Brookville (along I-80, east of Clarion). This year, more than 400 people camping in tents, cars, RVs, yurts or geodesic domes will engage in Mardi Gras- and Valentine’s-themed events; beer- and bourbon-tastings; Snow Ultimate Frisbee; a polar-plunge; and, of course, a Summer Picnic (complete with potato salad). That big snowman will eventually burn — but campers are required to read the online survival guide, so they are well provisioned and don’t freeze. Frostburn, says longtime co-organizer Kim Bellora, is ultimately about creating community — metaphorical warmth as well as the physical kind. Themed camps providing amenities like coffee, games and hot noodles will add to the communal spirit. But whatever you come to do at what’s shaping up as the biggest Frostburn yet, don’t plan just to watch. “We are coming to be the music, be the art,” she says. Bill O’Driscoll Thu., Feb. 14-Sun., Feb. 18. Brookville, Pa. $60 until Feb. 8; $80 at gate. www.frostburn.org
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to living-building status, so green it even treats its own wastewater on site. Its solar panels, geothermal wells, rain gardens and constructed wetland were in place last spring. Today the CSL (also including office and classroom space) finally opens to the public. Self-guided tours of “one of the greenest buildings on earth” are included with admission. BO 9:30 a.m.5 p.m. One Schenley Park, Oakland. $11-15. 412-6226915 or www.phippscsl.org
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Valentine’s Day celebrations don’t always have to be riddled with kisses and flowers. The horror-film aficionados at Horror Realm offer an alternative with Bloody Valentine: Not Your Usual Holiday Party, a horrorthemed party tonight at the Crowne Plaza in South Hills. In addition to other activities, the event features a buffet, cash bar and an opportunity for attendees to bring a picture of an ex to put through a shredder. Couples and
Among all the issues where progressives thought Obama would be stronger, few have proved more disappointing than civil liberties. (Think expanded surveillance, failure to close Guantanamo, etc.) But as Samuel Walker points out, most presidents Democratic and Republican alike have sketchy records upholding the Bill of Rights. The emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, is the author of Presidents and Civil Liberties
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+ THU., FEB. 14 {VALENTINE’S} Citiparks’ Schenley Rink offers possibly the best Valentine’s deal in town. Valentine’s on Ice (no jokes, please, about cold hearts) is a skating night for couples with lots of indoor extras. You know, stuff like free pizza, hot beverages, salsa lessons, mini-massages and (for the first 175 couples) a rose and assorted chocolates. And the 18-and-over event, presented by Citiparks and 100.7 Star, costs just $4 per couple. BO 7-10 p.m. Overlook Drive, Schenley Park, Oakland. $4 per couple (skate rental not included). 412-422-6523 or www.Citiparks.net
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13 colonies to the United States of America. Tue-Sun. Thru Feb. 24. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Play by David Katzin revolving around the 1849 Astor Place riots in New York City that left at least 25 dead & the Astor Place Theater in ruins. Presented by the Red Masquers. Thu-Sat. Thru Feb. 16. Peter Mills Theater ( Duquesne, Rockwell Hall ), Uptown. 412-396-6000. BARBER OF SEVILLE. Presented by Undercroft Opera. Feb. 7-10. Seton Center, Brookline. 412-561-5511. BECKY’S NEW CAR. Becky, in the middle of a mid-life crisis, is offered a ride to an exciting new life when a socially awkward millionaire walks into the auto dealership where she works. Thu-Sun. Thru Feb. 17. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-621-4445. BROWN BAG CONCERT. Feat. music from The Barber of Seville, Dido & Aeneas, The Marriage of
Figaro. Also feat. sneak preview of Attack Theatre’s new production, Soap Opera. Sat., Feb. 9, 11:30 a.m. Pittsburgh Opera, Strip District. 412-281-0912 x 0. AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS. Collection of one-act plays from the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Presented by Stage Right. Feb. 7-9. Boyd Community Center, O’Hara. 412-228-0566. JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. Henrik Ibsen’s tale of a man’s undoing in the wake of deception & fraud. Wed-Sun. Thru Feb. 24. 6022 Broad St., East Liberty. 1-888-718-4253. PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL. Story of a girl who turns pink after eating too many pink cupcakes. Presented by Stage 62. Fri-Sun. Thru Feb. 17. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-429-6262. SEMINAR. Four aspiring, young novelists learn that the hardest part of writing fiction is facing the facts. Tue-Sun. Thru Feb. 10. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. SISTER ACT. Thru Feb. 10.
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Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666. SUPERHEROES & CARD TRICKS. One-man play that explores what it’s like to be a nerd. Written & performed by Eric Starkey. Mon., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-352-6132. A TUNA CHRISTMAS. A sequel to the comedy Greater Tuna. Fri-Sun. Thru March 24. New Castle Playhouse, New Castle. 724-654-3437. WHISPERING PINES 10. 1-act opera by Shana Moulton & Nick Hallett about a hypochondriac agoraphobe prone to colorful hallucinations & absurd fantasies. Fri., Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300.
COMEDY THU 07 COMEDY OPEN MIC W/ DEREK MINTO. 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.
