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“THE BUSINESS LICENSE WAS A COMMON-SENSE RESPONSE TO CITIZENS BEING PREYED UPON.”

Fighting Fitzgerald (Jan. 23) Um, besides Port Authority, which is still a mess, what has [County Executive Rich Fitzgerald] actually DONE? Nothing. Not. A. Thing. ... Long on ego, short on accomplishments.

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Irregular Guy (Jan. 23) Congratulations to Keith Rothfus, the 12th Congressional District’s elected representative, for opening one district office. Finally.

I’m so happy Rothfus announced this district office opening via press release or some other way. Oh wait .... he didn’t. I’m so happy that this office in Ross Township is convenient to the folks in Johnstown, on the other side of the district. Oh wait ... it’s not. But who wouldn’t want to drive 156 miles round-trip to get constituent assistance from their congressman? I’d offer my opinion about this on Rothfus’ Facebook page, the one he set up as a member of Congress, but he doesn’t have one of those either. (Just his personal/campaign FB page, where his most recent post congratulates the pro-lifers for marching in D.C.) I’m sure Keith Rothfus is very, very busy, voting against FEMA aid for the residents of New Jersey, which tops the list of states that pay FAR more in taxes than it gets back in federal dollars.

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N APRIL 2010, Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to protect motorists from aggressive tow-truck drivers.

Council members had heard one too many stories about price gouging by towers, or vehicles being snatched in “spiderweb” lots, those with lurking tow-truck drivers and confusing parking rules.

Although some of the practices already violated city ordinances, the city had no way to enforce its rules. So council established a business license for towing operators, and a new set of rules for towing vehicles improperly parked in restricted lots.

The licensing requirement was signed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl within a week.

Nearly three years later, however, the licenses have not been issued.

That has left drivers like Elliot Gerard with little recourse when they have com-

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plaints about towing companies.

Gerard, of Monroeville, parked in a private lot designated for medical offices at Forbes and Shady avenues in Squirrel Hill last spring. According to his wife, Alicia Gerard, as her husband took their infant son from the car seat to stop at a

Passed in 2010, a city tow-truck licensing ordinance faces a long haul {BY HALLE STOCKTON | PUBLICSOURCE} nearby Starbucks, he locked eyes with the driver of a Travis Towing truck parked a few spots away.

When he returned minutes later, his Nissan Rogue was chained to the truck’s ramp.

According to Alicia Gerard, the tow-

truck driver told Gerard that to get his car back, he’d need to produce $110 in cash on the spot — or pay $150 at the impound lot.

Such an additional charge would violate the city code, which sets the maximum cost at $110, and does not allow extra charges or storage fees for the first 12 hours.

Gerard asked the driver to let him take his son’s safety seat and diaper bag from the car because he didn’t have the cash to pay, Alicia Gerard says, but the driver refused.

Ultimately, the driver told Gerard he could pay $115 by credit card, which he did, and his car was not towed. (In 2000, the city code was amended to make towing companies accept credit cards as well as cash.)

“Elliot was at fault because he didn’t see the sign, but the tow-truck driver’s actions were mischievous and calculating,” Alicia Gerard says.

Mark Travis, owner of Travis Towing, says the situation unfolded differently, but he would not elaborate.

“It’s just very popular to demonize us,” he says of the towing industry. “It’s an accepted form of bullying.”

‘AGGRESSIVE TOWING’ COMPLAINTS ABOUT towing companies piled up in 2010, after then-City Councilor Doug Shields called for city residents to share problems.

Among the complaints Shields received: A tow-truck driver took a woman to an ATM to withdraw $300 so her vehicle wouldn’t be taken to the impound lot. A family told of coming to town for a Pirates game and returning to an empty parking space, with no signs in the lot telling them who to call about retrieving it.

Pittsburgh resident Gary Van Horn complained at the time that a tow-truck driver tried to charge him $900 for towing and storing his car after he had an accident and asked that his car be towed to a specific auto-body shop.

Van Horn filed a police report and the amount was reduced to $200.

“This was purely aggressive towing,” Van Horn tells PublicSource. It was “taking advantage of the situation.”

Each towing business was following its own set of rules, says Shields, who represented District 5 until 2011. So he wrote the 2010 ordinance in an attempt to use business licenses to make the rules uniform and the companies accountable.

The bill was to regulate operators who tow cars that have been parked in a restricted area, not those who tow a vehicle at the owner’s request after an accident.

“The business license was a commonsense response to citizens being preyed upon by unscrupulous operators,” Shields says. The city issues other professional licenses, including those for electricians, general contractors and pawnbrokers.

Getting a license would require towtruck drivers to provide their driver’s licenses and business owners to provide proof of insurance, tax identification and access to company business records. The records would show whether they were adhering to the maximum towing charges and accepting credit cards as well as cash.

The 2010 law gave the enforcement job to the Department of Public Safety.

The licenses were to cost $100, and $50 to renew annually.

The ordinance said that before a car could be removed from a private or re-

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stricted lot, towers would need a signed and time-stamped request from property owners, and that there must be signs in the lot warning of the tow risk.

In addition, tow-truck drivers could not tow a vehicle if the owner showed up before it was connected to the truck. If the motorist was too late, the tow companies would have to notify police of the towed vehicle’s location through an online program run by the Department of Public Safety.

“IT WOULD PROTECT EVERYBODY.”

sponsible for implementing and enforcing the ordinance.”

Doven said she did not know which parts of the ordinance Harper thought were unenforceable. While she said a police representative would contact PublicSource, none had done so by deadline.

The mayor’s office voiced few public misgivings about the measure during council’s initial deliberations. At a March 2010 council meeting, Shields said he had sent the ordinance to the mayor’s policy director and had not heard back.

“I assume they are fine with it,” he said.

During an April council meeting the same year, Assistant City Solicitor Jason Zollett said that the Law Department’s initial concerns about the bill had been assuaged because of amendments Shields was adopting.

“I’m perfectly content with the way it reads at this point,” Zollett said.

Resolving towing disputes, Shields said, was going to take “some focus on the part of the police department, and Chief Harper has assured me that that’s going to happen.”

And when Harper came to council’s table shortly afterward to answer questions, he raised no concerns about the bill.

AN UNENFORCEABLE RULE? COUNCIL unanimously passed the bill in April 2010 and Ravenstahl signed it. But Shields says the mayor’s staff soon after told him it was not a priority.

Mayoral spokeswoman Joanna Doven says Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper said the law was “unenforceable.”

Chief Harper did not respond to numerous requests in the past two months for comment on why he thought the ordinance was unenforceable. Bureau of Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said Harper had a booked schedule for much of November, was on vacation in December and recently was off because his mother died. Doven says neither the mayor nor Public Safety Director Michael Huss would be available for comment.

Protecting “citizens from aggressive tow companies … is certainly important,” Doven wrote in an email. “However, the ordinance was written by a politician without any input from the officials who would be re-

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At several other council meetings, the dates to implement the ordinance were changed to give the city more time, but Shields said the administration was committed to having the system in place by early 2011.

All the measures passed the council unanimously and were signed by the mayor.

Doven told PublicSource that Ravenstahl signed the original measure because he supported the idea behind the legislation. Thinking it would be revised later, she wrote, Ravenstahl “followed the will of council.”

Doven says Councilor Bill Peduto offered

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to rework the ordinance and that Harper had been awaiting his proposed revisions.

However, Peduto, who is challenging Ravenstahl in this year’s mayoral race, says the conversation ended when he asked Harper and Huss in March 2012 for speciďŹ c problems with the bill and was not given an answer. “I’m not going to go through the foolish exercise of introducing and passing a bill and then see the administration not do it again,â€? he says.

Theresa Kail-Smith, who chairs council’s Public Safety committee, did not return calls for comment.

INDUSTRY RESPONSE NICK MILANOVICH, manager at J.E. Stuckert Inc., says the Uptown-based towing company supported the business license. “It would protect everybody,� he says. “And it would make sure that everyone is on the same page with insurance and liabilities.�

Joe Stickles, owner of Stickles Towing in GreenďŹ eld, says he supports a business license because it would help push out â€œďŹ‚yby-nightâ€? businesses that employ drivers without driver’s licenses or proper insurance.

Having the law on the books, but not enacted, has created confusion for the industry, both men say.

Stickles says several vehicle-owners have questioned his drivers about whether

they have a business license. “We have to explain to them ‌ that it hasn’t been implemented,â€? Stickles says. “I tell them to call their local representative to ask about the situation.â€?

Had the law been implemented back when Elliot Gerard dashed into Starbucks, for example, the tow-truck driver would have needed a request from the lot owner to remove the SUV. The Monroeville family also would have had a channel to complain about the towing company, and the city could review its practices.

Instead, the Gerards say they ďŹ led a police report, which they say went nowhere.

City ofďŹ cials “put this law on the backburner because it wasn’t important to them, but it was important to us and I’m sure it was important to a lot of others,â€? says Alicia Gerard.

Peduto says his ofďŹ ce receives calls by residents outraged by how they’ve been treated by towing companies. “There really isn’t a way to prevent it at this point,â€? he says. “The idea of the ordinance was to get to the root cause. Without it, there’s no mechanism in place to go after those operating illegally.â€?

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UPMC claims it has no employees in filing to labor board {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} REMEMBER THE UPMC advertisements that used to claim the health-care giant was “not a business” but “a collection of people, and surprises and ideas you weren’t expecting”?

Apparently, it’s not even that much.

In a Jan. 3 filing to the National Labor Relations Board, the nonprofit healthcare giant — routinely identified as the region’s largest employer — claims it actually has no employees at all.

“UPMC is a holding company, which holds certain ownership interest in other entities. UPMC has such directors and officers as are legally required to maintain its corporate existence, but has no employees,” UPMC attorney Thomas Smock wrote in a motion asking that a pending NLRB complaint be dismissed against the company.

“UPMC conducts no operations,” the filing adds.

And it “engages in no employee or industrial relations activities.”

UPMC’s filing was a response to a 30-page complaint the NLRB filed in December, alleging that a unionization effort was being unfairly blocked by UPMC, as well as by managers at Magee Women’s Hospital, UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Shadyside. Workers at those facilities began discussing joining the Service Employees International Union in January 2011, but said UPMC management went above and beyond to block their attempts to unionize.

For example, the complaint alleges that UPMC “engaged in surveillance of its employees who were engaged in union activities,” “interrogated employees concerning their union activities and/or the union activities of other employees,” and “promised employees increased benefits and improved terms and conditions of employment if they refrained from union organizational activity.” Another allegation involves a supervisor at Presbyterian Hospital directing employees to “call the police and not let union supporters and organizers into employees’ homes.” Another claim alleged that employees “were not allowed to solicit for the union at other employees’ homes while off-duty.”

In other instances employees were

told that talking about the union at work was a violation of the company solicitation policy, and other employees were issued verbal and written reprimands, suspensions and terminations.

For its part, UPMC, Presbyterian, Shadyside and Magee hospitals have denied the allegations in separate filings before the NLRB. The NLRB’s complaint consolidates those allegations across the various facilities, making an umbrella complaint against “UPMC and its subsidiaries.” The agency plans to hold a hearing on them on Tue., Feb. 5. But UPMC’s filing seeks to remove “allegations … that UPMC is a single employer” with the hospitals.

As UPMC’s motion notes, Magee has its own board of directors; another board governs both Shadyside and Presbyterian hospitals. And each of those boards, the motion says, “maintain[s] its own personnel policies and conduct[s] its own employee discipline activities, all without input from UPMC.” UPMC’s motion, in fact, seeks to remove only the corporate entity from the NLRB complaint, not the individual hospitals. UPMC and each hospital filed its own answers to the complaint — denying all claims. But each filing was very similar to the other and all were signed and submitted by attorney Thomas Smock of the law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart.

The motion does acknowledge that UPMC “owns 100 percent” of the hospitals. And there is overlap between UPMC’s board of directors and the governing bodies of each hospital. Even so, the complaint asserts, UPMC “does not involve itself in the day-to-day operations” of the facilities.

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for comment on its filing. But attorneys for the SEIU reject those claims, and at least one labor-law professor is baffled by them.

“It seems to me that the attorneys here wasted UPMC’s money” by asking a judge to simply toss out the complaints against it, says Anne Lofaso, a laborlaw professor at the West Virginia

University School of Law. Lofaso is also a former NLRB attorney, and says, “I have personally never seen a judge grant a motion for summary judgment like this before a hearing.”

Who actually calls the shots in an organization like UPMC is the kind of question that gets determined at trial, when testimony and other evidence can establish who bears responsibility for personnel decisions. “There is an employer here,” says Lofaso. “Somebody employs these workers and if you say that’s not you, then that’s something to be decided at trial.”

UPMC did submit one piece of evidence for its claim: a sworn statement from Michele Jegasothy, UPMC’s corporate secretary. Jegaothy’s statement simply restates the assertions made in the complaint — that UPMC “conducts no operations” and “does not employ any person mentioned” in the NLRB complaint, and so on.

That’s not good enough, says Lofaso.

“Say UPMC is just a holding company, fine, but you have to prove that at trial.

You have to do more than just produce an affidavit from a company employee.”

Attorneys for both the union and the NLRB are already challenging UPMC’s claims. They note that the holding company admits to fully owning the hospitals, and that there are numerous ties between the board of UPMC itself, and the boards of individual hospitals. (To take just one example, UPMC Executive Vice President Elizabeth Concordia sits on Magee’s board of directors.)

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“One-third of the votes of UPMC’s Board of Directors are held by individuals appointed by or historically involved in the governance of the subsidiary hospitals,” writes Claudia Davidson, an attorney for SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. “Thus, many of the same individuals oversee the management of and set policy for both UPMC and the subsidiary hospitals.”

What’s more, Davidson argues, UPMC and its hospitals also file joint tax returns.

Davidson writes: “Certain of UPMC’s subsidiaries, including UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, no longer file separate N E W S

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tax returns and instead report their activities to the IRS together with UPMC’s activities, on a ‘group return.’”

In lieu of paying taxes like private businesses, nonprofits file a Form 990, which breaks down the organization’s revenues and expenditures. Prior to 2006, Davidson writes, “UPMC and each of its tax-exempt subsidiaries were separately recognized by the IRS,” but later on, “UPMC and its subsidiaries were permitted to file a group return after the IRS reviewed the relationship between UPMC and its subsidiaries and determined that they were entitled to a group exemption.” And in its Form 990, Davidson writes, UPMC describes its hospital network as “functionally integrated” while billing itself as “the parent organization of a large integrated healthcare delivery system consisting of controlled subsidiaries.”

BUT IF anything will have Pittsburghers confused about UPMC’s legal argument, it’s probably the commercials. For years, UPMC has used ad campaigns and other media to build a brand identity. And it’s still doing so today.

At a UPMC.com web page explaining “Our Structure at UPMC,” the nonprofit claims to be “more than a network of hospitals. We are 55,000 individuals whose compassion and care reach far beyond our hospitals’ walls.” Elsewhere online — on a page titled “UPMC Facts & Stats” — the site boasts “UPMC is Pennsylvania’s largest employer, with more than 55,000 employees.”

Meanwhile, in a UPMC-produced video entitled “Pittsburgh: A New Vision, A New Tomorrow,” CEO Jeffrey Romoff seems to know enough about personnel policies to describe which employees will be successful.

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UPMC has spent years “branding the

heck out of themselves to make money,” says Barney Oursler, executive director for Pittsburgh United, a local social-justice group that has been calling on UPMC to “pay its fair share” of local taxes, and to not interfere with unionization efforts. “But when the time comes to take responsibility for its actions,” says Oursler, “they say, ‘Oh, we don’t exist.’”

“It’s a shell game,” Oursler adds.

“They are who they want to be in order to serve their own best interests at the time. They’re proud to say it’s their people who make them who they are — right up until it’s time to treat those people fairly. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be laughable.”

Lofaso, the West Virginia University professor, says after the hearing, the hearing judge will make a recommendation to the NLRB. Based on that ruling, the agency will make a decision and, if necessary, levy punishment.

