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“WHEN PEOPLE WERE CAMPAIGNING LAST TIME, IT WAS ALMOST EASY.”

Re: “Boxed In: Activists say conviction question on job application unfairly closes doors” (Oct. 3) “It’s called don’t break the law.”

— Comment from “Nikki Campbell” on City Paper’s Facebook page “Do you really want to make everyone who ever breaks the law permanently unemployable? … (I’m certain you have never broken the law, right?) It’s simply impractical to try to do that and maintain any social order. If you do not allow people to participate IN civil society, they will have to survive out of and around civil society.”

— Comment from “Jennifer England” on Facebook

Re: “CPRB to Investigate Undercover Procedures” (online only, Sept. 26) “Nice to see CPRB saying that there’s no jump-out profiling going on before the investigation. The [Jordan] Miles case was a classic jump-out. Wake up CPRB.” — Web comment from “John McProfiled” “You hear people wax poetic about Pittsburgh, and how we’re ranked as America’s Most Livable City, and how fun it is to walk through Shadyside, and oh boy look at this new restaurant that will further gentrify the East End. Then you realize, oh right, that’s the white Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh that gives not the slightest bit of a fuck about these issues. And those people — the apathetic — are Black Panthers in comparison to the average explicit racist that you can find all over America’s Most Livable City.”

— Web comment from “Paul Long”

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— Oct. 8 tweet from injured Steelers linebacker and Miami native Sean Spence (@3spence1)

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Obama campaign volunteers, including a group from SEIU, listen to neighborhood team leader Matt Phillips give canvassing instructions Oct. 6.

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OSEPH LEWIS was looking mighty hap-

py for a guy who was about to spend the next three or four hours walking around in the rain.

The Penn Hills neighborhood team leader for the Obama for America campaign was in East Liberty on Oct. 6 canvassing neighborhoods, talking to potential voters and making sure they were registered to vote. He wasn’t involved in the campaign four years ago when Barack Obama was delivered to the White House on the shoulders of an energized base of grassroots volunteers — many mobilized by the ideas of hope and change.

Lewis still buys into the concepts of hope and change, but he’s also a little pissed off.

“I don’t like the way Republicans have tried to block this president,” Lewis said

as he buttoned up his jacket. “The Republicans’ only agenda has been to stop this president.

“It’s unpatriotic and I became infuriated at what I was seeing. That’s why I’m here today.”

Can Obama’s grassroots campaign deliver like it did in ’08? {BY CHARLIE DEITCH AND LAUREN DALEY} He’s not alone. They may be out here for different reasons but the several dozen volunteers that packed into the South Highland Avenue Obama campaign office on this cold, rainy morning have one objective — to get the president re-elected.

Much was made of the importance

of Obama’s ground game in 2008, when he ran a grassroots campaign of energized volunteers, a strong voter-registration drive, a well-built social-media strategy and a significant influx of contributions (many in small amounts from individuals). But this time around, Obama can no longer play the role of the political outsider bringing hope to Washington.

He’s the incumbent now. He has four years of policies — both successes and failures — to defend. From the killing of Osama bin Laden and the passage of the Affordable Care Act to the federal stimulus plan and his failure to close terrorist prisons at Guantanamo Bay, this is a different Barack Obama.

But despite all of that, the Obama organization has been resolute in running the same type of campaign — a CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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Charlotte Foster, of Penn Hills, works the phone bank at an Obama campaign office in East Liberty

ground-up approach that begins with a mobilized group of volunteers and not an overabundance of spending on television, radio and newspaper advertisements. The grassroots campaign this year, the Obama camp says, is far bigger than the one in 2008. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have always believed that in a close election, our grassroots infrastructure will ultimately make the difference in November,â&#x20AC;? says Matt Mittenthal, spokesman for Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Western Pennsylvania effort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the week before the ďŹ rst presidential debate alone, our volunteers registered more than 130,000 voters and contacted millions of voters in the battleground states, reďŹ&#x201A;ecting the incredible enthusiasm for President Obama among his supporters.â&#x20AC;?

Mittenthal says the campaign has opened 44 ofďŹ ces in the state so far, with more possible. The campaign has received more than 10 million grassroots donations in 2012, and 98 percent of those, Mittenthal says, were $250 or less (the average donation was $53). Also, nearly 600,000 Americans have donated to a political campaign for the ďŹ rst time.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up from about 370,000 ďŹ rst-time donations at this time in 2008.

Campaign ofďŹ cials say such numbers show that Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support base from 2008 has returned. And if it that infrastructure worked once, it can work again.

In an email to supporters last week, campaign manager Jim Messina wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Day

in and day out, what gives the President conďŹ dence and inspiration is knowing that you have his back.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;WEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE GOT his back,â&#x20AC;? reads the text of the black-and-white poster of President Obama, that features a photo of the president shot from behind with a hand on his shoulder. The picture sits prominently over the left shoulder of volunteer team leader Matt Phillips as he instructs a group of volunteers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; most from labor union SEIU â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about how to conduct the door-to-door canvass theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to embark on. Currently heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructing volunteers on how to handle an encounter with a voter who turns out to be a supporter of Republican Mitt Romney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to win that ďŹ ght,â&#x20AC;? Phillips tells the volunteers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can hit ďŹ ve more houses in the time it takes you to have one long, drawn-out discussion with a person whose mind youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to change anyway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if someone tells you theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure who theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to vote for, then ask what issues theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bothered by and then tell them why you support the president. Tell them why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re outside today in the cold and the rain.â&#x20AC;?

The goal of the canvass has been multi-faceted, Mittenthal says. The point is to ďŹ rm up the base of voters already identiďŹ ed as Obama supporters; to convert those who may be on the fence; to recruit more volunteers; and to make sure

â&#x20AC;&#x153;IN A CLOSE ELECTION, OUR GRASSROOTS INFRASTRUCTURE WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE THE DIFFERENCE IN NOVEMBER.â&#x20AC;?

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mittees to hire staff and open campaign offices in swing states, compared to $8 million by the Romney campaign.

But the Republicans are at least trying not to seem fazed. Rick Wiley, political director of the Republican National Committee, told the Post: “The Obama campaign is quick to tout how many people they have on payroll, but they don’t seem to be doing anything.”

And RNC chairman Reince Priebus told Capitol Hill publication Roll Call: “I find all of their groundgame talk to be garbage.

They’ve got a decent ground game but they over-hype it so much.”

But Mittenthal says the proof is in both the fundraising numbers and the sheer volume of events held by the Obama camp in Pennsylvania, a state that lost its swing designation by political pundits in recent months. Over the weekend, there were 500 events posted on the campaign’s website, all happening within a 40-mile radius of the city. Mittenthal also pointed out that the Romney campaign website “appears to have no events scheduled for the Pittsburgh area.”

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that any potential voter is registered.

On this day, there were just three days left to register voters for the November election. In 2008, the campaign excelled in getting voters registered and new voters came out for Obama then they did in any previous election. There have been reports that Democratic voter registration has been down across the country, but Pennsylvania, while down, is still running fairly even to 2008 numbers.

In 2008, there were nearly 4.5 million Democrats registered across the state. According to state registration records as of Oct. 1, there are 4.2 million registered Democrats — before the Obama campaign’s final push of the past 10 days. More than 300,300 new voters have signed up as Democrats, compared to 260,700 new Republicans voters.

In August, the Washington Post reported that Obama’s campaign workers on the ground led Romney’s by a 3-to-1 margin. Obama has funneled nearly $50 million, the Post reports, to state com-

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PHILLIPS, WHO was in his early 20s when he volunteered for Obama in 2008, says there’s has been change in the Obama grassroots effort. He says things “are much more organized this time around, much more efficient.”

“It was new in 2008,” he says. “I remember coming into the office and standing around waiting for something to do. We don’t have that this time and we shouldn’t. There’s nothing more frustrating than coming out on a Saturday to volunteer your time and waiting around for something to do.”

That certainly wasn’t the case on Oct. 6. Shortly before 10 a.m. the office seemed to erupt in an organized chaos of volunteers coming in at once, getting their campaign materials — maps, commit-to-vote cards, etc. — and heading out into the streets. By 10:15, the office was calm again with little more than the sounds of two phone-bank volunteers making calls and Phillips instructing the first-timers. Across Western Pennsylvania, Mittenthal says, hundreds of volunteers logged 2,400 hours campaigning this past weekend.

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hub on West Liberty Avenue in the South Hills. The goal was to knock on 1,000 doors through the South Hills neighborhoods. In the office, meanwhile, firsttime volunteers intermingled with veteran campaigners like Donna Grandinetti, learning the ropes of phone-banking or door-knocking. When Romney supporters were reportedly spotted canvassing, volunteers moved with even more haste to start their canvas.

“It’s not different than 2008. There is still this energy,” says Grandinetti, a volunteer team leader. “The country has a lot that needs to be done; you can’t clean it up in three years.”

Ninamary Langsdale, of Mount Lebanon, a lifelong activist, volunteered with Obama in 2008 and is clocking nearly 50 hours a week volunteering this time.

“It’s different because when people were campaigning last time, it was almost easy. Everybody knew there had to be a change. People saw their 401K’s halved. People were out of work. People were frightened,” she says. “It was exciting to volunteer because [campaigners] felt as if they were taking control of something in their lives.”

But the dedication of the grassroots workers to the campaign “is tremendous,” she says as she passes off a cell phone to an 84-year-old, first-time phone-bank volunteer. And this year, “volunteers are more courageous,” she says. “They know that not everyone they speak with agree

with them or say, ‘Yeah, he needs another term.’ But they’re still optimistic.”

Even if the infrastructure of the grassroots campaign is improved upon over the 2008 effort, G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College, says there are a lot of intangibles from that campaign that can’t be duplicated.

“The ground game of that 2008 campaign was one of the most underreported stories of that election cycle,” Madonna says. “You will never have the same level of enthusiasm this year that you did in that historic election of ’08.

“Now that doesn’t mean he’s not going to win, or that he’s not going to win by a large margin. But it’s going to be hard to duplicate the feeling of that 2008 campaign.”

Where the solid ground game will help Obama, Madonna says, is in the getout-the-vote efforts.

“There’s a relatively small pool of undecided voters out there this time around,” he says. “And that puts a premium on efforts to make sure your supporters actually come out and vote.

“That could be a huge factor, especially if the race starts to narrow.”

Phillips agrees.

“This time around we’re basically talking with our voters,” Phillips says.

“The most important thing we can do is work to get out the vote.”

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islation to govern natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale at a Sept. 20 press conference, he stood alone. There were no drilling-company representatives behind him, no environmentalists anywhere. And that, if nothing else, suggests how fractious the debate over gas “fracking” has become.

City officials, Dowd told reporters, “have an obligation … to ensure the health and safety of our citizens.” But they also have a duty “to guarantee that our citizens benefit both from the jobs and wealth” created by the industry. Accordingly, he was proposing a four-bill legislative package to balance those interests.

Among other things, the legislation requires a “master planning” process in which the full impact of drilling — the location of wells and related infrastructure, truck and emergency-vehicle access — would be addressed, with community input. The legislation would require the planning zone to cover at least 40 acres, a complicated task in a densely built urban area.

But the city code already features an outright ban on drilling, passed in 2010.

Isn’t establishing zoning regulations now like teaching abstinence in sex-ed … and then telling students how to use birth control?

Such ambiguity worries environmentalists. “We’re just going with the ban,” says Peter Wray, who chairs the Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club’s state chapter. “Once you start saying, ‘We need some regulation of this activity,’ it’s almost like admitting the activity is OK.” Critics say no drill site is 100 percent safe. Drilling for shale gas involves digging mile-deep shafts, and then “hydrofracturing” by injecting water and other chemicals that break up the rock and release natural gas. Environmentalists worry that those chemicals, and methane gas, can migrate into nearby water supplies.

Under questioning by reporters, Dowd repeatedly denied that his bill necessarily spelled the end of the ban.

“Nothing [in the bill] at this time says, ‘We’re putting this in place of the ban,’” Dowd said. If that sounds a bit equivocal to you, you’re not alone: “Pittsburgh council may vote to permit some drilling

in the city,” one energy-industry publication reported.

Still, Dowd hasn’t exactly embraced drilling supporters either.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has long opposed the drilling ban, in favor of a more restrained approach. And mayoral spokeswoman Joanna Doven says, “We’re glad to see Mr. Dowd finally getting on the same page we’ve been on all this time.”

But Dowd went out of his way to blast Ravenstahl’s own position on drilling as “simple-minded” and “corrosive,” prompting Doven to respond that the most simple-minded position was in supporting the ban.

Currently, the closest thing Dowd has to a supporter is … Doug Shields, the former city councilor who authored the ban in the first place.

“Zoning isn’t going to protect anyone” from environmental impacts, Shields says. But because there has been no drilling in city limits, Shields says, “For a lot of people, extraction is an abstraction.” Focusing attention on where drilling might be allowed, Shields says, “puts the matter on the table in a real sense.”

Couldn’t zoning regulations weaken the ban’s rationale? Shields shrugs. “The ban has always been at risk,” he says.

Dowd’s zoning regulations might be at risk too. On Oct. 17, the state Supreme Court will be in Pittsburgh to hear arguments over Act 13, the state law which governs gas-drilling. Act 13 strips much of the zoning authority municipalities would otherwise have over drillers.

While a lower court has rejected those provisions, industry groups have appealed: The Marcellus Shale Coalition, for one, says such uniformity is necessary “to provide certainty and predictability” to the industry. (Unsurprisingly, the coalition has called Dowd’s zoning bill “short-sighted.”)

Dowd is unfazed: “This is exactly the time for us to assert our rights,” he says — as another kind of statement about local self-determination. Ironically, though, while zoning regulations are being argued in court, the city’s outright ban has never been challenged.

“Everyone said we’d be sued,” Shields says. But the ban, he says, “has been the Rock of Gibraltar.”

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FEWER THAN two dozen Pittsburghers showed up at SouthSide Works for last Saturday night’s screening of Death by China, a button-pushing documentary about the rising Asian power. But maybe that’s no surprise. The film has received little publicity here, and besides, we’ve already lived through its nightmare scenario: the disappearance of domestic manufacturing, accompanied by the rise of an industrial Asian power.

Three decades ago, our steel industry was collapsing, with Japan a popular scapegoat.

But while Pittsburgh was once the poster-child for deindustrialization, today we almost seem like an advertisement for it. “This is the most prosperous-looking city I’ve been to,” says filmmaker Peter Navarro, who’s been showing Death by China throughout the Rust Belt, and leading audience discussions at screenings.

But don’t be fooled, warns the University of CaliforniaIrvine professor.

“It’s easy to be smug here, because you’ve got the healthcare industry and you’ve got the academics,” Navarro told me in an interview. “But if China keeps gutting our industrial base, there’s not going to be the [tax] base for Medicare and Medicaid, and it’s going to be a dog’s lunch [for hospitals] here. And these universities are going to keep graduating kids with big student loans and no prospects.”

Narrated by Martin Sheen, Death by China warns that China is poaching American jobs by cheating on trade agreements, stealing technology, and abusing its people and environment. What’s more, it contends, these misdeeds have been abetted by American multinationals seeking quick profits, and by politicians beholden to them.

Many of these concerns have been documented elsewhere. And to some extent, it would be naïve to think China wouldn’t do this stuff. (Pursing one-sided trade deals, tolerating environmental despoliation, punishing union dissidents … it’s almost like the Chinese studied Pittsburgh history!) But Navarro warns that China’s massive size — and the scale of its abuses — make such comparisons dangerous. “Don’t succumb to the false comparison [between China and] what has transpired before,” he told me.

Yet his film has been widely criticized, partly because it’s about as subtle as a chopstick jammed in your eyeball. It opens, for

example, with the image of an American flag being stabbed by a giant knife, its blade etched with the words “Made in China.” And while the film eschews racism, distinguishing between Chinese rulers and their longsuffering people, some of the more lurid content is hotly contested: warnings about China’s growing military threat, for example, and allegations that the government harvests organs from political dissidents.

(One of the film’s fearmongerers, Gordon Chang, has spent years predicting China’s imminent collapse. Which makes you wonder what he’s doing in a film warning of its dominance.)

Anyway, a better title might have been Suicide

by China. The film shows American consumers scurrying about on “Black Friday,” blithely purchasing Chinese-made goods. “If the American people can’t provide me with what I need, I’ll get it from China,” one says, his shopping cart filled with stuff he doesn’t “need” at all. It makes you wonder whether there’s much difference between CEOs going overseas for wider profit margins, and consumers going overseas for cheaper wide-screen TVs. If it weren’t for cheap Chinese goods making us feel affluent, would we tolerate America’s growing disparities in wealth? If it weren’t for the influx of iPods and other electronic distractions, would we be more concerned about whether our lifestyles are sustainable, either environmentally or financially?

That complacence is what Navarro hopes to change. “Everybody who walks out of that theater,” he told me, “can no longer buy a made-in-China product without thinking of these things.” And maybe he’s right that unless we do so, Pittsburgh’s “eds and meds” economy will prove as vulnerable as Big Steel was. As someone who grew up here in the 1980s, I remember how easily even a blast furnace can be toppled, how suddenly a way of life can be uprooted.

Then again, I also remember how we blamed our problems on Japan, and how hating a competitor distracted us from changing the rules of the game. That’s local history I’d rather not repeat.

Death by China is slated for showings at SouthSide Works through the end of the week. You know the place, right? It’s that shopping mall where the steel mill used to be.

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Scarehouse The ScareHouse is ranked as one of “America’s Scariest Halloween Attractions” by Travel Channel and as one of America’s best haunted houses by USA Today and Haunted Attraction magazine. Visit www.scarehouse.com for tickets, dates, directions, and more information about “Pittsburgh’s Ultimate Haunted House.” Located just minutes from downtown in Etna.

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A PIE FOR A PIE {BY LAUREN DALEY} There’s an art to baking a great cookie, and an art to naming one. Om Nom Bake Studio succeeds with both.

The project of husband-and-wife team Matt and Karla Schroeder, of Lawrenceville, Om Nom specializes in cookies, brownies, bars and pies.

Om Nom sells its goodies at the Pittsburgh Public Market, Friday through Sunday; online; and through local retailers including Prestogeorge Coffee and Tea, in the Strip, and Delanie’s Coffee, in the South Side.

