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“@Pirates gee hope some of the prospects we received for our all-star will pan out. It worked so well for us the last 20+” — Dec. 28 tweet from “Mike Koncar” (@contruck31) on the Pirates decision to trade all-star closer Joel Hanrahan to Boston

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This bar on wheels is a social, sustainable way to see the sights {BY LAUREN DALEY} LIKE SANTA CLAUS, the beer bike is known

by many names. Fietscafe in the Netherlands. Das BierBike in Germany. Pedibus in London. The PedalPub in Minneapolis.

While it’s called many things, it’s recognizable all around the world. It looks like a pub on wheels: a bar in the middle with a beer barrel at one end, surrounded by a handful of stools with pedals beneath.

Those seated at the bar pedal the bike around. And voila, you have a beer bike.

Beer and biking isn’t a new combination for Pittsburgh. The city is already home to one of the most beloved cycling bars around — Over the Bar Bicycle Café — as well as the Keg Ride, a fundraiser in which cyclists

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haul kegs of East End Brewing Company beer to mystery destinations before tapping the brew. But biking while enjoying a brew could be a viable new way to see the City of Bridges, safely and sustainably.

The beer bike is believed to have originated in the Netherlands in the 1990s, according to a 2012 New York Times article on the growing popularity of bars on wheels.

But while it started in Europe, its popularity is growing in the States.

Minneapolis hosted the PedalPub’s U.S. debut. Imported from Amsterdam by Minneapolis residents Al Boyce and Eric Olson, the PedalPub began because of an email the pair circulated to fellow Minneapolis homebrewers. The email contained a photo of a beer bike and its riders hoisting 2-liter mugs of beer, with a suggestion about how to get in shape after a long winter of drinking.

“We thought it was hilarious,” Boyce says. And the resulting friendly banter turned into “Let’s buy one.”

The pair flew to Amsterdam in 2006 to

check out the bike; by 2007, they’d started PedalPub in the Twin Cities area. PedalPub is a 16-passenger bike that weighs 2,300 pounds without any riders. Riders reserve the bike rental before their event, determine the route, then hop on and enjoy. A “pilot” — a PedalPub employee — stands in the center, acting as a server and steering the bike. While Boyce says “propelling it is no small feat,” the bike is geared low so it’s not difficult to pedal.

“It’s totally green. It’s totally unplugged,” says Boyce. “People are just sitting across from each other and talking, and that’s something that’s lost these days.”

The bike travels down regular city roads, where the speed limit doesn’t exceed 35 mph and there are wide shoulders. And to head off the danger of cyclists getting rowdy, riders sign a contract that includes a “substantial” financial penalty if the rules are violated, Boyce says.

PedalPub currently operates in Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Petersburg and Honolulu,

“I THINK THE DRAW IS THE GLEE, QUITE FRANKLY.”

with licensees around the country. But not every U.S. state where the beer bike operates allows open containers of alcohol. PedalPub had to work with Minnesota legislators to amend the state’s open-bottle law to permit the Twin Cities bikes to be BYOB, Boyce says.

In Pennsylvania, things could be trickier.

While there’s only one statewide statute that deals with open containers — in the vehicle code — Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spokeswoman Stacy Kriedeman says the bikes would be subject to local ordinances that control BYOB and open-container ordinances where they operate within the Commonwealth. But she notes that from the PLCB’s perspective, “There is nothing in the Liquor Code or Board’s regulations that would prohibit a vehicle such as this one, assuming it is truly a BYOB.” However, the city of Pittsburgh has an open-container ordinance which is enforced by city police, unless it’s in a restricted area, or a permit or variance is granted, as in cases like St. Patrick’s Day or neighborhood festivals. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard says that while she’s not familiar with the PedalPub, “it would violate our open-container ordinance.”

Regardless of drinking on board, the PedalPub can be a safe way to hit multiple breweries for a bar crawl, as well as offer an opportunity for a nonprofit fundraiser. The Northeast Minneapolis Riverfront District, for example, holds a PedalPub relay race each year as a fundraiser. Other uses have included a tour of city ice-cream hotspots for seniors; a 24-hour riding marathon for a Minneapolis charity; and even a wedding.

“I think the draw is the glee, quite frankly,” says Boyce. “You’ve got to do it to believe it.

There is no way to describe how much fun it is.”

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PROMOTE PROMOTE ETHICAL EATING ETHICAL EATING A majority of food-service workers lack reasonable wages and benefits {BY LAUREN DALEY} WHEN IT comes to dining, much ado is giv-

en the food: where it comes from, how it’s grown, how the people and animals behind it are treated. Not much attention is paid to the people who prepare it, cook it and serve it once it reaches your local eatery.

For the last decade, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, or ROC, has been trying to change that. ROC got its start after Sept. 11, 2001, to help restaurant workers from the World Trade Center get

back on their feet. Soon after, the group heard from workers about conditions in other restaurants. Since 2001, ROC has grown to 10,000 members in 19 cities, including a branch in Philadelphia that’s been operating for about a year.

“The industry has grown so fast in the last decade. … It’s neck-and-neck with retail as the nation’s largest private-sector employer,” says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of ROC and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. “And unfortunately, being the largest employer, it also generates the lowestpaying jobs.”

Indeed, the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is only $2.13 per hour. Many food workers are homeless or housinginsecure, and have no access to benefits. And Jayaraman says that ROC research shows that 90 percent of workers don’t have paid sick days.

“That means two-thirds of the more than 5,000 [workers] we interviewed are cooking, preparing and serving food while sick,” she says. “That isn’t healthy for anybody.”

ROC’s work is rooted in policy and legislative changes, while generating awareness around the issue. The group focuses on three areas: raising the federal minimum wage for tipped workers; providing paid sick days and benefits; and increasing mobility in the industry.

Last year, ROC began publishing an annual Diner’s Guide to Ethical Eating (this year with an accompanying smartphone app), which provides information on wages, benefits and promotion practices of 150 restaurants from across the country.

It also lists “high road” restaurants — restaurants that support ROC’s guidelines and treat their workers fairly. Many of the restaurants in the guide are chains, but there are also eateries from cities in California, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Texas, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania; ROC plans to expand the list each year. There are no local Pittsburgh restaurants listed in the guide, but many of the chain restaurants located in the region are included.

The goal of the guide isn’t to tell people where not to eat, Jayaraman says. She hopes that it sparks awareness and discussion about another side of the food industry, similar to how books like Fast Food Nation shed light on the fast-food industry, or how The Omnivore’s Dilemma tracked where food comes from.

After those books were published, “We saw a consumer-driven moment — consumers asking, ‘Is this local? Is this organic?’” says Jayaraman. “It resulted in the industry making a dramatic change in the last five years. More and more restaurants are providing locally sourced and organic items.”

Jayaraman wants diners to use the guide to talk to restaurants about how they treat their workers, and the guide provides tools — from suggested social-media strategies to tip cards.

And whether it’s a chain or local restaurant, “everybody can do better,” she says.

“We really feel like if people … speak up every time at the end of their meal, that the industry will respond, because they will hear that customers care about the issue and they’ll begin to move,” says Jayaraman. “It’s really going to take consumer power to get them to take the next step.”

On Feb. 13, Jayaraman’s book Behind the Kitchen Door will be published, and she’s encouraging diners to read it to raise popular consciousness. And there’s reason to be hopeful, she says. In 2012, two U.S. Congressmen proposed raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and non-tipped workers — the first time such legislation has been considered in more than a decade, she says.

“Once people know the conditions and the facts, they’ll see it impacts their health as much as the health of the farm workers and [of] pigs they’re eating,” she says. “We’re saying this year, don’t just eat right, eat just.”

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property, tracking its progress through the system to a final hearing before a judge. In Boston, data releases created the “Adopt-A-Hydrant” program, which lets volunteers “claim” hydrants to keep clear during winter snowstorms. There’s also an application called “Where’s My School Bus?” that lets parents see real-time information about when the bus will arrive at their children’s stops.

Even Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration has begun embracing the idea, launching www.pennwatch.pa.gov at the end of 2012.

The site contains datasets related to state budgeting and spending, including stateemployee salaries.

It’s a movement the city of Pittsburgh

and Allegheny County should join — and one Philadelphia is already taking part in.

In April 2012, Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order pledging greater transparency through data releases. In September, he hired Mark Headd as the city’s Chief Data Officer to coordinate the effort.

“There is a growing awareness of the value of the data cities have,” Headd says, adding that the idea is being pushed particularly by journalists and tech-sector entrepreneurs.

As those reporters can tell you, government agencies hold countless documents that never see the light of day, even though they are considered part of the “public record.” Ordinarily, dislodging such infor-

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mation requires filing time-consuming open-records requests, which government employees must respond to. But simply putting all public information online would be more cost-effective in the long run, says Michael Berry, vice president of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition.

“In this day and age, it’s a lot easier to put information out on a website than it is to respond to requests on paper,” he says.

Headd notes that posting such data makes economic sense in other ways. In Philadelphia, the city’s data has been used to build a number of mobile applications to help users navigate the city’s transit system.

“The transit agency benefits because it doesn’t have to spend the money to build these apps. And if we’re lucky, we get a new business out of it,” he says.

Philadelphia has been releasing data sets once a week or once every couple of weeks for the past few months, adding to a repository on opendataphilly.org that already contains about 200 databases. Material includes everything from a list of food

vendors registered with the city to campaign-finance records, from voting data to crime information. Importantly, the data is collected in formats that make it easy to download and use.

For now, the data is free for anyone to access, including commercial developers.

“For many of the datasets, there is an argument that this data has been paid for already by tax dollars,” Headd says.

In larger cities especially, employees like Headd are talking about standardizing the datasets, so data from different places can be combined and made even more powerful.

For now the effort is informal, but Headd notes that if municipalities in Western Pennsylvania went this direction, they would benefit from collaborating with Philadelphia, taking advantage of the progress that has already been made.

“I think this whole movement, it’s a change in the way governments think of themselves as managers of data,” he says.

“It’s less about owning it and more about becoming stewards” of a public asset.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Five quick hits worthy of consideration TURN THE CLEMENTE BRIDGE INTO A PARK Pittsburgh is the city of bridges, yet there’s no single attraction that celebrates that fact.

A community park and greenspace over the Allegheny River would be the perfect showpiece for our city. The park would be open to the public but could also be a source of revenue and rented out for special events. Imagine what folks might pay to have their wedding and reception on one of Pittsburgh’s famous bridges. The view is incredible, and we already know we can survive without it as a motor bridge because we do it for Pirates home games.

MORE BOAT RENTALS It’s time we take better advantage of our natural resources. Plenty of people boat and kayak on the three rivers, but there are very few places that actually rent watercraft for a day on the water. The sky is the limit on the type of rental — from pontoon boats to paddle boats to jet skis. People might not come Downtown just to rent a boat for the day, but having another draw for visitors can’t be a bad thing.

PROMOTE POP-UP BUSINESSES ON PENN AVENUE NEAR THE CONVENTION CENTER Every year the David L. Lawrence Convention Center draws more people Downtown for conventions and conferences. And while

Penn Avenue leading to the Convention Center houses some businesses, there are also an awful lot of street-side empty storefronts in the center itself. Instead of covering the windows with “decorative” blinds, the Urban Redevelopment Authority and city officials should provide grants and promote pop-up businesses in those spaces. These types of enterprises have been successful across the city and would be a perfect way to keep a steady stream of rotating businesses in those storefronts. A lot of people have great business ideas; this would provide, literally, an avenue to showcase them and at the same time provide some life to a street that sees a lot of visitors.

UPSCALE DONUT SHOPS They go by many names — fancy donuts, artisanal donuts, gourmet donuts. But regardless of what you call them, it’s one of the hottest new food trends of 2012, according to the all-knowing food gods at the James Beard Foundation. The elevated donuts come in a variety of new flavors: According to Portland Monthly, for example, that city’s Blue Star Donuts offers mapleglazed and bacon, as well as fried chicken and honey butter. The shops are popping up in major cities across the country and while they’re not cheap, they’re extremely popular. Hopefully it’s just a matter of time before they fill this hole.

MAKE THE POINT PARK FOUNTAIN VOICE-ACTIVATED Why be content with just watching the fountain at Point Park when you can control it with your voice? The louder you yell, the higher the water shoots into the air.

It would be fun for children and late-night drunks alike.

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Awards will be given to students in grades 9-12 1st place $500 2nd place $250 3rd place $125 In tribute to the legacy of Dr. King, Panera Bread is excited to invite high school students in the Greater Pittsburgh Area to help honor the legacy and work of this nation’s most revered leaders, by creating a contemporary reflection and response to the provided prose.

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was “If I stop to help the man, what will happen to me?” But.. the Good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

Each respondent may present a essay, poem or spoken word lyric that reflects on the following questions:

How do you feel about this quote?

What does this quote mean to you?

How can our nation use these words to honor Dr. King and the life he lived?

Essays and entry forms should be emailed to info@corpdiversity.com or mailed to CDA: 1725 Realty Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15216 All entries, including staff, must be postmarked or emailed by Friday, January 11, 2013.

The top 10 finalists will be notified on January 18, 2013. A celebratory breakfast will be hosted in honor of the finalist and their families on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

For more information contact: CAPA, Milliones, Obama, Science & Technology Academy, Westinghouse, Allderdice, Brashear, Carrick, Perry, Northside Urban Pathways, Career Connections and City Charter.

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Gun-worship shows no signs of abating {BY CHRIS POTTER} TWO YEARS AGO this month, I wrote a column after a mass shooting — the one that happened in Tucson — predicting that nothing would change. Arizona gun stores were already reporting record sales of the firearms and large-capacity magazines used in the attack, because gunworshippers were afraid that government tyrants would rip those products from the shelves. They needn’t have worried, I wrote: “The Tree of Liberty won’t be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It will be watered — over and over — with the blood of police officers, public officials and 9-year-old girls.”

As it turns out, that was too optimistic. Of the 20 children gunned down in Newtown, Conn., last month, none was older than 7. And maybe this horror is too great for the status quo to remain unchallenged.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey — hardly a profile in courage where guns are concerned — says his wife has convinced him to do something about the availability of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Gov. Tom Corbett, echoing other Republicans, said such shootings were a “mental-health issue” — a remarkable concession, considering his 2012 budget proposal sought to cut more than $100 million in mentalhealth spending.

