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“THE ONLY WAY TO GET A BULLY TO CHANGE HIS WAYS IS TO STAND UP TO HIM.”

Re: Quiet Storm, vegetarian cafe which helped launch Penn Avenue resurgence, to close in October (online only, Sept. 4) “This is so sad. My fiancé and I are seriously freaking out about where we can dine on a regular basis now. … We moved and have stayed in the East End because of the amazing amount of character in the small businesses.”

— Web comment from “Caitlin Cahill” “Pittsburgh fails. … The city isn’t very veggie-friendly to begin with and with QS gone — well what is there?”

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Re: Shelter for the Storm? Bill Peduto to the rescue! (Online only, Sept. 5) “Pittsburgh has been slowly displacing its residents for years due to ‘gentrification’ ... the idea that a $65,000 row house in a blighted neighborhood is now somehow magically worth $225,000 because of granite countertops is absurd, but that’s the problem with this city: It’s become inaccessible to the people who grew up here.”

— Web comment from “H. Elwood Gilliland III”

{PHOTOS BY CHRIS POTTER}

Protesters briefly sat down in the middle of Fifth Avenue and Atwood Street to protest UPMC labor policies (above); Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb and Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner address the crowd (left).

Re: Up on the Farm: Could large urban farms be the future of two hilltop ‘zombie towns’? (Sept. 4) “As a resident of the few streets around St. Clair Village, I would welcome developmental changes that would benefit the neighborhood. However, having bought property and lived there for three years, I also value the emptiness of the village.

Many people have marveled at the country atmosphere in a city-controlled neighborhood, and my fellow residents (many of whom endured St. Clair Village in all of its agonizing glory) are very content with the peaceful woodland setting they now live in. … Not every empty patch of land needs to be developed.”

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BULLY PULPIT In Oakland, labor fight with UPMC takes to streets in weekend protest {BY CHRIS POTTER}

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T ABOUT 12:45 Sunday afternoon, hundreds of marchers along Fifth Avenue — who had been chanting “U-P-M-C, you are not a charity” minutes before — fell silent and dropped to the ground in the middle of the intersection with Atwood Street. With the hospital gi-

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ant’s Oakland nerve center a block away, and a police escort looking on, a bagpipe played “Amazing Grace.”

The moment capped a Sept. 8 protest that was otherwise part labor rally, part block party — the latest salvo in a steppedup campaign by the Service Employees

International Union to organize hospital service workers. After singing two verses of the hymn, marchers cut down to Forbes Avenue and returned to their Bigelow Boulevard starting place, where they gathered for hot dogs and live music in the shadow of the Cathedral of Learning.

Also being served: a heaping dose of resentment for what speakers alleged were UPMC’s “bullying” tactics, like its resistance to the SEIU’s organizing drive, and its refusal to negotiate a new contract with Highmark.

“The only way to get a bully to change his ways is to stand up to him,” SEIU Healthcare PA President Neal Bisno told demonstrators shortly before the march stepped off.

State Rep. Erin Molchany (D-South Hills) led an array of speakers, among them Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner and Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb, who complained about the fiscal impact of UPMC’s tax-exempt status. City Councilor Natalia Rudiak cited election returns — including her own victory during the May primary — as proof that voters wanted to challenge UPMC’s perogatives.

“Voters supported the candidates who are actively standing up to UPMC,” Rudiak said.

Also speaking was former patienttransporter Ron Oakes, a union supporter who was fired, reinstated after a union complaint, and then fired again. “If they think they’re going to silence me, they’re

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out of their mind,” he said. (In April, UPMC told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Oakes was fired for absenteeism.)

The crowd encompassed a range of unions, races and ages. A rough count

by City Paper tallied more than 400 participants. Organizers say that nearly 700 signed in.

Whatever the number, UPMC was not impressed: “Rallies of this kind demean the excellent care we provide to our patients,” it said in a statement, and “cast UPMC hospitals — and the great people who work here every day — in the worst possible light.”

In fact, the quality of medical treatment and hospital staff were just about the only things not roundly denounced during the gathering. (Though one protester did hold

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aloft a sign asserting that UPMC stood for “Unable to Provide Meaningful Care.”) Criticism focused largely on UPMC’s executive suites, and CEO Jeffrey Romoff in particular: “Hey Romoff, get off it / You’re not a nonprofit!” was one marching chant.

What’s next for the campaign? Labor activist Barney Oursler noted that late last week, the National Labor Relation Board found there was merit to several unfairlabor-practice complaints that the SEIU had filed against UPMC. That finding sets in motion a process to resolve the complaints, though there has been no formal hearing on those allegations.

“The legal front is going to heat up,” says Oursler. “On the street, we have to keep the pressure on.”

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At the rally, City Paper spoke with Richard Barcaskey, executive director of the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania, who says the coalition wants to “exhibit unified support” for the General Assembly to take action.

a need for an additional investment. What they disagree with is: How do you get [it]?

And how you do that is: You increase user fees. There’s a fear the public’s going to respond negatively to increased user fees, but the point here is the public is going to respond negatively when [weight limits] on bridges are posted, when goods can’t get to them, when they have to take detours. ...

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DESPITE A CONSENSUS THAT THIS BILL SHOULD HAPPEN IN THE FALL, SOME STATE LEADERS SAY THAT THE 2014 PRIMARY ELECTION AND THE REPUBLICAN NO-TAX PLEDGE COULD PUSH IT BACK AGAIN. IS THAT A CONCERN? There are a lot of issues that are out there that cause a divide. … One of the issues that doesn’t — or shouldn’t — is roads, bridges and transit. Somebody said there are no Democratic roads and no Republican roads, and I think that’s what you see from the Senate: They passed [a transportation-funding package].

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THERE’S THE AGE-OLD ARGUMENT THAT SEEMS TO BE PLAYING OUT HERE, THAT ROADS AND BRIDGES ARE A RURAL ISSUE, WHILE RURAL LAWMAKERS ARE STATING PUBLICLY THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO SUBSIDIZE MASS TRANSIT IN URBAN AREAS. HOW DOES THE DEBATE MOVE PAST THOSE POINTS? I’m not sure it does, but that’s why we call for a comprehensive transportation-funding plan … that’s multimodal. It’s roads, it’s bridges, it’s transit, it’s airport. All in one. … It doesn’t do anybody service to pit one against the other.

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“I think this was more or less [Corbett’s] summer of discontent,” says G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall. Having turnover in such high-profile posts “is not exactly positive news,” Madonna says, though he credits the moves with building a stronger team. Two of Corbett’s new picks — chief of staff Leslie Gromis Baker and communications director Madelyn Lawson — assisted the campaign of former Gov. Tom Ridge, who was considerably more popular than Corbett is today.

“The staff changes are a decided improvement,” Madonna says. “Whether [Corbett] can build on it remains to be seen.”

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ter passing a budget in June, there was, for once, little talk about the state’s spending plan. Instead, attention centered on the legislature’s failure to act on three of Gov. Tom Corbett’s top priorities: transportation funding, liquor privatization and pension reform.

Corbett will get another shot this fall: The state Senate and House will reconvene on Sept. 23. But officials in both branches of state government face challenges ahead.

For Corbett, who faces re-election next year, those challenges include a litany of bad polls, including an August Franklin & Marshall College survey showing that only 1 in 5 Pennsylvania voters think he’s doing a good job. Corbett spent his summer making numerous personnel changes: hiring a new chief of staff, communications manager and legislative affairs director, and forc-

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“huge disconnect.” It’s not just that Democrats and Republicans are at odds — a common occurrence. Republican leaders in the House and Senate are themselves “basically not on the same page” when it comes to Corbett’s agenda, says Madonna. “And there are personality differences among the leaders.”

Those conflicts played out in the legislature’s failure to pass a GOP-led proposal privatizing state liquor stores, as well as the collapse of a plan to fund transportation. While the Senate overwhelmingly passed a spending package for roads, bridges and mass transit, things fell apart in the House. Hard-line conservatives led

by Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry) opposed the plan’s reliance on a slight increase in a gas tax. And even as Republican leaders struggled to close ranks, Democrats pushed for higher spending overall, spelling doom for the bill.

“We just never saw in the House the same kind of bipartisan support for this that there was in the Senate,” says Erik Arneson, spokesman for Senate Republicans. “The two chambers are different for a lot of reasons — that’s part of the beauty of our system. It can also lead to some frustrating outcomes.”

Among those outcomes: Once the transportation funding bill died in the House, the Senate decided against taking a vote on its own version of a bill privatizing liquor stores. Progress on the two bills, each of which appealed to different parts of the GOP caucus, had long been linked.

“I’ve never seen anything like the divisions we have right now,” state Rep. Robert Godshall (R-Montgomery County) told the conservative news website PA Independent in July.

Arneson expects the House to take up transportation and liquor again, and a package of child-safety bills born of the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse case.

House Democratic spokesman Brett Marcy, meanwhile, says his caucus plans to push for transportation again, as well as Medicaid expansion, as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. Corbett and conservative Republicans have expressed doubts about the cost of the expansion, which Marcy contends is “a no-brainer.”

Madonna says there’s a chance the fall session will yield some results. But making something happen, he says, “ultimately comes down to the governor.”

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In categories ranging from ordinary vital signs, to the kid’s progress in sound-making, to dietary reactions, to quantity and quality of each poop, stats are kept 24/7 (even with a bedside laptop to facilitate nighttime entries). She began tracking her own health during pregnancy, but then decided, “Why stop now?” when her daughter was born. Webb’s pediatrician rated the kid’s health as “A-minus,” but the parents’ as “C,” adding: “You guys need to relax.

Leave the spreadsheets [out].” Webb and her husband remain confident that their extreme tracking optimizes their chances of raising a healthy daughter.

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An Anglican parishioner complained in August about the “blasphemous” bumper sticker she saw on the car of Rev. Alice Goodman of Cambridge, England, but Rev. Goodman immediately defended it as not irreligious (although, she conceded, perhaps “vulgar”). The sticker read “WTFWJD?” which is a play on the popular evangelical Christian slogan “WWJD?” — “What Would Jesus Do?” Rev. Goodman pointed out that even Dr. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, seemed not to be shocked by her sticker when he saw it.

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47 stab wounds, leading police to immediately suspect her husband, who was at home with her. However, after three years’ incarceration, Ianetti, 63, won release in August by finally convincing prosecutors that his wife actually committed suicide. Although the case is still officially “under investigation,” the medical examiner concluded that 46 of the wounds were superficial — “hesitation” cuts perhaps self-inflicted as the wife built up the courage to administer a final thrust. Also, the wife was found with a heavy dose of oxycodone in her system and likely felt little pain from any of the 47 wounds.

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James “Sonny” McCullough, the mayor of the New Jersey shore town of Egg Harbor (pop. 4,240), announced in August that he was selling his waterfront home — because real-estate taxes were too high (more than $31,000 a year) following a recent reassessment and he could no longer afford it.

The mayor, 71, told The Press of Atlantic City that he had planned to live the rest of his life in the home, but was not even certain he could afford to live anywhere in Egg Harbor.

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Germany’s center-left Social Democrats posted about 8,000 campaign placards in July that it proudly hailed as “eco-friendly” and biodegradable to attract the support of environment-concerned voters. However, 48 hours later, at the first rainfall, the posters became waterlogged and, indeed, biodegraded. Reported Hamburg’s Spiegel Online, “None of the campaign workers could have guessed … how quickly the environmentally friendly process … would begin.”

A lawyer and former spokesman for the judiciary of Kenya filed a petition in July with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, seeking a retrial of Jesus Christ and naming as defendants the state of Israel, King Herod, various Jewish elders, the former emperor of Rome (Tiberius), and of course Pontius Pilate. Dola Indidis claims that the proceedings before Roman courts did not conform to the rule of law at the time.

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Cruz had won a second chance (drug treatment, instead of prison) by convincing the judge that she was no longer a crook — that this time, she would abandon her identity-theft life and go straight. Added Cruz, “I’m a different person now.”

In August, minutes before a scheduled mixed-martial-arts fight in Immokalee, Fla., the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation canceled it as “unsanctioned.” Contestant Garrett Holeve, 23, who has Down syndrome, was to fight David Steffin, 28, who has cerebral palsy, and both had trained intensively for eight weeks and were outraged by the decision. Said Holeve’s father of his son’s reaction, “[T]hat hurts his feelings and angers him. ... Their decision is

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Although “both rich and poor Americans are walking waste dumps,” wrote the website Quartz, reporting the conclusions, poorer people’s typical food leaves lead, cadmium and the banned bisphenol-A, whereas richer people more likely accumulate heavy metals (mercury, arsenic, thallium) from aquatic lean protein (and acquire oxybenzone from the active ingredient in sunscreens). Previous research was thought to show that richer Americans ate healthier (for example, eating fruits and vegetables instead of canned foods), but the Exeter research shows they merely house different toxins.

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If there’s a silver lining to the demise of the Murray Avenue icon, it’s that now Pittsburghers will have to undertake the delicious task of seeking out new places for dessert. Not all restaurants may have a glass case full of coconut cream pies, but many are harboring desserts worth heralding.

One of those is another Pittsburgh institution, Monterey Bay Fish Grotto, known for its wide selection of fish entrees, and great city views at its Mount Washington location.

I took an out-of-towner there for the seafood and cityscape, but the surprise stars of the evening were the desserts.

Two standouts would warrant a return trip just to indulge in the last course.

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Grilled-cheese sandwiches are all the lunch rage, but as a dessert? Try angelfood cake, stuffed with cream-cheese frosting, then grilled. The perfectly caramelized cake is topped with almonds and fruit compote, and served with ice cream.

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linarily conservative doesn’t mean it can’t catch up in terms of global cuisine. And to the delight of our palates, catching up is precisely what local restaurateurs have spent the past decade doing. But even as tapas, tacos, North African and even authentic, regional options in Italian dining have made a big splash, one cuisine from a small Asian country has been quietly thriving all this time. We speak, of course, of the aromatic cuisine of Vietnam.

Back when the city’s only Asian options seemed to consist of unimaginative Chinese and mediocre sushi, being able to find Vietnamese food in Pittsburgh was thrilling. And the cuisine’s relative unfamiliarity means it is, still, a choice that feels somewhat adventurous. It did seem, however, that the menu of our first local Vietnamese establishment became a template for all its successors: summer rolls, pho (soup), bun (noodle bowls) and usually a couple non-pho noodle soups pretty much rounded out the options.

Broken rice with pork chop, shredded pork, shrimp and fried egg

Even places that stretched the choices did so at the margins.

Now, Tan Lac Vien in Squirrel Hill has at last opened our eyes to much broader possibilities. Aside from numerous options in the tried-and-true pho and bun categories, the restaurant’s menu features an entire section devoted to a class of dishes we have never even encoun-

TAN LAC VIEN 2114 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8888 HOURS: Sun.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.

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CP APPROVED tered before: com tam. “Com” means rice, and “tam” means broken. Broken rice? Yes: In Vietnam, damaged rice left over from the milling process is gathered, served in a mound and surrounded by heaps of proteins and vegetables. Lacking a plenteous supply of scratch-and-

dent rice, American Vietnamese kitchens — or at least this one — substitute short grain.

Our knowledgeable server recommended com tam with a fried egg so that it could be broken up, Korean bibimbap style, over the rice. The yolk formed a sort of sauce that united the other ingredients — salad vegetables, pickled vegetables, pork chop and “shredded pork” — in delicious harmony.

The salad section also had a number of new-to-us options, including a tempting jellyfish with pickled carrot and daikon, but ultimately we opted for beef with lime dressing. Paper-thin slices of delectably tender beef almost melted into shredded cucumber, carrots and scallions in a vibrant citrus dressing; with a little rice on the side, this alone would make a supremely satisfying meal.

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the right amount into each roll. The remainder of the plate was heaped with an array of greens, herbs and sliced carrot and daikon. All these ingredients we stuffed into translucent, dried rice-paper wrappers which we rendered pliable by soaking them briefly in what looked like a bagel-slicer full of water. Under other circumstances, making one’s own summer rolls could come off as a gimmick, but the opportunity to experience such authentic ingredients and methods made this order well worthwhile.

“Worthwhile” doesn’t begin to describe the noodle soup. Hu tieu sate, one of six chef’s specials, contained sliced beef in a broth described as “thick spicy lemongrass.” “Thick” was only relative to clear pho broth — this was no chowder — but it was good and spicy all right, with tangy and umami base notes. The rare slivers of meat were cooked just enough from contact with the hot broth, while noodles lent additional substance, and fresh tomato wedges added bracing, bright astringency.

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Shrimp skewers packed juicy ground meat onto a sugar-cane spear; the effect was a complete transformation of the shrimp, caramelized yet moist and slightly sweet.

Banh xeo were savory crepes filled with tiny shrimp, sautéed pork, sprouts and an array of other vegetables. The crepe was bright yellow and had a craggy surface that suggested a bubbly technique; the result was crisp and almost hearty, but not at all tough. The only tough part was eating it without a fork and knife.

Despite our overflowing table, we felt that we’d only scratched the surface of Tan Lac Vien’s menu. Add in great service and a funkily modern decor, and this restaurant delivers an exceptional experience for small-city diners with big-city tastes.

