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EVENTS 2.16 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: HALEH ABGHARI AND LISA PEGHER Co-presented with Music on the Edge, University of Pittsburgh Department of Music Advance Tickets $15/$10 students; Door Tickets $20/$15 students

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Editor, Perhaps City Paper could show support for UPMC’s “non” employees by no longer accepting their ads.

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“IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL THE ACTUAL DEED TO THE PROPERTY AND THE BUILDING ARE HANDED OVER”

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NSIDE SCHENLEY High School, Pete Camarda steps around the ceiling tiles that have dropped about 14 feet to land on the floor of the vacant hallway.

“Let’s walk with our heads up,” the Pittsburgh Public Schools chief financial and operations officer says. “I keep seeing more of the tiles on the floor.”

Indeed, the ceiling of the grand, historic and massive building in Oakland, shuttered as a school in 2008, is pockmarked with missing tiles and water stains. Paint and plaster on the walls, particularly around the windows, are peeling away, leaving piles of debris in the halls where thousands of students once tread.

Without those students in the buildURBAN MEDIA} SY OF PITTSBURGH {PHOTO COURTE ing to warrant turning on the school’s meand t) lef Berlin (fourth frommni last week. chanical systems and the air circulation alu cond from left), Liz Edward Alexei (se left) protest with other Schenley m that comes with their activity, the building fro David Tinker (fifth has deteriorated quickly in the five years it has been vacant, custodians say.

In addition to the continuing cracks, mold and falling debris, a two-foot high summer after a report surfaced challenging bump has appeared in the gymnasium built in 1916, into 175 luxury apartments.

The proposal, which has been recom- the level of asbestos in the building, won a floor, covering about 20 feet. It was first noticed last fall. Custodians speculate that mended to the district by its review com- victory last month when the school board storm water backing up into the swim- mittee — coordinated by Fourth River agreed to re-examine the costs to renovate Development LLC, which is overseeing the school before voting on PMC’s bid. ming pool underneath the gym might If that fails, alumni who organized the sale of the property on the disbe causing moisture to build. trict’s behalf — will be the sub- their own bid for the school — the Andy “This wasn’t for dramatic purpose,” Camarda says as MORE OF ject of a public hearing and Warhol School of Visual and Performing vote by the city school board Arts (the name is pending approval by the visitors to the school examPHOTOSLEY Andy Warhol Foundation) — are continulater this month. ine the decay. “The situaN E SCH INE But despite the build- ing their lobbying. The group’s leaders say tion was as the situation L N O ww. ing’s poor condition and the they are not deterred despite being passed was described.” w aper recommended bidder’s plan over by the review committee that examThe district, which decidpghcityp .com to turn the facility into condos, ined each of the four bids submitted to ed to close and sell the school Schenley alumni refuse to give buy the property. after reports that it was facing up “It’s not over until the actual deed up the effort to make sure that their to a $ 64 million repair bill — mainly to the property and the building are due to alleged high levels of asbestos — is school stays a school.

“I think there is a group that keeps the handed over to PMC,” says 1988 alum Edconsidering a $ 5.2 million bid from Philadelphia-based developer PMC/Schen- issue alive, and they are very successful at ward Alexei, who is leading the AWSVPA ley HSB Associates, LP to purchase the that,” says Pittsburgh school board member charge to purchase the building in order to keep it a school. “Just because we 320,000-square-foot landmark building. Sherry Hazuda.

Their movement, given renewed life last didn’t get the nod from the committee PMC has proposed turning the building,

doesn’t mean we’re going to stop.”

Over the next few weeks, the school board is hoping to resolve the debate over Schenley, one way or another. A set of reports reviewing the history of the decision and offering updated estimates for the school’s renovations, prepared by Pittsburgh Schools Superintendent Linda Lane, are expected as soon as this week.

“We have to be fiscally responsible to taxpayers, and that’s where the challenge is,” Hazuda says.

ALEXEI, LIKE other Schenley graduates, says he is horrified at the damage done to his beloved school, calling it shameful that it has been left in disrepair.

But he says he’s even more aghast at the idea of it going into a developer’s hands.

“When I heard they were going to turn it into condos, I said, ‘Hell, no.’ You can quote that,” he says.

Born in the Ukraine, Alexei, with his parents and his older sister, came to Pittsburgh in 1979 when he was 9 years old.

He went through the international studies and high-technology magnet programs at Schenley. He went on to launch a career in the technology industry, founding a startup called Hungry Mouse Inc. at the age of 25.

It provided a way to order food online for takeout or delivery, and its first partners were America Online and Pizza Hut. He says he believes in being able to make the impossible possible.

“I hounded the chief information officer at Pizza Hut for six months before he gave me a meeting,” Alexei says.

He went on to found and exit from another company, Data Line Products, and has remained in the technology industry, investing and consulting. He lives now in San Francisco with his wife and 4-year-old son and works for Citrix, the company perhaps best known for its GoToMeeting software.

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from the Ukraine, he says.

The offer he and the AWSVPA group — which also includes Liz Berlin, co-owner of Mr. Small’s Funhouse and a founding member of Rusted Root — made the school district was $4.1 million, the third highest bid after PMC’s. (The second highest bid, for $4.6 million, was proposed by the Kossman Development Company, which sought to establish a charter school for dyslexic children, as well as housing units.) They have proposed filling Schenley with students again by opening a private school with a curriculum focused on digital animation production, video-game design and development, film production, and audio and music recording production.

Alexei and Berlin are both careful to distinguish that the curriculum is intended to complement rather than compete with the district’s own creative- and performing-arts school, CAPA. “No such programs exist in Pittsburgh,” Alexei says.

Berlin says the audio and music production track, for example, will be an expansion of the recording and songwriting classes she already teaches at Mr. Small’s.

Alexei and Berlin, who graduated the same year, became close friends during their time at Schenley. She also credits the school and her classes in music, theater and the arts as setting her on her career path.

“It would be a shame to see that building chopped up,” she says. “It was a really wonderful school. I would love to see it remain in the service of the students.”

David Tinker, a 1989 Schenley graduate who is serving with Berlin and Alexei on the steering committee, says the former high school made a strong impression.

“Kids from throughout the city went

Edward Alexei, Schenley graduateschool’s swim team, the on ted pe who com e the school when was inspired to savpending sale by informed of its Hosea Holder. swimming coach

there; it made for some pretty strong friendships,” he says, adding that he and Alexei met on the volleyball team. “It had such an important role in my life. We want to make sure others have an opportunity to experience that as well.”

But the proposal’s expected enrollment of 1,000 tuition-paying students and the $ 13-16 million budget for renovations — low compared to the district’s own past estimates and PMC’s expected budget of nearly $ 40 million for remodeling — has caused school-board members to hesitate.

“If there was the population to service more students, we would have the schools opened,” says board director Theresa Colaizzi, who says she worries the group hasn’t sufficiently done its homework.

Colaizzi, who says she supports PMC’s bid, says she’s sympathetic to the alumni group’s concerns.

“I don’t want to lose [Schenley] either,”

Liz Berlin in 1988 Edward Alexei andSchool. The close h Hig ey enl at Sch to save their friends are hopingfrom falling into l former high schoo developers. the hands of

she says. “None of us did. But the reality of what it would take to make it a school again was really tough.”

Alexei, along with other Schenley alumni, is banking on being able to change minds in light of a revelation this summer: the discovery of a 2009 report prepared for school officials showing that asbestos levels were under 1 percent in the samples taken. That contradicted officials’ earlier claims that the levels reached as high as 6 percent and could contribute significantly to the costs of renovation.

The news and a resulting online petition, signed by 1,036 supporters as of Feb. 11 on the website www.change.org, has prompted the support of local politicians, including former state Auditor General Jack Wagner, state Sen. Jim Ferlo, City Councilor Daniel Lavelle and Allegheny County Councilors Barbara Daly Danko, William Robinson and James Ellenbogen.

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And in January, as the district opened four sealed bids for the property, Pittsburgh City Controller and mayoral candidate Michael Lamb, who serves as controller for the school district, sent out a public plea for the board to slow down and review the decision again.

“Clearly the studies that were done in preparing the building for sale after the closure revealed that the structure damage wasn’t quite as originally thought,” he says, adding that such a decision should be made with the best information available.

Camarda declined to comment on the reports that the asbestos wasn’t as bad as feared.

“There are a million reports out there,” he says. “We weren’t misrepresenting the condition of the building.”

Colaizzi says she remains comfortable with the decision to close the school because, although opinions varied on how much repairs would cost, they were all still too high.

“Yes, they were all over the place, depending on the opinion,” she says. “But the reality was they all said, ‘Until we start the work, we can’t tell you how much it would be.’ … That scared us.”

Of the groups still trying to save Schenley, she says, “I appreciate their passion,” But, “realistically, you have to think about

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what is best for the entire city, not just one building. It’s a hard pill to swallow.”

Hazuda says she, too, is sympathetic to the cause. But she adds that it might be time to let it go.

“The people on my end of town think the Schenley people are crazy. They don’t get it,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Why don’t they give up already?’”

Alexei won’t hear of it.

“When they start selling apartments, I think it’s pretty much time to give up. Until then, we’ll do our best,” he says. “That building was meant to be a school. Nothing else.”

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The typical commuter already spends the equivalent of eight full workdays sitting in traffic. How much more time would you spend if even a portion of the nearly quarter-million daily Port Authority commuters started driving to work?

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A CONVERSATION with University of Pittsburgh researcher Dr. Amy Herrick {BY LAUREN DALEY} IF YOU’RE a gay or bisexual man, a study at the University of Pittsburgh proves what LGBT advocates have been preaching for years: It does get better. In fact, researchers discovered that within the study, the majority of men who have sex with men (MSM) overcame internalized homophobia — or self-loathing because of external homophobia or negative societal stereotypes — over time. And it didn’t really matter during which decade they realized a same-sex attraction.

In the study, led by Dr. Amy Herrick, a post-doctoral associate in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, researchers also discovered that even though some MSM experienced bullying or homophobia, they didn’t experience negative health affects like sexually transmitted diseases or depression. It’s one of the first studies to focus on positive health outcomes for gay men.

Herrick recently spoke to City Paper about the results. For a link to the complete study, which was published last month, visit www.pghcitypaper.com.

SINCE MOST STUDIES ON GAY MEN FOCUS ON WHAT OFTEN GOES WRONG FOR GAY MEN AND HEALTH, WHY STUDY THE OPPOSITE? The pragmatic answer is looking at just risk and deficits [hasn’t] gotten us very far in terms of behavior prevention, especially among men who have sex with men and gay men. Rates of HIV are going up instead of down. Clearly we’re doing something wrong. That was part of it — to step back, think outside the box and try to figure out if what we’re doing isn’t working. Rates [of HIV] are going up among men who have sex with men — it’s the only group [for which rates] are going up; they are going down [among] IV-drug users and high-risk heterosexuals. In the prevention world, we’re clearly missing something.

THE DATA FROM THE STUDY SHOWS THAT MOST MEN RESOLVED NEGATIVE LEVELS OF INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OVER TIME, BUT THAT MANY OF THE MEN CAME OF AGE IN A TIME — LIKE THE 1940S, ’50S AND ’60S, WHEN THERE WASN’T NEARLY THE LEVEL OF POSITIVE LGBT IMAGING THERE IS TODAY. TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THAT? That shocked us. I think the kind of understood pattern is that it’s the young guys [overcome internalized homophobia] with

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all this positive messaging — the whole “After Ellen [DeGeneres]” effect. But the older guys were doing just as well.

We have no idea [why], and this is the problem with the paradigm we’re working against. Within the survey, we [asked] about all the negative things; we never considered looking for resilience. It’s weird in public health, we’re really good at measuring sickness and disparity but have no real definition of health and way to measure health.

WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON DOING WITH THE RESULTS? We want to take the same sample and look at resilience, and how resiliencies are developed and what it means. We’re going to have to start over with everything we know, going back and doing qualitative research on MSM, what it means to be resilient, how they develop resiliency. Basically, instead of the old pattern of [asking] “What is it that made you start using substances?” asking, “How is it that you avoided using substances?”

HOW DO YOU STUDY SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T SOUND EASILY QUANTIFIABLE, LIKE INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OR RESILIENCE? For internalized homophobia, it’s a scale: a composite of nine questions [about] things like, ‘I tried to stop being attracted to men.’ It asks a bunch of questions about shame around their sexuality and that sort of thing. As far as resilience, that’s what we’re figuring out right now.

It’s a fairly new concept in terms of MSM health. We don’t have the answer yet, we’re starting to see more and more evidence of resilience like [the results] in this paper, but how we quantify and predict that, is still a question.

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burgh is that there’s never enough of it … until there’s too much.

That’s been the gripe about this year’s fledgling mayoral race, in which incumbent Luke Ravenstahl faces a challenge from not one, but two reform-minded challengers: City Controller Michael Lamb and City Councilor Bill Peduto.

Ravenstahl has faced only token opposition in two previous runs, so having two qualified opponents may seem like a nice change of pace. But Ravenstahl’s opponents have been dreading this match-up, because they’ve seen this movie before. Peduto and Lamb both ran for mayor back in 2005 against frontrunner Bob O’Connor. O’Connor won with 49 percent of the vote; Peduto and Lamb took 47 percent between them.

Back then, no one thought O’Connor could lose. This time, in Peduto-land especially, there were hopes a split opposition could be avoided. The idea was that Peduto could win the “money primary” — the race-before-the-race in which candidates seek financial and other support — and that Lamb would be scared off by Peduto’s superior resources.

By most measurements, Peduto has won the money primary. His campaign started 2013 with $ 260,000 in the bank, a balance which reflects money he raised and spent in just the last couple months of 2012. Lamb’s $212,000 bank account seems competitive on paper, but it’s less impressive when you consider it includes $62,000 he raised in 2011 — as a controller — and $50,000 he loaned to himself.

Peduto has, in fact, filed a legal challenge over Lamb’s fundraising. His petition says that under a 2010 campaign-finance law that Peduto himself championed, Lamb shouldn’t be allowed to run for mayor using money he raised as a controller.

“Just because [Lamb] can’t raise money doesn’t mean he gets to break the law,” Peduto told me.

“The construction of [the campaignfinance legislation] is horrible,” shot back Lamb, who says he’s complying with the law as written.

The real winner in this argument is Ravenstahl. Re-election bids are supposed to be referendums on the incumbent: So far, the challengers’ sharpest attacks have

been directed at each other.

The problem, obviously, is that in a oneparty town, there’s no means for choosing a champion to represent the “loyal opposition.” Once a Democratic nominee is selected in the primary, the November election is a foregone conclusion. And there’s no such thing as a primary before the primary, so there’s no way for the opposition to rally behind a would-be challenger. The result: challengers arguing over who has the right to campaign when they ought to be campaigning.

But what are you gonna do? Pining away for a third-party movement is too naïve. Hoping a “money primary” will solve things, meanwhile, seems too cynical. (Yes, it’s important to be able to build a movement, as Peduto especially has done. But is judging candidates solely on their ability to garner contributions and tap political networks the way to topple politics-as-usual? That’s how politics-as-usual is done.)

At this point, Peduto and Lamb’s only hope may be to compete — with Ravenstahl and each other — on actual substance.

I realize how desperate that sounds. But Lamb recently announced an audit of how the city handles off-duty work by police officers providing security to bars and other businesses. Old heads will remember that questions have swirled around that issue almost since the day Ravenstahl took office.

Peduto, for his part, has just launched an effort he’s calling “100 Days, 100 Policies” — a pledge to unveil a new policy prescription each day between now and the primary.

And imagine if this campaign lives up to both the hopes and fears of Ravenstahl’s foes. Imagine if Lamb and Peduto suggest visionary plans for poor communities, and bold reforms of a police department that seems — again — in danger of going off the rails. Imagine they devise a mechanism for ensuring big nonprofits like UPMC contribute their share to city coffers.

And then imagine Ravenstahl wins anyway.

If that happens, it will most likely be in an election where — as in 2005 — fewer than 60,000 voters turn out. That outcome wouldn’t prove that we had one challenger too many. It will prove that Pittsburgh had two more challengers than it knew what to do with.

IN A ONE-PARTY TOWN, THERE’S NO MEANS FOR CHOOSING A CHAMPION TO REPRESENT THE “LOYAL OPPOSITION.”

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The councilors reasoned that in the county’s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. The councilors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. (The councilors’ beneficence might also have been influenced, reported BBC News, by the fact that “several” of the five voting “yea” own pubs.)

Maldives, both of which permit the death penalty for renouncing Islam. In Mauritania, a person so charged has three days to repent for a lesser sentence. (An August 2012 dispatch in London’s The Guardian reported widespread acceptance of slavery conditions in Mauritania, affecting as many as 800,000 of the 3.5 million population.

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As if 9/11 and the resultant air-travel restrictions had never happened, travelers for some reason continue to keep Transportation Security Administration agents busy at passengers’ carry-on bag searches. From a TSA weekly summary of confiscations in January: 33 handguns, eight stun guns and a serrated wire garrote. Among highlights from 2012: a live 40mm grenade, a live blasting cap, “seal bombs” and six pounds of black powder (with detonation cords and a timing fuse).

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A man with admittedly limited English skills went to a courthouse in Springfield, Mass., in December to address a traffic ticket, but somehow wound up on a jury trying Donald Campbell on two counts of assault. Officials said the man simply got in the wrong line and followed jurors into a room while the real sixth juror had mistakenly gone to another room.

