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Tomorrow’s climatechange reality ... today {BY CHRIS POTTER} One thing that makes climate change hard to talk about is that its impacts can seem so remote. Those melting ice caps are a long way off, and if Philadelphia ends up drinking ocean water, who on this side of the state is going to complain? But a 2008 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, “Climate Change in Pennsylvania,” tried to put global climate trends in a local context.

Here are some of the highlights:

+ Number of 100-degree days Pittsburgh will have by 2099 under a best-case scenario for climate change: 6

+ Under the worst-case scenario: 24

+ Number it had in an average year between 1960-1990: Less than 1

+ Distance you have to drive from Pittsburgh to reach a major ski resort today: 60 miles

+ Distance you may have to travel for a resort with snow by 2099: 500 miles {ILLUSTRATION BY RHONDA LIBBEY}

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+ Under best-case scenario, minimum amount a Pennsylvania dairy cow’s milk production is expected to decrease by 2099, as rising temperatures cause heat stress: 10 percent

+ Rank of Pennsylvania, among all states, for emitting greenhouse gases: 3

+ Percentage of the world’s greenhouse gas emitted that comes from Pennsylvania: 1

+ Percentage of Pennsylvania carbon-dioxide emissions that come from electricity generation, especially coal-fired power plants: 44

+ Percentage that comes from cars and trucks: 26

+ Number of miles northward tree habitats are likely to shift by 2099, under a modest warming scenario: 350

+ Portion of Pennsylvania habitat that the hemlock — Pennsylvania’s state tree — is expected to lose in the worst-case scenario: 2/3

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ROUGHT, HEAT waves and wildfires, rising oceans and floods: Humanity is already coping with the effects of climate change. And worse is likely to come.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, for instance, projects that if climate change is left unabated, by the year 2070, Western Pennsylvania might have a climate like that of Northern Alabama. You can expect more dangerously hot days; higher levels of lung-damaging ground-level ozone; more infectious diseases and agricultural pests; more summer droughts; and more flooding.

So what to do about it?

In Pittsburgh, plenty of people are working to reduce our “carbon footprint” — the volume of fossil fuels we burn, and thus our impact on a warming climate. One local initiative, the Pittsburgh 2030 District, is encouraging Downtown property owners to halve their energy use by 2030. Munici-

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pal governments have put sustainability on their agendas, while university researchers and nonprofits have made it their mission.

Groups like Transition Pittsburgh promote grassroots planning for a low-carbon future, with more self-sufficient local economies. We’ve got more bike lanes, rain barrels and community gardens.

How Pittsburgh could save the world ... or at least itself But none of those initiatives go far enough. Isolated, small-scale efforts will never achieve the massive emissions reductions — as much as 80 percent — scientists say we must achieve to stem climate change. We need everybody on board, and now.

Yes, more trees would help — their

shade softens the “heat island” effect that results from sun reflecting off bricks and concrete. More local agriculture will help protect us from food shortages that can result from extreme weather elsewhere. But this week, City Paper focuses on several broad areas our region has only begun to address. How do we make our buildings — all our buildings — more green? How do we make transit more sustainable? How about the way we handle sewage and stormwater — and the trash we stack curbside?

Doing this right will mean a better quality of life — one that is less polluted, more secure. But we can’t wait for leadership from a hopelessly divided federal government, or from frack-happy Republican officials in Harrisburg. Instead, we must respond as a community.

So with a mayoral race upon us, we ask, “Can Pittsburgh become the greenest city in the country? If not, why not?”

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Vastly more efficient homes and offices are crucial for a greener future {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} RICHARD LEIGH, a physicist and engineer, once labored to improve the efficiency of boilers and air conditioners. But facing the enormous stresses that human energy use imposes on the planet, he tired of “making something better by 10 percent.” Scientists have warned that to avert climate disaster, humans must reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent in less than 40 years. Piecemeal improvements, Leigh says, are “not the same thing as looking all the way to the end and saying, ‘This is where we have to go.’”

Today, Leigh is research director at the Urban Green Council, New York City’s version of Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance. In February, the UGC released “90 by 50,” a proposal to reduce that city’s carbon emissions 90 percent below current levels by 2050.

That is a startlingly ambitious goal: The Pittsburgh Climate Initiative, by comparison, calls for a 20 percent citywide reduction by 2023. Yet “90 by 50” is achievable

with current technology … and in cities with a will to pursue it.

“90 by 50” focuses on buildings, which account for 75 percent of New York City’s energy use. But its strategy is also valid in less dense and mass-transit-heavy cities like Pittsburgh — where buildings account for 65 percent of energy use, according to the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative.

Reducing energy use in buildings is infamously difficult: Old buildings — in Pittsburgh, that’s most of them — are typically saddled with aging, inefficient HVAC systems. Half of a building’s energy goes to heating or cooling spaces, but much of the heat or air conditioning vanishes through gaps and cracks in walls and ducts. Poor insulation and old windows don’t help.

That partly explains why, when 50 local businesses and other organizations accepted Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Green Workplace Challenge, they’d reduced their collective energy use by less than 4 percent in their first year. Among participants, says the GBA’s Matt Mehalik, the most common actions included upgrading light bulbs or fixtures. But lighting is only 9 percent of an average building’s energy budget. (GWC participants did average a 28 percent reduction in water use.)

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— from rowhouses to skyscrapers — tight with caulk and triple-paned windows, halting leakage and halving energy use; then shift heating and cooling duties to efficient electrical heat pumps (including the use of geothermal sources). Energy-recovery ventilators, or ERVs, would warm or cool fresh, incoming air with energy harvested from stale, outgoing air.

All electricity would come from carbon-free sources including wind, solar and nuclear. Energy from coal and natural gas would cease — all without anyone lowering a thermostat. (The report even assumes that on a warming planet, summertime airconditioning will be universal.)

Because it’s predicated on using less energy, and drawing it from more diverse sources, “90 by 50” would also brace New York for a future of volatile energy prices.

In Pittsburgh, where soot from coal-fired power plants coats our lungs, such a plan would go a long way toward cleaning the air, too.

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are small-scale, and often limited to lowincome homeowners. Aside from massive public-works projects, how to scale up such a plan?

You could ramp up “energy mortgages,” which let property-owners use projected utility savings to finance energy-efficient upgrades. The Federal Housing Administration and some banks already offer energy mortgages, but they’re not widely used.

Or how about creating Property Assessed Clean Energy funding in Pennsylvania? In states including California, PACE programs let municipalities issue bonds to make low-interest loans to property owners: The money is used for efficiency renovations and renewable-energy improvements, like solar panels. Property-owners have no upfront costs, and repay the loan through a special property-tax assessment.

In California’s Sonoma County, a PACE program funded more than 1,500 residential retrofits in three years.

Many PACE programs are now dormant because of legal disputes with Fannie Mae and other financers.

But it’s the kind of creative idea that might finance a massive retrofit. Meanwhile, on the renewable-energy side, New Jersey’s solar-incentive program has made it one of the nation’s leading solar states.

The program offers loans to help property owners install solar arrays: Property owners keep the energy but sell solar “credits” to energy companies, who count them toward a state-mandated target of using 22.5 percent renewable energy by 2012.

Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, “We don’t have a regional energy strategy at all,” says Aurora Sharrard, of Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance. And while Cincinnati, Ohio, recently began offering residents affordable, 100 percent renewable electricity, Pittsburgh can’t — because Pennsylvania law doesn’t let municipalities negotiate group rates with utilities.

Pittsburgh does have building-code provisions to promote greener structures — like one allowing buildings to be larger if they’re certified green — but they’re seldom exploited. These could be made mandatory, or incentives bumped up.

Yet perhaps more than financing instruments, or even laws, Pittsburgh lacks the political will to commit to the needed carbon cuts. A plan like “90 by 50,” says Sharrard, “makes you think about the process of how you might get there.”

If you set an ambitious goal, she adds, “Even if you fail, you achieve so much in working towards it.”

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tion. Pittsburgh already has several buildings fit for a “90 by 50” world: Phipps Conservatory’s Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Sota Construction’s “net-zero” houses on the South Side, for instance, are designed to make at least as much energy as they use (mostly from solar panels and geothermal energy). And ACTION-Housing’s new “passive house,” in Heidelberg, is so air-tight that it has no furnace: It’s heated by the people and electrical machines inside, plus an ERV. At 1,600 square feet, the three-bedroom home cost $ 225,000 to build. But with energy usage 85 percent below average, it’s highly affordable to inhabit. Worldwide, there are some 40,000 passive houses, including multistory residential buildings, according to the International Passive House Association.

“90 by 50”-style retrofits exist, too.

Recently, Boston’s Castle Square, a 500unit apartment complex, was extensively renovated for a projected energy savings of 72 percent.

What about cost? The UGC estimates the “90 by 50” price tag at $167 billion. But spread over 37 years, the report’s authors argue, that’s less than half of 1 percent of New York City’s gross municipal product. And UGC — which suggests no funding mechanism — says the retrofits would practically pay for themselves in energy savings.

Still, under “90 by 50,” retrofitting a single-family house would cost an estimated $ 26,000. And in Pittsburgh, existing programs to help folks energy-retrofit

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If the destination is environmental sustainability, you can’t just take a bus {BY LAUREN DALEY} MASS TRANSIT is considered an environmentally friendly means of transportation.

Each passenger on a bus or light-rail car, after all, is one less driver in a car clogging up the roads and creating emissions. But as anyone who’s ever been caught behind a bus knows, transit vehicles have their own emissions problems. And environmentalists say that Pittsburgh has just started down the road to a more sustainable transportation network.

Efforts to make buses more environmentally sensitive are already underway.

Allegheny County’s Port Authority boasts of purchasing cleaner-burning diesel fuel since 1991, a move it estimates has reduced emissions of particulate matter — sooty particles that can aggravate breathing problems— by 96 percent. The authority also currently operates 32 hybrid diesel/electric buses, which generate fewer smog-causing emissions and get better gas mileage.

Local officials espouse a more sweeping change: converting the entire bus fleet to run on compressed natural gas. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald — who has championed natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale — has been a vigorous proponent of the move. In fact, the authority’s lack of progress on the issue was a key reason he gave for ousting the transit agency’s former CEO, Steve Bland.

But there’s a cost to the conversion.

The Port Authority operates roughly 700 buses; converting the fleet would cost $49 million. New fueling facilities and other upgrades at just two garages where it’s feasible would cost between $15 million and $ 20 million, the authority estimated last year. And in recent years, the authority’s more pressing challenge has been keeping existing routes running.

“We’re all for this if we can make it work and somehow find that right partnership so that those transition costs … are covered,” says authority spokesman Jim Ritchie.

“There is a potential benefit obviously, considering the price of gas right now. We’re still exploring it.”

Communities elsewhere have been reaping the benefits of such a conversion: In California, the entire Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority fleet runs on compressed natural gas. “Obviously there has been a reduction in emissions,” says Metro spokesman Rick Jager. (Such efforts have been financed by

L.A. residents, who voted in favor of supporting mass transit with a 1.5 percent sales tax.)

The Metro system is experimenting with other approaches as well. Using federal grant money, it has converted two heavily trafficked corridors into “highoccupancy toll” lanes. Driving on them requires using a special transponder — but only solo drivers are charged to use them.

The goal, says Jager, is to reduce traffic while encouraging carpooling.

“It’s really trying to change commuting behavior in Los Angeles,” says Jager. “We’re car-crazy here.”

Portland, Ore., is encouraging commuters to do away with internal-combustion engines entirely. It frequently earns accolades as a bike-friendly community, including a platinum rating for bikability from the League of American Cyclists. Among its efforts are “greenways,” city streets dedicated primarily to walking and bicycling and connected to mass-transit options.

While cars can still access the streets, there are speed bumps placed every two blocks in addition to signage.

“The most fundamental thing is looking at the shape of community,” says Michael Armstrong, Portland’s sustainability manager. “So over time, we want to have a community that people want to live in, to make sure we can thrive and succeed from a quality-of-life and equity perspective … without relying on fossil fuels.”

Green advocates say there is room for similar experimentation in Pittsburgh.

“We very much see [transportation] as needing to be a comprehensive strategy,” including non-motorized transportation, public transit and more efficient passenger vehicles, says Lindsay Baxter, project manager for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. The council is a co-convener of the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative, which seeks a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2023. The initiative recommends a slew of approaches, ranging from encouraging non-motorized transportation, ride-sharing and telecommuting to incentivizing hybrid vehicles and using alternative fuels — like the bio-diesel fuel the Port Authority already uses.

Baxter says the road to sustainability, like every road in Pittsburgh, is complicated.

“We are never going to get every single person to use a bike or a bus.”

“THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THING IS LOOKING AT THE SHAPE OF COMMUNITY.”

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However, location isn’t all they have changed. They have a fresh outlook on service, the modern household, those new to having a household and so much more. From hosting first time home buyer seminars to helping with retirement planning, they are challenging everything you thought you knew about lawyers.

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When most people think of attorneys, they think of high costs and lack of communication. We value each and every client relationship and provide premium legal services at an affordable and realistic cost. Accordingly, we represent clients of all ages and in different stages of their lives. Whether entering the “real world” for the first time or contemplating retirement, the multi-generational make up of our firm gives us a uniquely youthful yet experienced perspective in meeting your needs.

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Without a Will or Power of Attorney your intentions may never be realized and your loved ones may be left unprotected. Unfortunately, to date, neither Pennsylvania nor federal law extends the same rights to unmarried individuals and same sex couples. LGBT couples, Domestic Partners, and Blended Families need to ensure their loved ones and assets are protected.

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water runoff — which fouls our rivers, causes flooding, and will likely get worse in coming years — Pittsburgh has reached a milestone. This January, for the first time in recorded history, nobody complained when we slowed up before a tunnel.

ALCOSAN, the county agency that oversees sewers in 83 municipalities, is under a federal order to prevent sewage from being dumped into the rivers, something that happens when heavy rainfall overwhelms our aging sewer system.

ALCOSAN’s initial solution was to dig giant underground storage tunnels to hold the excess water — at a cost of $ 3.6 billion. But environmentalists and social activists recommend a greener approach. Instead of laying more pipe, they ask, why not prevent water from reaching the pipes at all? Why not plant “rain gardens” to soak up water? Or encourage homeowners to install rain barrels? Or convince parking-lot operators to use permeable pavement, which allows water to sink into the underlying soil rather than flowing into sewer grates?

ALCOSAN is willing to listen, at least.

In January, it asked the federal government for an additional 18 months to ponder such approaches. “We need to study the potential for green infrastructure,” a spokesman explained.

“We were excited they requested the extension,” says Jennifer Rafanan Kennedy of the Clean Rivers Campaign, an umbrella group for those pursuing a greener approach. “We think that’s a win.” And even if ALCOSAN doesn’t embrace green solutions, she says, the city of Pittsburgh can, and should, undertake them on its own. Because those sewer fixes have benefits above ground too.

Planting more trees, for example, captures water while providing shade, which is often at a premium during a hot city summer. And from Philadelphia to Portland, other cities are reaping other benefits, too.

In Cleveland, officials plan to convert vacant lots into ponds and gardens, trapping water while beautifying blighted neighborhoods. As the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in a 2012 statement, it’s “a good way of comprehensively addressing social equity, economic stabilization and

environmental quality simultaneously.”

A key question, of course, is how the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority — which has its hands full just dealing with aging water lines — would pay for this stuff. One likely answer is a new fee, often called a “stormwater utility.”

Pittsburgh City Councilor Patrick Dowd, who sits on the PWSA board, says the agency is pondering such a fee. But Dowd hopes the authority will also offer discounts for property owners who adopt green approaches, like installing rain barrels or using permeable pavement.

“I don’t want to charge people for stormwater,” says Dowd. “I want to reward them for keeping it out of the system.”

The need to do so will only become more pressing: Climatologists expect that one symptom of global warming will be more frequent severe storms, which will stress sewer systems further. But as the PWSA considers asking more of us, Dowd says, it can also address its own contribution to climate change — by finding a renewable source for the $5 million a year it spends on electricity.

In a 2008 study, the “Pittsburgh Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory,” the Green Building Alliance found that treating and pumping drinking water accounted for 25 percent of local government’s greenhousegas emissions. If only there were some renewable energy source the PWSA could draw upon, like a nearby dam …

Wait a minute, there is. The PWSA’s Aspinwall water-treatment facility is located a stone’s throw from Allegheny River Lock and Dam #2. Why not harness it for hydroelectric power?

“That’s not a new idea,” says Don Waldorf, the PWSA’s deputy director of engineering and construction. “We had it back in the 1990s, and we’re re-exploring it because it’s an excellent idea — you’ve got all this energy cascading over the dam.” There are a number of challenges, though, the biggest of which is cost: Installing turbines and other equipment would cost well over $100 million. “You can buy a hell of a lot of electricity for that,” Waldorf says.

The dam “is an excellent source of green power,” Waldorf says. “But like all green power it’s elusive because of the upfront cost.”

“I DON’T WANT TO CHARGE PEOPLE FOR STORMWATER. I WANT TO REWARD THEM FOR KEEPING IT OUT OF THE SYSTEM.”

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TALKING TRASH Waste reduction could help save the planet — and tax dollars, too {BY LAUREN DALEY} ONCE EVERY OTHER week, the alley of Swan Way in Morningside is lined with a phalanx of bright blue bags, waiting for a city recycling crew to retrieve them.

Twenty years ago, “You never would have seen this,” says Jim Emro, a foreman in the central division of the city’s Department of Public Works. “We average 1,200-1,400 stops a day. It’s getting to be overwhelming.”