But leave it to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre to lay the hammer down.

On the one hand, LaPierre said in a Dec. 21 speech, killers such as Adam Lanza were “so … driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them.”

Then LaPierre purported to do just that, blaming “a national media machine that rewards [killers] with … wall-to-wall attention.” He also faulted video games and violent movies like Natural Born Killers — products of what he called a “corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.”

This from an organization whose “celebrity spokesperson” is Chuck Norris, whose cinematic heroics have included firing a grenade launcher into another man’s torso. But OK: Let’s demand some answers from those who promote a dystopian, ultraviolent vision of society.

Right after we hear from Hollywood,

we can seek testimony from Fox News and the gun lobby. Their influence, I’m willing to bet, is at least as powerful as that of Killers, which was released in 1994, when Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was still in diapers.

Lanza got his weapons from his mother (and first victim) Nancy; according to her sister, Nancy Lanza stockpiled firearms because she was a “prepper” — part of a movement that stockpiles supplies to prepare for the collapse of society. Jeffrey Lee Michael, the Central Pennsylvania man who gunned down three people on the very day LaPierre gave his press conference, was reportedly “obsessed” with prophecies predicting the end of the world. Richard Poplawski, who shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers back in 2009, was a devotee of Glenn Beck; a friend told journalist Will Bunch that “Poplawski had been obsessed with … the need to stockpile food and even toilet paper for a societal breakdown.”

Is it fair to blame doomsday prophets for the acts of isolated madmen?

Probably about as fair as blaming Grand Theft Auto.

After all, people in lots of countries have guns and violent video games. But how many have a mainstream political movement that sees tyranny everywhere — in health-care reform, gay marriage and efforts to restore the tax code to what it was 15 years ago? These are people who warn about the collapse of society … while laying in the supplies to help bring it about.

LaPierre’s response to the Newtown shootings — more armed guards in schools! — is a case in point. LaPierre has referred to law enforcement as “jackbooted thugs” … and now he wants them patrolling the halls. Right-wingers already accuse public schools of being brainwashing centers for government oppression — arming the educators likely won’t assuage their fears. In trying to stave off one nightmare, school officials will be fulfilling another.

I actually don’t think right-wing rhetoric causes mass shootings; it just prevents us from talking about them, or anything else, sanely. And that’s really what we’re up against, here at the start of 2013. In last year’s election, we rejected the ultraconservatives’ vision for our country. This year, we’ll have to confront the nightmare they’re causing instead.

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Floyd Johnson pleaded guilty to attempted murder in an odd scene in a New York City courtroom in November. Johnson has only one leg, and had been charged with stabbing a fellow homeless-shelter resident who has no legs.

Johnson’s public-defender lawyer (who caught the case at random) has only one leg, also.

Johnson said he was taking the plea in part because of excruciating leg pain — in the leg he doesn’t have (“phantom leg” syndrome), and Johnson’s lawyer said he suffers from the same thing. (The lawyer subsequently filed to withdraw the guilty plea because the pain had clouded his client’s judgment.)

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Amber Roberts, 30, a resident of the unit for the criminally insane at Eastern State Hospital in Spokane, Wash., informed officials in November that “I [just now] murdered someone, but you’re going to have to find him.” As staff members searched the facility, Roberts offered to help by shouting “hot,” “cold,” “you’re getting warmer,” and so forth. Roberts yelled “Hot!” as they closed in on the room containing the body of a 56-year-old patient that Roberts then admitted strangling. (However, a few days later in court, she pleaded not guilty.)

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Tunisia’s Ministry for Women and Family Affairs demanded in October that the government prosecute the publisher of the children’s magazine Qaws Quzah (“Rainbow”), aimed at ages 5 to 15, for an article in the thencurrent issue on how to construct a “Molotov cocktail.” The country has been rocked by the same kind of upheaval experienced in other Arab countries, except less so since its longtime president stepped down rather quickly in January 2011.

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Notwithstanding its nuclear submarines, ballistic missiles and spy satellites, France maintains Europe’s last “squadron” of military carrier pigeons. Legislator Jean-Pierre Decool lauds the pigeons and campaigns for their upgrade, warning that in the event of war or other catastrophe, the birds would be a valuable messaging network. (Pigeons have been used at times in the current Syrian civil war.)

Until very recently, according to a November Wall Street Journal dispatch, pigeons wearing harnesses had been used by a hospital in Normandy to ferry blood samples to a testing lab (a 25-minute flight).

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Jason Schall, 38, who has retired as a financial planner and now devotes his energy to fishing, had a spectacular week in September when he won a catch-and-release tournament in Charleston, S.C., came within 1 ½ inches of a world record on another catch, and was notified of recently setting two Nevada state records for largest fish caught. Schall’s coup de grace, he told the Charleston Post and Courier, came a few days later when he caught a redfish while sitting on his living-room sofa in Daniel Island, S.C., watching a Clemson football game with a pal. He had run a line with bait through a crack in the door, through his yard into the lake behind his home.

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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found

recently in tests that 10th-grade students who play video games (especially shooting and sports games) regularly score just as high in robotic surgery dexterity as resident doctors.

The lead researcher said that surgery simulations (for example, suturing) have built-in unpredictability, for training purposes, but since complex video games are laden with unpredictability, players logging at least two hours a day with the joystick in fact may even slightly outperform the residents.

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Homeless man Darren Kersey, 28, was jailed overnight in November in Sarasota, Fla., after being busted for charging his cellphone at an outlet at a public picnic shelter in the city’s Gillespie Park. The police report noted that “[T]heft of city utilities will not be tolerated …” However, for owners of electric cars (less likely to be homeless!), the city runs several absolutely free charging stations, including one at city hall. The American Civil Liberties Union has accused the city for years of being aggressively inhospitable toward the city’s homeless. (Kersey was released the next day when a judge ruled the arrest improper.)

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Moore was not eligible for a court-ordered “treatment” alternative to prison because he told the judge that he does not believe he has a deviancy. (2) Carlos Romero, 31, told arresting officers in Ocala, Fla., in September that Florida was a “backwards” state because it still punishes his sexual behavior with a donkey.

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SOUTH SIDE CAKES {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} Like many small businesses, Janie Crawford and Barb Reale’s bakery grew out of a hobby.

“When we moved to Pittsburgh, we started making Christmas cookie baskets for friends and coworkers,” says Crawford. “When Barb got a serving job at Piper’s Pub, they liked our treats so much that they suggested we start making desserts for the restaurant.

Soon, customers were asking to order whole cakes.”

So in 2010, the two South Siders started ThreeFifty˚ Bakery and Kitchen out of the kitchen at Piper’s Pub. ThreeFifty˚ offers its cakes, pies and cookies through its website, and you can pick up your order at Piper’s, on East Carson Street. (If you live on the South Side, they’ll deliver with a minimum order, advance notice and a $5 delivery fee.)

Crawford says the bakery uses local and organic ingredients whenever possible. “We use timeless flavor combinations that take our customers back to their childhood favorites,” explains Crawford.

The pair hopes to open their own shop later this year, but don’t count on it to be a typical bakery. “We plan for it to also be a prepared-foods shop,” says Reale. “We envision a place where people can pick up a ‘heat and eat’ dinner for the family, along with a cake for dessert, and muffins for next morning’s breakfast.

“We want to be a place that feels personal, and improves the lives of our customers by offering them quality foods and sweets that are prepared with their needs in mind.”

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rants tend to ring city centers by establishing links in suburban shopping centers, local restaurants branch out in more idiosyncratic patterns. An establishment that has become popular in one neighborhood will often seek to shorten waits for tables by opening a second location nearby. Sometimes, success in the city leads proprietors to test suburban waters, leading to broader choices all around.

Vallozzi’s, a venerable Italian restaurant from Greensburg, recently reversed this trajectory when it opened a new branch amid the bright lights of recently revitalized lower Fifth Avenue, Downtown. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh is a thoughtful blend of contemporary and traditional Italian imagery and flavors. Coming in off the bustling sidewalk, visitors pass through a sort of indoor birch forest of a lobby, where white-painted branches stand in for live plants, to take their seats in dining rooms walled in faux-aged frescoes. This progression allowed us to put the familiar sights

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and sounds of Downtown behind us and focus on the sensory experience of Italy that Vallozzi’s works hard to create.

Our first glance at the menu suggested that tradition would dominate, but a closer look revealed how even classic dishes like bacon-wrapped scallops

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CP APPROVED had been updated, in this case with prosciutto for bacon, truffled beans for a bed, and a kohlrabi and apple salad. Meanwhile, bucatini carbonara, a dish that’s been estranged from its Italian roots by American popularity, was reconceived.

While the Italian-American style chokes the noodles in puddles of heavy cream,

Italians rely on raw egg, beaten and tempered by the hot noodles. Vallozzi’s gave a nod to this latter method by topping the pasta with a soft-fried egg, allowing the assertive flavors of black pepper and garlic to enliven the cream that clung to the al dente bucatini.

A Vallozzi’s Greensburg classic that has made the move to Downtown was turtle bisque. The smooth soup, studded with just enough tender shreds of terrapin, was deep brown, indescribably rich and savory, and thick without being heavy.

Vallozzi’s fresh mozzarella bar deserves to become a classic in its own time. In the storefront lounge, you can sit before an array of cheeses — not unlike sitting at a sushi bar. We sampled gorgonzola dolce, served with wafer-thin slices of seckel pear and chopped walnuts, and smoked buffalo mozzarella, with roasted fig and spiced pecans. The former delivered rich, intensely flavored cheese with perfect accompaniments, while the latter combined ingredients that don’t always work (at least not for us) into a wholly harmonious CONTINUES ON PG. 14

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array. We especially enjoyed how subtly the smoke infused the cheese, lending it just enough body to hold its own with the bold fig and pecans.

Pizza is de rigueur at even upscale Italian restaurants, where it tends away from pizzeria-style and toward woodfired flatbread. But Vallozzi’s offered something unexpected even in this ubiquitous realm. Its roughly square pizzas were built on crusts layered like pastry and walled up at the edges, as if formed in a shallow skillet. The crust texture was more like a cracker than chewy, Neapolitan dough, reminding us of pissaladiere from southern France. The distinctive crust worked well with a summery yet hearty topping of pesto, chicken, sweet peppers and artichoke hearts.

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PERFECT PITCH Mixing up cocktail improvisations in Harmony, Pa.

Veal saltimbocca, on a bed of mashed potatoes and a blanket of wilted spinach, was mostly traditional, but an unusual sage demi-glace was its defining characteristic, enhancing the cheese-filled veal and providing ample flavor to the potatoes. One quibble was that the veal was cut on the thick side, which resulted in slight toughness as well as imperfect proportion with the filling. The flavor was good enough that we didn’t really mind, but it was a surprising misstep from the kitchen.

The dish that in many ways embodied our meal didn’t sound Italian at all: buttermilk fried chicken. Fried chicken has had a bit of a revival of late, with superstar chefs competing against your grandmother’s recipe, with mixed results. Vallozzi’s took fried chicken as a starting point for a dish that managed to embody the Mediterranean and the American South at the same time, with chestnut gnocchi standing in for dumplings, prosciutto di Parma for Virginia ham and braised kale in lieu, perhaps, of escarole. All these ingredients were united under a flag of asiago-and-sage gravy, which tied the whole thing together in a satisfying dish that was somehow classically simple and utterly sophisticated.

By anchoring the menu with timetested recipes, Vallozzi’s is free to explore contemporary Italian cuisine. Ultimately, its fluency with both styles makes for a superlative — if expensive, even by Downtown standards — dining experience.

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THE BUTTERMILK FRIED CHICKEN MANAGED TO EMBODY BOTH THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH.

The bar at Burgh’ers in Harmony, Pa., isn’t your typical watering hole. There are no cupcake-flavored vodkas, and if you order a Jack & Coke, you’ll be steered toward a more refined cocktail.

“People want something that’s familiar, but you can use that to stretch their palates,” says Dee Hutto, who’s been running the cocktail program at the organic burger joint for the past 10 months.

Harmony may seem an unlikely place to find innovative cocktail-mixing. But although Hutto says she’s been bartending for “more years than I want to tell you,” she fits into the contemporary bartending scene as easily as any eager young buck.

Like any craft bartender worth their salt, Hutto makes her own infusions, syrups and bitters. “I want everything as natural and organic as I can make it,” she says. But she’s not afraid to push the boundaries of flavor — orange fig bitters, anyone? You don’t find that every day, even inside city limits.

Hutto regards the flavored-vodka craze with special disdain. “So much vodka has been poured down people’s throats for too long now,” she says, adding that part of her mission is “letting people out there know there’s more to the world than vodka.”

Her weapon of choice? Gin. She thinks the botanical spirit is the perfect base for a classy cocktail. And when customers say they don’t like gin, Hutto is ready with a challenge: “I will tell them I’ll make them a gin drink that they’re going to love. Most people do.”

Hutto says that patrons at Burgh’ers have been highly receptive to expanding their cocktail palates. But if a customer insists on a vodka soda or a gin & tonic over a craft cocktail, she’s happy to make one.

Still, that drink often comes with a bit of advice: “Enjoy life, experience life for what it is,” Hutto tells them. “Don’t stick to the norm. Always look for something new.”

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The menu is loaded with similar ingenious combinations and preparations. KE BRGR. 5997 Penn Circle South, East Liberty (412-362-2333) and 20111 Rt. 19, Cranberry Township (724-742-2333). This casual restaurant celebrates — and in many cases, imaginatively re-creates — America’s signature contribution to global cuisine.

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Yama Sushi {PHOTO BY RENEE ROSENSTEEL} COCA CAFÉ. 3811 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-621-3171.

This breakfast-and-lunch place is somehow hip but not pretentious. Variety predominates: The omelets alone include smoked salmon, wild mushroom, roasted vegetable, sun-dried tomato pesto and four-cheese.