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FRI 08 BRAD RYAN, CHRIS KEMP, MIKE WYSOCKI. Schitz N Gigglz Comedy Night. 9:30 p.m. Castaway’s, Bridgeville. 412-221-9785. COMIC WARS: LUVAS VS. TEAM PACIFISM. Stand-up & improv challenges. 8 p.m. Mullen’s Bar & Grill, North Side. 310-909-6446. DOC DIXON, TOM MUSIAL, DAVID KAYE. Funny Fundraiser. 6:30 p.m. St. Gregory Byzantine Catholic Church, Upper St. Clair. 412-818-1295. FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Fri, 9 p.m. Thru March 29 Toros Performance Lounge, Friendship. 412-657-4245. JOEL MCHALE. 6:30 p.m. Carnegie Library Of Homestead Music Hall, Munhall. 412-368-5225. JOHN PINETTE. 8 p.m. Byham Theater, Downtown. 412-456-6666. PITTSBURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE W/ MIKE WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side. 412-488-2995.
FRI 08 - SUN 10 JOHN WITHERSPOON. Feb. 8-10 The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.
SAT 09 THE AMISH MONKEYS’ VALENTINE SHOW. Improv sketch comedy. 8 p.m. Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-5201. JOHN EVANS, LIONEL HAMILTON, DAVID KAYE. Funny Fundraiser. 6:30 p.m. Serbian Club, South Side. 412-334-2181. N.Y. NICK, TY MAC. Laugh Your Heart Out fundraiser for NAARAutism Research Alliance. Also feat. music by Hilary Patterson, raffle, more. 7:45 p.m. White Eagles Club, Canonsburg. 724-745-9989. SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers. Sat, 6 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-322-1000.
MON 11 TOTALLY FREE MONDAYS. Mon, 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-322-1000.
TUE 12 OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-612-4030.
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VISUALART NEW THIS WEEK THE BREW HOUSE. The One That Got Away. Work by Meghan Olson & Tom Sarver. Opening reception: Feb. 15, 6-9 p.m. & by appointment. South Side. 412-999-3462. CAVO. Discovery. Local artist showcase feat. Matt Gatto, Brian Gonnella, Duerring Photo, Emily L. Young, Nicole Jarock, Gabe Felice, more. Opens Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Presented by RAW:natural born artists. Steubenville. 412-977-7506. ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY MEDIA ARTS GALLERY. Neographics: The Magic of Print. Feat. work by the Graphic Arts Association. Opening reception: Feb. 7, 58 p.m. Downtown. 412-397-3813. SHAW GALLERIES. Inspirations & Reflections. Paintings & photographs by Robyn Troetschel. Closing reception: Feb. 9, 5-8 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884. WILDCARD. I Heart Art. Group show feat. works under the theme of “love.” Benefits the American Heart Association. Opens Feb. 7. Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651.
ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. Cartoon Nihilism. New Works by Craig Freeman. Downtown. 412-456-2962. 709 PENN GALLERY. The Painting as Object. New work by Fabrizio Gerbino. Downtown. 412-471-6070. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s
Film, Video and Television. Long-term exhibition of Warhol’s film & video work. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300. BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Dream. Paintings by Sue Vincent. Oakland. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Muli media, pottery, woods & jewelry. Frazier. 724-275-7001. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Anne Ducanis, Mary Anne Pischke, Joseph Saber, Cathy Wencel. Watercolors, acrylics, more. Verona. 412-828-1031. BOXHEART GALLERY. Urbane. Paintings by Kuzana Ogg, BoxHeart’s 2013 Artist of the Year. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. BUTLER ART CENTER. Associated Artists of Butler County Annual Invitational Art Show. Over 50 pieces of art by 25 artists. Butler. 724-283-6922. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, SQUIRREL HILL. Afternoons in Bamako: Mali 2010. Photography by Joseph Edgar. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs. 80 vintage prints by some of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. EASTSIDE GALLERY. Ruth Levine. Estate sale of paintings & drawings. East Liberty. 724-433-1179.
CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with classes, car & carriage museum. HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. artifacts and exhibits on the KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Allegheny Valley’s industrial Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666. Hill. 724-329-8501. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, includes jade and ivory statues Fifty Years. Juxtaposing prime from China and Japan, as well examples of Warhol’s paintings, as Meissen porcelain. Butler. sculpture, & films with those by 724-282-0123. other artists who reinterpret, MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY respond, or react to his work. LOG HOUSE. Historic homes North Side. 412-237-8300. open for tours, lectures and more. AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR Monroeville. 412-373-7794. AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. An more than 600 birds from over exhibit exploring 1936 200 species. With classes, lectures, Olympic Games including use of demos and more. North Side. propaganda, the boycott debate, 412-323-7235. history of the torch run, & the OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church historic performance of Jesse features 1823 pipe organ, Owens. Curated by the United Revolutionary War graves. Scott. States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 412-851-9212. Downtown. 412-258-2700. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large BOTANICAL GARDEN. Orchid & collection of automatic roll-played Tropical Bonsai Show. 14 indoor musical instruments and music rooms & 3 outdoor gardens boxes in a mansion setting. feature exotic plants and floral Call for appointment. O’Hara. displays from around 412-782-4231. the world. Oakland. CARNEGIE MUSEUM 412-622-6914. OF ART. Inventing PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. the Modern World: Tintypes. Photographs . Decorative Arts at on polished steel www per a p ty ci the World’s Fairs, that brought the first pgh m o .c 1851–1939. Furniture, lower-cost, indestructible metalwork, glass, ceramics, photos within price range textiles, & jewelry produced of the average person. North by Herman Miller, Tiffany, more. Side. 412-231-7881. 