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INCOMING Bull in the China Shop: A filmmaker comes to town with China in his sights (Oct. 10) “It makes my face hurt a little when the U.S. pretends it’s being bullied.

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S BRIAN SIMS watched President

.Barack Obama endorse same-sex ..marriage from his cell phone on an Amtrak train, a hand tapped his shoulder and a voice asked if he was OK. “I was sobbing,” said Sims, a gay activist in Philadelphia. “I didn’t think that’d affect me like it did.”

As a gay Democrat, Sims was already on board with Obama. But the president’s May 9 interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts — in which Obama stated he believes “same-sex couples should be able to get married” — bolstered Sims in his support.

Many observers and polls agree: The gay-marriage issue won’t make or break this election for either Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney or a majority of voters.

But it is playing a role this time around. For Democrats, it’s been a unifying issue. For Republicans, it is becoming — probably for

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the first time — a divisive subject.

“The way that marriage has come into the 2012 election really shows how mammoth of a shift we’ve had in the politics around this issue,” says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics for the moderate think-tank Third Way, which has

LGBT issues are playing a role in this election, and the outcome could determine if it ever happens again {BY LAUREN DALEY} formed the bipartisan Commitment Campaign to persuade moderates to support gay marriage. “Just eight years ago, we were in a situation where every politician was running away from support for marriage.”

Obama himself has acknowledged that

his announcement may come with political implications. In his interview with Roberts, he acknowledged that, “in some places that are going to be pretty important in this electoral map, it may hurt me.”

But how much LGBT issues affect voters — or how much either campaign touches on them — remains to be seen. Neither the moderators nor the candidates made mention of same-sex marriage or other LGBT issues during early debates.

In a May 10 USA Today/Gallup poll, one day after Obama’s interview, 60 percent of Americans said his decision made no difference in their vote “If it was going to take center stage, it would have been when the president announced his support or when Democrats added it to their platform,” says Hatalsky. “For most voters, this isn’t their biggest concern this election, or even their CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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If it does become an issue, Hatalsky believes Republicans would have to go even more anti-gay than their platform, like pledging to reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

“The reason [Romney] hasn’t done that is I think Republicans realize that for that chunk of voters in the middle,” Hatalasky says, “it would be a real bridge too far.”

For now, its impact has been more personal. For Sims, “It meant that the most powerful, civil, political person in the world supports my rights. … It meant so much to me in an ideological way.”

REGARDLESS OF tangible votes, support for

same-sex marriages hit a milestone when the Democratic Party adopted marriage equality for the first time into its party platform. Obama’s campaign, meanwhile, kicked off “Obama Pride” to court LGBT voters and volunteers on Harvey Milk Day, in May. “It put the party on record in a historic way,” says Evan Wolfson, founder and president of the Freedom to Marry campaign. “It doesn’t mean every single Democrat [supports gay marriage] but it does tell you the party is pointing … toward the right side of history.”

For Sims, who’s poised to become the state’s first openly gay state-level lawmaker (he’s running unopposed for state representative in Philadelphia’s 182nd district), “Now there’s just one big, extra-shiny, fat object we can be empowered by.”

For Steel City Stonewall Democrats, the city’s LGBT political group, this fall has been one of its most active, from door-knocking and volunteering out of Obama’s South Side headquarters to turning out large numbers at a watch party for the first presidential debate. Group president Jim Sheppard attributes that, at least in part, to Obama’s personal stance on marriage.

“We all kind of knew the president was on our side. But he had to come out in a way,” Sheppard says. And when Obama finally did, “It was just, ‘Wow. Now we have to fight for this guy.’”

Obama does have a decent track record when it comes to LGBT issues. He led a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; expanded federal hate-crime law to make it a federal offense to attack someone on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; and decried the Defense of Marriage Act — which defines marriage as being solely between a man and a woman — as unconstitutional.

But his record isn’t perfect. Gay-rights groups criticized the administration this spring, when he refused to sign an executive order to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Gay-marriage advocates and Democrats

are quick to describe the President’s outlook on LGBT issues as “evolving” and say he’s made substantial progress.

“I think President Obama has been extraordinarily strong and a champion of gay inclusion,” says Wolfson. “He hasn’t done everything on the timetable that advocates like me wanted, but he has delivered from the very beginning and is now exactly where he needs to be in championing the freedom to marry and to end discrimination.”

Favorability for gay marriage, meanwhile, has shifted since 2001, with almost half of Americans saying it should be legal, according to data from Gallup. And since 2004, Hatalsky points out, marriage has gained 17 points in support. “In 2004, not even a majority of Democrats supported it,” she says. “It’s really a solid chunk of the constituency who have just changed their view on this issue.”

BUT DEMOCRATS aren’t the only ones affect-

ed by LGBT issues. For Republicans, samesex marriage is making its own mark on the party — for better or for worse. While the GOP’s platform includes language that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, fissures are forming in the party around the issue.

“Over the summer we saw Democrats congeal, solidly supporting marriage, and it’s comfortable and no longer a touchy issue,” says Hatalsky. But for Republicans, “we’re seeing some tension there.”

Hatalsky points to several examples.

The GOP’s platform committee, for one thing, voted on supporting civil unions. The measure was struck down, and instead of taking a step toward inclusion, the party adopted what’s considered its most antigay platform to date. But that they took a vote at all, Hatalsky says, is progress.

In New York, a same-sex marriage bill passed with support from four Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate in June 2011. State Sen. Roy McDonald, one of those lawmakers, lost his primary and eventually conceded in September to Republican Kathy Marchione, who targeted his support for the bill.

In the state of Washington, Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh, whose daughter is a lesbian, has became one of marriage equality’s biggest public allies after making an impassioned speech on the floor of the legislature in February supporting the state’s gay-marriage bill.

“It’s certainly not the most comfortable vote I’ve ever taken as a Republican in my life, but I also think it’s the right one,” she tells City Paper. “I’m really disillusioned by the fact more people in my party haven’t embraced this as an issue of liberty and freedom.”

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As for how it’ll affect who Walsh votes for in the presidential election — she’s not committed to either candidate yet. While she is considering Romney based on his fiscal policy, “it is very difficult for me to support people that come out so strongly against equal rights.”

Her ambivalence is not unwarranted.

Romney has a long, somewhat complicated history with LGBT issues. According to an April Los Angeles Times profile of Romney, the governor used the approval of same-sex marriage by the Massachusetts Supreme Court to “pivot” himself further to the right on the issue. According to his website, “marriage is … critical for the well-being of a civilization. … [I]t is so important to preserve traditional marriage [between] one man and one woman.” It also indicates that Romney would defend DOMA and lead the charge for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

That seems to be counter to promises and statements Romney made when running for the U.S. Senate in 1994. According to the Times, Romney supported civil unions and wrote in a letter to supporters, “We must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern.”

Walsh says she doesn’t know what it will take for her party to back away from its opposition to gay marriage.

“I suppose it’s going to take the Supreme Court of our land to finally just say this is discrimination pure and simple and we need to fix this,” she says. “I don’t know if it will necessarily change their

viewpoints. … I think people will adjust to it and realize, ‘Gosh, maybe those gay people don’t do anything to affect my heterosexual marriage.’”

Walsh, who’s up for re-election in her district, says reaction to her support of the state law has been mixed.

“I don’t think my party is mad at me.

A lot of people in my caucus embraced me after my speech,” she says. “On many occasions I’ve taken a tough stance on things that I just don’t agree with in the Republican platform.”

But Walsh admits she’s been “beat up” in the campaign over the issue. Her opposition, Tea Party Republican Mary Ruth Edwards, entered the race due to Walsh’s vote, and pledges on her campaign website to repeal the law.

Walsh doesn’t balk at the fight, saying part of being an elected official is being reasonable and considering both sides — not just toeing the party line. “In this particular case, it’d be politically expedient to be a ‘no’ on this. But you know what, I’m not sure I could live with myself.”

She also says she doesn’t believe the GOP should be content living any longer with its stance on LGBT issues. Walsh says she honestly believes the Republican Party is one of acceptance.

“I truly believe that’s the party we are,” Walsh says. “It’s disconcerting for me that so many Republicans feel they have to jump on … the bandwagon of discrimination. I don’t care to be on that ride.”

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NOW THAT the state’s controversial “voter-ID” law has been put in limbo by a state judge, things should go smoothly on Election Day, right?

Don’t be too sure.

“With Governor Corbett not upholding the voter-ID law, we need poll watchers,” wrote the Pittsburgh Tea Party movement in an Oct. 5 email blast. When it comes to voting irregularities, the group maintains, “Western Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia area are problem areas for our country.”

“Be warned that some of the areas that need poll watchers are not in the nicest part of town,” the email cautions.

The Tea Party made a similar appeal in 2011, and poll watchers are nothing new: State law allows them to oversee the voting process, inspecting voter rolls and challenging voter qualifications. But after the voter-ID controversy, voting-rights activists are taking special notice of such efforts. Also drawing scrutiny is True the Vote, a Texas-based Tea Party-affiliated group seeking to recruit 1 million poll watchers in 35 states, including Pennsylvania.

One True the Vote organizer, Bill Ouren, famously announced that for voters, having monitors on-hand would be “[l]ike driving and seeing the police following you.” And for some activists, talk of monitoring polls in “not the nicest part of town” suggests that conservatives will target black precincts.

“We’ve been very concerned that many African-American voters could be dissuaded or turned away from the polls,” says Khari Mosley of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, which acts as a liaison between unions and African Americans.

The group plans on having more than 200 observers in Western Pennsylvania precincts where blacks make up more than 35 percent of voters.

“If the True the Vote people do come out, there could be an intimidation factor. We want to let people know they have rights,” Mosley says.

Activist group One Pittsburgh will similarly focus on black neighborhoods like Homewood and the Hill District — “places that traditionally vote Democratic, and where there has been a history of long lines, or a lot of challenges,” says Alice Thompson, a One Pittsburgh

community organizer.

Thompson is seeking volunteers to work as poll watchers and poll workers, county-trained workers who do pollingplace field work. One Pittsburgh will supplement the county’s training with its own course — “to provide a history of voter-suppression tactics,” among other things — and provide a list of recruits to the county, in case some precincts are short-handed. Otherwise, Thompson says, the recruits may serve as “comfort captains,” assisting those in line. (Volunteers can reach Thompson at pollworker@ onepittsburgh.org or 412-463-8275.)

“There’s nothing wrong with saying, ‘I want everyone voting to be who they say they are,’” Thompson adds. “The problem comes when that rhetoric leads to wrongfully disenfranchising people.”

“Voter ID is the big unknown,” agrees Sara Rose, an attorney with the ACLU. “One thing we’re focused on is making sure that people are not wrongly required to show ID. We’re expecting that if someone says, ‘I left my ID at home,’ a poll worker may say, ‘You have to go home and get it.’”

Lawyers will staff an Election Day hotline (1-866-OUR-VOTE), and provide legal services in case of efforts to intimidate or disenfranchise voters. Rose says such efforts are especially important in Pennsylvania, where voter-challenge laws were “among the worst examined,” according to a recent report by the left-leaning research group Demos. Bullies at the Ballot Box complains that a Pennsylvania voter’s qualifications can be challenged for “flimsy reasons,” while putting the burden of proof on the accused. The law, says Demos, “does not adequately protect the rights of those challenged inappropriately.”

Activists doubt many voters will actually be sent home as a result of challenges.

The larger concern, they say, is that spurious challenges may cause long lines, turning away voters who can’t wait all day.

But even if Election Day goes off flawlessly, Mosley says, the battle over ballot access has damaged the election process.

“If you look at all of the work done over the past several months on voter ID, that could have been spent educating people on where candidates stand,” he says. “That’s an opportunity we’ll never get back.”

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IN ITS PAMPHLET “Sewer Overflows: What Can You Do?,” ALCOSAN tells homeowners how to lessen the region’s perennial problem of raw sewage flooding its streams during wet weather.

To keep storm- and meltwater from overwhelming the system, the pamphlet advises, homeowners should replace impervious paving with porous pavement, build rain gardens and the like.

Yet in its own $3.6 billion plan to meet federal clean-water mandates, ALCOSAN includes no such “green” solutions. Instead, it proposes expanding its conventional “gray” infrastructure — bigger processing plants and more underground storage tunnels.

Critics of ALCOSAN’s Draft Wet Weather Plan say that’s a big mistake. During the public-comment process — which concludes Oct. 19 — they’ve exhorted the authority to learn from other cities and soak up excess water in ways more like Mother Nature.

“This is like the biggest infrastructure investment this area is ever gonna see,” says Tom Hoffman of Clean Water Action, among the groups pursuing the issue.

“Green infrastructure needs to get a fair shake at least.”

As in hundreds of U.S. cities, older sewers here were designed to overflow during rainstorms. That protects treatment plants, but pollutes waterways. It happens dozens of times a year, often fouling the water for days.

Even newer “sanitary sewers” can overflow.

ALCOSAN’s all-gray fix roughly triples treatment capacity and features miles of new pipes and underground tunnels along and across Pittsburgh’s three rivers.

(The tunnels, 12 feet or more wide, would lie beneath existing tunnels — 180 feet underground.) The $3.6 billion plan would satisfy an EPA consent decree requiring an end to most sewage overflows. But ALCOSAN will ask EPA to approve a $2 billion alternative as more affordable for ratepayers, who under the pricier option could see sewage rates triple.

Green infrastructure can’t solve all the problems that arise when rain douses 83 municipalities in ALCOSAN’s service area, which occupies 309 square miles of heavily paved and built-upon land. But advocates say a green-hybrid system would be cheaper and have other benefits. Rain gardens and tree plantings, for instance, raise property values and cool urban “heat islands.” Letting water soak into the earth rather than pumping it out of tunnels saves enormous amounts of energy.

(ALCOSAN’s monthly electric bill is $750,000.)

And maintaining green infrastructure could

even create more long-term jobs.

The EPA encourages green stormwater control; other cities are already doing it; and even Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says he’s pushing ALCOSAN to put more green in its plan. Why not us?

Basically, says ALCOSAN, because most green techniques involve either private property (roofs, parking lots) or municipal land (streets, parks) whose use the authority can’t control. Each of those 83 municipalities owns its own sewer system, which feeds into ALCOSAN’s lines. Philadelphia’s much-touted, all-green wet-weather plan, notes ALCOSAN spokesperson Nancy Barylak, works because city government and the sewage authority are one: The city has simply mandated permeable paving and rain gardens. Meanwhile, regions like Milwaukee use green strategies to supplement massive gray infrastructure they’ve already upgraded.

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Some observers say ALCOSAN is doing its best. Robert Neufeld, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Pitt, says that while green infrastructure is valuable, gray infrastructure is ALCOSAN’s clearest path to fulfilling the consent decree by 2026.

ALCOSAN does go green when it can, Barylak adds. For instance, it’s working with municipalities to “daylight” streams formerly piped into sewage lines, which has so far removed 695 million gallons a year from the system.

Ultimately, though, the key might not be ALCOSAN, but those 83 towns — each of which owes its own stormwater plan to state and county officials by July. Indeed, Pittsburgh already requires green stormwater management on publicly funded projects. Mount Lebanon charges landowners for their stormwater runoff.

But financially strapped towns won’t get there very fast by themselves, says John Schombert. As director of the nonprofit Three Rivers Wet Weather, Schombert believes the region should consider consolidating its sewer system, “or we will not have a sustainable solution,” he says.

However, he adds, “With proper education, most elected officials will say, ‘Please take my sewer system.’”

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China, Japan and Taiwan each claim ownership of the uninhabited South China Sea islands of Senkaku ,or Diaoyu, and the controversy heightened in September when Japan announced that it had formally “purchased” the islands from a private company that reputedly owned them. China countered by “launching” its first-ever aircraft carrier (a vessel junked in 1998 by Ukraine), which it hopes will intimidate its neighbors even though it is useless to planes.

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A 14-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition in Churchill, Pa., in August after allegedly swiping a Jeep Grand Cherokee and leading the owner’s boyfriend on a brief high-speed chase before rolling the Cherokee over on Interstate 376. The boy’s mother, according to WTAE-TV, blamed the Cherokee’s owner: A vehicle with the keys in it, she said, “was an opportunity that, in a 14-year-old’s eyes, was … the perfect moment.” Also, she said, the boyfriend “had no right to chase my son.” The boy “could have just [wanted] a joyride down the street. Maybe he [merely] wanted to go farther than he felt like walking.”

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First-World Problems: (1) Ohio death-row inmate Ronald Post, 53, asked a federal court in September to cancel his January date with destiny on the grounds that, despite almost 30 years of prison food, he’s still too fat to execute. At 480 pounds, “vein access” and other issues would cause his lethal injection to be “torturous.” (2) British murderer-sadist Graham Fisher, 39, is locked up in a high-security hospital in Berkshire, England, but he, too, has been eating well (at about 325 pounds). In August, he was approved for gastric-band surgery paid for

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In India, “kira jari” is believed to be an aphrodisiac and energy booster, but the government is trying to control the market because insufficient new larvae means the land might soon be picked clean. (2) Swiss researcher Francis W.M.R. Schwarze announced in September that he will manufacture 30 violins out of wood treated with certain fungi that, in music-appreciation tests, made a lesser-grade violin sound like a Stradivarius.

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SEA CHANGE {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Humans are awfully hard on seafood.

The world’s big commercial fisheries have been in decline for decades, partly due to overfishing of species like cod, tuna and Chilean sea bass. Meanwhile, irresponsible farming of shrimp and tilapia degrades the environment.

Some concerned chefs have stepped to the plate. Jason Huzzard, executive chef at Downtown’s Original Fish Market, uses the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch List. The sustainability-minded pocket guide divides seafood into “Best Choices,” “Good Alternatives” and “Avoid.”

The restaurant buys some 200 pounds of fish weekly, but Huzzard mostly shuns “Avoid” species. Take monkfish, a sushi favorite caught in ways that damage the seafloor and have high “bycatch” of sea turtles and marine mammals. “I love monkfish but won’t buy it,” Huzzard says.

Huzzard seeks purveyors he trusts, and considers U.S.-sourced fish better regulated than imported. “If it’s not as close to being as sustainable as possible, I try to find an alternative that is,” he says. Perfection isn’t possible, though: Huzzard buys imported shrimp because there isn’t enough U.S. supply to source affordably.

Huzzard, 37, would like to see more sustainability-consciousness from the likes of popular TV chefs. “I don’t see any of them giving a crap,” he says.

Self-interest is involved, too. “If I burn out the fish, we won’t have any to serve,” explains Huzzard. “If somebody like me can do my part, I feel like I’m doing a good thing.”

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leases two or three versions of the same tale in a single year, so too do restaurateurs sometimes converge on a concept. Remember, for example, the great cappuccino caper of the 1990s? Or when every restaurant seemed to think it had to install a wood-fired oven to stay in business? More recently, we’ve seen pomegranate in everything from martinis to marinade, and the proliferation of the high-concept burger joint.

In the heady days of 2010, it seemed that every week brought a new restaurant bragging about the cuts of beef in its burgers, the storied provenance of its cheese toppings or fried potatoes, and the grown-up yet childish pleasures of its alcoholic milkshakes. Things have cooled off on the burger front of late, but just because the trend has already been set doesn’t mean it’s too late to jump on board. A wise restaurateur can learn from the pioneers and avoid some missteps, making up for tardiness with spoton performance and panache.

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J&L Grill Co., located in the SouthSide Works and named after that site’s original steel-making occupant, isn’t strictly burgers and shakes. Its menu proffers wings and flatbreads, as well as other bar fare and a few traditional entrees. But the burgers are front and center, proudly house-ground and served on Mancini’s rolls. We saw nothing really revelatory

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in the menu of topping combos, but the choice of yellow cheddar or Vermont white struck us as a sophisticated touch, and the house-made options also included turkey, salmon and veggie burgers.

Alas, there’s no tiptoeing around it: The outcomes didn’t match the buildup.

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parable to a hearty, juicy bar burger than to the luxurious, short-rib-packed patties available at other burger boutiques. Now, don’t get us wrong: We love a good juicy bar burger. But part of the package has to be some good fries on the side, and J&L’s missed that mark. By a lot. Greasy on the outside and undercooked on the inside, the fries looked bad and tasted worse.

And, unfortunately, the beef burger was by far the best of what we had. A tough, nearly flavorless turkey burger couldn’t compare (and at least one of us sometimes prefers a good turkey burger to beef). Crisp, house-made chips served alongside were a bit overseasoned, as if in overcompensation.

Things weren’t much better at the top of the menu. The “Hot Rivets” appetizer looked like a cute homage to J&L Grill’s loosely-held industrial theme: a bucket of bacon-wrapped morsels, with your choice of tater tot, sweet potato, pretzel nugget or kielbasa at the core, plus a bit of jalapeño for kick. But the jalapeño pepper, deprived of spicy seeds or CONTINUES ON PG. 22

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From a host of wing options, not all of them by-the-book, we picked “Coal Fire,” a blend of mango and habañero. The sauce flavor featured a nice balance of fruit and fire, but the wings themselves were small and indifferently cooked, with no sign that the skin had ever been crisp.

The misses kept coming. A garlicparmesan chicken flatbread was nicely toasted, but tasted more of salt than of garlic. Meanwhile, a steak sandwich that promised loads of flavor from its roasted peppers, caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms and horseradish mayo was, instead, bland. The steak lacked any char or smoky notes, the mayonnaise had no zing, and the roll, despite its grill marks, felt as flabby as something right out of a supermarket bag.

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And, as though an industrial theme were an excuse to skip decor altogether, J&L Grill didn’t even have any ambience to please our other senses. The large, hangar-like space was “decorated” almost exclusively with flat-screen TVs, and plenty of them. Friendly service, at least, added pleasure to our visit.

Ultimately, we got the impression that J&L Grill was not quite sure what it wanted to be. An oversized sports bar? A burger boutique? An industrial-themed gastropub? Neither the menu nor the decor committed fully to any one of the above. But one restaurant trend that never goes out of style is great food, and that, above all, is where J&L Grill needs some sizzle.

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Expanded Carson Street Deli doubles down on commitment to local beer “This has been a rather amazing seven-day odyssey,” says Mike Murphy as he looks at the 20 taps that were just installed at his newly remodeled Carson Street Deli.

Murphy purchased the sandwich shop — and a license to sell beer — three years ago. Now, with more than 300 beers in the cooler, coo the bottle-shop portion of o the store has grown to become one of Pittsburgh’s be largest.

Aficionados have la taken note.

“I’m a big fan of Carson Street Deli,” says Pittsburgh Beer Meetup Group orgaB nizer Mike Beattie. Murphy’s n addition of the new taps, Beattie add demonstrates how “passionate says, d he is about bringing another great source of craft beer to the South Side.”

Murphy says that he’s “in the relationship business.” Indeed, his close relationship with local breweries is evident from the taps: They’re nearly all flowing with Pittsburgh-area beer.

To Murphy, maintaining such ties with local brewers isn’t just a nice thing to do; it makes for a more dynamic business.

One example: Carson Street Deli was the first local retailer to have Meadville-based Voodoo Brewery’s highly anticipated, extra-hoppy Pilzilla on tap.

Beers from East End, Helltown, All Saints, Full Pint, Church Brew Works, Fat Heads and Troegs rounds out the selection of regional and state breweries, along with hard cider from Arsenal and Jack’s.

The only non-local beers are specialty imports offering flavors that aren’t brewed nearby. Most of the beer retails for $5; the imports (and Arsenal cider) sell for slightly more.

Murphy hosts weekly beer tastings, and he’s happy to provide suggestions to novice and expert alike on choosing an unfamiliar beer from the tap or the cooler.

“Let’s stretch you, and change your palate a little bit. We’ll do that and provide you with context,” he says.

“We are not the only place with good beer, or the only place with good casual food,” he says. “But the synergy we have here is unique.”

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ABAY ETHIOPIAN CUISINE. 130 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. 412-661-9736. At Pittsburgh’s original Ethiopian restaurant, the cheerful downto-earth atmosphere creates the perfect setting for a dining experience. The vegetarian items are just as robust and richly flavored as the meat dishes. KF AJI PICANTE. 1711 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-422-0220. There is no mistaking the Latin and Spanish themes on the menu of this Peruvian restaurant: Fried banana, guacamole, even paella are all on offer. Yet all the preparations are unique, from ceviche served with Andean fried corn kernels to a mildly Asianinfluenced steak stir-fry. Distinctly native flavors include potatoes, quinoa and white-bean cake. KF AZUL BAR Y CANTINA. 122 Broad St., Leetsdale. 724-266-6362.

Colorful and convivial, Azul dishes up Southern California-style Mexican cooking in a festive atmosphere. The menu offers the familiar fajitas, tacos and burritos — to be washed down with margaritas — as well as quirkier fare such as crunchy sticks of jicama and fried ice cream. JE

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Smiling Moose {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} offer a greatest-hits collection of French food, from escargot and charcuterie to rillettes of rabbit and Roquefort flan. Entrees, including New York Strip steak, pork chops, coq au vin and duck, are generously proportioned, with tasty vegetable and potato sides. KE

Bollywood films, but this venue has been winning awards in City Paper readers’ polls for years. How? The food holds its own, of course. But the Garden also knows its college-driven market — offering ample lunch buffets, half-off dinner specials and late-night hours. JE

CHICKEN LATINO. 155 21st St., Strip District. 412-246-0974.

