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Former Sto-Rox softball coach Bill Palermo and his former players — from left, Rachel Gerster, Hayley Gerster and Josie Buckley — are working to try and save the school’s championship program.
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The game, she says, kept her out of trouble, made her go to class and made her more competitive on the field, in the classroom and in life. “I probably wouldn’t have gone to school as much,” she says now. “I know a lot of the girls on my team wouldn’t have gone to school as much. “It taught me to be more competitive. I wanted to get into first or second place in my class.” By the time she graduated this past June from Sto-Rox high school, she had actually finished third in her class — two spots behind her teammate, the valedictorian. In the fall, Buckley will attend La Roche College in the North Hills, and she’ll play softball for them next spring. The friends and teammates she’s left behind at Sto-Rox, however, won’t have that same luxury.
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At its June meeting, the Sto-Rox school board voted 8-1 to eliminate both the softball and baseball programs in an attempt to cut costs at the financially strapped district. Along with the sports programs, the 2013-2014 school year budget passed by the board furloughs the home-school
Is axing a successful sports program the right play at struggling Sto-Rox? {BY DAN SLEVA} visitor, an elementary-school teacher, a special-education elementary teacher, a middle-school science teacher, an elementary-school librarian, a maintenance person, a secretary and a cafeteria worker. One music teacher will also be cut from full
time to a part-time position. The district’s operating budget for this school year will be a little more than $24 million. With nearly $22 million in anticipated revenue, the board used $1.2 million in cash reserves to balance the budget. The remaining shortfall was covered by cuts to programs. School districts across the state have been feeling the pinch of reduced education funding ever since Gov. Tom Corbett took office. Statistics from the nonpartisan Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) show that not replacing federal stimulus funds in education in the 2011 budget, and leaving education funding effectively flat, has hit poor school districts like Sto-Rox the hardest. “We need a rational funding formula to get back to where we were in 2011. Improving education will improve the state’s
economy,” says Sharon Ward, executive director of the PBPC. “We can fund education without raising taxes. The problem is not the money. It is finding the will to properly fund education.” University of Pittsburgh professor Jessie Ramey — who also authors the education blog Yinzercation — says the state’s funding formula has been particularly hard on poorer districts, forcing them to make changes like increase class size or cut athletic programs. So what is the district actually gaining from these cuts? The elimination of both softball and baseball is expected to save the district a combined $20,000 to $25,000, a number that residents, players and a former coach say is not worth the loss. Especially, they say, when smaller cuts could have been made to all sports programs — including football and basketball — to allow all student athletes the chance to participate. “When you look at all of the academic statistics of our team, it is hard to believe [the program has been cut],” says Buckley. “Why not cut something else, when our program has been so successful? “What are [the players] going to do? Maybe these kids will end up on the street.” TO BILL PALERMO, the softball coach who
resigned at the end of the season before the elimination vote took place, the cuts are short-sighted. Sports, he says, have a positive effect on academics and overall student health. Besides that, the team was pretty good. Palermo, the team’s only coach, started the program in 1985. The team won one PIAA state championship and 10 WPIAL titles. More importantly, he says 85 percent of his players in his 35-year tenure have gone on to college and 80 percent have made the honor roll. No player has ever missed a game due to grades or disciplinary action. “It is not sending the right message,” he says. “These kids did everything that was asked of them, yet these kids will leave Sto-Rox thinking that good kids are not rewarded.” Palermo, who taught mathematics at Sto-Rox before retiring a few years ago, has some solutions he wishes the board would have considered instead of eliminating two sports. One possibility, he says, is to cut all of the six sports budgets by 11 percent. Another would be to find volunteer assistant coaches and cut all of the sports budgets by 7 percent. Sports boosters, he believes, could have made up the difference through fundraising. “If this were just about money, then cut all sports. Obviously, I don’t want to
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see that,” Palermo says. “But, if you did it, you could hire back four teachers for the $190,000 sports budget.” School Board Secretary Dr. Edward Maritz says he respects Palermo’s opinions, but the board met for 50 hours over the past few months and considered many options. The members chose to eliminate spring sports in part because of the relatively small number of students that would be affected. He says the anger at the board for cutting the sports programs is understandable but misplaced. Maritz says sports cannot be seen as untouchable when teachers are being cut, and he wants what he calls the “vocal minority” in an uproar over the loss of these teams to understand the economic reality facing Sto-Rox. “We were cutting fat before, now we are cutting bone. It is going to be painful,” explains Maritz, a school-board member for the past 20 years. A Facebook group was set up to help save the baseball and softball teams. Members have met at a McKees Rocks park to brainstorm ideas to raise funds for the teams this year. Maritz says he is unsure if the board would allow the sports to continue even if the money were raised by residents due to legal issues and questions of sustainability. “While my heart goes out to the 30 or so players, the whole district is in trouble. I would like to see people use that
energy to save the district. Any new revenue should go toward education.” Under Title IX, there must be an equal number of sports teams offered for boys and girls during each athletic season. Sto-Rox is now down to four sports: football and girls volleyball in the fall, and boys and girls basketball in winter. Palermo believes there needs to be a sport in each season to keep kids out of trouble. “These 40 kids are now going to have nothing to do,” he says.
“THEY ARE CONCERNED WITH SAVING SPORTS, BUT THE BOARD IS CONCERNED WITH SAVING THE DISTRICT.”
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of sports management at Robert Morris University, says the reason a plan to cut all sports, instead of just baseball and softball, wasn’t considered comes down to two factors — popularity and revenue. Spring sports generally do not get as much attention, he says. Football is the primary high school sport in Western Pennsylvania and there is no revenue generated from baseball or softball. But still, he says, the cuts are tough to understand. “What is interesting is Sto-Rox had a very successful softball program,” Clark says. “From a young age, it seems girls at Sto-Rox learn what they need to do to be successful. It is a shame that future girls won’t get that opportunity.” Clark says sports can create a sense of pride for a community and a successful program can bring more to a town or a school than revenue. CONTINUES ON PG. 10
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“When the local team does well, it can be very uplifting for the community,” he says. “It creates a sense of pride.” But, Clark says, with the current economic climate, he could see more schools cutting athletics. He also says athletic directors are going to have to become better fundraisers and may have to turn to private sponsors for teams. “This will put schools in less-affluent areas at a disadvantage,” Clark says. “A Fox Chapel will be able to find private funds for a team [more easily] than a Sto-Rox.” Funding is going to be harder to come by, and Maritz says the outrage for the financial issues should be directed at Corbett who created the problem with a $1 billion education cut more than 2 years ago. That cut affected Sto-Rox, with its limited tax base, especially hard, cutting 14 percent from the budget, he says. “These critics on Facebook are mostly people who have moved away,” he says. “They are concerned with saving sports but the board is concerned with saving the district.” Maritz says if the district’s funding issues are not resolved, Sto-Rox could go bankrupt and even cease to exist in the next couple of years. That sense of urgency is not lost on Palermo, but he questions how much good the cuts will do compared to the value the sports add to the community. The district has to deal with major issues like staffing cuts and overcrowd-
Former Coach Bill Palermo had the years of the team’s 10 WPIAL championship titles tattooed on his leg.
ing at the elementary school, and the amount of money gained from the program eliminations “is not going to make a dent,” he says. “To just cut two sports to save around $20,000 is ridiculous.” And for her part, Josie Buckley worries about her teammates still at Sto-Rox. “I feel really bad for the girls left behind,” she says. “Some of them said they are transferring to other schools. But some are just going to be stuck.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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So read the sign held by a hoodiewearing effigy Rahim Jones brought to Shadyside’s Mellon Park on July 14. Jones was among some 150 protesters drawn to the event — and a slightly larger protest at the Hill District’s Freedom Corner monument that evening — by a Florida jury’s acquittal of George Zimmerman, who had fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. If Martin were alive, said Jones, “he would have said the same thing” about the verdict. And he’d have found no disagreement at either rally. Attendees expressed both rage — one speaker said she’d been struggling “to not slap the shit out of a European” — and weariness. For many, including former City Councilor Sala Udin, Zimmerman’s acquittal was yet another example of how the justice system devalues the lives of young black men. Udin, who described himself as “devastated, but not defeated” by the verdict, said “I’ve been through too many of these to call it a surprise.” The tougher question was: What to do about it? Carl Redwood, a community activist
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among the most militant speakers, was among those calling for restraint from activists.) City police approached the scene deferentially: “Excuse me!” began the first amplified warning to disperse. Commander RaShall Brackney, who knew several of the protesters from community events, spoke at length with Mguni and others. Kneeling among the protesters, Brackney urged that demonstrators pursue justice in “the right way. We don’t do it in a way that causes a disservice or injustice to [Trayvon Martin’s] memory.” “We have no desire to go to jail,” responded Mguni. “And I have no desire to take you.” “— We are simply asking for people … to stop and take a look at the intense violence placed upon our bodies as black people. Because we are not safe.” “It’s not that you just can’t walk down the street,” agreed Bria Adams, a 19-year-old from Manchester who says police raided her home at 5:30 a.m. due to confusion over a suspect’s address. “Just being in your own home, asleep, is wrong too.” Brackney waved police off, diverting traffic and allowing the demonstration to continue. Later she told report-
ers that it was best to “allow people to vent in a positive way” — especially given the light Sunday-night traffic on Centre. After Brackney’s decision, the mood shifted to something between a political workshop and a block party. Protesters called to have pizza delivered to the middle of the street (“just past the police cars”) while a core of a half-dozen demonstrators — all black women, some with children on hand — worked collaboratively on a statement. A handful of white supporters sat nearby, in solidarity, as most attendees went home. Finally, shortly after 11 p.m., the remaining two dozen protesters got up and joined hands. In a statement, the group called for an end to “the criminalization of black bodies.” “We can’t continue to go on like this is not happening,” Mguni said. “We can’t be numb anymore.” But what happens next remains unclear. The group plans a further public statement at noon, Wed., July 17, at the Allegheny County Courthouse.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S June 25 speech on climate change was more than any other sitting U.S. President has said, or promised to do, on the issue. Given that we’re in at least the seventh presidential term since human-caused climate change became a scientifically acknowledged threat, the kudos the speech earned from climate activists are understandable. Pioneering Penn State climatologist Michael Mann praised Obama’s “bold leadership.” Joseph Romm, who runs the valuable Climate Progress blog, said the speech marked Obama’s emergence as a “climate hawk.” A coalition of Pennsylvania-based groups — including PennFuture, Penn Environment and the Evangelical Environmental Network — touted Obama’s plan, especially his promise to limit carbon emissions from power plants. Obama also pledged to work to mitigate expected impacts of climate change, like the effects of flooding and drought on agriculture. (A White House release titled “Pennsylvania: The Threat of Carbon Pollution” also noted risks like more heat waves and worse air quality.) Not everyone was thrilled, of course — and we don’t mean just climate-changedeniers, or even pro-coal politicians like U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who labeled Obama’s lower-carbon plan “a war on America.” Watchdog group Public Citizen said the president’s plan fell short of launching the “national mobilization” needed to confront this incipient crisis. Worse, said Public Citizen president Robert Weissman, Obama’s “all of the above strategy” to increase domestic oil and gas production — and even exports — is a “disaster” that threatens to offset the good the plan might do, including further development of renewable energy. Still, Obama cast confronting climate change in moral terms. “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing,” he said. And promising to reform the energy sector during a slow economic recovery takes political courage. The speech was “a big rhetorical step forward,” says Pittsburgh-based filmmaker and climate activist Mark Dixon. But don’t give Obama too much credit. Sure, his renewed pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 sounds swell — except
that 2005 was a near-peak of such emissions. “I think that’s a pathetic goal,” says Dixon. Experts like Romm say that by 2020, we instead need a reduction of at least 20 percent below the much-lower baseline of 1990 emission levels — and an 80 percent reduction by 2050. Moreover, Obama’s “new national plan” consists heavily of stuff he had to do anyway. Take its centerpiece, those powerplant emission limits: They’ve been required ever since a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandated regulating carbon as pollution. The EPA just hasn’t done it yet, and the big question is how tightly Obama will clamp down on the energy industry, which produces 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions. Meanwhile, a regulatory change Obama didn’t even mention might help determine how all this goes. In May, reassessing things like rising sea levels, his administration raised its official estimate of how much damage a ton of carbon pollution will cause — now and in the future — by about 60 percent. This “social cost of carbon” helps determine things like efficiency standards for cars and appliances. The price, now up to $38 per ton, lets regulators weigh the benefits of preventing pollution against the cost of achieving efficiency. (One ton of carbon emissions, for instance, is produced by burning about 100 gallons of gasoline.) The new carbon price was first used to update efficiency standards for microwave ovens; emissions limits for coal-fired power plants could be next. But the process is fraught with uncertainty. For one, energy companies are sure to challenge any new standard in court, where the unavoidable subjectivity of predicting damages decades into the future might work against it. Second problem: Many say that $38 figure is too low. The equivalent figure set by the United Kingdom, for instance, is $83. And in a 2011 paper published in the journal Economics, Stockholm Environment Institute researchers said a more accurate number might be as much as $900 a ton. The authors, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton, added that at that price, spending even the estimated $500 a ton needed to create a zero-carbon society seems like a bargain.
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Scotland’s Parliament was revealed in May to be considering, as part of its Children and Young People Bill, guaranteeing that specific, named persons would be appointed for every Scottish child at birth, charged with overseeing that child’s welfare until adulthood. A Daily Telegraph story acknowledged that the bill is “remarkably vague” about the duties and powers of the designated persons and thus it is unclear how the law might affect typical parentchild relationships.
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In Lytle, Texas, in May, just 33 people voted for candidates for three openings on the school board, including the only voter who cast a ballot in District 1. Christina Mercado was the 1-0 winner, but someone else voted for her. Mercado cannot vote for District 1 candidates because she does not live there, and neither does the one candidate who opposed her. However, according to Texas law, Mercado can legally represent District 1 on the school board.
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An April crime report in San Francisco, noting that a female driver had rammed another car in a parking-space dispute, noted that the victim gave officers little help. The man could not tell officers the model car that hit him, and certainly not a license-plate number, but he “was able to give a detailed description of the suspect’s cleavage.” No arrest was reported. Conversely, Colombian prisoner Giovanni Rebolledo was serving a 60-year sentence (as a member of the “Los Topos” gang charged with extortion, kidnapping and torture) when he escaped and decided on an extreme identity change in order to move about in the country. He became “Rosalinda,” complete with, according to Colombia Reports news service, “impressive” breast implants — but nonetheless was identified in a routine traffic stop and arrested.
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In May, an Orlando Sentinel columnist demanded a federal investigation into the 2010 police killing of Torey Breedlove in Orlando’s Pine Hills neighborhood, noting that killing the unarmed Breedlove somehow required 137 shots, with cops missing on at least 115. The columnist added that the Justice Department is currently investigating a Cleveland, Ohio, case in which local police killed two unarmed men but coincidentally also required 137 shots. (In both cases, the officers were exonerated after local investigators determined the officers believed the suspects were armed.)
