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“THE LAW … IS MEANT TO PUT HOMOSEXUALITY BACK IN THE CLOSET.”

INCOMING All Gassed Up: CBS Radio hands over the mic to natural-gas boosters (Aug. 21) “This was no festival. This was a poorly constructed PR event by local drillers and their new minions, the media. I thought the media was to be unbiased, but then again, I thought wrong in this case.

Shame on the media that participated.”

—Web comment from “Debbie Ziegler Lambert” “Why are the people against this toxic industry always called environmentalists?

There are many people who are against this industry that are just regular people.

We are all affected by this industrial process and for some to say there are balanced reports on what is happening is ridiculous. There are spills, contamination and property loss on a daily basis whereever this industry is operating. It is not being reported here and will never be as long as this industry has the money to keep the reports as silent as possible.”

— Web comment from “JakeJ” “There are MANY documented cases of people on the anti-drilling side of the argument who have treated pro-drilling folks in a very poor fashion. Harassing them at town hall meetings, barring them from their own events, or making up fake names on the Internet and belittling them, as our esteemed state rep/ anti-drilling activist from the 46th District so publicly displayed. I’ve seen sweet old grandmothers reduced to tears by the jeers of chanting anti-drillers. So please, save the tears. ... If gas drilling is so horrible, there should be plenty of evidence to make your case. Drop the hyperbole.”

— Web comment from “Mike Knapp” “It is unrealistic for anyone to think that those of us who are against this toxic industry are against jobs and money.

What we are is worried about the lack of transparency in the deals being made about OUR property by industry with deep pockets and politicians willing to take what they offer. ... We will continue to inform people of the negative impacts this toxic industry is having on our health, property and democratic process with or without the media. “ — Web comment from “Bridget Shields” “There are no trustworthy broadcast news sources in this town any longer.

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Alex Vasilyev, a Russian citizen living in Mount Lebanon, is seeking asylum in the U.S. because of strict anti-gay laws in his home country.

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HEN HE WAS 16, Alex Vasilyev

told a close friend a very personal secret — he is gay.

It was 1999 and his classmate in the small Russian town of Grahovo outed him.

“It was the end of my life there,” he explains. “I was pushed around. My coat was cut open with a knife.

“Guys would punch me and try to beat me in school and in town.”

Vasilyev says he did not find relief from the torture even when he left his hometown to attend college in a larger community.

“I never felt freedom again in Russia,” he says. “I met a boyfriend in college and

every time we went out together, our lives were in danger.

“I was beaten several times by groups who thought I looked gay. My boyfriend

LGBT Russian citizens seeking asylum from persecution in Pittsburgh and across the country {BY DAN SLEVA} was beaten. Police, instead of helping me, beat me and detained me.”

The hatred was far-reaching. One night at a nightclub, he says, a bouncer

nearly beat him to death because he didn’t like the way Vasilyev danced.

The bouncer, Vasilyev says, called him a “fag” as he punched and kicked him on the ground.

Vasilyev assumed that the torture and violence would plague him for the rest of his life.

It wasn’t until 2004, when he came to the United States for the first time, to work at a camp in New Hampshire, that he saw life could be different.

“I met bunch of people from all over the world there and some of them were gay as well,” he says. “We talked about our lives and, by far, my stories about being persecuted and tortured in Russia CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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were the most horrifying.”

When he then returned to Russia, he realized he could not stay: “I witnessed how things were completely different in the U.S. towards gay people.”

Vasilyev, now 30, says that is what led him back to the United States in 2005.

He lives in Mount Lebanon, a home he hopes to never leave. His past experiences with homophobia in Russia, along with new laws targeting LGBT citizens in that country, are the reason he and a growing number of Russian citizens are seeking asylum in the U.S. based on sexual orientation.

In 1994, the State Department began to recognize sexual orientation as a basis for protection from persecution. There is no official count of the number of LGBT individuals who have been granted asylum in the U.S., because the government does not keep numbers based on the reason asylum was granted — it only tracks the number of people per country of origin. In their applications, asylum-seekers are asked to recount past persecution, but they can be granted asylum based on a reasonable fear of future persecution if they return to

their home country.

Vasilyev has reason to worry. A new Russian law banning “the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” has put an international spotlight on how gay people are treated in the country as it prepares to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi less than six months from now.

The law, signed by President Vladimir Putin in June, sets fines for those who “promote homosexuality to minors.” Fines range from $300 to $3,000 in a country where the average monthly income, according to the World Bank, is around $800.

“The situation in Russia is depressing,” says Rachel Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, a legal-aid and advocacy group that helps LGBT immigrants seek asylum in the United States. “Over the past decade we’ve seen more and more Russians seeking asylum and afraid to return home.”

Tiven says that the number of LGBT asylum-seekers from Russia is now second only to Jamaica, which she says is notoriously homophobic. Immigration Equality has about 400 open cases of gay people seeking asylum per year, she adds.

Ivan Savvine, 29, of New York City, is a blogger and activist. He says Vasilyev’s experiences are not unique and that he, too, faced similar circumstances before leaving Russia for the United States nine years ago.

“Growing up gay in Russia wasn’t easy. It was painful and scary,” says Savvine. “I was subjected to severe bullying in high school and then went on having more serious problems as an adult, including dangerous run-ins with homophobes and police, hateful remarks by neighbors and a general prospect of living in fear for the rest of my life.”

Savvine was granted asylum based on his sexual orientation in 2006. He is now a U.S. citizen.

Critics of the treatment of LGBT citizens in Russia point to the new anti-gay laws as proof that the situation is still dire. They say such laws are meant to silence the gay community and instill fear in anyone who pushes for equality. “‘Nontraditional sexual relations’ means ‘gay.’ It is a broad law that imposes fines for everything from holding hands to admitting you are gay,” says Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch. “Showing any

“THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA IS DEPRESSING.”

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support or acceptance of gay issues could be punishable.

“The law is deeply discriminatory. It is hateful. It says there is no place in Russian society for the LGBT community. It is meant to put homosexuality back in the closet.”

Since the law passed on a federal level in Russia, government officials have said hateful things about gays, and anti-gay activists have become increasingly violent, Denber says.

“The law really has created an atmosphere where it is OK to be homophobic.”

Denber says Russia is not a safe place for LGBT people. Those willing to stay in the closet and avoid public displays of affection or activism may be able to stay under the radar, she says. But she questions what kind of quality of life remains.

“If you want to live openly, you will not be safe,” she says. “You would actually have to deny who you are. Is this a fair way to live?”

Denber says the Sochi Games present an opportunity for Americans to get involved in the push for human rights in Russia. She suggests they write to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the Winter

Olympics approach.

The Olympic committees could not be reached for comment, but have issued public statements saying they are seeking “clarifications” of the anti-gay laws and how they will be applied to athletes and visitors at the games.

Human Rights Watch is not calling for a boycott of the Olympics, but Debner says pressure must be put on the Olympic committees to enforce their ideals.

“The Olympic charter rejects discrimination, and the host country is supposed to uphold human rights and human dignity,” she says. “The USOC and the IOC can make a difference. They are choosing not to.”

Vasilyev and Savvine do not believe that Russia deserves the world stage now.

“It is a shame that such a big event is happening in a country where human rights do not exist,” Vasilyev says.

He does not think the games should be held in a country “where people are judged and persecuted not for actions but for their look, race, origin and sexuality.”

Savvine believes the Olympics should be boycotted outright and would like to see international sanctions applied

“GROWING UP GAY IN RUSSIA WASN’T EASY. IT WAS PAINFUL AND SCARY.”

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to Russia due to overall human-rights violations. That gays are being targeted openly by new government regulation, he says, is not surprising.

“It is a shameless attempt by Putin’s regime to both galvanize the ultraconservative base and simultaneously distract the attention of the general population from its economic failures, ubiquitous corruption and the overall disastrous state of affairs in the nation,” he says. “They are using LGBTs because this group has traditionally been stigmatized by the conservative Russian society,” he says.

That stigmatization is what is leading more Russians to seek asylum here.

Vasilyev points to a poll he read recently in a Russian newspaper online that said 84 percent of the Russian public supported the law, and says that’s why he does not want to return. He does not blame the people, but cites a lack of access to education, free speech and non-statecontrolled media to that would provide differing views.

According to Tiven, at Immigration Equality, a provision in the current immigration law hurts LGBT immigrants more often than other immigrants: U.S. law requires that all immigrants apply for asylum within one year of their last entry into the country.

“It is an arbitrary deadline,” she says.

“If you come from a country that persecutes you for being gay, a country where

homosexuality is illegal and punished, it can be hard to comprehend that you should come here and tell the government here you are gay — that you can be protected.”

Tiven says that because seeking asylum is a legal process, it can be confusing. She says those who cannot afford to hire a good attorney or find a pro-bono group like hers to represent them can face denial of their applications.

Vasilyev’s case is a testament to that. His first request, filed within the one-year deadline, was denied.

“I didn’t know anyone back then,” he says, “and I solely trusted one attorney who promised a lot but did not do much.”

He is now in the appeal process and hopes to continue living an open life in Pittsburgh. He is anxiously awaiting a letter that will inform him of his day in front of an asylum officer at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Washington, D.C..

If he is not granted asylum here, he will seek it in another country. To Vasilyev, returning to Russia is not an option.

He wants to stay in Pittsburgh because of the life he has built, including owning his own business, and the freedom he has experienced.

“I can go anywhere. I can go to Gay Pride. I can live my life and be myself without fear. I would never be able to do that in Russia,” Vasilyev says. “Here, it doesn’t matter who I am.”

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Pennsylvania was almost destined to — finally — outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. In May, a group of 102 state legislators in the House and Senate announced their sponsorship of House Bill 300 and Senate Bill 300, which amend state anti-discrimination laws to include LGBT Pennsylvanians.

“More and more people inside the Capitol — from both parties — agree” that “[b]eing gay or transgender has nothing to do with your ability to do a good job or to be a good neighbor,” said state Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Squirrel Hill), a prime sponsor.

One recent poll found that nearly threequarters of Pennsylvanians support the legislation.

But those voters and their representatives may take a backseat to state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry) — perhaps the most conservative, and certainly the most vocal, member of the Republican caucus.

After being introduced, bills are referred to standing committees, where officials may hold hearings and vote on whether to forward the legislation for a full vote. Or the bill may languish there forever, if the committee’s chair opposes it.

And Speaker of the House Sam Smith referred HB 300 to the State Government Committee, which Metcalfe heads.

On Aug. 14, Metcalfe told public-radio reporter Mary Wilson that he was not planning a vote, or even a public hearing, on HB 300 because most committee members oppose it. “I don’t bring up bills just to defeat them,” he said.

“He’s probably accurate in saying this bill wouldn’t pass,” says Philadelphia Democrat Greg Vitali, an HB 300 supporter who serves on the State Government Committee. Republicans outnumber Democrats 15-10, reflecting their majority in the House.

Metcalfe’s hostility to even discussing the issue also comes as little surprise.

Earlier this year, he made headlines for silencing state Rep. Brian Sims, an openly gay Philadelphia Democrat, when

State Rep. Brian Sims

Sims was about to address the House on a pair of LGBT-friendly U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Metcalfe said he wanted to stop Sims from defying “the word of God.” Smith did not return a call for comment. But while previous versions of HB 300 had also been referred to the State Government Committee, there were hopes this time would be different.

“This is a setback,” admits Ted Martin, executive director of LGBT advocacy group Equality PA. “But we just had the 91st legislator — a Republican — sign onto the House bill, and we’ll continue to seek more cosponsors.”

And Sims says “I still feel pretty good” about HB 300’s prospects. “It already has more support than 90 percent of the legislation that comes through here,” he says; fewer than a dozen more House supporters are needed to earn a majority. “Every bit of momentum is in favor of equality — except for Rep. Metcalfe.”

Smith notes that one of the Senate committee’s Republicans is a co-sponsor, as are all four Democrats. Passing the 11-member committee, then, requires only one more Republican vote; Smith predicts that the bill would pass the full Senate “by a comfortable margin.”

Even if that happened, though, the bill would go over to the House, where it could be referred to … Metcalfe’s committee.

“Committee chairs have a lot of power,” says Andy Hoover, legislative affairs director of the state American Civil Liberties Union. “They decide what bills will be considered.”

LGBT advocates do have options. They could try to offer the text of HB 300 as an amendment to another piece of legislation, bypassing the State Government Committee. Or they could file a “discharge resolution,” in which the House votes to pull a bill out of a committee, despite the chair’s wishes. When Republicans were in the minority, Metcalfe himself used such a resolution to force action on an anti-immigration bill.

But discharge resolutions “are generally not successful,” says Vitali, the Philadelphia Democrat. Partly, he says, that’s because, “If you’re a Democratic committee chair, it could be you next time.”

What’s more, Vitali says, even if a discharge resolution passes, leadership “can play games like re-referring the bill to another committee” — where it might die anyway.

As Sims acknowledges, with Republicans controlling both Houses of the legislature, there almost certainly isn’t a House committee where a majority would support HB 300. But the bill might at least get a hearing — and that “is critically important,” Sims says. “We haven’t had people testifying before us about the impact of discrimination, saying, ‘You’re telling me I’ve lived and worked here my whole life, but I’m not treated equally?’”

Metcalfe might be resistant to such pressure, says Sims, but voters could have more luck with House Speaker Smith: “People should be calling the speaker, and saying, ‘You knew what would happen by assigning this bill to the State Government Committee. So either you support discrimination, or you’re taking orders from the Tea Party.’”

“Pressure needs to be brought on Republican leadership,” agrees the ACLU’s Hoover. “Hopefully, it’s just a matter of time.”

“EVERY BIT OF MOMENTUM IS IN FAVOR OF EQUALITY — EXCEPT FOR REP. METCALFE.”

IN FACT, the Senate’s version — Senate Bill 300 — has better prospects. The State Government Committee there is chaired

by Lancaster County Republican Lloyd Smucker: While he didn’t return a call for comment, committee minority chair Matt Smith, of Mount Lebanon, says, “I’m cautiously optimistic we’ll see action on the bill in the near future.”

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However, the officials were shocked to learn that not a single one of the school’s 44 first-time 9th-graders passed the promotion tests (and will have lengthy 9th-grade make-up sessions over the summer or beginning again in September).

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LITTLE BITES {BY LAUREN DALEY} It’s been said nothing good ever happens past 2 a.m.