This quick-serve chicken joint serves up Peruvian-style, wood-fired and deliciously seasoned rotisserie chicken.

Besides the bird, hamburgers and the occasional special (pork, ceviche), sides include such south-of-the-border staples as plantains, refried beans and fried yucca. J

KAYA. 2000 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-261-6565. Kaya is a local culinary mainstay, offering inventive Caribbeaninspired contemporary cuisine.

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But it remains divided into tropas — tropical tapas — and entrees. KE

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This stripped-down, oversized industrial space somehow feels sumptuously swank. The menu is small plates, ran ranging from traditional tapas to Asian-inspired dishes. With excell excellent food, exemplary service and a grown-up atmosphere, Bossa Nova is a nightclub you do don’t have to be out clubbing to ap appreciate. KE BRASSERIE 33. 58 5863 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-363-3090.

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PINO’S CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN. 6738 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. 412-361-1336.

The menu at this Italian eatery spans from sandwiches that hearken back to its pizzeria days, through pastas of varying sophistication, to inventive, modern entrees. Some dishes pull out the stops, including seafood Newburg lasagna and veal with artichokes, peppers, olives and wild mushrooms over risotto. But don’t forgo the flatbread pizzas, many with gourmet options like prosciutto and sweet-pea pesto. KE

WHEN BEECHVIEW’S Crested Duck Charcuterie

ROOT 174. 1113 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square. 412-243-4348.

The foundation of the menu is also a basic formula: fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. To this, add an adventurous selection of meat products, such as bonemarrow brûlée and smoked salmon sausage. Dishes have lengthy ingredient lists, but it all comes together in satisfying and surprising ways. LF SEWICKLEY SPEAKEASY. 17 Ohio River Blvd., Sewickley.

412-741-1918. This little restaurant has the charm of a bygone era and old-fashioned food whose pleasures are worth rediscovering. The Continental menu offers chestnuts like duck á l’orange and Virginia spots, as well as more distinctive dishes, such as tournedos dijon bleu and French Acadian porterhouse. LE THE SMILING MOOSE. 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. 412431-4668. The Carson Street bar and nightclub now offers a top-notch sandwich and salad menu, by bringing creativity, quality preparation and a knack for well-selected ingredients to the burgers, sandwiches and appetizers. Options include: shrimp skewers with smoked peppers, corn-andblack-bean fritters and a roster of inventive sliders. JE SOBA/UMI. 5847-9 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-362-5656/ 412-362-6198. Here, the local Big Burrito group offers two different menus in the same building. Soba offers pan-Asian fusion (from Korean barbeque to Thai corn chowder and Vietnamese hot-and-sour shrimp) in a minimalist yet elegant restaurant/lounge. Umi’s Japanese menu, meanwhile, focuses on sushi and teriyaki; it’s a perennial finalist in City Paper’s “Best of Pittsburgh” issue. LE

Kevin Costa is offering bacon and in-home dinners to raise money for an expansion. {PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN COSTA}

New Restaurant in Historic North Side

launched a Kickstarter funding program in September to help pay for USDA certification, Oliver Griswold was one of the first to chip in.

The owner of North Woods Ranch, which raises cattle and pigs about 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh, says it is difficult to find meat-processing facilities he trusts. All slaughterhouses require the certification of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; most process meat (which, in addition to the kill, includes gutting and butchering) in ways Griswold abhors.

“A lot of the meat-processing places haven’t really caught up to where we want to be,” he says.

For a lot of small farmers and ranchers, like Griswold, that means processing the meat naturally, saving all the animal’s parts and butchering it into the cuts they (and cooks) want. “I’ve got to haul animals all the way to Harrisburg to get clean recipes,” Griswold says. “It’s not optimal.”

Kevin Costa, Crested Duck’s chef and owner, wants to provide an alternative to the approach of existing processing facilities. As part of an expansion of his two-year-old charcuterie, he is applying for USDA approval. That certification will not only allow him to ship his products out of state and supply outlets like Giant Eagle, it will also mean farmers can skip the last step at the processing facilities and bring the meat to his shop for custom cuts.

“That won’t necessarily have a huge profit margin for us, but I feel like it is something that is so needed,” Costa says.

To get the certification, Costa is upgrading his Beechview shop, including installing equipment in his dry-age room to control its temperature and humidity. His Kickstarter campaign — which ends Oct. 22 — seeks to recoup some of that investment cost, and provide the capital he needs to expand seating for Sunday-brunch service.

Costa is offering several premiums to investors, ranging from a pound of bacon, a private brunch, dinner for two or an in-home four-course dinner for six. As of press time, Costa had nearly reached his $7,500 goal.

Griswold, for one, is looking forward to the goal being attained.

“It’s a means of expanding the sales [and] distribution of really good local products,” he says.

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WAYS OF HEARING For years now, there’s been an abundance of discussion on how technology has changed music, with nearly all of it focusing on the economics of the music industry. Richard Randall and Richard Purcell, both faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University, have chosen to study a slightly more amorphous question: How do we, as consumers, listen to and interact with music, and how has that changed?

Purcell, an English professor, and Randall, from the music department, got together when both had applied for grants to study very similar topics. Randall’s idea stemmed from the concept of the mixtape as a cultural artifact, while Purcell wanted to examine the uses of music and sound in contemporary society, including the use of the Long Range Acoustic Device, the soundbased weapon that made its debut in 2009 at the G-20 conference in Pittsburgh.

The two combined their projects into Listening Spaces, a three-year research project. The end result will be a book that documents what Randall and Purcell, and their colleagues, learn throughout the project.

In the short term, the project will involve a symposium and discussion this Fri., Oct. 19, with speakers from other cities taking part.

Participants include: Larissa Mann (a.k.a. DJ Ripley), from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she studies issues related to intellectual property; Jonathan Sterne, of McGill in Montreal, a former Pitt professor whose most recent book is MP3: The Meaning of a Format; Trebor Scholz, from The New School, who studies the intersection of labor and technology; and Graham Hubbs, who earned his Ph.D. at Pitt in 2008, and studies ethics.

In the long term, there will be other interactive aspects. “For example,” explains Randall, “we’ll set up kiosks at [CMU’s] Carnival and do experiments: Give someone a set of songs, and say, ‘Put these songs in a falling-in-love order.’” The aim is to study how people interact with music when they’re largely used to automated systems, such as Facebook apps, Spotify, Pandora and last.fm that harvest information on their tastes, then attempt to guide them in their choices.

“It’s not about us trying to be nostalgic, though,” Randall adds. “We just want to take a breath, look at all this: Is the technology improving things?”

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T’S A TALE of two Beats, really: Back in 1979, an American band called The Beat was getting its start; frontman Paul Collins had previously been in the important but short-lived power-pop band The Nerves. Meanwhile, in the U.K., a young ska band was rising through the ranks — a band called The Beat.

Something had to give.

“All I know,” recalls Collins, “is that I was advised by lawyers that this was the case: I owned the name here, they released their album in England, and they owned the name there: You gotta do something, legally. You can’t release your album in England using the name ‘The Beat,’ because there’s already a band there that owns that name.”

But there was never any real animosity between the bands, according to Collins.

“There was never a time — I know there’s been some stuff I’ve read online, like, we all sat down and started yelling and screaming at each other.” That never happened, Collins says. “And there were

no lawsuits as far as I know.”

The result: The Beat from the U.S.A. became known generally as Paul Collins Beat. The band from the U.K. became known, in America, as The English Beat.

The English Beat is now known as an important part of the 2 Tone ska scene, and the later transition into new wave. Paul

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Collins Beat toured relentlessly through the ’80s, broke up for a bit in the ’90s and got back together in the mid-’00s, hitting the road again.

For some time, both Beats were touring regularly — and Collins noticed that they’d end up close to one another, playing the same cities only days apart.

“Then one night in Pittsburgh, we

were playing at the Rex, and they were playing across the street” at Diesel, Collins says. (It was November 2009; The English Beat played Diesel on a Friday night, and Paul Collins Beat at the Rex that Saturday night.) “And I said ‘Wow, this is too much.’”

This is where the saga becomes a very modern tale.

“Dave [Wakeling, the English Beat frontman] and I became Facebook friends.”

Through a friend who played with The Romantics, who opened some dates for The English Beat, Collins began bandying about the idea of a tour that would feature both Beats.

“I said, ‘I’ve gotta get in on some of these shows!’ And the next thing I know, I have a Facebook message from Dave, saying, ‘How about a tour?’”

Thus was born what Wakeling has since deemed the “Two Beats Hearting as One” tour: The English Beat headlines, Paul Collins Beat supports, Beat fans of all stripes show up.

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period, we’re both considered pioneers in our respective genres, but we’re musically on either end of the scale,” says Collins.

“So it’s perfect.”

With more than 35 years in music — first with The Nerves (with future Plimsouls frontman Peter Case), then with The Beat and as a solo artist — Collins has seen plenty of changes in touring.

“Number one: GPS,” he says with a laugh. “Number two: cell phones.

“Other than that, I think the biggest changes in touring are more in me: I’m not up all night chasing girls, consuming all kinds of crazy things, drinking all kinds of crazy things. I’m much more of an eat-right, sleep-right kind of guy now.

And I think everybody who works with me will attest to that: It’s a much more relaxing environment.”

Through the years, Collins has proudly maintained a DIY ethic when it comes to his music. After his initial Beat albums on CBS, Collins has released most of his music on smaller indie labels like Not Lame and Alive. (Some of Collins’ records have been released in part by Pittsburgh-based Get Hip! Records.)

“I think the biggest thing about DIY today is it’s the key for bands like myself, who may not have major-label support and managers and the whole big rock look — we take our future into our own hands, we’re able to strip down our operations and make them money-making operations, because we’re able to cut out a lot of the fat of other types of touring. And it also makes it more of a family operation.”

Collins’ mainstream exposure has been fairly limited: Paul Collins Beat never had a charting hit per se, and The Nerves’ biggest song, “Hanging on the Telephone,” is most famous as covered

by Blondie. But Collins finds that those who follow him now are generally more knowledgeable about music than the average person.

“The people that come know all of our songs. I feel very fortunate that I can play songs from my entire career and they all fit together. We play stuff from The Nerves on through to the last album.”

Collins, who spoke to CP on the eve of the tour’s first date, is optimistic that, though his Beat is more power-pop, and even alt-country, and The English Beat is a ska band, fans of both will enjoy the whole show.

“I think a lot of the fans are fans of the era,” he says. “I think musically speaking, they’re going to be more open-minded than, say, if we’d done this tour 30 years ago.

Then I think there might’ve been a problem. Because the divisions were a little bit more drawn.”

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NEW VICTORIANS NEW VICTORIANS II (SELF-RELEASED)

The second part of a trilogy from the band led by Ben Hardt. Where Hardt as a solo artist is a romantic and cinematic singer-songwriter, these recordings are where he shines as a writer who deals in concepts and sounds beyond the traditional rock-band fare.

This situates him somewhere between Chris Isaak (whom he’s been known to cover) and a light Scott Walker. This version’s available on iTunes right now; a physical copy (with additional conceptalbum trappings) is forthcoming.

RIBBONS THE RETURN OF RBZ (SELF-RELEASED)

I happened upon a Ribbons show once a couple years ago and remember thinking the band was a bit of a hidden gem; this four-song EP confirms my suspicion. Pretty, sometimes aggressive, often epic guitar-driven indie rock with a flair for the mathy end of things.

The talk-y parts may not always be well advised, but all in all, this is immaculately recorded, well written, good stuff.

SATIN GUM LP2

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After a strange and growl-y diversion on EP3, the local power-poppers return with a full-length that’s a little more in line with earlier work. Lots of weird timesignature changes that manage to feel natural; awkward but charming vocals; solid guitar work. Satin Gum is one of the best things going in Pittsburgh right now. Right on!

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Premise (real name: Stefan Schecter) began making beats as a hobby in 1997. Fifteen years later, he’s been instrumental in bringing a national-level event for producers to Pittsburgh — one that’s coming back to town Oct. 23 and 24.

In 2001, Schecter moved to Pittsburgh to study communications and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

While at school, he continued pursuing work as a producer with his own brand, Straight-N-Narrow Productions. Soon after graduating from Pitt in 2005, he began participating in the iStandard Producers Showcase, traveling to compete in several shows in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

Over time, his role expanded from competing as a producer to working some back-end business, as Schecter initiated talks of bringing the showcase to Pittsburgh. In August 2011, the iStandard Producers Showcase made its Pittsburgh debut.

“For two years prior to that I was working with [iStandard founders] J. Hatch and Don DiNapoli to get them to want to take a chance on Pittsburgh,” Schecter explains. “Leading up to the event, I was still nervous, though. You never know what you’re gonna get the first time the city’s responding to something.”

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The city responded well. In all, 24 Pittsburgh hip-hop producers competed in the event and had their beats judged by a panel of industry experts, including local Grammy winner Emmai Alaquiva of YaMomzHouse Studio. The winners, Pittsburgh producers Basement Beatz and Hit Project Inc., were awarded the opportunity to take part in iStandard’s year-end event, Beast of the Beats, in New York City, which featured winners from more than 30 cities. The second Pittsburgh showcase, in May 2012, was won by local producers Amil and LueX Productions.

Premise (Stefan Schecter) in the studio

Although he acknowledges the benefits of winning a showcase, Schecter stresses the additional advantages for producers and others with interest in the music industry.

“The whole winning thing, that’s temporary — it’s nice to win the prize package,” says Schecter. “But the relationships that can be built at an event like this are very unique.”

Currently working as the director of media and sponsorships for the iStandard Producers Showcase, Schecter is handling media relations for all markets that iStandard hosts shows in. A few months prior to the shows, Schecter is reaching out to local blogs, radio shows, venues, studios and hip-hop shops to ensure each city’s hip-hop scene is involved. That, in turn, leads to greater publicity and opportunities for the competing producers.

“The goal is to help bridge the gap between producers making music in their basement or with their friends as a hobby, to actually placing records in the industry and understanding what it’s going to take to do that successfully,” explains Schecter. “Placing records starts the publishing wheel in motion, which is a key component of surviving and making a living in the music industry.”

The iStandard Producers Showcase returns to Pittsburgh Oct. 23-24 at Club Diesel. Additionally, a meet-and-greet with the panel of judges, which includes national producers Statik Selektah, Illmind and Omen, takes place at Timebomb Spot (200 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside) on Oct. 24 at 4 p.m.

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Amanda Wishner 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $35-37.

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I should have straightened myself out / Thank you, drop dead!” he pleads on his most recent, from 2009. He plays Heinz Hall tonight, assuming the smell of nearby cheeseburgers doesn’t cause him to turn his back and gag. With Kristeen Young. AM 8 p.m. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $43.75-83.75. All ages.

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In the face of dire prophecies, our readers celebrate Pittsburgh in the here and now Almost every culture has a myth about the end of the world. The Mayans, as we’ve all heard, expected a potentially cataclysmic epochal shift, due to take place this December. Christians have long perused the New Testament prophecies, seeking omens of an impending Day of Judgment.

Pittsburghers, meanwhile, live in fear of the tribulations that may unfold if all three of our majorleague sports franchises suffer disappointments in the same year.

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But fear not! Many of these End Times prophecies include at least the hint of better times to come. The Mayans envisioned the end of one historical cycle and the beginning of another.

Christians foresee a Paradise on Earth … and similarly, local sports fans look forward to high draft picks.

In any case, knowing that the world may someday end can help us appreciate what we have in the here and now. That’s the spirit in which we offer the results of our 2012 Best of Pittsburgh readers’ poll. There’s an old saying that you can’t take it with you … but if you could, these are the restaurants, the bars and the cultural attractions that our readers would carry along into the next world.

To further inspire meditation on Pittsburgh’s virtues, we carried out an additional survey for this issue. We asked local movers and shakers a profound philosophical question: “If the End Times were at hand, and Pittsburgh were surrounded by a Lake of Fire from which you could not escape … how would you spend the Last Days here?” You’ll find answers to that question scattered throughout the pages that follow.

Fortunately, we may not have to contemplate such dire scenarios any time soon: India Garden won “Best Indian Restaurant” yet again … so the cosmos hasn’t come completely unhinged.

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GOODS & SERVICES 07 CULTURE & NIGHTLIFE 15 FOOD & DRINK 25 PEOPLE & PLACES 35 PHOTO CREDITS: Cover/Section Intro Page photographs by Heather Mull. ON THE COVER: Model, Saint Donnie Iris (www.donnieiris.com) at Terry Clark Studio (www.terryclark.com); Stylist, Michelle Pacis; Tuxedo, Cable Creations Bridal & Tuxedo, Beaver Falls (724-843-6980). GOODS & SERVICES: Real-life Ravens fan Victoria Berdnik.

NIGHTLIFE: Models, drag queen Marsha “Monster” Mellow (www.facebook.com/MissMarshaMonsterMellow) and Benjamin Gorski, at 5801 Video Lounge & Café, 5541 Walnut St., Shadyside; Technical adviser, Terry Clark.

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______________ Eljay’s has strong collections of history and mystery, sci-fi and cooking. But what most distinguishes it may be its sense of fun. The offbeat ownership is reflected in everything from the UFOlogy books to the chalk-outline silhouette on the floor by the mystery books. Having moved from the South Side, Eljay’s is drawing customers with author readings and other events. ______________ 2nd: Awesome Books, Downtown and Garfield 3rd: Caliban Book Shop, Oakland

BEST LOCAL STORE TO BUY MUSIC

THE EXCHANGE

Multiple locations, www.myexchangefranchise.com

______________ You can have your iDevices: Those of us who like to hold our digitally-stored media will be at The Exchange, with its used-music-store prices on a new-music-store selection. (A recent visit turned up a full wall-rack of Dylan CDs, for example.) Top that with movies in DVD/Blu-Ray, and video games for various platforms, and you need never leave your basement again. ______________ 2nd: Dave’s Music Mine, South Side 3rd: Eide’s, Strip District

BEST LOCAL STORE TO BUY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

PIANOS N’STUFF MUSIC

468 Freeport Road, Blawnox 412-828-1003 or www.nstuffmusic.com

______________ It’s more “stuff” than “pianos” these days: This Blawnox landmark has drums, guitars, amps, accessories — whatever you might need to make your band work. And if you’re booking your own gig (or playing, say, a wedding or whatever), you can also come here to rent PA equipment and the like to make it happen. ______________

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Eljay’s Books thrives in Dormont, where Frank Oreto serves up the wild and weird reads.

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ELJAY’S BOOKS

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{BY CHRIS POTTER} DORMONT? Why Dormont?

That was the obvious question last January, when Eljay’s Books moved from East Carson Street, through the Liberty Tubes, and down Route 19. At the time, co-owner Frank Oreto told City Paper that Dormont was the place “where hipsters go to have kids.” Still, doubts remained: Was Eljay’s, once the upstart kid of the city’s bookselling scene, now settling in to a complacent adulthood, out there in the ’burbs?

Not if Chris Rickert has anything to say about it.

“It’s still hard to find people weirder than us,” says Rickert, who joined Oreto and Louise Richardson as a co-partner earlier this year. (The Eljay name, by the way, is derived from the first initials of its original owners: Oreto’s first name

is actually “Jason.”)

Eljay’s has indeed retained the offbeat vibe that helped it fit in so well on East Carson Street. That crime-scene chalk outline, for example, is still taped to the floor by the mystery section. And the collection remains as diverse as ever, with room for niche interests like cryptozoology (the science of life that may or may not exist). The shelves still brim with history, cookbooks, political writings … and tomes like Cats, Atoms, Gyrons, Aether and the Universe: Something for Everyone. Inventory ranges from the rare and obscure to $2.50 paperbacks and a “pay as you go” section, where overstocked books and other cast-offs go. Eljay’s expects to diversify further down the road: Oreto is studying bookbinding so the store can offer book-repair services as well.

Though the new location is roughly the same size as the old one, the Dormont store seems larger, and the move has given the owners a chance to consolidate their inventory, making room to build on an already strong collection of science-fiction and other interests.

Rickert allows that the new ZIP code means Eljay’s has to become a destination — a place that will induce customers to brave the stoplights of West Liberty Avenue. That means more author readings, and events like the recent 24-hour readathon, a fundraiser for the Greater Pittsburgh Literary Council. Offering such events, she says, “is important if you want to be a bookstore, especially one that doesn’t have the foot traffic we had on Carson Street.”

But happily, the store’s more open floor plan makes it easier to do events like book-signings, and Rickert says the move has worked out well. In the South Side, she says, “We used to get a lot of visitors, but not always a lot of shoppers.” Sales are up since the move, and obviously, Eljay’s hasn’t fallen off the radar of City Paper readers.

Besides, it’s not as if Rickert finds the new environs entirely exotic: There’s still a bar next door, she points out. “Sometimes we get people coming from next door saying, ‘Can you settle a bet for us by looking something up?’”

EVEN IN ITS NEW DIGS, ELJAY’S HAS RETAINED ITS OFFBEAT VIBE, WITH ROOM FOR NICHE INTERESTS LIKE CRYPTOZOOLOGY.

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LITTLE’S SHOES ES

5850 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill 412-521-3530 or www.littlesshoes.com es.com

______________ Anyone who has ever talked to a grandmother knows all too well that customer service — especially in shoe stores — e. ain’t what it used to be.

Little’s Shoes, however, is the exception. This Squirrel Hill ection institution offers a wide selection of quality shoes, and some of the most attentive staff in town — but they won’t hound you when you’re just looking. ______________

2nd: Pavement, Lawrenceville 3rd: Gordon’s Shoes, Homestead

BEST LOCAL JEWELRY STORE

HENNE JEWELERS

5501 Walnut St., Shadyside 412-682-0226 or www.hennejewelers.com

______________ Henne Jewelers was founded in 1887 and has remained a family business ever since, now in its fourth generation. The store features a wide selection of fine jewelry, from engagement and wedding rings to designer collections and watches. And there’s a range of prices here, too, thanks in no small part to Henne’s “$100 Special of the Month.” ______________ 2nd: Orr’s Jewelers, multiple locations 3rd: Culture Shop, South Side

BEST LOCAL FASHION BOUTIQUE

PAVEMENT

3629 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-621-6400 or www.pavementpittsburgh.com

BEST PLACE TO BUY VINTAGE CLOTHING

AVALON EXCHANGE AVA 5858 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill 585 (412(412-421-2911) and 680 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon (412-343-2360). www.avalonexchange.com

______________ Adding a piece of vintage clothing is a great way to ma make your look distinctive, and Av Avalon’s got you covered with qu quality pre-selected garments.

Da Danny Gurwin, assistant store m manager at the Squirrel Hill location, confirms separates — shirts, sweaters, blazers — from the ’50s, ’60s, ’80s and even the early ’90s are popular. (The ’70s, he says, are now “too costume-y.”) ______________ 2nd: Goodwill, multiple locations 3rd: Eons, Shadyside

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______________ Lawrenceville sweeps the fashion category this year, and Pavement is a big reason why. Founded in 2006, its to-die-for shoe collection helped the resurging area put its best foot forward. Accessories and clothing are also part of Pavement’s mix, with locals sharing rack space with national brands. An intimate boutique where the selection seems larger than the floorspace could possibly contain. ______________

______________ Everybody’s on a budget these days, so why not head to the store where you can scoop up gently used clothing, furniture, books, dishware and who-knows-what-else for truly bargain prices? Plus, it’s a higher calling to give this still-functional stuff a new forever home, and keep it out of the landfill. And return the favor by donating your unwanted goods! ______________

2nd: Pageboy Salon and Boutique, Lawrenceville 3rd: Panello Boutique, Lawrenceville

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MCN SALON

5932 Penn Circle, East Liberty 412-441-5151 or www.mcnsalon.com

______________ It’s hard not to feel a little bit fancy when you exit the elevator directly into MCN’s penthouse-style space.

But it’s not the great view, or the hip, comfortable decor that keeps people coming back. “We pay attention to all the details of customer service,” explains co-owner Lisa McNamara. “It’s not just about the haircut; it’s about the experience.” ______________ 2nd: Studio Raw, Ross Township 3rd: Capristo, Shadyside

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______________ Set in a 120-year-old Victorian home, the day spa offers hot stone, Swedish, deep tissue and aromatherapy massages, as well as couples and pregnancy massages.

Facials, hand and foot grooming, and salon services are also offered.

And no need to stress about parking — relief begins immediately as you enter its private lot. ______________ 2nd: Evolve Wellness Spa, Shadyside 3rd: Esspa Kozmetika, Aspinwall

BEST HEALTH CLUB

URBAN ACTIVE

19 Bakery Square Blvd., Larimer 412-204-0055 or www.urbanactive.com

______________ This expansive, two-story gym houses everything from a pool and racquetball/basketball courts

to a ladies-only room and “cardio cinema,” where you can sweat in the dark while taking in a movie.