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SNOW DAY {BY AL HOFF} If it were possible to live on desserts, I would. So it was a delightful surprise to discover a new sweet treat, hiding in plain sight at the dessert-heavy intersection of Forbes and Murray. Cool Ice Taipei is a Taiwanese casual café that moved into the tiny slot vacated by Pamela’s. Its menu offers a couple dozen entrees (dumplings, noodle bowls, hot pots, salt-and-pepper chicken) and a handful of appetizers (marinated egg, fried squid balls). There are also plenty of libations, including: green and black teas, bubble teas, milk teas, fresh fruit juice, milkshakes and smoothies. But it was the curiously named “snow ice” that drew me in. This is a Taiwanese dessert in which milk, flavorings and fruit are mixed together and frozen into a block. That block is then “shaved” into fluffy flakes that are piled up and topped with fresh fruit. From a dozen choices (including taro, Oreo, red bean, strawberry), I ordered “milk and mango.” Although the dish is sometimes called “shaved ice,” the effect is of a shaved milkshake, not an ice-based snow cone. It was like eating a bowl of sweet, milky mangoflavored snowflakes — at once creamy and airy, with the satisfying sensation of quickly melting in the mouth. A serving of snow ice ranges $6-8, but the portion is more than enough for two. Or, like me, you can eat it all yourself. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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ence in a suburban strip mall is not easy. And while some of our most palatable meals have been at holes-inthe-mall, the aesthetics of strip-mall spaces are challenging. They’re usually deep and dark, with only front windows offering only dreary views of the parking lot. In light of these issues, Rumfish Grille is an unexpected oasis in the Great Southern Shopping Center, just outside of Bridgeville. A felicitous location in the elbow of the mall’s two arms gives Rumfish a very large space, which is further broken up by chunky concrete walls and multiple levels, including outdoor pam tios ti (still under construction) in the rear. Booths and tables for sit-down dining are Bo arrayed around a series of freestanding ar bars: ba a liquor bar, a raw bar and the most open op kitchen possible, so that everything but bu prep work happens in the round, with a low countertop for front-row dining. Though this offers arguably the best view in the house, the others are, bless-
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A selection of fresh seafood: ahi tuna, wahoo, oysters, Maine Lobster, bronzini, and Prince Edward Island mussels
edly, of the countryside to the rear, not the parking lot out in front. As the name suggests, the cuisine on offer is seafood. Executive chef Chet Garland (of Toast! Kitchen and Wine Bar) and chef de cuisine Eric Wallace, an alumnus of Up! Modern Kitchen, have a modern
RUMFISH GRILLE 1155 Washington Pike, Bridgeville. 412-914-8013 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers, soups and salads $5-12; entrees $17-24 LIQUOR: Full bar
CP APPROVED yet comfortable take on their catch, offering a variety of distinctive appetizers, a few signature entrées and a build-yourown entrée option that’s decidedly more sophisticated than most restaurants offering this option. A dozen fish and shellfish (plus a few steak, pork and poultry options) can be combined with a
variety of interesting sauces, starches and vegetables to create a custom dinner, whether your tastes run to truffle jus or mac-n-cheese. The kitchen has clearly invested a lot of its own creativity in the appetizer list, which made for the most difficult decision-making of the evening. Ceviche was attractively presented in a small Ball canning jar surrounded with crisp, freshly fried tortilla chips. This resulted in a parfait-like layering of ingredients, which made them difficult to extract in balanced combination. But the tender, lime-cured shrimp, corn and grape tomatoes were delicious, and the chips were obviously house-made. When we ordered the octopus, we expected a salad, but the single grilled tentacle we received, curled as if in midswim, may have been the highlight of the entire meal. Its flavor was smoky and slightly charred on the exterior, enhanced by red onion, smoked paprika and aioli, while its interior texture was almost creamily tender. Salmon tartare
was also superb, rosy and buttery, and accompanied by crispy, puffy fried wonton wrappers. Only the conch fritters, a delicacy that called to Jason’s Florida roots, were a disappointment. Rumfish’s version was so short on conch, they seemed like mere hush puppies (albeit excellent ones). The signature spicy hot rum dipping sauce — a piquant remoulade with hints of sweet rum — was a great success, however. Rather than build her own entrée, Angelique decided to go with a chef’s feature of blackened catfish served on a bed of collard greens, black-eyed peas and sweet-potato sauce. Though each of these soul-food staples was excellent on its own, the ensemble didn’t meld; she enjoyed this dish most once she’d dissected it into its separate components.
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We felt we should try something from the land, and our server sold us on the fried chicken. A half chicken was marinated in hot sauce and then fried with an ultra-thin, crisp coating, resulting in succulent meat that was subtly flavored, not overwhelmed, by the peppery sauce. Corn-on-the-cob was the perfect summer accompaniment. Our server considerately steered us from another meat dish that was soon to be replaced on the menu, a gesture which, like the heavy equipment in the cabana-courtyard, perfectly captures the work-in-progress vibe at Rumfish. But that doesn’t mean that you should postpone your visit. Rumfish Grille has opened hot off the blocks with a seafood menu that is well conceived and exceptionally prepared.
Another craft-beer festival is coming to Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Summer Beerfest hits Stage AE on July 26-27. With an ever-increasing number of festivals celebrating fermented grains and fruits, what sets this one apart from the rest? Size, for one. The Pittsburgh Summer Beerfest organizers have previously staged festivals in Cincinnati and Columbus; both Ohio events claim annual attendance of more than 10,000 people. Although the Pittsburgh brew-ha-ha isn’t expected to be as massive, it still looks to be an extravaganza. “We’re going to take over the whole place, even the parking lot,” says festival director Craig Johnson. Ticket holders ($35-55; available at www.beerfesttickets. com) can expect to sample more than 250 beers from at least 80 breweries. By comparison, last year’s Big Pour, held at Construction Junction, hosted 43 breweries. With so many breweries on the list, the moniker “craft brewery” is being used a bit loosely. Familiar, mass-market brands such as Boston Brewing Company (Sam Adams beers), Sierra Nevada and Yuengling might not reach the scale of mega-breweries like Coors, but they aren’t quite artisanal, either. “When you reach the numbers that we do in terms of attendance, you’re going to have a lot of people who aren’t into craft, who haven’t learned yet,” says Johnson. “There are people who are going to want to have some familiarity with beers — beers I guess you can call gateway beers.” And beyond that gateway is still a large selection of beer, including a number of selections from Pittsburgh breweries, which can safely be categorized as “craft.” And while out-of-town breweries are limited to just a few selections, local breweries can tap as many styles as they desire. Best of all for participating breweries, Johnson says, the festival “buys every ounce of beer. There’s no donated product. There’s no table fee. Breweries get actual revenue from these events. This isn’t just promotional from them.” That uncommon practice ought to leave both brewers and beer drinkers happy.
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Farm dinners take diners to the source JACOB MAINS spent five years working in Pittsburgh restaurants. Then he quit. A culinary-school graduate, he says he still plans to make cooking a career — but on his own terms. “I saw a lot that I wasn’t happy with as far as food quality,” Mains says. The 24-year-old recently launched The Farmer’s Table, a series of dinners held on local farms — including Blackberry Meadows in Natrona Heights, Morris Organic Farm in Irwin and the Mott Family Farm in Salesville, Ohio. With a five-course meal cooked with ingredients from the farm (or one nearby) in his portable kitchen, Mains says he’s found a way to ensure the food is up to his standards. “You can’t lie about the food when you’re at the farm,” he says.
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Guests sit with the farmers, family-style, at white-linen-covered tables as Mains cooks. The menu varies depending on what is available, as does the style of the meal. And although he will cater to special diets, the menu “is definitely up in the air,” until the day of the event, he says, adding he doesn’t want to set expectations. Joanne Jamis Cain, one of the guests at the first dinner on Manchester Farms, in Avella, in June, describes the experience as “beautiful and amazing.” “There was a farmhouse stuck in time, from the 1800s. There were cows down in the lower field, and a pond with some birds,” she says, of the setting. And the meal included “two gigantic meatballs made with beef from the farm and cheese from the farm,” she says, adding that she grew up in a Greek household where her mom and aunts made everything from scratch — a tradition she continues. “Being at Jacob’s dinner was like, I had to pinch myself that I was there and someone else was doing the cooking in a way that I totally loved.” Five more dinners are scheduled from now through the fall. Event dates can be found at www. farmerstable.org. Mains says the new business is where he’s found his purpose. “For me, this is what I’m passionate about,” he says. A B ROW N @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Plenty of Pittsburgh bands like to claim working-class cred, but for Chrome Moses, that’s a given: Guitarist Joe Piacquadio is a member of the boilermakers union, and bassist T.J. Connolly works a bunch of part-time jobs, including union work. That backs up the trio’s music, which is bluesy, genuine and shows a certain commitment to authenticity. Piacquadio and Connolly grew up in the South Hills and met in football, but found that music was what they really bonded over. Connolly’s dad had been a musician, and had the tools of the trade around the house. The two played together in Royal Jelly, and more recently have focused on the more Americana-rock band The Wheals, but they use Chrome Moses as an outlet for some of their dirtyrock tendencies. “Some people think it would be hard writing songs for two bands, and deciding what goes where,” says Piacquadio. “But actually it makes it easier — when you write a song, you’ve got two different bands to choose from.” This weekend, Chrome Moses releases its first EP, a collection of six songs (plus a bonus track). The band recorded it at Blackberry Studios in Lawrenceville, working with engineer Dino DiStefano, who has garnered acclaim through his work with Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. Chrome Moses has obvious roots in the blues, especially Delta blues guitar. The EP has a gritty but well-produced vibe; it’s much more stripped down than The Wheals, where the pair and their bandmates prefer to take their time and experiment with sounds. Crunchy guitars and Piacquadio’s relaxed but powerful vocals are held down by a rhythm section that consists of Connolly and Clarence Grant II, the band’s drummer now after a few lineup changes. (Wheals drummer Jere Bucek plays on the EP.) Of course, Chrome Moses has range; on the EP, the song “Main Line” shows they can play power pop, and “Holy Thunder” verges on surf rock. But it always returns to those bluesy guitars — and that’s what makes Chrome Moses Chrome Moses. “There’s a lot of things in The Wheals that we like,” says Connolly, “but in Chrome Moses we get to do the threepiece, blues, rock thing.”
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does some people, wrinkles or aches and pains. The thing that I like about aging is that I made a lot of stupid mistakes in my life as a twentysomething person, and I actually like the process of getting older, because I feel like I do less stupid things. I think that’s where that song came from — me just dwelling on that fact: It’s OK for me to be a little quieter and less in people’s faces, if the outcome is that I’m not hurting people, or I’m not making mistakes that affect my life in a giant way.” The entire album is different in ways from Crain’s earlier output — 2010’s You (Understood) and 2009’s Songs in the Night, which she recorded with her then-band The Midnight Shivers. It’s not so much a deviation in sound — the basics (guitar-based folk music with often mournful vocals) haven’t changed much. But it’s Crain’s approach: While she started out as a fiction writer, and took a fiction-writing approach to her songwriting earlier on, she made a point this time around of writing from the heart. “I’ve always kind of had my feet planted firmly in the make-believe area of storytelling. Not that it’s been fantastical; it’s all been pretty realistic stories that I’ve told but they’ve always been kind of my experiences splattered with a little smoke and mirrors to make a good story. The older I get, the more comfortable I get with myself, I feel more OK with sharing my life, however boring I think it is. “And I guess maybe I’ve experienced more now than I had when I was 20 or 21, writing the first record. I think it’s been a natural progression for me; I’d written a few personal songs before, but this was the first time I’d set out intentionally to write all the songs about me.”
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This album was also Crain’s first fulllength working with famed producer, solo artist and sometimes-Mountain Goat John Vanderslice at his Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco. “Because John is a musician,” Crain says, “I think he gets something that a lot of producers don’t understand, which is that by the time a songwriter comes into the studio with songs, they’ve spent a year with them, and they’ve gotten really sort of selfish with them — they’re not open-minded about it, because these are like their children. I think John understands that, so he’s really gentle about how he brings up new ideas. He doesn’t talk to you about his ideas as truth … He kind of just suggests things. ‘Let’s just try this, and if it doesn’t work, we’ll go back to the original way.’ So we do it, because there’s no pressure. And most of the time he ends up being right.”
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When Crain appeared at Club Café last September, she was supporting William Elliott Whitmore, with whom she also toured when she was just 21. She played solo that night; when she appears this Thursday night, she’ll have about half of her band with her, including guitarist Kyle Reed, who Crain says makes guitars from cigar boxes. (“They sound like old-school open-tuning dulcimertype things,” she says. “They are really rustic-looking.”) If you haven’t seen her since her show at South Park in 2009, you might be surprised by what a Samantha Crain show looks like these days — but, she says, it’s not because she’s lost anything. “I’ve read some reviews of shows in the past year or so,” she says. “People seem to think I’ve lost some sort of spark because when we used to play when we were younger, with the Midnight Shivers, we jumped around on stage a lot; we were really showy, weird kids jumping around and playing music. I don’t do that as much anymore. “I’ve become more comfortable with performing in the respect that I don’t feel like I’m trying to impress people as much. I’m just trying to lay out these songs that we’ve written and have worked hard on and have arranged, and play those for people and make them sound as good as possible. It’s hard to make them sound good when I’m jumping and out of breath.” A M U L K E RI N @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Great five-song debut from a new garage-psych outfit made up of a bunch of former-members-of. Shredding guitars, heavy riffs that will invade your brain, and enough innovation “to make it more than just a replication of the late-’60s and early-’70s psych rock the band takes most of its cues from. There’s reportedly a full-length in the works, and it can’t come soon enough. Pick this one up. THE VELCRO SHOES AXIOM (SELF-RELEASED)
Guitar rock in the ’80s and ’90s indie-rock vein, with seeming nods to The Cure and R.E.M. Lots of catchy stuff here, with a tight rhythm section laying the groundwork. Eric Emerson’s vocals are usually a bit wavery in the Stephen Malkmus way, but at times they’re a little too wavery — in a distracting way. Nothing a few production tricks couldn’t help, though, and nothing that should keep you from giving it a spin. The title track is this EP’s strongest. HANDHOLD BRUSHFIRES (SELF-RELEASED)
This one came out a few months back but just came to our attention — nice electronic soundcollage stuff from a local solo artist. Some breaks and glitchy stuff, lots of world-music-style samples, and a great deal of texture and drama. It’s the kind of listen that takes some effort, but is also kind of infectious — and very well done. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Definitive Jux with production from El-P, Brooklyn rap duo Cannibal Ox inspired a generation of lyrical underground hip-hop acts. While members Vast Aire and Vordul Mega each followed up with solo releases, the duo’s highly anticipated sophomore collaboration never came to fruition. In 2012, Vast and Vordul announced a reunion show in Brooklyn and a West Coast tour. This summer, they’re embarking on an East Coast and Southern tour that lands them in Pittsburgh, performing together here for the first time in more than a decade. We spoke to Vast Aire by phone. WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE DID THE WEST COAST TOUR RECEIVE? The reception was definitely just overwhelming at certain points. It reinforced that this is something that’s wanted and they love the music that we do. It’s just overwhelming to have people yelling, cutting you off — you gotta let the crowd yell, they have so much energy. WHAT HAVE THE STUDIO SESSIONS BEEN LIKE FOR THE UPCOMING SOPHOMORE CANNIBAL OX ALBUM? It’s pretty much our average session. We watch movies, order food, and discuss what was going on that week.
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themselves and give themselves some type of footing in the performing market. When I did my album Look Ma, No Hands, I was using the EODub studio. They represent the culture and they represent the energy of “We’re not gonna wait for somebody to bring you talent; we’re gonna bring talent to you.” I have a lot of memories hanging out there with Karnage and the crew, my man Kenyatta Black. AND KENYATTA’S COMING TO PITTSBURGH WITH YOU, RIGHT? Yes. Yeah, he was rhyming with me at the lunch table.
