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“IT’S A PITTSBURGH HISTORY OF GAYNESS; YOU JUST CAN’T SEPARATE THE TWO.”

INCOMING Lost Bill: As a city councilor, Bill Peduto fired a shot for gun control. Was he shooting blanks? (May 14) “One solution to the gun violence could be as simple as the easy access to the bullets. Only licensed gun-owners would be able to purchase limited bullets from state stores, the same as booze. Military and police must sign for their allotment of ammo, why not the licensed gun owners? Stop the sale of bullets at Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods. We make it too easy to kill on our streets.” — Web comment from “Ella LaScola”

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Doubt, A Parable at Stage 62 (May 14) “This review is absurd. I saw this play last weekend and was absolutely moved. It was the best community theater production I have yet seen. The acting, the design and the directing all deserve a much bigger stage and I’ve been telling everyone I know to go see it this weekend. Outstanding.” — Web comment from “Dminor7th”

Local historian to open exhibit dedicated to “queer archaeology” studying Pittsburgh’s LGBT past

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O GET A SENSE of the type of archeology that Harrison Apple is involved in, think Indiana Jones in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now, replace the booby-trapped cave with the remnants of a dark, abandoned after-hours club in East Liberty … and replace the coveted golden idol resting on a pedestal with a DJ booth full of old records, cigarette packs and condoms. Apple is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, artist-in-residence at CMU’s Center for the Arts in Society and a public historian. For the past two years, he’s been engaged in “queer archeology,” studying gay social life in Pittsburgh between the 1960s and early 1990s. Along with his adviser, CMU’s Tim Haggerty, he developed the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral-history and archival project focused on the local LGBT community. Apple’s work took a groundbreaking turn in 2012, when he was given the chance by new building owners to “excavate” a former gay after-hours club at 6119 Penn Ave. “I went to the back of the building and walked up two ﬂights of stairs and there was a big black door with a sliding eye peephole,” Apple recalls. “They opened the door and it was like

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Harrison Apple, of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, with some of the items that will be part of his upcoming exhibit, Lucky After Dark, an archival look at the city’s earliest after-hours gay social clubs

a time capsule of an after-hours joint. There were drinks on the bar and there was oil in the kitchen and rotten juice and soda everywhere. There were tinfoil stars and a DJ booth ﬁlled with empty CD cases and records and Newports and condoms and whatever.” Judging from membership cards he found on the site, the venue was known as “Upscale Private Night Club.” But if the name itself was a blank slate, Apple saw

the club as a trove of information. “I brought in my plastic gloves and respirator and I bagged and tagged everything,” he says. “I basically knew how many cigarettes and condoms were in the space. But we also found membership lists and cards and police reports and all these things that talked about what this space really was, both legally and socially.” And that was just the beginning. In

a space between a stage and a concrete wall, Apple’s boyfriend found an old wallet that had been there for probably more than two decades. Inside it was a membership card for a place called the Travelers Club. “I did research and found that the Travelers was a gay after-hours club that was run by a guy named Lucky,” Apple says. “Lucky not only ran that club, but two clubs before that and a bar. It showed that gay bars in Pittsburgh didn’t just appear out of vice and ether.” That discovery led Apple to delve into the history of the city’s gay afterhours clubs, the people who orbited around them, and their signiﬁcance in shaping the city’s present-day LGBT community. Some of the research and material he recovered will be part of a month-long exhibit entitled Lucky After Dark at Future Tenant. The show, the gallery promises in a statement, “challenges existing interpretations and assumptions about the development of an LGBT culture in Pittsburgh.” The exhibit will focus mainly on material from the three clubs operated by Robert “Lucky” Johns between the 1960s and early 1990s: the Transportation Club, the House of Tilden and the Travelers. By focusing on those three clubs, Apple says he was able to document that Pittsburgh’s LGBT community evolved much differently than those in larger cities. “This is not a story of New York, where people come there from their hometown and use sexual identity to meet people in a new city,” Apple says. “This is a place where your sexuality is operating amongst family relationships, ethnic relationships and neighborhood relationships. All of these things are very closely intertwined, and if you’re going to do anything in this city, it’s going to involve your family at some point. “What we’re trying to do is to take a history that’s not just a gay history, but it’s a Pittsburgh history. It’s a Pittsburgh history of gayness; you just can’t separate the two.” Haggerty, who came to the city in the late 1980s, agrees. Haggerty says that during the period Apple is studying, Pittsburgh was a city facing economic decline and out-migration. Many in the LGBT community were leaving Pittsburgh for larger cities, where they found