Members have access to spacious locker rooms (with a sauna!), free parking and classes, plus childcare.

For a few extra bucks, you can get a snack at the smoothie bar. ______________ 2nd: LA Fitness, multiple locations 3rd (tie): Club One Fitness, multiple locations / X Shadyside, Shadyside

BEST YOGA STUDIO

SOUTH HILLS POWER YOGA

3045 West Liberty Ave., Dormont 412-207-9535 or www.southhillspoweryoga.com

______________ South Hills Power Yoga’s experienced and certified staff offers classes for every ability and interest, from heated and non-heated power Vinyasa yoga, gentle yoga, restorative yoga, pre-natal yoga and classes for kids and teens. Plus, monthly, SHPY holds a 90-minute, heated music-themed class. Sign up for an extended pass or attend a pay-what-you-can class. ______________ 2nd (tie): Amazing Yoga, multiple locations / Yoga Hive, Garfield

BEST PLACE TO BUY HEALTH FOOD

WHOLE FOODS

5880 Centre Ave., East Liberty (412-441-7960) and 10576 Perry Highway, Wexford (724-940-6100). www.wholefoodsmarket.com

______________ Healthful food starts with good ingredients, with an emphasis on fresh, local and sustainably produced.

Whole Foods is an easy stop for such good-for-you basics as squash and apples from nearby; hemp oil; freerange Icelandic lamb; goat’s milk; and an aisle’s worth of bulk nuts, dried fruits, seeds and grains. You can also buy a cookie; we won’t tell. ______________ 2nd: East End Food Co-Op, Point Breeze 3rd: Trader Joe’s, East Liberty and Mount Lebanon

BEST SKATE SHOP

ONE UP SKATE SHOP

1409 E. Carson St., South Side 412-432-7007 or www.oneuppgh.com

______________ Greg Pasquarella’s store is as much about community as it about gear.

BEST OF GOODS+SERVICES Sure, you can buy boards, shoes, clothes and other necessities for the skating lifestyle at this East Carson shop. But One Up also sponsors a dozen local skaters on the amateur skating circuit. The shop marks itss r.

10th anniversary in the city this year. ______________ 2nd: Head Board Shop, South Side 3rd: Plank Eye Board Shop, Bellevue

BEST BICYCLE SHOP

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5003 Penn Ave., Garfield 412-361-0888

______________ An institution in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike scene, Kraynickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bike Shop has everything a broken ride could ever need â&#x20AC;&#x201D; probably hanging on a wall or stored in a drawer somewhere.

Kraynickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is as much about creating a community as it is learning to fix your own bike with the help of owner Jerry Kraynick or one of his mechanics. ______________ 2nd: Trek of Pittsburgh, multiple locations 3rd: Thick Bikes, South Side

BEST SMOKE SHOP

BLOOM CIGAR COMPANY 54 S. 12th St., South Side 412-431-4277

______________ Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a cigar aficionado or looking to buy a gift for one, consider this South Side purveyor of fine cigars as your first stop.

Owner Marc Adams, who has operated the business since 1955, is as knowledgeable as they come and is the perfect tour guide through the storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gigantic walk-in humidor. ______________ 2nd: Allegheny Smoke Works, Blawnox 3rd: S&S Tobacco Works, South Side and Brentwood

BEST TATTOO SHOP

TATTOO NOIR

4514 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield 412-681-6881 or www.tattoonoir.com

______________ What do people like about Tattoo Noir? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of tattoo shops have this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tat broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attitude,â&#x20AC;? says tattoo artist Josh Suchoza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that.â&#x20AC;? Expect to get inked by friendly, talented people, all of whom have backgrounds

in fine art. Plus, the shop itself has a welcoming lodge feel which should make even the most needle-shy feel at home. ______________ 2 (tie): Jesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Court (multiple 2nd locations) / Human Production Gallery (Bethel Park)

BEST BODY-PIERCING SHOP

SOUTH SIDE TATTOO

2208 E. Carson St., South Side 412-381-5401 or www.southsidetattooshop.com

______________ A perennial finisher in both our body-piercing and tattoo categories, b S South Side Tattoo has been around for over a decade, offering friendly service for whatever your needs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from a simple ear-piercing to putting some hardware, er, down there.

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ARSENAL BOWLING LANES 212 44th St., Lawrenceville 412-683-5992 or www.arsenalbowl.com

______________ When hipsters took up bowling, they flocked to alleys like this old-school walk-up, complete with full bar.

Now (as even The New York Times has noted), Arsenalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got weekly attractions like Rock and Bowl (live bands on the lanes) and a DJ-andkaraoke night. Sunday afternoons, bowling shoes are just 50 cents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and so are hot dogs and sodas. ______________ 2nd: Dormont Lanes, Dormont 3rd: Forward Lanes, Squirrel Hill

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BEST OF GOODS+SERVICES BEST PLACE TO TAKE THE KIDS FOR AN AFTERNOON

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM 1 Wild Place, Highland Park 412-665-3640 or www.pittsburghzoo.org

______________ Sure, it’s a great place for the young’uns, but moms and dads (and older siblings) will have just as much fun seeking out the 400-some species that call the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium home. Check out Kids Kingdom, which — with a petting zoo, reptile house, playground, and more — is ranked one of the country’s best children’s zoos. ______________ 2nd: Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side 3rd: Carnegie Science Center, North Side

BEST ONE-OF-A-KIND GIFT STORE

WILDCARD

4209 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-224-2651 or www.wildcardpgh.com

______________ Local crafters feature heavily at Wildcard, where you can find everything unique, cutesy and Pittsburgh-y. From baby onesies with little pierogies on them to jewelry and silk-screened prints for your walls, it’s all handmade or small-run, and it’s all adorable. Plus, for those of us who are challenged in the gift-wrapping discipline, they’ll take care of that part for free. ______________

2nd: Ten Thousand Villages, Squirrel Hill 3rd (tie): Kards Unlimited (Shadyside) / Divertido (Lawrenceville)

BEST PLACE TO ADOPT A PET

ANIMAL FRIENDS 562 Camp Horne Road, Avonworth 412-847-7000 or www.thinkingoutsidethecage.org

______________ In 2006, this no-kill animal shelter, which began as a small group of concerned citizens in 1943, opened the state-of-the-art Caryl Gates Gluck Resource Center. It now provides the region with a shelter for homeless pets, as well as a veterinary clinic, resource library, classroom space and pet-therapy suites. It also offers low-cost spay and neuter programs. ______________ 2nd: Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, North Side 3rd: Animal Rescue League, Larimer CONTINUES ON PG. 13

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{PHOTO BY RENEE ROSENSTEEL}

Josh Lane fixes his own bike at Kraynick’s Bike Shop.

BEST BIKE SHOP

KRAYNICK’S BIKE SHOP 5003 Penn Ave., Garfield 412-361-0888 ______________

{BY LAUREN DALEY} TWO SIGNS bookend the front and back of Kraynick’s Bike Shop, in Garfield.

Hanging over the front counter is a laminated quote about the power of a positive attitude — something owner Jerry Kraynick calls “required reading.” In the back workroom, meanwhile, a cardboard sign declares, “This facility depends on you.” Underneath is a list of instructions: Clean up after yourself, put the tools away, and “have a great time.”

So it is at Kraynick’s, a sort of interactive bike shop where Kraynick will fix your bike or teach you to fix it yourself for free. It’s become an institution in the city’s bike scene, the kind of place where if you spend enough time, you’ll likely walk out with something more than a fixed-up ride.

“You’ll see college kids, a homeless

person and an M.D.,” Kraynick says. “The only reason they’re back there at the same time is the bicycle. It works very well that they’re all interacting together.”

Kraynick learned bike repair from his father, and bought the Garfield building 36 years ago. He has his own work station in the middle of the store, which is cluttered with wheels and rims, tubes and tires, and what Kraynick estimates are a “few thousand” drawers containing derailleur bolts and screws and miscellaneous parts.

Patrons often just wheel their bike through the front door, nodding to Kraynick on their way to the back room, where they have access to bike stands and tools. Volunteer mechanics pop in and out, and customers have access to the parts, paying Kraynick for what they use. “It’s an honor system,” Kraynick says.

“Your riding is enhanced because if something goes wrong, you know you can handle it,” he adds. And the shop “is self-perpetuating. I try to get people to help each other so I can come in and turn the lights on.”

“People offer us money and we don’t take it,” says longtime volunteer John Napolitano. “We say, ‘Take what we’ve shown you and show it the next person.’

It’s a contradictory business model.”

Because Kraynick owns the building himself and is its sole employee, the overhead is low — which is why he believes the part-business/part-communitybike-school model works. He makes the money from parts, which he sells used and new.

When he needs services, Kraynick tries bartering as a means of keeping costs down and ensuring the store remains accessible to everyone. Napolitano, for example, fixed the building’s roof — and Kraynick even bartered for anesthesia when he needed hernia surgery. Around Christmas, he and his volunteers repair and rebuild used bikes to donate for kids.

Kraynick isn’t sure how long he’ll stay at the helm of his shop, but he’s not ready to leave just yet.

“I say, ‘One day I want to retire,’” he says. “‘But I can’t do it until everyone knows how to change a flat.’”

“YOUR RIDING IS ENHANCED BECAUSE IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG, YOU KNOW YOU CAN HANDLE IT.”

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BEST OF GOODS+SERVICES BEST LOCAL STORE TO BUY FURNITURE

LEVIN FURNITURE RE Multiple locations, 800-262-5200 or www.levinfurniture.com

______________ What Sam Levin started in Mount Pleasant as a furniture and hardware store in 1920 has grown into iture one of the area’s largest furniture chains. There are eight stores in the Pittsburgh region and anotherr eight in Ohio. The showrooms are always es and brimming with different styles varieties of couches, recliners, end tables and mattresses. And it always seems like they’re having a sale, be it President’s Day, Veteran’s Day or your cat Fluffy’s birthday. ______________ 2nd: IKEA, Robinson Township 3rd: Perlora, South Side and Strip District

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“I’d go down to Howlers Coyote Cafe in Bloomfield and put on the best 99-cent Variety Show ever! And when my band started playing, I would say to them, ‘Gentlemen, playing with you has been the greatest pleasure of my life.’”

— WEIRD PAUL PETROSKEY, MUSICIAN

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Multiple locations. www.pnc.com

______________ Let’s face it: Shoving cash under your mattress isn’t always the most practical option.

But to which bank should yo ou e you entrust your money? Set aside all tthe financial gobbledygook (and even PNC’s bragging rights f among other things, for, buil building more “green” buildings th than any other company) and co consider this crucial perk: PNC B Bank’s ATMs dispense $1 bills. ______________

2nd: Dollar Bank, multiple locations 3rd: First Commonwealth, multiple locations

BEST PLACE FOR A WEDDING RECEPTION

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY

1 Schenley Park, Oakland 412-622-6914 or phipps.conservatory.org

______________ Why bring flowers to your wedding when you can bring your wedding to the flowers? Phipps, the venerable Victorian greenhouse, is set up for both ceremonies (complete with bridal dressing room) and receptions.

(Note the catering kitchen.) With outdoor spaces and indoor sites including the Tropical Forest Conservatory, you just might imagine honeymooning here, too. ______________ 2nd: Carnegie Museums, multiple locations 3rd: Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Highland Park

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______________ What started as a small Chevy dealership in Ambridge in the 1950s has grown into one of the area’s largest dealers of new and used vehicles. The company’s flagship sits on Perry Highway in Wexford, but Baierl has several dealerships throughout the North Hills selling Acura, Cadillac, Chevy, Fiat, Honda, Kia, Mitsubishi, Scion, Subaru, Toyota and Isuzu. Add a top-notch service-and-parts department, and the company stands ready to serve its customers. ______________

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BEST OF CULTURE+NIGHTLIFE BEST MUSEUM IN PITTSBURGH

THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM 117 Sandusky St., North Side 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

______________ Andy Warhol was famously not a huge fan of his hometown, but he probably would have liked hanging out at the Warhol. In addition to the museum’s consistently thought-provoking exhibits — its retrospective of Debora Kass opens Oct. 27 — the Warhol hosts cult film screenings, innovative musicians and other mind-expanding events, making it a place to be seen … and, more importantly, to see. ______________ 2nd: Mattress Factory, North Side 3rd: Carnegie museums, Oakland

BEST GALLERY FOR LOCAL ARTISTS

SPACE

812 Liberty Ave., Downtown 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org

______________ Intended to be a venue for any mix of local art or performances, the “gallery” tag may be too limiting for SPACE, which opened in 2004 in the spot of a former pornography store.

Featuring five shows a year under its 17-foot high ceilings and within a strict budget, SPACE is guest curated and known for launching Pittsburgh artists. ______________ 2nd: ModernFormations, Garfield 3rd: Fe Gallery, Lawrenceville

BEST LOCAL THEATER COMPANY

CITY THEATRE

1300 Bingham St., South Side 412-431-CITY or www.citytheatrecompany.org

______________ The charm and importance of this small-but-mighty company isn’t that it merely presents top-notch stage performances, but that it brings new, compelling works from some of this country’s great contemporary playwrights. Add to that its Young Playwrights educational program, and City Theatre’s impact on the local cultural scene is a great one. ______________ 2nd: Quantum Theatre, East Liberty 3rd: Pittsburgh CLO, Downtown CONTINUES ON PG. 17

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{PHOTO BY CAROLINE MOORE}

Band members Ben Jaber, Danny Rectenwald, Dan Stocker, Jon Pitcher and Rachel Karras watch as tattoo artist Justun Palencsar works on singer Jimmy Bastard (seated).

BEST POP/ROCK BAND THAT’S NOT THE CLARKS

BASTARD BEARDED IRISHMEN ______________ {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

JUST FOUR years ago, you wouldn’t have needed a ticket to see the Bastard Bearded Irishmen perform their kicked-up variation of traditional Irish music. All you needed was a grocery list.

“We have played in a Giant Eagle produce section,” says Jimmy Bastard (a.k.a.

Jim Smerecky), lead singer of the group.

“We got a call from an entertainment company asking us if we’d be interested in doing it, and we were.”

As you might expect, the band performs traditional Irish tunes like “Whiskey in a Jar” and “Molly Malone,” but it also plays original songs like “Drinkem, Drankem, Drunkem” and “Mutiny.” And while its music has a distinctive Irish flavor, it’s seasoned with a heavier, punk approach.

It’s a sound the band has been honing patiently for years.

“We’ve played everywhere — from nursing homes to opening for national acts,” says Bastard. “We’ve just been out there laying the groundwork.”

City Paper readers aren’t the only ones to notice that hard work. Over the past 18 months, the Irishmen have been getting more high-profile gigs, opening for bands like the Dropkick Murphys, while being lauded by local media and receiving quite a bit of exposure on local radio, especially from WDVE. Outside of St. Patrick’s Day or the occasional Irish festival, you wouldn’t think that a band playing Irish music would attract such a large following.

“I never signed an autograph before, but have signed a lot the past two years,” Bastard says. “People have been so supportive; they’re over buying merchandise one song into the show.”

It’s an optimistic trend for a band that started as an effort to honor a fallen friend.

Bastard and bassist Ben Jaber had previously been in another band together, a punk-rock outfit that “had a nice fol-

lowing,” Bastard recalls. But its guitarist, George Evans, was killed in a car accident in 2004. Afterwards, his friends got together to play loud Irish music in his honor — and by 2008, the group had begun establishing an identity in its own right.

“Everyone in this band was really good friends with George, they played with him in other bands,” Bastard says. “We made up a stupidsounding name, sang some great songs and at the end of each show, we’d say, ‘Let’s play another show,’ and we just kept going from there.”

By the third show, Bastard wrote an original tune and the band began developing its own unique sound. “We’re a rock band,” Bastard says. “We take what I write, add some banjo and mandolin to it and give it that Irish flavor.”

Besides Jaber and Bastard, who also plays the banjo, the band includes Danny Rectenwald on mandolin, Rachel Karras on viola, Jon Pitcher on guitar and Dan Stocker on drums.

“Folks like what we do,” says Bastard.

“I write what I know — whiskey, beer and women — and we go out and have some fun with it.”

“WE’VE PLAYED EVERYWHERE — FROM NURSING HOMES TO OPENING FOR NATIONAL ACTS.”

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“It depends on the time of year, but I think I’d try to get my wife and daughters down to the Allegheny River for a picnic. My wife, Betsy, makes these Mediterranean tuna sandwiches — meaning the recipe is Mediterranean, not the fish — that are to die for. This time, that could be literal. It would be nice if they had the Point State Park fountain back up and running by then, but either way we’d have good seats if either a fireball came down or God wanted to shoot one or all of us up to him.”

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2nd: Mr. Small’s Theatre, Millvale 3rd: Altar Bar, Strip District

BEST NEW BAR

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4305 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-683-1100 or www.industrypgh.com

______________ With details like exposed brick walls and filament light bulbs, this Larryville watering hole takes its patrons back to this city’s industrial past. But the ambiance is just part of the draw.

There are 40 beers on tap, including several craft brews; 60 whiskeys behind the bar; and a specialty cocktail list with offerings — like the Smokestack — that you won’t find anywhere else in the city. ______________ 2nd: Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, Warrendale 3rd: Bar Marco, Strip District

BEST LGBT BAR

5801 VIDEO LOUNGE & CAFÉ 5801 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside 412-661-5600 or www.5801videolounge.com

______________ Three separate bars and an outdoor deck … weekly bingo with drag queen Marsha “Monster” Mellow … drink and appetizer specials during Steelers games … This longtime LGBT establishment — a perennial readers’ favorite — has so much to offer that it could actually turn people gay. But even if not, the staff is friendly and the vibe welcoming, and thus inevitably crowded on weekends. ______________ 2nd: Cattivo, Lawrenceville 3rd: Blue Moon, Lawrenceville

BEST COLLEGE BAR

HEMINGWAY’S CAFÉ 3911 Forbes Ave., Oakland 412-621-4100 or www.hemingways-cafe.com

______________ Oakland is home to many an esteemed institution: the University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Carnegie Mellon. And students of those institutions need to eat and drink. Cheaply. That’s where Hemingway’s Café comes in: good, cheap beer and drink specials; a

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massive list of draft beer; tasty and affordable pub grub that’s half-off late nights; and weekly karaoke. ______________ 2nd (tie): Garage Door Saloon (Oakland) / Peter’s Pub (Oakland)

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______________ Grab the mike, belt out a boozy version of “Burning Down the House,” and feel the love from the amped-up crowd. At Nico’s, talent is secondary to enthusiasm. You could pick an introspective indie tune, but everybody at the bar wishes you’d go with “Hang On, Sloopy” or some deliciously craptastic Toto song.

They want to sing, too. ______________ 2nd: Tennyson Lodge, Bethel Park 3rd (tie): Lava Lounge (South Side) / Smiling Moose (South Side)

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“I’d start my day with some hotcakes from Pamela’s, followed by a final trip to the Warhol and Sandcastle with tuna balsamic sandwiches from Sunseri’s for lunch. Later, I’d head out Route 30 with some of my closest friends and family and we’d stop at Vincent’s and enjoy one final Vinny Pie, as surely the end of times would encourage them to reopen … man, I hope that place reopens.”

— RON PLACONE, COMEDIAN

BEST BAR FOR SMOKERS

DEE’S CAFÉ

1314 E. Carson St., South Side 412-431-1314 or www.deescafe.com

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BEST OF CULTURE+NIGHTLIFE a companionably gruff rock ’n’ roll vibe. The Surgeon General might not like the tobacco haze — but hell, at Dee’s they’d probably buy her a drink, too. ______________ 2nd: Squirrel Hill Café, Squirrel Hill 3rd: Thunderbird Café & Lounge, Lawrenceville

BEST BAR TO NETWORK

OLIVE OR TWIST

140 Sixth St., Downtown 412-255-0524 or www.olive-twist.com

______________ Any place featuring specialty martinis — 30-plus of them, from Tiramisu to Jameson’s Ginger — might well lure networkers. Add a location at Downtown’s business and cultural epicenter; a sophisticated but welcoming atmosphere, complete with second-floor lounge; and a full menu with treats like spicy calamari, and you’d best slip a couple extra business cards in your wallet before visiting. ______________ 2nd: Eclipse Lounge, Lawrenceville 3rd: Meat and Potatoes, Downtown

BEST HAPPY HOUR

MAD MEX

Multiple locations, www.madmex.com

______________ Actually, that’s “Happy Hora,” in the Spanglish spoken at this local chain’s seven locations. But the deals here — half-off drafts, half-off regular wings, and $7 for a 22-ounce margarita — sound good in any language. Between 4:30 and 6:30 each afternoon, you’re essentially getting a free second round of expertly curated microbrews like Brooklyn, Victory, East End and Dogfish Head. ¡Viva! ______________ 2nd: Tamari, Lawrenceville 3rd: Kaya, Strip District

BEST BAR TO PEOPLE WATCH

BRILLOBOX

4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

______________ Bearded men. Girls in skinny jeans.

Lots of dark sunglasses. Brillobox is hipster central for the city of Pittsburgh. A draw, as well, for musicians and artists, Brillobox’s second-floor space allows for an eclectic mix of performances. The bar downstairs, in the meantime, CONTINUES ON PG. 23

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SPACE opened in 2004 in the heart of the Cultural District.

BEST GALLERY FOR LOCAL ARTISTS

SPACE

812 Liberty Ave., Downtown 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org ______________

{BY AMYJO BROWN} BEFORE IT was SPACE, Downtown’s go-

to venue for local artists to display or perform their work, the building at 812 Liberty Ave. catered to a somewhat different kind of connoisseur.

“Sometimes people still walk into the gallery asking, ‘What happened?

Where’s the porn?’” says Murray Horne, its curator.

The porn shop closed after the building was purchased by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The first-floor space, boasting 17-feet high ceilings, was renovated and opened as a gallery in 2004. But while the site features a mix of local art and performance each year, the “gallery” tag may be too limiting for the type of work exhibited here.

Previous shows have featured: artists making work during the opening reception itself; visual art complemented by

dance performances and poetry readings; and collaborations with other galleries both in town and from as far away as Valencia, Spain.

“We place as few restrictions as possible on the nature of the show and the artwork,” Horne says.

Indeed, “the programming is quite va r i e d , ” s ay s S u s a n n e Slavick, who guest-curated a show called Out of the Rubble early this year.

“It can be [anything from] really young emerging artists to slickly packaged traveling shows that are thematically based,” says Slavick, a Carnegie Mellon professor. “You never really know what you’re going to see there.”

Carolina Loyola-Garcia, who curated the gallery’s Overlapping Memories exhibit this year, says SPACE is particularly conducive to experimental work and explorations in new media. She says that’s partly because the gallery’s primary aim is not to sell the pieces, and partly because the space itself is so flexible.

“It has this sort of raw, transformational, industrial feeling,” she says. “The

approach to the work they will show is very different.”

It is also great exposure for the artists, Loyola-Garcia says. Located at street level in the heart of the Cultural District, SPACE draws about 20,000 people each year. And while at many galleries it’s hard to draw audiences in after opening nights, she explains, with SPACE, “it’s right there on the street. And there are windows around it, so everyone walking by can see inside. I think it makes the work more available to the community.”

It is also more available to local artists. SPACE curates five shows annually, each lasting about two months. Booking its location doesn’t require a year-and-ahalf notice, the curators say. Shows also benefit from the lack of physical barriers in the one-room gallery. “You can stand in one place and see a large body of work,” Horne says.

And although each show operates on a strict $5,000 budget, Horne says the limitation becomes part of what makes SPACE’s shows so unique.

“I just love the work that comes from SPACE,” he says.

“WE PLACE AS FEW RESTRICTIONS AS POSSIBLE ON THE NATURE OF THE SHOW AND THE ARTWORK.”

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coming across as, well, precious. But there’s nothing like an accordion to cut through pretentiousness. And this four-piece puts its emphasis on high-octane, danceable fun.

And that, no doubt, is why it’s managed to establish its own tradition — winning City Paper readers polls — after forming only three years ago. ______________ 2nd: Cathasaigh 3rd: Bear Cub

393 North Shore Drive, North Side 412-224-6287 or www.jeromebettisgrille36.com

______________ How could a place partly owned by, and named for, a local football legend not win our Best Sports Bar category?

The Bettis Grille is located a short walk from Heinz Field and a shorter walk from PNC Park, and offers a comprehensive menu that stretches from a deep-fried cheeseburger to edamame. ______________ 2nd: Buffalo Blues, Shadyside 3rd: Silky’s, multiple locations

BEST JAZZ/BLUES BAND OR PERFORMER

OLGA WATKINS ______________ A repeat winner, Olga Watkins rarely slows down; the blues singer is also a chef and a part-time food writer. Her band’s real claim to fame — because it knows how to work a Pittsburgh audience — is “Drink Up Yinz Bitches,” an annually updated Steelers theme. But beyond that, Watkins is a prima performer who surrounds herself with great musicians. ______________ 2nd: Phat Man Dee 3rd: Sean Jones

BEST HIP-HOP PERFORMER

WIZ______________ KHALIFA It’s no surprise Wiz tops the hip-hop category this year; by far the most successful rapper to come out of the 412, he put down roots in the area earlier this year, buying a fancy manse in Washington County and proposing to his (now-expecting) girlfriend Amber Rose. His next album, O.N.I.F.C., is slated for release in December. ______________

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BASTARD BEARDED IRISHMEN ______________

Outside of St. Patrick’s Day or the occasional Irish Festival, you wouldn’t think that a band playing Irish music would attract such a large following.

