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INCOMING RE: Neighborhood Watched: Residents say negative picture of Homewood painted at Miles’ trial is a ‘shame’ (April 11) “It’s awesome that everyone tries to paint this picture of this neighborhood like it’s a day walk through Schenely Park, but I’m sorry, it just isn’t. It’s dangerous and no one feels safe.

People don’t like being there or driving through there for a reason. And investment? How about we start with neighborhoods that actually need it, and will appreciate it. The reason investors pulled out of Homewood was because it’s worthless to waste money on a community that won’t actually appreciate it.”

— Web comment from “Johnathan” “Johnathan, Have you ever even been in Homewood? It’s not a terrible place at all. It has more history than many communities in Pittsburgh and [has] more potential than most communities in Pittsburgh! The Media is ruining that image and the police play right along with it. Most residents in Homewood love Homewood and want to see nothing but positive created here!

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The Pittsburgh Foundation has made a bid to take over the financially distressed August Wilson Center.

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Center for African American Culture breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Pittsburgh Foundation announced it had joined with other local foundations in a bid to purchase the ailing institution. Most importantly for advocates, the foundations say they plan to maintain the center’s original mission: preserving and celebrating local black culture.

“When I heard the foundations were coming together to make a bid, I was thrilled,” says Tim Stevens, chairman of the Black Political Empowerment Project.

“We specifically pushed for that.”

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“The foundation consortium’s primary objective is to explore opportunities to save the August Wilson Center in the

Several bidders show interest in August Wilson Center, but only one reveals identity, plans {BY REBECCA NUTTALL} hope that it may re-open and remain operating for the long term, fulfilling its essential role as the community’s hub for

African-American arts and culture,” said John Ellis, Pittsburgh Foundation spokesperson, in a statement.

While the announcement is good news for those who want to see the August Wilson Center continue its focus on African-American culture, nothing is certain. The foundation wasn’t the only bidder for the center, and so far, neither the number nor identities of the other bidders has been released by Judith Fitzgerald, the court-appointed conservator charged with resolving the center’s debt. Also not known is what other bidders might do with the center.

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“I appreciate the interest of the press and public in the status of affairs at the August Wilson Center,” Fitzgerald said in a statement. “I am not ready to issue a formal announcement as my team and I are still actively working on a variety of possible solutions. When we have something final to report, I will let you know. I anticipate making an announcement in the near future.”

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Lawrence O’Toole will have to approve any final settlement.

Right now, even Dollar Bank, which holds the mortgage on the property and initiated foreclosure proceedings last September, is in the dark about who else has bid on the center.

“We communicate with the receiver and receive some information [but] I have not seen [the bids],” says Dollar Bank attorney Eric Schaffer. “I’ve heard about them, but I don’t think I know any more than [what] the receiver has announced.”

Some observers are expressing concern about the lack of transparency, The center is burdened with nearly $ 10 million in debt, $ 7 million of which belongs to Dollar Bank. Fitzgerald declined an earlier foundation-led bid, offering $ 4 million for the center, because it didn’t cover the amount owed.

Some worry that this bid, too, could be turned down if it doesn’t pay off the center’s obligations — and that other, competing bids might not aim to keep the center’s mission intact.

“I’m hoping the conservator and Dollar Bank will do everything they can to make that bid work,” Stevens says. “Obviously Dollar Bank contributed greatly and needs to get their money back, but there is a greater calling here. The August Wilson Center was designed as the hub of African-American culture in our city and it is vital for it to remain so.”

Fitzgerald has repeatedly stated her preference to sell the center to an entity that would keep its mission intact.

However, if a bid does not meet the debt owed to Dollar Bank, as previously reported by City Paper, the bank can counter-bid the $7 million owed to them, says Schaffer, and potentially claim the building.

To place a bid, interested parties were required to sign a confidentiality agreement, in order to keep details of the center’s finances under wraps. But these kinds of confidentiality agreements are customary in the bidding process.

“There are restrictive covenants involved,” says Kimberly Ellis, niece of the center’s namesake (and no relation to the Pittsburgh Foundation spokesman).

“I think the process should be more transparent, but if someone wanted to express interest, they had to sign a confidentiality agreement.”

Ellis has also cited the fees paid to Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and her staff charge $ 350 an hour and claim to work 12-to16-hour days; the charges have reached $ 150,000 as of February, according to court documents. “The lack of transparency, her fees, are troubling,” says Ellis, who has raised questions about how Fitzgerald is benefitting financially from the sale. “The story’s not over yet.”

Ellis wasn’t the only one expressing concerns. Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who represents the public’s

“THE AUGUST WILSON CENTER WAS DESIGNED AS THE HUB OF AFRICANAMERICAN CULTURE IN OUR CITY AND IT IS VITAL FOR IT TO REMAIN SO.”

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interest in the center’s sale, objected to a $ 50,000 bill submitted by Fitzgerald in February.

In a court document filed Feb. 18, Kane wrote, “The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by its Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, in her capacity as parens patriae, respectfully requests that this Honorable Court not grant at this time, the Conservator for the August Wilson Center for African American Culture First Allowance and Payment o f C o n s e r va t o r s F e e s and Expenses ….”

According to that document filed by Kane, portions of Fitzgerald’s bill were redacted. In order to resolve the matter, Fitzgerald agreed to let the court review the original bill, but did not allow the original to be entered into court documents, where it would be available for public view.

“The redactions that are in the Receiver’s detailed fee entries were made for the sole purpose of protecting the attorney-client privilege, or other confidential information that is subject to confidential and non-disclosure agreements, such as the name of parties interested in purchasing the August Wilson Center facility,” Fitzgerald said in her response to the objection.

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In the meantime, many are relieved to know there is at least one option on the table to keep the center’s mission.

“That sounds great to me,” says Paradise Gray, who hosted a Feb. 8 townhall meeting and March 7 rally to save the center, along with his wife, Renee Gray, another August Wilson relative.

“From what I’ve heard about it, [their bid] sounds satisfactory to me. That’s what I want — that the center continues to serve as an African-American cultural center.”

Gray hopes the public and local politicians can put some pressure on the conservator and Dollar Bank to ensure they accept the foundations’ bid.

“They are supposed to be working for the good of the center, and if that’s what they’re working for, they should accept the bid that wants to keep its mission intact,” Gray says. “I would love to know more about who the other bidders were. I’d also like it if more local politicians would get behind maintaining the August Wilson Center for the reason it was created.”

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald has said he and Mayor Bill Peduto are working on ways to save the center, but neither has come forward with a plan to date.

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just a few weeks ago, Pittsburgh City Council overwhelmingly passed land-bank legislation that could change the way the city deals with thousands of troubled properties. But the concessions that made an 8-1 final vote on April 14 possible could stall the land bank for years, and jeopardize the startup funding stream its supporters were banking on.

The compromise — partly hashed out in a recent Tuesday meeting that went well into the night — guarantees that city council will have final approval over who gets to buy property from the land bank for at least two years, and for as many as four.

“I do not believe it’s a best practice,” says Deb Gross, the city councilor who introduced the land-bank bill in January.

“I was weighing the [council-control] amendment that would make them comfortable against the possibility of not having a land bank.”

Mayor Bill Peduto’s policy manager Matt Barron makes the case that getting the land bank up and running would have taken a couple years anyway, so there was little downside in trying to build a broader political coalition. “We didn’t want this to be a 5-4 vote,” he says.

The concession undoubtedly represents significant compromise on both sides. Councilors Daniel Lavelle and Ricky Burgess, who were vocal about decisions needing to pass through a political weighstation, secured that protection for at least the near future, but will ultimately give it up. And councilors Corey O’Connor and Gross conceded their ability to give control to independent expert appointees outside the political process in the short-term.

And while the compromise may ultimately ensure an effective land bank, experts say council control could push that functionality years down the road.

Frank Alexander, an Emory University law professor who helped write Pennsylvania’s authorizing land-bank legislation, says Cleveland’s original land bank fell apart largely because of city -council control.

Cleveland’s land bank required approval for disposition of each parcel which “meant that the city-council person whose ward the property was located in essentially gave city council a veto,” Alexander says. “When you had micromanaging by the local governing entity, it was not able to be successful.”

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be if city council were involved in setting the land bank’s priorities, but left decisions about what to do with individual parcels up to board members who have their finger on the pulse of community interests.

Some observers also warn that the council-control provision won’t just push the land bank’s ability to turn communities around into the future; it could also jeopardize the foundation-based funding stream the bill’s supporters seem to be relying on.

“Now that they’ve amended the bill to allow council to have final say over the sales, they have a tougher sell to the foundations,” says City Controller Michael Lamb, who says he’s generally supportive of land-banking.

The upshot, Lamb says, is that foundations may be wary of a process that could be overly politicized, and adds that other funding streams need to be discussed.

“We have understated the real cost of doing this kind of work and someone’s got to pay for that. Foundations aren’t going to pay for it all.”

Lamb points out that everything from staff (whose nu m b e r s we r e s c a l e d back in the amendments) to maintenance costs of property in the land bank’s inventory and legal costs associated with clearing up potentially conflicting claims of ownership can cost thousands of dollars.

Gross has been tight-lipped about exactly which foundations are being pursued and what aspects of the land bank’s operations they’re interested in funding.

“I think we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” Gross says, noting that it will be the yet-to-be-seated land-bank board’s responsibility to figure out how to get funding. (For his part, Barron says the startup costs could be around $ 3 million to $5 million, and the Richard King Mellon Foundation and Heinz Endowments have asked the city to submit funding proposals for the land bank.)

But foundations are “not a significant source of funding for land banks nationally,” Emory’s Alexander says. However, he continues, “There are examples where a philanthropic community has played a role in initial start-up costs for personnel […] more often, a philanthropic community has made a grant to deal with a specific

piece of property.”

Kim Graziani, a vice president at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Community Progress, agrees that foundation funding is often not a primary revenue stream. But she used to be the director of neighborhood initiatives in Pittsburgh, and says the financial power of the foundation community here shouldn’t be underestimated.

“There’s no other city that I’ve been working in that has the level of philanthropic support Pittsburgh does,” she says.

Asked whether reliance on foundation funding might create conflicts to the extent that foundations have interests that might not always align with the public, Graziani says: “I don’t want to say that that’s not an issue, but there’s nothing unique about this situation,” adding, that organizations that receive third-party funding always have to evaluate the interests of their donors.

It isn’t just city or foundation money that the land bank can use, though.

Under state law, the land bank can take advantage of a tax-recapture system that allows it to recoup half of the tax revenue from properties it helps add to the tax rolls for a limited time. Additionally, there are grants from other government agencies and the revenue the land bank gets from selling property in its inventory — which, in theory, can make land banks self-sustaining.

Gus Frangos, the president and general counsel of the Cuyahoga Land Bank (which includes Cleveland), stressed the importance of having a consistent funding stream that can’t be pulled. (The Cuyahoga model helps sustain itself through millions of dollars in added penalties on delinquent real-estate taxes).

“It’s like any business,” Frangos says.

“If you have a steady identifiable stream, whatever it might be, you can at least plan into the future. […] Who would take a job here if I said, ‘This year I have funding; next year I don’t know’?”

And perhaps foreseeing the complicated process of turning policy into change on the ground, Lavelle (once a vocal critic of the bill) took a moment before casting a vote in favor of the land bank: “It has great intent. What our job will be is to move past intent — this is where I see government often stumble.”

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IF THERE’S A WAY to discuss environmental problems and actually get everyone busy fixing them, we haven’t found it. Climate change, deforestation, depleted fisheries, toxic dumping — despite years of talk, and floods of text and images, all these woes and more proceed apace. Too few of our leaders lead, and too many of us remain apathetic, or even unconvinced the problems are real.

Nonetheless, some ways of communicating green are more helpful than others.

Take Pittsburgh-based literary journal Creative Nonfiction’s themed spring issue, “The Human Face of Sustainability,” and a recent talk at Pitt by author and blogger Vanessa Farquharson, “Sleeping Naked and Showering in the Dark: The Fun Path to Green Living.”

Environmental sustainability means living in a way that doesn’t prevent future generations from doing likewise. Instead, we’re depleting the earth’s resources and weakening the ecosystems that support us to the point of collapse; almost nothing our society does is sustainable. The Creative Nonfiction issue, guest-edited by Donna Seaman, includes nine essays by an international array of writers tackling sustainability from angles as diverse as: the rise in childhood cancer; water shortages in Northern Sudan; organic farming to relieve urban food deserts; and Wendy Rawlings’ visionary piece linking her niece’s life-threatening E. coli infection to the globalized economy, worker rights,

consumerism and more.

Farquharson, a journalist with the Toronto-based National Post, spun her April 1 talk off of her 2009 book Sleeping Naked Is Green, which documents the year she spent making one green change in her life daily. Farquharson’s user-friendly approach echoes how most Americans think about sustainability — and that’s the problem.

Inspired (that is, alarmed) by Al Gore’s climate-change film An Inconvenient Truth, she made changes as small as buying fewer magazines and as seemingly radical as selling her car, unplugging her fridge, and washing her hair with vinegar … in the dark. Like most of us, she focuses on voluntary, individual green actions: To create your own successful green plan, she advised the Heinz Distinguished Lecture audience, “Acknowledge who you are and what you can do and what you want to do.”

Trouble is, sustainability is a rigorous standard that doesn’t really care “what you can do and what you want to do.” Greening your own life is ethically correct, but it’s not nearly adequate to fix global environmental crises. If greener living is merely an option, most people won’t bother themselves nearly as much as Farquharson did, and some won’t bother at all. Indeed, Farquharson herself admits she can’t even convince her own sister to live greener. Farquharson’s solution in the face of such intractability: “Focus more on yourself” and hope a “ripple effect” will inspire others, as it has with the trend

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Creative Nonfiction’s palette is much broader. Seaman’s lead interview with author and New Yorker journalist Elizabeth Kolbert sets the tone. “[S]ustainability is not recyling, nor bringing cloth bags to the supermarket,” say Kolbert, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction.

“It is fundamentally rethinking everything that we do, and it is living very, very differently.”

True, other CN essayists second Farquharson’s thoughts about individual initiative. Sarah Gilbert, for instance, writes thoughtfully about life in reputedly green Portland — where the mere sight of her cycling on a busy street fills motorists with reflexive rage. Gilbert argues that, merely by suggesting that there’s another way to live, her public example might help break the social and psychological feedback loops that keep people living so unsustainably.

As a bike commuter myself, I empathize. But it’s a long way from wanting to run me off the road to choosing to cash in your Navigator. And even in the unlikely event that every 10th person, say, stopped driving, it would still solve only a tiny fraction of our fossil-fuel problem.

We need to ask more basic questions about why we live like we do, and seek more thorough solutions.

Matthew Ferrence does the former in his essay about the leasing of his family’s southwestern Pennsylvania farm for gas-drilling. Ferrence interrogates our culture’s conception of value, asking why the land above — with its complex relationships of water, soil and plant and animal life — counts for less than the gas below: “Money is the only way to accurately render my economic, aesthetic, and emotional reaction to … well, to anything. Right?”

Curiously, though, that’s the closest anyone in this 86-page issue comes to directly challenging our culture’s fundamentalist faith in economic “growth” — a faith that, unfortunately, produces at least as much destruction as it does benefits.

And while these essayists colorfully illuminate our unsustainability, they’re short on solutions beyond the smallscale and personal. None of them, for instance, suggests implementing something so basic as a federal tax on carbon, which would surely get us using less fossil fuel, individual initiative or no.

But how to get political support for

such a tax (aside from breaking oil lobbyists’ stranglehold on Congress)?

When I asked Farquharson, after her talk, whether voluntary actions can really solve global problems like climate change, she acknowledged that “We need much bigger changes on a policy level” and that political activism is necessary to make such change happen.

But if we’re going to change individual minds, they need to be changed toward such ends, not just toward using better lightbulbs. True, people who’ll separate their recyclables won’t necessarily take to the streets against fossilfuel extraction, or for a carbon tax. But they definitely won’t do such things if they don’t hear about them, or if they think lowering the thermostat is sufficient contribution to the cause.

Still, it’s important to remember that facts aren’t everything. In her essay “The Seep,” centering on a California oil spill, Mieke Eerkens suggests that our environmental crises are a matter not of too little knowledge, but of imperfect compassion. Recalling birds dying in squandered petroleum, she writes, “I don’t believe people can understand why facts matter until their hearts know it, too.”

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This year marks Port Authority’s 50th anniversary of connecting Pittsburghers to destinations throughout the region. As we celebrate the past, we also look forward to a new era of transportation in Allegheny County. Inside this edition is a brochure highlighting our past 50 years, with some insight into where we’ve been and where we’re going.

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The Seed Library, which resides in a handsome wooden card catalog, is designed as a self-sustainable community resource, explains librarian Jude Vachon, one of the project’s three facilitators.

Ideally, users will replenish the seeds they take after the plant has grown.