(Coca also caters to vegans, with options like scrambled tofu in place of eggs.) All this in an atmosphere as agreeable as your own kitchen. JF DOR-STOP. 1430 Potomac Ave., Dormont. 412-561-9320. This bustling, homey family-run venue is everything a breakfast-andlunch diner ought to be. The food is made from scratch: Alongside standards (eggs, pancakes, and hot and cold sandwiches) are also distinctive options, including German potato pancakes, ham off the bone and a sandwich tantalizingly called a “meatloaf melt.” J

chefs entertaining, and the food is good, if pricey. LE PLUM PAN-ASIAN KITCHEN. 5996 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-7586. The swanky space incorporates a dining room, sushi bar and cocktail nook. The pan-Asian menu consists mostly of well-known — and elegantly presented — dishes such as lo mein, seafood hot pot, Thai curries and basil stir-fries. Entrées are reasonably priced, so splurge on a signature cocktail or house-made dessert. KE THE QUIET STORM COFFEEHOUSE AND RESTAURANT. 5430 Penn Ave., Friendship. 412-6619355. Bike punks, young families and knowledge-workers can all use a cup of joe, lunch or some homemade pastry.

The Quiet Storm’s laid-back, familiar vibe welcomes all to chill. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunches cater to vegetarians and vegans. JF

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A bar that serves well-designed retro chic with its whiskey and beer, Brillobox is (for now) the cool place to be.

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YAMA SUSHI. 515 Adams Shoppes, Rt. 228, Mars. 724591-5688. This suburban eatery offers honest, straightforward Japanese cooking without hibachi theatrics or other culinary influences. Besides the wide sushi selection and tempura offerings, try squid salad or entrees incorporating udon, Japan’s buckwheat noodles. KF YO RITA. 1120 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-904-3557. This venue offers Mexican-inspired cuisine unlike anything else in the city. The humble taco here is the vehicle for everything from traditional ingredients like chorizo, avocado and tongue, to softshell crab, quail’s egg and veal tartare. Also available: ceviche, blue corn dogs and Mexican-style corn-on-the cob. JE

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At least once a week, her lunch comes from PITT ARTS’ “Artful Wednesday,” which lures students to the William Pitt Union with food to accompany a dance or music performance. Lectures in the creative-writing program (White is an information-sciences major) offering free pizza or snacks cover other meals.

As often as twice a week, dinner has come courtesy of Pitt’s Free Arts Encounters program, which along with a show provides a free meal at restaurants such as The Porch at Schenley, in Oakland, and Six Penn Kitchen, Downtown.

“They’re the best meals we get,” White says of her and her roommate, Mary Pappalardo, the faces behind the @FreeOaklandFood Twitter account.

The account, launched in September, has gained more than 700 followers. White and Pappalardo use it to send out alerts aimed at students, guiding them to any opportunity for free or very low-cost food and drink. “‘Best Job Search Practices for iSchool Undergrads & Masters Students’ in 401 IS Building @1. Lunch will be provided. #freelunch #freeadvice,” read one tweet in mid-October.

“Career Services is holding a Future Links info session w/ #freepizza in 548 WPU at 12pm,” read another in late November.

White and Pappalardo created the account after Pappalardo jokingly called her roommate the “oncampus free-lunch lady,” when White called to tell her of another free meal she had found.

“We were like, ‘That should be a thing,’” says Pappalardo, who graduated in December with a degree in English literature and writing.

Although they started on a whim, both women say the Twitter account and the community they’ve built around it are now being used to help bolster their résumés in social media and marketing. They intend to keep it going through the spring semester.

The free meals, they say, are part necessity for cashstrapped or busy college students and part novelty.

“A lot of the meals are attached to lecture series, and I don’t think students necessarily know about it — but they are really interesting,” Pappalardo explains. “I think it’s cool if we can boost that attendance a little bit, even if it is just for the food.”

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Eschewing the epic list of dishes most Chinese-American restaurants proffer, this attractively decorated storefront venue sticks to a modest number of basics with a few less-typical dishes, such as Singapore mai fun (a dish of stir-fried rice noodles) or sha cha (a meat-and-vegetable dish from China’s Gansu province) JF

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This Thai restaurant in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Little Italy serves up authentic dishes with warm, friendly service. The restaurant also offers an updated vegetarian menu that features mock duck, vegetarian pork and other meat substitutes, as well as the more familiar non-meat offerings of tofu and vegetables. KF

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SIX PENN. 146 Sixth Ave., Downtown. 412-566-7366. Open late for the Downtown theater crowd, this cheery restaurant satisfies theater buffs, families and young professionals alike. The seasonal menu offers lively updates on comfort food from lobster mac-n-cheese to braised short ribs. Gourmet burgers and pizzas make for quick meals.

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The credo of the Revival Series at Mr. Small’s Theatre — “Because in a perfect world: Shows are free, people show up, bands get paid and local music reigns supreme” — might sound like a pipe dream, but the system is pretty simple.

Each of the four or five bands on a Revival bill is given personalized tickets to give out for free. For each ticket that comes back through the door on the night of the show, the band gets a dollar (provided by Mr. Small’s and local nonprofit Creative.Life.

Support), plus whatever money is accrued from a tip jar that is put out after each set.

No one sells tickets, no one buys tickets.

“The original intent was just trying to find a way to encourage attendance at local bands’ shows,” explains Liz Berlin, who co-owns Mr. Small’s and runs Creative.Life.Support with her husband, Mike Speranzo. “It’s really all up to the bands to get as many people as they can to come. We’ve had bands walk out with $300 to $400, between the tickets and the tip jar.”

For some, says Mr. Small’s office manager Jorge Orsovay, it sounds too good to be true. “Bands always think there’s a catch, but there’s really no catch.

We don’t scale back; it’s a normal Smalls show with a normal staff, with lights and sound. If anything, it’s a chance to give people an experience that they might not have if they’re used to playing for a much smaller room.”

Berlin is best known as a member of Rusted Root, but another of her projects, Drowning Clowns, acts as an anchor for the series, playing every couple of months, with — ideally — lots of other Revival concerts filling the rest of the calendar.

“We’d love to have this room hopping every night,” Berlin says — though that is determined by interest and the availability of the space. But, she adds, “If five bands read this article and they think they can bring people in, email us, and we’ll do it.

We really want people to be here. So this is our way of removing the barriers.”

For more information on participating, email info@mrsmalls.com.

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IVEN THE CHANCE to write, rehearse and record in any space in Pittsburgh, there are plenty of musicians who would head straight to the New Hazlett lett Theater on the North Side. The theater — with its great acoustics acoustics, top-notch sound system and in-house engineer, Dave Bjornson — is pretty much a dream for the audiophile. So you could imagine the heartbreak when jazz saxophonist Ben Opie found out he was denied funding for a residency he hoped to pursue there.

But it turns out that being turned down by the foundation he’d hoped would fund his project was just the beginning of something new for Opie and the Hazlett. And he credits Hazlett executive director Rene Conrad for pushing to make his short residency there this week happen.

“It was Rene who actually pursued it!”

Opie says. “She actually went out and said to people, ‘We have this idea we think is really great, and the money didn’t come through; would you be willing to donate to do a smaller version of it?’ And it paid off.

It’s wonderful!”

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It starts with Miles: Flexure (Ben Opie, at right)

The resulting event is not quite as grand as the original plan, but unique in its own way. From Thu., Jan. 3, through Sat., Jan. 5, Opie and his ensemble Flexure will complete a short residency (three days total) in which they’ll write, write rehearse, rehearse record and perform new music in the theater.

Opie is a longtime figure in local music: The former CAPA music teacher and current instructor at Carnegie

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8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 5. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $12-16. All ages. 412-320-4610 or www.newhazletttheater.org

Mellon has had plenty of jazz groups over the years, from the Water Shed 5tet in the ’90s to the contemporary Thoth Trio (with bassist Steve Thompson and drummer David Throckmorton) and OPEK (a larger ensemble that had its roots in playing Sun

Ra compositions). Opie als also played in ’80s local legends Carsickness.

Flexure is one of his m more recent developments: The group had ha its first show about a year ago. And it’s a bit different from what Opie had been p playing in recent years. He takes much of his inspiration from Bitches Brew-and-later Miles Davis.

“The groups I’ve had in recent years — Thoth Trio and OPEK and other similar things — are largely acoustic-based groups,” Opie explains. “I first of all wanted to have something that I thought was more of an electric band. And I’ve definitely been digging into that Miles Davis repertoire from 1970 to about 1975, a very specific time in his career, and not wanting to copy that music, but kind of come from a similar approach. Sort of stripped-down compositions, and a lot of room for improvisation and group play.”

The original proposal called for a months-long residency. “That would’ve been me really housing myself at the Hazlett for the summer,” Opie says, “and writing and recording and performing.”

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The shorter residency will work like this: Flexure installs at the theater on Thursday afternoon. (“We’ll set up, sound check, and if we get anything recorded, that would be wonderful,” Opie explains. “If we don’t, we have all of Friday afternoon to record.”)

Saturday evening is the live performance, open to the public. Everything that goes on over the course of the residency — recording sessions and live performances — will be recorded, so that any of it can end up in the final cut.

Bjornson, who has worked with Opie’s groups before (he engineered the first Thoth Trio album, and has done live sound for groups like OPEK at the Hazlett in the past), will be behind the massive control panel in the theater’s basement.

It plays right into the mission of the New Hazlett, which is the former home of Pittsburgh Public Theater, and has been hosting performances — dramatic, musical and otherwise — under its current name since 2004.

“We consider ourselves an incubator for the arts,” says executive director Conrad.

“There are people at all levels who come here to use the theater. We don’t just unlock the door for them; we’re involved in what they’re doing.”

While Conrad herself came to the New Hazlett from Quantum Theatre, she notes that there’s a particularly strong music orientation at the venue. “We have the most core competencies in music,” she explains.

“Dave [Bjornson] and much of the staff are involved in music.”

Opie, who first worked with the Hazlett on a project that brought legendary saxophonist Anthony Braxton to town in 2008. (The New Hazlett, then under the direction of Sara Radelet, helped Opie fund that project, though it was ultimately housed elsewhere.) Opie brought the residency idea to the theater with his vision, and Conrad and programming manager Alex Bard decided that even when their original proposal failed to get its funding, they wanted to go ahead with some form of the project.

“We so believe in what Ben is doing, so we wanted to find a way to make it happen,” Conrad says.

As a venue and studio, the theater might rest a bit in the shadow of the nearby Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, and Mr. Small’s, just up the river. For his part, Opie believes in what the Hazlett is doing for music in Pittsburgh.

“We wanted to shed light on the fact that the Hazlett is not only a superior place for live music performance, but also that it has great recording capabilities,” he says. “We want to bring attention to that.”

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ON THE RECORD with Dessa

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Minneapolis freedom: Dessa

Singer, rapper and Doomtree collective member Dessa started out as a slam poet, but some of her output now is more like that of a torch singer.

A longer version of this interview is available on our music blog, FFW>>.

I READ ON TWITTER THAT YOU’RE GOING TO BE RAPPING IN ESPERANTO. IS THAT TRUE? Absolutely not. That was nothing more than coy Twitter flirtation.

ON 2011’S CASTOR THE TWIN, YOU RECORDED WITH ALL LIVE INSTRUMENTATION RATHER THAN PRODUCED BEATS. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO DO THAT? It felt like there would be an opportunity to have a more compelling live show if I toured with a live band. It was in that touring that I thought, the arrangements we’re coming up with are continuing to depart from the recorded versions of these songs. And I thought, it probably warrants some studio time, to capture these arrangements.

WRITING SOME OF THE MUSIC FOR YOUR UPCOMING ALBUM FOR THE LIVE BAND, DO YOU FEEL A KIND OF FREEDOM YOU DIDN’T WHEN YOU WROTE TO A BACKING TRACK? Totally! Horrible, horrible, freedom! I think my role was so much narrower as a lyricist and vocalist; now, being asked to bear some of the weight of the music writing and production feels like a very different job. It’s exciting. But there are so few constraints when you sit down to make a song where three-and-a-half minutes of silence used to be — whereas I used to sit down and write a song where three-and-a-half minutes of music used to be.

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Bringing rock back: Parquet Courts

PUNK-ROCK AMERICANA {BY NICOLE CHYNOWETH} WHILE THE PARQUET FLOOR of Boston

Garden exists as but a memory for most Celtics fans, chunks of the defunct arena’s court have found new life in the form of collectible pens, cufflinks and key chains, transforming the iconic court into literal slices of Americana.

Punk-rock band Parquet Courts, whose name plays off the historic sports center’s feature, aims to bring new life to another slice of Americana: rock ’n’ roll.

“Rock music, at least, has unfortunately fallen by the wayside,” says vocalist and guitarist Andrew Savage. “But I think there is something happening right now in the indie-rock-et-cetera consciousness that is kind of bringing it back. I’d like to think [Parquet Courts] has some part in that.”

The quartet formed two years ago from Savage and songwriter and guitarist Austin Brown’s need to deviate from their past bands’ genres and “indulge in the kind of American punk-rock weirdo tendencies” they have as songwriters.

“We’ve both done other things, but it was kind of like, with Austin and I, the right band for the right time,” Savage says. “We were both writing these types of songs and lyrics. We each had this collection of songs that we put together, and we were like, ‘All right, these make sense. These are cohesive. Let’s start a group out of this.’”

The pair recruited Savage’s brother Max Savage to play drums and Sean Yeaton to play bass, creating Savage’s idea of an allstar line-up.

“I was fortunate that I got to meet all of these people, and I got to decide, ‘OK, I want this guy on guitar in the next band

I start, and I want this guy on bass.’ They just felt like the right guys for the job,” Savage explains.

Parquet Courts’ music contains a precise, almost mechanical, nature with its unwavering bass lines and percussion.

Savage’s vocals add a bit of roughness, but maintain a simplicity also found within the lyrical content. A few of their influences include English post-punk, American punk, pop and a bit of Neil Young, but Savage says their artistic process does not end with audible inspirations.

“We have an important visual aesthetic,” Savage says. “Living in New York City and in America is a huge influence, too. We define ourselves as a New York band but also an American band — that includes the history of American music, not just pop and rock music, but America as an idea, concept and cultural force.”

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The band’s first release, American Specialties, received little recognition, but 2012’s Light Up Gold garnered the attention of What’s Your Rupture?, an independent label in New York, which will rerelease the album on Jan. 15 as a CD and LP. Savage describes the title track, and the title itself, as the “centerpiece” or “nucleus” of the album’s content. “[‘Light up gold’] is the thing everyone is looking for, the quality of life you can’t really describe,” Savage says. “It is the driving force of life, the thing we all know that we want, but we don’t know exactly what it is.”