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TENDING THE FLAME City’s first “Cocktail Week” keeps focus on local bartenders As if we didn’t have enough of a cocktail buzz already, Pittsburgh is about to embark on its first-ever cocktail week, running from Sept. 16-22.

“I think Pittsburgh is ready to do something like this,” says Mike Basista, a drinks photographer who organized the week’s events with Rob McCaughey (of Dreadnought Wines) and Will Groves (Butterjoint).

More established cocktail conventions — like Oregon’s upcoming Portland Cocktail Week, or Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans — draw brand representatives, bartenders and drinkers from all around the country. By contrast, Pittsburgh’s Cocktail Week is focused on the local.

“If you look at most of the cocktail weeks around the country, they tend to be more of a road show,” says McCaughey. “What we wanted to do was focus on the people who are already here, and give them a chance to showcase what they’re doing.”

To that end, the signature element of Pittsburgh Cocktail Week is a craft-cocktail competition between area bars. To participate, cocktail fans download an app created by Pittsburgh tech firm Rhomania, visit participating establishments, and vote on their favorite drink. The winning bar will receive a selection of bar equipment.

The festival also includes daily seminars scheduled for industry professionals and the general public.

For example, Verde is offering a professional tequila seminar titled “Tequila 201,” an exploration into the nitty-gritty of agave geography and ageing techniques. The lesson will, Basista says, be “very geeky.” By contrast, Verde’s public seminar that evening will focus on building a couple of simple tequila cocktails, including a classic margarita “that doesn’t involve a slushy machine.”

According to organizers, the week will be a success if it expands the scope of Pittsburgh cocktail culture. “There are a lot of people who don’t realize there is a thriving cocktail scene here, but it’s here and it’s real,” McCaughey says. “Hopefully this will create a bit of buzz and excitement about what’s been happening here over the last few years.”

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AZUL BAR Y CANTINA. 122 Broad St., Leetsdale. 724-2666362. Colorful and convivial, Azul dishes up Southern Californiastyle Mexican cooking in a festive atmosphere. The menu offers the familiar fajitas, tacos and burritos — to be washed down with margaritas — as well as quirkier fare such as crunchy sticks of jicama and fried ice cream. JE BURMA-TOKYO RESTAURANT. 320 Atwood St., Oakland. 412802-6163. This tiny restaurant run by two siblings offers sushi as well as a selection of cooked dishes from their native Burma and several neighboring countries. Among the intriguing selections: The Burmese shan tribe noodles, with a distinctive, intensely flavored sauce and varied vegetables; and the Kyae oae soup, with rice vermicelli, mustard greens, a variety of meatballs and tofu. JF

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724-581-4595. It’s not just barbecued meats and sides at this diner, but also breakfast, sandwiches and burgers for lunch, and homemade desserts aplenty. The barbecued meats are juicy (sauce on the side), and fried okra, fried green tomatoes and biscuits round out the Southern-style comfortfood experience. KF RAMEN BAR. 5860 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-521-5138.

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SEVICHE. 930 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-697-3120. This upscale Latin American-style tapas restaurant specializes in citrus-cured fish, while also offering a small selection of Latin-inspired tapas and finger sandwiches. And what better to wash down an empanada or mini taco than a refreshing capirinha cocktail? KE SIX PENN. 146 Sixth Ave., Downtown. 412-566-7366.

Open late for the Downtown theater crowd, this cheery restaurant satisfies theater buffs, families and young professionals alike. The seasonal menu offers lively updates on comfort food from lobster mac-n-cheese to braised short ribs. Gourmet burgers and pizzas make for quick meals. Linger for homemade desserts, or stop by after the show. KE THAI CUISINE. 4625 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-688-9661.

This Thai restaurant in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Little Italy serves up authentic dishes with warm, friendly service.

The restaurant also offers an updated vegetarian menu that features mock duck, vegetarian pork and other meat substitutes, as well as the more familiar non-meat offerings of tofu and vegetables. KF WAI WAI. 4717 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-0133.

Eschewing the epic list of dishes most Chinese-American restaurants proffer, this attractively decorated storefront venue sticks to a modest number of basics with a few less-typical dishes, such as Singapore mai fun (a dish of stir-fried rice noodles) or sha cha (a meat-and-vegetable dish from China’s Gansu province) JF YO RITA. 1120 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-904-3557. This venue offers Mexican-inspired cuisine, through a variety of tacos. Inventive fillings might include: beans-and-greens, artichokes or mushrooms, as well as more traditional meats (fish, pork, beef). Combine with a starter, like grits or potatoes, and a craft beer for a full meal. JE

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This “eclectic bistro” offers a fortifying menu of locally sourced, creatively prepared fine dining. The starters span rarefied (scallops) to comforting (nachos), and include truly memorable salads. Entrees include a Southwest surf-n-turf with chipotle peppers, and slowbraised short ribs with risotto and multi-colored carrots. LE

ONE BITE and you’ll know: These are not your grandmother’s muffins.

The unique treats crafted by Megan Drew’s onewoman-enterprise, Drew’s Pie Supply, grace the counters of The Commonplace Coffee Company’s two Pittsburgh locations (in Squirrel Hill and Voluto, in Garfield), as well as the New Hazlett Theater.

Named after Drew’s Cowboy Supply, the Penns Creek, Pa., store once operated by her parents, the bakery is now rounding up clientele eager for seasonally-inspired baked goods with a kick.

“I just really like feeding people,” says Drew.

Encouraged by former Commonplace manager Andre Chubb, Drew transformed her hobby into a business when Commonplace took over Voluto in 2012. Drew inherited the small back kitchen and got to work renovating the menu to offer refreshing departures from blueberry muffins and brownies.

As Commonplace Voluto’s manager and resident baker, Drew prepares 100 items daily — from cheddar corn scones to champagne grape puffs and grapefruit vanilla-bean muffins.

Voluto now hosts Pie Day Friday in conjunction with the monthly Penn Avenue gallery crawl, offering several Drew’s Pie Supply’s flavors until 10 p.m. The crust is a family recipe, though Drew’s pies often deviate from her mom’s traditional flavors with creations such as the gooseberry-raspberry pie and lemon hazelnut tart.

Sourcing from farmer’s markets, Drew uses local ingredients whenever possible, and dreams up innovative combinations from whatever’s available. “I learned from my mom’s cooking to use what I have to make something good,” she says. “It forces me to be creative.”

She also thinks in “sets of three” — a method used in coffee tastings — to craft items with a well-balanced “element of salt, element of sweetness and something tangy,” like her almond tart with crabapple.

Drew believes baking can use the same local, seasonal principles as restaurants, and that it can be done slowly too. “If I had it my way, everything would be made to order,” she says.

Drew hopes that her Pie Supply may eventually occupy a “slow bakery” storefront (possibly partnering with Commonplace), where she can craft items from scratch while you wait. Until that happens, though, that parmesan black-pepper scone may satisfy your craving.

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“WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME PLAYING ALL OVER THE PLACE AND NOT MAKING ANY MONEY.”

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{BY ANDY MULKERIN}

When Dan Bubien was laid off from his day job early this year, it was sad, of course … but it was also fortuitous. The former Sun Kings frontman was working on his first solo album, and suddenly it became his main job.

“It was honestly the best thing that could have happened to me,” he says with a laugh.

Bubien, an Aliquippa native who lives in Baden, has been playing music for most of his life. As a teenager, a sports injury sidelined him from athletics, and he took up guitar, something he picked up from his dad, also a musician.

“When I was young and I first started to really delve into it, I always liked blues music,” Bubien explains.

Later, he got into reggae, and then funk, both of which came through in his late-’00s band, The Sun Kings. That band broke up in the early 2010s, leaving Bubien to continue developing his signature sound: a blend of blues roots, Southern-soul vocals and funk sounds.

The 36-year-old Bubien wrote much of his new album, Empty Roads, with friend and collaborator Roman Marocco, another Aliquippa native who wrote the lyrics to more than half of the songs.

Bubien recorded it with Jay Dudt at Audible Images, who helped to fill out the roster of studio musicians.

“Jay was really digging it,” says Bubien, “and he kept saying, ‘I really hear horns right here,’ or ‘I hear a girl singing here,’ and I’d say, ‘Yeah! Yeah! Me too!

Let’s make this happen!’”

Between Bubien’s contacts from his Sun Kings days and Dudt’s friends from Duquesne University, where he teaches, there was plenty of assistance. The result is an album as slick as anything on WDVE, with names like Eric DeFade and Ralph Guzzi — both local jazz favorites — in the liner.

Bubien’s solo work is more rock-andsoul than the blues-and-reggae stuff he previously was known for. But that kind of thing happens, he says, when you’ve been playing for a long time.

“As you get older, your tastes change, your interests change,” he notes. “That’s what happened here.”

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GETTING SOME SOUL

PULLING FOR THE UNDERDOG {PHOTO COURTESY OF DREW REYNOLDS}

{BY ANDY MULKERIN}

J

.D. EICHER IS a musician, yes — he’s been playing guitar since he was a kid, and majored in music and business in college. But more than that, Eicher is a storyteller. That’s clear even before you listen to his well-crafted, lyric-heavy songs. It’s clear when, for example, you notice that the names of his band’s three albums — The Shape of Things, Shifting and the new one, Into Place — form one phrase when you put them together in order.

It’s no coincidence — there’s a lot of thought going into this stuff.

“I kind of wanted to do a three-part project that grew together,” Eicher says.

“Three albums, with some parts tying them all together.”

A Youngstown native, Eicher formed his band, J.D. Eicher and the Goodnights, when he was at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa. Some of his bandmates

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hail from Pittsburgh, so he generally refers to the band as being “from Youngstown and Pittsburgh,” even though he himself still lives in Youngstown.

The album trilogy was thought out ahead of time, but not written in advance, Eicher says. That would be taking it a little

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too far. “I primarily just outlined them ahead of time,” he explains. “I had the themes I wanted to write about. But I think it’s important to write the record around

the time you’re going to release it, so that it feels relevant to who you are at the time.”

Eicher’s identity does insert itself into the new album here and there, but he can’t be mistaken for a confessional songwriter.

While songs like the album-opener “Ode to the Underdog” clearly come from Eicher’s personal experiences, he also tends to write songs like a fiction writer would.

“Inevitably, I’m always in the song,” he admits. “There’s always some part of me there. But I’ve always loved story-songs; I love to create those stories. A couple of songs on the new album have random characters I created — I like to create a person to meet the needs of the song sometimes.”

“I wrote [‘Ode to the Underdog’] for us as a band, and for anybody in a situation like that,” he explains. “We spent a lot of time playing all over the place and not making any money. That song is about toughing

it out, and just sticking with it.”

Eicher cites as influences everyone from Jackson Browne and The Beatles to Death Cab for Cutie; the common denominator tends to be that his favorites are lyrical storytellers, writers who don’t fill in the words as an afterthought.

Into Place includes some love songs, but on the whole it’s about all different aspects of life. “You’ve Got a Lot of Growing Up to Do” sounds like a slightly preachy indictment of the annoying people we all encounter every day — until Eicher indicts himself, too. (“To me and anyone I’ve missed / You’ve got a lot of growing up to do.”)

Eicher and the band recorded Into Place mostly in Nashville, working for a portion of the process at Sound Emporium, the legendary studio where artists including Al Green, Kenny Rogers and Patty Griffin have recorded. Eicher and his crew worked with Dustin Burnett, who earned a Grammy nomination last year for his mixing work.

On one track, “Lately Lady,” Eicher shares billing with some guests — O.A.R. saxophonist Jerry DePizzo and local vocalist Joy Ike, with whom Eicher has toured before, and who is sharing the bill on the band’s CD-release show this weekend. “I knew I wanted a duet with a female vocalist,” Eicher recalls, “and immediately I knew I should call up Joy.” Touring is something Eicher has been doing a lot of — both with and without his band. Some of the Goodnights have day gigs, but Eicher himself is a full-time musician, by his estimation, touring 15 to 20 days a month over the summer, and a little less during the colder months.

“I guess when I went full time [as a musician], I thought I’d be playing much more music,” Eicher says. “But I’m still doing a lot of the business side of stuff,” even though a deal with Rock Ridge Music label has helped.

“And driving. There’s a lot of driving.”

“But,” he continues, “I’m able to set my own schedule. I definitely prefer it” over balancing a day job and music gigs. “Even if it’s financially precarious sometimes.”

With the help of Rock Ridge, Eicher says, “We’ve started to grow and understand the whole world of radio and labels and management and all that. We feel optimistic about where we’re headed.”

Wherever they’re headed, Eicher is going to take his commitment to telling stories with him, even as the pop-music world seems to reward wordiness less and less.

“I’ve always loved literature, and loved to read,” he says. “Songwriting was kind of a passion for me from the beginning. I love language, and I love the way it works together with the music.”

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The semi-reclusive singer-songwriter (real name Terry O’Hara) has returned with another stellar set of beautiful, somewhat depressing songs. Like his prior release, it’s studded with local guest musicians — Phil Johnson of Sleep Experiments; Dan Harding and Megan Lindsey of Good Night, States; Guy Russo of Broken Fences. Also like his prior release, this one is wintry, contemplative and a must-listen.

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Lots of indierock samples strung together in a lo-fi recording with the artist rapping over them. The beats aren’t so bad, but there’s some work to be done before this one can hit the big time. The vocals are low in the mix, and it doesn’t help that much of the rapping is somewhat fast and muddled; the whole thing ends up a bit tough to listen to. At least one flippant reference to domestic violence doesn’t help the cause, either.

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TURNING JAZZ ON ITS HEAD {BY MIKE SHANLEY} WHEN A JAZZ group can maintain a steady

lineup for several years, it establishes a strong level of trust among the musicians.

The Lina Allemano Four has lasted eight years, a rarity for an improvising band, and that time has seen the band develop a strong onstage rapport.

“We started out being a little more — I don’t know if you’d call it straight ahead, but the compositions I was writing back then were a little less open,” says Torontobased trumpeter Allemano, speaking with CP from her home. Then, “I started realizing I can write specifically for these guys, to their strengths. Now I write these tunes that are almost like sketches. It’s totally open.”

The instrumentation features trumpet, alto saxophone, bass and drums. While it mirrors the lineup of Ornette Coleman’s classic quartet, which abandoned chord structures for a style that introduced the term “free jazz,” Allemano’s music has more expansive melodic qualities.

“I’ve always really been drawn to

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melody and bass players, I guess,” she says. “A lot of bass players are melodic, too.

I think that’s why I started to get into that sort of sound: horns and bass and drums.

“The melody is so strong and there’s a huge open area that’s not getting — I was going to say ‘cluttered,’ but that’s very negative. I don’t mean to say that chordal instruments are cluttered. There was something I really liked about having that openness of horns and just the bass underpinning things. And also it seems

really nice to switch around roles that way too. A bass player could be melodic; the horns could be accompanying it.”

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On last year’s Live at the Tranzac, the group experiments with time and dynamics successfully. “Flummox” begins

with a steady tempo which gradually gets pulled apart as Allemano and saxophonist Brodie West solo, eventually snapping back into place for the closing statement.

“Atomic Number 22” begins with a heavy, bowed bass line from Andrew Downing that makes the melody comes off like a hard-rock riff. In a later section of the tense piece, the volume drops down, with Downing sounding like a cellist and the horns holding some soft, long tones.

Rather than closing the song, it continues at this level, creating suspense before the final resolution.

The quartet’s staying power means that the sound and shape of a tune can vary from any given performance. “Sometimes they set up a little groove with some of the stuff, sometimes not,” Allemano says of the band. “Sometimes it stays free, sometimes it goes in and out. I like that I never know how it’s going to go. [So I’ll wonder,] is this going to be a groovy rendition or not.”

Intrigued jazz fans might be interested to know that the Allemano Four’s local performance will be presented in connection with the Space Exchange series at the Thunderbird Café. Like the weekly showcase of local music projects, this show has no cover charge.

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Electronic music is very much of the zeitgeist, and that’s evident in how many artists have come from disparate backgrounds and settled on processors and synths. Robert DeLong was an indie-rock drummer before becoming an electronic producer and performer — and a popular one. DeLong has gotten tons of good press for his first full-length, Just Movement, and his live show — featuring “instruments” like a Wii controller — are renowned. He plays Brillobox tonight with locals Badboxes. Andy Mulkerin 9 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

There are many good things coming out of Baltimore lately, at least musically speaking, and Jumpcuts — Andy Shankman’s synthpop solo project — is one of them. The first Jumpcuts album, Electrickery, came out earlier this year, a fun and catchy ride recorded by Rob Girardi, one of Baltimore’s top behindthe-scenes guys.

Tonight, Shankman brings Jumpcuts to Arsenal Bowl for the Rock ’n’ Bowl series. AM 9:30 p.m.

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If Pittsburgh really is the new Portland, we better step up our cello game. Tonight, Portland Cello Project visits Club Café to show us just what kind of string-instrument stuff a first-class hip city has going on. Founded in 2007 in its namesake town in Oregon, the PCP is a loose collective of musicians centered around director Douglas Jenkins. The group has played with plenty of indie darlings — The Decemberists, Thao Nguyen — in addition to doing its own thing. The show tonight also features alt-folk singer Jolie Holland. AM 8 p.m.