“THAT’S HOW OUR SECTION OF THE LUNCHROOM WAS: WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE RAP BATTLES.”
ANY PARTICULAR MOVIES THAT HAVE BEEN OF INFLUENCE? I mean, I’d be lying if I didn’t say Batman. The whole Gotham Knight theme is very important to us, ’cause we always looked at Gotham as New York City. And, you know, the classics: Godfather, Star Wars, Indiana Jones. We put epics on and just zone out. It could be anything that inspires us; it could be The Muppets Take Manhattan.
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IS THAT A METAPHOR, OR WERE YOU GUYS REALLY IN SCHOOL TOGETHER BANGING ON THE LUNCH TABLES? The lunch table was literal. Kenyatta went to school with me; he was one of those MCs that Cannibal Ox hung out with at the lunch table. Everybody that goes to public schools in the city knows that you have giant fold-up tables, and our whole crew took up two of those tables. And not anybody could just walk over to those tables — you would get beat up, you would get robbed. [Laughs.] We crack about it all the time ’cause it was literally like jail. It was almost like this is the section of the jail where the guards let you get away with a little bit of dirt. And that’s how our section of the lunchroom was: We were able to smack some kids up and have rap battles. They would let us fight and squash the fight on our own. It was a real interesting era of New York City schools. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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[FESTIVAL] + THU., JULY 18 All Good Music Festival has quite the collection of artists this year. From Pretty Lights to Primus, John Butler Trio to jam bands, a lot of seemingly random but good artists make the lineup a great choice for indecisive friends with differing tastes — or even for families. The 17th annual camp-out festival will be held at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio, tonight through Sunday. Kira Scammell July 18-21. Thornville, Ohio. $175-249. All ages. www.allgoodfestival.com
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[ACOUSTIC] + WED., JULY 24 If you’re hoping to reduce your carbon footprint while still catching some tunes this summer, walk (don’t drive) over to Buhl Community Park on the North Side for this afternoon’s edition of the Solar Concert Series. Presented as a collaboration between the nearby Children’s Museum, the New Hazlett Theater and the Saturday Light Brigade radio show, the series, now in its sixth year, features local acoustic musicians playing with a solar-powered PA. Today’s entrants are local duo The Squirrel Hillbillies. Andy Mulkerin 12:15 p.m. Allegheny Square, North Side. Free. All ages. www.slbradio.org
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National acts JD McPherson, Los Lonely Boys, and The Slide Brothers, plus local bands Miss Freddye & Blue Faze and Billy The Kid & The Regulators, are only a few of the many acts playing the festival. The event will be highlighted by a reunion of The Nighthawks, fronted by Pittsburgh legend Billy Price. All proceeds benefit the curator of the event, the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. Festivities
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ROCK/POP THU 18 CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Terrance Vaughn Trio. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CLUB CAFE. Samantha Crain, Luke Zacherl, Bob Gilmore. South Side. 412-431-4950. CRANBERRY COMMUNITY PARK. The Holidays, Southside Jerry. Cranberry. 724-776-4806 x 1129. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400. HEINZ HALL. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: The Music of Led Zeppelin. Downtown. 412-392-4900. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Sistered, Supervoid, Lo-Pan, Borracho. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PALACE THEATRE. Hamilton Ave. Greensburg. 724-836-1123. THE SHOP. Restorations. Bloomfield. 412-951-0622. SMILING MOOSE. The Long Knives, Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Yankee Bang Band, The Jim Dandies. South Side. 412-431-4668. STAGE AE. fun., Tegan & Sara. North Side. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slim Forsythe’s Rock’n Gospel Hour, Bohdi Watts & Zack Perkins, Cajun Loop Station. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
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SUNDAY, JULY 21 | 7:30 PM HEINZ HALL Broadway superstar Idina Menzel performs live with your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for one night only! Idina won a Tony Award™ for her captivating performance as “Elphaba” in the international blockbuster Wicked and received a Tony™ nomination when she debuted on Broadway as “Maureen” in the original production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent.
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31ST STREET PUB. Porno Tongue, Hoffman Road Band, Douglas & the Iron Lung, Gasoline Genes. Strip District. 412-391-8334. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. ATS, Mike Marcinko, Hepcat Dilemma. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Geen Stovall Trio. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CLUB CAFE. Brian Halloran, Daniel Marcus (Early) Hi-Life Wedding, Action Camp, Shutterdown, Antimony (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Bestial Mouths, WMX, Mind Tiger. Garfield. 412-361-2262. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Adrian Krygorski. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PARK HOUSE. Coronado. Record release residency, feat. a different artist each week. North Side. 412-224-2273. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Danny Kaye & the Nightlifes, Jayke Orvis & the Broken Band, Devil in the Detailz.
Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. W. NEW CASTLE ST. PLAZA. Amanda Noah, May Hollow Remedy, Black Nugget Marinade. Butler. 724-256-5769. WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. Ferris Bueller’s Revenge. North Side. 412-231-7777.
SAT 20 31ST STREET PUB. Turbojugend Iron City Tribute Night. Strip District. 412-391-8334. ALTAR BAR. Bosnian Rainbows. Strip District. 412-263-2877. BONNIE & CLYDE’S. Scott Anderson & Pete Hewlett. Wexford. 724-934-2110. CIP’S. The Good Guys. Dormont. 412-668-2335. CLUB CAFE. Alasdair Roberts & Friends, Pairdown, AppalAsia (Early) Emily Rodgers Band, Rebecca Pronsky, Greg Dutton (Late). South Side. 412-431-4950. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Shaker Maker. Robinson. 412-489-5631. THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Divine Tragedy, Rimbo Koss, Manokin. Aliquippa. 724-375-5080. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Zac Brown Band. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. The Dressed Frets, Winter Brave.
Garfield. 412-361-2262. HAMBONE’S. Rusty Old Mandolin, Let Them Eat Cake. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. HARVEY WILNER’S. Lucky Me. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Rottrevore, Seplophile, Abysme. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. LEVEL 20 LOUNGE. Mother’s Little Helpers (Rolling Stones Tribute). Bethel Park. 412-595-7953. LOUGHLIN’S PUB. Silkwood Shower. Cheswick. 724-265-9950. MEADOWS CASINO. No Bad JuJu. Washington. 724-503-1200. MONONGAHELA AQUATORIUM. Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers. Monongahela. 724-258-5905. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Rehab, Legally Insane, 5 Elements, Insane Eric. Millvale. 866-468-3401. ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. Lenny Smith & The Ramblers. Shaler. 412-487-6259. SMILING MOOSE. Nightly Standard (early) The Whisky Rebellion (late). South Side. 412-431-4668. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Chrome Moses. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. THE WOODEN NICKEL. The Witch Doctors. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.
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THEIA COLLIDES
Each week, we bring you a new MP3 from a local artist. This week’s offering comes from Theia Collides; download
“Nightmare Dressed in White” for free on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.
SUN 21 222 ORMSBY. Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Pet Symmetry, Brightside, Relationships, Whoovez. Mt. Oliver. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Still The Sky’s Limit, Our Family Portrait, Look Out Loretta. Garfield. 412-361-2262. HEINZ HALL. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra w/ Idina Menzel. Downtown. 412-392-4900. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. MOTO, The Sicks. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MONROEVILLE COMMUNITY PARK. The Holidays. Monroeville. 412-856-1006. PENN BREWERY. Claire Stucznyski. North Side. 412-237-9400. SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Weather Permitting feat. Harlan Twins, Coronado. Shadyside. 412-363-5845. SMILING MOOSE. Joey Cape Presents Scorpios, Jon Snodgrass. South Side. 412-431-4668. TALL TREES AMPHITHEATER. The Holidays, Southside Jerry. Monroeville.
MON 22 HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Kansas Bible Company, Homeless Gospel Choir. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PENN BREWERY. Alex Talbot Trio. North Side. 412-237-9400. SMILING MOOSE. Northern Faces. South Side. 412-431-4668.
TUE 23 CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. The Eagles, JD & The Straight Shot. Uptown. 412-642-1800. FRANKIE’S. The House Band. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-5027. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Andre Costello & The Cool Minors, City Dwelling Nature Seekers & Ghost Horse Commanche. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.
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222 ORMSBY. Elway. Mt. Oliver. AVONWORTH COMMUNITY PARK. Juniper 6. Ohio Township. 412-766-1700. CLUB CAFE. Bob Schneider, The Wheeler Brothers. South Side. 412-431-4950. GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Loveskills, EZ Listening. Garfield. 412-361-2262. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. OUAIS, Nones. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. SMILING MOOSE. Bad Rabbits The Draft. South Side. 412-431-4668.
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BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE Greensburg. 724-838-4324. SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. Downtown. 412-456-6666. CABARET AT THEATER JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SQUARE. Salsa Friday. Downtown. SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans. 412-325-6769. North Side. 412-904-3335. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Reggae MOONDOG’S. Post-Pittsburgh Fridays. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. Blues Festival Jam w/ Norman DRUM BAR. DJ Scottro VDJ Dave Nardini. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. OTT. North Side. 412-231-7777. LAVA LOUNGE. 80’s New Wave Flashback. w/ DJ Electric. HARTWOOD ACRES. Pittsburgh South Side. 412-431-5282. Blues Festival. Big Sam’s THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Funky Nation, the Slide Anthony Suzan. Brothers, Los Lonely Lawrenceville. Boys, Eric Lindell, Joe 412-904-2915. Louis Walker, Gina ONE 10 LOUNGE. Sicilia, Tab Benoit, the DJ Goodnight, DJ www. per a p ty ci h Nighthawks with Billy Rojo. Downtown. pg om .c Price, J. D. McPherson, 412-874-4582. Shot O’ Soul, more. www. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. pghblues.com. Allison Park. Dance/top 40 hits. Mt. 412-460-2583. Washington. 412-431-3730. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. 565 LIVE. Jeff Powers of the RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Dead Guy Blues Band. Bellevue. Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330. 412-522-7556. MOONDOG’S. Post-Pittsburgh Blues Festival Jam w/ Norman BRILLOBOX. Pandemic. Feat. Nardini. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. Machete Kisumontao & Timbeleza. MR. MIKE’S PUB. Bobby Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Irwin. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday 724-864-0444. Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip NIED’S HOTEL. Mahajibee Blues. Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. PALACE THEATRE. Bad Boy Blues CATTIVO. D:Konstruct:Goth/ Band. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. Industrial. w/ DJ Ted Jacobs. THE R BAR. Hawks Blues Band. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. Dormont. 412-942-0882. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. THE WOODEN NICKEL. The 412-431-8800. Witchdoctors. Monroeville. THE NEW AMSTERDAM. 412-372-9750. Tracksploitation. Lawrenceville. 412-904-2915. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Dance/ BROOKLINE PUB. Yoho’s Yinzide top 40 hits. Mt. Washington. Out. Brookline. 412-531-0899. 412-431-3730. SUNNY JIM’S TAVERN. The Blues REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, Bombers w/ Pat Scanga. Kilbuck. DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville. 412-761-6700. 412-781-6771. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. THE R BAR. Yoho’s Yinzide Out. S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side. Dormont. 412-942-8842. 412-481-7227.
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SUN 21 SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8. Electro, post punk, industrial, new wave, alternative dance. South Side. 412-431-4668.
TUE 23 AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Open Turntable Night. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.
BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260. PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side. 412-224-2273.
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ANDYS. Bronwyn Wyatt. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CJ’S. The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. HILL HOUSE KAUFMANN CENTER. Vie Boheme. Hill District. 412-392-4400. LEMONT. Judi Figel. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. LITTLE E’S. Eddie Brookshire Quintet. Downtown. 412-392-2217. RIVERVIEW PARK. Spanky Wilson. Stars at Riverview Series. North Side. 412-255-2493.
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AVA BAR & LOUNGE. When Life Gives You Lemons.DANCE. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Summer Fling Fridays. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.
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SPEAKEASY. Jazz Surgery w/ Tony Campbell. North Side. 412-904-3335. LEMONT. Etta Cox & Dave Crisci. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. LITTLE E’S. The New View Trio. Downtown. 412-392-2217. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo, Pat Crossley. Downtown. 412-553-5235. PENN HILLS LIBRARY. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. Penn Hills. 412-795-3507. SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Boilermaker Jazz Band. Greensburg. 724-850-7245. THE WOODEN NICKEL. Jazz Express. Monroeville. 412-372-9750.
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FRI 19 THE ALLOY STUDIOS. The Groove Aesthetic. Friendship. 412-363-3000. ANDYS. Judi Figel. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Ron Wilson, Tony DePaolis. Downtown. 412-325-6769. GREENDANCE - THE WINERY AT SAND HILL. RML Jazz. Mt. Pleasant. 412-370-9621. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB &
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MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Charlie Chaplin Short Films feat. Tom Roberts. Shadyside. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series feat. Colter Harper & Adios. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
3RD STREET GALLERY. Frank Cunimondo, Patricia Skala. Carnegie. 412-276-5233. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Giacomo Gates. North Side. 412-904-3335. MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Daniel May Susanne Ortner-Roberts, Lou Schreiber, John Marcinizyn, John Hughes, Dave Pellow. Benefit for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Shadyside. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo. Downtown. 412-553-5235. TWIN LAKES PARK. RML Jazz. Latrobe. 412-352-9107.
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AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Interval Jazz Mondays. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. ROYAL PLACE. Jerry Lucarelli, Vince Taglieri, Sunny Sunseri. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8000.
BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford. 724-934-1177. BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Songwriters In Harmony. Songwriters Workshop. Harmony. 724-452-0539. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Dave from The Jukebox Band. Robinson. 412-489-5631. THE MAP ROOM. Danny Quinn. Regent Square. 412-371-1955.
TUE 23 ANDYS. Mark Strickland. Downtown. 412-773-8884. KATZ PLAZA. Joe Negri. Downtown. 412-456-6666.
ANDYS. Lisa Hindmarsh. Downtown. 412-773-8884. THE BLIND PIG SALOON. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. New Kensington. 724-337-7008. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, HOMEWOOD. Mark Lucas. Jazz on the Steps. Homewood. 412-441-2039. CJ’S. Kenia. Strip District. 412-642-2377. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Downtown. 412-471-9100.
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The 19th Annual Pittsburgh Blues Festival presented by Peoples Natural Gas. July 19-21 at Hartwood Acres. Benefits Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Come hear Los Lonely Boys, Tab Benoit, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Eric Lindell, Joe Louis Walker,The Nighthawks with Billy Price and lots more play for a great cause. Tickets: $30 advance / $35 gate. Weekend pass $50. Purchase advance tickets to be eligible to win backstage passes. Friday’s FREE when you donate a bag of nonperishable groceries. Kids under 12 free and so is parking. Cooler fee: $15. pghblues.com
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Wind Up wednesdays
$2 Miller Lite Drafts til 12am FREE POOL til 11pm with purchase ½ off Select Appetizers 9-11pm
Thirsty thursdays
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WRECKLOOSE PLUS WHEN PARTICLES COLLIDE, GARY MUSISKO THURS, JULY 18 • 9PM ROCK/CLASSIC COUNTRY
SLIM FORSYTHE'S ROCK'N GOSPEL HOUR WITH BOHDI WATTS, ZACK PERKINS, CAJUN LOOP STATION FRI, JULY 19 • 9PM ROCKABILLY/BLUEGRASS
DANNY KAYE AND THE NIGHTLIFES PLUS JAYKE ORVIS AND THE BROKEN BAND, DEVIL IN THE DETAILZ SAT, JULY 20 • 9PM ROCK
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MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000. SHADY SIDE ACADEMY JUNIOR SCHOOL. The Sidewalk String Band. Point Breeze. 412-473-4400.