In the mood for salty and sweet? Try the Porker, a dark-chocolate-and-bacon cookie. Something light? Indulge in the Pinky Splint, an Earl Grey tea butter cookie with lavender-buttercream filling.

For a unique cookie, sample the Besto Pesto, made with basil and pine nuts, and with a lime icing “Pittsburgh is very traditional,” says Matt Schroeder. “We’re trying to push the boundaries of what people will try.”

And through Thanksgiving, Om Nom has launched the Pie for a Pie program. Buy a 9-inch pie (available in pumpkin, apple crumble, pecan or apple-raisin-bourbon) from Om Nom and the Schroeders will donate one to the Salvation Army’s Thanksgiving-dinner program, in McKeesport. Karla worked with the organization as a Girl Scout, “and growing up, she was on the receiving end” of some of the group’s services, Matt says.

“We know how much of a difference it can make,” he says. “We want to put some pies on the table for the holidays.”

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HE DOORWAY which connects one of Pittsburgh’s most venerable dark-and-smoky bars, Chief’s on North Craig Street, to a bright little restaurant space next door is almost Narnialike in its revelation of another proximate world. Of course, most people enter either establishment through its storefront. But for sheer rabbit-hole surreality, there’s nothing like the passage from the dining room in the restaurant to the restrooms in Chief’s next door.

The peculiarity of this floorplan is one of the discoveries that keeps eating out in Pittsburgh interesting, and the little restaurant attached to Chief’s has provided some memorable dining experiences over the years. Istanbul Grille, now with locations in Lawrenceville and Downtown, got its start there, and the current tenant, Kahila’s Taste (pronounced with a long I), joins the small but tasty ranks of Pittsburgh’s Caribbean eateries.

The tiny space is geared toward takeout, but there are a few tables alongside the coolers full of tropical-fruit soft drinks

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and walls festooned with island maps and Bob Marley posters. Owner Kahila Miller, who has expanded her operations from her popular food stall in the Pittsburgh Public Market, wasn’t there the night we visited, but she’d left things in capable hands; the one-woman hostess, cook and server who took care of us was friendly, welcoming and fluent in the kitchen’s Caribbean ingredients and preparations.

KAHILA’S TASTE 305 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-377-7951 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

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CP APPROVED The small but enticing menu featured the island archipelago’s greatest hits: oxtail stew, curried goat, escovitch fish, jerk chicken and roti with a choice of fillings. Several sides were from the islands, too, including fried plantains and johnnycake. A cheerful sign on the wall invites diners to “Make it

Vegan!” (though the prominence of animal proteins on the menu made us wonder how that would work).

Our large order taxed the lone staffer, and the food was served in Styrofoam take-out clamshells. But despite its humble presentation, the food was plenty satisfying. Escovitch fish — related to Spanish escabeche, and also to ceviche, and served for breakfast in Jamaica — is defined by the acidic tang of its marinade, and Kahila’s was delicious. Pieces of perch filet were fried to a crisp without breading and served with a light sauce of vinegar, onions, peppers and carrots over rice and beans. A fruity note to the vinegar and a generous hand with dried herbs broadened the flavors without overwhelming the main ingredients.

Various parts of the chicken could be ordered Jamaican jerk barbecue-style; we chose wings, and they were fall-off-thebone tender. The sauce was thick and dark, with a fire that built up with each bite. Jerk aficionados will surely want to request more heat, but we enjoyed getting to know the flavor before the heat really kicked in.

Thyme, in particular, lent a distinctive element missing from American barbecue and wing sauces.

The dish we devoured the most greedily, though, was chicken roti. As with curry, roti — a soft flatbread made from chickpea flour — was brought to the West Indies by Asian Indian servants of colonial officials.

While Indians treat their roti, also called kulcha, mostly as an accompaniment to a dish, Caribbean islanders make something like a burrito out of it by wrapping it around a savory filling. Kahila’s version was, simply, sublime. The chicken and potato curry within was mild, cooked to tender perfection and rich with the flavors of warm curry seasonings, while the wrapper fell lusciously apart into paper-thin, pliant sheets of dough.

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A DIFFERENT LEAGUE Harvard and Highland, latest Sousa venture, puts the focus on craft cocktails Kevin Sousa’s patrons have long enjoyed creative, and carefully constructed, drinks: the rotating mix of brilliant cocktails at Salt of the Earth; jelly jars and Rock & Rye at Union Pig and Chicken; agua frescas at Station Street Hot Dogs. But at those joints, the food claims center stage. Not so at the just-opened Harvard and Highland.

“It’s a pure cocktail bar,” says Sousa of his newest venture, which is located above Union Pig & Chicken. The intimate, inviting room features floor-to-ceiling windows, colorful Adirondack chairs and burnished wood floors — all invoking the feel of a New England summer cottage.

And the focus is on preparing and serving high-caliber cocktails (though freshly prepared, non-alcoholic sodas will also be available). Summer Voelker, a longtime Sousa bartender, is in charge of the bar.

“We’re in good hands. She just gets better and better at what she’s doing” says Sousa.

Voelker says she’s inspired by the challenge.

“We can do this on a larger scale,” she says, adding that her cocktail list will feature “more flavors and more interesting things.” Eventually, the menu will indulge in whimsical molecular mixology, in which bartenders craft drinks that would look at home on a Star Trek set.

There are no carbonated mojito spheres at the moment, though. The menu currently reflects Pittsburgh’s transition into autumn: offerings include the delectable Union Manhattan (bourbon, rye, luxarado, smoked onion Fernet Branca) and the inviting Agnatha & Anni (Bluecoat gin, yellow chartreuse, lingonberry, grapefruit).

Additionally, Voelker is inviting four out-of-town bartenders each year to curate a complimentary drink menu. First up is Josh Pearson from Chicago bar Sepia, whose fourdrink list includes a savory concoction called New World Old Fashioned (butternut squash infused bourbon, mole bitters, agave).

Finally, don’t be surprised to see Sousa himself behind the bar from time to time.

Voelker says the new location has gotten his creative juices flowing — and he’s “already asked to work shifts.”

DON’T BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOUSA HIMSELF BEHIND THE BAR FROM TIME TO TIME. Owner Kahila Miller

Another triumph of dough was the johnnycake, also called a fried dumpling in Jamaica but, to us, best described as a fried biscuit. While traditional New England johnnycakes are made from cornmeal gruel, Jamaican ones are made from flour and baking powder, kneaded and shaped, and then popped into a hot oil bath to cook.

This gave Kahila’s an appealingly toasty, hardened outer crust, while the insides remained fluffy and light.

Even with Chief’s a couple steps away, Kahila’s Taste is BYOB, but the soft-drink options are a cut above most places. In addition to the aforementioned tropical-fruit sodas, freshly made, cold, sweet lemonade and carrot juice are perfect for washing down the warm flavors of Kahila’s Caribbean cuisine.

With a chill in the air already, Kahila’s offers a taste of tropical sunshine to Pittsburghers hunkering down for the long, dark season.

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ALI BABA. 404 S. Craig St., Oakland. 412-682-2829. Service is quick at this Middle Eastern restaurant, designed to feed students and nearby museumstaff lunchers. It can get loud and close during busy times, but the atmosphere is always convivial.

A wide-raging menu ensures that carnivores and herbivores alike leave satisfied. JE ALMA PAN-LATIN KITCHEN. 7600 Forbes Ave., Regent Square. 412-727-6320. This venue offers a vibrant spectrum of African-Latin American fusion cuisine, riffing on common elements (lime, legumes and chilies) while bringing out distinctive identities (the rich, stew-like meat dishes of Cuba against the simple, citrusy seafood of the Peruvian coast). Indulge your sweet tooth with a cake filled with dulce de leche. EK BISTRO 19. 711 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412306-1919. Bistro 19 fits within the upper echelon of the region’s dining scene, while keeping its cozy neighborhood feel. It offers a broad range of surf and turf, pastas and poultry.

Its inventive preparations, and the kitchen’s attention to detail, make even now-familiar items such as pot-stickers and flatbreads exciting. LE

Palazzo 1837 Ristorante {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} THE CHELSEA GRILLE. 515 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont. 412828-0570. The menu here covers mostly familiar ground, with red-sauce pasta, chops and an unusual predilection for Mornay sauce. But that’s not to say that dinner here is rote. From the fritto baguette to the rarebit-ish Chicken Wisconsin, the classics prove quite surprising. JE DIAMOND MARKET. 430 Market St., Downtown. 412325-2000. The tavern-like décor provides a comfortable, unpretentious setting for socializing, and the menu bridges retro and au courant in a now-familiar way, with grownup comfort food and big burgers on brioche buns with fancy toppings. Try the excellent macand-cheese, accented with bacon and truffle oil, or the donutsized onion rings drizzled with balsamic vinegar. KE

yet without overwhelming the fresh ingredients. KF NINE ON NINE. 900 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-338-6463.

This elegant restaurant and lounge offers a maturation of contemporary American cuisine, effortlessly shifting from refined Continental to Asian fusion to ingredient-focused invention. Instead of showy creations, the kitchen produces dishes that instantly seem right, such as miso cod or thymeroasted Amish chicken with asparagus flan. LE NOLA ON THE SQUARE. 24 Market Square, Downtown.

412-471-9100. Offering a boldly refined take on straight-up, traditional New Orleans food, NOLA’s menu is an invitation to kick back, relax and savor the flavors: cheesy griddle grits with a chunky tomato sauce and green beans; Creole tartiflette with camembert, mustard sauce and bacon; oyster stew; and catfish strips paired with spicy papaya. KE

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Nicky’s Thai Kitchen CARMI’S. 917 Western Ave., North Side. 412-231-0100. A soulfood restaurant offers traditional home-style Southern cooking on the North Side. On offer: waffles and fried chicken; hearty chickenand-dumpling soup; greens, studded with smoked meat; mashed potatoes; spare ribs; and a stand-out, Cajun shrimp paired with creamy grits. KF

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SAVOY. 2623 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-281-0660. The Strip District now has a swanky spot for brunch and dinner. The artfully prepared cuisine suggests a cross between current finedining culture (locally sourced foods, sous vide meats), lounge favorites (sliders and fish tacos) and Southern comfort (chicken with black-eyed peas and greens, watermelon salad). LE

DINNER SHOW A singular pop-up restaurant experience WHILE TOURING as a drummer in the Southern sludgemetal band Kylesa, Brandon Baltzley says Pittsburgh left an impression — particularly one night spent drinking 40s in Allegheny Cemetery.

“We were always so fucking shit-faced while we were here,” he says. “We had a lot of fun.”

Now a nomadic chef with a pop-up restaurant, Crux, Baltzley has returned to the city to host unique, thematic dinners at Root 174, in Regent Square.

Their first, a 12-course meal to be served alongside a showing of the 2001 romantic comedy Amélie (with courses timed to key scenes) is scheduled for Monday and sold out. The next, to be held Nov. 5, and titled “Waste not, Want not,” features “the food most chefs send to the bin,” including squash guts, veal sweetbreads and head cheese. (Reservations were still being accepted as of press time, at www.cruxrestaurant. com.) More dinners are also being planned that will feature guest chefs from Bar Marco and Cure.

STOKE’S GRILL. 4771 McKnight Road, Ross Township. 412-3695380. There is an art to making a really good sandwich, and the technique has been mastered here. The lengthy menu spans traditional sandwiches but also burgers, quesadillas and wraps, as well as salads and homemade soups. Originality is a hallmark: “Green fries” are shoestrings tossed with pesto, artichoke hearts and bits of brie. FJ TANA ETHIOPIAN CUISINE. 5929 Baum Blvd., East Liberty.

412-665-2770. The menu offers a variety of stewed meats, legumes and veggies, all rich with warm spices. Order the sampler platters for the best variety of flavors, and ask for a glass of tej, a honey-based wine that is the perfect accompaniment. KE TASTE OF INDIA. 4320 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-681-7700.

Yogi Berra groused about the restaurant nobody went to — because it was always too crowded. Taste of India is the opposite: Everyone goes there partly because you can always get a table. The atmosphere is almost surreally quiet, but the food is consistently good (try the paneer). Portions are ample, prices reasonable. JE

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Brandon Baltzley plans thematic meals through pop-up restaurant Crux.

Crux started out in Chicago, where Baltzley is planning to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in 2014. In the meantime, he is working with chefs there, in Portland, Maine; New York City; and now Pittsburgh to throw these one-off, one-of-a-kind dinners.

The dishes — there have been more than 500 unique ones in the 18 months that these meals have been served — are collaborations: good cooks working together on the same plates.

“I believe in the collective style of running a business, where everyone has an equal vote, equal say in what happens,” Baltzley says. “It keeps everyone’s fucking ego in check.”

And it produces the best food, he says.

For Keith Fuller, chef and owner of Root 174, the dinners are about working with a good friend and producing a memorable meal.

“I love art concepts,” Fuller says. “I love taking things out of the box and remolding them.”

At $150 a head (without the booze), the dinners aren’t cheap. But the cooks note that neither is the meal prep. The experience, both for them and for the people they serve, is the true aim.

“I’m a horrible artist; I can’t paint. I can do food,” Fuller says. “This is another element of doing fun things.”

WILD ROSEMARY. 1469 Bower Hill Road, Upper St. Clair. 412-221-1232. At this cozy, contemporary, candle-lit cottage, the Italian- and Mediterraneaninspired menu changes every two weeks to showcase the freshest in-season ingredients. The menu offers fewer than 10 entrées, each matched with a small suite of carefully selected sides.

Expect quality ingredients — dayboat scallops, Maytag cheese, lamb, steak — and exquisitely prepared meals. LF YAMA SUSHI. 515 Adams Shoppes, Rt. 228, Mars. 724591-5688. This suburban eatery offers honest, straightforward Japanese cooking without hibachi theatrics or other culinary influences. Besides the wide sushi selection and tempura offerings, try squid salad or entrees incorporating udon, Japan’s buckwheat noodles. KF

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CHORAL LOLS As artistic director of the Pittsburgh Camerata — a small choral ensemble specializing in Renaissance, baroque and 20th-century works — Rebecca Rollett likes to present at least one unconventional concert per season. In the past, the choir has incorporated literary readings and participation by costumed actors. But this time, Rollett says, “I wanted to do something a little more dramatic. And I realized, if I want to have something dramatic, I have to have something written.”

For that, she commissioned playwright Patrick Shaw, a National Playwrights Conference semifinalist and son of one of the choir members.

Through a series of Skype brainstorming sessions, Rollett and Shaw developed Apollo Unbound, the story of a Renaissance-era composer named Milton Payne (played by actor David Santiago), who is commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to write a piece commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

“But,” Rollett explains, “we threw in the enormous anachronism that, as sort of a promotional device, the composer decides to finish writing the piece while live-streaming on the Internet.” The choir serves as a kind of Greek chorus, offering the composer help, inspiration and voices.

Rollett uses music by Renaissance composer Robert Parsons, along with pieces by some of his contemporaries; she made a few adjustments to the original lyrics in order to fit the story. For example: in Parsons’ piece “Pour Down, You Powers Divine,” a woman pleads with her former lover, Pandolpho — a name which Rollett easily swapped for Apollo, the deity to whom Payne calls out in search of a muse.

Shaw suggested that they offset the somber nature of the music, most of which was written for the church, with comedy.

If the live-streaming-in-1588 plot point doesn’t hint clearly enough at the show’s lightheartedness, much humor is derived from Payne’s exaggerated public persona, and his dealings with his frustrating adolescent son, played by Adam Hagenbuch.

“The original idea was an exploration of the creative process, and that’s still what the show is — it just happens to have taken a comedic form more than a dramatic one,” Rollett says. “That’s really the heart of commissioning something: people come back with things you couldn’t have imagined.”

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GOT IT ON LOCK {BY ANDY MULKERIN}

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on the South Side, there are show posters, made in-house, hanging on the wall.

For example, Springsteen and Grushecky at Soldiers & Sailors: The screenprinters at Commonwealth designed and printed that one. Then there’s one that stands out. Frank Turner at … Dan Rock’s basement.

The British folk-punk songwriter most recently headlined Mr. Small’s, and warmed up the crowd a few months ago at the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics. But just a few years ago, he was playing Dan Rock’s basement. So … who’s Dan Rock, and what did he do to deserve this?

“Dan is just a really down-to-earth guy, who makes a lot of things happen for our community,” offers Roger Harvey, a singersongwriter who plays in the band White Wives. “Dan is a man about town.”

Harvey released his first record, under the name Dandelion Snow, on Rock’s Lock and Key Collective imprint; it was one of the earlier releases on the label-and-more that’s become Rock’s signature. Lock and Key celebrates its fifth birthday this weekend with a series of shows in a space that’s making its debut as a concert venue: The Murderroom,

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So many Dans in World’s Scariest Police Chases: Chris Bencivenga, Max Gregg, Andy Tomaskovic, Dan Rock (not pictured: Dan Nelson, Dan Delucia)

otherwise known as one corner of the Commonwealth warehouse.

Dan Rock grew up in Brentwood; his older brother, Mike Rock, was in the late’90s/early-’00s Pittsburgh poppy punk band Teddy Duchamp’s Army.

“I started going to see bands because of my brother,” Dan says. “At the beginning, it was basement shows on Sarah Street. Those

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gave me the feeling — you can do this yourself!”

Dan started putting on shows at the Brentwood Rec Center, then graduated to promoting shows at the Mr. Roboto Project, in Wilkinsburg, in the early-to-mid 2000s.

From there, he took a job at A-F Records, the label run by Anti-Flag.

After his time at A-F, he took a job at Commonwealth Press, helping owner Dan

Rugh run the shop; at that time, Rock also started Lock and Key. He set out specifically to release some old Teddy Duchamp’s tracks for the occasion of a TDA reunion show. After that was done, he started courting new talent to release.

Rock thinks of Lock and Key as not exactly a label — more than anything, it’s about bands sharing resources, and about Commonwealth Press sharing resources. Rock does record sleeves, merch and the like inhouse at the warehouse, making a lot of the work of running a label a little easier. Rugh, who comes from a punk-rock background himself, doesn’t so much mind — in fact, both he and Rock see Commonwealth and Lock and Key as being largely intertwined.

Early Lock and Key releases included records from Captain We’re Sinking, a Scranton band that recently signed to Run for Cover Records, and Pittsburgh punks American Armada. More recently, the imprint has been assigned to bands with long-term Pittsburgh punk pedigrees: Allies, German Shepherd, Killer of Sheep.