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The eastern Pennsylvania resident is a master of fingerstyle guitar, having released solo albums of his own compositions and interpretations of classics, and accompanied plenty of others. He’s also an educator — which informs his easygoing, conversational live performance style. Tonight, he plays the Roots Cellar venue at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. AM 7:30 p.m. 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. $12-17. All ages. 412-361-1915 or www.calliopehouse.org

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ROCK/POP THU 12 ALTAR BAR. Mission of Burma.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

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

412-281-6593.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Gaslight Anthem, The Sidekicks, Gates. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

WALNUT GRILL. The Keystone 3.

Shadyside. 412-782-4768.

FRI 13 99 BOTTLES. Ray Lanich Band.

Carnegie. 412-279-1299.

ALLEGHENY COUNTRY RIFLE CLUB. Daniels & McClain. Millvale.

ALTAR BAR. Flume. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Jenkins & Crum. O’Hara.

412-963-1514.

BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. The Harlan Twins, Charlie Hustle & the Grifters. Strip District.

BRILLOBOX. Robert DeLong, Bad Boxes. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Bleu, Will Dailey, Jacob Klein (Early) Dan Bubien (late). Album Release. South Side.

412-431-4950.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Brightside, Driver, Whoovez, Purge, Graves, Breach. Garfield.

412-361-2262.

HAMBONE’S. Bailey Park, The Midnight Special. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. The Tony Janflone Jr. Duo. Canonsburg.

724-746-4227.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Dan Tedesco. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

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

MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Gaslight Anthem, The Sidekicks, Gates. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

OBEY HOUSE. Lenny Smith & The Ramblers. Crafton. 412-922-3883.

ROYAL PLACE. Silkwood Shower.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8000.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Randall Baumann Band. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. LoveBettie. North Side.

412-231-7777.

THE WOODEN NICKEL. The Witch Doctors. Monroeville.

412-372-9750.

SAT 14 ALTAR BAR. Headphone Disco.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. The Tony

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Janflone Jr. Band. Pleasant Hills.

Blue, The Martin David Band.

CAFE SUPREME. Aces Full. Irwin.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

724-861-0990.

STAGE AE. Queens of the Stone CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF Age. North Side.

HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. WUNDERBAR COFFEE HOUSE. Graham Nash. Munhall.

Christopher Bell. Harmony.

412-368-5225.

724-256-7383.

CLUB 206. E-Z Action. Braddock.

412-646-1203.

ALTAR BAR. Morbid Angel.

CLUB CAFE. Birds Of Chicago, Strip District. 412-263-2877.

Coronado (Early). South Side.

CARSON CITY SALOON. The 412-431-4950.

Tony Janflone Jr. Duo. South Side.

CLUB COLONY. Five Guys Named 412-481-3203.

Moe. Scott. 412-668-0903.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. The Hat DV8 ESPRESSO BAR & Madder, Patton, Williams Band.

GALLERY. Christopher Bell.

Garfield. 412-361-2262.

Greensburg. 724-219-0804.

HOWLERS COYOTE ELWOOD’S PUB. CAFE. Paul Collins Dave Iglar. Cheswick.

Beat, Neighbours, Josh 724-265-1181.

Verbanets. Bloomfield.

THE FALLOUT 412-682-0320.

SHELTER. Brittany www. per pa SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Bordella, Andy Powder pghcitym .co Weather Permitting & the Drips, Open Mic. feat. Red Western, City Aliquippa. 724-375-5080.

Buses, Amun Raqs. Shadyside.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. 412-363-5845.

Crunk Witch, Little War Twins, THE SHOP. Motorpsychos, 8 Cylinder, Bit Mummy. Garfield.

Last Question, Creature of 412-361-2262.

Exile, Meth Quarry. Bloomfield.

HAMBONE’S. The Hellfire Club 412-951-0622. & Ryan Taylor. Lawrenceville.

TALL TREES AMPHITHEATER. 412-681-4318.

The Holidays, Southside Jerry.

HARD ROCK CAFE. JD Eicher & Monroeville. the Goodnights, Joy Ike. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

HARVEY WILNER’S. Platinum.

CLUB CAFE. Portland Cello West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

Project, Jolie Holland. South Side.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. 412-431-4950.

The Lopez, City Steps, Derek MR. SMALLS THEATER. DePrator, Motometer. Bloomfield.

Blue October, The Last Place 412-682-0320.

You Look, Tori Vasquez. Millvale.

MARS AREA SENIOR HIGH 866-468-3401.

SCHOOL. The Holidays, Southside SMILING MOOSE. Storm Jerry. Benefit concert for Glad The Bay, No Tide. South Side.

Run Lake Conservancy. Mars.

412-431-4668.

724-898-2063.

MCCANDLESS TOWN HALL. Lenny Smith & The Ramblers.

ALTAR BAR. Hellbound Glory McCandless. 412-364-0616.

Supersuckers. Strip District.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. GWAR, 412-263-2877.

Hatebreed, Iron Reagan. Millvale.

BRILLOBOX. X Ambassadors, 866-468-3401.

Household Stories, The NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Olafur Lux Republic. Bloomfield.

Arnalds. North Side. 412-320-4610.

412-621-4900.

PETER B’S. Fungus. Sarver.

CLUB CAFE. Disappaer Fear, Anne 724-353-2677.

Feeney. South Side. 412-431-4950.

THE R BAR. The Gum Band.

GARFIELD ARTWORKS. The Dormont. 412-942-0882.

Dumplings, The Cell Phones, REX THEATER. The Reckoning, Fancy Tramp, Nox Boys, Several The Re-52s. South Side.

Conclusions. The Dumplings 412-381-6811. cassette release party. Garfield.

ROOSTERS ROADHOUSE. 412-361-2262.

Daniels & McClain. Bridgeville.

HARMONY RIDGE. ZanaFest 412-221-1543.

2013. Granati Brothers, The Dallas SCHENLEY PLAZA. Marks Band, Corned Beef & Tracksploitation, The Van Allen Curry, The Drowning, many more.

Belt, Wreck Loose, Diego Byrnes, Ambridge. 724-266-2414.

The Great Boges. Oakland.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Alias 717-321-5184.

Punch, CHUD missle, Westboro SMILING MOOSE. Charm Bastard Church and Latecomer. & Chain, Bob Gilmore, Marc Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

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DJS THU 12 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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

PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side.

412-224-2273.

FRI 13 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.

CJ’S. DJ Mighty Man. Strip District.

412-642-2377.

DRUM BAR. VDJ Dave Ott. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

SAT 14 BRILLOBOX. Title Town Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & guests.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

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

East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

DRUM BAR. VDJ Craig McClintock.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

LAVA LOUNGE. Motor City Shake. Motown & funk dance party w/ DJ Soulful Fella. South Side. 814-746-5060.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

SUN 15 SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8.

Electro, post punk, industrial, new wave, alternative dance. South Side. 412-431-4668.

WED 18 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 THU 12 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Main Squeeze w/ Aqueous.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SAT 14 CJ’S. The Top Flight Band. Strip District. 412-642-2377.

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NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

THU 12 SLOPPY JOE’S. Wil E. Tri & the Bluescasters. Mt. Washington.

412-381-4300.

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ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Mark Ferrari Duo. Murrysville. 724-733-4453.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Rebecca. McMurray.

724-942-1108.

ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Will Crum. Pleasant Hills.

412-714-8670.

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

724-934-1177.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jay Wiley.

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.

BRIDGEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Jill West & Blues Attack. Bridgeville.

412-221-3737.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Blues Orphans. Jimmy Adler. North Side.

412-904-3335.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. The Olga Watkins Band. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

THE WOODEN NICKEL. The Witchdoctors. Monroeville.

412-372-9750.

New Found Glory

SAT 14 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. .32-20 Blues Band. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

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

412-431-4090.

HOPEWELL PARK. .32-20 Blues Band. Hopewell. 724-561-2111.

LEAF & BEAN. Bill Toms. Strip District. 412-434-1480.

NIED’S HOTEL. Shot O’ Soul.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Pawnbrokers. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

FRI 13

SUN 15

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BOSTON WATERFRONT. Jill West & Blues Attack. McKeesport.

412-751-8112.

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ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Amanda Noah.

Richland. 724-444-7333.

THE BEER MARKET. Gina Rendina.

North Side. 412-322-2337.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Martin the Troubadour. Cheswick.

724-265-1181.

MARIO’S SOUTH SIDE SALOON. Michael Todd. South Side. 412-381-5610.

MULLANEY’S HARP & FIDDLE. Tim & John. Strip District.

412-642-6622.

Jay Z

SAT 14

WED 18

with Alkaline Trio, H2O

Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side {FRI., DEC. 06}

Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland

SAT 14

JAZZ THU 12 ANDYS. Dane Vannatter.

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.

FRI 13 ANDYS. Spanky Wilson.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

CLUB COLONY. Take Two. Scott.

412-668-0903.

LEMONT. John Sarkis. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

LITTLE E’S. The New View Trio Feat. George Jones. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo & Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

VIVO KITCHEN. Jeremy Fisher Trio w/ Kristan Mancini Fisher.

Sewickley. 412-259-8945.

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New Found Glory

Consol Energy Center, 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown

ATRIAS RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Nick Fiasco. Wexford.

724-934-3660.

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

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ANDYS. Kenia. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

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

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

412-642-2377.

FLA-BAS FARM. Tom Roberts & The Cotton Club Fla-Bas Band.

Cranberry.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roby ‘Supersax’ Edwards. North Side. 412-904-3335.

KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Tom Browne, Fred Wesley, Pamela Williams, House of Soul.

East Liberty. 412-731-6607.

LITTLE E’S. The Bridgette Perdue Trio. Downtown. 412-392-2217.

NINE ON NINE. John Bagnato.

Downtown. 412-338-6463.

THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Second Saturdays. Jazz-happening series feat. live music, multimedia experimentations, more. Hosted

by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

SUN 15 3RD ST. The St. John Affair, Don Aliquo Quartet, Michele

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412-331-1047.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Reggie Watkins Band. North Side.

412-904-3335.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Harold Betters Quartet.

Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo. Downtown.

412-553-5235.

TUE 17 ANDYS. Eric Susoeff. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Jazz Jam Session. North Side.

412-904-3335.

TENDER BAR + KITCHEN. Ortner/ Marcinizyn Duo. Lawrenceville.

412-402-9522.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series feat. Lina Allemano Four. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 18 ANDYS. Eliseo Rael. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

CJ’S. Flo Wilson. Strip District.

412-642-2377.

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ROCHESTER INN HARDWOOD GRILLE. Ray Lanich. Ross.

412-364-8166.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Aliver Hall.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

CIP’S. Tim Lionelli. Dormont.

412-668-2335.

LIGONIER BEACH. Shelf Life String Band. Ligonier. 724-238-5553.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

SUN 15 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Joel Lindsey. Pleasant Hills. 412-714-8670.

HAMBONE’S. Calliope East End Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Mamadou Kelly, Leila Gobi, Batamba.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

REGGAE SAT 14 FRANKLIN AVE. The Flow Band.

Aliquippa. 724-846-6400.

COUNTRY THU 12 CLUB CAFE. Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, The Allegheny Rhythm Rangers. South Side.

412-431-4950.

FRI 13 FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch. Burgettstown.

724-947-7400.

SAT 14 CHRISTINA’S. Steeltown. White Oak. 412-673-0199.

WHEELHOUSE AT THE RIVERS CASINO. Chris Higbee. North Side.

412-231-7777.

CLASSICAL FRI 13 KERRITH LIVENGOOD, MARK FROMM, FEDERICO GARCIA, JOHN ARRIGONELSON, ZVONIMIR NAGY. Alia Musica. PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne Univ., Uptown. 412-396-6080.

SAT 14 PITTSBURGH CAMERATA. Such Morning Songs. Sixth Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill.

412-417-3707.

SUN 15 CARNEGIE MELLON PHILHARMONIC. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 412-268-2383.

MON 16

TUE 17

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

THE PATRIARCH TIKHON CHOIR. First Baptist Church, Oakland. 412-621-0500.

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PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Gene Stovall. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.

WED 18 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Bluegrass Jam w/ The Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

WORLD DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jack Puskar.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

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W. NEW CASTLE ST. PLAZA. Rocket to the Stars Vocal Competition. Butler. 724-256-5769.

SAT 14 LEMONT. Phil & Roxy.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

LEVELS. Gina Rendina. North Side.

412-231-7777.

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Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests Superhumanoids. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Califone THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-6820177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

CHARITY RANDALL THEATRE Oakland. Tickets: picttheatre.org or 412-561-6000 x207.

Through Sept. 28.

Mission of Burma ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-

The PittsBurgher

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Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

Tattoo Convention

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 LAUREL HIGHLANDS

show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

SATURDAY 14

Randall Baumann’s Thunderbird Ramble

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

All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com. 8p.m.

DAVID. L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER. All ages event. Tickets: shaneoneillproductions.com.

Through Sept. 15.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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

Rancid

DJ ‘B’ Karaoke & Trivia

STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Tim Timebomb and Friends & more. All ages

Strip District World Festival

KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

Tickets: showclix.com, Dorsey's Records & Stedefords Records.

7p.m.

The Main Squeeze with Aqueous

FRIDAY 13

A Skull in Connemara

Tom Browne, Fred Wesley & Pamela Williams

263-2877. With special guests The Gotobeds & A.T.S. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Savages Tickets: ticketweb.com/ MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. opusone. 8p.m.

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

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DELS BAR & RISTORANTE Bloomfield. 412-683-1448.

Free event. 9p.m.

Graham Nash

RIVERS CASINO AMPHITHEATER North Side.

Tickets: showclix.com/event/ thepittsburgher2013. 1p.m.

Black Angels Over Tuskegee BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

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

Festival of Colors PALACE OF GOLD Moundsville WV. Tickets: festivalofcolors. us. 11a.m.

Gwar / Hatebreed MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. With special guest Iron Reagan. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

Queens of the Stone Age STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Guards. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

PENN AVENUE 22ND TO 25TH STREET Strip District.

Free event. For more info visit stripdistrictworldfestival.com.

Through Sept. 15.

SUNDAY 15

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival LAUREL HIGHLANDS. For more info call 724-872-1670.

Tickets: pittsburghrenfest.com.

Through Sept. 29.

TUESDAY 17 Blue October

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. With special guest The Last Place You Look & Tori Vasquez. All ages show.

Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 7:30p.m.

Portland Cello Project CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

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{BY AL HOFF} I last hung out with hulking space herovillain Riddick (Vin Diesel) in 2000, when the character debuted in Pitch Black. I took a pass on 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick, and thus wound up at the new Riddick, well, in the dark.

There’s no preamble, and the first 20 minutes of David Twohy’s futuristic actioner is pretty head-scratching. Riddick emerges from the muck of an uglylooking yellow planet; fights space hyenas, space eels and space freak lizards; changes from a metal outfit to a leather outfit; and gets pissy about some unexplained flashback.

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Then the film settles into an understandable, if predictable, storyline: Two groups of mercenaries arrive on Planet Icky and join forces to capture Riddick, who, being Vin Diesel, is a billion times smarter than them. Mercs are variously eviscerated and a new threat (oh hi, lots of space freak lizards) gets everybody batting for the same team. That’s Team Hyper-Macho, by the way, and includes the film’s one actress, Katee Sackhoff, out-bad-assing her role as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica.

Riddick’s ongoing status (and — spoiler alert — future) is never really clarified. But with his cocky machismo, casual sexism and woven-leather trousers, it’s just as likely he is perpetually on the run from an outdated past. Will no planet have him?

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esting about watching some guys play chess on computers, you wouldn’t be wrong. But if you’re willing to give it a shot, there’s much about the new film Computer Chess that’s amusing.

Computer Chess is a mockumentary, set in the early 1980s, during a computerchess tournament. A couple dozen guys — there is one woman, who is treated like an intriguing alien — spend the weekend at a bland hotel. They rig up their bulky computers, fire up the chess programs they’ve coded and pit the machines against each other. Because this is rudimentary computer-gaming, there’s still some level of human engagement: The other team’s plays must be keyed in by hand, for instance.

And of course, the “intelligence” of computers must be programmed by humans, and this existential bridge between man and machine is one of the topics bandied about by the competitors. So is the likely future use of artificial intelligence in warfare — and in computer dating.

On one level, it’s an affectionate look back at when working with computers involved a select fraternity of nerds, charting the limits of new — and newly accessible — technology. Knowledge of computers or chess isn’t necessary to enjoy this film, though those with such insights might get a few deeper chuckles. Old heads will

COMPUTER CHESS DIRECTED BY: Andrew Bujalski STARRING: Myles Paige, Wiley Wiggins, Patrick Riester Starts Fri., Sept. 13. Melwood

CP APPROVED smile at the outmoded eyewear (doublebarred aviators); clunky, noisy keyboards; overhead projectors; and AMC cars in the parking lot.

Chess is written and directed, in vintage-video style and in black-and-white,

by Andrew Bujalski, among the originators of mumblecore (Funny Ha Ha). It’s an

ensemble piece (with these chess nerds, there is some mumbling), covering several of the competitors and organizers, as well as the participants of a couples-encounter retreat also at the hotel. The couples are the touchy-feely yin to the chess guys’ machine-based yang, but there’s overlap of purpose: “We’re all kind of like seekers,” says one man in the encounter group.