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PHILADELPHIA {FRI., SEPT. 20}
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SAT 20 BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Heather Kropf, Keith Hershberger. Regent Square. 412-999-9009. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Uke & Tuba, The 23 String Band, Johnny Habu & The Rebel Salmon. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. MARS BREW HOUSE. Brad Yoder. Mars. 724-625-2555. OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525.
CLUB CAFE. Jonathan Weinkle & Guests. 13 Age of Understanding: An Acoustic Birthday Celebration to benefit the refugee resettlement work of Jewish Family & Children’s Service. South Side. 412-431-4950. HAMBONE’S. East End Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
MON 22 HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Monday Night Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. NORTH COUNTRY BREWING. Bluegrass Night. Slippery Rock. 724-794-2337.
TUE 23 PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Gene Stovall. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.
WASHINGTON, D.C. {FRI., SEPT. 20}
Travis
Lincoln Theater
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Penn Hills Game Exchange
These tours aren’t coming to Pittsburgh — but maybe they’re worth a road trip!
ATRIAS RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Lenny & Jeff. Wexford. 724-934-3660. BEER NUTZ PLAZA. Tim & John. Fox Chapel. 412-963-6882. BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Rick Bruening. Regent Square. 412-999-9009. BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Eric Taylor, Bejae Fleming. Harmony. 724-452-0539. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mike Dunn. Robinson. 412-489-5631. ELWOOD’S PUB. Martin the Troubadour. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. FRESCO’S RUSTIC EUROPEAN CUISINE & WINE BAR. Edgell Brothers. Wexford. 724-935-7550. SEWICKLEY HOTEL. Rick Revetta. Sewickley. 412-741-9457.
ABSOLUTE BALLROOM & DANCE. Julien Labro w/ The Spektral Quartet. Homewood. 412-624-4129.
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SMILING MOOSE. Oriel & the Revoluters, Ras Maisha, Cookie & Bongo Asha, Jah Quest, Dan Darber. South Side. 412-431-4668.
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KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Calypso Rose. East Liberty. 412-363-3000.
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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Weds. North Side. 412-321-1834. BUHL COMMUNITY PARK. The Squirrel Hillbillies. North Side. PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass Jam w/ The Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.
OTHER MUSIC CLUB COLONY. Mark Venneri. Scott. 412-668-0903. HILLMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS. Balmoral School Bagpiping & Drumming Recital. Fox Chapel. 412-323-2707.
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Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-6082.
COUNTRY THU 18 ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers. Cheswick. 724-265-1181.
SAT 20 BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Too Tall Americans. Regent Square. 412-999-9009.
CLASSICAL THU 18 THE FREYA STRING QUARTET W/ ROBERT FRANKENBERRY. Mozart in Concert Series. Presented by Opera Theater SummerFest. Twentieth Century Club, Oakland. 412-326-9687.
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BONNIE & CLYDE’S. Mark Shuttleworth. Wexford. 724-934-2110. CITY THEATRE. Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. South Side. 412-431-2489.
SAT 20 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Rox Performance Academy Concert. North Side. 412-237-8300. CITY THEATRE. Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. South Side. 412-431-2489. CLUB COLONY. Mark Venneri. Scott. 412-668-0903. FRESCO’S RUSTIC EUROPEAN CUISINE & WINE BAR. Vida. Wexford. 724-935-7550.
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HAMBONE’S. Cabaret. Jazz Standards & Showtunes singalong. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 24 CLUB COLONY. Mark Venneri. Scott. 412-668-0903.
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Carnegie. Over 17 show. Tickets: stage62.com or 412-429-6262. Through July 20.
HARD ROCK CAFÉ Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests Silk9 & Surgeon Generals Warning. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX.8p.m.
The Music of Led Zeppelin with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
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Goodnight, Texas / von Grey CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. With special guests Radio Days & more. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb. com/opusone. 8p.m.
THURSDAY 18
17th Annual All Good Music Festival & Camp Out
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Bosnian Rainbow
MONDAY 22 Pentatonix
Mother Cool
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. 7:30p.m.
HARD ROCK CAFÉ Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10:30p.m.
STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.
Perpetual Motion Texture Contemporary Ballet
Rehab
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NEW HAZLETT THEATER North Side. Tickets: showclix.com. Through July 21.
FRIDAY 19
MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests Legally Insane & more. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/ opusone. 7:30p.m.
PERPETUAL MOTION TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Bad Company: The XL Tour
ticketmaster.com or 800-7453000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7p.m.
Avenue Q
The Clarks
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & MUSIC HALL
STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets:
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets:
SATURDAY 20
heinzhall.org. 8p.m.
Idina Menzel with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Billy Gardell Live at the Harv
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. 7:30p.m.
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Brian Wilson STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Al Jardine & David Marks. All ages show.
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{BY AL HOFF} Berberian Sound Studio is a stylish and unsettling thriller about the unraveling of a sound engineer, a mild-mannered Englishman named Gilderoy (Toby Jones). Peter Strickland’s film is a period piece set in early 1970s Italy, where Gilderoy travels to work on a film called “The Equestrian Vortex.” It’s not a nature film, as he thought, but a horror picture about devil worship. Strickland’s film is also an homage to, and deconstruction of, ’70s Italian horror, in all its lurid glory, as well as a fascinating informational piece about sound recording for film.
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It’s Gilderoy’s skill — matching sound to heighten visuals — that is his undoing, as he juices up the sexualized violence of the film. (He assumes the role of killer, stabbing a cabbage in time with the film to create the squelch of knife wounds, as a pre-recorded voice screams in agony.) Berberian recalls similar skills-to-madness existential works such as Peeping Tom, Blow Up and The Conversation. The film will be most enjoyed by those familiar with vintage Italian horror (Fulci, Bava, Argento), and interest in film-aboutfilm. Others may find it slow, and with little plot. Berberian wraps up with an enigmatic ending that isn’t nearly as satisfying as the ratcheting up of tension that preceded it, but the desired effect is clearly one of disorientation. Film and reality, in the right hands, can be an indistinguishable jumble, as poor Gilderoy discovers. In English, and Italian, with subtitles. Fri., July 19, through Sun., July 21. Melwood AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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. A failed playwright (Kristen Wiig) is forced to leave New York City and move back home to New Jersey to live with her kooky mom (Annette Bening). Also starring Darren Criss and Matt Dillon, and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Starts Fri., July 19. AMC Waterfront and Manor 36
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Wizz, a cheerfully grotty water park. The park’s manager, Owen (Sam Rockwell), is a feckless, middle-aged man-child, but he’s wise enough to intuit Duncan’s loneliness. Owen offers Duncan a job, and uses his disarming goofball charm to coax Duncan out of his shell.
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are as many coming-of-age films as there are bad beach vacations, but despite its familiar plot and characters, the film feels remarkably fresh. It’s funny, but with a bittersweet edge, and many finely observed moments about adolescence, family, growing up and neglecting to grow up. Much of the film’s charm is borne on James’ hunched shoulders and Rockwell’s manic charisma. Rockwell is as funny as you hope, but it’s his unstated empathy for Duncan that really makes this a winning performance. It’s a great cast all around, with nearly every character doing double-time to be entertaining on the surface, while not quite concealing the insecurity and confusion beneath. The adults aren’t doing any better than Duncan at social interactions or being true to themselves: They just look better faking it. The film ends with Duncan once again in the way, way back. But it’s now a space he’s claimed rather than been banished to, and the view out the back window is of Duncan’s greatest summer ever. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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THE CONJURING. Paranormal investigators check out a spooky house. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star in this horror thriller from James Wan (Saw). Starts Fri., July 19. GROWN UPS 2. To save time, here’s my review of 2010’s Grown Ups, updated for the sequel: Here are five four guys I’d rather not know: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade. Because if they think this movie is funny — and admittedly, they at least look like they’re having fun making it — then we have nothing in common. In Dennis Dugan’s PG-rated comedy, these five play junior-high buddies, now in their 40s, who reunite for a holiday weekend at lakeside cabin live in the same town. Apparently, 40 is the new 10, because these guys are non-stop with the stupid insults; the poop-and-pee jokes; the giggling awkwardness about sex; and the unabashed ogling of young women. Sandler and Co. try and cover for this juvenile mess by having some aw-shucks subplot about the old-fashioned joys of just hanging out with friends and family sans fancy toys and high-tech distractions. Because, apparently, nothing is as truly bonding as peeing in the kiddie pool, and thinking it’s funny. [New, but unwanted, for the sequel: deer piss, guy crotch shots, Shaquille O’N eal and The J. Geils Band.] (Al Hoff)
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One Track Heart East-West hybrid, and, though these tensions are touched on, they’re never fully explored. Starts Fri., July 19. Harris (AH) ONLY GOD FORGIVES. Ryan Gosling stars in this crime drama, set in Bangkok, about a drug dealer (fronted by a boxing club) who travels deeper into the city’s criminal underbelly searching for his brother’s killer. Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) directs. In English, and Thai, with subtitles. Starts Fri., July 19. Manor REDS 2. The retired spies are back, and in pursuit of a loose nuke. Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich star; Dean Parisot directs. Starts Fri., July 19. R.I.P.D. Turns out when cops die, they just join another squad, the R.I.P.D. That’s what happens to one cop (Ryan Reynolds), who gets an afterlife partner (Jeff Bridges) to help him hunt down his killer. Robert Schwentke directs. Starts Fri., July 19. TURBO. In this digitally animated comedy, a garden snail (voice of Ryan Reynolds) has a shot at winning the Indy 500. File this under: Must be seen to be believed. David Soren directs.
REPERTORY Grown Ups 2 ONE TRACK HEART. Life is a strange and twisty journey, and it certainly was for Jeffrey Kagel. In 1970, the moody suburban Jewish boy from Long Island turned down a lead-singer gig with a promising rock group (who found success as Blue Oyster Cult); instead, he sold everything and relocated to northern India to study with a Hindu guru, Maharaj-ji. There, re-christened Krishna Das, he discovered a gift for performing kirtans, or devotional musical chants. Krishna Das returned to the United States and embarked on a musical career that over the decades has spanned success, depression, drug abuse, success again (including a Grammy nomination) and, finally, peace of purpose. Jeremy Frindel’s bio-doc, with plenty of participation from Krishna Das, will be most interesting to his fans, and to those of Eastern devotional music. Among those interviewed: popular spiritual writer Ram Dass, through whom young Kagel met the Mararishi, and Rick Rubin, the well-known music producer. Krishna Das’ life has been an intriguing
CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Wed., July 17 (Schenley) and Sat., July 20 (Riverview). Rise of the Guardians, Thu., July 18 (Brookline); Fri., July 19 (Arsenal); Sat., July 20 (Grandview); and Sun., July 21 (Schenley). Finding Nemo, Tue., July 23 (West End/Elliott Overlook) and Thu., July 25 (Brookline). The Tuskegee Airmen, Wed., July 24 (Schenley). Films begin at dusk. 412-422-6426 or www.citiparks.net. Free SEVEN SAMURAI. Villagers hire mercenaries to protect them from raiders, but Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece is far more than just another action epic. The samurai hirees are a down-on-their-luck bunch, already suffering obsolescence as a class in this 16th-century setting — a condition they share with the putative bad guys, themselves erstwhile samurai. The victimized villagers, meanwhile, aren’t so utterly sympathetic as they might first appear. It’s a series of layers commenting on social class, warfare and valor that intersect in the person of Toshiro Mifune’s wannabe warrior, who starts out as comic relief for Takashi Shimura’s reflective head samurai and ends up the soul of this film, whose dramatic arc is every bit as engrossing as its thrilling formal beauty. In Japanese, with subtitles. 6 p.m. Wed., July 17. Oaks (Bill O’Driscoll)
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Steven Spielberg’s aqua-thriller terrified CP JAWS. beach-goers in the summer of 1975, when it unspooled the tale of a great white shark eating swimmers along the Atlantic seaboard. Richard Dreyfus, Robert Shaw and Roy Scheider hit the waves to capture the man-eater: They’re gonna need a bigger boat, and you should see this on a bigger screen. It’s still lots of scary fun. 7:30 p.m. Wed., July 17. AMC Waterfront. $5 (AH) INFORMANT. After Hurricane Katrina, Brandon Darby got a rep as a committed activist for various left issues. But after he led a group of protesters to the Republican Presidential Convention in 2008, where some of the crew were arrested and charged, Darby was unmasked as a FBI informant. You may have already heard some of this story on public radio or on the POV episode “Better This World”; Jamie Meltzer’s new doc takes another look. 7:30 p.m. Thu., July 18. Hollywood TWO-MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL: AT PLAY. The films have been completed — this year’s theme was “At Play” — and are ready to be screened in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s outdoor sculpture courtyard. Think of it as a high-end drive-in. 7:30 p.m. (food, drinks and activities); 9 p.m. film screening. Thu., July 18. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. www.cmoa.org. $10 (includes one drink) FDR: AMERICAN BADASS. Garrett Brawith directs this revisionist historical comedy in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Barry Bostwick) employs his “wheelchair of death” to stop werewolves who carry the polio virus. Live music in the lobby at 7 p.m.; screening at 8 p.m. Fri., July 19. Hollywood BACK TO THE FUTURE. Through the use of a kicky time machine, young ’80s dude Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) finds himself back in the 1950s, where he’s tasked with getting his parents to hook up, lest he never be born. Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson also star in Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 comedy. 10 p.m. Fri., July 19, and 10 p.m. Sat., July 20. Oaks BROKEN. Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy star in Rufus Norris’ drama, set in a gritty part of London, about a young girl who witnesses a violent crime. 10 p.m. Fri., July 19; 9 p.m. Sat., July 20; and 7 p.m. Sun., July 21. Hollywood
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a balloon on … well, a mysterious island, where the wildlife is decidedly fantastic. This 1960 film continues a month-long, Sunday-night series celebrating the work of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, who created this film’s various beasties. 8 p.m. Sun., July 21. Regent Square THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL. An elderly artist living away from the worst of World War II in the south of France finds himself reinvigorated by the arrival of a beautiful, young Spanish refugee. Fernando Trueba directs. In French, Spanish and Catalan, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Wed., July 24. Hollywood RASHOMON. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film tells the story of a brutal 12th-century crime in the woods — but five different times, each from a different perspective. Toshiro Mifune made his name portraying the mercurial accused bandit. But the real stars are Kurosawa and his crew: Starting with the rainstorm pounding a grandly ruined city gate that opens the film, the beautifully incisive framing and continuously moving camera are viscerally satisfying. In Japanese, with subtitles. 8 p.m. Wed., July 24. Melwood. $2 (BO)
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ONTO HER MOTHER’S WEDDING DRESS RITTER HAS EMBROIDERED WORDS FROM HER FATHER’S LETTERS
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The title of Texture Contemporary Ballet’s latest program, Perpetual Motion, also aptly describes the company itself. Led by directors Alan Obuzor and Kelsey Bartman, Texture has seemingly been moving nonstop since its founding two summers ago. The troupe, named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013, has taught workshops and performed frequently throughout the area, most recently at last month’s PrideFest. Later this summer, it heads to New York’s prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (as part of the festival’s Inside/ Out series), and also to Chicago. Perpetual Motion runs July 18-21, at the New Hazlett Theater. As in past Texture productions, the new show features a large ensemble of 21 dancers, including guest dancers from Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Quad Cities, Colorado Ballet and BalletMet. Also as in the past, the production showcases in-house choreography by Obuzor and Bartman. For Perpetual Motion, BalletMet Columbus dancer Gabriel Gaffney Smith joins the choreographic mix. Smith has been a regular performer with Texture and has composed original music for several of its ballets. Smith teams with Obuzor for the program’s first ballet, “Broken Mirror.” Set to New Age music by Smith, the 16-minute piece for five men and 12 women in four parts is themed around people on the move. Next, Smith and Bartman come together for two ballets. In the first, as both choreographers and performers, they present a five-minute pas de deux entitled “Wash,” set to a song of the same name by indie folk band Bon Iver. “It is a crazy emotional journey about negative relationships,” says Bartman of the ballet. The two then take an equally emotional trip down memory lane for “Mulberry Way,” a 20-minute ballet they perform with 12 other dancers set to music by British band Elbow. Rounding out the program is “MOIP,” named for local rock band Meeting of Important People, whose music provides the soundtrack. The 35-minute ballet is choreographed by Bartman, Obuzor and Smith and features the entire cast. The ballet, says Obuzor, is inspired by the lyrical and emotional content of these dozen songs by MOIP, which the band will perform live at each of the four performances.