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Roboto. The connection with Lock and Key, though, first came about because bassist Max Gregg was close with Rock.

“It brought up that Pittsburgh generational thing,” says Allies guitarist Joel Grimes. “Dan is Mike Rock’s little brother; we were good friends with Mike and played with his band back in the day. And I think back to the era of the first Roboto Project, there were local bands, local venues and local labels. A lot of those labels — Hope Records, Hardtravelin — aren’t as active anymore. But people underestimate the value of having a good local label.”

In early 2011, Lock and Key released the Situationist EP, the first release from White Wives, which features Roger Harvey and Chris No. 2 from Anti-Flag. When one of your members is in a band that’s known worldwide, you could likely find help from a national-level label — and White Wives’ first full-length ended up on Adeline. But for the EP, Lock and Key was a fit.

“It was really cool to see, when White Wives started, the support that we had from our old friends,” says Harvey. “And to work with our old friends on it, it just felt more natural.”

Running a label is just Rock’s speed.

“I was always more into the behind-thescenes aspects,” he notes. “I’m certainly not a musician; I never had any real expectation of playing in a band.”

But that changed two years ago, when he began World’s Scariest Police Chases, a six-piece hardcore punk band that’s … at least half-serious.

“It was never supposed to get out of the practice space,” Rock says with a laugh.

Police Chases has a facetious police theme (with songs like “Drug Dog” and “Citizen’s Arrest”), and a melodic hardcore sound reminiscent of early Hüsker Dü or Dag Nasty.

Police Chases is one of the bands on this week’s birthday shows at the Commonwealth warehouse: Thursday night, Oct. 11, the band shares the stage with Sparrows, Adventures and Oklahoma City’s Red City Radio. Friday night, Oct. 12, it’s old-school and older-school, with Allies, German Shepherd, Killer of Sheep and legendary Pittsburgh punks Submachine.

Saturday afternoon, Lock and Key holds a barbeque with music by The Beagle Brothers, Roger Harvey, Sloover, Matt Conner and Grumpy.

Five years on, Rock seems a bit surprised Lock and Key is still going strong — though not so much because he thought it couldn’t happen, but because he couldn’t envision what releasing music would mean in 2012.

“When I left A-F, I thought, ‘We’ll ride it out as people figure out the next phase of what the music industry looks like,’” he recalls. “Five years later, nobody knows, still.”

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IGNITING A FLAME {BY ANDY MULKERIN} WHEN TORCHE came to Pittsburgh for the

first time, in 2005, it was for the most part a sludgy stoner-metal band. Comprising ex-members of bands like the ’90s Florida doom band Floor, the group was impressive technically, but was positioned well within an established order of things.

Fast-forward to 2012: Torche’s third fulllength, Harmonicraft, was released earlier this year on Volcom Entertainment, and it’s an epic, loud, pop-inflected rock album — huge and aggressive, but with barely a hint of the band’s sludge origins.

“Where we are today, our year is based around being on the road,” explains bassist Jonathan Nunez. “And the benefit of that is, you end up writing what you want to be playing live. At least for us, we want something that’s going to put us in a rock ’n’ roll mood.

“I listen to the beginnings of the band: There were leftover Floor songs, there were other songs that we wrote along the way, and those are cool, [but] I think as time went on, we all got comfortable playing with each other, and that started changing, or building, our sound. I like to say ‘building,’ not ‘changing.’”

Either word could apply. Stoner purists might take issue with what Torche has become — a Pitchfork review of the band’s second full-length used the phrase “a non-suck Foo Fighters.” But at the same time, Torche’s members are clearly more comfortable in their skin with each new record, and what the band is doing as a heavy, melodic rock band is better than what basically other bands of the ilk are doing right now.

The reviews for Harmonicraft have been largely positive: While some wonder if Torche’s growth as a band has been a bit slow (a concern that might be bolstered by the fact that this is only its third full-length in eight years), there’s one point on which there’s near-unanimity: that Torche does good, straightforward hard rock at a time when that’s a scarce product.

That four-year lag period included the departure, in 2008, of original second guitarist Juan Montoya, and the addition last year of Andrew Elstner. (Nunez, guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks and drummer Rick Smith have been in the band for the duration, and toured for a time as a three-piece.)

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“I don’t think anything changed, specifically, when we added Andrew,” says Nunez.

“I think we’re a band that just naturally, progressively expands our sound.”

When a band’s been playing for eight years, and has achieved a certain degree of success, the question then becomes what the next goal is. Nunez says that’s an easy one to answer.

“It’s for us to be happy, fulfilled with our efforts and how everything came together, and just knowing that we’re proud of it. It’s a great feeling to know other people like it, too, but that comes hand-in-hand with putting out something quality. Something that’s the next step in your catalog, progression-wise.”

A respectable first release from these relative newcomers: A self-professed Harry Nilsson fandom is evident, but there are also nods to sprawling folk-rock a la The Band (or maybe that’s just the organ talking) and opiate-influenced shoegaze. Not every song is a keeper, but on the whole this is the kind of debut record that does what it’s supposed to: makes me want to see this band live.

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Thu., Oct. 18. Thunderbird Café, 4033 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5. 412-682-0177 or www.thunderbirdcafe.net

STILLBORN IDENTITY STILLBORN IDENTITY/MC HOMELESS SPLIT (SELF-RELEASED)

Pittsburgh rapper Stillborn Identity linked up with Youngstown, Ohio’s MC Homeless for this split cassette. The release features edgy production similar to that of El-P, while Stillborn Identity has an out-of-pocket rhyme style that could be likened to Aesop Rock.

The more mellow production of “I’m Leading Me Down” and “1,000 Miles Away” best represent S.I.’s writing skills as he turns memoirs to songs. There’s no doubt that these artists are a better fit for fans of the Def Jux label, as opposed to Def Jam.

BY RORY D. WEBB

THE SQUIRREL HILLBILLIES THE SQUIRREL HILLBILLIES (SELF-RELEASED)

Twelve acoustic tracks from the duo of Jenny Wolsk Bain and Gary Crouth; each spends time in the spotlight for turns as lead vocalist. Well-played folk music that deals with a lot of the usual themes of the genre: loves lost and found, playing music, carnival workers.

(That’s a trope, right?) Overall, nicely crafted and cute, not unlike the name “The Squirrel Hillbillies.”

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Hatebreed couldn’t have picked a more fitting name for its 10 Years of Perseverance tour.

Although the band’s been making music since 1994, it’s been — you guessed it — 10 years since its major-label debut, Perseverance, hit shelves.

Since then, the five-piece has released five studio albums (with another in the works for early 2013), headlined Ozzfest more than a few times and helped shape the metalcore Do Double oub u le e genre. Hatebreed Duchess plays tonight at Stage AE; Whitechapel, All Shall Perish and Deez Nuts open. Amanda Wishner 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $19-23.

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So far, Double Duchess is best known for its viral video sensation “Bucket Bench,” with its glitzy ad-hoc dance scenes and shouting in the streets. The San Francisco queer electro-hop duo released its first EP, Hey Girl, earlier this year, and plays Garfield Artworks tonight in one of those shows about which, in a few years, you’ll probably be saying, “Can you believe we saw them in such a small room?” Fans of Big Freedia and Gravy Train!!!, take note. Lord Grunge and Freed Up open. Andy Mulkerin 8 p.m.

4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $6. All ages.

412-361-2262 or www.garfieldartworks.com

[DOOM METAL] + FRI., OCT. 12 It doesn’t get much heavier than what’s going

on at Gooski’s tonight. Brown Angel, the local doom three-piece, is having a send-off party of sorts, as guitarist and sometime-vocalist Adam MacGregor prepares to move to China.

Assisting in the celebration: death-metal outfit Liquified Guts, and Derketa, a band that, when it formed more than 20 years ago, claimed to be the world’s first all-female death-metal band.

(Since the band reformed in recent years, Mike Laughlin, most recently of Cattle Decapitation, joined on drums.)

Brown Angel has long been a twisted, heavy treasure in Pittsburgh; if you haven’t seen the band before, don’t miss out. AM 10 p.m. 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $5. 412-681-1658

[SURF-ROCK] + SAT., OCT. 13 You might not have heard of Crushed Out. The “honky-tonk surf-rock” duo, formerly known as Boom Chick, is one of the genre’s best-kept secrets.

Three years ago, guitarist/vocalist Frank Hoier and drummer Moselle Spiller traded in their jobs as a guitar teacher and a graphic designer, respectively, to pursue a career in explosive, energetic rock ’n’ roll that sounds like it was plucked straight out of the 1960s. Their debut album, Want To Give, is set to be released in November; catch them tonight at Garfield Artworks with The Hounds Below, White Like Fire and New Vegas. AW 9 p.m. 4931 Penn Avenue, Garfield. $7. 412-361-2262 or www.garfieldartworks.com

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ROCK/POP THU 11 CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Vaughn Trio. Strip District.

412-281-6593.

HOULIHAN’S. ‘Lectric Larry.

Robinson. 412-787-7050.

THE IRONWORKS. Blue Redshift.

Oakland. 412-969-3832.

LAVA LOUNGE. Mother’s Little Helpers, These Lions. South Side.

412-431-5282.

FRI 12 ALTAR BAR. The Acacia Strain, No Bragging Rights. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

BRILLOBOX. Goldenboy, Household Stories, Cold Weather.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Kalob Griffin Band, Toy Soldiers. South Side.

412-431-4950.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. The Scratch n’ Sniffs, The Steel City Slingers, Dolly Rocker Ragdoll.

Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Double Duchess, Lord Grunge, Freed Up. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

GOOSKI’S. Brown Angel, Derketa, Liquified Guts. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Nightly Standard, Paddy the Wanderer, The Optomists.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

LINDEN GROVE. Switch. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

MOONDOG’S. New Riders of the Purple Sage. Blawnox.

412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Culture Vultures, The Fourier Series, No Sound, Michael Nakon.

Millvale. 866-468-3401.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Joybox Express, Billy Price.

Shadyside. 412-361-1915.

REX THEATER. Stainless:80’s Metal Madness, Andrew the Impaled, DJ Huck Finn. South Side.

412-381-6811.

SMILING MOOSE. Burra, Heevahava The Vipers, The Catastrophe. South Side.

412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Funk Ark. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Zig Zag. Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Rule of Two, Divine Tragedy, Cantankerous Dingos. Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Crushed Out, The Hounds Below, White Like Fire, New Vegas. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

GOOSKI’S. Dumplings, Middle Children. Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

HARVEY WILNER’S. Alter Ego. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

JOEY D’S. The Dave Iglar Band.

Harmarville. 412-828-0999.

NIED’S HOTEL. Cue Ball.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

ROCK ROOM. Scattergun, Steel City Slingers, Thunder Vest.

Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. theCAUSE, John & Rick from Pawnbrokers.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

WEST END CAFE, WEST END. Barbara Ray & The StingRays.

West End. 412-969-1634.

SUN 14 ALTAR BAR. Converge JGB & Melvin Seals. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

BELVEDERE’S. Big John Bates, Slim Cessna. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

GOOSKI’S. Mustache Required, Mumford’s, The Senators. Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Patti Spadaro Band, Melvins Seals & JGB. Station Square.

412-481-7625.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Blessed Feathers. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Calexico, The Dodos. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Growlers, Denny & the Jets.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

MON 15 ALTAR BAR. Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

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SAT 13 31ST STREET PUB. Tombs, 16, Vulture, Molasses Barge. Strip District. 412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. Jars of Clay. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Kalob Griffin Band, Grand Piano. South Side.

412-431-4950.

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Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local band. This week’s offering comes from Satin Gum; stream or download “Call You,” from the band’s new album, LP2, on FFW>>, our music blog at pghcitypaper.com.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Courtney & The Crushers, Crooked Teeth, The Lopez, Cat Atlas. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

GOOSKI’S. Toys That Kill, Chest.

Polish Hill. 412-621-0888.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Filligar.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

SHADOW LOUNGE. The Lighthouse & the Whaler, Ewert & the Two Dragons. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

ALTAR BAR. Wanda Jackson.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Xtremely Loaded. Lawrenceville.

412-683-5993.

BRILLOBOX. The Ragbirds, Sephus Lee, Acrylic Clouds. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

CAFE NOTTE. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Emsworth.

412-761-2233.

CLUB CAFE. Whitehorse, Hero & the Lie. South Side.

412-431-4950.

ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739.

SMILING MOOSE. Ten Kens.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Ultraviolet Hippopotamus. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

or Not Fridays. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE DJ Mockster. Lawrenceville.

SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff 412-683-5993.

Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

DIESEL. The Show. DJ Endless.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Dance. South Side. 412-431-8800.

BALZER’S SOMEWHERE INN RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara LAWRENCEVILLE. DJ B-Nasty. & Digital Dave. North Side.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0901.

412-231-7777.

BELVEDERE’S. Dj Zombo SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Sexplosion! Lawrenceville.

Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

412-687-2555.

Electro, post punk, industrial, new CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo wave, alternative dance. South Claat Fridays. Reggae/dancehall Side. 412-431-4668. w/ Vybz Machine Intl. Sound TIKI LOUNGE. BP Mangler.

System, Fudgie Springer. East South Side. 412-381-8454.

Liberty. 412-363-1250.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Revolve.

House & Breaks w/ Hana & Clevr.

KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

Amazing Punk Night. Rotating DJs. LAVA LOUNGE. ‘80s East Liberty. 412-363-6012.

Dance Alternative.

MEXICO CITY. DJ Top 40.

DJ Doug. South Side.

Downtown. 412-980-7653.

412-431-5282.

SEVICHE. DJ Bobby D. THE NEW Salsa. Downtown.

AMSTERDAM. 412-697-3120.

Mad Tom Brown, TIKI LOUNGE. Colin Pierce. House & www. per Old School Hip pa pghcitym funk. Lawrenceville.

Hop. South Side. .co 412-682-6414.

412-381-8454.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. WINGHART’S - SOUTH DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

SIDE. 3B (Burgers, Beer, & Bass).

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

South Side. 412-475-8209.

PITTSBURGH CAFE. DJ FunkNJunk. Underground hip hop, funk & soul. Oakland.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Nate da Phat 412-687-3331.

Barber Selekta & Outtareach.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

720 Music & Cafe Night.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

DJ Llamo. East Liberty.

412-381-1330.

412-363-6012.

SEVICHE. DJ Digital Dave.

Downtown. 412-697-3120.

TIKI LOUNGE. DJ Luke Duke.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Nightclass.

Dance, hip hop, rock & top 40.

DJ Outareach East Liberty.

South Side. 412-381-8454.

412-363-8277.

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TUE 16 ALTAR BAR. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Woodsman, Gangi, Too Young.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. Evil Genius.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

SMILING MOOSE. Young London.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

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THU 11 ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. ‘80s/ ‘90s Night: Mockster. Lawrenceville.

412-683-5993.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Thursdays in AVA. Pete Butta, McFly, Bamboo, & Red. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

DISTRICT 3. DJ Solo Dolo, DJ Bamboo. South Side.

757-660-8894.

KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Zombo. East Liberty.

412-363-6012.

LEVELZ. Technophile.

Underground techno DJs. South Side. 440-724-6592.

PITTSBURGH CAFE. Noetik 5000.

Hip hop, club & R&B. Oakland.

412-687-3330.

ROWDY BUCK. Thursday Night Hoedown. South Side.

412-431-2825.

SONNY’S TAVERN. DJ Hank D, DJ Spaed. Bloomfield. 412-683-5844.

TIKI LOUNGE. College Night: Top 40/Hip Hop. South Side.

412-381-8454.

FRI 12 ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Mike & Co. Lawrenceville.

412-683-5993.

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Downtown.

BELVEDERE’S. Humanaut Presents “Out of Order”.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Night Meltdown.

Hip-hop, R&B, funk, dance & soul feat special guest DJs. East Liberty. 412-363-1250.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Do Sum’n Saturdays. Reggae Night w/ Dan Dabber. Lawrenceville.

412-251-0097.

LAVA LOUNGE. Motown Getdown Soul Night w/ DJ Kool Kurt. South Side.

412-431-5282.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

SHADOW LOUNGE. Last Global Beats of 2012: International Singles Night.

East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

TIKI LOUNGE. DJ Luke Duke.

Dance, hip hop, rock & top 40.

South Side. 412-381-8454.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. Shawn Watson. Reggae, funk, punk.

East Liberty. 412-363-6012.

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

East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

TIKI LOUNGE. Todd Cheat’s Punk Rock Jukebox. South Side.

412-381-8454.

HIP HOP/R&B WED 17 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Aer, Yonas, David Dallas, C.H.R.I.S. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

BLUES THU 11 CENT’ ANNI’S. Don Hollywood’s Cobra Kings. Beechview.

412-207-9545.

SLOPPY JOE’S. Wil E Tri & the Bluescasters Blues. Mt. Washington. 412-381-4300.

FRI 12 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

JUICY LUCY’S. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Greensburg.

724-838-9200.

Quintet. Downtown. 412-392-2217.

THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Second Saturdays. Jazz-happening series feat. live music, multimedia experimentations, more. Hosted

by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo, Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SAT 13 B.C.KENLEY’S. The Eldorado Kings. Latrobe.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. .32-20 Fully Loaded Blues. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

FRANK’S PUB & GRILL. Jill West & Blues Attack. Bethel Park.

412-833-4606.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. The Rhythm Aces. South Side.

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

MR. MIKE’S PUB. The Witchdoctors. Irwin. 724-864-0444.

THE R BAR. Blues Reed. Dormont.

412-445-5279.

SUN 14 3RD STREET GALLERY. 3rd St. Jazz Ensemble. Carnegie. 412-276-5233.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Jazz at Emmanuel.

North Side. 412-231-0454.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tubby Daniels Band.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Chris Pangikas. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

SUN 14 CLARION HOTEL. Jill West & Blues Attack. “Blues Go Pink”. New Kensington.

MOONDOG’S. Maria Muldaur.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

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CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

THE R BAR. Yinzide Out. Dormont.

412-445-5279.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Interval. DJ J. Malls, live jazz locals. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

JAZZ

TUE 16 ANDYS. Jon Banuelos. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

BLUE. Etta Cox Duo. Allison Park.

412-369-9050.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series Mutable Narrative feat. Jeff Berman & Lenny Young.