Newcomers to growing are encouraged. Users can: check out seeds (a library card is not required); collect information on seed-starting and seed-collecting; join a Facebook page with other seeders; and attend upcoming informational sessions with Grow Pittsburgh.

Folks can also donate seeds to the library, including leftovers from commercially grown seeds. (The library cannot accept hybrid or genetically modified seeds.) Envelopes are provided for both seed check-out and donation.

The benefits are obvious: Users can grow a variety fresh food; learn about and help maintain critical heirloom seeds; and be part of a supportive growing community — all for free. It’s a resource, Vachon says, that can make a difference when “someone becomes excited and competent about growing.”

Seeds truly are about promise. As such, I couldn’t resist picking up a creeping cypress — the hand-written note accompanying the donated seeds enthused, “This plant is great to watch.”

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Then, like so many immigrant-borne cuisines, it debuted quietly in a suburban strip mall. Fortunately, Kusuka Indonesian Cuisine’s location — right on Route 30 in North Huntingdon — meant that it caught our eye, and we made it a point to return.

Recreating the ambience of an Indonesian eatery in wintry Western Pennsylvania isn’t easy, but Kusuka does its best with verdant spring-green paint, colorful posters and shelves of bazaar handicrafts to examine while you wait for your food.

The decor is pleasant, but simple; the focus is on the food.

Wisely, Kusuka’s menu provides plenty of photographs to assist diners exploring Indonesian dishes for the first time. While the country’s indigenous ingredients and preparations have been influenced by

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Stewed chicken with yellow rice, anchovies, shredded egg, crackers and hot chili sauce

neighboring China, India and the Muslim traditions of the Middle East, as well as European trade partners and colonial occupants, diners will find little replication of other cultures’ cuisines and much that is new, and distinctly Indonesian, to discover. And while the “Spice Islands” are part of the Indonesian archipelago, Indonesian cooking is not all that spicy, although seasoning is a complex and important part of every dish’s flavoring.

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CP APPROVED We began with several appetizers and a cup of soto ayam, described on the menu as simply “Indonesian chicken soup.” Colored yellow with turmeric, the soup con-

tained — in addition to chicken — vermicelli noodles, a quartered hard-boiled egg, and a few vegetables and herbs. It was more brothy than dense, with top notes of flavor and little underlying savor.

Arabic-derived martabak, a popular Indonesian street food served here as an appetizer, folded a straightforwardly flavored, satisfying combination of beef, egg and scallion in a thin, crisp-fried pancake.

Tahu goreng — fried tofu prepared in the style of the west Java city of Sumedang — had a robust, crunchy exterior which provided good contrast to the soft, almost creamy interior. A tartly pickled little salad served alongside, consisting of finely diced carrot, cucumber and onion, was a good counterpoint to the tofu’s mildness.

Shumai dumplings were dense, firm little fish cakes, and pleasantly savory.

They were served with a coarse, deepbrown peanut sauce for dipping that was just a little spicy and not at all sweet.

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Thai satay, Kusuka served a sweet soy sauce studded with tomato and red onion, which provided good balance against the savory meat.

Several variations of mie goreng, or Javanese fried noodles, were on offer, including chicken, lamb, seafood and vegetarian. Thinking of the abundant seafood in the waters around Indonesia’s islands, we chose mie goreng with shrimp and calamari. There were lots of vegetables, too — carrot strips, cabbage and bok choy — as well as scrambled egg mixed in with the thick, slightly chewy noodles. The textural pleasures of this dish were great, and the ingredients so plentiful and well distributed that even bites without seafood were satisfying. The overall flavor, however, was perhaps a bit too subtle. Udang goreng mentega, a fried-shrimp dish without either noodles or rice, was prepared in a sweet, smoky, soy-based sauce, rich with butter.

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Though not as famous for its curries as India, Indonesia has adapted the Indian spicy stews to its own tradition, with gulai consisting of a rich spice paste cooked in coconut milk. Not surprisingly, different variations are found in different parts of the archipelago. Kusuka’s gulai kambing, or lamb curry, had an almost soup-like consistency, in the Javanese tradition, and was full of small chunks of bone-in lamb. While this lent the meat wonderful flavor and tenderness, the bones themselves were difficult to separate, and some fragments were small and sharp. This didn’t affect our enjoyment of the dish so much as remind us that there is good reason many Indonesians prefer their eating with their hands. (In fact, in Indonesia, most tables are set with a spoon and fork, a combination which would have made it near-impossible to eat this gulai kambing.)

In a region waking up to the flavors of a variety of Asian cultures, Kusuka provides a palatable introduction to Indonesian cuisine.

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On the RoCKs

{BY HAL B. KLEIN}

SPINNING THE BOTTLE After Bridge Ten closes, owner Dave DeSimone tries again in Shadyside Shortly after his Bridge Ten Brasserie shuttered in February, Dave DeSimone decided to follow T.H. Palmer’s famed advice: “’Tis a lesson you should heed / if at first you don’t succeed / try, try again.”

DeSimone’s new space — Open Bottle Bistro on Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside — is a much cozier interpretation of a French-style restaurant than Bridge Ten’s South Side space. “It’s a little more casual, like you might find in a wine bar in Paris or Madrid or Rome,” says DeSimone. “We don’t have white tablecloths.”

A big draw of Open Bottle Bistro is the highly curated wine list, with every bottle selected by DeSimone.

He’s a credible guide, too: DeSimone’s weekly wine column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has been a source of local wine knowledge for more than 20 years.

DeSimone says customers can expect a rotating list of about 15 reds and 15 whites. He says that he favors wines that are either un- or lightly oaked, which lets the true expression of the grapes shine through. In line with the vibe of the restaurant, the selections tip quite heavily toward France — DeSimone’s area of expertise — but also branch out to Italy, Spain, Austria and Australia.

“It’s fun for me to dig out wines that you’re not going to find at other places,” he says.

The wines are organized into categories like “Robust, Dark Fruit” and “Elegant and Refreshing.” However, DeSimone says he also plans on being on hand to help steer people in the right direction. “I love talking about wines,” he says.

Although the wine is the prime focus of the drinks list, DiSimone also retained John White, a single-malt expert I wrote about in January, to enlighten customers on the finer points of brown spirits.

DeSimone says that his plan for his new venture is pretty straightforward: “We’re going to offer people great wine, great food and great service — and hope they’ll want to come back.”

“IT’S FUN FOR ME TO DIG OUT WINES THAT YOU’RE NOT GOING TO FIND AT OTHER PLACES.”

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412-224-2163. A casual-chic burger-and-sandwich joint is a tasty addition to the North Side. The menu consists of a matrix of burgers (two sizes, nine topping combos, beef or veggie patty), four other sandwiches and eight beer-friendly “snacks” (from nuts to a charcuterie platter). Prices aren’t diner-cheap, but then some burgers come with red-wine-braised onion and truffle mustard. KE BIGELOW GRILLE: REGIONAL COOKING AND BAR. Doubletree Hotel, One Bigelow Square, Downtown.

412-281-5013. This upscale restaurant offers fine foods with Steeltown flair, like “Pittsburgh rare” seared tuna (an innovation borrowed from steelworkers cooking meat on a blast furnace).

The menu is loaded with similar ingenious combinations and preparations. KE CAFÉ NOTTE. 8070 Ohio River Blvd., Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

Tapas from around the globe are on the menu at this charmingly converted old gas station.

The small-plate preparations are sophisticated, and the presentations are uniformly lovely. Flavors range from Asian-style crispy duck wings and scallops-three-ways to roasted peppers stuffed with ricotta. KE CAFFE DAVIO. 2516 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-431-1119.

By day, a tiny store-front diner, serving omelets and pancakes, and by evening, an authentic and delightful Italian restaurant. The menu — both prix fixe and a la carte — focuses on the authentic flavors of Sicily, such as pasta Norma and veal alla Palermitana, while occasionally invoking the short-order tradition, as with the hash of potatoes, peppers and onions. KF FUKUDA. 4770 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-377-0916.

This neo-traditional Japanese restaurant excels at re-invention, with a menu that is inspired as much by modern American cuisine as it is by ancient Japanese tradition. Here, roasted beets are powdered, kale is crisped, and pork belly gets its own entrée. It offers a tapas-like, a la carte approach, ideal for sampling a menu that spans traditional sushi, charcoal-grilled skewers, ramen soup and neatly prepared, sliced proteins. LF

Pino’s Contemporary Italian {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} MARISQUEIRA. 225 Commercial Ave., Aspinwall. 412-696-1130.

This fine-dining restaurant offers the bold flavors and confident preparations of classic Portuguese cuisine — from thick, meaty Iberian octopus tentacles, broiled with Portuguese bleu cheese, to sausage flambéed en route to the table. Entrees include steak in a red-wine sauce, chicken cooked with Portuguese peppers, pork with clams and, of course, fish. LE

Café Notte {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} NOODLEHEAD. 242 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. www.noodleheadpgh.com. In a funky atmosphere, Noodlehead offers an elemental approach to the delightful street food of Thailand in which nothing is over $9. A small menu offers soups, noodle dishes and a few “snacks,” among them fried chicken and steamed buns with pork belly. The freshly prepared dishes are garnished with fresh herbs, pork cracklings and pickled mustard greens. JF OSTERIA 2350. 2350 Railroad St., Strip District. 412-281-6595.

You won’t get better casual Italian cooking for your money than here. The menu has been pared to the essentials of Italian cuisine: antipasti, pizza, panini and pasta — and their preparations represent a unique marriage of Old-World recipes and local ingredients. JE PAPAYA. 210 McHolme Drive, Robinson. 412-494-3366.

Papaya offers a fairly typical Thai menu — from pad Thai to panang curry — augmented by sushi and a few generic Chinese dishes. The selection may have erred more on the side of reliability than excitement, but the presentations show that the kitchen is making an impression. KE PINO’S CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN. 6738 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. 412-361-1336.

The menu at this Italian eatery spans from sandwiches that hearken back to its pizzeria days, through pastas of varying sophistication, to inventive, modern entrees.

Some dishes pull out the stops, including seafood Newburg lasagna and veal with artichokes, peppers, olives and wild mushrooms over risotto. But don’t forgo the flatbread pizzas, many with gourmet options. KE RED ORCHID. 5439 Babcock Blvd., West View. 412-837-2527.

This cozy, family-run Thai restaurant offers a selection of mostly tried-and-true cuisine (salads, rice and noodle dishes, and curries), as well as chef’s specials, many involving tilapia filets. “Tulip dumplings” and Thai toast make for excellent starters, and the kitchen shows skill in balancing the flavors of more complex curries and meat entrees. KF

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Menu items change frequently and feature combinations both straightforward (shrimp and grits) and unexpected (add habañero cheddar and brown-sugar butter to that). Or try the chef’s tasting, a unique four-course dinner just for you. LE TRAM’S KITCHEN. 4050 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-2688.

This tiny family-run storefront café packs in the regulars. Most begin their meal with an order of fresh spring rolls, before moving on to authentic preparations of pho, noodle bowls and friedrice dishes. The menu is small, but the atmosphere is lively and inviting. JF

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Salt embodies a singular vision for not just eating, but fully experiencing food. The ever-changing but compact menu reflects a hybrid style, combining TRUTH LOUNGE. 51 S. 12th St., South Side. 412-381cutting-edge techniques 9600. A Mediterraneanwith traditional inspired menu spans ingredients to create cocktail-hour noshes unique flavor and and light meals to texture combinations. www. per a p pghcitym full entrees. Pleasing Salt erases distinctions .co appetizers include — between fine and saganaki (Greek flaming casual dining, between facheese) and the novelty miliar and exotic ingredients, “lambsicles.” Flatbreads fill the between your party and spot for upscale pizza, with adjacent diners. LE hearty meat and pasta dishes, such as short-rib ragu, rounding SEWICKLEY SPEAKEASY. 17 out the entrees. LE Ohio River Blvd., Sewickley. 412741-1918. This little restaurant TWISTED THISTLE. 127 Market has the charm of a bygone era St., Leechburg. 724-236-0450. This and old-fashioned food whose pleasures are worth rediscovering. cozy restaurant, set in a restored 1902 hotel, offers above-average The Continental menu offers fare, reasonably priced. Alongside chestnuts like duck á l’orange the contemporary American and Virginia spots, as well as flavors are numerous Asianmore distinctive dishes, such as inspired dishes, such as soup made tournedos dijon bleu and French from kabocha pumpkin. From Acadian porterhouse. LE po’boy oyster appetizers to crab cakes and over-sized short ribs, TIN FRONT CAFÉ. 216 E. Eighth each dish is carefully conceived Ave., Homestead. 412-461-4615. and prepared. KE Though the menu is brief, inventive vegetarian meals push VILLAGE TAVERN & past the familiar at this charming TRATTORIA. 424 S. Main St., West Homestead café. The emphasis is End. 412-458-0417. This warm, on fresh, local and unexpected, welcoming, and satisfying Italian such as asparagus slaw or beet restaurant is a reason to brave the risotto. In season, there’s a West End Circle. The menu offers charming rear patio. JE variety within a few narrowly constrained categories: antipasti, TOAST! KITCHEN & WINE BAR. pizza and pasta, with the pasta 5102 Baum Blvd., Bloomfield. section organized around seven 412-224-2579. In this intimate noodle shapes, from capelli to restaurant, the emphasis is rigatoni, each paired with three on local, seasonal ingredients or four distinct sauces. KE simply yet inventively prepared.

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Things haven’t been easy recently for Pittsburgh-born DJ Orlando “Buscrates” Marshall. In February, Buscrates — who now lives in Atlanta — was hit by a car while riding his bike. (He was riding on a bike trail, and collided with the driver where the trail met the road.) He sustained fractured bones in his neck, vertebrae and foot, and was in a neck brace for weeks, missing a few weeks of work.

During his years in Pittsburgh, the DJ and producer worked with many local MCs, including Beedie and Ensilence; he’s also a member of electro-funk outfit East Liberty Quarters.

“Pittsburgh will always be home,” he says. And in fact, “I appreciate Pittsburgh so much more now.”

That’s because Pittsburghers have been helping Buscrates cover the cost of some big hospital bills — and are holding a fundraiser in his honor on Fri., April 18, at 720 Music.

J. Malls is one of those organizing the “Cash 4 Crates” event. “I’ve known Buscrates most of the time that I’ve been DJ’ing,” he explains. “I remember meeting him circa ’95 in Stedeford’s Records on the North Side.”

“Buscrates is one of my closest friends for several years now,” says Michelle LeMenager, the fundraiser’s lead organizer.

“I just wanted to be able to do something to assist him.” LeMenager also ran an online campaign to raise funds for Buscrates; that project, which ended last Friday, raised more than $5,000. “We’re hoping to supplement that with the live fundraiser that is happening on April 18,” she explains.

Buscrates will travel to Pittsburgh to attend the event, and numerous local artists will be performing: hosts Gene Stovall and Smilo, Divine Seven, Billy Pilgrim, Mave Sami and many more.

“I asked Crates to give me a list of who some of his favorite local performers were and asked them if they would be willing to donate their time,” says LeMenager.

“Honestly, everybody we approached, unless they had a scheduling conflict, immediately agreed. I think that is a testament to the kind of person Crates is, and how many people he touches and affects.”

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HERE’S A SONG called “I Only,” appearing early in Lyla Foy’s debut full-length, Mirrors the Sky (released last month by Sub Pop). It’s a chill synth-pop tune, upbeat and happy, but not a dance track. It develops largely like you’d expect — some keys, some electronic beats, beautiful vocals by the London songwriter. Then at the first instrumental break, a little over a minute in, there’s a solo by an instrument that sounds something like … a bird call? A laughing gibbon?

“Um, OK, so, the squeaking sound,” she says with a laugh, “It’s a toy train. It belongs to my friend; we were recording at his house, and I was trying to record some interesting sounds. We found this squeaky old train and I was just moving it back and forth across the floor and it was making this amazing sound. So we recorded it, and then I kind of chopped up the recording a little and

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sampled it in a way that sounds a bit, kind of, demented.”

Foy, who’s 25, started playing guitar as a teenager, like so many. Entirely selftaught, she first made a splash with some home recordings she released under the name Wall in 2012. “When I put my first song out as Wall, I only had one song —

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it wasn’t a planned project or anything,” she explains. “It was literally a song, and I wanted to put it online so my friends could hear it, and I just chose a random name. It wasn’t really a band. There was kind of a nice mystery behind it, but then

when we were going to put out the debut album, it was like — I’ll put my name to this now. I’m ready. It wasn’t just a bedroom project anymore.”

Those early Wall tracks were beautiful but starkly quiet; they were literally bedroom recordings, and Foy’s vocals were usually little more than a whisper.

As she’s found her confidence, the vocals have blossomed, and while she certainly doesn’t belt on Mirrors, she doesn’t whisper so much, either. One thing that hasn’t changed, though: Foy does most of the writing, playing and production herself, without much input from her band or anyone else.

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most of the parts myself. I felt like the direction was kind of sorted. It’s good to get other bits and bobs, it wasn’t going to be anything drastic.”