If UPMC loses, it can appeal the case through the federal courts. But Lofaso says it would be a mistake to press the arguments in its complaint if a judge tosses them out: Claiming “that ‘we don’t exist and we don’t have employees’ is probably going to end up pissing off the court.”

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A chance for city to heal from a tragic death {BY CHRIS POTTER} LIKE MANY others in town, I’ve heard a lot about Ka’Sandra Wade in the month since her tragic death. Some of the stories, like the way she greeted coworkers each day with a cheery “Bonjour,” were easy to listen to. Others were harder to hear, like the accounts of her increasingly fractious relationship with Anthony L. Brown, the father of her 10-year-old son.

But the thing that haunts me most was something Helen Gerhardt, who’d worked with Wade at the community-empowerment group Action United, recalled Wade saying about the police last summer.

“She told me, ‘This is Homewood. I don’t expect them to care,’” Gerhardt said.

In fact, Gerhardt says, police did care enough to be on hand while Wade removed some belongings from Brown’s apartment (though Gerhardt can’t remember a precise date or the officers involved). And police respond to domestic disputes — often the most dangerous they face — all the time, in neighborhoods all across the city.

But it’s easy to forget that for all the cheery headlines about Pittsburgh’s “livability,” struggling communities like Homewood haven’t gotten the news. And Gerhardt’s story stuck with me partly because of the fear that — in the end — Pittsburgh might have lived down to Wade’s expectations.

Hours before her death on New Year’s Eve, Wade called 911 from Brown’s apartment, giving an address before the line went dead. But when officers arrived at the scene, they were answered by Brown, who refused to let them in. And for a variety of reasons — none of which can ever seem adequate — they left the scene without speaking to Wade herself. Wade was found dead the next day, apparently shot to death by Brown, who killed himself in a standoff with police.

Everyone from District Attorney Stephen Zappala to the people who write letters to the editor has faulted the officers dispatched to Brown’s home for not doing more. But part of what makes Wade’s death so haunting is the number of factors that might have helped set the stage for it.

Would things have turned out differently if the call hadn’t come during a shift change, on New Year’s Eve, when festivi-

ties Downtown demand extra attention?

Would having more sergeants and other supervisors on duty have made a difference, as Pittsburgh City Councilor Patrick Dowd has suggested? Would Wade have had more faith in the system if the city’s police force were more diverse, and more of its members lived in her community?

Domestic-violence advocates are calling for new rules to govern how police respond to 911 calls; City Councilor Ricky Burgess has proposed new domestic-violence training requirements. And inevitably, Wade’s death has become an issue in this year’s mayoral race. It was among several police-related issues that arose during a Jan. 27 political forum in Squirrel Hill.

Among them: Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s management style and the willingness of one of his challengers, City Councilor Bill Peduto, to let police move out of the city in exchange for concessions on other work rules.

Those might sound like abstract issues, or election-season talking points. And because we haven’t had a competitive mayoral race in more than a decade, many voters are still wondering if this time will be any different. Even at the Squirrel Hill forum, one question posed by the audience asked whether having two challengers — Peduto and City Controller Michael Lamb — risked throwing the race to Ravenstahl.

But this year, maybe we shouldn’t wait to see how the election shapes up before we decide whether to engage in the debate. Maybe we should do it the other way around.

Earlier this month, activists joined with members of Wade’s family and circle of friends for a memorial in East Liberty. There were calls for more gun regulations, better rules for handling domestic-violence calls, a need to raise awareness of abuse in poor communities. None of it was enough, but all of it was necessary. And at the end, Wade’s mother, Sharon Jordan, tearfully told the crowd, “I’m going to do whatever I can do to help all these other women.”

Maryellen Deckerd, Action United’s western regional director, told me Wade was on track for a “leadership role. … She was going to be a change-maker.”

She still can be.

PART OF WHAT MAKES WADE’S DEATH SO HAUNTING IS THE NUMBER OF FACTORS THAT MIGHT HAVE HELPED SET THE STAGE FOR IT.

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A leading “adult” search engine reported in December that, over the past seven years, just two of the most popular Internet pornography websites it analyzes have been viewed 93 billion separate times, which averages to about 13 views for every person on Earth.

Given the average viewing time of 11 minutes per visit, the search engine (PornWatchers. com) calculated that men (and a few women, of course) have spent about 1.2 million years watching pornography on just those two sites.

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Almost-extinct vultures may be making a comeback within the Parsi community of Mumbai, India, after a pain reliever (diclofenac) nearly wiped it out. Parsis’ Zoroastrian religion requires “natural” body disposals (no cremation or burial) of humans and cattle, and bodies have always been ritually laid out for the hungry birds, but the community has also come to rely on diclopfenac in hospitals and for cattle. Vultures were dying out from kidney damage caused by the drug, and bodies were piling up. However, according to a N ovember N ew York Times dispatch, clerics are reporting modest success in weaning Parsis off of diclofenac, and the vultures appear more plentiful.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD {BY CHUCK SHEPHERD} farm”), the legislature passed the state’s first anti-bestiality law, which was used in 2010 in another “farm” case, in Bellingham, 110 miles from Enumclaw. A British man had sex with several dogs on the property of Douglas Spink, who had allegedly arranged the trysts, and the man was convicted and deported, but Spink was not charged (though he was reimprisoned for an earlier crime). In November 2012, with Spink nearing release, prosecutors filed bestiality charges using evidence from 2010, involving “four stallions, seven large-breed male dogs” and “13 mice, each coated with a lubricant.” According to the Bellingham Herald, Spink (acting as his own lawyer) denounced state officials and “the bigotry behind the [law].”

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Peter Welsh, 32, and Dwayne Doolan, 31, weren’t the first burglars to try breaking into a building by smashing through the adjoining basement wall, but they might be the clumsiest. Their target, on New Year’s Eve, was Wrights Jewellers in Beaudesert, Australia. But trying to smash the front window failed, as did smashing the rear doors, which were actually those of another store.

They finally settled on the basement option, but absentmindedly broke through the opposite-side wall and wound up in a KFC restaurant. (Undaunted, according to police, they robbed the KFC of about $2,600.)

“Washington State, Known for ...”: When a man died of a perforated colon in 2005 in Enumclaw, Wash., while having sex with a horse (at what news reports suggested was a “bestiality

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plaints. George Stillman, 80, filed a $5.5 million lawsuit in October against the New York Public Library for feeling “humiliate[d]” by the staff of the St. Agnes branch in Manhattan. Stillman said he views body odor as mere “challenge[s] to the senses” and “a fact of life in the city.”

Actually, he had also denied that he had any body odor at all, but a New York Post reporter, interviewing him about the lawsuit, said she noted “a strong odor.”

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when Dr. Diana Williamson was sentenced to three years in prison after a conviction for defrauding Medicaid of $300,000 by writing bogus prescriptions. She had vigorously asserted “her” innocence, in that, she said, only one of her multiple personalities (uncontrollable by the others) had committed the crime.

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A MEAL TO DIE FOR {BY AL HOFF} Zombies are unfeeling, and thus don’t care about Valentine’s Day. But for folks who like to dress up and pretend to be zombies, the Double Wide Grill, on the South Side, is offering a special evening on Feb. 14.

“My Bloody Valentine” is a zombiethemed dinner and mixer, designed to bring existing zombie couples closer, and to help lovelorn zombies find that special undead someone.

In addition to the regular menu, the restaurant will offer themed specials, which are still being finalized.

Co-owner Steve Zumoff assures that “the food won’t be bloody” and “no brains.” (When asked about commercially available brains, such as from cows, Zumoff says: “We didn’t see that there was going to be a big market for that.”)

Double Wide has vegetarian and vegan entrees, so non-flesh-eating zombies can be accommodated.

The bar will serve “bloody drinks,” and zombie singletons are encouraged to meet up there. And since nothing is more appetizing than watching a body get torn apart, patrons can bring their favorite gory movies for display on the big screen.

Costumes are encouraged, with a cash prize for best outfit. No dripping blood allowed, so diners should stem wounds before entering.

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T’S NO SURPRISE that dining’s “fresh, local, seasonal” credo has reached even the small towns beyond the suburbs, but Twisted Thistle, in Leechburg, offers an experience truly extraordinary for a small town so far from the urban epicenter of dining chic. Its interior, a restored 1902 hotel warmed by a fireplace and lit by filament bulbs suspended from old farm pulleys, has the cozy comfort of a rustic resort lodge combined with a decorator’s flair. As for the menu, a decade ago, it would have been a standout anywhere in the region, and it is not outdated now.

Moreover, such carefully conceived and prepared dishes are astonishing at these prices: filet mignon and organic salmon top out at about $25, and eight entrees, ranging from udon noodles with mushrooms to pork tenderloin with roasted root vegetables, are under $20. Alongside the contemporary American flavors are numerous Asian-inspired dishes, most going well beyond soy-glazed meat or other obvious sops to international cuisine. The udon, for instance, are garnished with nori, and a Thai

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red curry includes kabocha pumpkin. Indeed, the menu offers remarkable breadth among a comprehensibly brief selection.

Such attention to detail meant that virtually everything we ordered was distinctive. Even a simple plate of spaghetti with chicken, ordered for an unadventurous member of the under-10 set, delivered

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cret to this dish’s success was the chicken.

It seemed to be a cutlet, sautéed and cut up, resulting in better flavor and texture than the bland grilled breast that’s the norm for tossing in pasta. The net result was a dish that any pasta house would be proud of.

The same can be said of butternut-squash ravioli, whose homemade wrappers were enhanced by a rich yet delicate sage butter.

Most seafood houses don’t offer anything as compelling, let alone as perfectly executed, as Twisted Thistle’s appetizer of fried-oyster po’ boy sliders. Each little sandwich featured an enormous, succulent oyster, fried in a wonderfully light yet crisp batter, placed on a square of bun that seemed to be a split foccaccia, and topped with lettuce, tomato and a flavorful tartar sauce. The well-rounded flavor and texture profiles made this appetizer enormously satisfying.

Pumpkin soup, made with kabocha and coconut cream — not milk — and topped with crispy fried shallots and sesame seeds, was perhaps too satisfying. Only a few thick spoonsful of this richly autum-

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nal bowl were filling, but we made sure to bring home what was left. Fried shallots also lent their sweetness to a beet salad with paper-thin slices of pear, salted nuts and lime-juice dressing. Sweet, salty, earthy and tart, this was as intensely colored as it was flavored. Hush puppies, their humble nature dressed up with the rich flavors of a Maytag blue-cheese dressing and dice of thick-sliced bacon, made another intriguing and successful starter.

A seafood standard served as an entrée, the crab cakes were above average, with plenty of lump crabmeat lightly breaded with extra-crispy panko crumbs and ably complemented by the vegetable medley alongside. Usually, there are few things more pedestrian than restaurant vegetable medleys, but Twisted Thistle’s kitchen paid extra attention, rendering zucchini, summer squash, red peppers and mushrooms tender-crisp and well seasoned in butter.

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Our server clarified that the “24-hour short ribs” are not, literally, roasted for 24 hours. But however long it took, the preparation resulted in an extraordinary piece of meat. The one we received was no “short” rib, but oversized and Flintstone-scale. And if some of the edges could perhaps have used fewer hours, most of the meat was smoky and enriched with all the melted sinew that makes short rib the beef of the moment. A bed of mashed potato, adorned with roasted beet and beautiful, tender Brussels sprouts, rendered flowerlike by the curling of their outer leaves, lent some refinement to this caveman treat.

Desserts are made locally by an Hungarian baker, resulting in some uniquely Eastern European possibilities for after-dinner delicacies. We tried the tiramisu, which was tall and fluffy, creamy and cocoa-ey, and enough to share.

With all this, plus Sunday brunch and live music in the bar on Thursday and Friday nights, we can’t think of anything not to love about Twisted Thistle.

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“Technically,” acknowledges Naomi Auth, “we are [making] a beer.” But Auth, the owner of Pig Hill Brewery, does mean technically: Her Troy Hill space lacks malted barley, hops or steel fermentation tanks.

That’s because Auth is making kombucha, a fermentedtea drink that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago.

This punchy, effervescent brew is green tea, fermented by a complex web of bacteria and yeast living in a symbiotic, jellyfish-like mat.

It’s not pretty to look at, but the results sure taste good.

The fermentation results in a slightly alcoholic beverage — about 1 percent alcohol by volume. And since federal law classifies any beverage containing over 0.5 percent alcohol as liquor, Auth’s brewery is under the control of the PLCB. (Some mass-produced kombucha recipes are reformatted to contain less alcohol, but Auth prefers the flavor of the traditionally fermented beverage.)

Although Red Star is produced in a newly licensed Pennsylvania “brewery,” don’t expect kombucha to become a party drink. “You wouldn’t feel that great if you were doing this to catch a buzz,” Auth says. “You’d have to drink five — and digest them — in the time it would take you to drink one can of Budweiser.”

Instead, think of kombucha as a healthy alternative beverage. “It has lower sugar than soda, and is more exciting than water,” Auth says, adding that the probiotic-packed beverage is the perfect drink for someone who chooses not to imbibe at a party.

There are several ways to try Red Star Kombucha: The brewery is open to the public on Saturdays between noon and 6 p.m.; cases and four-packs are available at several area beer distributors; and a number of local bars serve Red Star. (The list is expanding, so check Red Star’s website.)

And as for that glob of bacteria and yeast you may find in your bottle? Don’t freak out. “It’s totally natural and won’t hurt you,’ says Auth. “But if it scares you, you can flick it out with a straw.”

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This intimate corner restaurant has only a brief, seasonal menu, but its offerings are all tantalizing, each combining several pedigreed ingredients. Such selections include piquillo-pepper lasagna with a different filling in each layer; green-bean and sweetpotato tempura; and fresh pasta topped with beef short ribs, chard and crisped cipollini onions. LF BOCKTOWN BEER AND GRILL. 690 Chauvet Drive, The Pointe, North Fayette (412-788-2333) and 500 Beaver Valley Mall Blvd., Monaca (724-728-7200). Beer is the essence of Bocktown. Many of the dishes are less than $10, and designed to complement beer. The friendly staff creates a neighborhood atmosphere. JE

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412-364-9933. Though a standard Chinese-American menu available, the real action is on the humbly Xeroxed Sichuan menu that’s all in Chinese. Fortunately, there is a translated version available, and the names read like a gourmand’s exotic fantasy: duck with devil’s tongue yam, rabbits in flaming pan. These authentic dishes may sound mysterious, but they’re delicious. KE DAVIO. 2100 Broadway Ave., Beechview. 412-531-7422. Davio is a cozy restaurant (down to

Kaleidoscope Café {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} the family photos) with friendly service. The menu is classic Italian — no wacky ingredients or preparations — but only a few entrées seem lifted from the Standard Italian Restaurant Repertoire. Specialties are crab and veal. L DINETTE. 5996 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-362-0202.

This refined California-inspired pizzeria and wine bar offers a small menu mostly featuring gourmet thin-crust pizzas. The focus here is on fresh, local and sustainable. Inventive pizzas include toppings such as wilted greens, littleneck clams, goat cheese and Brussels sprouts.

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HABITAT. 510 Market St., Downtown. 412-773-8800.

Located in the handsome Fairmont Hotel, this restaurant — with a marvelously open kitchen — utilizes local and seasonal ingredients. The emphasis is on the kitchen’s ability to adapt and update traditional dishes from around the world, such as tandoori chicken tacos and rare-tuna-and-avocado spring rolls. LE ISABELA ON GRANDVIEW. 1318 Grandview Ave., Mount Washington. 412-431-5882.