THU 11 ANDYS. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

CJ’S. Roger Humphries & RH Factor Jazz Jam Session. Strip District.

412-642-2377.

LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Jimmy Z & Friends. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.

SEVICHE. Live Latin Jazz. Jason Kendall & DJ Digital Dave.

Downtown. 412-697-3120.

WOODEN DOOR WINERY & ESTATE. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters.

New Kensington. 724-889-7244.

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ANDYS. Lisa Hindmarsh.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

LEMONT. Dr. Zoot. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

LITTLE E’S. The Skip Peck Family.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Earl Klugh, Solo Guitar.

North Side. 412-322-0800.

TERRACE ROOM. Frank Cunimondo, Pat Crossley.

Downtown. 412-281-7100.

THU 11 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford.

724-934-1177.

CAFE NOTTE. Bucky Soft.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

FRI 12 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Jimmy Komianos, Neel Nadkarni, Samantha Sugarman. University Center.

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ANDYS. Spanky Wilson.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BEULAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. All That Jazz. Robert Morehead & Andrea Roule perform jazz standards. Churchill.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-6593.

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

412-642-2377.

HAMILTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Hot Metal Brass Band.

Bethel Park.

LEMONT. Jason Miller. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

LITTLE E’S. The Eddie Brookshire

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Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592.

ANDYS. Bridge City String Duo. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

D’IMPERIO’S. Chris Pangikas Duo. Monroeville. 412-823-4800.

DANTE’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. Jerry & Lou Lucarelli Jazz Session. Brentwood. 412-884-4001.

MELANGE BISTRO. Blendsday w/ Kenny Blake. Downtown.

412-325-4310.

PALACE THEATRE. Manhattan Transfer. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

TANA ETHIOPIAN CUISINE. Jazz Jam Session. East Liberty.

412-665-2770.

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BEE’Z BISTRO & PUB. Gina Rendina Duo. Bridgeville.

412-257-9877.

MARS BREW HOUSE. Ray Lanich.

Mars. 724-625-2555.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. David Shelow. Strip District.

412-281-4505.

SYNOD HALL. Chatham Baroque.

Say, Darlin’ Say: Folk traditions from Pennsylvania, West Virginia & North Carolina. Oakland.

1-888-718-4253.

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Sistered/October split 7-inch release 31st Street Pub, 3101 Penn Ave., Strip District

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Kim & Tony. Oakland.

412-622-3151.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Chatham Baroque. Say, Darlin’ Say: Folk traditions from Pennsylvania, West Virginia & North Carolina. Laughlin Hall. Shadyside. 1-888-718-4253.

412-782-2730

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Oakland. 718-702-4219.

MARIO’S SOUTH SIDE SALOON. Michael Todd. South Side.

412-381-5610.

PENN BREWERY. Joel Lindsay Trio.

North Side. 412-237-9400.

RIALTOS. Matt Otis. Greenfield.

412-421-2121.

TUE 16 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Wexford. 724-934-1177.

{THU., NOV. 8}

Majeure Solar Maximum LP release The Shop, 4314 Main St., Bloomfield {FRI., NOV. 30}

Carousel LP release Belvedere’s, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville

WED 17 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Jason Deutsch. Lawrenceville.

412-682-6414.

PARK HOUSE. The Armadillos Dodgy Mountain Boys & the Park House Jammers. North Side. 412-596-2743.

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GHOST RIDERS 2. Xela Sound.

Butler. 724-285-3415.

HEY ANDY’S. Steeltown Hot Country Rock. Monongahela.

724-258-4755.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Zammuto, Lymbye Systym. North Side. 412-237-8300.

GRAZIE RESTAURANT & EVENTS CENTER. Jack Knight. Wexford.

724-934-7880.

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BOSTON WATERFRONT. Little German Band.

McKeesport. 412-751-8112.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Clannad. Munhall. 412-368-5225.

MULLANEY’S HARP & FIDDLE. Jack Puskar, NaGaels, Callan, Whiskey Limerick. Strip District.

412-642-6622.

SHADOW LOUNGE. Underground System AfroBeat. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

REGGAE THU 11 CLUB TABOO. The Flow Band.

Homewood. 412-277-3787.

PENN BREWERY. The Flow Band.

North Side. 412-237-9400.

SUN 14 WILLOW ROOM. The Flow Band.

Belle Vernon. 724-379-5666.

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PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Conductor Manfred Honeck presents Mozart’s Requiem. Feat. violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, & F. Murray Abraham. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

SAT 13 THE PITTSBURGH CAMERATA. “Apollo Unbound.” St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Highland Park.

412-421-5884.

PITTSBURGH CIVIC ORCHESTRA. Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair.

412-279-4030.

FRI 12 KEAN THEATRE. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Tribute Show.

Gibsonia. 724-444-5326.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Sewickley Sings. Gospel music concert. Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

SAT 13 AMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL. Sounds of Pittsburgh Chorus.

Ambridge. 724-743-0949.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. Sunset AM. Unknown.

WESLEY CENTER AME ZION CHURCH. Vickie Winans. Hill District. 412-621-9612.

SUN 14

BACH CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Eastminster Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

BELLEFIELD HALL. Technologically Sound. W/ Patrick Burke, Jeremy Boyle. Part of the Ionsound Project.

Oakland. 412-624-4266.

PALACE THEATRE. Bob Wagner’s Rat Pack, Johnny Angel & The Halos. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

SUN 14

TUE 16

HENRY WONG DOE. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

412-992-0903.

BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. City Dwelling Nature Seekers. North Fayette. 412-788-2333.

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October 10 - 16 WEDNESDAY 10 Craig Ferguson Live

PALACE THEATRE Greensburg.

724-836-8000. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 11

Suspicious Package An Interactive Noir FUTURE TENANT Downtown.

412-325-7037. Tickets: futuretenant.org. Through Oct. 14.

Hatebreed STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Whitechapel, All Shall Perish & Deez Nuts.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

Reel Q LGBT Film Festival

HARRIS THEATER Downtown.

412-471-9700. Tickets: reelq.org. Through Oct. 21.

newbalancepittsburgh.com guests Torche and Kvelertak.

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

Mozart’s Requiem HEINZ HALL Downtown.

Tickets: 412-392-4900 or pittsburghsymphony.org.

Through Oct. 14.

Calexico MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. With special guests The Dodos. All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone or 866-468-3401.

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43rd Annual Trax Farms Fall Festival TRAX FARMS South Hills. Free every weekend. For more information visit traxfarms.com.

10a.m. Through Oct. 28.

MARY POPPINS

The Acacia Strain ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Cruel Hand, I Declare War, Fit for an Autopsy & No Bragging Rights. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

13th Annual Haunted Hills Hayride NORTH VERSAILLES. $12.

For more information call 412-823-4813. 7p.m.

Through Nov. 3

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JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333. $7 cover charge. 9p.m.

Maple & Vine CITY THEATRE South Side.

412-431-CITY. Tickets: citytheatrecompany.org.

Through Nov. 4.

Ryan Bingham Band & Big Gypsy. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.ocm or 412-481-ROCK. 8:30p.m.

Jars Of Clay ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Sleeping at Last & Mariah McManus. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Clannad CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225.

All ages show. Tickets: 412-368-5225 or carnegieconcerts.com. 7:30p.m.

SUNDAY 14

Pittsburgh Sketch Crawl JGB & Melvin Seals TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER Downtown.

412-471-6079. Free. 11a.m.

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412-263-2877. With special guests The Americans. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

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{BY HARRY KLOMAN} After all these years, Ben Affleck is still a listless actor. But he’s a terrific director, and in Argo, he’s done it again, albeit with less depth and substance than in his first two films.

It’s a true-enough story about something that really happened: Posing as a Canadian filmmaker, a CIA agent (Affleck) got six Americans out of Tehran in 1980 after an angry mob of “students” stormed our embassy and held its occupants hostage for 444 days, a siege that gave us, more or less, the Reagan presidency.

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Then, with touches of character and humor, Affleck recounts the details of an imaginative rescue. At times he’s too slick and stagy, and his last half hour is empty suspense. But he lands some good cracks about Hollywood, and the emotions feel real enough even in thriller mode.

Affleck cast pros like John Goodman, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston in key roles and directed them to low-keyed performances. His film isn’t overtly political, although a preview audience gave the climactic escape a big American cheer — apparently having already forgotten how our foreign policy got us into the mess in the first place. Starts Fri., Oct. 12.

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a rousing musical from Stanley Donen.

The 1952 film stars Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Pittsburgh’s own Gene Kelly and a very important lamppost. 11 a.m.

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Clockwise, from top left: Facing Mirrors, Gayby, Raid on the Rainbow Lounge, Cloudburst and United in Anger: The History of ACT UP

IME TO GET ready for the 27th annual

Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, beginning Fri., Oct. 12, and running through Oct. 21. The festival offers 17 feature-length films, three programs of shorts, and opening- and closing-night parties.

The opening-night film, Cloudburst (7:30 p.m.), is a dramedy starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as two longtime lovers who run away to Canada to get married. The plot is a bit hokey and there is some amateurish acting, but Fricker and Dukakis sell their respective characters: one sweet and accommodating, the other foulmouthed and fiercely devoted. The film’s final line is worth the ticket.

Four films screen on Sat., Oct. 13. The origin and various campaigns of the AIDS/ HIV activist group are the subject of United in Anger: The History of ACT UP (1 p.m.), a documentary that relies on first-person accounts and lots of archival footage. The presentation is a bit shaggy, but the content is inspiring stuff.

Mosquita y Mari (4 p.m.) is a wellacted and finely wrought coming-of-age

indie film which reveals the increasingly intimate relationship between two Latina teen-age girls in suburban Los Angeles, and the confusion it creates for them and for their families.

PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL All films screen at Harris Theater, Downtown.

Single tickets are $9 (opening night is $25, closing night $15; both include parties); passes and student discounts are also available. See www.plgfs.org for complete schedule and more information.

From Iran comes the thoughtful melodrama Facing Mirrors (7 p.m.), a sensitive portrayal of a young woman transitioning to male and the female cab driver she befriends. Both strain against the country’s rigid gender codes, some of which can be enforced by law.

It’s an oh-so-modern problem in Gayby (9:30 p.m.), when a straight woman asks her best gay friend to be the daddy of her

baby, and they decide to make it work — ahem — the old-fashioned way. This is a bubbly comedy with likable leads, and a phalanx of bitchy queens to keep the snarky comments coming.

The circumstances of a 2009 police action on a gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, are the focus of Raid on the Rainbow Lounge (Sat., 1 p.m.). It’s a great David-vs.-Goliath story, how the subsequent outrage formed an engaged community that successfully fought for positive change in both law-enforcement policies and city government. But the inspirational tale gets undermined by the film’s reliance on repetitive talking heads.

ALSO SCREENING the first week: Molly’s

Girl, about a young woman who finds a one-nighter with a gay-marriage activist may be turning serious; Naked as We Came, a melodrama about a troubled family and one hot groundskeeper; Mary Lou, an Israeli TV mini-series (which has been favorably compared to Glee) about a man searching for his mother; and Shorts Programs for men and women.

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NEW BILL W. Kevin Hanlon and Dan Carracino’s intimate but handsomely produced bio-doc profiles Bill Wilson, who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in the mid-1930s. (In keeping with the program’s commitment to discretion, Wilson was known by the more familiar name “Bill W.”) In an era when alcoholism was poorly understood and often treated (if at all) as a psychiatric disorder, AA set up a grassroots Frankenweenie mutual-aid program in which alcoholics helped other alcoholics stay sober.

12, through Tue., Oct. 16. Melwood. Advance tickets The film, which combines interviews and ($8) available through ShowClix.com. (Al Hoff) archival footage with dramatic recreations, is partly a story of the organization and its HERE COMES THE BOOM. To raise money for growth, though it’s presented as an inside school programs, a high school teacher embarks on a story, with seemingly few outside voices, and moonlighting gig as a mixed-arts martial-arts fighter. can feel a bit like a brochure come to life. (The Kevin James stars in Frank Coraci’s comedy. Starts Fri., recreations of key historical moments add to Oct. 12. this effect.)

Bill Wilson’s personal story, which Director Tim Burton CP FRANKENWEENIE. is intertwined with that of AA, is more returns to his roots with this ooky-spooky interesting — from his youth marked with stop-motion comedy. (The feature is stretched out drive and insecurity and and adapted from a short film early struggles with Burton made as a student.) alcohol, through various Fans of old-school Burton will stabs at sobriety that lead cheer for his return to animated him to develop AA, and puppetry; a fascination with the yin-yang nature of his things that are dead (or notlater life. Wilson becomes quite-dead-yet); a gushing a star in a movement homage for classic horror rooted in the principle films; and a gallery of amusing that no individual — or grotesques. individual’s journey — has Loner kid Victor loves his more primacy or authority playful terrier, Sparky, and after than another’s. It’s a role the dog is killed in an accident, that troubled him. Yet, Victor re-animates its corpse as archival footage and a la Dr. Frankenstein. Victor’s Searching For audio show, Wilson, in his success inspires other town kids Sugar Man folksy and self-effacing to dig up their dead pets and way, was a compelling bring them back to life, but in figurehead to whom most cases, these “re-births” countless followers were go horribly wrong. (Catdrawn, and to whom they bat, anyone?) credited their sobriety.

Occasionally, the story feels The film doesn’t discuss padded, but the gorgeous the efficacy of the program, black-and-white animation nor any larger context should keep eyes on the screen. related to social and legal aspects of addiction. And frankly, this thin-and-silly story has more heart But the longevity and tremendous growth of than Burton’s more recent work. Fans of Universal AA (and the dozens of similar programs) made should be in bliss spotting all the allusions to that it an influential aspect of the 20th century. The studio’s horror classics. There are also nods to film, particularly some of the rare footage, Godzilla, actor Vincent Prince and other touchstones of retro-horror.

Anyone who’s ever loved and lost a pet will feel Victor’s joys and sorrows. (Some smaller kids may be upset by a couple of onscreen pet deaths, or rampaging zombie pets.) For my money, this is one of Burton’s more enjoyable films in recent years, and I sure didn’t miss Johnny Depp preening about. Little Sparky — with his tail that kept wagging off — stole the show. In 3-D in select theaters. (AH) SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN. Malik Bendjelloul’s documentary follows two South African men — a jeweler-turned-record-store-owner and a music writer — as they search for the story behind Rodriguez, a little-known American singer and songwriter whose 1970 album Cold Fact became a classic in South Africa despite barely selling in the United States. On the way to finding the truth about Rodriguez, Bendjelloul explores the role of music in the anti-apartheid movement, the complicated logistics of cultural imports and exports, and the state of the record industry in the early ’70s. (The only seeming villain in the otherwise heartwarming tale is Clarence Avant, head of the Sussex label and later chairman of Motown. His cameo lasts long enough

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for him to heap praise on Rodriguez — then grow quite defensive when questioned about the money that must have come in from a half-million record sales in South Africa in the ’70s and ’80s.) The ending is unlikely and inspiring, and the city shots — from Capetown to Detroit — are beautiful. Starts Fri., Oct. 12. Regent Square (Andy Mulkerin)

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SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. A gaggle of your favorite hammy-but-good actors — Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken — star in this black comedy written and director by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). In it, gangsters, Hollywood types and a Shih Tzu get all tangled up in crimes and mishaps. Starts Fri., Oct. 12.

SINISTER. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) directs this thriller about a novelist who moves into a haunted house. You may not be surprised to learn that found footage plays a role in uncovering — and perhaps perpetuating — the horror. Starts Fri., Oct. 12.

V/H/S. If you’re not weary of the found-footage horror genre, you could press “play” on this film, an anthology of five shorter films in which various acts of horror, violence, supernatural weirdness and nakedness are caught on film. The five films, directed respectively by David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg and Radio Silence, are introduced via a clunky framing device — a sixth film by Adam Wingard — in which some goofballs are hired to break into the house of a dead guy and find a certain videotape. They find a stack, five of which they play. (These are VHS cassettes that play back contemporary movies in which we see people using digital cameras and Skype, but whatever.)

How much you’ll like this film depends on your tolerance for: lots of screaming; poorly lit and herky-jerky camerawork; stories that stop and start without much sense; and, as mentioned, the gimmick of found footage, which too often seems like a handy excuse not to bother with dialogue, plot or technique. (Dude, the films were all messed up like this when we found them!) Nor were any of the films particular scary or unsettling. (Honestly, how can I get my unsettling on when the shouting and shrieking never stops?) But if you’re a fan of this genre, and dig the evergreen appeal of boob shots and disemboweling, it’s a six-pack that might deliver a mild buzz. Fri., Oct. 12, through Tue., Oct. 16; also 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 19. Hollywood, Dormont (AH)

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Fri, Oct. 19· 8PM· Heinz Hall Manfred Honeck, conductor This monumental programmatic work, featuring full orchestra and chorus, proclaims the composer’s belief that there is life after death.

FOR TICKETS, CALL 412.392.4900 OR VISIT PITTSBURGHSYMPHONY.ORG GROUPS OF 10+ CALL 412.392.4819

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CODE 2600. Local filmmaker Jeremy Zerechak’s new documentary looks at the range and impact of the new “Information Technology Age,” be it datamining, social-media networks or secretive national security projects. There will be a panel discussion between screenings. 7 and 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12.

McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon campus, Oakland. Free. www.cylab.cmu.edu WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S. A couple of eager but hapless employees (Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman) wind up at their boss’ house for what they hope will be a relaxing weekend. Instead, their boss dies, and the two go to great lengths to create the illusion he’s still alive, so that they don’t get killed by some hitman. Really, it all makes a certain sort of sense. Ted Kotcheff directs this 1989 comedy. 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12. Hollywood, Dormont STAGE STRUCK. Gloria Swanson stars in Allan Dwan’s 1925 comedy about a small-town waitress (some scenes filmed in nearby West Virginia) who sets out to become a famous actress. The recently restored film screens as part of the Unseen Treasures from the George Eastman House, and will be accompanied by live music. 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12. Warhol. $10. www. warhol.org

V/H/S THE EXORCIST. Here’s a classic horror film worth seeing in the theater, if only for full immersion in Mike Oldfield’s creepy soundtrack. Time has quelled many of the shocks of William Friedkin’s 1973 film, but the subject matter — a 12-year-old girl potentially possessed by the devil — is still pretty unsettling.