But the Bastard Bearded Irishmen have become a ’Burgh favorite over the past 18 months. They play a combination of traditional Irish tunes and originals, mixing Irish flavor with a heavier, rock/punk sound that reflects its members’ musical backgrounds. ______________ 2nd: Donora 3rd: Meeting of Important People

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It would be Thanksgiving dinner every night! We’d probably play Johnny Cash.

All firefighters welcome.”

— CARA SAPIDA, REPORTER, WPXI-TV

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It’s not hard to understand the appeal of Fist Fight in the Parking Lot. The four-piece, whose radio-ready rock falls somewhere between Pantera and Queens of the Stone Age, brings a heavy dose of fun to heavy music.

Certified badass Abby Krizner fronts the band with a swaggering bravado that would make Phil Anselmo smile. ______________

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5336 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-252-2595 or www.curepittsburgh.com

______________ Chef Justin Severino was already known for his charcuterie expertise, and his new neighborhood-based venture highlights his skill with cured meats, from lardo to duck speck.

But Cure is much more: “local urban Mediterranean cuisine,” sourced locally from humane growers, with the potently flavorful likes of smoked trout, squab and non-meat dishes complementing nose-to-tail cuts from the pig that’s the restaurant’s icon. ______________ 2nd: Union Pig & Chicken, East Liberty 3rd: Industry Public House, Lawrenceville

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SALT OF THE EARTH

5523 Penn Ave., Garfield 412-441-7258 or www.saltpgh.com

______________ Naturally, the menu offers familiar foodstuffs, but much will likely be new to you — from less-common ingredients (ground cherry, sofrito) and pairings (chicken livers and Granny Smith apples) to intriguing preparations, such as chawanmushi, a Japanese-style steamed egg custard.

And the inventiveness doesn’t stop at the food menu: New this season is a beet (and gin) cocktail. ______________ 2nd: Tamari, Lawrenceville and Cranberry 3rd: Ibiza, South Side

BEST CHEF

KEVIN SOUSA Multiple locations

______________ Sousa has put his distinctive culinary stamp on Pittsburgh. He started with the adventurous, modernist venue Salt of the Earth, in Garfield, in 2010.

Then, down the road in East Liberty, he tackled roadside cuisine, tweaking BBQ (Union Pig & Chicken) and hot dogs (Station Street).

Always, Sousa strives to make his cuisine locally sourced, surprising and worth a second visit. ______________ 2nd: Keith Fuller, Root 174 (Regent Square) 3rd: (tie): Rick Rivero, Cala Lily Café (Gibsonia) / Justin Severino, Cure (Lawrenceville) CONTINUES ON PG. 27

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Erika Joyner and Maggie Meskey mix it up at Salt of the Earth.

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SALT OF THE EARTH

5523 Penn Ave., Garfield 412-441-7528 or www.saltpgh.com ______________

{BY AL HOFF} BARTENDER Jeremy Bustamante is excited

about the new cocktail he’s placing on Salt of the Earth’s menu. It combines gin, fresh beet juice, fresh lemon juice, a couple drops of absinthe and rosemary simple syrup, made from herbs harvested in his own garden; when mixed, the cocktail is a breathtaking shade of fuchsia.

The drink represents the ethos of Salt’s cocktail list: fresh components; housemade mix-ins; locally sourced ingredients; beautiful presentation; and, frequently, an unlikely ingredient that customers don’t yet know they love in a cocktail.

Bustamante has been behind the bar at Salt for a year, joining Maggie Meskey and Erika Joyner, who have been crafting cocktails there since Kevin Sousa opened the Garfield restaurant two years ago.

(Longtime Salt bartender Summer Voelker recently moved over to Sousa’s newest venture, the Harvard and Highland cocktail bar, in East Liberty.)

The three work collaboratively on new cocktails, bouncing ideas off the restaurant’s chefs and staffers. “By the time it gets to the customer, it’s perfect,” explains Joyner.

Influences for new drinks are varied.

Naturally, there’s the season: This fall, for example, has inspired drinks made with squash and apple butter. Food matters too, and not just for pairing drinks to Salt’s menu: Joyner says, “If I have a meal, I think, this could be a drink.” Another time, a surplus of fresh chamomile resulted in an infused vodka.

The venue itself is a fundamental part of the creative process. “This is a really rare opportunity for a bartender to have this much influence over the cocktail list, and to have complete creative control,” Joyner says.

The learning never stops. Joyner did a week’s worth of research on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail this summer, and enters cocktail competitions: “You see the best

bartenders from each city in America, executing the drink that won them a slot — and I’ve learned so much from watching that. There’s only so much you can get from a book.”

Technique matters as much as ingredients when crafting cocktails. Drinks are stirred or shaken, or strained twice. (It’s all about exposure to the ice and proper dilution.)

Customer response to the hand-crafted drinks has been gratifying, even when odd ingredients are involved. Bustamante cites one winter vodka-based cocktail that featured “red onion shrubs,” and “was very popular with people who got past [the oddness factor].” But he cautions that Salt’s drinks aren’t created simply for the novelty. “We’re not just putting things together for the sake of doing it. We want to create something delicious.”

When asked for her in-house favorites, Joyner cites a rye-mint “snow cone” and her own debut, “a winter cocktail called Krampus, after the evil Santa Claus, with blood orange, vodka, lemon, molasses, habañero and cocoa powder on top.”

Molasses … and habañero?!

“We’re more than happy to walk through every single component of any listed cocktail,” Joyner reassures. “There’s nothing to be scared of.”

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DISH OSTERIA AND BAR 128 S. 17th St., South Side 412-390-2012 or www.dishosteria.com

______________ Homemade pasta, a wellstocked wine list and expertly crafted cocktails combine with candlelight and intimate e seating to make a memorable first impression. This Italian gem hidden off Carson Street,, in the residential area of the South Side, specializes in the comfort foods of Sicily and the Mediterranean. Twelve years going, reservations are still recommended. ______________ 2nd: Harris Grill, Shadyside 3rd: Eleven, Strip District

BEST RESTAURANT TO TAKE OUT-OF-TOWNERS

PRIMANTI BROS. Multiple locations, www.primantibros.com

______________ Honestly, your out-of-town guests may not even give you a choice here.

Despite this local chain’s modest claim of being “almost famous,” your friends have probably seen the frieson-the-sandwich thing during the lead-in on Monday Night Football.

Depriving them of this local classic would be like ignoring the inclines and driving up to the top of Mount Washington. ______________ 2nd: Fat Heads, South Side 3rd: Monterey Bay Fish Grotto, Mount Washington and Monroeville

BEST BREAKFAST

PAMELA’S DINER

Multiple locations, www.pamelasdiner.com

______________ A Pittsburgh institution that has developed a cult-like following, Pamela’s features a hearty dinerfood menu. Among the options are the specialty crepe-style pancakes, which were famously requested by President Barack Obama at the White House after a taste during his 2008 campaign stop. Pamela’s accepts only cash, though, so come prepared. ______________ 2nd: DeLuca’s, Strip District 3rd (tie): Coca Cafe (Lawrenceville) / Dor-Stop Restaurant (Dormont)

BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH

GRAND CONCOURSE

100 W. Station Square Drive, South Side 412-261-1717 or www.muer. com/grand-concourse

_________________ Set in a stunning, restored railroad station, the Grand Concourse brunch options include a made-to-order omelet bar and a super kid-friendly table with choices of chicken tenders, French-toast sticks, mac-and-cheese, PB&J sandwiches and a dirt sundae. Those who lean toward the lunch part of brunch also have a wide selection of dishes. _________________ 2nd: Coca Café, Lawrenceville 3rd: Pamela’s Diner, multiple locations

IF THESE WERE THE END TIMES, AND WE WERE SURROUNDED

BY A LAKE OF FIRE ...

“I would make a video of the lake [of fire surrounding the city], send it to everyone I don’t know, so I wouldn’t have to feel a fucking thing. Then I’d eat a Primanti’s steak, burn some guitars, and drive my Camaro through the fire — or I would plant a Zen garden and rake myself into oblivion.”

—JAN BEATTY, POET

BEST BUSINESS LUNCH

THE CAPITAL GRILLE 301 Fifth Ave., Downtown 412-338-9100 or www.thecapitalgrille.com

______________ In the heart of Downtown, the Capital Grille is an upscale steakhouse which will surely delight the meatlover. But it caters to all palates, with seafood and salad options, and the cheesecake is legendary. The restaurant’s rich, wooden interior provides calming undertones perfect for a quiet date or business lunch. ______________ 2nd: Eleven, Strip District 3rd: The Carlton, Downtown CONTINUES ON PG. 28

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BEST BYOB DINING

PICCOLO FORNO

3801 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-622-0111 or www.piccolo-forno.com

______________ No need to troll a list of unfamiliar wines — just bring your own. On busy nights, when the waits sometimes run long, diners often decamp to nearby bars to kill time.

Thus, if you’re seated with a pleasant buzz already on, you can spend the $5 corking fee on a dessert, such as house-made tiramisu, instead. ______________ 2nd: Pusadee’s Garden, Lawrenceville 3rd: Arpino Trattoria, Scott Township

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Some of my happiest memories have been there. Of course, with family and friends.”

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BEST OUTDOOR DINING

PUSADEE’S GARDEN

5321 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-781-8724 or www.pusadeesgarden.com

______________ Pusadee’s fronts a gray (if increasingly lively) stretch of Butler Street, and backs up on an anonymous slab of postindustrial Lawrenceville.

But you’d scarcely know it while ensconced in the garden itself. Enjoy chef Busaba Tongdee’s kee mao or massaman curry while you sit tucked between the restaurant’s ivy-covered wall and a jungle-like grove accented with potted palms. ______________ 2nd: Double Wide Grill, South Side 3rd: Harris Grill, Shadyside

BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT

ELEVEN

1150 Smallman St., Strip District 412-201-5656 or www.elevenck.com

______________ Evoking a nightclub feel with the bar lighted from underneath and cozy booths around the main dining room tables, Eleven bills itself as a “contemporary kitchen.” Known as one of the original pace-setters for the city’s growing local food scene, Eleven is located near Downtown’s

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cultural district, making it a perfect pairing for a night out. ______________ 2nd: Dish Osteria and Bar, South Side 3rd (tie): LeMont (Mount Washington)/

Monterey Bay Fish Grotto

(Mount Washington and Monroeville)

BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT

INDIA GARDEN

328 Atwood St., Oakland 412-682-3000 or www.indiagarden.net

______________ With 20 years on Oakland’s restaurant row, India Garden knows its tandoori.

But you can’t go wrong with the rest of the menu, either, from samosas to chana masala. The lunch crowd likes the big buffet, and all week, dinners at India Garden are half-price from 5-6 p.m. Still hungry? Mondays through Saturdays, half-price repeats from 9-11 p.m. ______________ 2nd: People’s Indian Restaurant, Garfield 3rd: Tamarind, multiple locations

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT

NAKAMA JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR 1611 E. Carson St., South Side 412-381-6000 or www.eatatnakama.com

______________ Nakama has become a destination of its own on the South Side, attracting big crowds to its swank restaurant, which features smokeless hibachi tables. Table-side cooking from animated — and at times knifewielding — chefs is the draw, but so are the extensive sushi and cocktail menus. ______________ 2nd: Little Tokyo Japanese Restaurant, South Side and Mount Lebanon 3rd: Umi Japanese Restaurant, Shadyside

BEST THAI RESTAURANT

NICKY’S THAI KITCHEN

856 Western Ave., North Side 412-321-8424 or www.nickysthaikitchen.com

______________ Dinner at Nicky’s Thai Kitchen feels a bit like stopping by for a meal at a friend’s house — a friend who happens to make excellent Thai food. Located in a row house, the welcoming, intimate dining room

BEST OF FOOD+DRINK seats fewer than 40 people. If it’s warm enough, dine on the patioturned-exotic-garden, which is filled with plants native to Thailand. ______________

you might find yourself pronouncing “Target” with a soft “g” and silent “t” by the time you leave. ______________ 2nd: Brasserie 33, Shadyside 3rd: La Gourmandine, Lawrenceville

2nd: Thai Gourmet, Bloomfield 3rd: Pusadee’s Garden, Lawrenceville

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BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT

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SESAME INN CHINESE RESTAURANT Multiple locations, www.sesameinn.net

______________ With locations in Mount Lebanon, Station Square, North Hills and McMurray, Sesame Inn Chinese Restaurant offers an extensive menu of traditional Chinese cuisine as well as some Thai selections (and sushi at the North Hills location). The restaurant also features a robust cocktail list, Sunday brunch and take-out service. ______________ 2nd: China Palace, multiple locations 3rd: Wai Wai Chinese Cuisine, Bloomfield

BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT

PICCOLO FORNO

3801 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-622-0111 or www.piccolo-forno.com

______________ In the summer, enjoy a wood-fired pizza at an outdoor table, while watching Lawrenceville street life.

And nothing relieves winter’s chill quite like the hearty homemade pastas at this Tuscan-inspired restaurant. Offerings include fettuccini with boar, cavatelli and sausage, and for vegetarians, spinach ravioli or tagliatelli and porcine mushrooms, all served in a lively and intimate space. ______________

2nd: Arpino Trattori, Scott Township 3rd: Del’s Bar and Ristorante, Bloomfield

BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT

PARIS 66

6018 Penn Circle South, East Liberty 412-404-8166 or www.paris66bistro.com

______________ A perennial favorite in the French category since it opened in 2009, Paris 66 is a classic, casual-but-nice French café that nails the staples of the cuisine: crêpes, moules, duck confit.

It’s part of the rapidly-changing East Liberty-Shadyside border area, and

2705 S. Water St., South Side 412-224-2328 or www.hofbrauhauspittsburgh.com

______________ The secret to the success of Hofbräuhaus lies in the authentic German cuisine combined with the fantastic German-style beer brewed on site. Situated along the Mon near the SouthSide Works, Hofbräuhaus is modeled after the original, built in 1589 in Munich. And you’ll taste a bit of Bavaria in everything from the wurst platter to the potato pancakes. ______________ 2nd: Max’s Allegheny Tavern, North Side 3rd: Penn Brewery, Troy Hill

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2. Finally announce that I am running for mayor.

1. Hold press conference with Rich Fitzgerald — seems to be effective way of stopping bad things from happening.”

— BILL PEDUTO, CITY COUNCILOR

BEST MIDDLE-EASTERN RESTAURANT

ALADDIN’S EATERY Multiple locations, www.aladdinseatery.com

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BEST OF FOOD+DRINK variety. Need to feed a motley crew of vegetarians, carnivores, picky eaters and new taste-seekers? Aladdin’s is liable to make most everyone happy. ______________ 2nd: Kassab’s, South Side 3rd: Ali Baba, Oakland

BEST MEXICAN/LATIN AMERICAN RESTAURANT

MAD MEX

Multiple locations, www.madmex.com

______________ Though it’s less traditional and more California-Mexican — think “Thai curry burrito” — Mad Mex is a perennial favorite thanks to its savory flavors, filling portions and excellent beer selection. It’s also got funky décor and a generous “Happy Hora.” And don’t forget the house cocktails (margaritas are a specialty), the vegetarian options … and a Mexican chocolate brownie for dessert. ______________ 2nd: Emiliano’s, multiple locations 3rd (tie): Verde Mexican Kitchen & Cantina (Garfield) /

Franklin Inn Mexican Restaurant (Franklin Park)

BEST CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN RESTAURANT

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5523 Penn Ave., Garfield 412-441-7258 or www.saltpgh.com

______________ For some diners, perhaps the most disarming aspect of Salt isn’t the modernist techniques or the odd ingredients, but the minimal menu that eschews the trend toward overexplaining. “Salmon [with] mustard, egg, squash, potato” or “Tofu [with] cauliflower, pasta, celery root, apple, chestnut.” Ingredients may be substantial, re-imagined or a subtle grace note, but it’s always a delight finding out. ______________ 2nd: Eleven, Strip District 3rd: Spoon, East Liberty

BEST VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT

QUIET STORM

5430 Penn Ave., Friendship 412-661-9355 or www.qspgh.com

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In-house butchering: Justin Severino works on a pig.

BEST NEW RESTAURANT

CURE

5336 Butler St., Lawrenceville 412-252-2595 or www.curepittsburgh.com ______________

{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} “TODAY WE are getting a whole goat,” says

Justin Severino. He’s sitting at a table in Cure, the restaurant he opened on New Year’s Eve, as his staff busily prepares for a Friday dinner crowd. The goat exempli-

fies the approach that made this 48-seat Upper Lawrenceville establishment an instant favorite: Raised humanely on a Butler County farm, it was delivered fresh by Lawrenceville’s Wild Purveyors.

In accord with Severino’s hands-on philosophy, it will be butchered on site and portioned, nose to tail, into delicacies in a style Severino calls “local urban Mediterranean.”

Saturday, the menu will include “Tasting of Goat”: saddle, rack, rump, leg

and the spicy North African preparation called merguez sausage. The animal’s shank, neck and shoulder will find its way into the Moroccan stew known as tajine, served with a rose-scented couscous with apricot, pears and lemon.

Cure’s small menu changes at least a little every day, based on what’s in season at the two dozen local farms that supply most of its meat and produce. Two hundred pounds of heirloom tomatoes on hand in September? Cure is making savory tomato jam to warm up winter. A recent dessert, meanwhile, incorporated the native, mango-like wild fruit known as the pawpaw.

Severino is an area native who honed his trade during nine years at top-flight Northern California restaurants and as a hog butcher, developing a specialty in charcuterie. He returned home in 2007, later becoming executive chef at Downtown destination restaurant Elements.

He launched Cure to more fully pursue charcuterie and his devotion to local farms, sustainable farming and traditional food-preparation techniques.

“I want to deal with farmers that are passionate about what they’re growing,” he says. This is a guy, after all, who sometimes offers hog-butchering demos in Cure’s dining room.

The intimate corner storefront, paneled with salvaged barn wood, is adorned with porcine iconography. The theme continues with entrées like the Duroc pork tenderloin — a heritage breed, its meat garnished with sauerkraut, roasted apples and bacon, a beguiling juxtaposition of sweet and savory.

Cure’s signature is its salumi platters, artfully arranged samplings of cured meats including: fernet-branca salami; the bacon-like duck speck; ciccioli; and lardo, a creamy pig-fat concoction. But Cure is upping its vegetable game, and Severino says non-meat dishes can be created on request.

While Cure is among the newest anchors of Butler Street’s booming restaurant scene, changes are brewing. Just this month, the restaurant started serving on Sundays. Soon, Severino says, after Cure acquires a liquor license, he’ll install a small bar and begin serving carefully chosen beer, wine and craft cocktails.

Cure is already busy, even on weeknights. (The reason it can finally afford that liquor license.) But Severino says he’s keeping local. “It is really important to stay true to what you love to do,” he says. “I would just like to stay here and make it something better.”

“I WANT TO DEAL WITH FARMERS THAT ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE GROWING.”

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BEST OF FOOD+DRINK no-meat twists on favorites like gyros, alongside specialties like mac-and-cheese and the Tahini Bowl. But the Storm is perhaps most renowned for its Sunday brunch, including BYOB cocktail mixers. ______________ 2nd: The Zenith Vegetarian Cafe, South Side 3rd: Double Wide Grill, South Side ide

BEST SEAFOOD

MONTEREY BAY FISH GROTTO 1411 Grandview Ave., Mount Washington (412-481-4414) / 146 Mall Circle Drive, Monroeville (412-374-8530). www.montereybayfishgrotto.com

______________ Fresh fish is flown in daily for the two locations, and the Mount Washington spot is known for its stunning views of the city along with its fantastic seafood offerings. You can be as safe or adventurous as you want with your dining experience. Monterey brings it all home — from fantastic jumbo-lump crab cakes to multiple preparations of seafood from all over the world. ______________ 2nd: Mitchell’s Fish Market, The Waterfront and Mount Lebanon 3rd: Penn Avenue Fish Company, Downtown and Strip District

BEST STEAKHOUSE

HYDE PARK PRIME STEAKHOUSE 247 North Shore Drive, North Side 412-222-4014 or www.hydeparkrestaurants.com

______________ Nestled between PNC Park and Heinz Field, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse provides an upscale but modern respite from the nearby parking-lot revelry. Offerings include steak, chops and seafood options, each with a variety of preparations.

Going for happy hour? Grab one of the tasty appetizers and sidle up to the roaring fireplace. ______________ 2nd: Morton’s The Steakhouse, Downtown 3rd: The Capital Grille, Downtown

BEST SUSHI

TAMARI

3519 Butler St., Lawrenceville (412-325-3435) / 701 Warrendale Village Drive, Cranberry (724-933-3155). www.tamaripgh.com

______________ Sushi-lovers have always been willing to try something unusual. So it’s

no surprise that the sushi enthusiasts taking part in our readers’ poll have rallied behind the path-breaking ethos at Tamari. The menu is inspired by a fusion of Asian and Latin-American cuisines; the restaurant’s very name, according to the owners, means “to do everything with passion.” ______________

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2nd: Little Tokyo Japanese Restaurant, South Side and Mount Lebanon 3rd: Nakama Japanese Steakhouse St and Sushi Bar, South Side

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“I’d ride my bike thru Highland Park, then over Stanton Heights down through Lawrenceville, over 31st St. Bridge, around Washington’s Landing, down River Avenue.

Go to the Mattress Factory and meditate in the basement. Over Seventh Street Bridge, ride home Jail Trail, up through Panther Hollow, pick some raspberries in my secret spots there. End in Squirrel Hill where I live, and watch the off-leash dogs running free in Frick Park with an unauthorized bottle of wine. If I had time, I’d make a second bike trip through Bloomfield, Gold Way, Polish Hill (I know you can’t do all three in same trip without backtracking) to Downtown and kayak around the Point and up the Allegheny.”

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BEST PIZZA

MINEO’S

2128 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill (412-521-9864) / 713A Washington Road, Mount Lebanon (412-344-9467). www.mineospizza.com

______________ Mineo’s pizza is undoubtedly very good, but what its selection this year also says is: Pittsburghers like cheese.

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BEST OF FOOD+DRINK Lots of thick, gooey cheese. If you get a pepperoni pie here, they’ll put the pepperoni under the cheese — because at Mineo’s, cheese is boss. ______________ 2nd: Pizza Sola, multiple locations 3rd: Fiori’s Pizzaria, Beechview

BEST WINGS

QUAKER STEAK & LUBE Multiple locations, www.quakersteakandlube.com

______________ This filling-station-themed chain, founded in Sharon, Pa., has a full menu and bar. But it’s famed for its wings and two dozen sauces, from mild ranch to Parmesan Pepper, Dusted Mango Habanero and varieties so caliente they make you sign a release. “Supercharged” is merely “Crazily Hot,” while Triple Atomic promises “Guts, Glory, Pain!”

If heat’s your sport, they’ve got you covered. ______________ 2nd: Fat Heads, South Side 3rd: Sidelines Bar & Grill, Millvale and Sewickley

BEST BURGER

BURGATORY

932 Freeport Road, Waterworks Mall (412-781-1456) / 300 McHolme Drive, Robinson (412-809-9400). www.burgatorybar.com

______________ It was inevitable that such roadside favorites as burgers and shakes got fancified. But nd with patties made from a blend ort of sirloin, chuck, brisket and short d rib; exotic toppings like aged abi Gruyere cheese, avocado wasabi akes and poblano peppers; and shakes approximating smores and PB&J sandwiches, who’s complaining?

Burgatory also has an outpost at the Consol Energy Center. ______________ 2nd: BRGR, East Liberty and Cranberry 3rd: Tessaro’s, Bloomfield

BEST PIEROGIES

PIEROGIES PLUS 342 Island Ave., McKees Rocks 412-331-2224 or www.pierogiesplus.com

______________ “If you want more authentic pierogies,” claims Pierogies Plus, “you’ll have to fly to Warsaw or

Krakow.” The emporium sells pierogies from traditional potato-andchee to specialties like sauerkrautcheese and and-mushrooms, made daily by a mostly Eastern European-born s staff working under Polish-born founder Helen Mannarino. But even those far from McKees Rocks needn’t fly to Poland: Pierogies Plus ships its products nationally. ______________ 2nd: Bloomfield Bridge Tavern, 2n Bloomfield 3rd: Church Brew Works, Lawrenceville

BEST DESSERTS

GULLIFTY’S

1922 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill 412-521-8222 or www.gulliftys.com

______________ With two dozen made-from-scratch in-house dessert options, the 30-yearold Gullifty’s is a neighbor we’re glad to know. How, after all, can you go wrong with the “ten-pound apple pie,” the “Oreo cheesecake,” or the banana cream pie? Can’t dine in?