Last year, the city collected 16,000 tons of recyclables, generating $ 700,000 in revenue by selling the material for reuse. But it still spent $ 2 million to send 95,000 tons of waste to landfills. “We used to collect 140,000 tons a year,” says Bill Klimovich, assistant director of DPW. But “we’d like to have everything recycled if we can.”

Cities nationwide have adopted wastereduction strategies that range from charging for the use of plastic shopping bags to trying to obliterate waste altogether, through zero-waste plans and urban recycling and composting centers.

Some strategies have been adopted locally.

The Zero Waste Pittsburgh project, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Resources

Council, helps connect commercial businesses, municipalities and residents to waste-reduction resources. Tactics include collection events for hard-to-recycle items and workshops on backyard composting. (Visit www.pghcitypaper. com for a list of upcoming events and recycling tips.)

“The idea is to take as much effort as you can to divert materials away from being wasted,” says Dave Mazza, regional director of the Pennsylvania Resources Council. “Thinking of these materials as resources instead of waste, which is the approach many are taking these days, encourages finding new and creative solutions.”

In the Canadian city of Vancouver, for example, Urban Stream Innovation has developed what it calls a zero-mile urban micro-farm. “We have created a small ecosystem that replicates what an organic small farm does, and encased it in a shipping container,” says vice president Wes Regan. The farm captures nutrients of food scraps and composts, using them to grow new crops right next door.

One restaurant in Vancouver has already signed on: The shipping-container farm is located right outside its doors.

Eight more such farms are in the works, says Regan.

“Food miles have become an incredible indicator of our carbon footprint, with many items on a restaurant’s plate traveling thousands of miles,” says Regan. Growing crops nearby reduces that

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impact, and also saves on fossil fuels used in large-scale agriculture — the world’s fourth-largest source of greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Other waste-reduction strategies focus on diverting household and commercial waste from landfills. The EPA says landfills account for 16 percent of U.S. emissions of methane — the secondmost prevalent greenhouse gas.

“Certainly, recycling plays a pivotal role in any waste-minimization strategy,” says the PRC’s Mazza. But “if you don’t generate the material in the first place, you don’t have a find way to dispose of it. The 3 R’s — reduce, reuse, recycle — are a key component of any zerowaste strategy.”

In Cranberry — Cranberry! — residents pay a trash-disposal fee set by how much they throw away. And if you need to throw away a couch or large item? It’ll require a $ 4 tag. “You pay as you need to — that [prevents] people who don’t throw away as much from subsidizing those who do,” says Lorin Meeder, Cranberry’s environmental program coordinator.

Other cities have made more sweeping changes. In Portland, Ore., waste-reduction strategies have decreased carbon emissions by 8.5 percent since 1990 — and changed the public’s mindset.

“It’s not just about having a place to put your stuff, but changing how you use

it,” says Portland Sustainability manager Michael Armstrong. Portland’s strategies include collecting recyclables every week while collecting disposable refuse every other week — the reverse of what many communities do. “We saw a 38 percent drop in garbage,” Armstrong says. “It’s really a dramatic change.”

In Boulder, Colo., meanwhile, the city will enact a 10-cent fee on all plastic and paper bags beginning July 1. Retailers can keep 4 cents and the city will receive the remainder to buy reusable bags and educate the public. “We dispose of 33 million plastic bags a year in Boulder,” says Jamie Harkins, a city-sustainability specialist. But the program is expected to cut disposable-bag use in half in the first year, she says.

And in 2006, Boulder passed a zerowaste plan: a package of programs, policy infrastructure and incentives that would help the city reach its goal of diverting 85 percent of its waste from landfills by 2017. Already between 60 and 65 percent of household waste has been diverted from landfills. And while commercial participation is lagging, the city is experimenting with creative incentives, like offering a subsidy for composting.

Boulder’s program “doesn’t mandate participation, but you have access,” says Harkins. “Theoretically since you can recycle and compost, your trash could be nothing.”

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Undocumented immigrant Jose Munoz, 25, believed himself an ideal candidate for President Obama’s 2012 safe-harbor initiative for illegal-entry children, in that he had been brought to the U.S. by his undocumented parents before age 16, had no criminal record and had graduated from high school (with honors, even). Since then, however, he had remained at home in Sheboygan, Wis., assisting his family, doing odd jobs and, admittedly, just playing video games and “vegging.” Living “in the shadows,” he found it almost impossible to prove the final legal criterion: that he had lived continuously in the U.S. since graduation (using government records, payroll sheets, utility bills, etc.). After initial failures to convince immigration officials, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in March, Munoz’s lawyer succeeded — by submitting Munoz’s Xbox Live records, documenting that his computer’s Wisconsin location had been accessing video games, day after day, for years.

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However, the deal fell through in March when the women discovered that Beck’s “free” truck was hardly free. Rather, it would be taxable as a “donation,” reported on IRS Form 1099, perhaps costing them thousands of dollars.

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resulting from a marital dispute in March, when, presumably to make a point, he tried to remove his wedding ring by shooting it off. (The ring remained in place; his finger was mangled.)

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Because Martinez is disabled, he could not easily be rescued and was forced, he said, to listen to the “It’s a Small World” song on an endless loop until help arrived.

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FOOD POLITICS {BY CHRIS POTTER} You are what you eat. But that doesn’t mean you can swallow the beliefs of the people making your food.

Last week, Salon.com reported that Eden Foods — which makes Edensoy soy milk and other “pure and purifying foods” — had filed a lawsuit over an “Obamacare” provision requiring employers to offer workers insurance that includes birth control.

“I’m not trying to get birth control out of Rite Aid or Walmart, but don’t tell me I gotta pay for it,” Eden CEO Michael Potter (no relation to this writer) told the site.

The disclosure surprised some Pittsburgh-area political activists, partly because Eden’s environmentally conscious brand appeals to left-of-center consumers.

“I think we’re going to have to put up a list of companies on our website that actively oppose implementation” of health-care reform, says Erin GillNinehouser of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, which touts Obamacare.

“People want information [about corporate health policies] — especially in the case of companies who market healthy lifestyles.”

The blowback has already started on Eden’s Facebook page, where there are threats “to never buy your brown rice sushi rolls again.”

Nationwide, there are at least 56 court battles over the birth-control requirement, says Andrew Beck, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. But many of those lawsuits involve religiously affiliated nonprofits — like Geneva College in Beaver Falls — or companies like Domino’s Pizza, whose founder is a noted abortion foe.

Eden, by contrast, is taking on not just the government, but its own customers.

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NE SURE SIGN of spring is that, along with the scent of flowers in bloom, the appetite-stimulating aroma of backyard barbecue fills the air.

Commercial bakeries can have the same effect, but it’s surprisingly rare for restaurants to draw customers by appealing directly to their olfactory sense.

That’s why our noses really began twitching — almost before our eyes did — when they sensed a new storefront in the Strip. Cordwood stacked in the patio beside Gaucho Parrilla (parrilla means “grill” in Spanish) drives the point home: Argentine-style barbecue served here!

Argentine barbecue is inexplicably rare in the United States. Here, we have our own style of barbecue — many, actually — and a recently discovered appetite for Brazilian churrascarias, those restaurants where servers roam the dining room proffering an array of skewered meats. But it is actually Argentina, not Brazil, that is home to arguably the

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Wood-grilled beef sandwich with peppers, onions and chimichurri sauce

world’s finest beef. The pampas grass of the Argentine plains is nearly perfect for steer to eat, resulting in pasture-fed beef that puts either grass- or grain-fed cattle from Middle America to shame.

Having said that, Gaucho doesn’t import its beef from back home. Instead, it relies on the burning of all of that wood

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and blackboards, while the wide-open kitchen is dominated by a commercialgrade wood-burning grill. Meat, the unapologetic focus of the menu, is offered alongside grilled vegetables, roasted potatoes and salads, but in some ways, the most indispensable items are the sauces.

Gaucho offers four condimetos: classic, pesto-like chimichurri; ajo, deep yet mellow garlic and herbs in olive oil; cebolla, an earthy concoction of caramelized onions, herbs, olive oil and vinegar; and pimenton, or charred pepper. The latter two are purees based on vegetables rendered sweetly smoky through fire-roasting. All of these are offered a la carte; none are paired specifically with any one dish, leaving diners free to completely customize their entrees. Grilled Portobello doubles down on smoky earthiness with the cebolla, or takes a turn for the bright and herbal with chimichurri, while shrimp finds contrasting piquancy in the ajo or complementary sweet-

ness in the pimenton. We found testing pairings and indulging our palates’ whims a rewarding way to experience the options at Gaucho.

The grilled meats and vegetables were uniformly excellent. Beef remained tender even as it charred, and the chicken was smoky and moist. The shrimp was full of sweet, succulent flavor, staying juicy despite the heat of the wood fire. Vegetables were either suffused with umami-evoking smoke or that particular, intense sweetness brought out by slow roasting.

Beef is available in five cuts (we tried skirt and ribeye), and chorizo can be ordered spicy or garlicky, but we found it hard to go wrong with any variation. Our only complaints were that the beef was a bit carelessly butchered, with not only fat but also gristle left intact; and potato chunks, though deeply browned, were chalky, possibly from a too-long interval between cooking and serving.

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Which gets to one of the inherent difficulties in running an ambitious restaurant in a small storefront: With a lot of ebb and flow of customers, Gaucho is at perpetual risk of running out of things (we especially hoped for empanadas, but there were nada by mid-afternoon), while more plentiful items will inevitably sit.

But with any luck, and with a steady flow of barbecue aficionados, Gaucho will have time to work those issues out.

While its flagrant appeal to the noses of passersby should draw prospective diners in, the delicious mix-and-match of authentic Argentine sauces and woodsmoked meats and veggies will keep them coming back.

In the 10,000-year history of loweralcohol beverages, beer and wine have long surpassed all other brews. After all, when’s the last time you were able to order pulque, the sour fermented sap of a Mesoamerican tree, from the drink menu?

But a few old fermented stalwarts maintain a loyal, if small, fan base. Bill Larkin, owner of Arsenal Cider House, wants you to familiarize yourself with them, so he’s throwing the First Annual Pittsburgh Cider and Mead Festival on April 27 at the site of the former m Iron City Brewery in Lawrenceville. The event will feature samples from an international collection of at least 16 cider houses and meaderies, including regional producers Arsenal, Laurel Highlands Meadery, L Rebellion Ciderworks R and an Jack’s.

Cider and mead “don’t get the recognition that beer bee or wine do … especially mead,” Larkin says. me Mead, a fermented mixture of honey and water, is one t of humanity’s oldest libations; archeological evidence indicates that the beverage was independently created in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. But as ancient as it is, mead has largely been relegated to a sticky swill consumed as a novelty at Renaissance fairs. High-quality mead is challenging to find and relatively unknown to Pennsylvania drinkers.

The festival is “really exciting, especially for people in Pennsylvania who don’t have much access to mead at the state stores. This will give us a chance to highlight it,” says Matt Falenski of Laurel Highlands Meadery.

Hard cider may be more familiar to drinkers, but Larkin says the market for his product is also underdeveloped, partially because of the perception that hard cider is a less refined beverage than beer or wine. Larkin disagrees with that perception, noting that his crisp, balanced Picket Bone Dry “proved that cider doesn’t have to be super-sweet.”

For those skeptical about the quality of mead and cider, Falenski has some simple advice: “We always suggest people who tried it once in college come and try it again.”

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AVENUE B. 5501 Centre Ave., Shadyside. 412-683-3663. This intimate corner restaurant has only a brief, seasonal menu, but its offerings are all tantalizing, each combining several pedigreed ingredients. Such selections include piquillopepper lasagna with a different filling in each layer; green-bean and sweet-potato tempura; and fresh pasta topped with beef short ribs, chard and crisped cipollini onions. LF BAR MARCO. 2216 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-471-1900. At this former firehouse-turnedrestaurant, a small but wellcurated menu makes a perfect complement to this venue’s wine and cocktail list. The tapas-inspired roster ranges from charcuterie plates and classics, like patatas bravas, to smoked-pork tamales and grilled radicchio and endive salad. KE

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Olives and Peppers {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} CHURCH BREW WORKS. 3525 Liberty Ave., Lawrenceville.

412-688-8200. The Brew Works setting — the meticulously rehabbed interior of St. John the Baptist Church with its altar of beer — remains incomparable, and there are always several hand-crafted brews on tap to enjoy. For dining, the venue offers a flexible menu, suitable for all ages, ranging from pub nibblers and wood-fired pizza to nouvelle American entrées. KE

ability to adapt and update traditional dishes from around the world, such as tandoori chicken tacos and rare-tuna-andavocado spring rolls. LE

ISABELA ON GRANDVIEW. 1318 Grandview Ave., Mount Washington. 412-431-5882.

This fine-dining restaurant atop Mount Washington places as much focus on the food as on the skyline. There are a la carte dishes, but the selections are all from the seven-course, prix DITKA’S fixe dinner that is the www. per RESTAURANT. heart of the Isabela a p pghcitym 1 Robinson Plaza, experience. The cuisine .co Robinson. 412-722-1555. is contemporary and With its wood paneling, varies widely among white tablecloths and $30 European, American and entrees, Ditka’s aims for the Asian influences. LE serious steakhouse market — but never forgets its sports KALEIDOSCOPE CAFÉ. roots: Aliquippa-born Mike Ditka 108 43rd St., Lawrenceville. is the former Chicago Bears coach. 412-683-4004. This intriguing menu refracts contemporary Try the skirt steak, a Chicago trends in sophisticated casual favorite, or a fine-dining staple dining while still offering such as filet Oscar. LE an atmosphere of off-thebeaten-path funkiness.

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THE LIBRARY. 2304 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-381-0517. The entrée list at this bookish-themed bistro is short, usually a good sign that the chef is focusing on the strengths of both his kitchen and the season’s freshest foods.

Dishes revolve around the staples of meat, seafood and pasta, but in fearless and successful preparations that make the menu a worthwhile read. KE

{BY AMYJO BROWN}

A CONVERSATION WITH NICK LUBECKI

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MAURAMORI CAFÉ. 5202 Butler Street, Lawrenceville.

412-408-3160. This café-style breakfast-lunch spot serves, as expected, bacon, eggs, pancakes, waffles, sandwiches, burgers and fries. This is still down-home cooking, but better-quality ingredients (applewood-smoked bacon) are emphasized, and care that goes into their assemblage (hand-formed burger patties). J

NICK LUBECKI, a 29-year-old East Liberty resident, moved his vegetable farm this year from an urban plot in Stanton Heights to about an acre of new ground in suburban Allison Park. He now farms under the name Butter Hill Farm while working part time at Tree Pittsburgh.

YOUR CITY FARM WAS CALLED KNOTWEED URBAN FARM. WHAT WAS IT LIKE? We had this group of aspiring farmers. It was kind of a little incubator farm. The infrastructure was already there. It had really good soil; it had been farmed organically for years. It was right by our house.

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This casual Italian spot that offers pizza, pasta and sandwiches as well as more refined entrees. The meat-and-cheese sandwiches are a forte, with ciabatta “panini” and hoagies options. The lasagna is enormous, its homemade noodles laden with a creamy five-cheese mix and a savory Bolognese sauce with meatballlike chunks of beef. KE SEVICHE. 930 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-697-3120.

This upscale Latin Americanstyle tapas restaurant specializes in citrus-cured fish, while also offering a small selection of Latin-inspired tapas and finger sandwiches. Still, the inventive dishes are superb — from yellowtail tuna, seared and served in a rich, ruby-colored malbec sauce, to Peruvianstyle sashimi and a tostada filled with black beans and sweet blackened yellowtail. EK

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SMOKE BARBECUE TAQUERIA. 225 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead.

412-205-3039. This venue combines fantastically smoked meats on freshly made tortillas, dressed with updated traditional toppings. The simple menu consists of a few tacos and sides: The meat — pulled pork, chicken, brisket and ribs — is uniformly tender and flavorful, and the sides (beans, potato salad, apple-jalapeño coleslaw) are top-notch. JF

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THE MIGHTY OAK BARREL. 939 Third St., Oakmont. 412826-1069. Set in a renovated bar surrounded by tiny houses, the Barrel combines fine dining with a comfortable neighborhood feel. Dishes run the gamut from veal tenderloin porcini to a game platter with elk and venison.

The menu is Italian in sensibility, but it changes frequently: If you like something, you better hurry back. KE

WHAT HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST ADJUSTMENTS? There’s the commute.

I’m doing a work share, paying people in vegetables. I was concerned, wondering if people would want to come out. Before, they could just bike up the hill.

But so far it doesn’t seem like it’s been an issue.

[Stanton Heights] was set up as a vegetable farm.

This is not. There is a pond and a pump, which I’ll be able to use to irrigate things. Before, there was a buried water line with a water hookup every 20 feet. It was the easiest thing in the world. This won’t be too bad. But little things like that.

WHY NOT MOVE CLOSER TO THE FARM? The nice thing about the city is there are other people there. I worked on a farm in Ohio, and lived in a shack in the woods. There wasn’t a whole lot going on.

IS FARMING PROFITABLE? Some day it would be nice to make a living doing just farming. We did really well last year on two-thirds of an acre. That was really inspiring. It made me believe it’s possible to make a living on farming.

HOW DO YOU COMPARE FARMING IN THE CITY TO THE SUBURBS? In the city, there’s definitely a serious concern about contaminants in the soil, and I don’t have to worry about that here. ... I really enjoyed being an urban farmer. I think I’ll really enjoy being a suburban farmer, too. This may be a very good balance.