Unless you’re in Mount Washington on a weekend after midnight. In that case, you can pay a visit to The Micro Diner, a relatively new addition to Shiloh Street that is open until 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

The restaurant offers traditional diner fare including sandwiches (from the Reuben to the “untraditional club” of turkey, coleslaw, tomatoes, bacon and a chipotle-esque sauce), burgers, stuffed pitas and salads.

And like any respectable diner, Micro Diner serves breakfast all day: omelets stuffed with steak, Labriola sausage or veggies; breakfast sandwiches; and French toast. Micro Diner counts “stuffed pancakes” among its specialties, with combos like bananas and cream, strawberries and, in a nod to the cinnamon bun, raisins and icing.

But, for me, the test of a good diner is the buffalo-chicken sandwich. Micro Diner offers this spicy bird grilled or fried, with homemade buffalo sauce (and a slate of homemade dressings, including ranch), accompanied by shoestring French fries. The sandwich was stacked high, and the sauce had a sweet tang that was perfectly absorbed into the chicken’s crunchy exterior without overpowering it.

There’s indoor and outdoor seating, and a lunch counter that offers a view right into the kitchen. It’s worth the trip to Mount Washington any time of the day.

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Reyna Restaurante Mexicano is located in a rambling basement space beneath the establishment’s retail storefront on Penn Avenue, in the Strip. A series of surprisingly large dining rooms and a tequila bar are wrapped around a tortilla kitchen; windows into this fascinating space make up for the lack of windows to the outdoors.

Chunky wood tables and chairs, tile-framed mirrors, murals and metal Mexican-soda signs create a sort of south-of-the-borderTGIFriday’s vibe, which, though just this side of kitschy, transforms Reyna’s basement into someplace colorful and special.

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The menu promised one authentic regional specialty after another: enchiladas Tuxpan, filled with queso fresco and topped with shrimp and tilapia, served on a bed of spinach; and tamal Oaxaqueno, or nixtamal (lime-soaked corn) dough filled with chicken in Oaxaca mole sauce, wrapped in a banana leaf. The menu isn’t terribly long, but it would take several visits to sample everything.

REYNA RESTAURANTE MEXICANO 2031 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-904-1242 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

PRICES: Appetizers, soups and salads $4-12; entrees $10-18 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED That’s a commitment we’re willing to make. Associated as it is with a Mexican grocery, Reyna’s use of top-notch ingredients was a given. And the preparations are worthy of their components.

Reyna’s serves both mini-tacos — four to a plate — and regular-size, each with a choice of filling and one of nine different salsas. (Salsa-holics may want to avail themselves of the salsa sampler, which comes with housemade chips in a newspaper cone.) The menu politely notes that in Mexico, tacos are traditionally served without the cheese, lettuce and tomato which have become staples of American taco fillings, but these items are available on request.

Regular-size tacos also come with a choice of corn or flour tortilla — doubled, of course.

A regular steak taco was filled with grilled chunks of skirt steak, Jason’s favorite cut, and the meat was tender, juicy and smoky. It was an auspicious start, followed by excellent baby scallop mini-tacos. Several of the little shellfish buttons fit perfectly in a miniature corn tortilla, which was thick yet pliable, hearty yet not overwhelming to the delicate scallops. These were beautifully browned and wonderfully sweet.

Elote — grilled corn on the cob seasoned with salt, chili powder, lime juice, mayonnaise and queso fresco — is a popular

Mexican street food which has only recently come into local consciousness. This is perhaps because it’s one of the messiest foods we’ve ever eaten. Reyna offers a brilliant solution by shaving the kernels off the cob and mixing them with their condiments in a bowl to make a dip. We wished for a little more zing, but elote’s combination of sweet, smokily grilled corn and creamy tang translated beautifully.

Sweet corn cakes are a homey, traditional dish whose elegant presentation here was worthy of a white tablecloth. Three tall cakes were each topped with diced onion, avocado and tomato; the trio rested on a pool of spicy salsa verde atop a corn-husk boat. The tender cakes, studded with kernels and browned top and bottom, were distinctly sweet, but it was the sweetness of fresh corn, not sugary cornbread. The diced topping was bright, the salsa contributed some heat to set off the sweetness, and the avocado added a moment of richness.

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Seventh Street landmark remade into beer-drinker’s paradise For 63 years, Tambellini Seventh Street Ristorante was a fixture in Downtown’s Cultural District, where it celebrated the Italian-American culinary tradition. But the restaurant closed in February, to be replaced with something a bit more American-Italian: pizza and beer.

“You can’t go wrong with pizza and a beer, can you?” says Jason Lockney, who along with partner Suzanne Hrach is opening Proper Brick Oven and Taproom.

“There are places you can get great pizza and places you can get beer, but we want to do both.”

Lockney oversees the rotating list of 30 taps. Twenty of those are dedicated to what Lockney describes as local, though “regional” might be a more accurate description: Beers from both eastern Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes area are in the mix.

Still, it’s an impressive array of styles and breweries.

“There are so many amazing local breweries popping up. It’s important to me that we focus on them,” Lockney says.

The other 10 taps will dispense experimental or unfamiliar beers. Customers can also expect to find a small selection of beer in bottles and cans. Lockney says this concession is “mostly for people who want Bud or Coors Light. We don’t want to kick people out who want them — but you’re going to have to ask for it.”

There will be exceptions to the macro-in-the-bottle/craft-on-tap rule, however. Some craft beers that are difficult to order by the keg will be sold in cans: Lockney already has his eyes set on Elysian Brewing Company’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale for the fall.

And if you’re not a fan of beer? Hrach is compiling a wine list that, according to the establishment’s website, “you won’t see at other local bars.” The duo boasts of working on a cocktail list they say will rival that of other nearby eateries.

As Lockney puts it, “We really want to push the limits of what you’ll see Downtown.”

“THERE ARE SO MANY AMAZING LOCAL BREWERIES POPPING UP. IT’S IMPORTANT TO ME THAT WE FOCUS ON THEM.”

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Chiles rellenos (stuffed peppers) made with fresh poblanos are most familiar to Americans, but Mexicans don’t stop there.

At Reyna you can try anchos rellenos, ancho being the term for dried poblanos, and try we did. The flavor was of ground meat (pork and beef both) stewed in the ancho’s earthy spiciness, while the chile itself was rehydrated by the moisture of the filling.

Anchos also flavored a mole in a sampler mole platter, giving deep burgundy color and rich, pungent flavor to cubes of meltingly tender beef. A mole verde, made with tomatillos, complemented diced pork with its fruity tang, while rich chocolate mole clung to mild shredded chicken.

Reyna is the Mexican restaurant — comfortable, authentic and delicious — Pittsburgh has been waiting for.

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AJI PICANTE. 1711 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-422-0220. There is no mistaking the Latin and Spanish themes on the menu of this Peruvian restaurant: Fried banana, guacamole, even paella are all on offer. Yet all the preparations are unique, from ceviche served with Andean fried corn kernels to a mildly Asianinfluenced steak stir-fry. Distinctly native flavors include potatoes, quinoa and white-bean cake. KF CAFÉ NOTTE. 8070 Ohio River Blvd., Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

Tapas from around the globe are on the menu at this charmingly converted old gas station.

The small-plate preparations are sophisticated, and the presentations are uniformly lovely. Flavors range from Asianstyle crispy duck wings and scallops-three-ways to roasted peppers stuffed with ricotta. KE CAFFE DAVIO. 2516 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-431-1119.

By day, a tiny store-front diner, serving omelets and pancakes, and by evening, an authentic and delightful Italian restaurant.

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Nicky’s Thai Kitchen GRAN CANAL CAFFÉ. 1021 N. Canal St., Sharpsburg. 412-7812546. The menu here is classic coastal Mediterranean. Even dishes rarely seen at other Italian restaurants — such as snails and penne stuffed with seafood — are traditional, not made up to satisfy eclectic contemporary tastes. The cannelloni alone merits a visit to one of Gran Canal’s cozy, familyfriendly dining rooms. KE

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This fine-dining restaurant offers the bold flavors and confident preparations of classic Portuguese cuisine — from thick, meaty Iberian octopus tentacles, broiled with Portuguese bleu cheese, to sausage flambéed en route to the table. Entrees include steak in a red-wine sauce, chicken cooked with Portuguese peppers, pork with clams and, of course, fish. LE

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412-431-4668. The Carson Street bar and nightclub offers a top-notch sandwich and salad menu, by bringing creativity, quality preparation and a knack for well-selected ingredients to the burgers, sandwiches and appetizers.

Options include: shrimp skewers with smoked peppers, corn-andblack-bean fritters and a roster of inventive sliders. JE TRUTH LOUNGE. 51 S. 12th St., South Side. 412-381-9600.

A Mediterranean-inspired menu spans cocktail-hour noshes and light meals to full entrees. Pleasing appetizers include saganaki (Greek flaming cheese) and the novelty “lambsicles.” Flatbreads fill the spot for upscale pizza, with hearty meat and pasta dishes, such as short-rib ragu, rounding out the entrees. LE TWISTED THISTLE. 127 Market St., Leechburg. 724236-0450. This cozy restaurant, set in a restored 1902 hotel, offers above-average fare, reasonably priced. Alongside the contemporary American flavors are numerous Asian-inspired dishes, such as soup made from kabocha pumpkin. From po’boy oyster appetizers to crab cakes and over-sized short ribs, each dish is carefully conceived and prepared. KE UP MODERN KITCHEN. 5500 Walnut St., Shadyside. 412688-8220. This contemporary restaurant offers a sophisticated sensibility and eclectic approach to fresh, local and seasonal cuisine. The globally influenced menu ranges from “bites” to “small plates” to entrees, as well as soups, salads and sandwiches.

The variety is such that it’s hard to imagine a diner unable to find something enticing. KE VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. 424 S. Main St., West End. 412-458-0417.

This warm, welcoming, and satisfying Italian restaurant is a reason to brave the West End Circle. The menu offers variety within a few narrowly constrained categories: antipasti, pizza and pasta, with the pasta section organized around seven noodle shapes, from capelli to rigatoni, each paired with three or four distinct sauces. KE

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SEWICKLEY SPEAKEASY. 17 Ohio River Blvd., Sewickley. 412741-1918. This little restaurant has the charm of a bygone era and old-fashioned food whose pleasures are worth rediscovering.

The Continental menu offers chestnuts like duck á l’orange and Virginia spots, as well as more distinctive dishes, such as tournedos dijon bleu and French Acadian porterhouse. LE

IF YOU WERE in Pittsburgh this summer, you probably noticed — and complained about — the rain.

But while it may have spoiled your picnic plans, it also ensured a steady supply of coveted chanterelle mushrooms at local restaurants and markets.

“This was the largest bloom of chanterelles that I’ve seen in over a decade,” says Tom Patterson, mycologist and forager for Lawrenceville’s Wild Purveyors. Coupled with mild temperatures, the periodic moisture made this a banner year for the fungus.

Like many desirable items, chanterelles are elusive. They cluster on lightly graded hills with apt water. Retailing for nearly $ 22 per pound, golden chanterelles remain sought-after for their “meaty texture and distinct woodsy flavor,” as well as for a regionally specific apricot scent when raw, says Chad Townsend, chef de cuisine for Salt of the Earth.

In past years, Salt’s main mushroom-purveyors — Randy Danielson and son, Ryley — brought 15 pounds of chanterelles to the restaurant weekly. This summer, they arrived with almost 30.

Adding to the chanterelles’ VIP status is the fact they are difficult to domesticate: “They’re symbiotic with trees and dependent on their hosts for the fruiting of mushrooms,” says Patterson.

That delicate system, coupled with increasing demand, means that foraging can easily become unsustainable if done incorrectly, warns Townsend.

“Mushrooms have a very specific underground network,” he says. “If you rip them out of the ground, it’s really bad for them.”

For foodies, the fun of chanterelles is their seasonality, so you’ll have to hurry to catch them on menus at Salt, Casbah, Eleven and elsewhere. But even if you miss this year’s crop, Wild Purveyors sell their preserved bounty in a dry chanterelle mushroom seasoning. “[Chanterelles] are my favorite mushroom,” says Townsend, “I love them any which way.” Part of being a seasonally inspired chef, however, is appreciating a good thing without holding on too tightly. And Townsend, for one, is already awaiting the arrival of hen-of-the-woods and the other wild mushrooms coming this fall.

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Wreck Loose may be a new addition to the Pittsburgh music scene, but its members can scarcely be considered musically reclusive.

Piano man and lead vocalist Max Somerville has been involved in the local music scene for the past five years, playing in bands like Backstabbing Good People. Wreck Loose bassist Dave Busch also played in that band, and has a musical past with singer-songwriters Jeremy Colbert and Jenny Morgan.

Drummer Derek Krystek has been involved with Sleepy V, Dazzletine and Low Man, while New York-born guitarist Nathan Zoob can attribute the start of his postgrad involvement in the Pittsburgh music scene to Mark Dignam’s band.

But the garage-pop players agree that this is the most natural and enjoyable band experience they’ve had thus far.

Built of nostalgia and a collective love of pop, the four draw inspiration from what turned them on as kids.

“I love music that challenges me,” says Krystek. “But the stuff that really stuck was stuff that grabbed me instantly and never let go. And that’s the kind of stuff we want to be.”

Drawing inspiration from artists like James Taylor, The Who, Elton John and Steely Dan, Wreck Loose aims to emulate artists that aren’t necessarily in vogue, but have touched the band’s members’ lives, and tries to share that inspiration as widely as possible.

The three-month-old band released its first EP, Well, at the end of July and already has five shows under its belt, with more scheduled for fall. The momentum seems promising, and with a positive attitude to back it, Wreck Loose could very well wreak some havoc on the Pittsburgh pop scene.

“As folks, we’re not pretentious or particularly affected,” says Zoob. “We’re just kids on the street. The music is smart.

The music is catchy, the music is original, the music is there. I’m so proud to be in a band that had that on offer, because I’ve been in bands that have some elements of that, but to be in a group that has the whole package going is wonderful.”

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OSHUA HODGES, mastermind of the Portland, Ore., synth-rock band Starfucker, is leading the band on a tour to promote its fourth full-length album, Miracle Mile. He spoke with us a few days before the band’s appearance at FYF Fest in Los Angeles last weekend.

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Hitting the reset button: Starfucker (Joshua Hodges, top right)

filmed The Goonies. That’s one of its claims to fame. I have this family friend who has this house there, and she let me go down there for three months in the off-season, when they are never there.