Orders are also taken for full cakes and pies. ______________ 2nd: Dozen Bake Shop, Lawrenceville and Oakland 3rd: Oakmont Bakery, Oakmont

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“I would go to South Side and sit on as many front stoops as time allowed. I would gab with old ladies.

We would go together up to Pius Street and find a good lookout for all the crazy fireworks somebody Downtown would inevitably be shooting off. ‘Oooh!’ we will shout. ‘I like that one! And that one.

And that one.’ Oh, and we will be drinking Iron (duh).”

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BEST FROZEN TREATS

RAZZY FRESH Multiple locations, www.razzyfresh.com

______________ Why leave your crucial fro-yo customization up to someone else?

Razzy Fresh’s self-serve, pay-by-the-

ounce setup puts you in charge. Fill a cup with one, or several of their rotating flavors (want to mix rich Red Velvet Cake yogurt with tart Taro?

Hey, why not?) Then pile on the cheesecake bites, and fruity pebbles (or whatever else you want), or go topping free. ______________ 2nd (tie): Oh Yeah! (Shadyside) / Dave & Andy’s (Oakland)

BEST BAKERY

PRANTL’S

5525 Walnut St., Shadyside (412-621-2092) / 438 Market St., Downtown (412-471-6861). www.prantlsbakery.com

______________ Burnt-almond torte. Burnt-almond torte. Burnt-almond torte. Sure, this four-decade-old Pittsburgh institution — a perennial “best of” favorite — has a hundred other baked treats too, each with its own admirers. But if you’re going to Paris, you aren’t going to skip the Eiffel Tower, right?

So … burnt-almond torte. Burntalmond torte. Burnt-almond torte. ______________ 2nd: Oakmont Bakery, Oakmont 3rd: La Gourmandine, Lawrenceville

BEST BREAD

MANCINI’S BAKERY

Multiple locations, www.mancinisbakery.com

______________ Opened in 1926 by Italian immigrant James Mancini, the bakery has remained in the hands of the same family for 70 years.

While its fresh bread can be found all over town, the original bakery in McKees Rocks stays open all day and all night — and is worth the drive for the rolls to complete late-night dinner plans. ______________ 2nd: Breadworks, North Side 3rd: Allegro Hearth Bakery, Squirrel Hill

BEST LATE-NIGHT MENU

(TIE) EAT’N PARK /

MAD MEX

Multiple locations, www.eatnpark.com and www.madmex.com

______________ The two local chains both satisfy latenight hunger cravings. Eat’n Park, with locations all over the city, has at least one 24/7 location within a 5-mile radius of most city neighborhoods.

And with the kitchen open on weekdays until 11 p.m. and weekends

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BEST CHEAP EATS

(TIE) EAT’N PARK /

PRIMANTI BROS.

Multiple locations, www.eatnpark.com and www.primantibros.com

______________ Two iconic Pittsburgh brands share this year’s honor for having the best cheap eats. At Primanti Bros., all but two of their famous, gigantic slawand French-fry-laden sandwiches are less than $7. At Eat’n Park, the food is similarly reasonably priced — and there are gluten-free offerings at no additional cost. ______________ 2nd: D’s Six Pax and Dogz, Regent Square

BEST COFFEEHOUSE

CRAZY MOCHA Multiple locations, www.crazymocha.com

______________ This local chain has grown by leaps and bounds since it opened its first shop in Shadyside 12 years ago. Now with about 30 locations across the region, the shop with a goat drinking a cup of joe as its mascot is one of the biggest players in the local coffee scene. Unlimited free wi-fi is also an attraction. ______________ 2nd: Espresso a Mano, Lawrenceville 3rd: Beehive, South Side

BEST LOCAL BEER

EAST END BREWING

6923 Susquehanna St., Homewood 412-537-BEER or www.eastendbrewing.com

______________ A touchstone for those who “drink local.” (Would that make them “localholics”?) The Big Hop IPA is East End’s flagship, but other seasonal and year-round beers also have devoted followers (literally — the annual batch of Pedal Pale Ale is accompanied by a “keg ride” for cyclists). Beer can be bought in growlers at the brewery or, Friday-Sunday, at the Strip District’s Pittsburgh Public Market. ______________ 2nd: Penn Brewery, North Side 3rd: Iron City, Latrobe

SHARP EDGE, Multiple locations, www.sharpedgebeer.com

______________ Here you’ll find beers with names like Old Peculiar and Homunculus, beers from Sri Lanka, Russia and — most importantly — Belgium. That diversity, and a longstanding emphasis on Belgian beers, has helped the Sharp Edge grow from a quiet neighborhood joint to a local empire, with five locations in the city and suburbs. ______________ 2nd: D’s Six Pax and Dogz, Regent Square 3rd: Fat Heads, South Side

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“I would rush to the Strip District, get a cappucino from La Prima, get all of the supplies I would need from Penn Mac to make pizza, stop at the state store and buy wine sold to me by a good union worker. Fire up my pizza oven, invite all of my Save Our Community Hospital comrades over to eat, drink and figure out how to tell the rest of the world that fracking was the cause of this fire.”

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BEST WINE SELECTION IN A RESTAURANT

SONOMA GRILLE

947 Penn Ave., Downtown 412-697-1336 or www.thesonomagrille.com

______________ Sonoma Grille was built specifically around its wine bar, so it’s no surprise its wine list features hundreds of choices, from a $6 glass of sauvignon blanc to a $2,900 bottle of cabernet.

For the indecisive, the Grille offers wine flights, so you can sample a few at a time. ______________ 2nd: Eleven, Strip District 3rd: Toast!, Bloomfield

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THE POINT Downtown

______________ As an encore to taking over Mellon Square Park, Occupying this state park would be appropriately radical.

In 2009, after all, officials denied G-20 protesters the right even to leaflet here. Alternately, minimal foot traffic might allow you to escape notice long enough to Occupy the Point indefinitely — or at least until the funnel-cake vendors returned to claim the land for the Three Rivers Arts Festival. ______________ 2nd: Schenley Plaza, Oakland 3rd: N/A

BEST POP-UP VENTURE

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______________ Virtue may be its own reward, but at Dream Cream, it also comes with dessert. Each month, Dream Cream organizers pick eight “dreamers” with a vision in need financial support. Each dreamer selects an ice-cream flavor, and every time you buy a cone, their cause gets a share of the proceeds.

Causes range from opera-training programs to simply “reduc[ing my] financial obligations.” ______________ 2nd: Fraley’s Robot

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She’s crafty: Amy Garbark, in her Morningside studio

DIRTY BALL, Attack Theatre

______________ This raunchy annual party raises funds for Attack Theatre, one of Pittsburgh’s leading contemporary dance companies. And each year’s Dirty Ball delivers on its promise to offer “a high-end, low-brow offering of aesthetic delicacies.”

Bars upholstered in zebra-print … burlesque dance performances … games of Twister … won’t somebody please think of the children? ______________ 2nd: Urban Garden Party, Mattress Factory 3rd: Hothouse, Sprout Fund CONTINUES ON PG. 37

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BEST PITTSBURGH CRAFTER

AMY GARBARK, GARBELLA www.garbelladesign.com ______________

{BY ANDY MULKERIN} IT’S LITTLE wonder Amy Garbark is

popular in Pittsburgh: Her best-selling screenprint design features a little dumpling situated above the sentence “P is for pierogi.”

“It sells well, not just locally, but online,” says the proprietor of Garbella, a handmade goods studio.

“Strangely enough, I get a lot of Canadian orders for the ‘P is for pierogi’ stuff.”

Pierogies, bike parts, typewriters — they’re all part of Garbark’s aesthetic. The lifelong Pittsburgher, and former fulltime art teacher, has been selling handmade goods (mostly screenprinted clothes and accessories) since 2006. Two years ago, it

became her main gig.

Garbark delved into the handmadegoods world after her first design, a Tshirt that says, “I [bike] PGH,” became popular among friends. Garbark is an avid cyclist; both she and her husband have done bicycle racing and touring.

“It started out with a lot of bike stuff, because bikes were all around us,” she says. “Another theme is Pittsburgh pride; I’m born-and-raised, so that’s natural too.” (A dollar from each sale of the “I [bike] PGH” shirt goes to cycling-advocacy group Bike Pittsburgh.)

Besides the Garbella shop on Etsy, Garbark’s goods are available in local shops featuring handmade goods, like Wildcard in Lawrenceville, Hiptique in Shadyside and So Me in Glenshaw. In addition to T-shirts, her wares include scarves, skirts, aprons and even clocks.

Baby apparel is a staple: The “P is for pierogi” theme is available on bibs and onesies, and other designs — bikes, trees, brief slogans — come in baby sizes, too.

“My niece is my current baby model,” Garbark says, referring to the adorable pictures on her Etsy shop. “She gets paid in babysitting.”

Recently, Garbella has begun to expand. Garbark takes the shop on the road to craft shows in other cities, and she recently attended her first national wholesale show. While she stays committed to Pittsburgh-pride themes, she isn’t ashamed to work the market a little: A design that started out as a typewriter with the phrase “Dear Pittsburgh, I love you” is now available in New York and Chicago version.

“That was something I tossed and turned over!” she says with a laugh.

“It started out as a love letter to Pittsburgh, and I do love Pittsburgh. But at the same time, I want to have a sustainable business. So I expanded to some other cities.”

But don’t think she’s about to take off: Garbark just moved the studio from her Lawrenceville home to 1806 Chislett St., in Morningside, previously the Morning Glory Coffeehouse. Besides getting all that work stuff out of the house, it allows her to have openstudio hours. Her first open house is planned for Fri., Nov. 2.

“I think Pittsburgh is nice in that people do want to support other Pittsburghers,” she says. “People want to support local small businesses, and that’s been a factor in the shop’s success.”

ONE PRODUCT THEME, SAYS GARBARK, “IS PITTSBURGH PRIDE; I’M BORN-ANDRAISED, SO THAT’S NATURAL.”

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______________ Amy Garbark’s work centers around screen-printed designs, mostly on textiles — but Garbella is more ng than just a T-shirt shop. Clothing hirts, for babies and sizes on up — shirts, nied e sweaters, scarves — is accompanied cks. by wall hangings and even clocks. ic Pittsburgh stuff, and the classic Pennsylvania keystone, appear regularly in these designs. ______________ 2nd: Whimsical Wonders, www.shopwhimsicalwonders.com 3rd: N/A

BEST LOCAL TWITTER

@FSMIKEY ______________ On the radio, Michael Dougherty is known as Mikey, one-half of the Morning Freak Show on 96.1 FM. But on Twitter he’s FSMikey, who has tweeted and retweeted more than 116,500 times (as of early October).

He tweets about just about everything: current events (“Facebook comment sections are a complete clusterfuck of politics right now”); what he’s watching on TV (“Cee-Lo knows there’s a bird on his head.

Cee-Lo’s arms can’t reach it to move it”); and sometimes he just tweets (“Oprah has underrated jugs”). ______________ 2nd: @janepitt 3rd: @dskinsel

BEST LOCAL POLITICIAN TO HAVE A BEER WITH

BILL PEDUTO ______________ The stalwart from Pittsburgh’s District 8, City Councilor Bill Peduto, has been climbing the ladder of Best Of. He charted in 2007 as Best Activist, nailed down Best Public Servant last year, and has now refined (or is it broadened?) his appeal by winning a coveted spot at the bar, i.e. next to an eager supporter. ______________

bef before she appeared on, and won, RuP RuPaul’s Drag Race this spring. Her provocative, over-the-top style found a home on the show, where her costumes included dressing up as a cosmeticsurgery patient, complete with a syringe hanging from her lip.

And they say Pittsburghers have no sense of fashion. ______________ 2nd: Abby Lee Miller, Dance Moms 3rd: Pittsburgh Dad

BEST LOCAL CELEBRITY TO SPEND THE END TIMES WITH

SHARON NEEDLES ______________ Given a style culled from the likes of Peg Bundy and Elvira, mixed with punk inspiration from GG Allin and the Sex Pistols, we feel comfortable saying this about Sharon Needles: If Pittsburgh were to erupt in a sea of hellfire, she’s the most likely to pour gas on the flames. ______________

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“Go to Kennywood, then a close-to-last-supper porkshank dinner with music at Hofbräuhaus by the fiery lake.”

— CHRIS IVEY, FILMMAKER

BEST PLACE TO AWAIT THE END TIMES

MOUNT WASHINGTON ______________

SHARON NEEDLES ______________ Sharon Needles was already well known on the city’s drag scene

2nd: The Point 3rd: Home

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Picture it: The world is ending. People are ascending, fire is falling from the sky … and since you skipped church to nurse a hangover, you’re left behind to watch. What to do? Head to Mount Washington. If it’s a great place to watch Fourth of July fireworks, why wouldn’t you go there to watch the world’s annihilation?

And if your timing is right, you’ll probably be able to see the Rooney family ascend to Heaven from the 50-yardline at Heinz Field. ______________

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FINAL JUDGMENT

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BEST MOVIE FILMED IN PITTSBURGH

BEST PITTSBURGH DJ

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES ______________

JIM KRENN ______________

Made headlines for summertime snow and Gotham vehicles prowling town; a good time to have a cameraphone.

BEST NEW PUBLIC ART

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______________ Simply beautiful, engaging and functional (cooling in the heat wave).

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GOOSKIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ______________ Where else can you sit at a booth that has â&#x20AC;&#x153;F*** Yinzâ&#x20AC;? written on the wall?

BEST FESTIVAL

PYROTOPIA ______________ Because it was amazing and a totally new experience for Pittsburgh.

BEST COFFEE SHOP THAT NO LONGER EXISTS

KIVA HAN ______________ We miss you, Kiva Han!

BEST PUBLIC-SPACE IMPROVEMENT

MARKET SQUARE ______________ Lunchers, buskers, music, farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; markets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an area of Downtown that used to be sad is now thriving.

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BEST LOCAL ART NOT IN A MUSEUM

MAXO VANKA MURALS

St. Nicholas Croatian Church in Millvale

______________ Extremely overlooked beautiful works of art here in the city.

IF THESE WERE THE END TIMES, AND WE WERE SURROUNDED

BY A LAKE OF FIRE ...

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Cheese plates. JalapeĂąo poppers. Tuna tartare. Figs stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon. You name it. After I gorged myself, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d head to Oakland, climb the dinosaur outside of the Carnegie Museum, and wait for the blaze while sipping on some Wigle Whiskey.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JULIA GONGAWARE, FOOD WRITER AT EATPGH.COM

BEST LOCAL SPORTS FIGURE

PENGUINS GOALIE MARC-ANDRE FLEURY ______________

BEST TROLL OF 2011-12

Half the city hates him and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a fuss, he just tries to do his best.

Rick Rolls & Occu-cuddlepuddles entered into court record, Trojan horse left behind.

OCCUPY PITTSBURGH ______________

BEST OF PEOPLE+PLACES BEST DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DUNGEON MASTER

ROB MARKOWSKI I ______________ Because when that mofo says “roll for initiative,” you know shit is about to go down in the Forgotten Realms!

BEST PLACE TO DO ROLLING HUGS

SCHENLEY PARK OVAL ______________ During two separate peace gatherings, I did rolling hugs with six different people.

BEST ROLLER COASTER

SKY ROCKET ______________ Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

BEST PLACE TO SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Downtown

______________ It’s a castle.

BEST CHANGE-MAKER

BIKE ______________ PITTSBURGH There are few organizations in Pittsburgh that have gotten as much done as Bike Pittsburgh has.

Visible results constantly.

BEST OVERALL PITTSBURGHER

RICK SEBAK ______________ Ten years away, and I never once tired of those dulcet tones, luring me home with visions of The Pretzel Shop and Isaly’s chip-chopped ham!

BEST THING TO SHOUT WHILE DRIVING THROUGH LIGHT PITTSBURGH TRAFFIC

“GOOOOOOOO!!!!” ______________ Slowest drivers in the nation.

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BEST URBAN PARK

FRICK PARK ______________ Great trails and escape from the city life!

BEST ARTIST MARKET

I MADE IT! MARKET ______________ Because it’s awesome, everyone loves it, and Carrie Nardini rocks.

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“9 a.m.: four-shot 2 percent latte at 21st Street Coffee in Strip (a shallow yuppie to the end). Noon: grilled swordfish with BBQ sauce Penn Ave. Fish Co. 3 p.m.: check into Fairmont. 6 p.m. dinner at Meat and Potatoes, Downtown. 8 p.m.: watch last comedy show at hipster Brillobox in Bloomfield with favorite comedian Gab Bonesso. 10 p.m.: Gab and I head for the Fairmont where we do secret things while staring out floor-to-ceiling window and feeling zero liberal guilt about homelessness, because it doesn’t matter anymore. Midnight: Squirrel Hill, Hawaiian Pizza at Aiello’s. I might rob a bank somewhere in between.”

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ALTAR BAR. Misfits. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Vaughn Trio. Strip District. 412-281-6593.

CLUB CAFE. Chris Trapper, Austen Leathers. South Side. 412-431-4950.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Josh Flagg.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

HOULIHAN’S. ‘Lectric Larry.

Robinson. 412-787-7050.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Bunnygrunt, The Red Western, Thee Shopkeepers, Googolplexia.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE IRONWORKS. Blue Redshift.

Oakland. 412-969-3832.

MARKET SQUARE. Joel Lindsey.

Downtown. 412-471-1511.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Coronado, Round Black Ghosts, Brighton, MA. Coronado CD release.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

WYEP COMMUNITY BROADCAST CENTER. Pet Clinic.

South Side. 412-381-9131.

FRI 19

31ST STREET PUB. Sistered, October, Supervoid. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

6119 PENN AVE. The Velcro Shoes, The Red Western, The City Buses. East Liberty. 732-598-4430.

ALTAR BAR. Com Truise. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 701. Daniels & McClain.

McKeesport. 412-672-7994.

CAFE NOTTE. Corned Beef & Curry. Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

CLUB CAFE. When The Planets, The Throckmorton/Parker/ McDonald Trio. South Side.

412-431-4950.

GOOSKI’S. Motorpsychos, Del Rios, Four Barrel Ghost. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Local H. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

MOONDOG’S. Bill Deasy.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

OLD TRAILS. Gone South.

Washington. 724-225-0484.

STAGE AE. Umphrey’s McGee, The Bright Light Social Hour.

North Side.

SAT 20

31ST STREET PUB. Cultivator, Food, Barbara Perfect. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. WHY?, Naytronix.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

THE BRONZE HOOD. Daniels & McClain. Robinson.

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

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CAFE NOTTE. Jerry Coleman.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

CLUB CAFE. Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Kid Durango.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Waiting For Ray. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. The Wakening, Goddam Zombie, Joey Molinaro, Valerie Kuehne, Will Bozarth. Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

HARVEY WILNER’S. 3 Car Garage.

West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. Embers to Ashes, Erasing Never, NeverWake, Tragedy In Black, River City Conspiracy. South Side.

412-758-4087.

THE IRONWORKS. Modern Day Escape, Picture Me Broken.

Oakland.

THE KICKSTAND. The Andrea Iglar Band. Elizabeth. 412-384-3080.

MR. MIKE’S PUB. Lucky Me. Irwin.

724-864-0444.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. The Skies Revolt. Bloomfield.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. 10 Years, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Last Place You Look. Millvale.

866-468-3401.

NV DIY SPACE. Tribute to Misfits, Ramones, White Stripes, Green

Day, Nirvana. Vandergrift.

724-859-1572.

OLD TRAFFORD SPORTS CLUB. Bad Mother Trucker. Trafford.

412-373-3036.

REX THEATER. Samples. South Side. 412-381-6811.

ROCK ROOM. Bestevers, Rat Tits, Gary Abuseys, Rogue Signals.

Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.

ROOSTERS ROADHOUSE. The Eldorado Kings. Bridgeville.

412-221-1543.

SMILING MOOSE. Slingshot Genius, Breaking Laces, These Lions. South Side. 412-431-4668.

SUN 21

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Victor Villareal, Daniel Bachman, The Moon, Dean Cercone. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

STAGE AE. Fiona Apple, Blake Mills. North Side.

MON 22

BRILLOBOX. Electric Six , Little Hurricane. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Laura Marling. South Side. 412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Gap Dream, Fenster. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

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This week’s free MP3 comes from Coronado, whose new album we reviewed in last week’s paper. The info on the band’s CD release has changed since then; it’s now Sat., Oct. 27 at Club Café (56 St. 12th St., South Side), with Satin Gum, The Color Fleet and Paul Luc. Download “Something Died” on FFW>>, our music blog at pghcitypaper.com.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Ryan Cabrera.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

SMILING MOOSE. Riverboat Gamblers, Cobra Skulls, Wild Roses, Riverboat Gamblers. South Side.

412-431-4668.

TUE 23

ALTAR BAR. Touche Amore, Balance & Composure. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Savoir Adore, Royal Canoe, Santah.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. Evil Genius.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HEINZ HALL. Morrissey, Kristeen Young. Downtown. 412-392-4900.

SMILING MOOSE. I Call Fives, With The Punches, Drive Till Sunrise, Get With It. South Side.

412-431-4668.

WED 24

ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. The Dolly Rocker Ragdoll.

Lawrenceville. 412-683-5993.

BRILLOBOX. The Melismatics, Motometer, The Long Knives.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CAFE NOTTE. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Emsworth.

412-761-2233.

HARD ROCK CAFE. The English Beat. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Dinosaur Jr., Shearwater. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

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

MON 22

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat Fridays. Reggae/dancehall w/ KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. Vybz Machine Intl. Sound System, Amazing Punk Night. Rotating DJs. Fudgie Springer. East Liberty.

East Liberty. 412-363-6012.

412-363-1250.

MEXICO CITY. DJ Top 40.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Revolve.

Downtown. 412-980-7653.

House & Breaks w/ Hana & Clevr.

SEVICHE. DJ Bobby D. Salsa.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

Downtown. 412-697-3120.

GLOBE TAVERN. DJ Ron. Carrick.

TIKI LOUNGE. Old School Hip Hop. 412-882-7096.

South Side. 412-381-8454.

LAVA LOUNGE. ‘80s Dance WINGHART’S - SOUTH SIDE. 3B Alternative. DJ Doug. South Side.

(Burgers, Beer, & Bass). South Side.

412-431-5282.

412-475-8209.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Mad Tom Brown, Colin Pierce. House & funk. Lawrenceville. 412-682-6414.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Nate da ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Phat Barber Selekta & Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Outtareach. 720 Music Downtown. & Cafe Night.

412-874-4582.

Lawrenceville.

PITTSBURGH CAFE. 412-251-0097. .

DJ FunkNJunk. w ww per KELLY’S BAR & a p ty ci Underground hip hop, h pg LOUNGE. DJ Llamo. East .com funk & soul. Oakland.

Liberty. 412-363-6012.

412-687-3331.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Nightclass.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ DJ Outtareach. East Liberty.

Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

412-363-8277.

SEVICHE. DJ Digital Dave.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Downtown. 412-697-3120.

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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.

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

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.

1139 PENN AVE. DEEPER. Solid State Soul DJs: Brotha Mike & Scuzzi. BYOB. Clean, safe & LGBTQ friendly. Begins after the bars close Sat. night, 2 a.m. - 8 a.m.

Downtown.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ SMI, DJ Selecta. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

BELVEDERE’S. Steel City Derby Demons After Party. w/ Sean MC. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

412-251-0097.

IRISH CENTRE. Femz Wit a Twist.

LGBT after hours. “Come as you are.” 2 a.m.-6 a.m. Squirrel Hill.

412-829-9839.

LAVA LOUNGE. Motown Getdown Soul Night w/ DJ Kool Kurt. South Side. 412-431-5282.

REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville.

412-781-6771.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

TIKI LOUNGE. DJ Luke Duke.

Dance, hip hop, rock & top 40.

South Side. 412-381-8454.

FRI 19

SUN 21

DJS THU 18

ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Mike & Co. Lawrenceville. 412-683-5993.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Big Phil.

Ready or Not Fridays. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

BALZER’S SOMEWHERE INN LAWRENCEVILLE. DJ B-Nasty.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0901.

BELVEDERE’S. 90z Dance. w/ Sean MC, Thermos. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. DJ Mockster. Lawrenceville.

412-683-5993.

DIESEL. The Show. DJ Endless.

Dance. South Side. 412-431-8800.

RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara & Digital Dave. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

Electro, post punk, industrial, new wave, alternative dance.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

TIKI LOUNGE. BP Mangler.

South Side. 412-381-8454.

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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 FRI 19

SHADOW LOUNGE. Str8-Up Concert Series. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Vintage Trouble, DJ Micheal Canton.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SAT 20

720 RECORDS. Tribute to Anita Baker. Lawrenceville. 412-758-6724.

SUN 21

SHADOW LOUNGE. F. Stokes.

East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

WED 24

SHADOW LOUNGE. Rockie Fresh.