The jury, including the accidental juror, found Campbell guilty, but he was awarded a new trial when the mistake was discovered.

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Twin brothers Aric Hale and Sean Hale, 28, were both arrested on New Year’s Eve in Manchester, Conn., after fighting each other at a hotel and later at a residence. Police said a 27-year-old woman was openly dating the two men, and that Sean thought it was his turn and asked Aric for privacy. Aric begged to differ about whose turn it was.

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In December, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed, through a public records check, that the appointed Collector of Revenue for St. Louis County has failed since 2008 to pay personal property taxes. Stacy Bailey and her husband owe taxes on three cars and in fact filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Bailey’s boss, Director of Revenue Eugene Leung, told the Dispatch that he had checked Bailey’s real-estate tax status but not personal property taxes. Nonetheless, he said, “Knowing what I know now, she’s still the most qualified person for the job,” among the 155 applicants.

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Before “cellulite” appeared in popular culture around 1972, almost no one believed the condition especially remarkable, wrote London’s The Guardian in December.

Similarly, the new concern about “wobbly” arms — flesh dangling loosely when a woman’s arm is raised horizontally — seems entirely made-up. However, Marks & Spencer and other upscale British retailers now sell “arm corsets” to fashionably hold the skin tighter for sleeveless tops. Wrote the Guardian columnist, “I wish I didn’t know that my arms weren’t meant to wobble. I’d be happier.”

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William Province, 42, was arrested in Jefferson County, Mont., in December and charged with waterboarding four boys, two of whom were his own sons, at his home in December. (Also in January, Kirill Bartashevitch, 52, was charged with making “terroristic” threats to his high-school-age daughter after he allegedly pointed his new AK-47 at her because her report card showed 2 B’s instead of all A’s. He said he had recently purchased the gun because he feared that President Obama intended to ban them.)

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Recently, a 67-year-old woman set out to drive to a train station in Brussels, Belgium, 38 miles from her home to pick up a friend, but her GPS was broken, and she wound up three countries away, in Zagreb, Croatia, before she sought help. Drivers older than her have been similarly lost, but not to the extent of crossing five borders and passing road signs in three languages while traveling 900 miles. (She said only that she was “distracted.”)

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In January, a 68-year-old Florida man got out of a van to open a garage door so that his friend could back in, but he left the van door open, and the driver’s dog leaped excitedly into the vehicle and landed on the gas pedal. The man was fatally crushed against the garage door.

Equitable Gas Company will under undertake a significant pipeline replacement project from March 2013 until the Fall of 2013 in Pittsburgh’s Northside, South Side and Bloomfield/Friendship/ Shadyside neighborhoods. Streets that will have natural gas mainline pipe replaced include: Northside Bizet Street, W. Burgess Street, N. Charles Street, Chautauqua Street, Clayton Avenue, Divinity Street, Irwin Avenue, Lafayette Street, Langley Street, Lithgow Avenue, Maple Avenue, W. McIntyre Street, E. McIntyre Street, Mountford Avenue, Osgood Street, Perrysville Avenue, Snyder Street, Strauss Street, and University Avenue.

Please join Equitable Gas Company for community meetings to explain the construction project and the possible impact on residents and businesses in the Northside, South Side and Bloomfield/Friendship/Shadyside neighborhoods. Community meetings are scheduled for:

South Side 13th Street, 22nd Street, 23rd Street, 24th Street, 25th Street, 26th Street, 27th Street, Bingham Street, Carey Way, Fox Way, Jane Street, Josephine Street and Wrights Way. Bloomfield/Friendship/Shadyside S. Aiken Avenue, Amberson Avenue, Amboy Way, S. Atlantic Avenue, S. Evaline Street, S. Graham, Pembrooke Place, Saint James Street, Sheridan Street and S. Winebiddle.

The Northside 6:30 pm, Thursday, February 21, 2013 Letter Carriers Hall 841 California Avenue Northside, Pittsburgh Co-hosted with the Northside Coalition for Fair Housing The South Side 6:30 pm, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Brashear Association Center 2005 Sarah Street South Side, Pittsburgh The Bloomfield/Friendship/Shadyside Neighborhoods 6:30 pm, Thursday, February 28, 2013 West Penn Hospital Nursing School Auditorium 4900 Friendship Avenue, Pittsburgh

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{BY CHARLIE DEITCH} The Friday afternoon I stopped by A.J.’s Inca Peruvian restaurant, there was a sign on the door, and I wasn’t sure if it was a promotion or a warning.

It invited patrons to stop by for lunch with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who would be on hand to officially cut the ribbon on this new Downtown eatery that specializes in rotisserie chicken. The shop’s owners, Hugo and Isandra Colan, who hail from Peru, are opening their second restaurant. According to the mayor’s office, it’s with the guidance of Duquesne University’s small-business development program.

Since typically politics and proper digestion don’t mix — especially in an election year — I was glad I had time to grab lunch before all the revelry.

The Colans also own a restaurant in Oakland, which offers burgers as well as Peruvian food. The new Downtown spot focuses mainly on Peruvian cuisine, with meat, fish and even vegetarian dishes.

But first-timers have to try the signature rotisserie chicken.

I ordered a quarter-chicken meal with two sides. The chicken had a beautiful, crispy golden-brown skin, with a great spice profile that made for a flavorful crust around the moist, delicious meat.

For my sides, I eschewed fries, and instead went with two popular South American options —yuca (a starchy tuber not unlike a potato when fried) and fried, sweet plantains. Both were a great complement to the juicy chicken.

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OMAN BISTRO is designed to entertain. The second Italian restaurant in just a few years to be installed in a former Studebaker dealership on Ardmore Boulevard in Forest Hills, Roman Bistro emphasizes the convivial: There is a gleaming white grand piano in its bar and lounge — played for Carole King tunes the night we visited, but promoted as available to anyone who can tickle the ivories — and an expansive dining room with retractable wall. Groups of friends, large or small, will feel welcome here. The bar serves 33 draft beers and 33 wines (hence the “33” tucked into the restaurant’s logo). The adjoining storefront, initially opened as a sidewalk gelato shop, now serves as a cigar bar, its heady aromas crossing a shared vestibule toward the dinner tables.

While not explicitly billed as a “family restaurant,” Roman Bistro is a good fit for multigenerational groups. Ours was far from the only table with kids, and the classic Italian-American menu —

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chops, pastas, sandwiches — fit the bill.

The preparations, perhaps not up to the minute, were at least up to date, with flatbread appetizers that weren’t just rebranded pizzas, and brilliant green vegetables alongside the entrees. It was easy to find choices that had appeal beyond comfort or nostalgia.

ROMAN BISTRO 2104 Ardmore Blvd., Forest Hills. 412-871-3704 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-midnight, Sun. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

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Beans and greens had both, and then some. Roman Bistro eschews meat in this dish, and pushes its flavor profile toward a brighter spectrum than most: Wilted spinach was mixed with a heartier green — perhaps chard or escarole — while the braise was dominated by lemon and supported by white wine, providing clear, fruity counterpoint to the earthy beans.

The crust of our flatbread was distinctly chewy, not cracker-crisp; brushed with olive oil; and liberally scattered with arugula, prosciutto, mozzarella and Parmiggiano-Reggiano cheese. Normally, the words “too much cheese” don’t escape our lips, but in this context, less would have been more. The crucial difference between flatbead and pizza, to our minds at least, is that flatbread is not blanketed with toppings. On this flatbread, the arugula and prosciutto were judiciously applied, but the melted cheese’s gooey texture was laid on too thick; it dominated every bite and unbalanced the classic interplay of savory ham with bitter greens.

A thick layer of melted cheese was far more welcome on the house burger, a hefty patty on a deeply browned bun, topped with big slices of pepperoni, a good dollop of marinara and plenty of molten provolone. The menu said the burger was housemade, but the result was unremarkable, if serviceable. Nonetheless, with a side of thin, dark and slightly crisp fries, it

made for a satisfying plate.

At the opposite end of the beef spectrum, a New York strip sandwiched between wilted spinach and melted brie was an excellent cut well prepared, and the simple pan sauce tied everything together nicely. Additional sides of roasted red potato and tender-crisp asparagus made for a generous, but not overwhelming, serving.

Crab-stuffed shrimp were a bit of a throwback, with uninspired mounds of crab atop frankly excellent shrimp.

A bed of creamy, cheesy risotto was the best part of this dish. We also appreciated the broccoli, steamed to emerald green and tossed in liberal amounts of lemon butter.

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Roman Bistro owner Rose Roman (top); greens and beans

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HOUSE RULES New Kensington’s House of 1,000 Beers spills over with options Whether you’re searching for an obscure, small-batch Belgian sour, or are looking to step up from Coors Light, or simply interested in expanding your palate, New Kensington’s House of 1,000 Beers has something for you.

“It’s a celebration of beer here,” says general manager John Lakari. “The House,” as it’s affectionately called by area beer aficionados, is owned by Dave and Maureen Sagrati; the former beer distributors have operated in the store’s current location since 2006.

The shop is designed to encourage consumers to mix and match different bottles of beer. At a beer distributor, you have to buy a 24-pack of a single beer (or a pre-mixed arrangement). But The House operates under a restaurant license allowing consumers to buy up to 192 ounces of beer … and leaves them free to create their own assortment.

“It’s a great way for people to try a number of different styles,” says Lakari.

“IT’S A CELEBRATION OF BEER HERE.

Lasagna was comparable to a weeknight dinner prepared by a good home cook: better than anything we’ve ever defrosted, but betraying the shortcomings of packaged as opposed to homemade pasta. We did like the mix of ground beef and veal, which added richness as well as savor to every bite.

Our only persistent complaint with an overall satisfactory meal was salt.

Restaurant kitchens tend to season more liberally with salt than we do at home, and we have come to expect that. But even in this context, every dish at Roman Bistro was just a little saltier than our threshold, until by the end, our palates were wearied.

But, for a crowd-pleasing, home-style Italian-American meal you don’t have to cook or clean up after yourself, Roman Bistro is a good bet.

Don’t expect any lavish trappings at The House. “These racks aren’t fancy because we don’t care about people looking at the racks. We care about people looking at the beer,” says Lakari.

But if the décor isn’t sophisticated, the beer selection certainly is, with obscure offerings ranging from a Firestone Walker Double IPA to a Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge, and everywhere in between. And then there are the taps — all 40 of them, offering a selection that changes frequently.

Lakari says that he and his staff are more than happy to help people pick their way through unfamiliar labels.

Between bottles and taps, fans of the “Untappd” social-media app can stack up a lot capital with their friends. “It can be like a scavenger hunt for them,” says Lakari.

Indeed, the “1,000 beers” advertised in the name is actually an understatement: The store seeks to carry an average of 1,200 different beers at a time.

Still, Lakari says, “No matter how many I carry, the next person walks through the door and asks for something I don’t have.”

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Almost everything is cooked in a 625-degree wood-fired oven in the open cucina. JF BIG JIM’S. 201 Saline St., Greenfield. 412-421-0532.

Pittsburgh has seen a massive expansion of high-end dining.

This cozy eatery — with bar and separate dining area — isn’t part of that trend. It’s old-school Pittsburgh: good food in huge portions, with waitresses who call you “hon.” The place you go to remember where you’re from. JE

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ECHO. 1740 Route 228, Cranberry. 724-779-3246. The menu at this sophisticated restaurant offers a tour de force of modern American cuisine. It focuses on central ingredients and adds layers of flavor, sometimes in unexpected forms, such as a purée of tuna alongside grilled steak, or golden trout served on a bed of orzo with a fennelcream sauce. But even a simpler dish, such as fettuccini Alfredo, is perfectly executed. LE

LAS VELAS. 21 Market Square, 2nd floor, Downtown. 412251-0031. Authentic “family favorite” dishes are the standout at this Mexican restaurant, offering a vibrant antidote to Mexican “cuisine” mired in tired clichés. Trade a taco for cochinita pibil (vinegar-marinated pork), chilaquiles (tortilla casserole) or alambres (meat smothered with peppers, onions and cheese). Also notable: aboveaverage sides, including rice, beans and potatoes. KE MIRCHI. 20445 Route 19 (Excel Center Plaza), Cranberry.

724-772-1867. Some of the best Indian food in the area is hidden away at this strip mall. There are the standard Northern Indian entrees, as well as Southern staples such as dosas and fritters made with rice flour and lentils.

Mirchi also offers rotating chaat — street-food appetizers — and a superb Chicken 65. KF

EDEN. 735 Copeland St., Shadyside. 412-802-7070.

The food here is inspired by the raw-food movement, but it’s hardly dreary health PARK BRUGES. 5801 food. The menu is Bryant St., Highland simple, with a few Park. 412-661-3334. options in each This Belgian-style category: starter, main . www per bistro offers more (raw), main (hot) and a p ty pghci m than moules (mussels), sweet. Some dishes .co though those come were frankly salads, highly recommended, while others were raw, in either a traditional creamvegan adaptations of cooked wine preparation or spicy Creole. comfort foods. (Chicken can be Rather than frites, try variations added to some dishes.) There is on French-Canadian poutine, such also an extensive menu of freshly as adding chipotle pulled pork. squeezed and blended juices Steaks, tarte flambée flatbreads and smoothies. JF and even a burger round out this innovative menu. KE ELEVEN. 1150 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-201-5656. This multiPASTITSIO. 3716 Butler St., leveled venue (with balcony) Lawrenceville. 412-586-7656. This perched on the edge of The tiny storefront café boasts a Greek Strip is noted for its innovative, deli, complete with a steam table contemporary American cuisine. and a display cooler with salads.

Dishes are prepared with fresh, Its namesake baked-noodle local ingredients and served in casserole is a winner, but much of a classy modern space, to the menu changes daily according be complemented with an to what’s fresh. J amazing wine selection. LE

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Mirchi {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} mall, but it makes up points with an urbane, lively, clublike interior and a sophisticated, contemporary menu that runs the gamut from the de rigueur (chicken satay) to the refreshing (gorgonzola hummus). And that’s just the appetizers. LE

Eden {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} THE BLACK BEAN. 239 Atwood St., Oakland. 412-621-2326.

Though geared more for takeout than dining in, this little storefront is a great bet for quick, inexpensive Cuban fare: combination of beans, pork and plantains; the island’s signature ham and pork pressed sandwich, among others; empanadas; gumbo; and mixed grill. JF BLUE. Duncan Manor Plaza, McCandless. 412-369-9050.

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STAGIONI. 2104 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-586-4738.

This cozy storefront restaurant offers a marriage of traditional ingredients and modern, sophisticated sensibilities. From inventive salads utilizing seasonal ingredients and house-made pastas to flavorful meat entrees and vegetarian plates, the fare exhibits a masterful combination of flavors and textures. KF TAMARI. 3519 Butler St., Lawrenceville (412-325-3435) and 701 Warrendale Village Drive, Warrendale (724-933-3155).

The concept is original and simple: blending the salty, citrusy flavors of Asia with the bright, spicy flavors of Latin America.

Although the execution is high-end, individual dishes are quite reasonably priced, with lots of small plates — everything from Peking duck quesadilla to chipotle tuna tartare with avocado and wasabi. KE

Ermanno DiPasquale says most of his customers order to go rather than lingerin his pizza shop. {PHOTO BY AMYJO BROWN}

SPOON. 134 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. 412-362-6001. A swanky restaurant offering American cuisine focusing on locally procured, sustainable ingredients and seasonal offerings. What stands out is the sensitivity with which each dish was conceived — from flavor, texture and the creation of fresh combinations. Thus, ancho chilies and pork are paired with new yet just-right blendings such as cilantro, lime and feta. LE

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Wilkinsburg CDC starts campaign to bring restaurant liquor licenses to town {BY AMYJO BROWN}

SAUSALIDO. 4621 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-683-4575.

Casual elegance is the byword at this neighborhood venue, where the fare is inspired by Northern California cuisine, with seasonal ingredients combined into New American and Continental dishes. The preparations vary widely, from ultra-traditional offerings like crab-stuffed shrimp to au courant updates like duck with orangeapricot balsamic glaze. LF SPAK BROS. 5107 Penn Ave., Garfield. 412-362-7725. A pizza, sub and snack joint with fare for all: vegetarians, vegans and carnivores. You’ll find vegan pizza with soy cheese, seitan wings, steak sandwiches, pierogies — much of it made from locally sourced ingredients. J

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THE RED RING. 1015 Forbes Ave., Uptown. 412-396-3550.

This Duquesne University venue is a decided cut above student dining. The dining room is spacious, with a handsome fieldstone bar. The fare is contemporary American cuisine, with a thoughtful selection of internationally inflected classics like chipotle barbecue pork tenderloin and blackened chicken alfredo.

Artisanal touches like a side dish of “chef’s grains” complete the picture. KE

ELEVEN YEARS ago Ermanno DiPasquale remodeled his restaurant, Salvatore’s Pizza House, anticipating that Wilkinsburg would finally go “wet” and that he would be able to sell beer alongside his pies.

But despite talk of changing the rules, the borough’s ban on restaurant liquor licenses has remained unchallenged since it was created by residents in 1935 by a vote of 7,657 to 4,610.

Instead of running the neighborhood hub he envisioned, DiPasquale watches customers order their pizzas to go and then head across the street to the beer distributor, Wilkinsburg Beverage, to pick up a case of beer.

“Business is not bad. But we have our ups and downs,” says DiPasquale, who notes that 75 to 80 percent of his business is take-out. “It’s hard to be limited in what we can do.”