20/20: Celebrating Two Decades PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG of the Heinz Architectural Center. AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 Feat. timeline highlighting animals, including many important exhibitions & events, endangered species. Highland a display of 20 objects from the Park. 412-665-3639. collection selected by current RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL or past curatorial staff, more. HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Oakland. 412-622-3131. Homestead Mill. Steel industry and CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF community artifacts from 1881NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering 1986. Homestead. 412-464-4020. Women: Artisan Cooperatives SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY that Transform Communities. CENTER. 1968: The Year that Folk art objects illustrating the Rocked America. Nearly a dozen power of women working interactive video presentations together to provide for their & more than 100 evocative families, educate their children, artifacts that explore how the year promote equality, & give back to 1968 helped shape our modern their communities. BugWorks. world. From Slavery to Freedom. Feat. beautiful photography of Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the insects, amazing specimens, & live anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: bugs! Life: A Journey Through Western PA Sports Museum, Time & Population Impact thru Clash of Empires, and exhibits on Jan., Winging It: Experimental local history, more. Strip District. Gallery About Birds thru March, 412-454-6000. Lord of the Crane Flies thru SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY April. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, CENTER. Museum commemorates Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Pittsburgh industrialists, local Oakland. 412-622-3131. history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. (planetarium), Miniature Badges & Buttons, Waistcoats & Railroad and Village, USS Requin Vests. Highlights badges by 20 submarine, and more. North Side. makers from the US & the UK. 412-237-3400. Downtown. 412-261-7003 x 12. DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn Small living history museum about distilling and coke-making celebrating the settlement and in this pre-Civil War industrial village. history of the Depreciation Lands. Scottdale. 724-887-7910. Allison Park. 412-486-0563. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. BLOODY VALENTINE PARTY. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL
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ENRICO’S TAZZA D’ORO CAFE. Landscape Paintings. Work by Brett Mason. Highland Park. 412-362-3676. FE GALLERY. A Permanent Gesture. Drawing installation by Stephen Tuomala. Lawrenceville. 412-254-4038. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Revealing Place: Photographs from Missouri, Pennsylvania & Texas. Feat. work of 36 students from 3 universities, in 3 different states. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. The Classic Collection: European & American Classical & Academic Styles. Early 19th & 20th century paintings. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. Architectural Perspectives: Places & Planes. Work by Guglielmo Botter & Ben Saks. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. Genexodus. Handmade paper cuttings by Theodore Bolha. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. Fractures & Israel. Photography by Torey Bocast. Downtown. 412-422-0114. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Spaz & Spazimon. Work by Spaz & Melissa Ciccocioppo. Garfield. 412-924-0634. LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922. LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. Valencia. 724-316-9326. LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Landscape Expressions. Work by Lynn Fero. Downtown. 412-392-8008. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Topographies. Work by Barbara Sorensen. North Side. 412-322-1773. MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. New work by Julia Cahill, Betsy Damon, Parastou Forouhar, Loraine Leeson, Ayanah Moor, & Carrie Mae Weems. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of CONTINUES ON PG. 45
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An anti-Valentine celebration for horror fans feat. best horror t-shirt contest, love gone wrong horror trivia, more. 9 p.m. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park. 412-833-5300.
DANCE THU 07 - SUN 10 SOAP OPERA. Dance/opera mashup of the tale of Scheherazade. Presented by Attack Theatre. Wed-Sat and Sun., Feb. 10. Thru Feb. 9 Attack Theatre, Strip District. 412-281-3305.
SAT 09 NEXT STAGE DANCE RESIDENCY PERFORMANCE. Works-in-progress by choreographers T. Lang & Megan Mazarick. 8 p.m. The Alloy Studios, Friendship. 412-363-3000.
SUN 10 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TAMBURITZANS. 2 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000.
FUNDRAISERS FRI 08 AFTER HOURS AT THE LIBRARY. Live music by Chico’s Quintet +1, absinthe tasting, live-action “French” Monopoly, silent auction, more. 7-10 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-622-6502. CHACHI PLAYS FOR KIDS. 24-hour video game marathon benefiting art programs for at risk & homeless children in Pittsburgh. 7 p.m. The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-561-3006. POLISH PIEROGI PARKING LOT PARTY. Feat. the Polish Pierogi Truck. Benefits Northland Public Library. 2-7 p.m. and Thu., Feb. 21, 2-7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100. YES, YOU CAN PRACTICE! Practice ballroom dancing w/ serious, experienced dancers during 2 sessions: Rhythm & Latin and Smooth & Standard. Benefits Yes, You Can Dance. 6:15-9:30 p.m. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Oakland. 412-327-7872.
SAT 09 ABOARD’S AUTISM CONNECTION GALA. Hors d’oeuvres, dinner stations, more. 6:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-781-4116. PANCAKES FOR AUTISM! All you can eat breakfast of pancakes, potatoes, & coffee. Benefits the Autism Center of Pittsburgh. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Double Wide Grill, South Side. 412-390-1111. VALENTINE’S DAY 5K, 10K & 15K. Benefits the Remi Savioz Glut1 Foundation. 9 p.m. North Park Boathouse, Allison Park. 724-272-8797.