gay enclaves in places like Dupont Circle, in Washington, D.C., and The Castro, in San Francisco. “But the people in this history stay here,” Haggerty says. “It provided a new wrinkle in gender-identity politics: You not only had to negotiate your gay identity, but you also had to negotiate your familial identity. For Lucky, the two things worked hand-inhand. He had these family connections in the world of private clubs and liquor licenses, and he used them to open up these gay social clubs.” And that, he says, “became the real engine for the community — which, unlike other large cities, was spread out all over Pittsburgh.”

“THEY OPENED THE DOOR AND IT WAS LIKE A TIME CAPSULE OF AN AFTER-HOURS JOINT. THERE WERE TINFOIL STARS AND CONDOMS AND WHATEVER.”

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is not the culmination of his research, but just a beginning. Lucky’s clubs, he and Haggerty acknowledge, offer a narrative that focuses largely on white, gay men. But they say their research should open up other lines of inquiry, focusing on a range of issues encompassing race and gender. Apple says Lucky’s clubs weren’t the ﬁrst in the city, but they were among the earliest to be owned by a gay proprietor. The clubs that previously made up the scene, he says, were there strictly to make money: “[M]aybe you could ﬁnd a trick or two, but you don’t talk, you don’t touch, the drinks were watered down, there’s no music and there’s certainly no dancing.”

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The new clubs weren’t being run as public trusts, either: “Make no mistake: Proﬁt wasn’t the bottom line, it was the only line,” Apple says. “But [Johns’] clubs were a little bit funkier; you could let your hairpins down. Here came someone who was a part of this burgeoning afterhours club scene. … Did he make money? Yes. But he also cared very much for his patrons.”

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The clubs attracted members for all kinds of reasons. Some were just out for a good time in a place they could be uninhibited. But others used the clubs as a gathering place to talk politics. The leadership of groups like the Persad Center and the Lambda Foundation were born out of meetings at the clubs, and with support from club owners. “These clubs became the center of community organization,” Haggerty says. “A lot of the people there became politically active, and when the AIDS epidemic hit, the clubs became crucial for disseminating information.” The clubs themselves could become political causes. In 1988, East Liberty’s Travelers club closed after a Valentine’s Day raid by state police, who cited it for serving alcohol to minors. Patrons accused police of being abusive and shouting gay slurs; protests ensued, and the club asked a federal judge to bar police from entering the club again. “The purpose of this search was to close down a club catering to homosexuals and to chill and deter the patrons from associating with other homosexuals,” their lawsuit alleged, according to a 1988 Pittsburgh Press account. The judge ultimately rejected the suit. A lot of the material in the exhibit

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will come from the proprietor himself, who could not be reached for comment. “Lucky was very happy with a camera,” Apple explains. “He liked everyone to have their picture taken in the club, which is kind of strange because this is obviously a world going on behind closed doors.” Identifying the subjects in as many pictures as possible was a key part of the curatorial process. The photos — some of which are on display at www.pittsburghqueerhistory.com — will be used in the exhibit and displayed from a slide projector, just as they were in the clubs themselves. Apple and Haggerty hosted identiﬁcation sessions with former customers and club employees. One person who attended those ses-