It’s a business situation that the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation wants to change.

The CDC is preparing to launch a petition drive Feb. 18 to put the question of whether Wilkinsburg should remain dry on the primary-election ballot in May. They’ll need 2,010 signatures by March 12.

WCDC Executive Director Tracey Evans says the licenses are one tool to appeal to developers interested in vacant and blighted land.

DiPasquale is doing all he can to help the campaign, which he says he believes is good for the neighborhood.

The lack of the licenses “works against the community. People are not staying on Penn Avenue,” DiPasquale says.

If the ban is reversed, the state’s Retail Quota Law would allow up to five such licenses to be purchased and used within the borough.

So far, outright opposition to the measure has been voiced only by state Sen. Jim Ferlo, who represents the area. Ferlo is worried about the impact of introducing liquor licenses to a community that has struggled economically for years.

“I think there are a lot of issues because of the demographics of Wilkinsburg,” says Ferlo. “My worst fear is that we’ll see problem bars and clubs develop.”

Evans says those are concerns she’s heard before.

“I worked in East Liberty for years and the same kinds of things came up: ‘We can’t have bars in Wilkinsburg because it’s Wilkinsburg.’ I think we’re past that now,” she says.

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CHORUS For the art of it: Steelesque’s Rob Eldridge

Rob Eldridge began Steelesque not as a band but as a pseudonym that he wrote under as a music critic. But while reviewing shows and hobnobbing with bands like Counting Crows, Wilco, Sonic Youth and even Bob Dylan, he began to develop a taste for making music himself. He set out to learn guitar — and the more tedious process of songwriting.

As he learned, he developed a respect for the creative act serving, in Eldridge’s opinion, nothing more than the creator — an art-for-art’s-sake approach. This is the philosophy that Steelesque the band took into recording and releasing Johnny on the Spot. The rockers made music for themselves and then trusted their own sensibilities. This trust will be rewarded when small U.K. label Tuppence a Bag Records releases the EP later this year.

Originally from Vermont, Eldridge moved to Pittsburgh when his then-fiancée took a job at Duquesne University. Fifteen years later, that fiancée is now his wife, and Pittsburgh remains Eldridge’s home, as he testifies to the growing art scene which he describes as a renaissance. “I have a feeling that the city will emerge as one of the finest in the country,” he adds.

Steelesque plays a Southern-influenced version of blues-rock reminiscent of acts like The Black Crowes. Throw in some Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper and catchy pop hooks that seem straight out of Ray Davies’ playbook, and you have Johnny on the Spot.

The diverse influences are hardly distracting, though, as the band makes every song its own, establishing the EP as an original and cohesive collection of bluesrock. With drummer Josh Egan the only other permanent member of the band, Steelesque maintains a rotating cast of characters; Eric Bee, Mick Lykens and Kevin Maurer round out the lineup on the record.

Eldridge sees the band’s association with Tuppence a Bag as a boost, but not something that changes his approach.

“Your art is about what you want, not who is interested,” he posits. “I want to be a good husband, a good dad and a good songwriter. Nothing is going to change the fact that I want those things.

“Sure, different decisions will have to be made, but when the house lights go down and the stage lights come up, it’s only about rock ’n’ roll.”

Don’t wait for the hook: Saul Conrad

{BY ANDY MULKERIN}

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AUL CONRAD IS an unconventional

songwriter. While his basic specs as a musician aren’t unique (his touring band is just him, a guitar and an additional vocalist), it doesn’t take a lot of listening to realize that he’s different. You won’t hear a lot of rhymes in his lyrics, for one thing, and if you like to cling to hooks and repeated choruses, well, you’re out of luck.

“I really try not to repeat things at all,” says the Boston folkie, “and have things go somewhere and not recycle the feeling you got when you listened to chorus one: You get to chorus two and you’re back there again. I think with songs, they’re so short, you’re often trying to say so much.”

His speech patterns are those of an excitable academic more than a rocker; he speeds up and slows down, hesitates and searches for the right way to explain his craft. It’s not surprising, given that he has, at times, given up music altogether in favor of writing.

“I tried to write music” in college, he explains, “but I kept feeling like I couldn’t

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write music with words — I was either going to shortchange the melody and the structure of the song, or I was going to shortchange the lyrics, and I couldn’t get them to fit together. And I ended up kind of dropping the whole thing to write short stories, and focus on one thing — I thought I could maybe have all the rhythm and stuff in the words themselves.”

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But something — or someone — brought the 24-year-old back to music.

“I had never heard of Townes Van Zandt until about a year ago,” he says. “And I remember watching a documentary about him, and he talked about coming up with

lyrics that implied a melody, or he had a melody that just brought lyrics down out of the sky with it. And I really heard it in his writing; somehow, there was a total union between the words and the melody.

“It’s like they were making each other instead of sacrifighting each other,” he goes on.

“Sacrifighting” doesn’t seem to be a deliberate portmanteau; it’s more a slip of the tongue that he glosses over — but at the same time, it’s the perfect word for what he’s trying to describe. Conrad’s verbal miscues are more clever than other people’s most thought-out lines.

Last year, Conrad released Poison Packets, a full-length issued jointly by his Mountain of Leopards label and Cavity Search. It’s full of catchy tunes with a country bent, and often challenging lyrics.

Sometimes it’s heady, sometimes it’s slightly naughty. He’s got a lot of metaphors for sex stuff, but it generally comes off more like someone with a tortured subconscious than someone trying to provoke a reaction.

NEW RELEASES

JOSH KAUFMAN AMERICAN SO AND SO (SELF-RELEASED)

Great release from the local songwriter, who comes here from Michigan. Kaufman traveled to St. Louis to record with David Beeman and David Vandervelde, and the result is a sweet-sounding six-track EP with hints of alt-country, The Beatles and Elliott Smith. Kaufman is a thoughtful songwriter, and his moves are intentional; he has the pop form down without following it to a formulaic end.

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JOSH KAUFMAN CD RELEASE. 8 p.m. Wed., Feb. 20. Eclipse Lounge, 3705 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5 suggested donation. 412-251-0097 or www.eclipseloungepgh.org

SHADE COBAIN 16 PADS (SELF-RELEASED)

The title 16 Pads is a nod to Shade Cobain’s favorite drum-sampling machine, the Akai MPC, which was made popular by respectively pioneering hip-hop producers J. Dilla and MF Doom. Thumping drums and aggressive snares lay atop a variety of popular and obscure soul and funk samples on this instrumental release. Vocal samples (like one from the “Playa Hater’s Ball” sketch from Chappelle’s Show) assist in keeping this project entertaining. Similar to his previous releases, 16 Pads gives listeners a peek into this Pittsburgh beat-maker’s soul.

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RAY LANICH AT LEAST I’M MOVING (SELF-RELEASED)

The strengths of Lanich’s new album: solid songwriting and an understanding of hooks. Lanich — who plays all the instruments on the release — records straight-ahead rock that often centers around themes of traveling and trying to find oneself. Lanich’s vocals can be a bit pitchy here and there, and maybe some additional instrumental personnel could’ve helped add punch, but this isn’t a bad release. The title track is the strongest one here.

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Pittsburghers might draw comparisons — ideologically and sonically — to the Rickety act Anita Fix, from the late ’90s and 2000s.

“I really felt like I was trying to look at some of the patterns of my life” on Poison Packets, Conrad explains. “Psychological things, things that have been haunting me my whole life, and really try to find out why and connect the dots to the sources of what caused things to be like this — trying to be honest and open, to the point of exposing my mind, I thought.”

In a way, he sounds like an outsider musician — but he’s also well trained in a way.

Conrad studied piano as a kid, and even in college to an extent. That doesn’t help a whole lot, though, when you’re trying to prep for a tour as a solo act with a guitar.

“I’m normally very much about writing new music,” he says, “and figuring out chords and structures for a song and words and piano and guitar. Going out, I’m going to be the only one playing guitar, and [Katie Schecter is] going to be singing, and I’ve been playing a whole lot, just to figure out how to express, on an acoustic guitar, everything that’s going on on a record with a whole band.”

Conspicuously absent on Conrad’s first real tour: his parrot Chico, who’s been known to accompany him live at hometown shows.

“He’s actually amazing!” Conrad says, with the love of a father. “He doesn’t really do the words — he can talk, but he doesn’t sing the words in the songs, he pretty much always sings his name, or throws in a few phrases. But he can really follow changes!

He can totally follow a melody, and change keys, and he has rhythm.

“I wanted to take him on tour, but he’s actually 32 years old. They can live a long time, but I was worried that it being winter, and traveling and all that. He’s a tropical bird, so, yeah.”

The two-person tour sans bird stops at Inn Termission Lounge, on the South Side on Wed., Feb. 20; while Conrad is prepping to release a new LP in April, he’ll be playing mostly material from Poison Packets on this tour since it’s his first appearance in most of the towns he’s visiting. Expect some thoughtful stuff, and some self-reflection — just don’t expect a singalong.

“Rather than — ‘This is a really catchy thing, this is a really enjoyable thing’ — this thing, in the makeup of the song, represents a certain emotional climax or a certain change or certain place where the protagonist falls or sees things in a new way,” Conrad says. “And I want it to be unique to that experience in the narrative, and not something that’s used over and over. “

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The City’s Hottest Live Music Scene!

Hold the bass: Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (from left: Kahil El’Zabar, Ernest Dawkins, Corey Wilkes)

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Heritage Ensemble, he had a specific idea in mind: just percussion and horns. “If you don’t have a bass or piano and you have rhythm, your horn players are going to become more rhythmic,” he explains, “because they’re going to hold the bottom with the tonic. But at the same time, it’s going to be more open melodically in terms of the inventions because there is no chordal constraint.”

The origins of the band date back to the mid-’70s. El’Zabar had played with members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, whose credo of “Great Black music from the Ancient to the Future” incorporated everything from traditional jazz to shrieking horn solos. He also has experience playing with Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley and Nina Simone. “I’ve been really lucky in terms of mentorship,” he says. “I do a lot of different genres, because that’s what my mentors taught me.”

El’Zabar has been the one constant since the Ensemble’s inception. Current tenor saxophonist Ernest Dawkins joined in 1997, already a leader of his own groups, and an established player who balances grooves and a sense of free adventure.

Trumpter Corey Wilkes, born a few years after the band was founded, also has wideranging experience as a leader who can straddle funk and free jazz. The best example of his versatile skills came when he was asked to fill the big shoes of the late Lester Bowie in the Art Ensemble.

In previous visits to Pittsburgh, the trio proved that even with a spare lineup,

everyone fills out the sound. When Dawkins or Wilkes plays a solo, the other player might accompany to keep the foundation of the tune in check. El’Zabar’s contributions aren’t limited to the trap kit either. He often wears ankle bells to provide a pulse while he taps out a groove on the mbira (finger piano), which sounds hypnotic enough to sustain itself for upward of 10 minutes. He also plays hand drums and, when he gets behind the drum kit, can unleash an exciting free-flowing pulse.

ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE 8 p.m. Mon., Feb. 25. Thunderbird Café, 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $16-20.

412-682-0177 or www.thunderbirdcafe.net

The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble has the potential to impress fans of straight-ahead jazz and those into more avant-garde adventures. This balance between tradition and innovation seems to be a major quality of the band’s home base. “One thing I really like about Chicago now is the camaraderie that we’ve grown from,” El’Zabar says, referring to Art Ensemble members Bowie and Malachi Favors, adding that current twenty-somethings perpetuate that same feeling. “It’s different from New York because we’re able to maintain interpersonal relationships above our income incentives. We eat and hang out, we bowl.

We don’t have that same economic pressure at such an intensity. We can focus not only on making money with music but making a life with it.”

He looks forward to uniting jazz fans of different stripes with his upcoming appearance. “I hope we all get beyond those [stylistic] factions and get into the creative ritual of sharing,” he says.

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A widely regarded outsider of the blues and folk-music scene, Jandek has released well over 60 albums’ worth of strangely constructed East Texas blues, available for order from a P.O. Box in Houston, Texas. Over the years, the reclusive artist has developed a following of fans captivated by both his elusive persona and the haunting undertones of his simple songs. Prior to 2004, the prospect of a live performance seemed an impossibility. But since then he’s been popping up around the country, playing shows with local musicians — tonight’s backing band includes Jason Dowling and “Red Bob” Jungkunz (of The Gothees).

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[INDIE POP] + SAT., FEB. 16 Local indie-pop trio Donora has really started to develop a national following since its release of Boyfriends, Girlfriends in September 2011. The album’s high-energy, bright and cheery collection of tracks garnered rave reviews nationwide, and many of the songs were soon featured in national ads and TV shows. This year, the band continues carrying its upbeat sound forward with Play Nice, an EP that successfully manages the difficult balancing act between remaining addictively poppy, yet sonically complex. As vocalist Casey Hanner’s peppy vocals perfectly complement the full percussion and melodious samples of her brother Jake, bassist Jake Churton anchors the endeavor with steady, catchy, rhythms; it’s hard not to be shocked by how full a sound this three-piece creates.

Donora has gone on a short tour in support of the EP and is rounding it out with a trip to Brillobox with Rostrum labelmates Teammate and Ohio’s Way Yes. JL 10 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-621-4900 or brillobox.net

[INDIE ROCK] + SUN., FEB. 17 Last year, indie singer-songwriter Kevin Devine teamed up with Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull to form Bad Books, which released its first record, II, in October. (Other members of Manchester Orchestra back them up, but it’s more a duo collaboration than a matter of Devine joining the band.) With such a pedigree, expectations were high for II — and the album lived up to them, showing Bad Books to be a real songwriter’s band. Its first tour comes to Mr. Small’s Theatre tonight.

The Front Bottoms and Weatherbox open.

Andy Mulkerin 8 p.m.

400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $13.50. All ages. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

Wayne Hancock

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First things first: Locals should be sure not to mix Wayne “The Train” Hancock up with Wayne “The Train” DiBartola, the onetime Pitt football player and current sedation-dentistry guy. Two different guys, completely. Hancock is the one who’s playing at Thunderbird Café tonight; he’s the Texas native who plays old-school country, often of the sad-and-lonesome variety, and has been likened to Hank Williams Sr. by no less than Hank III. It’s not all downbeat, but his plaintive vocals are legendary, so bring a hanky if you’re the cry-it-out type. Todd May opens.

AM 9 p.m. 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $1517. 412-682-0177 or www.thunderbirdcafe.net

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National Ovarian Cancer Coalition MR. SMALLS THEATER. Benefit. 3 Dudes Chillin’, Drowning Clowns, Pure Cane Gary Smith (Late). South Side.

Sugar, Lushbudget, Brewer’s Row, ALTAR BAR. Solas. Strip District.

412-431-4950.

Tim Ruff, DJ 404 Error, more.

412-263-2877.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD Thundervest, Children OAKMONT TAVERN. DaPhunk CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance of October, Latecomer.

Band. Oakmont. 412-828-4155.

Vaughn Trio. Strip District.

Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

THE SHOP. Submachine, 412-281-6593.

FRANKIE’S. Icon Gallery, Nomad HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Shakedown. Squirrel Queen. Bloomfield.

Joshua P. James & The Paper Hill. 412-422-5027.

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Planes, Highway 4, Alfa Garcia.

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OF EAGLES. Timinem. pape The Dressed Frets pghcitym PALACE THEATRE. The .co New Kensington. (late). South Side.

Association, Jay & the Americans.

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Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. WILKINS ELKS. Soul Searchers.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Bill Kirchen Yankee Bang Bang, Butterbirds, Wilkins Twp. 412-400-3956.

Costello & the Cool Minors, Pet C-Bend. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

Clinic, Polar Scout, David Bernabo.

THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. Bill Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Ali & Matt Barranti. Canonsburg.

31ST STREET PUB. Midnight 724-746-4227.

Ghost Train, Perish, The Carny HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. The Stomp. Strip District. 412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. Tom Keifer.

Hawkeyes, Hero Jr., Brett Staggs.

BRILLOBOX. Donora, Strip District. 412-263-2877.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

TeamMate, Way Yes. Bloomfield.

CLAIRTON AMERICAN MODERNFORMATIONS 412-621-4900.

LEGION. Daniels & McClain GALLERY. Jandek. Garfield.

CAFE NOTTE. Graham Denmon & Clairton. 412-400-1141.

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Bucky. Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

MOONDOG’S. The S.P.U.D.S. CLUB CAFE. The Hipsters, Laura CLUB CAFE. Mo Nelson Band, Melissa Quinn (Late). South Side.

412-431-4950.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. The Garnette Duo, Max Somerville, Astro Kinetic. Aliquippa.

724-375-5080.

FRANKIE’S. Tom Breiding, The Mavens. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Ratking, Plutocrat Noose, Mustache Required. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. The Grifters & Black Honey Rollers. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

HARVEY WILNER’S. Catchin’ Grooves. West Mifflin.

412-466-1331.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Steve Thompson & the Professionals, Jaguar Mountain Rundown, Aberrant Kingdom. Bloomfield.

724-366-3469.

MOONDOG’S. The Turbosonics, The Bad Habits. Blawnox.

412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Tea Leaf Green, Tumbleweed Wanderers.

Millvale. 866-468-3401.

THE PALISADES. The Holidays, Southside Jerry. McKeesport.

412-370-2971.

PENN BREWERY. John Galt Theory. North Side. 412-237-9400.

THE PRAHA. The Dave Iglar Band.

This week’s MP3 Monday feature is a two-for-one: Tarentum. 724-224-2112.