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HILE FIBER ART has long since entered the realm of “high” art — think of artists such as Rosemarie Trockel, who are prominent figures in the international contemporary art scene — it is still often categorized in the same way as other crafts like glass, ceramic and metal. Hence the need for institutions and organizations dedicated to specific categories. However, just as museums continue to expand the definition of art, so too should organizations that promote and exhibit a particular subset. With its Fiberarts International, the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh seems to be doing just that. On display simultaneously at two different venues, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society for ContemJulie Sirek’s “Dissolving Dream” (above) and Kate Kretz’s “The Final Word” (left) porary Craft, the exhibition presents a variety a certain medium, from diminutive to monumental, and from of styles, subject matthese artists blend handmade to machine-made. ter and mediums by 64 There are works that are technically in traditional techniques artists from around the world. Juried by Toronto-based textile artist with nontraditional and even recycled the “wearable” category, although most Kai Chan, Costa Rican textile artist Paulina materials. The work ranges from realism would be destroyed if donned. Socks by CarOrtiz and Joyce Scott, a Baltimore-based and portraiture to the surreal and abstract, ol Milne are made of wax and glass. Collars by Aram Han are studded with rice. April artist best known for her beadwork, the Dauscha’s impractical lace chin-veil literalshow is varied and presents current trends FIBERARTS ly falls from the face of its wearer while she in textile practice. INTERNATIONAL: speaks in a video called “Act of Contrition.” In jurors’ statements, the panelists Several other works also comment on EXHIBITION OF express a preference for work that is CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART women’s history. Sandra Jane Heard’s “Vestechnically proficient but also innovacontinues through Aug. 18. Pittsburgh tiges of Emancipation” is a group of distive, expressive, unclassifiable — art that Center for the Arts (6300 Fifth Ave., torted corsets woven out of rusted vintage provides a cohesive package of concept, Shadyside; 412-361-0873 or measuring tapes. Julie Sirek’s “Dissolving www.pittsburgharts.org) and Society for form, structure, scale, color and material. Contemporary Craft (2100 Smallman St., Dream” is a delicate paper wisp of a dress Exploring themes ranging from specific Strip District; 412-261-7003 or that speaks to domestic violence. Other political issues to the very definition of www.contemporarycraft.org). CONTINUES ON PG. 40
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creations, like Rosslyn Ritter’s “Love Letters,” are very personal: Onto her mother’s wedding dress Ritter has embroidered words from her father’s letters. Other artists also use clothing to explore different topics or techniques. Rebecca Siemering’s “Captain America Suit” uses lottery tickets that she finds on her daily neighborhood walks to comment on our mostly futile pursuit of the “good life.” Linda Rettich explores Ndbele design in her beaded collar, and Inge Dam’s shawl is inspired by ancient tablet-weaving from the Iron Age. But many of the pieces are two-dimensional, and they encompass a multitude of styles and sizes in a range of colors. On the smaller scale are works by Stephen Sidelinger, whose dexterity with embroidery in “Big Yellow” and “Pirates #1” make them look at first glance like abstracts in paint or print. Tod Hensley’s surreal embroidered miniatures are a mash-up of James Ensor and Hieronymus Bosch. Hensley uses a black velvet background to enhance his colors and textures. Kate Kretz also uses black velvet to underscore the pathos of her embroidered sacrificial lamb in “The Final Word.” Other two-dimensional works take advantage of scale and overworked materials to make a statement. Made from recovered afghans and countless beads, “She Speaks Folly in a Thousand Holy Ways” and “Triptych with 206,720 Beads,” both by Samantha Fields, are spectacularly garish and overwrought. More subdued yet similarly prodigious is Julie Abijanac’s “Disease Mapping,” a topography of recycled paper that’s pat-
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terned on cellular growth. Other works that mimic organic shapes include Josefina Concha’s “Cuerpo Zurcido VIII,” which could be fungus or skin; Hiromi Murotani’s “Scenery,” a mass of protruding tentacles; Barbara Murak’s “Divide,” a brain-like knitted hunk; and “That Which Is Empty, May Be Filled,” a giant nest by Leslie Pearson. There is even a fantastical rodent-like creature by Isobel Blank, and Anna Goebel that uses real moss in “Greetings From the Forest.” Still other works are based on personal history or identity. Maggie Scott uses photo-realism; Jim Arendt uses portraiture; and Katie Serralde, Jiseon Isbara and Joy Ude each uses a more conceptual approach. What is apparent from this large international exhibition — that includes felt, lace, basketry, and even metals, ceramic, glass, encaustic and print — is that “fiber art” is no longer a narrow or marginalized category, but one that is ever-evolving.
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FRIDAY, JULY 26 26,, 6:30-8pm at the Nuin Center 5655 Bryant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
A ritual performance that records the presenter’s lived experience on the historic, year long Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage: Retracing the Journey of Slavery; and as a result, her eight years of humanitarian service on the continent of Africa. Amai offers a glimpse into the lives of Continental and American Africans as she shares stories of their common ancestry, recent challenges and personal triumphs.
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Pages from Jim Rugg’s Supermag
{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} JIM RUGG’S new comic book, Super-
mag (ad house Books), is a one-man anthology. In the luridly colored Mexican-wrestling homage on the cover, the beefy, masked hero, eyes bulging like hard-boiled eggs, plants a flying two-legged kick on the snout of his hapless blond foe. In the background, in black-and-white, a strangely passive crowd watches. What’s going on here? No time to say! Supermag is up, up and away, into one-pagers depicting bathroom-stall sex (with note-perfect hipster-bar graffiti), notebook sketches of cosmic superheroes and subtly ironic homages to Pittsburgh-based Rugg’s own now-iconic ghetto avengers, Street Angel and Afrodisiac. The glossy 56 pages also include not one but two cheerfully perverse, nearly dialogueless two-pagers about anthropomorphized rodents meeting violent fates. But two things really set Supermag apart. All comics artists are comics geeks, but Rugg is unusually apt at drawing in (and usually simultaneously parodying) an
array of styles, from the manly, clean-lined bravado of kiddie action comics to the expressively dolorous shadings of graphic novels for adult hipsters. Using digital tools, Rugg also mines the grainy textures and inimitable hues of vintage comics. One of the rodent comics, for instance, is done Saturday-morning-cartoon style,
while the other looks as if it were sketched by an adolescent girl with a dark side. There’s a piss-take on Vanilla Ice that parodies trading cards, and not one but three appearances by Rugg’s wisecracking, jingoistic action-adventure gorilla, US Ape, earning satirical laughs with a deceptively simple style. In “Bigfoot Fist Fight,”
Rugg depicts a battle between the mythical primate and his namesake truck with all the hormone-addled fury of a teenage boy bored out of his skull in fourth-period English. Then there’s the “narrative collapse” Rugg references in his preface. Supermag includes two ripping action yarns: “Duke Armstrong: The World’s Mightiest Golfer” and “Captain Kidd: Explorer” (both cowritten with frequent collaborator Brian Maruca). And the artfully wry “Loveless” is a romance-comics spoof. But some of the most intriguing entries aren’t “stories” at all. They’re fragments — covers for comics that never were, or the beginnings or middles of narratives with the rest omitted. Two pieces, amusingly, depict Rugg himself struggling to draw “US Ape.” Another depicts a fragment of a middle-aged affair. It portrays the woman’s desperation without sacrificing empathy. Maybe Rugg ought to complete this one; on the other hand, it’s entirely possible that, in five panels, he’s told you all you need to know. D RI S C OL L @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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ROCK CANDY {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Get about a dozen
people on a small stage pumping out basic rock songs and nonstop nonsense, and if (a huge IF) they can pull it off quickly and effectively, you get a decent show. And so you have the No Name Players and artistic director Don DiGiulio’s multi-cast ensemble delivering on so many levels in the local premiere of Jake Oliver’s Viva Los Bastarditos! Think of this 2010 “rock musical comedy” as cotton candy: fun and forgettable, but in a good way. It’s fluffy and sweet, though often sticky. First of all: The show makes no sense, with a roadie-less (but successful) rock band fighting for freedom in western Massachusetts against medieval-like villains and President Taft. Oliver, a
VIVA LOS BASTARDITOS! continues through July 27. No Name Players at Off The Wall Theater, Carnegie. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. www.nonameplayers.org
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Rock on! Back row, left to right: Luke Bruehlman, David Bielewicz, Brad Stephenson in Viva Los Bastarditos!
former Bostonian, has thrown a lot of in-jokes about the 1930s land grab for the Quabbin Reservoir and other WestMass tidbits, including owls, chowder and local cheese. And of course, while whaling away at evil and wailing through the score, The Pickles (yes, that’s the band’s name) find true love and a higher purpose. The most remarkable performance
comes from the chameleonic Andrew Swackhamer, heedlessly chewing the scenery and working it off frenetically, as his Dancin’ Eddie Danson bad-guy morphs from Alice Cooper-wannabe to a Zorro-type villain. Thank you, choreographer Kaitlin Dann. Other notable scenery-munchers include the multicast players who switch from good guy to bad at the literal drop of a hat: Jody O’Donnell, Corwin Stoddard, Missy Moreno and Jason A. Shavers, who also belts out heavy vocal duties. The leads and lovers — David Bielewicz and Hayley Nielsen, and Brad Stephenson and Daina Michelle Griffith — are brave and loyal in the face of highly improbable hazards. The leftover Pickle, played by Luke Bruehlman with a puppet, provides less necessary comic relief. And applause is due to: musical director Joseph P. Stamerra (who also leads the pit band); Eve Bandi, lighting; Julie Andrzejewski, costumes; and Ryan McMasters, sound. A ridiculous mishmash, Viva Los Bastarditos! is often chokingly funny, but definitely not for the whole family.
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{BY MICHELLE PILECKI} OSCAR WILDE still speaks to us, in a lan-
guage we can easily understand. It’s hard to disagree with the judgment of Alan Stanford, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre interim artistic director, who contends Wilde was truly a 20th-century writer, even though he died before the end of 1900. It’s a bit more difficult, though, to back Stanford’s decision to actually recontextualize Wilde’s 1892 success, Lady Windemere’s Fan, during the years after World War II. Certainly PICT’s visual aesthetics work, and there’s no doubt about the perseverance of the double standard governing the behavior of, and attitudes toward, men and women. But wouldn’t the madcap comedy years of the 1930s — especially those before the reign of Edward VIII and his Mrs. Many Husbands/Lovers — have been more congenial to Windemere’s premise? Quibbling aside, Stanford directs a masterly interpretation of Wilde’s wit, and his ability to attack the serious with a mix of
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folly and frivolity. Hypocrisy is the glue that holds Society together. “Goodness” can triumph, while “Evil” hies off to the Continent to enjoy itself. And Mother Love conquers all. Discover the details of the rather convoluted plot for yourself while enjoying a polished cast in exquisite settings and clothes. Reigning as the questionably wicked Mrs. Erlynne, Nike Doukas portrays every meaning of the word “smart,” from fashion to cleverness and pain. As the true heroine of the play, Doukas dives into harsh memories and ascends levels of bravery, while retaining the character’s superficially facile charm.
LADY WINDEMERE’S FAN continues through July 27. Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre at the Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Oakland. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org
Jodi Gage makes for a pettish but pretty Lady Windemere, opposite Leo Marks as her stolid Lord. John DeMita plays a likeable roué who nevertheless nearly destroys the Lord and Lady’s happiness. Martin Giles does “buffoon” so well (that’s not a slam, folks), and also notable in comic roles are
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Jessica Grove in Pittsburgh CLO’s The Little Mermaid
Helena Ruoti as a dutiful mother and duchess, and James FitzGerald leading several witty men-about-town. And let’s not forget the inestimable design talents of a product that includes: Michael Thomas Essad, scenery; Joan Markert, costumes; Gianni Downs, production; Cat Wilson, lighting; and Steve Shapiro, sound. The Lady may be a little dated, but she’s still lovely. Take a sip of a classic cocktail, and enjoy.
Mermaid might be the Disney-movieturned-into-a-stage-musical for people who don’t like Disney-movies-turned-intostage-musicals. Judging from my reaction to such previous shows as Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins and The Lion King I’d say I’m an enthusiastic member of that club. But there I was, enjoying The Little Mermaid — and I’ve been trying to figure out why. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a mermaid who falls in love with a sailor (and girl, haven’t we all been there!), the success of this 1989 film reinvigorated Disney’s moribund animation department. Interestingly, of the stage shows mentioned above, Mermaid’s 2008 Broadway production was the least successful.
THE LITTLE MERMAID continues through July 21. Benedum Center. 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $23.25-75.75. 412-456-6666 or www.pgharts.org
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SMALL PACKAGES {BY TED HOOVER} PITTSBURGH CLO’S production of The Little
This CLO production is part of a minitour originating out of Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey. While an important regional theater, Papermill is still a regional theater, and a tour of its production is going to be scaled down … which this is. But I think
that’s why I enjoyed it. Beauty, Lion King and Poppins — at least the versions I saw — were huge, overblown spectacles completely at odds with the tiny stories they were telling. But this production has what it needs to get us from mermaid Ariel’s opening yearnings to her curtain-call happiness. Jessica Grové couldn’t be more adorable as Ariel, singing with a beautifully strong voice. The typical Disney-princess male love interest is always the weakest character — and Nick Adams as Prince Erik can’t fight that — but he’s an amazing dancer working a pretty good set of pipes. The original Disney animators based the villainess, Ursula the Sea Witch, on the late Divine, so I’ve always enjoyed her; Liz McCartney wrings every single joke out of the role, and she’s a big reason this show is so much fun. Ron Wisniski and Alan Mingo Jr. know their way around landing a gag as well. The costumes, based on the original Broadway design by Tatiana Noginova, provide humor and razzle-dazzle. I was gonna close with a lame joke about Fantasia coming soon to Broadway — but you know some Disney “imagineer” is probably working on a dancing dinosaur costume right now. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
2-Minute Film Festival Returns! Aspiring moviemakers from around the globe sent in their best and briefest work responding to the theme “At Play”—view them in the Sculpture Court, and vote for your favorite. This Thursday, July 18 $10 admission (includes one drink ticket) 7:30 p.m.: Food, drink, and activities will begin 9:00 p.m.: Screenings begin Come early and have a drink on us! Beginning at 6:00 pm, MAYA Design will host a Public Innovation Session to get your feedback on the museum – come and share your ideas and help shape the future of the museum. Culture Club is sponsored by Parking is available for a $5 flat rate.