It’s this weird, cool, sleepy little town that feels haunted and probably is. It’s a really dangerous area for ships, traditionally.

MIRACLE MILE SOUNDS LIKE THE LEAST ELECTRONIC ALBUM YOU’VE DONE. WAS THAT A CONSCIOUS DECISION? STARFUCKER Half of it was recorded at this beach in OrWITH SMALL BLACK, FEELINGS 8 p.m. Tue., Sept. 3. Altar Bar, egon, where I had this idea of making this 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $15. All ages. really sloppy, drunk-sounding album that 412-206-9719 or www.thealtarbar.com was mostly guitar. Half the album is from that phase, and the other half is some electronic stuff, which is good because that There are hundreds of sunken ships there. translates well to our live show.

It’s where the Columbia River meets the ocean. There’s all this Victorian architecHOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF ture overlooking [the] hills. It feels like a RECORDING ON THIS BEACH? CAN YOU weird Norwegian village or something. It DESCRIBE THIS PLACE? was a great place to get away from everyIt’s a town called Astoria, where they thing and be more like a cat or something

that can just enjoy life without needing to be busy all the time: just sit in the window and look at the world and enjoy the simple things about life, which are great.

I could walk and talk and look at things and listen to things and that’s enough, but I forget that’s enough and feel like I [need] more. So I could go there and remember that shit, you know?

WHAT WAS IT THAT TIRED YOU OUT? It was touring all the time. You don’t get a lot of alone time on tour. I never talked to my good friends, because I am bad about keeping in contact when I am on the road.

It’s difficult for me to do all [the] things I need to do to stay sane on tour: some kind of exercise, spending time with good friends that understand me. I love the guys in my band — we’re all good friends — but it’s not the same thing as it is with people I’ve known my whole life and [who] understand me. And eating healthy, sleeping CONTINUES ON PG. 24

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SPEAKING OF PHASES AND CHANGES, YOUR BAND CHANGED ITS NAME TO “PYRAMIDD” FOR A WHILE. WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT? No, no. For a while, we had this really bad manager. We knew we shouldn’t have hired her but we did. We drank some KoolAid we shouldn’t have. She was attached to some really cool labels. She said, “They really like you guys, but they want you to change your name.” At that point we really wanted to keep doing this, so if that’s what it takes, why not? So we went to Europe and played three shows under that name, which was so weird.

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DOES HAVING SUCH AN EXPLICIT NAME HOLD YOU BACK IN OTHER WAYS? Of course. That was kind of the point. When I named it that, I was in New York and was part of this band I really wasn’t into and was recording this other stuff [on the side].

People were pushing me to put it out. It felt so weird at the time to be this hired gun for this other band and be putting out this music I really wasn’t interested in. I was around all these people who were kind of douchey, the kind of people I would never hang out with, and one of them bragged about being a “starfucker.” I thought, “Who are these people? What is this world?” That’s why I chose the name: because it represented all I didn’t want to be a part of, all I didn’t want to do. So it does hold us back, but that was the point, originally. This was the music I was making in my basement to stay sane, and it’s funny that it’s what I do, what I tour behind. I never thought it’d be a real band.

RAY DAWN EN PLANE AIR (SELF-RELEASED)

Ray Dawn is getting out his frustration on this new 26-minute mixtape. The local rapper spends a lot of time on this one calling out fakes, haters and gold-diggers, backed up by sinister beats from Ohini Jonez and Danimal.

Time is money, he notes in a couple of instances here — and, on one track, he says, “I’ma spend mine on Tyra Banks.” He hits his best flow on “Lately”: “Fuck you, pay me / Just how I feel lately / My time be the money and I can’t spend maybes.” He starts the mix referencing Malcolm Gladwell and insisting that he’s paid his dues and his time has come, and closes it out with a track that starts off, “It’s 2013, I’m thirsty for dough.” Maybe he sounds a little impatient, but maybe he’s earned that right — and maybe his big moment is right around the corner.

MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER YOU AND THE OPEN ROAD

ONE OF YOUR SONGS WAS LICENSED FOR A TARGET SPOT AND FOR A TV SHOW. HOW DOES THAT FIT INTO YOUR AMBIVALENCE ABOUT SUCCESS? DO YOU WORRY ABOUT BEING KNOWN AS THE GUY WHO HAD THE SONG IN THE TARGET COMMERCIAL? I don’t care, man. I grew up so poor. I’m just so happy to be able to do what I love for money rather than selling coffee or whatever. I think that is just the weird world we live in right now. We don’t sell enough records to make a living off that. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do if we didn’t have some of that happen early on, if we didn’t have that to support us touring. Touring is expensive and at first you just break even.

We were on food stamps for the first tour, and getting licensed helped so much. I am sure if I wasn’t me and I was looking in on it, I would be judgmental. But that’s because I wouldn’t know what it’s like to make that transition to doing what I love for a living.

Full-length from the local popcountry singer.

Christopher subscribes to many of the ideals of contemporary country music — wanderlust, women, work ethic — without falling into the trashy mode that much of the genre has taken a turn toward in recent years. A rocker here, a ballad there, well recorded with good vocals; the only thing that could be tightened up is the verbiage, which gets a little awkward sometimes, losing the effortless cool that characterizes much of the record. (I could do without the Buffettesque “Song About the Beach,” too, but we can chalk that up to personal preference.) Good stuff from a young artist who’s working hard and could become a big name.

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CRIMINAL RECORD {BY MARGARET WELSH} ON SEPT. 11 of last year, Nic Lawless —

one of many aliases he’s adopted over the years — found himself wandering around the campus at Pitt, where he had recently started his junior year as a poetry major.

He wasn’t feeling patriotic per se but, he says, “I had a strange feeling in my gut.” On the way home, he wrote a poem called “911,” which quickly grew into a ramshackle and deceptively sunny solo EP, Nic Lawless.

By the end of 2012, the New Jersey native had formed Nic Lawless and Young Criminales — along with guitarist Josh Barnes, bassist Matt Holden, guitarist/ keyboardist Tim Crammond and drummer Mark Rodgers — who just this month completed their first East Coast tour, and finished Sunless, a skillfully infectious fulllength. This is not a band of time-wasters.

Freshly 21, Lawless is an old hand at the rock n roll game – by 13, his band Strike had already opened for Enter Shikari at a soldout Bowery Ballroom show.

After moving to Pittsburgh, Lawless fell in with bands like Ursa Major and Skinless Boneless, and started playing with experimental artist Dean Cercone. “It was a good learning experience,” he says. “Probably the most influential thing was that [Cercone] told me, ‘Yeah, I’m just an artist.’

Obviously he wasn’t rich or anything like that; it was just really cool that he had dedicated his life to art.”

Bringing down the house: Nic Lawless (front) and Young Criminales (from left: Matt Holden, Mark Rodgers, Tim Crammond, Josh Barnes)

es; on stage, he and the rest of the band hemorrhage charisma. Shows are “just, like, 35 minutes of madness,” he says. On tour, “it was actually a little too crazy for me to control and it was a little stressful. When we play in Pittsburgh, it’s the most rowdy experience that I need for a long time.”

Lawless counts Iggy Pop, The Velvet Underground — Nico is his selfappointed namesake — and Julian Casablancas as influences. But, with a presence that is alternately lazy-cool and pained, he also brings to mind Richard Hell, Stephen Malkmus and even Patti Smith.

Some casual observers might accuse Lawless of unearned posturing — it is, after all, hard to pull off an assumed name and a punk persona without a few people asking, “Who do you think you are?” But, as Barnes points out, “He’s been doing it since he was 13.” At a certain point, the lines between an invented attitude and real personality get a little blurry.

“The band was telling me, ‘Act like you are this person,’” Lawless says. “I came up with it, it must be part of me.” But still, Young Criminales as a band pushes Lawless to new places as a frontman. Early on, Barnes recalls, “I was like, ‘This kid, he writes good songs, but what is he doing?’ I said, ‘You gotta stop singing like a choir boy.’”

“I think it ruined me,” Lawless responds with a laugh and a shrug. “I had better range then.”

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With that philosophy in mind, Young Criminales spend as much time as possible writing, practicing and recording, and their commitment is evident on Sunless, which confidently filters garage, ’60s surf, and doo-wop through a lens of loud, snotty punk rock.

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Masters of the Universe [AMERICANA] + FRI., AUG. 30 August closes out in Oakland with a free concert from WYEP’s Final Fridays featuring singer-songwriter Bobby Long. The Brit, who’s been bunking in New York for the past couple of years, will rock Schenley Plaza with his voice, guitar and Americana-folksy style. Bastard Bearded Irishmen open, playing the Irish rock ’n’ roll that Pittsburgh has come to know them by. Kira Scammell 7 p.m.

4100 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. All ages.

412-381-9131 or www.wyep.org

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at Brillobox tonight with a double headliner from electronic artists Shigeto and Beacon, on the Ghostly International Tour. With bleeps and bloops reminiscent of video-game synths, wrapped in hypnotic melodies, the Ghostly International artists are sure to generate a gentle ambiance that’s cool and calm, yet deep and danceable. Shigeto’s new LP No Better Time Than Now dropped last week; this is your chance to catch it while it’s fresh.

Special guest Heathered Pearls will open the evening. KS 9 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $8. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

[INDIE ROCK] + WED., SEPT. 04 San Francisco-via-Brooklyn band Weekend — not to be confused with sex-jam singer The Weeknd, or the actual weekend, which is still a few days off — has come up with one of the year’s more impressive entries in Jinx, a fulllength that brings to mind shoegaze, post-punk and even ’80s pop a la The Smiths and Tears for Fears. The contemplative trio kicks off its fall tour tonight at Brillobox, playing along with post-rockers Dead Leaf Echo and indie-rock locals Nevada Mountains. AM 9 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $8. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

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If the passing of time has got you longing for late-’90s third-wave ska, Masters of the Universe has you covered tonight. The eightpiece band, which features some vets of local punk and ska bands past, has been around in one form or another since the mid-’00s, but coalesced in its current form last year. Tonight’s show at Altar Bar serves as a release show for the band’s new fulllength, In a Galaxie Far Far Away. The Pressure and Hey Compadre open.

Andy Mulkerin 7 p.m. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $10. 412-206-9719 or www.thealtarbar.com

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ROCK/POP THU 29 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Mike Medved.

Murrysville. 724-733-4453.

BRILLOBOX. Energy Gown, General Fantasy, Robin Vote, DJ Nice Rec, Laura Warman, Joe Hogle, Daniel Shapiro, Daddy the Clown. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

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

412-281-6593.

CLUB CAFE. Snomine, Coronado, Carol Blaze. South Side. 412-431-4950.

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Mumford & Sons. Burgettstown.

724-947-7400.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Ensemble Economique, Opale, BCBG, KMFD. Garfield. 412-361-2262.

STATION SQUARE. Starship feat.

Mickey Thomas. Station Square.

WALNUT GRILL. The Keystone 3.

Shadyside. 412-782-4768.

FRI 30 31ST STREET PUB. DeathMaschine. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Terrance Vaughn.

Richland. 724-444-7333.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Geen Stovall Trio. Strip District.

412-281-6593.

CLUB CAFE. Eric Himan & the Soultre’ Singers, Southside American (Late) Eric Himan, Southside American (late).

South Side. 412-431-4950.

CLUB COLONY. Five Guys Named Moe. Scott. 412-668-0903.

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

NORTH PARK LODGE. Antz Marching. Allison Park.

SCHENLEY PLAZA. Bobby Long.

Oakland. 412-682-7275.

SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. JD Eicher & the Goodnights.

South Park.

ST. CLAIR PARK. Yarn.

Greensburg. 724-838-4324.

WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. Joe Grushecky & The HouseRockers. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SAT 31 31ST STREET PUB. Charlie & the Foxtrots, Modern Nature, Great Ancient Trees. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

99 BOTTLES. King’s Ransom.

Carnegie. 412-279-1299.

ALTAR BAR. Masters of

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the Universe. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Aberrant Kingdom, Steve Thompson & the Professionals, The Mighty, Smoketree. Bloomfield.

412-682-8611.

CALIENTE PIZZA & BAR. Ray Lanich Band. Bloomfield.

412-682-1414.

CLUB CAFE. Adam Zwig, Jim Platt, Science! (Early) Driftwood, The Tilt Room (Late). South Side.

412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Daniels & McClain. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Joan of Arc, Co La, Legs Like Tree Trunks.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

KOPPER KETTLE. Patti Spadaro Band. Washington. 724-225-5221.

LITTLE E’S. The Charina Kimes Trio. Downtown. 412-392-2217.

LONE PINE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. Gone South. Washington.

MEADOWS CASINO. Idol Kings.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

MONONGAHELA AQUATORIUM. Blackfoot. Monongahela.

724-258-5905.

NIED’S HOTEL. Slim Forsythe, The Neon Swing X-Perience.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

SIDEBAR. The Misery Jackals.

Kittanning. 724-919-8276.

THREE STREETS GRILLE. The

Dave Iglar Band. Finleyville.

724-348-8030.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Todd Clouser. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

SUN 01 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Jeremy Frantz.

Pleasant Hills. 412-714-8670.

SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Weather Permitting feat. The Harlan Twins, Chet Vincent & the Big Bend, Faithful Sinners. Shadyside.

412-363-5845.

MON 02 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. John McDonald Trio.

North Side. 412-322-1850.

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ALTAR BAR. Starfucker. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Chuck Corby Trio.

North Side. 412-322-1850.

BRILLOBOX. The Ghostly International Tour ft. Shigeto & Beacon, Heathered Pearls.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Late Nite Reading, This Is All Now, 7 Minutes to Heaven, The Picture Perfect, The Big Time, Take A Breath. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

MP 3 MONDAY MAD RAPTURE

Each week, we bring you a track from a local band. This week’s offering comes from Mad Rapture; stream or download

“Two Steps” for free on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com.

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GOOSKI’S. Slavic Soul Party, Lungs Face Feet, Pandemic. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Micheal Grimm. Station Square.

412-481-7625.

MALL AT ROBINSON. Joel Lindsey. Robinson.

SMILING MOOSE. Strawberry Girls, Stolas, Save Us From The Archon, Arcane Awakening, The Antediluvians.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

WED 04

RIVERS CASINO. Video DJ’s.

Drum Bar. North Side.