THE R BAR. The Gum Band.

Metal bands Grisly Amputation Dormont. 412-445-5279. and Lycosa are having a dual release show Sat., R PUB. Friction. Jeannette.

Feb. 16, at Dead Horse Cantina (704 Thompson 724-392-4333.

Ave., McKees Rocks), and we’re giving you a SHADOW LOUNGE. Badboxes, Robert DeLong. East Liberty. song from each. Download them on FFW>>, 412-363-8277. our music blog at pghcitypaper.com.

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SMILING MOOSE. Del Rios, Carousel, Von Dane. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. The Hornswogglers, Jaybird. Unknown.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Turpintiners, King Fez, Vertigo-go.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

TJ’S HIDEAWAY. Zion Cross.

Evans City. 724-789-7858.

WATERWORKS GREENSBURG. Aces Full.

Greenfield. 724-216-5408.

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$2 Coors Light • $2.50 Evil Shots $3 Parrot Bay Rum • Coors Girls LLIKE US ON FACEBOOK! JEKYL AND ND DH HYDE | 140 S. 18TH STREET 412-488-0777 | BARSMART.COM/JEKYLANDHYDE

BRILLOBOX. Majeure, Quicksails, Anthony Levin-Decanini, Hunted Creatures. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Hannah Georgas, Lucius, Pete Bush, Jesse Prentiss.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Doug Mains & The City Folk, Western Pennsylvania, The Marbits.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HARD ROCK CAFE. TR3.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Weird Paul Rock Band 99 Cent Variety Show. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Bad Books, The Front Bottoms, Weatherbox. Millvale.

866-468-3401.

SMILING MOOSE. Vyie.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Mantras.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & guests.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul.

East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Tracksploitation. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

ALTAR BAR. Overkill. Strip District.

REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Mt. 412-263-2877.

Washington. 412-431-3730.

CLUB CAFE. Benjamin Francis REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, DJ Leftwich, Eric Oliver (Early).

Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

412-781-6771.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. ROWDY BUCK. Top Space Exchange 40 Dance. South Side.

Series w/ Colter Harper.

412-431-2825.

Lawrenceville.

S BAR. Pete 412-682-0177. www. per Butta. South Side. pa pghcitym 412-481-7227. .co BRILLOBOX. The Color Fleet, Grand Piano, RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill The Dressed Frets. Bloomfield.

Bara & Digital Dave. North Side.

412-621-4900.

412-231-7777.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Hope Lies Within. Bloomfield.

Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

412-682-0320.

Electro, post punk, industrial, new ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother wave, alternative dance. South Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739.

Side. 412-431-4668.

SMILING MOOSE. Rugburn, Antique Scream. South Side.

412-431-4668.

BELVEDERE’S. DJ T$.

Lawrenceville. 724-312-4098.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Groove Tuesdays. Djs provided by 720 Music. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

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

412-687-2555.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Outtareach. East Liberty.

Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260.

412-363-8277.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Throwdown BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Thursdays w/ Tracksploitation.

Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

SAVOY RESTAURANT. Latin Savoy Night. Strip District. 412-281-0660.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff chill. House music. aDesusParty.

Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

BELVEDERE’S. Tracksploitation.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Salsa Friday. Downtown.

SHADOW LOUNGE. G-Eazy, 412-325-6769.

Proud 2 Be Local. East Liberty.

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

412-363-8277.

412-362-1250.

SMILING MOOSE. M. Tomlin, ECLIPSE LOUNGE. House Music w/ Worth Whyle, Cassius, Nick Rage.

Hana. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. South Side. 412-431-4668.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582.

REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss.

THE ZONE PITTSBURGH SPORTS Mt. Washington. 412-431-3730.

BAR & GRILL. RizzyRell22 feat.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

RSK. CD release show. Green Tree.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

SHADOW LOUNGE. Mod Sun, Cisco Adler. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

1139 PENN AVE. Hot Mass.

Late Night Dancing. Disco, House, Techno. 21+ BYOB. 2am-8am Sunday morning. Downtown.

BELVEDERE’S. 90z Dance w/ Sean EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Don MC & Thermos. Lawrenceville.

Hollowood’s Cobra Kings.

412-687-2555.

South Side. 412-431-4090.

BRILLOBOX. Title Town Soul & JAMES STREET GASTROPUB &

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ALTAR BAR. Soul Asylum.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. The Black Shades, The Lopez, Nick Lawless.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

PALACE THEATRE. Michael Bolton. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

SMILING MOOSE. The Contortionist, Bury Thy Kingdom, Delusions of Grandeur, STZYGIA. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. Billy Price.

Shaler. 412-487-6259.

SAT 16 THE BLIND PIG SALOON. The Blue Bombers, Patrick Scanga.

New Kensington. 724-337-7008.

CHRISTINA’S. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. White Oak. 412-672-5750.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Leftover Blues. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

THE HOP HOUSE. Jill West & Blues Attack. Green Tree.

412-922-9560.

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

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Sweaty Betty.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

THE MODERN CAFE. The Olga Watkins Band. North Side.

ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. Smokin’ Section. Shaler. 412-487-6259.

SUB ALPINE CLUB. The Witchdoctors. Turtle Creek.

412-823-6661.

WED 20 CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

JAZZ THU 14 ANDYS. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

BLUE. The Etta Cox Trio. Allison Park. 412-369-9050.

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

ECHO. RML Jazz. Cranberry.

412-370-9621.

LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Jimmy Z & Friends. Carnegie.

412-429-7272.

FRI 15 ANDYS. Lori Thee. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. International Guitar Night.

North Side. 412-322-1773.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SAT 16 ANDYS. Kenia. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

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

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

GANDY DANCER SALOON. Artist 3. Station Square.

412-261-1717.

LEMONT. Sal Ventura.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

LITTLE E’S. Freddie Pugh & Friends. Downtown. 412-392-2217.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. The Etta Cox Trio. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo & Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

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CLUB CAFE. Mo Nelson Band.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

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PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Rachmaninoff & Beethoven feat. Manfred Honeck, conductor & Denis Matsuev, piano. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

I havent partied hardy like that in a minute. Last time before the baby comes #DaddyGang

TUE 19 ANDYS. Mark Strickland.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

WED 20 ANDYS. Dane Vannatter & Daniel May. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

Brentwood. 412-884-4600.

SEWICKLEY HOTEL. Daval/ Stater Guitar Duo. Sewickley.

412-427-9979.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Wayne “the train” Hancock. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

showcase. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

PENN BREWERY. Claire Stucznyski.

North Side. 412-237-9400.

UNCLE BUCKLES BAR AND GRILLE. Gina Rendina Acoustic Duo. Plum. 412-744-4763.

SAT 16 OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. No Assembly Required. Strip District. 412-281-4505.

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GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Doug Mains & the City Folk, Western Pennsylvania, The Marbits. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. Old Time Appalachan Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Broked, Stranded & Ugly.

Strip District. 412-281-4505.

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

724-934-1177.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jess Sides.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night.

West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. Singer Songwriter Night.

North Fayette. 412-788-2333.

HAMBONE’S. Acoustic Open Mic. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Blake & Dean. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

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BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Ben Shannon.

Regent Square. 412-999-9009.

HAMBONE’S. Thomas Kivi, Mstr Bojangles, more. Acoustic

ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

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MON 18 THE NORDIC SOUND: SWEDEN. Music by Berwald, Sjögren, Stenhammar, Petersen-Berger Walter Morales, piano. James Laughlin Music Center.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

OTHER MUSIC THU 14 CAFE NOTTE. Sal Ventura.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

LEMONT. Mark Venneri.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

FRI 15 CAFE NOTTE. Paul Cohen.

Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

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ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Haleh Abghari, Lisa Pegher. North Side.

412-237-8300.

HEINZ CHAPEL. PalPITTations.

University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences graduate a capella group. Oakland.

412-624-4157.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Friends in Harmony. Strip District.

412-281-4505.

MON 18 HAMBONE’S. Cabaret Sing-Along.

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ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Tony Depaolis, Mike Murray. North Side. 412-904-3335.

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LA DONNA MUSICALE: ALL-AROUND LOVE. Pittsburgh Renaissance & Baroque. Synod Hall, Oakland.

412-361-2048.

RENAISSANCE CITY WINDS. Phenomenon, Mt. Washington.

412-681-7111.

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

North Side. 412-596-2743.

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1311 17th Street Café 8th Avenue Pub 941 Saloon Al’s Café Albert’s All Star Grill Altman’s Tavern Amel’s Angelia’s Apple Inn Archie’s Aspinwall Grille August Henry’s Ava Lounge Avi’s B&J Coney Island B&S Saloon Bado’s Pizza Pub Bar 48 Bar Louie Bar Louie/ Red Star Barking Shark Barneys Beer Nutz Bottle Shop Bella Luna Bella Notte Belmont 2 Bettis Grille 36 Bigham Tavern Birmingham Bridge Tavern Black N Gold Grill Blairs Tavern Blind Pig Bloomfield Bridge Tavern Blue Blue Moon Boomerangs Bootleggers Boulevard 22 Boulevard II Boulevard Lounge Southpointe Boulevard - Greensburg Braddock’s at Renaissance Hotel Bradys Run Grill Branding Iron Breakers Brewskis Brewstone BRGR - East Liberty Bronzehood Brothers Grimm Buckhead Saloon Bud Murphy’s Buffalo Wild Wings Greensburg Buffalo Wild Wings Monroeville

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E-Town Eagles Indiana Easy Street Edwards Eleven Fan Club Fanatics Feild House Finn Mccool’s Finnigan’s Wake Flynns Pub Foe Eagles Latrobe Fox and Hound Fox Chapel YC Freddies II Freds Divot Front Door Tavern Garage Door Gateway Grill Gator’s Grille Gene’s Last Chance Geo’s Getaway Café Gil’s Café Ginger Hill Tavern Gooski’s Gorman’s Pub Grand Valley Inn Grandview Saloon Grille On 7Th Gullifty’s Gunny’s H.B. Colepeppers Hard Rock Café Harks Harmony Inn Harvey Wilners Hemingways Highland Bar Hillview Tavern Hofstotts Holiday Inn Hophouse - Crafton Hophouse - Ross Twp Hough’s Houlihans Station Square Houlihans - Cranberry Houlihans - Mt. Lebanon Hula Bar Hutch’s Tap Room Images Industry Public House Iron Creek Irwood Grill Italian Village Pizza IVP Bar and Grill Jailhouse Saloon J. Cole’s J Pauls J. Clark’s Jack’s Bar

Jackson’s Southpointe Jamisons Jimmy D’s Johnny’s Wife’s Place Johnny’s Wife’s Place II Jumpers Junction Kellys Riverside Kendrews Korner Pub Lanagins Irish Pub Latitude 40 Legacy Lanes Lenape Golf Course Leo’s Pub And Grille Levelz Ligonier Beach Ligonier Country Inn Ligonier Tavern Log Cabin Logans Pub Lot 17 Luccia Sheas Luke Wholey’s Luma Lyndora Hotel Mahoney’s Main St. Brewhouse Mama Rosas Map Room Mario’s East Saloon Mario’s/ Blue Lou’s Marriot Hotel Max & Ermas - Cranberry Max & Ermas - Gibsonia Max & Ermas - Greentree Max & Ermas - Fox Chapel Max & Ermas - McMurray Max & Ermas Monroeville Max & Ermas - Robinson Max & Ermas Washington McArdles McFaddens Mcgrogan’s Tap Room McMinns Melange Mels Pizza Middle Road Inn Mighty Oak Barrel Mike And Tonys Minutellos Mitchell’s Mitchell’s Fish Market Modern Cafe Mogies Mohans Monroe Hotel Monroeville Monte Cellos - Cranberry Monte Cellos - Ross Monte Cellos - Wexford

Monterey Pub Moondogs Moonlite Café Mr. Mike’s Mr. Toads Mt. Lebanon Saloon Mullaney’s Harp and Fiddle Mullen’s North Shore Mulligan’s Murph’s Pub Murphys Nakama Steakhouse Nemacolin The Tavern Nino’s Nite Courts NPL Bamboo NPL Original O’Gillies Oakmont Tavern Olive or Twist Omni William Penn P.A.A. Pals Club Panther Hollow Inn Paradise Club Parkwood Patricks Pub PDs Pub Pechin’s Firehouse Restaurant Penn Monroe Pepperoncini’s Pepperwood Grill Perrytown Drafthouse Peters Pub Pgh Grille N Shore Pgh Steak Company Piper’s Pub Pittsburgh Bottle Shop Café Pittsburgh Fish Market Pizza Daddie’s Pizza Milano Playmakers Pleasure Bar Pluma Porky’s Pourhouse Primant’s - Cranberry Primanti’s - Mt. Lebanon Pub In The Park Puglianos Quaker Steak and Lube Robinson Quaker Steak and Lube Cranberry Quaker Steak and Lube P. Hill R Pub Rachels Roadhouse Ramada - Greensburg

Redbeard’s Redd Dawgs Rialto Rick’s Sports Bar Riley’s Riverhouse Rivers Casino Rochester Inn Rock a Fellas Rock Ann Haven Rockefellers Rockys 2 Roland’s Roma Sewickley Roman’s Bistro Rooks Rooks Round Corner Cantina Rugger’s Pub Rumerz Rusty Dory Ryans Pub S Bar Saint James Place Sals Salt Of The Earth Sammy’s Famous Corned Beef Scarpaci Saloon Señor Frogs Shadow Lounge Shady Grove Shadyside Saloon Shakesperes Shale’s Café Sharky’s Sharp Edge - Crafton Sharp Edge - Downtown Sharp Edge - Friendship Sharp Edge - McMurray Sharp Edge - Sewickley Shenanigans Shootin Bull Tavern Sideline’s - Millvale Sideline’s - Sewickley Sieb’s Pub Silky’s Pub Silkys Pub Smartie Arties @ Fat Zachels Smiling Moose Soho Soldiers & Sailors Someone Else’s Bar Somma’s South Aiken Bar and Grill South Park Clubhouse Spaghetti Warehouse Sports Grille Cranberry Squirrel Hill Café Stacked Starlite

Starwwod Steel Cactus Steel City Steakhouse Stinky’s Bar and Grill Strikers Sunny Jims Table Lakeside Tad’s Talerico’s Tessaro’s The Coney Island The Country Inn The Headkeeper The Pine The Point Grill The Rose Bar Thunderbird Café Tilted Kilt N Shore Tini Tiques TJ’s Sports Lounge TJs Hideaway Todds by The Bridge Tolericos Tonic Bar Touchdown Club Tower Lounge Trio Lounge Tuscan Tavern Ugly Dog Saloon Uncle Bunckles Union Grill Viking Lounge Villa Village Idiot Vincents Pizza Violas Walnut Grove Mt. Lebanon Walnut Grove Wexford Walnut Grove Fox Chapel Washington Furnace Wexford Ale House White Eagle Whitehawk Wicked Googly William Penn Tavern Wolfendales Wooden Nickel Wooly Bully’s Wyndham Grand Ziggys Tavern Zookys

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Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly. com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Cute Is What We Aim For, Tiffany Alvord & more.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

Bill Kirchen

Allstar Weekend

DaDa

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guest Josie McQueen & Le Shook. Limited All ages.

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

THURSDAY 14 Moulin Rouge - The Ballet

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pbt.org. Through Feb. 17.

SOLAS

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Callan & Mark Dignam.

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SUNDAY 17 Bad Books

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests The Front Bottoms & Weatherbox. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 8p.m.

Zanna, Don’t

HENRY HEYMANN THEATRE Oakland. 412-624-7529.

Tickets: play.pitt.edu. Through March 3.

offCENTER: Just us Dance Series - Hip Hop Extravaganza AUGUST WILSON CENTER Downtown. 412-258-2700.

Free. For more info visit augustwilsoncenter.org.

7p.m.

FRIDAY 15 G-EAZY

SHADOW LOUNGE East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

Over 18 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

MONDAY 18 Soul Asylum

SOUL ASYLUM

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests The Show & Long Time Divided. Over 21 show.

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

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 ALTAR BAR

Tom Keifer ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Chip Dimonick & Devils Cut. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

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Kyle Abraham - Abraham.In.Motion BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

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

Tea Leaf Green

Beethoven & Rachmaninoff HEINZ HALL Downtown.

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

Through Feb. 17.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. With special guests Tumbleweed Wanderes & Steelesque. All ages show.

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

8p.m.

Rumpke Mountain Boys / Fletcher’s Grove REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

TUESDAY 19 American Idiot

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through Feb. 24.

Robert DeLong / Badboxes SHADOW LOUNGE East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

Over 18 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10p.m.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Zilch, Metacide & more.

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IT TAKES A HUMANE AND COURAGEOUS ARTIST TO MAKE A FILM LIKE AMOUR

SPEAK AND SPELL {BY AL HOFF} Comparisons to Twilight are inevitable.

After all, Beautiful Creatures is about the travails of lovelorn teens in a backwater town: One is sensitive and virtually parentless; the other is a witch, and is caught up in a big family battle about Good and Evil.

(Did I say “witch”? Seems they prefer the term “caster.”) And it plays out more silly than serious, despite its broody overtones.

She’s a witch! Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert

Richard LaGravenese’s gothic-ish melodrama is adapted from the first of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s young-adult series and introduces us to the main players.

Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is thoroughly bored in Nowhere, S.C., until he befriends the new girl, Lena (Alice Englert). She’s moody and weird in a cool way, and can control the weather. But her family is high drama: impervious dad (Jeremy Irons), mean aunt (Emma Thompson) and helpful spirit guide (Viola Davis). (The high-level thespians on board here must be buying beach homes with the cash.)

This could have been campy fun, but a muddled tone, worn-out plot and assorted goofiness about haunted lockets, the Civil War and secret libraries just made this a drag.

The juvenile leads try hard but I couldn’t summon much interest in their plight. Despite their Bukowski books, steamy Southern evenings and a notable lack of guardianship, our besotted couple only engage in fierce hand-holding. I can’t blame them — there’s zero chemistry between these two. Perhaps a spell is in order? Starts arts Thu., Feb. 14.

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A GOOD OOD DAY TO DIE HARD. Kick-ass ck-ass cop John McLane e (Bruce Willis) travels vels to Russia to sort outt hiss son, a CIA agent, and nd hopefully hope efully stop nukes kes from going g off.

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Not all is fair in love: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva

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very pretty tonight?” says Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a very old man, to his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), a very old woman, after the two return home from a concert. “What’s come over you?” Anne replies, as plainly as Georges’ declaration.

The answer, of course, is love, and Georges has been afflicted for a long, long time. In Amour, the gifted German director Michael Haneke explores this eternal-cum-mortal relationship with ease: His film is a patient slice of life, and another work in an extraordinary canon of cinema.

Amour opens with Anne dead in her bed, gently laid to rest among strewn flower petals, her body discovered by firemen who break in after receiving a call of concern. Then, we’re at the concert given by one of Anne’s piano students, and the spirited couple chats with friends in the lobby afterward. They return home to

find that someone has broken into their Paris apartment. “Imagine if we’re in bed and someone breaks in,” Anne says. Of course, we don’t have to imagine: We’ve just witnessed that very thing.

This is as close as Haneke comes to irony. The rest of Amour is simple, and terribly sad: The next morning, at

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It takes a humane and courageous artist to make a film like Amour, and it’s even more startling in light of Haneke’s earlier work: brutal films like Funny Games and The Piano Teacher, and recondite ones like Caché. It’s a meticulous drama, and filled with suspense: You know what happens in the end, but you don’t know what happens next. Only one thing belies its verité: the vigorous performances of its octogenarian actors, two icons of the French cinema, so clearly in control of every gesture and word.

When Anne goes into her deepest decline, Georges tries to prevent their daughter from seeing her. “None of that deserves to be shown,” he says, protecting Anne’s dignity. And yet, Haneke shows us, albeit in short doses, often cutting away before it becomes unbearable to watch. He counts on us to understand, and he asks us to join hearts and participate. Anyone who turns him down might as well be dead.

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“A CAPTIVATING STORY OF THE POWER OF LOVE AND SECOND CHANCES.” - Whitney English, SHEKNOWS.COM

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NEW ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH. In this animated comedy, astronauts on the planet Baab have daring adventures, including a mission to a dangerous place known as Earth.

Cal Brunker directs. Starts Fri., Feb. 15.

IDENTITY THIEF. There’s hope in the poster, with its side-by-side images of two good comic actors: a freaked-out-looking Jason Bateman and an impish Melissa McCarthy.

This is the kind of Mutt-and-Jeff pairing that draws unsuspecting viewers into the megaplex, seeking a few moments of carefree laughter, only to once again have their desires cruelly squashed.

Because Seth Gordon’s film is an unfunny mess. They should teach it in film school on how to not make a comedy.

It starts with an idiotic premise: After having his identity stolen, Sandy (Bateman) goes to Florida to confront the woman, also named Sandy (McCarthy), who’s been buying boats on his credit card, and ferry her back to Colorado to face justice. Because cops can’t, or won’t — or, mostly, because that would ruin the gimmick.

Road-trip antics ensue. Toss in two gangsters and a bounty hunter also tracking the free-spending lady, and the comic set-up is stretched thin enough to break. Which it does, and which is why Thief wraps up with an entirely new plot, in which the two Sandys are BFFs against the world.

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Escape From Planet Earth blocks of comedy. But other than establishing that “Sandy” is a suitable name for both men and women, Gordon mostly abandons exploring the concept. For your money, I recommend that you (1) don’t give your personal information to strangers over the phone, and (2) save $10 by not seeing this movie. (Al Hoff) OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS. This program of five short films includes works about: living with cancer (“Mondays at Racine”); collecting redeemable cans and bottles (“Redemption”); an elderly community in Florida (“King’s Point”); a homeless teen who wants to be an artist (“Inocente”); and a group of African kids who receive life-saving heart surgery (“Open Heart”). Fri., Feb. 15-Sun., Feb. 17. Melwood (AH)

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SAFE HAVEN. North Carolina beach house. A woman with a mysterious past. A hot young widower. Dancing in the rain. If you guessed, “a new film adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel,” you’re a winner. Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough star; Lasse Halsström directs. Starts Thu., Feb. 14.

REPERTORY MOULIN ROUGE. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman star in this razzamatazz 2001 musical, set in the fabled Parisian nightclub and scored with modern pop songs. Baz Luhrmann directs. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13. AMC Loews. $5

Identity Thief This is a sinking ship called Ghost of Midnight Run, riddled with holes from 100 terrible chase comedies that finally crashes against the rocks of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Stuff.

The jokes run the gamut from fat-peopledoing-stuff-is-funny to fat-people-gettinghurt-is-even-funnier. There are some bizarre moments when McCarthy is physically abused so intensely that the audience stopped laughing, and uncomfortable silence reigned.

This film treats McCarthy like some kind of squeezy toy that can be pummeled by various men wielding various heavy objects, and then just snap back into place giggling. If there’s a quiet moment, somebody yells “Fuck!” or McCarthy sings that “Milkshake” song again.

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PURPLE RAIN. If you’ve never seen this deliriously demented autobiographical vanity production about the Rise of Prince on the big screen, consider making a date. All his purple majesty’s highlights — riding his motorcycle, pitching a hissy fit, bleating out the title song and getting upstaged by Morris Day — deserve to be writ large. Albert Magnoli directs this 1984 cheese-o-classic. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13.

Hollywood BLACK ORPHEUS. Marcel Camus’ exuberant, colorful 1959 musical resets the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro during carnival. Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello star as the ill-fated lovers, and Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim provide the lively samba score.

In Portuguese, with subtitles. 8 p.m. Wed., Feb. 13.

Melwood. $2. (AH)

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THE LIGHT THIEF. Shot in the gorgeous but impoverished former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Aktan Abdykalykov’s dramedy follows a few eventful days in the life of “Mr. Light,” the village’s enterprising and well-liked electrician. But to an interloping and ambitious politician, light, however necessary, is no

The Maltese Falcon public right, and the path to modernity imposes a harsh sentence on Mr. Light. A bittersweet fable on keeping humanity a-flicker in the face of power. In Kyrgyz, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Fri., Feb. 15. Frick Fine Arts, Oakland. Free. www.ucis.pitt.edu. (AH) THE LOST WORLD. Harry O. Hoyt directs this 1925 silent-screen adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s fantasy tale, in which men discover a land in which prehistoric creatures still live. The Andrew Alden Ensemble, a contemporary chamber music group, will perform a live score. 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 15 (doors at 7 p.m.). Hollywood. $15 ($12 seniors and students)

by Feb. 14; $7 at the door for just movie. Also, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Thu., Feb. 21. Hollywood (AH) BEASTMASTER. In the distant past, it seemed as if the only film that played on premium cable was this 1982 fantasy actioner from Don Coscarelli. Revisit the old gang (stars Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts) at a special “Meat and a Movie” screening. Catering provided by Cain’s Saloon. 7 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.)

Sun., Feb. 17. Tickets ($15) at www.showclix.com by Feb. 14; $7 at the door for just movie. Hollywood

THE LAST UNICORN. In this 1982 animated family film from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., a unicorn and magician pair up to save other unicorns from an evil king. Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges and Mia Farrow supply voices. 2 p.m. Sat., Feb. 16. Hollywood

MEMORIES. Three science-fiction tales make up this film, co-directed by Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura and Katsuhiro Ôtomo. The 1995 film continues a month-long anime series presented by Pittsburgh Anime Film Series. In Japanese, with subtitles. 7 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 18. Frick Fine Arts Building, Oakland. Free. www.ucis.pitt.edu

SUDDEN DEATH. In which terrorists try to kidnap the vice president and take over the Igloo during a Penguins game during the Stanley Cup, and JeanClaude Van Damme won’t let them! Peter Hyams directs this 1995 actioner, which screens as part of the So Bad It’s Good series, complete with live improv comedy and heckling from Hustlebot. 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 16. Hollywood. $10

SAVING LINCOLN. It’s the third film in a year about our 16th president. This retelling of history is based on the account of Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln’s law partner and confidante, who becomes the elected president’s bodyguard. Some of the film’s “sets” are green-screen backdrops using actual Civil War-era photographs, in a new process called CineCollage.

Salvador Litvak directs. 7 p.m. Mon., Feb. 18. Oaks

DR. STRANGELOVE. The Cold War was never funnier than in Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black 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 all-purpose general indictment of military madness. The film continues a Saturdaynight series of Oscar classics. Midnight, Sat., Feb. 16.

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PUNK JEWS. Jesse Zook Mann’s recent hour-long documentary profiles performers and activists who are exploring Jewish identity in unique and provocative ways. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producers Evan Kleinman and Saul Sudin, and a reception. 8 p.m. Tue., Feb. 19. Melwood. For tickets: 412-992-5203 or www.JFilmPgh.org

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THE MALTESE FALCON. John Huston’s directorial debut is a 1941 adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s popular detective novel. Huston wrote the screenplay, and adhered to the novel’s hard-boiled (and frequently funny) dialogue and convoluted plot of endless double-crosses. Private detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) juggles a collection of nogoodniks — the beautiful but prevaricating Brigid O’Shaughnessey (Mary Astor), the corpulent Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) and his thuggish henchman (Elisha Cook Jr.), and the jumpy Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) — as they all search San Francisco for a jewel-encrusted statuette, the titular bird. 11 a.m. Sun., Feb. 17. Breakfast and a movie screening: Tickets ($15) at www.showclix.com

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Hollywood. $10 in advance at www. showclix.com, or $15 at door POETRY OF RESILIENCE. Katja Esson’s 2011 film profiles seven poets who survived various atrocities, and the impact it had on their work. The film concludes Duquesne’s Human Rights Film Series.

7 p.m. Thu., Feb. 21. 105 College Hall. Duquesne University, Uptown. Free. www.duq.edu ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www.warhol.org

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“IT’S A SHOW THAT IS REALLY THINKING ABOUT PITTSBURGH.”

ENGENDERED {BY FRED SHAW}

Until the time in New Orleans I lost a pool game to a drag queen named Goddess who wore high heels and a little black dress, I hadn’t thought much about gender identity. In Stacey Waite’s first fulllength poetry collection, Butch Geography (Tupelo Press), however, the matter is central. Waite spends 88 pages of well-crafted, perspective-changing poetry searching for answers through the speakers’ meditations on identity and androgyny.

For decades, poetry has sheltered and strengthened individual expressions that didn’t fit mainstream mindsets, notably the black arts, gay and feminist movements. Waite’s work here seems a natural progression, giving voice to a population often caricatured by talk shows and reality TV. While the subject matter in Butch Geography isn’t run-of-themill, Waite — a former student and instructor at Pitt who now teaches at the University of Nebraska — uses a steady and contemplative voice, even when the speaker doesn’t have all the answers to the questions being asked. And it’s Waite’s use of speaker as changeling, searching for identity, that makes this work so compelling.

Waite identifies as neither male nor female, and the speakers are often mistaken in public for one gender or the other.

Taken for male, the speaker sometimes relishes the recognition as a man, and other times feels unable to fit in. In “On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by the Cashier in the DriveThru Window at a Wendy’s …,” Waite writes, “When a woman does it, I feel more like a man. / Simone at the Wendy’s drive-thru makes me feel more like a man when she says, ‘Out of ten, sir?’ / and leans her breasts atop the little shelf, smiles / at the folding windows. ‘You have gorgeous hands,’ / I say. I can’t even see her hands …”

Waite’s willingness to challenge and inhabit different roles keeps the reader off-balance. It’s much how the speaker feels at times, remarking in “Choke,” “I, too, am a kind of mother. // I keep giving birth to identity. / And each time it holds me / by the throat until I say words.” While these themes of “sexual plasticity” can be a bit overwhelming at times, this is no manifesto. Instead, these poems leave this reader, a service-industry vet, to consider how it felt when I’ve misaddressed others before.

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STACEY WAITE reads at 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22. James Laughlin Music Hall, Chatham University campus, Shadyside.

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That is, it has crossed the threshold into the dance world’s version of the big time. In the span of several years, the Pittsburgh native and his New York-based dance company Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion have gone from self-presenting in small venues to catching the eye of major dance presenters in the U.S. and abroad. The company’s résumé now includes the Pittsburgh Dance Council, whose lineup of world-class, often international talent includes the local premiere of Abraham’s latest creation, Pavement, Feb. 16 at the Byham Theater.

Abraham, 35, grew up in Lincoln-Larimer and graduated from the Pittsburgh

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joined David Dorfman Dance, with whom he continued to dance until last year.

Meanwhile, Abraham ran the increasingly in-demand company he founded in 2006

and managed a skyrocketing career as an independent choreographer that has him booked through 2015.

With his riveting blend of classical modern-dance styles, hip hop and ballet, Abraham has the choreographic chops and passion to move audiences with works that have emotional staying power. But it’s difficult to say when his career tipped.

Perhaps it was with the overwhelming positive reaction to his first large work, 2010’s Bessie Award-winning The Radio Show, or the Princess Grace Award for Choreography he won that same year.

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awarded some $ 280,000 in direct support (including two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; salary) as the 2012-14 New York Live Arts Residnet Commissioned artist. Then there was the recent commission by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater that produced Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critically acclaimed 2012 short work â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another Night.â&#x20AC;?

And his company has performed on stages as lofty as the Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow Dance Festival and New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fall for Dance Festival, and at venues in Germany, Jordan and Japan.

Abraham himself sees the tipping point as Pavement. Perhaps ironically, the show that bids to be his highest-proďŹ le work yet harks back to his hometown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a show that is really thinking about Pittsburgh,â&#x20AC;? said Abraham recently via telephone from the Alabama Dance Festival, where the company was performing the work.

Abraham is an unofďŹ cial ambassador for Pittsburgh. His large works The Radio Show and 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Live! The Realest MC were each born out of Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal experiences growing up in the city. (Both also world-premiered at Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, where The Radio Show was partly developed during an artist residency.)

Along with personal experience, Abraham took further inspiration for the hourlong Pavement from essays in W.E.B. DuBoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Souls of Black Folk and from John Singletonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1991 ďŹ lm Boyz n the Hood.

Abraham re-imagines the ďŹ lm as a dance work set in Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic Homewood and Hill District neighborhoods.

Set to a mostly operatic soundtrack, the multimedia work seeks to capture the grit and social consciousness of Singletonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie while advancing Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own thoughts and feelings on violence and genocide within the black community.

On his website, Abraham writes that Boyz n the Hood â&#x20AC;&#x153;depicted an idealize[d] â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gangsta Bohemeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; [about] the state of the Black American male at the end of the 20th century. Twenty years later â&#x20AC;Ś I am focused on investigating the state of Black America and a history therein.â&#x20AC;?

Abraham says that when he was a kid, he would accompany his father, who coached youth basketball, to the Hill District, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d witness the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dilapidated buildings and ponder its history.

Abraham says Pavement is more reďŹ ned than his earlier works, with a keener sense of visual imagery and use of metaphor when it comes to incorporating that history. Video clips of Pavement also suggest that the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style has changed for the better. Now, the other seven dancers in the eight-member cast dance like Abraham, rather than Abraham dominating audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attention.

Pittsburgh Dance Council Executive Director Paul Organisak has followed Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career for years. He says Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasing proďŹ le as an artist and Pavementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pittsburgh theme signaled it was time to make Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion a part of the Dance Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season.

Abraham is not quite an A-list artist on par with a Bill T. Jones or Paul Taylor. But with the sort of gigs and recognition heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well on his way. He is currently at work on several new projects, including choreographing a pas de deux with New York City Ballet star Wendy Whelan.

Of Pavement, which the company will tour in Europe next year, Abraham says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think it is the best thing I have ever made and might ever make.â&#x20AC;?

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Dancer Eva Trapp performs in Moulin Rouge, at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. {PHOTO COURTESY OF LOIS GREENFIELD}

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Celebrated on stage and screen and in literature, the most famous cabaret in the world is now a story ballet.

Canadian choreographer Jorden Morris — whose Peter Pan the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre staged in 2011 — returns with his critically acclaimed 2009 boxoffice hit Moulin Rouge.

The only ballet licensed by the Moulin Rouge to carry its name, Morris’ original story asks: If two good, innocent people were dropped into the cauldron of decadence, art and bohemian life that was Paris in the late 19th century, would they survive?

Nathalie is a kind-hearted laundress plucked from obscurity by Moulin Rouge manager Charles Zidler to be his next great star. Matthew is a wideeyed young painter new to Paris. The two meet, fall in love and fall into a classic love triangle after Zidler develops an unwanted obsession with Nathalie. Throw in historical figures such as painter Henri de ToulouseLautrec and Rouge stars La Goulue and Mome Fromage, add cancan dancing and music from the era’s composers, and you have Morris’ sparkling two-hour ballet.