Plus, you can’t really be sure the good guys have triumphed. 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12, and 10 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13. Oaks (AH)

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MY FATHER EVGENI. Andrei Zagdansky’s documentary essay looks at his life, and that of his father, Evgeni, who both worked as filmmakers in Ukraine. In 1992, Andrei moved to the United States, and the film documents their ongoing relationship, with its shared Soviet history and its more divergent present. Screens as part of the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. In Russian, with subtitles. 4 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. $10 (Pitt faculty and students admitted free).

For more information and to reserve seats, see www.ucowpa.org.

LAND OF OBLIVION. Michale Boganim’s drama recounts how residents went on with their lives after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. In the years since, one woman, whose wedding was interrupted by the explosion, leads tours through the devastated and empty landscape for tourists. Screens as part of the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. In various languages, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. $10 (Pitt faculty and students admitted free). For more information and to reserve seats, see www.ucowpa.org.

THE LAST WALTZ. Martin Scorsese brought his cameras to San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in 1976 to document the last performance of The Band.

Captured for posterity in this 1978 film is a Who’s Who of 1960s and ’70s rock performers, plus a couple of hours of great music. Sharing the spotlight with The Band are Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Mavis and Pops Staples, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison and, yes, Neil Diamond.

Screens as part of a month-long, Sunday-night series of films with interesting soundtracks. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 14. Regent Square 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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HAUNTS {BY MELISSA BABYAK} Zombies, demons and clowns — oh my!

Yep, it’s that time of year. A time when fallen leaves crunch, pumpkin ales are on tap and our most disturbing nightmares become reality. For some, dark hallways where monsters quietly wait in the shadows are just too frightening; others yearn for them. I spent the past two weeks at local haunts and chose the top three.

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HUNDRED ACRES MANOR. A perfect blend of aesthetics and gore. Upon arrival, you are greeted with the echoes of screams, horror music and the foreboding presence of the creepy castle nestled in the dark woods of South Park. The whole production flows seamlessly from room to room, with lots of twists, turns and chainsaws. If you’re into mazes, this is your place. The actors are tremendously committed, relentless and unforgettable. They really amped up their game this year, so expect more terrorizing surprises with heart-wrenching scares from every angle. It’s the perfect place to kick off your Halloween season. Daily through Nov. 3. $18. 412-851-4286 or www.hundredacresmanor.com

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TERROR TOWN. A really good scare in the Strip District. Impressive haunt, especially in just its second year.

The fact that it’s held in an actual haunted location intensifies the entire experience.

Terror Town has the perfect blend of dark corridors, grisly corpses and horrifying demons who will hunt for you in all directions. Be especially aware of those lurking behind you! Sound machines are utilized in surprising ways and they even incorporate a few new animatronics that seem completely realistic. Terror Town is truly a unique experience, one you shouldn’t pass up. Fri.-Sun. through Oct. 30 (also Oct. 18 and 25). $18.99. 412-315-7331 or www.terrortownpgh.com

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Someone at The Scarehouse is dying to see you.

THE SCAREHOUSE. As always, this place is amazing. Etna’s ScareHouse has the most innovative set designs, plus gruesome special effects and truly terrifying actors. They understand the science of scaring the living daylights out of you.

The actors are deeply committed to their roles and aren’t afraid to get extremely close. The addition of Creepo’s Christmas provides a unique perspective into a trippy, dark Yuletide world. Even if you’re not especially unnerved by psychedelic elves, it’s the perfect place to catch your breath between the two other haunts. No chainsaws needed, this place will give you nightmares for weeks. GO! Thu.-Sun. through Nov. 3; also Oct. 24, 30 and 31. $14.99-19.99. 412-781-5885 or www.scarehouse.com

Blue, white and red: Sculptural assemblages incorporating video by Vanessa German

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N 1972 Betye Saar made “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” a signature piece that used a derogatory image as a symbol of empowerment. In a shadow box, Saar presented mammy as a proud warrior who carried a rifle.

Inspired by Joseph Cornell and by Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Saar became a pioneer of assemblage art. Her strategy of reclaiming stereotypical imagery was timely and effective, but 40 years later, the use of potentially offensive imagery is still a touchy subject. While many contemporary artists, such as Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles, use stereotypes to challenge their audiences, the question remains whether people are so inured to the imagery that it is no longer provocative.

Yet the use of mammies, Uncle Toms, pickaninnies and other “blackabilia” is not necessarily problematic as long as the artist has a keen eye and a sure hand. This is evidenced in Vanessa German’s Emerging Artist of the Year show at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. German is a fine assemblage

artist, and her show includes some impressive work. She creates positive and powerful totemic icons with ease, often incorporating antique books, tins and figures that otherwise would have negative connotations.

For example, in one large gallery German has placed 15 sculptural figures she calls “tar babies” in an oval, all of them

EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR: VANESSA GERMAN continues through Oct. 28. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside.

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facing out. They wear amulets and bottles, keys and buttons, locks and cowries. With titles like “Ain’t No Use in Crying in the Boot,” “Watermelon Madonna” and “The Littlest Rebel Rises Up Again,” each one projects his or her own particular pathos.

Still, while German’s skill has garnered

her a measure of success, her sculptures, textiles and installations in this exhibition are mostly derivative. One can find echoes of other artists such as Saar, David Hammons, Fred Wilson and Renee Stout, and it is clear that German borrows a great deal from folk art and Congolese minkisi.

German is earnest in her craft. In her statement, she writes: “I wanted to create that which I loved to create” and “I will go where my soul wants to go.” That is a fine start for an emerging visual artist, but German has yet to find the same dynamic individual style in her artwork that she has in her performance art. Her piece for the most recent Pittsburgh Biennial, called “Minstrel Blood: The Greatest Show on Earth! Everything You Need Fo Yo Menstrual Show,” was more inventive and dynamic, and came close to achieving the type of distinctiveness and complexity that she accomplishes in her solo “spoken-word operas.”

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you will see a group of three female figures side by side, each with an antique chair facing her. Called “Blue; Cabin where Dr. King wrote the I have a Dream speech,” “White; Water at the shores” and “Red; 600 year old oak tree,” each figure wears a beatific expression and is painted the corresponding color of her title. Holding their arms halfway up, the figures appear to be levitating, but a large can, a pedestal and a small end table ground each of them respectively. Wearing wide hooped skirts and video monitors at their torsos — where a nkisi might have a mirror — these figures are larger than any of the others in the show. But by comparison, they are minimally adorned. Emanating from one’s head is a large hand; from another’s juts a gnarled root; and from the third a golden halo like some patron saint’s. Their symbolism is varied and multilayered. They are religious icons; the Orishas (Gods of Santeria); ancestral power figures; “fetishes”; and even Old Glory. The videos are subtle and meditative, yet evoke an undercurrent of beauty and pain, agony and ecstasy.

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German titles her exhibition 21st Century Juju: New Magic, Soul Gadgets and Reckoning, and explains on her website that she is inspired by many things. These include “the western coast of Africa, the east coast of the Carolinas, the east end of Pittsburgh, and random gun violence,” as well as “tongues speaking in hands.” Her method of working is not unlike that of many visionary artists, who say their hands are guided by a spiritual presence. But German is also a committed activist and storyteller who is interested in the ways art can transform, transcend and heal. She accumulates, repurposes and creates, so that objects not only carry the weight of history but also the power of renewal.

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Effectively translating poetry can be as much an achievement as writing it. Touring with leading Afro-Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão is translator Alexis Levitin, as they present Maranhão’s first collection in English. Blood of the Sun is “a perfect English rendering of Salgado Maranhão’s deft expression,” according to Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Born in 1953, in Brazil’s impoverished northeast, Maranhão won the country’s highest poetry award for a previous collection and has worked as a lyricist with many popular Brazilian recording artists. His poetry examines sociopolitical issues through a sensual, jazz-informed idiom. Levitin has written 32 books in translation and is professor of English at SUNY-Plattsburgh. The pair will speak at Chatham University’s Mellon Living Room. 8 p.m. Thu., Oct. 18. Chatham campus, Shadyside. Free. 412-365-1190 or www.chatham.edu (Catherine Sylvain) Sounds like a bibliophile’s dream weekend: Elljay’s Books hosts a 24-Hour Read-A-Thon for charity. In two previous read-a-thons, only five readers have made it all 24 hours. (Wonder what they read?) But short-term readers are welcome, as are audio-book-listeners.

Registration for the event closed Oct. 1, but you can still sponsor readers, or make a donation to provide them with free food and beverages. Proceeds benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, which each year provides educational programs to 14,000 adults and families.

Noon, Sat., Oct. 13-noon, Sun., Oct. 14.

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One of Pittsburgh’s most distinguished poets, Sam Hazo, reads Oct. 13 at Munhall’s Pump House. Hazo was Pennsylvania’s first poet laureate and is an emeritus professor of English at Duquesne University. But he’s perhaps best known around here as director of the International Poetry Forum, which for decades brought world-class poets to Pittsburgh. (That series ended in 2009.)

Today’s event is titled “Like a Man Gone Mad,” after Hazo’s 2010 collection, which the great poet Adam Zagajewski called “[a] beautiful book distilled from years and years of living and writing.” The Pump House, property of the Rivers of Steel Heritage Corp., is a vestige of the Homestead Steel Works, site of an infamous and deadly 1892 labor battle. Hazo’s reading event concludes the Battle of Homestead Foundation’s 2012 series of talks and performances. 1:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13.

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CAPITOL IDEAS {BY TED HOOVER} PLUS Ă&#x2021;A CHANGE, plus câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;est la mĂŞme chose.

Or is that too obvious an opening for a review of the Pittsburgh Public Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Born Yesterday?

Written in 1946 by Garson Kanin in the rush of idealism following the Second World War, Born Yesterday concerns a junk-metal mogul, Harry Brock, who comes to Washington, D.C., spewing bribes and making sure business-friendly legislation is passed. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brought along his mistress, Billie Dawn, an ex-chorine with more va-va-voom than society manners.

Brock enlists the help of a muckraking journalist, Paul Verrall, to â&#x20AC;&#x153;smarten her up.â&#x20AC;? But Billieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education has far-reaching effects, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soon questioning Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business and personal ethics.

The playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four-year Broadway run and a subsequent ďŹ lm version are, of course, what made Judy Holliday a star. The gin game between Holliday and Broderick Crawford remains one of Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic comedy sequences.

So I salute the sheer guts of Public director Ted Pappas, and Melissa Miller as Billie, for taking a stab at it. They wisely

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avoid a Holliday recreation: Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Billie, though perhaps more crassly vulgar than

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It was possibly opening-night nerves which kept the ďŹ rst act from landing; everyone was perplexingly loud (weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in the same room, kids) and some very broad playing smothered the comedy.

But following intermission, things settled down and it was smooth sailing to the end. Which is big credit to Pappasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; direction because Kaninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script, though entertaining, does tend to bump along from comedy to melodrama to polemic. But Pappas ďŹ nesses most of it and, very rewardingly, stresses the politics of the piece.

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the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama is one of the few places with the wherewithal to mount a mostly authentic production of Richard Brinsley Sheridanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1775 comedy, The Rivals. While combining the original ďŹ ve acts into two (ergo, only

one intermission), CMU ďŹ lls a luxuriantly leisurely evening of more than three-anda-half dazzlingly theatrical hours.

Of course, as guest director Annie Tyson herself noted, the original audiences 237 years ago were boisterous types who â&#x20AC;&#x153;[felt] entitled to behave as they want,â&#x20AC;? not politely sitting quietly in uncomfortable, unhealthfully built seats.

Back spasms and knee pain aside, I must admit that Ms. Tysonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is beautiful and well layered â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a torte of a show. The well-selected actors handle the various accents successfully. (Thank you, dialect coach Janet Madelle Feindel.)

Dramaturg Sara Keatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thoughtful notes on late 18th-century societal mores and customs, especially the party-hearty atmosphere of The Rivalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; setting, Bath, are well appreciated. Sheridanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters are not subtle, but his attitudes toward class and romance are.

As always with this play, the scenestealer is Mrs. Malaprop, perfectly portrayed by Alexandra Spieth. Grace Rao is charming as Julia, the only truly sympathetic character, an honest young lover, and Ginna Le Vine is divinely coquettish as the childish Lydia Languish. Jon Jorgenson makes Juliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-tortured ďŹ ancĂŠ almost lovable. Nick Rehberger, as the jejune hero, and Dylan SchwartzWallace, as the feisty Irish aristocrat, are dashing in their duel, choreographed by Catherine Moore.

THE RIVALS continues through Oct. 13. Philip Chosky Theater, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. $10-29. 412-268-2407 or www.drama.cmu.edu

Albulena Borovciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costumes are dropdead gorgeous; the ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gowns suggest magniďŹ cent ships in full sail when the Empire was at its height. Applause also to Helen Jun, scene design; Justine Keenan Miller, lighting; Allegra Scheinblum, sound; Judith Ann Conte, choreographer; and Ariel Beach-Westmoreland, stage manager.

A truly rococo entertainment, The Rivals is lush and lovely, and long. And being true to the text includes casual racism and anti-Semitism. Be prepared, and consider yourself duly warned that this is not another classic truncated for modern tastes and tokuses. info@pghcitypaper.com

PIECE OF WORK {BY ROBERT ISENBERG} THERE IS A genre of theater you might call the Avant-Garde Think Piece. Instead

of a plot, the show “analyzes” a “text” for “postmodern” “themes.” If it could, the performance would be riddled with footnotes, and patrons would walk out with a thick bibliography and an intense desire to read Jacques Lacan. The style is cerebral, condescending and induces headaches.

Freshman college students are required to watch such productions; they frown for two-plus hours, and they resolve never to watch theater again.

Just in time for Halloween: Verdi’s dramatic

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Her Hamlet, a new piece presented by the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre, comes dangerously close to an AGTP. Created by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta and Theo Allyn, Her Hamlet takes a “canonical work” (William Shakespeare’s Hamlet) and “unpacks” the “text” from the “perspective” of little Jude, Shakespeare’s precocious daughter. Jude (played by Allyn) re-enacts her father’s plays, “interpreting” them in a “fractured” format, thereby questioning the “structure” of her forebear. Her Hamlet also “addresses gender,” because Jude performs the “masculine roles,” while her “sister” (Robert Frankenberry) takes the “female” roles.

What saves Her Hamlet from grudging academia is the playful tone. On the surface, it’s a European-style clown show, with pratfalls, puppets, songs and a whoopee cushion. Meanwhile, the performance showcases the limitless talents of Allyn and Frankenberry. Allyn is a well-known dramatic actress, and she alternates between classical monologue and childlike rambling at the drop of a skull. Frankenberry sings beautifully, plays the autoharp and speaks in several voices. They share the stage with energy and aplomb, and no matter how heady the script, the duo keep things earthbound.

In the end, Her Hamlet is only 45 minutes long. If you like Avant-Garde Think Pieces, you’ll relish this show, and probably run home and write a term paper about it. If such productions make you grind your teeth, buck up: Allyn and Jackson-Schebetta aren’t asking that much of you. And unlike so many re-envisioned classics, The Prince of Denmark is a story most people actually know. Her Hamlet relives favorite moments, from Polonius’ stabbing to Ophelia’s unfortunate swim. You even learn about Shakespeare’s naughtier pastimes. Finally, Allyn performs “to be or not to be,” and her interpretation alone is worth the visit.

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+ FRI., OCT. 12 {ART} The medium is the message, particularly when you can send emails with it. Gregg Liberi makes art with his iPad and posts his work on Twitter and Facebook. New exhibit Digit(al) gives his tactile images a more traditional showcasing at 707 Penn Gallery starting tonight.

The Pittsburgh artist’s iPad drawings are reminiscent of anatomy, outer space and cell structures. Each is accompanied

by a gene code highlighting the complexity of both the human body and technological developments. Catherine Sylvain Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Exhibition continues through Nov. 18. 707 Penn Ave., Downtown. Free. 412471-6070 or www.trustarts.org

{SCREEN} For CODE 2600, his documentary about the informationtechnology age and its impact on our humanity (and our privacy), locally based independent filmmaker Jeremy

Zerechak went to the people who built and manipulate the vast tentacled info apparatus.

Interviewees include Lorrie Crantor, director of Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.

Zerechak’s 2008 doc Land of Confusion depicted his experiences as a National Guardsman in Iraq. CODE 2600 explores data collection, social networks, identity theft and more, and was named best doc at the 2012 Atlanta Film Festival. It screens twice tonight at CMU, with a panel discussion and reception between the free, Pittsburgh-premiere screenings.

Bill O’Driscoll 7 and 10 p.m.

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OCT. 15 The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936

For years, Off the Wall Productions has staged wellproduced, favorably reviewed theater in Washington, Pa. If that seemed a little far to travel, hesitate no more.

Tonight, the company opens its first show in its newly refurbished space in Carnegie.

Sharr White’s The Other Place is an acclaimed psychological drama about a biophysicist investigating a personal mystery. Melissa Hill Grande directs a cast including Erika Cuenca, Virginia Wall Gruenert, Mark C. Thompson and Ricardo Vila Roger. It’s this Broadway-bound play’s local premiere. BO 8 p.m.

Show continues through Oct. 27. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $5-35. 724-873-3576 or www.insideoffthewall.com

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free event Transgender writer, director, producer and activist Andrea James spent 10 years working as an advertising copywriter. She produced content for Super Bowl commercials and other major events before founding her own production company to promote better media representation of trans people. The prolific Los Angeles-based activist speaks tonight at Chatham University in celebration of LGBT Awareness Month. “This seemed like a great opportunity to talk about bridging the gap between the feminist movement and the transgender movement,” James tells CP. “It was very strained in the late 1970s by people who thought that trans women were part of a patriarchal movement to undermine women’s rights.” At Chatham, she will discuss current transgender representation in the media. “In the past we were always portrayed as prostitutes or psychopaths, and that’s really started to change. I still feel we’re about 35 years behind gay and lesbian representation.” Reality TV, perhaps surprisingly, is helping. “It’s an opportunity to get people over their initial shock — to get acquainted with viewing drag queens, for instance, on RuPaul’s Drag Race.” James continues, “A lot of what we consider as masculine or feminine are social constructs. RuPaul said, ‘It’s all pretty much drag,’ and I think that’s right.” James’ talk is open to the public. Catherine Sylvain 7 p.m. Wed., Oct. 17. Eddy Theater, Chatham campus, Shadyside. Free. 412-365-1240 or www.chatham.edu is the ambitious title of the new traveling exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Working with Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Carnegie assembled this collection of decorative-arts items from World’s Fairs from 1851 through 1939. From iridescent mid-19th-century vases to tapestries, Tiffany jewelry and wares crafted from futuristic Pyrex and nylon, those “expositions of the new”

showcased the cutting-edge science and art of their eras.