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BRIDGING THE GAP Here’s lookin’ at you: TeamMate’s Dani Buncher and Scott Simons

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You do you: Lovebettie

The members of Pittsburgh-based Lovebettie admit that their first album, The Red Door EP, didn’t have the swagger they wanted. Fans responded well, and the band gained momentum touring nationally, but lead singer and keyboardist Alexandra Naples admits it was a bit of a disappointment. “I didn’t fall in love with our first album” she says. “It makes me sad. I felt like our fans deserved better.”

With Red Door, Lovebettie came up against what radio host Ira Glass has referred to as the “taste gap”: the space between the work you’re producing and your ambitions for what the work could be. The band’s new album, Rise, bridges Lovebettie’s taste gap. The band’s four members speak about Rise with the pride of new parents — and one of their points of pride is that the album is something of a Frankenbaby.

“We’ve created a monster out of four totally different influences: soul, grunge rock, funk-jazz, and progressive rock,” says drummer Larry Shotter. “The first album had all of those influences, but we couldn’t figure out how to make them work together. This album has it.”

The members also credit their improbable chemistry to a shared belief that none of their individual styles should dominate, and that genre classifications are silly anyway. And they’ve honed their sense of how to stitch their disparate influences together. “Everybody writes for the benefit of the song,” says guitarist C.T. Fields. “The four of us get into a room and we throw shit at a wall, and it becomes our music.”

“All these bands … they’re ripped apart and turned into something they’re not,” says Naples. “We all decided we’re just going to do us, whatever comes of it.”

Bolstered by a fruitful Kickstarter campaign that bought them a new (used) tour van, Lovebettie is over the moon about sharing Rise with fans on tour this summer.

“We sound like us now,” says bassist Dan Mulkeen. “We do straight rock, but we can funk, we can swing, we can have a ballad here and there.”

“We can get sultry,” adds Naples.

“But it still sounds like us every time.”

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COTT SIMONS and Dani Buncher faced a situation foreign to most of us. After a full decade of dating, they broke up — when Buncher came to realize she was more interested in women than men. Rather than melt down, they chose to work it out … and, eventually, start a band about it.

“I lost my dad when I was 20; he passed away,” explains Simons. “I felt like I didn’t have a choice, to keep him in my life. And I think we have that decision to make with everyone in our lives, with everything that happens: I’m going to keep that person in my life, or not. The idea of not having Dani at all, just because of something that’s not anyone’s fault at all — that was way more daunting than whatever the hurt would be as we tried to work through it. It was just easier to come up with a version of friendship than to just have nothing at all.”

Simons and Buncher first met in the late ’90s, in Morgantown, where Buncher, a Pittsburgh native, was going to college at WVU. They met through friends. (“Whenever any of my friends from the drumline

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found out that I was Jewish,” says Buncher, “everybody would tell me that they wanted to introduce me to their other Jewish friend, and that was Scott.”) Simons, a native of Bridgeport, W.Va., had been playing in a Morgantown power-pop band called The Argument, which would continue to play and tour into the mid-2000s. The two began dating, and stayed together while Buncher moved to New York City to work in A&R for a few record labels.

“When you’re in a long-distance relationship,” Buncher says, “one of the things you do is make the most of the time you do have together, so it was kind of easy to sweep things under the rug and just enjoy it. There were probably internal things going on with me, some things I was starting to think about and question, as far as my sexuality was concerned. It wasn’t until we moved in together in Pittsburgh that those things started making sense to me. We’re face-to-face every day, and forced to kind of figure out what’s wrong with our relationship. And for me, that’s what started surfacing. This is why I don’t feel connected in that way.”

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After the breakup, Simons moved to Los Angeles to pursue a songwriting career — he’s written with a number of artists, including Allen Stone — and session and touring work as a keyboardist. He was also playing some solo material. Buncher, back in Pittsburgh, held down the drum kit for Pittsburgh bands like Big Hurry (now defunct) and Big Snow Big Thaw (with whom she still plays).

During the whole decade they were in a relationship, the pair never really played music together. (“Her parents would always — I would visit Pittsburgh and they’d be like, ‘Oh, you should set up and you guys should jam,’” says Simons with a laugh. “We didn’t really jam.”)

They did talk about music, though. “Even with my old band,” says Simons, “Dani heard every song, every demo, and she helped me get it out there. I’ve always bounced things off of her. She’s made me a better musician.”

But it still wasn’t immediately natural to get together and play music — especially music that directly addresses their relationship, breakup and post-breakup life the way TeamMate does.

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ON THE RECORD

with Dan Maines of Clutch {BY RYAN MATLOCK}

Since 1990, Maryland’s Clutch has been playing an amalgamation of jammy stoner rock and bluesy hardcore with goofy lyrics.

We spoke with bass player Dan Maines.

CLUTCH HAS PLAYED PITTSBURGH 20 OR 30 TIMES OVER THE PAST 20-PLUS YEARS, RIGHT? Pittsburgh was one of the earliest towns we ventured [to] outside of our home, and it has always been good to us. We are always excited to go back and we are looking forward to this one.

THERE’S A PICTURE ON THE WEBSITE FOR YOUR NEW ALBUM, EARTH ROCKER, THAT SHOWS SOME DRAFTS OF THE ALBUM ART ALONGSIDE A PICTURE OF KAYLA MARONEY, THE OLYMPIC GYMNAST. DID SHE INSPIRE THE ART? Oh, that one — I know what you’re talking about. That was our art director, Nick [Lakiotes].

WHAT ABOUT THE ALBUM ART YOU ENDED UP USING? [Actually], we have a track, “Crucial Velocity.” [Singer Neil Fallon] makes a reference to “Rocket 88,” which is an early rock song from the ’50s. It’s basically about an Oldsmobile. That got us thinking about hood ornaments from cars of that era. We came across some really cool hood ornaments that were Indian chief heads. That really started the ball rolling.

YOU GUYS ARE SO DIVERSE — I’VE SEEN MOUNTAIN GIRLS DANCING AT YOUR SHOWS, AND DUDES WHO ARE INTO HIP HOP. That’s a good way of describing where our music comes from. It’s kind of taking all those influences and trying to make something unique. And not just burying ourselves in one particular style of music.

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says Simons. “I was in Pittsburgh for a year and a half, then moved to L.A., and my career, writing music for other people — it took me a few years to really sort it out.

“When you’re writing pop songs for other people, you’re often sort of vague about things — you want to be personal, but it’s different. After a while, I began to realize, ‘Wow, we have a story.’ And the more we were comfortable talking about our story with each other and with other people, the more we became who we are now.”

Now they’re a two-piece pop band with songs like “The Sequel” — which pulls no punches, with the opening line, “She said ‘I think I like girls’ / I said ‘I do, too!’” It was the first song they worked on together.

“I sent [Dani] the demo for ‘The Sequel,’” says Simons, “and she said, ‘Holy shit, this is good, but you’re gonna out me to the whole world!’”

“This song moved me,” Buncher says, “but the first line — I remember, it was right around the time I first came out, and I was comfortable with a lot of things. But there were some people, I thought — I’ll have to deal with people asking me about this now. But I loved the song, the energy it gave me, the reflection on who we were, was pretty cool. That really excited me.”

On Sat., April 20, they release their first official album through Rostrum Records — an EP called The Sequel. In TeamMate, Simons (who had been signed to Rostrum as a solo artist) brings to the table the bright electric-piano work that characterized his prior solo work; Buncher, a drum instructor, provides deceptively complex percussion. The pair writes together, using video chat and sending demos back and forth, and recorded the EP in Pittsburgh with the engineers at Treelady Studios.

In four tracks, they address everything from the breakup to the nearly universal issue of working within a long-distance relationship or friendship.

“With my first band, I was a musicschool kid, trying to show off, like, ‘Look what I can do!’” says Simons. “And some people liked that. But with TeamMate, there’s kind of a direct, plain-spoken story. People can relate to that. And you see her up onstage with me, it’s not just one dude whining about things. It’s two people working through things musically.”

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LAYING DOWN THE LAW {BY ANDY MULKERIN}

{PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES MINCHIN}

Finding its center: The Joy Formidable

The Joy Formidable wastes no time getting down to business on Wolf’s Law, its second full-length on Atlantic: On the fast-paced opener “This Ladder Is Ours,” singer and guitarist Ritzy Bryan establishes a useful metaphor.

The band has always been as much about the climb as it is about the view from the top; it’s feel-good music, but in a thoughtful and guarded way, celebratory but moody.

After the band’s big splash with The Big Roar in 2011, the Welsh three-piece holed up in rural Maine to work on Wolf’s Law. The result is a more cohesive rock album than The Big Roar was, with less concept-album aspirations and fewer of the arty tracks that most of us listened to once or twice, then skipped over on subsequent listens to Roar.

That’s not to say there aren’t sonic risks on Wolf’s Law — the weird bass tone on “Tendons,” for example, defies the hold-it-down-at-all-costs nature of the bass on most of the band’s songs.

The Joy Formidable’s unsung hero, though, is drummer Matthew James Thomas: An aggressive doublekick drummer, he may well make the band what it is. It’s little wonder The Big Roar caught Dave Grohl’s ear two years ago; Thomas’ drum work is huge and persistent, and in the Grohl school. And perhaps it’s Thomas who profits most from The Joy Formidable finding its center on this record; the mid- to fast-paced, joyful stuff here allows him to really show his chops.

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Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $10. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

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When Dinner and a Suit formed in 2008, it was a pop-punk outfit from Moorestown, N.J., with little buzz around it. In the ensuing years, though, the band quickly worked its way up the ladder, making the finals of the Ernie Ball battle of the bands, and playing Warped Tour.

Since then, the three full-time members have put out two albums and become MTV darlings in the process. Energetic keyboard work is what really drives the catchier tracks, and on the whole, the band is able to capture a surprising amount of emotion. With The Parlotones and These Three Words at Altar Bar. John Lavanga 7 p.m.

1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $12-$14. 412206-9719 or www.

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There are two especially notable things about Bettye Lavette: that remarkable voice and that life story. Lavette started as a singer when she was a teen-ager in the early ’60s, but didn’t find broad success until the mid-’00s — the kind of delayed-success story that keeps those of us who aren’t 19 anymore dreaming. Now in her late 60s, the crooner has recorded three full-lengths and an EP for Anti- (the imprint that also reps Tom Waits), and tours relentlessly — appearing tonight at the Cabaret at Theater Square, as part of the JazzLive series.

Andy Mulkerin 8 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $30.75.

412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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As a painter, Chicago’s Gregory Jacobsen is known for his representations of the grotesque and the grossout: bodily functions, weird organ-meat stuff, things that make most of us squirm. His music — in the form of Lovely Little Girls, playing tonight at Howlers — is much the same.

While most “scary” and “threatening” rock music is playedout at this point, Jacobsen’s disturbing poetry, accompanied by free-jazz and no-wave backing music, is both absurd and discomfiting (as is his weird, half-clown-like makeup). Tonight’s show also features a rare performance by disbanded locals Brown Angel; Bloated Sluts, Hunted Creatures and Night Vapor fill out the bill.

AM 9 p.m. 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $6.

412-682-0320 or www.howlerscoyotecafe.com

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Originally hailing from New Orleans, indie-rock duo Generationals are so named, they say, because of their penchant for watching CNN — where everything is built up to be a generational issue — while recording debut album Con Law during the 2008 election. The album, which was a distinctly palatable mishmash of everything from British Invasion to doo-wop to a modern and sunny indie-rock vibe, was well received, and followed up with the 2011 release Actor-Caster, which brought on even softer, sweeter experimentation from the duo. The latest is Heza, just released, and Generationals play Club Café tonight with Splaash. JL 10 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

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PENN BREWERY. T&A. North 412-391-8334.

Side. 412-237-9400.

6119 PENN AVE. Dazzletine, ROCHESTER INN HARDWOOD ALTAR BAR. The Parlotones.

Gangwish, Dean Cercone, Sneaky GRILLE. Gone South. Ross.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

Mike, Maza Blaska, Ellen Siberian 412-364-8166.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD Tiger, The Riveters, OUAIS, SILKS LOUNGE AT THE CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Gusto, DJ Pete Butta. East MEADOWS. The Elliotts.

Vaughn Trio. Strip District.

Liberty. 814-574-7930.

Washington.

412-281-6593.

ALTAR BAR. Marc SMILING MOOSE. Dash CLUB CAFE. Holy Ghost Tent Broussard. Strip District.

City Skyline, Infinite Revival, Toy Soldiers, Culture Thief.

412-263-2877.

Signal (early) The Last South Side. 412-431-4950.

BREWSTONE. Still Grimoire, Skinbound, . w ww per GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Not Sober. Wilkins Horrid Ordeal, Embers a p ty ci h pg Alleyes Manifest, Latecomer, Twp. 412-780-1273. to Ashes (late) The Last .com Stillborn Identity, The Dads, The CLAIRTON AMERICAN Grimoire, Skinbound, Fissures, Noetik 5000. Garfield.

LEGION. Daniels & McClain.

Horrid Ordeal, Embers to 412-361-2262.

Clairton. 412-400-1141.

Ashes. South Side. 412-431-4668.

LAVA LOUNGE. Atlas, Through CLUB CAFE. Maia Sharp, Bill Deasy STAGE AE. Clutch, Orange Goblin, These Walls, Patron Saint. South (Early) The Generationals, Splashh Lionize, Scorpion Child. North Side.

Side. 412-431-5282.

(Late). South Side. 412-431-4950.

MOST-WANTED FINE ART THE FALLOUT SHELTER. GALLERY. Jim & The Povolos, Motometer, Wings for Armor, BAJA BAR AND GRILL. No Bad Tonks & The Aurors. Garfield.

Driftwood Shotgun. Aliquippa.

JuJu. Fox Chapel. 412-727-8000.

412-328-4737.

724-375-5080.

THE BRONZE HOOD. Daniels & SMILING MOOSE. Czar, Molecule GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Dead McClain. Robinson.

Party. South Side. 412-431-4668.

On TV, Kelda Cassada, Terror CHRISTINA’S. Wicked. White Firma Sky. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

Oak. 412-418-9839.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. CIP’S. John Sarkis. Dormont.

Derketa, Metacide, Mi’gauss.

31ST STREET PUB. Leopold And 412-668-2335.

CLUB CAFE. The Honeyriders (Early) Donora, TeamMate (late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. The Fissures, Guruguru, Apathy Cycle.

Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

FREDDIE’S II RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. The Bill Ali Band.

Bethel Park. 412-833-1830.

GOOSKI’S. Liquified Guts, Wrought Iron, Trollkicker, @VIA_PGH (VIA) Unstitched. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HAMBONE’S. Filthy Low Down, Vizard , the Hedonism Bots.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray, Emily Rogers Band, The Quiet Hollars, Black Honey Rollers. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

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

THE LEGACY THEATRE. Elton John Tribute w/ Lee Alverson.

Allison Park. 412-635-8080. @DJBonics (DJ Bonics) MR. SMALLS THEATER. Red Wanting Blue, Nameless In August, Coronado. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

NIED’S HOTEL. Nied’s Hotel Band.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

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

SLOVENIAN HALL. Moose Tracks.

Pleasant Hills. 412-653-8990.

SMILING MOOSE. Act of Pardon, @MacMiller (Mac Miller) Happy Economy. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPEAL’S TAVERN. The Hornswogglers w/ Jaybird.

New Alexandria. 724-433-1322.

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STAGE AE. All Time Low, Pierce The Veil, Mayday Parade, You & Me At Six. North Side.

SWEENEY’S STEAKHOUSE. Lucky Me. Belle Vernon. 724-929-8383.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Mast, Butterbirds, Matt Koenig.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SUN 21 6119 PENN AVE. Pissed Jeans.

East Liberty.

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

412-682-0320.

SMILING MOOSE. Schematic, Rekapse, Asker, Treehouse, Eric Oliver & the Brain Festival. South Side. 412-431-4668.

MON 22 CLUB RADIOACTIVE. Snow White’s Poison Bite. Kittanning.

724-388-9540.

PETER’S PLACE RESTAURANT. The Bill Ali Band. Bridgeville.

412-221-5000.

TUE 23 CLUB CAFE. Enter The Haggis.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Kvelertak, Cancer Bats, Black Tusk, Girlfight. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

SMILING MOOSE. Light Years, Safe. South Side. 412-431-4668.

WED 24 ALTAR BAR. Mushroomhead.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

BRILLOBOX. Disappears, Carousel.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Seth Glier, Liz Longley, Carla Bianco. South Side.

412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. More Machine Than Man, Vircon, Definitive Strike. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Brown Angel, Lovely Little Girls, Bloated Sluts, Hunted Creatures, Night Vapor. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Rebelution, J Boog, Hot Rain.

Millvale. 866-468-3401.

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

STAGE AE. The Joy Formidable, Fort Lean, You Won’t. North Side.

DJS THU 18 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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

FRI 19 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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

412-362-1250.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Anthony Suzan. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

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

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ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

SAT 20

BLUES THU 18 MOONDOG’S. Brad Vickers.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

ALLEGHENY WINE MIXER. DJ Zombo. Lawrenceville.

CONROY EDUCATION CENTER. 412-252-2337.

Mahajibee Blues. North Side.

BRILLOBOX. 420 Tropical.

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Feat. Pandemic, Boogat, Lido Don Hollowood’s Cobra Kings.

Pimienta, Lungs Face Feet.

South Side. 412-431-4090.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans.

Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip North Side. 412-904-3335.

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

JUNE BUG’S. Bobby Hawkins East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

Back Alley Blues. Sutersville.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

724-872-4757.

412-431-8800.

MOONDOG’S. Hadden Sayers.

MEXICO CITY. DJ Juan Diego VII. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

Salsa & Latin music. Downtown.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The 412-980-7653.

Pawnbrokers. Lawrenceville.