“It’s a bit lonely doing everything yourself,” she quickly adds. “It’s good to work with the band.”

Foy tends to downplay her instrumental proficiency. “I’m not an amazing keyboard player by any stretch of the imagination,” she says at one point. “It doesn’t take much to get OK at guitar,” she later adds. “You can get by with five or six chords, so it’s fun to write songs [on guitar]. I got by for a long time. I’ve added a few more, but I’m still not a wizard.” But that belies the fact that she played the majority of the instruments on her debut record, and what she didn’t play, she arranged pretty specifically.

“Even if other people were playing, I was arranging or writing the parts, or I’d already written them,” she says. “I played bass on the album, and guitar, and bits of keyboard … I designed a lot of the drum patterns on my computer.”

What Foy does exceedingly well is create texture and rhythmic complexity, and not always just by using the programmed drum beats. Throughout Mirrors the Sky, there are moments in which bass guitar and keyboards are being woven together to create percussive parts, even more so than to convey melody.

“I think it was kind of slightly planned when I started writing this batch of songs,” she explains. “I really like the bass as a percussion instrument. On the track ‘No Secrets,’ the bass is keeping time, that sort of four-to-the-floor, mellow, dancey thing going on, which I kind of like. I do like experimenting with percussion … I wouldn’t say it was planned on a lot of tracks, it just kind of happened, but I do like interesting drum beats.”

After the release of Mirrors last month, Foy began touring the U.K., and now the U.S., on a trip that brings her to Pittsburgh for the first time, on April 23.

She and her band continue to work out the best ways to bring something that started as a bedroom project, and was a pretty complex studio undertaking, into a live atmosphere.

“It’s difficult,” she says. “It’s music for a very certain head-space, a certain environment, and we certainly can do well in a theater, in a quiet situation, but we’ve learned to get by in a noisy crowd as well. We’re trying to pick the right venues for us as well, rather than turning up in any old bar.

“It’s about picking the right songs when we’re playing in certain situations — and that’s been good to learn.”

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ON THE RECORD Dominic Cipolla of The Phantom Family Halo {BY ANDY MULKERIN}

The Phantom Family Halo (Dominic Cipolla, center)

Avant-psych outfit The Phantom Family Halo, which centers on multi-instrumentalist Dominic Cipolla, began in Louisville, Ky., but moved four years ago to Queens; the band’s latest, Raven Town Witch, is out now on Sophomore Lounge Records.

YOU WENT BACK TO LOUISVILLE TO RECORD THIS ALBUM, RIGHT? Yeah, this one and the last one were both done with Kevin Ratterman at a place called La La Land. He’s done those last few My Morning Jacket records, and did pretty well with them. So he could invest pretty heavily in a really amazing studio there.

THE LINEUP OF THE BAND HAS CHANGED A FEW TIMES; WHAT’S THE FORMAT NOW? It changes around; on the recordings, I generally play most everything — which, by the next record, will probably change. I’m looking to do a full-on live recording situation with the guys I play with up here. Years ago, I played drums and sang, standing up. Since I’ve been up here, I just play guitar and sing. We’re a five-piece now.

SOME OF YOUR NEW STUFF IS FORMATTED LIKE PSYCH-POP SONGS, BUT SOME SOUNDS LIKE IMPROV — WHICH SEEMS LIKE IT’D BE HARD TO DO, RECORDING EVERYTHING YOURSELF. There are occasionally a few people on some of those songs, but even some of the stuff that is improvised, I would do drum parts first, with the idea of leaving some stuff open, to see what would happen when we go back over top of it.

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THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO with QUEEN KRALLAR. 8 p.m. Thu., April 17.

The Shop, 4314 Main St., Bloomfield. $6.

All ages. 412-951-0622

NEW RELEASES {BY ANDY MULKERIN}

NO BAD JUJU NO COVERS (SELF-RELEASED)

The title of this local party-pop stalwart’s new full-length is self-explanatory; while the polished eight-piece has a full repertoire of other people’s songs it plays as part of its live show, those don’t take up space on the CD. Instead, we get 11 well-produced, danceable tracks written by co-leaders Mark Matteo and Sabrina de Matteo, with tight playing all around. The album starts strong with the funky “Swept Away,” which hits that perfect balance: a party rocker with lyrics that work, and that aren’t trite. Some of the other tunes go a little overboard — “Hell Yeah!” brings the party, but also a handful of lyrical clichés, and some of the more serious and introspective songs can be melodramatic.

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Some new releases and re-releases that are specific to Record Store Day 2014

RECORD STORE DAY ROUNDUP {BY SETH PFANNENSCHMIDT} THE EIGHTH ANNUAL Record Store Day

takes place nationwide on Sat., April 19.

Here’s a list of some of the deals and events taking place around town.

ATTIC RECORD STORE 513 Grant Ave., Millvale. 412-821-8484 or www.atticrecordstoreinc.com Fred Bohn Sr. opened his Millvale store in November 1980; it’s now co-operated with his son, Fred Jr. The volume of records available for sale here is vast. Not only is the location itself stocked from floor to ceiling, so are its two basements and a warehouse across the street, with five rows of 30-foot-high shelves packed with 45s. If you need something obscure, Attic most likely has it.

RSD DEALS: 20 percent off all used, 10 percent off all new, plus giveaways, raffles (including a USB turntable) and plenty of food and drink.

DAVE’S MUSIC MINE 1210 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-488-8800 or www.davesmusicmine.com Dave’s, which previously had an Oakland location, opened its current South Side residence in May 2000, and store clerk Dave Whaley has seen firsthand the expansion of vinyl culture. “One day [owner] Michelle Panasiuk saw a bunch of people crowding around a tiny display of records in the back, ignoring the CDs,” he explains. “She said, ‘We have to do something about this.’” Dave’s has been expanding its vinyl section ever since.

RSD DEALS: RSD releases, RSD/Dave’s Music Mine T-shirts, door prizes, ticket giveaways every hour, and each customer draws from the RSD fishbowl. There will also be light refreshments and a guest DJ.

JERRY’S RECORDS 2136 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-4533 or www.jerrysrecords.com Jerry’s Records is about as Pittsburgh as you can get. This statement took on even

more gravity on April 14, when Pittsburgh City Council officially declared it to be “Jerry’s Record Store Day.” RSD DEALS: Jerry’s will be giving away 25,000 free records. They will be offered in boxes of 250 — limit one box per person, and you can’t look inside before selecting one.

Also: $1 records, $2 CDs.

SOUND CAT RECORDS 4526 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-3256 or www.soundcatrecords.com Previously known as Paul’s CDs and before that Jim’s Records, Sound Cat has been at this location since 1978. Current owner Karl Hendricks bought the store in 2012. If you’re the type of collector who balks at someone placing your copy of Paul Simon’s Graceland right next to Zeppelin, then this is the store for you; it’s well organized and genres are easy to find.

RSD DEALS: Many RSD releases.

MIND CURE RECORDS 3138 Dobson St., Polish Hill. 412-621-1715 or www.mindcurerecords.com Owner Mike Seamans is more than a recordstore owner; Mind Cure is also a label, and in June will begin releasing a song and video each month featuring Mind Cure acts. Seamans once worked at Paul’s CDs and credits Jerry Weber (of Jerry’s Records) with inspiring him to own a store himself.

RSD DEALS: Storewide sale on new and used.

720 MUSIC, CLOTHING AND CAFÉ 4405 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592 or www.720records.com The night before Record Store Day, this mainstay will be open for a party benefitting ex-Pittsburgher DJ Buscrates. (See Local Beat, page 26.) Then it’s open at 9 a.m. Saturday to serve up food and RSD releases, with local DJs spinning all day.

RSD DEALS: Many RSD releases; half off used vinyl, plus café specials.

Other locals offering RSD releases and specials include: Desolation Row, 410 S. Craig St., Oakland; Eide’s Entertainment, 1121 Penn Ave., Strip District; Stedeford’s, 425 E. Ohio St., North Side; and The Exchange, multiple locations throughout the area.

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Laugh with the Pittsburgh Improv this April & May!

APRIL 17-19

Riff Raff

All things punk, pop-punk, folk-punk and in between converge this weekend around Bloomfield and Lawrenceville at Don’t Give Up the Ship! Fest, a new multiple-venue festival featuring dozens of acts, most local but some national. Tonight’s show at The Mr. Roboto Project features Brightside, Philadelphia’s Radiator Hospital, Save Ends and more; Mikey Erg, The Holy Mess, World’s Scariest Police Chases and others headline shows the rest of the weekend at Roboto, Kickback Pinball Café, Howlers, Hambone’s and Thunderbird Café. It It’ss all put together by the Don’t Let the Scene Go Down on Me Collective.

Festival passes are available for the fantastic price of $25, and nd individual shows go for $6 apiece. Andy Mulkerin 6:30 p.m.

Continues at various venues throughout the he weekend.

5106 Penn Ave., e., Bloomfield. $6. www.theghostwrite.org hostwrite.org

E. Carson St., South Side. $12. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

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With Riff Raff, the question always seems to be, “Is this guy for real?” The Houston rapper — who brings his Neon Icon tour to Altar Bar tonight — has made it clear that he is, sort of: As he told Rolling Stone, “I’m not, like, ‘comedy rapping.’” There may be a method to his madness, but between his steady blitz of goofy music videos, his drolly perplexing selfdescriptions (he’s the Rap Game Herman Cain Manson), and his and the Rap Game Marilyn Man deranged social-media presence (sample tweet: iNSiDE “OLD NEW WAVE MUSiC iNTALLED iNTAL MY BRAiNiUM” ), trying to “get “g it” might be missing the point. With Wit Grand Theft. Margaret Wel Welsh 7 p.m. 1620 District. $25-27.

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ADMISSION - $65 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting The Pittsburgh Craft Beer Alliance and Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week.

Admission includes a logo tasting glass, live ale samples and food, Tartan Devils soccer match and that fun stuff mentioned earlier that will be posted as details are confirmed.

MUSIC - a local DJ will be providing the tunes.

FOOD - finger food buffet & specialties from Piper’s Pub and The Pub Chip Shop and maybe a couple other local vendors – we’ll let you know when we do.

BEER - 5 of our local Homebrewers and their contest winning live ales, at least 60 other local, regional and national breweries featuring their live ales. All properly vented and gravity poured at the proper temperature.

65 (at least) 10.8 Gallon Full Metal Firkins, all available for your sampling pleasure. Presented by Piper’s Pub, The Pittsburgh Real Ale Festival is Pittsburgh’s ONLY beer festival exclusively featuring Live Ales, gravity poured from custom built cradles. Live ales. Served right. One session. One admission price. One totally amazing day of beer and food in a venue with a breathtaking view of the city!

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31ST STREET PUB. Mount Carmel, Outside/Inside, Patton.

Strip District. 412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. Markus Schulz.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Cadaver Dogs, The Filthy Lowdown, Substitute for Quality. South Side. 412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Twin Guns, Nox Boys, Curt Oren.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Cabaret Runaway, B-Side Avenue. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Until We Have Faces, Lions Among Us, Like Father Like Son, Kid Durango.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Brightside, Radiator Hospital, Save Ends, Somos, Costanza, Brutal Cherie. Bloomfield.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Badfish, A Tribute to Sublime, Tropidelic, Jesse Mader & the Urban Rock Project. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

OAKDALE INN. Dave & Andrea Iglar Duo. SMILING MOOSE. Lazy Ass Destroyer. South Side.

412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slim Forsythe BigBand, ATS, Squid Vicious, Laurel, Kip Ruefle Party of Ten. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Scrap Kids, Oklahoma Car Crash, more. Lawrenceville. 412-682-3200.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. World’s Scariest Police Chases, Worship This!, Barons, One if

By Land, HRS. Bloomfield.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Start Making Sense (Talking Heads tribute), Backstabbing Good People, Hard Money. Millvale.

866-468-3401.

RAMADA INN HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER. Elmoz Fire. Greensburg. 724-552-0603.

REX THEATER. Leif Vollebekk William Fitzsimmons. South Side.

412-381-6811.

THE SHOP. Divtech, Decide Today, 8Cylinder, Cutups. Bloomfield.

412-951-0622.

SMILING MOOSE. With All My Strength, Bury Thy Kingdom, At Fault, New Vegas, Dorsia. (early).

Incinerate Creation, Irukandji, Hericide, Horrid Ordeal (late).

South Side. 412-431-4668.

STAGE AE. Ghost, King Dude.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The

Armadillos, The Grifters.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SAT 19 ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. The Turbosonics, The Tumblers, Yinz2. Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

BRILLOBOX. Raya Brass Band, Lungs Face Feet, Pandemic.

Bloomfield. 412-251-6058.

BROTHERS GRIMM. The GRID. Coraopolis. 412-788-0890.

CLUB CAFE. Nathan Angelo, Jesse Ruben (Early) Light Waves, Atlas, Before You (Late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. The Reign of Kindo, The Joy of Painting, Miist, Save Us From The Archon. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

GOOSKI’S. Liquified Guts, Edhochuli, Radium Girls, No Reason To Live. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HAMBONE’S. The Hills & the Rivers, Al Scorch, Dogjaw, Fine Wives, Remainders, Stage Hands.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

MP 3 MONDAY RED HANDS

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31ST STREET PUB. Del Rios, Volcano Dogs, Thundervest.

Strip District. 412-391-8334.

720 RECORDS. DJs Nicerec & Geeman, Gene Stovall, Smilo, Divine Seven, Kid A, Melodiq, Billy Pilgrim, Omar-Abdul, Carlos Pena, more. Cash 4 Crates: A Benefit for DJ Buscrates.

Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592.

CLAIRTON AMERICAN LEGION. Daniels & McClain. Clairton.

412-400-1141.

CLUB CAFE. No Bad Ju Ju. South Side. 412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Wildhoney, Barlow, Brightside.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. Acrylic Clouds.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. Joel Lindsey. Canonsburg.

724-746-4227.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. The Telltale Signs, Blackwolf Beach, Ferdinand the Bull, Whoovez, Brazilian Wax, Broke Stranded & Ugly, More AM Than FM. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

KICKBACK PINBALL CAFE. Matt Pless, Unraveler, Blankets for Laura,

Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local band. This week’s offering comes from Red Hands, who celebrate the release of their new EP, There’s No Growth If There’s No Rest, at the Smiling Moose Sat., April 19. Stream or download “The Worth of Water” on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Sunk MR. SMALLS THEATER. Chuck Heaven, Married to the Wolf, Ragan & the Camaraderie, Rivka, Joey Molinaro. Bloomfield.

The White Buffalo, Jonny Two. 412-682-0320.

Millvale. 866-468-3401.

KICKBACK PINBALL CAFE. SMILING MOOSE. Shilpa Ray. The Homeless Gospel Choir, South Side. 412-431-4668.

Douglas Fur, Jon Creeden, The One and Only Matt Miller, Black ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Mo Bear Mute, more. Lawrenceville.

Nelson Experience. Lawrenceville.

412-682-3200.

412-683-5993.

THE KICKSTAND. The Dave Iglar CLUB CAFE. Toubab Krewe, Band. 412-384-3080.

ChopShop. South Side.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. 412-431-4950.

The Holy Mess, Chumped, Kill HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Lincoln, Still Alive, Mace Ballard, King Fez, Universal Beat Union.

Seas We Fear to Sail, Relationships.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

Bloomfield.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Phat Man PITTSBURGH WINERY. Lyla Foy. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

Dee, Chaibaba, Belove, Miguel Sague Jr & Miguel Sague III, David Apocalypse & His Traveling Museum of Oddities. Phat Man Dee Cavalcade of Stars N’At. BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ Millvale. 866-468-3401. hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

NIED’S HOTEL. Scheer Element.

412-687-2555.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta RAMADA INN HOTEL & Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260.

CONFERENCE CENTER. Twisted Fate. Greensburg. 724-552-0603.

REX THEATER. Turkuaz, CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Alan Evans Trio. South Side.

Bombo Claat Friday’s Reggae 412-381-6811. w/ VYBZ Machine. East Liberty.

RPM’S 31 SPORTS BAR 412-362-1250. & GRILLE. Ugly Blondes.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Bridgeville. 412-221-7808.

Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

SILKS LOUNGE AT THE Downtown.

MEADOWS. Velveeta.

412-874-4582.

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412-431-4668. .com RUGGER’S PUB. 80s SONNY’S TAVERN. Night w/ DJ Connor.

Wreck Loose, Chet South Side. 412-381-1330.

Vincent, Zack Schmidt.

Bloomfield. 412-683-5844.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. Chris Nacy & DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

Gary Prisby. 724-433-1322.

412-431-8800.

TAMBELLINI BRIDGEVILLE REMEDY. Push It!. DJ Huck Finn, RESTAURANT. Tony Janflone Jr. DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville.

Bridgeville. 412-221-5202.

412-781-6771.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Don’t Give ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

Up the Ship! Fest. Grey Gordon, South Side. 412-431-2825.

Thin Lips, Endless Mike and the S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

Beagle Club, more. Lawrenceville.