East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

BLUES THU 18

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 19

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Don Hollowood’s Cobra Kings. South Side. 412-431-4090.

SAT 20

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

MOONDOG’S. Jimmy Adler Band.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

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Dormont. 412-445-5279.

Paul Thompson, Brett Williams.

Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592.

THE BLIND PIG SALOON. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. New Kensington. 724-337-7008.

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

MELANGE BISTRO. Blendsday w/ Kenny Blake. Downtown.

412-325-4310.

WED 24

CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

JAZZ THU 18

ANDYS. Maggie Johnson.

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.

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

724-934-1177.

CAFE NOTTE. Bucky Soft.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

DAVID’S MUSIC HOUSE. Joy Ike, Ian Ethan. McMurray. 724-941-9200.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jess Sides.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

MAX & ERMA’S. Brad Wagner.

Scott. 412-344-4449.

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

FRI 19

SAT 20

BEER NUTZ PLAZA. Tim & John.

Fox Chapel. 412-963-6882.

FOR ALL SEASONS. Bill Couch.

Carnegie. 412-276-4444.

MARIO’S SOUTH SIDE SALOON. Michael Todd. South Side. 412-381-5610.

ANDYS. Patrick Arena.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

CJ’S. Hubb’s Groove The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377.

GREENTREE INN. Jerry & Louis Lucarelli, Don Aliquo, Sunny Sunseri, Vince Tagliari, Debbie Zugates. Green Tree. 412-956-6957.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Etta Cox & Al Dowe Band. North Side.

412-904-3335.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Bela Fleck & Marcus Roberts Trio. MCG Jazz. North Side.

412-322-0800.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Jazz Fan Appriciation Event. Musicians welcome to sit in. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Chuck Spatafore Little Big Band. North Side.

412-904-3335.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Chris Pangikas. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

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MON 22

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

412-363-8277.

TUE 23

ANDYS. Mark Lucas. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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ANDYS. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. George Heid III Quartet. North Side. 412-904-3335.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Joe Negri.

Downtown. 412-279-1233.

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ALLEGHENY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Lou & Peter Berryman, Anne Feeney, Matt Watroba. North Side.

412-877-6480.

BRIGHTON HEIGHTS JAVA N CREME HOUSE. Paz & Ukulele Eddie. Brighton Heights.

412-415-0734.

HARVEST VALLEY FARMS. Rick Bruening. Valencia. 724-443-5869.

MARS BREW HOUSE. Jeff Wiley.

Mars. 724-625-2555.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Rumpke Mountain Boys. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WOODVILLE PLANTATION. Mark Tamsula, Richard Withers, Ellen Gozion. Appalachian music from the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. Bridgeville.

412-221-0348.

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HARVEST VALLEY FARMS. Rick Bruening. Valencia. 724-443-5869.

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TUE 23

BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson. Wexford.

724-934-1177.

LEGUME BISTRO. Butter Joint Variety, Leslie Addis & the Rusty Nails, Brad Yoder, Alan Olifson, Joanna Abel. Oakland.

412-621-2700.

SHADOW LOUNGE. Marta Pacek, Todd Knebb. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

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Recent dispatches from the music Twittersphere

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.

Rock. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

TRAX FARMS. Nancy Deckant.

Finleyville. 412-835-3246.

SUN 21

TRAX FARMS. Nancy Deckant.

Finleyville. 412-835-3246.

CLASSICAL FRI 19

CURTIS PIANO TRIO. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

THE PITTSBURGH CAMERATA. Apollo Unbound. Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church, Mt. Lebanon. 412-421-5884.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Symphony.” Feat.

International African soprano Adriana Night. Live African Kucerova, mezzodance music. East soprano Gerhild Liberty. 412-363-1250.

Romberger, & the www. per Mendelssohn Choir ghcitypa p of Pittsburgh. Heinz ANDYS. Gerdan. .com Hall, Downtown.

Ukrainian Folk Music.

412-392-4900.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

ROMANTIC GIANTS. Schubert & Schumann. Sha Wang, Piano.

James Laughlin Music Center.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

CLUB TABOO. The Flow Band.

Homewood. 412-223-8502.

WORLD SAT 20

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GHOST RIDERS 2. Xela Sound.

Butler. 724-285-3415.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Steeltown Hot Country

SAT 20

EDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill. 412-473-8880.

THE PITTSBURGH CAMERATA. Apollo Unbound. Sixth Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill.

412-421-5884.

SUN 21

EDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. East Allegheny High School, North Versailles.

412-473-8880.

FROM THE TOP. Feat. 13-year-old harpist Sophia Lee. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

MISOOK YUN, SOPRANO; ALICE WANG, CLARINET; SOPHIA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, PIANO; JOHN DICESARE, TUBA. Pittsburgh Concert Society Major Winners Recital. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland. 412-279-2970.

OTHER MUSIC THU 18

GRAZIE RESTAURANT & EVENTS CENTER. Jack Knight. Wexford.

724-934-7880.

FRI 19

PENN BREWERY. Steve, Bill, & Charity of Big Leg Emma. North Side. 412-237-9400.

SAT 20

ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. Wee Jams.

Shaler. 412-487-6259.

SUN 21

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Pitt Men’s Glee Club, Pitt Women’s Choral Ensemble, Pittsburgh Handbell Ensemble. Oakland.

412-621-0500.

MEMORIAL PARK CHURCH. Byezhitsa Evangelical Baptist Church Choir. Email cbrown@ memorialparkchurch.org for info.

Allison Park. 412-364-9492.

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October 17 - 23 WEDNESDAY 17

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 412-481-ROCK. 8:30p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

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

FRIDAY 19

Wanda Jackson

The Bright Side Tour MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone.

7:30p.m.

THURSDAY 18 Misfits

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests The Attakk, Revenge Memorial, Gods & Aliens and A Lovely Crises. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Josh Flagg HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-7625. With special guests Mia Z & Act of Pardon. Limited All Ages.

Why? ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

With special guests Naytronix & The Black Swans. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Ainadamar

QUANTUM THEATRE East Liberty. 412362-1713. Tickets: showclix.com or 1-888-71-TICKETS. 8p.m. Through Nov. 3.

Com Truise ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Poolside & Bonde Do Role. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Local H HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-7625. With special guests The Life & Times & Chux Beta. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 412-481-ROCK. 10p.m.

Umphrey's McGee STAGE AE North Side. With special guest The Bright Light

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 ALTAR BAR

Social Hour. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7:30p.m.

SATURDAY 20

Akram Khan Company "Vertical Road" BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 9:30p.m.

pittsburghlectures.org or 412-622-8866. 7:30p.m.

SUNDAY 21

Ryan Cabrera

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce WVU CREATIVE ARTS CENTER West Virginia. For more information visit events.wvu.edu.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7p.m.

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

Tickets: pittsburghsymphony. org or 412-392-4900. 7p.m.

LAWRENCEVILLE. LAWRENCEV inform For more information visit lvpgh.com or 412-683-6488. Free. 10a.m.

Fiona Apple STAGE AE North Side. With special guest Blake Mills.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

The Polish Ambassador REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 18 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

MONDAY 22

The Rumpke Mountain Boys

Jeffrey Eugenides

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-7625. With special guests Rookie of the Year, Lakeview Drive & Shelby Blondell. Limited All Ages. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 412-481-ROCK. 8:30p.m.

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

An evening with David Sedaris

8th Annual Lawrenceville Lawrenc Artists' Studio Tour T

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Left Spine Down, Venus in Furs & Una De Luna. Over 21 show.. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

TUESDAY 23

Touche Amore / Balance & Composure ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests O'Brother & Worn Colors. All ages show.

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

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FIGHTING BACK

{by Al Hoff}

THE FILM IS AN ENTERTAINING TANGLE OF SIDEBARS AND STORIES-WITHIN-STORIES

David France’s straightforward documentary How to Survive a Plague uses archival footage and news reports to depict how a relatively small group of angry people forced change in how people with AIDS/ HIV were treated. Formed in New York City in 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) staged street demonstrations, media campaigns and in-house education, battling discrimination while fighting for adequate medical care and access to new drugs. The group’s fervor came from anger, but also from an immediate need: The infected were fighting for their lives.

MIXED-UP

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Takin’ it to the streets: ACT UP activist Peter Staley

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The film is heartbreaking, naturally, in its frank depiction of those days of horror. But it is also inspirational, showing how that specific anger was channeled into productive causes (“Act up! Fight back!”).

Changes fought for by ACT UP mean that two decades later, people with HIV don’t face such appalling discrimination and institutional inaction, and there are drugs to keep the virus at bay. Ironically, this has allowed those who lived through that time to forget how frightening it was, and that AIDS still kills.

France’s film is a much-needed jolt — for old-timers’ memories and young people’s sense of complacency. It’s a double-dose of truth: Your government and other trusted institutions can behave inhumanely (and might again) and you can fight back — and win. Starts Mon., Oct. 22, through Sun., Oct. 28. Harris AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Why does this freaky stuff keep happening?!

It’s been five years since that PARANORMAL other freaky stuff ACTIVITY 4 happened, and new neighbors mean more creepy late-night weirdness caught on camera. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman co-direct this horror thriller. Starts Fri., Oct. 19.

{BY AL HOFF}

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ARTY (COLIN FARRELL) is trying to write a screenplay. He’s got a great title — “Seven Psychopaths” — and a not-so-good concept: It’s really about peace and love. He’s getting help from his amped-up buddy, Billy (Sam Rockwell), when Billy isn’t working his dognapping racket with his oddball pal, Hans (Christopher Walken). But when the beloved dog of a gangster (Woody Harrelson) gets snatched, Marty, Hans and Billy (plus pooch) are forced to hide out in the California desert.

That’s basically the plot of Seven Psychopaths, a dark comedy written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the so-called “bad boy” Irish playwright. (This is his second film feature, after 2008’s In Bruges.) It’s fitting, then, that he’s rounded up a gaggle of cinematic “bad boys” — from elder statesmen like Walken and Harry Dean Stanton to mid-career players like Harrelson and Farrell. There’s even a meta-wink across genres: The film opens with squabbling hitmen, played

Three on a match: Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell

by actors who also portray gangsters on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

But don’t let the seemingly spare plot dissuade you. Seven Psychopaths is an entertaining tangle of sidebars, storieswithin-stories and imagined scenes from Marty’s eventual movie. Plus, you are also watching an actual movie called Seven Psychopaths, written by a real-life Marty, and which features, yes, seven psychopaths.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS DIRECTED BY: Martin McDonagh STARRING: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson

CP APPROVED McDonagh’s intricately constructed film is a smorgasbord of homage and (affectionate) take-down of the violentcrime feature, particularly that slicker subset that is already self-aware of being hipper. In Seven’s running meta-narrative, the characters endlessly debate the creation and execution of a successful crime

thriller. Few tropes are left out in Seven: the vintage cars; the pet-loving villain; the road trip to nowhere; the climatic shootout; the boys-club vibe; the non-stop comic banter; and the eviscerating gunshots.

(You could see this film cold — without being familiar with the genre — but its pleasures are designed for the initiated.)

It may seem a bit too clever by half (or by seven). It’s certainly easy to make fun of violent films, while dishing out plenty of the same; no head is safe from being blown to bits here. And the film loses its verve toward the end as the jokes and meta-jokes get played out. But for the most part, McDonagh makes the ride fun, and by the credits, we even care a bit about all these psychopaths.

Especially the laconic Hans. Christopher Walken is a national treasure: a latein-life comic genius who can make crossing a road look funny, and effortlessly shift his face from deadpan to demented.

And his idiosyncratic delivery of the most banal words ranked among the film’s biggest laughs.

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ALEX CROSS. Matthew Fox and Tyler Perry star in this thriller about a Washington, D.C., detective tracking down a murderer. Rob Cohen directs. Starts Fri., Oct. 19.

DETROPIA. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady made the 2006 film Jesus Camp, and their latest effort looks at Detroit, a city in crisis after the devastating loss of its manufacturing base.

Detropia is more essay than documentary: Just a few dates and figures scroll onscreen that track Detroit’s tumble from densely populated urban center with a stable middle class to a struggling bankrupt city now defined as much by its vacant land and abandoned properties as by its remaining 700,000 residents. (Detroit is not empty so much as over-sized.)

But mostly, the filmmakers let Detroit speak, whether it’s their cameras panning its broken infrastructure, or residents explaining how life went from good to bad. It’s a series of snapshots and disjointed voices, though a few Detroiters are given more time to tell their specific stories, and express their hopes and fears. (Among them are a UAW leader and a young female video blogger.)

Contemporary scenes of run-down neighborhoods are cut with archival footage from more prosperous days and moments of weird beauty, such as a dog loping through snowcovered deserted streets, or a half-destroyed building gently swaying. (Detropia can’t help veering into ruin porn; no one with a camera can resist clambering inside the shuttered Michigan Central Station, and the film even stages a brief opera recital there.)

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Liberal Arts LIBERAL ARTS. The lesson of this enjoyable but slim dramedy written and directed by Josh Radnor is that the life lessons never end. Thirtysomething Jesse (Radnor) is treading water in New York City, his college degree having netted him a dull job. Thus, he leaps on an invitation to return to his idyllic Ohio alma mater for the retirement party of a beloved professor (Richard Jenkins). There he meets Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a peppy student 16 years his junior. The two develop a lively friendship that grows more awkward as it gets more serious.

Radnor’s film is quite talky, befitting its milieu of self-absorbed academia, but there’s enough natural wit to keep this tale of desires and disappointments afloat. Everybody has lessons to impart and to learn — and some sting. (Jesse has a painful evening with another treasured prof, played by the delightful acerbic Allison Janney.) College may be a heady time, a protective cocoon of highs and lows, but one of the lessons you’re meant to learn there is how to move on. Nothing too deep in this film’s plot or themes, but it’s a pleasant enough class. Starts Fri., Oct. 19. Manor (AH)

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SAMSARA. In 1992, Ron Fricke directed Baraka, a sublime collage of documentary footage and time-lapse photography from around the world.

The filmmaker has now made a sequel to that “guided meditation on humanity.” Despite that billing, Samsara is a most unguided meditation. With no narration or narrative, it’s hard to know what you should be feeling other than awe. For more than five years, Fricke shot footage in 25 countries — of sand dunes, erupting volcanoes, intricate dances and factory production lines — before crafting it into the sort of epic imagery that reminds you why you go to the cinema in the first place. His film encourages your mind to wander and to wonder. Mostly about life, death, nature, art, excess, poverty, civilization — you know, stuff. If there is a prevailing message, I missed it. Perhaps that’s because throughout Samsara, I kept recalling that quote from American Beauty: “Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it.” Starts Fri., Oct. 19. Manor (Catherine Sylvain)

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Detropia The information presented isn’t comprehensive enough to function as an illuminating post-mortem, and the depiction of Detroit’s current state of crisis likewise seems scattershot. Signs of renewal are relegated to colorfully garbed artists, two of whom admit Detroit’s abject state is part of its appeal. (Oh, what irony if you revitalize it!)

Thus, Detropia leaves an impression that the city is comprised solely of poor hipsters in masks and African Americans waiting for another factory. The film is most effective when laying out what often gets lost in gloomy statistics and urban-planning fantasias — that is, that Detroit is still a living city, and as much a model for the problems of 21st century as it was for the successes of the 20th. Fri., Oct. 19, through Tue., Oct. 23. Melwood (Al Hoff)

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PROJECTIN G HOPE FESTIVAL. A weekend-long festival of free family-friendly and inspirational films offers a dozen new and recent features — dramas, sports tales, Veggie Tales and even a heist film. Fri., Oct. 19, through Sun., Oct. 21. Waterworks Cinema, Aspinwall. Film tickets are free the day of the show, or can be ordered in advance for $5. Complete schedule and more information at www.projectinghopepgh.com.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? In Robert Aldrich’s dark, campy classic from 1962, two aging sisters are trapped in hell together, sharing a rundown Hollywood mansion and hatin’ on each other. Joan Crawford plays it pretty straight, but Bette Davis has a field day prancing about as decrepit former child star, Baby Jane. The Fri., Oct. 19, screening is in Hecklevision, which lets patrons text comments to the screen. 9:15 p.m. Fri., Oct. 19, and 6 p.m. Sun., Oct. 21.

Hollywood, Dormont FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2. This is the first of many sequels to the 1980 slasher-film hit, in which the homicidal Jason isn’t quite as dead as people think.

Steve Miner directs this 1981 horror film. 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 19, and 10 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20. Oaks 13 HOURS OF HORROR. Just what it sounds like. Beginning at noon, catch shorts and fulllength features including: The Driller Killer (noon); Bloodsuckers From Outer Space (2 p.m.); Everyone Must Die (3:45 p.m.), with filmmaker Steve Rudzinski; Tablet of Tales (5:45 p.m.), with filmmaker Brian Cottington; Severe Injuries and Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation (6:30 p.m.), with filmmakers Amy Lynn Best and Mike Watt; The Redsin Tower (9 p.m.), with filmmaker Fred Vogel; and finally, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (11 p.m.), the original 1974 version. Noon-1 a.m.

Sat., Oct. 20. Hollywood, Dormont. $13 for full program; individual films $5, except Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is $7.

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catch: North Sea Texas, a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Belgium (3:30 p.m.); Kiss Me, a Swedish lesbian romance (7 p.m.); and I Do, a domestic melodrama in which a gay man enters a sham marriage to avoid deportation (9:30 p.m.). The fest wraps up Sun., Oct. 21, with I Am a Woman Now, a Dutch documentary about five elderly trangender women, reflecting on their lives (4 p.m.), and Love or Whatever, an American comedy about two gay men who break up, and, maybe, get back together (7 p.m.). All films screen at the Harris, Downtown.

Tickets are $9, except Love or Whatever ($15), which includes a party. For more info and complete schedule, see www.plgfs.org.

Love or Whatever at the Pittsburgh Lesbian and Gay Film Festival moral heart of Robert Mulligan’s award-winning 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel. 11 a.m. Sun., Oct. 21; 7:30 p.m. Mon., Oct. 22; and 7:30 p.m. Tue., Oct. 23. Hollywood, Dormont. For $15, brunch from Sugar Café is included at the Sun., Oct. 21, screening; movie only is $7.

THE GHOST AN D MRS. MUIR. Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison star in this romance about a young widow who finds her cottage haunted by a ghost … a supernatural fellow she grows to be quite fond of. Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs this 1947 film.

Screens as part of the Pittsburgh Ballet’s program to link films and ballets thematically, in this case Mrs. Muir and Giselle, both of which depict love that endures beyond death. 2 p.m. Sun., Oct. 21. George R. White Theater, Point Park University, 414 Wood St., Downtown. Free. RSVP required at 412-454-9109 or education@pittsburghballet.org HAROLD AN D MAUDE. Hal Ashby’s offbeat yet poignant cult comedy gave new meaning to the term “odd couple.” The death-obsessed young Harold (Bud Cort) blossoms when he begins an affair with 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), a vibrant eccentric given to life-affirming, antiauthoritarian behavior. The 1971 film screens as part of a month-long, Sunday-night series of films with interesting soundtracks; this one features songs by Cat Stevens. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 21. Regent Square (AH)

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THE ORAN GE CHRON ICLES. Damian Kolodiy’s documentary recounts the “Orange Revolution,” in 2004, during which Ukrainian citizens demonstrated against fraudulent elections, and the poisoning of candidate Victor Yushchenko. Screens as part of the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. In Russian and Ukrainian, with subtitles. 4 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20. 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.

REMIN GTON AN D THE CURSE OF THE ZOMBADINGS. In this comedy from the Philippines, a young boy taunting gays is cursed by a witch to turn gay on his 20th birthday. Which he does. N ow he has to sort out his sexuality and stop the town from being overrun with gay zombies. Jade Castro’s film is presented by Silk Screen. In Tagalog, with subtitles. 6:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 25, and 6:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 26. GRW Auditorium, Point Park University, 414 Wood St., Downtown. $10 ($5 students with ID). www.silkscreenfestival.org

THE OTHER CHELSEA: A STORY FROM DONETSK. Jakob Preuss’ doc looks at the hardscrabble Donetsk coal-mining region of Ukraine, where the local football team, heavily funded by a billionaire oligarch, is fervently supported. Screens as part of the Hoverla Ukrainian American Film Festival. In Russian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20. 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.

WOODY GUTHRIE: AIN ’T GOT N O HOME. The 90-minute documentary, produced for PBS’ American Masters series, profiles folk musician Woody Guthrie, the troubadour of the Great Depression. His life and music are examined, as well as his lasting impact on later performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. The 2007 film concludes this year’s series of labor-related films presented by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 25. Pump House, Homestead. Free. 412-831-3871

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. A trial in which a white lawyer (Gregory Peck) in a small Southern town defends a black man accused of rape forms the

AN DY 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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“Portrait of the artist with ‘The Beast’”: Will Steacy poses with his collage.

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Outside dance circles, he’s best known for the controversy that arose when, during the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics, NBC cut from his moving dance work honoring London bombing victims … to a Michael Phelps interview. But British-born Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan is, in fact, one of the dance world’s current “it” people.

Khan is a sought-after dancer and choreographer who has worked with dance superstar Sylvie Guillem and actress Juliette Binoche. His major awards include a 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production; his Vertical Road (2010) alone has earned him three, including Britain’s Critics’ Circle National Dance Award.

Khan’s self-named company makes its Pittsburgh debut (without Khan) on Oct. 20 in Vertical Road, a lush, atmospheric piece rooted in spirituality, sexuality and the life cycle. The show is presented by Pittsburgh Dance Council at the Byham Theater.

The intermissionless, 70-minute work is set to a sweeping original score by composer Nitin Sawhney.

The show’s title was inspired by the writings of Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, who wrote of man’s evolution and rebirth from gravity to grace.

“For me, spirituality is formless, so I needed a concrete idea as an inspiration for the work,” says Khan, speaking by phone from London.

As a narrative, Khan set his dancers in a postapocalyptic world in which a traveler discovers some long-lost tablets whose messages bring to life a group of terracotta warrior statues. The work explores man’s earthly nature, rituals and the consequences of his actions.

“It is, in a sense, a rediscovery of life,” says Khan.

Khan’s movement language for the work blends classical Indian khatak with Middle Eastern and contemporary dance styles, creating a sort of stylized martialarts-kata-meets-The-Matrix vibe.

The work’s title alludes to Rumi’s notion that humanity is on the road to becoming angelic. But Khan says the work also traces the vertical road’s other direction, toward the devil.

“It’s not literal, but it reveals itself in the work in terms of man being controlling, the devil within us coming out,” says Khan.

As with all of his works, Khan says he is fascinated with exploring the human condition. Vertical Road is just one journey to that end.

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is the dominating presence in his exhibit No Job No Home No Peace No Rest. The show’s title is taken from Bruce Springsteen’s song “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” which refers to the protagonist of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. (I know you already knew that.)

Steacy’s giant collage is a big response to a huge problem, namely the erosion of the American Dream during the past three decades and the effects on those being left behind. The exhibit also includes 32 color photographs from Steacy’s series Down These Mean Streets, All My Life I Have Had the Same Dream and We Are All in This Together — titles that convey his concern for the plight of the forgotten and the dispossessed.

Co-curated by Silver Eye executive director Ellen Fleurov and independent curator (and occasional CP contributor) Leo Hsu, Steacy’s collage pushes the boundaries at Silver Eye without diminishing the gallery’s focus on photography. Currently dividing his time between Philadelphia and New York, Steacy is a photographer of considerable skill, profound commit-

ment, and accomplishment in publications, exhibitions and awards. He’s also pissed off and wants to tell us why.

Photographs such as “Rubble, Detroit” (2009) and “Couch, San Francisco” (2010) are not only documentary records of place and time but also, in conjunction with the other photographs here, testaments to the poverty and despair perme-

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ating many inner-city neighborhoods.

Depicted are mostly nocturnal scenes of uncollected trash, nihilistic graffiti and people who appear to not be getting the help they need. It adds up to a nightmarish vision of neighborhoods stranded with a minimum of education, jobs and social services.

Steacy recognizes that while photography is invaluable for showing how things look, and can serve a symbolic or even iconic role, the medium is limited in what it can communicate. (All this per his Sept. 12 talk at Spaces Corners photography bookstore.) In seeking to get beyond the all-too-real appearance of foreclosed homes, shuttered factories and homeless people, news junkie Steacy went through his collection of newspapers and magazines in order to trace a path through journalistic stories that addressed the roots of the crisis as well as its effects.

Incorporating headlines and press photographs along with photographs by Steacy himself, the 2012 collage “The Beast” is a broad survey of, and strident commentary on, economic policies and outcomes over the past 30-plus years. It spans the wishful thinking of Reagan’s trickle-down theory; the deindustrialization of America under free trade/globalization; ramped-up militarism and surveillance after 9/11; and greed and misdeeds in the financial industry. The collage encompasses everything from statistics to personal stories, expressing empathy, assigning blame and, by implication, CONTINUES ON PG. 82

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elegizing a time of an at least somewhat more fair economic order. Steacy’s disdain is by no means confined to Republicans, though they do appear to merit more than their share of blame.

