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“There is a real effort to keep this behind closed doors, and I think this shows the nefarious intent here.” — Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner on a move to amend the state constitution as it pertains to the tax-exempt status of nonprofits

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“I THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO HAVE GREATER INPUT IN THIS DEBATE”

INCOMING Editor, Deja vu is what I felt when I read your Feb. 13 article on the alumni efforts to maintain the historic Schenley High School as a school. Twelve years ago, City Paper ran a great story on our similar efforts to maintain the historic Buhl Planetarium equipment and artifacts as teaching tools in the historic building, now used by the Children’s Museum.

Although the Zeiss II Planetarium Projector is now on display at The Carnegie Science Center, it no longer does what is does best: a second-tonone, realistic depiction of the planets and stars in the night sky. The 10-inch Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope and most other artifacts remain in storage, benefiting no one.

Regrettably, I fear the final result from the efforts of the Schenley alumni will mirror the result of our efforts to preserve the functionality of the historic Buhl Planetarium apparatus.

— Glenn A. Walsh, project director, Friends of the Zeiss Mount Lebanon

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OUT OF REACH Will amendment to state constitution help keep nonprofits’ money out of taxpayers’ hands? {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

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HAD TURNER has no illusions

about what will happen to the Warren County YMCA if the nonprofit organization is told to start paying more than $170,000 in property taxes.

“It will destroy us,” says Turner, the group’s executive director. “We’d be able to struggle along for awhile, but we don’t have the ability to make up $ 171,000,

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and this town will lose its Y.” But under current rules set forth by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, local governments have the right to challenge tax-exempt status. Some Harrisburg legislators say they should be the ones that decide the criteria for what is or isn’t a purely public charity, and have introduced a measure to start the process of

amending the state constitution to that effect. Senate Bill 4 passed a Senate committee last week and is headed to the full Senate for a vote. The bill passed by a 9-2 vote with Matt Smith (D-Mount Lebanon) and John Blake (D-Scranton) voting with the Republican majority, and Rob Teplitz (D-Harrisburg) and John Wozniak (D-Johnstown) voting against.

It came after calls by Wagner and other public officials to start challenging the tax-exempt status of nonprofits. UPMC is the county’s largest property owner: Wagner’s office estimates that its taxexempt holdings alone mean the county is missing out on nearly $7.4 million annually. The total loss of revenue from all nonprofits is $ 95 million, according to the controller.

“I think the concept that all nonprofits should be tax-exempt is outdated, and residents are bearing the burden of having to support more of the tax base then they should,” Wagner says.

County Executive Rich Fitzgerald agrees — a rare break from his frequent squabbles with Wagner.

“My biggest concern with Senate Bill 4 is that I think the public needs to have greater input in this debate,” he says, “because they’re the ones facing the higher tax burden because of all of this tax-exempt property.”

“We’re not questioning the taxexempt status of every institution out there,” says Amy Sturges, director of governmental affairs for the Pennsylvania Municipal League. The league, which EVEN IF THE bill passes the full Senate, represents local governments, opposes it has a long road ahead. After failing measures that would make it harder to challenge nonprofits. “These taxto pass the legislature last year, exempt entities use municipal it must be approved by both services but don’t contribute chambers this year, and for those services, and that again in the next legisputs a lot of stress on taxlative session. Voters payers who are forced to would then decide its pay more.” fate in a referendum.

State Sen. Jay Costa Still, the mea(D-Forest Hills) says he sure is already genagrees that some nonerating controversy, profits should have their largely because there Allegheny County Controller tax-exempt holdings rewere no public hearChelsa Wagner viewed. But he also plans to ings or input prior to the vote in favor of SB 4. committee vote.

“There are a lot of misconcep“There is a real effort to keep this behind closed doors, and I think this tions out there about what this does. It’s shows the nefarious intent here,” says just the first step in a process,” says Costa. “What a constitutional amendment Wagner.

To Wagner, the move is just another would do is say that it’s the legislature, way the state has hamstrung cash- not the courts, who will define what a strapped local governments. Recent state purely public charity is.”

Who should make that decision has budget cuts, she says, have left local governments picking up the bill for govern- been debated for nearly three decades.

In 1985, the state Supreme Court esment services — and now state officials “prohibit them from doing the work they tablished a test called the “HUP” test, need to balance the budget,” she says. which set five conditions for a nonprofit “The state must get out of the way and organization to enjoy tax-exempt status. Under the test, the nonprofit must: allow them to govern.”

In December, Allegheny County advance a charitable purpose; donate or Council held a public hearing on whether “render gratuitously” a substantial porUPMC should lose its tax-exempt status. tion of its services; benefit a substantial

“Our goal … is simple: To give the legislature the sole authority to establish criteria for a tax exemption, thereby providing a clear avenue to protecting our charities which serve the interests of our communities,” said the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Mike Brubaker (R-Lancaster), in a statement, in which he specifically mentioned the Warren County YMCA. Other lawmakers, however, say the goal goes beyond that. They say the legislature is being lobbied to protect large property-owning multi-millionand billion-dollar nonprofits like UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, which have for years taken advantage of protections from Harrisburg to remove billions of dollars worth of properties from county tax rolls. The intent with the amendment, opponents say, is to limit the abilities of local governments to challenge that tax-exempt status.

“I think this comes down to a very basic issue of fairness,” says Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner. “Is this really something that rises to the level of needing a constitutional amendment?”

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and indefinite class of persons who are manity was able to hold on to its status.

“We give back $300,000 in goods and legitimate subjects of charity; relieve the government of some of its burden; services to the community every year, and operate entirely free from private so we were surprised to be challenged,” says Turner, of the county’s YMCA. The profit motive.

In 1997, the legislature passed a mea- agency failed to convince the county’s sure, Act 55, which made it much harder Board of Assessments to retain the taxfor municipalities to challenge a non- exempt designation, and is now preparprofit’s tax-exempt status. Opponents ing to fight in court. “While we’re confident we will win in the courts, say the legislature softened the we have to spend tens of guidelines to make it easier thousands of dollars chalfor nonprofits to meet the lenging this and the criteria for tax-exempt county will spend tens status. One example of thousands of dollars allows the nonprofit defending it. That’s to have tax-exempt a lot of money that status for property we could all spend on tax if the Department things that are whole of Revenue rules it is lot more worthwhile a “Purely Public Charthan this.” Even if the ity for state sales and State Sen. Jay Costa county does prevail, he use tax.” says, “eventually this YMCA But last year, the pendulum will close and that’s a loss for the swung the other way, with the Supreme Court again ruling that the HUP entire community.” test, not the guidelines set forth in Act 55, was in effect. Suddenly, municipal of- SB 4’S champions say they are trying to ficials saw a chance to extract more rev- avoid such divisive battles — or at least enue from nonprofit property owners. set clear ground rules for them.

Some local governments are already Costa says the legislator’s Act 55 was doing so. Warren County, for example, “too generous” to nonprofits: “I think a challenged the tax-exempt status of the lot of these nonprofits have lost sight of YMCA and five other entities, including what a purely public charity is, and the a cemetery, a regional hospital, a nurs- public has lost confidence in the proing home and the county’s Habitat for cess.” But he also says the court standard Humanity chapter. Only Habitat for Hu- may be too strict, and that the ideal stan-

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dard would lie “somewhere between the HUP test and Act 55.” In any case, he says, “I think to some degree this is about who has the right to define” what the standards should be. “I believe it should be left to the legislature.”

The battle has become “a fight over separation of powers,” says state Sen. Jim Ferlo (D-Lawrenceville), who opposes the Senate measure. But “frankly, I view the court as more progressive on this issue.”

Even if SB 4 passes, the legal landscape won’t change for years: Even without roadblocks, the earliest an amendment could be added to the constitution would be 2016. In the meantime Fitzgerald, the county executive, says the county is proceeding with plans to review the status of tax-exempt parcels.

He says the county is finishing up mailers to be sent to the owners of about 5,000 tax-exempt parcels in the county, requiring them to justify the exemption on each parcel. The county’s office of property assessment will then review the responses and decided whether the land should be tax-exempt or not. Nonprofits can appeal that decision.

“We are moving forward with this, there’s nothing in that Senate bill that changes that,” says Fitzgerald. “The county has in the past done a poor job of record-keeping and review of these properties, and there are properties in this county that are tax-exempt and shouldn’t be.”

But while the legal landscape may not change any time soon, Wagner says SB 4 can change the political landscape in a hurry. If it seems the legislation is being pushed through, she says, local governments may wonder if it’s even worth beginning a challenge, only to see it struck down under a staterequired standard.

“These larger nonprofits have much deeper pockets and have legal teams that dwarf those of local governments and municipalities,” Wagner says. “It’s an attempt to scare them away from even challenging it in the first place.”

And while the decision to amend the constitution is ultimately in the hands of voters, Wagner points out that big nonprofits have plenty of money for advertising.

“They’re going to target groups who vote regularly, like seniors on a fixed income,” she says. “I think we’re really going to be barraged with scare tactics from groups that have deep pockets and the ability to control the message.

“So the safeguard of knowing that it would go to a vote isn’t reassuring to me.”

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Activists say their work might not be lucrative, but it’s fulfilling {BY LAUREN DALEY} SOMEONE HAS been shouting “get a job!” at

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The thing is, he does have a job. Eirene is a lifelong activist, plying his trade at protests, speeches and actions, and running a house for the homeless supported from his own pocket and community donations. But, like many protest pros around Pittsburgh will tell you, his calling comes with a price, financial and otherwise.

“It’s like the Catholics: We take a vow of poverty,” says Eirene, 60. “It sounds noble but in reality, I’m broke.”

Supporting oneself by supporting a cause is rarely a lucrative career move. One year, for example, Eirene said he was “lucky” if he pulled in $ 8,000. Helen Gerhardt, an organizer for Pittsburghers for Public Transit, gave up her apartment to live at Occupy Pittsburgh’s Downtown encampment last year, and has lived in her car between organizing jobs. Joyce Wagner, former board chair of the national Iraq Veterans Against the War, has found herself facing foreclosure.

Others, like peace and social-justice activist Celeste Taylor, do their own fundraising and compete for paying jobs in the organizing field, while working other gigs: Taylor’s work history includes stints as a floral designer and administrator of the Friends Meeting House.

And while there is little financial security for those whose work-day tools include a protest sign, few can imagine pursuing any other way of life.

“I always thought it was honorable work and you should be good at it,” says Taylor, who most recently served as the regional coordinator for the Pennsylvania Voter ID Coalition. “It’s not a place to plunk yourself down and make money.”

Jodi Hirsh, sole founder of JustAction LLC — an Edgewood-based consulting agency whose work includes advocacy and grassroots campaigns — agrees. “I’d be miserable doing anything else,” she says.

Hirsh has faced financial uncertainty, the anxiety of not knowing when her next paycheck would arrive. “As an independent contractor, you never know what’s coming,” she says. “I spent all of November and December nervously biting my fingernails.”

Contracts eventually came, enough to stay afloat with the help of her partner’s

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Mel Packer with Marcellus Protest

full-time job and health benefits, which also help cope with the responsibility of raising two children under the age of 4.

Having young kids can complicate advocacy work in other ways, since meetings and actions often take place on evenings and weekends. “People will say something is kid-friendly, but there’s nothing for kids to do,” says Wagner, who has a 3-year-old son. “You often find meetings start at times when children need to sleep or eat.”

When Wagner was single, “I could scrape by with less,” says the North Side resident. “Now I have a lot more responsibility to feed, clothe and shelter another person.”

Wagner has taken some time off from activism, which allows her to work as an ironworker apprentice, and to spend time with her son. As an activist, burn-out is an occupational hazard, she says: “You’re ineffective unless you’re taking care of yourself and your basic needs are met.”

Taylor agrees that there are times activists get overwhelmed, and that balancing family considerations can be difficult.

“Sometimes I wonder if I should have made different choices so I could have done different things with my children.”

“A lot of activists’ families probably feel rejected and not given the same kind of weight or importance that political causes are,” says Gerhardt, of Wilkinsburg. Gerhardt has held a handful of organizing jobs since serving in Iraq with the Army National Guard; her work week sometimes eclipses the 60- or 70-hour marks.

Her current contract with Pittsburghers for Public Transit, paid for by the Amalgamated Transit Union, is only temporary. And she admits, “I often think about getting a stable, professional job and just doing this part time,” adding she plans to re-evaluate within the next year.

Even so, Gerhardt says, activism “is a tight-knit community,” offering work that

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is “incredibly interesting and satisfying.”

Activists believe that kids with activist parents enjoy some benefits, too — like being exposed to different ideas and people.

Mel Packer, a Point Breeze veteran protester who just retired as a physician’s assistant, worked part time to help take care of his family. Taylor, a mother of four, recalls taking her twins to a rally in Topeka, Kan., on the anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education.

Activism has also brought families together. Packer, for example, met his wife, Emily De Ferrari, through political organizing.

Such personal rewards, activists say, transcend having elaborate lifestyles. Eirene, for one, says he deliberately lives simply. For 35 years, he supported himself through his light-hauling business, which he started in 1977 and stopped two years ago when he got on disability for injuries sustained after getting struck by a vehicle.

Eirene protested on behalf of various causes in college in the 1970s: the United Farm Workers, rebuilding Bach Mai Hospital in Vietnam, and racial equality.

And while the cost of living was cheaper with a $75 apartment rent split three ways, he says, even then “it seems like it was always a struggle” to get by.

In 1977, he started a house to take in homeless people in the community, which he financed with personal funds and contributions for the next 35 years. While limited income was due in part to Eirene’s activism, it was also partly by design.

“I thought that my activism would be more effective and unlimited, if I wasn’t being paid by someone telling me what to do.

Nobody can tell you what to do when you’re hauling garbage.”

Coupled with more than 70 arrests for civil disobedience, and having spent more than two-and-a-half-years in jail all told, Eirene’s finances are complicated, to say the least. But he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“It just didn’t add up, yet everything was fine,” Eirene says. “You have more money in your account if you don’t check it.”

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PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 02.20/02.27.2013

JESSE SEAGER, the owner of Point Brugge Cafe in Highland Park, learned a hard lesson last year when he was ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division to pay $37,719 in back wages to 39 of his employees.

He had been requiring his servers — who can clear $250 a night in tips each — to share a small portion of what they earned, about $10 each a night, with his dishwashers.

Dishwashers “are the lowest paid in the restaurant industry, and they physically work the hardest,” Seager says. “I thought it was just a kind gesture, a fair gesture.”

The federal agency, however, disagreed. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employees who do not provide table service to customers are not allowed to be included in any tippooling arrangements mandated by employers. Servers, in other words, cannot be forced to share their tips with the back of the house.

While Seager paid back the wages he owed and gave his dishwashers a raise to make up for the loss in extra cash, another Pittsburgh restaurant has refused to do the same, according to Joanna Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

The Grandview Saloon, in Mount Washington, was ordered last year to pay $29,615.78 in back wages to 47 employees for also requiring its front-of-the-house staff to share tips with the kitchen staff.

The period of repayment covers those who worked at the restaurant between May 10, 2010 and April 29, 2012.

George Sotereanos, who is listed as the contact for the restaurant on Allegheny County Health Department records, did not return several messages left for comment.

Hawkins says the employees have been advised of their rights.

“Now that the employer has refused to pay, [he] takes the risk that if any or all of the employees exercise their rights and sue for back wages owed plus damages, they will probably prevail in court,” Hawkins says.

But that may be a calculated risk, says Samuel Cordes, a Pittsburgh attorney who specializes in employment law.

“Employers tend to play the waiting game with em-

ployees,” Cordes says. “They assume most won’t stick around for the long haul.”

Cordes says violations of the FLSA, particularly in the restaurant industry, are more common than one might think, but “one of the problems facing the federal agency is that they have no power to do anything. If the employer says ‘no’, like in this case, the [only] option is to go to court and seek a judgment. … Employers will take advantage of that.”

The Grandview Saloon is the only Pittsburgh-area restaurant in recent violation of the FLSA for tip pooling to refuse to reimburse its employees, Hawkins says.

Another restaurant, Tessaro’s in Bloomfield, was also found similarly at fault last year. Its owners are still in the process of repaying the $39,798.59 the federal agency says they owe 27 employees who worked at the restaurant between March 7, 2010 and Feb. 26, 2012.

A manager for Tessaro’s, Moira Herrington, declined to comment on the decision.

The federal agency is looking into a fourth case involving a restaurant in Allegheny County that may have illegally pooled tips, Hawkins says. She declined to release the restaurant’s name or provide any further details, citing the ongoing investigation.

Point Brugge’s Seager says the rules are complicated and he never intended to take money from the servers unjustly. “We are a very transparent company, and that’s why we got into this mess,” he says.