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You’d be forgiven for mistaking “Young, Dumb and Drunk,� the first single from Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas, for a Beach House tune: Hernandez’s voice dips and soars not unlike Victoria Legrande’s, and the song has a meditative stillness about it. It’s a beauty that defies its title (which sounds more like an afterthought track from a pop-punk band). Detroit’s Hernandez — who has plenty more upbeat, soulful stuff, too — signed to Blue Note in 2012, and we’re curSaviours rently awaiting her first album on the venerable label. Tonight, she plays at Howlers; Low Man opens.

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Alia Musica is a small local treasure: The organization puts on concerts featuring new compositions, often by Pittsburgh composers.

Tonight, Alia hosts a touring act, Arabesque Winds, a wind quintet that’s gotten rave reviews from the likes of The Washington Post, and which features some local talent, including flutist Deidre Huckabay and oboist Liz Spector Callahan. Also playing: the all-local Freya String Quartet. AM 7 p.m. James Laughlin Music Hall, Chatham University, Woodland Road, Shadyside.

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Over the past eight years, Saviours has come to be known as one of the louder, more brutal bands to ply the trade of stoner riffage. The band’s most recent release was Death’s Procession, issued by Kemado in late 2011; there are some MotÜrhead comparisons to be had there. Right now, Saviours is on tour with Mondo Generator, the band that’s headed up by infamous former Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri. Tonight, they play the 31st Street Pub; Wino (from Saint Vitus) is on the bill as well.

AM 10 p.m. 3101 Penn Ave., Strip District. $1215. 412-391-8334 or www.31stpub.com

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SMILING MOOSE. Corpus Christi, Conquerors, Until We Have Faces, Andare. South Side.

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31ST STREET PUB. Mondo Generator, Saviours, Wino. Strip District. 412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. Fungus. Strip District.

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CLUB CAFE. Eve Goodman & Tracy Drach, Dave Pellow, Janelle Burdell (Early) Broken Fences, Bethesda, Polar Scout (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950.

HAMBONE’S. Steve McIntyre Band. Lawrenceville.

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HARD ROCK CAFE. Adelaide In Autumn. Station Square.

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HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Jessica Hernandez, The Deltas, Low Man. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

KENDREW’S. The GRID. Aliquippa. 724-375-5959.

SMILING MOOSE. Worth Whyle, Cassius, Nick Rage. South Side.

412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. CMB, Dexterity Box. Lawrenceville.

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BOOTSIES BAR & RESTAURANT. JellyRoll. McKeesport.

BRICK HOUSE. Antz Marching.

Butler. 724-284-1159.

CLUB CAFE. Mike Stout & Ms. Kelly Burgos w/ Doug Wilkin (Early) Dan Getkin & the Masters of American Music,Young Brokaw (Late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. The Jukebox Band. Robinson.

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HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Outsideinside, Drugula.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Flexure. North Side. 412-480-7246.

SMILING MOOSE. Doomsday Clock. South Side.

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GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Tron Ate My Baby, Duo!, Weird Paul Rock Band, South Seas Sneak. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

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KOPEC’S. Parquet Courts.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0892.

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ARSENAL BOWLING LANES. Dewey Marquee & Ivory Weeds. Lawrenceville.

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ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother Earl. Waterfront.

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SMILING MOOSE. Honour Crest Honour Crest, Chain The Scylla.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

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BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood.

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ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Throwdown Thursdays w/ Tracksploitation.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. Transmission: Classic Alternative

Dance Party. South Side.

412-381-3497.

PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side.

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ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown.

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ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

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

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412-687-2555.

Downtown.

BRILLOBOX. AVA BAR & www. per Pandemic. Pandemic LOUNGE. African pa pghcitym Pete & Preslav.

Night. East Liberty. .co Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

412-363-8277.

CABARET AT THEATER BELVEDERE’S. 90z SQUARE. Salsa Friday.

Dance w/ Sean MC & Downtown. 412-325-6769.

Thermos. Lawrenceville.

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. 412-687-2555.

Bombo Claat Fridays. Reggae/ CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. dancehall w/ Vybz Machine Intl.

Saturday Night Meltdown.

Sound System, Fudgie Springer.

Top 40, Hip Hop, Club, R&B, East Liberty. 412-363-1250.

Funk & Soul. East Liberty.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. House 412-362-1250.

Music w/ Hana. Lawrenceville.

CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals 412-251-0097. & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

412-251-0097.

ELWOOD’S PUB. DJ Parts.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Tom Cox, Preslav, Jwan Allen. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side.

412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

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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.

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ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Groove Tuesdays. Djs provided by 720 Music. Lawrenceville.

412-251-0097.

WED 09 Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local band. This week’s offering: “Burn It Down,” from the new EP from The Long Time Darlings.

Stream or download it on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Outtareach. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield.

412-682-8611.

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

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B SAT 05

SMILING MOOSE. Grown Men Entertainment, Mic Menace, Basket Case, Chay Butta, Da Kid Notes. South Side.

412-431-4668.

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EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Don Hollowood’s Cobra Kings.

South Side. 412-431-4090.

PENN BREWERY. The Blues Orphans. North Side.

412-237-9400.

THE WOODEN NICKEL. The Witchdoctors. Monroeville.

412-372-9750.

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BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Gringo Zydeco. West Homestead.

412-461-6188.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. The Rhythm Aces.

South Side.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Pawnbrokers. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

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CJ’S. Rodger Humphries & The RH Factor. 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.

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LITTLE E’S. The Skip Peck Trio. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

@fyeahdinosaurs (Fuck Yeah Dinosaurs)

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CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District.

412-281-6593.

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

412-642-2377.

LITTLE E’S. The Bridgette Perdue Trio. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

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ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

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BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas.

Wexford. 724-934-1177.

COCO CAFE. Brad Yoder.

Leechburg. 724-842-0255.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mike & Frank of Lava Game. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers West Deer Bluegrass Review. Cheswick.

724-265-1181.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Mifflin.

412-461-8000.

@fyeahdinosaurs (Fuck Yeah Dinosaurs)

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412-884-4600.

& SPEAKEASY. Frank Cunimondo & Patricia Skala.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

Exchange Series w/ the David Throckmorton Trio. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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412-921-4174.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Merritt Bussiere. Cheswick.

724-265-1181.

PARK HOUSE. Martin Rubeo.

North Side. 412-224-2273.

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BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Jack McLaughlin. Regent Square.

412-247-1870.

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412-681-4318.

MARS BREW HOUSE. Todd Wehr. Mars.

724-625-2555.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown.

412-255-0525.

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BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. Singer Songwriter Night. North Fayette.

412-788-2333.

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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Dodgy Mountain Boys & the Park House Jammers. North Side.

412-596-2743.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG. Brad Yoder, Jason Rafalak.

Greensburg. 724-836-7191.

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THE PITTSBURGH CAMERATA. Candlelight Epiphany Concert. Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Shadyside.

412-682-4300.

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JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

No cover. For more info visit jergels.com. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 3 Laser Shows

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Shore. Lineup features: Lady Gaga, Van Halen, AC/DC & more. Friday & Saturday nights. Visit carnegiesciencecenter.org for shows & times.

Hewlett/Anderson JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

No cover. For more info visit jergels.com. 8p.m.

A Grand Night for Singing CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghclo.org.

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Fungus Grateful Dead Tribute Band

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. 412-237-8300. Free with museum admission. For more info visit warhol.org. 2p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests The Elliots. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Dan Getkin and the Masters of American Music

CLUB CAFE South Side. 412431-4950. With special guest Young Brokaw. Over 21 show.

Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 10:30p.m.

Adelaide in Autumn HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests Steve Hawk, Breaker & more. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9:30p.m.

Eve Goodman & Tracy Drach CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. With special guest Dave Pellow & Janelle Burdell. Over 21 show.

Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 7p.m.

CMB THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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Brunch with Elvis

Tickets: showclix.com. 9p.m.

The Pawnbrokers

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

No cover. 9p.m.

Mike Stout

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. With special guest Ms. Kelly Burgos & Doug Wilkin. Over 21 show.

Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 7p.m.

Rilan Records showcase with Impending Lies ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Chaotic Playground, Shotgun Syndrome & more. Over

21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Saving Elizabeth / Skylime/ Communication Breakdown MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. All ages show.

Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone.

7p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Celebrate Elvis’ Birthday with Walt Sanders. Over 21 show.

Tickets: 412-481-7625. 10a.m.

TUESDAY 8 Little Feat

JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

Tickets: jergels.com. 8p.m.

WINTER CLEARANCE 33-60% OFF STORE WIDE SAVINGS ON APPAREL, ATHLETICS, BOOTS AND SHOES!

at the Waterfront 108 WEST BRIDGE ST. 412-464-1007

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PROMISED LAND IS LESS A MUCKRAKING PIECE THAN A CHARACTER STUDY

FORCES OF NATURE {BY HARRY KLOMAN} The Impossible begins and ends as a story of privilege: An affluent couple (Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts) and their three sons vacation in paradise, and a private jet later flies them away. But the paradise is Thailand, in December 2004, and they arrive just a few days before the tsunami.

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Directed by J.A. Bayona, The Impossible tells “the true story of one family,” and as the sentence fades away, the words “true story” linger on screen. In truth, the family was Spanish, like Bayona, who apparently had to erase their culture to allow Anglo stars to play the leads. Nonetheless, The Impossible is a solid and frequently stirring example of its genre: a film about a disaster, not a disaster film.

When the visually stunning tsunami hits, it’s hard to see the seams of special effects, and re-enacting such a harrowing and often gruesome ordeal must have challenged the actors. Tom Holland, who is British and now 16, is especially strong as the couple’s son. Bayona presents the beauty of nature before showing us its destructive wrath, and then its reconstructive counterforce, which we might call love or humanity. If you can stand to watch this sort of thing, just forget its sometimes intrusive musical score and focus on its wrenching realities. Starts Fri., Jan. 4.

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In Promised Land, there seems to be only one bar in town, but “Buddy’s” serves plenty of Pennsylvania beer. Set designers scored bar signs for Victory, Penn Brewery, Duquesne, Iron City, Rolling Rock and Troegs.

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Trouble in a promised land: Matt Damon and John Krasinski

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ROMISED LAND opens with a symbolic image — a close-up of its protagonist, Steve Butler, cleansing his face with water. But Steve (Matt Damon) is about to get dirty before he gets clean.

Steve is a land man for a huge energy company, and he and his partner Sue (Frances McDormand) are headed to rural Pennsylvania to secure leasing deals for Marcellus Shale drilling. (Though it occurs in an unidentified part of Pennsylvania, the film was shot just north of Pittsburgh.)

Once there, the pair dons flannel shirts and Carhartt coats, and have good luck signing up struggling farmers. There’s a grumbly school teacher (Hal Holbrook) who has been reading up on fracking problems (“The way we go about getting [the gas] is dirty business”), but most locals are eager to take the promised payout. Steve fudges the exact numbers, speaking vaguely of “millions,” while Sue works mother-to-mother, sketching futures that include college opportunities for the town’s children.

But securing the leases gets complicated when a charismatic environmental activist named Dustin (John Krasinski) arrives in town. He passes out flyers depicting agricultural damage caused by fracking, and sets a toy farm on fire for amazed school kids. He’s energetic and passionate about his opposition to fracking: “This is not an environmental conspiracy — this is our lives.”

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ceral for Western Pennsylvanians, but for other viewers, it’s likely to just be this year’s villain in another poison-versusprofits drama.)

So, despite its timely trappings, Promised Land is less a muckraking piece than a character study, as Steve is forced to weigh what his obligations are, and to balance what benefits him with what impacts others. As does, to a less-explored degree, every other character — from farmer and town official to adversaries Sue and Dustin. In that regard, Promised Land is a fine, wellmodulated drama.

However, due to certain plot developments, it’s difficult to discuss the film’s presentation of the much-debated fracking issues. Generally speaking, the film comes down negatively on the industry and its practices, without being preachy. But I’m not sure that either the pro or con folks will be entirely happy with the final disposition.

Perhaps it will offer plenty to talk about after the film, so that’s an added value on the ticket price.

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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Brian Dannelly directs this teen comedy about a guy (Glee’s Chris Colfer) who, after being struck and killed by lightning, recounts how he tricked people into contributing to his literary magazine. The Sun., Jan. 6, screening is a one-night interactive Q&A premiere event. The film opens theatrically Fri., Jan. 11. 8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 6. Oaks

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THE LON ELIEST PLAN ET. In Julia Loktev’s spare drama, a young American couple (Gael Garcia Bernal, Hani Furstenberg) are enjoying a backpacking adventure in the remote parts of Georgia. They hire a local man (Bidzina Gujabidze) to guide them on a trek of the Caucasus Mountains. Things are going well, until one misstep (literally) happens that causes a deep rupture in the couple’s dynamic.

This is one of those films where something momentous occurs deep within the relationship, while seemingly nothing happens on screen.

You should not see this film if you prefer a lot of dialogue and action. Even the incident that throws the trip into misery occurs wordlessly, and is never discussed.

For those who don’t mind a leaner drama, Loktev’s film offers some rewards. There is the breathtaking scenery, gorgeous in its own right, and incorporated into the story. And there is the physical work of Bernal and Furstenberg, who convey nearly every significant shift in their relationship without words. But be forewarned: Much of this two-hour film is simply watching three people walk through mountains.

The thing that happens mid-film changes the dynamic of the trio — and by implication, could change how Alex and Nica view each other going forward in their shared (or not?) lives. But Loktev’s intimate film also puts viewers alongside the trekking group, processing the event, judging the characters’ reactions, and perhaps questioning their own assumptions about how couples should behave. But you may also feel as trapped as these trekkers, wandering wordlessly across the landscape. Starts Fri., Jan. 4.

Harris (Al Hoff) TEXAS CHAIN SAW 3D. John Luessenhop directs this version of the infamous “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” which purports to depict events that occurred after those shown in the original eponymous horror film from 1974. (In other words, disregard what you saw in versions from 1986, 1990, 1994, 2003 and 2006.) In this one, a young woman travels to Texas to claim an inherited house — and all the horrors that lay beneath it. In 3-D in select theaters. Starts Fri., Jan. 4.