This fine-dining restaurant atop Mount Washington places as much focus on the food as on the skyline. There are a la carte dishes, but the selections are all from the seven-course, prix fixe dinner that is the heart of the Isabela experience. The cuisine is contemporary and varies widely among European, American and Asian influences. LE

FUEL & FUDDLE. 212 Oakland Ave., Oakland. 412-682-3473. The ambience conjures the nostalgia of Route 66 road trips. Much of the reasonably priced fare is in the “goes well with beer” KALEIDOSCOPE CAFÉ. 108 category, and the beer list includes 43rd St., Lawrenceville. 412-6834004. This intriguing menu a couple of house brews. refracts contemporary But there’s plenty that’s trends in sophisticated new: Pizza, baked in a casual dining while still wood-fired brick oven, offering an atmosphere comes with everything of off-the-beatenfrom Jamaican jerk www. per a p path funkiness. While chicken to hummus; pghcitym o .c some dishes emphasize entrees include glazed unusual juxtapositions of salmon and “truckingredients, such as a lobsterstop sirloin.” KE and-white-bean purée alongside fish, or fig in a “rustic marsala GOLDEN PIG. 3201 Millers sauce,” other dishes are of the Run Road, Cecil. 412-220-7170. moment, with pistachio dust This little jewel-box of a diner atop duck cannoli or deepoffers authentic, home-style fried gnocchi. KF Korean cuisine, including in-house chili sauce and various THE MIGHTY OAK BARREL. kimchis. The brief menu includes 939 Third St., Oakmont. 412traditional appetizers such as 826-1069. Set in a renovated dumplings and gimbop (sushi-like bar surrounded by tiny houses, rolls), as well as entrées ranging the Barrel combines fine dining from bulgogi (beef stir-fry) to with a comfortable neighborhood spicy marinated chicken and feel. Dishes run the gamut from Korean pancakes. KF

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This casual eatery successfully taps the multicultural cuisines of India’s eastern coast, with dishes such as gongura chicken and mutton biryani. Other regions are also represented with dosas, curries and tandoori specialties.

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It’s an oddly signed storefront restaurant but this is Sichuan cuisine that rises above its peers with food that’s well cooked, expertly seasoned and fearlessly spicy. The less-typical entrees include cumin mutton, dan dan noodles, tea-smoked duck and Chendu fried dry hot chicken. JF OISHII BENTO. 119 Oakland Ave., Oakland. 412-687-3335.

Bamboo walls and a low counter with colorful cloth cubes for seating denote a place for moderately priced Japanese food, including sushi. Oishii also adds a few Korean dishes for variety and spice; those seeking a little heat might consider bulgogi, the Korean BBQ. JF

PENN AVENUE FISH COMPANY. 308 Forbes Ave., Downtown. 412562-1710. This Downtown fish restaurant fills the gap between humble lunch counter and snooty steakhouse — modern, funky and moderately priced. Much of the restaurant’s menu is casual fare such as sandwiches (hardly ordinary), sushi and tacos, with a rotating selection of a half-dozen higher-end dishes. Try the shrimp and crab pizza. KF SEVICHE. 930 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-697-3120. This upscale Latin American-style tapas restaurant specializes in citruscured fish, while also offering a small selection of Latin-inspired tapas and finger sandwiches. Still, the inventive dishes are superb — from yellowtail tuna, seared and served in a rich, ruby-colored malbec sauce, to Peruvian-style sashimi and a tostada filled with black beans and sweet blackened yellowtail. EK

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2518 E. Carson St., South Side. 412381-3698. This two-wheel-themed café and bar offers a creative pubgrub menu (with many offerings named for bicycle parts). The salads are more impressive than those you’ll find at most bars, and the menu features vegetarian and vegan options. Try the battered zucchini planks wrapped around melty cheeses. JE

THE BOWLS of soup — sweet potato peanut, broccoli potato leek, and vegetarian three-bean chili with quinoa — were scooped up as quickly as volunteers could deliver them at Sunday’s Soup N’at fundraiser.

Homemade in very large pots in volunteers’ kitchens, the soups are part of a grassroots effort to draw new financial supporters for artists. To be held quarterly this year, Soup N’at charges a $10 admission for the soup and live music. The crowd also hears two-minute presentations from three to five artists, and then votes for the one they favor the most. That artist then takes home the “pot,” or earnings for the evening.

“Soup is something that is universal,” says Tirzah DeCaria, one of four volunteers running the event, and a postgraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh.

Unlike art, which can sometimes be difficult to get in front of new audiences, “soup is simple and accessible,” she says.

Sunday’s Soup N’at, held at the South Side’s Brewhouse Association, was the seventh since August 2011. Five artists made presentations, pitching ideas that included helping offset the costs of a comics anthology, Andromeda Quarterly, and the work of a photo exhibit featuring portraits of each of the 49 exotic animals shot in Zanesville, Ohio, in 2011.

The more than 100 people who attended raised $1,000 for the winner, the Bunker Projects, an artist-owned and -operated gallery and residency space being built in the Penn Avenue arts district.

The next three Soup N’ats will be held at the Union Project in Highland Park on April 7, July 14 and Oct. 6. You can track any changes or announcements through the website soupnat.wordpress. com. Artists interested in presenting their projects at a Soup N’at can also apply on the website; applications are generally accepted about a month in advance of each event.

Cory Bonnet, an artist who pitched the creation of six large-scale paintings of Pittsburgh landmarks and buildings targeted for demolition, says he was taken aback by the popularity of Sunday’s event.

“I thought it was going to be 20 people in a room,” he said. “I had no idea.”

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For the second time, DJ Petey C will be representing Pittsburgh at the East Coast regional qualifier of the Red Bull Thre3Style DJ Competition. The 26-yearold Central Catholic High School grad — real name Peter Cicero — advanced with a win at Red Bull’s Pittsburgh event at Altar Bar, on Jan. 16.

“If you’re a one-directional DJ, this isn’t your type of battle,” Petey C says of Thre3Style. “They’re looking for the guy that can rock the party, got some skills with the tricks, but the songs make sense.

Yet, someone that has stage presence and can keep the crowd involved.” The name “Thre3Style” stems from the challenge to use at least three different genres of music in the performance.

At the Pittsburgh event, Petey C engaged the crowd from the beginning, using a sample from Public Enemy that demanded, “At the count of three, I want y’all to tell me the name of my DJ,” to which the large audience responded “Petey C!” He also incorporated the popular tricks of ’90s-era hip-hop DJs, such as behind-the-back and underthe-leg cutting and scratching of records.

“I’ve seen old-school guys like Roc Raida do crazy body tricks,” he says. “We grew up watching that, thinking that was amazing. And then one day you realize you can do it — it’s kinda cool.”

DJ Petey C has worked as a resident DJ at local clubs such as Jimmy D’s in the South Side and Exit in the Strip District, but his earliest party-rocking experience came in college.

“I went to Slippery Rock for a semester right after I graduated high school,” he explains. “People were having these college parties and frat parties, and the music was horrible. Dudes would just put on ‘Sweet Caroline,’ like, 15 times on repeat. I just couldn’t take it anymore, so I finally offered to do it one day.”

On Feb. 7, DJ Petey C will compete in Philadelphia against the four winning DJs from New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in the East Coast qualifier. By then, the 130 national contestants will have been whittled down to 25; the winners of the five regional quarterfinals will advance to a national championship event. The national champion will then advance to the world finals in Toronto in December.

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featuring punk bands The Frantic Heart of It and Playoff Beard is a real, concrete thing — to be released officially on Sat., Feb. 2. But when the idea first came up, it was far from sure; for one thing, The Frantic Heart of It’s songwriter and singer, Doug Weaver, was in the hospital.

“Do you remember how we started talking about this project?” asks Mike Seamans, owner of Dear Skull Records, which is releasing the record. He’s addressing Weaver.

“It was right before you went in to get your [bone-marrow] transplant, and you were reading that thing about, ‘Get your ashes pressed into a record.’ And you and I were sitting at a table and you were like, ‘If this goes wrong’ — it was some serious, sad-sack shit. ‘Get my ashes pressed into a Hank Williams record so my kids can listen to it and cry every day.’”

Weaver laughs, and Seamans continues: “And I was like, ‘Dude, I’m not gonna do that! That’s a terrible idea.’ So instead, I was like, ‘Why don’t we put out a record, so you have something to work on?’”

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I think I love you: The Frantic Heart of It (from left: Kevin Churchel, Doug Weaver, Cary Miller)

That part of the story had escaped Weaver. It’s understandable; there was a lot going on at that point in his life. The longtime punk-scene personality — he played in the late-’90s hardcore band Gunspiking, and in an acoustic duo called City Hands, with Zack Furness — had landed a job as a city firefighter in 2007, but not long after,

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he was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent three years in and out of the hospital, and was working on songs for The Frantic Heart of It at the same time. This band, more than others, really cuts to the heart of what Weaver favors in his punk rock.

“Basically, I grew up listening to pop-

pier punk music — Lookout! Records kind of stuff. And when I moved to Pittsburgh [from eastern Pennsylvania], the punk scene here has been more into crust and metal stuff. I was always looking for people to do things with me, for years.” He found kindred spirits in bassist Cary Miller (who generally goes by “Stewie”), and eventually drummer Kevin Churchel.

Playoff Beard’s Thomas Guentner was in a similar spot. Formerly of the streetpunk outfit Tommy Gutless, Guentner also found himself playing acoustic music after that band broke up. “I started playing these songs that had sort of a folk-y twist to them, but really they were just pop-punk songs.”

That led to the formation of Playoff Beard, with guitarist Patrick McGhen, bassist Doug Hite, and drummer Dom Sorace.

Despite the name, it’s not a hockeycore band. “The name was inspired by — when we were the ‘city of champions’ [in 2009] — we talked about how, hypothetically, everyone grows this playoff beard for the sports teams, and you live or die by the sports teams around here,” Guentner says.

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“I’m a part of that; almost everyone is. You see unity amongst a city because of that one, fleeting, silly game. Why can’t we have playoff beards for our friends’ ideas, and what our friends want to do with their lives, and where we’re taking a music scene — just camaraderie.”

Both bands are fun, but in a serious sort of way; they hearken back to the emotional punk of the late ’90s, in a way. The Frantic Heart of It, on its side of the split, addresses themes like the “mid-punk crisis,” evolving views (in a tune called “Primitivism Reconsidered”), and being reminded of what one stands for. The song “I Think I Love You, Lauren Wasson,” which Weaver wrote in the hospital, recalls the news coverage of the aforementioned young woman hitting a police officer with her bicycle during the G-20 protests. Weaver says he cleared that song with Wasson, whom he hadn’t met prior to writing the tune — “She said it was cool, but I owe her a record,” he notes.

On the Playoff Beard side of the split, things are a bit more general. One song, “Apology,” begins with the plea, “This song is embarrassing … so goddamn personal / I just met you tonight. Why would I share this with you?”

It’s clear that neither band is afraid of expressing the personal or the political

in their music — something that hasn’t necessarily been “cool” in punk over the past decade.

“I think maybe the whole political movement within punk music went dormant for a while,” says Guentner, “while people figured out a better way to express themselves, with more intense feelings, and not just, ‘Here’s the subject matter, verse-chorus-repeat.’ It’s more, ‘This is how this affects people, and at the end of the day it bums me out, or it brings me hope.’ I think it became a lot more genuine for a lot of the people who I draw inspiration from, and the people I surround myself with.”

The two bands have found in each other a certain degree of community, even if they admit that their music isn’t necessarily what’s most popular around town.

“We find that when we leave the city, kids are way more into what we’re doing,” says Weaver. “There’s definitely a core group of folks in Pittsburgh who support us and are super awesome, but as far as the popularity of poppy punk stuff — I’m not seeing it. But I’m also old and don’t get out much.”

The two bands hope, though, to reach a new generation of fans — people closer in age to Weaver’s 17-year-old daughter, Reyghan, who created the artwork for the album.

“We’d gotten into the habit of playing at bars, because that’s where we hang out, I guess,” Weaver says. “But the last couple of shows we played were at [the all-ages Mr. Roboto Project], and they were really well attended. Those kids were actually really into what we’re doing.”

The Mr. Roboto Project is where the release show for the split takes place on Sat., Feb. 2 — and a longtime dream of Weaver’s comes to fruition.

“Putting out a 10-inch on clear vinyl has been a dream of mine since I was a kid — it was a very specific dream,” he says with a laugh.

You might say that’s not the only dream coming true in his camp. Weaver, now two years in remission, recently returned to his job as a firefighter — no small feat for someone who went through chemo and a marrow transplant. He’s taking this as an opportunity to remind people of what they’ve got.

“Our opening track on the record,” he says, “is something I wrote in the hospital — just about appreciating life, and how it shouldn’t have to take some kind of tragedy for you to realize that you have a finite amount of time on this place, and just, make the best of it and have a good time.”

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Five-song EP from the straightforward radio-ready rock five-piece. Act of Pardon starts with a power-pop base, but delves into rootsy stuff now and then and even has a little post-Sublime-style ska going on at one point. Eclectic, but cohesive in a ’90s alt-rock way. Not bad!

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He eloquently harked back to homeland roots in librettist/lyricist Henry Blossom’s spin on late 18th-century Irish rebellions. This performance of the entire work sounds impressively opera-like, especially given that principal roles are sung by superb Irish opera singers. Hearing it, you can understand why many writers consider this Herbert’s finest score for the stage.

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Half the members of folk-rock quartet Arlo Aldo, for example, recently became parents — which helps explain why they’ve taken their sweet time readying Zelie, their first album. They also report that they’ve been declining the tail end of multi-band shows.

“It’s no fun to get in at 2 a.m. when I know my son will inevitably be up at 5,” says frontman and principal songwriter David Manchester, whose son turns 2 next month. And with a 1-year-old of her own, bassist Susanna Meyer says she’s getting more use out of her Crock-Pot to ensure a warm meal after rehearsals on what she’s designated “band days.”

Fatherhood has also changed Manchester’s songwriting approach. He put his previous project, Kadman, in the category of “sadcore” — that mercilessly bleak and fragile subtype of alternative rock ruled by the self-desctructive likes of Cat Power and Elliott Smith. But being a dad has cut into Manchester’s moping time, and the crisp, mostly acoustic Zelie is at least as optimistic as, say, a ’60s country record.

“I think that even though [the album is] down-tempo and mellow, it’s not as wallowing and depressing,” says Manchester, adding that “being a dad makes you keep track of the important things, even when you are sad.” He wrote two songs in response to funerals: “Highway,” after his grandmother’s, and “Regrets,” in reaction to a family friend’s. “They’re mortalityrelated, but they’re also memory-related,” says Manchester.

But family has long been a factor in his career. Manchester and his wife moved to Pittsburgh because it was a halfway point between their hometowns — his in Washington, D.C. and hers in Cleveland — and would only be a day-trip away from their extended families.

Starting anew in Pittsburgh’s music scene, Manchester placed an ad on Craigslist seeking a female vocalist for the kind of male-female harmonies that define the band Low. This is how he connected with pianist Ariel Nieland. (In his emails, Manchester mentioned repeatedly that band practice would revolve around his wife and son; otherwise, he worried, specifying a female collaborator might “seem creepy.”)

Nieland knew drummer Brandon Forbes.

Parental and job responsibilities were only part of the reason Zelie took about a year to complete. “We didn’t want it to be a one-listen album,” says Forbes. “We wanted a lot going on there.”

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The album was recorded at J Bird Studio, the Cranberry home-cum-recording studio of Boca Chica guitarist J. Vega (who also connected Arlo Aldo with Meyer, his bandmate). The recording has a mellowness that hides its intricacy. On “Galileo,” Vega recorded Nieland playing the same piano part on a Wurlitzer, a miniature toy keyboard and a real grand piano, and combined them for the twinkling that underlines the track. The shaking sound in “Ghosts of the Union Specific,” meanwhile, is the collective noise of a maraca, an egg shaker and a box of brown rice.

Ultimately, band members say the grown-up responsibilities that limit their pace also help hold them together. “When you are in your 20s and are in bands, there is such an emphasis on making it and getting on a label,” says Forbes. “It’s easy to get into fights about who isn’t taking it seriously. This works because we are all respectful of each other’s lives.”

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The Black Sabbath sound has been rehashed many times, many ways, but acolytes don’t often capture the Black Sabbath soul. Pallbearer — whose record Sorrow and Extinction appeared on many a Best of 2012 list — brings Ozzy and Co. to mind, not so much in sound (group members owe more to bands like St. Vitus in that department), but in how it feels to listen to them. Brett Campbell’s vocals are as lonely and vast as an empty cathedral (see Pallbearer’s demo cover of “Gloomy Sunday”), but the effect is fortifying. Tonight, the group plays Mr. Small’s Theatre with Enslaved, Royal Thunder and Ancient VVisdom.