Cordes agrees that the rules are complex, but says that the over-riding principle is that “tips do not belong to the employers. Anything that an employer does that would tend to keep those monies or direct how that money is distributed is generally a violation of FLSA.” Seager says he is still disappointed in the finding. Although he pays his dishwashers above minimum wage, he says there is only so much he can do to supplement the lost money.

“I still think it’s the right thing to do,” he says. “I just can’t control it, recommend it. What [the servers] do with their money is up to them.”

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THERE’S BEEN a lot of good economic news

for Pittsburgh recently. But perhaps the most hopeful sign for our city is that some of our most innovative business ideas are coming from … city government. The Bureau of Police especially is demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit that could be the envy of any CMU start-up.

The irony is that while people complain that “government needs to be run more like a business,” public officials who do so end up facing a grand jury. True business visionaries are often misunderstood. But in the spirit of books like The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, I’d argue we have much to learn from cuttingedge institutions like the Bureau of Police.

Rule No. 1: Fostering an entrepreneurial culture isn’t about what you do, but what you don’t do. How motivated are Pittsburgh police officers? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently reported that some may have been getting an early notice of lucrative “secondary employment” opportunities — chances to make extra money through off-duty security details. There’s even a nickname for these go-getters: the “detail mafia.” Police brass insist they don’t have the faintest clue who belongs to it, and really — why should they? When a staff is properly motivated, being an effective leader often means knowing when to get out of the way.

Rule No. 2: Law enforcement is all about giving people second (and third) chances (assuming those people also work in law-enforcement). Speaking of OT pay, last weekend, WTAE reported that the highest-paid official in city government was Sgt. Eugene Hlavac, who earned $171,000 in 2012. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Hlavac was promoted in 2007 despite a pair of police calls to his home, and was charged with domestic violence in 2010. But not only was he acquitted; now he’s earning more than his bosses. Just goes to show: You can’t keep a good man down.

Rule No. 3: Seek out public-private partnerships. Lots of politicians are talking about the pension crisis. Only police Chief Nate Harper is doing something about it, by forming a company, Diverse Public Safety Consultants LLC, with some

of his underlings. Although it had its own website, Harper has said the business has no customers yet. But isn’t that true of many start-ups? Besides, what could be better for office morale than a boss willing to partner with his own employees?

Rule No. 4: Transparency is vital.

When Harper was emailed questions from two Post-Gazette reporters about police conduct surrounding the New Year’s Eve murder of Ka’Sandra Wade, he could’ve just stonewalled. Instead, he had the full list of questions sent to every reporter in town, ensuring that they all had the story and could follow up on it. The P-G was upset, but then who expects Old Media to grasp open-source reporting anyway?

Rule No. 5: Find a niche for everyone.

Have you ever wished for a supervisory job that comes with an impressive title, but in which you’re never called to account for the mistakes of subordinates?

Such a position actually exists here: director of public safety.

What? You’ve never heard of this $ 106,000-ayear post, or the guy who fills it, Michael Huss?

Despite all the media attention public safety has been getting lately? Yeah, exactly. The mark of a great manager is that you don’t even know he’s there.

Rule No. 6: Develop sophisticated accounting strategies. The latest bureau innovation to attract media attention: a bank account that was apparently opened by the chief’s office at a police credit union. Naturally, there are all kinds of questions about where the money in that account was coming from, and where it was going. But hey — at least someone knew where to find the cash, which arguably makes it safer than the police records room, where a clerk apparently stole $15,000 over the course of a year.

Rule No. 7: Always have an exit strategy.

If you want to leave on your own terms, it takes years of hard work, creating goodwill with voters who might otherwise feel alienated from police. It helps if you can represent a city’s commitment to diversity, even if almost all its police recruits are white.

And then hope that when the shit hits the fan, it happens shortly before an election.

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An estimated 3.2 million kids aged 5 to 12 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beatdowns modeled after the adults’ Ultimate Fighting Championships, according to a January report in ESPN magazine. ESPN profiled the swaggering, Mohawked Derek “Crazy” Rayfield, 11, and the meek, doll-clutching fighting machine Regina “The Black Widow” Awana, 7. Kids under age 12 fight each other without regard to gender, and blows above the collarbone are always prohibited (along with attacks on the groin, kidneys and back). “Crazy” was described delivering merciless forearm chest smashes to a foe before the referee intervened, and the Black Widow won her match in less than a minute via arm-bar submission.

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Aubrey Ireland, 21, a dean’s-list senior at the University of Cincinnati’s prestigious college of music, went to court in December to protect herself from two stalkers — her mother and father, who, she said, had been paranoiacally meddling in her life. David and Julie Ireland put tracking devices on Aubrey’s computer and telephone and showed up unannounced on campus (600 miles from their home), telling officials that Aubrey was promiscuous and mentally imbalanced. A Common Pleas Court judge ordered the parents to keep their distance.

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Monty handled the straightaway flawlessly, but Porter, assigned to steer around a bend, ran off the road.

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The dogs typically are loaned to hospital patients and senior citizens. (2) In December, Cornell University staff installed a patch of grass inside the Olin Library (trucked in from the Adirondack mountains) because, said an employee, the sight of it has a “cognitive relaxing effect.”

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(2) In January, New York City police, arriving to check out an altercation and a death on the tracks at the East 125th Street subway station, found that the two incidents were unrelated.

The man who was killed had actually fallen off of a train near the station while he was squatting between cars, defecating.

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On Nov. 4, “Holly” — Jacob and Bonnie Richter’s 4-year-old cat — apparently frightened by fireworks, fled the couple’s motor home parked at the Daytona International Speedway and did not return. Searches were futile, and the Richters drove home to Palm Beach Gardens, about 190 miles away. Two weeks later, Holly appeared, disheveled with paws rubbed raw, about a mile from the Richters’ home, and the finder returned her to the Richters based on Holly’s microchip ID.

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THIN IS IN {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Dan and Sherri Leiphart finally found their spot. Their Thin Man Sandwich Shop opened Feb. 5 at the corner of 21st and Smallman streets. After two years of looking, they felt that the heart of the Strip District’s gastronomic bazaar was right for combining a fine-dining aesthetic with a lunch-counter atmosphere.

The long, narrow space faces the landmark Produce Terminal. They named it after the classic “Thin Man” film series because they identify with the playful couple portrayed by Dick Powell and Myrna Loy. Working at top local kitchens (he notably with Isabela, she at Le Pommier), they’d noted how “everything’s becoming super small-batch and artisanal,” says Sherri Leiphart.

The hearty, inventive sandwiches range from red-curry hummus to the “Old-School Cold Meatloaf Sandwich” (with Hellmann’s mayo). The “Smash” ($8.99) featured a slab of goat-milkmarinated organic chicken breast, with avocado, alfalfa and lemon-pickled green onion, on a toasted wheat baguette. The rich and warming pumpkin soup ($3.50) incorporates Wigle Whiskey (distilled nearby), crème fraiche and whole-grain croutons.

The Leipharts do all the cooking, and source from local farms when possible.

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VERYONE KNOWS Pittsburgh once

thrived as a city of immigrants. This led to rich ethnic cultures in its neighborhoods and surrounding towns — or actually, successive waves of cultures. Bloomfield was German before it was Italian, and former-synagogues-turned-churches tell of the Jewish heritage in the Hill District.

Today, church kitchens are the last redoubt of those immigrants’ native food traditions, cooking up pierogies, haluski and entire weekend-long Greek-food festivals.

But as the last generation of those immigrants puts down its wooden spoons, it will be interesting to see how local culture adapts. One early sign that the old patterns of cultural succession continue to repeat themselves is the Indian Community Center in Carnegie. It’s located in a former Italian Catholic church that was abandoned after the 2004 flooding from Hurricane Ivan, and it includes an Indian restaurant, Café Delhi.

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posted on the wall. But it does feature more than a bare minimum of decor, windows overlooking an attractive outdoor courtyard, a cooler of Indian sweets and, best of all, an extensive menu that spans the subcontinent. Without doing a precise accounting, it’s hard to say whether northern or southern cuisine dominates, but it covers a lot of tempting territory, from dosa to biryani to palak paneer.

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CP APPROVED Indian street snacks have become more popular in Pittsburgh. Café Delhi offers two chaats and two puris. A puri is served cold and, like a chaat, offers a jumble (in a good way) of flavors and textures.

But where chaats may be best compared to nachos, our bhel puri was more remi-

niscent of Chex mix. The combination of puffed rice grains, dry noodles, potatoes, chilis, and mint and tamarind chutneys had the crunchy texture of a breakfast cereal but the unmistakable aromatic savor of Indian herbs and spices, studded with starchy spuds.

Chili paneer consisted of an appetizersize portion of firm yet creamy slices of Indian yogurt cheese in a fiery sauce set ablaze by both red and green chilis. This dish is not for the spice-intolerant, but those who can take the heat will appreciate the interplay of the mild paneer and assertive chili sauce.

The Golden Arches didn’t invent chicken nuggets; deep-fried chicken morsels are, if not a universal snack, then certainly widespread. India does them as Chicken 65, an addictive (and, we might add, highly beer-friendly) finger food flavored with ginger, cayenne, mustard seed and vinegar.

Cafe Delhi’s version was moist and tender on the inside while the fried coating delivered a pleasing combination of savor, spice and tang, especially when spritzed with

the accompanying lemon wedge.

Channa Bhatura was a sort of savory chickpea stew, thickened with potato and gently spiced with onion, ginger, garlic and cumin, served with flaky fried flatbread.

This is one of those hearty vegetarian dishes that is so robustly flavored, we defy anyone to miss the meat.

In addition to palak paneer, the creamed spinach and cheese classic, Delhi offers spinach lamb and spinach chicken, which offer morsels of meat in a similarly rich, smooth spinach puree.

The lamb was tender yet meaty, and its savory juices enriched the spinach. The chunks of goat meat in the goat biryani were tender, too, exceeding expectation, and the sauce served alongside was so richly flavorful that Jason wanted to eat it by the spoonful. Angelique felt the same way about the sambar served with the idli (little rice flour buns). Essentially a vegetable soup enhanced with Indian seasonings, it included satisfyingly large pieces of carrot and bell pepper.

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Many ethnic cuisines have adapted their native bread forms to American wrap sandwiches, but Café Delhi’s spicy seekh kebab wrap revealed how ideally suited Indian naan is for these purposes. Between a tortilla and a pita in thickness, naan provided a bit of chewy cushion to spiced, ground lamb, grilled onion and lettuce, while mint chutney added zest.

We’re thrilled with the former Holy Souls Church’s reuse as an Indian Cultural Center, and even more excited that Café Delhi features a top-notch Indian kitchen.

We hope it will become a meeting place not only for some of our area’s newest immigrants, but also for those who’ve long since made Pittsburgh their home.

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Copper Kettle lets you try your hand at brewing your own craft beer “You don’t have to worry about cleanup. You just get to do all the fun stuff,” Greg Hough tells a patron who’s stirring a steaming kettle of malty wort at the Copper Kettle Brewing Company.

Rick Ferguson, of North Carolina, is here with his old New Kensington High School classmates Bruce Pipman, Schoo Art M McAuley and David Hanna. celebrate their annual reunion, To cel friends are brewing their own the fri an American amber ale beer: a they’re calling “Ken High Amber they’r Red R Raiders ‘Class of 66.’”

The T process is straightforward: Hough or one of his forw staff staf guides budding brewmeisters through the process mei of creating a craft beer. There c are nearly 50 recipes to choose from, from and along the way, “You can see s and experience what goes into beer,” says Hough.

The brewing activities take about b two h hours. Guests can relax in the a adjoining Hough’s Taproom, and e enjoy beer from one of the brewery’s six (soon to be eight) brewe taps during the occasional downtime in the brew process. (Hough advises sampling a few beers beforehand: All the beers on tap can be reproduced in the Copper Kettle.)

Beer can be made in either small (two cases) or large (five cases) batches, with costs ranging from $80 to $195.

Bottles cost extra, though you can bring your own.

Hough says the experience is “very hands-on,” and adds, “we try to make it as easy as possible for everyone.” He says that even if you’ve never brewed a beer before, you’re almost certain to be satisfied with your creation.

Ferguson says that he and his friends — who also brewed a Werewolf Slayer Pale Ale called “65 and Still Alive,” and a yet-unnamed Belgian Tripel — agree it was the perfect way to spend a few hours relaxing together.

“The hardest part was deciding which recipes to make,” Ferguson says — though there’s also the challenge of waiting two weeks until beers are ready for bottling.

At least there’s nothing to clean up.

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BURGATORY. 932 Freeport Road, The Waterworks, Aspinwall. 412781-1456. Nestled in an off-thepath corner of The Waterworks strip mall, Burgatory is in the running for best burgers in town.

It starts with its own blend of ground sirloin, chuck, brisket and short rib, and buttery buns — then piles on the toppings.

(There are prefab combinations and checklists for custom orders.)

Add shakes, fries — or perhaps an extra-ordinary salad. JE THE CAPITAL GRILLE. 301 Fifth Ave., Downtown. 412338-9100. This dark, clubby restaurant excels at VIP service, and offers a menu highlighted by steaks, chops and seafood, with sophisticated but straightforward preparations such as crab cakes with added lobster, or steak encrusted in Kona coffee beans. Also, the Grille employs its own butcher (for cutting and dry-aging), and desserts are made on site. LE CURE. 5336 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-252-2595.

Charcuterie specialties are just part of the locally inspired menu at this rustic-chic Lawrenceville restaurant. A short menu offers seasonal specialties (wild onions in spring), often combined with pork, but vegetables get a spotlight in dishes such as risotto with local mushrooms. LF

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Parisian-style café culture to Pittsburgh, offering less fussy, less expensive everyday fare such as crepes, salads and croques, those delectable French grilled sandwiches. With fresh flowers on every table, specials chalked on boards and French conversation bouncing off the open kitchen walls, Paris 66 epitomizes the everyday glamour of the French neighborhood bistro. KF PIACQUADIO’S. 300 Mount Lebanon Blvd., Mount Lebanon.

412-745-3663. There’s still pleasure to be had in oldfashioned breaded chicken and veal, served up at this classic Italian-American restaurant.

Indulge in old-school comfort foods, such as manicotti (made with crepes) and beans and greens (with sausage), as well as chicken and pastas specials. KE

POINT BRUGGE CAFÉ. 401 Hastings St., Point Breeze.

412-441-3334. This cozy neighborhood bistro reflects a concerted effort to translate the European neighborhood café — warm, welcoming, MONTEREY BAY unpretentious www. per pa FISH GROTTO. 1411 yet delicious — to pghcitym o .c Grandview Ave., Pittsburgh. Despite Mount Washington bits of Asian fusion, the (412-481-4414) and 146 Mall selections are classic Low Circle Drive, Monroeville (412Country fare such as Belgian 374-8530). Because fish lends beef stewed with beer, and itself to endless preparations Italian influences in risotto, and dressings, the menu here is sausage and polenta. KE copious (and that’s not including the daily specials). The Mount SALVATORE’S PIZZA HOUSE. Washington location, with its 612 Penn Ave., Wilkinsburg. spectacular view of the city, 412-247-4848. A neighborhood is a popular venue for special pizza place and more, Salvatore’s occasions, out-of-towners and offers something even rarer anyone who loves fish. KE than good pizza: fast food of the finest quality. “Fresh” is the PARIS 66 BISTRO. 6018 Centre watchword, and the large, fullAve., East Liberty. 412-404color takeout menu has dozens 8166. A charming venue brings of dishes in a score of categories.

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KAHILA’S TASTE. 305 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-3777951. In North Oakland, this Caribbean eatery offers a taste of tropical sunshine, with a menu featuring oxtail stew, curried goat, escovitch fish, jerk chicken and roti with a choice of filling. The tiny space is geared toward takeout, but there are a few tables alongside the coolers full of tropical-fruit soft drinks and walls festooned with island maps and Bob Marley posters. JF KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. 6012 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-6012. The vintage aesthetic isn’t retro at this longtime neighborhood hangout; it’s the real thing.

And the original 1940s fare has been updated with taste and style: Burgers and fries share space with Asian potstickers and satay.

The mini mac-andcheese is a classic. JE

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JUNIPER GRILL. 4000 Washington Road, McMurray.

724-260-7999. This sister restaurant to Atria’s chain cultivates an ambience of artfully casual insouciance. The preparations — many with Mexican or Asian influences — are appealingly straightforward, neither plain nor fussy: Pork loin with bourbon glaze; spicy flatbread loaded with shrimp,

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Shellfish are prominently featured, and worth trying. K SONOMA GRILLE. 947 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-697-1336.