SUN 10 BOOK ‘EM BOOKS TO PRISONERS WORK PARTY. Read & code letters, pick books, pack ‘em or database ‘em! Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt. Thomas Merton Center, Garfield. 412-361-3022. CONTINUES ON PG. 44
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TUE 12 CHORAL CARNAVAL. Dinner fundraiser for Renaissance City Choirs. 7 p.m. Mad Mex, Shadyside. 412-345-1722.
GREEN PARTY MEETING. First Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Citizen Power, Squirrel Hill. 412-231-1581.
THU 07 ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students. Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. Thu The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323.
FRI 08 CONVERSATION SALON. Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of every month, 1 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100. LET’S READ ENGLISH. Book club for non-native English speakers. Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. OAKLAND OPEN MIC. Poetry, music & political speeches welcome. Second and Fourth Fri of every month, 7 p.m. 610-731-1804. SHEILA CARTER-JONES & CELESTE GAINEY. Mad Fridays Reading Series. 7 p.m. Delanie’s Coffee, South Side. 412-927-4030. WRITERS’ OPEN MIC NIGHT. All genres of written/spoken word welcome. Second Fri of every month, 7-9 p.m. Reads Ink Bookshop, Vandergrift. 724-567-7236.
SAT 09 PITTSBURGH WRITERS PROJECT - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS. Second Sat of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Green Tree Public Library, Green Tree. 412-921-9292.
EDUARDO HALFON. Reading by the author of The Polish Boxer. 7 p.m. City of Asylum, North Side. 412-323-0278.
WED 13 CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3116.
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WED 13 MARTHA SPEAKS. When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly. Adapted from the PBS TV series, presented by Theatreworks USA. 7 p.m. Linton Middle School, Penn Hills. 412-456-6666.
OUTSIDE SAT 09 STEP INTO SNOWSHOES. Snowshoeing/skiing every Sat. w/ at least 4” of snow on the ground. Call Friday to confirm. Sat. Thru March 30 Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.
TUE 12 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.
WED 13 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.
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through American music from the influence of folk song, to the magic of Hollywood, more. Presented by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 10:30 a.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-3344.
THU 07 - SUN 10 DISNEY’S MY SON PINOCCHIO: GEPPETTO’S MUSICAL TALE. Feb. 7-10 Geyer Performing Arts Center, Scottdale. 724-887-0887.
THU 07 - WED 13 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. CHARLIE & KIWI’S EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Join Charlie as he travels back to the Age of Dinosaurs to discover how evolution works. Feat. story theater & discovery area. Presented by Commonwealth Connections Academy. Tue-Sun. Thru May 12 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131. MOVE IT! JUST DANCE TOURNAMENT. Thru Feb. 26, 1-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
SAT 09 CELEBRATE! VALENTINE’S DAY. Use flowers & plants to make gifts, plus learn how to create healthier holiday snacks out of dark chocolate. Ages 4-7. 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. EAST LIBERTY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ORCHESTRA. All levels of orchestra instruments are invited. Parents are invited to join & play w/ their children. Sat,
3-4:30 p.m. Thru March 23 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800 x 11.
SUN 10 SOUNDWAVES STEELBAND. Youth steelband performance. 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.
SUN 10 - MON 11 MARTHA SPEAKS. When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly. Adapted from the PBS TV series, presented by Theatreworks USA. Feb. 10-11 Byham Theater, Downtown. 412-456-6666.
AARP TAX HELP. Free tax preparation and assistance to low & middle income taxpayers. Thu. Thru April 11 Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255. CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE & CHINESE CULTURE. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. ITALIAN CONVERSATION. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
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MON 11 HARRIET TUBMAN & THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Presented by Theatre IV. Grades 4-8. 10:30 a.m. Carlow University, Oakland. 1-800-275-5005. LITTLE PEEPERS: MUNCHKINS MONDAYS. Story telling and bird programs. Second Mon of every month National Aviary, North Side. 412-323-7235.
LUNCHTIME SERIES. Bring a brown bag lunch & learn about new developments on immigration issues. 12:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. MAKENIGHT. Create keepsake items, feast on local artisan foods & specialty cocktails, more. Ages 21+. 6-9 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058 x 240.
RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512. TOO BIG TO SEE: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS. Talk by Leshu Torchin. 4:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-6094. WEST COAST SWING. Swing dance lessons for all levels. Thu, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111. WILKINSBURG PUBLIC SAFETY FORUM. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Eastridge Branch Library, Wilkinsburg. 412-727-7855.
FRI 08 3RD ANNUAL PITTSBURGH ROCK MUSIC AWARDS CEREMONY. Hosted by Abby Krizner. 7 p.m. Mr. Smalls Theater, Millvale. 412-821-4447. ART ON TAP 5.2.7. Happy hour, live music, scavenger hunts, more. Second Fri of every month, 5-7 p.m. Thru Feb. 8 Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. 724-837-1500. MAKE-IT-NOW VALENTINES. Make your own glass flower, pendant or personalized fused valentine. 4-10 p.m. Pittsburgh Glass Center, Friendship. 412-365-2145.