412-481-7227.

412-682-0177.

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ALTAR BAR. Toadies, Supersuckers, Battleme. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Tongue Oven, Passerine, Pairdown.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

REX THEATER. Lacuna Coil, Eve to Adam, Cliver. South Side.

412-381-6811.

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ALTAR BAR. Blessthefall, Silverstein, The Amity Affliction, Secrets, Heartist. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Natalie Merchant. 412-368-5225.

CLUB CAFE. Jessica Lea Mayfield, Gambles. South Side. 412-431-4950.

ALTAR BAR. Riff Raff. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Proud To Be Local - The Big Payback Edition w/ Mista Scrap & Holly Hood. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

SMILING MOOSE. Electric Sundays. w/ ServersDown & Electric Type. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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SMILING MOOSE. EDMOOSE, 5x5. Electronic dance music. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty.

East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

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LAROCHE COLLEGE. Mike Stud.

Wexford. 800-838-4572.

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MR. SMALLS THEATER. A Day To Remember. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

SMILING MOOSE. Frameworks & Gates, Tiny Moving Parts.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

ALTAR BAR. Twiztid. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

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CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Vince Agwada.

Strip District. 412-281-6593.

LOKAY LANES. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Monroeville.

412-372-3046.

MOONDOG’S. Ron Yarosz & the Vehicle. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

WINGHART’S. The Witchdoctors.

Monroeville. 412-372-5500.

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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Vince Agwada. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

MOONDOG’S. Billy Price.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

THE VALLEY HOTEL. Ron & The RumpShakers. 412-233-9800.

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JAZZ THU 17 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

The Jazz Conspiracy Big Band.

North Side. 412-256-8234.

ANDYS. Lisa Hindmarsh.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CJ’S. Roger Humphries & The RH Factor. Strip District. 412-642-2377.

LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

PENN HILLS LIBRARY. Frank Cunimondo. Penn Hills.

412-795-3507.

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ANDYS. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

LITTLE E’S. The New View Trio feat. George Jones. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Joe Negri w/ Daniel May. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

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AVA CAFE & LOUNGE. Awol One, Gel Roc, Apostropheus, Proseed, Fortified Phonetx, Eraserface, Mine+Us. Oakland. 412-687-2157.

MOST-WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Pittsburgh Underground Music Awards Audition Showcase. Garfield.

412-583-2760.

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Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Kea Michaels.

Regent Square. 412-999-9009.

CJ’S. Brother to Brother, The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District.

412-642-2377.

JOHNNY’S. Southside Jerry & Friends. Wilmerding.

412-824-6642.

LITTLE E’S. The Ken Karsh Trio.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

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OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo & Pat Crossley.

Downtown. 412-553-5235.

SONOMA GRILLE. Eric Susoeff.

Downtown. 412-697-1336.

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ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Open Jazz Night w/ the Howie Alexander Trio.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

TUE 22 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Tony DePaolis.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Christian McBride Trio. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Nonstandard. Monthly event of new jazz composers feat. John Petrucelli & the Nu Artet. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Carolyn Perteete. Shadyside.

TENDER BAR + KITCHEN. Boilermaker Jazz Band.

Lawrenceville. 412-402-9522.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ Book Exchange.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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CJ’S. Michele Benson. Strip District.

412-642-2377.

ENIGMA ELITE LOUNGE. Paul Thompson, Alton Merrell, James Johnson III. Downtown.

412-818-5604.

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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jay Wiley.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

SILKS LOUNGE AT THE MEADOWS. Jason Kendall.

Washington.

TENDER BAR + KITCHEN. John Marcinizyn. Lawrenceville.

412-402-9522.

FRI 18 THE BEER MARKET. Jason Kendall, Jim Graff. North Side.

BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Broke Stranded & Ugly. Regent Square.

412-999-9009.

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DOBRA TEA. Tom Moran & Friends. Squirrel Hill. 412-449-9833.

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OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

PENN BREWERY. Joel Lindsay Trio.

North Side. 412-237-9400.

MON 21 MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Adam Miller.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

WED 23 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

MELLON INSTITUTE. Carnegie Mellon University Guitar Ensemble.

Oakland. 412-268-2383.

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HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Ishtar, Carnegie Shpil Company, DJ Vadim.

Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

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MOONDOG’S. Open Stage.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass Jam w/ The Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

WED 23

ANDYS. Gerdan.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

REGGAE SAT 19

THE R BAR. The Flow Band.

Dormont. 412-942-0802.

COUNTRY THU 17

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

724-265-1181.

FRI 18 RPM’S 31 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Aimee Jane Willer Band.

Bridgeville. 412-221-7808.

SILKS LOUNGE AT THE MEADOWS. Dallas Marks.

Washington.

SAT 19

CHRISTINA’S. Steeltown.

412-673-0199.

WED 23

LATITUDE 40. Country Night. Live bands and/or DJs. North Fayette.

412-693-5555.

CLASSICAL FRI 18 SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHANCEL CHOIR. An Evening of Music and Readings.

Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Shadyside. 412-682-4300.

WED 23 CARNEGIE MELLON PHILHARMONIC. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 412-268-2383.

WIND SYMPHONY CHAMBER CONCERT. PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne Univ., Uptown.

412-396-6080.

OTHER MUSIC SAT 19

LEMONT. Mark Venneri.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

MON 21

HAMBONE’S. Cabaret: Showtunes & Jazz Standards Sing- Along.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 23 THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. Dueling Pianos w/ Hermie & Harry.

Canonsburg. 724-746-4227.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-6820177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

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Conservatory Dance Company at the Byham Theater BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse. com or 412-392-8000.

Through April 19.

Markus Schulz ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Khomha & more.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly. com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Cabaret Runaway / B-Side Avenue HARD ROCK CAFE Station

ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX.7:30p.m.

FLAGSTAFF HILL, SCHENLEY PARK Oakland. Tickets: festivalofcolors.us. For more info visit facebook.com/ festivalofcolor. 11a.m.

FESTIVAL OF COLORS SATURDAY, APRIL 19 FLAGSTAFF HILL, SCHENLEY PARK

FRIDAY 18

Square. 412-481-ROCK. Limited all ages. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX. 8:30p.m.

Brad Williams

IMPROV Waterfront. Over 21 show. Tickets: pittsburgh. improv.com or 412-462-5233.

8p.m. & 10:15p.m.

Badfish, a Tribute to Sublime MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

All ages show. Tickets: 866468-3401 or ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

Scooby-Doo Live!

Musical Mysteries

Comedian Jim Florentine

William Fitzsimmons REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Blessthefall

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Silverstein & more.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX. 7p.m.

Chuck Ragan and the Camaraderie / The White Buffalo MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

All ages show. Tickets: 866468-3401 or ticketweb.com/ opusone. 7:30p.m.

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 3p.m. & 6p.m.

LATITUDE 40 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555. Tickets: latitude360.com/pittsburghpa. 7:30p.m. & 10p.m.

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STAGE AE North Side.

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Toadies

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Supersuckers and Battleme. All ages show. Tickets:

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER Downtown. Tickets: livenation. com, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.

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DOM’S DAY {BY AL HOFF}

IT’S HAND-TO-FOOT MARTIAL ARTS, BUT SUPPLEMENTARY WEAPONS ARE ENCOURAGED

The new British dark comedy Dom Hemingway offers a catch-up with one of those flashy, mouthy villains from one of those flashy, word-packed ’90s crime thrillers. Except now our titular anti-hero — just out of prison after 12 years — is moving a bit slower, and the film with it.

GANG FIGHT

Partners in crime: Jude Law and Richard E. Grant

I don’t miss all that jumpy rizzrazz, and director Richard Shepard only occasionally indulges in a bit of cinematic winking (dryly funny intertitles, and a slo-mo party scene). But these flourishes are almost as nostalgically quaint as the 1980s and ’90s pop tunes that give the film some bounce.

(Dom leaves prison in an ill-fitting suit to the cheesy strains of The Alarm’s “The Stand.”)

The plot is simply Dom (Jude Law, with a few extra pounds) trying to get his groove back. He meets his old buddy (Richard E. Grant), and hits up the crime boss (Demain Birchir) for his payout. He also hopes to reconnect with his daughter (Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones’ Khaleesi), and maybe get a new safe-cracking gig. Most of it goes comically awry, with Dom vacillating between self-destruction and self-improvement.

It’s mostly a showcase for Law to unleash blistering streams of words, most profane. Like Deadwood’s Al Swearingen, this is a low-rent bad guy with an astonishing facility for soliloquies and poetically vulgar takedowns. (Dom dismisses the scenery of the French countryside as looking “like a barmaid’s snatch after a World Cup weekend.”) It’s amusing but it all feels a bit slight, with much of the extravagant dialogue recalling the archness of a post-modern gangster flick rather than lived-in realness.

But Grant is never not funny, even playing the slightly dour straight man here. Law seems to relish playing somebody other than his usual well-coiffed and well-bred playboys and lawyers, and his fun is infectious enough to keep this bubbling along.

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It’s about to get real: Rama (Iko Uwais) and a broom handle

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HE RAID 2, the sequel to the ultraviolent 2001 Indonesian mixed-martial-arts hit The Raid: Redemption, opens rather pastorally, as the camera hovers above a dirt road in a green field. But when a car pulls up, you notice the human-sized hole dug in the road, and sure enough, the pleading guy with the bag over his head is summarily dispatched into it via a headshot.

The message the killer delivers — a warning about “ambition and limitation” — will resonate throughout writer-director Gareth Evans’ film.

The earlier Raid had a rather straightforward set-up designed to maximize the skills of its martial-arts star and Evans’ gift for shooting intimate fight scenes in complicated spaces: Young cop Rama (Iko Uwais) has to fight his way through a grubby Jakarta high-rise to vanquish a gangster.

Raid 2 has a lot more plot, all of it reminiscent (if not derivative) of scores of crime thrillers. Here, Rama (Uwais,

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again) goes deep undercover, joining a prominent gang just as one ambitious member is breaking a longstanding truce and causing a three-way gang war.

THE RAID 2

DIRECTED BY: Gareth Evans STARRING: Iko Uwais In Indonesian and Japanese, with subtitles

Expect double-crosses, and lots of chatter about loyalty and revenge, but story isn’t the overly long film’s strength.

The plot is frequently confusing; the minimal character development is perfunctory; and even the settings are standard-issue (sleek offices, nightclubs). (I did get a laugh when the gang visited a porno factory, where DVDs were being labeled with universal restroom-style icons: two ladies, a lady and two men, a lady and a dog.)

Let’s face it: Viewers are coming for

the action scenes, and they are plentiful and appropriately “balletic.” All involve hand-to-foot martial arts, but supplementary weapons are encouraged: knives, heavy objects, guns.

Tapping Evans’ penchant for shooting action in teeny-tiny spaces, the first brawl takes place in a toilet cubicle, and the film’s showpiece is a fiveman fight in a speeding car, which is also being shot at and rammed by other vehicles.

The violence is bloody and graphic, if inventive: A man pulls a knife out of his own back and uses it stab another guy’s leg; a man gets his face stirfried; and one woman can do a lot of damage with two hammers. But Evans’ has an eye and ear for better-than-average style — the sound of a metal baseball bat dragging on concrete is nervetingling — and the fighting is shot without visual gimmicks. If you’re a fan of martial-arts films, can stomach the garroting and don’t mind a choppy plot, then get your Raid 2 on.

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NEW BEARS. A coming-of-age story starring bears from Disney Nature. Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey’s doc follows an Alaskan bear family for one year, as its two cubs learn important life skills. Starts Fri., April 18.

A HAUNTED HOUSE 2. Michael Tiddes directs this horror-film spoof, starring Marlon Wayans as the dude who moves out of one spooked house into another. Starts Fri., April 18.

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. Greg Kinnear stars in this adaptation of the popular book, in which a young child claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience. Randall Wallace directs.

April 27, 2pm

TRANSCENDENCE. A dying scientist uploads his brain into a computer, making him suddenly super-powerful, with alarming consequences.

Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi thriller from Wally Pfister. Starts Fri., April 18.

UNDER THE SKIN. An alien masquerading as a female hitchhiker preys on men. Scarlett Johansson stars in Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi thriller.

Starts Fri., April 18.

REPERTORY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. The basis of Judeo-Christian values, at last writ large on the big screen starring Charlton Heston as Moses, and directed by spectacle master Cecil B. DeMille. “Let my people go!” 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 16. AMC Loews. $5

Bears of Record Store Day (April 19). 7:30 and 10 p.m.

Fri., April 18; and 3 and 9:30 p.m. Sat., April 19.

Hollywood THE KID / A DOG’S LIFE. Catch of double-feature of classic Charlie Chaplin silent comedies. In “The Kid” (1921, 54 min.), Chaplin’s Little Tramps partners with a young foundling (Jackie Coogan). And in “A Dog’s Life” (1918, 33 min.), Chaplin’s sidekick is a helpful mutt named Scraps. 3 p.m. Sat., April 19, and 3 p.m.

Sun., April 20. Oaks

The Butcher Boy with Buster Keaton and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, plus more short films.

Live accompaniment on piano

by Tom Roberts.

$8, $6 for 65 & over or 12 & under with valid school ID. For tickets: showclix.com/event/butcherboy

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THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Mel Gibson’s 2004 film follows Jesus (Jim Caviezel) through his final hours, from his crisis of faith in Gethsemane through his arrest, scourging and crucifixion. In Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew, with subtitles. 5:30 p.m. Sat., April 19.

Parkway Theater, 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks.

412-766-1668 BREADCRUMB TRAIL. This new film from Lance Bangs profiles the late-1980s Louisville, Ky., band Slint.

7 p.m. Sat., April 19. Hollywood FRANCESCO. Learn about the 12th-century man St. Francis of Assisi (whose name the current pope adopted), and his journey from wealthy heir to ascetic humanitarian, in this 1989 docu-drama. Directed by Liliana Cavini, and starring Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter. 8 p.m. Sat., April 19. Parkway Theater, 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. 412-766-1668

Ashes and Diamonds EASTER PARADE. Judy Garland and Fred Astaire star in “the happiest musical ever made,” a buoyant tale of nightclub performers in the early 20th century. Charles Walters directed the 1948 musical comedy, with songs by Irving Berlin.

2 p.m. Thu., April 17; and 3 and 7 p.m. Sun., April 20. Hollywood ENEMY. Denis Villeneuve adapts Jose Saramago’s 2002 novel The Double in this thriller about a man who pursues his look-alike after spotting him in a film; Jake Gyllenhaal stars.

7:30 p.m. Thu., April 17. Hollywood HIGH FIDELITY. John Cusack stars in Stephen Frears’ 2000 comedy, an adaptation of N ick Hornby’s novel about records and relationships, and various lists thereof. Screens in celebration

THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Rob Reiner’s 1987 film is that rare bird — a film to delight children and adults alike, an upbeat fairy tale with romance, comedy, swordplay and deliciously quotable lines. (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) And what a cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Pantinkin, Billy Crystal, Peter Falk, Wallace Shawn, Christopher Guest and professional wrestler Andre the Giant. William Goldman wrote the clever script.

Screens as part of a month-long, Sunday-night series of films about brides. 8 p.m. Sun., April 20.

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THE BLACK SIX. Matt Cimber’s 1974 exploitation flick features a black motorcycle gang out to avenge a member’s killing at the hands of a white-supremacist biker gang. The “six” were portrayed by NFL players Gene Washington, Mercury Morris, Lem Barney, Willie Lanier, Carl Eller and Pittsburgh Steeler “Mean” Joe Greene. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 23. Hollywood

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Heaven Is For Real WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Mel Stuart’s 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story is heartwarming without being gooey, and still deliciously weird. It’s a slow set-up while we wait out all the winners of the trip into Wonka’s secret candy factory — but once inside, the wonder, wackiness and even danger begin!

The sets are wonderful color-saturated structures, free from the dumb special effects that date other older fantasy films. As Wonka, Gene Wilder is a delight, warm yet somehow malevolent. He doesn’t seem to care at all when bratty kids disappear. Sure, he says they’re coming back …

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LOVELY, LETHAL AND OUT OF THIS WORLD.”

What wicked pleasure to see irksome kids just vanish into psychedelic machinery. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 23. AMC Loews. $5 (AH) ASHES AND DIAMONDS. Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 realist drama, set at the very end of World War II, is considered among the greatest films of Polish cinema. It screens as part of Pittsburgh Filmmakers Essential Cinema series. In Polish, with subtitles. 8 p.m. Wed., April 23. Melwood. $2 SACCO AND VANZETTI. Peter Miller’s 2006 documentary looks at the infamous case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants in Boston who, in the 1920s, were tried and convicted of murder. Their case drew international attention, with protesters claiming the men were victims of ethnic and political prejudice. 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 24. The Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront Drive, Munhall. 412-831-3871 or www. battleofhomesteadfoundation.org. Free 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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Point Park University dance alumni seem to be everywhere: on Broadway, and in national touring shows and dance companies, on television and in the movies.