Margaret Welsh 7 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15-17. All ages. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

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year’s Canary in a Coal Mine, released on her Paper Anchor label, got nice buzz from outlets like PopMatters, which issued it a 9-out-of-10 rating. And homecoming shows for Vogelzang — like tonight’s trip to the Underground, at Carnegie Mellon — are always nicely attended.

Local ally Brad Yoder plays this one as well.

Andy Mulkerin 7 p.m. Forbes Avenue at Morewood, Oakland. Free. All ages. www.activitiesboard.org

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For a record with track titles like “Naked” and “Rumpshaker,” Sera Cahoone’s Deer Creek Canyon is a pretty subdued ride. The Seattle folky — this is her third full-length, and her second on Sub Pop — has been known to help out other acts, playing drums for groups including Carissa’s Weird and Band of Horses. But she’s front-and-center tonight as an opening act for Canadian favorite Kathleen Edwards at the Rex Theater. AM 8 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $2630. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

For more than a decade, piano-bassdrums trio The Bad Plus has been pushing the limits of three-piece jazz with a mix of complex original works and catchy covers of bands ranging from Aphex Twin to The Bee Gees.

[INDIE ROCK] + The band’s intriguing, WED., FEB. 06 playful style reflects Sera Cahoone Cincinnati-based indiethe combination of the rock kids Walk the members’ three unique Moon had already methods of writing made quite a splash and performance, and before their self-titled has helped the group album debuted last June. Perhaps best find success among both critics and casual fans. known for the single “Anna Sun,” which is The trio’s most recent release, Made Possible, is comprised of originals, plus one tune by the late named after an old college teacher of vocalist Nicholas Petricca, the band has found jazz drummer Paul Motian. The Bad Plus will success with its array of upbeat, poppy songs be putting its talents on display at Manchester and sing-along choruses. Synth and catchy Craftsmen’s Guild tonight. John Lavanga guitar riffs abound in the tracks of these 7 p.m. 1815 Metropolitan St., North Side. $45.

Ohio natives, and face-paint is a staple All ages. 412-323-4000 or www.mcgjazz.org of their live performances. Now they’ve followed up with Tightrope, a new EP [FOLK] + SAT., FEB. 02 that features a Talking Heads cover. Pacific She lives in Madison, Wis., and has for a while Air opens tonight. JL 8 p.m. Altar Bar, now, but let’s keep claiming her as our own: 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $16. All ages.

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ROCK/POP THU 31

ALTAR BAR. Corey Smith.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. The El-Reys. North Side.

412-322-1850.

BRICOLAGE. The Standard Band.

Downtown. 412-471-0999.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Vaughn Trio. Strip District.

412-281-6593.

CLUB CAFE. Ellis Paul. South Side.

412-431-4950.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. PowWows, Neighbours, The Lopez. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

STAGE AE. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Stepkids.

North Side.

FRI 01

THE DEAD HORSE CANTINA & MUSIC HALL. Gone South.

McKees Rocks. 412-973-3295.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Jason Ajemian. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. The Weber Brothers, Pete Bush & The Hoi Polloi, Beagle Brothers, Elliott Sussman.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

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

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Enslaved, Pallbearer, Royal Thunder, Ancient VVisdom.

Millvale. 866-468-3401.

SMILING MOOSE. Gran’gila, Yigga Digga, Rugburn. South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Chad Sipes Stereo. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Divine Tragedy, Action Camp, Don’t Wake the Dead. Aliquippa.

724-375-5080.

GOOSKI’S. Liquified Guts, Bear Skull, Wrought Iron. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HAMBONE’S. Jenny Morgan, Deborah Brown, Sarah Fina.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Red Western, The Highland Brothers, Dressed Frets.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

JOEY D’S. Lucky Me. Harmarville.

412-828-0999.

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

MOONDOG’S. Coastal Remedy.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Shalerpalooza. Class Funds Concert

ft. Tobacco Road, more. Millvale.

866-468-3401.

THE R BAR. King’s Ransom.

Dormont. 412-445-5279.

SILKS LOUNGE AT THE MEADOWS. DaPhunk Band.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

SMILING MOOSE. The Filthy Lowdown, Midnight Spin, Vizard.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Jimkata.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

TJ’S HIDEAWAY. Dancing Queen.

Evans City. 724-789-7858.

WUNDERBAR COFFEE HOUSE. Christopher Bell. Harmony.

SUN 03

THE DEAD HORSE CANTINA & MUSIC HALL. Breathing Theory, Losing September. McKees Rocks.

412-973-3295.

MP 3 MONDAY CAIT CUNEO

SAT 02

ALTAR BAR. Battery (Metallica tribute). Strip District.

412-263-2877.

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

CLUB CAFE. Tift Merritt, David Wax Museum. South Side.

412-431-4950.

THE DEAD HORSE CANTINA & MUSIC HALL. UnSaid Fate, Losing September. McKees Rocks.

412-973-3295.

DIVE BAR & GRILLE. The Grifters, Patrick Varine, Box Car Social, Los Callados. Wexford.

724-719-2060.

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

DV8 ESPRESSO BAR & GALLERY. Christopher Bell.

Greensburg. 724-219-0804.

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Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local artist. This week’s track comes from Cait Cuneo, the former Black Coffee frontwoman who released her solo debut earlier this month. Stream or download “Truth” for free on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.

SMITTY’S. Moose Tracks.

Sheraden. 412-331-9184.

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Techno. 21+ BYOB. 2am-8am Sunday morning. Downtown.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. African Night. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

SMILING MOOSE. The Color BELVEDERE’S. 90z Dance w/ Sean Morale, Our Last Night, Ice Nine MC & Thermos. Lawrenceville.

Kills, For All I Am, Maesion. South 412-687-2555.

Side. 412-431-4668.

BRILLOBOX. Title Town Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat.

ALTAR BAR. Walk The Moon.

DJ Gordy G. & guests. Bloomfield.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

412-621-4900.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Kissing Club, Ben Johnson, Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip Gang Of Thieves. Bloomfield.

Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul.

412-682-0320.

East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

REX THEATER. Papadosio.

CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals South Side. 412-381-6811. & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville.

ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother 412-687-2157.

Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

SMILING MOOSE. Geoff 412-431-8800.

Rickly, Vinnie Caruana, A Loss ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Do Sum’n For Words, Koji Warped Saturday Reggae w/ Acoustic Basement. South Side.

Dan Dabber. Lawrenceville.

412-431-4668.

412-251-0097.

STAGE AE. moe. North Side.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. THUNDERBIRD Tom Cox, Preslav, Jwan CAFE. Miss Tess & The Allen. Lawrenceville.

Talkbacks, Dan Getkin 412-904-2915. & The Masters of REDBEARDS. DJ American Music.

Kayoss. Mt. Washington.

Lawrenceville. www. per 412-344-7619.

412-682-0177. pa pghcitym .co REGINA ELENA CLUB. Jerry Kovach.

Sharpsburg. 412-781-0229.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side. hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-481-7227.

412-687-2555.

CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood.

412-969-0260.

RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Throwdown Bara & Digital Dave. North Side.

Thursdays w/ Tracksploitation.

412-231-7777.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

Transmission: Classic Alternative Electro, post punk, industrial, new Dance Party. South Side. wave, alternative dance. South 412-381-3497.

Side. 412-431-4668.

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FRI 01

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays.

DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

BELVEDERE’S. Get Weird w/ Cucitroa & Dizcrepnnc.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

BRILLOBOX. Pandemic.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Salsa Friday. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat Friday’s Reggae. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. House Music w/ Hana. Lawrenceville.

412-251-0097.

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

412-874-4582.

REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss.

Mt. Washington. 412-344-7619.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SAT 02

1139 PENN AVE. Hot Mass. Late Night Dancing. Disco, House,

TUE 05

BELVEDERE’S. DJ T$.

Lawrenceville. 724-312-4098.

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

412-251-0097.

WED 06

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Outtareach. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

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

412-682-8611.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Brotha Mike & DJ Skooze. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

SAVOY RESTAURANT. Latin Savoy Night. Strip District.

412-281-0660.

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

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 01

CLUB CAFE. Artistree, Natalie Quartet (Early). South Side.

412-431-4950.

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

South Side. 412-431-4090.

KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Kelley Hunt. East Liberty. 412-441-3800 x 11.

MOONDOG’S. Memphis Mike & the Legendary Tremblers.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

PENN BREWERY. The Blues Orphans. North Side.

412-237-9400.

SAT 02

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

PIZZA DADDIES. Sweaty Betty.

Gibsonia. 724-443-0066.

THE R BAR. Kings Ransom.

Dormont. 412-445-5279.

ROMAN BISTRO. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Forest Hills.

WED 06

CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

JAZZ THU 31

ANDYS. Maureen Budway.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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.

FRI 01

ANDYS. Adam Brock. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

DANTE’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. Jerry & Louis Lucarelli, Sunny Sunseri, Vince Tagliari, Peg Wilson.

Brentwood. 412-884-4600.

LITTLE E’S. Jared Wilson & the Vibe. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. RML Jazz. Greensburg.

412-370-9621.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Chico’s Quintet +1. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

SAT 02

ANDYS. Dane Vannatter.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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 Tony Depaolis Trio. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. The Bad Plus. North Side.

412-322-0800.

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SPEAKEASY. Bobby Reed’s Jazz & Blues Review. North Side.

412-904-3335.

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ANDYS. Ken Karsh. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 06

ANDYS. David Bennett & Daniel May. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

DANTE’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. Jerry & Lou Lucarelli.

Brentwood. 412-884-4600.

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Grizzly Bear

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ACOUSTIC THU 31

ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield

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

724-934-1177.

COFFEE BUDDHA. Paz & Ukulele Eddie. West View.

412-837-2595.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Juan Vasquez. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night.

West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Lucy Kaplansky. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

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Grizzly Bear Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland {SUN., MARCH 31}

Lee Fields & the Expressions Rex Theater, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side

FRI 01

Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. CAFE AU VINEYARD. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

Cafe’ Au Vineyard. Bridgeville.

412-921-4174.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Merritt Bussiere.

BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

Singer Songwriter Night. North THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. Fayette. 412-788-2333.

Shari Richards. Canonsburg.

JAVA HOUSE. Jack McLaughlin, 724-746-4227.

Scott Albert. Brighton Heights.

KELLY’S RIVERSIDE SALOON. 412-415-0734.

Speakeasy Alley. Bridgewater.

724-728-0222.

MULLANEY’S HARP & ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE FIDDLE. Tim & John. Strip #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

District. 412-642-6622.

Wednesdays. North Side.

OAKMONT TAVERN. 412-321-1834.

Blake & Dean. Oakmont.

MOONDOG’S. Acoustic 412-828-4155.

Open Stage. Blawnox.

VINEYARD 412-828-2040.

CHRISTIAN PARK HOUSE. Dodgy www. per FELLOWSHIP OF Mountain Boys & the pa pghcitym SOUTHWEST Park House Jammers. .co PITTSBURGH. Jacob North Side. 412-596-2743.

Doerr & Friends.

Bridgeville.

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SAT 02

1810 TAVERN. Jay Wiley of The Hawkeyes. Bridgewater.

724-371-0732.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

PENN BREWERY. Joel Lindsay Trio. North Side. 412-237-9400.

SUN 03

HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

MON 04

HAMBONE’S. Monday Night

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FIRST HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH. Mária Majda Guessous.

Hazelwood. 1-800-848-7366 x.149.

SAT 02

BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Grand Bon Rien. West Homestead.

412-247-6604.

COUNTRY SAT 02

ELWOOD’S PUB. Rob Kellar, Slim

Varhola. Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

CLASSICAL THU 31 OVREARTS. Heinz Chapel, Oakland. 412-294-8071.

SAT 02 WESTMORELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

SUN 03 CARNEGIE MELLON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CHRISTOPHER SHELDON. University of Pittsburgh Organ recital. Heinz Chapel, Oakland.

412-624-4157.

OTHER MUSIC FRI 01 FRIDAY FAITH CAFE. Circle of Faith. Washington.

724-222-1563.

LEMONT. Mark Venneri.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Pittsburgh Gospel Choir. Shadyside. 412-682-4300.

MON 04 HAMBONE’S. Cabaret Sing-Along.

Jazz standards & showtunes.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests LA Dispute & The Menzingers.

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

Kopecky Family Band / The Eastern Sea CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

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THURSDAY 31

John Gabriel Borkman HART BUILDING East Liberty.

412-362-1713. All ages show.

Tickets: quantumtheatre.com or 1-888-71-tickets. Through Feb. 24.

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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals STAGE AE North Side. With special guest The JAG. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

With special guests Joe Robinson. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

Jimkata

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

Becky’s New Car PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE Oakland. 412-392-8000. Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse.com.

Through Feb. 17.

FRIDAY 10 1 Craig Campbell

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests The Suggah Pies, Michael Christopher & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

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MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

With special guests Pallbearer, Royal Thunder & more.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone or 866-468-3401. 8p.m.

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John Waters: This Filthy World

town. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through Feb. 3.

CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL Oakland. 412-237-8300.

Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.

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8th Annual Pitts-burrrrgh Drowned Hog Swim

Soap Opera ATTACK THEATRE Strip District. 412-281-3305.

Tickets: 1-888-71-tickets or attacktheatre.showclix.com.

Through Feb. 10.

New Wave Nation JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333. $7 cover. For more info visit jergels.com. 9p.m.

18th STREET BOAT RAMP South Side 412-937-1650.

Benefits Circle C Youth & Family Services. 11a.m.

Tim Merritt CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950.With special guest David Wax Museum.

Over 21 show. Tickets:

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special

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Free with museum admission.

Through Apr. 28.

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JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

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

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ONE INVENTIVE FILM IS ABOUT A PHOTOGRAPHER ON ASSIGNMENT FROM DEATH

{BY AL HOFF} Sometime in the near future, most people are zombies, and the few remaining humans live in a walled city. Jonathan Levine’s rom-com Warm Bodies introduces us to this world, via its moony, cute-nerdboy hero, a zombie known simply as R. R (Nicholas Hoult) lives at the airport, where he mulls over his boring life and tries to keep alight a tiny flicker of humanity. The flicker becomes a flame when he encounters Julie (Teresa Palmer), a human girl on a scavenging run in zombieville.

SHORT TAKES An unlikely couple: Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer

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R eats Julie’s boyfriend (saving the good brain parts for later) and, besotted, kidnaps Julie, bringing her to his jetliner lair. There, the two begin to bond — over vinyl records and shared distaste for more fearsome skeletal zombies known as boneys.

Warm Bodies is lightweight, but surprisingly sweet. This isn’t a gore-fest or a horror film; mostly these undead just want to feel alive again. (Filming took place in Canada, which may also account for these politer zombies.)

This is essentially an update of the popular fairy tale trope in which the hideously ugly/imprisoned-in-a-frog/otherwise physically compromised hero can be restored to a dream date with the love of a woman who can see past these hindrances. Every beast needs a beauty, and so too do these zombies. Starts Fri., Feb. 1.

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Asad. With a cast of Somali refugees, writer/director Bryan Buckley sets this oddly hopeful tale in Somalia’s disintegrating pirate-state. Asad is a nervy — but luckless — young fisherman: He lands an unlikely catch thanks to a brutal collision between the First World and the Third. In Somali, with subtitles Buzkashi Boys. Rafi, the son of a Kabul blacksmith, is tempted to dream of glory by a street-urchin friend and the horsemen who play buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport. But co-writers Martin Desmond Roe and Sam French (who directed) seem wary of excess ambition — a trait that can be fatal in Afghanistan. And just try spotting a female on screen. In Dari, with subtitles Curfew. Shawn Christensen writes,

Clockwise from top left: “Buzkashi Boys,” “Fresh Guacamole,” “Curfew” and “Asad”

directs and stars in the story of Richie, a drug addict whose suicide is interrupted when his estranged sister needs a babysitter. A bit of dark humor adds needed tartness to an otherwise too-sweet story of a precocious fourth-grader and a babysitter who can barely care for himself.