SCREAM PARK. This new locally produced horror film from Cary Hill is a throwback to the classic 1980s slasher films. Here, a twisted amusementpark owner (Doug Bradley from Hellraiser) sets in motion a publicity gambit involving murders. What could go wrong? Filmed at Conneaut Lake Park, the campy horror film gets its local premiere tonight.

8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 6. Hollywood, Dormont. $8. www.screamparkmovie.com

The Loneliest Planet on subsequent screenings, the out-of-order sequences become puzzle pieces the viewer can assemble differently. And repeat viewings only strengthen Welles’ premise (so neatly aped in the opening newsreel montage of Kane’s life) that, despite new angles and fresh information, the life of a man can be unknowable. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 3; 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 4; 8:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 5; and 4:30 p.m. Sun., Jan. 6.

Hollywood, Dormont (AH) REAR WINDOW. The convalescing photographer (Jimmy Stewart) is an involuntary but enthusiastic couch-potato prototype: Bored to distraction, he needs to spy on his Greenwich Village neighbors. So while Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller is a characteristically terrific entertainment, it’s also a witty, probing look at spectatorship and voyeurism centered on a man who wants to see without being seen, and what happens once that’s no longer possible. 10 p.m. Fri., Jan. 4, and 10 p.m. Sat., Jan. 5. Oaks (Bill O’Driscoll)

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way to fix it but to arm up and get violent. Scorsese captures the full-senses assault with jump-cuts, swoopy cameras and mad colors, and is ably aided by Bernard Hermann’s moody score. Pure America, on a dark, dark day. The film continues a Saturday-night series of Oscar classics. Midnight, Sat., Jan. 5. Manor (AH) THE RALPH STANLEY STORY. From the Appalshop Film Series comes Herb Smith’s 2000 profile of Ralph Stanley. The bluegrass singer and musician got a latein-life boost from the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but the man from the Clinch Mountains of Virginia had spent decades playing traditional music. The Panther Hollow String Band will perform in lobby at 1 p.m.; film screening at 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 6.

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. This beautifully filmed, philosophical space drama dramatically altered the genre of science fiction, inspired plenty of post-screening discussions about its cryptic sequences and made a “star” out of a red-eyed computer named HAL. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film kicks off a month-long, Sunday-night series of films that were mind-blowing when released. 8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 6.

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FILM KITCHEN . The monthly series for local and independent filmmakers is highlighted by “Free Music,” a 15-minute documentary profiling four local rock bands. The film is by Point Park University students Bryan Heller, Frank Paladino and Caitlin Magarity. The sounds range from the melodic indie rock of IKE to the metal of Old Accusers, but the focus is on what motivates the musicians. “It’s the only relief we get,” says one Old Accuser. “We all work stupid fucking jobs and are all super poor.”

Members of glam-rock outfit Dazzletine are more upbeat, describing music as “our life force.” Also screening at Film Kitchen is “Man of Steel,” Andrew Daub’s earnest narrative depicting the struggle for dignity of a laid-off millworker in 1981 Pittsburgh.

The short features local talent including actor Rick Montgomery. 8 p.m. Tue., Jan. 8 (7 p.m. reception).

Melwood. $6. 412-681-9500 (BO) CLOSE EN COUN TERS OF THE THIRD KIN D. In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film, aliens come to earth and play with our government’s giant synthesizer. Intergalactic harmony ensues. Richard Dreyfus stars as the man who believes in friendly space-dudes. 7:30 p.m.

Thu., Jan. 10; 9:15 p.m. Fri., Jan. 11, and Sat., Jan. 12; and 7 p.m. Sun., Jan. 13. Hollywood, Dormont 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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ROMAN HOLIDAY. A sheltered princess runs away from her handlers in Rome and finds amore with an American newspaperman.

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck star in William Wyler’s 1953 lightly comic romance.

Through Thu., Jan. 3. Harris. Double-features with Breakfast at Tiffany’s; $8 for both films.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFAN Y’S. Blake Edwards’ 1961 film is, at its heart, still Truman Capote’s simple tale of the rootless nature of America’s then-impending future. Audrey Hepburn stars.

Through Thu., Jan. 3. Harris. Double-features with Roman Holiday; $8 for both films. (Justin Hopper) CITIZEN KAN E. Orson Welles’ dark 1941 portrait of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane remains an astonishing piece of filmmaking — and a deeply enjoyable film to re-visit. Its visuals are so rich and layered that many await discovery, such as inventive tricks Welles used to create the illusion of a grand film from much smaller fragments. The film’s nonlinear narrative first plays as a mystery, but

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Searching for Sugar Man, Frankenweenie, Compliance, Seven Psychopaths and The Kid on a Bike

2012 FILMS REDUX {BY AL HOFF} I didn’t see every film released this year, but I saw a lot. Here’s a yearend round-up of those that didn’t get all the big press, but were nonetheless entertaining, informative or provocative. When available online or on DVD, they’re worth an eyeball.

Smaller Overlooked Dramas. Woody Harrelson is riveting as a bad cop in Rampart. Paul Dano and Robert DeNiro star in Being Flynn, the real-life story of a troubled father and son who reunite at a homeless shelter. The Sound of My Voice asks: Is a charismatic cult leader really from the future? A shocking real-life prank informs the psychological drama Compliance. And feuding rabbinical scholars in Footnote are surprisingly entertaining.

Foreigners Make Better Films About Kids. Le Havre, Tomboy (France); The Kid on a Bike (Belgium); and Boy (New Zealand).

Fascinating Real Lives. Check out these bio-docs: I Am Bruce Lee; Jiro Dreams of Sushi; 5 Broken Cameras (one Palestinian’s man’s

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quixotic attempt to document strife); Hit So Hard (life in chaotic band Hole); Searching for Sugar Man (an early 1970s folk-soul singer, re-discovered); and The Queen of Versailles (how the financial crisis destroyed one deliriously rich family).

Get Your Muckraking On. Semper Fi (military cover-up of environmental crimes); Pink Ribbons, Inc. (breast-cancer-awareness biz); Head Games (sports-related brain injuries); and The House I Live In (the futile war on drugs).

Kick Back With Some Tasty Junk Food. Some folks found Spielberg’s Lincoln heavy; nobody said that about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer. In Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Sir Michael Caine flies a giant bee, and The Rock plays the ukulele. Self-conscious violent crime films get self-consciously analyzed in the violent crime film Seven Psychopaths. Tim Burton made his best film in years, the animated classic-horror homage-slash-comedy Frankenweenie. Much ass gets kicked — and garroted — in the Thai martial-arts actioner The Raid: Redemption. And if you need a hockey fix, it doesn’t get more vulgar, raucous and oddly sweet than Goon.

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INVADER City of night: Paul Chojnowski’s “Dusk From the Balcony”

Fascinated by the way light plays off surfaces at night, Paul Chojnowski uses a propane torch to “draw” atmospheric images onto paper and wood.

The exhibition Night/Light, at James Gallery, gathers work from two series that Chojnowski calls “Nocturnes and Narratives.” Chojnowski has been making his Nocturnes for two decades. Initially an abstract painter, the Massachusetts-based artist later chose to work with more recognizable imagery. His Nocturnes replicate the glowing windows, car headlights and neon found on city streets. But rather than exercises in realism, they are studies in light. They evoke a mood, memory or fleeting moment.

Chojnowski’s burned drawings evolved from his interest in the nocturnes of artists such as James McNeill Whistler.

They are inspired by the energy of cities like New York, Boston and Pittsburgh at night.

In gallery wall-text, Chojnowski explains that as a pedestrian walking after dark in the light-filled city streets, he is “aware of being surrounded by the rich array of sounds.” It’s actually hard to look at the exhibition without thinking about how Hurricane Sandy plunged lower Manhattan into darkness. But the images do not evoke any one particular city.

While many of the nocturnes are at street level, some, like “Dusk From the Balcony” or “Rooftops Looking East,” are views looking down or across the city. The images clearly depict busy streets with cars and buildings. But some, like “City Lights XXVII,” contain shapes that are barely perceptible, leaving them a shimmery dance of light and shadow.

Most of Chojnowski’s Nocturnes are of smaller scale, and many show the burned edges that unintentionally result from his use of fire. Howard Libov’s short documentary titled “Aglow” (available online) shows how the artist actually begins his drawing by establishing a meticulous grid and underlying sketches. But while he has learned to control this unpredictable medium to some extent, it is never exact.

The few Narratives included in Night/ Light, though larger and more realistic than the Nocturnes, are also studies in light. In “Aglow,” Chojnowski explains that his narratives are more personal, more photographic and yet dreamlike.

“Search Lights” and “Evening of the Deluge” both show men in work clothes carrying lanterns as they search for someone or something unknown.

Whatever his subject, the ethereal glow that Chojnowski coaxes from fire and water is the main event.

Raising the kitty: YouTube cats are conscripted to perform Schoenberg in Cory Arcangel’s “Drei Klavierstucke op. 11.”

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ORY ARCANGEL: Masters offers a selection of works drawn from the renowned 10-years-to-date career of this 33-year-old artist. Digital/video/ internet reworker Arcangel is charming and bemused — and his art is charming and bemused, too, which is neither surprising nor inevitable.

His wry verbal commentary was exhibited during the opening-night “Selected Single Channel Videos” presentation. During that performance-lecture we learned that: He is an obsessive archivist (he may have the only known copy of the 2006 Iranian Women’s Police Academy maneuvers, with its burka-clad rappellers, twirling nunchucks, etc.); he was in a tweener punk band; and he mucks through a lot of YouTube and other Internet crap to come up with his source material. The Brooklyn-based Arcangel was not the first artist to mine and modify the endlessly expanding riches of cyberspace, but he got there early. Devoid of a recog-

nizable style, his basic approach utilizes readymade digital technology and repurposes pre-existing digital files, mostly from the Internet.

The bulk of the exhibit, curated by the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Tina Kukielski, is located in the Carnegie’s Forum Gallery,

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Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

and it manages to be both stylish and unpretentious, in a calculated way. Wallpapered with Arcangel’s undecorative “Infinite Fill” (2004), the main event is a row of six sports-bar-sized HDTVs, each perched atop the manufacturer’s carton. Five monitors are silent or offer headphones; the one television playing out loud fills

the room with electronic noises that fall into a kind of pattern. This audio is part of “Data Diaries” (2003), in which emails, downloads, etc. are played as a video file, generating geometric pixelation patterns that mutate; the effect can be entrancing or irritating. Offering relief at one end of the row of televisions is “VIZIO XVT553SV LED LCD HDTV Screen Burn” (2012) — displaying an unchanging museum label for this piece which will eventually wreck the television. At the other end is the placid “Super Mario Clouds” (2002), in which the Super Mario Bros. video game has been altered so that only slowly scrolling clouds remain, a conceit whose meaning rests upon familiarity with what’s been suppressed.

Arcangel is attracted to what doesn’t quite make sense, and he messes with stuff in a way that ends up being generative of new meaning and some unexpected insight, though it doesn’t usually seem as if he were aiming for a narrow message.

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For “Untitled Translation Exercise” (2006), Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age stoner flick Dazed and Confused was redubbed in India-accented English, dragging in — not dictating — associations to outsourcing, Hollywood’s global reach and the often outrageous quality of movie dialogue.

The labor-intensive “Drei Klavierstucke op. 11” (2009) pairs Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone composition (using all keys on a piano instead of a conventional scale) with cat-and-piano meme video clips to create a mashup parodying the dilettante’s contention that my-cat-could-play-that.

In the process, the unwitting audience is introduced to Schoenberg’s high-culture music. Anchoring the gallery are vitrines of ephemera, memorabilia and incunabula.

Slightly off-sited, in the museum’s Scaife Galleries, is “Sweet 16” (2006), in which nearly identical clips (one slightly shorter than the other) from a Guns N’ Roses music video start in sync, shift out of phase, and gradually work their way back into sync. The visual component is surprisingly satisfying, and the repeating, subtly morphing audio could pass for 20th-century minimalist music. This is Arcangel at his best: an elegantly simple, graspable idea with an unfolding depth as we ruminate on it and make external asmoved sociations, mo dose along with a d entertainment. of entertainme adjunct An adju to the exhibit is presented in the Carnadjoining Ca where Arcangel has made egie Library, w available for llistening eight milk crates full of underground dance records that he purchased from a techno DJ. This represents the kind of contradiction that attracts Arcangel, namely, future-obsessed music in a presumably obsolete analog form, while the act of “sharing” conjures a basis of internet social connection.

Arcangel’s an artist with a winning mix of computer-programming skills, musical training, hacker sensibility, sense of humor and tolerance for viewing YouTube videos. Many of the works in the exhibit have a semi-random feeling of things that were happened upon, suggested possibilities and were carefully tweaked. Stylistically, these are updated Pop art themes given a Conceptual art treatment. Arcangel modifies his subject matter, which some might find annoying, and transforms it into entertainment with an intellectual twist, with sometimes surprising implications regarding the flow of images and information.

“When capitalism ends, humanity begins” is the statement that opens each Capital’s End event. Judging from the group’s frank open-mic discussions and diverse attendance, humanity seems alive and well. The weekly meetings at Lawrenceville’s Istanbul Grille have taken place every Sunday night since October, aiming to unite Pittsburgh’s anti-capitalist community.

“It’s supposed to get people thinking about alternatives to capitalism,” says Russ Fedorka, an artist who designed the group’s “Capital’s End Clock.” The hands of the clock are moved depending on how much recent world events signify capitalism’s decline. (Things like ism economic depressions and the 2008 bank bailout are noted on the clock’s circumference.)

Each evening has a theme. After a drum circle, local artists, musicians, poets and activists cian perform or give presentations to stimulate discussion. At the heterosexism-themed event, on Dec. 17, presenters included a bisexual soldier who’d served in Iraq, and music came in the form of an opera aria.

“The themes are anything that challenges current perspectives,” says Angelle Guyette, one of the 30 or so people in attendance. The fiction-writer suffered a brain injury recently and will present at an ableism-themed Capital’s End on Feb. 24.

“We bring issues to people that they don’t necessarily know about,” says Capital’s End founder, Indiana University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Harvey Holtz. “There’s tremendous diversity in the anti-capitalist movement in Pittsburgh but it’s really segregated and isolated. If we bring all the disparate groups together, we can do something much larger than what they might do alone.” And not just anti-capitalists, Holtz adds: “I would hope to attract any progressives — anyone who thinks that the system needs a great deal of change.”