The menu here groups food and selected wines (mostly Californian, of course) under such oenophilic summaries as “jammy” and “muscular,” encouraging an entirely new approach to food selection. The restaurant’s offerings include tapas, hearty meat dishes with an array of international seasonings, and a mix-n-match, create-your-own section for mixed grill. KE

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TABLE LAKESIDE BRICK OVEN AND BAR. 200 N. Lakeside Drive, Canonsburg. 724-7461126. Perched on the edge of manmade lake, this clubby restaurant offers casual American cuisine, with outside dining in season. A brick oven produces a variety of “phatbreads” topped creatively, such as the “lawnboy,” with prosciutto, tomatoes and wilted arugula. Burgers, chops, seafood and pasta dishes round out the menu. KE

YAMA. 538 Third St., Beaver.

724-774-5998. This Japanese restaurant offers familiar favorites such as tempura, sushi and teriyaki, but takes an artistic approach to authentic cuisine. Thus fried gyoza dumplings are garnished with a small tumbleweed of finely grated carrot, and an octopus salad is graced with cucumber matchsticks. KF THE ZENITH. 86 S. 26th St., South Side. 412-481-4833.

Funky antique décor you can buy and a massive, convivial Sunday brunch make this a vegan/ vegetarian hotspot. For the tea snob, the multi-page list is not to be missed. FJ

Springboard Kitchen’s “BBQ-in-a-bite” was the crowd’s favorite.

VIVO KITCHEN. 432 Beaver St., Sewickley. 412-259-8945. The fare is contemporary American with a vaguely European accent, featuring elegantly simple preparations of elemental, straightforward ingredients, such as roasted mushrooms with gorgonzola or scallops with blood-orange sauce.

Flavorings such as lemon, garlic and fennel reflect the kitchen’s Mediterranean heritage, but the entrees, especially, focus on grilled and roasted meats, intriguingly flavored. LE

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TESSARO’S. 4601 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-6809. This immensely popular Bloomfield institution, set in an old neighborhood corner bar, has built its reputation on enormous wood-fired hamburgers: choice meat, ground in house; fresh rolls; and a variety of toppings.

Regulars sit at the bar, and, on busy weekends, diners line up to get in. KE

able to whip up delicious dishes using whatever items they have left in the pantry.

But, as many learned this past weekend, it’s one thing to have a cook’s “empty” pantry and another to rely only on the donations found in the region’s food pantries.

Ten local chefs took on the Northside Common Ministries Food Pantry Brunch challenge Sat., Feb. 16, creating dishes crafted only from a list of items commonly found in the food pantry for a crowd of about 200.

Jeeraporn Chaisri, owner of Thai Me Up, improvised a fried corn cake — but took some leeway in adding bean flour, coconut and red-curry chili paste, items that may not be as easily found as the corn, rice, salt and egg that made up the rest of the recipe.

“They have such limited things,” she says of the pantry, adding that the lack of fresh food, in particular, was challenging. Cooking under such conditions on a regular basis would be tough, she concedes.

“At first, maybe I’d be OK,” she says. “But for an extended period of time, no.”

Jay Poliziani, director of the Northside pantry, says that, on average, those who use the facility typically cover a third of their food budget themselves.

But families relying on such assistance often don’t have much to spend on food after paying for basic necessities, according to data compiled by the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. A single parent working full time for $ 10 an hour, for example, will earn $ 20,000 annually. Factor in such costs as rent or a mortgage, utilities, transportation and medical bills, and items like the spices, oils and other items that cooks rely on to punch up staples may seem like extravagances.

It was a reality the team for the James Street Gastropub recognized. Staying true to the challenge, the chefs created an all-in-one breakfast bite with a pancake base, topped with a three-cheese and egg frittata, candied bacon and a little bit of orange zest.

Chef Alex Johnston says being creative enough to impress others was particularly difficult.

Adds James Street’s owner, Lisa Saftner, “It really makes you appreciate and be grateful for the full pantry we have.”

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Headed south for the season: Devin Miles

“Skill-honing”: that’s how 21-year-old hip-hop artist Devin Miles describes his years as a student at Central Catholic High School, when he and schoolmates Roscoe WIKI and Christo would get together to work on music. They took turns recording their own songs and engineering for one another. Miles’ drive and experience as a self-taught engineer led to opportunities, such as working as an intern at Pittsburgh music studio ID Labs, and periodically flying to Los Angeles to work with L.A. Laker Devin Ebanks on Ebanks’ music career.

Now, the microphone may be pulling Miles away from the production board, as he’s in the midst of a breakout of his own.

In December, Miles was featured on MTV’s Internettelevision program RapFix Live. As part of the “Get in the Game” segment of the show, Miles was welcomed via Skype by host Sway Calloway. After playing Miles’ music video “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,” the day’s guests, multi-platinum recording artist T.I. and rapper Trae the Truth, complimented the song in a discussion with Miles.

“I was starstruck [by] T.I. and Trae, because I look up to them,” Miles explains. “That was an honor. As we started talking and they were feeling what I was saying and my music, I started to ease up a little bit.”

It’s fitting that Miles had his music critiqued by T.I. and Trae the Truth, who hail from Atlanta and Houston, respectively. Miles credits some Southern hip-hop pioneers as his greatest musical influences, particularly Texas-bred rapper Scarface and rap duo UGK. “We used to ride around in high school in my manager Zeke’s Tahoe, strictly listening to Scarface, UGK and [Pittsburgh rap group] The Govament,” Miles says. “I would love more than anything to be able to work with Scarface. He’s one of the people who kept me rapping and taught me a lot about my rap style right now.”

In March, Miles will be playing dates in Austin, Texas, as an official artist at the South by Southwest Music Festival.

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T WAS surprising, if not unprecedented, when rapper and producer Lord Finesse sued Mac Miller last year over a sample on Miller’s 2010 K.I.D.S. mixtape.

Conventional wisdom once said that mixtapes were generally safe from copyright suits, as they’re distributed for free and don’t have the profile of larger releases. But in recent years, more and more artists have been slapped with mixtape-related suits. It raises the question of whether the utility of the mixtape in hip hop is waning … and whether it’s such a bad thing if it is.

The mixtape is a fixture in hip hop: The name stems from “party mix” cassettes made by DJs in the 1980s, but has come to refer most often to unofficial collections of tracks released by MCs. Mixtapes are now generally distributed as free downloads on the Internet, with the biggest hub being DatPiff (www.datpiff.com). Some mixtapes are like demo tapes, especially for up-andcoming artists, but even the best-known rappers release mixtapes in between albums.

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because it was a really great way for guys to promote themselves without an album,” explains producer E. Dan, owner of ID Labs Studios in Lawrenceville, who has worked with Miller and many other local and national-level hip-hop artists. “It’s quicker; it’s been a chance for artists to explore.”

For years, it seemed mixtapes flew under the radar with regard to copyright suits.

While sampling fees were established and grew throughout the 1990s, mixtapes became part of the mechanism hip-hop artists used to release their work without all the paperwork.

“A lot of mixtapes contain unreleased songs,” explains Kembrew McLeod, a professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and producer of the documentary Copyright Criminals. “And one of the reasons songs won’t be released is the samples can’t be cleared: Permission has been refused, or it’s too expensive.”

“Generally when you’re releasing an album,” says E. Dan, “there’s a lot of things that have to go on, legally and with red

tape, just to put albums together: Clear your songs, get letters, contracts, all that.

With a mixtape, it’s almost more personal — artists can sort of slap them together however they want to and send them out to the world.”

But while mixtapes are often put together with less formality than official releases, they’ve never really had legal immunity, explains McLeod.

“Mixtapes don’t really skirt the law, unless you’re talking about the fact that they’re [often] under the radar. A common misconception is that just because downloadable mixtapes are available for free, they’re somehow avoiding being copyright infringements; that’s not the case. There have been a number of high-profile hip-hop artists who have been sued for uncleared samples on their mixtapes.”

South African singer Karma-Ann Swanapoel sued Lil’ Wayne in 2008 for using her voice in a recording on his 2007 mixtape, The Drought Is Over 2. Bobby Poindexter of The Persuaders sued Kanye West

for $ 500,000 last March over a sample on his 2006 mixtape Freshman Adjustment 2. Then last June, Lord Finesse sued Mac Miller and his label, the partly-Pittsburghbased Rostrum Records, for $10 million over the song “Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza,” which heavily samples Finesse’s 1995 song “Hip 2 Da Game.”

In December, the case settled out of court; neither Lord Finesse nor Rostrum has commented on the terms. The “Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza” video is no longer publicly available via Miller’s official YouTube channel, and the track is no longer included on the K.I.D.S. mixtape download on DatPiff.

“So many of these [copyright suits] settle, that there’s not a lot of foundations for people to go off of,” explains Adam Barnosky, a Boston-based attorney who writes about legal issues for Performer magazine. [The Lord Finesse-Mac Miller case] was an interesting point of law, but it settled, so there was never a decision.”

Barnosky explains the basics of copyright simply: “Without authorization, there is really no situation in which you can sample legally, without the worry of a lawsuit.”

But, he adds, there are some caveats, such as “fair use,” which dictates some situations which copyrighted material can be used.

Copyrighted work being used for education, work that’s transformed by the sampling artists, and samples that are considered de minimus — too small to be significant — are generally protected.

Barnosky and E. Dan are in agreement that mixtape-related suits aren’t going away — and E. Dan sees the chilling effect they have already taking hold. “Wiz [Khalifa], right now, has been sitting on a mixtape that’s been done since last summer, because of sample clearance issues. He doesn’t want to just put it out, after everything that happened with Mac. “Mixtapes did fly under the radar for a long time, until copyright holders woke up and said ‘They’re not selling these things, but they certainly generate money in all sorts of ways.’”

And to some, that might not be an entirely bad thing. E. Dan notes that as a producer, he makes little or nothing to supply beats for a mixtape, as opposed to an album projects. “I’m less and less a fan of mixtapes these days, for a variety of reasons,” he says.

Ray Dawn doesn’t fear the copyright crackdown much, either. He notes that he and producer Ohini Jonez are currently working on an album with no samples — which is challenging them both to do their best work.

“I wouldn’t mind if they started going after people on samples more, because it would actually improve the quality of the work people are putting out.”

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Last year, the legendary New York City record store Other Music launched a new label in partnership with Fat Possum, and the first act they signed was a low-key indie-rock duo called Ex Cops.

Since then, the two-piece has expanded to five and released a debut full-length, True Hallucinations, that is one of the year’s early highlights. This month, Shadow Lounge hosts the new lineup for its first show in Pittsburgh.

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Warm and concise: Ex Cops

Founded in 2011 by Brian Harding (formerly of Hymns) and Amalie Bruun (formerly of Minks), Ex Cops takes a familiarly hazy approach to songwriting, but does it well. The band makes concise dream-pop — or maybe it makes dream-pop concise, because it’s not a genre particularly known for its urgency. Harding and Bruun may help change that.

True Hallucinations is a “warm” record — a term usually used to politely identify an album’s abundance of major chords, lo-fi and reverb. But Ex Cops comes by the title honestly. Harding and Bruun’s voices get along famously (somewhat famously), and those strong harmonies provide a lot of the warmth. Add producer John Siket (Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Yo La Tengo) and the scale of the record’s sound starts to make sense.

Start with “The Millionaire.”

With True Hallucinations, Ex Cops joins a genre not lacking for benchwarmers and manage to distinguish itself as the subtle, exciting new talent that it is.

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doom band Dream Death — without taking a road trip to one of the out-of-state fests it will be playing — this weekend’s Winter’s Wake will likely be your only chance. “We all have jobs and families, it’s hard to get all of us in the same room,” says singer/guitarist Brian Lawrence of the recently reunited four-piece. “We’re not young anymore.

We’re not trying to take over the world, so we can be picky about shows.”

And for a band with license to be selec{PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTIN GIZZI} tive, Winter’s Wake — presented by proDream Death bassist Brian Lawrence motion company Allure of the Earth — is a good choice. In its second year, the event hybrid of sludgy doom and thrash which has made the leap from a one-day show- sounds a little like a warped, slowed-down case of Pittsburgh’s heavier offerings to a Slayer cassette — has, over the last couple full weekend of some the metal world’s of years, enjoyed a resurgence of excited most entertaining, challenging and gener- attention from metal bloggers. ally awesome local and national acts.

All four original members — LawFor Jon Leone, who organized the fest rence, plus drummer Mike Smail, bassist with business partner Nika Shilobod, se- Ted Williams and guitarist Terry Weston curing Dream Death as — remained friends, the Saturday headliner and their reunion in late was “beyond-words awe2011 wasn’t an attempt some,” and helped set to capitalize on any past the tone for the rest of success, Lawrence exthe event. “We wanted plains. “It was a really to keep it a little artistic casual thing. We started and bring in bands that jamming together again aren’t necessarily the and somehow it turned most well-known or the into Dream Death again.” most popular. We wantThe band will debut its ed bands that share a new material, and a new unique vision on music.” album, at Winter’s Wake.

In its original incar“I like to think we’re fornation, Dream Death had ward-thinking. There’ll a solid local following, be some obvious Dream Dream Death, the first time around, and probably more of a Death feelings and riffs, in the 1980s national fan base than but some of the song it could accurately gauge in those pre- structures are a little different than what Internet, tape-trading days — though, people heard back in the day.”

Lawrence recalls, “We did seem to get a Of course, Dream Death is just one incentive to check out Winter’s Wake. The diverse and consistently recommendable WINTER’S WAKE 2013 18-band lineup (including those playing FEATURING VEKTOR, Thursday’s pre-show) features well-loved BLACK ANVIL, DREAM DEATH, New Jersey funeral doom outfit Evoken, DERKETA, MANY MORE Philly thrash astronauts Vektor, New York’s 7 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22, and 4 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23.

6119, 6119 Penn Ave., East Liberty. experimentally industrial GNAW, and PittsPre-show Thu., Feb. 21, Gooski’s, 3117 burgh’s own crushing — and influential Brereton St., Polish Hill. $5-22, three-day — all-female death-metal band Derketa. Lepass $35. www.allureoftheearth.com one expects to draw metal-heads from out of state, as well as enthusiastic locals. “Pittslot of fan mail from Germany for some burgh has one of the best audiences for reason.” The band faded near the end of the metal bands of any place I’ve been,” Leone ’80s — members went on to form slightly says. “We get skipped over a lot, so whenbetter-known bands like Penance. But ever a show like [this] happens, people get its 1987 record, Journey Into Mystery — a really excited.”

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[POP] + THU., FEB. 21 The pop sensibility Jenny Dalton possesses is underlain by something more sinister: The Minneapolis piano-pop songwriter likes to play with that element of minor-key suspense and foreboding. Think a slightly-less-weird Kate Bush, or Tori Amos — but with a voice that sounds a little more like Jewel. Her new Blood Folk EP came out last fall; on her tour to support it, she appears at Shadow Lounge tonight, headlining the weekly Release Open Mic featuring Hambone Jenkins. Andy Mulkerin 9 p.m. 5972 Baum Blvd., East Liberty. $3. 412-363-8277 or www.shadowlounge.net

[INDIE ROCK] + SUN., FEB. 24 Back in 2003, the five-piece Murder by Death became far more than another Indiana alt-country group with a cello. That year, it released Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?, an album that blended elements of Southern-style indie rock with a haunting tale of the Devil’s war against a small Mexican town. The end result was the sort of album Cormac McCarthy would write — if he fronted a country band. Since then, the group has been creating albums steeped in the mythos of the West: stories of haunted Mexican alleys, vengeance, blood and whiskey. Tonight the band is spinning its tales at Mr. Small’s, cigarillos optional.

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Man and Damion Suomi. John Lavanga 8 p.m.

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[PSYCHEDELIC] + SUN., FEB. 24 It’s not every day that we Yinzers get to hear the sort of mind-altering psych-punk that’s being made by Boston outfits Bugs and Rats and Skimask. The former runs frantic, infectious punk riffs and rage full-speed into psychedelic vocals and ambient sounds to create raw, yet somehow controlled, chaos in its music. The latter brings grungy, crackling distortion and complex rhythms, and fires out its lines like tripped-out marching orders. All in all, the two groups make for great moshing material, and they’ll be dropping by Kopec’s tonight with Come Holy Spirit. JL 8 p.m. 3523 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville. 412-682-0892

[PUNK] + MON., FEB. 25 H2O and Terror represent the two coasts of hardcore punk: The former, of course, is a Warped Tour-veteran group that hails from New York and is proud of it; the latter holds it down in Los Angeles. But the middle is held by Pittsburgh’s Code Orange Kids, which opens most dates on the two bands’ nationwide tour. Tonight all three pull into Altar Bar; Backtrack and locals Path to Misery play as well. AM 6 p.m. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $15. All ages. 412-206-9719 or www.thealtarbar.com

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ROCK/POP THU 21 ALTAR BAR. Parmalee.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Jenny Dalton. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

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

412-281-6593.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. Bon Jovi. Uptown. 412-642-1800.