So You Think You Can Dance finalist Neil Haskell, for instance, recently appeared on an episode of Glee, while Luke Murphy stars in the movie Five Dances. They are just two of the dancers and choreographers who’ve come out of Point Park’s prestigious dance program.

For the program’s 245 students, a highlight of their performance opportunities at Point Park is At the Byham. Performed by the Conservatory Dance Company, this annual marquee showcase, celebrating its 10th anniversary, runs April 17-19 at the Byham Theater. The show features works

by David Parsons and Dwight Rhoden and masterworks by Martha Graham and George Balanchine.

One student looking to follow in the footsteps of notable alumni is senior dance major Kathryn Van Yahres. In two of the program’s four performances, the 22-year-old from Philadelphia will dance the lead role of the waltz girl in Balanchine’s “Serenade” (1935).

Perhaps the most famous of his ballets, “Serenade” — set to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 — is a demanding and visually stunning neoclassical ballet originally created for students of the School of American Ballet.

Unconventionally, the waltz girl arrives late to one scene, and in another, she falls down. “I am completely enjoying this role,” says Yahres. “It challenges my stamina and technical ability.”

Yahres calls this year’s At the Byham one of the best she has been a part of, thanks also to works including Rhoden’s “Mercy” (2009). Familiar here for his work with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Rhoden says via email that “Mercy,” set to music

by Steve Reich and others, “revolves around world issues of violence, and unrest.” CDC will perform an excerpt of the two-act ballet.

Graham’s “Steps in the Street,” an excerpt from 1936’s Chronicle, was also inspired by a darker subject: the rise of fascism prior to World War II. The work “deals with isolation after great tragedy, but also suggests the endurance of the human spirit,” says Point Park associate professor Judith Leifer-Bentz. Completing the program is Parsons’ vigorous “Wolfgang,” (2005) danced to music

by Mozart.

David Parsons’ “Wolfgang,” at Point Park’s Conservatory Dance Company {PHOTO COURTESY OF JEFF SWENSEN}

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AMERICAN

Winslow Homer’s “Picking Flowers”

PROSPECTS {BY CHARLES ROSENBLUM}

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HAT’S GEORGE Washington?

That’s George Washington!”

You say it for the first painting out of surprise, and for the second one out of visceral recognition.

The two works hang at the entrance to An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting, a touring show organized by the Warner Foundation and now at the Frick Art & Historical Center.

Fifty works from the 19th and early 20th centuries are on display as highlights from a collection of American art based in Tuscaloosa, Ala. From the outset, and throughout, the show gives us American artists and subjects, while establishing a program of affirmation and rethinking intertwined.

Daniel Huntington’s circa-1840 portrait of Washington and Christopher Gist crossing the Allegheny is a medium-sized oil on canvas work that places the young British officer and his guide on a makeshift raft in

transit. The history lesson about their failed attempt to eject the French from Britishclaimed territory in 1753 is familiar, but has never been iconic in the way that this artist seems to desire.

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Maybe Huntington would have been more successful if Washington’s body were choreographed with a less-stiff relationship with Gist’s and a more precise conjunction with his own head. The lack of notoriety of Huntington’s work comes from the unmythical tale of a small military failure, but

the compositional irregularities don’t help.

But if this show’s valuation of artistic quality is in question, just look at the adjacent Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, a miniature watercolor on ivory. The image is familiar from every elementary school hallway in the country, but this particularly gauzy and Olympian version comes straight from the artist’s hand, and the Father of Our Country’s gravitas seems freshly earned, even though the artist was producing these works with brisk consistency long after the first one.

So are we a nation of feckless hinterland incompetents, or one of steel-eyed republican patriarchs? Clearly, each is more meaningful with some acknowledgement of the other. We are invariably more compelling in a state of being incomplete, unresolved or oddly out of bounds, none of which is perceptible without some version of the ideal in mind.

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Dave Wachter’s cover art for Breath of Bones: Tale of the Golem

All Shows On Sale Now!

Just look at Frederick Edwin Church’s “Moses Viewing the Promised Land” (1846).

Church places Moses on a rocky promontory before a compellingly verdant landscape at a yearning sunset. Only 20 years old at the time of painting, Church had considerable skills in rendering light and landscape, but not yet his full mastery of the roiling, polychromed cloudscapes of his later works, which are usually much larger and also lacking specific biblical references. America itself, he would realize, is holy enough. We know that Church himself made it to the Promised Land of accomplishment and notoriety. But his rumination as a young man on the failure to do so here is poignant, a singular and nuanced reward in what might previously have been construed as a lesser work by the artist.

Indeed, the gnawing question of greater and lesser works persists throughout this exhibit, posited but never answered definitively. For example, we get a series of delicate and masterful child or motherand-child portraits from Mary Cassatt in drypoint and aquatint, each barely 8-by6-inches, all produced in 1923. Cassatt distinguished herself as an artist on her own terms (not simply as a Degas protégé) in both the Paris Salon and the Impressionist exhibitions in the 1860s and ’70s. But by 1923, the woman who was once at the cutting edge of Western art had sat still for a few rapid revolutions in painting, and was, like numerous colleagues, resting on her laurels. Works of this size and period, while showing her skills, hardly indicate what her achievements meant in their crowning moments and continuing legacy.

The arc of art history is toward the encyclopedic and inclusive. So no apologies are necessary for works that are smaller, earlier or lesser known than those in museums down the street or the turnpike. Indeed, this show has some real successes in demonstrating that such works can be at least as provocative as their more iconic partners, and elicit substantive interactions in juxtaposition with them.

The arc of art history has also trended toward reassessment of icons and thoughtful examination of lesser figures, which this show does to good effect. That same arc has trended, moreover, toward more thoughtful and critical assessments of race, class and gender, which this exhibition seems to shy away from — apparently not because of the capable installation here but more due to the values of the Tuscaloosa-based collection. Plenty more rethinking is due in order to fulfill both the initial promise of this show and the initial promise of American itself, for which more justice is always the ideal.

When Dave Wachter was approached to illustrate Steve Niles and Matt Santoro’s World War II comic Breath of Bones: Tale of the Golem, several things appealed to him. The first was the chance to work with Niles, a noted comics horror writer.

The second was the story — another period piece for the locally based artist’s portfolio, which includes narratives set during the Viking era, the Depression and the 1960s.

The third was the title character. “I like drawing monsters,” says Wachter.

“I like seeing a monster as a hero.”

Set in an unnamed Jewish village, Breath of Bones (Dark Horse) follows a young boy who witnesses a British plane crash. Nazi soldiers investigate; for protection, the villagers assemble a golem, a voiceless creature from Jewish folklore.

Formed from mud and obedient to human commands, their creation is a massive being that suggests The Thing from The Fantastic Four.

But unlike The Thing, the golem has twigs and plant roots sticking from his back. For realism’s sake, Niles wanted the golem to be only partially formed, assembled hurriedly by people working on different parts of the body at the same time. And Wachter drew the golem’s face in a minimalistic style, “because it’s more of a reflection. [The golem is] not really its own person.”

The black-and-white drawings were Wachter’s idea, too. He believes the look fit the time period, but allowed him to deviate from a comics norm. “A lot of publishers won’t take the risk of something in black and white,” says Wachter, whose work has earned Russ Manning Award and Will Eisner Award nominations. “It lets me establish a different kind of mood that wouldn’t be possible in color. Instead of limiting me, it gave me more opportunities.”

The biggest challenge was representing the time period accurately; Wachter used Google image searches and The Smithsonian’s Flickr account to capture early-20thcentury Europe. Fan communities helped, too. “There’s a lot of groups of aficionados — people who are World War II buffs,” he notes. “They have websites and message boards where they get together and share photographs.”

Last month, Wachter celebrated the release of Breath of Bones at The Toonseum. Originally from Cincinnati, Wachter moved from Chicago to Pittsburgh four years ago. Pittsburgh, he says, has “all the things I liked about Chicago, [but it’s] not quite as expensive and not quite as overwhelming.”

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ELECTRIFIED | Alexandre Burton and Edwin van der Heide Artists Edwin van der Heide and Alexandre Burton pay homage to Nikola Tesla’s pioneering work in electricity, X-rays and wireless communication. Their installations are North American premieres.

Process Masters| High School Students from the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild

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The Orange Experience Sound Elevator explores the psychological effects of color through music.

The Secret Life of Robots | Toby Fraley Music by DJ Gordy Purchase treats from Sweet Peaches and The Pittsburgh Pie Guy.

11. 937 Liberty Avenue

29. Arthur Murray Dance Studio 136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro)

Come complain with the Office of Public Art as we collect complaints for the Complaints Choir, a public art program of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. 5:30 to 7:30pm.

3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Gallery:

Therapy and The Muse | Ernest McCarty

Digital Hand | Penn State University School of Visual Arts

22. 707 Penn Gallery* The Occasional Market | Tom Sarver

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Teenie “One Shot” Harris The August Wilson Center Collection

Live Music by Formula 412, 6:30 to 9pm Carnegie Library Button-making and Books WYEP Music Station

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24. Backstage Bar People Who Live in Tin Houses Shouldn’t Throw Can Openers | Robert Villamagna Live music by Jevon Rushton, 5:30 to 7:30pm

Music by J. Malls.

14. Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery

25. PNC Legacy Project

SPACE, 812 Liberty Avenue

Interioractive, 10pm, $5

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Print Power | Pittsburgh CAPA 9-12 Visual Art Students 819 Penn Avenue

Scene and Song Revue In partnership with Pinnacle Productions, Point Park University.

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Trust Arts Education Center, Peirce Studio, 805-807 Liberty Avenue

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7. Trust Arts Education Center

Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents regionally made short films.

Fairmont Hotel, 510 Market Street

Reading & Book Signing, The Bend of the World by Jacob Bacharach 9:30pm, No Cover

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August Henry’s Saloon, 946 Penn Avenue

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symbols of self | Urban Pathways Students Live music by The Sounds of Steel band.

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Dane Vannatter, Jazz at Andy’s 8pm-12am, No Cover

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Pittsburgh Public Schools 2014 All-City Showcase of Arts & Cultures

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FARCICALLY SAD {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} QUANTUM THEATRE’S enthralling production of Michel de Ghelderode’s Pantagleize mixes media, politics, comedy, pathos and a subversion of the space-time continuum.

The Belgian playwright subtitled his 1929 work “a farce to make you sad,” a pretty good description of the political process at any time.

This world premiere, a very free adaptation/collaboration between playwright Jay Ball and director Jed Allen Harris, uses the original as a framework to poke at revolution, right-wing despots, left-wing dreamers and the world at large.

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Quantum Theatre at the Lexington Technology Center, off North Lexington Avenue, North Point Breeze. 888-718-4253 or www.quantumtheatre.com

Don’t expect realism. The ever-optimistic title character (the name means “ever shining”) of Harris-Ball’s iteration is supposedly based on beat poet Allen Ginsberg, especially his pomposity. As charmingly portrayed by Randy Kovitz, Pantagleize is a hippie parasite and aggressive heterosexual, in a teddy-bear sort of way. He lives an astonishing adventure. Perhaps he learns.

Let’s not spoil the plot, which doesn’t make much sense anyway. Much of the show is the tour de force by Tony Bingham,

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primarily as the right-eyed Prezidente of the unnamed Eastern European microstate that provides the setting and intrigue.

But Bingham also has to play against himself in his video portrayals of four 1980-ish historical figures, supposedly his cronies in extreme-right rule. Bingham’s characterizations range from a brutally coarse Idi Amin to a solipsistic (and absolutely hilarious) Margaret Thatcher.

There’s a lot to admire: Lisa Ann Goldsmith as a femme fatale with a past; Erika Strasburg as the achingly innocent idealist; Abdiel Vivancos as a would-be revolutionary leader and fantasist; Sam Turich as the blunt commie; and especially Weston Blakesley as the Prezidente’s bumbling enforcer and pawn. The design team has made much of the former North Point Breeze office space/warehouse: scenic designer Tony Ferrieri and assistant Jeff Fuga; Kevin Ramser, video; C. Todd Brown, lighting; RJ Romeo, production; and Elizabeth Atkinson, sound. Costume designer Susan Tsu and assistant Emily Chalmers relieve the Iron Curtain gray with a mix of Ruritania, Carnaby Street and Haight-Ashbury.

The political commentary aims at the past several decades, with the occasional bullseye, but Pantagleize also delivers plenty of real chuckles.

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SYNGE ALONG {BY TED HOOVER} FUNNY HOW plays come in and out of

fashion. Several years back, it seemed

everybody was producing John Millington Synge’s comedy/drama The Playboy of the Western World … and then it disappeared from local stages.

Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company leaps in to fill the void with a new student production, directed by Kim Martin.

In a remote backwater in Ireland, we find ourselves in the village public house, run by Michael Flaherty and his daughter Pegeen. In the way of these things, Pegeen is young and beautiful, pining for the love she doesn’t feel from her would-be finance, the nerdy Shawn Keogh. Cue a light change as the door bursts open and in rushes Christy Mahon, a man on the run because he just killed his father.

He’s hot, he’s dangerous, he’s single … and soon the village women are flocking around, in love with the swashbuckling story he relishes telling.

The plot, as they say, thickens and soon Synge’s piling incident on top of event until — in a not altogether believable way — he draws it all to a close.

There’s a lot to like about Playboy, its antic good humor and the slight melancholy perfuming the work. But there’s a musty quaintness to it as well. It doesn’t reach high enough to achieve “classic” status and

is, perhaps, too dated to be relevant.

So Martin — and bless her for it! — directs with the two elements essential for a successful production: She’s assembled a top-flight cast of actors willing to fling themselves into every corner of Synge’s loopiness, and she directs the play like an addict chasing a fix. The propulsion she brings, while never ignoring nuance, helps land this script in the most entertaining way.

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THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD continues through April 19.

Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. 412-392-8000 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com

Nik Duggan plays Christy with just about as much charm as could be humanly possible, and his scenes with Amanda Lee Hawkins — in a fully realized performance as Pegeen — are tender and heartfelt. We know they’re star-crossed, but we can’t help rooting for them any less because of that.

Jenny Lester and Ashton Guthrie provide deeper shadings in supporting roles, and Corwin Stoddard’s hangdog Shawn brings humanity and warmth as well.

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The Shaler North Hills Library is one of 22 libraries in Pennsylvania hosting Film Forward, an international touring program backed by the Sundance Institute that promotes cultural understanding. Tonight’s offering is Hilla Medalia’s documentary Dancing in Jaffa, which follows famed ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine to his Israeli hometown, where he teaches 150 Israeli and Palestinian children to dance together. A post-screening discussion about facing political and cultural differences is facilitated by artist and educator William Rock. Film Forward continues with five more films through April 30.

Bill O’Driscoll 7 p.m. 1822 Mount Royal Blvd., Glenshaw.

Free. Register at 412-486-0211

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621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $23-55 ($15.75 for students).

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Tonight’s TNY Presents features three poets and a writer known for her comedy.

Local poets Stephanie Brea, Jason Baldinger (who has a Fashion by Mureaux

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Love triangles can make good drama, but George Bernard Shaw’s Candida shows they can make a good comedy, too. In this take on love and marriage in the late 19th century, Candida is caught between Rev. Morrell, her socialist husband, and Eugene Marchbanks, a young poet. Starring Gretchen Egolf (pictured) as Candida, David Whalen as Morrell and Jared McGuire as

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collection and chapbook forthcoming) and Bob Walicki — who just published his debut chapbook, A Room Full of Trees — are joined by Andrea Laurion. Laurion, who calls herself “a big fan of libraries, gin & tonics, staying up late, and my cat, Harold,” is an improv performer with credits including the Upright Citizens Brigade, and publication credits including McSweeney’s. BO 8 p.m.

ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield. $5 or free with potluck contribution. www.tny presents.blogspot.com

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The ensemble, which is both a course and a student organization, explores the continent’s artistic traditions through vocal performance, music and visual art. The group is led by Yamoussa Camara, a native of Guinea who toured with American ensembles and taught at Yale for 10 years before sharing his skills at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon. Directing the ensemble is Gavin Steingo, a professor who specializes in South African music. AS 8 p.m.

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Heels on Wheels, the New York-based group of queer femme artists touring the Northeast, rolls into town with its multilayered Glitter Roadshow. The show, co-founded by performers Damien Luxe and Heather Ács in 2010, mixes multimedia, readings and performance art to examine “femme/inine-positive queer embodiment.” As Ács says in a video about the show, “There are certain assumptions that get made about feminine people. We wanted to create a space where it was safe to be feminine in all kinds of ways for all kinds of genders.”

In her “Welcome to the Waldorf Hysteria,” Ács combines sound effects and hysterics to explore the anatomy of losing control. Luxe’s “Femme Footprints” presents both video footage and queer femmes in mermaid costumes to insist on solidarity within the working class.