This isn’t a film for everyone. There’s not much story, but rather a few threads that start, stop, weave and often just get lost. (A few go down rabbit holes.) For those who have the patience for self-indulgent filmmaking, especially of the studiously lo-fi variety and on esoteric subject matters, Computer Chess does offer a nostalgic, even thoughtful, snapshot of sorts: of when the banality of a hotel room could glow not just with flat fluorescent bulbs, but with the rosy dawn of a new age; when explorers mumbled, fumbled and grumbled toward the future; when humans still beat computers at chess; and when it took two people to carry a hard drive.

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Pittsburgh THE RUBBER DUCK IS The International Festival Firsts also offers theater, ONLY THE BEGINNING ofboundary-pushing dance and visual art {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}

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HEN PREVIEWING the 2013 Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, first things first: that duck.

Rubber Duck that is the face (and plump yellow body) of this The 40-foot-tall Rubb Trust festival kicks it all off Sept. 27. The inflatable watermonth-long Pittsbugh Cultural Tru River and anchored at the Sixth Street Bridge for the festifowl will be towed up the Ohio Riv val’s bridge-top kickoff party, part of o the Trust’s fall Gallery Crawl.

Every performance and exhibit exhibi in the festival is either a U.S. or world premiere by a Project included. But although the Duck looks just like the noted artist, The Rubber Duck Proj Florentijn Hofman has floated since 2007 in cities from from Ducks that Holland’s Studio Floren Pittsburgh’s own, custom-built Duck. Trust vice-president Hong Kong to Sao Paolo, this is Pit who curated the festival, says the Duck is being manuof programming Paul Organisak, w

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factured from vinyl at Brunswick, Ohio’s Inflatable Images. While other cities’ Ducks have topped 50 feet, ours is just 40 feet so it can duck under the Fort Duquesne Bridge.

(The massive pontoon the Duck will ride is being made at Western Pennsylvania Steel Fabrication, in New Castle.)

Considering the splash the Duck made overseas, how did Pittsburgh become the first North American city to bag it?

Organisak says he simply asked.

Organisak also runs the Trust’s Pittsburgh Dance Council, and routinely spends many weeks each year overseas, scouting artists. He says that over the past 18 months, he spent 20 weeks on the road — not counting New York trips — and pursued 50 artists before securing the eight who comprise the festival. But the Duck first appeared to him online as he sat in Pittsburgh, via a 2012 email blast from Australia’s Sydney Festival. “As soon as I saw the Duck in Sydney, I said, ‘That’s it,’” Organisak says. He immediately emailed Hofman, and negotiated the Duck’s U.S. premiere (including a provision that no Ducks will visit other U.S. cities until January).

The yellow Duck is no golden calf: Its appeal is both obvious and elusive. It’s this festival’s signature spectacle, much like the riverfront Theatre Titanik at the 2004 Festival of Firsts. In a culture where many people consider contemporary art inaccessible, says Organisak, such spectacle is “a way of bringing the city together around an art experience.”

On an aesthetic level, the Duck recalls the work of sculptor Claes Oldenburg, whose oversized replicas of everyday objects (“Clothespin,” “Typewriter Eraser”) similarly recast their environments. The Duck also demands a certain mystery: Organisak says that Hofman insists that the Duck simply appear, and bob about absent any explanatory signage. It will be moored at the Point until Oct. 20.

But enough about the Duck.

While the Festival of Firsts does include other visual art — solo and collaborative light-and-sound installations by Austrianborn Kurt Hentschlager, at venues including Wood Street Galleries and Space Gallery — most attractions are performances.

(By the way, Organisak acknowledges the Eurocentricity of the festival’s artist roster.

But he says that his attempts to book artists bending theater.

Kiss & Cry (Oct. 2-4), a U.S. premiere by from other parts of the world — one Middle-Eastern theater piece in particular — Belgium’s NanoDanses, is like live filmwere hamstrung by logistical problems like making: Actors’ hands on a miniature set perform the story of a woman who, cost and uncertainty over visas.) near life’s end, recalls her greatMontreal-based modernest loves, all while the action dance troupe Compagnie PITTSBURGH is projected on screen at Marie Chouinard’s Sept. the New Hazlett Theater.

INTERNATIONAL 28 program includes the The Pigeoning (Oct. 9U.S. premiere of “GymFESTIVAL 12) is Brooklyn-based nopedies,” set to music OF FIRSTS puppeteer Robin Froby Satie. On Oct. 18 and Sept. 27-Oct. 26. Various venues, Downtown and North Side. hardt’s world-premiere 19, Swiss troupe ZimTicket prices vary. dark comedy about an merman & de Perrot 412-456-6666 obsessive-compulsive ofperform the U.S. premiere or www.trustarts.org fice worker’s distaste for of Hans Was Heiri, a circuspigeons, performed in the intilike, acrobatics-heavy piece mate Bricolage Productions space, for seven performers on a stage that rotates on a horizontal axis. (Think: at 937 Liberty Ave. It’s Dark Outside (Oct. 9-12) was well Cut-away house rotating like a pinwheel.)

The remaining five acts are genre- received at this year’s prestigious Edinburgh

Pittsburgh Premiere Like live filmmaking: NanoDanses’ Kiss & Cry, Oct. 2-4

Fringe Festival. Australia’s Perth Theatre Company presents this play blending puppetry, mask work, animation and live performance in “a grand epic Western about adventure, redemption and dementia.”

Measure Back (Oct. 22-26) sounds darker still. New York-based Christopher McElroen and T. Ryder Smith’s ever-timely performance work explores how both the mass media and everyday citizens respond to war. The world-premiere piece, which includes audience participation, is staged for audiences of 40 or fewer on the fifth floor of the Baum Building (above Space Gallery).

Also of an ultimately political bent is The God That Comes (Oct. 24-26). Nova Scotia-based Hawksley Workman’s wild one-man cabaret is a rock ’n’ roll retelling of the story of Bacchus, the god of wine, based largely on Euripdes’ The Bacchae, about a revolt against an oppressive king.

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Probably less disorienting will be James Turrell’s shifting light installathe Festival’s “The Rubber Duck” tion fills the Guggenheim rotunda, ..(Sept. 27-Oct. 20), a fourwhile Soundings: A Contempo..story-high ducky created by rary Score, at the Museum FALL ARTS ..Studio Florentijn Hofman of Modern Art, features ..that will float on the sound artists from a {EVENT} Allegheny River. variety of disciplines.

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The Mattress Factory, will include several audiowww.radworks then check out three new visual installations. At here.org installation-style shows there: Space Gallery, Granular SynDetroit: Artists in Residence (Sept. thesis (Sept. 27-Oct. 20), by Kurt 13-May 25); Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Hentschlager and Ulf Langheinrich, will fuse sight and sound in a manner that will Memory (Sept. 13 into next summer); and alter perception. Hentschlager’s Hive (Sept. Janine Antoni (Sept. 13-May 26).

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Still, no doubt the season’s most anticipated group show is the Carnegie International (Oct. 5-March 16) at the Carnegie Museum of Art, a major exhibition of new international art that will include a series of large-scale commissions.

Other new or forthcoming one-person shows are: Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self (Oct. 6-Jan. 12), The Andy Warhol Museum’s 30-year retrospective honoring this Japanese photographer fascinated with self-portrait, celebrity, gay and transgender life and art history; Akiko Kotani: Artist of the Year and work by Emerging Artist of the Year Lenka Clayton (both through Nov. 3), at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; the painting show Fragmentation: New Works

by Seth Clark (Sept. 17-Oct. 12), at Box Heart Art by Yasumasa Morimura from Yasumasa Gallery; HOLDUP in the HOOD: Francis Morimura: Theater of the Self, Oct. 6-Jan. 12, Crisafio (photography) at Gallery 707, and at The Andy Warhol Museum Proud To Be An American?, photographs

by Rebecca Chiappelli, at Gallery 709 (both raphy exhibit Clayton Days Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz (through Oct. 27).

Sept. 13-Nov. 3); and Oasis (Sept. 13Also at the Frick, to mark the Nov. 2), paintings by Leslie Ansesquicentennial of the Battle sley, at Sweetwater Center FALL ARTS of Gettysburg, is Civil War for the Arts. Continuing at Era Drawings From the the Frick Art & Historical {OPERA} Collection (Nov. 9Becker C Center is the photogPittsburgh Opera stages 12). Violence today Jan. 12) Verdi’s classic Aida, .is the ttopic of ENOUGH Oct. 12, 15, 18 and 20, ..Violence: Artists Speak ..Violenc with soprano Latonia at the Society ..Out a Moore. Benedum Contemporary Craft for Cont Center, Downtown.

27-March 22). And (Sept. 27www.pittsburgh opera.org response to sexist, racin respons homophobic violence, ist and homo She, at Carnegie there’s Alien Sh (Sept. 21-Feb. 16), Mellon’s Miller Gallery (S and cultural proan examination of art an duction influenced by tthe 1990s Riot Grrrl movement.

Other group shows will cover a range of topics. Green at Silver Eye Center for Photography y (through Oct. 5) explores the “purposely ambiguous idea” of “green” lifestyle and more. as a noun, adjective, lif Artists: Preserving the Master Visual Artists Legacy, y at Pittsburgh Center for the 3), honors artists Arts (through Nov. 3 have had a signifi60 and older who ha cant impact on our region. Continuing at Pittsburgh Glass Gla Center is Lifeforms (through Nov. 17), 17 an homage to and extension of Rudolf and Leopold Rud Blaschka’s glass biological models. biolog Work on a larger scale appears at the Carrie Furnaces National Historic N Landmark, where Alloy Allo Pittsburgh, an arts initiative co-found co-founded by Sean Derry and Chris McGinnis, in collaboration with co the Rivers of Steel National Nationa Heritage Area and the Kipp Gallery at In Indiana University of Pennsylvania, will prese present 15 temporary site-based artworks by em emerging regional artists. The exhibit opens S Sept. 28.

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Bodiography Contem{EXHIBIT} Texture Contempoporary Ballet spreads Artist Tommy Joseph rary Ballet goes Nearly a little Light and Joy carves a 16-foot Tlingit totem Wild in its seasonSept. 29 alongside the pole on site at the Carnegie opener Sept. 20-22 at Westmoreland Choral Museum of Natural History. the New Hazlett TheSociety and the PittsNov. 25-Dec. 15. Oakland. ater, featuring Kelsey burgh Festival Orcheswww.carnegiemnh.org Bartman’s new work “The tra, at Seton Hill UniverRose.” The company then sity. Bodiography then teams heads to Pittsburgh Dance with La Roche College Nov. 15Center Nov. 23 for WIP, a works-in16 for its annual Multiplicity progress showing. On Sept. 20-21, Wood showcase, at the Byham.

Street Galleries present Light Lab, two The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater launches evenings of dance with works by Maree its season Oct. 3-5 with the newMoves ReMalia, Taylor Knight, Jasmine Hearn Contemporary Dance Festival, featuring and others. Hearn then presents the fourth locals Gia Cacalano, ReedDance and

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Staycee Pearl Dance Project (SPdp), plus of Twyla Tharp. The Oct. 25-27 program visiting talent. On Nov. 1, Fresh Friday, at includes Tharp masterworks “In the Upper KST’s Alloy Studios showcases works by Room” and “Nine Sinatra Songs.” And from Maree ReMalia and Jil Stifel. Murphy/ Dec. 6-29, PBT’s holiday favorite The NutSmith Dance Collective rounds out KST’s cracker returns; both PBT productions are season Nov. 15-16 with the premiere of at the Benedum Center.

Rounding out 2013: The inaugural See What I Hear, exploring the relationPittsburgh Bellydance Festival launches ship between sound and human instinct.

Nov. 1-3, featuring The BellyPoint Park University’s Conser...Off competition at Pittsvatory Dance Company opens burgh Dance Center; SPdp its season Oct. 4-6 with FALL ARTS presents a work-in-progthe Student Choreography ress showing of Staycee Project. Then the troupe {EVENT} ...Pearl’s I’d rather not performs works by Kyle Handmade Arcade holds ...say, at PearlArts StuAbraham and others in its annual Holiday Craft Fair. ...dios on Nov. 15; the Contemporary ChoreogDec. 7. David L. Lawrence ...Duquesne University raphers, on Nov. 15-24; Convention Center, Downtown. ..Tamburitzans perform both productions are at www.handmade Nov. 23, at West Mifflin George Rowland White arcade.com Middle School; and ContinPerformance Studio. And uum Dance Theater worldDec. 10-15, the company perpremieres Objects of DESIRE, its forms Nicolas Petrov’s Romeo & show developed through a series of comJuliet at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.

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On the lighter side, two of the gems of the singer-songIt’s a tale of two guitarists with wi writer vein, Mary Chapin Carthe same first name on Nov. 12; 1 penter and Shawn Colvin, are mopers and Anglophiles will w welteaming up for a duo tour this come former Smiths (and Mo Modfall; it lands at the Palace Theater est Mouse, and more) guitarist guitar in Greensburg Oct. 13. The younger Johnny Marr to Mr. Small’s, while wh set might be more interested in check bluesy types will want to che the Jonas Brothers, who play the CONTINUES ON PG. 22 Palace Oct. 26, proving that the window of opportunity for a boy band to sell out arenas is fleeting indeed.

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November looks good for metalheads blatt’s 2 Pianos 4 Hands (Nov. 30-Dec. 22), a new-to-Pittsburgh two-actor romp at Stage AE; on Nov. 20, Slayer about childhood friends pursuappears, and Nov. 25, Lamb FALL ARTS ing their dream of concertof God is back, giving piano stardom. plenty for you to thank {OUTDOORS} A play that made a Satan for before your New York splash in 2011 Venture Outdoors leads Thanksgiving dinner the Snyder Cemetery Hike was Stephen Adly Guirthe following week. & Picnic Hike, including local gis’ The Motherfucker And we’d be remiss ghost stories and a picnic.

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Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre corrects that omission with a production starring nationally credited actor James Keegan {{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}} (Sept. 11-28). And University of Pittsburgh THE SEASON’S roster of plays has a distinct Stages has the Pittsburgh premiere of tilt toward new and recent work. That Venus, Pulitzer-winner Suzan-Lori Parks’ 1996 work about the means a ton of African woman who local premieres — 200 years ago was always good news exploited in British for theater fans. freakshows as the A 2012 BroadHottentot Venus way hit, for in(Oct. 24-Nov. 3). stance, kicks things One highlight off for City Theatre: James of the 2011 season Vanya and Sonia Keegan in was City Theatre’s and Masha and A Skull in Connemara, production of MadSpike (Oct. 12-Nov. Sept. 11-28 eleine George’s 3), by City favorite thought-provoking Christopher DuPrecious Little. Now rang, concerns a George’s 2010 play wild, comic family Zero Hour — an reunion between “almost-love story” dull, middle-aged

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Oklahoma! (Oct. 18-27). Even the One of Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most honwacky doings at Bricolage Productionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ored (and prolific) resident playwrights is back, as Point Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s REP stages the world Midnight Radio include the troupeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reprise premiere of Tammy Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heart of Orson Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; epochal radio drama War (Sept. 26-Oct. 13). Ever tuned to social is- of the Worlds (Oct. 24-Nov. 9).

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Found Footage Festival, www.trustarts.org Speaking of local, Pittson Oct. 26. burgh — specifically BradSoon after, the 32nd andock — gets a close-up in the nual Three Rivers Film Festival (www.3rff.com) kicks off. The Filmmakers crime thriller Out of the Furnace, starring affair runs Nov. 8-23, with screenings at Christian Bale and Casey Affleck, and set to the Harris, Regent Square, Melwood and open Oct. 4.

Wide-release feature films ripped from Waterworks theaters. As always, variety is key, with short features, documentaries, the headlines include: Captain Phillips (Oct. 11), in which indies and internaSomali pirates entional cinema. counter Tom Hanks; The Andy Warhol The Fifth Estate Museum (www.warJackass Presents: Bad (Oct. 11), with Benehol.org) will screen Grandpa, dict Cumberbatch as more Unseen TreaOct. 25 WikiLeaks’ Julian Assures from the George sange; and Mandela: Eastman House, inLong Walk to Freecluding restored sidom (Nov. 29), starlent films West of Zanring Idris Elba as the zibar (Sept. 20), The South African leader.

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Also of interest: Runner Runner (Oct. 4), Abbey); Carrie (Oct. 18), Stephen King’s telekinetic-teen horror tale; and Spike Lee’s a thriller about online poker, starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake; remake of the Korean thriller Oldboy Ender’s Game (Nov. 1), the sci(Oct. 25). Also, Ben Stiller directs fi tale adapted from Orson FALL ARTS and stars in The Secret Life of Scott Card’s novel; and Black Walter Mitty (Dec. 25) Nativity (Nov. 27), a holiHere’s Part Two: The {COMEDY} day drama adapted from Hunger Games: Catching Mitch Fatel at the the Langston Hughes’ Fire (Nov. 22), The Hobbit: Pittsburgh play. On Dec. 20, the Coen The Desolation of Smaug Improv. Oct. 17-19. brothers check in with the West Homestead.

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1960s folk-singer odyssey 2: The Legend Continues improv.com Inside Llewyn Davis, and Tom (Dec. 20). Plus, spin-offs: Hanks returns to play Walt DisJackass Presents: Bad Grandpa ney, opposite Emma Thompson, in (Oct. 25); Thor: The Dark World (Nov. 8); and Tyler Perry’s A Madea Saving Mr. Banks.