Attendees can BYOB, buy Turkish food from the restaurant and share anecdotes on stage. “It’s not a meeting: It’s a social space that people really enjoy being in,” Holtz says. “People go up to the microphone who wouldn’t usually go up.”

The theme of the Jan. 6 Capital’s End is democracy. “I’ll be asking, ‘Is democracy circumscribed by money, and what is real democracy?’” Holtz says. “We only have two parties and they both represent capitalism.

I have a saying: ‘Two parties, one caterer.’”

Holtz’s key aim is to generate new ideas. “People should spend more time outside of electoral politics building movements to affect those within it,” he says.

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CHANCE ENCOUNTERS {BY CATHERINE SYLVAIN}

MICHEL SAURET spent the first 10 years of

his life in Rome, Italy. Then his Italian and French parents immigrated to Pittsburgh.

He joined the military and in 2008, at age 22, he was deployed to Iraq for a year as an Army journalist.

But all these circumstances, unusual as they might seem, don’t interest Sauret half so much as the chance encounters he has on his daily commute. It’s such coincidences that feature in his debut short-story collection, Amidst Traffic.

“These characters are kind of nobodies,” Sauret says of the collection of 22 interconnected stories. “But that’s the point.

There’s a guy digging a hole in his backyard, a guy who decides to start staring at people, and a woman who covers herself in tattoos because she doesn’t know how to remember things. The coolest part is how their stories interconnect.”

The book was self-published, though eight of the stories were previously published in such national and international outlets as the British literary journal Brand and the Hopewell Publications anthology Best New Writing 2008.

Sauret, now 27, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s writing program in 2009. A year earlier, his coverage for Army publications of Iraq’s reconstruction won him the Keith L. Ware Award for Army Journalist of the Year.

He currently works as a public-affairs specialist for the U.S. Army Reserve in Coraopolis.

While discussing fiction, Sauret segues into three anecdotes about people he’s met while driving to and from his office, including a traveling Irish family of nine he invited to stay at his North Side home for two nights.

“I love exploring that side of life, the random meetings and connections,” he says. “We impact people every day. We drive through traffic and cut someone off. Maybe he’ll go home and yell at his wife and you were just trying to get in the other lane.”

Sauret, a new father holding down a full-time job, also has a photography business. He met a reporter at Big Dog Coffee, on the South Side, because he had a networking event there later with other photographers he’d met over the Internet.

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Sauret became a Christian six years ago and his faith is prominent in his fiction. “When I was at Pitt I read a great amount of existentialist fiction where e the whole point of the book was to telll you that life is meaningless. My work is a reaction to that,” he says..

“The way my stories are e connected is related to my y beliefs. If things are con-nected, they are connected d for a reason.”

Sauret says there iss too little dialogue between groups with differing beliefs.

“We can’t just pass each other by,” he says. “This book isn’t intended to convert anyone. It’s intended to incite a respectful conversation.”

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engage in philosophical debates about good and evil, responsibility and personal freedom. Though Sauret’s Iraq experience was relatively benign — he never fired a bullet — his fiction is troubled by the existence of violence in a world with a God. Particularly striking in the collection are the “Duct Tape People.” Across multiple stories, this dark-suited trio of “Facilitators” seeks out people who can foresee major disasters.

“These people were damn everywhere,” Sauret writes. “They knew things nobody else could predict, and it was up to people like Adren, David and Victor to facilitate them, help them sort through what they saw, urge them to prevent disasters from happening. The Facilitators thought of themselves as Angels from God whose job was to reach out to the messiahs of the present world.”

Sauret’s inspiration came from an archive article he encountered in 2009, while interning at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

David Booth, an alleged visionary, telephoned federal officials with an accurate premonition of a 1979 American Airlines plane crash and labeled those fascinated by his visions as “duct tape people”.

Next, Sauret plans to expand the “Duct Tape People” into a novel and take the literary-agent route this time. In the meantime, he speaks passionately about the business of self-publishing.

“It used to be that self-publishing was like being a vanity publisher,” he says.

“Now it means you’re adventurous, you’re an entrepreneur, you don’t mind a little bit of risk.”

“I knew I could put together a quality package,” he says of Amidst Traffic. “I’m a photographer so I could do the cover. I was educated in writing so I could edit it. And from my public-relations training in the Army I knew that I could market it.”

Sauret writes about lucky coincidences; for self-publishing purposes, he is one.

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It’s part variety show, part networking tonight as CREW Productions hosts The Artist Mash: Part I. CREW was founded by Eric A. Smith, managing director of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co., to provide technical services for communitybased arts groups. Tonight’s event is for producers, arts educators, aficionados and artists themselves — whether actors, poets, dancers, musicians, painters, rappers or writers. The event, held in Pittsburgh Playwrights’ space Downtown, includes live entertainment alongside a chance to make connections at the grassroots-arts level.

Bill O’Driscoll 7-11 p.m.

937 Liberty Ave., Downtown.

Free (or $10 drink pass). www.crew412.com

in Literature and Popular Culture.” Ideas about technology are embodied in everything from the tales of H.G. Wells to advertisements, TV shows and Bladerunner. Hear Lanigan explore the cultural significance of technology and join in the discussion about both technology’s promises

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Theodore Bolha’s first solo exhibition, Genexodus, showcases his skill at paper-cutting.

Bolha is a Latrobe native who specializes in finely detailed nature imagery — from nerve endings to animals and vining plants — sliced in paper by hand, with a razor blade.

Some are 2-D, others folded into three-dimensional shapes.

Although he’s 32, the title of this show at The Gallery doesn’t reference an age cohort leaving town; rather, it’s a conflation of “genesis” and “exodus.” Ask Bolha himself about it at tonight’s opening reception. BO 7-11 p.m. 206 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. Free. 412-363-5050 or www.thegallery4.us

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+ SAT., JAN. 05 Sure, people invented science fiction. But meanwhile, stories ranging from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to The Matrix have also been busily reinventing us. As part of its People’s University series, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh presents writer and lecturer Chuck Lanigan and his talk “Brave New World: Technology

and the risks it holds. Please turn off your electronic device before this free afternoon program begins. BO 3-5 p.m.

4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Free. 412-622-3151 or www.carnegielibrary.org

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free !event Chuckle if you must at the phrase “healthy artists.” But to Julie Sokolow, lack of access to health care is serious business: Despite spending more on health care than any other nation, the U.S. still doesn’t cover everybody, and artists, so frequently underemployed, are often among those who suffer for it. While many of us take for granted that creative types will live lives of economic instability, musician and filmmaker Sokolow — a volunteer for single-payer advocate Health Care 4 All PA — instead launched Healthy Artists. The group’s projects include Sokolow’s documentary-film series on local creative types’ struggles with health care. (Watch them at www.healthyartists.org.) She’s widening the frame with the Healthy Artists Movie Poster Exhibition. The exhibit opens Jan. 4 at ModernFormations Gallery as part of monthly gallery-crawl Unblurred. The show features work by 15 selected area artists — including the likes of Stephanie Armbruster, Seth Clark, Mundania Horvath and Jim Rugg — and five Pitt student artists. The event includes the announcement of the three winning designs (as chosen by a panel of judges), who’ll receive cash prizes. The first-place winner’s work will officially represent the film series. Opening night also features short talks by local health-care educators and music by The Harlan Twins. Bill O’Driscoll 7-11 p.m. Fri., Jan. 4. 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield (part of Unblurred).

Free. 412-362-0274 or www.modernformations.com

+ SUN., JAN. 06 {STAGE} Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater presents the local premiere of the live adaptation of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The 1989 children’s book by British author Michael Rosen, with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury, depicts a young family searching for a grizzly and the obstacles they encounter along the way. (In real life, of course, the obstacles would be minor compared to actually encountering ursus arctos horribilis.) Director Sally Cookson’s adaptation adds songs and more. The staging,

by U.K. troupe KW & NB, Ltd. (the folks behind shows including The Gruffalo’s Child) is 55 minutes long and recommended for children ages 3 and up. The first performances are today and tomorrow at the Byham Theater. Seven more shows follow at schools around the region. BO 2 p.m.

(101 Sixth St., Downtown).

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century chant “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and medieval tunes like “Christe qui Lux Es et Dies” to contemporary works like David N. Childs’ “O Magnum Mysterium.”

The acclaimed professional chamber choir is under the direction of Rebecca Rollett, with soloists including soprano Kathryn Copeland Donaldson.

A reception follows the twopart concert. BO 4 p.m. 5121 Westminster Place, Shadyside. $5-10. 412-682-4300 or www.shadysidepres.org

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In fact, there’s just one such ecosystem preserved in the whole state, and it’s an hour north of town, at Jennings Environmental Education Center. The “preserved” part is where you come in: The prairie is under constant attack by woody invasive plants that can crowd out native grasses and wildflowers

{MUSIC} Shadyside Presbyterian byterian Church’s Music in a Great Space series ies marks its 20thanniversary season son with something g it’s never done before: a candlelight epiphany concert. An Epiphany of Light features the Pittsburgh Camerata performing orming a late-afternoon n program including some 18 selections. The compositions range from the familiar ninth-

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+ WED., JAN. 09 {CLASSES} The repurposed, refurbished church known as The Union Project is one of Pittsburgh’s more diverse community spaces. And on Wednesdays, the Highland Park landmark gets even more so with its Community Night. It’s a time when you can check out: the center’s open ceramics studio (6-9 p.m.); a zumba class (6 p.m.); or hula-hooping with Steel City Hoop Union. At 7:30 p.m., you can try either yoga or juggling with the Pittsburgh

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801 N. Negley Ave., Highland Park. 412-363-4550 or www.unionproject.org

+ THU., JAN. 10 {WORDS} This past May, Phipps Conservatory unveiled its Center for Sustainable Landscapes. The structure was designed to be a “living building” — one that makes all its own energy on site from renewable sources,

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Tonight, members of the CSL team join team members from another living-building project: Seattle’s Bertschi School, an elementary school whose features include a river running through a channel in the concrete floor to demonstrate the building’s rainwaterharvesting system. The presentation is part of the Inspire Speakers Series, organized by Phipps and the Green Building Alliance to highlight the environmental and social benefits of healthy, high-performance buildings and public spaces.

BO 5:30-8:30 p.m. One Schenley Park, Oakland. $2545 (includes refreshments and pre-event access to Phipps).

412-622-6914 or www. phipps.conservatory.org

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THEATER THE CHIEF. One-man play

Derek Minto & John Pridmore.

Tue, 9:30 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-612-4030.

about Art Rooney, Sr. Tue-Sun. Thru Jan. 12.

O’Reilly Theater, Downtown.

JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open 412-316-1600. stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. FLASHDANCE: THE MUSICAL. Wed Younger’s, North Side.

Thru Jan. 6. Heinz Hall, 412-452-3267.

Downtown. 412-392-4900.

STAND-UP COMEDY GRAND NIGHT FOR OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m.

SINGING. Musical tribute The BeerHive, Strip District. to Rodgers & Hammerstein.

412-904-4502.

Wed-Sun. Thru Jan. 20. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown.

412-456-6666.

ALLEGHENY-KISKI SOUTH SIDE STORIES. VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM. One-woman show portraying Military artifacts and exhibits the dynamism of the on the Allegheny Valley’s Pittsburgh neighborhood. industrial heritage. Tarentum.

Tue-Sun. Thru Jan. 13.

724-224-7666.

City Theatre, South Side.

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CENTER FOR THE THIN MAN. AFRICAN AMERICAN Live radio theater CULTURE. The adaptation of the Nazi Olympics: Berlin www. per 1934 film. Presented pa 1936. An exhibit pghcitym

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Games including use of Sat., Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m. propaganda, the boycott The Brew House, South Side. debate, history of the torch 412-353-3756. run, & the historic performance of Jesse Owens. Curated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Downtown.

412-258-2700.

COMEDY OPEN MIC. 9 p.m.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

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Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Cabaret at 412-464-4020.

Theater Square, Downtown.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. 412-325-6769.

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939. Furniture, GUY TORRY. Jan. 3-6 metalwork, glass, ceramics, The Improv, Waterfront. textiles, & jewelry produced by 412-462-5233.

Herman Miller, Tiffany, more.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH COMEDY NATURAL HISTORY. Neapolitan SHOWCASE W/ MIKE Presepio. Nativity scene WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m. feat. more than 100 human & Corner Cafe, South Side. angelic figures, along w/ animals, 412-488-2995. accessories, & architectural elements. Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. that Transform Communities.

For new & experienced Folk art objects illustrating improvisers. Sat, 6:30 p.m. the power of women working Steel City Improv Theater, together to provide for their North Side. 412-322-1000. families, educate their children, promote equality, & give back to their communities. BugWorks.

TOTALLY FREE MONDAYS. Feat. beautiful photography Mon, 8 p.m. Steel City of insects, amazing specimens, Improv Theater, North Side. & live bugs! Life: A Journey 412-322-1000.

Through Time & Population Impact thru Jan., Winging It: Experimental Gallery About Birds OPEN MIC STAND UP thru March, Lord of the Crane COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Flies thru April. Ongoing: Earth

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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.

CARRIE FURNACE. Built in 1907, Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely rare examples of pre World War II ironmaking technology. Rankin.

412-464-4020 x.21.

CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature and biotechnology. Open Fridays 5-8, Saturdays 12-4 & Sundays 12-4. Garfield.

412-223-7698.

COMPASS INN. Demos and tours with costumed guides featuring this restored stagecoach stop. Ligonier.

724-238-4983.

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

Oakland. 412-648-7446.

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

724-329-8501.

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

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

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.

FUTURE TENANT. Guns vs. Butter. Posters detailing struggles against war & military aggression feat. print work by members of Justseeds, historical pieces from Interference Archive, & the Justseeds/Iraq Veterans Against the War collaborative portfolio “War is Trauma.” Downtown.

347-404-2677.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill.

724-329-8501.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, CONTINUES ON PG. 35

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BOXHEART GALLERY. The 12th Annual Art Inter/National. Invitational group show exploring space and how the immediate environment affects the artistic process. Public reception: Jan. 12, 5-8 p.m.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Architectural Perspectives: Places & Planes.

Work by Guglielmo Botter & Ben Saks. Opening reception: Jan. 4, 5:30-8 p.m. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Genexodus.

Handmade paper cuttings

by Theodore Bolha.