REMEDY. Push It! 412-682-0177.

DJ Huck Finn, DJ WOOLEY BULLY’S. Kelly Fasterchild.

Jill West & Blues Lawrenceville.

Attack. New Brighton.

412-781-6771. www. per ROWDY BUCK. Top 724-494-1578. a p pghcitym 40 Dance. South Side. .co 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Side. 412-481-7227.

Billy Price & the Lost Minds.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRANK’S PUB & GRILL. Jill West RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara & the Blues Attack. Bethel Park. & Digital Dave. North Side.

412-833-4606.

412-231-7777.

INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage The Rhythm Aces. South Side.

Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

THE R BAR. Shot O’ Soul.

Electro, post punk, industrial, new Dormont. 412-445-5279. wave, alternative dance. South REMBRANDT’S ROADHOUSE. Side. 412-431-4668.

Ruff House. Bentleyville.

724-239-4775.

SALATINO’S RIVERHOUSE CAFE. BELVEDERE’S. DJ T$.

Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues.

Lawrenceville. 724-312-4098.

Charleroi. 724-565-5700.

ECLIPSE LOUNGE. DJ Zan Naz, DJ Outtareach. Lawrenceville.

412-251-0097.

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TUE 23

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.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. DJ Vex. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

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

East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 19 CATTIVO. B Durazzo, Jo3wiipiff, Moemaw Naedon, Ivies, Mr. Owl, Spaed, Divine Seven, Jack Wilson, E Nox. Lawrenceville.

585-746-7390.

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CJ’S. Tubby Daniels Band. Strip District. 412-642-2377.

SUN 21 SMILING MOOSE. Fortified PhonetX. South Side. 412-431-4668.

SUN 21 ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Cheswick. 724-265-1181.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

MON 22 MARY PAPPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Jazz Chamber Groups w/ Sean Jones. Uptown.

412-396-4632.

TUE 23

ANDYS. Eric Susoeff. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Bettye LaVette. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series feat.

Colter Harper. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 24 720 RECORDS. James Johnson, Paul Thompson, Cliff Barnes.

Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592.

ANDYS. Lilly Abreu & John Bagnato. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

SEWICKLEY HOTEL. Daval/ Stater Guitar Duo. Sewickley.

412-427-9979.

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ALLEGHENY WINE MIXER. Two Wheel Pass. Lawrenceville.

412-252-2337.

ANDYS. Lisa Hindmarsh.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

412-642-2377.

LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Jimmy Z & Friends. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.

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

724-934-1177.

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. Bill Mallonee.

Oakland. 412-567-1928.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. 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.

UP MODERN KITCHEN. James Hovan. Shadyside.

412-688-8220.

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MARS AREA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians. Mars.

412-402-9123.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo & Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

THU 18

ANDYS. Maureen Budway.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Joe Negri w/ Max Leake. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

SAT 20 ANDYS. Dane Vannatter.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CAFE NOTTE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

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

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

412-642-2377.

JT’S. Elan Trotman. Monroeville.

412-292-1753.

BEER NUTZ PLAZA. Tim & John.

Fox Chapel. 412-963-6882.

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Unknown String Band. Cheswick.

724-265-1181.

PARK HOUSE. The Grifters.

North Side. 412-224-2273.

SAT 20 CARNEGIE LECTURE HALL. Colin Linden, Mary Flower. Oakland.

412-361-1915.

THE CENTER OF HARMONY. The Tiger Maple String Band. Harmony.

724-400-6044.

EYEPOLIS. Love Addiction.

Homestead. 412-464-2020.

MOONDOG’S. Singer/ Songwriter Night w/ Jessica Bitsura,

EARLY WARNINGS

Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artists.

Pittsburgh Opera, Strip District.

412-392-4900.

ORGANIST MARTIN NEARY. Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside. 412-661-0120.

PATRICIA HALVERSON & MARTHA MCGAUGHEY. Music for Two Viols: music of Telemann, Simpson, Ford, & Ste. Colombe. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

PAUL JACOBS, ORGANIST. Part of the Music for the Spirit festival. Heinz Chapel, Oakland.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH CONCERT SOCIETY: AN EVENING OF FOOD, FRIENDSHIP & MUSIC. Pittsburgh Golf Club, Squirrel Hill.

412-621-4530.

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412-392-4900.

OVREARTS. St. Anne’s Catholic Church, Castle Shannon.

412-294-8071.

Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side {WED., JUNE 19}

Night Beds Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield {SUN., AUGUST 04}

Yes Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead, 510 E. 10th St., Munhall Joe Mesiano & Laura B. Blawnox.

412-828-2040.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

ROMAN BISTRO. Blake & Dean.

Forest Hills. 412-871-3704.

SUN 21 HAMBONE’S. East End Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

MON 22 HAMBONE’S. Monday Night Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

COUNTRY THU 18 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slim Forsythe & his New Payday Loners, Pete Bush & the Hoi Polloi, Mark Dignam & the House of Song, When Particles Collide.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SAT 20 HARVEY WILNER’S. Dallas Marks.

West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

CLASSICAL FRI 19

WED 24 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass Jam w/ The Shelf Life String Band.

North Side. 412-596-2743.

PENN HILLS COFFEEHOUSE. Songwriter Showcase. Penn Hills.

412-798-2127.

WORLD SAT 20 NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Universal African Dance & Drum Ensemble. North Side.

1-888-718-4253.

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BLACK ORCHID STRING TRIO. The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze.

412-478-9695.

SAT 20

SINGING CITY. Combined choirs from around the city. Part of the Music for the Spirit Festival.

Petersen Events Center, Oakland.

412-648-3054.

SUN 21 THE BEST OF VERDI’S OTELLO. Sunday Vocal Series.

Campbell Memorial Chapel.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

BROWN BAG CONCERT. Spirtual Songs from Around the World feat.

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OVREARTS. Heinz Chapel, Oakland. 412-624-4156.

STAGE AE. Ivan & Alyosha.

North Side.

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North Side. 412-613-5825.

LEMONT. Tom Patera & Dave Crisci. Mt. Washington.

412-431-3100.

SAT 20 CCAC ALLEGHENY CAMPUS. CCAC Music Dept. Concert.

North Side. 412-613-5825.

KEAN THEATRE. The Four Townsmen Show Band. Gibsonia.

724-444-5326.

LEMONT. Phil & Roxy.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

MONESSEN VOL. FIRE DEPT. #1 SOCIAL HALL. The Laurels w/ Southside Jerry.

Benefit For Womens Auxilliary of Monessen. Monessen.

724-684-3771.

OFF THE WALL THEATER. Life Upon the Wicked Stage: A Cabaret.

Carnegie. 724-873-3576.

ST. PAUL CATHEDRAL. Pitt Men’s Glee Club. Oakland.

724-991-5989.

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HAMBONE’S. Cabaret. Jazz Standards & Showtunes singalong.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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April 17 - 23 WEDNESDAY 17 The Mavericks

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

With special guests Seth Walker. All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com. 7:30p.m.

The Igniters JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

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

THURSDAY 18 The Parlotones

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Dinner and a Suit & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX. 7p.m.

FRIDAY 19

Nora Chipaumire - “Miriam” KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

Tickets: kelly-strayhorn.org.

8p.m. Through April 20.

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BAJA BAR & GRILL Fox Chapel.

All ages. Free event. 8p.m.

SATURDAY 20

Cinderella with the Orchestra

SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT. 800-452-2223. Over 21 show. Tickets: 7springs.com.

8p.m.

Jim Krenn

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown.

412-456-6666. Tickets: pbt.org.

Through April 21.

STAGE AE North Side.

With special guest Orange Goblin, Lionize & more.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-7453000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

SUNDAY 21 Anything Goes

HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412392-4900. Tickets: trustarts.org.

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Music For The Spirit Festival - Singing City

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EIDE'S ENTERTAINMENT Strip District. 412-261-0900.

Free event. 3p.m.

PETERSEN EVENTS CENTER Oakland. Tickets: 800-7453000 or pittsburghsymphony. org/singingcity. 7:30p.m.

Red Wanting Blue

Dar Williams REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

8p.m.

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

All ages show. Tickets: 866468-3401 or ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

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TUESDAY 23

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Courrier, Justin Cook & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLYTIX. 8p.m.

HIGHMARK STADIUM Station Square. Over 21 event.

Tickets: pghrealale.com.

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2p.m.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests Cancer Bats & more. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone.

All ages show. 7:30p.m.

Conservatory Dance Company at the Byham BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-392-8000. Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse.com.

Through April 21.

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UNDER THE LENS

SYMBOLISM SO COPIOUS THAT YOU JUST WANT IT TO BE OVER SO YOU CAN TAKE THE QUIZ

{BY AL HOFF} Shannah Laumeister’s bio-doc Bert Stern: Original Mad Man about the influential and prolific photographer has one ace up its sleeve. Laumeister has had a longtime relationship with Stern, and is able to coax him past his discomfort with being the subject to recount much of his life story, warts and all.

Ready for his close-up: Bert Stern

In the 1950s, Stern’s bold, artistic photographs, such as his work for Smirnoff vodka, made him a star in the ad world, before branching out into fashion and the artistic pursuit of beautiful women. Some of his work is now iconic, such as his poster for Kubrick’s Lolita (Sue Lyon in heartshaped glasses) or Marilyn Monroe’s last photo sitting only days before her death.

Stern is candid, recalling his “mad” life through his tumultuous marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent and a drug-burnout in the 1970s to his financial comeback (also pill-related). Today, Stern appears poised between respected elder and regretful old man half-buried (literally) by his past glories. He’s less interested in revisiting his career and influence (“I just push the button”) than mulling over his obsession with women. Stern’s appetite for frozen beauty may be insatiable, but I grew a bit bored with beautiful ladies (albeit exquisitely shot), and wished Laumeister had prodded Stern to talk more about the mechanics of his work. Screens as part of JFilm. 9 p.m.

Sat., April 20. Manor AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

G-DOG. Frieda Mock’s doc profiles a Los Angeles priest who works to reform gang members.

The film opens Docudrama, ama, a sevenweek series eries of recent documentaries. mentaries.

7 p.m. Thu., April 25, and 11 1 a.m. Sat., t., April 27.

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Like leaves in the grass: Olga Kurylenko and Ben Affleck

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the Wonder, has a recondite title, but it’s not as hard to figure out as it desperately wants to be. It’s his philosophical sequel to The Tree of Life, a contemplation of love, faith, trust, nature, loneliness, suffering and the banality and mendacity of the American Dream. In some ways it’s a student film, with symbolism so copious that you just want it to be over so you can take the quiz before you forget it all.

A philosopher by degree whose masterpiece is Badlands, Malick has worked more frequently since The Thin Red Line, an outstanding World War II drama that he made in 1998, when he re-emerged after a 20-year absence. But lately, his films have grown even more ethereal: The New World took place in a dreamy colonial America, and Tree of Life takes us, for a moment at least, to Heaven.

To the Wonder opens in Paris, where

an American (Ben Affleck) meets a tempestuous Ukrainian woman (Olga Kurylenko) with a young daughter. He brings her back to his Oklahoma town, where they eventually marry and then grow apart (although not necessarily in that order). There’s also a compassionate

TO THE WONDER DIRECTED BY: Terrence Malick STARRING: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem In English, and French, Spanish and Italian, with subtitles.

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clergyman (Javier Bardem) questioning God, and a woman (Rachel McAdams) with whom the man has an affair.

The reclusive Malick lived in France for many years, and now we know who he hung out with. The opening of To the Wonder is Godardian — grainy and jerky,

with washed-out color. “Newborn,” says the woman in voiceover. “I open my eyes.” Many other ponderous ejaculations follow, all sounding terribly profound when whispered slowly in French, and it’s almost 20 minutes before anyone says something for real.

From there, the woman, bored with her life (“it’s killing me”), and with life in general, speaks of love over images of nature, and the man takes soil samples at industrial waste sites. Welcome to Metaphor 101. When a woman says, “Live life in a dream, you can do whatever you want,” and the pastor asks God, “Why do you turn your back on me, all I see is destruction,” what’s left to figure out?

Malick cast his women well, but as with Brad Pitt in Tree of Life, Affleck here is merely a presence, albeit a strapping one. He almost speaks fewer lines than Uggie did in The Artist, and yet, it’s one of his best performances, if only in an existential way.

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NEW JFILM. Formerly known as the Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, this festival continues its 20th season through Sun., April 21. Films — from dramas and comedies to documentaries, all rooted in the Jewish experience — screen at various venues. Some individual films are reviewed below.

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JFilmPgh.org for complete schedule OBLIVION. In the future, a tech guy (Tom Cruise) undertakes a mission to retrieve what’s left of Earth’s resources. Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy) directs this sci-fi feature. In 3-D in select theaters.

Starts Fri., April 19.

REPERTORY THE BREAKFAST CLUB. In John Hughes’ 1985 dramedy, five high school kids from different cliques discover they have plenty in common.

7:30 p.m. Wed., April 17. AMC Loews. $5

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OUT IN THE DARK. In Michael Mayer’s drama, two young gay men meet in a Tel Aviv nightclub, but their burgeoning relationship has many obstacles. One of the men is from a well-connected Jewish family, and the other is a Palestinian student from Ramallah, whose brother is in an armed resistance group. When the relationship becomes public, things quickly go from good to bad to very bad. Screens as part of JFilm. In Arabic and Hebrew, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m.

Thu., April 18. Manor. $10. 412-992-5203 or www.JFilmPgh.org (Al Hoff)

Out in the Dark desperate situation, imprisoned at the dock and a sports stadium, pending inevitable repatriation.

Daniele Vicari’s documentary recounts this event, interviewing Albanians and Italians, and stitching together archival footage. The scale and intensity of this single mass immigration rivals any seen, and the disastrous response to it seems more like a harbinger of the future rather than an isolated incident from the past. Screens as part of a festival of recent Italian films, presented by the University of Pittsburgh. In Italian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Thu., April 18. Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh campus, Oakland. Free. www.italianfilmfests.org/ pittsburgh (AH) WE ARE ALIVE! THE FIGHT TO SAVE BRADDOCK HOSPITAL. Tony Buba’s latest film, a documentary shot with Tom Dubensky, tells the story of UPMC’s 2009 decision to close Braddock Hospital, the fight to save it and its ultimate destruction. One of many chapters in this country’s ongoing struggle to balance health care, profits and people. The film opens the Battle of Homestead Foundation’s monthly film screening, featuring works related to labor and economic issues. 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 18.

Pump House, Homestead. Free. 412-831-3871 TERRAFERMA. Family relationships are strained on a small Sicilian island when illegal immigrants arrive by boat. Screens as part of a festival of recent Italian films, presented by the University of Pittsburgh. In Italian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Fri., April 19. Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland. Free. www. italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh BATMAN. Between the jokester of the 1960s TV show and the recent broody “Dark Knight,” there was this Batman, as adapted for the big screen by Tim Burton in 1989. Michael Keaton plays the caped crusader, who must defend Gotham from the scenestealing Joker (Jack Nicholson). 10 pm. Fri., April 19, and 10 p.m. Sat., April 20. Oaks

Hava Nagila (The Movie) SHAUN OF THE DEAD. London slackers defend themselves from zombies in writer/ star Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright’s remarkable debut feature: This is an original zombie movie, an original zombie parody and an original romantic comedy, all in one film. But at its heart, Shaun succeeds because it is very much its own film: Its romance is romantic, its comedy hilarious and its horror, if not actually frightening, at least lovingly and effectively executed. 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 18; 10 p.m. Fri., April 19; and 7 p.m. Sun., April 13. Hollywood (Justin Hopper)

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THE HUMAN CARGO. In August 1991, some 20,000 Albanians swarmed a cargo ship and forced the captain to sail to Bari, Italy, where they hoped to find a new life. But upon arrival, these castaways — men, women and children — were trapped in a chaotic and

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PROGRESSIVE VISIONS. See what your neighbors are thinking, as local artists screen short films related to progressive issues, in this contest sponsored by Pittsburgh 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club.

Prizes will be awarded, refreshments will be served and proceeds benefit the club’s election guide. 7 p.m. Sat., April 20. Melwood. $5-25 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. Steve Varron directs this 1990 comedy, about some sewerdwelling, pizza-eating, upright-walking, buttkicking reptiles who take on a gang of ninjas. 8 p.m.

Sat., April 20, and 7:30 p.m. Sun., April 21. Oaks SCARFACE. Brian DePalma’s 1983 remake of the 1932 gangster classic has twice the length and half the potency. Overblown and bloody almost to the point of cartoonishness, this version (penned by DePalma and Oliver Stone) follows Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino in overdrive) on his ascent to Miami cocaine lord. Along the way he acquires the sublime Michelle Pfeiffer, and he runs his empire

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Piazza Fontana: An Italian Conspiracy with huge guns, electric saws and destructive megalomania. In an academic sense, the re-write has some interest: The ’80s cocaine trade substitutes well enough for Prohibition’s bootlegging. Yet, the modern mobster Montana is so cynical from the start that the tale of his rise and fall lacks a sympathetic element. Midnight, Sat., April 20.