For Christmas, Meryl Streep heads up Christmas (Dec. 13).

Your hopes for laughs include: Don Jon an all-star cast in an adaptation of August: (Sept. 27), a Joseph Gordon-Levitt comedy Osage County; Christian Bale and Bradley about porn; Last Vegas (Nov. 1), a quartet Cooper are a pair of con men in David O. of older dudes hitting Sin City for one last Russell’s American Hustle; Robert DeNiro hurrah; and the sperm-bank comedy Deliv- and Sylvester Stallone beat each other up ery Man (Nov. 22), with Vince Vaughn. Also as washed-up boxers in Grudge Match; and in the mix: About Time (Nov. 8), a time- 47 Ronin delivers your long-awaited gift of travel rom-com from Richard Curtis (Love Keanu Reeves, samurai swordsman.

AHO F F @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M Actually). And on Nov. 15, Terrence Howard heads an ensemble cast of college buddies who re-unite, in The Best Man Holiday.

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Downtown, at the Pittsburgh Kriseova; Egyptian writer and Speakers Series. But only seplaywright Hamdy El-Gazzar; ries subscribers can see the likes of and Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek, among others. The festival is free and former Prime Minister of Greece George open to the public, and its theme is “Birth of Papandreou (Oct. 9); author and humorist Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly EvNations/The Pursuit of Happiness.”

Among more accustomed names, Pitts- erything) (Oct. 30); and — sure to be controversial — former U.S. burgh Arts & Lectures Secretary of Defense has a nice lineup, beRobert Gates (Nov. 20). ginning with Michael Also Downtown, Moss, the journalist at the Byham Theand author of Salt, Sugater, PA&L and the ar, Fat, a new exposé Pittsburgh Cultural of the processed-food Trust present bestindustry (Sept. 23). He’s selling author Terry followed by mystery McMillan (Waiting to diva Sue Grafton (Oct. Exhale) on the heels of 7), novelist Amy Tan her latest novel, Who (Nov. 25) and shortAsked You? (Sept. 30). story superstar George Some of the best Saunders (Dec. 9). Spereadings will take cial PA&L treats include place at venues that the Oct. 25 appearance

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Of particular local interest is Kelcey Parker. Lilianeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Balcony is her â&#x20AC;&#x153;multi-voiced novella-in-ďŹ&#x201A;ash set at Frank Lloyd Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fallingwater,â&#x20AC;? which alternates between a Kaufmann-family domestic drama set in 1952 and four ďŹ ctional narratives about present-day tourists to Fallingwater. Parker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a former volunteer guide at Fallingwater now teaching at Indiana University South Bend â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has two Pittsburgh dates: at The New Yinzer Reading Series, at ModernFormations Gallery (Nov. 21), and at the East End Book Exchange (Nov. 23).

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NEW AMERICAN MADE MOVIE. Nathaniel McGill and Vincent Vittorio’s documentary film is a primer covering some of the issues that led to the huge decline in American manufacturing, while spotlighting a few longtime and new businesses that chose to stay American. Economists and academics weigh in, while the filmmakers collect anecdotal material from producers, including such well-known brands as New Balance and Lousville Slugger, and entrepreneurs such as a jewelry-maker with a contract at the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum.

But the surface is just barely scratched on this complex issue, and there are notable omissions, including any discussion of wages (union, non-union, overseas), the role of the federal government (not one mention of NAFTA) or the parsing and subcontracting of manufacturing (“assembled in USA from foreign parts”). This film felt like it was aimed at educating high schoolers — which is not a bad idea — but I’d have preferred a meatier, more rigorous analysis. Mon., Sept. 16, through Thu., Sept. 19. Harris (Al Hoff)

SHARKNADO. This Sy-Fy original is a terrifying harbinger of climate change, as a freak storm off the coast of California dumps angry, hungry sharks all over water-logged Los Angeles. Conversely, it is a non-stop hoot starring 90210’s Ian Zeiring and Tara Reid. 9 p.m. Sat., Sept. 14. Hollywood

In a World ... old ways tricky. Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this comedy from Luc Besson. Starts Fri., Sept. 13.

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IN A WORLD … There have been a million behind-the-scenes comedies about the movie biz, but this ensemble pic has two marks of distinction: (1) it’s set in the tiny, but no less backbiting, realm of voice-over work, and (2) it’s written and directed by a woman, Lake Bell.

Bell also stars, portraying Carol, daughter of a voiceover king (Fred Melamed), who hopes to break into this boys’ club. She winds up competing with her American Made dad and his douche-y Movie protégé (Ken Marino) for work in a new movie trailer that will re-introduce the classic opening words: “In a world …”

It’s a slender story to provide a steady stream of mishaps, wry asides (Carol describes her dad’s young girlfriend as “smelling of Lifesavers”) and assorted cameos. A couple subplots underline the importance of voice work and sound recording, plus you’ll leave the theater with a fresh understanding

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DRAMA OF ASTONISHING “GRADE A: AEMOTIONAL PURITY.”

AUSTENLAND. A woman obsessed with the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice travels to a Jane Austen-themed resort hoping to meet a real-life Mr. Darcy. Keri Russell stars in Jerusha Hess’ rom-com. Starts Fri., Sept. 13. Regent Square THE FAMILY. A Mafia family relocates to Normandy, France, but finds giving up the

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by Michael Curtiz, an American guy has a café in Casablanca, Rick’s, where everybody goes.

By rights this film should have been a disaster: It all takes place in one room; the love story is hokey, based on ridiculous coincidence and interrupted by complicated war details, cheesy patriotism and one-liners; and there are dozens of bit players. Yet it’s as close to perfect as a Hollywood film ever was.

11 a.m. Sun., Sept. 15; 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 18; and 2 p.m. Thu., Sept. 19. Hollywood (AH)

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of the obvious: Men do snag all the high-profile voice-over gigs. Manor (AH) INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2. Typically, the Lambert family’s ghost problem from 2010’s Insidious has not gone away. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne make another go of clearing the supernatural from their lives in this sequel, directed by James Wan. Starts Fri., Sept. 13.

STILL MINE. Writer-director Michael McGowan’s low-key drama is based on a true story, parts of which are universally familiar.

New Brunswick farmer Craig Morrison (James Cromwell) and his wife (Genevieve Bujold) are in their 80s, and failing health is impacting their previously fiercely independent lives. It’s what Morrison does next that makes his story extraordinary: At the age of 87, he designs and builds a new home, better suited to his wife’s infirmities, allowing them to stay together. But he neglects to file the proper permits, and the half-built house becomes a point of contention between Morrison and the authorities. That’s about it for plot (and the outcome is no surprise), so the film’s small pleasures are in Cromwell’s pleasantly gruff performance and its underdog tropes. It also delicately walks a line between sentimentalizing the couple’s longtime relationship and depicting some of the inevitable challenges that come with aging. Starts Fri., Sept.

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SUPER TASK FORCE ONE. A family superhero film, locally produced and directed by Steve Rudzinski, in the tokusatsu style (i.e. Power Rangers). Villains, weapons and a band of plucky heroes, plus a cameo from David J. Fielding (Zordin in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), who will also attend the screening.

4 p.m. Sun., Sept. 15. Hollywood. $5 BIG GAY LOVE. A party planner (Jonathan Lisecki) meets a potential love interest, but he’s insecure competing against Los Angeles’ beautiful people.

Ringo Le writes and directs this new rom-com, presented by the Pittsburgh Lesbian and Gay Film Society. 7:30 p.m. Sun., Sept. 15. Hollywood

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HOLLYWOODBURGH SHORTS. Catch this screening of five short webisode-type films that function as a preview of the locally produced Hollywoodburgh, an in-development 30-minute dramedy, hoping to find a home on TV or the Internet. The show is about two Pittsburgh guys who move to Hollywood to pursue careers in show business, and subsequently bounce back and forth between the two towns. 7 p.m. Thu., Sept. 12.

Hollywood. Suggested donation: $5 per person, or $10 for three people

IN THE HOLE. Integrity matters little to CP ACE boozed-out newspaper reporter Kirk Douglas, who delays the rescue of a man trapped in a cave in order to have a Bigger Story, in this 1951 drama from Billy Wilder. Newspaper guys are hardboiled that way; what’s shocking is everyone else’s complicity.

Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival) is one of the most cynical films to come out of the Hollywood system. Continues a month-long, Sunday-night series of films about old-school journalism. 8 p.m.

Sun., Sept. 15. Regent Square (AH)

LABYRINTH. This cultish 1986 film from Muppetmaster Jim Henson spins a fairy-tale-ish yarn about a teenage girl (Jennifer Connelly) who must navigate a strange world in order to rescue her baby brother from a goblin king (David Bowie).

Featuring one of the Thin White Duke’s worst hairdos ever. 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 13; and 2 and 7 p.m. Sat., Sept. 14. Hollywood

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN. Linda Goldstein Knowlton directs this documentary about girls who were adopted from China into American homes, and how now, as teen-agers, they construct their identities. Knowlton will lead a panel discussion following the screening. 7:30 p.m. Mon., Sept. 16.

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There may be someone out there who doesn’t like Haitian art but I would need to see proof. And while there are other places in Pittsburgh to see Haitian art, Friends of HAS Haiti is hard to beat. (HAS, or Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, is a separate nonprofit to which Friends contributes.)

The Friends of HAS Haiti are known for their annual H’Art and Soul of Haiti benefit, which has featured prominent musicians such as the Tom Tom Club, along with a large selection of Haitian art for sale. The Friends also maintain a Haitian Art Gallery, which had been tucked away on a low-profile second floor, but recently relocated to a ground-floor space in Point Breeze’s “main street.”

The gallery is an informal affair, basically filling the office walls with many dozen Haitian artworks. The staff are welcoming and you can get a pretty good idea of what the art might look like competing with and complementing the contents of your home (in contrast to the white void of most art galleries). HAS dates to the 1950s, with the Friends established as a separate nonprofit in 1999, and clearly it is well established in its ties to the Haitian art community.

Many of the paintings are fine examples of what you might think of when you think of Haitian art: namely, brightly colored genre scenes in a folk or primitive style (more Grandma Moses than Michelangelo, yet not unsophisticated). But there’s a broad range of styles here, with some of the paintings being surrealistic, precisely naturalistic, impressionistic, expressionistic or abstract, including more than a few showing some awareness of modernism.

There are also examples of metalwork cut from old oil drums and hammered to make reliefs of decorative motifs or scenes of native life. There are some exuberant sequined works, as well. Some of the art can be viewed online, with the gallery’s website currently under expansion.

The Friends are dedicated to raising awareness of Haitian culture and supporting Hôpital Albert Schweitzer through the sale of Haitian art as well as through other programs. In addition to conventional health services, with the support of the Friends, HAS has developed forward-looking environmental, economic and cultural projects, including reforestation and disease prevention. It’s a perfect fundraiser: Support a terrific cause, take home terrific art.

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OU COULDN’T call Reza Aslan a martyr, but people have tried to push him around — and ended up regretting it.

The Iranian-born scholar’s book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, became a best-seller after a notorious Foxnews.com interview, in which correspondent Lauren Green tried to pillory Aslan for being a Muslim who dared write about Jesus.

Aslan’s briskly written book claims that Jesus was concerned not with a kingdom in heaven, but one on Earth: an Israel free from Roman occupation. Later Christian writers, Aslan argues, downplayed those concerns, portraying a less subversive, more ethereal Christ who appealed to more nonJews — and threatened Rome less.

The Pittsburgh stop on Aslan’s book tour, hosted by the World Affairs Council, is a kind of homecoming: His wife grew up here … and his brother-in-law preaches at a Wexford church.

A longer version of this interview appears on www.pghcitypaper.com.

SHOULD YOUR PORTRAYAL OF JESUS CHANGE HOW CHRISTIANS APPROACH THEIR FAITH? It doesn’t have to. … The core of Christianity is that Jesus is both fully God and fully man.

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ISN’T ANY ATTEMPT TO FIND THE “TRUE JESUS” KIND OF REDUCTIVE? When you go to the church in Nazareth, they have this amazing display. They’ve asked Christians from all over the world to send depictions of Jesus and Mary. And it’s

“THE POLITICS OF JESUS” WITH REZA ASLAN 6 p.m. Tue., Sept. 17. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $25.

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remarkable: The painting from Peru depicts them as essentially migrant coffee-workers.

The painting from China depicts them as Chinese. The painting from Thailand depicts Jesus as blue, as though he’s a Hindu god. Part of the reason for the success of Christianity is that Jesus has meant so many things to so many people.

In a sense, all of [those meanings] are equally valid. ... What I’m trying to do is peel back those layers of interpretation, and get to the core of who the person was.

ONE CRITIC SAYS YOU DEPICT JESUS AS AN “ORDINARY POLITICAL REVOLUTIONARY RESCUED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY STORYTELLING MACHINE.” IS THAT A FAIR TAKE? I don’t know if I would say Jesus was CONTINUES ON PG. 64

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ordinary. You’re talking about an illiterate, poor, marginal Jewish peasant from the backwoods of Galilee, who managed to gather a movement to himself on behalf of the poor and the weak that was so threatening to the religious and political powers of the day that he was arrested, tortured and executed. … A lot of critics say I describe Jesus as some sort of violent revolutionary, but I say in the book that there is no evidence that he openly advocated violence — though his views on violence were far more complex than people normally think.

BUT ON TOPICS LIKE VIOLENCE, CRITICS SAY YOU CHERRY-PICK WHICH BIBLE PASSAGES TO ACCEPT AS HISTORIC. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU QUOTE JESUS TELLING THE APOSTLES TO SELL THEIR CLOAKS AND BUY SWORDS. BUT YOU DON’T MENTION THAT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES TRY TO DEFEND JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE SAYS, “HE WHO LIVES

BY THE SWORD DIES BY IT.” You have to take that in context. … The Garden of Gethsemane is not a place of fountains. It’s a forest, a place to hide from the authorities. And all four Gospels talk about this massive force that comes to arrest Jesus. … The skirmish was over time whitewashed so that it [fits] into the theological argument the Gospel writers were trying to make [about Jesus’ nonviolence]. How can you take that event and cleanse it? Well, you have Jesus say, “Stop the fighting.” … The fact that it’s a swordfight, in and of itself, should make you pause and rethink the notion of Jesus as a pacifistic preacher with no interest in the cares of this world.

That Jesus would have gone totally unnoticed. It would not have required an armed posse to arrest him.

THIS INTERVIEW WILL BE PUBLISHED SEPT. 11. AS SOMEONE WITH EXPERIENCE OF BOTH ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY, HOW WOULD YOU ASSESS THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THOSE FAITHS? DO WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER THAN WE DID 12 YEARS AGO? I think the middle does, especially in the United States. This is the most religiously diverse nation in the history of the world: You have no choice but to know and understand your neighbor.

On the other hand, the fringes seem to have gotten further and further away from each other. And unfortunately, because they are so much louder, that group is all we ever hear. But often the largest voice is the quietest. That’s how change happens: not because religious leaders made it happen, but because neighbors made it happen.

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“Croquet I” (2000), a photograph by Vik Muniz {IMAGE COURTESY OF THE FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER}

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Restored in 1990 and opened as a house museum, Clayton — the Henry Clay Frick family mansion — is an artifact of the Gilded Age. It is decorated almost entirely as the family left it in 1905.

In 2000, the neighboring Frick art museum exhibited Clayton Days, a series of photographs taken in the house, and in the environs of the Frick historic site. Artist Vik Muniz made the images during a residency that marked the institution’s “first venture into working with a living artist.”

In the 1990s, spurred by artist Fred Wilson’s groundbreaking exhibition Mining the Museum, museums of every stripe began exploring ways to present their collections anew. Many invited contemporary artists to create projects that could offer insight and a new perspective.

The Frick chose Muniz, widely recognized today for such politically charged projects as “Sugar Children” and “Pictures of Garbage.”

At the Frick, Muniz chose to create a fictional late-19th-century narrative using contemporaneous photographic tools and techniques, including an 8-by-10-inch vintage camera, period lenses and orthochromatic film. Inhabiting the persona of a 19thcentury photographer, Muniz cast Frick staff as characters in vignettes exploring daily life at the turn of the last century, as well as the history of art and photography.

The concept of Clayton Days is ultimately more interesting than the final product. The images come off as precious and contrived. The most interesting are actually the 14 that Muniz re-photographed from the Frick family photo albums, a method recalling artist Sherrie Levine, who gained recognition in 1980 by appropriating the photographs of Walker Evans.

Currently reinstalled as Clayton Days Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz, the exhibition, organized by Sarah J. Hall, director of curatorial affairs, also includes 10 more recent works by the artist to put the project in a larger context. But Clayton Days doesn’t really hold up. According to Hall, Muniz tried to capture the small things that are not presented in history books or on house tours. But Clayton is no run-ofthe-mill 19th-century home. It belonged to Henry Clay Frick, an extraordinarily controversial figure in American history. To make only subtle reference to “workers” and instead focus primarily on period photography, allegorical imagery and esoteric arthistorical references is a missed opportunity.

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TAKING PRIDE

MILLER TIME

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{BY TED HOOVER} SOMETIMES THE circle of life whimpers.