412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

JAZZ THU 29

SUN 01

PERRYTOWNE DRAFT HOUSE. DJ Tony Smith. McCandless.

412-367-9610.

SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation.

DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

Electro, post punk, . www per industrial, new wave, a p ty ci pgh m alternative dance. .co South Side. 412-431-4668.

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31ST STREET PUB. The Chop Tops, The Lobotomites, Legendary Hucklebucks.

Strip District. 412-391-8334.

ALTAR BAR. STRFKR, Small Black.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Gary Glenn & the Retro Soul. North Side. 412-322-1850.

BRILLOBOX. Weekend, Dead Leaf Echo, Nevada Mountains.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Zappa Plays Zappa. Munhall.

412-368-5225.

CLUB CAFE. Jupiter Vinyl, Charlie & the Foxtrots, Broken Fences.

Jupiter Vinyl 12” vinyl release party.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

SMILING MOOSE. American Opera, Addison Steele American Opera. South Side. 412-431-4668.

WED 04 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.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 30 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Blueprint, Illogic, Amuck, Fortified Phonetx, Stillborn Identity. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

SLOPPY JOE’S. Wil E. Tri & the Bluescasters. Mt. Washington.

412-381-4300.

DJS THU 29 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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

LAVA LOUNGE. Emo Night 12.

South Side. 412-431-5282.

PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side.

412-224-2273.

FRI 30 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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

412-362-1250.

LAVA LOUNGE. 80’s New Wave Flashback. w/ DJ Electric. South Side. 412-431-5282.

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

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Digital Dave. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

SAT 31 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul.

East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Michael Joseph. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

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ANDYS. Kenia. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

FRESCO’S RUSTIC EUROPEAN CUISINE & WINE BAR. Pete Hewlett. Wexford.

724-935-7550.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Stemtec. North Side.

412-904-3335.

LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Joe Guaricco. Mt. Washington.

412-431-3100.

LITTLE E’S. The Just Ahead Trio.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

ANDYS. Maureen Budway.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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AMBRIDGE SONS OF ITALY. Jazz Jam Night. Ambridge.

724-266-3991.

ANDYS. Bronwyn Wyatt.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends.

Entrepreneurial Thursdays.

Downtown. 412-392-2217.

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

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FRI 30 ELWOOD’S PUB. Ms. Freddye’s Home Cookin’. Cheswick.

724-265-1181.

THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. The Jimmy Adler Band. Canonsburg.

724-746-4227.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Billy Price & the Lost Minds. North Side. 412-904-3335.

W. NEW CASTLE ST. PLAZA. Josh Brown, Eugene & The Nightcrawlers, Renegade Roosters.

Butler. 724-256-5769.

SAT 31 BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. The Jimmy Adler Band, Charlie Barath.

Monaca. 724-728-7200.

EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. The Rhythm Aces. South Side.

412-431-4090.

PAPA ROCKS PIZZA. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues.

Monroeville. 412-856-6441.

PARK HOUSE. The Jimmy Adler Band, Charlie Barath. North Side.

412-224-2273.

THE R BAR. The Stevie Wellons Band The Stevie Wellons Band.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

SEVEN SPRINGS. Tony Janflone Jr. Band. Foggy Google Blues Series.

Champion. 1-800-452-2223.

WED 04 ATRIAS RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Nick Fiasco. Wexford.

724-934-3660.

THE R BAR. Yoho’s Yinzide Out. Dormont. 412-942-8842.

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

CJ’S. Sweet 16 feat. Monica Carter, The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session.

Strip District. 412-642-2377.

FRESCO’S RUSTIC EUROPEAN CUISINE & WINE BAR. Mary Ann Mangini. Wexford.

724-935-7550.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Poogie Bell Band. North Side. 412-904-3335.

RIVERVIEW PARK. Kenny Blake.

Stars at Riverview Jazz Series.

North Side. 412-255-2493.

ANDYS. Ken Karsh. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

KATZ PLAZA. Cecil Brooks III. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ David Throckmorton. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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WED 04 ANDYS. Donna Bailey.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CJ’S. Michele Benson. Strip District. 412-642-2377.

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THU 29 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford.

724-934-1177.

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

412-489-5631.

MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night.

West Mifflin. 412-461-8000.

PERRYTOWNE DRAFT HOUSE. Ashley & Garret.

McCandless. 412-367-9610.

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412-429-7272.

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412-963-0640.

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

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Monday Night Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE CENTER OF HARMONY. Science!, Charlie and The Foxtrots. Harmony.

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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Wednesdays. North Side.

Aaron from The 412-321-1834.

Lava Game. Robinson.

PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass 412-489-5631.

Jam w/ The Shelf Life LEVELS. MFAR. North String Band. North Side.

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THE FALLOUT SHELTER. James Maple, Samantha Harlow, The Homeless Gospel Choir. Aliquippa.

724-378-7669.

LEVELS. Gary Prisby. North Side.

412-231-7777.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

SAT 31 STONE VILLA WINE CELLARS. The Flow Band. Acme.

724-423-5640.

SUN 01

JT’S. The Flow Band. Monroeville.

412-224-4086.

COUNTRY THU 29 PALACE THEATRE. Michael Christopher. Greensburg.

724-836-1123.

FRI 30 MEADOWS CASINO. Ruff Creek.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

MON 02

ALTAR BAR. Hank III. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

CLASSICAL THU 29 MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL STRING QUARTET. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

OTHER MUSIC SAT 31 WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. CityScape. North Side.

412-231-7777.

MON 02

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

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests The Elliots. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Shari Richards

Mumford & Sons

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. With special guests The Vaccines & Bear's Den. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7p.m.

Snowmine CLUB CAFE South Side. 412431-4950. With special guests Coronado & Carol Blaze. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb. com/opusone. 8p.m.

Starship feat.

Mickey Thomas BESSEMER COURT Station Square. Free event. All ages show. 6:30p.m.

Montgomery Gentry STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com

Sundog 6 HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests Lily Wine Affair.

Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10:30p.m.

Fungus - Grateful Dead Tribute Band

Adam Zwig

Ruby Beh CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. With special guests Amun Raqs. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 7p.m.

MONTGOMERY GENTRY THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 STAGE AE

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Burgettstown. Featuring Dave Chappelle & Flight of the Conchords. Tickets: ticketmaster. com or 800-745-3000. 5p.m.

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

Tickets: warhol.org. 8p.m.

Hometown Music Fest SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. Free event. Call 412-835-4810 for more info. 7:30p.m.

Comedian Mike McCarthy feat.

Karen Fitzgerald LATITUDE 40 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555. Tickets:

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The Granati Brothers JERGELS RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

Tickets: jergels.com. 9p.m.

14th Annual Allegheny County Music Festival

CLUB CAFE South Side. 412431-4950. With special guests Science! and Jim Platt. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 7p.m.

HARTWOOD ACRES PARK. Featuring Rusted Root. $20-per-car suggested donation. 5p.m.

Todd Clouser's A Love Electric

MONDAY 2

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

No Bad Juju Band

SATURDAY 31

LATITUDE 40 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555. Tickets: latitude40pitt.com. 9:15p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests The Pressure & Hey Compadre.

Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly. com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

SUNDAY 1

Fungus - Grateful Dead Tribute Band

Side. 412-390-1111.

Free event. 1p.m.

Hank III

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. With special guests Attention Deficit Domination & 3 Bar Ranch. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

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{BY AL HOFF} Mismatched pairs are the order of the day in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints: hope and disappointment, love and absence, prison and freedom, dreams and reality. It’s suggested that the lead protagonists — smalltown criminal Bob (Casey Affleck) and his wife, Ruth (Rooney Mara) — are true soulmates, but one could hardly call them “matched”: He’s on the lam from jail and she’s raising their young daughter alone.

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The distance between them, and the film’s other mismatches, lie at the heart of David Lowery’s lean, languid drama, which takes place in a Texas town sometime in the 1970s. Bodies introduces Bob and Ruth as they are arrested; handcuffed together, their intimacy is electric. But most of the film covers the few days four years later when Bob tries to reunite with Ruth and the child he’s never met.

Writer/director Lowery — not the guy from Camper Van Beethoven, but an editor who worked recently on Upstream Color — has clearly been influenced by Terrence Malick, both in the film’s visual style and its spare, melancholy storytelling.

Bodies also has an equally spare soundtrack of old-timey rhythms, some as elemental as hand claps. But it is not without its richness: It’s visually sumptuous, meticulously constructed to tread the knife’s edge between plot and ephemeral experience, and offers fine performances from Affleck and Mara, as well as Ben Foster and Keith Carradine. Starts Fri., Aug. 30. Regent Square AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

BREATH OF THE GODS. Jan Schmidt-Garre’s new documentary traces the ancient roots of yoga (the god Shiva is said to have perfected 8.4 million poses), as well as its introduction as a practice in the early 20th century. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 29. Hollywood

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ATE IN GABRIELA Cowperthwaite’s

muckraking documentary Blackfish, about orcas who spend their whole lives as entertainers at marine theme parks, some former SeaWorld trainers take a boat to see the sea mammals in the wild. One trainer cries, “We saw whales swimming in straight lines.”

That seemingly innocuous observation is devastating in its simplicity: We saw whales swimming in straight lines. Because at SeaWorld and similar parks, these gigantic sea-faring creatures spend decades confined in landlocked pools. And being restricted is just one of the unnatural states such orcas endure. The highly intelligent, social animals are separated from families, bereft of stimulation and forced to perform “tricks” for our amusement.

Cowperthwaite’s film seeks to elucidate two intertwined theories, both at odds with the theme park’s cheery marketing: that keeping orcas in captivity is cruel, and working directly with the orcas can be dangerous for humans. Not surprisingly, evidence suggests captivity leads to aggression in whales, prompting attacks

A showman’s life: This orca, Tilicum, continues to work at SeaWorld.

on other whales and trainers.

Blackfish revisits the well-publicized February 2010 death of Dawn Brancheau, a longtime orca trainer at Orlando’s SeaWorld. She was killed by Tilicum, SeaWorld’s star whale, a 12,000-pound animal with a history of aggression: Tilicum was implicated in two prior deaths.

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CP APPROVED The film also recounts Tilicum’s sad life, from his 1983 capture in the Atlantic, when he was only 2 years old, through his three-decade career as an entertainer and sperm donor. He still “works” at SeaWorld, though no longer with people. (Perhaps death will be his release: Captive orcas live significantly shorter lives than their wild brethren, dying at 25-30 years rather than a more natural 60-100 years.)

Parts of Blackfish are tough to watch, whether it’s a terrifying assault on a hu-

man by an orca, orcas attacking each other, or — perhaps worst of all — calves being removed from their mothers to be relocated to another theme park. You won’t soon forget the unearthly keening of the mother whales.

The bulk of the background information is provided by former SeaWorld trainers, shown in contemporary talking-head interviews and in archival footage from when they were young, enthusiastic and unquestioning about their jobs. (The primary requirements for trainers were to be perky performers and good swimmers, not necessarily marine-mammal experts.) A few marine experts weigh in as well.

As a filmmaker, Cowperthwaite has an agenda and sticks to it; SeaWorld declined requests for interviews, and there are essentially no opinions in favor of the parks presented. But even playing devil’s advocate yourself — such parks are educational, or inspire children — it’s hard to make a case for penning up whales. Just because we can capture and train orcas and other sea mammals for our amusement (and profit) doesn’t mean we should.

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As you can imagine, the government has a stake in how this trial plays out. Rose and Simmons-Howe, who had the affair that broke up Rose’s marriage (or so we’re told), figure out what’s going on through the exciting and apparently dangerous world of data-mining and by — as my fifth-grade science teacher used to say — using their noodles. And of course what’s really going on is spelled out to us by Bana after an unexciting epiphany.

Closed Circuit is not a bad film as political thrillers go, but its main problem is that things just sort of happen following actions that we’re simply not privy to.

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GETAWAY. A former race-car driver (Ethan Hawke) is forced to drive a souped-up Mustang around CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Spectacular Now doing crazy things The Avengers, Wed., by a mysterious man Aug. 28 (Schenley), and who has kidnapped Sat., Aug. 31 (Riverview). his wife. Courtney Chimpanzee, Thu., Aug. 29 Solomon directs this action thriller. Starts Fri., (Brookline); Fri., Aug. 30 (Arsenal); and Sat., Aug. 31 Aug. 30.

(Grandview). Films begin at dusk. 412-422-6426 or www.citiparks.net. Free THE GRANDMASTER. Wong Kar-wai’s bio-pic recounts the story of Ip Man, the martial-arts THE BREAKFAST CLUB. A little sad, a little happy master who trained Bruce Lee. Tony Leung is one way to sum up this 1985 dramedy about stars. In Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese, high school from John Hughes. You don’t need me with subtitle. Starts Fri., Aug. 30. to re-tell the plot (five kids from different cliques discover they have plenty in common). So, whether THE SPECTACULAR NOW. It’s been a you’re a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess or CP surprisingly good summer for better- a criminal — just be there when the bell rings. 7:30 than-average coming-of-age movies (The p.m. Wed., Aug. 28; 9 p.m. Fri., Aug. 30; and 7 p.m.

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LITTLE CAESAR. Edward G. Robinson stars in this gritty 1931 crime drama about a gangster who stops at nothing until he’s undone by his own desire for power. Mervyn LeRoy directed this influential film, which helped establish the quintessential gangster rise-and-fall narrative. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 30. Parkway Theater, 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. $3 CREATING THE PANDROGYNE. Musician, artist and provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will present a program of short films that document the “pandrogyne project,” in which P-Orridge and his wife, Lady Jaye (now deceased), employed plastic surgery, costumes and other techniques to merge their identities. Screens in conjunction with The Warhol Mueseum’s exhibit S/HE IS HER/E. 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 30. Warhol. $10. www.warhol.org PRETTY IN PINK. Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer star in this 1986 comedyromance about a high school girl who must choose between the new cute rich guy and her goofy pal who has long been crushing on her. Howard Deutsch directs a script by John Hughes. 10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 30, and 10 p.m. Sat., Aug. 31. Oaks GOODFELLAS. Spend more time with The Family, in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 drama, a searing, profanely funny account of real-life mobster (and FBI informant) Henry Hill. Starring Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro, plus quite a few future Sopranos cast members. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 31.