The exhibit opens to the public today. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $11.95-17.95. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

{STAGE} Playwright Jordan Harrison’s Maple and Vine comically probes the kind of people who throw Mad Men-themed parties. The dream of elegant-

ly discontented mid-century suburbia becomes a reality for a modern Manhattan couple when they move to a gated community that’s perpetually 1955. Harrison blends questions of political freedoms into this whimsical fantasy, directed by New Yorker Kip Fagan. The satire, previously staged in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, launches City Theatre’s 38th season tonight. CS 5:30 p.m. Show

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By now, when someone says “Marcellus Shale,” you probably get a mental picture. But organizers of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project want to make you see things anew. Curator Laura Domencic (director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts) and photographer Brian Cohen organized this Filmmakers Galleries exhibit including more than 50 photos by six distinguished photojournalists. The nationally or internationally known contributors include four from Pittsburgh — Cohen, Pulitzerwinner Martha Rial, Lynn Johnson and Scott Goldsmith — plus New York-based Nina Berman and Philadelphia’s Noah Addis.

Their subjects range from gas drilling’s impact on the land to the stories of people living in shale country, from landowners who’ve benefited financially to those facing poisoned water. “Our only agenda is to open up a conversation,” says Domencic.

With funders including The Sprout Fund, the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, the project features artists’ talks, a traveling exhibition and a book. The show opens with an Oct. 11 reception. Bill O’Driscoll Reception: 6-8 p.m. Thu., Oct. 11 (free). Exhibit continues through Jan. 6. 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland. 412-682-4111 or www.pghfilmmakers.org

continues through Nov. 4.

1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-55. 412-431-2489 or www. citytheatrecompany.org

+ SUN., OCT. 14 {ART} If anyone could turn their grandmotherly newspaperclippings album into art, it was Andy Warhol. This exhibit collects 80 works the artist based on tabloid headlines. Since debuting at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2011, Warhol: Headlines toured internationally and now returns to his birthplace.

The exhibit tracks media shifts across four decades through Warhol’s own TV channel in the ’80s. It’s part history lesson, part take on pop culture.

CS 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Exhibition continues through Jan. 6. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $10-20. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

projects. Starting today, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture hosts The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936, a 1996 exhibit on loan from the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Presented with the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the exhibit also heralds Great Collaborations, a seven-month series of educational and cultural events

celebrating collaborations between blacks and American Jews. BO 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Exhibit continues through Feb. 28.

980 Liberty Ave., Downtown.

Free. 412-258-2700 or www. augustwilsoncenter.org

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{WORDS} If it’s “An Evening of Terror With Doug Bradley,” surely Halloween is upon us. Bradley, the British actor best known as Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies, lives part time in Pittsburgh.

While he does a one-man show titled An Evening With Death, tonight, at Downtown’s Bricolage theater space, he reads horror classics from Poe, Lovecraft and more.

The event benefits The Toonseum. BO 8 p.m.

937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25 ($50 VIP). 412-232-0199 or www.toonseum.org

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Meanwhile, however, Hitler successfully distracted attention from his genocidal

a late addition to the Mylan World TeamTennis Smith Hits, the annual tennis exhibition and AIDS fundraiser that tonight makes its first visit to Pittsburgh. Fellow greats Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf and Andy Roddick join Navratilova at the Petersen Events Center spectacle, co-hosted by Elton John and Billie Jean King. The players will form two teams and play five sets total of singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Proceeds benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. Look for Sir Elton himself, playing celebrity doubles. BO 7 p.m. Oakland. $40-500. 412-924-8270 or www.wttsmashhits.com

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Pittsburgh-based Petrucelli has written for everyone from CP to The New York Times.

Tonight he reads at Penn Hills’ William E. Anderson Library.

The talk, including graphic images from the book, is for mature audiences only. BO 7 p.m. 1037 Stotler Road, Penn Hills. Free. 412-795-3507

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THEATER THE 39 STEPS. A juicy spy thriller/ comedy based on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic. Thu-Sat. Thru Oct. 13. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

BE OUR GUEST. A comedy about a couple concealing their marriage from their family. Peter Mills Auditorium. redmasquers. blogspot.com Thu-Sat. Thru Oct. 20. Duquesne University, Uptown. 412-396-6000.

BORN YESTERDAY. Comedy about a corrupt junk dealer who brings his showgirl mistress to Washington D.C. Tue-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600.

CRIMES OF THE HEART. Tragic comedy feat. 3 sisters in a dysfunctional family. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 13. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727.

DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY. See how Dixie Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered

CRITIC: Dave Whaley, 77, a retired

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Hark the Bright Seraphim, at Synod Hall, Oakland WHEN: Sat.,

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Players. Thru Oct. 13. Beaver for the plastic products. Includes Area High School, Beaver. audience participation, giveaways, 724-494-1680. more. Wed-Sun. Thru Oct. 14.

NOAH’S ARK. Reading of a Backstage Bar at Theatre Square, play that delves into unexplored Downtown. 412-456-6666. & previously classified aspects DREAM ALONG of the assassination of John F. WITH ME. A Celebration Kennedy in 1963. Mon., of Perry Como’s 100th Oct. 15, 7 p.m. O’Reilly Birthday. Fri, Sat. Theater, Downtown.

Thru Oct. 20.

412-316-1600.

Crowne Plaza RIGOLETTO. Verdi’s Hotel, Bethel Park. opera deals with 412-833-5300. www. per a father’s love for HER HAMLET. pa pghcitym .co his daughter, a curse, Shakespeare’s rage, revenge, & tragedy. youngest daughter is Presented by the haunted by the ghosts Pittsburgh Opera. Fri., Oct. 12 of her father’s characters. and Sun., Oct. 14. Benedum Tue-Sun. Thru Oct. 13. Henry Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Heymann Theatre, Oakland.

ROPE. A man persuades his 412-624-7529. weak-minded friend to assist MAPLE & VINE. Burned out by him in the murder of a fellow their hectic, Manhattan lifestyles, undergraduate “for the fun Katha & Ryu move to Maple & of it.” Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 14.

Vine, a neighborhood that lives Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. perpetually in 1955. Tue-Sun. Thru 412-392-8000.

Nov. 4. City Theatre, South Side.

STRAIGHTENING COMBS. 412-431-2489.

Kim El’s one-woman show MURDERED TO DEATH. Mystery about repercussions of low spoof. Presented by The Bobcat self esteem & overcoming depression in urban America.

Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 20. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown.

412-370-9576.

A VAMPIRE REFLECTS. A comedy

by Frank Semerano. Tue-Sun. Thru Oct. 13. Butler Little Theatre, Butler.

724-287-6781.

WINE & SPIRITS. The Chambers family reads their uncle’s will in this 1930s-style thriller. World Premiere Workshop, part of the The Cultivating Culture Series. Sat., Oct. 13, 8 p.m.

ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-496-2194.

YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. Gilbert & Sullivan’s tragedy.

Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 21. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-734-8476.

Oct. 6

I always enjoy Renaissance and baroque music. This group was very vigorous and very precise. I was really impressed with the guest artists, not only with the trumpeter but particularly with the soprano. She was able to exhibit enormous acrobatics on pitch, sometimes very rapid. She had enormous control. She was a standout, but the group was very good. The one minor suggestion I had: Because the harpsichord was so far back, it was hard to hear, and there are some beautiful parts to it. I think it was a matter of the limited space on the stage. I knew one of the pieces, a Handel, that is difficult to do. I liked all of it but that especially. When something’s familiar and it’s played well, you really enjoy it. It was a very enthusiastic audience. It’s always nice for performers to feel that the audience is responding, and this one was.

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COMEDY THU 11 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Derek Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru Nov. 22 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-855-2749.

FRI 12 DOBIE MAXWELL, SONYA WHITE, JIMMY MCHUGH, DWAYNE KENNEDY. Chicago Comedy All-Stars.

7:30 p.m. California University, California. 724-938-4600.

LAURENCE MULLANEY, TOM MUSIAL, DAVID KAYE. 7:30 p.m. Village Tavern & Trattoria, West End. 412-458-0417.

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Work by Michael Walsh, from It’s a Long Way to the Top … If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll! at The Gallery 4

NEW THIS WEEK 28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. TIME of Change: Group Exhibition.

Mixed media/ sculpture by Jim Miller & photography by Suzanne Andrews. Opening reception Oct. 13, 7-10 p.m.

Greensburg. 724-205-9033.

707 PENN GALLERY. Gregg Liberi:Digit(al) Art. Pen to paper.

Brush to canvas. Finger to screen.

Opens Oct. 12. Downtown.

412-325-7017.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Warhol Headlines. A collection of works by Warhol based largely on headlines from tabloid news.

Opening Oct. 14. North Side.

412-237-8300.

BOKSENBAUM FINE ARTS GALLERY. A Photographic Journey: Israel, Palestine, Egypt & more. Photography

by Alex Goldblum. Opening reception: Oct. 13, 5-8 p.m. & by appointment. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-3212.

FE GALLERY. CREEP. Installation pieces from 9 artists. Opening reception Oct. 13, 7 p.m., costume party Nov. 10, 7-11 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-860-6028.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Marcellus Shale Documentary Project. More than 50 photographic images which tell the stories of Pennsylvanians affected by the Marcellus Shale gas industry. Curated by Laura Domencic. Opening reception Oct. 11, 6-8 p.m. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Moods of Pittsburgh II: Expired Mills, Inspired Landscapes.

Group show. Opening reception Oct. 11, 5-7 p.m. Oakland.

412-716-1390.

NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Urbanscapes. Work by Mary Lloyd Claytor. Opening reception feat. vintage fashion show & modern dance performance Oct. 14, noon-4 p.m. Ross.

412-364-3622.

SHAW GALLERIES. Facets of Jinks. Mixed-media works by Jacqueline Inks.

Closing reception: Oct. 13, 5-8 p.m. Downtown.

412-281-4884.

THE TOONSEUM. Monster Engine. Children’s drawings turned to paintings by David Devries. Opening reception & kids Halloween party: Oct. 27, 1 p.m. Downtown.

412-232-0199.

UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Not Like I Remembered. Sculptures

by Aris Georgiades & Gail Simpson. Opening reception: Oct. 13, 6-9 p.m. & by appointment. Braddock.

415-518-9921.

ONGOING 3RD STREET GALLERY. 2012 Aqueous Open. The Pittsburgh Watercolor Society presents its 66th Annual International Exhibition.

Carnegie. 412-276-5233.

709 PENN GALLERY. Rob Larson: Derby. A collection of portrait photography showcasing roller derby & its players. Downtown.

412-471-6070.

937 LIBERTY AVE. Currency.

Group show feat. new works by local artists. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

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.

BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Multi media work.

Artist in the Window. Original acrylics by Sam Norris. Frazier.

724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Artistic Reflections. Group show feat. painting, photography & jewelry.

Verona. 412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Trinity.

Work by Lyn Ferlo. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD. From the ‘Burgh, Abroad & Back Again.

Photographs by Dave Schafer.

Homestead. 412-462-3444.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Whistler & Rebellion in the Art World. An exhibit feat. Whistler’s aesthetically radical prints.

White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes. 6 innovative institutions dedicated to the experience of culture & nature.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUILDING. Park Journeys: Yellowstone. Work by Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild students. Downtown.

412-456-6999.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. InterRelated: One Artist’s Response to Silent Spring.

Monoprints, mixed media & installation by Kate Cheney Chappell. Shadyside.

412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Paintings, Drawings & A Sculpture Or Two. New work

by Michael Lotenero. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. The River Beneath the River. Mixed media on paper

by Jessica Heberle. Bloomfield.

412-681-5225.

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[LITERARY] NEBBY SPECTRES. Second Fri of every month, 9:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, North Side.

412-322-1000.

PITTSBURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE W/ MIKE WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side.

412-488-2995.

FRI 12 - SUN 14 FRANK NICOTERO. Oct. 12-14 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

SAT 13 THE AMISH MONKEYS. Improv sketch comedy. 8 p.m.

Gemini Theater, Point Breeze.

412-243-5201.

DOC DIXON, DAVID MICHAEL, TOM MUSIAL. Haiti Clean Water Project Funny Fundraiser.

7 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-7153.

SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers. Sat, 6:30 p.m.

Steel City Improv Theater, North Side. 412-322-1000.

MON 15 THE COMEDY STOP. Featured & open mic comedy, hosted by Aaron Kleiber Mon, 8 p.m.

Duke’s Upper Deck, Homestead.

412-461-8124.

TOTALLY FREE MONDAYS. Mon, 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, North Side. 412-322-1000.

Cooperatives that Transform Communities. Folk art objects OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY illustrating the power of women NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto working together to provide & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m. for their families, educate their Smiling Moose, South Side. children, promote equality, & 412-612-4030. give back to their communities.

BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open specimens, & live bugs! Life: stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. A Journey Through Time & Wed Younger’s, North Side.

Population Impact thru Jan., 412-452-3267.

Winging It: Experimental Gallery STAND-UP COMEDY About Birds thru March, Lord of OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. the Crane Flies thru April. Ongoing: The BeerHive, Strip District.

Earth Revealed, Dinosaurs 412-904-4502.

In Their Time, more.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE BAYERNHOF SCIENCE CENTER. MUSEUM. Large Ongoing: Buhl Digital collection of www. per pa Dome (planetarium), automatic roll-played pghcitym .co Miniature Railroad musical instruments and Village, USS Requin and music boxes in a submarine, and more. mansion setting. Call for North Side. 412-237-3400. appointment. O’Hara.

CARRIE FURNACE. Built in 412-782-4231.

1907, Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 are CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF extremely rare examples of ART. Inventing the Modern pre World War II iron-making World: Decorative Arts at the technology. Weekly tours are World’s Fairs, 1851–1939.

Fri & Sat in May,& Wed, Fri & Sat Furniture, metalwork, glass, Aug, Fri & Sat in Sep-Oct. Rankin. ceramics, textiles, & jewelry 412-464-4020 x.21. produced by Herman Miller, CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL Tiffany, more. Gala opening: HISTORY. Explore the complex Oct. 12, 6-10 p.m., Public interplay between culture, opening Oct. 13. Oakland. nature and biotechnology.

412-622-3131.

Open Fridays 5-8, Saturdays CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF 12-4 & Sundays 12-4. Garfield.

NATURAL HISTORY. 412-223-7698.

Empowering Women: Artisan

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HOLIDAY THU 11 - SAT 13 PITTSBURGH TERROR TROLLEY TOURS. Thu-Sat, 7 & 9 p.m. and Wed., Oct. 31, 7 & 9 p.m.

Station Square, Station Square.

412-281-2085.

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My whole life has been ripe with wild fruit.

All the men I’ve loved had left-feet. I was innocent until I got myself a good pair of rain boots.

There is no point in wondering what I’ll come to.

FROM “RASPBERRIES,” BY TESS BARRY

Tess Barry and Kay Comini will read their work at 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12, at Delanie’s Coffee, as part of The

Mad Women in the Attic’s Mad Fridays Reading Series. 1737 E. Carson St., South Side.

Email sargesonkm@gmail.com for more information.

CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards from the International Hall of Fame.

Oakland. 412-648-7446.

DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement and history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

412-486-0563.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle.

724-329-8501.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows.

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with classes, car & carriage museum.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

THE GALLERY ON BAUM. The Dark Knight Returns. A celebration of all things Batman, including vintage Batmobiles from 1966-present. Oakland.

412-621-2286.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures, demos and more. North Side.

412-323-7235.

NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

412-624-6000.

OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith

shop & gardens. South Park.

412-835-1554.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides and exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area and Trolley Theatre. Washington.

724-228-9256.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Fall Flower Show. Nearly 3,000 mums in various forms & colors display festive scenes.

14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the world. Oakland.

412-622-6914.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View.

412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

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. Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. More than 200 football artifacts, rare photos, & one-of-a-kind documents.

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.

HAUNTED HILLS HAYRIDE/ VALLEY OF DARKNESS HAUNTED WALKING TRAIL. Benefits The Autism Society of Pittsburgh & The Spectrum Charter School. www.hauntedhillshayride. com Fri-Sun and Thru Nov. 2.

Haunted Hills, North Versailles.

SPECIAL THU 11 - SAT 13 RADICAL DAYS. Dozens of cultural establishments will offer free admission on designated days. Visit radworkshere.org for full schedule. Thru Oct. 13

FESTIVALS FRI 12 - SUN 14 ETHNIC FOOD FESTIVAL. Food, games, entertainment.

Oct. 12-14 Bishop Leonard – Saint Mary of the Mount Academy, Mt. Washington.

ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH FALL FESTIVAL. Haunted schoolhouse, live music, bake sale, raffles, more. Oct. 12-14 St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Homestead.

412-461-9437.

SAT 13 11TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST. Food, entertainment, more. www.divineprovidenceweb.org 1-5 p.m. Kearns Spirituality Center, Allison Park.

412-366-1124.

ECOFEST. Green workshops, clothing exchange, food, film screenings, more.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wilkins School Community Center, Swissvale.

412-244-8458.

FALL IN THE WALL STREET FESTIVAL. Arts & crafts, market place, more. Commercial & Brilliant Ave. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

412-781-0213.

SAT 13 - SUN 14 AUTUMNFEST. Various fall entertainment, food, activities, more. Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Seven Springs, Champion.

1-800-452-2223 x 7757.

FUNDRAISERS THU 11 4TH ANNUAL CELEBRATING SENIOR CHAMPIONS. Celebration of healthy aging, healthy living, & healthy communities. Dinner, live music, more. Benefits the UPMC Senior Communities Benevolent Care Program. 5:30 p.m. Omni William Penn, Downtown.

412-864-3521.

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EASTSIDE GALLERY. Ceramic Creatures. Work

by Bernie Pintar. East Liberty.

412-465-0140.