Shomi Noise reads from her zine series “Building Up Emotional Muscles,” detailing her life as a Bolivian immigrant who found her niche in alternative music. Alvis Parsley shares a “heartfelt confession draw[ing] on ... experiences as a genderqueer Asian.” Angel Nafis reads poetry, detailing “her black girl brilliance in its vastness and depth.” And both karaoke and Sex in the City figure into Sabina Ibarrola’s tale of breaking up and moving on. Hear it at The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. Angela Suico 8 p.m. Thu., April 17. 5006 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $7-15 (sliding scale). 412-924-0634 or www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com

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a discounted fee of $125. Fees include the mandatory bus shuttle from Monroeville to the trailhead and back. BO 8 a.m.6 p.m. $33. Series continues through June 14. Register at www.ventureoutdoors.org

dancing and eating desserts, celebrants throw colored powders into the air, covering each other with different hues. Pittsburgh’s own Holi Festival of Colors, which is non-denominational, non denominational, takes

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Snap a photo with R2-D2, you must: The e robot is one of the attractions at the Pittsburgh Comic & Collectibles Show, sponsored by New Dimension Comics and held at its store in Pittsburgh Mills Mall. Chris Burnham, who illustrated Batman Incorporated d — and who frequented the comic chain’s Cranberry Township store as a kid — is the show’s guest of honor. Also appearing are Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo and actor George Kosana, who played Sheriff McClelland. The show will hold door prize drawings every half hour, as well as offering free giveaways.

AS 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 590 Pittsburgh Mills Circle, Tarentum. Free. 412-965-1487 or www.ndcomics.com

vegetarian food. The Holi Festival is sponsored by The Palace of Gold, the Hare Krishna temple in West Virginia. AS 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Frew Street and Schenley Drive, Schenley Park, Oakland. $2035. www.festivalofcolors.us.

Free with admission ($12-13; children under 2 admitted free). 412-322-5058 or www.pittsburghkids.org

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place at Flagstaff Hill today.

Colors will be thrown hourly from noon until 6 p.m. In between, this family-friendly event offers live music, yoga sessions, dancing and

For a minute, set aside those love emails, those love tweets, those Facebook posts of love.

As part of XOXO, its exhibit about love and forgiveness, The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh hosts the monthlong XOXO: The Love Letters Project. From 11 a.m.-2 p.m. every weekday (and noon3 p.m. on weekends), join artist-in-residence Dalia Shevin to produce a hand-written letter or postcard to someone (or something) you love.

Letters by past participants are on exhibit. Holding such a profession in your hand, Shevin says, really does make all the difference. BO 11 a.m-2 p.m.

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If you’ve traversed East Liberty lately, you’ve likely noticed the dug-up front yard of East Liberty Presbyterian Church.

That was sewer work — but not in the conventional sense.

This project is about keeping rainwater out of the city’s overburdened sewer lines.

This morning’s Stormwater Reclamation Project Earth Day Dedication culminates a fouryear initiative to disconnect the rain spouts on the front of the church and redirect water for absorption by new trees, bushes and other plants — a plus for both ALCOSAN and our rivers. The church calls the reclamation system, with its rain garden, the largest of its kind in the region. BO 10 a.m.

116 Highland Ave., East Liberty.

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If you’re up for an upland challenge, Venture Outdoors is ready for you. Today’s the first leg of the group’s Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail quest, a seven-Saturday series that’ll take you the length of the 70-mile trail. Hike leader Bruce Cridlebaugh guides today’s 11.2-mile jaunt; while the pace is moderate, the climbs are long and steep, so participants must be in good physical shape. You can do any of the hikes, or take on all seven for

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Tonight’s features the Christian McBride Trio, named for the Grammy-winning bassist and composer. Though still in his early 40s, McBride has collaborated with everyone from Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner and Pat Metheny to James Brown, The Roots and Queen Latifah. McBride’s new trio, with pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr., takes the stage at the Cabaret at Theater Square. The series concludes on April 29, with pianist Robert Glasper.

BO 8 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $30.75. 412-4566666 or www.trustarts.org

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RAW: Pittsburgh holds its latest showcase for local artists in everything from visual art, fashion and film to music, hair and make-up, and dance.

RAW: Pittsburgh (the local incarnation of a nationwide, Los Angeles-based RAW network) calls this event Spectrum. Organizer Leigh Yock promises to fill Club Zoo with work by 26 visual artists; fashion shows by Mureaux (pictured), Unique Impression, Hyena and Biome; and more.

Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Infra Dance Company, and Janim (of Pittsburgh Bellydance Academy) perform; the live music is by Solarburn, Shelf Life String Band, Velvet Heat, and The Wave. BO 7 p.m.-midnight. 1630 Smallman St., Strip District. $15-20. 21 and over. www.rawartists.org/pittsburgh

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THEATER CANDIDA. Comedy by George Bernard Shaw. Presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Wed-Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m., Sun, 2 & 7 p.m. and Tue, 7 p.m.

Thru May 13. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600.

DEADLY LESSONS. Interactive murder mystery dinner theater.

Every other Sat. Thru April 19.

Gaetano’s Restaurant, Dormont.

724-344-2069.

FIFTH WALL - TRANSIT TALES. A multimedia storytelling project about how public transit affects our lives in Allegheny County.

Thu., April 17, 7 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999.

GROUNDED. One-woman show following a gutsy fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy puts her career on hold. Sun, 5:30 & 9 p.m., Tue, Wed, 7 p.m., Thu, Fri, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 4. City Theatre, South Side.

412-431-2489.

JUDGE JACKIE JUSTICE A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY. The courtroom of Judge Jackie

Justice is now in session w/ “real” cases involving zombies, spaceships, furries, more.

Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m. and Sat, Sun, 2 p.m. Thru April 27.

Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

PANTAGLEIZE. Adaptation of Michel de Ghelderode’s 1931 avant garde play.

Presented by Quantum Theatre.

Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 7 p.m. Thru April 27. Lexington Technology Center, Point Breeze.

412-362-1713.

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Classic Irish comedy by John Millington Synge. Presented by Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company. Thu, Fri, 8 p.m. and Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. Thru April 19.

Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland.

412-392-8000.

SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED. A collection of seldom heard Shakespearean monologues & scenes. Presented by Prime Stage Theatre. Fri., April 18, 7 p.m. Max’s Allegheny Tavern,

comedy. Feat. Pittsburgh’s premiere poets & comedians.

Third Thu of every month, 6-9 p.m. Thru May 15 The Lounge on Verona, Verona.

412-871-5521.

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BRAD WILLIAMS. 8 p.m., Fri., April 18, 8 & 10:15 p.m. and Sat., April 19, 7 & 9:15 p.m. The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

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COMEDY OPEN MIC W/ DEREK MINTO. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru May 29 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. www. per BEST OF THE pa 412-681-4318. pghcitym BURGH COMEDY .co LAUGHS AT THE SHOWCASE. LAVA LOUNGE. 9 p.m.

Fri, 8 p.m. Thru Lava Lounge, South Side.

May 30 Corner Cafe, 412-431-5282.

South Side. 412-488-2995.

OPEN STAGE COMEDY DAHRI FERKS & YEAH NIGHT. Thu Eclipse Lounge, THOSE GUYS. 8 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

Arcade Comedy Theater, PITTSBURGH IMPROV Downtown. 412-339-0608.

JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at LAST CHANCE TO SEE Theater Square, Downtown.

COMEDY SHOW. LGBT 412-325-6769. comedy show hosted by POETRY.COM HAPPY HOUR Abby Denton. 10 p.m.

STYLE. Where poetry meets Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

LAWPROV. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

MAGICIAN-COMEDIAN EXTREME MICHAEL GIGLIOTTI. Amazing strolling magic & comedy. Fun for the whole family feat. Caesars Palace award winning Master Magician MICHAELANGELO. Fri, 5-7 p.m.

Mullen’s Bar & Grill, North Side.

412-231-1112.

STEAMER. Fri, 9:30 p.m.

Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

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SLOWLY. Howard Barker’s play about 4 women waiting in their besieged city for the arrival of the conquering forces. Thu, Fri, 7 p.m. Thru April 25. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-255-2539.

SAT 19 ARCADE HOOTENANNY. 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

THE DEATH SHOW. 10 p.m.

Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

TOM MUSIAL, MATT LIGHT, TOMMY KUPIEC, DILLON WESTON, COLLIN CHAMBERLIN. Pittsburgh’s Finest Comedy Showcase. 9 p.m.

Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington.

412-592-7869.

TUE 22 TUESDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Tue, 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

WED 23 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m.

Scarpaci’s Place, Mt. Washington.

412-431-9908.

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NEW THIS WEEK AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Synagogues of Prague & Budapest.

Photographs by David Aschkenas. Opening reception: April 23, 6-8 p.m. Squirrel Hill.

412-521-8011 x 105.

THE BREW HOUSE. Walls that Soak. Large scale installation by Caroline Record & Leah Wulfman. Opening reception: April 18, 6-9 p.m. & by appointment. South Side.

240-793-8935.

ONGOING 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.

ASSEMBLE. The Drop Project.

Interactive exhibit designed by Kristen Reynolds, Ann Payne, & Molly Mehling to personify

aquatic ecosystems in order to create relatability to our everyday lives. Garfield.

412-432-9127.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. People Who Live in Tin Houses Shouldn’t Throw Can Openers.

Assemblage & metal collages

by Robert Villamagna.

Downtown. 412-325-6768.

BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. Pittsburgh Panoramas/Metals.

Tarentum. 724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Hot Paint & Cold Glass.

Multimedia exhibit by Patti & Al Middlemiss. Verona.

412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Panoptic Landscape. Work by Box Heart Gallery’s 2014 Artist of the Year, Irina Koukhanova.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Architecture + Photography.

Feat. works from the Heinz Architectural Center & Carnegie Museum of Art’s photography collection, demonstrating the symbiosis

between architecture & photography. Teenie Harris Photographs: Baseball in Pittsburgh. Feat. an inside look at some of the greatest moments in Negro League, Major League, & sandlot baseball in Pittsburgh.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection.

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Between Abstraction & Realism. Work

by Bettina Clowney. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

EAST OF EASTSIDE GALLERY. In Anticipation of Spring. Work

by Kevin O’ Toole, Constance Merriman, Karl Mullen, more.

Forest Hills. 412-465-0140.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined with some of the world’s most talented contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection.

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STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-904-4502.

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EVENT: Sister Spit reading and performance at The Andy Warhol Museum, North Side

HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts and exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum.

724-224-7666.

CRITIC: AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN , 35, CULTURE. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, an IT professional Renew, Remix. Feat. imagery, from Coraopolis film & oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, WHEN: & innovations. Downtown.

412-258-2700.

BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic I was interested in the scene. I really had no idea roll-played musical instruments exactly what to expect. I expected more of an overt and music boxes in a mansion feminist kind of [focus] but there were a lot of different setting. Call for appointment. perspectives, and I thought it was really representative.

O’Hara. 412-782-4231.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

[The] best part for me was Beth Lisick. The humor of Preserved materials reflecting [her reading] transcended. I don’t know what it’s like to the industrial heritage of be in Japan [or have] that experience, but I felt it with Southwestern PA. Homestead. her. And there was the intensity of the emotion of the 412-464-4020. others, but she was the highlight for me. I know a lot CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. RACE: of writers in the area, like the Girls With Glasses [and] Are We So Different? Text, Mad Women [in the Attic], and I was really interested photographs, interactive to see the difference of the vibe, specifically from the audiovisual components, & West Coast to East Coast. But people are people. Some related artifacts challenge of the cultural things are slightly different, but it was perceptions about race. Oakland.

412-622-3131. really good.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE

BY ANGELA SUICO CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and FRICK ART & HISTORICAL the story of Pittsburgh’s Village, USS Requin submarine, CENTER. Ongoing: tours of immigrant past. University and more. North Side.

Clayton, the Frick estate, with of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

412-237-3400. classes, car & carriage museum.

412-624-6000.

COMPASS INN. Demos and tours Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. with costumed guides featuring HUNT INSTITUTE Pioneer church features this restored stagecoach stop.

FOR BOTANICAL 1823 pipe organ, 724-238-4983.

DOCUMENTATION. Duets.

Revolutionary War graves.

CONNEY M. KIMBO Harmonious couplings Scott. 412-851-9212.

GALLERY. University of of botanical art w/ items OLIVER MILLER Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: created between the 16th & HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/ Memorabilia & Awards from 21st centuries from the Hunt Whiskey Rebellion site the International Hall of Fame.

Institute collections. Oakland. features log house, Oakland. 412-648-7446.

412-268-2434. blacksmith shop & gardens.

DEPRECIATION LANDS KENTUCK KNOB. Tour South Park. 412-835-1554.

MUSEUM. Small living the other Frank Lloyd PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY history museum celebrating Wright house.

MUSEUM. Trolley rides and the settlement 724-329-8501. exhibits. Includes displays, and history of KERR MEMORIAL walking tours, gift shop, picnic the Depreciation MUSEUM. Tours area and Trolley Theatre.

Lands. Allison Park. of a restored Washington. 724-228-9256.

412-486-0563. www. per a p 19th-century, PHIPPS CONSERVATORY FALLINGWATER. pghcitym o .c middle-class home. & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Tour the famed Frank Oakmont. 412-826-9295.

Spring Flower Show. Showcase Lloyd Wright house.

MARIDON MUSEUM. of musical genres through 724-329-8501.

Collection includes jade whimsical sculptures made FIRST PRESBYTERIAN and ivory statues from out of up-cycled instruments CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany China and Japan, as well alongside thousands of vibrant stained-glass windows. as Meissen porcelain. tulips, daffodils, hyacinths Downtown. 412-471-3436.

Butler. 724-282-0123. & other seasonal favorites.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. MCGINLEY HOUSE & 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor Unconquered: History Meets MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. gardens feature exotic Hollywood at Fort Pitt. Original Historic homes open for plants and floral displays from movie props, photographs, tours, lectures and more. around the world. Oakland. & costumes alongside 18th Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

412-622-6914. century artifacts & documents, NATIONAL AVIARY. Home PINBALL PERFECTION. comparing & contrasting to more than 600 birds from Pinball museum & historical events w/ Hollywood over 200 species. With classes, players club. West View. depictions. Reconstructed fort lectures, demos and more.

412-931-4425. houses museum of Pittsburgh North Side. 412-323-7235.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG history circa French & Indian NATIONALITY ROOMS. AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 War and American Revolution.

26 rooms helping to tell animals, including many Downtown. 412-281-9285.

Michael Wargula

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endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos and artifacts of her life & work. Springdale.

724-274-5459.

RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Homestead Mill. Steel industry and community artifacts from 1881-1986.

Homestead. 412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From Slavery to Freedom.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement.

Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, and exhibits on local history, more.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history.

Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland.

412-621-4253.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling and coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. 724-887-7910.

HOLIDAY FRI 18 - SUN 20 EGGSTRAVAGANZA. Egg hunt, photos w/ Easter bunny, more. Sat, Sun, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and Fri., April 18, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thru April 20 National Aviary, North Side. 412-323-7235.

SAT 19 VENTURE OUTDOORS EASTER EGG GEOCACHING. Follow the Easter Bunny’s trail through the woods searching for baskets of eggs using GPS receivers. 1:30 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 412-255-0564.

SUN 20 EASTER BRUNCH AT THE NATIONAL AVIARY. Call for reservation. 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. National Aviary, North Side. 412-258-9445.

FESTIVALS SAT 19 CHATHAM SPRING CARNIVAL & HARVEST GRAPE FESTIVAL. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-2990.

FESTIVAL OF COLORS. Feat. music, dance & throwing of

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(1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Palimpsests: Ghost Signs of Pittsburgh. Photographs

by Kelly Bogel. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting.

Feat. American artists from the nation’s early years of independence through the dawn of the 20th century.

Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. City Scenes: Finding Harmony in Pittsburgh’s Changing Colors.

Paintings by Claire Hardy.

Oakland. 412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Rejuvenate.

Work by Baron Batch & Terry Wise. Shadyside. 412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Salon Show 2014. Group show. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

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.

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.

724-316-9326.

LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Visions & Revelations. Work by members of the National Association of Women Artists.

Downtown. 412-392-8008.

MALL AT ROBINSON. City by the Bay. Photography

by PTI students. Robinson.

MATTRESS FACTORY. DETROIT: Artists in Residence.

Work by Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orlando, Frank Pahl. Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory. Site-specific

organic colored powders. festivalofcolors.us 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Schenley Park, Oakland.

412-255-2539.

installation focusing on the body w/ relation to place & space. Ongoing Installations.

Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Lossless.

Carnegie Mellon School of Art’s MFA Thesis Exhibition feat. large-scale installations, video & generative sound art.

Oakland. 412-268-3618.

MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. STRUCTURE. Work

by Ron Copland, Steve Ehret, Megan Herwig, Joseph Mruk, Gian Romagnoli, Andy Scott, & Megan Shalonis. Garfield.

412-362-0274.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapotsƒ Work by Ceres Rangos, Rae Gold, Meryl Ruth, Ronit Dagan, more. Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. MASH: Mansion Apartment Shack House.