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sequences become puzzle pieces the viewer can assemble differently. And repeat viewings only strengthen Welles’ premise (so neatly aped in the opening newsreel montage of Kane’s life) that, despite new angles and fresh information, the life of a man can be unknowable. The film opens a month-long Sunday-night series of films about old-school journalism. 8 p.m. Sun., Sept. 1. Regent Square (AH) GONE WITH THE WIND. Sure, you know the story: Those damn Yankees burn the South; Ashley can’t man up; Scarlet pouts all over Tara; and Rhett Butler doesn’t give a damn. But sure as some Southern belles will never go hungry again, Victor Fleming’s epic 1939 historical melodrama holds up to repeated viewings. See it on a big screen. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 4. AMC Loews. $5 A SINGLE SHOT. David M. Rosenthal directs this new thriller about a tragic shooting death, and the hunter and backwoodsmen who get caught up in its aftermath. Sam Rockwell and William H. Macy star. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 4. Hollywood ERASERHEAD. “Mother, they’re still not sure it is a baby!” There’s much that sticks in one’s head after seeing Eraserhead, even if it was more than 30 years ago. For me, it’s that immortal line, which sums up how funny, unnerving, twisted and inexplicable David Lynch’s 1976 film is. Beautifully shot in black and white, and with an inventive score, the work features, without much narrative explication: a depressed man (Jack Nance), his girlfriend, their newborn offspring, a mysterious radiator and chickens. This mystifying but strangely compelling art-house favorite opens a series of Lynch films at the Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Sept. 5; 7 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 6; 2 p.m. Sat., Sept. 7; and 7 p.m. Sun., Sept. 8. Hollywood (AH) ADJUST YOUR TRACKING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE VHS COLLECTOR. Press “play,” then pause.

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“IT REMINDS ME OF PEACOCKS.”

{BY NADINE WASSERMAN} Back in the 1980s, Samella Lewis’s Art: African American was a fundamental textbook for fledgling art historians desperate for information about artists who were not white, male and dead. So it is a treat to see work by Elizabeth Catlett from Lewis’ own private collection displayed at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.

The late Catlett even had a history with Pittsburgh: Despite winning a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the 1930s, she was denied enrollment because of her race. (Carnegie Mellon University finally honored her with a Doctorate of Fine Arts, in 2008.)

The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis, which includes both sculptures and prints, is co-curated

by Lewis and the Center’s Cecile Shellman.

Catlett, the granddaughter of slaves, used her work to address issues of social justice and self-determination. She was inspired by her experiences as an African-American woman, but also by artistic sources including African and pre-Columbian art, and the work of artists such as Henry Moore, Grant Wood, Diego Rivera and Mexican graphic-arts collective Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP), which she joined in 1946.

Catlett’s style ranges from figuration and portraiture to abstraction. But like other TGP artists, much of her work accessibly blends art, social commentary and activism. Such portrayals as “Survivor” and “Sharecropper” demonstrate how her strong graphic style underscores the dignity of everyday working people, particularly women.

Many of Catlett’s works were overtly political. In “The Torture of Mothers,” Catlett depicts the emotional devastation caused by the war on young black men, a subject as relevant today as it was when the piece was first printed in 1970. The exhibition balances Catlett’s graphic work with a few of her dynamic sculptures, from the more realistic “Mother and Child” to the more abstract “Maternity.”

While Catlett’s work speaks for itself, the exhibition is a bit uneven. The installation is eccentric and there are very few didactic panels. The addition of work by Lewis and Catlett’s husband, Francisco Mora, seem like filler. While there is a large catalogue available in the gallery, the exhibition could have been enhanced by signage providing further insight into the relationship between Lewis and Catlett and between Lewis and each of the works on display.

CATLETT ACCESSIBLY BLENDS ART AND ACTIVISM.

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Is love in the cards? Perhaps magicians like Collin Stover can offer some advice.

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Yet such advice is one thing I gleaned from recent conversations with three magicians representing a cross-section of the local (and admittedly male-dominated) magic scene.

For instance, tuxedo-clad magician Collin Stover contends that, in dating as in magic, the real trick is self-confidence.

“Performing has given me a lot of confidence in social interactions,” says Stover.

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when I’m not in that setting, but it’s shown me that I have the potential to be more ‘out there.’”

For the past eight years, Stover has performed his table-side magic at restaurants.

He adds a modern spin to classic magic tricks like vanishing an item into thin air, or working magic with a deck of cards.

“Learning to think on your feet is an important skill that people could take from a magician,” Stover says. “In a close-up setting especially, so much can go wrong.

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to adapt to the situation at hand.”

Indeed, just ask Al-Mazing: The laidback card-trick specialist, who often does street-corner magic, once had a client try to pay for a show with drugs instead of cash.

Another time, during a sidewalk show, a homeless man urinated into his bag of props. Both are things that at probably never happened even en on your worst date. But instead ad of throwing in the magic wand, d, Al-Mazing simply moved on to o the next trick.

How else to stand outt from the crowd? Grand il-lusionist Aedryan Methyus seizes attention with lavish stage productions — and for better or worse, some effects spill over into his dating life. Onstage, Methyus delves into darkness, with tricks like his Zombie Sphere, a small metal object, filled with “spirit energy,” that he makes appear and disappear. From sleight-of-hand to psychic predictions, Methyus plays upon the bizarre and unexpected for his corporate clientele.

Sometimes those experiences enter his personal life in awkward ways. For instance, there’s that moment of stunned silence when someone sees his home for

the first time. “The inside of my house is like the red room from Fifty Shades of Grey, so it can be a challenge when I bring a woman home,” he says. “It’s always difficult at first as I try and explain they are things I use for work.”

Methyus isn’t trying to channel his inner Christian Grey. But his collection of chains, blades and metal contraptions are definitely not items found at the local Kmart.

As to whether a magician should actually do magic on the first date, these performers differ.

“Magic gave me the confidence to approach my wife, but because of my personality, [magic] wasn’t needed,” says AlMazing. “Rather, read [your date’s] palm or fortune. They like that better than magic.”

Stover, however, says, “I have used magic on dates! I think the biggest thing is that it’s just very unique! I mean, how many dates do people go on where the other person pays for the check with money they just conjured out of thin air?”

“It reminds me of peacocks,” Stover adds. “The most unique, interesting and colorful males get the females. The same applies here.”

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HOME STYLE {BY FRED SHAW} In an interview about his hometown of Detroit, poet Jim Daniels once quoted writer Richard Price, who likened the place where you’re from to “the ZIP code of your heart.” In fact, places and people go side by side in much of Daniels’ 14th collection, Birth Marks (BOA Editions). Daniels, a longtime Carnegie Mellon University professor whose work been published widely, seems most interested in keeping memories of places (and their inhabitants) alive with a worldly reverence that is clear-sighted about the past, without nostalgia.

As readers, we meet family members and acquaintances in varying states of health and age. In the title poem, Daniels describes his parents as “a bad magician / and she the nervous assistant, / a match manufactured in a damp swamp.” The speaker in these poems is a faithful son/friend and realist, unafraid to point out his own faults and others’.

This, paired with the grittiness of his surroundings, makes the collection stand out.

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a reckless youth. The title refers to a “deaddream basement” whose cinderblocks “created a weedy pit / in the rubbled field behind / the mined parking lot / of boarded-up Bronco Lanes.” The clear imagery of abandonment throughout works as an effective metaphor, standing in for the dead-end lives of those caught in the economic shocks Detroit was already feeling in the 1970s. The poem also works as an elegy for a hard-edged attitude the speaker isn’t ashamed of: “If someone gives you lemons, / you squeeze juice into the eyes / of whoever fucked you up like that / then you spike the lemonade.”

Daniels is playful with language, sometimes riffing on words and using free association to add a jazzy dynamic — even if he’s not a jazz guy, as his speaker notes in “I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz.” This approach also works well in the stream-of-consciousness tone of “Approaching and Passing an Epiphany” and “Lip Gloss, Belgium.”

Detroit is not the only place highlighted in this collection. Pittsburgh, mostly Oakland, shows its face in poems like “Watching Another Drug Bust” and “Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor.”

But while I dig seeing Pittsburgh in print, the poems set here seem to lack the emotional resonance of those set in Detroit. Nevertheless, Birth Marks is full of the poetic elements necessary for an engaging read.

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CITY SYMPHONY {BY TED HOOVER} AS BOTH A 2008 Tony-winner and Pulitzer finalist for his show In the Heights, composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda is a hot Broadway property these days. No less than Stephen Sondheim remarked that Miranda’s work is “a classic example of the way art moves forward.”

In the Heights takes place on a street corner in Washington Heights, the tip of Manhattan and home to a large Dominican population. Over a single, eventfilled weekend, we eavesdrop on several neighborhood folks and watch how their lives play out.

Miranda’s work, infused with freestyle rap and Latin American rhythms and styles, bounces with fresh artistic audacity. The book, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is another matter. Overloaded with clichés and overwhelmed by an unremitting sentimentality, In the Heights is definitely one of the sappiest shows I’ve seen in some time.

But that doesn’t bother Carrnivale Productions.

This local company stages one show a year and is making In the Heights its 2013 offering, co-presented with Front Porch Theatricals. Why only one a year? Maybe they need time to recuperate. God knows they’ll need several months after the massive expenditure of time, money and endurance visible in every second of this production: a cast of 25, an orchestra of 12, a massive set, a mountain of costumes and a show that moves like an express train.

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Cast of In the Heights, featuring Joe Caruncho Jr. (center, in white hat)

This is a huge cast, but let me mention the principals — Joe Caruncho Jr., Marina Pires, Tony Chiroldes, Tiffany Dissette, Claire Saunders, Phillipe Arroyo and, especially, Truman Verret-Fleming — for their outstanding work.

I’ve seen what this company did last year with its scalding production of Next to Normal, and there’s no doubt that by the time you’re reading this, this production will be what everyone wants it to be.

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pany an A for ambition in tackling Tennessee Williams’ masterful Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winner is still a sizzler, with words one does not use in polite company even after decades of Williams’ tweaks and revisions. Alas, this romp through the Seven Deadly Sins (avarice, lust, envy, greed, pride, sloth and gluttony, for those keeping score) is less sultry, more desultory.

OK, Cat is a very difficult play, with long monologues and accents ready to trip up any actor, and a multi-layered text with bewilderingly complex characters. But director Justin Sines seems to have mistaken volume for passion.

Instead of the idea of emotions boiling just under the surface, we get loud.

And the pace, the dramatic buildup, is as torpid as the Pollitt family plantation on this hot summer night in midcentury Mississippi.

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Speaking of unrequited, the youngsters have more difficulty in interpretation. Cassandra Hough shoulders much of her burden as the title character, but is more tame than tigerish. Curt Wootton seems to have taken his character’s name, Brick, somewhat literally. He certainly looks the Prodigal Son role, but where’s the spit and the spite? Satisfyingly nasty are Michael McBurney and Jill Jeffrey as the “good” son and his witch of a wife.

Sines’ Cat looks great. Lane’s appropriately spare set is as transparent as the Pollitts’ many mendacities. Points also to lighting by Dale Hess, sound

by Alexis Jabour (who’s also stage manager) and costumes by Sarah Murtha and Spotlight Costumes.

The ending is more melodramatic murk than Williams’ original bleak vision, but count this as a chance to see Cat on stage, where it belongs, and suffer the flaws to indulge in the playwright’s language.

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having children, what if we made ourselves the new person?” Breyer died in 2007.

Tonight, in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Museum exhibition S/HE IS HER/E, P-Orridge presents an evening of short films entitled Creating the Pandrogyne: Celebrating Breyer P-Orridge.

Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $10. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

{COMEDY} Dave Coulier is perhaps best known as Uncle Joey on the ABC sitcom Full House. His goofy-uncle humor carries over to his stand-up comedy act, which is peppered with Elmer Fudd and Scooby Doo impressions. Coulier’s clean rep scored him one of five spots on midSeptember’s Clean Guys of Comedy national livebroadcast cinema screening.

But he’s coming to town a few weeks sooner for a solo stand at the Pittsburgh Improv. Tonight is the first of six shows this weekend.

Olivia Lammel 8 p.m.

Performances continue through Sun., Sept. 1. 166 E. Bridge St., Homestead. $20. 412-462-5233 or www.pittsburgh.improv.com

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P-Orridge has said, to explain the program that this pioneering artist and musician and his beloved, Lady Jaye Breyer, undertook to merge their identities through plastic surgery, hormone treatments, cross-dressing and more. The idea was to create a single person of the gender “pandrogyne”: “Instead of

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True Story is an organization that promotes storytelling and collects stories told across the country for its popular podcast. Tonight, the Pittsburgh incarnation, which is usually held at the East End Book Exchange, moves to Arcade Comedy Theater for the True Story Beach Party.

Six local funny guys will tell real-life tales on the theme “making waves.” Storytellers include Michael Buzzelli (pictured), Davon Magwood, Tim Ross, Zach Simons and Tim Sommers. Because no beach party is complete without The Beach Boys, WRTC’s DJ Zombo will set the mood with some surf rock. OL 8 p.m. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10 ($5 students). 412-339-0608 or www.arcadecomedy theater.com

For its ninth season, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks delivers one of the Bard’s most popular tragedies, Romeo and Juliet. Today, this classic is staged in Frick Park’s Blue Slide Playground, and each audience member will choose one of the two star-crossed title characters to follow through the plot.

Danielle Powell will head up team Capulet as Juliet, while Andrew Miller, as Romeo, leads the Montague side.

There will be eight shows in three different parks every Saturday and Sunday in September. Helen M. Meade

sp otlight Touring comedy festivals on the scale of touring music festivals are pretty rare, at least in Pittsburgh. So the fact that First Niagara Pavilion is one of just 15 venues hosting late summer’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival is news enough, with its two stages’ worth of funny. Moreover, this Funny or Die-sponsored caravan marks the return to marquee-style touring for one Dave Chappelle (pictured), who’s been rather scarce publicly since his groundbreaking Chappelle’s Show abruptly departed Comedy Central, in 2005. And yes, he’s bringing friends. Co-headliners Flight of the Conchords made their name in the U.S. largely on the strength of a two-season HBO comedy series. But the New Zealand duo are back to their roots in live performance — two guitars and puckish comedy songs. But wait, there’s more. The mainstage supporting acts (hosted by Jeff Ross) would all be headliners at most comedy shows: Al Madrigal, Demitri Martin, Hannibal Burress and Kristen Schaal. The second stage, hosted by Brody Stevens, will feature local comics. But enough about oddballs; what’s this about “curiosity”? Taking a cue from its rock-fest brethren, Oddball looks to foster a carnival atmosphere with offstage antics, including “street performers, vendors, psychics, freaks, tasty treats and more.” Bill O’Driscoll 5 p.m.

