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{COMEDY} After the birth of his second daughter, Bill Crawford offered some advice for men: “Don’t watch the actual birth. It’s like watching your favorite band break up. Yeah, they might get back together, but it’s never gonna have the same vibe.” The Pittsburgh native and WDVE Morning Show cast member brings his regular-guy standup to another old stomping ground, the Pittsburgh Improv. Crawford, who’s toured nationally, has five shows starting tonight. BO 8 p.m. Continues through Sat., Dec. 28. 166 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, West Homestead. $20. 412-462-5233 or www.pittsburgh.improv.com
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Like Santa Claus, the Harlem Globetrotters return to Pittsburgh every year around this time; also like St. Nick, they can visit several cities at once, with versions of the squad playing three other games tonight aside from the one at Consol Energy Center. But like last year’s show, this contest against the perennially illfated Washington Generals designs in novelty: The tour incorporates online voting in which fans choose one of five wacky rules for each game. Options include: playing with two basketballs at once; five Globetrotters against six opponents; and “Make or Miss,” where both teams
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start out two-on-two, and either team that makes a shot adds a player, while a team that misses loses one. BO 7 p.m. Downtown. $26.85185.10. www.harlemglobe trotter.com
DEC. 28 Bettie Page Reveals All
Mid-century pin-up model Bettie Page’s work — naughtybut-nice photos and short films in which she cheerfully modeled bikinis (or less) and indulged in light bondage — have never gone out of fashion even as Page herself disappeared from public view in 1957. Now, in Mark Mori’s new documentary Bettie Page Reveals All, screening tonight and tomorrow at the Hollywood Theater, Page narrates her own life story and ponders her influence. “I was just doing my job,” she demurs, “and loving every minute of it.” Al Hoff 7 and 9 p.m.; also 7 p.m. Sun., Dec. 29. 1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont. $7. 412-563-0368 or www.thehollywood dormont.org
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Lenora Nemetz is among Pittsburgh’s top gifts to Broadway. The local native was a protégé of the legendary Bob