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Architecture. Feat. photographs, sculpture, architectural models & drawings, that together examine the relationships between design & health. Oakland. 412-268-4754. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Darkness & Light. Drawings by Richard Claraval. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MONROEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Watercolors by Phiris. Work by Phiris Katherine Sickels. Monroeville. 412-372-0500. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Uncommon Grounds. Group show highlighting the fluidity & transformative quality of glass. Feat. Jon Goldberg, Jan Kransberger, Mark Leputa, Leonard Marty,& Matthew Szösz. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. The Gut Map. Work by
WORKSHOP & ITS MEMBERS. Poetry, music, dance, song, more. Carnegie Library, Homewood. 412-277-4289. INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE CLASS. Sat. Thru April 20 Mookshi Wellness Center, Regent Square. 412-407-7829. KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. Korean grammar & basic ANIMAL INSTINCTS conversation. Sat, 1 p.m. Carnegie VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER. Learn Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. about the sometimes strange & KOREAN II. For those who already unique mating habits of the animal have a basic understanding of world while enjoying dinner & Korean & are interested in cocktails. Feb. 8-9, 6-9 p.m. increasing proficiency. Sat Carnegie Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. Highland Park. 412-665-3640. SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA PAUL GERTNER’S BRAINDROPS. CRAZE. Free lessons, followed Technology-themed magic show. Fri, Sat. Thru Feb. 9 The Grey by dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. La Cucina Flegrea, 412-784-1115. Downtown. 412-708-8844. SCOTTISH COUNTRY ALL THE REAL DANCING. Lessons www. per a p HEROES: WESTERN 7-8 p.m., social dancing pghcitym o .c PENNSYLVANIA follows. No partner TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Presentation by Regis Bobonis, Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Chairman of the Tuskegee Church, Mt. Washington. Memorial Project in Sewickley. 412-683-5670. 2 p.m. McKeesport Regional SECOND SATURDAY AT THE History & Heritage Center, SPINNING PLATE. Art exhibits w/ McKeesport. 412-678-1832. various musical, literary & artistic BLACK HISTORY MONTH performances. Second Sat of every BUSINESS NETWORKING month Spinning Plate Gallery, MIXER. 5:30 p.m. Hosanna House, Friendship. 412-441-0194. Wilkinsburg. 412-243-7711. SECOND SATURDAYS AT CAKEITECTURE. Launch event THRIFTIQUE. Upcycle t-shirts into for the 20/20 exhibit. Architects & Valentine scarves. 11 a.m. Thriftique, designers will be paired w/ local Swissvale. 412-271-3274. bakeries to make architecturally SPANISH CONVERSATION crafted confections. 7-9 p.m. GROUP. Friendly, informal. At Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. the Starbucks inside Target. Sat, 412-622-3131. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Target - East Liberty, THE GREAT BACKYARD BIRD East Liberty. 412-362-6108. COUNT INFORMATION SESSION. SWING CITY. Learn & practice 2 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m. Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. THE HANDMADE VALENTINE W/ 412-759-1569. ARTISTS FROM THE ‘I MADE IT!’ MARKET. 11 a.m. Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IN HONOR & REMEMBERANCE HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly OF THE KUNTU WRITERS letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m.
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Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727. ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS. Second and Third Sun of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. CRYSTALLINE WONDERS: THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF SNOW. Examine the formation & identification of snowflakes. 2 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011. YOUTH & FAMILY WELLNESS FAIR. Family yoga, health screenings, fitness stations, mobile music studio, more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8011 x 380.
glass by Eunsuh Choi. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Projects by Diane Meyer & Ross Mantle. Work by Fellowship 13 photography competition winners. South Side. 412-431-5777. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Bridge 12. Work by Melissa Cameron, Betty Vera, & Kevin Snipes. Strip District. 412-261-7003 x 12. SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART. Red, White & Blue in Black and White: The American Scene in Prints, Drawings & Photographs. 35-some works on paper from the museum’s collection, from photographs to lithographs. Ligonier. 724-238-6015. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE
Brenda Knoll. Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Above Dusk. Paintings by Kara Ruth Snyder. Homographies. Installation by Lizzy De Vita. Inter-subjectivity. Work by Eli Blasko, Eric D. Charlton & Ian F. Thomas. NON-WORK. Work by David Montano. Public Lives. Watercolors by William McAllister. Slo Poke. Paintings & drawings by Jonathan Chamberlain. Somewhere In Between. Installation by Lenore D. Thomas. This May Not Take That Long. Audio/video installation by David Bernabo & Emily Walley. Transience. Work by Stephen Chalmers. Untitled 1. Work by Jeremy Boyle & Mark Franchino. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Consciousness. Flameworked
MARDI GRAS AT PENN BREWERY. Cajun & Creole menu specials, live entertainment, more. 6-9 p.m. Penn Brewery, North Side. 412-237-9400. U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE PANEL. National security discussion & Q&A. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.
of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412- 417-3707. IN SEARCH OF IRWIN STATION. Presentation by Andy Blenko about how the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad shaped the Irwin area & led to its growth. 7 p.m. Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg. 724-532-1935 x 210.
ARTS. Architecture Transformed. Printmaking & fiber art by Barbara Westman. Here & Now. National printmaking exhibition. Juried by Barbara Westman. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. THE TOONSEUM. The Art of Akira. Production art from Katsuhiro Otomo’s film. Downtown. 412-232-0199. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Your Art Needs You. 177 faded or damaged works which visitors can adopt, funding restoration. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Power Pixels 2013. New selfgenerative video installations, includes the world premiere of Miguel Chevalier’s latest work, Digital-Archi (Meta Cities). Downtown. 412-471-5605.