(Perhaps ironically, Moulin Rouge is family-friendly: To satisfy the people who commissioned the ballet and the Moulin Rouge itself, Morris says, the setting’s decadence is implied rather than explicit.)

PBT principal dancer Christine Schwaner, one of three ballerinas who will perform the role of Nathalie (on Feb. 14 and 16), describes the character as sweet but conflicted.

“She wants the opportunity of a better life the Moulin Rouge has to offer, but also a personal life outside it,” says Schwaner.

At a recent in-studio rehearsal of the ballet’s first act that included Schwaner as Nathalie, the ballet came across as full of life, awash in a Disney-esque charm, with Morris’ choreography both utilitarian and action-filled.

Morris describes the ballet as having cinematic qualities: Act I depicts the hustleand-bustle mixing of Paris’ social classes outside the Moulin Rouge, while Act II offers up the seedy, costume-rich spectacle within the theater. But he emphasizes that his ballet is unrelated to Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film Moulin Rouge! — no Nicole Kidman character, no Madonna songs.

It does, however, have a plenty of romance and intrigue, including a moving pas de deux between Nathalie and Matthew in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and a tearjerker ending.

Sums up Schwaner: “Love in Paris — what else can you ask for?”

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Homewood and the Hill District.

Rivaling neighborhoods, parallel histories.

Through dance, the story of a culture conflicted.

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I DON’T KNOW what the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret is paying Robin Abramson and Gregory Johnstone for appearing in You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!, but this dynamic duo is worth twice the price.

Sure, Van Kaplan’s facile and fleet direction helps, as does Tony Ferrieri’s lovely set. But this longish one-act, in which married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn re-enact the high(and low-) lights of their relationship, gets all of its sparkle and cheer from the performers.

Through the script, written by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn — about, one presumes, their own marriage — will never set the world ablaze, they certainly can string together enough witty sentences to keep things hopping for 95 intermissionless minutes. But there’s something going on you might not notice beneath the dazzle of Abramson and Johnstone.

Annabelle and Jerry (the characters, not the writers) are perfectly insufferable. She is a relentless control freak who never forgets and only barely manages to trick her husband into thinking she forgives. Not that he cares, since, as he points out, the organizing principal of his relationship is a desire to get laid. There’s

even a hint that he’s starting to look elsewhere, but it’s not clear she’s bothered because she wrote him off years ago.

Annabelle and Jeff (the playwrights, not the characters) have created a world right out of In Style magazine, with all the requisite talismans of middlebrow culture: iPads, Napa Valley, Kate Spade

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baby bags, the Coasts, shiraz (and its correct pronunciation), espresso, Facebook … if only the character of Jeff were allergic to gluten rather than lactose-intolerant, it would be a home run.

But, again, you might not notice any of that because Abramson and Johnstone (with Kaplan’s guidance) are so damned adorable with their 1,000-watt smiles and nuclear-powered appeal that you can’t not love them.

I have no doubt that if these two ever play the Macbeths, you’ll leave the theater thinking: “Why’s everyone so down on them … they seem like such a funsy couple.”

Annabelle and Jeff (the characters and the writers) had better be grateful.

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CULTURE WAR {BY MICHELLE PILECKI}

DAVID M. KATZIN’S American Tragedy, in its premiere by the Duquesne University Red Masquers, is full of surprises. The ambitious production, directed by Duquesne’s theater-arts head John E. Lane Jr., is uneven but never unwieldy. Most remarkable, though, is the multi-layered text by Duquesne alum Katzin, using the story, if not all the facts, of a mid-19th century disaster to “look for America.”

AMERICAN TRAGEDY continues through Sat., Feb. 16. The Duquesne University Red Masquers in the Peter Mills Auditorium, Rockwell Hall, Duquesne University. $5-10. 412-396-6215 or redmasquers.blogspot.com

For real: On May 10, 1849, a production of Macbeth at New York’s Astor Opera House was ended by a deadly riot, actuated by a rivalry between two actors. Yes, people took their theater more seriously back then. Tragedy’s premise is that the next day, the Macbeth company, at the behest of American tragedian Edwin Forrest, recreates the tale of the feud between him

and its leading man, the English William Macready, to settle the question of which is the greater actor. This means that most of the Red Masquers play multiple roles with a chance to shine. It also means that Katzin gets to explore American identity, especially American exceptionalism, in a setting a century before American hegemony.

Thus Forrest is the pivotal character, “heroic” in acting style only, but not short on hubris. Michael McBurney manages to portray him as bombastic and just this side of buffoonish, with a disdain of intellectualism that belies the historical Forrest, but suggests the modern GOP. Opposite him as the older but not stodgy Macready, TJ Firneno dominates the show, delivering a dignified portrait of restraint as the blameless victim of Forrest’s (again, ahistorical) paranoia. Also key is Marsha Mayhak as Forrest’s much put-upon English-born wife who suffers his anti-English rants, Anglophobia being the hot trend in the U.S. at the time. And a hand to Sarah Weisel as a most versatile seamstress-actor-director and the similarly multi-tasking Jeff Johnston and Christina Loscalzo.

A solid piece of entertainment in the telling of the Astor Place Riot, American Tragedy also delves into the very idea of America.

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ists to visually capture their interpretation of the familiar nostalgia for lost love. The exhibition The One That Got Away features the work of Justin Cooper, Meghan Olson, Jaci Rice, Tom Sarver and Kara Skylling. Tonight is the opening reception. JI 6 p.m.

Exhibit continues through Feb. 22. 2100 Mary St., South Side. 412-381-7767

{STAGE} Future Tenant Art Space’s bi-annual Trespass Residency Series returns tonight. The series offers three separate artists a chance to reside in Future Tenant’s Downtown venue for one week each to build a show. The spring series includes work by Andrew Huntley, with Theatre Sans Serif; and performances by Meagan Reagle and 5th Wall

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Theatre. But it all begins this weekend with three shows

by John Zobele’s “RRRECYCLE BIN,” a digital-art collection of repurposed items. Jeff Ihaza 6 p.m. Also 6 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 15, and 6 p.m. Sat., Feb. 16. Trespass continues through March 2. 819 Penn Ave, Downtown. Free. www.futuretenant.org

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Remarkable for a small theater troupe, Laura Smiley’s Unseam’d Shakespeare Company is 20 years old. And for a company dedicated to dissecting the Bard, how else to celebrate than by staging The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)? The parodic, three-actor romp through “all 37 plays in 97 minutes,” written by Reduced Shakespeare Company co-founders Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, itself dates to 1987. Unseam’d essays the feat with actors Nicholas J. Browne, Connor McCanlus and Andy Kirtland. Elizabeth Ruelas directs at Downtown’s Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre space. BO 8 and 10:30 p.m.

Show continues through March 2. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $23-25. 888-7184253 or www.unseamd.com

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It’s bubblegum with a message. The campy musical comedy Zanna, Don’t! imagines a Midwestern high school in a world where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality taboo. The Girls’ Intramural Mechanical Bull-Riding Team sets fashion; chess champs top the pecking order. But what if members of the opposite sex want to kiss in the school musical? Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris’ 2003 show about Heartsville High was an off-Broadway hit. Pitt Rep’s local premiere starts its run — of course — tonight, on Valentine’s Day. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Show continues through March 3. Henry Heymann Theater, Stephen Foster Memorial, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. $12-25. 412624-7529 or www.play.pitt.edu

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The cocktail lounge/hand-built arcade PLAY Parlour hosts a free tournament of arcade games tonight. Timeless games like dueling darts, skeeball, mini-golf and whack-a-mole will be featured in the competition. PLAY Parlour currently houses machines hand-built by sculptor Adam Shreckhise in his Lawrenceville studio.

For those who aren’t the competitive type, the space will remain open to play games not featured in the tournament. The event is open to anyone 18 and older.

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What’s behind Pittsburgh’s newly burgeoning comedy scene? Abby Fudor largely credits the Pittsburgh Improv Jam, at the Cabaret at Theatre Square. At least, that three-year-old Thursday showcase is where Fudor connected with fellow writers and performers Randy Kirk, Kristy Nolen, Jethro Nolen and Michael Rubino, now partners in The Arcade Theater. The Downtown venue opens this weekend with four shows that reflect organizers’ desire to produce and present “all things comedy.” In a Liberty Avenue storefront (formerly La Prima Espresso) leased from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the four shows will be headlined by an eclectic array of talents, from “Pittsburgh Dad” Curt Wootton and magiciancomic Lee Terbosic to standup comics (and father and son) Gene Collier and Sean Collier. Each show features Arcade’s brand-new in-house team of improv veterans, Player One, plying both long- and short-form improv. Other programs variously feature Frankly Scarlett, the city’s only allfemale sketch troupe; musician Addi Twigg; juggler and yo-yo artist Mark Hayward; and Joe Wos, the Toonseum’s cartooning storyteller. Pittsburgh already has the Improv Jam, the Pittsburgh Improv, Steel City Improv Theater (now in Shadyside) and more. Now it has Arcade Theater, too, planning shows every Friday and Saturday night. “We’re all just funny people who enjoy comedy and laughing,” says Fudor. Bill O’Driscoll 8 and 10 p.m. Fri., Feb. 15, and 8 and 10 p.m. Fri., Feb. 16. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-25. 412-339-0608 or www.arcadecomedytheater.com

{OUTDOORS} Explore the city’s newest regional park and contribute to ornithological knowledge today courtesy of Venture Outdoors. The group’s Winter Bird Walk is a three-mile jaunt through Emerald View Park, which skirts Mount Washington. The wooded hillsides are good habitat for amateur and beginning bird enthusiasts to explore. This naturalist-led walk is part of the Great American Backyard Bird Count, an annual fourday initiative sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society. BO 8:3010:30 a.m. Mount Washington. $6-12. 412-255-0564 or www.ventureoutdoors.org

{SCREEN} With the county set on gas drilling at the airport,

ity. Holter, of Irish and West Indian heritage, founded the Punany Poets in 1995 and has been featured on HBO’s Real Sex. Holter brings her honest form of humor to town as part of her nationwide Valentine’s tour. JI 8 p.m. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. 412489-5840 or www.facebook/ GhettoGirlBlue

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more than yarn at today’s Craft Supply Swap. This I Made It! Market event at Assemble art space is designed to help crafters clean out their storage bins of remnants and other unused stuff — which just might be the stuff another crafter’s been jonesing for. Pre-sharing on Facebook is encouraged, and

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to actual rock music. But whatever you might say about American Idiot, you can’t say that: Green Day’s hit pop-punk album only later became a critical and commercial 2009 Broadway hit.

The show follows suburban teens through a post-9/11 landscape of drugs and the Iraq war, with songs like “Know Your Enemy” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” A touring production hosted

by PNC Broadway Across America hits Heinz Hall for eight performances starting tonight. And you can see it for less than most arena shows cost. BO 7:30 p.m.

Show continues through Feb. 24. $20-62. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-4566666 or www.pgharts.org

{WORDS} New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Haigh, known for her novels Faith and The Condition, speaks this evening at Carnegie Library’s Main Branch, in Oakland. Haigh’s latest book, News From Heaven (Harper), is a collection of short

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here’s a timely screening of Triple Divide. The new featurelength documentary follows an 18-month investigation by nonprofit journalism outfit PublicHerald.org into Pennsylvania’s experience with fracking for shale gas.

Filmmakers Joshua B. Pribanic and Melissa Troutman found consequences including

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JI 6 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-622-8866.

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AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Play

by David Katzin revolving around the 1849 Astor Place riots in New York City that left at least 25 dead & the Astor Place Theater in ruins. Presented by the Red Masquers. Thu-Sat. Thru Feb. 16. Peter Mills Theater (Duquesne, Rockwell Hall ), Uptown. 412-396-6000.

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.

BROADWAY PHANTASY. Lee Alverson’s tribute to The Phantom of the Opera. Sat., Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Kean Theatre, Gibsonia. 724-444-5326.

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THE TURPENTINERS WITH KING FEZ AND VERTIGO-GO SUN, FEB 17 • 8PM JAM/ROCK

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). Presented by the Unseam’d Shakespeare Company. Thu-Sun. Thru March 2. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown.

THE DEATH OF DR. PEPPER. Interactive murder mystery dinner theater. Every other Sat. Thru Feb. 16. Gaetano’s Restaurant, Dormont. 412-343-6640.

JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. Henrik Ibsen’s tale of a man’s undoing in the wake of deception & fraud. Wed-Sun. Thru Feb. 24.

6022 Broad St., East Liberty.

1-888-718-4253.

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL. Story of a girl who turns pink after eating too many pink cupcakes.

Presented by Stage 62. Fri-Sun. Thru Feb. 17. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

412-429-6262.

A TUNA CHRISTMAS. A sequel to the comedy Greater Tuna. Fri-Sun. Thru March 24.

New Castle Playhouse, New Castle.

724-654-3437.

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THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. Presented by The Gay-Straight Alliance at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. Feb. 14-15, 7:30 p.m. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

724-836-9905.

ZANNA, DON’T! The small town of Heartsville is turned on its head when high school students put on a musical w/ a scandalous heterosexual kiss. Tue-Sun. Thru March 3.

Henry Heymann Theatre, Oakland. 412-624-7529.

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MIDSEASON REPLACEMENT: AN IMPROVISED SITCOM. 7 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-322-1000.

SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers.

Sat, 6 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-322-1000.

SUDDEN DEATH W/ LIVE HECKLING BY HUSTLEBOT. 9 p.m. Hollywood Theater, Dormont. 412-344-1245.

GREG BEHRENDT. Feb. 14-17 The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

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THU 14 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

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

412-657-4245.

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

412-488-2995.

RICKEY SMILEY, SPECIAL K, JOE TORRY. Valentine’s Day Comedy Jam. 6:30 p.m. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Oakland.

301-346-4945.

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

TUE 19 OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-612-4030.

WED 20 JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Wed Younger’s, North Side.

412-452-3267.

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

EXHIBITS ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Juxtaposing prime examples of Warhol’s paintings, sculpture, & films with those by other artists who reinterpret, respond, or react to his work.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

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, & the historic performance of Jesse Owens. Curated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Downtown.

412-258-2700.

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NEW THIS WEEK EASTSIDE GALLERY. Hats Off. Work by Sally Allen, Pat Kelly, Bernie Pintar, Sickles, more. Opening reception: Feb. 14, 5:30-8 p.m. East Liberty.

412-465-0140.

FUTURE TENANT. RRRECYCLE BIN. Work by John Zobele, Kim Asendorf, Graham Kartna, & Willis C. Nearhood IV. Opening Feb. 14, 6 p.m. Part of the Trespass Spring Residency Series.

Downtown. 412-325-7037.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Wild at Heart. Work from the personal collection of Elena Kornetchuk. Opening Feb. 14, 6-9 p.m. Sewickley.

412-741-3036.

THE TOONSEUM. Drawn to Peace: The Art of Atila Ozer.

Opening reception: Feb. 7, 7-9:30 p.m. feat. speaker, Deniz Cil. Downtown. 412-232-0199.

ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. Cartoon Nihilism. New Works

by Craig Freeman. Downtown.

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.

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

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

Frazier. 724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Anne Ducanis, Mary Anne Pischke, Joseph Saber, Cathy Wencel.

Watercolors, acrylics, more.

Verona. 412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Urbane. Paintings by Kuzana Ogg, BoxHeart’s 2013 Artist of the Year. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

THE BREW HOUSE. The One That Got Away. Work by Meghan Olson & Tom Sarver.

South Side. 412-999-3462.

BUTLER ART CENTER. Associated Artists of Butler County Annual Invitational Art Show. Over 50 pieces of art by 25 artists. Butler.

724-283-6922.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, SQUIRREL HILL. Afternoons in Bamako: Mali 2010.

Photography by Joseph Edgar.

Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

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.

CONCEPT ART GALLERY. The Eye’s Journey. New work by Douglas Cooper. Regent Square.

412-242-9200.

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

Work by Brett Mason. Highland Park. 412-362-3676.

FE GALLERY. A Permanent Gesture. Drawing installation by Stephen Tuomala. Lawrenceville.

412-254-4038.

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.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. The Classic Collection: European & American Classical & Academic Styles. Early 19th & 20th century paintings. Oakland.

412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Architectural Perspectives: Places & Planes.

Work by Guglielmo Botter & Ben Saks. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Genexodus.

Handmade paper cuttings by Theodore Bolha. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. Fractures & Israel.

Photography by Torey Bocast.

Downtown. 412-422-0114.

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

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

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Spaz & Spazimon. Work by Spaz & Melissa Ciccocioppo. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

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

412-281-1922.

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

724-316-9326.

LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Landscape Expressions.

Downtown. 412-392-8008.

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industrial heritage of Southwestern NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. more than 600 birds from over CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. 200 species. With classes, lectures, Inventing the Modern World: demos and more. North Side.

Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 412-323-7235.

1851–1939. Furniture, metalwork, NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 glass, ceramics, textiles, & jewelry rooms helping to tell the story produced by Herman Miller, of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

Tiffany, more. 20/20: Celebrating University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

Two Decades of the Heinz 412-624-6000.