GOOSKI’S. Brown Angel, Nomad Queen, Dendritic Arbor, Drones For Queens. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. The Spastic Hearts, The Clementes, Thunder Vest, The Lady & The Monsters. South Side.

412-381-3497.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Little River Band. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

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31ST STREET PUB. Stone Cold Killer, Lonely Ghost Parade, The Devil’s Cut. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

6119 PENN AVE. Black Anvil, Vektor, Liquified Guts, Gnaw, Vit, Meth Quarry. East Liberty.

ALTAR BAR. Flyleaf, Drowning Pool. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

BRILLOBOX. Tobacco, Ponydriver.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

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

CLUB CAFE. The Wreckids, Lobo Marino, Broken Fences (Early) The Pimps Of Joytime, KR-3 (late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

THE DEAD HORSE CANTINA & MUSIC HALL. Primer 55, Pipewrench, After the Fall, Solarburn, Embers to Ashes, The Third & Final. McKees Rocks.

412-973-3295.

HAMBONE’S. Homeless Gospel Choir, Filthy Dirty, Bryan McQuaid.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Jet Lee, Velcro Shoes, Casino Bulldogs.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

SMILING MOOSE. The Rocketboys, Dinner & A Suit, Mike Mains & the Branches, Nevada Color. South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Pawnbrokers. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

THE WOODEN NICKEL. Darryl & Kim. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.

SAT 23 31ST STREET PUB. Ernie &

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the Berts, Bunny Five Coat, The Botched. Ernie & the Berts CD release. Strip District. 412-391-8334.

6119 PENN AVE. Dream Death, Derketa, Evoken, The Gates Of Slumber, Molasses Barge, Vulture.

East Liberty.

ALTAR BAR. Those Who Fear.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

BENEDUM CENTER. Kenny Vance. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

CIP’S. The Dave Iglar Band.

Dormont. 412-668-2335.

CLUB CAFE. The Teresa Hawthorne Band (early). Proceeds Benefit Create-S-Team Academy of Music & Theater. Charm & Chain, Jeremy Caywood, Otis (Late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Trainwreck.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Legendary Hucklebucks, Iron City Hooligans. South Side.

412-431-4090.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. NeverWake, Chaos Killed, Resistance 13. Aliquippa.

724-375-5080.

HAMBONE’S. Nebulous.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Southwork, Dan Getkin & The Masters of American Music.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE LOOSE MOOSE. Gone South. Baldwin. 412-655-3553.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Keller Williams. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

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

ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. The Mike Scheer Band. Shaler. 412-487-6259.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. Brian Dehass Trio & Friends. Unknown.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. theCAUSE. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

TJ’S HIDEAWAY. Rock Bot. Evans City. 724-789-7858.

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SUN 24 ALTAR BAR. Hinder. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Freedy Johnston, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Martin Rubeo.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

HARD ROCK CAFE. 40 oz to Freedom (Sublime Tribute).

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Murder

By Death, Man Man, Damion Suomi. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

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

REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3730.

REMEDY. Already Sweaty.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

chill. House music. aDesusParty.

East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

SHADOW LOUNGE. JBRE, Dougie Kent. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.

SMILING MOOSE. Fortified PhonetX. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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

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

412-642-2377.

LITTLE E’S. The Eddie Brookshire Quartet. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

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1139 PENN AVE. Hot Mass. Late Night Dancing. Disco, House, Techno. 21+ BYOB. 2am-8am HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Sunday morning. Downtown.

Stephanie Nilles, Faithful Sinners, BRILLOBOX. Title Town Soul Steamboat Whiskey Thief. & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & guests. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

THE HANDLE BAR & CAPRI PIZZA AND GRILLE. Tony Janflone, BAR. Saturday Night Jr. Canonsburg.

Meltdown. Top 40, .

724-746-4227. www per a p Hip Hop, Club, R&B, ty pghci m .co Funk & Soul. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Ms. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

Freddye, Muddy Kreek 412-431-8800.

Blues Band, more. Blues showcase ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Do Sum’n presented by P.R.O.M.I.S.E. Saturday Reggae w/ Dan Dabber.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

THE HOP HOUSE. The Blue LAVA LOUNGE. Motown Night.

Bombers, Patrick Scanga. Green w/ PghSoulDj. Classic Motown, Tree. 412-922-9560.

Rare Soul, Funk. South Side.

INDEPENDENT CITIZENS 412-431-5282.

SLOVAK CLUB. Bobby Hawkins MEXICO CITY. DJ Juan Diego VII. Back Alley Blues. Connellsville.

Salsa & Latin music. Downtown.

724-628-9881.

412-980-7653.

INN THE RUFF. The Witchdoctors.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. DJ Vex. Penn Hills. 412-793-9779.

Lawrenceville. 412-904-2915.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Mt. The Rhythm Aces. South Side.

Washington. 412-431-3730.

MOONDOG’S. Ron Yarosz & the ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

Vehicle. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. The S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

Olga Watkins Band. Downtown.

412-481-7227.

412-471-9100.

THE R BAR. The Eldorado Kings.

Dormont. 412-445-5279.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. TWIN OAKS LOUNGE. Jill West Give A Man A Break Soul Funk & Blues Attack. White Oak. Dance Party w/ DJ Soulful Fella.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara DOMENICO’S RISTORANTE. Jill & Digital Dave. North Side.

West & Blues Attack. Food bank 412-231-7777. benefit. Cranberry. 724-776-6455.

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

Electro, post punk, industrial, new CAFE NOTTE. Billy Heid. wave, alternative dance. South Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

Side. 412-431-4668.

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MON 25 ALTAR BAR. H2O, Terror, Backtrack, Code Orange Kids.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Suzanne Vega.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

TUE 26 BRILLOBOX. Wake Owl, Acrylic Clouds, Sleep Experiments.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Jann Klose & Rebecca Loebe, Austen Leathers.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Aaron Carter.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Molly Hatchet. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ DJ Soy Sos & Ben Opie. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 27 ALTAR BAR. Orgy. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

BRILLOBOX. Ambassadors, Of An Empire, Middle Children.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Dirty Heads, Shiny Toy Guns, Midi Matilda, Oh No! Fiasco. Munhall.

412-368-5225.

CLUB CAFE. Anna Gabrielle.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

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

SMILING MOOSE. American Opera, Sun Hound. South Side.

412-431-4668.

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THU, FEB 21 • 9PM COUNTRY/ROCK

SLIM FORSYTHE'S GOSPEL & WESTERN HOUR PLUS ROUND BLACK

ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Phoenix Jazz Project. North Side. 412-904-3335.

GHOSTS FRI, FEB 22 • 9PM BLUES

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SAT, FEB 23 • 9PM GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

THE CAUSE

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MON, FEB 25 • 9:30PM

ANDYS. Eric Susoeff. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

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

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ANDYS. Lisa Hindmarsh & 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.

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THU 21 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Throwdown Thursdays w/ Tracksploitation.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

FRI 22 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Salsa Friday. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

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

412-362-1250.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. House Music w/ Hana. Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

MEXICO CITY. Juan Diego, PANDEMIC. Downtown.

412-246-2042.

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BELVEDERE’S. DJ T$.

Lawrenceville. 724-312-4098.

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

412-251-0097.

WED 27 AVA BAR & LOUNGE. DJ Outtareach. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Ritmo Wednesdays. DJ Juan Diego, DJ Carla. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

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

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LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

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

412-429-7272.

FRI 22 ANDYS. Maureen Budway.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

LITTLE E’S. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. Downtown. 412-392-2217.

SAT 23 ANDYS. Spanky Wilson.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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ACOUSTIC THU 21 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford.

724-934-1177.

BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Songwriters In Harmony.

Songwriters Workshop. Harmony.

724-452-0539.

CAFE NOTTE. Acoustic Cafe w/ Bucky. Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Brian Belonzi. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night.

West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

TRUTH LOUNGE. Betsy Lawrence.

South Side. 412-381-9600.

Marina and the Diamonds

FRI 22 BEE’Z BISTRO & PUB. Gina Rendina Acoustic Duo. Bridgeville.

412-257-9877.

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THE HANGAR. Blake & Dean.

Moon. 724-457-9630.

JAVA HOUSE. Paz & Ukulele Eddie. Brighton Heights.

412-415-0734.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Uke & Tuba, The Bellwether Strings. Strip District.

412-281-4505.

Helen Money The Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield {TUE., APRIL 09}

Mike Nesmith

Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead,

510 E. 10th St., Munhall {TUE., MAY 28}

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AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Kwesi Kankam. East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side

TUE 26 BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. Singer Songwriter Night.

North Fayette. 412-788-2333.

HAMBONE’S. Acoustic Open Mic. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

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WED 27

HARD ROCK CAFE. Natalie Stovall Nancy Deckant. Station Square.

412-481-7625.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slim Forsythe’s Rockin Gospel Hour, Round Black Ghosts.

Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

MOONDOG’S. Acoustic Open Stage. Blawnox.

OBEY HOUSE. Mo 412-828-2040. www. per pa Nelson Band. Crafton.

PARK HOUSE. Dodgy pghcitym o .c 412-922-3883.

Mountain Boys & the Park House Jammers.

North Side. 412-596-2743.

HARVEY WILNER’S. Dallas Marks.

West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

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PENN BREWERY. Autobahn Band.

North Side. 412-237-9400.

SUN 24 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Lorens Chuno.

World Kaleidoscope. Oakland.

412-622-3151.

REGGAE FRI 22 REX THEATER. Jon Wayne & The Pain. South Side. 412-381-6811.

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CLASSICAL FRI 22 MARIE RUBIS BAUER, ORGANIST. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-6082.

SAT 23 ACADEMY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE. All-Mozart program.

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

SUN 24 CHANTICLEER. Shadyside

Presbyterian Church, Shadyside.

412-682-4300.

CHARLES BOYD TOMPKINS & GREGORY TOMPKINS. Organ & violin. Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Sewickley. 412-741-4550.

MON 25 ACADEMY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE. All-Mozart concert. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

412-276-3456.

OTHER MUSIC SAT 23 HAMILTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Chiz Rider. Bethel Park.

LEMONT. Dave Crisci.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

TUE 26 BENEDUM CENTER. DRUMLine Live. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

WED 27 CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Hello Donny: A Showtunes Sing-Along. http://trustarts. culturaldistrict.org/event/3941/ hello-donny-a-showtunes-singalong. Downtown. 412-325-6769.

HEINZ CHAPEL. Baldwin Wallace University Motet Choir. Oakland.

412-624-4157.

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SHADOW LOUNGE East Liberty. 412-363-8277. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:15p.m

FRIDAY 22

Mod Sun / Cisco Adler

Wayne “The Train” Hancock / Todd May

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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

THURSDAY 21 Little River Band

JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

Tickets: jergels.com. 8p.m.

Scotty McCreery

STAGE AE North Side. With special guest Sarah Darling.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

Chess

POINT PARK PLAYHOUSE Oakland. 412-392-8000. Tickets:

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

MONDAY 25

OFF THE WALL 2013: David Cale: Harry Clarke

H20 / Terror

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests Backtrack, Code Orange Kids & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX. 6:30p.m.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side. 412-237-8300.

Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.

Flyleaf / Drowing Pool

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Zach Deputy

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. With special guests Jon Wayne & The Pain. All ages show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

Paula Poundstone

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

Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com.

8p.m.

Whispers of Light

BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

TUESDAY 26

DRUMLINE LIVE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 BENEDUM CENTER

412-456-6666. Tickets: bodiographycbc.com. 8p.m.

Through Feb. 23.

SATURDAY 23 Winter Wine Festival TRAX FARMS Finleyville.

412-835-3246. Over 21 event. For more info visit traxfarms.com. 12p.m.

Keller Williams

MR. SMALLS THEATRE

Drumline Live or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

All ages show. Tickets: 866468-3401 or ticketweb.com/ opusone. 9p.m.

Murder By Death / Man Man MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. With special guest Damion Suomi. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

SUNDAY 24

40 oz to Freedom A Sublime Tribute Band

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests The YJJS & Revolution Radio. Limited all ages. Tickets: ticketfly.com

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 7:30p.m.

Jann Klose & Rebecca Loebe

CLUB CAFE South Side. 412431-4950. With special guest Austen Leathers. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

Molly Hatchet

Hinder ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests

JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

Tickets: jergels.com. 8p.m.

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FADED LOVE {BY AL HOFF}

NILAN SEEMED TO STRUGGLE BECAUSE OF HIS ENFORCER ROLE: HE HAD BEEN A PROTECTOR.

Before the dawn of digital reproduction, there was a phenomenon in which the more you copied and re-copied something, the paler and fuzzier it became.

Such is Safe Haven, the latest film adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel. Sparks’ biggest book-to-screen hit, The Notebook (2004), has come and gone, and all we’re left with is increasingly hollow imitators.

In this latest, directed by Lasse Halsström, all the familiar elements are there: the North Carolina beach town; the protagonist with a secret; the other protagonist, somewhat wounded; a helpful older person; cute kids; and outdoor canoodling (rain optional).

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Beach buddies: Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel

Katie (Julianne Hough) is on the run, and the worst bus route ever between Boston and Atlanta drops her off in a town on the Carolina coast. It’s a nice place, and that includes a dreamy young widower (and dad of two), Alex (Josh Duhamel).

But Sparks tries to juice the story up with a Sleeping With the Enemytype subplot, and this proves a clunky misstep. The first half of this film isn’t that bad if you’re just looking for a low-key, by-the-numbers romance. But once the cartoonishly ridiculous villain — red-eyed, shaking, sweaty — is added, this film sails straight into a Storm of Ridiculousness. The final reel has about five near-death scenes. By my count, not much of a “haven.”

AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

You move to the suburbs for a better life, not to have your family menaced by some supernatural force. See how this American Dream goes wrong in Scott Stewart’s thriller Dark Skies. Starts Fri., Feb. 22.

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The fiercest dog: Chris Nilan, playing for the Northeastern University Huskies; inset, Chris Nilan (left) confronts an opponent

HAVE SMALL hands,” says Chris

“Knuckles” Nilan, professional hockey brawler. He shows them to the camera, pointing out where they’ve been broken, cut, bitten.

Today, his scarred hands are just one part of Nilan’s damaged life. His story — the rise and fall of the legendary Montreal Canadiens enforcer — is the subject of Alex Gibney’s documentary, The Last Gladiators.

Now in his mid-50s, Nilan narrates his life story — from his Boston youth through his 13-year rough-and-tumble NHL career to his equally tumultuous post-ice life, marked by divorce, depression and drug addiction. Other contributing voices include teammates, family members and sports writers.

Nilan spent his glory years in the 1980s as the pugilistic darling of the Canadiens.

The film sketches in the creation of hockey enforcers, an era of sanctioned violence that began in earnest in the 1970s. The enforcer was a “necessary” team component: an aggressive bruiser who would protect

star players from the other team’s attacks, and be a source of team pride. Few games were complete without a match-up of rival enforcers, bouts underscored with roaring crowds and gleeful announcers. Nilan relished his role as an enforcer, racking up a record-setting career total of more than 3,000 penalty minutes.

THE LAST GLADIATORS DIRECTED BY: Alex Gibney Starts Fri., Feb. 22. Manor

CP APPROVED But things began to fall apart for Nilan in the late ’80s. There were injuries and trades that didn’t work out. He retired in 1992, and post-hockey, he floundered badly. Athletes making uneasy transitions to post-game life are common, but Nilan seemed to struggle especially because of his enforcer role: He had been a protector; he was needed. But off-ice, a guy who

beats up people isn’t a hero.

While Gibney is known for his muckraking docs (Enron, Taxi to the Dark Side), Gladiators resists wading too deeply into the growing concern about curtailing the violence institutionalized in sports such as hockey and football. But the tight focus on Nilan still provides plenty of sobering material. The NHL paid him to fight and the fans loved it — until Nilan was broken down and useless.

Our love of violent spectacle isn’t new (hence the “Gladiator” title), and perhaps it is an unquenchable aspect of human nature. Even Nilan understands that part of his appeal was as a stand-in for spectators who couldn’t punch someone themselves.

But increasingly, there’s no escaping the knowledge of the physical and emotional costs to those who wage such sports “battles” for our vicarious entertainment. Gibney’s film — and Nilan’s story — is another clear-eyed and potent reminder of our complicity in a barbarism that we dismiss as simply “part of the game.”