Manor (AH) HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE). Roberta Grossman’s lighthearted film tracks the history of “Hava Nagila,” the quintessential Jewish song of a million weddings and bar mitzvahs that everybody loves and hates. With plenty of humor, Grossman deftly depicts how the life of the song is inextricably linked to the history of the Jews in the 20th century. “Hava” begins as a wordless Ukrainian song-prayer, moves to Palestine, where it acquires lyrics, and is later paired with the hora, becoming the de facto celebratory folk song of the newly minted nation of Israel. Across the Atlantic, “Hava” enjoys continued popularity and remarkable midcentury assimilation, becoming a hit song for African-American Harry Belafonte and ItalianAmerican Connie Francis. Then, as in so many entertainment biographies, there comes the dark years of discredit, and playing rented auditoriums, before being rediscovered and reassessed. The film checks in with cultural historians, as well as performers including Belafonte, Francis, Glen Campbell and Regina Spektor. Screens as part of JFilm. 1 p.m. Sun., April 21. Manor (AH)

a Louisiana jail cell and plot to escape. 8 p.m. Wed., April 24. Melwood. $2 PIAZZA FONTANA: AN ITALIAN CONSPIRACY. Marco Tullio Giordana’s docudrama recounts the investigation of the 1969 bombing of a bank in Milan, in which 14 people died. It’s partly a police procedural, and partly a snapshot of the politically chaotic times that spurred the bombing. The interested parties are numerous, spanning political groups (from neofascists to anarchists), government officials, cops, infiltrators and perhaps a shadowy foreign figure or two. If you’re not well-versed in Italian politics, it’s a bit tricky to keep all the players sorted out, but a clear and gripping narrative emerges: This bombing is not what it seems, and justice is among its victims. Good stuff for folks who like thrillers based on real-life political machinations.

Screens as part of a festival of recent Italian films, presented by the University of Pittsburgh. In Italian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Thu., April 25. Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland. Free. www. italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh (AH)

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ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, N orth Side. www.warhol.org

THE BIG HEAT. A cop, bent on vengeance, takes on a crime syndicate in this hard-boiled 1956 feature from Fritz Lang. Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin star. Screens as part of a month-long Sunday-night series of classic film noir on 35 mm. 8 p.m. Sun., April 21. Regent Square RAGING BULL. Robert DeNiro stars in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 bio-pic of boxer Jake LaMotta, as his life takes a complicated path: The bullheadness and anger that serve him well in the ring prove destructive outside of it. Beautifully shot in black-and-white, and filled with raw energy and great performances, this film has held up as one of the best for both Scorsese and DeNiro. 2 and 7 p.m.

Wed., April 24. Cinemark Robinson and Pittsburgh Mills (AH)

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UNCLE BUCK. John Candy stars in this 1989 comedy written and directed by John Hughes about the slobby bachelor uncle who does a stint of babysitting. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 24. AMC Loews. $5 DOWN BY LAW. In Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 film, three men (John Lurie, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni) share

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Okwui Okpokwasili and Nora Chipaumire in Miriam

Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam is the third dance work in the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s current season to explore the idea of public versus private identities. But Miriam approaches the subject differently than did idiosynCrazy Productions’ Private Places and Kate Watson-Wallace/ anonymous bodies’ Mash Up Body.

Conceived, choreographed and performed by the award-winning Chipaumire, along with dancer Okwui Okpokwasili, Miriam makes its Pittsburgh premiere April 19 and 20, in a copresentation by the Kelly-Strayhorn and The Andy Warhol Museum.

Chipaumire says her interest in the balancing of public and private personas, especially in those we consider icons or superstars, led her to create Miriam. Her first character-driven work drew its main inspiration from lives of two iconic mothers: singer/ activist Miriam Makeba, a.k.a “Mama Africa,” and the Virgin Mary.

“Their lives were thrust upon them,” says Chipaumire, by phone from New York. “They both took what was given to them with extreme grace and moved people. There is a public persona that is socially acceptable which we want to present. Privately we could be very different. If you happen to be a superstar, people tend not to think of you as having the same wants and desires as the rest of us. We want them to be always pure, like the Virgin Mary.”

Set to an original score by Grammynominated Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa, the hour-long Miriam is in essence a “solo for two women,” says Chipaumire. She says these two icons were so complex she needed two bodies portray them.

“My Miriam is disobedient, obstinate, rebellious and beloved, in keeping with the meaning of her name in both its Levite and Hebrew origins,” says Chipaumire.

The Zimbabwe-born Chipaumire has presented several works in Pittsburgh, including 2011’s lions will roar… and 2007’s Chimurenga. Miriam employs an array of props, including rocks, police tape and a ladder, along with costume and makeup elements, to touch on such themes as the objectification of women and the feminine ideal.

Says Chipaumire: “The work asks, ‘Would I be a better person if I were to cultivate public identities like Makeba and Mary? Is this the way to beauty and art?’”

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(emphasis on if), it’s recognizable by its Rust Belt setting, blue-collar scrambling to get by and take-no-crap attitude. Among a range of Pittsburgh voices who speak from this ethos, one of the best known locally and nationally — and one of the most insistent in proclaiming her Pittsburgh “I”-ness — is Jan Beatty.

Beatty directs the creative-writing program at Carlow University and runs the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops that have nurtured women writers for 30-plus years. As host of radio’s Prosody, Beatty has led intelligent discussion with writers over the airwaves for more than 20 years, most of that on WYEP FM and now Saturday mornings on NPR affiliate WESA. Following Mad River (1994), Boneshaker (2002) and Red Sugar (2008), The Switching/ Yard is Beatty’s fourth fulllength collection. Along with breaking the pattern of titular last-syllable rhymes, the new book — titled with a slash mark — ups the ante of Beatty’s punk-tinged

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feminism flavored with graphic sex. The Switching of the title refers both to train routing and the blurring of gender boundaries: “In the steel wheels of her leaving, / she became her own father.”

THE SWITCHING/ YARD

BY JAN BEATTY

University of Pittsburgh Press, 80 pp., $15.95

Many of the poems arise from train travel and bloom with imagery of landscapes journeyed through: Ontario, Colorado, California. Beatty, a self-described “rabid feminist,” is a poet of the body (a statement linked to volumes of literary/philosophical discourse), and train journeys are for her “horizontal movement” that tracks the

fluidity of gender and identity.

The book’s first poem, “Visitation at Gogama,” establishes a dominant tone: relatively flat diction and avoidance of metaphor — there’s a bar called “Restaurant/Tavern” and a meat market called “Meat Market ....” It also introduces a recurrent topic: the ghost-like remembered presence of Beatty’s Canadian hockeyplayer birth father. “California Corridor,” the second poem, asserts the privilege artists must claim for themselves: “beauty always with blood behind it, nothing free ... How to have body/space/land of the mind / knowing the ravaged?”

“The Hit Man” is gripping narrative — Beatty’s favored mode — about, yes, a hit man. The streetwise-ness of these poems resides to a large extent in characters like this guy, from whom the “I” wants a gun to use on her boyfriend, having had enough “name-calling & arm grabbing & / wall punching & other women.” The hit man looks at her, sees she’ll use it, won’t oblige.

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Ryan Woodring’s “(Re)Released: male lion”

The poetry at times goes Tarantino — violence and sex vividly grotesque as with few other poets. In “American Revolver,” we meet a “good in bed” ex-lover — “Those nights he’d fuck me standing & yell / Give it to me! — the whites of his eyes glazed ....” In “Three Faces and All These Fallen Gods,” we learn about a bank robber who visits his ex, “sticks a .44 up her twat” and moves it around. Beatty’s “I” says she’s turned on by that.

“Top-10 List” tells us all the ex-boyfriends were “brutal, like Viggo in n Eastern Promises” (a movie about white e slavery) — a crew, to quote Junot Diaz,, “of very bad men that not even post-modernism can explain away.” This fem-macho “I” likes ’em that way: “If they y could sell their body blazing with a gun, n, I’d buy it.”

An aggressive sexual stance is hardly new in women’s poetry — though Beatty may be taking it to extremes. In Stealing the Language (1986), for instance, scholar/poet Alicia Ostriker describes violence and anger in woman’s poetry as retaliatory, speaking back to male power.

Still, one can admire Beatty’s candor and, simultaneously, wonder how S/M fantasy, brutality as a turnon, resists gender oppression.

In “Stein: Letter to a Young Rilke,” which includes the book’s most inspired language play, Beatty imagines Gertrude Stein calling out the great German poet Rilke for his “laborious earnestness.” This is more ironic than Beatty, perhaps, appreciates (and not only because Stein was a pro-fascist, Vichy supporter). Beatty’s poetry exudes psychological sincerity, deeply earnest, confessionalist — a gender-neutral classification of style — to the core.

Some of these poems fence out straight white men categorically as the “other,” not among those Beatty writes for, in simplistic gestures that for this reader create static. When I get through that, however, there’s a distinctive voice, remarkable poems that arrive at distilled moments of tenderness. Perhaps the strongest, “Monument to the War Dead,” most steps out of the circle of autobiographical referents, acknowledging the losses of war, “all the old machinery ghosts” and “the amazing spirit of the singular voice.” The latter phrase applies fully to Beatty herself.

Oct. 18, 2011, was not a good day to be wandering near Zanesville, Ohio, especially if you were one of the 56 exotic animals released that day by their owner, who then committed suicide. Most of the lions, tigers, bears, wolves and mountain lions, and a baboon, were subsequently killed by subse public-safety-minded pu law la enforcement. This tragedy moved Ryan t Woodring, a growing W presence on the local art a scene, to embark upon a project memou rializing the animals. rial Woodring began by W painting a portrait representing each of the 49 animals that were lost to the world. Displayed at eye level, each small circular painting confronts us with a direct, unthreatening gaze. The paintings were also scanned and digitally printed to produce paper lanterns used in a nighttime performance at a remote location where they were released and shot down, as documented in a series of photographic prints that form the other major aspect of this exhibit. (A video documenting the performance is also on hand.)

The photographs have a somber quality, with lanterns and the occasional shooter seen against expanses of dark foliage and drizzly night sky. The combination of night, rain, motion and distant subjects can make things difficult to decipher, and it’s not selfevident what the relationship is between the animal portraits and the nighttime performance, not to mention the original incident. Explanation is called for, and some is provided in an artist’s statement, though I Googled the story to fill in details.

Woodring has created a project that cuts across boundaries, including those of medium and style. His feel for the tragedy is evident, even though there’s no blame assigned. By using a multi-stage process which relies more on lyricism and intuition than logic, he conveys a sense of his inspiration rather than facts or his specific response: Little is said about lax exotic-animal laws, the culpability of animal-hoarders, the motivation of the owner who freed them, or the necessity of killing the animals. It’s a heartfelt elegy, expressed with the emotional restraint that prevails in contemporary art.

The Inn is the latest iteration of (occasional City Paper contributor) Sarah Humphrey’s College Inn Project, which migrated from Shadyside to Bar Marco in the Strip and now to Lawrenceville. This first exhibit signals that there will be room for the unexpected.

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GOSSIP TOWN {BY TED HOOVER}

Cinderella

with the Orchestra APRIL 19-21, 2013 BENEDUM CENTER

NOT THAT MY ability to “read” an audi-

ence is so very keen, but I’ve been at this for so long that not much surprises. So I’m amazed to report that twice in the past month, audiences didn’t do as I expected. I felt sure people would go streaming from the Benedum once the potty-mouthed Book of Mormon got underway … but no one moved. (Although when I learned that some people paid $ 150 for their seats, it made more sense.)

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Artists: Christine Schwaner & Nurlan Abougaliev // Photography: Lois Greenfield // Design: Kelly Perkovich

Even more shocking, I never would have guessed that at the Point Park University Conservatory Theatre Company production of The School for Scandal, the audience would exit in droves at intermission. To tell you the truth, I still can’t figure it out.

This classic 1777 comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan had been intermittently entertaining throughout the first act, at times rising to the level of outright fun. So it was astonishing to see so many folks running to their cars … astonishing

and a little dismaying.

Director Alan Stanford has certainly attacked with gusto. Scandal is a play of two halves. One thread follows Sir Peter Teazle (in a solidly crafted performance by Jordon Ross Weinhold) and his attempts to rein in his disobedient wife (played with humor and strength by Lily Davis). The other thread finds Sir Oliver Surface testing the loyalty and morality of his two sons, Joseph and Charles. (Joe Rittenhouse, Stanley Graham and Tom Driscoll are expressive and expansive in the roles.) This plays out against a London-set background of gossiping, bitchy and back-biting lords, ladies and servants, from most of whom Stanford gets detailed performances as well.

It’s true that Stanford’s handling of the ensemble scenes can be flat and unfocussed, and the decision to stage a prologue written by a Sheridan contemporary turns out to be a big mistake. But in the two- and three-character scenes, Stanford does great work with this student cast. There’s a consistent style to the playing, and they never fail to land any of Sheridan’s very numerous jokes.

If you ask me, the people who left missed a fairly fun evening.

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If you can tweet, you can write a haiku!

This Thursday, April 18 $10; includes museum admission and one drink ticket 5:30–9 p.m. Happy Hour 6–7 p.m. Gallery Conversation What better inspiration than spectacular Japanese prints by masters of the art including Hiroshige and Hokusai and intricately carved Japanese ivories, all from the collections of Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History.

Culture Club is sponsored by Loosen the creative juices at happy hour, then start assembling syllables with the guidance of haiku expert and author Don Wentworth.

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Maddie, played by Duquesne senior Alexis Jabour, is a harmless high school librarian by day and a passionate witch by night.

She often speaks in lengthy monologues to the sky, seeking communion with an unexplained force of energy called the SunGate.

Maddie and her sister, Polly (Maeve Montgomery), restlessly await the fulfillment of a prophecy that promises the continuation of their bloodline. They find their protégé in Jordan (Tyler Jennings), an impudent student who shows a unique gift for spellcasting. However, their plans are disrupted when Jordan considers enlisting in the army to help his brother, a struggling serviceman stuck in Afghanistan. I’m not making this up.

If that’s not enough for you, the play also seeks to address the reality of PTSD in veterans, the ruthlessness of army bureaucracy, and witchcraft’s ability to serve as a real source of comfort and

community for troubled individuals.

Playwright Smith describes the show as “a play about a young man who has to decide how he will impact the world, and he has to make that decision without any knowledge of how his decisions will play out.” March is at its best when it questions the ability of young people to make real decisions about their futures. There is an affecting tableau in which Jordan and two officers give a moving account of their current area of service.

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Peter Mills Auditorium, Duquesne University campus, Uptown. $5-10. 412-396-6215 or redmasquers.blogspot.com

The production is apt, mostly shifting focus through lighting cues — and, at one dramatic point, overtly referencing Stanley Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket.

March alternates between engaging social commentary/comedy and bullheaded melodrama, ultimately revealing a desire to believe that a combination of service and faith can successfully shape a young mind.

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Darkroom Mania > Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild.

914 Penn Avenue Wild Life > Student artwork. Music by the Sounds of Steel steel pan band, 6:15 & 7:45pm.

Seventh Street & Penn Avenue Live Music by JD Eicher & the Goodnights.

Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

12. Amazing Books

20. Pilates Sol

30. Backstage Bar

929 Liberty Avenue An independent bookstore. Open until 7pm.

900 Penn Avenue

655 Penn Avenue

Pilates as Art in Motion > Play an interactive game.

Joyce Werwie Perry: Places & Faces

Win a private Pilates session! 6 & 7pm.

Live Music by Elevations, 5:30 to 7:30pm.

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Community Supported Art > newhazletttheater.

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13. 937 Liberty Avenue org/#csa

Push-pinned Prints & Drawings > Work by

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CSA PGH > csapgh.com

Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students in 6–12.

Creating Your Own Perspective > Performances

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Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby (third floor)

Celebrating the Urban League in Pittsburgh

August Wilson X: 10 Years of August Wilson on Stage

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4. Urban League 5. Memento Mori Tito & Exchange Way A set of billboards reminding us that life can be short and its end unpredictable.

Tito & Exchange Way Visualizing the electromagnetic field of your mobile phone.

7. Shaw Galleries 805 Liberty Avenue

Brave New World: Maps of the 19th-century

8. Trust Arts Education Center 805-807 Liberty Avenue Peirce Studio (lower level)

Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase > Performances at 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm.

Gonzalez Requena. Guest curated by Kristen Kovak.

136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro)

947 Liberty Avenue

23. Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

Free Dance Lessons and Demos > Merengue at

15. August Wilson Center for African American Culture

810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200

33. Braddock’s American Brasserie

980 Liberty Avenue

24. Bend Yoga

Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase. > Begins at 6pm.

SOLO Exhibits > Work by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates and Tina Brewer.

Glamazonia by Mario Epanya Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix

16. Tonic 971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd Floor Gallery [not universally accessible]

third & fourth floors

Work by D.Hopper & Justice Coughenour Music by Shay and Bryan William Kinney.

9. Harris Theater

946 Penn Avenue

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Magic by Peter Corbett > Be prepared to be wowed!

Tiny Harris Gallery

Heather Springer: eye of the beholder

10. Arcade Comedy Theater 811 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh’s best sketch and improve comedy.

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Ivette Spradlin: carbon first, then light

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808 Penn Avenue, 2nd Floor Guided Meditation > 6:30 to 7pm. Register at mcallan@bendyoga.com.

Poetry reading > With Tarun Reddy. 7:30 to 8pm.

25. Night Market IV

Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase > All-City K-12 Arts and Cultures Exhibitions.

Harris Theater Short Films

Displacement > Work by Phil Hessler and Natalia

32. Arthur Murray Dance Studio

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17. August Henry’s City Saloon

Eighth Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot Food and art vendors—combined with music and dance.

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34. Boutique 208 208 Sixth Street Meet the local artists creating art and artisan products.

35. Robot Repairs 210 Sixth Street Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.

709 Penn Avenue

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Cast of Characters > Curated by Cindy Lisica and Vicky

600 Liberty Avenue Showcasing Pittsburgh’s transformation and reflecting PNC’s dedication to revitalizing the city.

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The Art of Pierogie Making > Join Chef Brian Volmrich, as he demonstrates how to create a pierogie.