Architectural Center. Feat. timeline OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. highlighting important exhibitions This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion & events, a display of 20 objects site features log house, blacksmith from the collection selected by shop & gardens. South Park. current or past curatorial staff, 412-835-1554. more. Oakland. 412-622-3131.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF MUSEUM. Trolley rides and NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering exhibits. Includes displays, walking Women: Artisan Cooperatives tours, gift shop, picnic area and that Transform Communities. Folk Trolley Theatre. Washington. art objects illustrating the power 724-228-9256. of women working together to PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & provide for their families, educate BOTANICAL GARDEN. Orchid & their children, promote equality, Tropical Bonsai Show. 14 indoor & give back to their rooms & 3 outdoor gardens communities. BugWorks. feature exotic plants and Feat. beautiful floral displays from photography of insects, around the world. amazing specimens, Oakland. 412-622-6914. . & live bugs! Life: A www per PINBALL a p ty ci Journey Through Time pgh m PERFECTION. Pinball o .c & Population Impact museum & players club. thru Jan., Winging It: West View. 412-931-4425.

Experimental Gallery About PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG Birds thru March, Lord of the Crane AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 Flies thru April. Ongoing: Earth animals, including many Revealed, Dinosaurs In Their Time, endangered species. Highland more. Oakland. 412-622-3131.

Park. 412-665-3639.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome A Reverence for Life. Photos (planetarium), Miniature and artifacts of her life & work.

Railroad and Village, USS Requin Springdale. 724-274-5459. submarine, and more. North Side.

RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL 412-237-3400.

HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the CARRIE FURNACE. Built in 1907, Homestead Mill. Steel industry and Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely community artifacts from 1881rare examples of pre World War II 1986. Homestead. 412-464-4020. iron-making technology. Rankin.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY 412-464-4020 x.21.

CENTER. 1968: The Year that COMPASS INN. Demos and tours Rocked America. Nearly a dozen with costumed guides featuring interactive video presentations this restored stagecoach stop. & more than 100 evocative Ligonier. 724-238-4983. artifacts that explore how the year CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. 1968 helped shape our modern University of Pittsburgh Jazz world. From Slavery to Freedom.

Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the from the International Hall of anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446.

Western PA Sports Museum, FALLINGWATER. Tour the Clash of Empires, and exhibits on famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. local history, more. Strip District.

Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501.

412-454-6000.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. stained-glass windows.

Badges & Buttons, Waistcoats & Downtown. 412-471-3436.

Vests. Highlights badges by 20 FORT PITT MUSEUM. makers from the US & the UK. Reconstructed fort houses Downtown. 412-261-7003 x 12. museum of Pittsburgh history SOLDIERS & SAILORS circa French & Indian War and MEMORIAL HALL. Military American Revolution. Downtown. museum dedicated to honoring 412-281-9285. military service members since FRICK ART & HISTORICAL the Civil War through artifacts CENTER. Ongoing: tours of & personal mementos. Oakland.

Clayton, the Frick estate, with 412-621-4253. classes, car & carriage museum.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

Features 5,000 relics of Catholic HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, saints. North Side. 412-323-9504.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN and enjoy hikes and outdoor CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka activities in the surrounding park.

Murals. Mid-20th century murals Allison Park. 412-767-9200. depicting war, social justice and the KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the immigrant experience in America. other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Millvale. 421-681-0905.

Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501.

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HOLIDAY THU 14 “RED IS DEAD” ANTIVALENTINE’S DAY PARTY. Hors d’ouerves, DJ, games, more.

7 p.m. Olive Or Twist, Downtown.

412-255-0525.

VALENTINE’S DINNER DANCE CRUISE. Thu, Sat, 7 p.m. Thru Feb. 16 Gateway Clipper Fleet, Station Square. 412-355-7980.

VALENTINE’S ON ICE. 7 p.m.

Schenley Park Skating Rink, Oakland. 412-422-6523.

FRI 15 EXPIRED VALENTINES. A day of free activities: chocolate making, screen printing, photobooth, fresh fruit edible sculptures for kids, more. 4-6 p.m. Assemble, Garfield.

SAT 16 VALENTINE’S DINNER DANCE CRUISE. and Sat., Feb. 16 Gateway Clipper Fleet, Station Square. 412-355-7980.

DANCE THU 14 TOTALLY HEART-LESQUE. Rock n’ Roll Burlesque show. 10 p.m. Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

THU 14 - SUN 17 MOULIN ROUGE: THE BALLET. Presented by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Feb. 14-17 Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

SAT 16 AMETHYST BELLYDANCE GROUP. 6 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-431-4668.

INDIA & BELLYDANCE. Feat.

Anjali Soi, Ruby Jain, Jemeena Bellydance & Janim. 8 p.m.

ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-897-0809.

WED 20 WORLD CLASS DANCE. African & Afro-Haitian dance performance by the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. 8 p.m. Succop Theater, Butler Community College, Butler.

724-284-8505.

FUNDRAISERS THU 14 VALENTINE’S PARTY & HUMANE SOCIETY BENEFIT. Live music, scavenger hunt, silent auction, more. 6-9 p.m. Bottlebrush Gallery & Shop, Harmony. 724-452-0539.

SAT 16 CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION. Dinner, dancing, Chinese auction, more. Benefits the Maridon Museum. 5:30 p.m. Butler Country Club, Butler. 724-282-0123.

FOOD PANTRY BRUNCH CHALLENGE. Local chefs prepare brunch from items found in a food pantry. Also feat. live music by The Pittsburgh Banjo Club, benefits Northside Common Ministries.

11 a.m.-1 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 412-323-1163.

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FOR THE LOVE OF PITTSBURGH. Live music, local food, more.

A portion of all proceeds will benefit Ravenstahl for Mayor.

6-9 p.m. Bakery Square, Unknown.

412-720-4205.

HARMONIEFEST. Dinner, building preservation awards, Civil War presentation feat. authors of The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History. Benefits Historic Harmony & Harmony Museum. 6 p.m. Harmony Museum, Harmony. 724-452-7341.

HELLO BULLY’S 5TH ANNUAL LOVERS NOT FIGHTERS GALA. Benefits Pit Bull Rescue. www. hellobully.org 7 p.m. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Oakland.

412-621-4253.

LOSAR 2013. Dinner w/ Tibetan & Indian food, live music, more.

Benefits Three Rivers Dharma Center. 6 p.m. Days Inn, Banksville, Banksville. 412-687-5680.

SAT 16 - SUN 17 ELLA NOIR. Performance presented by Industrial Gardens, benefiting Not Another Hostel.

Feb. 16-17, 7:30 p.m. Belvedere’s, Lawrenceville. 412-508-3393.

SUN 17 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.

WED 20 PSYCHO BEACH PARTY SCREENING. Also feat. hula hoop & limbo contests, vintage horror movie trailers, silent auction, live music, more. Benefits Shepherd Wellness Community. 7 p.m.

Hollywood Theater, Dormont.

412-563-0368.

POLITICS THU 14 GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Meetings of group devoted to LGBT issues in electoral politics.

Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m.

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

LITERARY THU 14 THE 3 POEMS BY . . . Poetry discussion group feat. work

by Marianne Moore. 7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students.

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

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

412-687-4323.

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Barbara Sorensen. North Side.

412-322-1773.

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.

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

Oakland. 412-268-4754.

MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Darkness & Light.

Drawings by Richard Claraval.

Garfield. 412-362-0274.

MONROEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Watercolors by Phiris.

Work by Phiris Katherine Sickels.

Monroeville. 412-372-0500.

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. Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. The Gut Map. Work by Pat Kain. Bloomfield.

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,

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

SUGAR DADDY & THE BIG BONED GIRLS - LONELY HEART COTILLION. A Night of Poetry & Song w/ Special Guest Brian Siewiorek. 6:30 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950.

FRI 15 MYSTERY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris. 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

OTHER WORLDS ANNUAL LITERARY FESTIVAL. Panels, readings, more. Visit www. chatham.edu/mfa for information.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

SAT 16 EDGAR ALLAN POE: LOVE & DEATH. Literary historian & playwright Rob Velella portrays Poe in this 1-man performance.

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 02.13/02.20.2013

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.

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. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Consciousness. Flameworked glass by Eunsuh Choi.

Friendship. 412-365-2145.

ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY MEDIA ARTS GALLERY. Neographics: The Magic of Print. Feat. work by the Graphic Arts Association.

Downtown. 412-397-3813.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Projects

by Diane Meyer & Ross

5 p.m. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield.

412-924-0634.

LITANALYSIS: READING FICTION W/ FREUD. Discuss contemporary fiction w/ insight from professional psychoanalysts from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. Third Sat of every month, 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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

VERSIFY. Poetry reading feat.

Laura Davis, Sarah Leavens, Stefanie Wielkopolan, & Robert Walicki. 7:30 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

SUN 17 DAVID ADÈS. Sunday Poetry & Reading Series. 2 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

PSO BOOK CLUB. Parallels & Paradoxes, Explorations in Music & Society by Daniel Barenboim &

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.

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.

THE TOONSEUM. The Art of Akira. Production art from Katsuhiro Otomo’s film.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

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

412-621-0663.

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.

Edward W. Said. 1:30 p.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

MON 18 OUT OF THE GUTTER: GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION GROUP. Third Mon of every month, 6:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

TUE 19 JAPANESE CONVERSATION CLUB. First and Third Tue of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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

WED 20 CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

GENRE BOOK CLUB. Going Bovine by Libba Bray. (Young Adult) 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

THE PUNANY EXPERIENCE. Erotic poetry & dance by The Punany Poets. 8 p.m. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576.

THE SMITHFIELD CRITICS. Discussing Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. 12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141.

KIDSTUFF THU 14 MARTHA SPEAKS. When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly.

Adapted from the PBS TV series, presented by Theatreworks USA. 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. Marshall Middle School, Wexford. 412-456-6666.

OTAKU-LEBO CELEBRATES THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE. For middle & high school students who are fans of anime, manga & J-pop culture. 3:15 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

THU 14 - WED 20 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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

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

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

412-322-5058.

presented by Theatreworks USA. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Mt. Lebanon High School, Mt. Lebanon.

412-456-6666.

PLAYTESTING. Test out a new interactive learning experience that is part simulator, part game, & part theater that takes participants to outer space, under the sea, more. Ages 6+. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

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

SUN 17 CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION. Learn how to paint Chinese symbols, live performance by Steel Dragon Lion Dance Team, parade through the museum, more. 12-4 p.m.

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

JACKIE ROBINSON: CROSS THE LINE. Re-enactments of Jackie Robinson’s life by Gregory Gibson Kenney. 1:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

MARTHA SPEAKS. When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly.

Adapted from the PBS TV series, presented by Theatreworks USA. 2 p.m. Seneca Valley Senior High School, Harmony. 412-456-6666.

MON 18 BROWN BAG LUNCH BUNCH. A lunchtime story for kids ages 3-6. Mon, 12:30 p.m.

Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley.

412-741-3838.

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

Third Mon of every month, 3 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Downtown.

412-281-7141.

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HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL. When the family dog eats a bowl FROSTBURN. Outdoor festival of alphabet soup, the letters go feat. art, music, parties, more. up to her brain instead of down to her belly. Adapted from the PBS TV Camp Kevin, near Brookville, PA. Feb. 14-18 series, presented by Theatreworks USA. 7 p.m. Aliquippa.

412-456-6666.

STEP INTO SNOWSHOES. LITTLE SPROUTS SINSnowshoeing/skiing GLE SERVINGS CAMP: every Sat. w/ at least OUR TROPICAL 4” of snow on the .

ADVENTURE. One-day w w w ground. Call Friday paper camp highlighting pghcitym to confirm. Sat. Thru .co tropical environments, March 30 Jennings healthy snacks, more. Ages Environmental Center, 2-3. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Phipps Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

Conservatory & Botanical Garden, WAGMAN WINTERFEST. Winter Oakland. 412-622-6914. star party sponsored by the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh. 4 p.m. Wagman EAST LIBERTY COMMUNITY Observatory, Frazier. 724-224-2510.

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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.

MARTHA SPEAKS. When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly.

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TUE 19 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.

WED 20 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

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OTHER STUFF THU 14 AARP TAX HELP. Free tax preparation and assistance to low & middle income taxpayers.

Thu. Thru April 11 Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin.

412-885-2255.

BREATHE EASY: HEALTHY PLACES & INDOOR AIR QUALITY. Speakers: Steve Ashkin, Vivian Loftness & Erica Cochran. Inspire Speakers Series. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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

412-622-3116.

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

DARWIN DAY 2013: SEX & THE SCALA NATURAE. Feat. guest speaker Dr. Marlene Zuk. Power Center Ballroom. 7:30 p.m.

Duquesne University, Uptown.

412-396-6000.

THE DEN: A SPECIAL PROGRAMMING SERIES FOR NEW ADULTS. Video games, board games, easy drop-in art projects, book discussions, more.

Second and Fourth Thu of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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

MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme Meditation & the Science of Transformation w/ Acharya Kedar. Free public program. Doors open at 7:15, seating ends at 8 p.m. 7:15 p.m.

Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 724-420-5826.

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

412-473-0100.

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

412-518-1515.

RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries.

Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512.

WEST COAST SWING. Swing dance lessons for all levels. Thu, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

THU 14 - SUN 17 ALLEGHENY SPORTS, TRAVEL, & OUTDOOR SHOW. Thru Feb. 17 Monroeville Convention Center, Monroeville. 1-800-600-0307.

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I guess the only thing that outweighed how delicious the cakes were was the sheer aesthetic sensibilities of the cakes themselves — I mean, there was a cake shaped like Fallingwater. Another thing I liked was this sort of tension between wanting to admire the cakes for their architectural wonder, but at the same time to devour said cake. While I waited in line for the cake brought

by Prantl’s, I couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty tarnishing such a labor-intensive creation. I also really liked the hatdecorating part, reminding everyone that this was indeed a birthday celebration for the Heinz Architectural Center.

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FRI 15 A CELEBRATION OF THE HUMANITIES. Program & reception feat. keynote speech

by Michael Witmore & poster presentations by humanities students. 4:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.

412-268-6094.

DRINKING SKEPTICALLY. Informal discussion group for skeptics, critical-thinkers & likeminded individuals. Third Fri of every month, 7 p.m. The Loft, Regent Square. 412-871-5387.

FRI 15 - SUN 17 MONSTER JAM. Monster truck show. Feb. 15-17 Consol Energy Center, Uptown. 1-800-745-3000.

SAT 16 17TH ANNUAL LUNAR GALA. Fashion show feat. students’ work in fashion, dance, & modeling. 7:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.

202-441-8287.

THE 3RD ANNUAL ELEGANT NIGHT IN WHITE. Live entertainment, free food. 9 p.m.

Diverse Banquet Hall, Homewood.

GROWN & CLASSY AFTER DARK VALENTINES CELEBRATION. Hors d’oeuvres, live music, more. 7:30 p.m. JT’s, Monroeville. 412-856-9030.

INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE CLASS. Sat. Thru April 20 Mookshi Wellness Center, Regent Square.

412-407-7829.

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

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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.

swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

VECHERINKA BALKAN DANCE PARTY. Live music, dance lessons, more. Third Sat of every month, 7:30 p.m. Thru June 15 BulgarianMacedonian National Education and Cultural Center, West Homestead. 412-461-6188.

WRECKLESS ARCADE TOURNAMENT. Arcade game tournament. Ages 18+. 2-10 p.m.

PLAY Parlour, Lawrenceville.

412-345-1367.

SAT 16 -SUN 17 38TH PITTSBURGH ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. Feb. 16-17 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park.

412-734-5279.

TRIPLE DIVIDE. Fracking documentary screening & discussion. Feb. 16-17 The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield.

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SUN 17 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland.

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ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS. Second and Third Sun of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

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A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS. AfricanAmerican inspired cuisine, crafters, live entertainment, more.

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

GLOBAL WARMING: CHANGING CO2URSE INFORMATION SESSION. Discussion group forming to learn about climate change & share concerns & ideas w/ others. 2-4 p.m. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

412-377-1349.

PFLAG GREENSBURG. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Third Sun of every month, 2 p.m. Trinity United Church of Christ, Greensburg. 412-518-1515.

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Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside.

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THE ART & SCIENCE OF ICE CREAM MAKING. Learn the basics of ice cream making. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Sewickley Confectionery, Sewickley.

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MEET & EAT W/ EATPGH. Hangout w/ the ladies of eatPGH, enjoy food & drink specials. 8 p.m.

Benjamin’s Western Avenue Burger Bar, North Side. 412-224-2163.

MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.m.

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

MT. LEBANON GENEALOGY SOCIETY. For seniors. 1 p.m.

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. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

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

TUE 19 PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS MEDIA MIXER. Relaxed networking event for photographers, graphic artists, composers, filmmakers & sound artists. RSVP by Feb. 18. 5-7 p.m.

Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. 412-681-5449 x.219.

PUNK JEWS. Film exploring an emerging movement of provocateurs & committed Jews who are asking what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.

Reception and Q&A w/ the producers following the screening.

8 p.m. Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. 412-992-5203.

SAMOVAR: A MONTHLY SALON FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. Show your work, receive peer feedback, & discuss photography trends & issues that will matter most in 2013. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Silver Eye Center for Photography, South Side. 412-431-1810 x 11.

TEHCHING HSIEH. Part of the CMU School of Art lecture series.

5 p.m. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland. 412-279-2970.

WED 20 ARTISTS & DESIGNERS AS PROBLEM-SOLVERS. Speaker: Ann Rosenthal. AiP Gallery Speaker Series. 5 p.m. Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Downtown.

412-263-6600.

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. 412-441-4442 x 3925.

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

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SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, informal. At the Starbucks inside Target. Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Target, East Liberty.