ALL MY SONS was Arthur Miller’s first hit

show, and with a new Playhouse REP production — directed by Robert Miller (son of Arthur) — you have an opportunity to see how firmly in control Miller was even at this early stage.

The 1947 play is one (eventful) day in the life of the Keller family. Papa Joe might or might not have sold defective airplane parts during the war. Missing son Larry might or might not have died flying a bomber. And Chris, the younger son, might or might not discover the truth. (Here’s a spoiler … he does.)

Much of Miller’s work is now placed in the “well-made play” genre, which makes me laugh. In today’s theater, “well-made” is a genre and not a goal. Vivid individualized characters in fat-free vehicles constructed like iron-plated battleships: If only all playwrights set about to craft plays this monumental — instead of exploring banal artistic trends — my job would be a lot easier.

It can be said that Miller gets a bit melodramatic: If two emotional plot points ended sooner, this play would be even more powerful. But that is, believe me, a very minor complaint.

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Daina Michelle Griffith, Phillip Winters, Penelope Lindblom and Shaun Cameron Hall in the REP’s All My Sons

a quite modern performance. Like I said: Mashed up together it’s a bit jarring.

Still, All My Sons is too infrequently performed in Pittsburgh, and this production gives you a taste of what you’ve been missing.

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ALL MY SONS continues through Sept. 22. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $15-27. 412-392-8000 or www.pittsburghplayhouse.com

Miller fils is smart enough to recognize the strength in the script and, for the most part, lets the production do what it’s designed to do. (That’s much trickier than you’d think.) He’s done a good job getting strong performances from his company.

But he hasn’t gotten the same performance: There are several different acting styles on stage, and to say that’s distracting would be something of an understatement.

Daina Michelle Griffith and Phillip Winters seem the most organic; these are uncluttered, straightforward performances in sync with the time period. The role of Chris, so firmly fixed in heady post-WWII optimism, might be unplayable in such a cynical age, but Shaun Cameron Hall gives it his all. Justin Fortunato hits up the melodrama as the bad-news messenger, and by playing her subtext on top, Penelope Lindblom gives

“THERE ARE Protestants here. I can smell them,” says Sister. “Just like a lion smells fear.”

So begins Sister’s Summer School Catechism: God Never Takes a Vacation, now at City Theatre.

For anyone from the generation that attended parochial school back in the day when nuns wielded rulers, this “summer school” will bring back many memories.

As one older audience member said during the performance I attended, “You’re opening a lot of old wounds, Sister.”

To which Sister replied, “Let me get the salt.”

Summer School Catechism is the latest installment in the wildly popular interactive series by playwright Maripat Donovan.

When polled by Sister, the majority of the audience had already seen a “Catechism” show.

Many had already seen this version!

School begins with Sister doling out tissues to any woman wearing a blouse too low or a skirt too high. Women with particularly plunging necklines are handed a lobster bib. One bare-

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“Ladies, before you leave the house,” Sister advises, “look at yourself in the mirror and ask, ‘Would the Blessed Mother leave the house in this outfit?’”

Then — once the chewing gum has been collected — summer school begins.

There is no formal script. It is up to actress Kimberly Richards, as Sister, to make the performance work. Richards has brilliant improvisational skills and truly engages the audience. Her quick wit and one-line zingers keep her “students” laughing for nearly two hours. During a question-and-answer period, she fields queries about her personal life with honest answers (such as that she was born in

Sometimes it whispers.

When it comes to The Lion King, it roars.

The mammoth Disney musical — the story of lion cub Simba, who must avenge his father’s death — has returned to Pittsburgh. This PNC Broadway Across America touring production is a bit smaller-scale, but it’s still a mane event.

Much of the show’s success will always be attributed to Julie Taymor’s innovative and ingenious costume design. Strip away the skins and stripes, and this is a show about animals. The actors must appear as animal-like as possible — and each rhino and zebra and hyena and elephant and gazelle and cheetah and wildebeest costume carefully showcases both man and beast.

The entire cast was top-notch, but L. Steve Taylor leads the pack as Lion King Mufasa. Here too is where Taymor’s costume genius is at its best: Taylor’s mask can either rest on his forehead or cover his face. Resting, Mufasa is regal, dignified, powerful.

Mask comes up, and the father of Simba is sensitive and vulnerable. Such subtle symbolism proves, especially on repeated viewings, the brilliance of the work.

THE LION KING continues through Sept. 29. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $70-150. 412-456-666 or www.trustarts.org

Pittsburgh) or with a curt “None of your business.” Richards also shows a commanding knowledge of church history as well as Catholic doctrine. (And — in case you’re wondering — Sister is crazy about the new Pope.)

Before the lesson is over, there is a slide show, a baseball game and prizes awarded.

To show how popular Sister is, she drew a sell-out crowd on the Steelers’ opening day. And the audience had a rollicking good time.

Sets are simple, almost minimalist, but serve the action superbly.

There wasn’t one glitch to bitch about on opening night.

Well, maybe one.

Disney + animals = perfect kids’ show, no?

No. Every LK audience I have been part of teems with very young children, but this is not kiddie fare. Blame it on the 1994 animated film, perhaps on Elton John and Tim Rice’s bouncy music, and almost certainly on the Stan-and-Ollie comedy team of meerkat Timon and warthog Pumbaa, who is ostracized from the animal world for his excessive farting. Still, animals rushing down the Benedum aisles, fireflies dancing in the night sky and pop-up cacti can keep small attention spans riveted only for small amounts of time.

Parents also need to remember there’s a dark side of life, even in the animal kingdom, and death and evil and murder and revenge will need to be explained on the drive home to Sewickley.

Perhaps that’s where a reprise of “Hakuna Matata” comes in?

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Permitting presents its first annual Pittsburgh Abides: “That’s Not Her Toe, Dude” at Bayardstown Social Club. The evening features Lebowskithemed events including a costume contest and a bowling-ball-polishing competition, all culminating in a screening.

The event is self-seating, so bring your own blankets and chairs — or maybe a nice rug, to really tie the room together.

Brett Wilson 5 p.m. 3008 Penn Ave., Strip District. $10. www.pghabides.com

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Starting tonight, PICT stages this 1997 dark comedy, a whodunnit about a small-town gravedigger confronted with the bones of his own wife, who died mysteriously. Martin Giles directs a cast including nationally credited actor James Keegan. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow, Oakland. $20-48. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org

{STAGE} With her spoken-word work and other performances — often through the arts group she co-founded, Sun Crumbs — Christina Springer was a key voice in Pittsburgh’s 1990s art scene. After a decade away for motherhood, Springer returns as performer and presenter with her one-woman show She Diva Died. & Come Again? Text, sound and movement explore the conflict between the artist and the mother, with a focus on the challenges of raising a young black man. See it tonight

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Also 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 13. 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. $15-50. www.kelly-strayhorn.org

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Samuel Johnson called patriotism “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” But in Pittsburgh-based photographer Bea Chiapelli’s Proud to be an American?, there’s more to it. “I began this project with a close-minded view of what it meant to be patriotic,” says Chiapelli. But her views have changed, and the show explores how flags, songs and other expressions of patriotism often divide us in love of country. The opening reception at 709 Penn Gallery is tonight. BO 6-8 p.m.

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From the 1920s until urban redevelopment blew it up a few decades later, the Hill District was a national locus of African-American culture — home to the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper, an iconic jazz scene and more. In a new exhibit of her paintings at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Leslie Ansley honors that past, including Hill natives like photographer Teenie Harris and playwright August Wilson, and frequent visitors like Dizzy Gillespie. The opening reception for Oasis is tonight. BO 6-9 p.m. Exhibit continues through Nov. 2.

200 Broad St., Sewickley.

Free. 412-741-4405 or www. sweetwaterartcenter.org

{WORDS} New York Times best-selling author Wiley Cash visits Chatham University as part

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“[A]n environment burgeoning with opportunity” might not be how everyone would describe Detroit. But artists are different.

And so as one of three new exhibitions marking its 35th anniversary, The Mattress Factory presents Detroit: Artists in Residence, featuring artists who live and work in The Largest American City to Declare Bankruptcy. As Design 99, Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope use abandoned houses as their medium, creating both art and off-the-grid structures; their work has been exhibited worldwide. Nationally known Jessica Frelinghuysen creates portable architectural spaces, like kids’ backpacks that hold plant seedlings.

Internationally exhibited Scott Hocking makes sculptural installations in iconic abandoned buildings in Detroit. Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller perform as the dark electronic pop band ADULT; their props and sets are exhibited as installations. Also exhibiting are Russ Orlando, who blends ceramics, performance and photography, and Frank Pahl, who creates large installations from found materials to produce orchestrated sound. The Sept. 12 Detroit opening in the museum’s main building complements two other new solo shows: Janine Antoni, by the New York City-based performance and installation artist known for questioning the roles of femininity and the female body, in 1414 Monterey Street; and Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory, by the Japanese performance and installation artist, launching the museum’s brand-new space at 516 Sampsonia Way. Bill O’Driscoll Reception: 7-9 p.m.

Thu., Sept. 12. 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. $15. 412-231-3169 or www.mattress.org

of its annual Melanie Brown Lecturer Series. Cash gives a free reading from his upcoming novel, This Dark Road to Mercy, and from previous bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home, a tale about the evil two brothers must face. The New York Times Sunday Book Review called Land More Kind “intensely felt and beautifully told.” BW 8 p.m. Mellon Board Room, Mellon Hall, Chatham campus, Shadyside. Free. 412-365-1100 or www.chatham.edu/mfa

{STAGE} Seems like almost anything can happen in Jason Burkett’s play Saving the World, an absurdist comedy about a scientific discovery that could: (a) end hunger, or (b) destroy humanity.

Reviewing the world-premiere 2003 production, in California, one critic summarized: “God arm-wrestles with the devil, bullets get shot out of the air, Dr. Sharon takes an inflatable T-Rex to the mat, and Dr. Healy goes into labor.” And that’s just in Act II. Starting tonight, Throughline Theatre Company

{COMEDY} All-female comedy troupe Frankly Scarlett lost a core member when Robin Hitchcock left the continent last year, moving to South Africa. But her current visit is a great excuse to name the group’s new show The Frankly Scarlett Comedy Hour: World Domination. Tonight and tomorrow, at Arcade Comedy Theater, Hitchcock joins Abby Fudor and Liz Labacz for a night of original sketches, impromptu improv games, comic videos and a little song and dance. A couple male performers will contribute, but the improv is all-female.

BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 14. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5-10. www. arcadecomedytheater.com

St., Downtown. $25-50 ($100 ticket includes reception). 412456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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{OPERA} Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Gene Scheer are big names in contemporary opera. Fans of Microscopic Opera Company know Picker’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Scheer’s Three Decembers

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Sept. 17; Thu., Sept. 19; and Sat., Sept. 21. 111 Ninth St., Downtown. $15-35. www.microscopicopera.org

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BLACK ANGELS OVER TUSKEGEE. Off-Broadway play by Layon Gray. Presented

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THE BOARDINGHOUSE. Story about the Home Sweet Home Boardinghouse, where life is anything but normal.

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Mark Twain. Thu-Sun. Thru of Fayette County w/ Pioneer Sept. 21. Little Lake Theatre, Drama Service. Sept. 12-15.

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A SONG FOR CORETTA. Staged reading about a group of people paying respects to Coretta Scott King. Presented by Demaskus. Sun., Sept. 15, 3 p.m.

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SYLVIA. Comedy by A.R. Gurney about a dog & the dysfunctional couple that adopts her. Presented by the Indiana Players. Fri-Sun. Thru Sept. 22.

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THERESE RAQUIN. Opera based on Emile Zola’s novel.

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412-580-9267.

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THE END OF THE WORLD SHOW. Feat. Brett Goodnack, Tessa Karel, Krish Mohan, Jamison Linz, more. Fri, 10 p.m. Thru Sept. 13 Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.

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412-243-6464.

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709 PENN GALLERY. Proud to be an American? Photographs

by Bea Chiappelli. Opening reception: Sept. 13, 6-8 p.m.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

BE GALLERIES. Deliberate Voyages. Paintings by Wesley Smith. Opening reception: Sept. 13, 6-8 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Fragmentation. New Works

by Seth Clark. Artist reception: Sept. 21, 5-8 p.m. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. Marsha’s Peace Art; Abstract & Pointillist.

Work by Marsha Lee Moore.

Opens Sept. 13. Bloomfield.

412-681-5225.

FUTURE TENANT. rrecycle bin. Installation

by John Zobele. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Different Dimensions: The “Unpainting” Exhibit. Group show feat. mixed media, wall ceramics, fiber, sculpture, mosaics, more. Opening reception: Sept. 14, 6-8 p.m.

Greensburg. 724-837-6791.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory. Site-specific installation focusing on the body w/ relation to place & space. DETROIT: Artists in Residence. Work by Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orlando, Frank Pahl. Janine Antoni. Opening reception:

Sept. 12, 7-9 p.m. North Side.

412-231-3169.

ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY MEDIA ARTS GALLERY. Ireland. A collection of three years of photography abroad. Opening reception Sep. 12, 5-8 p.m. Downtown.

412-397-3813.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Poptastic!

The Art of Burton Morris.

Retrospective feat. nearly 50 works. Opens Sept. 15.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Oasis.

Paintings by Leslie Ansley.

Opening reception: Sept. 13, 6-9 p.m. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

WILDCARD. 365 Critters.

Animal illustrations by Jeff Brunner. Opens Sept. 12.

Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651.

ONGOING 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.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN

CULTURE. The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis. Downtown.

412-258-2700.

BFG CAFE. New Artists Showcase. Group show.

Garfield. 412-661-2345.

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

Frazier. 724-275-7001.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. East Suburban Art League Exhibit.

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.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. Donna Hollen Bolmgren.

Benefits the Master Visual Artists exhibition. East Liberty.

412-465-0140.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings. 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. Group show. South Side. 412-481-1004.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Pigment & Silver.

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John Pridmore. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-612-4030.

house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501.

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

OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m.

MCGINLEY HOUSE & The BeerHive, Strip District.

MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. 412-904-4502.

Historic homes open for tours, lectures and more. Monroeville.

412-373-7794.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN more than 600 birds from over CULTURE. Pittsburgh: 200 species. With classes, lectures, Reclaim, Renew, Remix. demos and more. North Side.

Feat. imagery, film & oral 412-323-7235. history narratives to explore NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 communities, cultures, & rooms helping to tell the story innovations. Downtown. of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

412-258-2700.

University of Pittsburgh.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Oakland. 412-624-6000.

Preserved materials OLIVER MILLER reflecting the industrial HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/ heritage of Southwestern PA. Whiskey Rebellion site Homestead. 412-464-4020. features log house, blacksmith BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN shop & gardens. South Park.

NATIONAL EDUCATION 412-835-1554.

AND CULTURAL PENNSYLVANIA CENTER. How Bulgaria TROLLEY MUSEUM. Saved Its Jews During Trolley rides WWII. www.bmnecc. and exhibits. Includes org/holocaust.aspx. displays, walking w. w w West Homestead. er tours, gift shop, hcitypap g p 412-461-6188. picnic area and Trolley .com CARNEGIE MUSEUM Theatre. Washington.

OF NATURAL HISTORY. 724-228-9256.

Roads of Arabia: PHIPPS CONSERVATORY Archaeology & History of & BOTANICAL GARDEN. the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Summer Flower Show. Glass Archaeological materials art surrounded by colorful exploring the cultural history blooms. Feat. work by of the Arabian Peninsula.

Daviea Davis, Jason Forck, Ongoing: Earth Revealed, Steven Sadvary, Lisa Platt, Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. more. 14 indoor rooms & Oakland. 412-622-3131.

3 outdoor gardens feature CARNEGIE SCIENCE exotic plants and floral displays CENTER. BIKES: Science on from around the world.

Two Wheels. Feat. hands-on Oakland. 412-622-6914. activities, demonstrations & PITTSBURGH GLASS a collection of historic, rare, CENTER. Lifeforms. Exhibition & peculiar bicycles. Ongoing: of natural imagery in Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), lampworked glass. Curated by Miniature Railroad and Village, Robert Mickelsen. Friendship.

USS Requin submarine, and more. 412-365-2145.

North Side. 412-237-3400.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG FALLINGWATER. Tour the AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 famed Frank Lloyd Wright animals, including many house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. endangered species. Highland FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Park. 412-665-3639.

CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany RIVERS OF STEEL stained-glass windows.

NATIONAL HERITAGE Downtown. 412-471-3436.

AREA. Exhibits on the FORT PITT MUSEUM. Homestead Mill. Steel Unconquered: History Meets industry and community Hollywood at Fort Pitt. artifacts from 1881-1986.

Original movie props, Homestead. 412-464-4020. photographs, & costumes SENATOR JOHN HEINZ alongside 18th century HISTORY CENTER. artifacts & documents, comparing Pennsylvania’s Civil War. & contrasting historical In-depth look at Pennsylvania’s events w/ Hollywood significant contributions during depictions. Reconstructed fort the Civil War feat. artifacts, houses museum of Pittsburgh military encampments, history circa French & Indian life-like museum figures, War and American Revolution. more. From Slavery to Freedom.

Downtown. 412-281-9285.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role FRICK ART & HISTORICAL in the anti-slavery movement.

CENTER. Ongoing: tours Ongoing: Western PA Sports of Clayton, the Frick estate, Museum, Clash of Empires, and with classes, car & carriage exhibits on local history, more. museum. Point Breeze.