WED 13 ALLEGHENY SPORTS, TRAVEL, & OUTDOOR SHOW. Feb. 13-17 Monroeville Convention Center, Monroeville. 1-800-600-0307. BASIC HORTICULTURE. Learn about soils, plant nutrition, & environmental factors that affect plant growth/development. Wed, 7-9 p.m. Thru Feb. 20 Phipps CONTINUES ON PG. 46
MON 11 BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A support group for women 30+. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry, North Park. MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SAHAJA MEDITATION. Mon, 7:30 p.m. and Mon., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. Thru Feb. 11 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670. SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.
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Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-441-4442 x 3925. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP. For Widows/Widowers over 50. Second and Fourth Wed of every month, 1-2:30 p.m. St. Sebastian Church, Ross. 412-366-1300. CO-OPS 101. Workshop exploring the history, philosophy, principles, & types of co-ops. 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650. CONSERVATION STATION: FRAMES. w/ Emilie Cohen, frame conservator. 12 p.m. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. 724-837-1500. ENGLISH CONVERSATION (ESL). Wed, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S CONVERSATION CIRCLE. New women residents can practice English while learning about activities & services available for themselves & their children. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. PGH PHOTO FAIR SPEAKER SERIES. Feat. Tom Gitterman. 6:30 p.m. Mattress Factory, North Side. 412-231-3169. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550. PRINT: IMAGE, CONTENT & MEDIUM. w/ Mick Opalko. AiP Gallery Speaker Series. 5 p.m. Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Downtown. 412-263-6600. URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345. WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, South Side. 916-287-1373.
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Among many other roles, the near-legendary John Witherspoon is known as the quotable Willie Jones in the Friday movies. When he appears this week at the Improv, though, expect fewer one-liners and more subversive, cumulatively hilarious story-telling, punctuated by his surprisingly spry physical comedy: Other comics gripe about their sons’ saggy pants, but Witherspoon might be the only one willing to complain while gleefully adopting the style himself. Fri., Feb. 8, through Sun., Feb 10. 166 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, Homestead. $25. 412-462-5233 or www.improv.com PREMIER CABARET COMPANY. Auditions for dancers who are trained in ballet, jazz, musical theatre, &/or Latin dance. Feb. 24. Men/women ages 18-30. Call or email jpperformingarts@aol. com for more info/audition time. JP Gallery for Performing Arts, Emsworth. 724-462-4548. THE TALENT GROUP. Open casting for models and actors 1st Monday of every month. 11:45 AM, 5:45 PM. 412-471-8011. THROUGLINE THEATRE. Auditions for 2013 season. Feb. 16-17. Men/ women, 1-2 min. monologues. Call for appointment. The Grey Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. 412-668-0028.
Auditions for new TV show, I Want To Be Discovered. Log onto www. iwant2bdiscoveredonline.com & post video of group or individual talent. 3 minutes max. CARNEGIE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Auditions for Cinderella. 2013 WESTMORELAND ARTS & Feb. 9. Ages 5+, call for time slot HERITAGE FESTIVAL POETRY & & more information. Carnegie. SHORT STORY CONTEST. Submit 412-279-8887. 2 poems or 1 short story. Call or MCCAFFERY MYSTERIES. see entry form for more Ongoing auditions for information. http://www. actors ages 18+ for artsandheritage.com/ murder mystery shows 724-834-7474. performed in the ALLOY PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh area. ww. r w ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 412-833-5056. pe ghcitypa p PROGRAM. Seeking MCKEESPORT LITTLE .com regional Pittsburgh THEATER. Accepting artists to submit project resumes & inquiries for proposals to develop temporary anyone interested in site-based artworks. Submit directing a main stage or 10 images of previous work; fundraiser show. Deadline is current CV, artist statement & Feb. 28. Send resumes to bio; URLs for any video material timmylovesursala@yahoo.com in PDF packet to alloypittsburgh@ McKeesport. 412-673-1100.
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I’m a 27-year-old man in a relationship with a 26-year-old woman. My last partner cheated and did some unforgivable things. But our relationship did unearth a kink. After I found out about her cheating, I got extremely turned on. I never told her. Enter my next girlfriend. We were together a few months before I brought up my kink. She was very accommodating (dirty talk about her cheating, making up stories about cheating) and after some months, she admitted that it was something she wanted to try in real life. I said I was OK with it as long as I had the option to pursue other partners as well. We agreed on some rules and gave it a shot. She set up a date through OKCupid and had sex with someone; I hooked up with an ex. Everything seemed to be turning out great. Then two weeks later, she got drunk and told me she had seen the OKCupid guy again without asking. I was so upset, I nearly broke up with her. Having the guidelines ignored felt like a betrayal. Are we going through the normal trip-ups of a newly open relationship? Or are these lies an indication that she can’t be trusted? I feel like we’re having a hard time navigating polyamory. I love my partner, and I want to make this cuckolding thing work if we can. Suck it up or break it off?
because betrayal turned you on. I’m giving your girlfriend the benefit of the doubt here. But seeing as you love her, and seeing as girlfriends who are open to cuckolding are hard to come by, on and in, I think you should give her the benefit of the doubt, too. Time will tell if she’s an honest “cheater” who can be trusted or a lying cheater who must be dumped. I’m a guy who can’t orgasm during oral sex. I can during vaginal. It’s frustrating, as I can see it bothers my girlfriend. I suspect it’s a control issue. During vaginal, I have some level of control — during oral, I don’t. Help.