Fri., Aug. 30. 665 Rt. 18, Burgettstown. $25-112.25. www.oddballfest.com

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OL 2-3:20 p.m. Beechwood Boulevard and Nicholson Street, Squirrel Hill. Free.

412-404-8531 or www. pittsburghshakespeare.com.

the 1994 Disney film version.

This weekend, a nationally touring version of the show — which last hit the Benedum Center in 2008 — returns courtesy of PNC Broadway

{COMEDY} “Historic political sex scandals of the past and present will be revisited,” promises the press release for tonight’s John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show. We bet you can name a few faves yourself; but as comic/pundit McIntire asks, why doesn’t everyone love a Weiner? Carlos Danger: The Rise and Fall of Anthony Weiner (snicker) solicits late-night opinions from not only Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers and Bill Peduto spokesperson Sonya Tolyer, but also bona fide therapist Natalie Bencivenga — in case you like some science with your topical comedy. BO 10:30 p.m. CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $5 (free with same-night ticket stub from Cultural District). www.TrustArts.org

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Across America, with Jelani Remy starring as Simba, Patrick R. Brown as Scar and Nia Holloway as Nala. OL 8 p.m.

719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $70-150. 412-456-4800 or www.TrustArts.org

+ THU., SEPT. 05 {STAGE} The kids are back in school — but if you’re a theater company with a crowd-pleaser on its hands, you can push the season a little. Sister’s Summer School Catechism: God Never Takes A Vacation is the seventh installment of playwright Maripat Donovan’s Late Nite Catechism series.

It’s also the seventh presented by City Theatre, and the seventh starring Kim Richards — who’s thus done more than 700 shows as “Sister” there since 2005. In this iteration of the audience-interactionheavy show, you ticket-holders are the truants whom Sister is tasked to spiritually guide through the dog days. Be forewarned: She’s not happy about it. But if you’re a fan of Richards’ legendary improv skills, you will be.

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an undervalued artist in Paris.

Their stories, though distinct, are both altered by forgery.

Amend, a professor of creative writing at Lehman College, in New York City, formerly taught at the University of Pittsburgh; she returns as part of Writers Live@CLP-Main, a series at the

{WORDS} Allison Amend’s acclaimed new novel, A Nearly Perfect Copy, simultaneously tells the story of a grieving mother in Manhattan and

Carnegie Library’s main branch sponsored by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. Mystery Lovers Bookshop will be selling copies of Amend’s book. OL 6 p.m. Quiet Reading Room, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Free (registration required).

412-622-8866 or www. pittsburghlectures.org.

+ WED., SEPT. 04 Once, Jill Ciciarelli thought fermented food was all about volume, like sauerkraut recipes reading “get a barrel and 63 cabbages,” she jokes. Then a friend gave her a SCOBY, the culture for making kombucha. Four years later, Ciciarelli has written Fermented: A Four-Season Approach to Paleo Probiotic Foods (Victory Belt Publishing). The book focuses on fermented versions of “paleo” foods like our Stone Age forebears ate, mostly meaning no grains. Otherwise, the holistic health coach and food blogger teaches traditional fermentation — with room for experimentation, of course. On Sept. 4, I Made It! Market presents Ciciarelli’s workshop Home Fermentation Basics, at Marty’s Market. “You can ferment just about anything,” she says, including meat. (Corned beef is a fermented food.) And in small enough batches, it can be fermented anywhere, including the Beaver County native’s small Downtown condo.

Participants in the hands-on workshop must bring a sauerkraut starter kit including a halfquart glass jar and a medium or large cabbage. Fermenting food preserves it and enhances its nutritional value; the good bacteria fostered by fermentation are said to aid the immune system by promoting digestive health. Most obviously, as sauerkraut fans can attest, fermentation performs magic on a food’s flavor and texture. If nothing else, says Ciciarelli, fermentation is “an interesting way to get people to eat different kinds of vegetables.” Bill O’Driscoll 6-8 p.m.

Wed., Sept. 4. 2301 Smallman St., Strip District. $15. www.FirstComesHealth.com

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AUDITION FOR MURDER. Interactive murder mystery dinner theater. Sat, 7 p.m. and Sat., Sept. 21, 7 p.m. Thru Sept. 7. Gaetano’s Restaurant, Dormont. 412-343-6640.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Play by Tennessee Williams. Presented by The Summer Company. Thu-Sat. Thru Aug. 31. Peter Mills Theater (Duquesne, Rockwell Hall ), Uptown. 412–243-6464.

CRIMES OF THE HEART. Tragic comedy feat. 3 sisters in a dysfunctional family. Thu-Sat. Thru Aug. 31. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN. A comedic & prehistoric look at the battle of the sexes. Wed-Sun. Thru Oct. 20. Pittsburgh CLO, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR. Duncan

Macmillan’s new adaptation presented by Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre. Thru Aug. 31.

Henry Heymann Theatre, Oakland.

412-561-6000.

IN THE HEIGHTS. Story of a vibrant community in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.

Presented by Front Porch Theatricals. Thu-Sun. Thru Sept. 1.

New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

412-320-4610.

ON GOLDEN POND. Play by Ernest Thompson. Thu-Sat. Thru Aug. 31.

Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont.

724-468-5050.

RENT. Fri, Sat. Thru Sept. 7. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727.

Fri, Sat. Thru Sept. 7. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727.

ROMEO & JULIET. Presented by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks. Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Frick Park, Blue Slide Playground, Squirrel Hill.

412-404-8531.

COMEDY THU 29 COMEDY OPEN MIC W/ DEREK

MINTO. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru Aug. 29 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

DAVE COULIER. Aug. 29Sept. 1 The Improv, Waterfront.

412-462-5233.

Comedy Theater, Downtown.

412-339-0608.

KING FAKE. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

REAL TRUE HISTORY. 9 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

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Thru Aug. 30 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

BEST OF THE BURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE. Fri, 8 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side. 412-488-2995.

DAVE CHAPPELLE, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, AL MADRIGAL, DEMETRI MARTIN, CHRIS D’ELIA, HANNIBAL BURESS, KRISTEN SCHAAL, BRODY STEVENS. The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival presented by Funny or Die. 5 p.m. First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.

THE END OF THE WORLD SHOW. Feat. Brett Goodnack, Tessa Karel, Krish Mohan, Jamison Linz, more.

Fri, 10 p.m. Thru Sept. 13 Arcade

MIKE MCCARTHY W/ KAREN FITZGERALD. Aug. 30-31, 8 p.m. Latitude 40, North Fayette.

412-693-5555.

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CAGEMATCH. Sat, 9 p.m. Thru Aug. 31 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

THE LUPONES: MADE UP MUSICALS. Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 31 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

TUE 03 OPEN MIC STAND UP COMEDY NITE. Hosted by Derek Minto & John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

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

STEEL CITY COMEDY TOUR. First Wed of every month, 8 p.m. Thru Oct. 2 Buckhead Saloon, Station Square. 412-232-3101.

EXHIBITS ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery.

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.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 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, CONTINUES ON PG. 49

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Daviea Davis, Jason Forck, Steven 412-454-6000.

COMPASS INN. Demos and tours Sadvary, Lisa Platt, more. 14 indoor SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY with costumed guides featuring rooms & 3 outdoor gardens CENTER. Museum commemorates this restored stagecoach stop. feature exotic plants and floral Pittsburgh industrialists, local Ligonier. 724-238-4983. displays from around the world. history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. Oakland. 412-622-6914.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN University of Pittsburgh Jazz PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards museum & players club. West Murals. Mid-20th century murals from the International Hall of View. 412-931-4425. depicting war, social justice and the Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. immigrant experience in America.

DEPRECIATION LANDS Lifeforms. Exhibition of natural Millvale. 421-681-0905.

MUSEUM. Small living history imagery in lampworked glass.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. museum celebrating the Curated by Robert Mickelsen.

Learn about distilling and settlement and history of the Friendship. 412-365-2145. coke-making in this pre-Civil Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG War industrial village. Scottdale.

412-486-0563.

AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 724-887-7910.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the animals, including many famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. endangered species. Highland Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501.

Park. 412-665-3639.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. RACHEL CARSON Unconquered: History HOMESTEAD. A ART IN THE PARK. Food, music, Meets Hollywood at Reverence for Life. vendors, more. Thu, 6-8:30 p.m.

Fort Pitt. Original movie Photos and artifacts Thru Aug. 29 Penn Avenue Parklet, props, photographs, of her life & work.

Wilkinsburg. 412-727-7855. . w w w & costumes alongside Springdale. paper ty ci h g p 18th century artifacts & 724-274-5459. .com documents, comparing UKRAINIAN FOOD & FUN SENATOR JOHN & contrasting historical FESTIVAL. Thru Aug. 31 St. Mary’s HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. events w/ Hollywood depictions.

Pennsylvania’s Civil War. In-depth Ukranian Orthodox Church, Reconstructed fort houses look at Pennsylvania’s significant McKees Rocks. 412-331-2362. museum of Pittsburgh history contributions during the Civil War circa French & Indian War and feat. artifacts, military encampAmerican Revolution. Downtown.

REGENERATION FESTIVAL 2013. ments, life-like museum figures, 412-281-9285.

Live music, various performances, more. From Slavery to Freedom.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL live art, sound healing sessions, Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the CENTER. Ongoing: tours of tai chi, costume dance party, anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: Clayton, the Frick estate, with mindful meditation for kids, art Western PA Sports Museum, Clash classes, car & carriage museum. projects, various classes & activities, of Empires, and exhibits on local Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour CONTINUES ON PG. 50 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.

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

724-282-0123.

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

Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to 5-7PM more than 600 birds from over STRAUB AMBER, LIGHT & AMERICAN LAGER 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.

Saw Mill Run Blvd. (Rt. 51) University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

Just South of the Ft. Pitt Tunnels 412-624-6000.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides and exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area and Trolley Theatre. Washington.

724-228-9256.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly Forest. Watch butterflies emerge WWW.STRAUBBEER.COM from their chrysalises to flutter among tropical blooms. Summer Flower Show. Glass art surrounded

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NEW THIS WEEK PENN STATE UNIVERSITY GALLERY. Retrospective.

Work by Eloise Piper. Opening reception: Sept. 6, 6-8 p.m.

New Kensington. 724-334-6032.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Whimsical Gardens. Acrylic Paintings by Maura Taylor.

Opens Sep. 1, reception Sep. 7, 6:30-9:30 p.m. & by appointment.

Friendship. 412-953-2599.

ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. The Koraput Survivors Project. A photographic exhibition by Lynn Johnson & Jen Saffron exploring the destruction & recreation of a small community in Odisha State, India.

Downtown. 412-325-7017.

709 PENN GALLERY. Chris McGinnis: The Productive Machine. Multimedia exhibit.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. All Through the Night. LGBQT photography by Caldwell Linker. S/HE IS HER/E. Feat. over 100 works by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, dating from the mid 1970s to the present. The Patron Saint of White Guys That Went Tribal & Other Works. Work

by Nick Bubash. i Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video and Television. Long-term exhibition of Warhol’s film & video work.

Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300.

BE GALLERIES. Miniatures.

Work by Caitlyn Burroughs.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606.

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

724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Norweigan Flow & Others,

Spiritual Energy Unleashed.

Paintings by Mary Ellen McShea & Elaine Bergstrom. Verona.

412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Julia.

Paintings by Sonja Sweterlitsch.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

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

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Beauty at the Edge of the Unreal. Pop art by Stephane Pedno. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

COMMONPLACE COFFEEHOUSE. RELDmetal.

Robust finger sculptures by Sarah Jane Sindler. Squirrel Hill.

412-422-0404.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. Donna Hollen Bolmgren.

An estate sale of the artist’s works. Benefits the Master Visual Artists exhibition. East Liberty. 412-465-0140.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined with some of the world’s most talented contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection.

Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase.

Emsworth. 412-734-2099.

EVOLVER TATTOO ARTS. Escape. Work by Delilah Spring, Laura Lee Burkhardt, Keith Caves, John Faust Jr., Emile Goss, & Sema Graham. South Side.

412-481-1004.

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.

FUTURE TENANT. Obscuro Bezango! Work by Thomas Rehm, Elmore “Buzz” Buzzizyk, & Maximum Traffic. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

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. Energetic Escapes. Work by Scott Hunter & Blake Anthony. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

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

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

HILLMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS. Low Tides & Bucolic Daze. Hand painted photography by Rosemary Pipitone. Fox Chapel.

412-968-3045.

THE INN. The Spice Girls: Live at the Inn. Work by Terry Boyd.

Lawrenceville.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. The New Art of Wen Gao. Sewickley.

412-741-3036.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Automata, a Kinetic Art Show.

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ANNUAL POKER RUN. 3-part endurance event/card game.

Benefits the maintenance of the Great Allegheny Passage.

Youghiogheny River Trail, West Newton. 724-872-5586.

LITERARY THU 29 ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students.

Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council.

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

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MATT BOWER. Book signing w/ author of Save Me, Rip Orion.

4-7 p.m. The Muse Stand, Bloomfield. 412-370-7484.

SAT 31 VOICES GALLERY TALK: TROUBLING THE LINE: AN EXCERPT – POETRY READING & CONVERSATION W/ JENNY JOHNSON & ARI BANIAS. 2 p.m.

Andy Warhol Museum, North Side.

412-237-8300.

MON 02 OPEN POETRY WORKSHOP. Presented by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. First Mon of every month, 7-10 p.m. Brentwood Library, Brentwood. 412-882-5694.

READING ROUND TABLE. Feat. plays from August Wilson & new works by up & coming playwrights.

First Mon of every month, 7 p.m.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

412-258-2700.

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

KID’S BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS BOOKCLUB. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838.

LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

WED 04 CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3116.

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SOUND INSTALLATION. Explore how to take sound, and turn it into a visual art form. Thru Aug. 29 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

THU 29 - SUN 01 ADVENTURES W/ CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG. 9-foot tall Clifford w/ tail slide, build a sandcastle on T-Bone’s beach, play

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more. Garfield. 412-924-0634.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

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

412-281-1922.

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

724-316-9326.