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NEW JOHN DIES AT THE END. From director Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep) comes this horror comedy about a pair of college dropouts trying to save the world from being overrun by weirdo beasties. Starts Thu., Feb. 28. Hollywood ONE LIFE. This BBC-produced nature doc from Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes is one of those vivid, gorgeously filmed spectacles that creates the impression that our planet is a pristine playground, populated by amusing and resourceful creatures. Because while the film name-checks us — by including man in its organizing narrative about how all living things must be born, find things to eat and not get eaten — humans and their ugly world are distinctly absent.

Instead, the film provides a greatesthits reel of adorable animals — from baby snow monkeys hanging out in hot springs to dolphins “fishing” by making kooky circles.

Creatures that do astonishing things get screen time, such as a lizard that walks on water, or monkeys who have mastered the use of a rock as a tool.

The film, narrated by Daniel Craig, should please fans of exquisite nature photography, and is something to take the kids to besides a cartoon. Fear not: The few scenes of predatory behavior are tastefully depicted. The ostrichversus-cheetahs chase is simply too beautifully thrilling to cause much alarm, and when the water buffalo is attacked by the Komodo dragon, the subsequent death has all the discretion of a Victorian novel. Starts Thu., Feb. 21.

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Wed., Feb. 20 (doors at 7 p.m.). 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 SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN. Malik Bendjelloul’s documentary follows two South African men as they search for the story behind Rodriguez, a little-known American singer and songwriter whose 1970 album Cold Fact became a classic in South Africa despite barely selling in the United States. On the way to finding the truth about Rodriguez, Bendjelloul explores the role of music in the anti-apartheid movement, the complicated logistics of cultural imports and exports, and the state of the record industry in the early ’70s.

The ending is unlikely and inspiring, and the city shots — from Capetown to Detroit — are beautiful.

Starts Fri., Feb. 22, through Thu., Feb. 28. Harris (Andy Mulkerin)

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DANUBE HOSPITAL. In the opening aerial shot, Danube Hospital, in Vienna, Austria, looks like a sprawling factory. And little about Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s vérité-style documentary disabuses viewers of that impression. While we naturally associate hospitals with warmer, more humane activities (such as healing), the modern hospital is a fantastically interconnected bio-mechanical entity, made up of seemingly innumerable people and machines functioning in tandem. Geyrhalter’s cameras depict, without narration: from operating theater to laundry, doctors’ meeting to subterranean track of robot carts, neonatal unit to pathology lab, and cafeteria to disinfecting room. (The squeamish should note: There is some nudity, viscera and a brain being sliced up like a ham loaf.) Screens as a preview of the upcoming Faces of Media CMU International Film Festival. In German, with subtitles.

6:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22. McConomy Auditorium, CMU campus, Oakland. $8 ($5 seniors/students). www. cmu.edu/faces (AH)

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Danube Hospital SNITCH. After his son gets falsely imprisoned on some drug charge, a man goes undercover for the DEA to help clear his name. Dwayne Johnson stars in Ric Roman Waugh’s drama.

Starts Fri., Feb. 22.

REPERTORY THE MALTESE FALCON. In John Huston’s 1941 adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s popular detective novel, private detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) juggles a collection of nogoodniks, as they all search San Francisco for a jewel-encrusted statuette, the titular bird.

2 and 7:30 p.m. Thu., Feb. 21. Hollywood (AH)

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PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. Robert Lee King directs this 2000 comedy, a mash-up of 1960s beach movies and slasher films, starring Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under). The screening is a benefit for the Shepherd Wellness Community,

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IRON SKY. Timo Vuorensola’s recent sci-fi actioncomedy depicts a secret Nazi colony on the moon.

They’ve been hiding there since World War II, but are now ready to launch attack saucers. Doors open at 8 p.m. for music by surf band Vertigo-go. In English, and German, with subtitles. 9 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22. Hollywood

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are: Savage! (1973), Angels From Hell (1968), WolfDevil Woman (1982), The Killing Machine (1976), Weapons of Death (1977), Massacre Time (1966), Pieces (1982), The Big Bust Out (1972) and Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977). See website for complete schedule. 11:30 a.m. Sat., Feb. 23. Hollywood. $15 (single films for $5). www.thehollywood dormont.org CHINATOWN. Roman Polanski’s 1974 neonoir classic set among the power brokers of 1930s Los Angeles holds up remarkably well on all counts: the sharp wide-screen photography, the period detail, the moody tone and a full roster of fine performances, including Jack Nicholson’s.

The smart script by Robert Towne — a complex storyline, rooted in historical events — is full of both snappy banter and the pervasive cynicism that helped defined new American cinema of the 1970s.

The film concludes a Saturday-night series of Oscar classics. Midnight, Sat., Feb. 23. Manor (AH)

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THE RED SHOES. This 1948 adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fable from filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a visually stunning film about a ballerina named Vicki (Moira Shearer), forced to choose between her love for dance and her husband. The Red Shoes transcends both the generic clichés of the backstage drama and the boxed-in nature of a staged dance performance (the 15-minute “Red Shoes” ballet sequence will impress even the most hardened ballet-hater).

Screens as part of the Pittsburgh ballet’s In Motion film series, linking similarly themed cinema to current stage productions (Unspoken). 2 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 24. George R. White Theatre, Point Park University, Downtown. Free. Registration required at 412-454-9109 or education@pittsburgh ballet.org. (AH)

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Searching for Sugar Man clan history, coming-of-age comedy, a gentle rebuke of contemporary family life, a cautionary tale about trusting technology, an inspiring tale about trusting technology and a rousing we-can-do-it battle. The artwork in this anime ranges from strictly mangastyle narrative and painterly moments of silence and light to straight-up, op-art kawaii-kaleidoscopes of an ever-shifting, rainbow-hued cyberworld populated with cartoonish avatars and flying bits of information. The 2009 film continues a month-long anime series presented by Pittsburgh Anime Film Series. In Japanese, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Mon., Feb. 25. Frick Fine Arts Building, Oakland. Free. www. ucis.pitt.edu (AH) THE BAD INTENTIONS. In this 2011 coming-of-age film directed by Rosario Garcia Montero, an 8-yearold girl living in Lima, Peru, during the early 1980s deals with anxieties small and large. Close to home, she’s angry about an impending sibling, and in the background are the terroristic activities of the Shining Path. In Spanish, with subtitles. 6:30 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 27. Frick Fine Arts (Room 125), Oakland.

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Bodycast: An artist lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Frances McDormand Friday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. $27 ($22 students and members) Limited seating; Tickets required; Call 412.622.3288 Based on two defining years that New York–based ar tist Suzanne Bocanegra spent in a body cast, this per formance addresses notions of female beauty in the histor y of ar t and in life.

Bocanegra’s stories, channeled through Academy Award–winning actress Frances McDormand, tell the histor y of how ar tists are taught to make ar t, and how all of us are taught to look at it.

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From Staycee Pearl Dance Project’s “…on being…” {PHOTO COURTESY ESY OF BILL SHIRLEY}

What does it mean to be black?

For local choreographer Staycee Pearl, that question hit home when her dance works were questioned by others in the African-American community for not being “black enough.”

In her latest work, “…on being …” to be premiered by her Staycee Pearl Dance Project at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater Feb. 22-23, Pearl looks at what it means to be black today and explores the notion of “post-blackness.” The term was coined in the 1990s by curator Thelma Golden and conceptual artist Glenn Ligon. It means tossing off of one’s ne’s racial identifiers and with them the burden rden of having everything you do speak for your entire race. ace.

“I come from the tradiradition of black dance,” says ays Pearl. “I studied at Dance ce Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey, and worked in a couple African dance companies. es. My work is a mix of those and all my dance experiences plus my experiences outside of dance.

In some ways, my work k may come out not looking like traditional AfricanAmerican dance, but that hat doesn’t mean it’s not black dance. I am a black artist.”

Pearl’s works include 2011’s critically lauded Octavia, about African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. She feels artists can still honor tradition and heritage in what they do, but that there is also honor in moving forward.

The 60-minute “…on being …” was developed through a series of public salon discussions at her PearlArts Studios, in Point Breeze. Though it explores postblackness, it’s really about identity in general, says Pearl. It also examines such self-identifiers as gender and sexuality.

“The work is pretty abstract,” says Pearl. “What audiences will see on stage is our response in movement to those salon discussions.”

The multimedia work for five dancers is set to an audio soundscape by Pearl’s husband, DJ Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl, that uses music samples along with original content. Mr. Pearl will also add content to the soundscape live during the work’s performances.

Pearl says that even after her selfreflective journey in creating “…on being…,” she is left with more questions than answers. But as with other unanswerable questions (“What is the meaning of life?”), the value may lie in not knowing — which continues to spark our conversations and drive us forward as human beings.

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HEN THEY’RE not busy trying to keep the lights on or mounting their next show, arts folk sometimes chuckle over how the public thinks the arts are funded. We’re talking, obviously, about nonprofit arts — not Avatar, The Book of Mormon and Kenny Chesney, but museums, galleries, literary series, and music, theater and dance troupes. And we’re mostly talking about small to mid-sized organizations, not those affiliated with universities or large enough to have their own endowments. (Though the Carnegie Museums of the world must fundraise, too.)

In short, arts money might not come from, or go, where you think. Here are seven myths about arts funding.

Art Is Cheap to Make. Our region’s hundreds of arts groups range from shoestring operations to multimillion-dollar outfits with their own venues and salaried staff.

But that modestly produced play by a small theater company probably wasn’t staged for a song. These things take time: Even the thriftiest troupe pays its cast and crew, and small salaries add up. Include costumes and sets, rentals and insurance, and you’ve eaten most of the budget of a troupe like Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. A typical Unseam’d show costs $50,000 — and, says founder and artistic director Laura Smiley, she even donates her own small salary to the cause.

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dise and fees for classes). Small performance troupes perhaps have it roughest: Sales of tickets priced at $23-25 account for just 30 percent of Unseam’d Shakespeare’s budget, for instance. And the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, known for its cutting-edge dance programs, makes just 10 percent of its revenue from admissions, says executive director Janera Solomon. (That’s roughly the same percentage the Carnegie Museums collect, by the way.) Groups make up the difference through individual donations and other giving. That leads to myths like …

In fact, nonprofit arts groups do well to make Foundations Pay for Everything. even half their budget through all earned Pittsburgh’s foundations, most agree, back income (including things like merchan- the arts strongly. Foundation grants are

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crucial to most arts nonprofits, and such giving has largely recovered from the 2008 crash. But competition is fierce: According to the group Grantmakers in the Arts, only about 11 percent of foundation dollars nationally benefit arts and culture (compared to 24 percent for education and 22 percent for health). And most foundations would rather support specific projects than underwrite general operating costs: Unrestricted operating support accounts for just 16 percent of foundations’ arts giving. So even groups that receive project funding must look elsewhere to cover ongoing expenses like salaries.

Government Heavily Subsidizes the Arts. This might be the biggest

myth, thanks partly to 1990s headlines about National Endowment for the Arts funding for controversial artists. But the NEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 budget was just $ 146 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; less than Kickstarter dispensed. Pennsylvania Council on the Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; budget is $8.2 million, half of what it was ďŹ ve years ago.

All government arts spending combined (federal, state and municipal) is $ 1.12 billion, or $ 3.56 per U.S. citizen. (By far the lowest ďŹ gure in the developed world.) Adjusted for inďŹ&#x201A;ation, says Grantmakers in the Arts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;total government funding for the arts has contracted by 31 percent since 1992.â&#x20AC;? Locally, most public arts funding comes from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, a resource whose inďŹ&#x201A;uence Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts head Charlie Humphrey calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;profound.â&#x20AC;? But the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1 percent sales tax doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, as some might believe, solely beneďŹ t the arts: Half that money goes to local governments. After ARAD splits the other half among parks, libraries, stadiums and such, the arts receive about $9.9 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one sales-tax dollar out of 20.

Besides enriching us culturally, arts spending generates economic activity. Advocates like Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council chief Mitch Swain point to a 2012 Americans for the Arts study that found that arts organizations and their audiences spend $ 686 million a year in Allegheny County and support the equivalent of 20,000 fulltime jobs.

Art Groups (and Artists) Spend All Their Time Making Art. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There

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are precious few artists in town who can make a living off their work,â&#x20AC;? says the Heinz Endowmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Janet Sarbaugh. Most have day jobs; many of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top stage actors, for instance, teach. Meanwhile, arts administrators like Silver Eye Center for Photography executive director Ellen Fleurov say they spend more than half their time looking for funding. Some of that energy is expended ďŹ nding earned income. Art groups, notes Solomon, can often make more money holding classes than by presenting art.

Humphrey says Pittsburgh Filmmakers/ Center for the Arts gets 65 percent of its revenue through its classes, screenings and hall rentals (for weddings and such).

Artists Are Bad With Money. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The very best artists are really good at it. They have to be,â&#x20AC;? says Solomon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You give them $ 1 and they can make it last longer than anyone else I know.â&#x20AC;? Artists have a bad reputation with money, she says, because rather than managing money, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to just make art.

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Boxheart Gallery celebrates its 12th annual Artist of the Year with an alluring show

by Kuzana Ogg. The title, Kuzana Ogg: Urbane, refers to the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refined and elegant manner, and alludes to its depiction of urban structures. The Northern California-based artist, selected from among 400 applicants, finds her personal identity within this work, making connections to the experience of living in such different places as Bombay, New York and South Korea.

Ogg transposes microscopic biology, plant life and urban structures into a pulsating laboratory of our humanity. The artist is interested in creating a highly reflective surface with total attention to color interplay. Combinations of disparate forms, the rarefied color (juxtaposed or layered), as well as the precise draftsmanship, distinguishes the work.

The show includes 22 paintings, five pastels and two fabric â&#x20AC;&#x153;sketches.â&#x20AC;? It spans a continuum from bleak cold scenes of a maleficent no-manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-land (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Springvale Rd.â&#x20AC;?) to explosions of color depicting ripe mango trees (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sujeonghwaâ&#x20AC;?). In a flattened painting like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harkness Rd.,â&#x20AC;? the artist describes the harmonic relationships between herself and the outside world. Overall, symmetry is avoided and traditional perspective is eschewed.

Ogg explores the idea that biological and botanical entities share fundamental similarities. In paintings such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eeb,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hehdohâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gulahbaâ&#x20AC;? we witness stained purple organelles and cells undergoing meiosis as well as long curling translucent capillaries. One is reminded of opalescent jellyfish and watery environments bursting with life.

Ogg also offers simulations of office buildings or domestic structures. The structures, in neutral colors of grey and dark purple, are folded back on themselves like origami. Via email, Ogg writes that these images may concern land being reapportioned and houses modified to suit new generations of families.

The viewer finds him/herself intrigued

by Oggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process, which may include up to 15 layers of oil paint. The paint may be dropped, rolled, splashed, thinned or blotted. Often the artist employs uniform disks of various colors to construct forms. These create rhythms and might symbolize fallow fields or newly planted seedlings.

The originality of Oggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work and its aesthetic beauty are good reasons to see the show. The sensitivity to lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fragility, the variety of the work and its spiritual qualities far exceed its detractions. This is an artist who is well aware of her uniqueness, and the work seethes with vitality.

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YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;D HAVE TO be dead not to get at least

some enjoyment out of the University of Pittsburgh Repâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Zanna, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t!

This excessively perky off-Broadway musical from 2002, with music by Tim Acito and lyrics and book by Acito and Alexander Dinelaris, starts at the far end of relentless optimism, kicks it up a few notches to explosive joy, and ďŹ nishes somewhere past delirious cheer. I think I might have seen the cast take a breath about halfway through, but I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bet on it.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in Heartsville, U.S.A., at Heartsville High School, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like any other cartoony, Crayola-colored spoof of middle America â&#x20AC;Ś except itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gay. And

leads suddenly realize theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in love, the town is up in arms.

If it sounds even remotely polemical, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not telling it right. Except for a brief coda, Zanna, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t! has only one thing on its mind â&#x20AC;Ś to entertain the shit out of you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bubblegum score and a genuinely funny script, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m delighted to recommend this over-the-top production.

Director Robert C.T. Steele must have led rehearsals at gunpoint. The collective energy of this student cast is off the charts, and while maybe not everyone has Broadway pipes, every last single one of them plays the humor like a seasoned pro. Mami Tomotani has created genuinely funny choreography, and vocal director Stacey Cabaj â&#x20AC;&#x201D; along with musical director Harry Jemson and his band â&#x20AC;&#x201D; provide excellent support to this cast.

I want to mention all of them by name: Rocky Paterra, Aric Berning, Liz Dooley, Ethan Miller, Jay Garcia, Jenna Simmons, Tim Kaniecki, Ellen Connally and Harry Hawkins. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking nothing away from any of them to single out the hysterical performance of Laci Mosley, whose way with a joke is nothing sort of astounding.