FALLINGWATER. Touchstone Center for Crafts Faculty Exhibition. Work by Andrew Cooperman, Shoji Satake, Fredrick Crist, Kathleen Zimbicki,more. Ohiopyle.

724-329-1370.

FEIN ART GALLERY. 2012 PSA Annual Exhibition.

Group show juried by Vickie A. Clark. North Side.

412-321-6816.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Impressions of Interiors. Paintings by Walter Gay. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FUTURE TENANT. A Matter of Convenience. Feat. work

by Anna E. Mikolay, Maria Mangano, Rose Clancy, Suzy Meyer, & Unfinished Symphonies + The Tortured Genius. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

GALLERIE CHIZ. In Your Face. Paintings & Mixed Media

by Daniel Bolick. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. It’s a Long Way to the Top . If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll! New works by Michael Walsh. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Beyond the City Lights. New work by Marian Sallade. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

THE GALLERY ON BAUM. New Orleans: The Spirit Lives. Photography by Mark David Miller. Oakland.

412-621-2286.

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. A World of Art. Work by Leah Bevilacqua, Jon Howe, Gemma Allan, & Sylvia K. Downtown.

412-422-0114.

GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square.

412-243-2772.

GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Best of the Bunch.

Greensburg Art Center juried exhibit. Greensburg.

724-837-6791.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Journey Through Georgia.

Work by Dato Shushania, Vissarion Bakradze, Alexander Bandzeladze & Gogi Mikaladze. Sewickley.

412-741-3036.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Pittsburgh

by Pittsburgh Artists II. Group show feat. all media. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

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Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District.

412-281-1922.

LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. Valencia.

724-316-9326.

MAKE YOUR MARK ARTSPACE & COFFEEHOUSE. Polly Mills-Whitehorn Photo Exhibit. Point Breeze.

412-365-2177.

MATTHEWS ARTS GALLERY. Watercolors. Work by Doug Brown & his students.

Bellevue. 412-761-0301.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. New work by Julia Cahill, Betsy Damon, Parastou Forouhar, Loraine Leeson, Ayanah Moor, & Carrie Mae Weems. Ongoing Installations.

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

412-231-3169.

MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Gestures: Intimate Friction. Group show feat. Nina Marie Barbuto, Dee Briggs, Jeremy Ficca, Pablo Garcia, Jenn Gooch, Ling He, more. Guest Curated by Mary -Lou Arscott. North Side.

412-231-3169.

MENDELSON GALLERY. Worlds Within. Work by James P. Nelson, David Aschkenas, Robert Qualters, Philip Rostek, more. Shadyside.

412-361-8664.

MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Feat. photographs, sculpture, architectural models & drawings, that together examine the relationships between design & health.

Oakland. 412-268-4754.

MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Looking Deeper: The Artwork of Aimee Manion.

Garfield. 412-362-0274.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Cheers, Salute, L’chaim To The Next 50!

Group show feat. Ellen Abbott & Marc Leva, Alex Bernstein, Judi Charlson, more. Shadyside.

412-441-5200.

OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Faces & Places: Photographs of Old Economy.

Never before seen photography from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Ambridge.

724-266-4500.

PANZA GALLERY. Scapes.

Work by the Pittsburgh Society of Artists. Millvale.

412-821-0959.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Halloween Photography Exhibit.

Photographs of Frankenstein, Zombies, sorrowful photos of dead children & grandmothers, & other haunting things. The History of Photography. Plus preservation and education

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Experience the Depression in Pittsburgh’s shantytown through this historic photographic documentary.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHY & GIFTS. Photography by Brenda Knoll.

Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 2012 Artist of the Year & the 2012 Emerging Artist. Work

by Charlee Brodsky & Vanessa German. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. American Idols. Exhibition

by John Moran feat. glass busts of all 43 U.S. presidents.

Friendship. 412-365-2145.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. No Job No Home No Peace No Rest.

Installation by Will Steacy.

South Side. 412-431-1810.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Humor in Craft. Political, sarcastic, & amusing works by 33 artists from the US & abroad. Strip District.

412-261-7003.

SPACE. Circles of Commotion & Moving Pauses. Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes & Jason Rhodes construct & assemble a system of interacting, fundamentally digital elements to create & display dynamic perceptual architectures for an exhibition & documentation in catalog form.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Out of Context. Slippery Rock University Art Faculty & Student Exhibition. Friendship.

412-559-8168.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First Fruit XVI: Tending Our Mothers’ Gardens Exhibition. Installations by Ann Tanksley, LaVerne Kemp, Charlotte Ka, Christine Bethea, Tina Brewer & Leslie Ansley.

Part of the MAVUNO Festival.

Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Modern Dialect. American Paintings from the John & Susan Horseman Collection. Born of Fire: The Valley Work.

Greensburg. 724-837-1500.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. The City & the City: Artwork

by London Writers. Visual art by authors of experimental poetry, fiction, history & geography, exploring new ways to combine literature & art in an examination of the modern city. Downtown.

412-471-5605.

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AUTUMN SOIREE & BOOK SIGNING. Celebrating Jessie B. Ramey’s new book, Childcare in Black & White: Working Parents & the History of Orphanages.

Benefits Three Rivers Youth.

6-8:30 p.m. Lemont, Mt. Washington. 412-441-5020.

FRI 12 PITT-GREENSBURG GOLF OUTING. Benefits Pitt-Greensburg Alumni Association, President’s Scholarship Fund, & Athletics.

10 a.m. Greensburg Country Club, Jeannette. 724-837-7040.

PITTSBURGH YOUNG PROFESSIONALS SIGNATURE GALA. Benefits the PYP Scholarship Fund. www.pyp.org 6 p.m. WHIM, Station Square.

412-281-9888.

WPMSDC AWARDS GALA. Recognizing & celebrating achievements in minority business development. Benefits Western Pennsylvania Minority Supplier Development Council. 5:30 p.m.

Lemont, Mt. Washington.

412-391-4423.

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Open to Athletes, Coaches & Interns No Experience Necessary Informational Meeting: Saturday, October 20th at 9am The Club Sport & Health - 1 Racquet Lane, Monroeville Most Players have Full Time Jobs or are Full Time Students CALL TODAY: 724.452.9395 www.PITTSBURGHPASSION.com 50

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SAT 13 ART ON THE ROX: A KNIGHT IN CAMELOT. Camelot-themed anniversary celebration. Live performances, auction, more.

Benefits Father Ryan Arts Center.

6 p.m. Father Ryan Arts Center, McKees Rocks. 412-771-3052.

BREWING UP A CURE. More than 50 samplings of craft beer, appetizers, live music, more.

Benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 7 p.m.

The Wintergarden, Downtown.

412-434-1928.

GREY RIBBON AFFAIR. Hors d’oeuvres, wine, silent auction, more. Hosted by Denise’s People & benefits brain tumor research.

6 p.m. North Park Lodge, Allison Park.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS COMMUNITY WALK. Benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 9:30 a.m.

Redfin Blues, Washington’s Landing. 412-322-5837.

PITT-GREENSBURG 5K RUN/FUN WALK. Benefits Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, the Pitt-Greensburg Alumni Association, & the President’s Scholarship Fund.

6:30 a.m. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

724-836-7496.

WALK TO CURE PSORIASIS. Bartlett Shelter. 8 a.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 877-825-9255.

SUN 14 BOOK ‘EM BOOKS TO PRISONERS WORK PARTY. Read & code letters, pick books, pack ‘em or database ‘em! Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt. Thomas Merton Center, Garfield. 412-361-3022.

FASHIONS FOR A CURE. Fashion show/luncheon. Benefits Jefferson Branch UPMCCancer Center’s Patient’s Assistance Fund. 2-6 p.m.

Willow Room, Belle Vernon.

412-233-7242.

HOWL-O-WEEN PET PARADE & COSTUME PARTY. Benefits Animal Friends’ homeless residents.

12-2 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland.

412-255-2539.

OLDIES DANCE. Presented by DJ’s for Justice for Ronnie Long.

2 p.m. The McKeesport Palisades, McKeesport. 412-628-2454.

PUPPY UP! FUNDRAISING WALK. Benefits 2 Million Dogs.

11:30 a.m. Monessen City Park, Monessen.

Mocha Coffee Company, Sewickley.

412-708-3312.

SPANISH CONVERSATION CLUB. Second and Fourth Thu of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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CONVERSATION SALON. Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of every month, 1 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100.

JASON BALDINGER. Release party for his new book, The AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING. Lady Pittsburgh. 8 p.m.

ModernFormations Gallery, Benefits the Homeless Children’s Garfield. 412-362-0274.

Education Fund. 7 p.m. James OAKLAND OPEN MIC. Poetry, Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, music & political speeches North Side. 412-904-3335. welcome. Second and Fourth Fri of every month, 7 p.m. 610-731-1804.

OPERA SINGER CHARLES WORLD TEAMTENNIS SMASH LONG. Promoting his new book, HITS. Charity tennis event feat.

Adventures in the Scream Trade: Andre Agassi, Stefanie Graf, Andy Scenes from an Operatic Life.

Roddick, more. Benefits the Elton 1-3 p.m. Barnes & Noble, John AIDS Foundation & the Cranberry. 724-772-6200.

Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force.

TESS BARRY & KAY Presented by Mylan COMINI. Mad Fridays Pharmaceuticals. 7 p.m.

Reading Series. 7 p.m.

Petersen Events Center, Delanie’s Coffee, South Oakland. 412-924-8270. . w ww per Side. 412-927-4030. a p ty ci h pg WRITERS’ OPEN MIC .com NIGHT. All genres of PIZZAZZ. Shopping written/spoken word event benefitting welcome. Second Fri of every month, conservation & education 7-9 p.m. Reads Ink Bookshop, programs in PA. Oct. 17-19 Fox Vandergrift. 724-567-7236.

Chapel Golf Club, Fox Chapel.

412-741-3424.

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POLITICS THU 11 GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Meetings of group devoted to LGBT issues in electoral politics.

Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m.

United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh, Oakland. 412-521-2504.

LITERARY THU 11 THE 3 POEMS BY . . . Poetry discussion group feat. work by John Keats. 7:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

BOUND TOGETHER BOOK CLUB. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 6:30 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, 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. Thu The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323.

JUSTIN TORRES. Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Season.

8:30 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Oakland.

412-624-6508.

PITTSBURGH WRITES. Weekly writer’s workshop. Thu Crazy

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FRIENDS OF THE MAIN LIBRARY ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE. Books, DVDs, audio books, more.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland, 412-622-3151.

OPERA SINGER CHARLES LONG. Promoting his new book, Adventures in the Scream Trade: Scenes from an Operatic Life. 13 p.m. Barnes & Noble - South Hills, Bethel Park. 412-835-0379.

PITTSBURGH WRITERS PROJECT - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS. Second Sat of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Green Tree Public Library, Green Tree. 412-921-9292.

SAM HAZO. Reading w/ Pennsylvania’s first poet laureate & author of Like a Man Gone Mad. 1:30 p.m. Homestead Pump House, Munhall. 412-831-3871.

MON 15 OUT OF THE GUTTER: GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION GROUP. Third Mon of every month, 6:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

TUE 16 JAPANESE CONVERSATION CLUB. First and Third Tue of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

STEEL CITY POETRY SLAM. Third Tue of every month, 9 p.m. Shadow Lounge, East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

WED 17 CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

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AN EVENING OF TERROR W/ DOUG BRADLEY. British actor known for his role as Hellraiser’s Pinhead will perform dramatic readings of Poe, Lovecraft, more.

VIP reception at The ToonSeum.

8 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown.

412-232-0199.

Art by Gail Simpson {PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM ESCALANTE}

KIDSTUFF THU 11 - WED 17 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

CHARLIE & KIWI’S EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Join Charlie as he travels back to the Age of Dinosaurs to discover how evolution works. Feat. story theater & discovery area. Presented

by Commonwealth Connections Academy. Tue-Sun. Thru May 12 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

MISSING LINKS (THE RAINBOW JUMPY). Bounce, jump, roll, run & walk through a 30-foot inflatable “jumpy” art piece created by Felipe Dulzaides. On loan from The New Children’s Museum, San Diego CA. Thru Feb. 3, 2013 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

TOUGH ART. Interactive artworks feat. John Pena, Scott Andrew, Jonathan Armistead, Jeremy Boyle, Kevin Clancy & Will Schlough.

Thru Jan. 13, 2013 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

FRI 12 - SUN 14 PUMPKIN PATCH TROLLEY. Ride an antique trolley to the Pumpkin Patch where children get to pick & decorate a pumpkin.

Fri-Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington.

724-228-9256.

SAT 13 CELEBRATE! THE HARVEST. Halloween crafts, veggie picking, more. Ages 4-5. 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-441-4442 x 3925.

FREE CRAFT SATURDAY: THUMB CINEMA/FLIPBOOKS. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Creative Practice Studios, Penn Hills.

401-607-5376.

SAT 13 - SUN 14 ARTHUR’S HALLOWEEN. A Halloween musical based on the beloved aardvark Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

MIDNIGHT RADIO, JR. Live sketch/variety show just for kids!

Oct. 13-14 Bricolage, Downtown.

412-471-0999.

MON 15 GET YOUR GAME ON TEENS! Play videogames, board games, cards & more with other teens.

Third Mon of every month, 3 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Downtown.

412-281-7141.

In Not Like I Remembered — a new sculpture exhibition at UnSmoke Artspace — Wisconsinbased artists Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson explore the strangeness of childhood memories.

Simpson merges discarded toys and lawn ornaments, creating warped versions of iconic images. Georgiades deals with memory in a more personal way, with pieces inspired by the rivers and bridges of his Pittsburgh upbringing. Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13. 1137 Braddock Ave., Braddock. Email info@ unsmokeartspace.com or visit unsmokeartspace.com.

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THE UGLY DUCKLING. For grades K-5. Presented by Theatre IV. 10:30 a.m. Carlow University, Oakland. 1-800-275-5005.

EMERALD VIEW PARK AUTUMN CELEBRATION. Explore new trail connections. 2-4 p.m. Emerald View Park, Mt. Washington.

412-481-3220 x 200.

FALL FOLIAGE WALK. 2-3:30 p.m.

Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

OUTSIDE FRI 12 WISE WALK. 1-mile walk around Oakland. Fri, 10 a.m. Thru Dec. 28 Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

SAT 13 CITY OF PLAY FESTIVAL. Approximately 15 original games, many of which utilize the physical space of city streets. Takes place throughout the North Side, beginning at Buhl Park. For tickets & schedule visit www.CityOfPlay. org. 12 p.m.-12 a.m. Buhl Community Park, North Side.

THREE RIVERS THUNDER DRUM CIRCLE. Flagstaff Hill. Sat, 3 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland.

412-255-2539.

ZOMBIE PADDLE. Local zombie author Lucy Leitner reads from her new book “Working Stiffs,” & makeup artist Radu Plucinsky will conduct demonstrations, followed by 1.5 hour paddle.

4-7 p.m. Kayak Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-255-0564.

TUE 16 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland.

412-477-4677.

WED 17 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 11 CHINESE CONVERSATION CLUB. Second Thu of every month, 6-7 p.m. and Fourth Thu of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

CITY DHARMA. Soto Zen Meditation. jisen@deepspringzen. org Thu, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR HEALTHY & HIGH-PERFORMING PLACES. Speakers: George Bandy & Christine Mondor. Inspire

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Speaker Series. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-773-6011.

GEEKS RULE! Feat. Geek TV, Geeks Game Night, Dr. Sketchy night, Toons & Brews, Yoda Yoga, Geek Show & Tell, more. Every other Thu, 7:30 p.m. Thru Dec. 13 The ToonSeum, Downtown.

412-232-0199.

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

MEET ‘N MAKE. Open crafting night. Second Thu of every month, 6-8 p.m. Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, Homewood.

412-473-0100.

PFLAG BUTLER. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian Church, Butler.

412-518-1515.

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.

TRIVIA NIGHT. Second Thu of every month, 7-9 p.m. Brew on Broadway, Beechview.

412-563-6456.

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OCTOBER 21 Colleen and Frankie from Joe’s Crab Shack benefitting Autism Speaks

OCTOBER 28 Michael and Sharron from Houlihans benefitting The Humane Society

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ADHD FALL CONFERENCE: UNDERSTANDING & HELPING CHILDREN WHOSE BEHAVIOR MEETS THE CRITERIA. Speaker: Dr. Frank Walton. 8:30 a.m.

Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, South Side. 412-716-2078.

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10/18, Boolesque Bash!!! Burlesque

by Kat De Lac, Crystal Swarovski (DC), and Cherokee Rose (DC).

Mark Swindler the magician.

The Bessemers (band).

Hosted by Kumar.

10/25, The Red Western, Slim Forsythe & The New Payday Loaners $1.75 PBR Drafts EVERYDAY , 9 - 11 2204 E. Carson St. (412) 431-5282

SAT 13 2 MILLION DOGS MEET & GREET. Learn information about canine cancer. 2-4 p.m. The Pet Market, Belle Vernon.

2012 WOMEN’S EXPO OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Monroeville Convention Center, Monroeville.

CARRIE FURNACE HARD HAT TOUR. Former steelworkers & docents will be stationed throughout the site to explain the iron-making process & share their personal stories & experiences on this self-paced tour. Carrie Furnace, Rankin. 412-464-4020 x.32.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE. Second Sat of every month and Fourth Thu of every month, 7:15 p.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-535-2078.

GRANDVIEW PARK BARK. Dog goods & vendors, hike thru the park, blessing of animals, more.

12 p.m. Grandview Park, Mt. Washington. 412-431-2650.

KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. Korean grammar & basic conversation. Sat, 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

KOREAN II. For those who already have a basic understanding of Korean & are interested in increasing proficiency. Sat Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

TUE 16 ANTIQUE APPRAISALS. w/ John Mickinack. Third Tue of every month. Thru Dec. 18 West Overton Museums, Scottdale. 724-887-7910.

FALL REDD UP 2012

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ROCK N ROLL BINGO. Tue. Thru Nov. 20 Tiki Lounge, South Side.

412-381-8454.

SAVE YOUR BRAIN. Feat. Dr. Paul Nussbaum. Learn about basic brain functions & exercises to prolong cognitive abilities. 6 p.m.

Longwood at Oakmont, Verona.

1-877-214-8410.

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DoubleTree Hotel - Green Tree, Green Tree.