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Maybe it’s not a control issue. Maybe oral doesn’t do it for you because … oral doesn’t do it for you. If it were your girlfriend who had difficulty climaxing from oral alone — let’s say she required a vibrator — I would order you to incorporate the vibrator into oral and/or vaginal sex and not stress out. And if you were having a sad each time she “failed” to climax during oral, I would slap you around for being an insecure prick. Why shouldn’t the same advice apply here? Vaginal gets you all the way there, oral gets you almost all the way there — maybe that’s just how your dick works. On the off chance there could be a psychological block, experiment with letting her get you almost all the way there and then stroke yourself to get the rest of the way there. Stroke to the point of no return — “orgasmic inevitability” — and then put your dick back in her mouth and blow your load. With time, you may find the number of strokes you need diminishing until you don’t need them at all. Or you may not — because this may be how your dick works.
POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS AND OPEN RELATIONSHIPS ARE DIFFERENT THINGS.
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Your letter confused me, CUCK. You describe your relationship as open, then as poly, then as a “cuckolding thing.” Polyamorous relationships and open relationships are different things. Some poly relationships are open, but many are closed — that is, three people (or more) are involved with each other exclusively, i.e., no randoms, no romancing potential fourths, fifths or sixths. The reverse is also true: Not all open relationships are poly. Two people in an open relationship may allow fucking around with other people with the understanding that there will be no dating or — God forbid — falling in love with anyone else. And then there’s cuckolding. The whole “cuckolding thing” is about the female half of a heterosexual couple breaking the rules and then rubbing her partner’s nose in the evidence of her cheating. Cuckolding is eroticized betrayal, and you spent months fantasizing with your girlfriend about being betrayed. All that dirty talk, all those stories — remember? But when it came time to turn your fantasies into reality, you laid out the rules for what sounds like a fairly standard open-notpoly relationship: She could fuck other people and so could you. Once again, I’m confused: The cuckold in a “cuckolding thing” typically doesn’t get to fuck around. He gets fucked around on. If your discussions with your girlfriend were as confusing as your letter, it’s possible that she was likewise confused. It’s possible that she figured she was free to break the rules
My girlfriend and I are having sex on a not-so-every-day basis. The thing is, I’ve been lasting longer and longer every time we do have sex. However, she can’t last as long as I can, and eventually we’ll start having to use lube and then maybe 30 minutes later, it’ll start to hurt more. I’m left “blue balled” for fear of hurting her further, and she feels bad for not having me finish. What do I do? Fake it or just use copious amounts of lube? BLUER AND BLUER BALLS
If it’s taking you forever, and your girlfriend’s pussy is giving out, pull out and stroke yourself until you finish. You could also incorporate strategic stroke breaks into your fuck sessions, to get you closer to the edge and give her pussy a rest. And you might find she’s able to last longer if you engage in a little midplay — think foreplay, but halfway through — during those stroke breaks: Make out while you stroke yourself, eat her pussy, play with her clit. I bet your girlfriend will need less lube if she’s less bored and/or more turned on during those epic fuck sessions.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan sneaked into Poland’s National Museum with a painting he had done himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. “I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this,” he said. “I want to benefit from them in the here and now.” This is the kind of aggressive self-expression I’d like to see you summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don’t wait for the world to come and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. P.S. The English translation of Sobiepan’s Polish last name means “his own master.” What can you do to be more of your own master?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before any system can leap to a higher level of organization, says poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo dissolution. “Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making room for the new,” she declares. Guess what time it is for the system we all know and love as YOU, Pisces? That’s right: It’s a perfect moment to undo, dismantle and disperse … as well as to unscramble, disentangle and disencumber. Be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. “To change from one reality to another,” writes Wooldridge, “a thing first must turn into nothing.” (Her book is Poemcrazy.)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I’m not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected beauty. But if you want to, you can play those roles for the next few weeks. How many exotic explorations and unlikely discoveries can you cram into your life between now and March 1? How many unimaginable transformations can you imagine?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): North America’s most powerful and iconic waterfall is Niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada. In 1969, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed to shut down the American side of this elemental surge for a few months. They performed their monumental magic by building a dam made with 27,800 tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the stony foundation that lies beneath the water. I’m thinking that you Tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): National Geographic reports that dung beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with the stars. Scientists in South Africa found that the bugs use the Milky Way Galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky serves as a navigational aid. I nominate the dung beetle to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you, too, to align your movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher power. (Read about the research here: http://tinyurl.com/GalacticBeetles.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should go right ahead and compare oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian. Honey and butter, too: It’s fine to compare and contrast them. Science and religion. Bulldogs and Siamese cats. Dew and thunderclaps. Your assignment is to create connections that no one else would be able to make … to seek out seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners … to dream up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas. Your soul needs the delight and challenge of unexpected blending.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The collection called Grimm’s Fairy Tales includes the story “The Devil and His Grandmother.” In one scene, the devil’s grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson’s head. Or at least that’s what the English translations say. But the authors wrote in German, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact plucking lice from the devil’s hair. Your job in the coming week, Leo, is to ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that. Be vigilant for subtle censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. You need the raw feed that comes straight from the source.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How do you like your caviar? Do you prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of strong, fishy taste? If it’s the first option, beluga caviar is your best option. If the second, sevruga should be your favorite. What? You say you never eat caviar? Well, even if you don’t, you should regard the choice between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. You can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both. Which will it be? Set your intention.
