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02.05/02.12.2014 VOLUME 24 + ISSUE 06
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Editor CHRIS POTTER News Editor CHARLIE DEITCH Arts & Entertainment Editor BILL O’DRISCOLL Music Editor ANDY MULKERIN Associate Editor AL HOFF Listings Editor MARGARET WELSH Assistant Listings Editor JESSICA BOGDAN Staff Writers REBECCA NUTTALL, ALEX ZIMMERMAN Staff Photographer HEATHER MULL Interns KAYLA COPES, ANGELA SUICO
{ART} Director of Operations KEVIN SHEPHERD Production Director JULIE SKIDMORE Art Director LISA CUNNINGHAM Graphic Designers SHEILA LETSON, JEFF SCHRECKENGOST, JENNIFER TRIVELLI
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[NEWS] could bury them if we just could 08 “We do whatever we wanted, but we follow the law.� — Jamie Campolongo of Yellow Cab on potential competition from rideshare services Uber and Lyft
[VIEWS]
do you let Jimmy Ponder die, and 18 “How he never played there? That’s shameful.� — Jazz musician Hill Jordan on the mixed record of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture
[TASTE] be doing some things that 23 “We’ll people haven’t seen in Pittsburgh.� — Spencer Warren on his pop-up Embury cocktail bar
{MARKETING+PROMOTIONS} Marketing Director DEANNA KRYMOWSKI Marketing and Promotions Coordinator LINDSEY GUARD Advertising and Promotions Coordinator ASHLEY WALTER Radio Promotions Director VICKI CAPOCCIONI-WOLFE Radio Promotions Assistants ANDREW BILINSKY, NOAH FLEMING
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{ADMINISTRATION} Business Manager BEVERLY GRUNDLER Circulation Director JIM LAVRINC Office Administrator RODNEY REGAN Technical Director PAUL CARROLL Interactive Media Manager CARLO LEO
[MUSIC]
think he taught me to be 28 “Iadventurous musically.� — Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna on working with Pharrell Williams
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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Al Hoff on Oscar-nominated Short Documentaries
[ARTS] it would be interesting 41 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itothought choreograph movement to completely different music and then transfer it onto the songs we would ultimately use.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alan Obuzor on his new work
{REGULAR & SPECIAL FEATURES} NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPHERD 20 EVENTS LISTINGS 46 SAVAGE LOVE BY DAN SAVAGE 56 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY 58 CROSSWORD PUZZLE BY BEN TAUSIG 61 N E W S
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