ZANNA DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T! HAS ONLY ONE THING ON ITS MIND â&#x20AC;Ś TO ENTERTAIN THE SHIT OUT OF YOU.

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I mean waaaay gay. Zanna, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t! takes place in a homo-normative world in which everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LGBT and people have heard about straights but never really met any.

This year the drama club decides to be relevant and stage a musical about allowing heteros into the army. Shocking enough.

But when the man and woman playing the

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structions of the Bard with something it usually doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do: a pretty straightforward rendition of somebody elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avonian interpretation. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) has been in pretty much eternal production since ďŹ rst unleashed in 1987 by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess WinďŹ eld for the Reduced Shakespeare Co. (no relation).

The shtick is that three actors perform, or at least represent, all of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works in 97 minutes, with dozens of rapid (if unrealistic) costume changes, unseemly asides and occasional improvisations for highbrow low-concept comedy. The RSC has milked, er, worked this condensed concept into history, sports and other themes to create an army of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Complete [ďŹ ll in the blanks] (Abridged)â&#x20AC;? companies constantly touring throughout the Anglophonic world. Ha. OK, for us older theater-goers, the joke has sometimes, somewhat worn thin, the misogynistic and homophobic â&#x20AC;&#x153;humorâ&#x20AC;? brittle. But regularly revised and improvised to reďŹ&#x201A;ect current pop culture and

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local references, Complete Shakespeare is a good vehicle to test the mettle of cast and crew. So cheer on the winning local team, directed by Elizabeth Ruelas, as they rip Romeo, rap Othello, mangle Macbeth, tenderize Titus and haul Hamlet through increasingly frenetic iterations.

Andy Kirtland, Unseamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new artistic associate and producer, multi-tasks even further as fight choreographer as well as actor, including a cast-againsttype line-up of hirsute Shakespearean heroines. Nicholas J. Browne plays the wide-eyed, slim-legged youth who usually gets dragged into the drag roles, and Connor McCanlus is in suitable pompous mode as a series of buffoons. Deserved applause also goes to stage manager Charlene Jacka and to designers Jennifer Gilbert, costumes; Danielle DePalma, lighting; Elizabeth Ruelas, sound; and Santina Moran-Seaborne, scenery (also the heroic properties master).

A good time is had by all. The Unseamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Shakespeare Co. takes a short busmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holiday with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

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Even if one of Paula Poundstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standup-comedy performances starts off slowly, she has something in her favor: a theater filled with people ready to laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing worse than a group of people who came out for a meeting,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Or to â&#x20AC;Ś protest, or make a law or something.â&#x20AC;?

The comedian, a fixture on NPRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wait Wait â&#x20AC;Ś Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Tell Me quiz show, recalls a recent meeting at her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school about using online math programs instead of textbooks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, it was heinous,â&#x20AC;? she says, by phone from her home in Santa Monica, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud of myself that I only made one comment the entire time. I said the textbook is good because it can catch the tears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly, the head-of-school guy turned to me and laughed and everybody else glowered at me. So I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say another word.

[I thought,] I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong in this room.â&#x20AC;?

Gruff but never nasty, Poundstone began more than 30 years ago with her observational brand of humor, which works best without preparation. She walks onstage with only a vague outline of the evening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have kind of an evolving skeleton in my head. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay the same ever,â&#x20AC;? she says.

When her act moved toward theater settings in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, the trend in comedy clubs was toward mean-spirited humor that was â&#x20AC;&#x153;loud and yelly with no punchline.â&#x20AC;? Now, she feels, things might be a little more sinister, thanks partly to social media. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit like the way people are in their cars: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll flip people off and yell mean things that they would never do were they not in the little metal box, feeling powerful. When I was growing up, we were all told if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have something nice to say, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it. Well I said it anyway, sometimes,â&#x20AC;? she admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But now they say if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything nice to say, retweet it.â&#x20AC;?

People enjoy being offended, she adds. It reminds her of a Lenny Bruce routine about his obscenity trial where the judge and prosecutor repeat the same words that got the comedian arrested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so offensive, then why are you saying it?â&#x20AC;? she asks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think people get off on finding things to be offended by.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not me,â&#x20AC;? she quips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the other assholes.â&#x20AC;?

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Visitors are invited to submit their own photos inspired by the exhibition; every day, a new submission will be hung alongside its inspiration in the gallery. The show kicks off with a launch party. Jeff Ihaza 6 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-622-3212 or www.ohsnap.cmoa.org

{WORDS} If you want to know what’s ailing your favorite team on the field, then perhaps Dave Zirin isn’t the sports writer for you. But if you want to know what’s wrong with your team and the world of sports in general, Zirin and his Edge of Sports blog might be exactly the ticket. The controversial sports writer and author speaks tonight at a forum sponsored by the International Socialist Organization at Shadyside’s Friends Meeting House. Zirin will discuss sports, politics and his new book tackling both: Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.

Charlie Deitch 7:30 p.m. 4836 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. Free. isopittsburgh.blogspot.com

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bullying. Mean Girls is a touring show (in partnership with the nonprofit Strong Women, Strong Girls) that debuts at SPACE. Tonight’s opening reception includes a spokenword performance by German.

Bill O’Driscoll 5:30-9 p.m.

Exhibit continues through April 28. 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org

{STAGE} Seasoned monologist David Cale is a favorite at The Andy Warhol Museum’s Off the Wall series. His most recent soldout appearance was 2009’s

+ FRI., FEB. 22 {ART} Expect thoughtful and unpredictable takes on bullying among U.S. schoolgirls from Mean Girls. Curator Jill Larson (late of Fe Gallery) has chosen a diverse array of widely known artists, including Pittsburgh’s Vanessa German and Sonja Sweterlitsch and also Brooklyn-based artist and activist Traci Molloy, who explore loss in relation to adolescent violence and

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BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $20-25. 412-2378300 or www.warhol.org

{DANCE} For the latest in her series of health-care-themed dance works, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet’s Maria Caruso immersed herself in stories of loss from Highmark’s Caring Place, a center for grieving children, adolescents and their families. Whispers of Light is a 70-minute ballet performed by 18 dancers and 14 children from the Caring Place, set to an original score performed live by a 13-piece orchestra. The show premieres at the Byham Theater with performances tonight and tomorrow. Steve Sucato 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22, and 8 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 23. 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $26.95-100. 412456-6666 or www.trustarts.org.

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sp otlight After years of busting small-time hoods, he’s no millionaire playboy, and rescuing damsels in distress hasn’t made this crime-fighter less lonely. It’s a job, and it keeps Pittsburgh Batman in beer and hoagies. Pittsburgh might take his gruff, old-school service for granted … until a criminal mastermind unleashes a crime wave on all yinz. Indie stage play Pittsburgh Batman, premiering with three performances Feb. 21-23, promises a satirical but “ultimately loving send-up of some of the quirks of Pittsburgh,” says Jarrod Weeks, the playwright and lead. A confessed comic-book geek, Weeks has written a novel and two screenplays; he’s best known as Lord Grunge, of underground hip-hop duo Grand Buffet. Pittsburgh Batman, too, has music-scene ties. Grand Buffet staged a rowdy reunion show as a fundraiser, and its 15 performers are more familiar with musical stages than with theater. Written in 2008 (yes, before Christian Bale came calling), the play grew out of tour-van riffs with bandmates and road buddies. The cast includes Grand Buffet, actor Patrick Jordan and Ultimate Donny of Gil Mantera’s Party Dream. Some local celebrities will be impersonated; some, like Weird Paul, play themselves. “The mission is not to offend; it’s to entertain at all costs,” says Weeks. “It’s as much a love letter as a prod.” Aaron Jentzen Thu., Feb. 21-Sat., Feb. 23. Bricolage Productions, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Sold out at press time. www.pittsburghbatman.com

Tonight and tomorrow, Mark Lundholm returns. The edgy, high-energy touring comic is known for his acclaimed one-man show Addicted: A Comedy of Substance, which played off-Broadway; tonight’s performance is followed tomorrow by two alcohol-free shows aimed at the recovery community. Sunday, there’s Mitch Hedberg’s Birthday Party, in which local comics honor the late, great Hedberg with jokes in his style. The evening (benefiting the Greater Pittsburgh

can do much better. Today’s Green Gatherings: Behind the Wheel showcases cars fueled with something besides gasoline. Mechanics and reps from groups like GTECH and Fossil Free Fuels visit Baum Boulevard Automotive to answer questions. And there’s on-site test-driving of everything from a pickup truck converted to run on used cooking oil to a swanky Tesla Model S electric car. The event is cosponsored by

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nizer Kacey Wherley’s lineup of 10 local speakers with innovative ideas includes: Braddock Mayor John Fetterman; serial social entrepreneur and Couchange founder Jia Ji; and architect and sustainability activist Christine Mondor.

The live event, Downtown, is sold out, but there are free webcast parties in Uptown, Oakland and East Liberty.

The ticketed after-party, Downtown ($25), doubles as a launch for nightlife pub Urbanist Pittsburgh and boasts a smorgasbord by local restaurants and drinks purveyors.

BO 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

After-party: 5:3010 p.m. (812 Liberty Ave., Downtown). www.tedxgrandview ave.com

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Community Food Bank) features Mitcheoke, highlighting tales of working with Hedberg.

BO Lundholm: 8 p.m. Also 8 and 10 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23 ($25).

Hedberg Birthday: 8 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 24 ($8). 200 Federal St., North Side. 412-231-1112 or www.wolfiescomedy.com

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Pittsburgh’s Exploitation Celebration — nine films representing the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s shlock cinema of seven countries. From the homegrown 1968 chopper flick Angels from Hell and Taiwanese revenge pic WolfDevil Woman to an amusingly titled women’s prison drama (The Big Bust Out) and the Spanish chainsaw-killer film Pieces, there’s something for every grindhouse fan.

Al Hoff 11:30 a.m. 1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont. $15 (single films for $5). www. thehollywooddormont.org

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fun (including a gallery scavenger hunt) and cake; the paywhat-you-wish price includes museum admission. Later, Tom Sarver’s Art Olympic Theatre returns. Three teams of artists led by Nina Marie Barbuto, Julia Cahill and Christiane Leach will compete to build sculptural installations from a mystery hoard of materials.

Spectators enjoy food, drink, audience games and music.

BO Community Party: 1-4 p.m.

Art Olympic Theatre: 5-7 p.m. ($20). 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. 412-231-3169 or www.mattress.org

versary. The world-renowned museum of installation art launches its year-long celebration with two events. This afternoon’s Community Party invites families for hands-on

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+ THU., FEB. 28 {COMEDY} Hannibal Buress says he doesn’t put a napkin in his lap when he goes out to eat because “I believe in myself.”

Tonight, the former SNL writer and current co-host of The Eric Andre Show, on Adult Swim, brings his witty one-liners to Mr. Small’s Theater in Millvale for a live standup show as part of his national tour. JI 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $20-22. 866-468-3401 or www.mrsmalls.com

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

AMERICAN IDIOT. Thru Feb. 24. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

BLACK PEARL SINGS! Playwright Frank Higgins’s musical take on tales of Lead Belly & John A. Lomax. Presented by New Horizon Theater, Inc. Thu-Sun. Thru March 3. Kingsley Center, East Liberty. 412-661-8721.

CHESS. In the midst of the Cold War, Freddie Trumper of the United States & Anatoly Sergievsky of the Soviet Union face off in a world championship chess tournament. Thu-Sun. Thru March 3. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). Presented by the Unseam’d Shakespeare Company.

Thu-Sun. Thru March 2. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown.

THE GREAT BIG WESTERN SHOW. Old Italian-style comedic take on the American West.

Presented by Theatre San Serif.

Feb. 22-23. Future Tenant, Downtown. 412-325-7037.

HARRY CLARKE. Sexually charged one-man thriller about a shy Midwestern man who feels more himself when adopting the persona of a cocky Londoner. Written & performed

by David Cale. Feb. 22-23. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side.

412-237-8300.

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

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1-888-718-4253.

THE MIRACLE WORKER. The story of teacher Anne Sullivan’s attempt to reach the inner world of deaf, blind & mute Helen Keller.

Fri-Sun. Thru March 3. Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland.

724-643-9004.

THE NERD. An odd character wears out his welcome when he

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New Castle Playhouse, New Castle. 724-654-3437.

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by Pittsburgh Coalition of OPERA WORKSHOP: Leather & BDSM Women & DIALOGUES OF THE the GLCC. Feb. 22-23. The Grey CARMELITES. Production Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. fully staged & accompanied 412-499-0817. by the Duquesne YOU SAY TOMATO, Symphony Orchestra.

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ZANNA, DON’T! The small Bricolage, Downtown. town of Heartsville is turned 412-656-5705.

PITTSBURGH OPERA’S CABARET. on its head when high school students put on a musical w/ Presented by the Pittsburgh a scandalous heterosexual Opera resident artists. Tue, Fri-Sun. kiss. Tue-Sun. Thru March 3.

Thru Feb. 26. Pittsburgh Opera, Henry Heymann Theatre, Strip District. 412-456- 6666.

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COMEDY THU 21 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Thu. Thru Feb. 28 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

COMIC WARS: AARON KLEIBER, CHUCK MIGNANELLI, TIM ROSS, SHANNON NORMAN. Stand-up & improv challenges. 8 p.m.

North Park Lounge, McCandless.

310-909-6446.

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

412-325-6769.

THU 21 - SAT 23 JB SMOOVE. Feb. 21-23 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

FRI 22 FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Fri, 9 p.m. Thru March 29 Toros Performance Lounge, Friendship.

412-657-4245.

PAULA POUNDSTONE. Carnegie Library Of Homestead Music Hall, Munhall. 412-368-5225.

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

412-488-2995.

FRI 22 - SAT 23 MARK LUNDHOLM. Shows on Saturday will be alcohol-free.

Feb. 22-23 Mullen’s Bar & Grill, North Side. 310-909-6446.

SAT 23 BILL BENDEN, LIONEL HAMILTON, MIKE WYSOCKI. 6 p.m. Salvatore’s Banquet Hall, Baldwin. 412-334-5646.

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DOC DIXON, AUGGIE COOK, DAVID KAYE. Building #4. 7 p.m.

Washington County Fairgrounds, Washington. 412-327-7609.

THE LAST LAUGH. 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

LAURENCE MULLANEY, LISA DAPPRICH, TERRY JONES. 7 p.m.

The Rose Bar and Grille, White Oak. 412-751-6960.

LAWPROV. 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.

Call for appointment. O’Hara.

412-782-4231.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939. Furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, & jewelry produced by Herman Miller, Tiffany, more.

20/20: Celebrating Two Decades of the Heinz Architectural Center.

Feat. timeline highlighting important exhibitions & events, a display of 20 objects from the collection selected by current or past curatorial staff, more.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives that Transform Communities.

MITCH HEDBERG’S BIRTHDAY Folk art objects illustrating the COMEDY JAM & OSCAR power of women working PARTY. 8 p.m. Mullen’s Bar & Grill, together to provide for their North Side. 310-909-6446. families, educate their children, promote equality, & TOTALLY FREE give back to their MONDAYS. Mon, communities. BugWorks.

8 p.m. Steel City Improv Feat. beautiful photography of insects, Theater, Shadyside. . amazing specimens, 412-322-1000. www per a p ty ci & live bugs! Life: A pgh m .co Journey Through Time OPEN MIC STAND UP & Population Impact thru COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Jan., Winging It: Experimental Derek Minto & John Pridmore.

Gallery About Birds thru March, Tue, 9:30 p.m. Smiling Moose, Lord of the Crane Flies thru South Side. 412-612-4030.

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

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome Wed Younger’s, North Side. (planetarium), Miniature 412-452-3267.

Railroad and Village, USS STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN Requin submarine, and more.

MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. The BeerHive, North Side. 412-237-3400.

Strip District. 412-904-4502.

DEPRECIATION LANDS WOLFIE’S COMIC WARS. MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the Stand-up & improv challenges. settlement and history of the Every other Wed. Thru Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

March 13 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-486-0563.

310-909-6446.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501.

HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military FORT PITT MUSEUM. artifacts and exhibits on the Reconstructed fort houses Allegheny Valley’s industrial museum of Pittsburgh history heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666. circa French & Indian War and American Revolution. Downtown.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. 412-281-9285.

Regarding Warhol: Sixty FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Artists, Fifty Years. Juxtaposing CENTER. Ongoing: tours of prime examples of Warhol’s Clayton, the Frick estate, with paintings, sculpture, & films classes, car & carriage museum. with those by other artists Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. who reinterpret, respond, or HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour react to his work. North Side. this Tudor mansion and stable 412-237-8300. complex, and enjoy hikes AUGUST WILSON CENTER and outdoor activities in the FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN surrounding park. Allison Park.