MALL AT ROBINSON. Perspective 2013: A Photography Exhibition.

Robinson. 412-788-0816.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

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. Steel Wool. A show of rogue needlepoint. Bloomfield.

PANZA GALLERY. Society of Sculptors Annual Exhibition.

Juried by Carolina LoyolaGarcia. Millvale. 412-821-0959.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Hand Tinted Vintage Photographs.

Hand tinted black & white photographs on tin, paper & glass. 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.

instruments in the Musical Marina, more. Thru Sept. 1 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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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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OPEN ART STUDIO. 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

PITTSBURGH CITIPARKS ROVING ART CART. Create a masterpiece w/ a bicycle-powered Spin Art machine. 12-2 p.m. Carnegie Science Center, North Side.

412-237-3400.

WONDERADDO EXPLORE THE WORLD LAUNCH EVENT. African Galimoto obstacle course, Latin American crafts, hockey geography game, face painting, more. 10 a.m.2 p.m. Pittsburgh Public Market, Strip District. 412-281-4505.

SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Art Interprets Alzheimer’s. Work

by George Roby & Herbert Ascherman, Jr. Downtown.

412-261-7003.

SPACE. Crowdsourced.

Display of work by 12 local artists & members of the public, applied directly to the walls of the gallery. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

THE TOONSEUM. And The Winner Is.. Six decades of Reuben Award winners feat.

Charles M. Schulz, Walt Kelly, Mort Walker, Lynn Johnston, Jim Davis, more. Downtown.

412-232-0199.

TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS. Patrick Daugherty: Influenced by the Right People™. Oil paintings. On Uneven Ground. Abstract Mosaics by Rachel Sager Lynch.

Farmington. 724-329-1370.

TRUNDLE MANOR. The Insidious Collection. Paintings

by Jamie Apgar. Swissvale.

412-916-5544.

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. Thrifted. Found vintage art show, benefiting the MGR-Youth Empowerment Program. Lawrenceville.

412-224-2651.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. data.tron. Installation by Ryoji Ikeda. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

SAT 31 - SUN 01 MIDNIGHT RADIO JR.: MAD SCIENCE LAB. Live sketch/variety show for kids ages 6-12. Sat, Sun. Thru Sept. 1 Bricolage, Downtown.

412-471-0999.

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WRITING & ART WITH TESS. Story & craft-time for kids ages 5 & up.

First Wed of every month, 10 a.m.

Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley.

412-741-3838.

OUTSIDE FRI 30 RUN YOUR ROX OFF 5K & CONCERT IN THE PARK. www. mckeesrocks.com Miles Bryan School, McKees Rocks.

SAT 31 BEGINNER PADDLES W/ VENTURE OUTDOORS. 9-11 a.m.

Moraine State Park, Butler.

412-255-0564.

EXPLORE NATURE W/ VENTURE OUTDOORS. Bird watching & tree identification. 8:30 a.m. Glade CONTINUES ON PG. 52

Love them, Protect them, Immunize them Like sea seatbelts, car r seats, bik bike helmets, and life jack jackets

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Run Lake Conservancy, Valencia.

412-255-0564.

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EVENT: Tracy Drach and Eve Goodman

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.

at Biddle’s Escape, Wilkinsburg

MON 02 CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS CAMP TOUR. 1011:30 a.m. Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown. 724-899-3611.

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

412-477-4677.

with Big Tom

$2.50 LEINENKUGEL BREWS $5 EVIL DRINKS

WED 04 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

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ACOUSTIC MUSIC with Mike D. $2.50 YUENGLING $3 AMERICAN HONEY

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JEKYL AND HYDE | 140 S. 18TH STREET 412-488-0777 | BARSMART.COM/JEKYLANDHYDE LIKE US ON FACEBOOK!

Real hook ups, real fast.

OTHER STUFF THU 29 GUERRILLA WEBSITE DESIGN. Learn how to use Blogger, Wordpress & Tumblr. 12:15 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Downtown.

412-281-7141.

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

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

Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512.

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

FRI 30 CREATING THE PANDROGYNE. Film screening in conjunction w/ the S/HE IS HER/E exhibit. 8 p.m.

Andy Warhol Museum, North Side.

412-237-8300.

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2ND ANNUAL WINE FESTIVAL. Live band, German food, more.

3-8 p.m. Green Valley Gifts & More, Butler. 724-637-1120.

CITY OF PLAY FESTIVAL. Showcase of the best new urban games in the world. 10 a.m.11 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-467-9590.

DOWNTOWN HAUNTED WALKING TOUR. Begins at City County Building, Downtown.

Sat. Thru Aug. 31 412-302-5223.

EARLY AMERICAN HEARTH COOKING. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Old Stone House, Slippery Rock.

724-738-4964.

GERTRUDE RAPP’S 205TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. Celebration for the granddaughter of the founder of Harmony.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Old Economy Village, Ambridge. 724-266-4500.

INCLINE HAUNTED WALKING TOUR. Begins at the bottom of the

WHEN: Fri.,

Aug. 23 It was cool outside and the music was really beautiful and it was just a relaxed setting. They played lots of old covers — sort of jazzy and bluesy stuff, some folk as well. I live in the neighborhood and come here all the time and, yeah, it really catered to the neighborhood, I think. The audience was just sort of a mixed crowd of people: mostly from the neighborhood, but some from surrounding areas. They also have such playful banter back and forth with one another. And they engage with the audience, which just makes it fun and friendly and warm. It was just a lovely evening; it was a perfect Pittsburgh night.

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Monongahela Incline. Sat. Thru RIVERS OF STEEL SUNDAY Oct. 26 412-302-5223.

HERITAGE MARKET. Farm & artist KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. market. First Sun of every month Korean grammar & basic and Third Sun of every month.

Thru Sept. 15 Homestead Pump conversation. Sat, 1 p.m. Carnegie House, Munhall. 412-464-4020.

Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

KOREAN II. For those who already have a basic understanding MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE of Korean & are interested in increasing proficiency. Sat Carnegie & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.m.

Mount Lebanon Public Library, Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. La Cucina follows. No partner needed.

Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844.

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

Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing 412-683-5670. follows. No partner needed.

SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

South Side. 412-431-5282.

412-683-5670.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, THE ART OF informal. At the COMEDY Starbucks inside Target.

SCREENWRITING. Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m. . www per Tue, 7 p.m. Thru Sept. 24 Target - East Liberty. a p ty ci pgh m 3rd Street Gallery, 412-362-6108. .co Carnegie. 412-276-5233.

SWING CITY. Learn & MT. LEBANON practice swing dancing skills.

CONVERSATION SALON. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Discuss current events w/ Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. friends & neighbors. For seniors.

First Tue of every month, 10 a.m.

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

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

COMPETITIVE SCRABBLE. 412-683-3727.

Seeking new players, no CANONSBURG SUNDAY CAR experience necessary. Wednesdays, CRUISE. Sun, 1-5 p.m. Thru Squirrel Hill. 412-422-7878.

Sept. 22 The Handle Bar & Grille, CREATIVE CONNECTIONS. Canonsburg. 724-746-4227.

For Seniors only. Wed, 2 p.m.

MOPARS IN THE PARK. Thru Sept. 25 Mount Lebanon Sponsored by the Butler Pentastars Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

Car Club. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Alameda 412-531-1912.

Park, Butler. 724-285-9484.

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DETROIT STYLE URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor.

Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION (ESL).

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

412-531-1912.

FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Farmers’ market. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 30 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

412-622-6914.

HARMONY SINGERS’ ICE CREAM SOCIAL. 7:30 p.m.

Brightwood Christian Church, Bethel Park. 724-941-5343.

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

412-622-3151.

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

All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

SPANISH II. Geared toward those who already have a basic understanding of Spanish & are interested in increasing proficiency.

First and Third Wed of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

TEA CLASS & TASTING. History of tea, steeping techniques, Storing Tea, Health Benefits, more. Tea samples & European cookies will be served. First Wed of every month, 7 p.m. Margaret’s Fine Imports, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-1606.

THE VALUES OF THE SMALL LOCAL FAMILY FARM. Presentation by Philip Lehman, Swiss Villa Dairy Farm. 6:30 p.m.

East End Food Co-op, Point Breeze.

412-242-7726.

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

WINE TOUR DE FRANCE. Wed. Thru Sept. 18 Dreadnought Wines, Strip District. 412-391-1709.

AUDITIONS BRISBANE MANAGEMENT GROUP. Auditions for an immersive, haunted-house-inspired experience of The Rocky Horror Show. Sept. 4. Non-equity, email kelli@brisbane-managementgroup.com for appointment w/ “Rocky Auditions” in the subject line. Prepare 32 bars of a rock, pop, or rock musical theater song.

CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY’S DEPT. OF THEATRE & DANCE, MON VALLEY DANCE COUNCIL. Auditions for Miracle on 34th St. Sept. 7. Male/female singers & dancers, age 6-adult. California University, California. 724-938-4220.

CITY THEATRE COMPANY. Auditions for plays in the Young Playwrights Festival. Sept. 4.

Non-equity actors, 2-min. contemporary monologue. auditions@citytheatrecompany.org City Theatre, South Side.

412-431-2489.

FUTURE TENANT. Call for musicians, magicians, dancers, comedians, & entertainers of all forms to perform at Open Mic

Night. Submit your interest, equipment requirements, & appropriate sample materials to programming@futuretenant.org.

GEYER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Auditions for The Nutcracker. Sept. 14. Basic movement audition, bring ballet, jazz, & pointe shoes if experienced.

Also seeking adults for opening party scene. Call for appointment.

Darlynn’s School of Dance, Mt. Pleasant. 724-887-0887.

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DANCE COMPANY. Auditions for The Nutcracker. Sept. 8. Dancers ages 8-18, combinations in ballet & pointe. centerauditions.org/ index.php/dance-company/ the-nutcracker Auditions for Peter & the Wolf. Sept. 8. Dancers ages 12-18, combinations in ballet & pointe. centerauditions.org/index. php/dance-company/peter-and-thewolf Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland. 724-259-6443.

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PROFESSIONAL COMPANY. Auditions for White Christmas. Sept. 21-22. Male/ Female dancers/singers & a female age 10-12, tap/jazz combinations & 32 bars of a Broadway-style song.

Bring sheet music, accompanist provided. centerauditions.org/ index.php/professional-company/ white-christmas Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland.

724-259-6443.

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STUDENT COMPANY. Auditions for Seussical the Musical. Sept. 4. Dancers in grades 7-12, jazz combinations & 32 bars of a Broadway-style song.

Bring sheet music, accompanist provided. centerauditions.org/ index.php/student-company/ seussical-the-musical Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland.

724-259-6443.

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Old Economy Village was once home to the Harmony Society, a 19th-century Christian communal group founded in Germany by George Rapp. His granddaughter Gertrude Rapp took on an important role in the village, overseeing the silk industry for the Harmony Society and serving as hostess to visiting dignitaries. Saturday, Old Economy Village celebrates what would have been her 205th birthday with tours, historical demonstrations and birthday refreshments.

10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 31. 270 16th St., Ambridge. $6-10. 724-266-4500 or www.oldeconomyvillage.org

PRIME STAGE THEATRE. Auditions for Teen Dating Awareness Program. Aug. 29-30. Ages 16-24, 1-2 min. monologue. primestage. com The Oakland School, Oakland.

THE WEST VIRGINIA BLUES SOCIETY. Call for bands for the 7th Annual Appalachian Blues Competition in Huntington, WV. Info, application & rules available at www.wvbluessociety.org.

SUBMISSIONS BLAST FURNACE. Seeking submissions for Volume 3, Issue 3.

Theme is “prized possessions,”

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HOLLOW OAK LAND TRUST Hollow Oak Land Trust’s 260-acre Montour Woods Conservation Area, in Moon, is a great place to bike, hike and generally enjoy nature — but help is needed to keep the space maintained. Join Hollow Oak volunteers Wednesdays from 5:50-7:30 p.m., as they prune, clear trails and dig rainwater features. Work gloves and water provided; refreshments follow. Call 412-417-5825 or visit www.hollowoak.org.

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

412-833-5056.

PRIME STAGE. Auditions for Turn of the Screw. Sep. 7-8. Seeking adult non-equity actors for the roles. SAG-AFTRA actors are also encouraged to audition. Prepare a 2-minute dramatic monologue using a British dialect. To schedule a time & for more information visit www.primestage.com. The Oakland School, Oakland.

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412-403-7357.

INSISTENT LIGHT POETRY COMPETITION. Submit 2 of your best poems, no themes or restrictions. cathleenbailey. blogspot.com/2013/08/insistentlight-first-annual-poetry.html

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Submit resume, cover letter, & link to online portfolio to david@kelly-strayhorn.org.

THE NEW YINZER. Seeking original essays about literature, music, or film, & also essays generally about Pittsburgh.

To see some examples, visit www.newyinzer.com & view the current issue. Email all pitches, submissions & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail.com.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Seeking young composers to submit new works for annual Reading Session. pso.culturaldistrict.org/ event/6236/10th-annualreading-session Thru Nov. 8.

412-392-4828.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. wewuvpoetry@hotmail.com SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Seeking submissions for Fellowship 14.

Submit a 1-page Artist’s Statement in PDF format, a biography/CV in PDF format, & work sample to silvereye.org/f14-submit.

Email jzipay@silvereye.org for information. 412-431-1810.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Seeking individual artists & artist groups for month-long exhibitions in a new transitional gallery measuring.

Artists will be responsible for all aspects of their exhibition. Send images & a brief introduction to the work to: bljones@ wmuseumaa.org w/ a cc: to jotoole@wmuseumaa.org & jmcgarry@wmuseumaa.org.

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I’m a mostly straight, twentysomething, sexually active woman. This happens pretty often: I hook up with a guy, we start fooling around. I reach down, and he’s full sail. Things progress and, as is generally the polite order of things, the lady comes first. I’m not aggressive, but I tell a partner what I like and how to do it. The thing is, after I get off, a lot of times, the guy is limp. They usually express frustration and indicate that they’re very much turned on but it’s just not working. Generally after a few times, they will stop having this problem, and we end up having lots of fun. So I don’t think I’m doing anything “wrong” to kill the boners. I think maybe I’m just intimidating. In fact, I’ve been told so. Why does this happen and how can I reduce the awkwardness?

FRAGILE EGO MALES

Clicking “reload” makes the workday go faster

P.S. The more a guy likes me, the more this seems to happen.