Utilizing an approach first developed in early-20th-century Dada collage, Steacy combines words and images confrontationally, yet in a way that mostly remains true to their intent as published. “The Beast” is a kind of timeline and journal, stepping outside the confines of reporting to present an overview of cumulative assaults on the American Dream of economic mobility and middle-class prosperity. Laid out as two-page spreads in a book-ready format — a book is forthcoming — here they are abutted into a giant mass, gaining an authority of scale while diminishing readability and coherence.

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Will Steacy’s “Ennis”

Q: HOW DID YOU GET INTO BARTENDING? A: I started bartending eight years ago when I went to college at Penn State.

I started at Bar Louie in the Waterfront.

Q: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF CUSTOMER? A: Business people who come with a group of people and use ONE tab to pay.

Q: WHAT’S THE WORST KIND OF CUSTOMER? A: People who flag me down and then don’t know what they want to order.

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Q: WHAT’S YOUR PREFERRED DRINK OF CHOICE? A: ABSOLUT and soda with a lemon.

Q: WHERE DID YOU GAIN YOUR MOST VALUABLE BARSERVICE TRAINING?

A: Definitely here at Olive or Twist.

The specialty is martinis. It is so important to do it right, all the way down to the garnish.

Q : WHERE CAN YOU BE FOUND WHEN YOU AREN’T WORKING? A: On my couch with a glass of wine, watching bad reality TV. Q: WHAT’S THE WORST PICK UP LINE YOU’VE EVER HEARD WHILE WORKING? A: This was just recently: “Are you interested in seeing the inside of my BMW” Q: WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO GET A BARTENDER’S ATTENTION? A: I hate when people flag me down, or call me “hunny”. Honestly, I will wait on someone who is waiting patiently

before someone who is snapping at me. And a good tip on the first drink always helps.

Q: HAVE YOU BEEN GIVEN ANYTHING OTHER THAN MONEY AS A TIP? A: Some guy left his business card once and said if I called him, he would tip me.

Q: WHAT’S THE BEST PART ABOUT WORKING AT OLIVE OR TWIST? A: The people who work here- the other girls and I are so close. We travel and go out together. We help each other out and have each other’s backs.

I can’t imagine anyone entirely taking in the thousands of clippings with words in the tens of thousands — at least not while standing in a gallery. But as is, it’s a strain to follow threads very far. It might feel different in a book that could be perused in sections. Here the primary effect is that of an impassioned plea, a vast outpouring in which the artist, based on his research and experience, expresses his shock and disgust at the policies and practices that have increasingly burdened and left behind America’s most vulnerable.

Steacy is equal parts documenter and provocateur. Given the depth of his concern, it’s no surprise that Steacy is angry, and that emotion suffuses the exhibit.

My feeling is that any thoughtful, informed contribution to the conversation can only help, but if you’re looking for a glimmer of hope and some practical direction, you might try Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Sound artist Scanner

EPISODE 2:

The best time to view “Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night” is just before closing. The deserted Wood Street Galleries lend an apt atmosphere to this installation — a series of vignettes written by the British journalist and conceptual artist Sukhdev Sandhu about his real-life encounters with the under-acknowledged inhabitants of London’s night: urban foxcullers, cleaners and helpline volunteers. As his words creep stiltedly across a large black screen, you sense a solitary person behind it typing them, narrating the urban night.

“My ideal viewer of it was somebody alone at 3 a.m. going down into a sort of tunnel of sound,” Sandhu says by phone from New York, where he is a professor at New York University. Underscoring the work are soundscapes by acclaimed electronic musician Robin Rimbaud, a.k.a.

Scanner. “It started in 2006 as an online project but with a really strong sonic dimension to it,” Sandhu says. “It’s hard to think about night-time without thinking about sound. There’s less traffic.

There’s more echoes. Sound circulates in different ways.”

“Night Haunts” is part of The City and the City, an exhibition curated by Justin Hopper (an occasional CP contributor).

Sandhu’s work exists in many formats — website, book, exhibit, a series of short films — and on Oct. 20, it will be presented live by Sandhu and Rimbaud in a special performance funded by the British Council. Its content will be customized for Pittsburgh.

“It’s kind of a sonic portrait of the city of Pittsburgh,” says Rimbaud via Skype from London. “We only do it live once every couple of years, as it takes a lot of energy. Sukhdev needs to write new pieces that are inspired by and resonate with the city itself. I’m coming early to record lots of sounds of Pittsburgh that will be used in the piece.”

Most intriguingly, the pair will perform “Night Haunts” in complete darkness.

“What we look for in a venue is quite scary places,” Sandhu says. “Very very dark, no visual stimuli. People often tell us what they’re watching is a kind of movie created by the words and by the sound.”

“There’s a thrill to listening when you can’t see anything,” Rimbaud says. Sandhu adds: “The sound is disembodied. It’s quite haunted, and that’s the mood we’re going in for.”

EARLY ON, you can tell that Juliana has issues. She’s abrasive, snarky and inconsistent. Her husband looks long-suffering. In conversation, people respond to her with pained restraint. Juliana is off-kilter, but we’re not sure how or why, and, in truth, she doesn’t know either. We spend most of the play in Juliana’s head, but even her firstperson narration doesn’t always add up. The Other Place, by Sharr White, is like a Rubik’s Cube of tragedy, and even though the colors of Juliana’s psyche start to match up, the puzzle ultimately remains half-solved.

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Off the Wall Productions presents this cerebral drama, and although the show is often too slow and understated for its own good, the suspense thrums throughout.

Director Melissa Hill Grande fluidly moves her cast from scene to scene, thanks in part to Michael E. Moats’ precise lighting design.

As Juliana, Virginia Wall Gruenert has the difficult task of playing disoriented and self-assured at the same time. As her husband, Ian, Mark Conway Thompson plays the most sympathetic role — a man who just wants his wife back. Meanwhile, Erika Cuenca more or less steals the show with various supporting roles.

What’s striking about White’s script is

that it blends medical science with personal relationships, and the dialogue is both sharp and realistic. Instead of the raw existential nonsense of a lesser play, White wants us to feel as flustered as Juliana and Ian. To explain further would ruin the twists, but suffice it to say that The Other Place is not your everyday schizophrenic, dream-within-adream, what-is-reality snoozer. Juliana endures something real, common and frightfully important. The Matrix this is not.

In the end, The Other Place is a fine way to inaugurate Off the Wall’s magnificent new theater space, in Carnegie. Until recently, Pittsburghers had to drive all the way to Washington, Pa., to catch Off the Wall’s exceptional programming. Its new theater is, as locals love to say, “right through the tunnel.” The space is cozy, comfortable and easily a thousand times better than the last. Off the Wall is a company that deserves to progress, and whether or not you visited its first location, now’s the time to see its Other Place.

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ANTIC {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} GEE, 100 YEARS already? The Duquesne

University Red Masquers continue their centennial celebration with a new play by a Pittsburgh playwright channeling another famous local lad. Fifth Avenue High School alum George S. Kaufmann shared the 1937 Pulitzer Prize with Moss Hart for You Can’t Take It With You, the classic that captured hearts in the Great Depression.

Now, in the new millennium (and new depression), F.J. Hartland pursues that spirit in Be Our Guest.

It’s about another wacky, if not quite carefree family, the Guests. My alma mater’s faculty-student theater is a good fit for the age range in the large cast, but the production, directed by Lora Oxenreiter, is a mixed bag.

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Still very much a work in progress, Guest lurches when it should leap. Too slow and too padded for a comedy, Guest is peopled with characters determinedly clueless and charmless, far from YCTIWY’s happy-golucky (if cloyingly cheerful) VanderhofSycamore ménage. Maybe that’s the point, but it’s hard to care about such unsympathetic types, let alone laugh at their antics.

The first act is more of a horror story: Young man brings his new bride home to meet the folks. Most are hostile, if not downright menacing, to the girl. Even her husband turns fickle. The only family member in a welcoming mood seems to be a per-

vert who physically assaults the poor young woman. Filled with double entendres and some clever wordplay, the dialogue mainly comes off as noisy and shrill.

Act II perks up when the heroine (played by a dogged Elizabeth Glyptis) develops a backbone, and the playwright’s best creation joins the show: the exotically named Ione, a nerd goddess and fount of knowledge, always spouting off, but always on target. Kudos to Elizabeth Pegg for cramming so many words and minutiae into a dazzling performance. Applause also for the multi-tasking theater-arts-department director, John E. Lane Jr. He designed the wellchewed scenery, and even adds a few bites as a comic but cohesive character: a lovable bear of a man who can find his voice only by re-enacting First Ladies.

Introducing new voices and new people (as well as polished veterans like Mark Yochum, Jay Keenan and Nancy Bach) is a good way to celebrate a century.

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and the Beast), sanitized (Mamma Mia!), standardized (Les Miz) and lobotomized (Phantom of the Opera), it’s hard not to salute the determination of the Pittsburgh Savoyards in producing the 14 light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble but, dammit!, the Savoyards are going to keep doing what they’ve always done. Which brings us to their latest production of The Yeomen of the Guard.

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD

continues through Sun., Oct. 21.

Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $12-25. 412-734-8476 or www.pittsburghsavoyards.org

I can’t claim to be a big G&S fan (I don’t have the stamina, for one). But after sitting through the number of Savoyard productions that I have over the years, I can say that Yeomen is my personal favorite. The scads of frippery and folderol in your standard G&S musical are kept to a minimum in this tale of a wrongfully condemned soldier who overcomes big odds to clear his name and win the girl.

These operettas require a boatload of period costumes, wigs and props, played out on a mammoth, intricately detailed set by a huge pool of performers ruthlessly schooled in the exacting — and all but extinct — operetta playing style.

Most of that the Savoyards don’t possess.

(They are a community theater, after all.)

Director Chuck Penick stages a workmanlike production which maybe can’t ever be said to shine but — and this is a big plus — for most of the evening it doesn’t get in the way, either.

As always, I’m happy to note the work of musical director Guy Russo and the full live orchestra under his baton. (It’s a treat to see a musical with more than an electric keyboard as accompaniment.) It’s also a pleasure to recommend the three female leads: Randi Daffier, Rachel Myers and Gabriela Pascale. (These roles have been double-cast so, depending on when you attend, your mileage may vary.) They all possess beautiful, expressive voices perfectly suited for Sullivan’s score, and contribute strongly to the evening. Additionally, Garth Schafer does well playing (and not overplaying) the comedy scenes of Sgt. Meryl.

One down, 13 to go! And then it starts all over again.

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Saltimbanco is Cirque du Soleil’s longest-running show, but its farewell tour includes

and staging make the sort of physical feats no human should be capable of even stranger in the troupe’s signature production, which celebrates the urban experience. Saltimbanco’s seven showings at the Petersen Events Center may seem a passing hallucination. CS 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Oct. 21.

3719 Terrace St., Oakland. $32-80. 412-648-3054 or www.cirquedusoleil.com

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Pittsburgh duo Allison Glancey and Craig Seder, a.k.a. strawberryluna, prove why their quirky skills have been retained by musicians such as Feist and Belle & Sebastian.

This exhibit at Wildcard features their handmade plywood

New Horizon Theater is back with a blues musical. Joseph Plummer’s Nothing But the Blues is set at a landmark South Side Chicago blues club — based on the real-life Theresa’s Lounge — whose proprietor is being pushed out by a greedy landlord.

Songs include “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Back Door Man” and “You Can Have My Husband.”

Eileen J. Morris directs; the show opens tonight at a new venue for the troupe, the Kingsley Association community center. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Show continues through Oct. 28. 6435 Frankstown Ave., Larimer. $20. 412-431-0773

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Are you one of those people who gets more talented when you drink? Us, too!

And you’re the audience for Toons and Brews. The latest installment in Toonseum’s Geeks Rule! series combines a basic-cartooning class with a beer sampling. Just remember that the pencil goes point side down, and you’ll be fine. BO 7:30 p.m. 945 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10. 412-232-0199 or www.toonseum.org

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Rage of the Stage Players is known for recasting stories from fairy tales to The Wizard of Oz along dark, bloody and modern lines. So here’s Hooked, which troupe founder James Michael Shoberg calls his “grim, violent twist on J.M. Barrie’s novel Peter and Wendy.” It’s set in a decayed, crime-ridden future London where a punk named Pan, a girl named Wendy Darling and her two brothers cross paths with the drug lord Hook.

(Disney won’t be buying the rights.) The show opens at South Park Theatre tonight.

BO 8 p.m. Show continues through Nov. 3. Corner of Brownsville Road and Corrigan Drive, South Park. $15. 724-292-8427 or rageofthestage@yahoo.com

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Jeffrey Eugenides’ books are as widely spaced by publication date as by subject matter. His first novel, 1993’s The Virgin Suicides, was the dreamy, atmospheric fodder for the hit Sofia Coppola film. Middlesex, the life chronicle of a GreekAmerican hermaphrodite, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, college romance The Marriage Plot secured his status as one of the best and most flexible American writers of recent years, in the same bracket as Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace. Eugenides’ skewering of the 1980s literary scene sent rumor mills fluttering that the novel’s manicdepressive hero was inspired by one of his peers. “Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel,” argues one of his academic characters, before the story’s old-fashioned will-she-or-won’t-she romance proves just the opposite.

Despite his literati status, Eugenides maintains a “perverse love” for his hometown, Detroit. He speaks at Carnegie Music Hall tonight as part of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures series. Catherine Sylvain 7:30 p.m. Mon., Oct. 22. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $15-35. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org

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When bookshelves are eventually phased out by e-books, what will famous intellectuals sit in front of during video interviews? Following the freak destruction of her father’s library, curator Sonja Sweterlitsch puts the book on the gallery podium in defiance of its increasingly popular digital rivals. In the new exhibit BOOK, at 709 Gallery, Pittsburgh artists Seth Clark, Dana Ingham, Randie Snow and Brett Yasko offer book-themed works suggesting these objects are now a source of ephemeral beauty as well as knowledge. CS Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Exhibition continues through Nov. 18.

709 Penn Ave., Downtown.

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Ainadamar, staged with a live orchestra inside the landmark East Liberty Presbyterian Church, is sung in Spanish, with English subtitles; the show reunites much of the production team from Quantum’s Maria de Buenos Aires. BO 8 p.m.

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Quantum Theatre offers a passionate chamber opera about martyred poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s relationship with his muse, Catalan tragedian Margarita Xirgu.

Ainadamar (“fountain of tears”), by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, is a Grammy-winning 2003 work with flamenco motifs and a libretto by David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly).

Soprano Katy Williams plays Xirgu, while mezzo Raquel Winnica Young sings Lorca.

Allegheny Land Trust. A local historian and naturalists from the Trust lead this moderately paced afternoon hike with spooky undertones. BO 1-4 p.m. Boston, Pa. $12. www.ventureoutdoors.org

he made it on Broadway and in Hollywood, Gene Kelly changed how the world saw dance on film. His innovations were epitomized in classics like An American in Paris and Singin’ in the Rain.

Tonight, his widow, Patricia

White House and political coverage, and wrote the 2010 book The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate. He speaks at Chatham University in a free event sponsored by the school’s Pennsylvania

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Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Free; reservations required at GK100@pitt.edu or 412-624-4147.

Center for Women and Politics.

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POSTMORTEM. Mystery thriller

by Ken Ludwig. Presented by New Castle Playhouse. Fri-Sun. Thru of Cline’s friendship with a fan Nov. 4. New Castle Playhouse, New from Houston. Oct. 19-21. Strand Castle. 724-654-3437.

Theater, Zelienople. 724-742-0400.

THE PRODUCERS. Scheming BE OUR GUEST. A comedy about partners Max Bialystock & Leo a couple concealing their marriage Bloom attempt to make some cash from their family. Peter Mills from a Broadway flop. Thu-Sun. Auditorium. redmasquers.

Thru Oct. 28. Pittsburgh Playhouse, blogspot.com Thu-Sat. Thru Oakland. 412-392-8000.

Oct. 20. Duquesne University, RUMORS. Neil Simon’s comedy, Uptown. 412-396-6000. presented by Community Theatre THE BEST MAN. Gore Vidal’s play Players. Thu-Sat. Thru Oct. 27. about an ethical man running Community Presbyterian Church for the Presidential nomination of Ben Avon, Ben Avon. against an “unscrupulous” man.

412-734-2050.

Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 27. Baldwin THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Presented Community United Methodist

by The Bethel Park Heritage Church, Whitehall. 412-881-1002.

Players. Fri-Sun. Thru Oct. 28.

BORN YESTERDAY. Comedy Bethel Park Community Center, about a corrupt junk dealer who Bethel Park. 412-831-6800 x 745. brings his showgirl mistress to STRAIGHTENING COMBS. Washington D.C. Tue-Sun. Thru Kim El’s one-woman show about Oct. 28. O’Reilly Theater, repercussions of low self Downtown. 412-316-1600. esteem & overcoming DREAM ALONG WITH depression in urban ME. A Celebration of America. Fri, Sat. Thru Perry Como’s 100th Oct. 20. Pittsburgh Birthday. Fri, Sat. Thru Playwrights Theatre, www. per Oct. 20. Crowne Plaza Downtown. pa pghcitym Hotel, Bethel Park. .co 412-370-9576.

412-833-5300.

TIME STANDS STILL. A THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. comic drama about love, A Duchess marries beneath changing directions & the ties of her class & her brothers exact friendship. Thu-Sat. Thru Nov. 3. revenge, destroying themselves Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. in the process. Presented by The 724-745-6300.

American Shakespeare Center.

VARNEY THE VAMPIRE OR THE Mon., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.

FEAST OF BLOOD. Melodramatic Washington & Jefferson College, spoof about an overly emotional Washington. 724-223-6546. vampire. Fri, Sat. Thru Nov. 3.

AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry.

A series of creative short plays 724-591-8727. directed by students. Gerald & YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. Gilbert Carolyn Blaney Theatre, Steele Hall. & Sullivan’s tragedy. Thu-Sun. Oct. 18-20. California University, Thru Oct. 21. Andrew Carnegie California. 724-938-5943.

Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

HOOKED. A violent twist on the 412-734-8476. story of Peter Pan. Thu-Sat and Wed., Oct. 31. Thru Nov. 3.

South Park Theatre, Bethel Park.

724-292-8427.

MAPLE & VINE. Burned out by COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by their hectic, Manhattan lifestyles, Derek Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru Katha & Ryu move to Maple & Nov. 22 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

Vine, a neighborhood that lives 412-855-2749. perpetually in 1955. Tue-Sun. Thru Nov. 4. City Theatre, South Side.

412-431-2489.

PITTSBURGH COMEDY NOTHIN’ BUT THE BLUES. A SHOWCASE W/ MIKE WYSOCKI. rollicking musical feat. blues Fri, 9 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side. classics. Presented by New Horizon 412-488-2995.

Theater. Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 28.

Kingsley Center, East Liberty.

412-431-0773.

BRAD WILLIAMS. Oct. 19-20 The THE OTHER PLACE. A Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233. psychological drama about a biophysicist investigating a personal mystery. Thru Oct. 27.

ADAM DODD, BILL SCOTT, RON Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie.

PLACONE. 7 p.m. The Rose Bar and Grille, White Oak. 412-751-6960.

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DAVID KAYE, JOE EBERLE, DAVID MICHAEL. Deer Lakes Boys Soccer Boosters Funny Fundraiser.

6 p.m. American Legion Post 593, Tarentum. 412-287-6915.

SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers.

Sat, 6:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, North Side. 412-322-1000.

SHAUN BLACKHAM, JOSH COPEN, LISA DAPPRICH. Chartiers Houston Boys Basketball Funny Fundraiser. 7 p.m.

Canonsburg Sportsmans Club, Canonsburg. 724-809-6711.

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ERICK WILLIAMS. Mon, 9 p.m.

Thru Dec. 31 Inn-Termission Lounge, South Side. 412-381-3497.

OPEN MIC COMEDY. Hosted by Aaron Kleiber. Mon, 9 p.m. Thru Dec. 31 Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield.

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

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OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

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JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Wed Younger’s, North Side.

412-452-3267.

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

EXHIBITS ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY

HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts and exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives that Transform Communities.

Folk art objects illustrating the power of women working together to provide for their families, educate their children, promote equality, & give back to their communities. 412-6223131. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing specimens, & live bugs! Life: A Journey Through Time & Population Impact thru Jan., Winging It: Experimental Gallery About Birds thru March, Lord of the Crane Flies thru April. Ongoing: CONTINUES ON PG. 90

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AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Radiant Circles: Ruth E. Levine’s Generous Life. Key work from Levine’s various artistic stages.

Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010.

SCHOOLHOUSE ART CENTER. Quixotic. Paintings by Rose Duggan. Opening reception: Oct. 20, 7-10 p.m. Bethel Park.

412-833-5967.

SHAW GALLERIES. Paper Gestalt. Collage work by Katie Mackowick. Opens Oct. 19. Closing reception: Oct. 20, 5-8 p.m.

Downtown. 412-281-4884.

WILDCARD. Moving Between Dimensions. Screenprints by strawberryluna aka Allison Glancey & Craig Seder. Oct. 18, 6-9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-224-2651.

ONGOING

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

Mixed media/ sculpture by Jim Miller & photography by Suzanne Andrews. Greensburg.

724-205-9033.

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

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

Brush to canvas. Finger to screen.

Downtown. 412-325-7017.

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.

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

BOKSENBAUM FINE ARTS GALLERY. A Photographic Journey: Israel, Palestine, Egypt & more. Photography by Alex Goldblum. By appointment.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-3212.

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 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. Culture in Context.

African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside.

412-365-1232.

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

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

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, more.

Ohiopyle. 724-329-1370.

FE GALLERY. CREEP. Installation pieces from 9 artists. Costume party Nov. 10, 7-11 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-860-6028.

FEIN ART GALLERY. 2012 PSA Annual Exhibition. Group show juried by Vickie A. Clark. North Side. 412-321-6816.

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. Oakland. 412-681-5449.

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

412-371-0600.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Moods of Pittsburgh II: Expired Mills, Inspired Landscapes. Group show. Oakland. 412-716-1390.

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, more. 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.

HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. 2012 Hoyt Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition. New Castle.

724-652-2882.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Journey Through Georgia. Work

by Dato Shushania, Vissarion Bakradze, more. 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. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922.

LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a CONTINUES ON PG. 90

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Earth Revealed, Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Village, USS Requin submarine, and more. North Side.

412-237-3400.

COMPASS INN. Demos and tours with costumed guides featuring this restored stagecoach stop.

Ligonier. 724-238-4983.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Reconstructed fort houses museum of Pittsburgh history circa French & Indian War and American Revolution. Downtown.

412-281-9285.

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

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, and enjoy hikes and outdoor activities in the surrounding park.

Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium.

Showcasing watercolors & drawings of 48 American botanical artists, archiving plants growing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Oakland. 412-268-2434.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont.

412-826-9295.

MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection includes jade and ivory statues from China and Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler.

724-282-0123.

MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open

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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 & more. Ongoing Installations.

Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama & more. 412-231-3169.

MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Gestures: Intimate Friction. Group show feat. Nina Marie Barbuto, Dee Briggs, Jeremy Ficca, more. Guest Curated by Mary -Lou Arscott.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MENDELSON GALLERY. Worlds Within. Work by James P. Nelson, David Aschkenas, more.

Shadyside. 412-361-8664.

MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of

for tours, lectures and more.

Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

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

412-323-7235.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott.

412-851-9212.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Fall Flower Show. Nearly 3,000 mums in various forms & colors display festive scenes. 412-622-6914.

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

Architecture. Feat. photographs, sculpture, architectural models & drawings, that together examine 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.

NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Urbanscapes. Work

by Mary Lloyd Claytor. Ross.

412-364-3622.

OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Faces & Places: Photographs of Old Economy. Never before seen photography from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Ambridge.

724-266-4500.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Halloween Photography Exhibit.

Photographs of Frankenstein, Zombies, sorrowful photos of

world. Oakland. 412-622-6914.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Tintypes.

Photographs on polished steel that brought the first lower-cost, indestructible photos within price range of the average person.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

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

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

724-274-5459.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. Military

dead children & grandmothers, & other haunting things. The History of Photography. Plus preservation and education exhibits. Shantytown - The Ed Salamony Photographs.

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.

museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland.

412-621-4253.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side. 412-323-9504.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice and the immigrant experience in America.

Millvale. 421-681-0905.

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

724-887-7910.

HOLIDAY

Pennsylvania Humane Society. 79 p.m. Mall at Robinson, Robinson.

THU 18 - WED 24

FRI 19 - SAT 20

HAUNTED HILLS HAYRIDE/ VALLEY OF DARKNESS HAUNTED WALKING TRAIL. Benefits The Autism Society of Pittsburgh & The Spectrum Charter School. www.hauntedhillshayride. com Thru Nov. 2 Haunted Hills, North Versailles.

PITTSBURGH TERROR TROLLEY TOURS. Thru Oct. 31, 7 & 9 p.m.

Station Square. 412-281-2085.