CULTURE. The Nazi Olympics: 412-767-9200.

Berlin 1936. An exhibit exploring KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the 1936 Olympic Games including other Frank Lloyd Wright house. use of propaganda, the boycott Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. debate, history of the torch KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. run, & the historic performance Tours of a restored 19th-century, of Jesse Owens. Curated by middle-class home. Oakmont. the United States Holocaust 412-826-9295.

Memorial Museum. Downtown.

MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection 412-258-2700. includes jade and ivory statues BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large from China and Japan, as well collection of automatic rollas Meissen porcelain. Butler. played musical instruments and 724-282-0123. music boxes in a mansion setting.

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Downtown. 412-325-7017.

709 PENN GALLERY. Feminine Aesthetics. Women of Visions, Inc. group show feat. Denise “Mike” Johnson, Mary Martin, Vanessa German, JoAnne Bates, Christine McCray Bethea, Richena Brockinson, more.

Opening reception: Feb. 22, 6-8 p.m. Downtown.

412-471-6070.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Oh Snap! Your Take on Our Photographs. Collaborative project feat. visitor-submitted photos responding to recent additions in the museum’s photography collection.

Opening Feb. 21. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Revelation. Work

by Artur Vasilevich. Opening reception: Feb. 23, 5-8 p.m.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. A Kind of Alchemy: Medieval Persian Ceramics.

A look at the diversity of ceramics made in ancient Persia, now present-day Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan.

Feat. 10th-century splashware, buffware, slip-painted ware, lusterware & 14thcentury fritware, more.

Opens Feb. 23. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Interiors. Oil paintings by Jonelle Summerfield. Opening reception: Feb. 22, 7-10 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488.

SPACE. Mean Girls. Work by Jenn Gooch, Sonja Sweterlitsch, Randie Snow, Vanessa German, more. Opening reception: Feb. 22, 5:30-9 p.m., feat. spoken word performance by Vanessa German. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

ONGOING 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.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. Hats Off. Work by Sally Allen, Pat Kelly, Bernie Pintar, Sickles, more.

East Liberty. 412-465-0140.

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.

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MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open for tours, lectures and more.

Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

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

412-323-7235.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott. 412-851-9212.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Orchid & Tropical Bonsai Show. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the world. Oakland.

412-622-6914.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Tintypes.

Photographs on polished steel that brought the first lower-cost, indestructible photos within price range of the average person.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

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

RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos and artifacts of her life & work.

Springdale. 724-274-5459.

RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Homestead Mill. Steel industry and community artifacts from 1881-1986. Homestead.

412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. 1968: The Year that Rocked America.

Nearly a dozen interactive video presentations & more than 100 evocative artifacts that explore how the year 1968 helped shape our modern world. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement.

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

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side. 412-323-9504.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling and coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. Scottdale.

724-887-7910.

SPECIAL SUN 24 KEAN QUEST TALENT SEARCH. Voice competition in six rounds benefiting St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. Fri., March 1, Sun., March 10, Sun., March 17 and Fri., April 5 Kean Theatre, Gibsonia.

724-443-0800 x 5310.

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KST PRESENTS SPRING 2013

SUNSTAR Music Festival Celebrating Independent Women in Music Telling the World How to Treat You: A Conversation with Women in the Arts Thursday, March 7 :: 6:30pm The Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave Light Asylum Friday, March 8 :: 10pm 6119 Penn Ave A Tribute to First Ladies of Jazz Saturday, March 9 :: 8pm The Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave

Ruth Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Lionel Popkin Friday, March 15 & Saturday, March 16 :: 8pm Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave

STAYCEE PEARL dance project WORLD PREMIERE

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Mash Up Body Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies Friday, April 5 & Saturday, April 6 :: 8pm The Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave

Friday, February 22 & Saturday February 23, 2013

Originally inspired by current conversations in the media about race and identity, SPdp has created a body of dancecentered multi-media works examining the notion of Blackness and Post-Blackness, while dealing with the layered complexities of gender, sexuality, and cultural expectations. Sound designer/DJ/producer Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl collaborates with live sound on-stage.

Funding for the STAYCEE PEARL dance project was provided by the Robert C. Smith Fund and the Betsy R. Clark Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation; and The Heinz Endowments.

Staycee Pearl dance project photo by Bill Shirley

Miriam Nora Chipaumire Friday, April 19 & Saturday, April 20 :: 8pm Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave Co-presented with the Warhol Museum

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Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

SAT 23 - SUN 24 THE CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT. Dance & choreography by Duquesne University’s dance company Exhalations Dance Theatre. Feb. 23-24 New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

412-320-4610.

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FUNDRAISERS THU 21 BENEFIT DINNER FOR BURUNDI. Proceeds will help Burundians restart businesses, pay rent & support their children.

4:30-7 p.m. LaRoche College, Wexford. 800-838-4572.

POLISH PIEROGI PARKING LOT PARTY. Feat. the Polish Pierogi Truck. Benefits Northland Public Library. 2-7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless.

412-366-8100.

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OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Mon-Sat: Noon-2am Sunday: 3pm-2am

135 9th Street 412-281-7703 www.blushexotic.com

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VISUAL ART

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.

Work by Lynn Fero. Downtown.

412-392-8008.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Topographies.

Work by 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.

HOLLYWOOD PARTY: SALUTE TO THE PALACE. Entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, dessert buffet, & themed décor. Benefits Westmoreland Cultural Trust.

7 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

PRE-OSCAR PARTY FUNDRAISING GALA. Live music, dinner, red carpet bingo, more. Benefits The Parkway Theater. 7 p.m.

The Parkway Theater, McKees Rocks. 412-952-9758.

SOMEDAY IS TODAY. Live music, auction, more. Benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

10 p.m. Shadow Lounge, East Liberty. 412-980-2122.

THE SOUL CAFE: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICANAMERICAN SIGHTS, SONGS & STORIES. Spoken word & musical performances, silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, more.

Benefits the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s college scholarship. 7 p.m. Roland’s Iron Landing, Strip District.

412-339-0730.

SPAGHETTI DINNER. Benefits Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village Brazil Trip.

2ND ANNUAL B*TCHES BALL. 4-8 p.m. Hot Metal Bridge Celebrating World Spay Day w/ Faith Community, South Side. comedians, drag competition, 412-351-0512. more. Benefits the Animal WINTERFEST. Chili Rescue League. 6 p.m. cook-off, beer tasting, Cruze Bar, Strip District. more. Helps benefit 412-345-7300.

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

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

Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

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BOOKS IN THE AFTERNOON. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan. 1 & 6 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.

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.

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.

Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

GAME OVER: A FORUM W/ DAVE ZIRIN. Author of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.

Presented by International Socialist Organization Pittsburgh.

Email isopitt@gmail.com for information. 7:30 p.m.

Friends Meeting House, Oakland.

412-683-2669.

THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour. wordpress.com Third and First Thu of every month The Big

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 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. Drawn to Peace: The Art of Atila Ozer. O The Art of Akira. Production art from Katsuhiro Otomo’s film.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Born of Fire: The Valley Work.

Greensburg. 724-837-1500.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Power Pixels 2013. New selfgenerative video installations, includes the world premiere of Miguel Chevalier’s latest work, Digital-Archi (Meta Cities).

Downtown. 412-471-5605.

Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield.

412-687-4323.

JENNIFER HAIGH. Author of The Condition. 6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT & A PRAYER: WRITINGS TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS. Monologues by world-renowned authors & playwrights read by members of the Pittsburgh Passion. 8 p.m. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576.

THE NEW YINZER PRESENTS. Laura E. Davis, Ryan Kauffman, Lucy Leitner, Daniel McCloskey, & Matt Stidle.

8 p.m. ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-362-0274.

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TIM DORSEY. Author of The Riptide Ultra-Guide: A Novel.

7 p.m. Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont. 888-800-6078.

FRI 22 OAKLAND OPEN MIC. Poetry, music & political speeches welcome. Second and Fourth Fri of every month, 7 p.m.

610-731-1804.

PALS BOOK CLUB. For seniors.

10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

STACEY WAITE. Madwomen Reading Series. 7:30 p.m.

Carlow University, Oakland.

412-578-8749.

5887 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

412-352-3417

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

WED 27 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

THU 21 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.

THE BIRTH OF THE NAACP & NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: A MODEL FOR 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN & JEWISH COMMUNITY COOPERATION. Great Collaborations Town Hall Meeting. 5:30 p.m. August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

412-992-5247.

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

CULTURE CLUB. Salon-style conversation & happy hour. Third Thu of every month, 5:30-9 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland.

412-622-3131.

GLOBAL CHALLENGES & LOCAL IMPACTS: HIV/AIDS. Panel discussion and Q&A about HIV/ AIDS & the effect that it’s having in communities all over the world.

Panel includes Corey O’ Connor, Shennod Moore, & Dr. Linda Frank.

6 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-471-7852.

paper BRING YOUR OWN pghcitym .co BARD: SHAKERAPUNZEL. Sat, Sun. SPEARE’S GHOSTS. Thru March 17 Gemini Informal scene night, actors Theater, Point Breeze. & non-actors read works of 412-243-5201.

Shakespeare. 7:15 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-6406.

BROWN BAG LUNCH BUNCH. A lunchtime story for kids SCOTT SILSBE, BOB HARTLEY. ages 3-6. Mon, 12:30 p.m.

Reading w/ authors of Unattended Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley.

Fire & Following Tommy. 8 p.m.

412-741-3838.

Coffee Buddha, West View.

412-559-4352.

DISNEY ON ICE PRESENTS: TREASURE TROVE. Feb. 27CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. March 3 Consol Energy Center, Informal knitting session. Wed, Uptown. 412-642-1800.

5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

CONVERSATION SALON. [VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY] Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of every month, 1 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless.

412-366-8100.

PITTBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Discussing Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith. 7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh, in Roasters, Shadyside. 412-481-7663.

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THU 21 GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD‘S SHOW. Multimedia show about a creature from the sun exploring his new home. 7 p.m. Upper St. Clair Township Library, Upper St. Clair.

412-835-5540.

THU 21 -TUE 26 MOVE IT! JUST DANCE TOURNAMENT. Thru Feb. 26, 1-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

THU 21 - WED 27 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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EAST LIBERTY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ORCHESTRA. All levels of orchestra instruments are invited. Parents are invited to join & play w/ their children. Sat, 3-4:30 p.m. Thru March 23 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

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A BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING. Readings from classic African American literature.

Presented by Demaskus Theater Group. 2 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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YOUTH MAKER NIGHT. Experience the MAKESHOP after hours. Ages 10-15. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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

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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.

Lawrenceville, helps the families of seriously ill children by offering temporary housing to those who have to travel to the area for treatment. Volunteers are needed for both regular positions and one-time projects, including everything from cleaning to administrative work to organizing family-friendly activities. For information, call 412-246-1103 or visit www.rmhcpgh.org.

OUTSIDE SAT 23 CHERRY PIE HIKE. Celebrate George Washington’s birthday w/ a hike, history, & cherry pie. The Old Stone House, Slippery Rock.

724-283-0191.

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

Call Friday to confirm. Sat. Thru March 30 Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

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

MEDICAL & NON-MEDICAL PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS. Learn about ways to battle your child’s attention issues. 7 p.m. Pediatric Alliance - Arcadia Division, McCandless. 724-940-1090.

RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from

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the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.

412-567-7512.

SEED-STARTING. 7 p.m. Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside.

412-441-4442.

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

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CRITIC: Jacklyn Youra, 23, a student from Plum

BREAKFAST BRIEFING: STATE OF THE COUNTY ADDRESS. Speaker: Rich Fitzgerald. 7:30 a.m. Pittsburgh Airport Marriott, Coraopolis.

412-264-6270.

LAUGHTER WORKSHOP. 8:30 a.m. Volunteers of America, Sharpsburg. 724-942-0486.

PUBLIC ART WALKING TOUR. Begins at David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. 7 p.m.

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SHOOTING BLACK & WHITE: TALK BY JESSICA STEIGERWALD TORO. Part of the Speaking Light series. Thayer Hall. 6 p.m.

Point Park University, Downtown.

412-391-4100.

WANT JOB & CAREER EXPO. Register at www.wantexpo.org.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Four Points Sheraton, Greensburg. 412-836-6060.

WHEN: Sat.,

Feb. 16 I had a great time seeing all of the acts; the improv group Player 1 was really good. I especially liked the band that played, Burger Time. I loved their cover songs and I thought they were really funny. I like the atmosphere of the theater; it was very intimate and personal, like during the show by Arcade Radio Mysteries, it definitely had an up-close-and-personal, campfire-stories feel. The headliner for the night, Gene Collier, was hilarious. I had never seen him before and I was pleasantly surprised.

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SAT 23 ARTBAR. A grown-up art class for all levels. Materials are provided. 3-5 p.m. Marty’s Market, Strip District. 412-573-9590.

EACH ONE TEACH ONE. Vendors, spaghetti dinner, history presentations, & more in recognition of Black History Month & American Heart Month. 1-5 p.m. Prince Hall Masonic Temple, Wilkinsburg.

412-452-3629.

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

INDOOR FARMERS MARKET. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Juniper Village, Forest Hills. 412-242-3985.

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

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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

THE ME; THE MARKET; THE MONEY. Business Skills Development Workshop.

8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1253.

OSCAR WEEKEND FILM & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NETWORKING PARTY. Hosted

by Carnegie Screenwriters.

8 p.m. BZ’s Bar & Grill, North Side. 412-323-2924.

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

Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844.

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

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

412-683-5670.

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

412-362-6108.

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

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

SUN 24 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland.

412-683-3727.

CARRIE FURNACE PHOTO SAFARI. Presented by Silver Eye Center for Photography. 9 a.m.12 p.m. & 2-5 p.m. Carrie Furnace, Rankin. 412-431-1810.

PITTSBURGH’S TEEN OSCAR PARTY. Pittsburgh movie trivia, filmmaking lessons from Hollywood professionals & local filmmakers, more.

Teens only. 2 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6000.

MON 25 ARTBAR. A grown-up art class for all levels. Materials are provided.

7-9 p.m. Bar Marco, Strip District.

412-573-9590.

BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A support group for women 30+.

Second and Fourth Mon of every

month Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry, North Park.

THE DEN. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

GENEALOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 1-3 p.m. Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg.

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JIM CROW DAY: PRIVILEGE – THE CORE OF RACISM? Enjoy spirited discussions, artwork created by youth from Addison’s African centered Rites of Passage Program & performances in partnership w/ Bricolage. Addison Behavioral Care, Wilkinsburg.

412-731-2353.

MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.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. 412-683-5670.

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

TUE 26 CREATING A RAIN GARDEN. 6:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

DIANA AL-HADID. CMU School of Art Lecture Series. 5 p.m.

Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

412-279-2970.

JEWS, RACE, & THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN CITY. Speaker:

Pizza & Beer Night tuesdays

Thomas Sugrue, urban & civil rights historian. 7 p.m. August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

412-624-2280.

MEDIA ARCHIVING FOR EVERYONE. Discussion w/ Lindsay Mattock on better file management, transferring media, archiving media from mobile devices, more. 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Oakland.

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Interactive workshop for those examining a career in the NFL. All ages welcome. 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Mars Area Public Library, Mars.

724-625-9048.

YOUR BIG DAY BRIDAL SHOW. 5:30-9 p.m. La Casa Narcisi, Gibsonia. 724-444-4744.

$15 large pizza & pitcher domestic beer FREE POOL all night

Wind Up wednesdays

$2 Miller Lite Drafts til 12am FREE POOL all night ½ off Select Appetizers 9-11pm

Thirsty thursdays

$7 Yuengling Pitchers til 12am $4 Absolut Vodka 10-12pm

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$2 Bud Light Drafts til 12am $5 Long Island Special

WED 27 BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP. For Widows/Widowers over 50. Second and Fourth Wed of every month, 1-2:30 p.m.

St. Sebastian Church, Ross.

412-366-1300.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM: DIASPORA OF DESIGN. Lecture by Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University. 7 p.m. Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

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

KEEPING THINGS MOVING IN THE STUDIO. w/ Dana Ingham.

AiP Gallery Speaker Series. 5 p.m.

Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Downtown. 412-263-6600.

LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English.

Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION SERIES. Learn how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Wed, 6 p.m. Thru March 13 Angora Gardens, White Oak. 412-675-8556.

PFLAG WASHINGTON. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Fourth Wed of every month First Presbyterian Church, Downtown. 412-471-3436.

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

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

URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m.

Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg.

412-242-4345.

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

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actresses between 18-30 years old for the movie production “Discover Me!” Call Robert for further details. 412-904-2954.

GEMINI THEATER COMPANY. Auditions for Sword in the Stone.