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CP APPROVED Death of a Shadow. This Dutch film, about a photographer on assignment from Death itself, is the most inventive of the bunch. Writer/director Tom Van Avermaet’s boy-hopes-to-meet-girl plot never quite lives up to its visuals, but this is the film you’ll want to watch twice. In Dutch, with subtitles Henry. Henry is an aging concert pianist whose life suddenly takes a Kaf-

kaesque turn. Or does it? Writer/director Yan England keeps you guessing for a few minutes, though not much longer.

This Quebec-made film’s conclusion is poignant, but not as painful as you might expect. In French, with subtitles The program of animated shorts was unavailable for screening. Entries include: “Head Over Heels” (Timothy Reckart, U.K.), which relates the travails of a longtime couple — he lives on the floor, she on the ceiling — via claymation; “Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’” (David Silverman, USA), in which the baby of America’s favorite cartoon family goes to the Ayn Rand Day Care; “Paperman” (John Kars, USA), a wordless Pixar creation about match-making via a floating piece of paper; “Fresh Guacamole” (Adam Pesapane, USA), featuring an unusual guacamole recipe; and “Adam and His Dog” (Minkyu Lee, USA), speculating how the dog became the first man’s best friend, in the Garden of Eden. In addition to the five nominated films, three other animated shorts round out the program.

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HYDE PARK ON HUDSON . Roger Michell’s dramedy depicts the love affair between President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his distant cousin Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney). The film focuses specifically on the canoodling that occurred one weekend in 1939, when the British king and queen were visiting FDR’s upstate N ew York estate.

Manor QUARTET. Things at the well-appointed country estate for retired musicians are about to be shaken up by a new resident, but with a bit of understanding, it all gets sorted out.

That’s Quartet in a nutshell, but you won’t be seeing Dustin Hoffman’s light, cozy comedy, adapted from Ronald Harwood’s play, for the plot. The film boasts an A-list of gracefully aging British actors — Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly — as well as a deep backbench of lesser-known opera singers, classical musicians and assorted performers (including “Manuel” from Fawlty Towers).

Hyde Park On Hudson Guys serves mostly as a playground to let this trio of well-known ham-sters go to town. Pacino is manic and profane, while Arkin is more melancholic.

Walken is improbably the gooey center, reeling off quirky bon mots with studied world-weariness that barely cloaks his good-heartedness. As the three gamely slog through tired jokes about Viagra, cable TV and how cars have changed, you may smile.

But mostly you’ll wish these stand-up guys had better material for their golden years. Starts Fri., Feb. 1. (AH) THE WAITING ROOM. Peter Nicks’ new documentary depicts 24 hours at the emergency room of a public hospital in Oakland, Calif., exposing the hard work and frustration that make up one of health care’s thinly-stretched safety nets. Starts Thu., Feb. 7, through Sun., Feb. 10. Hollywood

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Quartet There’s some piffle about a benefit concert, which lets Hoffman slip in some musical numbers, and a not-particularly-melodramatic subplot about an operatic quartet long ago fractured by romantic failings. (Courtenay and Smith are the still-aggrieved parties.) These characters all exist in one of those rarefied, tightly curtailed British bubbles (similar to last year’s Exotic Marigold Hotel) where the rest of the world and much of modern life barely seems to intrude. But what of reality in a home for the aged and theatrical? The film’s pleasures are in seeing old friends bantering, sniping and simpering, as well as celebrating the game supporting players, who are still warbling and trilling away after all these years. Starts Fri., Feb 1. Manor (Al Hoff) STAN D UP GUYS. Fisher Stevens’ film is a low-key, shaggy-dog comedy about three aging gangsters tying up loose ends over one 18-hour period. Doc (Christopher Walken) picks up Val (Al Pacino), who is leaving prison after a couple of decades. But the day’s celebrations — hooker, pills, steak dinners — have a darker edge: It’s a last hurrah, since Doc is tasked by their longtime gang boss to kill Val. Later that night, the two collect their former driver, Hirsch (Alan Arkin), and get a bit of joy-riding in. They may be on blood-thinners, but they still got skills.

There’s not a lot of plot, and this should not be mistaken for a crime thriller. Stand Up

VIVA CUBA. In this 2005 Cuban film, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti and Iraida Malberti Cabrera, two children enjoy a friendship that transcends the social and political differences of their families. Presented by the Amigos del Cine LatinoAmericano. In Spanish, with subtitles. 6:30 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 30. Frick Fine Arts Building (Room 125), Oakland. Free. www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano. blogspot.com CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS. Werner Herzog persuaded the French government to let him film in Chauvet Cave — site of the oldest known human art, animal paintings dating back 32,000 years. As a documentarian, Herzog has a knack for engaging viewers’ imaginations even while pursuing his own eccentric lines of inquiry. Herzog’s desire to learn who these prehistoric artists were also leads him to a parade of thoughtful experts, including an “experimental archaeologist” clad in fur and playing a vulturebone flute. Meanwhile, meditating upon gorgeous images of horses, bison and wooly rhinos more distant in time from ancient Egypt than the pharaohs are from us, Herzog paints cave walls with shadows to mimic firelight. Inevitably, Cave raises more questions than it answers, but that’s beautiful, too. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 31. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, N orth Side. $12 in advance (www.showclix.com); $16 at door.

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GROUNDHOG DAY. In this neo-classic 1993 charmer from Harold Ramis, Bill Murray plays a Pittsburgh weatherman who gets trapped in a time loop while covering the annual festivities in Punxsutawney. See it once, or over and over. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 31 (AMC Loews). Also: 7 p.m. Fri., Feb. 1; 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. Sat., Feb. 2; 4 p.m. Sun., Feb. 3 (Hollywood).

And still more: 10 p.m. Fri., Feb. 1, and 10 p.m. Sat., Feb. 2 (Oaks).

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STRAN GELOVE. The Cold War was CP DR. never funnier than in Stanley Kubrick’s pitchblack 1964 satire. From the brilliant Peter Sellers’ three roles (including the titular doctor with a problematic artificial arm) to Sterling Hayden’s muttering about “precious bodily fluids” to Slim Pickens’ greatest ride, this mad rush to annihilation manages to be a sharply defined time capsule of early-’60s paranoia while remaining a hilarious allpurpose general indictment of military madness.

7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 31; 9:15 p.m. Fri., Feb. 1; and 7 p.m. Sun., Feb. 3. Hollywood (AH)

and will be followed by a lecture by writer and art collector Joe Peacock. The films opens a monthlong anime series presented by Pittsburgh Anime Film Series. In Japanese, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Tue., Feb. 5. ToonSeum, 945 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5. www.ucis.pitt.edu ROMEO + JULIET. Shakespeare’s classic teen-age love tragedy gets a zippy update in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes star as the doomed couple. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 6.

AMC Loews. $5.

CINEMA JENIN. Marcus Vetter’s recent documentary looks at the efforts of Palestinians to re-open a movie theater in the West Bank city of Jenin.

The film is presented by Silk Screen. In English, and Arabic, with subtitles. 2 p.m. Sat., Feb. 2.

Rea Auditorium, Sewickley Academy, 315 Academy Ave., Sewickley. Free. www.silkscreenfestival.org THE IN VISIBLE WAR. Rape in the U.S. military — and the institutional failure to fully address the problem — is the subject of Kirby Dick’s 2012 investigative documentary. The film screens as part of Duquesne’s Human Rights Film Series. 7 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 4. 105 College Hall. Duquesne University, Uptown. Free. www.duq.edu CLUE. Jonathan Lynn directs this 1985 mystery comedy adapted from the popular board game.

Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry and Madeline Kahn head an ensemble cast. Shadow casting from the Junior Chamber of Commerce Players will accompany the screening. Midnight, Sat., Feb. 2.

Hollywood THE GRADUATE. Today, bittersweet comedies about disenchanted young men hit the theaters with regularity. But in 1967, Mike Nichols’ film was a breath of fresh air to a generation deciding that becoming like dad maybe wasn’t what they wanted. The film made a star of Dustin Hoffman, and gave us the handy catch-word “Mrs. Robinson” to categorize women who seduce younger guys. The film continues a Saturday-night series of Oscar classics. Midnight, Sat., Feb. 2.

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The Invisible War EAST OF EDEN . Elia Kazan’s truncated 1954 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s multigenerational novel stars James Dean, in his other sensitive, troubled teen role. But in fairness, he’s got some burdens: His dad favors his “good” brother; his mom is a noted madam; and every time he tries to do something right, it turns out all wrong. (This is surely the only film that will make you feel bad about lettuce.) Dean slouches, mumbles and weeps through all the melodrama, winning the hearts of sweet girls, bad boys and Method actors the world over. 7 p.m. Thu., Feb. 7.

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SOLOS

“HE MADE IT COOL TO BE GAY.”

{BY ROBERT RACZKA}

Living in This Filthy World: John Waters

“I Wished for Things but Got Instead, an Anvil dropped Upon My Head,” by Craig Freeman

Good neighbors. Two polished solo exhibits in adjoining Downtown galleries double the food for thought.

Craig Freeman’s paintings and drawings at 707 Penn Gallery aren’t exactly upbeat, but for a show self-described as exploring themes of “nihilism, depression, and suicide,” it’s not the downer it could be. That’s partly because there’s plenty of black humor here, though Freeman is far from flippant with the subject, and depression feels as if it’s taken seriously. As a twist, Freeman populates his pictures with cartoon characters, which makes their dilemmas and despair feel less individualistic and of broader applicability.

Freeman’s modestly sized paintings are designed more than composed, and resemble either icons, as in the stylized image of feet projecting from under an anvil, or logos, as in “Exit House,” in which the words are combined with the image of a noose. These pictures make reference to tragedies of disaster and self-destruction, though they stop short of expressing much about them, leaving emotional distance. The accompanying drawings on discolored paper hold only disconnected and fragmentary images and are calculatedly incomplete.

One door over, at 709 Penn Gallery, Fabrizio Gerbino is exhibiting 10 paintings that, though not a conventionally tight series, share with each other a similarity of tone along with a predilection for shades of gray. (Not that kind!) The miscellaneous aspect keeps it interesting with horizontal and vertical formats, various materials and even a multi-panel piece of irregular shape. There are varied approaches to imagery, from a painterly representation of a hand to motifs, decorative elements, spatial perspectives and pure abstraction.

Gerbino is exercising more freedom than most artists permit themselves. The wide-ranging character of these works reflects the use of different sources for inspiration and forms, which are then filtered and channeled into his art.

I’m reminded of the breadth of early Francesco Clemente, with whom Gerbino seems to share a foraging curiosity. Yet these pieces hang together, sufficiently unified by the artist’s use of geometric and architectural space in conjunction with a looseness of paint-handling, as seen in “Untitled” (2008). While many of the paintings are heavily reworked, resulting in built-up surfaces, they maintain equilibrium between structure and fluidity.

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breaking filmmaker, hasn’t released a new feature since 2004. But he’s hardly slowed down.

With TV guest spots, books and speaking engagements — plus the continued success of the stagemusical version of his 1988 film Hairspray — the man who gave us cult classics like Pink Flamingos and Polyester remains a comic raconteur beloved of freaks and misfits everywhere. Last year, when Waters appeared on Australian chat show Q & A, a fan tweeted on screen, “This is like a vision of the Virgin Mary in rural Ireland.”

JOHN WATERS

INTIMATE GALLERY TALK:

8:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 31 (The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $150).

THIS FILTHY WORLD:

8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 1 (Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland; $20-25). 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

In Pittsburgh this week, Waters has two gigs.

On Jan. 31, he follows up his role as the voice of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s audio guide for Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years by personally leading a tour through this major traveling exhibit at The Andy Warhol Museum. On Feb. 1, at Carnegie Music Hall, Waters gives a new version of his popular monologue This Filthy World — basically a rundown of his influences and obsessions, last presented here in 2005.

Waters, 66, still lives in his hometown of Balti-

more, though he spoke with CP by phone from his San Francisco flat — “the apartment that Hairspray: The Musical bought me.” He was especially keen to discuss Warhol’s films, which ranged from experiments like the six-hour Sleep to outrageous works like Vinyl. A longer version of this interview, and an audio clip, are available at www.pghcitypaper.com.

HOW DID YOU GET THE MET GIG? They just asked me. And I did know Andy and I was on the board of The Warhol Foundation for a long time. …

It was an acting job!

YOU CALL WARHOL THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTIST OF THE PAST 50 YEARS. HOW SO? Andy did so many great things. The movies to me are the only things that have not yet reached their top peak of success and influence. … I am convinced someday they will be considered as valuable and as important as the artwork. Because it was so radical to slow down movies, and make movies of really cute people on amphetamine talking fast … in slow motion.

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That breaks every single rule of what commercial movies are. That’s why they’re so important and so witty, and so clever.

And brilliant, yet almost impossible to watch. And that is what makes them true contemporary art.

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DID THAT AFFECT YOUR FILMS? That was a huge influence on me. He also put gay people and drugs together for the first time! That was really important. He made it cool to be gay. Before, gay people were kind of square, in the ’50s. They got in drag as Miss America. Andy brought along Mario Montez, the great Mario Montez. And even [Warhol’s] women were female impersonators. They were just female female impersonators, in a way.

DO YOU OWN ANY WARHOLS? I have a silver “Jackie” print in my dining room that — it was this long ago — my girlfriend gave to me in high school, and it was a hundred dollars. And a hundred dollars was a lot then. … And I have a Warhol asshole painting, which was really fun to buy, because you went into the Foundation and they have it on an easel. It’s almost like in a movie, where they drape it. I got to write “asshole” on the check for memo.

HOW DIFFERENT IS YOUR NEW THIS FILTHY WORLD? It is, I would say, 90 percent completely new because I’m constantly updating it and changing it.

CAN YOU GIVE A LITTLE PREVIEW? No! Then nobody will come see it! Let’s just say that I talk about all the new careers that I need to get since movies are so hard to make today. Everybody from being the dogcatcher to opening an amusement park, to becoming a comic terrorist, that only uses terrorism for humor, to opening my own movie theater. … I think it’s really telling the people that you always have to have a plan B, C, D and E. YOUR WARHOL TOUR IS 30 MINUTES FOR 30 PEOPLE. TICKETS ARE $150 AND IT’S BILLED AS “AN INTIMATE TALK.” That means I give a lap dance. Get ready.

I’M WRITING IT DOWN. Let’s see how big the tips are.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE-TO-WATCH PART? Yes. Movies that don’t move. A lot of them are slowed down on purpose. Not the talky ones. But then people talking where they could never stop talking about subjects that were interesting to no one because they were on amphetamine. I find that incredibly smart and incredibly ahead of its time.

Comic Lee Camp is both proudly left-wing and unabashedly political. His acerbic, fast-burn comedy draws comparisons to George Carlin and Bill Hicks.

Camp contributes to The Onion and has been featured on Countdown With Keith Olbermann; www.leecamp.net features his Moment of Clarity rants and guests like The Yes Men. In 2008, guesting on Fox News, Camp suddenly asked, “What is Fox News? It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a festival of ignorance.” Camp also gets philosophical. He’s imagined starting a business called Shit Your Pants Incorporated, to frighten clients into asking what really matters in life.

The world-touring, New York Citybased comic recently spoke with CP. For a longer version of this interview, and an audio clip, see www.pghcitypaper.com.

HAS YOUR ACT ALWAYS BEEN PHILOSOPHICAL? I started very observational, talking about the mundane stuff of life.

Then I moved on to wanting to talk about deeper issues. I’d rather make 90 percent of the audience hear something they haven’t heard before, and 10 percent not like it, than make 100 percent laugh and they never remember me because I’m like every other comedian.