FRI 19

HOWL-O-WEEN PET COSTUME CONTEST. Benefits the Western

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Tony Janflone Jr. Band

SAT 20

HALLOWGREEN. Costume contest, dance party, Mad Scientist bar, Frankenstein’s Beer Garden, more. Hosted by the Green Building Alliance. Terminal Building, South Side. 7:30 p.m.

412-773-6008.

Special Events!

Known for his take on the blues and rock n roll plus bar-top performance — definitely a show you don’t wanna miss!

1401 EAST CARSON STREET • SOUTHSIDE • 412-481-3203

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HAUNTED HISTORY TOURS AT POINT STATE PARK. Learn about the history of the Point through shocking a& strange – yet true – tales. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 27 Fort Pitt Museum, Downtown. 412-565-2850.

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Devries. Opening reception & kids Halloween party: Oct. 27, 1 p.m. Downtown. 412-232-0199.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop. Open studio.

Lawrenceville. 412-621-0663.

UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Not Like I Remembered. Sculptures

by Aris Georgiades & Gail Simpson. By appointment.

Braddock. 415-518-9921.

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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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.

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, more. Part of the MAVUNO Festival. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

THE TOONSEUM. Monster Engine. Children’s drawings turned to paintings by David

FESTIVALS SAT 20 - SUN 21

AUTUMNFEST. Various fall entertainment, food, activities, more. Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Seven Springs, Champion.

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FALL ORCHID FESTIVAL. Blooming orchids, lectures, plant raffles, & orchid vendors. Oct. 20-21 Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside.

412-441-4442.

WINES UNDER GLASS: TOASTING GREAT GROWTH TO A GREENER FUTURE. Celebrating Phipps’ new Center for Sustainable Landscapes. 6:30-10 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

Shadyside. 412-365-1100.

SAT 20

SAT 20

LIVE ROCK & ROLL KARAOKE COSTUME PARTY. Benefits Haitian Families First. 10 p.m.

Shadow Lounge, East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

ST. BARNABAS CHARITIES FASHION GALA. Fashion show, vendors, raffle, more. www. per ATTACK OF THE Benefits the St. pa pghcitym KILLER BURLESQUE Barnabas Free Care Fund. .co HALLOWEEN SHOW. 11 a.m. Kean Theatre, Feat. The Bridge City Gibsonia. 724-444-5521.

Bombshells Burlesque Troupe, WIG OUT PARTY. Wig & costume the BCB Princess Teasers, DJ contests, raffle, drink specials, Zombo, costume contest, more. more. Benefits Pittsburgh chapter 9 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. of Young Adult Cancer Support.

412-687-2157.

7-10 p.m. Villa Southside, South NAACHE MAYURI: THE Side. 412-622-1212.

DANCING PEACOCK. Indian WPTLA 5K. Benefits Pittsburgh dance performance. 7:30 p.m.

Steelwheelers. Begins at Heinz ModernFormations Gallery, Field. 9 a.m. 412-487-7644.

Garfield. 412-362-0274.

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GMK DANCE TEAM FUNDRAISER. Comedy by Aaron Kleiber. 8 p.m. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

THU 18 - FRI 19

PIZZAZZ. Shopping event benefitting conservation & education programs in PA. Thru Oct. 19 Fox Chapel Golf Club, Fox Chapel.

412-741-3424.

FRI 19

BLACK & WHITE CHRISTMAS BALL FUNDRAISER. Dinner, DJ, more. 7:30 p.m. Braddock Elks, Braddock. 412-273-4616.

BONE BASH. Costume-optional gala feat. dinner, silent auction, dancing, more. VIP reception w/ L.C. Greenwood. Benefits the Arthritis Foundation. 5:30 p.m.

Clear Story Studio, South Side.

412-250-3341.

JAMMIN’ AWAY THE BLUES. Live music feat. Phoenix Jazz Project, food, libations & silent auction.

Benefits Allegheny Co. chapter of Mental Health America. 6 p.m. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-661-7860.

NOE’S NIGHT OF LIGHT. Music by the Kenny Blake Group, food stations, silent auction, more.

Benefits the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center. 7 p.m. Disalvo’s Restaurant, Latrobe. 412-441-4884.

OKTOBERFEST. Dinner, karaoke, more. Benefits LifeSpan, Inc. 7-11 p.m. Boston Spectrum, McKeesport. 412-464-1300.

ONE BREATH AT A TIME GALA. Dinner, silent auction, live music, more. Benefits the American Lung Association. 6-11 p.m. Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, Downtown.

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EXECUTIVES GOT TALENT. Pittsburgh non-profit executives compete in a talent competition to benefit Every Child, Inc. 7 p.m. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-665-0600.

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FRI 19

SMASH MOUTH POETRY SLAM. Feat. Dos Noun & Seez Mics.

8 p.m. Blasfome, South Side.

412-475-9591.

SARA M. ROSS. Book signing w/ YA author of Avenge: The Petronus Book Two. 1-4 p.m.

Reads Ink Bookshop, Vandergrift.

724-567-7236.

SUN 21

KAMBRI CREWS. Memoir reading of Burn the Ground Down. 2-4 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield.

412-687-4323.

MAUREEN MCGRANAGHAN. Sunday Poetry & Reading Series.

2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

TUE 23

WAYNE PACELLE. President & CEO, The Humane Society, author of The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call Defend Them.

6:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble - Settlers Ridge, Robinson.

KIDSTUFF THU 18 - WED 24

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.

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FRI 19 - SUN 21

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.

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135 9th Street 412-281-7703 www.blushexotic.com

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WHAT CHOICE IS THERE FOR WORKERS IN THE ELECTION? Presented by the Pittsburgh Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor. 6:30 p.m. Owls Club, Homestead. 412-589-2558.

Are you bored?

MON 22

DEBATE WATCH PARTY. 8:15 p.m.

Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill. 412-805-5069.

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCH. Discussions will take place before & after debate. Village Hall 118.

8 p.m. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

724-837-7040.

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THE DISAPPEARING UNDECIDED VOTER. Speaker: Terence Samuel, deputy political editor at the Washington Post. James Laughlin Music Hall. 6 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1878.

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ALAN W. PETRUCELLI. Author of Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous & Infamous. 7 p.m. Penn Hills Library, Penn Hills. 412-795-3507.

BOOKS IN THE AFTERNOON. Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan. 1 & 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

SALGADO MARANHÃO & ALEXIS LEVITIN. Poetry reading.

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SAT 20

BUILD YOUR OWN MINIATURE PITTSBURGH HOUSE. Using photographs & everyday household objects, create a miniature home of your very own. 1-4 p.m. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634.

SAT 20 - SUN 21

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

JACK & THE BEANSTALK. Interactive musical. Sat, Sun. Thru Nov. 11 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-5201.

MON 22

NOW OPEN

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NOW HIRING

www.clubcontroversy.com 1635 W. Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-5764 1 MILE WEST OF STATION SQUARE

$2 WELL DRINKS 10PM - MIDNIGHT

2-4-1 LAP DANCES

HERBAL ALCHEMY ADVENTURES II. Learn the art of potion making w/ everyday plants. Ages 7-13.

Mon, 3:15-5 p.m. Thru Nov. 19 Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634.

OUTSIDE SAT 20

HIKING CLUB CHALLENGE. 12-mile hike. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

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

Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-255-2539.

SUN 21

FALL FOLIAGE WALK. 23:30 p.m. Raccoon Creek State Park,

Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

TUE 23

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

WED 24

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

412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 18

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

8TH ANNUAL LAWRENCEVILLE ARTISTS’ STUDIO TOUR. Self-guided tour feat. 17 artists & craftspeople. To download a map, go to http://lvpgh.com/. 10 a.m.6 p.m. 412-683-6488.

THE GREAT AMERICAN COWBOY SHOW. Barrel racing, cowboy riding demos, food, more.

12-5 p.m. Victory Stables, Apollo.

412-496-5003.

YES, YOU CAN DANCE

By setting up community dances, Yes, You Can Dance endeavors to improve the well-being of local seniors, individuals with special needs, veterans and teens.

Volunteer “Dance Hosts” — who socialize and dance with guests — are currently being sought for the Nov. 3 “Saturday Social for Seniors,” at Community & Recreation Center, 1551 Mayview Road, Upper St. Clair. Email jereed@ yesyoucandance.org for information.

CULTURE CLUB. Salon-style conversation & happy hour. Third Thu of every month, 5:30-9 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland.

412-622-3131.

HIRING OUR HEROES CAREER FAIR. Job-hiring event for veterans & military spouses. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Heinz Field, North Side.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA INTERNSHIPS: WAYS TO WRITE FOR A LIVING. Panel discussion & Q&A feat. Anne Linaberger, Tracy Certo, Marin Cogan, Bob Mecoy, more. 7:30-9:30 p.m. William Pitt Union, Oakland. 412-624-1737.

A PERFECT X: INTERSECTING TRANSGENDER PERSPECTIVES IN FILM, VIDEO & PERFORMANCE. Feat. Rhys Ernst & Zachary Drucker. Porter Hall. 4:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-2000.

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.

A TIME TO COOK: RECIPES & STRATEGIES FOR SEASONAL EATING. Presentation & Q&A. 7 p.m. Assemble, Garfield.

DRINKING SKEPTICALLY. Informal discussion group for skeptics, critical-thinkers & likeminded individuals. Third Fri of every month, 7 p.m. Church Brew Works, Lawrenceville. 412-688-8200.

GHOST HUNTING AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE. 8:30-11:30 p.m.

The Old Stone House, Slippery Rock. 724-738-4964.

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MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY, & CULTURE. Speakers & workshops will illustrate where we get our music, how & why we share music, how & why we recommend music, more. 11 a.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-6094.

HISTORIC DESIGNATION & REUNION. The former Ursuline Academy will hold an all-class reunion in conjunction w/ a celebration for the building’ designation on the National Register of Historic Places. 3 p.m.

Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, Bloomfield. 502-515-7523.

HOLISTIC MOMS NETWORK OPEN HOUSE. Activities, snacks, more. 2-4 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

THE MAGIC OF MICHAEL GRANDINETTI. Illusionist performance. 7:30 p.m. A.J. Palumbo Center, Uptown. 412-396-5559.

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.

STEEL CITY ROLLER DERBY. B-Unit vs. Hanover’s Black Rose Rollers & Monongahela Monsters vs. Allegheny Avengers. 7 p.m.

Romp & Roll Skating Rink, Glenshaw. 412-486-4117.

SUN 21

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m.

Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727.

PFLAG GREENSBURG. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Third Sun of every month, 2 p.m. Trinity United Church of Christ, Greensburg. 412-518-1515.

PLANT REMEDIES FOR THE COLD SEASON: HERB WORKSHOP. Hands-on herbal workshop. 14 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323.

RIVERS OF STEEL SUNDAY

HERITAGE MARKET. Farm & artist market. Sun, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thru Oct. 28 Homestead Pump House, Munhall. 412-464-4020.

SPECIAL NEEDS BALLROOM PROGRAM. Free ballroom dance classes to teens & adults w/ intellectual disabilities. Sun, 1-2 p.m. Thru Nov. 25 Steel City Ballroom, Mt. Lebanon.

412-999-3998.

VERONICA ROO’S VALUABLES WORKSHOP. Jewelry crafting workshop for beginner crafters.

Sun, 2-3 p.m. Thru Oct. 28 U.S. Steel Tower, Downtown. 814-769-1236.

WINDOWFARMS WORKSHOP. Learn to build a freestanding hydroponic garden made largely of reclaimed materials. 1-4 p.m.

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, Homewood. 412-473-0100.

MON 22

BURGH MEETS (ONE YOUNG) WORLD. Networking event for local & global young professionals.

Presented by the New Pittsburgh Collaborative. 7-10 p.m. AVA Bar & Lounge, East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

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.

TUE 23

GRAHAM HARMAN. CMU School of Art Fall Lecture Series. 5 p.m.

Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

412-279-2970.

UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS. Documentary screening about toxins in our environment. Panel discussion follows feat. the filmmaker & other guests. 6:30 p.m.

New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

412-420-2290.

WED 24

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

PITTSBURGH GONG SHOW. Wed. Thru Oct. 24 Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners.

All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

AUDITIONS GEMINI THEATER COMPANY. Auditions for Beauty & Beast Holiday. Oct. 22-23. Adult & student roles, plus adult male age 50+. Call for appointment.

Gemini Theater, Point Breeze.

412-243-6464.

THE REP. Equity Principal auditions for “Becky’s New Car.” Oct. 22. For an appointment call 412-392-8141 or email ademara@pointpark.edu.

SOUTHWEST BALLET COMPANY. Auditions for modern & ballet dancers for a benefit performance at The D.A.P. Co-Op for Dance Arts, & Photography. Oct. 20. Call to register. 412-403-7357.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m pro-choice. The anti-choice position is illogical and unappealing to me. It’s not the most unappealing quality I can think of in a partner, though — that would probably be dishonesty. Your advice last week to the woman who discovered that her boyfriend is anti-choice was terrible. You advised LIFE to tell her boyfriend that she’s pregnant in order to see if that changes his position. If a woman told me she was against abortion in all circumstances, I would think twice about dating her. If she told me she was pregnant and asked me to support the child, and then told me that she was just seeing how I would react, I would dump her.

VASECTOMY IN MONTANA

Pretty much everyone on God’s warming earth thought my advice for LIFE sucked monkey ass. In my defense, I did give LIFE the option of discussing an unplanned pregnancy as a hypothetical.

And even if LIFE did opt to lie — my clear preference — I didn’t intend for LIFE to drag the lie out for weeks. I was thinking 30 minutes tops.

My fault for not including a clear </lie> in my response.

So what was I thinking?

Basically this: Conservatives tend to change their positions on social issues when “it” happens to them. N ancy Reagan came out for stem-cell research after her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Rush Limbaugh came out for treatment over incarceration for drug offenders after he got caught with OxyContin. Dick Cheney came out for marriage equality after his daughter came out as a lesbian. Likewise, a lot of conservatives are anti-choice until an unplanned pregnancy happens to them. (Sometimes the cure doesn’t stick. Scott DesJarlais, for example, is a rabidly pro-life member of Congress from Tennessee. But back in 2000, he pressured his mistress to get an abortion to save his failing marriage.)

This inability to empathize is a defining characteristic of modern conservatism. But my plan to instill a little empathy in LIFE’s boyfriend was itself lacking in empathy. LIFE’s boyfriend might have been traumatized by the lie — and by the violation of trust. So my advice wasn’t just bad, it was hypocritical. Mea culpa.

Your response to LIFE was horrible. I hope LIFE was smart enough to disregard your idiotic “advice.”

OFFENDED

After I wrote you, I had a long conversation with my boyfriend. When I asked what we should do if I was pregnant, he said he would want me to give it up for adoption or keep it (with child support from him) but that I could have an abortion since “the letter of the law was on my side” (we live in Canada, for which I am eternally grateful). You hit the nail on the head when you said this was about equality and respect.

Even though he claimed he respected me, he admitted that he would ban abortion if he could, essentially arguing that I am less capable of understanding what pregnancy means than he is. I broke up with him. I’m writing to thank you for giving me the boost I needed, and to calm the commentators who really didn’t like the lie-aboutpregnancy suggestion.

PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ON GOD’S WARMING EARTH THOUGHT MY ADVICE FOR LIFE SUCKED MONKEY ASS.

Would an anti-choice position still be a deal-breaker for you, if your opposed-toabortion partner had the vagina?

PRO-CHOICE MYSELF

The right to control your own body is a bedrock value for me. But my hypothetical girlfriend’s anti-abortion position would be a deal-breaker only if she didn’t support the right of other women to make their own choices.

If my hypothetical girlfriend believed that the state should force a woman to give birth against her will, if she wanted doctors thrown in prison for performing abortions, if she believed every miscarriage should be treated like potential homicide, that would be a deal-breaker.

But yes, I could see myself dating a woman who was personally but not politically opposed to abortion. I would only fuck her in the ass, however, to avoid becoming a father against my will.

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I’m glad your anti-choice boyfriend is now your anti-choice ex, LIFE, and your letter is a good reminder to everyone who reads any advice-slinger’s column: It’s called “advice,” not “binding arbitration.” And I encourage everyone whose letter appears in the column to lurk in the comments and see what you have to say. Because sometimes your advice is better than mine.

Finally, a word to the anti-choice men who were so hurt that I told their girlfriends to dump them. If you oppose abortion because you believe “sexual choices should have consequences,” as more than one of you stated (was there a form letter circulating?), then you should be able to wrap your heads around this: Political choices have consequences, too. You can choose to be anti-choice, and women can choose not to date you.

Consequences! They’re not just for women anymore!

Your response to My Friend’s Kinky Son struck a chord with me. When I was a preschool kid, my evangelical next-door neighbor presented me with a magnificently illustrated Bible.

The only part that piqued my interest was a graphic image of the Israelites in bondage in Egypt: lots of sweat, whipping and blood.

I was excited by this image, and I was only 4 years old! By the time I was a teen-ager, I was collecting bondage porn and crafting my own bondage gear. Inevitably, my prying mother found my kinky stash. Much shaming ensued. It made no difference: I just got better at hiding my stash. Being berated by your parents as a child is probably an inevitable part of having BDSM tastes, just as it is for a lot of gay people, but it can’t “change” someone.

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17. History that goes way back (house, reggae) 19. Axle-based charges, often 20. Madhouses, e.g.

21. What a wrinkle cream may promise to do 23. How games may be broadcast 26. With 32-Across, things formed by placing each word in each theme answer before its respective parenthetical style 27. Off-speed pitch 31. Japanese smartphone maker 32. See 26-Across 34. Name in knife sets 38. Smiths-obsessed review rag, for years 39. Pennsylvania Ave. tween 41. Work in a physics lab?

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8. Casey on the dial 9. Sympathetic action?

10. Art meant to stimulate?

11. Excavated item 12. Hayek of “Puss in Boots” 13. Longtime Ford president Ford 18. Singer’s asset

22. Kicks 24. Brooding sorts?

25. Reduplicated, a New Wave band 27. Woodstock quartet, for short 28. “A Treatise on Human Nature” philosopher 29. The first martyr, in Islam 30. Puebla pocketful 33. Draws back (from) 35. The last cast member to sign on for the “Arrested Development” reunion, supposedly 36. Bike for Lance Armstrong 37. Venetian arch shape 40. Without delay, quickly

43. “Oregon Trail” fort 44. Electronics company with a super intense Nazi past 46. Hook up 47. About 1/5 of a kilometer 49. Congressperson’s address: Abbr.

51. Ground grain 52. Altercation 53. Device with an HDMI input, these days 54. Crab-like 57. 2022 World Cup city 59. Boo-boo 60. Dropped in the mail 61. Cultural periods 64. [And that’s the end of my artsy movie] 65. “Bad boy!” {LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS}

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Visualize yourself heading out on a high adventure with interesting people — but all the while being distracted by the memory of a trivial insult you experienced earlier that day. Picture yourself getting intimate with a lover who inspires you to lose your selfconsciousness — up until the point when you decide to interrupt your fun by answering a phone call from some random person.

Imagine toning yourself down and holding yourself back because of misplaced politeness or unnecessary guilt or delusional fear — even though you’re feeling a rushing instinct to surge and soar and overflow. Finally, Libra, understand that in getting you to envision these parodies of your current inclinations, I’m hoping to shock you into making sure that nothing like them happens.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting. I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you’re ready to shed the disguises that have been making it problematical for you to reinvent yourself. Who is the N ew You? Stripping down to the bare essentials in your dreams will help you see raw truths about your waking life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

As you cross the great water in search of the unknown treasure, navigate by the light of the clouds. That’s your dreamy oracle, Sagittarius.

What does it mean? Well, the work you do to figure it out is essential to activating its potential, so I don’t want to give away too much. But here are three further hints to inspire you on your quest. 1. Be willing to go a long way to find a secret you don’t even know you’re looking for. 2. Consider the possibility of cultivating faith in a goal that you don’t quite yet grasp in its entirety. 3. Rely on shadows and reflections to give you accurate information you can’t get directly from the thing that’s casting shadows and being reflected.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Everyone has some kind of power. What’s yours? In the coming days, I suspect there will be some crisis and opportunity regarding how you use it. Maybe you will be invited to assume more authority or exercise greater influence.

Maybe your ability to wield your particular clout will be questioned or doubted, and you will be challenged to either stand up and express it with more integrity and purpose, or else relinquish it. For best results, take a moment right now to visualize the precise power you would love to command.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“Dear Rob: I really enjoy reading your horoscopes. You feel like a friend I’ve never met.

When I try to picture what you’re like, I keep getting a vision of you as being fat, short and bald with a strawberry-blond moustache. Am I right? — Curious Aquarius.”

Dear Curious: It’s great that you’ve decided to do a reality check. This is an excellent time for all you Aquarians to see if what you imagine to be true is a match for the world as it actually is. To answer your question, I am in fact tall and thin, don’t wear a moustache, and have an abundance of long silver hair.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I’ve got just the right message to set the tone for you in the weeks ahead. It comes from writer H.P. Lovecraft, and captures the essence of your astrological omens. “Pleasure to me is wonder,” said Lovecraft. “It’s the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” Now get out there, Pisces, and gather up all the mysterious marvels you have coming to you — all the bracing encounters with uncanny grace.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro laid waste to Peru in 1532, his soldiers found green stones on the land. Were they emeralds?

A priest who was traveling with them gave them bad advice. He said that the way to determine whether they were merely colored glass or else precious gems was to test their hardness by pounding them with hammers. In this manner, many actual emeralds were shattered into fragments. Learn from this mistake, Aries. Make sure you recognize treasures for what they are. And don’t force them to submit to unwise tests that misconstrue their true nature.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Someone at Reddit.com posted a question to the community: Could anyone help him recreate the aroma of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? He said he loved that smell.

It was a blend of damp earth, rotting wood and gunpowder. It had musty overtones, a hint of chlorine and a tantalizing freshness. If only he could get that fragrance to permeate his house, he testified, he’d always be able to work at peak efficiency. You might want to follow his lead,

Taurus. It’s a good time to identify and gather all the ingredients you would need to make sure your environment inspires you to the max.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

If you asked me to be your personal adviser, I would prescribe supplements and herbs to build up your immune system. I’d insist that you eat nothing but healthy food and get at least eight hours of sleep every night. I’d suggest that you meditate daily on images that symbolize your most inspiring desires. For fun, I might even advise you to do a ritual in which you create a big circle around yourself using violet yarn and then do a series of playful acts to pump up your freedom, like dancing as wildly as you know how and chanting “love is my creator.” Finally, Gemini, if you sought my counsel, I’d urge you to use your exuberant imagination in concert with your disciplined intellect as you design a long-term plan to charge up your well-being.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“Dear Free Will Astrologer: I found your website by accident today and was drawn in fast and hard. N o matter what I did I could not escape and get back to my work. Your messages were too interesting for my own good.

You gave me too many answers to questions I’ve had for too many years. I felt like I was being cured of problems I didn’t even know I had.

Many hours went by until finally I was able to pull myself out of the vortex. How did this happen? — Freaked Out.” Dear Freaked: I was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, and it so happens that the people of my tribe are currently emanating an intriguing and inscrutable aura. We’re at the peak of our ability to attract and seduce. Many of us are using our power benevolently, but our mysterious mojo could still be a bit unsettling.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The past is headed your way bearing gifts, Leo. I recommend that you make yourself available for its blessings, which may be delivered to you in unexpected ways. For example: The spirit of a dead loved one could impart an enigmatic but useful tip in the middle of the night. An abandoned dream you assumed was gone forever might return from limbo to grant you a wish. A favor you did for someone long ago could finally be repaid. Are you ready to let history reward you in its own unique style?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Just for you, it is Shark Week. During this dicey holiday, you should be wary of all sharks, especially the kind that look like human beings.

Don’t get in their way, and don’t underestimate them. On the other hand, I’m not opposed to you getting to know some sharks better. They could teach you some valuable lessons on how to get what you want. Not that you would ever be as cold-blooded and predatory as they are, of course. But it might be energizing to your ambitions if you add just a bit of shark-like thinking to your repertoire.

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Send your resume and cover letter to jbrock@steelcitymedia.com Kennedy Twp. West Hills 3025 Timbercreek $195,000 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA Brick & Vinyl 2 car att/grg.

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SUBOXONE TREATMENT Caring Help for Opiate Addiction • Experienced, caring therapy and medical staff.

• Private, professional setting.

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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

$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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Free Table Shower w/60min Open 10-10 Daily

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Therapeutic Massage Therapy Relief is just a call away.

Our licensed professional staff can assist with Fibromyalgia, Circulation, Low Back Pain, Muscle Spasms.

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600 Washington Ave. Suite 150 (Entrance located on Taylor St.)

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LONGEST RUNNING

INTERACTIVE DINNER SHOW

CELEBRATE WITH US IN THE RIVERS BANQUET ROOM

Friday, October 19 at 7pm Saturday, October 20 at 2pm and 7pm

$55 + APPLICABLE FEES (Includes dinner and show)

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