CROWNE PLAZA CABARET DINNER THEATRE. Oct. 13.

Seeking adult & teen performers, both singers & non-singers, for upcoming musicals & murder mysteries. Bring a recent photo.

Those auditioning for singing roles should prepare 32 bars of 2 songs.

Call for details. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park. 724-746-1178.

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ANDREA JAMES. Transgender writer, director, producer, & activist. Eddy Theater. 7 p.m.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

FRIENDS OF THE MAIN LIBRARY. Discuss how you can support the Main Library. 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

LETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

2012 PITTSBURGH UFO PITTSBURGH GONG SHOW. Wed. CONFERENCE. Vendors, speakers, & discussion on todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot topics in Thru Oct. 24 Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

Ufology. Oct. 13-14 Westmoreland THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. County Community College, A meeting of jugglers & Youngwood. 724-925-4000. spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland AMNESTY Park. 412-363-4550.

INTERNATIONAL . w ww per SPANISH II. Geared HUMAN RIGHTS a p ty ci h pg toward those who CAFE. Weekly letter .com already have a basic writing event. Sun, understanding of Spanish 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, & are interested in increasing Oakland. 412-683-3727. proficiency. First and Third Wed ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS. of every month Carnegie Library, Second and Third Sun of every Oakland. 412-622-3151. month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

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WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance RIVERS OF STEEL SUNDAY lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, HERITAGE MARKET. Farm & artist South Side. 916-287-1373. market. Sun, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thru Oct. 28 Homestead Pump House, Munhall. 412-464-4020.

WHEN THE JEWS MET THE CASTING CALL FOR MAJOR SQUIRRELS. Lecture by Barbara MOTION PICTURE. Seeking men Burstin. 6 p.m. Jewish Community & women age 18+ for extras in a Center, Squirrel Hill. 412-624-2280. feature film by an Academy Award nominated director. Oct. 13, 9am-5pm. Extras will portray police officers, wrestling world SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. people, business men & women, Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing

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PITTSBURGH SKETCH CRAWL. Downtown drawing marathon.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown. 412-471-6079.

PITTSBURGH SOLAR TOUR. 16 open houses in & around Pittsburgh, Cranberry, Washington, Westmoreland, Beaver, & Fayette Counties. http://www.pghsolartour. org/ 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 412-258-6687.

PROPELLE STYLE SUMMIT. Learn from local fashion experts, stylists & photographers. Special guest Kiya Tomlin. propellestylesummit. eventbrite.com 1-4 p.m. The Alloy Studios, Friendship. 412-363-4321.

SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. La Cucina Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

SECOND SATURDAY AT THE SPINNING PLATE. Art exhibits w/ various musical, literary & artistic performances. Second Sat of every month Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. 412-441-0194.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, informal. Union Project cafe. Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-362-6108.

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

THE ART OF SCIENCE: INVENTION & INNOVATION AT THE WORLDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FAIRS, 1851â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1939. Design symposium feat. talks w/ curators of the Inventing the Modern World exhibit, panel discussion, more. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland.

412-622-3131.

LATSHAW PRODUCTIONS. Auditions for fall & Christmas traveling orchestra shows.

Male/female singers & dancers.

412-728-2193.

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I recently discovered that my boyfriend of seven months and I have opposing viewpoints on the “life begins at conception” issue. He’s not a crazy zealot, but he is strongly against abortion. And while he won’t go so far as to say abortion should be banned, he does believe that a fetus — from the moment of conception — is a person with the same rights as any other person. This shocked me, and I almost broke up with him. He says that disagreeing on issues is fine in a relationship, but I find his position abhorrent, and it opens the door for a litany of laws regulating my body. He’s a sweet, loving guy and progressive in every other way. But I’m not sure if this should be a deal-breaker.

LOVE IS FINDING ERRORS

Your boyfriend won’t go so far as to say abortion should be banned … or maybe he saw the shocked look on your face and realized that going so far as to say abortion should be banned would be a big mistake.

Here’s a good way to find out whether your boyfriend is serious about not wanting to impose his personal beliefs on others: Tell him you’re pregnant.

Some men blithely assume anti-choice positions because, hey, it’s not like their bodies or their futures are on the line, right? Most anti-choice-in-theabstract men come to a very different conclusion when an unplanned pregnancy impacts them directly.

So tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant. You can present it as a thought experiment, LIFE, but I think you should flat-out lie. Then ask him whether he’s ready to provide financial support for a child. Ask him whether he’s ready for the responsibilities (and the grind) of full- or even part-time parenting.

Ask him if he knows you well enough — just seven short months into this relationship — to make the kind of lifetime commitment that scrambling your DNA together entails.

I’m guessing his answers will be “no, no and no” and he’ll offer to drive you to the abortion clinic himself.

As for whether you should date someone who is anti-choice, well, women have to be in control of their own bodies in order to be truly equal. I don’t think I could date someone who didn’t see me as his equal, or who believed the state should regulate my sexual or reproductive choices. So this shit would be a deal-breaker for me, if I had a vagina.

Actually, this issue is a deal-breaker for me. I wouldn’t date a gay dude who was anti-choice.

Any gay man who can’t see the connection between a woman’s right to have children when she chooses and his right to love and marry the person he chooses is an idiot.

If your hypothetical pregnancy doesn’t shock your boyfriend out of his idiocy, you’ll have to ask yourself if you can continue dating this idiot.

And speaking of abortion …

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St. Louis released the results of a massive study — more than 9,000 women participated — on the effects of making birth control more widely available. How did they make birth control more widely available? They gave it away for free. And it turns out that making birth control available to women at no cost reduced the teen birth rate by more than 80 percent, and it reduced the number of abortions by 62 percent to 78 percent.

A person can’t call himself pro-life and oppose access to birth control. If you do oppose access to birth control — or you oppose Obamacare because it expands access to birth control — you’re not pro-life. You’re just anti-sex.

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I found porn on my kid’s computer and I talked to him about being careful about spyware, the difference actual intimacy and objectification, and that kind of thing.

I don’t have a problem with a 15-year-old boy looking at porn — so long as he’s discreet and doesn’t do it to excess. But what my kid was looking at was standard stuff. A friend found a stash of really kinky violence-against-women stuff on her kid’s computer. I’m thinking a parent can’t let that go as easily. She’s about to confront her kid.

What would you advise her to say?

MOST ANTICHOICE-IN-THEABSTRACT MEN COME TO A VERY DIFFERENT CONCLUSION WHEN AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY IMPACTS THEM DIRECTLY.

MY FRIEND’S KINKY SON

You meet two kinds of people at kink events and in kink spaces: people who were jerking off to kinky fantasies long before they were 15, and people who got into kink after falling in love with someone kinky. Your friend’s son sounds like one of the former.

It’s important for your friend to bear in mind that her son, if he is indeed kinky, sought out kinky porn. Kinky porn didn’t make him kinky.

And being shamed by his mother for his kinks isn’t going to unmake his kinks.

That said, your friend should talk with her son about the difference between porn and real sex, and the difference between erotic power exchange and violence.

She should also talk to him about safety and misogyny, and encourage him to be thoughtful about his sexuality. Most importantly, she should emphasize the importance of meaningful and informed CONSENT. Your friend’s son isn’t going to want to dialogue with his mom about his porn stash or his kinks, so she should go in prepared to monologue at him.

Finally, there’s a chance that your friend’s son isn’t kinky, and was just looking for the most appalling shit he could find on the Internet. Mom should acknowledge that possibility, and her son is likely to seize on that excuse. If he does claim that he was just looking for shocking video clips, she should say: “I believe you. But there’s a small chance that you’re saying that because you think it’s what I want to hear. So I’m going to say everything I wanted to say about safety, misogyny and consent just in case. And all of it applies to vanilla sex, too.”

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ACROSS 1. “Eat Pray Love” religious structure 7. Where O.J.’s Mayo and Simpson both went to school 10. Walgreens competitor 13. Larry, e.g.

14. U.S. Open stadium name 15. “Kung Fu Panda” actress Lucy 16. Floated 17. Spool 18. East Coast pretzel and chip giant 19. Defaced as a prank, as trees 20. Riot ___ (‘90s punk rocker) 21. Body under the Golden Gate Bridge 22. Bygone GM cars 23. Author’s story?

24. Heteronormative census acronym for cohabitators 26. Toronto Argonauts’ org.

27. Husband of Ruth 28. Angry Birds, e.g.

29. Director with 21 Tonys 32. Puts on a burner, say 36. Rich Provençal sauce 37. Alternative to smoking?

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and contentious 40. What’s in store?

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44. Tree with needles 45. “___ Enfants Terribles” 46. Black magic, generically 49. Ref. with no substitute 50. Miss ___ (psychic who totally faked that Jamaican accent) 51. Acct. with tax-free withdrawals, often 52. They swing up and down in this puzzle’s theme answers 54. Where the Vientiane Times is published 55. Christ’s tail?

56. Type of beads found in a dungeon, say 57. Give to charity, e.g.

59. Roth of “Inglourious Basterds” 60. Natural history museum attraction 61. “I’m no exception” 62. Labor day VIPs? 63. Make out 64. Cash in

DOWN 1. Doofus mcgoofus 2. Prize pig event 3. The 47%, as it were 4. They get played 5. Made it through another day, in a way 6. ___ school

7. Methadone clinic client 8. Aide to Hillary 9. Film about packaged food?

10. Some stay open after hours 11. Indispensable 12. Hostess snack 14. Latin American pilaf dish 20. Mr. Versace 22. IM option 23. Big ___ (André 3000’s partner) 25. Competed in a British bee 27. Options for tackling very dirty dishes 30. Check pattern, e.g.

31. Goes green?

33. Tragic lunar module

34. Arrangement in “Shame” 35. Authority 41. One may be tight or defensive 43. Canadian bird coin 46. Rival site that launched before YouTube 47. Electric brush maker 48. Britpop giants 50. MTV reality show about mixed martial arts 53. Olympic assignment 54. It means nothing to Andy Murray 57. The, in German 58. Those people, in reggae songs

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Dear Ms. Chandra: I am an astrologer, not a caterer, so I’m afraid I can’t fulfill your order. It’s admirable that you know so precisely what you want and are so authoritative about trying to get it; but please remember how crucial it is to seek the fulfillment of your desires from a source that can actually fulfill them. You’re a Libra, right? Your birthday is this week? Thanks for giving me an excuse to send this timely message to all of your fellow Libras.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here comes the big reveal of the month; the trick ending of the year; and maybe the most unusual happiness of the decade. Any day now you will get the chance to decipher the inside story that’s beneath the untold story that’s hidden within the secret story. I won’t be surprised if one of your most sophisticated theories about the nature of reality gets cracked, allowing you to at recover at least a measure of primal innocence. I suggest you start practicing the arts of laughing while you cry and crying while you laugh right now. That way you’ll be all warmed up when an old style of giveand-take comes to an end, ultimately making way for a more profound new give-and-take.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s almost nothing about the dandelion that humans can’t make use of. People of many different countries have eaten its buds, leaves and greens. Besides being tasty, it contains high levels of several vitamins and minerals. Its flowers are the prime ingredient in dandelion wine, and its roots have been turned into a coffee substitute. Herbalists from a variety of traditions have found medicinal potency in various parts of the plant. Last, but not least, dandelions are pretty and fun to play with! In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I invite you to approach the whole world as if it were a dandelion. In other words, get maximum use and value out of every single thing with which you interact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Intellect confuses intuition,” asserted painter Piet Mondrian. I don’t think that’s always true, even for creative artists. But in the coming week I suspect it’ll be important for you to take into consideration. So make sure you know the difference between your analytical thinking and your gut-level hunches, and don’t let your thinking just automatically override your hunches. Here’s more helpful advice from painter Robert Genn: “The job of the intellect is to give permission to the intuition, and it’s the job of intuition to know when intellect is once again appropriate.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to seek help from outside the magic circle you usually stay inside. You need to call on

extracurricular resources — people and animals and deities who can offer useful interventions and delightful serendipity and unexpected deliverance. The remedies that work for you most of the time just won’t be applicable in the coming days. The usual spiritual appeals will be irrelevant. I’m not saying that you are facing a dire predicament; not at all. What I’m suggesting is that the riddles you will be asked to solve are outside the purview of your customary guides and guidelines.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): These days, lobsters are regarded as a luxury food, but that wasn’t the case among early Americans. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the large crustaceans were meals that were thought to be suitable only for poor people and prisoners. Wealthy folks wouldn’t touch the stuff.

After examining your astrological omens, Pisces, I’m wondering if your future holds a similar transformation. I think there could very well be a rags-to-riches story in which an ignored or denigrated thing ascends to a more important role.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ten percent of all sexually suggestive text messages are delivered to the wrong number. Take precautions to make sure you’re not among that 10 percent in the coming weeks. It will be extra important for you to be scrupulous in communicating about eros and intimacy. The stakes will be higher than usual. Togetherness is likely to either become more intensely interesting or else more intensely confusing — and it’s largely up to you which direction it goes. For best results, express yourself clearly and with maximum integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If it were within my power, I’d help you identify the new feelings you have not yet been able to understand. I would infuse you with the strength you would need to shed the wornout delusions that are obstructing your connection to far more interesting truths. And I would free you from any compulsion you have to live up to expectations that are not in alignment with your highest ideals. Alas, I

can’t make any of these things happen all by myself. So I hope you will rise to the occasion and perform these heroic feats under your own power.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was a Gemini. He liked to depict seemingly impossible structures, like stairways in which people who climbed to the top arrived at the bottom. I nominate him to be your patron saint in the coming week. You should have his talent for playing with tricks and riddles in ways that mess with everyone’s boring certainties. Here are four Escher quotes you can feel free to use as your own. 1. “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” 2. “My work is a game, a very serious game.” 3. “I think it’s in my basement; let me go upstairs and check.” 4. “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus flytrap is a remarkable plant that gobbles up insects and spiders. Its leaves do the dirty work, snapping shut around its unsuspecting prey. Evolution has made sure that the flowers of the Venus flytrap sit atop a high stalk at a safe distance from where all the eating takes place. This guarantees that pollinators visiting the flowers don’t get snagged by the carnivorous leaves below. So the plant gets both of its main needs met: a regular supply of food and the power to disseminate its seeds. I’ll ask you to derive a lesson from all this, Cancerian. Be sure that in your eagerness to get the energy you need, you don’t interfere with your ability to spread your influence and connect with your allies.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A sinuous and shimmering archetype that begins with the letter “s” has been trying to catch your attention, Leo — sometimes in subliminal and serpentine ways. Why haven’t you fully tuned in yet? Could it be because you’re getting distracted by mildly entertaining but ultimately irrelevant trivia? I’m hoping to shock you out of your erroneous focus.

Here’s the magic trigger code that should do the trick: Psssssssssst! Now please do what you can to make yourself very receptive to the slippery, spidery signals of the simmeringly sublime surge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t burn down a bridge you haven’t finished building yet. OK, Virgo? Don’t try to “steal” things that already belong to you, either. And resist the urge to flee from creatures that are not even pursuing you. Catch my drift? Stop yourself anytime you’re about to say nasty things about yourself behind your own back, and avoid criticizing people for expressing flaws that you yourself have, and don’t go to extraordinary lengths to impress people you don’t even like or respect. Pretty please? This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you should put an emphasis on keeping things simple and solid and stable.

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YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF YOU: • Are a non-pregnant woman between 16 and 45 years old • Are in need of contraception • Have regular periods • Are willing to come to Magee-Womens Hospital to complete up to 14 or more visits over a five year period

Our board-certified physicians have been conducting clinical trials to advance primary care practice and the health of patients since 2003.

The Center for Family Planning Research is conducting a research study of an investigational contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD).

Participants will receive study-related exams and study-related birth control at no cost.

To see if you qualify, please call the Center for Family Planning Research at 412-641-5496 or visit our website at www.birthcontrolstudies.org.Participants will be reimbursed up to $1030 over five years.

We are currently enrolling for clinical trials in the following areas: • Asthma • COPD • Migraine • Diabetes • Cardiovascular • High cholesterol • IBS with diarrhea

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Participants will complete 5 visits to Magee Womens Hospital over 6 months You may be eligible to participate if you are: • • • •

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Participants will be reimbursed for their time and travel For more information please contact: The Center for Family Planning at

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• Group and Individualized Substance Abuse Therapy • NOW Treating Pregnant Women NOW Taking Appointments

NO WAIT LIST Accepts all major insurances and medical assistance

Chinese So Relax Massage $10 Off Massage Before Noon!

Water table and hot oil massages, body scrubs, and 10 different types of massages!

Best Chinese Massage Open 7 days a week 9:30am til 2am 2508 E. Carson St. 412-677-6080 412-918-1281

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We treat: ~ Opiate Addiction ~ Heroin Addiction ~ And Other Drug Addiction

Therapy

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PIN HEAD THE FIREMAN {BY JIMMY CVETIC}

I was sitting with Pin Head Drinking a beer.

He just retired from the fire department After twenty-five years.

I asked him, “Did you ever put out a fire?”

He said, “No, but I started a few.”

I said, “Every man to his own poison.”

He said, “Sometimes I miss the action.”

I said, “Well, light your house up And fall through the burning floor.

It will bring back memories.”

He said, “No, really, sometimes I miss the heat Sirens and running into the flames.”

I said, “Are you crazy?”

He said, “It’s hard to explain Unless you had the heat.”

I said, “You miss stealing from the unfortunate People that watch everything go up in flames.”

He said, “I remember an old guy That came walking back to the truck.

Smoke all over his face and His legs were clinking, Clink … clink ... clink.

Inside his rubber boots Were two bottles of whiskey.”

“What did you do?”

He said, “Nothing.

I thought about telling the Captain, But then you’re labeled a snitch.”

“What ever happened to the guy?”

“He went away some place in a puff of smoke And then he retired and died.”

I said, “Any regrets?”

“Just a couple.

Should have shared the whiskey.”

He looked a thousand miles away.

“Yeah, wish I could have stopped …

A couple of our guys that walked into the final alarm, When everything came crashing down.

I knew the girl, Conway … she was pretty … two others.

Nobody’s fault …

They died for no good reason.”

I said, “Some things you have no control over.”

Pin Head ordered another beer.

“One time I saved a couple of kids on the third floor, If that counts for anything.”

I said, “It counts just like the guy that took the bottles of whiskey.

It all counts.”

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