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Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

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

412-323-9504.

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

421-681-0905.

FESTIVALS SAT 14 SLIPPERY ROCK VILLAGEFEST. Crafters, vendors, live music, more.

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Main St., Slippery Rock, Slippery Rock.

SAT 14 - SUN 15 PITTSBURGH RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL. Medieval entertainment, children’s activities, artisan market, more. Southeast of Pittsburgh off I-70, exit 51A, Route 31.

Sat, Sun. Thru Sept. 29 724-872-1670.

FUNDRAISERS THU 12 COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE. Benefits the YWCA. 5:30 p.m.

Tavern 245, Downtown.

412-391-5100.

EXTRA BASES FOR EXTRA MILE. Networking event at a Pirates game.

Includes buffet, drinks, more.

Benefits the Extra Mile Education Foundation. 6 p.m. PNC Park, North Side. 412-456-3103.

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Photography by Ellen Bjerklie-Hanna, A. Jason Coleman, Danielle Goshay, Brenda Roger, & Cynthia Zordich. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. The Clayton Days, Revisited: A Project

by Vik Muniz. Feat. his 65-photo collection.

Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. RetroFRESH. Contemporary paintings by James Kennedy, Claire Hardy, Donald Deskey, Alexander Minewski, Louise Evans-Scott, Vladimir Naiditch, & Henri de Waroquier.

Oakland. 412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Text meets Texture. Work by Nancy McNary-Smith & David Montano. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Elementals.

Collaborative works by Matt Hunter & Gabrielle Fischer.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Raw Images.

Photographs by Jill & Flannery Joyce. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square.

412-243-2772.

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.

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.

MENDELSON GALLERY. This Way to the Egress.

Paintings by Ben Matthews.

Shadyside. 412-361-8664.

MINE FACTORY. Once Is Never Enough. Group show by the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.

Curated by Vicky A. Clark.

Homewood.

MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Eric White: Monoprints. Garfield.

412-362-0274.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Glassweekend ‘13. Group show.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

MOST-WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Gestures: The Fine Art of Non-Verbal Communication. Group show.

Garfield. 412-328-4737.

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY GALLERY. Retrospective.

Work by Eloise Piper. New Kensington. 724-334-6032.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Hand Tinted Vintage Photographs. Photography of the Great Gatsby Era. North Side. 412-231-7881.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Artist of the Year: Akiko Kotani.

Emerging Artist of the Year: Lenka Clayton. Master Visual Artists: Preserving the Legacy.

Work by Tadao Arimoto, Gary Jurysta, Contance Merriman,

Risë Nagin, Chuck Olson, Marjorie F. Shipe, Paul Zelevansky, more. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. GREEN. Group show. South Side.

412-431-1810.

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

by George Roby & Herbert Ascherman, Jr. Downtown.

412-261-7003.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Whimsical Gardens. Acrylic Paintings

by Maura Taylor. Friendship.

412-953-2599.

TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS. On Uneven Ground. Abstract Mosaics

by Rachel Sager Lynch.

Patrick Daugherty: Influenced by the Right People™.

Oil paintings. Farmington.

724-329-1370.

USX TOWER. Last Light The Civic Arena. Photography

by Ed Massery. Downtown.

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

724-837-1500.

THUR, SEPT 12 • 9PM R&B/FUNK/JAM

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FRI, SEPT 13 • 9PM ROCK

THE RANDALL BAUMANN BAND SAT, SEPT 14 • 9PM BLUES

THE PAWNBROKERS FREE SHOW MON, SEPT 16 • 8PM WORLD MUSIC

MAMADOU KELLY & LEILA GOBI WITH BATAMBA TUES, SEPT 17 • 9PM

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LINA ALLEMANO FOUR OPEN FOR LUNCH Kitchen hours: M-Th: 11am-12am Fri & Sat: 11am-1am Sun: 11am-11pm

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drinks, music from the 50s, 60s & 70s. Benefits Most Holy Name. Most Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Troy Hill.

412 231-2994 x.3.

FOOTSTEPS FOR RECOVERY 5K RUN/WALK. 7TH ANNUAL CHARLIE Harmar Pavilion. Benefits ROSS MEMORIAL GOLF the Pennsylvania Educational OUTING. Benefits Mainstay Network for Eating Disorders.

Life Services. 10 a.m.

9 a.m. North Park, Allison Park.

Quicksilver Golf Club, Midway.

412-913-1373.

412-344-3640.

FRIENDSHIP WALK. NATIONAL AVIARY’S Benefits Best Buddies BLACK & WHITE PARTY. Pennsylvania. 8:30-10:15 a.m.

Fortune telling, strolling Kennywood Park, West Mifflin. magic, cash bar, refreshments, 717-658-3939. more. 6-10 p.m. National Aviary, HELP OUT HAPPY HOUR. North Side. 412-323-7235.

Benefits Gwen’s Girl’s.

XTREME BINGO W/ 5-7 p.m. James Street HAUS OF HAUNT. Gastropub & Benefits the Delta Speakeasy, North Side.

Foundation of 412-904-3335.

Pittsburgh & LIVE! IN ww. r w Pittsburgh AIDS Task LAWRENCEVILLE. pape pghcitym Force. 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Musical performances, .co Opera, Strip District. food, drinks & 412-322-2800. artwork provided by Lawrenceville residents, artisans, & businesses.

DANCE FOR PARKINSON’S Benefits Lawrenceville United.

PITTSBURGH. Dance classes 7 p.m. Teamster Temple, designed for people w/ Lawrenceville.

Parkinson’s Disease to MORNINGSIDE MILE RUN. explore the art of dance & Benefits the Wounded Warrior live music. Sat, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Project & Morningside Area Thru Nov. 23 Pittsburgh Community Council. Jancey & Ballet Theatre, Strip District.

Greenwood St., Morningside.

412-387-2542.

8 a.m. 412-204-7410.

FALL OLDIES DANCE. In honor of the late DJ Terry Lee, BOOK BLAST 5K RUN/WALK. feat. DJ, Joe Parknavy. Food,

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Benefits the Monroeville Public Library. 9 a.m. Monroeville Community Park, Monroeville.

412-372-0500.

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

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

Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

CF CYCLE FOR LIFE. 30 or 50-mile bike ride benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

7 a.m. Roselea Farms, Coraopolis. 412-321-4422.

MON 16 OKTOBERFEST GOLF OUTING. German food, beer, more. Benefits the Westmoreland County Historical Society. Greensburg Country Club, Jeannette.

724-532-1935.

POLITICS THU 12 POWER, PRIVILEGE, & PATRIARCHY. Discussion about sexism & racism in politics, journalism, & society w/ Zerlina Maxwell. 7 p.m.

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. 724-837-7040.

GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Meetings of group devoted to LGBT issues in electoral politics. Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. United

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Cold-conditioned and unfiltered, it pours a deep golden color, and has aromas of citrus, orange-peel and grapefruit. Smooth and refreshing.

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$5.50 PBR POUNDER & FIREBALL SHOT Thursdays, all day ‘till Midnight

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

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THU 12 - WED 18

PITTSBURGH ANTI-DRONE WARFARE COALTION MEETING. Third Sun of every month, 1-3 p.m.

Thru Sept. 15 Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

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

LITERARY

BALL. 500 beach balls, larger inflatable balls, a disco ball & music. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

FRI 13 - WED 18

THU 12 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.

SAT 14 FULL LIST E DUCK CALL ORCHESTRA. Record ONLIN www. per pa pghcitym .co

FRI 13 JOY KATZ & ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH. Mad Fridays Reading Series.

Delanie’s Coffee, South Side.

412-927-4030.

WILEY CASH. Reading w/ author of A Land More Kind Than Home. 8 p.m.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

SAT 14 BOOK SIGNING W/ C. ANTHONY MARTIGNETTI. Author of Lunatic Heroes: Memories, Lies & Reflections.

Also feat. music by Nicolas Despo. 4 p.m. Eljay’s Used Books, Dormont. 412-344-7444.

PITTSBURGH WRITERS PROJECT - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS. Second Sat of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Green Tree Public Library, Green Tree. 412-921-9292.

MON 16 12 STEPS TO PEACE: USING CREATIVITY TO TRANSFORM ANXIETY. Writing & discussion group.

Mon, 6-7 p.m. Thru Nov. 25 Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill. 412-337-4976.

MICHAEL CHABON. Book signing. 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Waterfront.

412-462-5743.

OUT OF THE GUTTER: GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION GROUP. Third Mon of every month, 6:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

TUE 17 JAPANESE CONVERSATION CLUB. First and Third Tue of every month, 6 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-9650.

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your own duck calls that will play as Florentijn Hofman’s 40-foot-tall “Rubber Ducky” tub toy travels towards the Roberto Clemente Bridge. Sat. Thru Sept. 21 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

SAT 14 - SUN 15 LITTLE MERMAID. Original, interactive, musical theater production. Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 6 Gemini Theater, Point Breeze.

412-243-5201.

TUE 17 FREE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA - EL CEO. For classically-inclined musicians of all ages & abilities. 3 p.m.

East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800.

OUTSIDE SAT 14 BEGINNER PADDLES W/ VENTURE OUTDOORS. Ages 12+. 9-11 a.m.

Moraine State Park, Butler.

& compass skills, more.

Ages 12+. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

SAT 14 - SUN 15 KAYAKING DISCOVERY COURSE. Presented by L.L. Bean. Sat, Sun, 10-11:30 a.m. Thru Oct. 13 North Park, Allison Park.

412-318-1200.

SUN 15 EAST END OLYMPICS. Games, music, beer, free pizza, more. www.eastendolympics.com 12 p.m. Bayardstown Social Club, Strip District.

OTHER STUFF THU 12 THE DEN: A SPECIAL PROGRAMMING SERIES FOR NEW ADULTS. Video games, board games, easy drop-in art projects, book discussions, more. Second and Fourth Thu of every month Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

GAME NITE AT THE ARCADE. Interactive games, hosted by Mike Buzzelli. Second Thu of every month, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.

412-339-0608.

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

MEDITATION & WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION. Supreme Meditation & the Science of Transformation w/ Acharya Kedar. Free public program. Doors open at 7:15, seating ends at 8 p.m. and Thu., Sept. 19 Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 724-420-5826.

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DREAMS OF HOPE

Every year, Dreams of Hope, a performance troupe of LGBTQ and allied youth, puts on 18 to 20 original outreach shows featuring drama, song, dance and more, in various non-traditional venues around the city.

Volunteers are always needed, particularly for office work and on show days. The next volunteer orientation is at 1 p.m. Sun., Sept. 22. Call 412-361-2065 or visit www.dreamsofhope.org for information.

412-255-0564.

WAGMAN PUBLIC STAR PARTY. Presented by the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh 7:30 p.m. Wagman Observatory, Frazier. 724-224-2510.

WOODLAND TREASURE HUNT: ORIENTEERING 101.

Learn basic map, navigation

MEET ‘N MAKE. Open crafting night. Second Thu of every month, 6-8 p.m. Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, Homewood. 412-473-0100.

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

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[POLITICS] Presbyterian Church, Butler.

412-518-1515.

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

412-567-7512.

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

412-681-0111.

Second Sat of every month Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. 412-441-0194.

SUN 15

THU 12 - FRI 13 SHE DIVA DIED. & COME AGAIN? Multi-media performance by Christina Springer portraying the battle between the artist & the mother. Sept. 12-13 Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

THU 12 - SAT 14 52 UP CLOSE. Feat. magician Lee Terbosic. Thru Sept. 14 Bricolage, Downtown.

412-471-0999.

FRI 13 PGH ABIDES: “THAT’S NOT HER TOE, DUDE.” Screening of The Big Lebowski & Lebowski-related activities.

5 p.m. Bayardstown Social Club, Strip District.

BRIDGES & RIVER SHORES FREE WALKING TOUR. Fri. Thru Sept. 27 Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, Downtown.

412-471-5808.

FRI 13 - SAT 14 2ND ANNUAL UKRAINIAN FOOD FESTIVAL. Sept. 13-14 SS Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall, Carnegie.

412-527-5359.

FRI 13 - MON 16 STEEL CITY TATTOO CONVENTION. Vendors, tattoo booths, live entertainment, more. Sept. 13-16 David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. 412-565-6000.

Political analyst and pundit Zerlina Maxwell — who contributes to the New York Daily News, Feministing.com and BET.com, among other outlets — isn’t afraid to dive into unfriendly waters. An occasional guest on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, she received violent threats earlier this year after suggesting that, rather than encouraging women to prevent rape by carrying guns, men should be taught not to rape. Thursday, Maxwell appears at Pitt-Greensburg to present her talk “Power, Privilege and Patriarchy.” 7 p.m. Thu., Sept. 12. 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg. Call 724-837-7040 or visit www.greensburg.pitt.edu.

SAT 14 ANNUAL DEUTSCHTOWN GERMAN PARADE. E. Ohio St., North Side.

Luncheon to follow at Teutonia Mannerchor. 11 a.m.

BEADS OF COURAGE BEAD CHALLENGE. Watch as regional artists make beads for the Beads of Courage program at Children’s Hospital. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Friendship. 412-365-2145.

CULTURE CLOZ OPENING CELEBRATION. Drum circle, henna artist, live music

by DJ Tee Jay, more.

10 a.m. Culture Cloz, East Liberty. 787-209-3656.

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

724-738-4964.

FREE SENIOR HEALTH FAIR. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Risen Lord Parish-Education Center, North Side.

412-761-1507.

HAPPY GRUMPS. A social hour for the wise older crowd. Bring your concerns, rants & hopes for some fun & good conversation.

Sat, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thru Dec. 28 Ritter’s Diner, Bloomfield.

412-337-4976.

INCLINE HAUNTED WALKING TOUR. Begins at the bottom of the Monongahela Incline. Sat. Thru Oct. 26 412-302-5223.

MEET THE FILMMAKER: JOHN JAQUISH FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION. 2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141.

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WORKSHOPS. Learn basic soil science, cold frame design, fall planting, more. Sat. Thru Sept. 28 Shadyside Nursery, Shadyside. 412-532-6896.

RABIES/MICROCHIP/NAIL CLIP CLINIC. Proceeds benefit Animal Care & Welfare’s low-cost spay & neuter program.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Christ United Methodist Church, Bethel Park.

412-853-6621.

SECOND SATURDAY ART WORKSHOPS. Classes in jewelry making, painting, cartooning, puppet making, quilting, more. Second Sat of every month Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown.

412-471-6079.

SECOND SATURDAY AT THE SPINNING PLATE. Art exhibits w/ various musical, literary & artistic performances.

AFRONAUT(A) FILM CLUB. Screenings of works by experimental black filmmakers.

Every other Sun, 2 p.m.

Thru Sept. 29 The Alloy Studios, Friendship. 412-363-3000.

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

Panera Bread, Oakland.

412-683-3727.

MEXICAN WAR STREETS HOUSE & GARDEN TOUR. Walking tour of homes & gardens in the Historic North Side Neighborhood. mexicanwarstreets.org 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

PFLAG GREENSBURG. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends.

Third Sun of every month, 2 p.m. Trinity United Church of Christ, Greensburg.

412-518-1515.

PITTSBURGH REPTILE SHOW & SALE. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Futules’ Harmar House, Cheswick. 724-516-0441.

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

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MON 16 FREE SENIOR HEALTH FAIR. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Bridgeville Public Library, Bridgeville. 412-325-4222.

NATIVE HERBACEOUS PLANTS & THEIR USES IN THE LANDSCAPE. Mon, 7-9 p.m. Thru Oct. 21 Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside.

412-441-4442 x 3925.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows.

No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

SELF-GUIDED OLD ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL MUSEUM TOUR. Mon, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thru Sept. 30 Old Allegheny County Jail Museum, Downtown.

412-471-5808.

SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side.

412-431-5282.

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TUE 17 THE ART OF COMEDY SCREENWRITING. Tue, 7 p.m. Thru Sept. 24 3rd Street Gallery, Carnegie.

412-276-5233.

FLU + YOU. Flu vaccination clinic for adults age 65+.

12:30-2:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010.

THE HISTORY OF LATROBE BREWING COMPANY. Presentation by James L. Tito.

7 p.m. Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg.

724-532-1935.

SECRETS FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT’S SOIL. Presentation by Gabriel Barkay. 12 p.m. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland.

412-621-6566.

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EVENT: Druglust, Ratface and Secret Tombs at The Shop, Bloomfield CRITIC: Andrew Woehrel, 25, full-time punk rocker from Bloomfield WHEN: Fri.,

It was a great punk show at The Shop with a really good lineup, and I’m really excited I was able to come to this show tonight. I came to see Secret Tombs, but it was really cool getting to see Druglust and Ratface also: They were both really awesome bands. My favorite part hands-down was getting to see Ben Klahr sing. He’s the lead singer of Secret Tombs. Overall, though, I would say every band brought something to the night and it’s been great. I think it’s awesome how packed The Shop has gotten tonight, as it’s definitely one of the coolest places to come see live music in Pittsburgh. It definitely makes me excited as a punk rocker to be able to come to these things in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

BAPTISTERY OF FLORENCE TALK. Professor Franklin Toker will speak about his findings under the baptistery. 12 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Oakland.

412-648-2400.