YOU PERFORMED AT NUMEROUS OCCUPY CAMPS. WHAT’S THE OCCUPY LEGACY? Occupy had an immense effect in for the most part ending the conversation about austerity, and instead moving it toward this incredible disparity in the wealth in our country. I mean, making “99 Percent” a common term, “1 Percent” a common term, and sparking the first-ever global protest movement … and yet people don’t give it credit, as if it achieved nothing.

DOES BEING POLITICAL MAKE IT HARDER GETTING WORK? Whenever you get in front of any crowd, you’re saying to at least a certain number of the crowd, “I’m not for you.” But I have carefully worked on my comedy over the years … to the point that even though my stuff is left-wing, for the most part everybody’s still laughing.

WHY POST SO MUCH NEW MATERIAL ONLINE? If I’m going to make a point about Sandy Hook, or this video I’m posting today is about John Brennan being appointed CIA head, it has to come out quickly. [Also,] it’s really starting to feel like we’re living in a time where everyone’s got the attention span of a mongoose on meth. You kind of have to keep being relevant.

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curring halfway through Seminar, a play

by Theresa Rebeck making its Pittsburgh premiere at City Theatre. The set-up is a private writing class with four students taught (and mercilessly abused) by a oncewell-regarded writer, Leonard.

After having chewed up one of the attendees, Leonard turns his sights on Douglas, who, up to this point, has been an insufferable, narcissistic prig. Leonard tells Douglas that though he does possess a certain level of talent, his work is utterly hollow. His proficiency is too, well, proficient, and the glittery gloss of his writing can’t obscure its want of depth. Leonard then calls him a whore and tells him to move to Hollywood.

What I find most interesting is that that was pretty much the review I was writing in my head about Seminar. It’s a fine play, sleek and funny, hitting exactly the right notes. It goes exactly where you think it’s headed and arrives with dispatch and plenty of humor. And it’s utterly hollow.

Even more interesting is that Rebeck once took Leonard’s advice. Back in the ’90s, she famously wrote a scathing essay about the state of American theater and vowed to work only in film and television from then on. Which she did: Rebeck was the creator and producer of NBC’s Smash (although — how does one put this politely? — she is no longer with the show).

Once again, Tony Ferrieri has designed a

gorgeous set I want to live in: an old-money Manhattan apartment. And once again, director Tracy Brigden demonstrates her flair for comedy with this tightly drawn and perfectly paced production. Daniel Gerroll, playing Leonard, moves effortlessly from sociopath to wounded saint, and nobody has ever made priggish narcissism more entertaining than Andy Bean as Douglas.

Charles Socarides, playing the show’s nominal hero, Martin, has to navigate a number of unsupported character reversals, but does so with considerable skill.

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

Rebeck is well known for her refreshingly feminist view of the theater industry … so it’s somewhat surprising that her two female characters are the least interesting of the five. But Rebecca Harris and Nadia Gan certainly make use of all Rebeck has given them.

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SHOW FOLK {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} NO ONE COULD possibly assail the versa-

tility of Ernest McCarty Jr. Not only did he write, compose and direct Kuntu Repertory Theatre’s premiere of his The Chelsea Arms, but there he is on stage, providing the keyboard accompaniment. The one-time

sideman for Errol Garner and Oscar Brown Jr. (not to mention the artistic director of Pittsburgh’s New Horizon Theatre) has fashioned an easygoing musical that complements Kuntu’s resources and people.

The title refers to a high-class, luxuryservice residential hotel for folks in show business. The play focuses on five of the residents and the sympathetic manager, all of whom consider the theater their passion and the Chelsea Arms their home. The plot explores and explodes those feelings while the characters learn more about themselves and each other.

THE CHELSEA ARMS continues through Sat., Feb. 2. Kuntu Repertory Theatre in the auditorium of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh — Homewood, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $5-20. 412-559-7114 or kunturepertorytheatre@gmail.com

At the center of the action are three veterans: one working warhorse, one retired and one who can honestly, if uncharitably, be called a has-been. (She definitely needs a better agent.) The performers reminisce, fight and wrestle with the passing of time in blues-tinged song. At the performance I saw, Stephanie “Stevie” Akers filled in for Etta Cox in the star turn as the glamorous, haughty, high-maintenance Maria Hawkespeare. The granite-chinned Charles Timbers delivers a solid performance as the once-great Louis Gilchrist, whose résumé spanned Shakespeare and musicals. Cheryl Walker provides plenty of sass as struggling Anna Sterbich.

For counterpoint there are three more varied characters. Delana Flowers lights up her role as an up-and-coming dancer — a metaphorical human exclamation mark — with all dials set at 11. Kim El shows well the cracks in the businesslike demeanor of the hotel manager and her struggle to subsume her feelings. And Michael Moats provides a few surprises as the “villain” critic, unfortunately named Jonathan Krackorne.

Applause also to: Adam Turner and Adonis Whitner as various supporting characters; sound and lighting designer Wayne Gaines; set designer and technical director Kenneth M. Ellis; and Herb Newsome for set construction, among others. Apparently everyone at Kuntu Rep multi-tasks.

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Pittsburgh is once again hooked on Nonnburg Abbey.

The Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, Austria, is where singing-nun wannabe Maria Augusta Kutschera raises hell when she’s not climbing trees, scraping knees and warbling about the sounds of music, while her fellow sisters and Mother Abbess wonder if the poor postulate’s penitence is real.

It’s as real as The Sound of Music, the musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein actually refused to lock in a non-fictional trap by taking quite a few liberties with Maria’s real-life story.

But that’s not important here.

And it wasn’t important when the musical became a hit of the 1959-60 Broadway season, sharing (with Fiorello!) the Tony for Best Musical. A larger audience came to know the musical years later, when the Oscar-winning film version starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was released.

And now the show is back in town, cloistered at the Byham, courtesy of Pittsburgh Musical Theater.

It’s a solid production of a familiar favorite with familiar tunes, though the program forgets to list “I Have Confidence” and “Something Good,” two exceptional songs written for the film. The program also claims that the production is “based on [a] novel by Amanda Brown.”

I have climbed every mountain available on Google looking for more on the mysterious woman and have come up as empty as the Nazis at the conclusion of the Salzburger Festspiele.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC continues through Sun., Feb. 3.

Pittsburgh Musical Theater at the Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $12.2544.75. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

Lara Hayhurst and Jeff Howell give sound portrayals of Maria and the Captain, though it is Billy Hepfinger’s dandy take on the fictional Max Detweiler, the family’s music director, that is the highlight of the show.

The production boasts two mortal sins.

First, the decision not to have messenger Rolf wear a Nazi armband during one of the second act’s more critical points is puzzling and perplexing, since the moment still shocks.

And then there’s the set. Or lack of one.

Peaks of snow-covered Alps peek over a faux marble staircase that serves as the locale for the abbey, assorted bedrooms, a backyard garden, a church … you get the idea. Here, The Sound of Music hits a flat note and is not one of our favorite things.

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Abby Mendelson is a local journalist of long standing, and author of numerous books about Pittsburgh institutions — notably the Steelers, but also a forthcoming book on local houses of worship. He’s also an instructor at local universities and a regular contributor of about-town pieces to CP’s Last Page. Mendelson’s a novelist, too; his latest is The Oakland Quartet. Set in 1958, in working-class Pittsburgh, it follows four teen-age baseball players who commit a horrible crime and must live with the consequences. Mendelson signs copies of his self-published book at East End Book Exchange. Bill O’Driscoll 7 p.m. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. 412224-2847 or www.eastend bookexchange.com

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Once again, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts fills its big yellow

house. Premiering tonight are 10 separate solo works or collaborations by regional artists, spread across the PCA’s 5,000 square feet of exhibition space.

Among the works assembled by curator Adam Welch are audio/video installations by David Bernabo and Emily Walley, and by Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino. Also: Transcience, Steven Chalmers’ photographic portraits of wanderers, from snowbirds to ex-cons; David Montano’s NON-WORK, an installation combining video and mixed media assemblage; and Above Dusk, Kara Ruth Snyder’s largescale abstract paintings. BO Reception: 5:30-9 p.m. Exhibits continue through April 7.

6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. $5. 412-361-0873 or www.pittsburgharts.org

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Inspired by Pokemon — and who isn’t? — the artist known as Spaz brings you “Spazimon,” his own friendly little monsters. Opening tonight at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is a show of Spaz’s creature drawings and Melissa Ciccocioppo’s sculptural renderings of same, all supplementing a 20-year Spaz retrospective. The show’s part of the Penn Avenue gallery crawl Unblurred.

Other new shows include Consciousness, an exhibit of flameworked glass by Korean-born Eunsuh Choi, at Pittsburgh Glass Center, and

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Just like you, Paul Gertner loves his iPad; and much like Arthur C. Clarke, he thinks that any technology this advanced is indistinguishable from magic. But Gertner actually is a magician. And while corporate and college gigs pay the bills, the Shaler native’s stage work is original enough for Charleston, S.C.’s prestigious Piccolo Spoleto Theater Festival. (He’s also done The Tonight Show and two TEDx talks, and performed internationally.) Last June at Spoleto, the award-winning magician premiered Braindrops: Mind Reading, Magic & iPads, his new solo show that uses technology to ask whether we’re becoming addicted to it. Sure, the sleight-of-hand master’s iPad stirred his creative juices and inspired new tricks for this hour-long blend of magic, comedy and digital marvels; it Pittsburgh-premieres with six performances Feb. 1-9. But when Gertner dons his literal “electronic mask” (as at left), be prepared for some provocative twists. “I’m going to lie to you. Cheat. Distract,” he says in a phone interview. Then he’ll ask audiences “What do they believe, and why?” and prompt questions about how 24/7 tech is affecting our daily lives, our memories, our decision-making. “What happens when technology starts to control us?” he says. Braindrops — the followup to his 2010 stage show Ten Fingers — is interactive, so bring your cell phones. (As if you’d forget.) Bill O’Driscoll Feb. 1-9. Grey Box Theater, 3595 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $20. 412-784-1115 or www.PaulGertnerMagic.com

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And then there’s this big boulder … or at least there is in Attack Theatre’s ads for Soap Opera. The lively and inventive dance troupe calls its latest “a passionate mashup of dance and opera” updating the classic story of Scheherazade, with opera’s epic themes and sweeping music, including a live guest vocalist. Look for a review in CP next week: The show opens tonight, with seven performances over two weekends at Attack studios, in the Strip District — where you can see what that boulder’s all about. BO 8 p.m.

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56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 866-468-3401 or www.ticketweb.com/clubcafe

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Darkness and Light, charcoal drawings by Richard Claraval at ModernFormations Gallery.

BO Unblurred: 6-10 p.m.

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Jeff Ihaza 8 p.m. 6 Allegheny Square, North Side. $20-24. 412-320-4610 or www.newhazletttheater.org

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Squatting isn’t just about inhabiting vacant buildings — it’s about housing justice.

So contends Hannah Dobbz in her new book, NineTenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States (AK Press). Dobbz, a Pittsburgh resident and former squatter, speaks tonight about squatting and property struggles in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. The talk at the Big

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It’s been a half-century since Andy Warhol thrust his soup cans upon an unsuspecting world. His influence on contemporary art is hard to fathom, but Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years gives it a try. This exhibition, organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, matches 45 works by Warhol with 100 works by 60 other top artists, including names like Koons, Mapplethorpe, Murakami, Richter and Sherman. It’s a huge show, gracing four floors of (where else?) The Andy Warhol Museum starting today. BO 10 a..m.-5 p.m.

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PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown.

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KEVIN BRENNAN. Jan. 31Feb. 3 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

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COMIC WARS: WHITE NOISE VS. OOPS WRONG PLANET. Stand-up & improv challenges. 8 p.m.

Mullen’s Bar & Grill, North Side.

310-909-6446.

DAVON MAGWOOD, DAY EASTWOOD, MITCH BEARDCZYKOWSKI, BRANDON RICKARD, JOHN DICK WINTES, ED BAILY (LATE). Hosted by Jordan Weeks. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950.

FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Fri, 9 p.m. Thru March 29 Toros Performance Lounge,

Friendship. 412-657-4245.

LEE CAMP, RON PLACONE, KRISH MOHAN. 8:30 p.m.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE W/ MIKE WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m.

Corner Cafe, South Side.

412-488-2995.

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SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers. Sat, 6 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-322-1000.

WUNDERSTUDIES: AN IMPROVISED MUSICAL. 8:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-322-1000.

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NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-612-4030.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. An exhibit exploring 1936 Olympic Games including use of propaganda, the boycott debate, history of the torch run, COMEDY NIGHT AT & the historic performance BUCKHEAD SALOON. of Jesse Owens. Curated First Wed of every by the United States month Buckhead Holocaust Memorial Saloon, Station Square.

Museum. Downtown.

412-232-3101.

412-258-2700.

JOKEE OAKEE. www. per pa BOST BUILDING. Comedy open stage pghcitym .co Collectors. Preserved hosted by Tonnochi:B. materials reflecting Wed Younger’s, North the industrial heritage of Side. 412-452-3267.

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STAND-UP COMEDY 412-464-4020.

OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. The BeerHive, Strip District.

Inventing the Modern World: 412-904-4502.

Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939. Furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. textiles, & jewelry produced by Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Herman Miller, Tiffany, more.

Fifty Years. Juxtaposing prime Oakland. 412-622-3131. examples of Warhol’s paintings, CARNEGIE MUSEUM sculpture, & films with those by OF NATURAL HISTORY. other artists who reinterpret, Empowering Women: Artisan respond, or react to his work.

Cooperatives that Transform North Side. 412-237-8300.

Communities. Folk art objects illustrating the power of women working together to provide for their families, educate their children, promote equality, & give back to their communities. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing specimens, & live bugs!

Life: A Journey Through Time & Population Impact thru Jan., Winging It: Experimental Gallery About Birds thru March, Lord of the Crane Flies thru April.

Ongoing: Earth Revealed, Dinosaurs In Their Time, more.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Village, USS Requin submarine, and more.

North Side. 412-237-3400.

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

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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

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BOULEVARD GALLERY. Anne Ducanis, Mary Anne Pischke, Joseph Saber, Cathy Wencel. Watercolors, acrylics, more. Artist reception: Feb. 2, 6-9 p.m. Verona.

412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Urbane. Paintings by Kuzana Ogg, BoxHeart’s 2013 Artist of the Year. Public reception: Feb. 9, 5-8 p.m. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

BUTLER ART CENTER. Associated Artists of Butler County Annual Invitational Art Show. Over 50 pieces of art by 25 artists. Opening reception Feb. 1, 7 p.m. Butler.

724-283-6922.

EAST END BOOK EXCHANGE. Monologues & Dialogues: A Collection of Singular & Collaborative Efforts. Work

by Brian Gonnella & Masha Fikhman. Opening reception: Feb. 1, 6-8 p.m. Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

ENRICO’S TAZZA D’ORO CAFE. Landscape Paintings.

Work by Brett Mason.

Opens Feb. 1. Highland Park.

412-362-3676.

FE GALLERY. A Permanent Gesture. Drawing installation

by Stephen Tuomala. Opening reception: Feb. 1, 7-11 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-254-4038.

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. Fractures & Israel.

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Bocast. Opening reception: Feb. 3, 6-9 p.m. Downtown.

412-422-0114.

IMAGEBOX. Don’t Say It’s Over. Paintings by Seth LeDonne. Opening reception: Feb. 1, 7-10 p.m. Garfield.

412-441-0930.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Spaz & Spazimon. Work by Spaz & Melissa Ciccocioppo. Opening reception: Feb. 1, 7-10 p.m.

Garfield. 412-924-0634.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Uncommon Grounds. Group show highlighting the fluidity & transformative quality of glass. Feat. Jon Goldberg, Jan Kransberger, Mark Leputa, Leonard Marty,& Matthew Szösz. Opening reception Feb 1, 5:30-8 p.m. Shadyside.

412-441-5200.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. The Gut Map. Work by Pat Kain. Opening Feb. 1, 7 p.m. Part of Unblurred.

Bloomfield.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Above Dusk.

Paintings by Kara Ruth Snyder.

Homographies. Installation by Lizzy De Vita. Inter-subjectivity.