27. 707 Penn Gallery

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Marc Burgess: Adult Arcade

Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Avenue

Free Dance Lessons > By Pittsburgh Dance Center’s

28. Magnolias for Pittsburgh

Salsa Friday

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Seventh Street & Penn Avenue Craft (origami) magnolias with the Office of Public Art.

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{STAGE} Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, which won both the Pulitzer and the Tony for best play, is something of a sequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun. In Act I, set in 1959, in the same house in the same Chicago neighborhood as in Hansberry’s play, a white couple decides whether to sell to a black family. And in Act II (2009), in what’s now a black neighborhood, a white couple seeks to buy the house. A cast of seven (pictured are Megan Hill and Chandra Thomas) plays different roles in each act in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s local-premiere production.

Tonight’s the first performance of this acclaimed, ever-timely drama. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m.

Continues through May 19.

621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15.75-60. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org

+ FRI., APRIL 19 {ART} Follow this thread: Tonight is opening night for the 2013 Fiberart International. The triennial exhibition, p presented by y the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, features 81 works by 64 artists at two big galleries:

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Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society for Contemporary Craft. There are twin receptions at the venues, so if you’re up for crossing town, weave them together.

On Saturday, at SCC, there’s a day-long Fiberarts Forum, featuring a dialogue dialog with the artists. BO PCA: 5 5:30-9 p.m.

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cultural history in Viva:BLACK a Live Theater Documentary.

With help from a jazz band, her own band and some backup singers and dancers, Vie imagines herself in various time periods, from the Jazz Age to today — think Cab Calloway to Michael Jackson — and performs accordingly.

The 90-minute show is Vie’s first large-scale stage work.

Jeff Ihaza 8 p.m. (7 p.m. cocktail hour). Also 8 p.m.

Sat., April 20. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10-17. info.vivablack@gmail.com or www.augustwilsoncenter.org

This wee weekend at the August Wilson Aug Center, the C dancer and vocalist known as Vie Boheme (and sometimes as Kendra Dennard) honors a century of AfricanAmerican

Yannis Pappas is a man of many identities. One of his characters, Maurica, is a saucy single New York gal on the prowl for a good time. His alter ego, Mr. Pano, is a pseudo-intellectual gym-teacher type. This weekend, as part of the Yannis Pappas and Friends Tour, all of these characters take the stage at the Improv for five performances of the Comedy Centralfeatured comedian’s live show.

JI 8 and 10 p.m. Also 7 and 9 p.m. Sat., April 20, and 7 p.m. Sun., April 21. 166 E. Bridge St., West Homestead. $25. 412-462-5233 or www.pittsburgh.improv.com

+ SAT., APRIL 20 {EXHIBIT} Today butterflies descend upon Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens as the Butterfly Forest re-opens for spring. Guests can watch these seasonal creatures flutter around the various rooms in the garden and perhaps, if circumstances are right, have one land on them. JI 9:30 a.m.5 p.m. Schenley Drive, Oakland. $11-15. 412-624-6508 or www.phipps.conservatory.org

{ZINES} Zinesters of the world, unite!

And comics artists and smallpress folks, too. It’s Drawing Power: Comics, Zines and Books in Pittsburgh and Beyond. The day-long event, held in the Carnegie Museum

sp otlight Pittsburgh’s newest dance troupe, Geeksdanz, “is on a mission is to introduce dance to audiences that would not normally be drawn to it,” says founder/artistic director Ellen Deutsch. For the group’s first full-length production, Challenge Mode, Deutsch and company aim to bring dance to those with an interest in video-gaming. A humorous celebration of gamers and gaming, Challenge Mode explores the notion of becoming so immersed in a video game that you no longer see yourself as a player but, rather, as a character in the game. Set to video-game music remixed by the independent composers at OverClocked ReMix, the hour-long work is delivered in a series of short vignettes referencing well-known video games like Tetris, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy and the Mario franchise. It’s also a game itself, in which six competitors vie for a 100 Percent Completion bonus. Deutsch, a Squirrel Hill native who studied dance at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says the troupe’s name is about her being a “geek” for dance. Says Deutsch: “We all express ourselves in ways that are most natural to us. A gamer might express their excitement over a game in a certain way; we just happen to be dancers who also like video games.” Steve Sucato 6:30 p.m. Fri., April 19. Pittsburgh Dance Center, 4765 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. The production will also be streamed live at www.geeksdanz.org.

Primary Election Voter’s Guide.

BO 7-10 p.m. 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland. $5-25 (includes refreshments). www.pgh14widc.org

{ART} Venerable as the Carnegie Museum of Art is, it perhaps

extant survey exhibition of regional arts in the country.

The 68 artworks in all media were chosen by juror David Norr, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. A few of the 46 artists represented include Seth Clark, Karen Kaighin, David Montano, Madelyn Roehrig and Jeff Zets. The opening reception is tonight. BO 7-10 p.m. Exhibit continues through June 23. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. www.aapgh.org

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star Boulet; and folks from the Big Feminist But comics anthology. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free.

412-622-3114

has no tradition older than the annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh show. At 102 years and counting, the artistrun group’s big yearly showcase is the longest-running

Tonight the Universal African Dance & Drum Ensemble makes its Pittsburgh debut at The New Hazlett Theater thanks to the Kente Arts Alliance. The Philadelphiabased ensemble features the traditional dances and drums of African nations like Ghana, Mali, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

Tonight’s show includes more than 35 members of the 69-member ensemble. JI 7:30 p.m. 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $16-20. 412-3220292 or www.kentearts.org

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From Roger & Me to Gasland, film has played a big role in modern progressive politics.

Each year, the Pittsburgh 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club invites local emerging artists to join the fun by submitting short films to its Progressive Visions contest.

See the finalists at tonight’s screening and awards show, at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room, emceed by City Paper’s own Chris Potter. Judges include 2012 award-winner Julie Sokolow and filmmakers Brad Grimm and Doree Simon.

Proceeds support the club’s

APRIL 20 Drawing Power Art by Mike Porcellino

(National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws), this must be The Bong Show. That’d at’d be what organizers call “a talent show where ere the stakes are high, and so are e the judges.” s.”

Your hostss are singer Phat Man Dee and burlesque sque artist Smokin’ okin’ McQueen;; your three e judges are e legal by virtue of appearing g live via satellite from rom Colorado.

Come see the contestants and hear live music by Chai Baba, a, The Rusty Haywhackers kers and J Pad the Juggernaut. ernaut. BO O 8 p.m.

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15. 21 and over. www.pittsburghnorml.org sburghnorml.org

Usually, the actors don’t even use microphones. But fledgling Organic Theater Pittsburgh takes sustainability a bit further, including today’s inaugural Earth Day Arts + Environment Festival.

At the Union Project, t the expected green vendors and recycled-art exhibits are complemented by a mini-fest of six ecothemed short plays, by notable local playwrights including Amy Hartman, Wali Jamal and Tameka Cage-

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of Art theater, includes tabling for local zines and books (plus fare from far afield) and panel talks featuring local notables like Ed Piskor, Paulette Poullet, Jim Rugg, Frank Santoro and Lizee Solomon. Special presenters include Dash Shaw, of Fantagraphics; French comics

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{STAGE} Ambitious small the theater company Bricolage e launches its first In the Raw FFestival. A entries has national call for ent plays; each yielded three new p week-long playwright gets a w director, a workshop with a dir professional dramaturg and prof actors, followed by ttwo public and tomorreadings. Tonight an row, it’s Ganglia: Instructions Ins Symbiogenesis, for the Symbiogene playwright Cleveland-based pla Peter J. Roth’s Pet sciencesc fiction work f about a a friendly fr couple who cou arrive in arri their new the neighborneig hood complete with an alien wi wit ha parasite instructing them to conquer the world. BO 7 p.m.

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THEATER ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Fri, Sat. Thru April 27. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727.

ANYTHING GOES. Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s classic. Thru April 21. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND. Feat. music of Peter, Paul & Mary, The Mamas & Papas, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkle, more.

Presented by Pohl Productions. Sat, Sun and Fri., April 19. Thru April 21.

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park.

724-746-1178.

BUS STOP. Presented by the Bobcat Players. Thu-Sat. Thru April 20. Beaver Area High School, Beaver. 724-494-1680.

CLYBOURNE PARK. A look at the house & neighborhood from A Raisin in the Sun in 1959 & 2009.

Presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater. Tue-Sun. Thru May 19.

O’Reilly Theater, Downtown.

412-316-1600.

DIAL M FOR MOTHER. Murder mystery theater. Benefiting Baldwin Borough Public Library. Sat., April 20,

story of one extraordinary year.

6:45 p.m. Baldwin Municipal Tue-Sun. Thru May 5. City Theatre, Building, Baldwin. 412-885-2255.

DREAM OF AUTUMN. Two former South Side. 412-431-2489.

MARCH. Two witches dwelling in a lovers face the forces of the past high school basement are forced to & future. Presented by Quantum deal w/ a newcomer after centuries Theatre. 3955 Bigelow Blvd., of tradition. Presented by the Red Oakland. Wed-Sun. Thru April 28.

Masquers. Thru April 23. Peter Mills 1-888-718-4253.

Theater ( Duquesne, Rockwell Hall), GANGLIA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR Uptown. 412-396-6000.

THE SYMBIOGENESIS. Norman OUR CLASS. The Pittsburgh & Amelia arrive in a new premiere of a play about neighborhood armed w/ Polish neighbors during a friendly demeanor, & the Holocaust. an alien parasite that Presented by Pittsburgh is feeding off each of Irish & Classical Theatre. www. per their brains. Play by a p pghcitym Thru May 4. Stephen Peter J. Roth, part of .co Foster Memorial, the In the Raw Festival.

Oakland. 412-624-7529.

April 21-22. Bricolage, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Downtown. 412-471-0999.

Presented by Avonworth High LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE: School. Fri, Sat. Thru April 20.

A CABARET. Performance Avonworth School, Emsworth. of songs from Sunday In The Park w/ George, The Drowsy Chaperone, 412-366-6360.

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Witty look at the art of gossip, Ragtime, more. Sat., April 20. feat. trysts & elaborately fabricated Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. stories as the pastime of 18th 1-888-718-4253. century Londoners. Thu-Sun. Thru LITTLE GEM. Three generations of April 21. Pittsburgh Playhouse, middle-class Irish women tell the

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Oakland. 412-392-8000.

VIVA:BLACK A LIVE THEATER DOCUMENTARY. Stage show that will take the audience on a journey through the 1920’s to present day.

Presented by Vie Boheme. April 19-20. August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown. 412-258-2700.

YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP! A 21st century love story where “Happily Ever After” meets “It’s Complicated” Wed-Sun. Thru May 5. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

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COMEDY OPEN MIC. Thu. Thru April 25 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

TONY ROBERTS, TY MAC, T-ROBE, SAMANTHA B. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

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FIRESIDE CHAT W/ MARK & JONATHAN. Interactive talk show. 8 & 10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

JOHN EVANS, KIRK BOGOS, TOM MUSIAL. WestmorelandFayette Boy Scouts of America Funny Fundraier. 6 p.m. Pluma, Irwin. 724-837-1630.

KAREN RONTOWSKI, SONYA KING. Ghosts & Giggles: Paranormal Comics. 8 p.m.

Peter B’s, Sarver. 724-353-2677.

NEBBY SPECTRES: MACABRE IMPROV. 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

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

412-488-2995.

TONY ROBERTS, TY MAC, T-ROBE, SAMANTHA B. The Spot, Penn Hills.

FRI 19 - SAT 20

DENNIS REGAN. April 19-20 Latitude 40, North Fayette.

412-693-5555.

FRI 19 - SUN 21

YANNIS PAPPAS. April 19-21 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

SAT 20 EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE PRESENTS: THE ZACH BRAFF LAUGH CARAFE. Stand-up, live & video sketch comedy, more. Hosted

by Travis Irvine. 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.

412-339-0608.

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“Blue Sea” by Laura Jean McLaughlin, at Christine Fréchard Gallery

NEW THIS WEEK CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Exhibition. The 102nd show from the oldest continuously exhibiting visual arts organization in the country.

Opening reception April 20, 710 p.m. Oakland. 412-622-3131.

FE GALLERY. Alabaster Blast.

Fiber art exhibit feat. over a dozen internationally renowned artists. Opening reception: April 18, 7-9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-389-5800.

FUTURE TENANT. Displacement.

Installations by Phil Hessler & Natalia González Requena.

Opening reception: April 19, 7-10 p.m. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. 1st Annual Student Show. Work

by Bethany Summers, Carter Warren, Chloe Newman, Nicole Catalfamo, Rigel Richards, more.

Opening reception: April 19, 6-9 p.m. Sewickley. 412-741-3036.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 30:2. Group exhibition presented by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Coming Home.

Fabric installation by Kay Healy.

Fiberart International 2013.

Juried exhibition of contemporary fiber art. Presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.

Friday Nights at Guitar Center.

Work by Allison Kaufman. Rites of Passage. Oil paintings by Maggie Mills. Opening reception: April 19, 5:30-9 p.m.

Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

SHAW GALLERIES. Debut.

Watercolors by Nancy McSwiney.

Opening reception: April 19, 58 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884.

ONGOING 28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. Whatever Works: A Hang Your Own Art Exhibition. Work by Robert Drakulic, Brent George, Robyn Graham, Michael Hegedus &

James Miller. Greensburg.

724-205-9033.

3RD STREET GALLERY. Visions of Nature. New works by Nan Hought & Pat Patterson.

Carnegie. 412-276-5233.

707 PENN GALLERY. Adult Arcade. New works by Marc Burgess. Downtown.

412-325-7017.

709 PENN GALLERY. In Cast of Characters. Curators Vicky Clark & Cindy Lisica bring together 6 diverse artists to question the nature of our everyday existence & our relationship to larger-thanlife heroes & gods. Downtown.

412-471-6070.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video and Television.

Long-term exhibition of Warhol’s film & video work. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300.

BARCO LAW BUILDING. The Art of Japanese Noh Drama Tsukioka Kogyo, 1869-1927.

Japanese woodblock prints from the collection on Richard & Mae Smethurst. Oakland.

412-648-1490.

BE GALLERIES. Where I Live.

Paintings by Paul Rouphail, poems by Maria Rouphail.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606.

BFG CAFE. Support Local Artist Exhibit. Group show, through April. Garfield. 412-661-2345.

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

724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Follow Your Dreams. Work by Pamela Price & Karen McKee. Verona.

412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Shed.

Mixed media collage by Tate Hudson. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

THE BREW HOUSE. 42.8864° N, 78.8786° W. Feat. work by 10 artists from the Buffalo (NY)

Arts Studio. Part of the Distillery 7 Exchange Program. South Side.

412-381-7767.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Japan is the Key: Collecting Prints & Ivories, 1900–1920. Collections from the early years of the Carnegie Institute. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

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

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Laura Jean McLaughlin, Jane Ogren.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

CRUCIBLE BUILDING. Live Archive. Collaboration of 1st & 2nd year MFA students from Carnegie Mellon University & the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. April 19, 26, 5-9 p.m.

Strip District.

EAST END BOOK EXCHANGE. The Surreal Banana Peel: Whimsical Collage Wizardry.

Work by Joel Brown. Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. New Door.

Work by Joan Downing, Bernie Pintar, Phiris Kathryn, Sickles, more. East Liberty. 412-465-0140.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. E Block. Photography by Mark Perrott. Oakland. 412-681-5449.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. A Kind of Alchemy: Medieval Persian Ceramics. A look at the diversity of ceramics made in ancient Persia, now presentday Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan.

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

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CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, (planetarium), Miniature Fifty Years. Juxtaposing prime Railroad and Village, USS Requin examples of Warhol’s paintings, submarine, and more. North Side. sculpture, & films with those by 412-237-3400. other artists who reinterpret, COMPASS INN. Demos and tours respond, or react to his work. with costumed guides featuring North Side. 412-237-8300. this restored stagecoach stop.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Ligonier. 724-238-4983.

Preserved materials reflecting the DEPRECIATION LANDS industrial heritage of Southwestern MUSEUM. Small living history PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. museum celebrating the settlement CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. and history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. 412-486-0563.

20/20: Celebrating Two Decades PARANORMAL COMICS. W/ FALLINGWATER. Tour of the Heinz Architectural Ghost Hunter Karen Rontowski & the famed Frank Lloyd Center. Feat. timeline Pet Psychic Sonya King. 7 p.m. Club Wright house. Ohiopyle. highlighting important Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950.

724-329-8501. exhibitions & events, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN a display of 20 objects ww. r w CHURCH. Tours of 13 from the collection pe ghcitypa p TOTALLY FREE MONDAYS. Mon, Tiffany stained-glass selected by current or .com 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, windows. Downtown. past curatorial staff, more.

Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

412-471-3436.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF CENTER. Ongoing: tours of NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY Clayton, the Frick estate, with Women: Artisan Cooperatives that NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto classes, car & carriage museum.

Transform Communities. Folk art & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. objects illustrating the power of Smiling Moose, South Side.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this women working together to 412-612-4030.

Tudor mansion and stable complex, provide for their families, educate and enjoy hikes and outdoor their children, promote equality, activities in the surrounding park. & give back to their communities.

Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open BugWorks. Feat. beautiful KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Wed photography of insects, amazing other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Younger’s, North Side. specimens, & live bugs! Garden of Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501.

412-452-3267.

Light: Works by Paula Crevoshay.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN Feat. nearly 70 fine art jewelry Tours of a restored 19th-century, MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. The BeerHive, pieces. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, middle-class home. Oakmont.

Dinosaurs In Their Time, more.

Strip District. 412-904-4502.

412-826-9295.

MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection includes jade and ivory statues from China and Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123.

MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Civil War 150: Exploring the War & Its Meaning through the Words of Those Who Lived It. Feat. letters, personal accounts, & images from the Civil War. Presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership w/ The Library of America. Opens April 22. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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

412-323-7235.

NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

412-624-6000.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY This all-malt brew is a MUSEUM. Trolley rides and pale-colored bock beer, known by several names including exhibits. Includes displays, walking Helles Bock and Maibock. tours, gift shop, picnic area and “Helles” is pale in German, and Trolley Theatre. Washington.

“Mai” is May, signifying this as a 724-228-9256. beer released for the spring.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly AVAILABLE ON TAP Forest. Watch butterflies emerge AT THESE LOCATIONS: from their chrysalises to flutter among tropical blooms. Opens April 20. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the world. Oakland.

412-622-6914.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Cameras AND IN BOTTLES AT YOUR & the Famous Photos They Took.

LOCAL BEER DISTRIBUTOR JOHN EVANS, KIRK BOGOS, TOM MUSIAL. Butler Girls Basketball Funny Fundraiser.

6:30 p.m. East Butler Fireman’s Club, Butler. 724-713-2211.

KAREN RONTKOWSKI, DAVID KAYE, SONYA KING. Ghosts & Giggles: Paranormal Comics Funny Fundraiser. Benefits the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. 8 p.m. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

412-276-3456 x 5.

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GALLERIE CHIZ. Flying Bird to River Town & More. Paintings

by Tim Menees & ceramics by Holly Van Dine. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Salon Show 2013. Group show feat. work selected from 100s of entries.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. April in Paris. Photography by Scott Davidson. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

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

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

GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Illumination. Juried exhibition by the Pittsburgh Society of Artists & Greensburg Art Club.

Greensburg. 724-837-6791.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. SAFE LIGHT. Multi-media collaboration between Nick & Dennis Childers.

Garfield. 412-924-0634.

JAMES GALLERY. unwrapped.

Shibori-dyed quilts by Jan Myers-Newbury. West End. 412-922-9800.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/ Prints of Italy. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy.

Strip District. 412-281-1922.

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

724-316-9326.

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. Basement Miracle. Masters of Fine Arts

Including a copy of Daguerre’s first camera, James Bond’s mini Minox spy unit, the Big Bertha that caught Bill Mazeroski rounding third base in 1960 Winning Series, more.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View. 412-931-4425.

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

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

candidates present their final work. Feat. Scott Andrew, Felipe Castelblanco, Craig Fahner, Steve Gurysh, Luke Loeffler, Dan Wilcox & Erin Womack. Oakland.

412-268-3618.

MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Four Suites. The artwork of Susan Constanse, Jean McClung, John Morris, & Laurie Trok. Garfield.

412-362-0274.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots!

Work by Nancy Adams, Marilyn Andrews, Ronit Dagan, Eric Boos, Barbara Poole, Frank FLynn, Lavon Williams, more.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

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

Ambridge. 724-266-4500.

PANZA GALLERY. ARTaBet. Work by members of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.

Millvale. 412-821-0959.

PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHY & GIFTS. Photography by Brenda Knoll.

Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240.

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

412-365-2145.

POINT PARK UNIVERSITY. Point Park Project 1: Kaleidoscope. Work by Di-Ay Battad, Katie Mackowick, Chris McGinnis, & Daniel Luchman.

Downtown. 412-391-4100.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Continuum.

Work by Doug DuBois & Aaron Blum. South Side. 412-431-1810.

SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Kevin Turner: New Work. Sculpture.

Downtown. 412-261-7003 x 15.

SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART. Red, White & Blue in Black and White:

of Empires, and exhibits on local history, more. Strip District.

412-454-6000.

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

412-621-4253.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice and the immigrant experience in America.

Millvale. 421-681-0905.

FESTIVALS THU 18 - WED 24 KALEIDOSCOPE ARTS FESTIVAL. Dance, music, theater, & visual arts showcase. Thru April 28 Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock.

724-738-4586.

The American Scene in Prints, Drawings & Photographs.

35-some works on paper from the museum’s collection, from photographs to lithographs.

Ligonier. 724-238-6015.

SPACE. Mean Girls. Work

by Jenn Gooch, Sonja Sweterlitsch, Randie Snow, Vanessa German, more.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Small Shrines. Juried exhibit feat. 2D & 3D works made in honor, dedication or celebration of an individual, a group of people, a place, a thing or an idea. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

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

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

TRINITY GALLERY. Evolution.

New work by Matt Gatto.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2458.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop. Open studio.

Lawrenceville. 412-621-0663.

UNDERCROFT GALLERY, FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. Watercolors by Phiris. A solo exhibit of watercolor paintings

by Phiris Kathryn Sickels.

Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

THE UNION HALL. Light/ Dark: Shades of Self & Surface.

Paintings by Rachael Ryan.

Strip District. 412-471-1900.

UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Faster Than Walking. Work

by Lindsey Peck Scherloum & Sarah Leavens. Braddock.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. An Art(ist) in Motion. Work

by Aaronel deRoy Gruber.

Born of Fire: The Valley Work.

Greensburg. 724-837-1500.

WILDCARD. everyday balloons.

Work by Chris Bencivenga & Becki Hollen. Lawrenceville.

412-224-2651.

FRI 19 - SAT 20 PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL. Cultural booths, ethnic kitchens, crafts & stage performances. www.pghfolkfest. org April 19-20 Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Oakland.

412-621-4253.

DANCE FRI 19 - SAT 20

MIRIAM. Performance by dancer/choreographer, Nora Chipaumire dealing w/ the objectification & power of the black female body & the alienating experience of living in exile. April 19-20, 8 p.m.

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

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EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Screening of Chris Nicholson’s

SAT 20 STAYCEE PEARL DANCE PROJECT. Dance performance interpreting & embracing the b&%$h in each of us. 7 p.m. Space, Downtown. 412-325-7723.

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A DECO AFFAIR. 1920s-themed dancing, dessert, auction, more.

Benefits Opera Theater’s SummerFest. 8-10:30 p.m.

Twentieth Century Club, Oakland.

412-326-9687.

HAITIAN FAMILIES FIRST SPRING GALA. A casual event with free food, drink, fun & a special announcement. 5-7 p.m.

Thrill Mill, East Liberty.

MOULIN ROUGE CHAMPAGNE PARTY. Benefits the American Heart Association. 6-9 p.m.

AVA Bar & Lounge, East Liberty.

412-363-8277.

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HMH: TOTALLY 80S PROM. Performance by Hot Metal Hardware. Benefits Garden of Peace Project. 9 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

LAROCHE COLLEGE 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA. Dinner, live music, more. Master of Ceremonies: Larry Richert. 6:30 p.m. Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown.

412-536-1087.

NITE LITES: A SPECIAL YOGA CLASS TO RAISE AWARENESS & FUNDING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. 8:15 p.m. Bikram Yoga, Squirrel Hill.

SAT 20

Parkway Theater, McKees Rocks.

412-766-1668.

Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6000.

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LITERARY

BOOK SALE. Adult, teen & children’s titles. Benefits the Friends of the Carrick Library. April 22-27 Carnegie Library, Carrick.

412-882-3897.

TUE 23 CHANGE A HEART HAPPY HOUR. Benefits the Change A Heart Franciscan Volunteer Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bar Marco, Strip District. 412-821-0861.

HOPS FOR HEARTH. Sampling of craft & microbrew beers, auction, more. Benefits HEARTH: SPAGHETTI DINNER. Benefits Transitional Housing for Women.

Operation Walk Pittsburgh.

7-9 p.m. Bigelow Conference 3-8 p.m. Tanglewood Senior Center, & Reception Center, Oakland.

Lyndora. 412-364-5936.

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MISSION MAKEOVER. Hair stylists & makeup artists compete for the best makeover look.

Benefits the Autism Center of MAYORAL & CITY COUNCIL Pittsburgh. 6-8:30 p.m. Cavo, CANDIDATE FORUM ON Steubenville. 412-628-8451.

WOMEN IN WESTERN RAINBOW GALA. PENNSYLVANIA. Hosted Benefits JDRF, Western

by Planned Parenthood PA chapter. 6 p.m.

Pennsylvania Advocates Westin Convention & PAC 7 p.m. Chatham www. per pa Center Hotel, University, Shadyside. pghcitym .co Downtown.

412-258-9536.

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SUN 21 3RD ANNUAL 5K RACE. 9:30 a.m. LaRoche College, Wexford. 412-536-1085.

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.

STOOGE FEST. The Three Stooges Film Festival. Benefits The Parkway Theater. 3:15 p.m. The

MON 22

PENNSYLVANIA & THE FUTURE OF NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT & USE. Register at energycenter@washjeff.edu 7 p.m. Washington & Jefferson College, Washington. 724-531-6863.

WED 24 CANDIDATES’ FORUM ON GREENSPACE. Pittsburgh’s Mayoral hopefuls discuss parks, greenspace, trails, & access to Pittsburgh’s Great Outdoors. 6 p.m.

THU 18 ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students.

Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council.

Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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

412-687-4323.

THE NEW YINZER PRESENTS. Eric Boyd, Mike Good, Joe Hall, Jason Irwin, Tony Mancus, & Angela Veronica Wong. 8 p.m.

ModernFormations Gallery, Garfield. 412-362-0274.

RE-STARTING! AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP. April 1865, The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik.

Every other Thu, 9:15 a.m. Thru April 18 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

RZA. “Wisdom of the Word” tour, moderated by Terrance Hayes.

7:30 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 412-622-8866.

FRI 19 HOMUNCULUS: A READING FOR THE LAB. Poetry readings by LAB staff, music by Arlo Aldo. 7 p.m.

Assemble, Garfield. 412-580-6952.

SAT 20 JAN BEATTY, CELESTE GAINEY, KAYLA SARGESON. Poetry reading, part of the Versify Reading

Series. 7:30 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield. 412-224-2847.

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

SQUIRREL HILL POETRY WORKSHOP READING. Feat.

Tony Ciotoli, Randy Minnich, Pamela O’Brien, Miguel Ruiz, Joanne Samreney, more. 1 p.m.

C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, Edgewood. 412-731-0909.

SUSTAINING WONDER: REBOOTING YOUR WRITE MIND. Writing workshop. Sat, 10 a.m.12 p.m. Thru May 25 Wilkins School Community Center, Swissvale. 412-244-8458.

CARNEGIE SCREENWRITERS GROUP. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

TUE 23 BOOK BUZZ: A BOOK DISCUSSION W/ A TWIST. Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist. 6 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-431-0505.

WED 24 PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Discussing The Collected Poems by Sara Teasdale.

7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Roasters, Shadyside. 412-621-6880.

KIDSTUFF THU 18

THE DOLL SHOW. Storytime, sign language activities, & more for infants & toddlers. Thu, 1 p.m.

Thru April 25 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

MADDIE IN PITTSBURGH. Author visit by Theron Humphrey & Maddie the dog. 5 p.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838.

SPRING COMICS CLUB. Learn about the visual & narrative elements of comic strips & graphic novels. Thu, 4-6 p.m. Thru May 23 Assemble, Garfield. 773-425-1531.

THU 18 - WED 24

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

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

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

MOVE WITH ART. Pull levers to move a 10-foot wooden man, create images on a giant Kaleidoscope, feed rubber balls to a life-size wooden cow & much more. Thru May 12 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

FRI 19

DANIEL TIGER PLAYTESTING. Test

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NARNIA. Presented by Act One Theatre School. Thu-Sun. Thru April 28 Sisters of St. Francis, Millvale. 724-272-2291.

PUBLIC STAR PARTY. Presented by the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh.

April 19-20, 7 p.m. Mingo Creek Park Observatory, Finleyville.

724-348-6150.

PUBLIC STAR PARTY Presented by the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh.

April 19-20, 8 p.m. Wagman Observatory, Frazier. 724-224-2510.

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SATURDAY CRAFTERNOON: CREATIVE REUSE WORKSHOP W/ ERIKA JOHNSON. Use recycled materials to create biological forms.

1-4 p.m. Assemble, Garfield.

SAT 20 - SUN 21

ADOBE ARCHITECTURE. Build w/ material made from sundried bricks of sand, clay, water, & straw.

April 20-21 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

EARTH WEEKEND. Hands-on activities for all ages. April 20-21 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

SWORD IN THE STONE. Sat, Sun. Thru April 28 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-243-5201.

SUN 21 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP. Learn Inform 7 programming. Ages 8+. 1-4 p.m.

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

FANTASTIC TRASH! Earth Day storytime & recycled crafts.

Storytime for ages 3-6. 1:30-5 p.m.

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

PLAY W/ CLAY AT THE HANDBUILDING TABLE. Ages 3+. Sun, 12-3 p.m. Thru April 28 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

A WORLD OF SIGNS. Film screening introducing parents/caregivers & toddlers to a holistic experience, which incorporates elements of play, American Sign Language, music, visual art, & multicultural traditions.

Sun, 1 p.m. Thru April 28 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

MON 22 FINGERNAILS & FLOATS: AN AFTER HOURS PARTY FOR GIRLS ONLY. Open to all girls in grades 6-12. 7-9 p.m. Sewickley Public Library, Sewickley. 412-741-6920.

GROW YOUR OWN GRAFFITI. Learn how to make your own moss graffiti. Open to all students in grades 6-12. 6-7 p.m. Sewickley Public Library, Sewickley.

412-741-6920.

REUSE-A-PALOOZA FAMILY CRAFT NIGHT. Call to register.

6:30 p.m. Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255.

WED 24

POETRY WORKSHOP. For kids in grades 5-8. 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Assemble, Garfield. 773-425-1531.

BIRDWATCHING HIKE. Sat, 8-10 a.m. Thru April 27 Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100. ½ DAY HIKE W/ VENTURE OUTDOORS. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Alameda Park, Butler. 412-255-0564.

LAUREL HIGHLANDS HIKING TRAIL QUEST. Sat. Thru May 25 412-255-0564.

international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com.

MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme Meditation & the Science of Transformation w/ Acharya Kedar.

Free public program. Doors open at 7:15, seating ends at 8 p.m.

7:30 p.m. and Thu., April 25, 7:30 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 724-420-5826.

RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.

412-567-7512.

FRI 19 ANNUAL HUMANITIES & HUMAN SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM. Feat. research work by undergraduate students. Speaker: Laura Stokes, historian. 5 p.m.

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Easter Seals Western PA, which serves people with autism and other disabilities through education, outreach and advocacy, hosts the 11thAnnual Walk With Me Pittsburgh fundraising event, at Kennywood Park on May 19.

Volunteers are needed to help with planning, as well as with various tasks on the day of the event. Visit www.walkwithme.org/pittsburgh for information.

SCA PITTSBURGH EARTH DAY. Remove invasive plants, clear illegal dumping, & maintain hiking trails at South Side Park, Kimboll St., South Side. Presented by the Student Conservation Association.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

SAT 20 - SUN 21 SPRING WILDFLOWER WALKS. 2 p.m. and Sun., April 21, 2 p.m.

Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

MON 22 WILDFLOWER TRAIL HIKE. Presented by Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 412-441-4442 x 3925.

OTHER STUFF THU 18 AIA PGH BUILD PITTSBURGH 2013. Continuing Education Conference & Exhibitor Show.

David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. 412-471-9548.

BOULET W/ JIM RUGG & JASEN LEX. Reading & conversation w/ the cartoonists. 7 p.m. City of Asylum, North Side. 412-323-0278.

INTERNATIONAL FASHION SHOW. Showcase of attire & performances from all over the world. 8 p.m. LaRoche College, Wexford. 412-367-9300.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/

Point Park University, Downtown.

412-391-4100.

DRINKING SKEPTICALLY. Informal discussion group for skeptics, critical-thinkers & likeminded individuals. 7 p.m. Rock Bottom, Waterfront. 412-731-1901.

TANGO & SWING NIGHT. RSVP requested. 8-11 p.m. Christine Frechard Gallery, Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

SAT 20 GOOD TASTE! PITTSBURGH. Celebrity chefs, wine tasting, food samplings, children’s activities, more. http://www. goodtastepittsburgh.com/ 10 a.m.5 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriott North, Cranberry. 724-772-3700.

I MADE IT! JR. + HEALTHY LIVING. Nomadic indie craft marketplace feat. items made especially for kids. Also feat. balloon art, Farm to Table activities, more. 12-4 p.m.

Bakery Square, Unknown.

MUSHROOM CHAINSAW ART. Chainsaw art demo, mushroom sculpture exhibit, more. sacredglyph@gmail.com 10 a.m.3 p.m. Homewood Cemetery, Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1822.

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.

STAR WARS: HUNT FOR THE HOLOCRON PREMIERE. Screening

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Ages 4-6. Fri, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thru April 26 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

GIANT EAGLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERIES: HEALTHY NUTRITION. 11 a.m.

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

of locally shot film honoring George Lucas’ legacy. Also feat. director’s notes, Q&A, more. 6 p.m.

Hollywood Theater, Dormont.

412-243-1251.

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

WESTERN PA GARDEN & LANDSCAPE SYMPOSIUM. Speakers, Garden Marketplace, more. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Hillman Center for Performing Arts, Fox Chapel.

412-441-4442 x 3925.

WORKERS ORGANIZING AT UPMC: WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE COMMUNITY? 1:30 p.m.

Homestead Pump House, Munhall.

412-831-3871.

Bikini Bar ~NOW OPEN~ $13 THURSDAY NIGHTS $20 SATURDAY NIGHTS DOORS OPEN 8PM

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

412-683-3727.

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

412-622-3151.