FARM TO TABLE: KEEP IT REAL, KEEP IT LOCAL. Presented by Erin Hart of American HealthCare Group. Call to reverse a spot.

6:30 p.m. East End Food Co-op, Point Breeze.

412-242-3598. if experienced. Also seeking INTRODUCTORY LEVEL adults for opening party scene.

SCOTTISH GAELIC CLASS. Call for appointment. Darlynn’s Wed. Thru Nov. 6 Bottlebrush School of Dance, Mt. Pleasant.

Gallery & Shop, Harmony.

724-887-0887.

724-452-0539.

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! ARTS CENTER PROFESSIONAL Practice conversational COMPANY. Auditions for English. Wed, 5 p.m.

White Christmas. Sept. 21-22.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

Male/Female dancers/singers 412-622-3151. & a female age 10-12, OBSCURE GAMES/PUB GAME tap/jazz combinations & 32 NIGHT. Wed, 7 p.m. Thru Sept. 25 bars of a Broadway-style song.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

Bring sheet music, accompanist 412-681-4318. provided. centerauditions.org/ THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. index.php/professionalA meeting of jugglers company/white-christmas & spinners. All levels Lincoln Park Performing welcome. Wed, Arts Center, Midland.

7:30 p.m. Union 724-259-6443.

Project, Highland Park.

MON RIVER ARTS. 412-363-4550. www. per a p pghcitym WEST COAST SWING Auditions for A .co WEDNESDAYS. Swing Christmas Story. dance lessons. Wed, Sept. 9 & 12. Adults & 9 p.m. The Library, South children needed. Email for Side. 916-287-1373. appointment, dlmusic@verizon.

WORKABLE CAREER FAIR. net. T Grand Theatre, Elizabeth.

9 a.m.-12 p.m. South Hills 412-628-1032.

Interfaith Ministries, Bethel Park.

THE NEXT MILLIONAIR! 412-854-9120 x 14.

Looking for actors & actresses for the movie production of The Next Millionair.

CARNEGIE PERFORMING ARTS Call Robert for further CENTER. Auditions for The details. Thru Sept. 20.

Nutcracker. Sept. 21. Dance 412-904-2954. students, male/female age THE THEATRE FACTORY. 5-adult. carnegieperforming Auditions for Margaret artscenter.com/auditions Edson’s Wit. Sept. 14. Women Carnegie. 412-279-8887. age 20-80/men age 20-60s, GEYER PERFORMING ARTS equity & non-equity, 2-min.

CENTER. Auditions for The monologue & cold readings.

Nutcracker. Sept. 14. Basic thetheatrefactory.com Trafford. movement audition, bring ballet, jazz, & pointe shoes 724-454-7193.

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SUBMISSIONS BLAST FURNACE. Seeking submissions for Volume 3, Issue 3. Theme is “prized possessions,” tangible or otherwise. Submit no more than 3 of your best poems. blastfurnace.submittable. com/Submit THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate in First Fridays - Art in a Box. For more information, email thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com.

412-403-7357.

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

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PITTSBURGH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS NEW MEMBERS SCREENING. Screening Sept. 29. Bring five works of art in the same medium, 2D or 3D. Drop off 11 a.m.-2 p.m., pick up 4-6 p.m. aapgh.org Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Shadyside.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

My boyfriend and I have been monogamous for five years. His dick is of average size. It’s not small enough for him to have dealt with the baggage associated with “small dicks.” Yet, I’ve had sex with big dicks, and I would love to try one of those dick sheaths or extenders. But my boyfriend is a sensitive guy, and I feel like I’m going to fuck up our sex life if I ask for one. How can I propose this without him feeling like his manhood is insufficient?

SINCERELY LOVES AVERAGE MAN

“Getting a sheath onto her boyfriend’s dick without hurting his feelings will be a bit tricky,” said Matthew Nolan of OhJoySexToy. com. “No matter their size, lads around the world are brought up with dick insecurities.

Having said that, a dick sheath isn’t the worst thing in the world for her to bring to the table: It involves her boyfriend as a participant, and it keeps his dick in the loop.”

Matthew and his partner, Erika Moen, create an informative and entertaining weekly comic that focuses on the world of sex — from sex-toy reviews to interviews with people in the sex industry. They research and write the text together, and Erika does the drawing.

(Why comics? “Sex education is typically very dry,” said Erika: “a wall of text about abstract concepts and then some alien diagrams.

Comics are especially well equipped to teach people about their bodies, sexual options and reproductive choices because they combine images and text. Adding in a joke or two helps make people feel included in the conversation instead of being lectured at.”)

In a recent comic, Matthew gave cock sheaths a try. Cock sheaths — for those of you who haven’t visited a sex-toy shop in a while — are a popular new sex toy that allows an average dude to be huge, and a huge dude to be ridiculous. They’re pliable-butfirm hollow dildos that a guy wears over his dick. The dude slides his hard, lubed-up dick inside the sheath, pulls his balls through a ring at the base that prevents the sheath from sliding off, and bangs away at his partner’s hole(s).

That’s the theory, anyway.

“The dick sheaths I tried weren’t the greatest thing,” said Matthew. “They dull the senses and turn your dick into an unwieldy mess. Despite owning a few, my preference is to use a big dildo on my partner.”

But if it’s a dick sheath you want, Matthew has some advice.

“SLAM should suggest going sex-toy shopping with her boyfriend,” said Matthew. “She could tell her boyfriend she’s in a filthy mood and fancies something big. She should put the emphasis on wanting him to give her some big-toy fucking and add that this is something that you can do together.

Have him help pick out different toys — like some big dildos — while saying encouraging things like, ‘Ooohh, wouldn’t you like to fuck me with this one?’ When you come across the cock sheath, add it to your cart, explaining

that it would be a perfect sex-toy solution for your mood.”

I’m going to break in here for a second: If you feel like your boyfriend might have a meltdown if you start talking about wanting something huge for a change, head to the sex-toy shop without any stated agenda, and see how he reacts to the cock sheaths on display. If he recoils, you might wanna steer him over to the body paints and bondage gear. But if he seems intrigued and not threatened, ask him how he’d feel about fucking you with one, without seeming too invested yourself.

And if you leave the sex-toy store with a cock sheath and a boyfriend whose ego is still intact?

“Be encouraging about enjoying the extra size and having him fuck you with toys,” said Matthew. “Keep it jovial — laugh about it and tell him he’s sexy. A fun atmosphere can help alleviate insecurities. And by the time you’re done and dusted, you’ll know better if you prefer him with or without the sheath.”

Go to OhJoySexToy.com to see examples of Erika and Matthew’s work. Follow them on Twitter at @PlusTen Strength and @ErikaMoen.

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I am a 22-year-old heterosexual female. I may possibly be bi. I really like the dick, but I fantasize about fucking a pretty woman with a strap-on. I asked my boyfriend of a year if I could live out my fantasy, but he said he doesn’t want me “fucking another woman like a man.” I asked if I could do this to him instead, but he said no. I like BDSM, but the most he’ll do is hold my arms down and spank me. I’ve asked for other things — bondage, nipple clamps, paddles, etc. — but he says that stuff takes too much time and the bother of it “kills the mood.” I offered to set up stuff beforehand — ropes already tied to the corners of the bed, for instance — but he doesn’t want me to do that because “what if someone saw it?”

Am I just being selfish? My ex-husband (yes, ex-husband: I got married at 16 and divorced last year) would call me a freak when I opened up about my desires, so I made sure not to hide them from my current boyfriend when we met. Now what am I supposed to do? Just drop it?

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Yes, CASD, you should drop it — and by “it” I mean “him.”

You wasted five years on a man who couldn’t meet your needs and sex-shamed you about your perfectly ordinary kinks. You’ve been with this new guy for a year, and he’s every bit as lazy, inconsiderate and sex-shamey as your ex-husband. DTMFA. There are tons of guys out there who would (1) be happy to indulge your kinks and (2) make lovely boyfriends or husbands. Go find one — or two or three or four.

On the Savage Lovecast, it’s Bible-study time with nondouchey Christian John Shore at savagelovecast.com.

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a good time to free yourself from a curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I’m not talking about a literal spell cast by a master of the dark arts. Rather, I’m referring to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps inadvertently, by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don’t need a wizard or a witch to handle it for you. Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed. Here’s a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: Visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The current chapter of your life story may not be quite as epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. Still, what I’m going to tell you is something we all need to hear from time to time.

And I’m pretty sure this is one of those moments for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: “Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don’t, don’t, don’t. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The cosmos hereby grants you poetic license to be brazen in your craving for the best and brightest experiences … to be uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for you … to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what you really, really want more than anything else. This is a limited-time offer, although it may be extended if you pounce eagerly and take full advantage. For best results, suspend your pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your bitchy complaints about life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the last minute, Elsa Oliver impulsively canceled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch that something exciting would happen if instead she stayed at her home in England. A few hours later, she got a message inviting her to be a contestant on the U.K. television show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? In the days and weeks that followed, she won the equivalent of $100,000.

I’m not predicting anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius. But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in unexpected places, and to gather it in you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking shifts in fate and be willing to alter your plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The only thing standing between you and your goal,” writes American author Jordan Belfort, “is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” I don’t entirely agree with that idea. There may be other obstacles over which you have little control. But the bullshit story is often more than half the problem. So that’s the bad news, Capricorn. The good news is that right now is a magic moment in your destiny when you have more power than usual to free yourself of your own personal bullshit story.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is the truth a clear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it

have an objective existence that’s independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking through an underground cavern? Does it have a different meaning for every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course, is: both.

Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it’s a stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius, the truth is the latter. You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate your relationship with it. It’s more likely to reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame of mind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a good time to indulge in wide-open, highflying, anything-goes fantasies about love — IF, that is … IF you also do something practical to help those fantasies come true. So I encourage you to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance and intimacy — as long as you also make specific adjustments in your own attitudes and behavior that will make the revolution more likely. Two more tips: 1. Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you might have about love’s possibilities. 2. Work to increase your capacity for lusty trust and trusty lust.

experiment with this principle. See if you can increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what’s happening to you with beautiful and positive words.

in the air after a person wearing perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will expand the definition to include any influences and impressions left behind by a powerful presence who has exited the scene. In my astrological opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study it. It will be a source of information that helps you make good decisions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is Correct Your First Impressions Week. It’s a perfect time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to the possibility that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing to question certainties that hardened in you after just a brief exposure to complicated processes? During Correct Your First Impressions Week, humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. P.S. This is a good time to reconnect with a person you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Cataglottism” is a rarely used English word that has the same meaning as French kissing — engaging in liberal use of the tongue as you make out. But I don’t recommend that you incorporate such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst of French kissing, that what you’re doing is “cataglottism.” Your pleasure would probably be diminished. This truth applies in a broader sense, too. The language you use to frame your experience has a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds.

The coming week will be an excellent time to

What’s the part of yourself that is least evolved and needs most transformation? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger Than Fiction. From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse for you.

In your story, the disruption has already happened.

Next comes the part where you laugh. It may be a sardonic chuckle at first, as you become aware of the illusions you had been under before the jolt exposed them. Eventually I expect you will be giggling and gleeful, eternally grateful for the tricky luck that freed you to pursue a more complete version of your fondest dream.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an interviewer to compose a seven-word autobiography. In response, he came up with 10 words: “unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy.” The coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar assignments. I’d love to see you express the essential truth about yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear that even though you’re a work-in-progress, you have a succinct understanding of what you need and who you are becoming.

Tune in, log on, hear the music that matters to you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

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In English, it refers to the fragrance that remains

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Everyone wanted to make sure that I would be OK

A rite of passage It was a rite of passage for a young man to be able to go on the bus by yourself. That was big-time. When we were around 5, 6, 7 — right in there — me and my brother got the opportunity. Either my grandfather or grandmother walked us up to the bus stop that was nearby, and we were to get off at the end of the line, where my dad would pick us up. But nobody told us an important detail: that the bus may not stop at the end of the line. In fact, it started back over at the beginning of the bus route. We didn’t really figure this fact out too much, other than me and my brother were figuring we were going a little bit too long. We also noticed that some of the stops we had seen before. Behind the scenes, of course, my mother and my dad were going nuts: “Where are the kids, oh they didn’t get off the bus. Oh my God, oh my God.” Finally the bus driver [was on] the final route of his day, so he was at the final stop, and he turned around, around and saw us and was like, “Oh my God.” He got the story from us, G [and] he went back to the bus stop that we got on, and there was my frantic mother, mothe and grandfather and father.

We got g a little bit of heck, but a lot more mor laughs.

I was at work, which was in Downtown Pittsburgh, and at the end of my workday I had a meeting that I had to go to. I had an ACCESS ride scheduled, but it was a beautiful clear spring day, and [handicapped-]accessible buses had only been running a short while. And I thought, “I’ll just take a bus.” It was rush hour, so there were maybe 25 people standing at the bus stop. A bus that I knew would get me to Oakland pulled up, and the driver opened the door. I said, “I’m going to Bellefield and Fifth Avenue in Oakland,” and he said “Lady, the lift isn’t working.” He hadn’t n t even tried it. I said, “Would Would you give it a try?” try?

And he said, “The lift isn’t working.” rking.” All of the sudden, 25 strangers said, “Well, ell, that isn’t right. That’s not fair. Why isn’t it working?” They were saying “Could d we help you somehow?” I said, “I’ll ’ll be fine, there will be another buss coming along in about 10 minutes.” s.”

Nonetheless, no one got on the bus. Everyone wanted to make sure that I would be OK. K. Ten minutes later, another buss came along, and I said to the driver, “I’m going to Fifth and Bellefield in Oakland,” and he e said, “Well, I can take you there,” re,” SINCE LAST MARCH, “Transit Tales” has been canvassing Pittsburgh for stories and he deployed the lift.

Twenty-five people that I have e about local transit — how it serves and shapes the region, by connecting us to our never met cheered loudly. The e jobs, our community and each other. bus driver looked sort of startled: ed: The project — an effort by Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Pittsburgh He didn’t think he’d done Community Reinvestment Group and Bricolage Production Company — seeks to anything heroic. I got on the lift, ift, raise awareness of transit as officials in Harrisburg debate transportation funding I got in the bus, other people this fall. Organizers hope to build support for Senate Bill 1, which would fund got on the bus. And I was sitting ng transit with $510 million annually. But they also hope to build a sense of the ways there thinking, “Only in that transit not only serves a community, but helps build it.

Pittsburgh would this happen.” .”

These stories were edited for length by Chris Potter; full-length versions of these I smiled all the way to Oakland. d. and other tales are available at www.youtube.com/user/TransitTalesPgh. Find out

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When you drive, e, every day is a little bit terriblee I think my quality of life is really, y, really improved by having the bus, and particularly the P71. Riding the P71 is faster than riding in a car. If you tell people from other places es that there’s a limited-access highway y and only buses go on it — and there’s never ver a rush hour, and you just zip straight Downtown — they’re kind of blown away by that. Every now and then there’s a day when en it’s terrible, the bus doesn’t come. But it’s so o much better than driving, because when you d drive, i every day is a little bit terrible, and the cumulative effect is so soul-deadening.

[The last time Port Authority was facing service cuts] I really got worried, because the value of our home is going to fall. We specifically stayed in the neighborhood for many different reasons, but a really big one was being able to get to work so quickly and easily. And I was like, “Not only is our life going to be worse from day-today if we lose this bus, but our home is not going to be worth as much.”

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Je Jesus was there on the bus I wa was a freshman at Duquesne University, and for my work-study Univ job I had to take a bus to the University of Pittsburgh to go to a Univ bunch of different libraries. And bunc there was a man dressed like Jesus ther Christ, trying to get me to believe Chris was the son of God and walk he w with him for eternity in the garden good. It was very bizarre and of g didn’t know what to do, and I I did was 18 and I was coming from a Catholic university, and Jesus was Cath there on the bus and all I felt was ther fear. So I got off the bus at a stop that wasn’t mine, and then all I felt was guilt.

BY GAB BONESSO, MCKEES ROCKS

“W got plenty “We of food, you wa want a plate?”

Crowded and crazyy and funny and scary When I hear the words “public transit,” the first thing that comes to my mind [is] the greatt mass off h humanity, it squeezed d iinto t a small place. How crowded and crazy and funny and scary they can be, all at the same time. It’s really kind of amazing that so many people can be packed into so small a space, and still coexist. The variety of people that you see packed onto subways and buses, and they’re all getting along, because they don’t have a choice. It’s really an amazing testament to how we can, when we have to, cooperate with each other.

BY JOE SCHULTZ, NEW YORK CITY (FORMERLY OF SHADYSIDE)

I love the people I meet [as an ACCESS driver], especially when you on a regular basis. I’m surprised get people o people I’ve met that were how many p and children during the teenagers an and can tell me how Depression a used to be and how everybody Lawrenceville u people telling me about got along together, together or our special-needs specia how they’re able to go to work and just be independent. And always “What are you doing for the holidays?” and their families coming out: “What are you doing working today? You know what, we got plenty of food, you want a plate?”

One of the most beautiful things I’ve seen is to be on Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington and seeing a full moon over the three rivers, over the stadiums. This truly is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And I can honestly say if it wasn’t for ACCESS and transit, I’d have never been able to see all these things, nor be able to help all these people to be in a position to see all these great and wonderful things.

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