Work by Eli Blasko, Eric D. Charlton & Ian F. Thomas.

NON-WORK. Work by David Montano. Public Lives.

Watercolors by William McAllister. Slo Poke. Paintings & drawings by Jonathan Chamberlain. Somewhere In

Between. Installation by Lenore D. Thomas. This May Not Take That Long. Audio/video installation by David Bernabo & Emily Walley. Transience. Work

by Stephen Chalmers. Untitled 1. Work by Jeremy Boyle & Mark Franchino. Opening reception: Feb. 1, 5:30-9 p.m.

Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Consciousness. Flameworked glass by Eunsuh Choi. Opening reception Feb. 1, 6-9 p.m.

Friendship. 412-365-2145.

SHAW GALLERIES. Keith Stromp: The T.E.W.E.L. Feat. approx. 20 ft. of track from Stromp’s 4,500 ft. fictional map “The East West Express Line.” Opening reception: Feb. 1, 5-8 p.m.

Downtown. 412-281-4884.

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412-456-2962.

709 PENN GALLERY. The Painting as Object. New work by Fabrizio Gerbino.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video and Television. Long-term exhibition of Warhol’s film & video work. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side.

412-237-8300.

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Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501.

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

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. performance at Reconstructed fort houses The Andy Warhol museum of Pittsburgh history Museum, North Side circa French & Indian War and American Revolution. Downtown.

CRITIC: 412-281-9285. , 57, FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours a retiree from the of Clayton, the Frick estate, with South Hills classes, car & carriage museum.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

WHEN: HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, and enjoy hikes This was a musical dialogue of an interview given by the and outdoor activities in the surrounding park. Allison Park. artist Nico, who was part of The Velvet Underground.

412-767-9200.

In England I originally bought her first LP when I was KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the about 14 and fell in love with her, and from that other Frank Lloyd Wright house. got into The Velvet Underground and everything Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. surrounding them, so for me this was a welcome trip KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, down memory lane. She was one of the world’s great middle-class home. Oakmont.

German eccentrics. The show was excellent and the 412-826-9295. band did a terrific job playing some of the classics by MARIDON MUSEUM. The Velvet Underground and David Bowie, and for a Collection includes jade and very cold wintery night in Pittsburgh, there was a very ivory statues from China and good turnout.

Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123.

BY JEFF IHAZA NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures, demos and more.

Year that Rocked America. century murals depicting war, North Side. 412-323-7235.

Nearly a dozen interactive social justice and the immigrant NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 video presentations & more experience in America. Millvale. rooms helping to tell the story than 100 evocative artifacts 421-681-0905. of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. that explore how the year University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 1968 helped shape our 412-624-6000. modern world. From Slavery OLIVER MILLER to Freedom. Highlight’s HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/ Pittsburgh’s role in the antiSOAP OPERA. Dance/opera Whiskey Rebellion site slavery movement. Ongoing: mashup of the tale of features log house, blacksmith Western PA Sports Museum, Scheherazade. Presented shop & gardens. South Park.

Clash of Empires, and exhibits

by Attack Theatre. Wed-Sat 412-835-1554. on local history, more. Strip and Sun., Feb. 10. Thru Feb. 9 PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY District. 412-454-6000.

Attack Theatre, Strip District.

MUSEUM. Trolley rides SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS 412-281-3305. and exhibits. Includes displays, HISTORY CENTER. Museum walking tours, gift shop, commemorates Pittsburgh picnic area and Trolley industrialists, local SHEN YUN PERFORMING Theatre. Washington. history. Sewickley.

ARTS. Classical Chinese 724-228-9256.

412-741-4487. dance & music. Feb. 1-3 PHIPPS SOCIETY FOR Benedum Center, Downtown.

CONSERVATORY CONTEMPORARY 1-888-974-3698. & BOTANICAL www. per CRAFT SATELLITE a p GARDEN. Orchid & pghcitym GALLERY. Badges o .c Tropical Bonsai Show. & Buttons, Waistcoats CLUB BELLYDANCE. Feat.

412-622-6914. 14 indoor & Vests. Highlights Bellydance Super Stars & rooms & 3 outdoor gardens badges by 20 makers from local bellydancers 7:30 p.m. feature exotic plants and floral the US & the UK. Downtown.

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, displays from around the world.

412-261-7003 x 12.

East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

Oakland. 412-622-6914.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball MEMORIAL HALL. Military museum & players club. West museum dedicated to SOAP OPERA. Dance/opera View. 412-931-4425. honoring military service mashup of the tale of PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG members since the Civil Scheherazade. Presented AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 War through artifacts &

by Attack Theatre. Wed-Sat animals, including many personal mementos. Oakland. endangered species. Highland and Sun., Feb. 10. Thru Feb. 9 412-621-4253.

Park. 412-665-3639.

Attack Theatre, Strip District.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. Features 5,000 relics of 412-281-3305.

A Reverence for Life. Photos Catholic saints. North Side. and artifacts of her life & work.

412-323-9504.

Springdale. 724-274-5459.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN SENATOR JOHN HEINZ CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo HISTORY CENTER. 1968: The Vanka Murals. Mid-20th 8TH ANNUAL “PITTS-

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BURRRRGH” DROWNED HOG SWIM. Groundhog Daythemed swim in the Mon River.

Benefits Circle C Youth & Family Services. 18th St. Boat Ramp, South Side. 11 a.m. 412-937-1650 x 227.

BOWLING PARTY. Unlimited bowling, food & prizes. Benefits Operation Walk. 3-6 p.m. Arsenal Bowling Lanes, Lawrenceville.

412-641-1924.

HEART OF THE ARTS GALA. Hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, more. Benefits the Stage Right Building Fund.

7 p.m. Latrobe Country Club, Latrobe. 724-832-7464.

SUN 03

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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ABBY MENDELSON. Book signing & reading from the author’s recent novel Oakland Quartet. 7 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

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.

FRI 01

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.

SAT 02

ALICIA STANKAY & BRUCE MIDKIFF. Reading from Between Two Bears. 1 p.m. Laughlin Memorial Library, Ambridge.

724-266-3857.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH READALOUD. All ages are invited to read selections of poetry & prose in tribute to the contributions of the African American community.

1:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

MARCUS REDIKER. Discussion & book signing w/ the author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery & Freedom. Part of the The People’s University. 3 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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

412-321-8664.

BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Dream. Paintings by Sue Vincent. Oakland.

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

Frazier. 724-275-7001.

BOXHEART GALLERY. The 12th Annual Art Inter/ National. Invitational group show exploring space and how the immediate environment affects the artistic process.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs. 80 vintage prints by some of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

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

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. Ruth Levine. Estate sale of paintings & drawings. East Liberty. 724-433-1179.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Revealing Place: Photographs from Missouri, Pennsylvania & Texas. Feat. work of 36 students from 3 universities, in 3 different states. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FUTURE TENANT. Best of Arbor Aid. Artwork created from salvaged & reclaimed wood initially displayed at Tree Pittsburgh’s annual Arbor Aid fundraiser. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Architectural Perspectives: Places & Planes.

Work by Guglielmo Botter & Ben Saks. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene.

Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

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

412-281-1922.

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

724-316-9326.

LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Landscape Expressions. Work

by Lynn Fero. Downtown.

412-392-8008.

MASTERPIECE CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Grand Opening & Meet the Artists.

Open house. Sat & Sun through Feb. 3. North Versailles. 412-888-6188.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. New work by Julia Cahill, Betsy Damon, Parastou Forouhar, Loraine Leeson, Ayanah Moor, & Carrie Mae Weems. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side.

412-231-3169.

MENDELSON GALLERY. David Lewis, Ben Matthews, Mark Gualtieri, Terry Shutko.

Group show. Shadyside.

412-361-8664.

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

Oakland. 412-268-4754.

MONROEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Watercolors

by Phiris. Work by Phiris Katherine Sickels. Monroeville.

412-372-0500.

MOST-WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Get Drawn. Work

by Sylvia K. & Sarina Meester.

Garfield. 412-328-4737.

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

Ambridge. 724-266-4500.

PANZA GALLERY. Play.

Work by Sue Abramson, Ruth Drescher, David Grim, Tom Gigliotti, Mark Panza, Michael Sahaida, more.

Millvale. 412-821-0959.

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.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Projects

by Diane Meyer & Ross Mantle. Work by Fellowship 13 photography competition winners. South Side.

412-431-5777.

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.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Architecture Transformed. Printmaking & fiber art by Barbara Westman. Here & Now. National printmaking exhibition. Juried by Barbara Westman. Closing reception: Feb. 23, 7-9 p.m. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

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.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Power Pixels 2013. New

self-generative video installations, includes the world premiere of Miguel Chevalier’s latest work, Digital-Archi (Meta Cities).

Downtown. 412-471-5605.

THEATER 1776. Story of how we went from 13 colonies to the United States of America. Tue-Sun. Thru Feb. 24. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600.

BECKY’S NEW CAR. Becky, in the middle of a mid-life crisis, is offered a ride to an exciting new life when a socially awkward millionaire walks into the auto dealership where she works. Thu-Sun. Thru Feb. 17.

Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland.

412-621-4445.

THE CHELSEA ARMS. A musical by Ernest McCarty, Jr. Thru Feb. 2. Carnegie Library, Homewood. 412-731-3080.

THE DEATH OF DR. PEPPER. Interactive murder mystery dinner theater. Every other Sat. Thru Feb. 16. Gaetano’s Restaurant, Dormont.

412-343-6640.

ENSEMBLE IMMERSION. Travel into the perfect mind of a bibliophilic polymath.

Jan. 31-Feb. 1. Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland. 724-643-9004.

JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. Henrik Ibsen’s tale of a man’s undoing in the wake of deception & fraud.

Presented by Quantum Theatre. Wed-Sun. Thru Feb. 24. 6022 Broad St., East Liberty. 1-888-718-4253.

SEMINAR. Four aspiring, young novelists learn that the hardest part of writing fiction is facing the facts.

Tue-Sun. Thru Feb. 10.

City Theatre, South Side.

412-431-2489.

SISTER ACT. Feb. 5-10.

Benedum Center, Downtown.

412-456-6666.

ZANNA, DON’T! LIVE PREVIEW. Presented by Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre. Sun., Feb. 3, 2 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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.

MOVE IT! JUST DANCE TOURNAMENT. Thru Feb. 26, 1-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

FRI 01

EVENING ED-VENTURES: DESERTS & HEALTHY DESSERTS. Science camp.

Ages 6-9. 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

412-441-4442 x 3925.

SIX GRADE SCHOOLTIME: GREAT AMERICANS. A journey through American music from the influence of folk song, to the magic of Hollywood, more. Presented

by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 10:30 a.m. and Thu., Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-3344.

FRI 01 - SAT 02

MISS SUNBURST BABY CONTEST & MODEL SEARCH. Feb. 1-2 Ross Park Mall, Ross.

412-577-5140.

SAT 02

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.

Thru March 23 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

412-441-3800 x 11.

FIDDLESTICKS FAMILY CONCERT: CELEBRATE PITTSBURGH. Feat. CLO Academy Tap Dancers & Joe Negri. 11:15 a.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

GREENKIDS: GROUNDHOGS IN THE GREENHOUSE. A playful hunt for hidden “groundhogs.” 11 a.m. Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

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TARZAN & JANE. Sat, Sun. Thru Feb. 3 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-6464.

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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.

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JAPANESE CONVERSATION CLUB. First and Third Tue of every month, 6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

KID’S BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS BOOKCLUB. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m.

Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley.

412-741-3838.

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CARNEGIE KNITS & READS.

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

CA. Thru Feb. 3 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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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

BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solarpowered instruments, more.

Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

CHARLIE & KIWI’S EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Join Charlie as he travels back

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by Theatre IV, for grades 4-8.

10:30 a.m. Carlow University, Oakland. 1-800-275-5005.

WRITING & ART WITH TESS. Story & craft-time for kids ages 5 & up. First Wed of every month, 10 a.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838.

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412-255-0564.

LUNCH & LEARN: CAVITY NESTER WORK DAY. Help & learn more about the eastern bluebird & other cavity nesters.

9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

STEP INTO SNOWSHOES. Snowshoeing/skiing every Sat. w/ at least 4” of snow on the ground. Call Friday to confirm.

Sat. Thru March 30 Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

TUE 05

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

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

412-963-6100.

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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 Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com.

[VISUAL ART] survivor, more. Wear red to raise JOHN WATERS: GALLERY awareness of heart disease.

TALK. Waters will discuss 4:30 p.m. Westmoreland County the upcoming exhibition, Community College, Youngwood.

Regarding Warhol, Sixty 724-925-4121.

Artists, Fifty Years. 8:30 p.m.

JOHN WATERS: THIS FILTHY Andy Warhol Museum, North WORLD. An all-new version of Side. 412-237-8300.

Waters’ solo performance. 8 p.m.

LEADERSHIP NETWORKING Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland.

BREAKFAST. Feat. presentation 412-237-8300.

by Senator Wayne Fontana.

OBSCURE: A NIGHT OF 7:30-9 a.m. Father Ryan GOTH, KINK & PERFORMANCE Arts Center, McKees Rocks.

ART. DJs, photo booth, 412-771-3052. vendors, more. First Fri of REIKI WORKSHOP. 6:30every month, 9 p.m. Thru 8:30 p.m. Father Ryan March 1 Cattivo, Lawrenceville.

Arts Center, McKees Rocks.

412-339-0825.

412-259-3683.

A PSYCHOTHERAPY RENAISSANCE DANCE FOR THE PEOPLE: GUILD. Learn a variety TOWARD A of dances from the PROGRESSIVE 15-17th centuries.

PSYCHOANALYSIS. Porter Hall, Room . w w w Presentation by A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. per ghcitypa p Lewis Aron. 7 p.m.

Carnegie Mellon .com Bigelow Conference University, Oakland. & Reception Center, 412-567-7512.

Oakland. 412-661-4224.

WEEKLY WELLNESS RAINBOW RISING COFFEE CIRCLE. Group acupuncture HOUSE. For gay, lesbian, & guided meditation for bisexual and transgendered stress-relief. Thu DeMasi individuals and friends.

Wellness, Aspinwall.

Music, games, movies, 412-927-4768. entertainment and more.

WEST COAST SWING. Swing Unitarian Universalist dance lessons for all levels. Thu, Congregation, Smithton.

7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, First Fri of every month Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

724-872-5056.

YARN TASTING & OPEN HOUSE. 6:30-9 p.m. Darn GO RED – WOMEN & HEART Yarn Needles & Thread, DISEASE. Hors d’oeuvres, Harmony. 724-473-0983. keynote speech by heart attack

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PAUL GERTNER’S BRAINDROPS. Technologythemed magic show. Fri, Sat. Thru Feb. 9 The Grey Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. 412-784-1115.

SAT 02

2013 PITTSBURGH CHINESE COMMUNITY LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION. 6-9 p.m.

Marshall Middle School, Wexford.

724-719-8340.

I MADE IT! MINE. Get your valentine gifts at this nomadic indie craft marketplace feat. over 65 regional artists. info@imadeitmarket.com 12-5 p.m. SouthSide Works, South Side.

INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE CLASS. Sat. Thru April 20 Mookshi Wellness Center, Regent Square. 412-407-7829.

IRON CITY IRON-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. Pittsburgh’s “Lighting” Rod Salka vs. New York’s Emmanuel Lucero. 7 p.m. Court Time Sports Center, Elizabeth.

412-471-1266.

KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. Korean grammar & basic conversation. Sat, 1 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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

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

412-708-8844.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, informal.

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

Target, East Liberty.

412-362-6108.

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

SUN 03

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event.

Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727.

ANDREW CARNEGIE, HENRY CLAY FRICK, & THE LEGACY OF WORLD’S FAIRS IN PITTSBURGH. Panel discussion. 2-3 p.m. Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

COMPLETE SAT WORKSHOP. 2 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

For his Rapture-inspired installation, A Permanent Gesture, Stephen Tuomala created small and large-scale drawings, in many cases using taped-together pages of 19th-century Bibles as canvases. Tuomala discussed the show, which opens Friday at Fe Gallery.