Paintings by Megan Shalonis.

Bloomfield.

PERCOLATE. Traveling Souls.

Paintings by Samir Elsabee & Bob Ziller. Wilkinsburg.

412-606-1220.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. 19th Century Photographs in the USA. Showing the largest collection on display feat.

Civil War, historic persons, Cowboys & Indians. North Side.

412-231-7881.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. A Mind of Winter.

Installation by Meghan Olsen.

Past Presence. Installation by Keith Lemley. Robert Qualters: A Life. A retrospective curated

by Vicky A. Clark. Plume.

Installation by Ian Brill.

Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Halfway to Somewhere.

Work by Granite Calimpong & Brent Rogers. Friendship.

412-365-2145.

REVISION SPACE. Art is Violent. Work by Courtney Cormier & Miss Dingo.

Lawrenceville. 412-735-3201.

SHAW GALLERIES. Historic Pittsburgh. Photographs by Mark Muse. Downtown.

412-281-4884.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Auction

FRI 18

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YOGA DANCE BENEFIT CLASS. Benefits Focus On Renewal. 6:30-8 p.m.

BYS Yoga, South Side.

412-771-6460 x 305.

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SAT 19

VEGETARIAN BENEFIT DINNER. Benefits the Peace Corps. 5 p.m.

Verde, Garfield. 412-404-8487.

Preview Exhibition. Preview of work being sold in the 2014 Benefit Auction. South Side.

412-431-1810.

SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Kevin O’Toole: Recent Works.

Wood sculptures. Downtown.

412-261-7003 x 29.

SPACE. The Secret Life of Robots. Installation by Toby Atticus Fraley. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Waterworks 2014. Pittsburgh Watercolor Society annual member show. Friendship.

412-441-0194.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Wild Things. Exhibit feat. 2D, 3D & kinetic artworks.

Juried by Cynthia Shaffer.

Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

THE TOONSEUM. Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books.

Collection of original illustration art from the Little Golden Books series.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

TRUNDLE MANOR. Vex Kelpie’s Fairy World. Sculptures of mythical creatures & hidden beasts. Swissvale. 412-916-5544.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop. Open studio. Lawrenceville.

412-621-0663.

TULA ORGANIC SALON & SPA. One Cloud Per Sky. Work by Amy DiPlacido.

Squirrel Hill. 412-521-2230.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF THE NORTH HILLS. The Marriage Project: Faces of Equality. Traveling photographic exhibit of local same-sex couples in long-term committed relationships who would like to marry one day in PA or have their existing out-of-state marriage recognized by our state.

On view Sun. mornings, & Tues. through Fri., 9-4, by appointment. 412-366-0244.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Born of Fire: The Valley Work.

Greensburg. 724-837-1500.

SALUTE TO THE TROOPS PRO WRESTLING EVENT. A portion of the proceeds

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NO MENU MONDAY. Feat. the Barack Obama Academy Food Revolution Cooking Club. Benefits the CORO Fellows Program.

5-11 p.m. Bar Marco, Strip District. 412-201-5772.

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THU 17 AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP. Every other Thu, 9:15 a.m.

Thru April 17 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

BOOKS IN THE AFTERNOON. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.

1-2 & 6-7 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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. thehourafterhappyhour. wordpress.com Thu, 7-9 p.m.

The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield.

412-687-4323.

THE NEW YINZER PRESENTS. Bob Walicki, Jason Baldinger, Andrea Laurion, Stephanie Brea.

8 p.m. ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield.

412-362-0274.

TOUCH..5 POSTERS, 5 POEMS (STREET POETRY).

Artwork & poetry by Edward Murray. 6-8 p.m.

Braddock Carnegie Library, Braddock. 412-351-5357.

MAY 16

Erisa Rei w/ Ferdinand the Bull Presented By abkmusic.com/coh-events thecenterofharmony.com/ events/upcoming/

Buy presale and save $$$ 253 Mercer St., Harmony, PA 16037

724-400-6044

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THU 17 - SAT 19 FRIENDS OF SOUTH PARK LIBRARY BOOK SALE. April 17-19 South Park Library, South Park. 412-833-5585.

FRI 18

will benefit the Post-9/11 Scholarship Fund at the Foundation for California University. 7 p.m. California University. 724-938-4600.

RED HERRING BOOK CLUB. The Apostate’s Tale by Margaret Frazer. 1-2 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

WORDPLAY. Actors, comedy writers, & everyday people read their own true stories with a live DJ score.

8 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown.

412-471-0999.

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BOOK ‘EM BOOKS TO PRISONERS WORK PARTY. Read & code letters, pick books, pack ‘em or database ‘em!

An Evening of Music

Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt.

Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

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7-9 p.m. Assemble, Garfield.

412-906-9522.

ITALIAN CONVERSATION. Third and First Sat of every month, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

PENNWRITERS SPRINGDALE WRITERS GROUP. Third Sat of every month Springdale Free Public Library, Springdale. 724-274-9729.

TERRANCE HAYES,TOI DERRICOTTE, JOAN BAUER. Poetry reading, part of the Versify Reading Series.

7-9 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

MON 21 COMICS DECODED BOOK CLUB. Third Mon of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

OUT OF THE GUTTER: GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION GROUP. Third Mon of every month, 6:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

TUE 22 LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-9650.

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MAZEN MAAROUF & RACHIDA MADANI. Joint reading by Palestinian & Moroccan poets. 7-9 p.m.

City of Asylum, North Side.

412-323-0278.

PITTSBURGH CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP. Tue, 6 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

BALL. 500 beach balls, larger inflatable balls, a disco ball & music. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

TOUGH ART. Interactive artworks by Chris Beauregard, Katie Ford, Scott Garner, Isla Hansen & Luke Loeffler.

Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

XOXO: AN EXHIBIT BIG READ IN ABOUT LOVE & PITTSBURGH FORGIVENESS. CLOSING Explore love & www. per a p CELEBRATION. forgiveness through pghcitym o .c 6 p.m. Soldiers & interactive experiences.

Thru Aug. 31 Sailors Memorial Hall, Children’s Museum Oakland. 412-469-6301. of Pittsburgh, North Side.

CONVERSATION SALON. 412-322-5058.

Second Fri of every month, XOXO: LOVE LETTERS 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of PROJECT. Using traditional every month, 1 p.m. Northland hand letter writing materials Public Library, McCandless. including postcards, stamps, 412-366-8100. & even a manual typewriter, PITTSBURGH POETRY craft a message to someone EXCHANGE. Discussing or something you love. Thru Simor J. Ortiz, from Sand Creek April 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Roasters, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Shadyside. 412-621-6880.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

XOXO STORY TIME. Mon-Fri, 2 p.m. Thru April 30 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Side. 412-322-5058.

Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s 8TH ANNUAL EGG-CELLENT EGG HUNT. Take a scavenger Museum of Pittsburgh, hunt map & interact w/ North Side. 412-322-5058.

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Ages 12 & under. 10:30 a.m.1 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland.

412-622-3131.

BREAKFAST W/ DINOSAURS. Breakfast, hands-on activities, more.

8-10 a.m. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland.

412-622-3288.

HAND BUILD W/ CLAY. Sat, 12-2 p.m. Thru April 27 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

MARTY’S MARKET KIDS’ CORNER. Ages 5-11. Sat, 3-5 p.m. Marty’s Market, Strip District. 412-586-7177.

SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES. 3 & 6 p.m. Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

YOUTH NATURALIST INSTITUTE: TROPICAL TREK. Investigate diverse tropical ecosystems & learn about conservation efforts using museum dioramas & collections. Ages 10-13. Sat. Thru May 10 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3288.

SAT 19 - SUN 20 ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Sat, Sun, 1 & 3:30 p.m. Thru April 27 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-6464.

MON 21 - WED 23 STUFFED ANIMAL CARE & REPAIR. April 21-28, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

WED 23 BOOT CAMP WORKOUT. Ages 8-18. Wed, 6-7 p.m.

Thru April 30 Brookline Community Center, Brookline.

412-571-3222.

L & J MATH CLUB. For students in grades 4-7. Wed, 6 p.m.

Thru April 30 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

OUTSIDE FRI 18 WISE WALK. 1-mile walk around Oakland. Fri, 10:30 a.m. Thru April 25 Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

SAT 19 PITTSBURGH WILD HALF. 5k/10k /Half Marathon 9 p.m.

Boyce Park, Monroeville.

724-327-0338.

TUE 22 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.

WED 23 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or

Art by Mike Mangiafico & Ed Pinto

There’s something delightful about seeing a new take on an old form — which is probably why the annual Teapots! Invitational, at Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, remains such a popular event. Now in its eighth year, the exhibit features vessels by more than 60 artists, from silversmiths and ceramists to woodworkers and fiber artists. Some veer toward the traditional and whimsical, while others take the concept of the teapot in previously unheard-of physical and philosophical directions. Exhibit continues through May 31. 5833 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside.

412-441-5200 or www.morganglassgallery.com

shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 17 ART NIGHTS AT THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Bring your own medium for a communal creation night w/ music by King Friday. Third Thu of every month, 8 p.m. The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

BEEMPATHY: ENRICHING HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH THE ART OF BEEKEEPING. w/ Christina Joy Neumann. Part of Biophilia: Pittsburgh. 5:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

BURLYPICKS! - 2014 PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BURLESQUE. 9 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side.

412-381-6811.

CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE & CHINESE CULTURE. Thu, 7 p.m.

Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

FILM FORWARD: ADVANCING CULTURAL DIALOGUE. Film

screening & discussion of Dancing in Jaffa. 7 p.m.

Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

HEELS ON WHEELS GLITTER ROADSHOW. Cabaret presented by queer artists of femme-inine spectrum genders. 8 p.m.

Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield.

412-924-0634.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com.

MASONRY WORKSHOP. Trick of the trade in masonry construction w/ Stephen Shelton.

6 p.m. Landmarks Housing Resource Center, Wilkinsburg.

412-242-2700.

NATIONAL AVIARY AT NIGHT. Tropical-themed exhibits, music, food, more.

Third Thu of every month, 5-9 p.m. Thru May 15 National Aviary, North Side.

412-323-7235.

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Panel discussion will be followed by audience Q & A. 7 p.m. Mattress Factory, North Side. 646-436-4698.

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.

SPRING RENEWAL & REJUVENATION SERIES W/ JIM DONOVAN. Thu. Thru May 1 The Center of Harmony, Harmony.

724-400-6044.

URBAN HOMESTEADING SERIES: VEGETABLE GARDENING. Learn about planning, soil prep, seed selection, pest & disease issues, harvesting, more. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

WOMEN’S SEDER. 6 p.m.

Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-621-6566.

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Imagination, Garfield.

Comics - Pittsburgh Mills, 412-924-0634.

Tarentum. 724-758-1560.

A BEAUTIFUL SCANDALOUS SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA NIGHT. Acoustic music, CRAZE. Free lessons, visual art, & written followed by dancing. Sat, contemplations focusing on 10 p.m. La Cucina Flegrea, the passion of the Christ.

Downtown. 412-708-8844.

7 p.m. New City Church, SCOTTISH COUNTRY Downtown. 412-726-4217.

DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA social dancing follows.

DANCE. Fri, 8 p.m.

No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m.

Swisshelm Park and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Community Center, Church, Mt. Washington.

Swissvale. 412-945-0554.

412-683-5670.

POINT PARK UNIVERSITY SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE HUMANITIES & CLUB. Free Scrabble games, HUMAN SCIENCES all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m.

SYMPOSIUM. Keynote Mount Lebanon Public Library, speaker: Don Mitchell, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

Ph.D. 12-5:30 p.m. Point SPANISH CONVERSATION Park University, Downtown.

GROUP. Friendly, informal.

412-391-4100.

At the Starbucks inside PUBLIC ART Target. Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

WALKING TOUR: Target, East Liberty.

DOWNTOWN. 412-362-6108.

7 p.m. David SWING CITY. . w w w Lawrence Convention Learn & practice aper p ty ci h g p Center, Downtown. swing dancing skills. .com 412-391-2060 x 237.

Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman SQUIRREL HILL ACTIVE School, Squirrel Hill.

SENIORS NETWORK. 412-759-1569.

Meetup to help seniors get & stay involved in social & AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL civic activities. Fri, 3-4 p.m.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill.

Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 412-242-8603.

4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland.

412-683-3727.

BALKAN DANCE PARTY. ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS. Folk dance lessons, live music, Second and Third Sun of every more. Third Sat of every month, 2-3 p.m. Carnegie Library, month, 7:30 p.m. Thru Oakland. 412-622-3151.

June 21 Bulgarian-Macedonian CHINESE II. First and Third National Education and Cultural Sun of every month, 2-3 p.m.

Center, West Homestead.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-461-6188.

412-622-3151.

EMPATHY FIRST. A PFLAG GREENSBURG. compassionate communication Support, education & advocacy & conflict transformation study for the LGBTQ community, group based on the work of family & friends. Third Sun peace activist, Dr. Marshall of every month, 2 p.m.

Rosenberg. First Sat of every Trinity United Church of Christ, month, 2 p.m. and Third Sat Greensburg. 412-518-1515. of every month, 2 p.m. Thru May 17 412-271-7660.

MORNING SPANISH GEEKSDANZ. 8 p.m. Steel LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

Mon, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon 412-404-2695.

Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

HOW MARGARET 412-531-1912.

FROM DENNIS THE ROBOTO MONTHLY MENACE ENRICHED MEETING. Meet w/ the MY LIFE. Presentation w/ Roboto board of directors to Dr. Ann Ruben. Part of the find out what’s happening Wonder Woman: On Page at the space & help guide and Off exhibit. 2 p.m. its future. Third Mon of The ToonSeum, Downtown. every month, 7 p.m. The 412-232-0199.

Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield.

KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. 412-853-0518.

Sat, 1-2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS. Oakland. 412-622-3151.

First and Third Mon of KOREAN II. For those every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. who already have a basic Carnegie Library, Oakland. understanding of Korean 412-622-3151. & are interested in increasing SCOTTISH COUNTRY proficiency. Sat, 11 a.m.DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., 12:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, social dancing follows.

Oakland. 412-622-3151.

No partner needed. Mon, OFF THE WALL CABARET 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m.

NIGHT. 8 p.m. Off the Grace Episcopal Church, Wall Theater, Carnegie.

Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

1-888-718-4253.

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reservations. Mon. Thru April 28 Old Allegheny County Jail Museum, Downtown.

412-471-5808.

SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side.

412-431-5282.

WATERSHED AWARENESS/ RAIN BARREL WORKSHOPS. 7 p.m. Upper St. Clair Township Library, Upper St. Clair.

412-488-7490 x247.

TUE 22 BOARD GAME NIGHT. For high school students & adults. Every other Tue, 7 p.m.

Thru April 22 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. Fourth and Second Tue of every month, 6-7:30 p.m.

Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry.

412-366-1300.

EARTH DAY DEDICATION OF ELPC STORMWATER PROJECT. 10 a.m. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

412-441-3800 x 11.

FILM FORWARD: ADVANCING CULTURAL DIALOGUE. Film screening & discussion of The Rocket.

7 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

YOUNG PRESERVATIONISTS ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH SPEAKER SERIES. Feat. Dr. Matt Mehalik, Program Manager at Sustainable Pittsburgh. info@youngpreservationists.org 6-7:30 p.m. Gulf Tower, Downtown. 412-236-6000.

WED 23 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.

BIENVENIDO: HAVE FUN WHILE YOU SPEAK SPANISH. Every other Wed, 7 p.m.

Thru April 23 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN. Pittsburgh Speakers Series.

8 p.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Wed, 5-6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

OMG: JUST THE CLASSICS! Discussion w/ Tim Sommers about the “classic” philosophical arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, the question of miracles, more. 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside.

412-621-8008.

PARENTING BY CONNECTION. This interactive workshop will include open discussion, questions, and the opportunity to practice listening. Presented

by Karen Bernard, EEFC Book

Buyer. Call to reserve a spot.

6:30 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-242-3598.

PFLAG WASHINGTON. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Fourth Wed of every month First Presbyterian Church, Downtown. 412-471-3436.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m.

The Library, South Side.

916-287-1373.

singers. www.themendelssohn. org. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 724-263-5259.

MONYOUGH COMMUNITY SINGERS. Seeking singers of all ages, especially baritones & basses. www.mycsingers.com 814-460-1731.

NEW CASTLE PLAYHOUSE. Auditions for State Fair.

April 27-28. Be prepared to sing a vocal selection.

New Castle. 724-654-3437.

PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS. Auditions for As You Like It. April 26.

Open to AEA & non-union actors, prepare a brief comedic Shakespearean monologue. info@pittsburghshakespeare.com Frick Park, Blue Slide Playground, Squirrel Hill. 412-404-8531.

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Each year, Hosanna House provides the summer-camp experience to Wilkinsburg youth with Sherwood Acres, a 14-acre green site about a mile from the main campus.