THE HISTORY & IMPACT OF FINANCIAL POWER: THE VAMPIRIC RISE, FALL & RISE AGAIN OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISM. Interactive program comparing the Great Depression to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.

1:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

THE HOPE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. Discussion presented by the Gurdjieff Society of Pittsburgh.

3 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-826-9657.

ITALIANO-ESPRESSO. Italian conversation club. Presented by Mondo Italiano. Sun, 11 a.m. Thru June 30 Biddle’s Escape, Regent Square. 412-478-3682.

MEAN GIRLS LECTURE SERIES. Discussions geared toward adolescents, parents, college students & young professionals addressing bullying at school & in the work place. Presented by The Bradley Center. 1-3:30 p.m. Space, Downtown. 412-325-7723.

MONASTICISM AS A BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN ORTHODOX & GNOSTIC COMMUNITIES. w/ Rev. Thomas M. Hart, O.S.B. Pittsburgh Theosophical Society. 1:30-3 p.m.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-462-4200.

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

RIVERS OF STEEL SUNDAY HERITAGE MARKET. Farm & artist market. First Sun of every month and Third Sun of every month. Thru Sept. 15 Homestead Pump House, Munhall. 412-464-4020.

SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHITECTURAL TOUR. Let by Tim Engleman, author

*While Supplies Last **Over 21 Years with Proof of Employment

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of Evidence of Things Not Seen 12:30 p.m. Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Shadyside. 412-682-4300.

SONGS OF RONI. Improvised story, music, & movement in honor of Roni Ostfield, founder of Pittsburgh Playback Theatre.

7 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Oakland. 304-516-9192.

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MON 22 GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP. Every other Mon, 7:30 p.m. Thru April 22 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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.

SCREENPLAY PLOT DEVELOPMENT COURSE. Presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Mon, 6:45 p.m. Thru April 29 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

TUE 23 EDUCATION: A HUMAN RIGHT. Documentary screening followed by panel discussion. 7 p.m. Carlow University, Oakland. 412-421-0661.

The Pittsburgh International Folk Festival was founded with this mission: Unity in Diversity. Fifty-six years later, it continues to gather the many ethnic traditions — from Eastern Europe, Asia, the U.K. and the Middle East — which make up our city’s multicultural landscape. This year’s festivities, at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum, include more than 500 dancers and musicians, food from 30 different cultures and an international bazaar.

3-11 p.m. Fri., April 19, and 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat., April 20.

4141 Fifth Ave., Oakland. $5. www.pghfolkfest.org

Men & women of all ages. Cold readings. Bring a resume. Call for more information. The D.A.P. Co-Op, Carnegie. 412-595-8230.

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE COMTRA THEATRE. Auditions for COOPERATIVES SHORT FILM Boeing Boeing. April 20-21. Cold FESTIVAL. 6:30 p.m. East End Food readings from the script. Cranberry.

Co-op, Point Breeze. 412-242-3598.

724-591-8727.

LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice DISCOVER ME! Looking for conversational English. Wed, actresses between 18-30 years old 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. for the movie production “Discover 412-622-3151.

Me!” Call Robert for further details.

THE PEOPLE SPEAK LIVE: 412-904-2954.

STUDENT EDITION. Readings of THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF students’ stories throughout U.S. PITTSBURGH. Auditions for all history. 7 p.m. Pittsburgh CAPA, voice parts. Volunteers May 8 & 9.

Downtown. 412-251-0890.

Professional Core members PFLAG WASHINGTON. May 10-12. Review the Support, education & audition criteria at advocacy for the www.themendelssohn.

LGBTQ community, org email or call family & friends. Fourth MaryColleen. mcseip@ Wed of every month ww. r w themendelssohn.

First Presbyterian pe ghcitypa p org Third Presbyterian Church, Downtown. .com Church, Oakland.

412-471-3436.

724-263-5259.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW MON RIVER ARTS. Auditions OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & for The Music Man. April 27 & 28. spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, Teens ages 14-18 should prepare 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland a broadway song & bring sheet Park. 412-363-4550. music.Grand Theatre, Elizabeth.

URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd 412-384-0504. floor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna THE PITTSBURGH SAVOYARDS. House, Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345.

Seeking a Stage Director for Fall WESLEY & WELCOMING THE 2013 production of Princess Ida. STRANGER. The Albright-Deering Gilbert & Sullivan or other Operetta Lecture Series. 2 p.m. Pittsburgh experience preferred. Resumes & Theological Seminary, East Liberty. letters accepted through April 20 412-924-1345. to directorsearch@pittsburgh WEST COAST SWING savoyards.org. 412-734-8476.

WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, IN THE PARKS. Auditions for South Side. 916-287-1373.

Romeo & Juliet. April 20. AEA/ non-union actors, prepare a brief Shakespearean monologue.

AURORA PRODUCTIONS. Frick Park, Blue Slide Playground, Auditions for Viagra Falls, a new Squirrel Hill. 412-818-3548. play by Jackie Nicoll. April 27-28.

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UNSEAM’D SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. Open Auditions for The Tempest & The Enchanted Isle.

April 20. All roles open, AEA & Non-Union. Call for appointment.

Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland. 412-621-0244.

SUBMISSIONS ART ALL NIGHT: LAWRENCEVILLE. Submit one (& only one) piece of artwork or sign up to perform.

Registration & other info at www.artallnight.org 412-235-1950.

BRICOLAGE THEATER. Seeking stories that are true, funny, & between 1,500 to 2,000 words for WordPlay, a new storytelling event. Email submissions to alan@olifson.com.

JOHNSTOWN FILM FESTIVAL. Seeking original short films of 30 min. or less. For complete rules & entry form, visit www.johnstownfilmfest.org.

OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Seeking vendors for the Garden Mart to sell plants, products, more.

Call for details. 724-266-4500 x 114.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Seeking entries for 8 x 8 PHOTO PARTY showcase.

One digital submission per person. Digital, film, or cell phone cameras allowed. http://silvereye. org/8x8registrationform.pdf 412-431-1810.

VERONA’S CREATIVE MARKETPLACE. Seeking artists, food & product vendors for marketplace running MaySeptember. Call for more info.

Verona Borough Building, Verona.

412-721-0943.

WRONG WAY PRESS. Seeking illustrated stories & fables. http:// www.wrongwaypress.com

Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I am uncircumcised, and the opening at the end of my foreskin is not large enough for the head of my penis to pass through. This means my foreskin doesn’t pull back when I get an erection. The internet says this is a condition called “phimosis,” and a lot of medical websites recommend circumcision. I’m not super-excited by that idea. I don’t have any pain or difficulty with sex or urination, and I’ve never had any health problems related to being uncircumcised.

The foreskin isn’t stuck or fused to the glans — the hole is just small. Is there a safe, nonsurgical way to enlarge the opening in the foreskin?

DICK HOLE PANIC

“Tell Dick Hole Panic not to panic,” said Stephen H. King, MD, a urologist in Washington State and my new go-to guy for all questions dick.

“Phimosis occurs in an uncircumcised penis when a circular ring of the foreskin becomes scarred, often from prior infection, inflammation or trauma. This scar prevents the normally elastic tissue of the foreskin from fully retracting to expose the head of the penis.”

Roughly one in a hundred men have phimosis, said Dr. King, “and depending on the degree of narrowing, complications can vary widely. These can include difficulty with cleaning/hygiene, infection, pain with erection, bleeding from skin cracking and paraphimosis.” Paraphimosis “occurs when a narrow foreskin is pulled back to expose the head of the penis but then can’t be pulled back over the head, which then constricts blood flow to the glans,” said Dr. King. Paraphimosis can cut off blood flow to the head of the penis, which can cause the head of your cock to become gangrenous and die, which is why anyone suffering from it should head to the ER immediately. Here’s something else to worry about: “Although extremely rare, penile cancer can arise, usually in older patients with recurrent infections/inflammation.”

You’re probably panicking now — hell, hearing about paraphimosis has me panicking, and I’m circumcised. But the doctor said your case doesn’t sound serious: You aren’t experiencing any pain, your dick seems to work fine, you haven’t suffered from a series of infections. You don’t need to do anything for now, said Dr. King, but if you’re worried about complications in the future, or if you want your sex partners to see the head of your dick someday, there are nonsurgical remedies. “‘Preputial gymnastics’ is one way to resolve phimosis,” said Dr. King. “It involves gently pulling the foreskin back to expose the tip of the glans to the point where the ring of scar is exposed.”

In other words, pull your foreskin back until you can’t pull it back anymore, and you’ll be looking at the scar tissue. “Hold this position for one minute and repeat three to four times a day,” Dr. King continued. “In combination with topical application of a steroid cream twice daily, typically betamethasone 0.05 percent (needs a prescription), more than 90 percent of cases will dramatically improve or resolve within four to six weeks.”

And if your case doesn’t improve?

“Then he should break out the Manischewitz for his impending bris,” said Dr. King.

I have rarely been able to have an orgasm during intercourse. But recently, I started mixing pot and sex. It is incredible!

Marijuana relaxes my body and heightens my senses so that when my BF and I have sex, I come! And come and come! Before, I smoked pot only once a month or so. Now I’m doing it once a week at least. Three questions: (1) Does this sound like a problem? (2) Should I be worried? (3) What do you suggest?

BLAZING ORGASMS NEWLY GAINED

1. It does sound like a problem — a problem that’s been solved.

2. Not if you live in Colorado or Washington state, where voters legalized pot use last November.

3. A vaporizer.

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I am in a relationship with a sexy and openminded woman. Recently she mentioned “role-play scenes.” This is something I’ve never engaged in.

However, since I am more on the dominant side in our relationship, I’d rather not ask her a lot of questions. I’m hoping to find out something about it on my own. Unfortunately, my web searches have been fruitless. Cosmo, Glamour and men’s sites have articles about “roleplay,” but they seem to be written for juveniles.

Do you have any ideas about role-play scenarios — especially ones that could be initiated by a man?

SEXUAL PLEASURE IS HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE — ONE GAY MAN’S HOT ROLE-PLAY SCENARIO IS LIKELY SOMEONE ELSE’S NIGHTMARE.

412.316.3342

APPREHENSIVE ABOUT ROLE PLAY

I have plenty of ideas about role-play scenarios that could be initiated by a man, AARP, but sexual pleasure is highly subjective — one gay man’s hot role-play scenario is likely someone else’s nightmare. So you’re going to have to talk with your woman about what scenarios turn her on.

Some people have a hard time talking about kinks. Saying the words “I’m into role-play” or “I want to try bondage” is such a struggle that a nervous kinkster feels like she’s done the hard part — she said “role-play” or “bondage” out loud! — and her partner should do the rest, i.e., make their fantasies come true without asking them to talk about it anymore. But you can’t fly blind into someone else’s sexual fantasies. If she’s turned on by something mild like a sexy-copand-speeding-driver scenario, surprising her with a serial-killer-and-his-terrified-victim scenario is likely to backfire.

She’s going to have to give you more information, and you’re going to have to let go of the notion that being the Dom means not asking questions. A dominant’s first job — before roleplay begins, before anyone gets tied up — is to find out what his submissive wants to experience.

The trick is to give her what she wants while building in small surprises and gradually, over time, pushing into new territories together.

If she’s too shy to talk about her kinks face-toface, have the convo over email.

This week on the Savage Lovecast, I talk with author Emily Bazelon about sexting, slut-shaming, bullying and suicide: thestranger.com/savage.

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

04.17-04.24

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The writer Oliver Burkeman has some advice that would be helpful for you Aries folks to hear right now: “When you assume your current preferences won’t alter, you’ll make bad decisions: embarking on a career or marriage, say, not with a view to its durability, but solely based on how it makes you feel now.” I am most definitely not predicting that you are about to make the kind of bad decision Burkeman refers to. I’m sure my warning here in this horoscope will derail any temptation you might have to make short-sighted moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m happy to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now. Of course you won’t be able to use it, let alone tune in to it, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as help from the invisible world. So if you are the type of person who is very sure that reality consists of nothing more than what your senses reveal, I suggest that you temporarily suspend that belief. And if you are someone who has had direct experiences with blessings that come from the unseen realm, be aware that the imminent delivery is quite different from those you have known in the past.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

In her book A Monster’s Notes, Laurie Sheck describes the nuances of the term “ghost” in the German language. A mediocre wine may be called unghostly, she says. A witty, lively person is “Rich in Ghostliness,” whereas a dull, blank type “has no ghost in him.” In this spirit, Gemini, I suspect you will have some pretty fine ghostliness working for you in the coming weeks. And there’s a good chance that part of your extraspecial mojo will arise from your creative engagement with energies that resemble the more traditional definition of “ghost.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A one-minute video commercial for The Cosmopolitan luxury resort in Las Vegas shows an elegant woman at a sumptuous feast. She’s eagerly holding her dinner plate up to her face so she can lick it clean of its last delicious taste. The scene shifts to a well-dressed man who’s down on all fours serving as a chair for a chic woman. She applies her makeup while gazing into the shiny mirror-like surface of a high-heeled shoe. New scene: An 80-year-old woman pats the butt of a handsome young stud with whom she’s slowdancing. At the end of the ad, a catchphrase appears: “Just the right amount of wrong.”

I say, let that be your mantra in the coming week, Cancerian.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1916. It had radical implications for the field of theoretical physics, but remained an unproven concept until 1919. Then a British physicist verified its accuracy with evidence gathered during a solar eclipse. The Times newspaper in London announced the event with the headline “Revolution in Science: New Theory of the Universe, Newtonian Theories Overthrown.”

Not wanting to be left behind, The N ew York Times assigned one of its own journalists to cover the revolution. Unfortunately, the person they sent was a sports reporter whose specialty was golf. His article was less than illuminating.

The moral of the story, as far as you’re con-

cerned, Leo: When big developments are underway, show up at full strength, with all your powers engaged.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

eral truth. Spread uplifting gossip that heals and invigorates.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“Never to get lost is not to live,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

In fact, she says that not knowing how to get lost is unhealthy. These are useful ideas to consider right now, Virgo. It will probably do you good to get at least semi-lost. As you wander around without a map or compass, I bet you will stumble upon important teachings. At the same time, I hope you will put some thought into how you’re going to get lost. Don’t just leave it to chance.

Make sure there’s a method in your madness.

“The ideal piano player is the one who wants to be the piano,” says a character in Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser. He continues: “I say to myself every day when I wake up, I want to be the Steinway, I want to be the Steinway itself.”

Your assignment, Capricorn, is to apply this attitude to your own personal situation. In other words, merge with the tool you want to master.

Immerse yourself in the skill you’re working to perfect — disappear into it. In your imagination, become completely united with the thing or person or experience you desire.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

In the English language, “low man on the totem pole” is an idiom that refers to a person who has the worst job or the least status. He or she is considered to be at the low end of the hierarchy.

But it’s an incorrect metaphor. The creators of the original totem poles were indigenous Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and for them the figure at the bottom of the pole was the most important one. I foresee the possibility of a similar situation arising in your sphere, Libra. Be alert for a misapprehension that needs to be righted. It may be the case that what’s last should actually be first. Something that has been beneath or behind “more important” matters should perhaps get higher priority.

“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination,” said writer Louis Kronenberger. I’m concerned that you may have fallen under the sway of this kind of myopia, Aquarius. A steady stream of useful tips and clues has been appearing, but you’re missing some of them. Your long-range goals aren’t sufficiently clear, so you don’t always

recognize the significance of new revelations.

Here’s the cure: In your imagination, create a vivid picture of your next big destination.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A group of bicyclists in Southern California challenged a blogger to a race. They said they could cover the 38.4 miles from North Hollywood to Long Beach faster on their bikes than the blogger could get there by plane. As it turned out, they were right. Their trip took an hour and 34 minutes.

As for the blogger, he had to drive to the airport, wait for the plane to depart, fly to a different airport, then catch a cab to the designated destination. He arrived about an hour after the cyclists.

Can you guess which of those two modes of travel is the preferred metaphor for you this week, Pisces? The earthy, simple, stripped-down approach will get you where you need to go better than the big, elaborate, expensive method.

It’s easy to see fanaticism, rigidity, and intolerance in other people, but harder to acknowledge them in yourself. Do you dare? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

In his book Karmic Traces, Eliot Weinberger describes the life story of naked mole rats. They’re animals that never leave their underground tunnels. Normally you Scorpios have nothing in common with them. But in the coming days, I’m hoping there will be one resemblance. According to Weinberger, the naked mole rats “change direction by somersaulting.” Metaphorically speaking, I think this would be an excellent strategy for you. There’s no need to mope cautiously as you alter your course. No need to be lackadaisical and fitful and full of doubts. Just spring into action with a cheery bounce, and move on with a renewed sense of purpose.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The famous philosopher John Searle unleashed a witty dig about the famous philosopher Jacques Derrida, saying he is “the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name.” One of your fun assignments in the coming week, Sagittarius, is to do the opposite of what Derrida’s work does. In other words, give bullshit a good name. How? Well, you could engage in creative verbal expressions that boost morale and propagate delight and lubricate worthwhile connections. Make up noble fictions that are more accurate and useful that the lit-

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LIFEGUARDS (AGE 16 & OVER) Needed during the 2013 Swimming Season at Allegheny County facilities in Boyce, North, South, and Settler’s Cabin Parks. Interested applicants are required to complete an Aquatics Examination given on Saturday May 4, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. At the NORTH ALLEGHENY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 10375 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA. 15090 SALARY STRUCTURE: • Junior Lifeguards: $8.25 • First Year Lifeguards: $9.25 • Senior Lifeguards (2 or more seasons) $9.50 Candidates must have physical examination PRIOR to participation in Aquatics Exam on May 4, 2013. No test given without doctor’s certification on physical examination form.

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