I’m taking media imagery — dog fights, self-immolation and other things related to the body — and making visual connections [with] media imagery of tragedies. For example, the dog-fighting: the people who are unleashing are not present. It goes along with the rapture: Once people are allowed to do what they want, they’ll pretty much rip each other apart. I wanted to show current events as a metaphor for other people’s ideas [of the end times]. … I know people are sort of touchy about drawing on Bibles, but I don’t think my work [is an attack]. It’s very experiential; I’m not doing something blasphemous in some way.

Opening reception: 7-11 p.m. Fri., Feb. 1. 4102 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Call 412-254-4038 or visit www.fegallery.org.

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SAHAJA MEDITATION. Mon, 7:30 p.m. and Mon., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. Thru Feb. 11 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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

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

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SLOVAK HERITAGE PRESENTATION. Musicology, sociology & meaning of Slovak folk songs in an interactive lecture w/ Jerry Jumba. 7 p.m.

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

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

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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. 412-441-4442 x 3925.

KNOW THE SHOW BEFORE YOU GO: SISTER ACT. Preperformance information session w/ theater critic, Chris Rawson. 6:30 p.m. Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown.

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MT. LEBANON CONVERSATION SALON. Discuss current events w/ friends & neighbors.

For seniors. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

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PYSANKY W/ FRANCOISE. Design your own colorful egg batique. Part of the HOW: Hands-On Workshop Series.

First Tue of every month, 6 p.m.

Thru March 5 Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

SHANA MOULTON. Part of the CMU School of Art lecture series.

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BASIC HORTICULTURE. Learn about soils, plant nutrition, & environmental factors that affect plant growth/ development. Wed, 7-9 p.m. Thru Feb. 20 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

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BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR. Village staff will show off artifacts in the collection storage rooms & archive. Reservations taken through Feb. 5 6-8 p.m.

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ENGLISH CONVERSATION (ESL). Wed, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

IT’S ALL VERY PRETTY BUT A PERSON CANNOT CRY THERE: JEWISH ANXIETIES OVER SUBURBANIZATION. Lecture by Rachel Kranson. 7 p.m. Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill.

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

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LOVE STORIES & FLIRTATIONS: VICTORIAN COURTSHIP TRADITIONS. Presented by The Frick Art & Historical Center. 2 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

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NINE-TENTHS OF THE LAW: PROPERTY & RESISTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES. Presentation by Hannah Dobbz examining the history of squatting & property struggles in the United States. 7 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323.

OBSCURE GAMES. 7 p.m.

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SPANISH II. Geared toward those who already have a basic understanding of Spanish & are interested in increasing proficiency. First and Third Wed of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

TEA CLASS & TASTING. History of tea, steeping techniques, Storing Tea, Health Benefits, more. Tea samples & European cookies will be served. First Wed of every month, 7 p.m. Margaret’s Fine Imports, Squirrel Hill.

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THROUGLINE THEATRE. Auditions for 2013 season. Feb. 16-17. Men/ women, 1-2 min. monologues.

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MCKEESPORT LITTLE THEATER. Accepting resumes & inquiries for anyone interested in directing a main stage or fundraiser show. Deadline is Feb. 28. Send resumes to timmylovesursala@yahoo.com McKeesport. 412-673-1100.

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CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD OF PITTSBURGH NEW MEMBER SCREENING. Open to 3dimensional artists living within 100 miles of Pittsburgh. Drop off work at 12:15pm Feb. 10, at Pgh Center for the Arts. Applicants should submit 6 original works of art, completed within the last 2 years. For information, visit www.craftsmensguild.org or email jimwinegar@gmail.com.

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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 for information.

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I’ve been a fan of your Savage Lovecast for a long time, but I had to write after hearing Marty Klein’s talk about the fallacy of “sex addiction.” For most of my adult life, I have suffered from complete sexual dysfunction with partners. I was ashamed and thought I was too sexually screwed up to be with a partner because I’m kinky. (I have a fetish for tights and pantyhose.) What are some good resources for finding a sex-positive therapist? I have been referred by several people to someone listed as a “certified sex addiction therapist,” and I worry this is exactly the kind of unhelpful, sex-negative therapist that Dr. Klein mentioned on your podcast.

NON-ADDICT DESPITE DUMB INTOLERANT COUNSELORS’ THEORIES

“If the public knew how little sexuality training most therapists receive, they’d be stunned,” said Dr. Marty Klein, a sex therapist, marriage counselor, psychotherapist and author. “You can get licensed as a marriage counselor or psychologist without hearing the words ‘clitoris,’ ‘vibrator’ or ‘amateur porn.’ So ‘How do I find a sexpositive therapist?’ is a very important question.”

Klein advises you start by contacting the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT.org).

“N ON -ADDICT should look for a member in his area,” says Klein. “But the group is small, and not all of them will share his sexual values.

Here’s what he should ask a potential therapist: ‘What are your sexual values?’ ‘How do you define healthy sexuality?’

‘Are you comfortable talking about kinky sex?’

‘Do you think monogamous, heterosexual, genitally oriented sex is ultimately better than other consensual arrangements?’”

The kind of sex-positive therapist you seek will answer straightforward questions like that over the phone before you make an appointment.

“And regardless of the answers, if you sense a professional is queasy talking about sex, move on to another candidate.”

Klein says there are many ways to find a local, progressive, sex-positive therapist: “He should call his local Planned Parenthood or LGBT center, a gynecologist or urologist, or the person who teaches sexuality at his local university, or a local divorce lawyer” and ask for a referral. You could even call a priest. “Most clergy send their sexuality cases to one or two local therapists, some of whom are quite progressive.”

To hear Dr. Klein talk with me about pornography and the “sex addiction” racket, go to thestranger.com/lovecast and listen to Episode 326. To read Dr. Klein’s brilliant takedown of the sex-addiction industry (“You’re Addicted to What? Challenging the Myth of Sex Addiction,” the Humanist, July/August 2012), go to tinyurl. com/addictedtowhat. To find out more about Dr. Klein, go to martyklein.com.

his dick in his hand, I lost it. I have never felt so hurt or betrayed. This is my first serious relationship. It feels like he was cheating on me. It was interactive porn — it was like he was cybersexing with one of his ex-girlfriends. What should I do?

SAD AND NAIVE

Was your boyfriend having cybersex with an ex-girlfriend? Or did it only feel like he was?

Because while all porn constitutes a betrayal of the terms of your relationship, interacting with a stranger and, very likely, a professional online shouldn’t feel quite so threatening.

Backing way up: Your boyfriend shouldn’t have lied to you, but you shouldn’t have been so naive as to believe him. If you can’t bring yourself to forgive him for lying — if you can’t understand why he might lie about this (shame, fear, a desire to spare your feelings) — then this relationship is doomed. End it and find a new boyfriend. But when your next boyfriend tells you he doesn’t watch porn, say, “Suuuuuure, you don’t.”

Ask your new boyfriend to be discreet and limit his porn consumption to an extent where you’re unlikely to uncover any evidence of it, as porn upsets you. If your new boyfriend is considerate enough to cover his tracks, you should be considerate enough to turn a blind eye on those rare occasions when you stumble over evidence that your new boyfriend watches porn — just like your old boyfriend did and all your future boyfriends will.

IF THE PUBLIC KNEW HOW LITTLE SEXUALITY TRAINING MOST THERAPISTS RECEIVE, THEY’D BE STUNNED.

I recently caught my boyfriend watching porn. We have talked about it before, and he said he didn’t watch it while he was in a relationship. But when I caught him with

I ended a two-and-a-halfyear relationship six months ago. By “ended” I mean my then-boyfriend packed up everything I owned and put it on the lawn — just like in the movies! The reason was he hacked into my email and read some letters about an affair I’d had in Mexico. My justifications: (1) We were on a break, and I had been living with friends to escape his anger problems and emotional abuse. I was still seeing him periodically.

(2) He wouldn’t go down on me. (3) When I tried to break up with him in the past, he threatened suicide. (4) He had many kinks and a history of cheating, and threatened that if I didn’t participate in gang bangs, he would find someone who would.

I didn’t feel safe sexually or emotionally with him, and I found an evening of relief from my shitty relationship. I felt energized, attractive, and like I was dealing with a healthy adult. I wouldn’t do anything differently. Am I a CPOS? MY EX ISN’T COMPLETELY OBTUSE

For readers who are just joining us: A CPOS is a “cheating piece of shit,” someone who cheats on a partner without grounds. You are not a CPOS, MEXICO. You tried to get out, but couldn’t because your crazy ex essentially took himself hostage by threatening suicide. (Which is an abuser’s tactic, folks, please make a note of it.)

Your infantile, manipulative, selfish ex wasn’t allowing you to go peacefully. Cheating and getting caught may not have been a conscious exit strategy, but it was a perfectly executed one.

SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS TO MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET AND FIND THE SAVAGE LOVECAST (DAN’S WEEKLY PODCAST) AT THESTRANGER.COM/SAVAGE

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Jacob Nibengenesabe was a member of the Swampy Cree, a First Nation tribe in Canada. He wrote shamanic poems from the point of view of a magical trickster who could change himself into various creatures. In one poem, the shapeshifter talked about how important it is to be definite about what he wanted. “There was a storm once,” he said. “That’s when I wished myself / to be a turtle / but I meant on land! / The one that carries a hard tent / on his back. / I didn’t want to be floating!” By the end of the poem, the shapeshifter concluded, “I’ve got to wish things exactly! / That’s the way it is / from now on.” I hope that will be the way it is from now on for you, too, Aquarius. Visualize your desires in intricate, exact detail. For example, if you want to be a bird for a while, specify what kind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

As you sleep, you have at least a thousand dreams every year. But if you’re typical, you may recall only a few of them. Doesn’t that bother you? To be so ignorant of the stories your subconscious mind works so hard to craft? To be out of touch with what the Iroquois call “the secret wishes of your soul”? Now is an excellent time to develop a stronger relationship with your dreams, Pisces. It’s high time to explore the deeper strata of your life’s big mysteries.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Wageni ni baraka is a Swahili proverb that means “guests are a blessing.” That’s not always true, of course. Sometimes guests can be a boring inconvenience or a messy burden.

But for you in the coming weeks, Aries, I’m guessing the proverb will be 98 percent correct. The souls who come calling are likely to bestow unusually fine benefits. They may provide useful clues or missing links you’ve been searching for. They might inspire you to see things about yourself that you really need to know, and they might even give you shiny new playthings. Open your mind and heart to the unexpected blessings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“I feel my fate in what I cannot fear,” said Theodore Roethke in his poem “The Waking.” I invite you to try out that perspective, Taurus. In other words, learn more about your destiny by doing what makes you feel brave. Head in the direction of adventures that clear your mind of its clutter and mobilize your gutsy brilliance. Put your trust in dreams that inspire you to sweep aside distracting worries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

It’s the First Annual Blemish Appreciation Week — for Geminis only. One of the best ways to observe this holiday is to not just tolerate the flaws and foibles of other people, but to also understand them and forgive them. Another excellent way to celebrate is to do the same for your own flaws and foibles: Applaud them for the interesting trouble they’ve caused and the rousing lessons they’ve taught. I may be joking a little about this, but I’m mostly serious. Be

creative and uninhibited as you have fun with the human imperfections that normally drive you crazy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

When I turn my psychic vision in your direction, I see scenes of heavy rain and rising water, maybe even a flood. I’m pretty sure this has a metaphorical rather than literal significance.

It probably means you will be inundated with more feelings than you’ve experienced in a while. N ot bad or out-of-control feelings; just deep and enigmatic and brimming with nuance.

How to respond? First, announce to the universe that you will be glad and grateful to accept this deluge. Second, go with the flow, not against it. Third, promise yourself not to come to premature conclusions about the meaning of these feelings; let them evolve.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

“I want to know more about you” may be the most potent sentence you can utter in the coming week. If spoken with sincere curiosity, it will awaken dormant synergies. It will disarm people who might otherwise become adversaries. It will make you smarter and work a magic spell that gives you access to useful information you wouldn’t be able to crack open with any other method. To begin the process of imbuing your subconscious mind with its incantatory power, say “I want to know more about you” aloud 10 times right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

My hotel was nice but the neighborhood where it was located seemed sketchy. As I returned to my room after a jaunt to the convenience store, I received inquiries from two colorfully dressed hookers whose sales pitches were enticingly lyrical. I also passed a lively man who proposed that I purchase some of his top-grade meth, crack or heroin. I thanked them all for their thoughtful invitations but said I wasn’t in the mood. Then I slipped back into my hotel room to dine on my strawberry smoothie and blueberry muffin as I watched HBO. My experience could have something in common with your immediate future, Virgo. I suspect you may be tempted with offers that seem exotic and adventurous but are not

really that good for you. Stick to the healthy basics, please.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

A West Coast DJ named Shakti Bliss wrote a remarkable status update on her Facebook page. Here’s an edited excerpt: “In the past 24 hours, I did yoga in a bathtub, hauled furniture by myself in the rain, got expert dating advice from an 11-year-old, learned the lindy hop, saw a rainbow over the ocean, had thriftstore clothes stolen out of my car by a homeless man, made a magic protection amulet out of a piece of cardboard, was fed quinoa soup by the buffest 50-year-old South African woman I’ve ever met, bowed to a room full of applause, and watched two of my favorite men slowdance together to Josephine Baker singing in French.” I suspect that you Libras will be having days like that in the coming week: packed with poetic adventures. Are you ready to handle more than the usual amount of stimulation and excitement?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, called himself a Christian. But he also acknowledged that there weren’t any other Christians like him. He said he belonged to a sect consisting of one person — himself. While he admired the teachings of Jesus Christ, he had no use for the supernatural aspects of the stories told in the New Testament. So he created his own version of the Bible, using only those parts he agreed with. Now would be an excellent time for you to be inspired by Jefferson’s approach, Scorpio. Is there a set of ideas that appeals to you in some ways but not in others?

Tailor it to your own special needs. Make it your own. Become a sect of one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day,” said writer Elbert Hubbard.

“Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

Judging from my personal experience, I’d say that five minutes is a lowball figure. My own daily rate is rarely less than half an hour. But the good news as far as you’re concerned, Sagittarius, is that in the coming weeks you might have many days when you’re not a damn fool for even five seconds. In fact, you may break your all-time records for levels of wild, pure wisdom. Make constructive use of your enhanced intelligence!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“Most humans have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” said Aldous Huxley. If that’s true, Capricorn, it’s important that you NOT act like a normal human in the next few weeks. Taking things for granted would be a laziness you can’t afford to indulge.

In fact, I think you should renew your passion for and commitment to all your familiar pleasures and fundamental supports. Are you fully aware of the everyday miracles that allow you to thrive? Express your appreciation for the sources that nourish you so reliably.

Talk about how you infused your spiritual path with eros and humor. Go to Freewillastrology. com; click on “Email Rob.”

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DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH MOST ADVERTISING IN PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER ARE LEGITIMATE BUSINESSES, PRIOR TO INVESTING MONEY OR USING A SERVICE LOCATED WITHIN ANY SECTION OF THE CLASSIFIEDS WE SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE: ASK FOR REFERENCES & BUSINESS LICENSE NUMBER, OR CALL/WRITE: THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU AT 412-456-2700 / 300 SIXTH AVE., STE 100-UL / PITTSBURGH, PA 15222. REMEMBER: IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT USUALLY IS! N E W S

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We are looking for persons in general good health, and on no prescription or illicit drugs to participate in our paid out-patient studies. Please call our Recruiting Department today at 1-800-586-0365

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YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF YOU: • Are a non-pregnant woman between 16 and 35 years old • Are in need of contraception • Have regular periods • Are willing to come to Magee-Womens Hospital to complete up to 14 or more visits over a five year period The Center for Family Planning Research is conducting a research study of an investigational contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD). Participants will receive study-related exams and study-related birth control at no cost.

To see if you qualify, please call the Center for Family Planning Research at 412-641-5496 or visit our website at www.birthcontrolstudies.org.Participants will be reimbursed up to $1030 over five years.

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