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wee-hours police raid during 2009’s G20 summit; housed 36 writers; and seen completion of seven books, countless comics, zines and more — despite spending much of that time unheated. This year, the punk house for literature, now located on the North Side, turns 5. Celebrate at Assemble with readings/performances by McCloskey; poet Yona Harvey; Cyberpunk favorite Todd Faltin (pictured); playwright and novelist Tameka Cage Conley; and
+ FRI., JULY 19 {WORDS} Ever the man for a hard sell, Cyberpunk Apocalypse founder Daniel McCloskey describes the joint’s artist-nurturing initiative: “It’s a closequarters residency in a garbage-y house.” Cyberpunk has also: survived a guns-drawn,
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If he weren’t an acclaimed artist, Andy Warhol might have been considered a hoarder. From 1974 to 1987, he filled more than 600 cardboard boxes with various items, an endeavor now known as his Time Capsule project. Nut bread from his cousin, a nude pic from Jacqueline Onassis, Polaroids, postcards and a tin Roy Rogers alarm clock are among the items The Andy Warhol Museum has unpacked over the years. With most of the capsules now opened, tonight, for the penultimate time, museum staffers publicly unpack a mystery box and answer audience questions. Olivia Lammel 7 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. Free with museum admission. 412237-8300 or www.warhol.org
+ SAT., JULY 20 {OUTDOORS} Today begins a new summer tradition. Jennings Environmental Education Center hosts Celebrate the Bloom, a day-long festival honoring its locally unique prairie habitat. The day offers guided walks for learning about local birds, butterflies and endangered Massasauga rattlesnakes. For a fee, visitors to this state-park facility can have breakfast with the birds or join workshops about bees and plant identification. The festival closes this evening with a symbolic bonfire and a performance by The Newlanders, a folk band that weaves Western Pennsylvanian tradition and history into its act. OL 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 2951 Prospect Road, Slippery Rock. Free. 724-794-6011 or www.visitpaparks.com
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Kyle Bogue and Philip Anthony Wilson in Defense of Marriage {PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC SMITH}
sp otlight Like many volunteer-driven initiatives, the original Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival had a good run and then joined history. But Judy Meiksin couldn’t escape it: Folks who fondly recalled the LGBT-centric festival’s four seasons (2004-07) kept asking Meiksin, a playwright and fest co-founder, when it was coming back. So finally, thanks to Meiksin and seven other volunteers (including longtime City Paper theater critic Ted Hoover), the festival is back. It returns to Downtown’s Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. space with a program of four one-act comedies, each taken from one of those first four festivals, and each by a seasoned playwright. Carol Mullen’s “Is That a Gun in Your Pocket …” concerns a businessman, a loan shark and a sexy hit man. Wali Jamal’s “The Session” is about a lesbian couple in relationship counseling. Kathryn Miller Haines contributes “Sibling Rivalry,” about a daughter desperate for her mother’s attention. And then there’s Jeff Cordrell’s “Defense of Marriage,” about a gay couple confronting the specter of commitment: Following last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating the federal Defense of Marriage Act, says Meiksin, Cordrell chose to update the play. The DOMA decision, in fact, puts the whole Pride program in a new light. “It’s exciting to produce a festival right after that ruling,” says Meiksin. “It’s a nice celebration.” Bill O’Driscoll July 18-27. 937 Liberty Ave. (third floor), Downtown. $15-20. www.pghplaywrights.com
lies in their acting as a conduit for human interaction,” writes Rob Siegel in his new book, Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic. Today and tomorrow, Siegel will bond with fellow car fanatics when he visits Schenley Park for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix at the BMW Corral for a book-signing. And tonight, he’ll make a pit stop at the Waterfront Barnes & Noble to read from and sign his book. OL 12:30-2 p.m. daily today and Sun., July 21 (Schenley Park). Also 6 p.m. Sat., July 20 (100 West Bridge St., Homestead). Free. 412-462-5743 or www. bentleypublishers.com
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playwright, filmmaker and world-traveler — whose play reviews and more regularly grace CP’s pages — is leaving town. Robert Isenberg’s See-You-Soon Tour includes short video and storytelling and draws from his Pittsburgh Monologue Project and Hodgepodge Society comedylecture series. Two performances tonight at Arcade Comedy Theater feature special guests including Joanne Lowe and Fred Betzner. It should be a lively send-off for this inveterately cheerful fellow. BO 8 and 10 p.m. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5-10. www. arcadecomedytheater.com
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Down in St. Thomas, they called it the Calypso King con48 Hour Film Project. Each test. But after Calypso Rose team was assigned a genre came along, they changed before spending 48 sleepthe winner’s title to “Calypso Monarch.” At age 73, Tobago- less hours, writing, scoring, directing, shooting and editborn Calypso Rose still tours internationally, and just played ing their short films. Today, at Dormont’s Hollywood Lincoln Center. Tonight, she Theater, about 50 finished brings her vintage calypso films, all 7 minutes or less, will sounds to the Kelly-Strayhorn screen for audiences — and Theater. Calypso is nearly as who’ll for judges who ll select finalists well known for or its wry social to screen July 28. The winner commentary as for its infectious rhythms, and Rose, whose half-century ntury career includes hits like ke “Fire in Me Wire,” is its grande ande dame. The evening includes ncludes Ujamaa Collective’s ctive’s Caribbean market rket and a post-concert dance party. BO 7:30 0 p.m. 5941 Penn Ave., e., East Liberty. $20 (dance dance JUL party: $10 or free The An Y 19 with concert ticket). icket). dy 412-363-3000 or www. Time CWarhol Muse um’s apsule kelly-strayhorn.org n.org p
Tonight’s the second installment in Vie Boheme’s Viva: BLACK trilogy, her impressionistic social history of AfricanAmerican performance. In An Intimate Evening With Vie, the singer and performer (also known as Kendra Dennard) channels talents from Billie Holliday, Big Mama Thornton and Nina Simone to Michael Jackson and Erykah Badu, exploring “the the things we went through and the music The show, at the we made.” Th Center Hill House’s Kaufmann Ka features a VIP Auditorium, fe cocktail reception that rece includes special cabaretsp style seating seatin for the show. BO O 8 p.m. (6:30 p.m. cocktail hour). 1825 Centre Ave., Hill District. $17-25 D ($50 VIP). www.VivaBlack. w Eventbrite.com Eventbrite
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{COMEDY} Bid farewell tonight to man manabout-town Robert Isenberg. After 15 years in Pittsburgh, the performer, author, journalist,
also had a Tony-nominated role as Maureen in Rent, and played Sheila in Hair and Amneris in Aida. Tonight, however, Menzel performs as herself, a vocalist, alongside the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Menzel visits Heinz Hall for one night of modern
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spoof on Sesame Street. Presented by Stage 62. Thu-Sun. Thru July 28. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-429-6262. BOEING, BOEING. A bachelor is dating 3 stewardesses at the same time, unbeknownst to them. When the airport shuts down, all 3 women are in town, thinking they’ll stay w/ him. Fri, Sat. Thru July 27. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727. DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID. Tue-Sun. Thru July 21. Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666. FINDING FORGIVENESS. Reading of a play by Chuck Timbers about a sordid & salvific relationship between a father & his son. Sun., July 21, 3 p.m. Creamy Creations, Penn Hills. 412-628-2498. LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN. Oscar Wilde’s comedy, presented by Pittsburgh Irish &
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An eclectic showroom of fine art sculpture & paintings from emerging artists. North Side. 724-797-3302. AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix. Feat. imagery, film & oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, & innovations. Downtown. 412-258-2700. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. The Playground Project. Survey exploring the history of post-war playground design & highlighting important examples of playgrounds from the 20th century. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing specimens, & live bugs! Garden of Light: Works by Paula Crevoshay. Feat. nearly 70 fine art jewelry pieces. Roads of Arabia: Archaeology & History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Archaeological materials exploring the cultural history of the Arabian Peninsula. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. BIKES: Science on Two Wheels. Feat. hands-on activities, demonstrations & a collection of historic, rare, & peculiar bicycles. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Village, USS Requin submarine, and more. North Side. 412-237-3400. COMPASS INN. Demos and tours with costumed guides featuring this restored stagecoach stop. Ligonier. 724-238-4983. CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards from the International Hall of Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446. DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement and history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. 412-486-0563. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with
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NEW THIS WEEK BOXHEART GALLERY. Mythical Tales, Flight Paths, & Figures of the Sky. Mixed media works by John Humphries. Artist reception: July 27, 5-8 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. SHAW GALLERIES. Joel Pace: Drawings. Opening reception: July 19, 5-8 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884.
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Work by Atticus Adams. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Muli media, pottery, woods & jewelry. Frazier. 724-275-7001. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Trips To Italy. Work by Pat Nigro & Ilona Ralston. Verona. 412-828-1031. BOXHEART GALLERY. The Way & The Wayfarers. Paintings by Joshua Hogan. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. THE BREW HOUSE. Seven Degrees of 7. Work by Distillery 7 Program artists Alexis Roberto, Cara Livorio, Crystala Armagost, Josh Mitchel, Elizabeth Brophy, Kate Hansen & Terrence M. Boyd. 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. The Playground Project. A richly illustrated exhibition exploring the history of postwar playground design & highlighting important examples of playgrounds from the 20th century. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Off the Wall. Work by Marco Brun, Alice Winn, David Passafiume, Christopher Sprowls. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Pigment & Silver. Photography by Ellen Bjerklie-Hanna, A. Jason Coleman, Danielle
Goshay, Brenda Roger, & Cynthia Zordich. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. The Clayton Days, Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz. Feat. his 65-photo collection. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. RetroFRESH. Contemporary paintings by James Kennedy, Claire Hardy, Donald Deskey, Alexander Minewski, Louise Evans-Scott, Vladimir Naiditch, & Henri de Waroquier. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. Foto Focus Five. Work by David Tufino, Brian Sesack, Michael Goswell, Melissa R. Aronson, & Susan Hale Kemenyffy. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. Kawaii Wa. New works by HIROMI. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. 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. Prelude & Fugue (A Game of Pairs). Photography by Richard Stoner. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. GREENSBURG GARDEN AND CIVIC CENTER. Norwin Art League Annual Membership Show. Greensburg. 724-836-1123. HILLMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS. Low Tides & Bucolic Daze. Hand painted photography by Rosemary Pipitone. Fox Chapel. 412-968-3045. CONTINUES ON PG. 48
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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: CHAOTIC IMPROV. 9 p.m. and Thu., July 25, 9 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. FOR SERIOUS: READING, WRITING & HILARITY. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. MONDO!: MAKE A SCENE! 9 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. THAT’S WHAT JEANNE SAID! 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.
SAT 20 THE DEATH SHOW: AN IMPROVISED FUNERAL. Sat, 9 p.m. Thru July 27 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. HIPSTERPOTAMUS: THE 1ST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. THE LUPONES: MADE UP MUSICALS. Sat, 8 p.m. Thru July 27 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 323-401-0465. THE ROBERT ISENBERG SEE-YOU-SOON TOUR. A retrospective of Isenberg’s diverse body of work, from the Pittsburgh Monologue Project to the Hodgepodge Society comedy lecture series. 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.
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classes, car & carriage museum. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, and enjoy hikes and outdoor activities in the surrounding park. Allison Park. 412-767-9200. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont. 412-826-9295. LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Silk Road. Photo exhibition of images taken along the Silk Road in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal & India in 1972 by Albin & Virginia Curtze. Downtown. 412-391-4100. MARIDON MUSEUM. Beautiful Birds. Display of art from the museum’s study storage facility. Collection includes jade and ivory statues from China and Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures, demos and more. North Side. 412-323-7235. NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-624-6000.
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THE INN. Disambiguate. Work by Stephanie Armbruster, Ron Copeland, Ryan Woodring, Leah Patgorski, Seth Clark, & Stephen Tuomala. Lawrenceville. 412-298-5703. INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. The New Art of Wen Gao. Sewickley. 412-741-3036. 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. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MENDELSON GALLERY. Remembering Glen Whittaker (1950-2013). Shadyside. 412-361-8664.
OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park. 412-835-1554. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly Forest. Watch butterflies emerge from their chrysalises to flutter
MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Dear Universe: New Encaustic Works by Benedict Oddi. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Glassweekend ‘13. Work by Rhoda Baer, John de Wit, Jon Goldberg, Mikyoung Jung, Catherine Labonte, Matthew Perez, Erica Rosenfeld, more. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. No Future. New work by Gena Salorino. Bloomfield. PANZA GALLERY. In Good Company. Group show feat. Zivi Aviraz, Lila Hirsch-Brody, Joel Kranich, Lilli Nieland, Phiris (Kathy) Sickels, & Susan Sparks. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. The Civil War. A collection of rare and historic images printed from original glass plate negatives that survived the
among tropical blooms. Summer Flower Show. Glass art surrounded by colorful blooms. Feat. work by Daviea Davis, Jason Forck, Steven Sadvary, Lisa Platt, more. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from
harrowing travels of Civil War Photographers. Photography of the Great Gatsby Era. See what cameras were popular in the Roaring 20’s including Kodak Vest Pocket Cameras & Vanity Cameras, beautifully housed in Art Deco styled cases. Some even came complete with a mirror and lipstick for those flappers on the go! North Side. 412-231-7881. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Fiberart International 2013. Juried exhibition of contemporary fiber art. Presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh. 30:2. Group exhibition presented by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Coming Home. Fabric installation by Kay Healy. Friday Nights at Guitar Center. Work by Allison Kaufman. Rites of Passage. Oil paintings by Maggie Mills. Shadyside. 412-361-0873.
SCHOOLHOUSE ART CENTER. Summertime Art Show & Sale. Presented by South Arts. Bethel Park. 412-835-9898. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Continuum. Work by Doug DuBois & Aaron Blum. South Side. 412-431-1810. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Art Interprets Alzheimer’s. Work by George Roby & Herbert Ascherman, Jr. Downtown. 412-261-7003. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Pittsburgh Tattoo Works III. A juried exhibition of new & innovative artwork from local tattoo artists. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. THE TOONSEUM. Juice Box Memories: The Best of Boy Mayor. Editorial cartoons by Rob Rogers. Downtown. 412-232-0199. TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP.
ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. around the world. Oakland. Features 5,000 relics of 412-622-6914. Catholic saints. North Side. PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball 412-323-9504. museum & players club. West ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN View. 412-931-4425. CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo PITTSBURGH GLASS Vanka Murals. Mid-20th CENTER. Lifeforms. Exhibition century murals depicting war, of natural imagery in social justice and the immigrant lampworked glass. Curated by experience in America. Millvale. Robert Mickelsen. Friendship. 421-681-0905. 412-365-2145. PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland ART IN THE PARK. Food, Park. 412-665-3639. music, vendors, more. Thu, RACHEL CARSON 6-8:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 29 Penn HOMESTEAD. A Reverence Avenue Parklet, Wilkinsburg. for Life. Photos and artifacts 412-727-7855. of her life & work. Springdale. 724-274-5459. RIVERS OF STEEL 50TH ANNUAL NATIONAL HERITAGE HORSE TRADING AREA. Exhibits on DAYS. Wagon rides, the Homestead Mill. vendors, fireworks, Steel industry and children’s activities, community artifacts www. per pa live music, horse pghcitym from 1881-1986. .co parade, more. July 18-20 Homestead. Zelienople-Harmony 412-464-4020. Business District, Zelienople. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ 724-452-5232. HISTORY CENTER. Pennsylvania’s Civil War. In-depth look at Pennsylvania’s IMMACULATE HEART OF significant contributions MARY PARISH FESTIVAL. during the Civil War feat. Bake sale, ethnic food, raffles, artifacts, military encampments, bingo, Polish mass, more. life-like museum figures, 1-11 p.m. Immaculate Heart of more. From Slavery to Mary, Polish Hill. 412-621-5170. Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement. 6TH ANNUAL POLISH HILL Ongoing: Western PA Sports ARTS FESTIVAL. Music, art, food, Museum, Clash of Empires, and more. Brereton & Dobson Streets, exhibits on local history, more. Polish Hill. 12-9 p.m. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. PERPETUAL MOTION. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. Performance by Texture
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Tugboat Printshop. Lawrenceville. 412-621-0663. UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Residual Conditions: Impressions from Anatomy, Industry & Ecology. Work by Christopher Cassady, Gianna Paniagua, & Ben Quint-Glick. Braddock. U.S. POST OFFICE & COURTHOUSE. Whitehall Arts Courthouse Exhibit. Paintings by Whitehall Arts members. Downtown. 412-561-4000. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WILDCARD. Craft Hard: Art Inspired by Action Movies. Work by Andrew O. Ellis, Tara Goe, Elliot McNally, & Mario Zucca. Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. data.tron. Installation by Ryoji Ikeda. Downtown. 412-456-6666.
Contemporary Ballet. July 18-21 New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 412-320-4610.
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BELLYDANCE SHOW. 7 p.m. Dobra Tea, Squirrel Hill. 412-449-9833.
SAT 20 AN INTIMATE EVENING W/ VIE. One-woman show by Vie Boheme. Part of the Viva: BLACK trilogy. 8 p.m. Hill House Kaufmann Center, Hill District. 412-392-4400.
FUNDRAISERS FRI 19 1ST ANNUAL OUTREACH BANQUET & MIDNIGHT MUSICAL. Dinner & gospel performance. Benefits Northside Institutional Church. 7 p.m. Northside Institutional Church, North Side. 412-628-4951. HMH: HOT METAL HEATWAVE. Performance by Hot Metal Hardware. Benefits the documentary film, Gender Dances. 9 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. 412-345-3464.
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Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt. Thomas Merton Center, Garfield. 412-361-3022. PAINTING W/ A PURPOSE. Benefiting the Vera Bradley Foundation. 1-4 p.m. Painting w/ a Twist, Robinson. 412-787-7928. VIOLET RIPPY 5K WALK/ RUN. Benefits the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis. 9 a.m. North Shore Riverfront Park, North Side. 1-888-222-8541 x 703.
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. LIGONIER VALLEY VIGNETTES: TALES FROM THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS. Book signing & ice cream social w/ author Jennifer PITTSBURGH ANTI-DRONE Sopko. 7-8:30 p.m. WARFARE COALTION Westmoreland MEETING. Third County Historical Sun of every month, Society, Greensburg. 1-3 p.m. Thru 724-532-1935 x 210. Sept. 15 Thomas www. per STEEL CITY pa Merton Center, pghcitym SLAM. Poetry slam, .co Garfield. 412-361-3022. feat. Eliel Lucero. 7-10 p.m. 720 Records, Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592. TRUE STORY PARTY. Reading of true tales by AMERICAN HISTORY local story-tellers. Hosted by BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP. Derek Minto. 7 p.m. East End April 1865, The Month Book Exchange, Bloomfield. That Saved America by Jay 412-224-2847. Winik. 9:15 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. CYBERPUNK APOCALYPSE’S ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. CLUB. For advanced ESL Readings by Yona Harvey, students. Presented in Todd Faltin, Daniel McCloskey, cooperation w/ the Greater & Laura A. Warman. 7 p.m. Assemble, Garfield. 412-689-5541. MT. LEBANON WRITER’S GROUP. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. “THE WORTH OF WATER” SCRIPT READING & LIVE SOUNDTRACK/CONCERT. 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Noodlebowl Comedy Show, at the James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, North Side CRITIC: Brandon Johnson, 31, a school data-support professional from Lincoln-Larimer
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SAT 20 COFFEE & CRIME W/ JON MCGORAN. Talk & book signing w/ author of Drift. 10 a.m. Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont. 412-828-4877. PENNWRITERS SPRINGDALE WRITERS GROUP. Third Sat of every month Springdale Free Public Library, Springdale. 724-274-9729. ROB SIEGEL. Author of Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic. 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble Waterfront. 412-462-5743.
July 11 The event here is hosted by Krish Mohan, who runs Ramen Noodles Comedy, and it’s done once a month. It’s very new and it’s picking up. Krish invites comics that are up-and-coming in the city and gives them each about 20 minutes or so. That gives them a chance to do a lot of their act, and in between, Krish will do some parts of his act, too. Ryan Walker had a nice bit about intellectual property and how it’s stolen. It’s smart, it’s a bit off-kilter and he gets it. This is my first time seeing Chuck Krieger’s act [all the] way through. He stayed with it, so I have to give him applause for that. But he kind of took the audience out of it, by dropping the f-bomb at us. I know he can do better, and I thought it wasn’t up to his standards. B Y OL I V I A L A M M E L
6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-8866.
WED 24 CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3116. CONVERSATION SALON. Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of every month, 1 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100. PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Discussing The Goldfinches of Bagdad by Robert Adamson. 7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Roasters, Shadyside. 412-621-6880.
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412-322-5058. BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
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COOK IT! Interactive cooking demos w/ Chef Angelo. Fri, 1 p.m. Thru July 26 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
SAT 20 KIDGITS SAFE SUMMER. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ross Park Mall, Ross. 412-577-5140. PRINCESS CRUISE. 11 a.m. Gateway Clipper Fleet, Station Square. 412-266-4268.
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WOODCUT MURAL MAKING. w/ Tugboat Printshop. Thru July 20, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and Thru July 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
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PLAY W/ CLAY ON THE POTTER’S WHEEL. Ages 3+. Sun. Thru July 28 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. SNOWBALL DAY. Snow-themed activities. 9-11 a.m. Carnegie Science Center, North Side. 412-237-1637.
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LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650. WRITERS LIVE @ CLP. Talk w/ Chip Walter, author of Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How & Why We Survived.
ADVENTURES W/ CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG. 9-foot tall Clifford w/ tail slide, build a sandcastle on T-Bone’s beach, play instruments in the Musical Marina, more. Thru Sept. 1 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.
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TUE 23 DOODLE LIKE DIBBLE. Author Judy Press will lead in doodling fun just like her book character, Sam Dibble. For students in grades 1-4. 1:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.
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SCLAY DIORAMA: ARCHIPELAGO. July 24-25 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. CUENTOS EN ESPAÑOL. Storytime entirely in Spanish. Ages 3-6. 6:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.
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BEGINNER PADDLES W/ VENTURE OUTDOORS. Ages 12+. 9-11 a.m. Moraine State Park, Butler. 412-255-0564. CELEBRATE THE BLOOM! Prairie walks, workshops, vendors, entertainment, more. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011. DISCOVERING RACCOON CREEK’S WESTERN VALLEYS. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.
[POETRY] FREE KAYAK & STAND-UP PADDLE BOARD DEMOS. Presented by L.L.Bean. Sat, 12-2 p.m. Thru July 27 North Park, Allison Park. 412-318-1200. WILDFLOWER WALK. 10 a.m. Wingfield Pines, Upper St. Clair. 412-741-2750.
SAT 20 - SUN 21 KAYAKING DISCOVERY COURSE. Presented by L.L. Bean. Sat, Sun, 10-11:30 a.m. Thru Oct. 13 North Park, Allison Park. 412-318-1200.
SUN 21 NORTH COUNTRY BEER TASTING HIKE. Presented by Venture Outdoors. 12-3:30 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 412-255-0564.
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(JAPANESE AMENITIES) BY ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN
There is a way in Japan of asking greetings. “Where are you going?” means “hello” or “good day.” What you say is “I’m going over there” even when it’s clear tomorrow you’ll be skiing in Switzerland or rafting down the Colorado. Where you are going is not the question, where you get to is not the answer.
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2-MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL. Library of Pittsburgh, part 30 short films, all with the of the Sunday Poetry and theme of “At Play.” 7:30 p.m. Reading Series. 2 p.m. Sun., Carnegie Museum of Art, July 21. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S Oakland. Free. 412-622-3151 ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. or www.carnegielibrary.org Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT Meditation & the Science of SCREENING. 1-8 p.m. Transformation w/ Acharya Hollywood Theater, Dormont. Kedar. Free public program. 412-563-0368. Doors open at 7:15, seating ends 4TH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT at 8 p.m. 7:15 p.m. and Thu., & HISTORY WALK. Cooking July 25, 7:15 p.m. Winchester demos, musket firings, more. Thurston, Upper School, 3-6 p.m. Bower Hill Historical Shadyside. 724-420-5826. Marker, Scott. 412-221-0348. RENAISSANCE DOWNTOWN HAUNTED DANCE GUILD. Learn WALKING TOUR. a variety of dances Begins at City County from the 15-17th Building, Downtown. centuries. Porter Hall, Sat. Thru Aug. 31 Room A18A. Thu, www. per 412-302-5223. pa 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon pghcitym I MADE IT! MARKET. .co University, Oakland. Nomadic indie craft 412-567-7512. market feat. bicycleWEST COAST SWING. Swing themed items. 12-5 p.m. dance lessons for all levels. Thu, Carnegie Science Center, North 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Side. 412-237-3400. Bloomfield. 412-681-0111. IMPROV WORKSHOP. Presented in conjunction w/ the Steel City Improv Theater. 1-3:30 p.m. CHILDREN’S GARDEN RIBBON Future Tenant, Downtown. CUTTING CELEBRATION. Live 412-325-7037. music, refreshments, more. INCLINE HAUNTED 4 p.m. Rosalina Sauro Sirianni WALKING TOUR. Begins at the Garden, Bellevue. bottom of the Monongahela HOLISTIC HAPPY HOUR. Third Incline. Sat. Thru Oct. 26 Fri of every month, 6-8 p.m. Thru 412-302-5223. July 19 Hampton Holistic Center, LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS. Allison Park. 412-486-1829. Panel discussion w/ audience OUT OF THE BOX: TIME participation. 2 p.m. CAPSULE OPENING W/ TIME Eljay’s Used Books, Dormont. CAPSULE CATALOGUERS. Take 412-344-7444. a first look inside one of Warhol’s ON DISPLAY: THE TELLING unopened boxes. 7 p.m. Andy OF OUR STORIES. Gallery Warhol Museum, North Side. talk w/ Rayden Sorok & 412-237-8300. Donna Christopher on queer PUBLIC ART WALKING TOUR: & transgendered issues involving art & the body. NORTH SHORE. 7 p.m. PNC Park, 2 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-391-2060 x 237.
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North Side. 412-237-8300. OUTRAGEOUS BINGO. Feat. drag performances, more. 6:30 p.m. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-621-6566. SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. La Cucina Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.
SAT 20 - SUN 21 THE DUQUESNE DAYS OF SUMMER: TECHNOLOGY & GUITAR. Hands-on music technology & guitar workshop, w/ classes ranging from digital audio basics to guitar effect pedal techniques. July 20-21 Duquesne University, Uptown. 412-396-6000.
SUN 21 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. ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES. Sun. Thru Aug. 11 Wilkins School Community Center, Swissvale. 412-661-2480.
COLOMBIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY PICNIC. Forbes & Braddock Pavillion. 2-7 p.m. Frick Park, Regent Square. 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. WHISKEY REBELLION DAY. Battle reenactments, music & cooking demos, marching drills, more. 12-5 p.m. Woodville Plantation, Bridgeville. 412-221-0348.
MON 22 ADULT STEEL BAND WORKSHOP. Learn steel band techniques, music theory essentials, & elements of ensemble performance. Mon, 6-7 p.m. Thru July 22 The Alloy Studios, Friendship. 412-363-3000. BELLYDANCING LESSONS. 7 p.m. and Mon., Aug. 19, 7 p.m. Dobra Tea, Squirrel Hill. 412-449-9833. BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A support group for women 30+. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry, North Park. THE DEN. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.
register & for location info, etc. Tue. Thru July 30, Friendship. 412-404-8717.
WED 24 CARTOON PREP COLLEGE ART CAMP. Create your own comic strip. Ages 13+. July 24-25 The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-232-0199. CUPCAKES & CULTURE 101: SUMMER IN SAIGON. Vietnamese coffee, finger foods, entertainment, more. 7-9 p.m. Biddle’s Escape, Regent Square. 412-798-7185. FARMAGEDDON FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION. 6:30 p.m. East End Food Co-op, Point Breeze. 412-242-7726. FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Farmers’ market. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 30 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. PFLAG WASHINGTON. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. Fourth Wed of every month First Presbyterian Church, Downtown. 412-471-3436. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER SUMMER LECTURE SERIES. Matthew Cummings 6-8 p.m. Pittsburgh Glass Center, Friendship. 412-365-2145. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.
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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.
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AUDITIONS AUDITIONS FOR VESTA. Auditions for Vesta. July 18. Men/ women ages 30s-50s & females to read ages 17-21 & age 75. Prepare 1-min. contemporary monologue. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-335-4485. COMTRA THEATRE. Auditions for Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple.
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SUBMISSIONS THE NEW YINZER. Online magazine seeking book reviewers, writers & artists to submit original essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, & photographs as well as pitched ideas for possible contributions. Visit www.newyinzer.com for current issue. Email all submissions/inquiries to newyinzer@gmail.com. SUBMISSIONS FOR ART SHOW. Seeking large scale artwork for show at 179 Studio. Call & leave name/ website. 412-621-1523.
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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
I am a young gay man who has been so freaked out by the idea of catching an STI that I haven’t gotten with anyone for two years. But last night, I hooked up with a cute 21-year-old FTM trans boy, and maybe because it was a person with lady parts, I let caution go, and no condom was used. How worried should I be about having made a baby? CAUT I O US HO M O I N L OOPY DI L E M M A
P.S. He is on hormone therapy. Here’s a good rule of thumb: A new sex friend who’ll have unprotected sex with you has probably had unprotected sex with other sex friends. Yes, typically cautious people have been known to “let caution go” on rare occasions. But the odds that two typically cautious people will both simultaneously decide to “let caution go” and have unprotected sex with a brand-new sex friend just this once are pretty slim. Which means you should be less concerned with pregnancy, and more concerned with that old concern of yours, sexually transmitted infections. There’s only a 1-in-20 chance that a single act of unprotected penis-in-vagina sex will result in pregnancy, and the fact that this guy is on hormone therapy may make him slightly less likely to conceive. But if your hookup was having unprotected sex with others, you’re at greater risk of acquiring an STI than of acquiring an heir. Get tested, and while you wait for your results, ponder this: Health workers and HIVprevention educators tell me that the more freaked out someone is by the idea of catching an STI — the more paralyzed by fear someone is — the likelier that person is to have unprotected sex when they do have sex. So working to conquer your irrational fear of STIs — and having sex once in a while — will leave you less likely to contract one.