To get the site in shape for this summer’s campers, volunteers are needed Saturdays in April and May to help with painting, cleaning, landscaping, construction and more. Call 412-243-7711 or visit www.hosannahouse.org for information.

WOMEN’S BUSINESS NETWORK – DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH CHAPTER. A networking group whose mission is to provide personal & professional resources to advance the presence of aspiring & successful businesswomen. Call Kathleen Fratangeli for info.

Second and Fourth Wed of every month, 12-1 p.m.

Sonoma Grille, Downtown.

412-803-4502.

AUDITIONS APPLE HILL PLAYHOUSE. Auditions for the 2014 mainstage season. April 19.

Cold readings, 2 min. monologue optional. www.applehillplayhouse.org.

724-468-5050.

DISCOVER ME! Seeking 2 caucasian women & 2 caucasian men age 18-30 for the movie production Discover Me! Call Robert at 412-209-9868.

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PROFESSIONAL COMPANY. Auditions for The Sound of Music. May 17-18. Seeking principal roles, von Trapp children, & male/female ensemble. www.centerauditions. org Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. 724-259-6443.

MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Auditions for the 2014-2015 season. May 13-18.

All voice parts for volunteer singers & Professional Core

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PITTSBURGH UNDERGROUND MUSIC AWARDS AUDITION SHOWCASE. Hip-hop audition showcase for performance slot at the Pittsburgh Underground Music Awards. April 17.

Set times are 4-min., bring song for DJ. Most-Wanted Fine Art Gallery, Garfield. 412-583-2760.

SHINE YOUR LIGHT - A BROADWAY CANTATA CELEBRATING FAITH, HOPE & LOVE. Seeking principle & ensemble singers for a Benefit Concert/Cantata at the New Hazlett Theater.

April 19. Prepare 32 measures of a musical theater song & bring sheet music. Email Mark.corbin@alleghenycourts.us for info/list of suggested songs. Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood.

THE THEATRE FACTORY KIDWORKS. Auditions for Alice In Wonderland. April 25. Men, women & children age 6+; cold readings from the script. tfauditions@gmail.com The Theatre Factory.

724-454-7193.

SUBMISSIONS ART ALL NIGHT: LAWRENCEVILLE. Submit one (& only one) piece of artwork or sign up to perform.

Registration & other info at http://www.artallnight.org/ 412-235-1950.

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More information & application at www.artinaction-hf.com.

724-413-4648.

BLAST FURNACE. Seeking poems for Blast Furnace’s 1st annual poetry chapbook competition.

Submit one manuscript.

No manuscripts permitted by current Chatham University staff, alum, or students,

by Blast Furnace guest reviewers, by poets who have previously been published in his/her own chapbook. Visit https:// blastfurnace.submittable.com/ submit for submission guidelines.

Deadline: June 2.

BOYD COMMUNITY CENTER. Seeking vendors for Gardenfest & Artist Market. info@ boydcommunitycenter.org O’Hara. 412-828-8566 x 19.

THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate in First Fridays Art in a Box. For more information, email thedapcoopzumba@hotmail. com. 412-403-7357.

GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Seeking art work for the juried exhibit Color.

Entry deadline May 3.

Visit greensburgartcenter.org for information. Greensburg.

724-396-6699.

THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR REVIEW. Seeking submissions in all genres for fledgling literary magazine curated by members of the Hour After Happy Hour Writing Workshop. afterhappyhourreview.com JEAN TOOMER LITERARY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION. Open to new, emerging & established writers.

No theme restriction. Submit one original, unpublished work, 10 pages max. cathleenbailey.weebly.com/ jean-toomer-literary-prizefor-short-fiction.html THE NEW YINZER. Seeking original essays about literature, music, TV or film, & also essays generally about Pittsburgh.

To see some examples, visit www.newyinzer.com & view the current issue. Email all pitches, submissions & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail.com.

OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Seeking vendors to sell plants & products at the annual Garden Mart. For more info & registration, call or email c-mdemars@pa.gov. Ambridge.

724-266-4500 x 114.

PITTSBURGH WATERCOLOR SOCIETY. Seeking entries for 68th Annual International Aqueous Open exhibition. www. pittsburghwatercolorsociety.com VERONA CREATIVE MARKETPLACE. Seeking vendors for marketplace in June.

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I’m a 26-year-old girl, and my boyfriend is bi. He accuses me of having slept with my male friends in the past, and makes negative comments about how many people I’ve hooked up with. Whenever I won’t divulge something, he says, “Well, that means you did hook up with that guy before we met/ you do think that waiter was cute/you were looking at porn on your phone.” If I admit I was involved with someone (or that I think someone is cute), he gets really upset. He knows he’s insecure. He says he’s working on it. But do people grow out of this kind of thing? This is especially unfair given that I don’t object to the shirtless snapchats he gets from guys he used to hook up with.

TORN IN RE ENVIOUS DRUDGERY

Your boyfriend is not insecure, TIRED, your boyfriend is an asshole.

You shouldn’t have to put up with slutshaming or emotionally abusive behavior. Your boyfriend is not the tormented victim of his own psychic demons. He is tormenting you — he is abusing you — and conning you into giving him a pass by crying about his bullshit insecurities.

While some people overcome these strains of assholery, it usually takes being dumped several dozen times before a guy starts to do the hard work of dismantling his assholery.

The longer someone like your boyfriend gets away with this kind of assholery, the longer he’ll be an asshole. So do your boyfriend and yourself a favor, and DTMFA. Lastly: I have a hunch your boyfriend is playing a “good offense is the best defense” game. He’s probably doing more than just swapping shirtless pics with guys he “used to” hook up with. His jealous fits about your imaginary infidelities may be meant to distract you from his actual ones.

compromise on the only-one-night-stands-withwomen thing if you want to be with me. Because I’m simply not willing to sacrifice that. Not even for you.”

The risk, of course, is that your boyfriend will dump you. But if he doesn’t want what you want, then he’s not the right guy for you, is he?

I am a heterosexual woman. There is no doubt in my mind that my boyfriend loves women. Or that he loves me. My boyfriend says he is straight, but I sometimes think he is attracted to men. My gay best friend also thinks my boyfriend is attracted to men.

Example: My boyfriend loves getting attention from this one gay waiter. My boyfriend goes out of his way to talk to him, the waiter responds with flirtation and is rude to me. I asked my boyfriend if he had a crush on this waiter, and he got mad. What does this mean?

WORRIED OVER REALLY REPRESSED YEARNINGS

Your boyfriend could be straight and comfortable with his sexuality and attracted to the occasional (rude) gay waiter.

Some (rude) gay waiters are simply irresistible, and some straight-identified guys aren’t 100 percent straight, just as some gay- and lesbian-identified folks aren’t 100 percent gay or lesbian. While some folks are bi and closeted, lots of people are only so rarely attracted to someone of the same or opposite sex that the straight label (or the gay/lesbian label) feels more accurate than the bi label. As for your gay best friend: Some (dumb) gay men are convinced that all straight-identified men are gay, bi or persuadable. The fact that some straight-identified men have been known to fuck the odd (rude) gay waiter or (dumb) gay best friend only fans the flamers.

IT USUALLY TAKES BEING DUMPED SEVERAL DOZEN TIMES BEFORE A GUY STARTS TO DO THE HARD WORK OF DISMANTLING HIS ASSHOLERY

I am a 22-year-old bisexual female, and I have a boyfriend who I love. He says he wouldn’t mind if I hooked up with other girls, as long as it was a one-night thing.

That’s not what I want. I want to have a boyfriend and a girlfriend. He is not keen on the idea. He says he feels like he is not enough for me. I reassure him constantly that this is not the case. He is everything I want in a man, but I still crave a woman’s company. How can I approach this subject so that he will understand and accept it?

FEELING EMOTIONALLY MALIGNED

Your boyfriend may be everything you want in a man, but he’s not everything you want. If you won’t sacrifice having a woman in your life, then stop encouraging him to hope otherwise. When he says, “I worry that I’m not enough for you,” you should be saying, “You’re all the man I need, but it’s true: You’re not enough for me.” Instead, you’re saying, “You’re everything I want! But, um, I totally need a girlfriend, too!”

N o more mixed messages. Say this to him: “I don’t wanna have one-night stands. I wanna have a relationship with one woman and a concurrent relationship with one man. You’ll have to

I’m a 23-year-young woman, and I’ve been with my boyfriend for more than five years. We have a toddler. I love him very much. However, now he’s just not doing it for me in the bedroom. I think I want to have sex with other people. It’s not that I’m not sexually attracted to my boyfriend anymore. I just want something different.

But I don’t want to break up with my boyfriend. What do I do?

SHE’S HORNY AND GROWING

You start by telling your boyfriend that the things you’ve been doing in bed for five years aren’t doing it for you anymore. Tell him you don’t want to break up, tell him you’re still attracted to him, but also tell him you’re bored by your routine. Get to work on expanding your repertoire, developing some new moves, and sharing your fantasies. One fantasy you can toss on the table: your desire to have sex with other people. If he’s opposed, ask him how he feels about you two being with other people together, e.g., threesomes, sex parties and swingers clubs.

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FOR THE WEEK OF

04.16-04.23

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s Compensation Week. If you have in the past suffered from injustice, it’s an excellent time to go in quest of restitution. If you have been deprived of the beauty you need to thrive, now is the time to get filled up. Wherever your life has been out of balance, you have the power to create more harmony. Don’t be shy about seeking redress. Ask people to make amends. Pursue restorations.

But don’t, under any circumstances, lust for revenge.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That’s a sad possibility. Could you please do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it be too much to ask if I encouraged you to go out in quest of lyrical miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs that heal a wound you’ve feared might forever plague you? Here’s what the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe are far more likely than usual.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20):

I wonder if it’s time for you to modify an old standby. I’m getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with a familiar resource that has served you pretty well. Why? This resource may have some hidden weakness that you need to attend to in order to prevent a future disruption.

Now might be one of those rare occasions when you should ignore the old rule, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So be proactive, Gemini. Investigate

what’s going on beneath the surface. Make this your motto: “I will solve the problem before it’s a problem — and then it will never be a problem.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“Do you really have what it takes or do you not have what it takes?” That’s the wrong question to ask, in my opinion. You can’t possibly know the answer ahead of time, for one thing. To dwell on that quandary would put you on the defensive and activate your fear, diminishing your power to accomplish the task at hand. Here’s a more useful inquiry: “Do you want it strongly enough or do you not want it strongly enough?” With this as your meditation, you might be inspired to do whatever’s necessary to pump up your desire. And that is the single best thing you can do to ensure your ultimate success.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

I swear my meditations are more dynamic when I hike along the trail through the marsh than if I’m pretzeled up in the lotus position back in my bedroom. Maybe I’ve been influenced by Aristotle’s

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Peripatetic School. He felt his students learned best when they accompanied him on long strolls.

Then there was philosopher Friedrich N ietzsche, who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as he rambled far and wide. Even if this possibility seems whimsical to you, Leo, I invite you to give it a try. According to my reading of the current astrological omens, your moving body is likely to generate bright ideas and unexpected solutions and visions of future adventures.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Throughout North America and Europe, there are hundreds of unused roads. Many are former exit and entrance ramps to major highways, abandoned for one reason or another. Some are stretches of pavement that were parts of main thoroughfares before the latter were rerouted. I suggest we make “unused roads” your metaphor of the week, Virgo.

It may be time for you to bring some of them back into operation, and maybe even relink them to the pathways they were originally joined to. Are there any missing connections in your life that you would love to restore? Any partial bridges you feel motivated to finish building?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Karma works both ways. If you do ignorant things, ignorant things may eventually be done to you. Engage in generous actions, and at some future date you may be the unexpected beneficiary of generosity. I’m expecting more of the latter than the former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet compensations for your enlightened behavior in the past.

I’m reminded of the fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as I hinted, there could also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good deeds. Anytime you have a chance to help people in need, do it.

healthy, would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after all. They motivate you to get smarter. They compel you to grow your willpower and develop more courage. Please understand that I’m not taking about trivial and boring obstacles that make you numb. I’m referring to scintillating obstacles that fire up your imagination; rousing obstacles that excite your determination to be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment is to acquire at least one new interesting obstacle. It’s time to tap into a deeper strain of your ingenuity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

In 1937, physicist George Paget Thomson won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a wave. That’s funny, because his father, physicist J.J. Thomson, was awarded the N obel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron, which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it’s an excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: Follow up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending or expanding it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

You have been a pretty decent student lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your against-the-grain effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary where you can relax more deeply than you’ve allowed yourself to relax in a while.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Comment on the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.”

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As they lie in the sand, African crocodiles are in the habit of opening their jaws wide for hours at a time. It keeps them cool, and allows for birds called plovers to stop by and pluck morsels of food that are stuck between the crocs’ molars. The relationship is symbiotic. The teeth-cleaners eat for free as they provide a service for the large reptiles.

As I analyze your astrological aspects, Scorpio, I’m inclined to see an opportunity coming your way that has a certain resemblance to the plovers’. Can you summon the necessary trust and courage to take full advantage?

Are you sure you have enough obstacles? I’m afraid you’re running low. And that wouldn’t be

You have the power to shut what has been open or open what has been shut. That’s a lot of responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you. Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come. And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions, by all means proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut — or both.

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New exhibit exhumes our fascination with ghost signs {BY CHRIS POTTER} PITTSBURGHERS, the legend goes, are the type of people who give directions based on “where the Isaly’s used to be.” Maybe that’s why we cling to the city’s peeling “ghost signs” — those fading, painted advertisements for businesses that are no longer here. Where else, after all, would you see an exhibit like Palimpsest, a documentary project by Will Zavala and Kelly Bogel on display through May 16 at Pittsburgh Filmmakers?

A “palimpsest” is a page on which an early text is overwritten, obscured but not obliterated, by a later one. That makes it a perfect title for a ghost-sign exhibit … and maybe for the city itself. Pittsburgh is its own palimpsest, a place that clings to old stories while writing new ones. Glimpses of the past can be found in the back alleys and secondfloor windows of the present, in the process making a small town seem larger, more mysterious. Skyscrapers extend a city up into space … but the ghost signs in their shadows extend it back in time.

Even today there’s no telling when a ghost sign might rise from the dead. And while the Filmmakers exhibit offers little documentation about the signs depicted, local archives and news accounts sometimes yield long-dormant secrets from even the most faded inscription.

Take Bogel’s photograph of a long-defunct Polish Hill grocery store, whose ghost sign became visible after a 2008 fire burned down the structure next door. The sign advertises Ward’s Mother’s Bread, a brand you haven’t been able to find in Polish Hill — or anywhere else — for years. But Ward, it turns out, was once a widely known brand, with

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upward of 20 bakeries operating from Chicago east, according to a promotional 1919 survey of Pittsburgh businesses published by First National Bank. After his father ran a neighborhood bakery in New York City in 1849, the survey explains, Robert Ward came to Pittsburgh to begin baking on an industrial scale, offering housewives “rapid emancipation … from the cares of kitchen drudgery.”

Maybe the emancipation wasn’t that rapid, but from their Strip District bakery, the Wards made Pittsburgh “a leader in scientific baking,” as a later newspaper account boasted. But the bakery closed in 1966 amidst a labor dispute, and the Ward name ended where it began: on a local storefront.

Other ghosts leave fresher traces. The barely-visible demon inscribed on an electrical battery at 825 West North Ave., for one, recalls the legacy of Hipwell Manufacturing. The North Side company’s history dates to 1887, when the Hipwells founded the Pittsburgh Sheet Metal Tool Company.

“This is the only establishment of its kind in this section of the country, and its facilities are in every respect unsurpassed,” enthused the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Illustrated Review in 1889. In later years, the firm would pioneer designs for batteries and phone equipment before focusing on flashlights, which were manufactured on site until a decade ago.

Often, however, a ghost sign is the only memorial a business might leave. Despite having one of the most visible signs in Pittsburgh, for example, the Strip District’s Wolfe Publishing barely leaves a trace. The green sign for Downtown’s Penn Bowling Lanes, meanwhile, is visible only from an alley between Penn and Liberty avenues, and its history is almost as easy to overlook. Post-war-era newspaper records suggest the alley was once owned by Robert Hendel, whose numerous alleys made him one of the region’s bowling kingpins. But by the 1970s, newspaper reports suggest, the alley had been replaced by a gay bar known as the Loose Balloon.

But even the obscure signs haunt us, sometimes more than the corporate brands which once loomed so much larger. Jones & Laughlin, Gulf Oil, Rockwell International … they were once as central to Pittsburgh’s identity as they were to its industry. But today, their mark on the city’s landscape is less visible than, say, Blake’s Garage and Fiore’s Home-Dressed Meats. The corporate logo that is hoisted atop a skyscraper can be taken down just as easily.

For the rest of us, meanwhile, the ghost sign confers the promise of a kind of fugitive immortality. Whatever else they advertise, they remind us that in Pittsburgh, anyone can leave a lasting trace. Even without intending to.

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