Opening reception: Jan. 5, 7-11 p.m. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

MONROEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Watercolors by Phiris. Work by Phiris Katherine Sickels. Opening reception: Jan. 5, 6-8 p.m. Monroeville.

412-372-0500.

MOST-WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Get Drawn.

Work by Sylvia K. & Sarina Meester. Opening reception: Jan. 4, 6-11 p.m., feat. live drawings by Sam Thorpe to benefit Pittsburgh Women & Girls Foundation. Garfield.

412-328-4737.

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707 PENN GALLERY. After Dark. Mysterious & evocative images by Carolina Loyola-Garcia & Colter Harper. Downtown.

412-325-7017.

AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Radiant Circles: Ruth E. Levine’s Generous Life. Key work from Levine’s various artistic stages. Squirrel Hill.

412-521-8010.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Deborah Kass: Before & Happily Ever After. A major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs & sculpture. Warhol:Headlines.

A collection of works by Warhol based largely on

headlines from tabloid news. Jeremy Kost: Friends w/ Benefits. Photography.

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.

ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE. Printwork 2012. National juried print exhibition feat. over 20 artists. North Side.

412-321-8664.

BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Preta. New paintings by Joshua Nickerson. Oakland.

BE GALLERIES. In the Words of Daria Sandburg. Sculpture & jewelry. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2606.

BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Muli media, pottery, woods & jewelry.

Frazier. 724-275-7001.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Celebrate the Season. Group show feat. painting, jewelry, ceramics, more. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes.

6 innovative institutions dedicated to the experience of culture & nature. Cory Arcangel: Masters. Repurposed readymade digital technology.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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

412-456-6999.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context.

African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside.

412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Fractures.

Paintings by Eva Rorandelli.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. Ceramic Creatures. Work

by Bernie Pintar. East Liberty.

412-465-0140.

FE GALLERY. Beautiful Dreamers: A Celebration of Pittsburgh Women.

Portraits by Sonja Sweterlitsch. Lawrenceville.

412-254-4038.

FEIN ART GALLERY. 5th Annual Holiday Show.

Affordable art for the holidays. Curated by Kathleen Zimbicki. North Side. 412-321-6816.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Marcellus Shale Documentary Project.

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[LECTURES] 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.

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.

OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/ Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park.

412-835-1554.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Winter Flower Show & Light Garden. Feat. poinsettias, evergreens, whimsical lights & adornments. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the 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.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. More than 200 football artifacts, rare photos, & one-of-akind documents. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement.

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

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

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

Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland.

412-621-4253.

THE TOONSEUM. Pittsburgh Scores! The Pro Scoreboard Art of Kensington Falls Animation. Animations feat. on the Jumbotron at Pirates, Steelers & Penguin games.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

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CRACKER JACK BOOK CLUB. First Sat of every month, 12-1 p.m. Bradley’s Book Attic, Downtown. 412-232-9506.

MON 07

OPEN POETRY WORKSHOP. Presented by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. First Mon of every month, 7-10 p.m.

Brentwood Library, Brentwood.

412-882-5694.

READING ROUND TABLE. Feat. plays from August Wilson & new works by up & coming playwrights. First Mon of every month, 7 p.m.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

412-258-2700.

TUE 08

BARLEN PYAMOOTOO. Film screening & reading w/ Mauritius native & author of Bénarès & In Babylon. 7 p.m.

City of Asylum, North Side.

412-323-0278.

The PGH Photo Fair doesn’t come around until May, but the PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series — happening the second Wednesday of every month at a variety of venues — offers photography enthusiasts some extra exposure. This month’s speaker is Deborah Bell, a longtime dealer of 19th- and 20th-century and contemporary photography, and the current head of the photographs department at Christie’s in New York City. 6:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 9.

The Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free. For more info, call 412-586-4776 or visit www.pghphotofair.com.

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HOLIDAY CO-OP. Showcase of unique, handmade works for sale. Thru Jan. 6 709 Penn Gallery, Downtown.

412-471-6070.

FUNDRAISERS SAT 05

14TH ANNUAL TWELFTH NIGHT GALA. 8 p.m. Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Oakland.

412-687-1788.

SUN 06

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

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

Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

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GREEN PARTY MEETING. First Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Citizen Power, Squirrel Hill. 412-231-1581.

ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students.

Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. Thu The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield.

412-687-4323.

PITTSBURGH WRITES. Weekly writer’s workshop. Thu Crazy Mocha Coffee Company, Sewickley. 412-708-3312.

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COFFEE, TEA & TEENS. Discussion group for parents of teens. Registration requested.

First Fri of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. North Hills Youth Ministry Counseling Center, West View. 412-366-1300 x 25.

WED 09

CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session.

Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3116.

KIDSTUFF THU 03 - WED 09

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 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 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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EAST LIBERTY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ORCHESTRA. All levels of orchestra instruments are invited. Parents are invited to join & play w/ their children. Sat, 3-4:30 p.m.

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KINK & PERFORMANCE ART. DJs, photo booth, vendors, more. First Fri of every month, 9 p.m. Thru March 1 Cattivo, Lawrenceville. 412-339-0825.

RAINBOW RISING COFFEE HOUSE. For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals and friends. Music, games, movies, entertainment and more. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Smithton. First Fri of every month 724-872-5056.

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

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First WISE WALK. 1-mile walk Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. around Oakland. Fri, pittsburgh@gmail.com.

10:30 a.m. Thru Jan. 25 KNOW THE SHOW BEFORE Carnegie Library, Oakland.

YOU GO: FLASHDANCE. ART LAB: HOW OLD ARE YOU? 412-622-3151.

Pre-performance information A workshop to challenge the session w/ theater critic, way you think about hopes Chris Rawson. 6:30 p.m. for the future, as well STEP INTO SNOWSHOES. Trust Arts Education as lessons, thoughts & Snowshoeing/skiing every Sat. Center, Downtown. regrets from when you w/ at least 4” of snow on the 412-456-6666. were younger. 1-4 p.m. ground. Call Friday to confirm.

RENAISSANCE www. per Mattress Factory, North pa Sat. Thru March 30 Jennings DANCE GUILD. Learn pghcitym Side. 412-231-3169. .co a variety of dances from Environmental Center, Slippery BRAVE NEW WORLD: the 15-17th centuries.

Rock. 724-794-6011.

TECHNOLOGY IN Porter Hall, Room A18A. THREE RIVERS THUNDER LITERATURE & POPULAR Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie DRUM CIRCLE. Flagstaff Hill. Sat, CULTURE. Examine the ways Mellon University, Oakland.

3 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. science fiction & popular films 412-567-7512. have influenced & reflected views 412-255-2539.

WEST COAST SWING. Swing of technology. Speaker: Chuck dance lessons for all levels. Thu, Lanigan, part of The People’s 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh Dance Center, University. 3 p.m. Carnegie SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, Bloomfi eld.

412-681-0111.

Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. Oakland. 412-477-4677.

Korean grammar & basic conversation. Sat, 1 p.m. Carnegie LUBE IDOL. American Idol-style Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. singing contest. Fri, 10 p.m. Thru WEDNESDAY MORNING KOREAN II. For those Jan. 18 Quaker Steak & Lube, WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or who already have a basic Cranberry. 724-778-9464. shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, understanding of Korean & OBSCURE: A NIGHT OF GOTH, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100. are interested in increasing proficiency. Sat Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by dancing. Sat, 10 p.m.

La Cucina Flegrea, Downtown.

412-708-8844.

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

Call Livelinks.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m.

Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. The hottest place to meet Washington. 412-683-5670. the coolest people.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, informal.

At the Starbucks inside Target.

Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Target East Liberty, East Liberty.

412-362-6108.

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

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

VOICES: GALLERY TALK: LESLIE GOLOMB. Discussion about Deborah Kass’ work & its themes.

Part of the exhibit Deborah Kass: Before & Happily Ever After.

2-3 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300.

TUESDAYS WITH TESS. Tue, 10 a.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838.

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LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

PGH PHOTO FAIR SPEAKER SERIES. Speaker: Deborah Bell, VP Specialist of the Photographs Dept. at Christie’s in NYC. 6:30 p.m. Mattress Factory, North Side. 412-586-4776.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners.

All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.

WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, South Side. 916-287-1373.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland.

412-683-3727.

BRIDAL BRUNCH. Wedding planning presentation & Q&A session w/ planner, Shari Zatman.

10:30 a.m. Fairmont Pittsburgh, Downtown. 412-901-0082.

Gallerie Chiz greets the new year with

Architectural Perspectives: Places and Planes, a new exhibit of work by two architects, Guglielmo Botter and Ben Saks. Botter, an Italian native from a family of artists, shows his detailed line drawings of Pittsburgh scenes, while Saks offers an array of hand-crafted “fanciful flying machines” (one of which is pictured). Opening reception 5:30–8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 4. 5831 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside.

Call 412-441-6005 or visit www.galleriechiz.com.

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Interactive Q&A film screening w/ Chris Colfer. 8 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont. 412-828-6322.

MON 07

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.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER. Talk by Oliver Byrd, presented by the Squirrel Hill Historical Society. 7:30 p.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

GARDENING FOR FOUR SEASONS OF INTEREST. Class focusing on landscaping for a different season, along w/ ideas for hardscape. 7-9 p.m. Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside.

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS

Since its foundation more than 100 years ago, Big Brothers Big Sisters has helped underprivileged children thrive by partnering them with professionally supported one-on-one mentors. For those interested in getting involved, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh will host information sessions at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 and Jan. 29 at its headquarters, 5989 Penn Circle South, East Liberty.

Call 412-204-1217 or visit www.bbbspgh.org.

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

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50 TIPS FOR SMALL BUSINESS SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS. 8:30-10 a.m. Courtyard Marriot, Settlers Ridge, Robinson.

412-264-6270.

Auditions for new TV show, I Want To Be Discovered. Log onto www.iwant2bdiscoveredonline. com & post video of group or individual talent. 3 minutes max.

THE BOBCAT PLAYERS. Auditions for their 2013 season.

Jan 12, 17, & 19. Plays include “Bus Stop,” “Old Love,” “There Goes the Bride,” “Broadway Bound,” & “Love Loss and What I Wore.” For information & scheduling appointments, call for visit www.bobcatplayers.com.

412-953-0237.

DISCOVER ME! Looking for actors (men only), between the ages of 18-30 for auditions.

Call Robert for further details.

412-904-2954.

MCCAFFERY MYSTERIES. Ongoing auditions for actors ages 18+ for murder mystery shows performed in the Pittsburgh area.

412-833-5056.

THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Mid-season auditions for all voices. Call or email mcseip@themendelssohn. org for information.

724-263-5259.

NEW CASTLE PLAYHOUSE. Auditions for 9 to 5 The Musical.

Jan. 14-15. Men/women age 18+, 2-min. selection showing vocal range, bring sheet music. New Castle. 724-654-3437.

THE REP. Equity principal auditions for Antarktikos. Sides from the script will be provided when making an appointment.

Reader will be provided. Bring a picture & resume, stapled together. Call or email e-mail ademara@pointpark.edu for appointment. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland.

412-392-8141.

SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET. Auditions for 2013 Summer Course. Jan. 13.

Intermediate & advanced ballet students, aged 12-18 as of July 31, 2013. Students should bring a copy of their birth certificate & girls must bring pointe shoes. http://www.sab.org/ summercourse Point Park University, Downtown.

412-392-6131.

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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.

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. Royal Portrait Show.

Drag portraits. 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.

IMAGEBOX. Wanderlust.

International Travel Photography Exhibit by John Ubinger. Garfield.

412-592-8885.

JAMES GALLERY. NIGHT/ LIGHT. Fire Drawings by Paul Chojnowski. West End. 412-922-9800.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922.

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

724-316-9326.

LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Landscape Expressions.

Work by Lynn Fero.

Downtown. 412-392-8008.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Flat Files. Illustration & cartoon art by Wayno. North Side.

412-322-1773.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. New work

by Julia Cahill, Betsy Damon, Parastou Forouhar, Loraine Leeson, Ayanah Moor,

Monday of every month.

11:45 AM, 5:45 PM. 412-471-8011.

UNSEAM’D SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. Filling positions for 20th Anniversary Season.

Accepting resumés from stage managers, costumers, prop masters, lighting designers & set designers. Volunteers are also needed. Not seeking actors at this time. Please send resumes & inquiries to unseamdshakes@ gmail.com.

SUBMISSIONS DIGITAL FILM COMPETITION. Competition for middle and high school students on the impact of STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) in their lives. Presented in partnership with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Visit www.scitechfestival.org/film

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Ongoing Installations.

Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169.

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

Oakland. 412-268-4754.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Cheers, Salute, L’chaim To The Next 50! Group show feat. Ellen Abbott & Marc Leva, Alex Bernstein, Judi Charlson, more. Shadyside.

412-441-5200.

OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Faces & Places: Photographs of Old Economy. Never before seen photography from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Ambridge.

724-266-4500.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. 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. White Show: Subtlety in the Age of Spectacle. Group show feat. Jaq Belcher, David Burke, Ellen Carey, Mark Franchino, Jane Haskell, Marietta Hoferer, more.

for information.

GALLERY FLYNN. Seeking work by film & visual artists to display in new gallery. McKees Rocks.

412-969-2990.

INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. Submit your film, 10 minutes or less. Screenings held on the second Thursday of every month.

DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery, Greensburg. 724-219-0804.

NEW SLANG LITERARY MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN PITTSBURGH. Literary magazine supported by The Women and Girls Foundation.

Taking submissions of creative writing, visual art, photographs, and essays from women and girls of all ages. www.new-slang.org THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry.

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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.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Bridge 12. Work by Melissa Cameron, Betty Vera, & Kevin Snipes. Strip District.

412-261-7003 x 12.

SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART. Red, White & Blue in Black and White: The American Scene in Prints, Drawings & Photographs. 35-some works on paper from the museum’s collection, from photographs to lithographs.

Ligonier. 724-238-6015.

SPACE. Romper Room.

Work by Jae Roberto, Jacob Ciocci, Jim Lingo, Jen Cooney, Matt Barton & Thad Kellstadt. Curated

by Ladyboy. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

THE TOONSEUM. New Action Evolution. Impressionistic superhero paintings by David Leblanc. Downtown.