So … you go to bed with a guy, he’s at full sail and then you inform him that you will be coming first. You instruct him in the art of What I Like & How You Should Do It, and by the time he gets you off, that dick has sailed.

Or his dick sails are empty.

Or something.

Why does this happen? I have three theories …

Theory One: Lots of straight guys make it into their mid-20s without ever having encountered a sexually assertive woman. A woman who advocates for herself in the sack can come as a shock to a sheltered/ indulged/entitled boy’s dicksystems. Deeply insecure guys (guys you wouldn’t wanna waste your time and your twat on anyway) may find your assertiveness offputting, and even more secure guys could be thrown by their first encounter with a sexually assertive woman.

Theory Two: Guys could be losing their erections because they’re focusing on getting you off. Making it happen for a partner — particularly if you’re using your mouth and it takes longer than 15 minutes — can be hard work.

A guy can get wrapped up in giving someone pleasure, slip into a more service-oriented head space and then discover that his dick has wandered off when it’s “his turn.”

Theory Three: If you’re going home with some guy at 3 a.m. after a night of boozing, and he spends 45 minutes eating your pussy, he may be spent by the time you get off.

And here’s how you reduce the awkwardness when it happens: Acknowledge the situation without dwelling on it and suggest taking a break — have some ice cream! Get a few hours sleep! When you start in again, he comes first next time.

P.S. The more a guy likes you, the more performance anxiety he may experience. And the more invested he may be in — and the more distracted he may be by — getting you off.

together for one. Several times a day, in passing, he reaches his hand inside my shirt and quickly grabs a boob, and then continues on his way. I could be cooking or studying or brushing my teeth, and he just digs in there out of the blue and doesn’t usually even acknowledge me before or after. In bed, he is very considerate and giving — no complaints. I’ve tried to bring it up, but he gets offended, so I drop it. Do I have a right to prefer an offhand kiss on the forehead?

GROPED TOO FUCKING OFTEN

Before we talk about what you can do about your asshole boyfriend — pepper spray? — can we talk about my husband’s ass?

It’s a spectacular ass, and I love to grab it.

But my husband doesn’t like to be grabbed in certain ways, in certain places or at certain times. So I don’t grab his ass in those ways, in those places or at those times. Because it’s his ass, and I respect his limits because I respect him.

He’s my partner, not my possession.

You need to communicate to your boyfriend that there are times when you want him to grab your boobs and times when you don’t. Don’t make the mistake of framing this conversation around his feelings. You are not “bringing it up” to come to some sort of understanding. You’re bringing it up to set a limit. And once that limit is set, don’t put up with the boob-grabbing. If he leans in to grab your boob, move away, slap his hand, blast him with pepper spray — whatever it takes to communicate your displeasure. If he gets offended, let him. If he stays offended, leave him.

A GUY CAN GET WRAPPED UP IN GIVING SOMEONE PLEASURE AND THEN DISCOVER THAT HIS DICK HAS WANDERED OFF.

I’ve been in a relationship with my boyfriend for two years, and we’ve been living

I’m a 46-year-old homo.

Since coming out when I was 20, I’ve been in a series of failed relationships and single for the last 10 years. I’m convinced I never learned how to flirt. I get all tripped up when I see a PYT who I want to talk to. Add to the mix that I was diagnosed in ’91 as poz. I’m so afraid of rejection that I don’t even try anymore. I’m good-looking, outdoorsy, adventurous and free-spirited. But I’m a total wimp when it comes to interacting with a potential mate. I know there are younger guys who are attracted to older guys.

I’d love some advice on how to increase my mojo.

DOING IT REALLY TREPIDATIOUSLY

Nothing will boost your dating mojo like getting laid, and that won’t happen if you don’t take risks and talk to the next PYT — pretty young thing — who catches your eye. Remember: Lots PYTs are poz themselves, and lots of negative guys are willing to date poz guys. Putting yourself out there may result in some rejection from jerks who are freaked out by your HIV status. But you don’t want to date jerks, right?

On the Savage Lovecast, proper “slutiquette” and how to wean your boyfriend off “The Nipple Thing” at savagelovecast.com.

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

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52. Farmer who took a wife, in a song?

54. Sheep’s hangout 56. Torah’s home 57. New Orleans bluesman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 58. Radial alternative 60. Look too long 61. “Narrow land is grand” and “So what if it juts?”?

63. “NYPD Blue” actor Morales 64. Advantage 65. The first mes 66. Fires 67. Smidgens 68. Sensible car, perhaps

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct,” wrote science-fiction author Frank Herbert.

I urge you to heed that advice. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will oversee the germination of several new trends in the coming weeks. Future possibilities will reveal themselves to you. You will be motivated to gather the ingredients and formulate the plans to make sure that those trends and possibilities will actually happen. One of the most critical tasks you can focus on is to ensure that the balances are righteous right from the start.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The online Time Travel Mart sells products you might find handy in the event that you travel through time. Available items include barbarian repellant, dinosaur eggs, time-travel-sickness pills, a centurion’s helmet, a portable wormhole and a samurai umbrella. I have no financial tie to this store. So when I recommend you consider purchasing something from it or another company with a similar product line, it’s only because I suspect that sometime soon you will be summoned to explore and possibly even alter the past. Be well-prepared to capitalize on the unexpected opportunities. (Here’s the Time Travel Mart: http://826la.org/store.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mystic poets find the divine presence everywhere.

The wind carries God’s love, bestowing tender caresses. The scent of a lily is an intimate message from the Holy Beloved, provoking bliss. Even a bowl of oatmeal contains the essence of the Creator; to

eat it is to receive an ecstatic blessing. But those of us who aren’t mystic poets are not necessarily attuned to all this sweetness. We may even refuse to make ourselves receptive to the ceaseless offerings.

To the mystic poets, we are like sponges floating in the ocean but trying very hard not to get wet.

Don’t do that this week; Scorpio. Be like a sponge floating in the ocean and allowing yourself to get totally soaked.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): James Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s N est, Kramer vs. Kramer, Blade Runner and Apocalypse N ow. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t shrink from the challenges that present themselves.

Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an in-

vitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real,” says a character in one of Miranda July’s short stories. I’m offering similar advice to you, Capricorn. The “something real” you would get by sacrificing “something wonderful” might seem to be the more practical and useful option, but I don’t think it actually would be in the long run. Sticking with “something wonderful” will ultimately inspire breakthroughs that boost your ability to meet real-world challenges.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There is more truth in our erotic zones than in the whole of religions and mathematics,” wrote the English artist Austin O. Spare. I think he was being melodramatic. Who can say for sure whether such an extreme statement is accurate? But I suspect that it’s at least a worthy hypothesis for you to entertain in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The new wisdom you could potentially stir up through an exploration of eros will be extensive and intensive. Your research may proceed more briskly if you have a loving collaborator who enjoys playing, but that’s not an absolute necessity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” So says a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. I could envision you speaking those words sometime soon. Plain old drama could creep in the direction of passionate stimulation. High adventure may beckon, and entertaining stories might erupt. Soon you could find yourself feeling tingly all over, and that might be so oddly pleasant that you don’t want it to end. With the right attitude — that is, a willingness to steep yourself in the lyrical ambiguity — your soul could feed off the educational suspense for quite a while.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You seem primed to act like a ram, the astrological creature associated with your sign. I swear you have that look in your eyes: the steely gaze that tells me you’re about to take a very direct approach to smashing the obstacles in your way. I confess that I have not always approved of such behavior. In the past, you have sometimes done more damage to yourself than to the obstruction you’re trying to remove. But this is one time when the head-first approach might work.

There is indeed evidence that the job at hand requires a battering ram. What does your intuition tell you?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” is a raucous love song by the Scottish band The Proclaimers. In the chorus, the singer declares, “I would walk 500 miles

/ And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles / To fall down at your door.” In 2011, a Chinese woman named Ling Hsueh told her boyfriend Lie Peiwen she would marry him if he took the lyrics of this song to heart. In response, loverboy embarked on a thousand-mile hike to the distant city where she lived. His stunt seemed to have expedited the deepening of their relationship. The two are now wed. In accordance with your current astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to consider the possibility of being a romantic fool like Liu Peiwen. What playfully heroic or richly symbolic deed might you be willing to perform for the sake of love?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” said the painter Joan Miró in describing his artistic process. I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks.

Identify what excites you the most and will continue to inspire and energize you for the foreseeable future. Activate the wild parts of your imagination as you dream and scheme about how to get as much of that excitement as you can stand. And then set to work, with methodical self-discipline, to make it all happen.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My vision of you in the coming week involves you being more instinctual and natural and primal than usual. I have a picture in my mind of you climbing trees and rolling in the grass and holding bugs in your hands and letting the wind mess up your hair.

You’re gazing up at the sky a lot, and you’re doing spontaneous dance moves for no other reason than because it feels good, and you’re serenading the sun and clouds and hills with your favorite songs. I see you eating food with your fingers and touching things you’ve never touched. I hear you speaking wild truths you’ve bottled up for months. As for sex?

I think you know what to do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The Japanese word senzuri refers to a sexual act of self-love performed by a man. Its literal meaning is “a hundred rubs.” The corresponding term for the female version is shiko shiko manzuri, or “ten thousand rubs.” Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing that the applicable metaphor for you in the days ahead will be shiko shiko manzuri rather than senzuri. Whatever gender you are, you’ll be wise to slowww wayyyy down and take your time, not just in pursuit of pleasure but in pretty much everything you do. The best rewards and biggest blessings will come from being deliberate, gradual, thorough and leisurely.

What was your last major amazement? What do you predict will be the next one? Testify at Freewill astrology.com.

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PIPE DREAMS

Want an honest debate about gas? You have to do some digging {BY CHRIS POTTER} HERE’S THE PROBLEM with the debate over drilling for natural gas: When

you disappear down the rabbit hole, it goes 6,000 feet deep. Which is where I found myself after an Aug. 15 screening of FrackNation, a pro-drilling film

by Phelim McAleer.

The screening capped a half-day-long “Marcellus Shale Festival,” a pro-industry block party hosted at Stage AE by CBS Radio. For hours, festival attendees had been treated to the sight of politicians, business leaders and local media personalities touting the miracle of natural gas.

Yet there was McAleer, claiming that the people opposed to drilling had all the power.

“This is the 1 percent versus the 99 percent,” he said. And with the environmentalists — the “billionaires and the millionaires and their hipster … neighbors” — calling the shots, “The 99 percent need to start speaking out.”

Wait, what?

fracking, FrackNation suggests there isn’t a problem at all. It doesn’t mention that state regulators found that some Dimock gas wells had faulty linings, which allowed contamination to occur.

And while McAleer begins the film by saying “asking the powerful difficult questions is a great job,” he arguably smears the one person in power who sits down with him: Carol Collier, the executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission. The commission has imposed a drilling ban in portions of Pennsylvania and New York, and McAleer contends Collier “seems to have inappropriate ties” to Fox. She’s thanked in the Gasland credits, he charges, and at one point was set to participate in a Gasland fundraiser before backing out.

“It’s quite a record, for a public servant,” McAleer sneers in the film.

Did a public official really antagonize residents, and a powerful industry, for a movie credit? Collier, looking traumatized, denies the accusa-

WHILE GASLAND LEAVES THE IMPRESSION THAT MIGRATION IS A PROBLEM CAUSED SOLELY BY FRACKING, FRACKNATION SUGGESTS THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM AT ALL. Pennsylvania produced 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas in the first six months of 2013, 50 percent more than the year before. Either through consulting gigs or campaign contributions, our past three governors have been cashing industry checks. Sure, McAleer’s audience included some disgruntled residents of nearby Cecil Township, where local officials are battling drillers in court over zoning restrictions. But is Cecil Township the best these 1 percenters could do? Who was in this shadowy-but-not-effective cabal anyway?

Movie people, obviously.

Starting with its very title, FrackNation is an attempt to rebut the 2010 film Gasland. Josh Fox’s film is best remembered for the image of homeowners lighting their water on fire: the result, Fox contended, of methane released from new wells. Industry boosters and critics both credit those images with raising fear about “fracking,” the use of water and other chemicals to shatter rock formations a mile below the earth’s surface, releasing gas stored inside.

McAleer, whose previous film blasts Al Gore’s warnings on climate change, raises numerous questions about Gasland. Did Fox’s family really receive an offer to lease the gas rights on their rural Pennsylvania land?

How toxic are these fracking chemicals, really? McAleer also interviews struggling farmers who say that without leasing the gas beneath their land, they’ll have to sell their farms. What environmental problems might result from the resulting loss of open space, the film argues?

But McAleer also seems to use the very tactics he faults Fox for.

Both Gasland and FrackNation visit Dimock, Pa., where some homeowners claim that fracking introduced methane into 18 local wells. McAleer, unlike Fox, notes that methane can migrate into wells on its own. But while Gasland leaves the impression that migration is a problem caused solely by

tion. And in fact, she couldn’t have imposed the moratorium even if she wanted to.

FrackNation doesn’t say so, but Collier reports to a five-member board representing the federal government and four states, including Pennsylvania. The board members imposed the moratorium; such decisions, commission spokesperson Clarke Rupert says, “come not from Carol Collier or any of us on staff, but from the states and federal government.”

Collier isn’t the only casualty of the fracking wars. Gasland portrayed John Hanger, then Pennsylvania’s top environmental official, as a gas-industry stooge. Hanger, who called the film “fundamentally dishonest,” is running for governor now. And although Hanger has proposed tough drilling standards, Fox dismisses his candidacy. “Any policy that doesn’t look at [drilling] as a total disaster,” Fox told me recently, “is unacceptable.”

I’ll confess: I look at drilling as only a partial disaster, and parts of Gasland make me uneasy. A shrewd filmmaker would target people with similar misgivings. He’d document the still-unfolding nuclear disaster at Fukushima, replay footage of the Exxon Valdez and reveal mountaintopmining practiced in the coalfields. And the film would note that, if we ended gas-drilling tomorrow, it would only increase our dependence on those other energy sources.

McAleer, who touts his film’s Kickstarter funding and says he took no industry money, didn’t make that film. (FrackNation dwells only on the risk posed by green technologies — like the threat wind turbines present to birds.) It would have involved tough questions for everyone, including regular, energy-hungry Americans.

But it’s much easier to be tough on the people who aren’t in the room.

Which is why when it comes to debating energy policy, we’ll have a hard time climbing out of the hole we’ve put ourselves in.

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