In her book Jung and Tarot, Sallie Nichols notes that the 16th card in most Tarot decks portrays lightning as a hostile force: “jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry teeth.” But there’s one deck, the Marseilles Tarot, that suggests a kinder, gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and clean rather than burn. I suspect you’ll be visited by a metaphorical version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo. Prepare to be tickled and cleaned!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear Astrology Guy: I have been reading your horoscopes since I was 19. For a while, I liked them. They were fun riddles that made me think. But now I’ve soured on them. I’m sick and tired of you asking me to transform myself. You just keep pushing and pushing, never satisfied, always saying it’s time to improve myself or get smarter or fix one of my bad habits. It’s too much! I can’t take it any more! Sometimes I just want to be idle and lazy. Your horoscopes piss me off! — Crabby Capricorn.” Dear Crabby: I’ve got some good news. In the coming week, you are completely excused from having to change anything about yourself or your life. Stay exactly the same! Be frozen in time. Resist the urge to tinker. Take a vacation from life’s relentless command to evolve. If you’d like to join the Flaming Jewel Church of Living Outside of Time, simply smash a clock or watch with a hammer on Feb. 1 at exactly 12:20 p.m.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Years ago, “bastard” was a derisive term for a child born to unmarried parents. It reflected the conventional moral code, which regarded a “birth out of wedlock” as scandalous. But I think we can safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. According to recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the U.S. are to unmarried mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain forbidden forever. What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed at one time may evolve into what’s normal. I bring this up, Libra, because it’s an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that’s no longer necessary or meaningful.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
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ACROSS 1. Jacket summary 6. They deal with the UAW 9. Portmanteau for a piece of eye broccoli 14. Heard 15. Craft for the paranoid 16. Erotica author Nin 17. Popular image manager 19. Watchcrystal holder 20. Reality show about Botoxed Shakespearean actresses? 22. Active Japanese volcano 23. It might get you into more underground stuff 24. Band on Butt-head’s shirt 27. Middle school insult 31. Pesters 35. Hand model’s appeal? 38. Maintain, as blades 39. Corleone enforcer Luca 40. Influential play for the genre of sci-fi 41. Tim Rice musical with absolutely no influence on sci-fi 43. 1,000-pound Yellowstoner 44. Cargo headed to a dragon’s factory? 47. Kept track of 49. Low voice in opera 50. June Carter ___ 51. Drive letters 53. Hotel extra
55. Dentist? 63. Company with a penguin mascot 64. Record of dad getting hit in the crotch, perhaps 65. Hypocritical pejorative when used by millionaire senators born into political families 66. Org. that opposed Medicare in the ‘60s 67. Page partner 68. Curses 69. Prefix with fire 70. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum city
DOWN 1. Something you might be out on 2. Debussy’s “Clair de ___” 3. Major in astronomy? 4. Working people’s routines 5. Ennui 6. Expert, slangily 7. Creative writing degs. 8. Release tension, in a way 9. Old Spice spokesman 10. Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix 11. Look wistfully 12. Claims to have a nonexistent girlfriend, say 13. Bag letters 18. Start ranting 21. Grammarian’s correction 24. “Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?” playwright 25. Not straight 26. YOLO popularizer 28. Heart parts 29. Weds follower 30. Uses Prodigy, say 32. Commodore computer introduced in 1985 33. Certain high school outcasts 34. Strip on the lawn 36. Prevent from squeaking 37. Sterile female worker, e.g. 42. Technics SL-1200 ancestor 45. Common caveat in crossword clues 46. Valium manufacturer 48. Minnesota’s fourth-largest city
52. Once-again fashionable soulful rock instruments 54. Punch 55. Kunis who voiced Meg Griffin 56. Taking care of something 57. Singleminded captain 58. Roberto Baggio or Gianluigi Buffon, e.g. 59. IRS agent, casually 60. Big name in bloodthirsty sixteenth-century empire building 61. Martinez who won four World Series rings with the Yankees 62. Big white dude in Tibet 63. Constellation shaped like a coat hanger {LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS}
DONOR BASES In mayor’s race, following the money back home {BY CHRIS POTTER}
LONG BEFORE anyone casts a vote, politicians must compete in a race for cam-
paign contributions. And the need for hard cash means that while everybody gets a vote on Election Day, people in affluent communities can play a much larger role in determining who wins. So it is with Pittsburgh’s 2013 mayoral race, in which three candidates — Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, City Controller Mike Lamb and City Councilor Bill Peduto — raised more than $1 million in 2012. Where does that money come from? To find out, we looked at their annual finance reports, and totaled the donations from individual contributors, sorted by ZIP code.
Not surprisingly, Pittsburgh’s tony East End neighborhoods are the largest source of funds, while neighborhoods like Beltzhoover and the West End are barely on the map. (Totals from Downtown’s ZIP codes, meanwhile, are inflated: Executives with offices Downtown are often improperly identified solely by their business address.) But is it worrisome that a Westmoreland County ZIP code has contributed $13,000 … as much as the city’s entire South Hills? Or that four affluent bedroom communities — Fox Chapel, Gibsonia, Upper St. Clair and Mount Lebanon — each give more than any city neighborhood outside the East End? It’s almost enough to make you wonder whom the system really answers to. C P OT T E R@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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