412-232-0199.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Your Art Needs You. 177 faded or damaged works which visitors can adopt, funding restoration. Born of Fire: The Valley Work.

Greensburg. 724-837-1500.

SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE’S CENTER FOR POLITICAL & ECONOMIC THOUGHT. Seeking submissions to the Douglas B. Rogers Conditions of a Free Society Essay Competition. Open to full-time undergrad students in any field at any 4-year college or university in the US or Canada.

Visit www.stvincent.edu/cpet/ for information.

SIGNIFICANT & SUBLIME: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ART TEACHERS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. Seeking paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, prints, & mixed media by current public school art teachers. Submit 3-5 JPEG images, artist statement & questions to: significantandsublime@gmail. com Panza Gallery, Millvale.

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Monday: $2 Coors Light 9-11pm Tuesday: All Domestic Bottles $3 Until Midnight Wednesday: $2 Miller Lite All Night Thursday: $3 Well Drinks 9-11pm Friday: Ladies Night, No Cover For Ladies Saturday: Ladies Night, No Cover for Ladies, $2 Domestic Bottles until 9pm, $4 Jager Bombs All Night

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

More than a thousand people showed up for a recent Savage Love Live event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here are some answers to questions that I didn’t get to during our time together …

Can an open relationship work if it’s this type: dating two people, separately, both serious, neither relationship is the “primary” one?

Define “work.”

Most people define “work” — in the context of a relationship — as “a loving, lasting, long-term relationship that ends only with the death of one or both parties.” But I define “work” as “a loving relationship that makes the people in it happy, whether that relationship lasts for the rest of their lives or whether both parties — or all parties, if we’re talking about a poly or open scenario — decide at some point to end the relationship amicably.” So, yes, I do think the relationship you’ve described can work. Whether you’ll be in this relationship — or these relationships — for the rest of your life remains to be seen. You may wind up getting more serious about one person, or you may move on from both and find someone else — or a couple of someone elses. But if you’re happy right now, and they’re happy right now, then your relationship is working.

What would you say to Ann Coulter, who said that if her son told her he was gay, she’d “tell him he was adopted”?

Parental rejection of a gay child (which doubles a gay kid’s already quadrupled risk for suicide), the implication that adopted parents are less emotionally invested in their children, and that adopted children are loved conditionally … only Ann Coulter could pack so much malice and emotional violence into a single “quip.” I’m not sure what I would say to Coulter — I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting her. But I can’t imagine that any child of Coulter’s, gay or straight, would be on speaking terms with her anyway, so I’d probably tell her that her feelings about her hypothetical children are irrelevant.

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The first hit is free.

Actually, so are all the others.

I have been treated badly in several past relationships. I am now in a great one, but I have a hard time believing/trusting that nothing bad will happen. How can I get over this?

Something bad is going to happen. Sooner or later, your new squeeze will do something bad and you’ll get hurt. Hopefully the bad that happens won’t be as bad as the bad you experienced in the past relationships — no physical or emotional violence, no unforgivable betrayals — but your new partner will behave badly toward you at some point. And you will behave badly toward your new partner. There’s some bad even in the best relationships. You’ll experience less dread if you can accept that.

Can a successful long-term relationship form if the other person can never admit that they’re wrong?

Anyone who’s ever been in a successful long-term relationship knows that both parties have to be able to admit that they’re wrong — sometimes you have to admit you’re wrong even when you know you’re not. So the answer is “no.”

How and when is it good/best to use whipped cream?

We’ve covered this before: Whipped cream is NOT A SEX TOY. Two minutes after you put it on your nipples — or fill your belly button or ass crack or armpits with it — you begin to smell like baby puke. And it’s not like you’re not getting enough dairy in your diets, Wisconsinites. If you want to lick something off your partner, work up a sweat and lick that off ’em.

My friends and I have a weekly tradition where we read your column aloud, wear bathrobes and drink whiskey. What would you add to this already awesome ritual?

Remote-control vibrating butt plugs, each one set to go off at a different time.

Facials: degrading or sexy?

Yes. Do you have any bisexual friends?

“Dan has bisexual friends, and I am one of them,” says Eric Olalde, a yogi, a hottie and a close friend who happens to be bisexual. “He has seen me shift between male and female partners at different stages of my life and has even made brunch for me and my ex-girlfriend.

Dan has never shown me anything but support and true friendship.”

My partner lives far away, and we can’t live together for at least two years. He says I can sleep with whomever I like. I want to tell him the same thing, but I am kinda jealous and insecure. I told him to just not tell me, but he doesn’t want to lie. What to do?

Withholding information at your request doesn’t make your partner a liar. It makes him a considerate partner. Tell him to do what he needs to do, but to spare you the details.

We have one more letter this week. It wasn’t a question asked at the talk I gave in Madison, but it does have a Madison connection…

I met you briefly in Madison, Wisconsin, a long time ago. As a physician, I’m usually impressed with your savvy advice and medical accuracy.

I agree with your suggestion that doctors give “flared-base” advice to patients who use anal toys. But there’s a simple way for a person who didn’t get that advice to remove an object stuck in the rectum.

They should squat — do a deep knee bend — stay still, relax, breathe and voila! The item will pop out onto the floor. No probing or uncomfortable procedure necessary.

After learning about this technique from a very wise woman physician (who recalled the history of women giving birth in that position and applied the same principle to relaxing the rectal muscles), I used this with patients who would come to my clinic in an embarrassing predicament. The result was simple and comfortable for both patient and physician.

BEST ADVICE SIMPLIFIES EXIT

Thanks for sharing, BASE!

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1. Convenience store connected to BP 5. Minor incident 11. Its contents may be expired 14. RC, e.g.

15. On the ball 16. “Cut that out!”

17. Long, rambling jokes at the bar?

19. “OMG since 1997” program 20. Release 21. Give no stars to, say 22. Express what’s inside you?

23. Org. with Bills and Chargers 24. Result of too much Molson on Boxing Day? 26. Common average for holes above 250 yards 29. Carry, as an awkwardly shaped box 30. “Who do you think you ___?”

31. Used to be 34. Protection provider 38. Post-frat party bottle pick-up?

42. Big name in ketchup packets and such 43. Boat shed items 44. Sleek Jaguar 45. Tree that might be slippery 47. Keep down 50. Do some indoor cycling with a few in you?

55. Ref. with no

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proper nouns in its earliest edition 56. Wentz who married Ashlee Simpson 57. Lobbying org. in an awkward position nowadays 58. Slowly, in music 61. Kalashnikovs 62. Sloppy witch’s curse?

64. Place for petting, perhaps 65. Site security need 66. “___ on Down the Road” (“The Wiz” song) 67. Chilled out, as it were 68. Sex ed subject 69. Genderfucking outfit

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1. Religious rights defender 2. Offer your seat to (someone)?

3. Colored ball pits, say 4. White collar crimeof-the-century name 5. Earned, as a salary 6. Qualifying suffix 7. Buddhist memorial temple 8. “Star Trek” race 9. Off the scale?

10. A head 11. DIY relocation choice 12. Japanese massage practice 13. Citi Field player, briefly

18. Oxo alternative 22. Neo-Druid, e.g.

24. Doctrine 25. Russian legislature 26. Hail Mary, e.g.

27. Group with divisions 28. Noted straightto-video director Boll 32. Big name in talking machines 33. Character with an antenna on his hat 35. Hipster bike type 36. Agrees to, as a contract 37. Celebrates a birthday 39. Spectacle 40. “Steve ___!” (“Arrested Development” catchphrase) 41. “Scanners”

ability, briefly 46. Outfielder Minnie who played professionally in seven decades 48. “Rooms” in some no-frills hotels 49. Hacked at some wheat, say 50. Certain unpopular kid 51. Sri Lankan tea 52. Fighting words 53. Band’s consultants, e.g.

54. Hummus brand 58. Takes on, as a new Facebook friend 59. “___: She Wolf of the SS” 60. Jackie O’s designer 62. One might go around 63. Ramadan ender {LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS}

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

able assertion, Leo. According to my analysis of

long-term astrological omens, you will defiIn Tom Robbins’ book Skinny Legs and All, one of the charac- the nitely be getting what you want in the next six You will receive your prize … you will ters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. months. earn your badge … you will win a big game claim your birthright or find your treasure.

The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: Keep or When that happens, I trust you will make sure is an enduring blessing. There will be no sadyour eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.” I think itness involved! that happens to be excellent counsel for you to heed during VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): poet Alfred Tennyson wrote so many the next six months, Capricorn. You may not always be able English memorable lines that he is among the top 10 frequently cited authors in The Oxford Dicto figure out what the hell is going on, but that shouldn’t most tionary of Quotations. One of his most famous affect your commitment to doing the right thing. Your job passages was “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” When he was is to keep your own karma clean and pure — and not worry on his death bed at age 83, his enigmatic last words were, “I have opened it.” Let’s make that declaration your mantra for the coming year, about anyone else’s karma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

I’ll be bold and predict that 2013 will be a time when you’ll discover more about the art of happiness than you have in years. Here are some clues to get you started. 1. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” — Agnes Repplier.

2. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus.

3. “For the rational, healthy person, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.” — Nathaniel Branden. 4. “Our happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.” — E. Wigglesworth. 5. “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” —William H. Sheldon. 6. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” — Charles Kingsley.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In 2013, I pledge to help you feel at peace and in love with your body; I will do everything in my power to encourage you to triumph over media-induced delusions that tempt you to wish you were different from who you actually are. My goal is to be one of your resourceful supporters in the coming months — to be a member of your extensive team of allies. And I will be working with you to ensure that this team grows to just the right size and provides you with just the right foundation. If all goes well, your extra help will ensure that you finish almost everything you start in the coming year.

You will regularly conquer everyday chaos and be a master of artful resolutions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In 2013, I pledge to conspire with you to increase your mastery of the art of friendship. Together we will concentrate on making you an even stronger ally than you already are. We will upgrade your skill at expressing your feelings with open-hearted clarity, and in ways that don’t

make people defensive. We will also inspire you to help others communicate effectively in your presence. I hope you understand that doing this work will empower you to accomplish feats that were never before possible for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Chickens and alligators share a common ancestor. Seventy million years ago, they were both archosaurs. That’s why chickens possess a gene that has the ability to grow teeth. A few years ago, a biological researcher at the University of Wisconsin managed to activate this capacity, inducing a few mutant chickens to sprout alligator teeth. I predict there will be a metaphorically comparable event happening for you in 2013, Taurus. The “chicken” part of you will acquire some of the gravitas of an alligator.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

“People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground,” said French novelist Marcel Proust. An attitude like that is always a barrier to growth, of course, but in 2013 it would be especially ill-advised for you Geminis. In order to win full possession of the many blessings that will be offering themselves to you, you will have to give up your solid footing and dive into the depths over and over again. That may sometimes be a bit nerve-racking. But it should also generate the most fun you’ve had in years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Here’s the horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: You escaped the chains that kept you enslaved to your primary source of suffering. You broke the trance it kept you in, and you freed yourself from its demoralizing curse. Now you have forged a resilient new relationship with your primary source of suffering — a relationship that allows you to deal with it only when it’s healthy for you to do so and only when you feel strong enough to do it. Very nicely done! Congratulations! Excellent work!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

“In this world,” said Oscar Wilde, “there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I’m counting on you to refute the last part of that question-

Virgo. In your case, it will have nothing to do with death, but just the opposite. It will be your way of announcing your entrance into a brighter, lustier, more fertile phase of your life. Try saying it right now: “I have opened it!”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Back in 1830, it was expensive to stay up and do things in your room after dark. To earn enough money to pay for the whale oil that would light your lamp for an hour, you had to work for 5.4 hours. And today? It’s cheaper. You have to put in less than a second of hard labor to afford an hour’s worth of light. I suspect that in 2013 there will be a similar boost in your ease at getting the light you need to illuminate your journey. I’m speaking metaphorically here, as in the insight that arises from your intuition, the emotional energy that comes from those you care about, and the grace of the Divine Wow. All that good stuff will be increasing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life,” said Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe, “and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” I think her declaration is excellent medicine for you.

In 2013, you will have great potential for upgrading your relationship with your fears — not necessarily suppressing them or smashing them, but rather using them more consistently as a springboard, capitalizing on the emotions they unleash, and riding the power they motivate you to summon.

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“Ambition can creep as well as soar,” said Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. That will be good for you to remember throughout 2013, Sagittarius. Later this year, the time may come for your ambition to soar — in the month of April, for example, and again in the month of August. But for the foreseeable future, I think your ambition will operate best if you keep it contained and intense, moving slowly and gradually, attending to the gritty details with supreme focus.

DELIGHT

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In Harrisburg and D.C., the NRA has opponents outgunned {BY CHRIS POTTER} DURING HIS 2010 campaign, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey once joked, “My idea of

gun control is a steady aim.” And even when horrors like the shootings in Newtown, Conn., shake the conscience of a nation, the National Rifle Association maintains a steady grip on Pennsylvania politicians. In the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, the NRA spent more than $2 million on races for Congress, the state Legislature and the governor’s office. (That total includes money contributed directly to the candidates, as well as independent ads either supporting a candidate or attacking a rival.)

And while some longtime NRA supporters — like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin — have expressed a willingness to discuss gun-control in the wake of the Newtown killings, the NRA’s money in Pennsylvania appears to have been well targeted. Gov. Tom Corbett called mass shootings “a mental-health issue” and said that since assault weapons were “already out there,” new gun regulation “isn’t going to make them safer.” Toomey, meanwhile, issued a statement calling for “a thoughtful dialogue” on mental health and other issues, without mentioning guns.

C P OT T E R@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

WANTED BY THE NRA

WANTED BY THE NRA

GOV. TOM CORBETT

SEN. PAT TOOMEY

REWARD:

REWARD:

$397,110 in campaign contributions and outside advertising

$1,510,961 in campaign contributions and outside advertising

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA NRA GUNSLINGERS

U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy

(D-4th District, outgoing): $22,620

(R-18th District): $8,067

State House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Bradford Woods): $4,500

State Rep. Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth): $3,300

Total NRA spending on PA Democrats, 2009-12:

Total NRA spending on PA Republicans, 2009-12:

$ 87,981

$ 1,953,929 Sources: Campaign-finance and independent-expenditure data maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics, and campaign-finance reports on file at the Pennsylvania Department of State

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