Ahora en Español 18+

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Artists’ guild Women of Visions, Inc. — founded in 1981 to promote the art of African-American women — gets a jump on Women’s History Month with its new exhibit, Feminine Aesthetics. The group show features 13 female artists, including Vanessa German, Richena Brockinson and curator Elizabeth Asche Douglas, working in a wide range of media, and all dealing with the question, “What is beauty?”

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{BY DAN SAVAGE}

I hosted a live taping of the Savage Lovecast on Valentine’s Day, and it went great — thanks to all who came (especially to the five boys who left with butt plugs in their butts) — but I had a drink or five afterward, and I’m so fucking hungover right now that I shouldn’t be sitting upright, much less giving advice. But deadlines are deadlines. So here we go …

I’m a 31-year-old genderqueer in Brooklyn with a large family on Long Island. My sister got engaged 48 hours ago, and she’s moving fast on planning the wedding. I have two questions.

Question #1: I texted my sister the only date I wasn’t available in the next two years, which is Columbus Day weekend 2013. I have my 10-year college reunion, which I’ve been organizing. My sister texted me back that they picked this Columbus Day weekend for the wedding even though they have no idea if the places they want will be booked up. They didn’t check with anyone about potential conflicts. She wants me to be the maid of honor, and I’m not sure what to do. She’s really upset with me. Columbus Day weekend is of no significance to them, and I can’t reschedule the reunion.

Question #2: I was born female but do not identify that way. I’m genderqueer and do not look like a girl. I have not worn a dress in 10 years and feel like I’m in drag in one. In the past, my sister said she would consider putting me in a pantsuit-ish kind of thing at her wedding, which would be great, but I am worried that now I’m rocking the boat too much with this Columbus Day thing. My girlfriend, who is very pretty and feminine, said if I had to wear a dress, she’d go in a suit and bow tie.

If for some reason my sister can’t get her weekend, it will be because they’re rushing and everything is booked, but I have already caused trouble! Is it worth it to fight for the pantsuit thing, or should I just leave it alone and do what she wants?

furious with her maid-of-honor-elect is a bad sign. You’ll be doing yourself, both families, and your sister a service if you stand up to her now. A little pushback now will either prevent your sister from going Bridezilla or get you dropped from the wedding party. You literally can’t lose. So tell your sister now that you’re delighted to be her maid of honor, if scheduling allows, and that you look forward to shopping for a pantsuit that matches her dress and the dresses of her bridal party. If she tells you that you have to wear a dress to be her maid of honor, then it’s clear that the dress is more important to her than the person wearing it, and you should tell her to find someone else to model it at her wedding.

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My boyfriend and I are talking about getting married, and I am incredibly excited about marrying this awesome dude. My problem is that my ideal engagement ring is something that looks nice but is cheap. Seriously, a $50 ring would be perfect. I don’t want something expensive because (A) it’ll make me paranoid about losing it/having it stolen, and (B) I’d rather use the money for something else, like a house.

However, my guy wants to spend about a grand on an engagement/wedding ring set. Given his income, this is far from an outrageous expense, but I’d still rather have my $50 cubic zirconia.

I’ve talked with him about this, and we joke about how the stereotypical roles are reversed here, with me being the one who wants to go cheap and him wanting something more. But he’s holding fast. Any ideas how I might be able to make him see that he’s my prize, not the jewelry?

LEARNING TO PICK YOUR BATTLES IS THE SECRET TO A HAPPY, SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Answer #1: If your sister didn’t check with anyone about potential conflicts, then your sister should’ve anticipated that some folks wouldn’t be able to attend. Folks have lives and commitments of their own, which means they can have conflicts, and your sister could’ve worked around those conflicts if she had cared to ask about them. But she seems to be one of those brides-to-be who think an engagement ring on her finger puts her ass at the center of the universe. Here’s hoping your sister can’t get the venue she wants and has to reschedule. If that doesn’t happen, tell your sister you’ll be with her in spirit and send a gift.

Answer #2: The fact that your sister has been engaged for 48 hours and is already

NOT A RING GIRL

The difference between the engagement ring you’d prefer and the ring set your fiancé wants to buy — $950 — ain’t nothin’, but it’s not enough to buy a fucking house. I could see digging in your heels if your fiancé wanted to spend twenty grand on a ring, as that kind of money would go a long way toward a down payment; I could see going to war if he was planning to go into debt to buy you a rock. But learning to pick your battles is the secret to a happy, successful marriage, and the difference between a $50 ring and a far-from-outrageous $1,000 ring set isn’t worth fighting about. You want to make him see that he’s your prize? Let him have his way on this.

My brother and his new wife had a three-way with a male hotel receptionist while on their honeymoon. I don’t have a problem with three-ways in theory, but I think it’s wrong to have one on your honeymoon. I was their best man. What am I supposed to do now?

DISGUSTED BIG BRO

You’re supposed to shut the fuck up and mind your own business — now and always.

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

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Free Will Astrology

02.20-02.27

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may have heard the thundering exhortation, “Know thyself!” Its origin is ancient. More than 2,400 years ago, it was inscribed at the front of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece. As important as it is to obey this command, there is an equally crucial corollary: “Be thyself!” Don’t you agree? Is there any experience more painful than not being who you really are? Could there be any behavior more damaging to your longterm happiness than trying to be someone other than who you really are? If there is even the slightest gap, Pisces, now is an excellent time to start closing it. Cosmic forces will be aligned in your favor if you push hard to further identify the nature of your authentic self, and then take aggressive steps to foster its full bloom.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the course of her world travels, writer Jane Brunette has seen many wonderful things — as well as a lot of trash. The most beautiful litter, she says, is in Bali. She loves the “woven palm leaf offerings, colorful cloth left from a ceremony and flowers that dry into exquisite wrinkles of color.” Even the shiny candy wrappers strewn by the side of the road are fun to behold. Your assignment, Aries, is to adopt a perceptual filter akin to Brunette’s. Is there any stuff other people regard as worthless or outworn that you might find useful, interesting, or even charming? I’m speaking metaphorically as well as literally.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Old Testament tells the story of a man named Methuselah, who supposedly didn’t die until he was 969 years old. Some Kabbalistic commentators suggest that he didn’t literally walk the earth for almost 10 centuries. Rather, he was extra skilled at the arts of living. His experiences were profoundly rich. He packed 969 years’ worth of meaningful adventures into a normal life span. I prefer that interpretation, and I’d like to invoke it as I assess your future.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Taurus, you will have Methuselah’s talent in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming weeks, I’m expecting your life to verge on being epic and majestic. There’s a better than even chance that you will do something heroic. You might finally activate a sleeping potential or tune in to your future power spot or learn what you’ve never been able to grasp before. And if you capitalize gracefully on the kaleidoscopic kismet that’s flowing your way, I bet you will make a discovery that will fuel you for the rest of your long life. In mythical terms, you will create a new Grail or tame a troublesome dragon — or both.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Jackalopes resemble jackrabbits, except that they have antlers like deer and tails like pheasants.

They love whiskey, only have sex during storms and can mimic most sounds, even the human voice. The milk of the female has curative properties. Strictly speaking, however, the jackalope doesn’t actually exist. It’s a legendary beast, like the mermaid and unicorn. And yet Wyoming lawmakers have decided to honor it. Early this year they began the process of making it the state’s official mythical creature. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now would be an excellent time to select your own official mythical creature. The evocative presence of this fantastic fantasy would inspire your imagination to work more freely and playfully, which is just what you

need. What’ll it be? Dragon? Sphinx? Phoenix?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The temptation to hide what you’re feeling could be strong right now. You may wonder if you should protect yourself and others from the unruly truth. But according to my analysis, you will be most brilliant and effective if you’re cheerfully honest. That’s the strategy most likely to provide genuine healing, too — even if its initial effects are unsettling. Please remember that it won’t be enough merely to communicate the easy secrets with polite courage. You will have to tap into the deepest sources you know and unveil the whole story with buoyantly bold elegance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The word “chain” may refer to something that confines or restricts. But it can also mean a series of people who are linked together because of their common interests and their desire to create strength through unity. I believe that one of those two definitions will play an important role in your life during the coming weeks, Virgo.

If you proceed with the intention to emphasize the second meaning, you will minimize and maybe even eliminate the first.

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People in Sweden used to drive their cars on the left-hand side of the road. But a growing body of research revealed it would be better if everyone drove on the right-hand side. So on Sept. 3, 1967, the law changed. Everyone switched over.

All non-essential traffic was halted for hours to accommodate the necessary adjustments. What were the results? Lots of motorists grumbled about having to alter their routine behavior, but the transition was smooth. In fact, the accident rate went down. I think you’d benefit from doing a comparable ritual sometime soon, Libra.

Which of your traditions or habits could use a fundamental revision?

to captivate the imaginations of people whose influence you want in your life. Be willing to think thoughts and feel feelings you have rarely if ever entertained.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Gawker.com came up with colorful ways to describe actress Zooey Deschanel. In a weird coincidence, their pithy phrases for her seem to fit the moods and experiences you will soon be having.

I guess you could say you’re scheduled to have a Zooey Deschanel-according-to-Gawker.com kind of week. Here are some of the themes: 1. Novelty ukulele tune. 2. Overemphatic stage wink.

3. Sentient glitter cloud. 4. Over-iced Funfetti cupcake. 5. Melted-bead craft project. 6. Living Pinterest board. 7. Animated Hipstamatic photograph. 8. Bambi’s rabbit friend. 9. Satchel of fairy dust. 10. Hipster labradoodle.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When a woman is pregnant, her womb stretches dramatically, getting bigger to accommodate the growing fetus. I suspect you’ll undergo a metaphorically similar process in the coming weeks. A new creation will be gestating, and you’ll have to expand as it ripens. How? Here’s one way: You’ll have to get smarter and more sensitive in order to give it the care it needs. Here’s another way: You’ll have to increase your capacity for love.

Don’t worry: You won’t have to do it all at once.

“Little by little” is your watchword.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

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If so, you are probably trying to move too fast and do too much. Even in normal times, that’s no good. But in the coming week, it should be taboo. You need to slowwww wayyyy dowwwn, Sagittarius. You’ve got … to compel yourself … to do … one thing … at a time. I say this not just because your mental and physical and spiritual health depends on it. Certain crucial realizations about your future are on the verge of popping into your awareness — but they will only pop if you are immersed in a calm and unhurried state.

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COUNSELING

• Experienced, caring therapy and medical staff.

• Private, professional setting.

• Downtown office near public transportation and parking.

• Medication by prescription coverage or self-pay.

412-308-5540 412-548-3710 3348 Babcock Blvd.

Pittsburgh

Aming’s Massage Therapy TWO LOCATIONS 1190 Washington Pike, Bridgeville (across from Eat n’ Park)

412-319-7530 4972 Library Road, Bethel Park

(in Hillcrest Shopping Center)

412-595-8077

Therapeutic Massage Therapy Relief is just a call away.

Our licensed professional staff can assist with Fibromyalgia, Circulation, Low Back Pain, Muscle Spasms.

Shadyside Location

412-441-1185

Zhangs Wellness Center

412-401-4110 $40/hr DOWNTOWN 322 Fourth Ave. (1st Floor)

Health and Wellness Directory

Phoenix Spa New Young Professional Free Table Shower w/60 min.

Open 10-10 Daily 4309 Butler Street (Lawrenceville)

Addiction & Recovery Health Services

WELLNESS

SUBOXONE TREATMENT

412-621-3300

412.434.6700

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WE have been there WE know your pain Don’t Wait Any Longer!

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Licensed Professionals Dry Sauna, Table Shower, Deep Tissue, Swedish

330-373-0303 Credit Cards Accepted

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Classic Rock Band.

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COUNSELING Want to Win?! Call me! Get Results. Rich 412-583-4282

Rehearsal Space starting @ $150/mo Many sizes available, no sec deposit, play @ the original and largest practice facility, 24/7 access, 412-403-6069 Wellness is a state that combines health & happiness. Make City Paper readers happy by advertising your health services in our “Wellness” section.

GRAND OPENING!

Judy’s Oriental Massage Appointments & Walk-ins are both welcome 10am to 10pm

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LIVE SOUTH FOR RENT

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ABC SELF STORAGE5x10 $45, 10x10 $65, 10x15 $95. (2) locations Mckees Rocks & South Side. 412-403-6069

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Newly renovated in 2011 and located a block from the business district of Walnut Street Shadyside featuring shops, restaurants and entertainment.

An amazing location at an affordable price.

Located conveniently in Oakland near Shadyside, these apartments are perfect for students or recent graduates. As they offer an excellent location with convenient access to transportation.

Available furnished and unfurnished.

Call today to schedule a viewing!

Additional properties are also available in Shadyside, Oakland, Bellevue, North Hills, New Kensington, North Side and West area.

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PUZZLE SHMUZZLE

1. Grass or snow, e.g.

5. Isle of Napoleon’s exile 9. Not in bottles 14. Representation 16. Yogurt-based Indian stew 17. Department of urology?

19. Org. that permits Pete Weber’s post-roll “crotch chop” 20. Action film in which Hans Gruber quotes Plutarch 21. Jazz singer Carmen 24. Maj. with credits for studying credit 26. Michele on Broadway 27. 99% of the toys baby Julius owns, e.g.?

31. Drink gingerly 32. Funk style 33. In order (to) 36. Woody Allen’s whole thing?

41. Years in Latin class 42. ___ Claire, Wisconsin 43. Hefty reference: Abbr.

45. Total jerk lawn care guy?

50. Manti who got awfully defensive when asked if he was gay 53. Acts like a little bitch, perhaps 54. Helps someone get their battery going?

55. Bit out of a book

58. TV show that Gerald Ford was the first president to appear on 59. Meager cream cheese portion?

65. Jazz crooner Mel 66. Magazine that started Occupy Wall Street 67. “___ the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you”: Hamlet 68. It’s white and innocent 69. Big name in unhealthy quarts

DOWN 1. MLB injured reserves, briefly 2. Tape deck abbr.

3. “Oh gawwwd” 4. Certain arm candy, in tabloids 5. It dwarfs Vesuvius 6. Good thing to break, in a saying 7. Song parodied by “Fat” 8. Developer chemical, in photography 9. Pejorative for a certain farmer, once 10. Quick bite 11. Error partner 12. Venetian love 13. Mei Xiang or Tian Tian of the National Zoo 15. Like ears 18. Sommelier’s suggestion 21. They’re on the mic

22. Good dishes 23. Turn yellow, as a banana 24. Shade near nude 25. Formed sides, as for teams 28. CA airport with a See’s Candies store 29. New Orleans hrs., during the Super Bowl 30. Ornamental Japanese fish 34. “Share ___ and a song” 35. What Obama was shooting in that one picture 37. Needle workers?: Abbr.

38. London’s Old ___ theatre 39. They may result in RBIs 40. “Star Wars” race

44. Residents, e.g., briefly 46. Big talk 47. Kind of heart valve 48. Goes on after getting fed up 49. Remove by cutting 50. Checks 51. Common action movie protagonist 52. Autumn clothing color 56. She plays Hermione 57. Stink to high heaven 58. Part torn from a paycheck 60. Smartphone, somewhat outdatedly 61. Deep Blue corp.

62. Homer’s frenemy 63. Ejaculate 64. Shit starter?

{LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS}

Change in the number of Pittsburgh-area residents working for the government, the biggest-losing sector of the local economy:

Between December 2011 and December 2012, change in the number of Pittsburgharea residents working in “financial activities,” the biggest-gaining sector of the economy:

Among city residents, number working in manufacturing and construction:

-3,100

+3,400

Number working in arts and entertainment, and food service or accommodations:

12,996

15,953

A CITY OF TWO TALE$ Behind upbeat headlines, local economy has both winners and losers {BY CHRIS POTTER}

Median yearly earnings for a Pittsburgh man working full time, year-round:

Median yearly salary for an Allegheny County resident with a bachelor’s degree:

EVERY OTHER WEEK, it seems, a new report gets

released showing an economic boom for the Pittsburgh region. But some people are enjoying it more than others — and the winners and losers may not be who you think. Tea Party rhetoric notwithstanding, for example, government employees have been the top job-losers … and despite all the attention government officials give to tax-burdened homeowners, it’s renters who could use the most help. Here’s a quick look some of the numbers behind the headlines

$42,891 Median yearly earnings for a Pittsburgh woman working full time, year-round:

$35,553

$46,763 Median year salary for an Allegheny County resident with only a high-school diploma:

$26,543

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Median household income for Allegheny County residents under 25:

Median household income for residents who are renters:

Median household income for Allegheny County residents who own their own homes:

$26,808

Median household income for Allegheny County residents:

$21,236

$49,805

$64,960

SOURCES: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, US CENSUS BUREAU, PENN STATE DATA CENTER AND AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY

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