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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.

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Carnegie Library, Homewood, Homewood. 412-689-9366.

GEMINI THEATER COMPANY. Auditions for Sword in the Stone.

Feb. 25-26. Adult males/females & students ages 10-17. Prepare 1-2 min. song to sing a cappella. Call for appointment. Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-6464.

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

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MCKEESPORT LITTLE THEATER. Auditions for Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Feb. 17-18.

Women age 18-45/Men age 25-40.

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Between the 10 different workshops offered at the McKeesport. Accepting resumes & — from Sound inquiries for anyone interested in directing a main stage or fundraiser Healing to Power Flow to Chakra Yoga — yogis of all show. Deadline is Feb. 28. Send tastes and experience levels can learn something new. resumes to timmylovesursala@yahoo.

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Intensive Summer Program. Feb. 17.

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I wanted to bring all the yoga disciplines together to help Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Strip District. 412-454-9107. inspire people to do more yoga, try other types of yoga PREMIER CABARET COMPANY. and to get healthier. People can go to a workshop, mill Auditions for dancers who are around, talk to studio owners, get an idea of what’s out trained in ballet, jazz, musical there. The idea was to have an event where people would theatre, &/or Latin dance. Feb. 24. be inspired to take care of themselves, and by taking care of Men/women ages 18-30. Call themselves, they would be inspired to take care of others. or email jpperformingarts@aol. com for more info/audition time.

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STAGE & STEEL PRODUCTIONS. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun., Feb. 17. Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Liberty Auditions for Robin Hood. Feb. 24-28.

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PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 02.13/02.20.2013

{BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m a 37-year-old single father with a 14-year-old son. I’ve raised him on my own, with help from friends and family. Our relationship isn’t perfect, but no major issues. Over the past year, however, I have become increasingly convinced that he is gay. I’ve found gay porn on his laptop (yes, I snoop; I’m his dad), he’s shown ZERO interest in girls, and he has always been a tad effeminate, though that’s probably an unfair stereotype. I have no problem with gay people and if my son is gay, while it’d require a bit of mental adjustment, I’d love and support him.

My son has a friend, let’s call him “Gomer.” Sometimes they’re here when I’m not, and often they’re alone together with the door closed. If Gomer were a girl, these things wouldn’t be allowed.

I’ve had the (straight) sex talk with my son, and he knows that I don’t want him to be sexually active yet. I have no specific knowledge that anything has happened between them.

But if my son were gay, I would have stricter rules regarding male friends.

BUT HOW DO I BROACH THE SUBJECT? He’s a sensitive kid, and I worry he’d lie or resent me. And if he’s not gay, I worry I could seriously damage our relationship by suggesting he is.

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parents frown on straight kids having friends of the opposite sex in their bedrooms: An unplanned pregnancy can derail two young lives. While a couple of gay boys can get into trouble, and while sexually transmitted infections are a concern, Gomer isn’t going to knock up your son. So if your gut tells you that your son would be traumatized if you forced him to come out, you might wanna let him think he’s putting one over on his clueless dad.

John Schwartz shared your letter with Joseph Schwartz, the gay son whose comingout story John tells in Oddly Normal. Joseph thinks it’s time for a gay sex talk.

“Gay kids need sex education more than straight ones,” Joseph says. Even the best sex-ed classes focus on male-female. “There’s less reliable information about gay sex than there is about straight sex,” Joseph says, so gay kids turn to the Internet — or to porn — for information. And, as Joseph points out, “half of it could be physically dangerous, and the rest is poorly explained.”

“If he’s lucky,” says Schwartz, “DUD lives near an LGBT center with a youth program, which will help his son find a community and also get a healthy dose of sex-ed and risk reduction. If not, he could be in for an uncomfortable conversation or two. But the underlying message you’ll be sending is that you care, and that you’re the dad.”

Oddly Normal is a terrific book, and any parent with a queer kid should read it — and since any kid could be queer, every parent should read it. You can follow John Schwartz on Twitter @jswatz, and there’s a good interview with Joseph Schwartz at the Atlantic: tinyurl.com/oddlynormal.

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WHENEVER POSSIBLE, QUEER KIDS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO REVEAL THEIR SEXUALITY ON THEIR OWN TIMETABLE.

“In an ideal world, Dad Under Duress would take a roundabout way to encourage his son to come out to him,” says John Schwartz, a father of three, and the author of Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality. “Instead of a direct confrontation — are you gay or what? — DUD could make gay issues a part of the day’s conversation. Discuss issues like same-sex marriage and stories in the newspaper that bring up LGBT themes. In that middle ground between pushing and ignoring, his son might decide that his dad is safe to come out to.”

Whenever possible, queer kids should be allowed to reveal their sexuality on their own timetable, Schwartz emphasizes, but there are times when a parent has to force the issue.

For instance, if a not-yet-out gay kid is in crisis, or if a parent stumbles over evidence that a not-yet-out gay kid is doing something risky, a parent should go the “are you gay or what?” route. You already know your son is gay — “Browsers don’t lie,” says Schwartz — and the fact that he might be breaking house rules may rise to the level of “are you gay or what?”

“If he’d tell a hetero boy to keep his door open, a gay boy should get the same message,” says Schwartz. “He’s not being insensitive. He’s being the dad. He should keep in mind, though, that if his son is already having sex, telling him he can’t do it at home is likely to send them off to places — to school, to a car — where getting caught could have bigger consequences than getting grounded.”

Let’s recall why — generally speaking —

What are the effects of perpetuating the myth that gay men should all be tanned and chiseled Adonises? Because that is all one sees.

NOT ALL ADONISES

In the last 24 hours of media consumption, I’ve seen my fair share of tanned and chiseled Adonises. I’ve also seen pictures or video of Bayard Rustin, Barney Frank, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Daniel Hernandez Jr., Ian McKellen, Evan Wolfson, Jinkx Monsoon, Jared Polis, Bruce Vilanch, Alan Turing, George Kalogridis and more. All great guys who have made or are making a difference, but not one of whom ever aspired to be an underwear model.

Images of perfect male bodies can fuel body-image issues. Gay men in particular are at higher risk of anorexia, bulimia and “bigorexia,” a.k.a. muscle dysmorphia, a.k.a. “gay dude who lives at the gym.” So images of tanned and chiseled Adonises can do harm.

But if all one sees are Adonises, then that’s all one is looking for.

Yes, the media focuses too much on the young and the hot. But if you’re not seeing gay men of all ages, shapes and colors, it’s because you’re choosing not to see them.

Open your eyes.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “All these years I’ve been searching for an impossible love,” said French writer Marguerite Duras late in her life. The novels and films she created reflect that feeling. Her fictional characters are often engaged in obsessive quests for an ideal romance that would allow them to express their passion perfectly and fulfill their longing completely. In the meantime, their actual relationships in the real world suffer, even as their starry-eyed aspirations remain forever frustrated. I invite you, Aquarius, to celebrate this Valentine season by taking a vow of renunciation. Summon the courage to foreswear Duras’s doomed approach to love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To avoid getting hacked, computer-tech experts advise you to choose strong, hard-to-guess passwords for your online accounts. Among the worst choices to protect your security are “123456,” “iloveyou,” “qwerty” and, of course, “password.” Judging by the current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m guessing that you should have a similar approach to your whole life in the coming days. It’s important that you be picky about who you allow into your heart, mind and soul.

Make sure that only the most trustworthy and sensitive people can gain access. Your metaphorical password might be something like this: m*y#s@t&e?r%y.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Afrikaner author Laurens van der Post told a story about a conversation between psychologist Carl Jung and Ochwiay Biano, a Pueblo Indian chief. Jung asked Biano to offer his views about white people. “White people must be crazy because they think with their heads,” said the chief, “and it is well known that only crazy people do that.” Jung asked him what the alternative was. Biano said that his people think with their hearts. That’s your assignment for the week ahead, Aries: to think with your heart — especially when it comes to love. For extra credit, you should feel with your head — especially when it comes to love. Happy Valentine Daze, Aries!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you ever sent a torrent of smart and elegant love messages to a person you wanted to get closer to? Now would be an excellent time to try a stunt like that. Have you ever scoured the depths of your own psyche in search of any unconscious attitudes or bad habits that might be obstructing your ability to enjoy the kind of intimacy you long for? I highly recommend such a project right now.

Have you ever embarked on a crusade to make yourself even more interesting and exciting than you already are? Do it now. Raise your irresistibility! Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! After careful meditation about what messages might purify and supercharge your love life, I decided to offer suggestions about what not to do. To that end, I’ll quote some lines from Kim Addonizio’s poem “Forms of Love.” Please don’t speak any of them out loud, or even get yourself into a position where it makes sense to say them. 1. “I love how emotionally unavailable you are.” 2. “I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, even though we’ve never met.” 3. “I love your pain, it’s so competitive.” 4. “I love you as long as you love me back.” 5. “I love you when you’re not getting drunk and stupid.” 6. “I love you but I’m married.” 7. “I love it when you tie

me up with ropes using the knots you learned in Boy Scouts, and when you do the stoned Dennis Hopper rap from Apocalypse Now!”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This Valentine season, I suggest you consider trying an experiment like this: Go to the soulful ally you want to be closer to and take off at least some of your masks. Drop your pretenses, too.

Shed your emotional armor and do without your psychological crutches. Take a chance on getting as psychologically and spiritually naked as you have ever dared. Are you brave enough to reveal the core truths about yourself that lie beneath the convenient truths and the expired truths and the pretend truths?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Sex is a substitute for God,” says writer Cathryn Michon. “When we desire another human being sexually, we are really only trying to fill our longing for ecstasy and union with the infinite.” I agree with her, and I think you might, too, after this week. Erotic encounters will have an even better chance than usual of connecting you to the Sublime Cosmic YumYum. If you can’t find a worthy collaborator to help you accomplish this miraculous feat, just fantasize about one. You need and deserve spiritual rapture. Happy Valentine Daze, Leo!

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For the French Scorpio poet Paul Valéry, swimming had an erotic quality. He described it as fornication avec l’onde, which can be translated as “fornicating with the waves.” Your assignment this Valentine season, Scorpio, is to identify at least three activities that are like sex but not exactly sex — and then do them with glee and abandon. The purpose of this exercise is to educate and cultivate your libido; to encourage your kundalini to branch out as it intensifies and expands your lust for life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This Valentine season, meditate on the relentlessness of your yearning for love. Recognize the fact that your eternal longing will never leave you in peace. Accept that it will forever delight you, torment you, inspire you and bewilder you — whether you are alone or in the throes of a complicated relationship. Understand that your desire for love will just keep coming and coming and coming, keeping you slightly off-balance and pushing

you to constantly revise your ideas about who you are. Now read this declaration from the poet Rilke and claim it as your own: “My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to physicists Yong Mao and Thomas Fink, you can tie a necktie in 85 different kinds of knots, but only 13 of those actually look good.

I encourage you to apply that way of thinking to pretty much everything you do in the coming week. Total success will elude you if you settle on functional solutions that aren’t aesthetically pleasing. You should make sure that beauty and usefulness are thoroughly interwoven. This is especially true in matters regarding your love life and close relationships. Togetherness needs a strong dose of lyrical pragmatism. Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn!

Confess, brag and expostulate about what inspires you to love. Got to freewillastrology.com and click on “Email Rob.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Lately you’ve been doing exemplary work on your relationship with yourself, Virgo. You have half-convinced your inner critic to shut the frack up unless it has a truly important piece of wisdom to impart. Meanwhile, you’ve managed to provide a small but inspired dose of healing for the wounded part of your psyche, and you have gently exposed a self-deception that had been wreaking quiet havoc. Congratulations! I’ve got a hunch that all these fine efforts will render you extra sexy and charismatic in the coming week.

But it will probably be a subtle kind of sexiness and charisma that only the most emotionally intelligent people will recognize. So don’t expect to attract the attention of superficial jerks who happen to have beautiful exteriors.

Happy Valentine Daze!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming days could be an animalistic time for you, and I mean that in the best sense. I suspect you will generate lots of favorable responses from the universe if you honor the part of you that can best be described as a beautiful beast.

Learn fun new truths about your instinctual nature. Explore the mysteries of your primal urges. See what you can decipher about your body’s secret language. May I also suggest that you be alert for and receptive to the beautiful beast in other people? Happy Valentine Daze, Libra!

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STUDIES

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18-39 years old In general good health Have regular periods Not pregnant or breastfeeding • Are willing to abstain from sexual activity, OR are sexually active and willing to use condoms, OR you are sterilized OR with one partner who has a vasectomy • Are willing to come to MageeWomens Hospital for up to 54 visits over 8 months • • • •

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Are you interested in a long-term method of birth control?

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

Participants will be compensated up to $2,930 for their time and travel For more information please contact:

The Center for Family Planning at

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.

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WLTJ FM – Pittsburgh, Q92.9 is looking for our next program director. Family owned station in a Top 25 market. Applicants must have minimum three years management/programming experience, be able to work well with others, motivate an air staff, schedule music, write liners and promos, understand use of social media and the station web site.

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Caring Help for Opiate Addiction

Immediate openings. Now accepting Highmark and self-paying clients.

412.246.8965, ext. 9

JADE Wellness Center

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Family Owned and Operated Treating: Alcohol, Opiates, Heroin and More

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ACROSS 1. Draper player 5. Junk accumulations, perhaps?: Abbr.

9. Shows up 14. Leaking substance?

15. Hanged leader of 1948 16. + end of a battery 17. Go all in with a hand?

18. 101-yearold cookie 19. Decide to keep getting Details, say 20. 2003 book subtitled “The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” 23. Sneaky fella 24. FNMTV’s predecessor 25. Olympian with a spear 27. Gold of HBO 28. Hair 31. Bait, as a message board 34. Third Reich group 37. “¿___ te llamas?”

38. Important artery 39. Accepted 40. 1978 stoner film with “Low Rider” on its soundtrack 42. Job-type’s question 43. Twice, a New York Times puzzle 44. Digital food stamp letters 45. Mortal ___ 47. Whacker 48. Former Beyoncè

alter ego Sasha 52. 2002 act that refers to “weapons of mass destruction” 57. Noguchi of fuck yournoguchicoffee table.tumblr.com 58. More, minimally 59. Thing with tracks for runners 60. Folk singer Griffith 61. One may be checkered 62. Greek salad veggie 63. Caffeine tablet brand 64. “I Got You Babe” reed instrument 65. Saw what that baby could do, perhaps

DOWN 1. Inhales as a drug, as gasoline 2. Helvetica cousin 3. Like some breakups 4. He was Will Hunting, Private Ryan, and Mr. Ripley 5. Dupe 6. Matador competitor 7. Spun 8. Inappropriate Neil Diamond single “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman ___” 9. “Are we there yettttttt?” sortie 10. Negro Leagues great Buck 11. What many Motown songs sound best in

12. Garden near the tree of life 13. Use a needle, in a way 21. Links warning 22. Lobbies, often 26. Record store clerk, stereotypically 27. “Apocalypto” person 28. Paris’s city 29. Unit in a Brownian model 30. Prideful sort?

31. Provocatively named clothier 32. Easy stride 33. Belle & Sebastian’s “The State I ___” 35. Vessel for a famous couples cruise 36. Certain university department

38. Ale color 41. Means of assessing freakiness, say 42. Xbox 360 alternative 46. In recent days 47. Transmission repair chain 49. Destroy, as a contract 50. Redding covered his “A Change is Gonna Come” 51. Finished a run 52. Senior golfer Aoki 53. Ayn of didactic monologues from wooden characters 54. Trade show, for short 55. Skewer 56. Thereabouts 57. B&B cousin {LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS}

NUMBERS GAME

Latest Corbett budget has some good news … especially if you’re a CEO {BY CHRIS POTTER} SINCE GOV. TOM CORBETT released his proposed 2013-2014 budget earlier this month, it’s been touted as being a kinder, gentler budget than his first two efforts. It includes modest-but-real increases in social-service spending like education and mental health. Even budgetary whipping boys, like state-supported universities, are spared further cuts, as they are flat-funded.

But there’s a catch. Corbett’s increases depend on the legislature

passing controversial reforms like raffling off the state store system, or forcing pension concessions from the teachers who educate students.

And Corbett’s previous austerity measures are part of the reason social services are in such dire straits to begin with. Call it the Schlock Doctrine: Enact a budget that will create a future crisis … and then use the resulting crisis to justify future budgets. And it’s not the only way in which Corbett promises less than it seems.

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

Total amount Pennsylvania gradeschool students will benefit from an increase in Basic Education spending:

Approximate amount Corbett expects to give up, each year, from business tax breaks by 2025:

Total amount Pennsylvania businesses will benefit next year from a phase-out in the Capital Stock and Franchise Tax:

Total amount Corbett expects to earn from selling off state store system:

$250 million

$1 billion

$1 billion

$90 million

Amount budget would increase funding for public transit:

$40 million

Amount budget will spend on the state universities, and college grants:

$1.6 billion

Amount Corbett’s budget would increase for highways and bridges — assuming the legislature lifts the cap on a gasoline tax:

Amount it will spend on the state prisons:

$1.9 billion

$410 million

Amount critics say Pennsylvania would receive from the federal government over the next decade if Corbett opted into the Medicaid expansion:

Amount Corbett has said the state would have to pay by 2021 if it opted into President Obama’s plan to expand Medicaid funding for the poor:

$43.3 billion

$4 billion

Sources: Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Corbett Administration budget, Pennsylvania Health Access Network, news accounts

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