MAYBE I’M BEHIND THE TIMES, BUT I DON’T THINK TWO PEOPLE WHO’VE NEVER MET IN REAL LIFE SHOULD BE PLANNING A FUTURE TOGETHER
Twenty-one-year-old furfag here. I consider myself a bi guy, but I’m a virgin. I have a boyfriend of three years, and we do roleplay online. We met online, and I fell in love with his personality two years before we traded pics. He is totally OK-looking, and I am fine with this because he’s a sweetheart. He’s also four years my senior. I’m working on my bachelor’s and trying to get into graduate school. He swears that no matter where I go, he’ll follow me. Is this a strange relationship? Is it a bad move? What if we meet and try gaying it up and I’m not into it? (“Ha! You ruined your life. I’m not even into men.”) Sex doesn’t hold a big interest for me, and porn doesn’t do ANYTHING for me. I’ve never even masturbated. Am I going about this wrong? F E L L A UNS URE RE G ARDI NG F E E L I NG S ABO UT G AY NE S S
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ephemeral, unquantifiable aspect to attraction, something that can only be established when you’re face-to-face/tongue-to-tongue. I don’t think you can know it’s love — a love worth moving across the country for — until you’ve tasted each other’s spit. Don’t get me wrong: It’s great that you two got together, FURFAG. One wonderful thing about the Internet is the way it brings people with rare kinks together. And sometimes people with uncommon kinks have to go to uncommon lengths to be together — which can include a big risk like moving across the country to be with the furfag of your dreams. But before you do that — or let him do that — you need to meet in person at least once to establish that: (1) you’re actually in love with each other, and (2) you’re actually into men. You can’t resolve those doubts until you’ve acknowledged them, which means a truthtelling, doubts-airing, nonrole-playing Skype session is in order.
Maybe I’m behind the times — maybe I just don’t get this “online relationship” stuff — but I don’t think two people who’ve never met in real life should be planning a future together. Attraction is about more than just shared interests, emotional compatibility and kinks in common. There’s an
I’m a 19-year-old gay guy in a relationship with an 18-year-old guy. We have a good sex life, but I rarely get to top him. The act of getting penetrated is almost always painful or uncomfortable for my boyfriend, even with plenty of lubrication and preparation. I know it’s not his fault, but I sometimes feel that he isn’t putting in enough effort to try to bottom for me. Additionally, it’s hard for me to understand how he feels because bottoming is never painful for me, and I enjoy it a lot. We’ve discussed the possibility of me topping another guy (alone or in a threesome), but I’d much rather it be him. Is there any way we can make bottoming pleasurable for him? READY TO TOP
The best way to determine if your boyfriend is a natural-born top — not into getting fucked, never will be into getting fucked — is to explore his ass, and his capacity to experience anal pleasure without fucking him. Get some small anal toys that aren’t designed for in-and-out play, but setand-forget play — a few butt plugs, one or two small vibrating eggs. Pop one in his ass and then let him fuck yours. If you can take the pressure off your boyfriend while getting a toy in him, he may begin to associate having something in his ass with pleasure. If he can do that, he may be able to graduate to your cock. I’m a 21-year-old gay boy with a kinky side that I keep private. I went to London to get with a guy who has an amazing dungeon. I spent a week being his slave boy, and I had a blast. He posted some pictures of me to his Tumblr, which I was OK with, but some gossipy vanilla boys I go to school with recognized me even though my face was blurred out. What do I say to them?!? KINKED TWINK
“I had a blast.” This week on the Savage Lovecast: When gays ATTACK! Find it at savagelovecast.com.
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{BY ROB BREZSNY}
CANCER (June 21-July 22): We keep million-dollar works of art in well-guarded museums. Paintings created hundreds of years ago are treated with reverence and protected as if they were magical treasures. Meanwhile, beautiful creatures that took nature eons to produce don’t get the same care. At least 5,000 animal and plant species are going extinct every year, in large part due to human activities. Among the recently lost works of art are the Madeiran large white butterfly, West African black rhinoceros, Formosan clouded leopard, golden toad and Tecopa pupfish. I’m asking you not to allow a similar discrepancy in your own life, Cancerian. The astrological omens say that now is a perfect moment to intensify your love for the natural world. I urge you to meditate on how crucial it is to nurture your interconnectedness with all of life, not just the civilized part.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hurry up, please. It’s time. No more waffling or procrastinating. You really need to finish up the old business that has dragged on too long. You really should come to definitive decisions about ambiguous situations, even if they show no sign of resolution. As for those nagging questions that have yielded no useful answers: I suggest you replace them with different questions. And how about those connections that have been draining your energy? Re-evaluate whether they are worth trying to fix.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “This morning I walked to the place where the street-cleaners dump the rubbish,” wrote painter Vincent van Gogh in one his letters. “My God, it was beautiful.” Was he being ironic or sarcastic? Not at all. He was sincere. As an artist, he had trained himself to be intrigued by scenes that other people dismissed as ugly or irrelevant. His sense of wonder
was fully awake. He could find meaning and even enchantment anywhere. Your next assignment, Virgo — should you choose to accept it — is to experiment with seeing the world as van Gogh did.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I believe you will undergo a kind of graduation in the next four weeks, Libra. Graduation from what? Maybe from a life lesson you’ve been studying for a while or from an institution that has given you all it can. Perhaps you will climax your involvement with a situation that has made big demands on you. I suspect that during this time of completion you will have major mixed feelings, ranging from sadness that a chapter of your story is coming to an end to profound gratification at how much you have grown during this chapter.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What’s your favorite sin, Scorpio? I’m talking about the mischievous vice or rebel tendency or excessive
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behavior that has taught you a lot. It may be the case that now and then this transgressive departure from normalcy has had redeeming value, and has even generated some interesting fun. Perhaps it puts you in touch with a magic that generates important changes, even if it also exacts a toll on you. Whatever your “favorite sin” is, I’m guessing that you need to develop a more conscious and mature relationship with it. The time has come for it to evolve.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Sagittarian writer and artist William Blake (1757-1827) made drawings of many eminent people who had died before he was born. Julius Caesar was the subject of one of his portraits. Others included Dante, Shakespeare and Moses. How did Blake manage to capture their likenesses in such great detail? He said their spirits visited him in the form of apparitions. Really? I suppose that’s possible. But it’s also important to note that he had a robust and exquisite imagination. I suspect that in the coming weeks you, too, will have an exceptional ability to visualize things in your mind’s eye. Maybe not with the gaudy skill of Blake, but potent nevertheless. What would be the best use of this magic power?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How close do you really want to be to the people you care about? I invite you to think about this with unsentimental candor. Do you prefer there to be some distance between you? Are you secretly glad there’s a buffer zone that prevents you from being too profoundly engaged? I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. It might be correct for who you are right now. I merely want to suggest that it’s important for you to know the exact nature of your need for intimacy. If you find that you actually do want to be closer, spend the next four weeks making that happen. Ask your precious allies to collaborate with you in going deeper.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I love your big, energetic thoughts. I enjoy watching as your wild intuitive leaps lead you to understandings that mere logic could never produce. I have benefited many times from the Aquarian tribe’s ability to see angles no one else can discern. In the immediate future, though, I hope you will be a specialist in analyzing the details and mastering mundane mysteries. I’ll be rooting for you to think small and be precise. Can you manage that? I expect there’ll be a sweet reward. You will generate good fortune for yourself by being practical, sensible and earthy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is it a river or a creek? Is it a mountain or a hill? It’s important for you to decide questions like these
— preferably on the basis of the actual evidence rather than on wishful thinking. I’m not saying that the river is better than the creek or that the mountain is better than the hill. I simply want you to know that it’s important to be clear about which it is. The same principle applies to other experiences you’ll soon have. Is the catalytic person you’re dealing with a temporary friend or a loyal ally? Is the creation you’re nurturing just a healthy diversion or is it potentially a pivotal element in transforming your relationship with yourself? Is the love that’s blooming a transient pleasure or a powerful upgrade that’s worth working on with all your ingenuity?
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
The 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was a prolific creator who produced 39 operas. Renowned for his lyrical melodies, he was sometimes referred to as the “Italian Mozart.” So confident was he in his abilities that he bragged he could set a laundry list to music. I trust you will have comparable aplomb in the coming weeks, Aries, since you will be asked to do the equivalent of composing an opera using a laundry list for inspiration. This will be a different challenge than making lemonade out of lemons, but it could be even more fun and interesting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? Or is its more vivid hue just an optical illusion caused by your inability to see the situation objectively? Judging from my analysis of your current astrological omens, I suspect that you’re not deluded. The grass really is greener. But it’s important to note the reason why this is true, which is that there’s more manure over on the other side of the fence. So your next question becomes: Are you willing to put up with more crap in order to get the benefits of the greener grass?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You know the voice in your head that’s kind of a sneaky bastard? The voice that sometimes feeds you questionable advice and unreliable theories? Well, I suspect that this voice might be extra active in the coming week. But here’s the weird thing: It might actually have a sound idea or two for you to consider acting on. For once, its counsel may be based on accurate intuition. So don’t completely lower your guard, Gemini. Maintain a high degree of discernment toward the sneaky bastard’s pronouncements. But also be willing to consider the possibility that this generator of so much mischief could at least temporarily be a source of wisdom. Confess your deepest secrets to yourself. Say them out loud when no one but you is listening. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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ACROSS 1. Brownish photo tint 6. See 51-Down 10. Classic British sports cars 14. Omega-3s, e.g. 15. Sin for one who’s gone green? 16. Chakra cousin 17. Bugs’s question 19. One-named singer of “The Wanderer” 20. Sectional, say 21. “The Stand” hero Redman 22. Foul 23. “We’re screwed ...” 27. Popular rave drug, briefly 30. Rapper associated with Queensbridge, Queens 31. Broadcaster 32. Vioxx maker 34. Kenan Thompson’s sketch show 35. “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” singer Simone 38. 1980 ZZ Top hit 42. Salty bodies 43. Org. with shows in theaters? 44. Creepo 45. Fracking rock 47. Pandemic during World War I 49. Delta in-flight magazine 50. Transformer who leads the Autobots 54. Places for casual conversation
55. “Pacific ___” (2013 summer flick) 56. Device produced by Carl Zeiss 60. Person holding the cards? 61. Exposes oneself? 64. Away from the wind, on the water 65. Recess 66. Genre for Weird Al 67. Gp. with a key and a martini glass in its logo 68. “Got it” 69. “Dope”
DOWN 1. They’ve got teeth 2. Sound return? 3. Subject of the biopic “La Vie en Rose” 4. Pound neckwear 5. Pompous person 6. What one might sink to 7. Provide, as with a quality 8. Bolivian president Morales 9. City where BHO graduated from college 10. Was lucid 11. Axe wielders 12. Cook in the bottom of the oven, say 13. Financial institution of ‘80s’90s crisis infamy 18. Nutrition.gov org. 22. Controversial coat material 24. Peeling potatoes,
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HOME IMPROVEMENT Architect Eric Fisher creates an indigenous architecture {BY ABBY MENDELSON}
TODAY’S PROBLEM — how to fit an alien element into a finished piece of design — is giving Eric Fisher fits. To begin with, the Shadyside architect had designed the perfect house — well, nearly perfect. North of the city, the house’s long, low lines slink along the rolling landscape. Typically Fisher, the house employs familiar materials: steel and stone and plenty of glass. The structure’s industrial look bows to Pittsburgh’s past, while the open spaces embrace the natural setting. Voila! Or not quite. Recently, the client fell in love with a wood-fired pizza oven he just had to have, an igloo with a big belly and stove pipe top. Nicely, but firmly, he told Fisher to incorporate it into his design. Well, sure, Fisher gulped. I’m easy. But making it fit hasn’t been. That’s what is eating Eric Fisher this morning.
mission more individual, more indigenous design. “I’m trying to create a regional style reflecting people who live and work here,” Fisher says. “Boxy, angular, traditional modern-style buildings: They’re appropriate because they reflect things actually built.” His houses’ big openings — enormous glass walls are a trademark — mean more light, all the better during long, gray Pittsburgh winters. “My work reflects the qualities and material of our city,” Fisher says. “Everything reflects its surroundings — but in unexpected ways.” The familiar and the foreign, the safe and the surprising … that’s what Fisher combined in his Emerald Art Glass House, a cantilevered metaland-glass box jutting above a South Side glass works. The home’s industrial forms and Cor-10 steel siding, which brought Fisher national attention, relate to the factory below, while a plant-covered roof reflects the nearby South Side Slopes above. In addition, Fisher used glass products throughout. A unique glass rain-screen clads concrete block; inside, a glass stairway snakes throughout the structure.
“MY WORK REFLECTS THE QUALITIES AND MATERIAL OF OUR CITY. EVERYTHING REFLECTS ITS SURROUNDINGS — BUT IN UNEXPECTED WAYS.” Principal of FISHER ARCHitecture, he’s a returned expatriate who left his native city for Harvard, Los Angeles and Berlin. Back in the new century, in a South Aiken Avenue home/office he designed and built himself. “I’m really excited about where I’m going,” he says. Dressed for work in torn blue jeans and hole-mottled argyle socks, Fisher stares into his oversized computer screen, a steaming mug of French roast by his side. Manipulating lines — red and green, blue and yellow — he tries to render an alien element entirely contextual. “The difference between me and a big firm,” he says, “is the amount of time that I’m able to spend on a project.” Thanks to a completely paperless operation that has neither overhead nor staff, “I’m very cost-effective,” he says. “I’m not a genius or anything. But I spend most of my time drawing. And the more time I spend on a project, the better the results.” There are many single-proprietor architects, certainly. What makes Fisher part of the vanguard is his use of emerging technology. Two- and three-dimensional color visuals — compiled with software unavailable even a decade ago — mean the design process is now streamlined, easy to visualize, and simple to translate into actual buildings. Such a hands-on approach, along with his unerring vision of the Western Pennsylvania landscape, helps Fisher redefine local architecture. Increasingly, clients do not want faux-English houses. Instead, they com-
It’s heady stuff, Fisher agrees, “but you have to take risks.” Then there’s Blue Steel, near Butler, a home whose glass sides not only reflect the surrounding woods but cause the house to seemingly disappear into the sky. Inside is another Fisher trademark: flexible, open spaces that can be used differently as needs arise. They parallel his own home, where his large dining room easily transforms into conference room, workshop, display center, and entertainment zone. “It’s easy to build,” he says, “and can create an extraordinary experience.” The idea of ease brings Fisher back to his wood-fired pizza oven. “I don’t want to cut into this glass wall,” he mutters, “but it really fits there.” Or maybe not. Here a little cut. There a little slice. “I have to interrupt one course of concrete block six inches, and come back four inches.” Click. Snip. Whirl. “This gets gone. This gets trimmed. This comes back. Right here.” Lines dance before him, Fisher the sorcerer choreographing the rainbow tentacles. Finally, the oven looks integral, contextual — as if it’d been there from the beginning. That’s the 2-D version. Now Fisher imports it into 3-D to see how the oven, and the house, nestle into the hillside. “I want to make sure,” he says, “it doesn’t look like poop.” I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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