sions was Douglas Rehrer, a former bartender at area clubs who today works at CMU. Rehrer says he began to work in the clubs while in grad school in the late 1980s, because “my work-study had fallen through.” Rehrer says that Apple’s research into the era is “extremely important, not just because I was part of it, but so future generations know what it was like, because it was a different world back then.” Rehrer says the photo-identiﬁcation sessions were both fondly and painfully nostalgic. “It’s bittersweet,” he says, “to see someone [like] your best friend pop up on that screen, and they’re no longer here. But this is a great project because our memories — good and bad — are all we have.” C D E I T C H @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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DRILLING DOWN John Stolz warns of danger when past, present drilling practices collide {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} JOHN STOLZ BEGAN researching the effects of gas-drilling in 2010, not long after the hydrofracturing boom took hold in Pennsylvania. These days, the Duquesne University microbiologist regularly serves as an independent expert on how fracking — in which large volumes of water, sand and chemicals are injected underground under high pressure to break up rock formations containing gas — can affect well water. His best-known research involves the Woodlands, a rural Butler County community where residents began complaining of declining well-water quality shortly after gas drilling began there in 2010. Many still rely on donated water to survive. Recently, Stolz — director of Duquesne University’s John Stolz Center for Environmental Research and Education — completed a three-year study, including water testing and surveys of Woodlands residents. A summary released in April reported that 56 of the 143 households surveyed (39 percent) had seen changes in their water quality, most often involving the water’s color or smell. Though the ﬁndings are complex, the study concluded that it’s “quite plausible” that drilling and related activities — including some 65 horizontal wells in the immediate area — had affected the local hydrology. (The full report is due in June.) Contamination isn’t unique to the Woodlands: Statewide, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has conﬁrmed more than 250 cases where drillingrelated activities damaged water supplies. And recently, Stolz’s research team collected samples from a Washington County community where fracking is occurring. “It’s red water, it’s brown water, it’s black water,” he says. Stolz has been informing public debate on hydrofracturing for a while. Pittsburgh City Council requested his input before approving a citywide ban on fracking. In 2012, Stolz was part of the energy and environment “visioning team” of newly elected Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald. And earlier this month, Stolz was among a handful of presenters invited to speak at a special meeting of county council, prior to council’s controversial vote on permitting drilling beneath Deer Lakes Park. Councilor Sue Means called the meeting out of concern that industry voices were dominating the discussion. But the May 1 meeting was lightly attended, and despite environmen-

tal and health concerns raised there by Stolz and other experts, council approved the drilling proposal, which Fitzgerald signed. Stolz also contributes to a lower-profile initiative: He’s technical adviser to a coalition of environmental groups that has been meeting with state officials in Harrisburg to try to improve how the state deals with drilling-related water-quality issues. The group includes representatives from six groups, including the Sierra Club and Penn Environment. “I’m glad to have John in the room” to explain technical points, says Steve Hvozdovich, who represents Clean Water Action on the coalition. “Our goal is to help DEP do their job better,” says Stolz. Among other issues, the coalition notes that when citizens complain of fouled water, the state routinely tests for only a narrow range of contaminants — usually leaving out dangerous toxins like mercury, chromium, cadmium and beryllium. “They could be reporting on more stuff,” says Stolz. The coalition’s key Harrisburg contact has been Scott Perry, the deputy secretary of DEP’s Office of Oil and Gas Management. “We very much value their input,” says Perry of the coalition. But Perry sounds unlikely to back a change in testing standards. He says that unless other contaminants are suspected, the DEP tests only for substances likely to indicate contamination related to drilling. To “test for everything under the sun every single time,” he tells City Paper, is both inappropriate and a strain on resources. “When we’re talking about health and safety and whether someone has safe drinking water, to me that’s tough to place a price tag on,” argues Hvozdovich. “If it’s a resource issue, then our state needs to step up.” Stolz also worries that drillers and regulators pay too little attention to “legacy issues” — the presence of old coal mines and conventional gas wells drilled before the fracking arrived on the scene. He believes contaminants associated with mine drainage that are found in some water wells are caused by new “conduits” in the rock created by fracking. He says old mines in places like the Deer Lakes Park area might well cause problems if drilling happens. “The damage,” he says, “is gonna start popping up in places it’s never popped up before.” D RI S C OL L @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Where is The Dog Stop® located? The Dog Stop® has multiple stores conveniently located in and around the Pittsburgh area. They currently include the East End, located at 1140 Washington Boulevard (412-361-0911); the Strip District, located at 2530 Smallman Street (412-315-7050); and the South Hills, located at 2858 Banksville Road (412-343-1171). The Dog Stop® has a fourth location opening by July 1st. The new location will open in Sewickley, located at 8325 Ohio River Boulevard (412-776-3647).

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CHICAGO-STYLE ROAST BEEF {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} Having spent time in Chicago and downstate Illinois, I discovered what I consider to be the greatest sandwich on earth — the Italian beef. The sandwich consists of sliced roast beef, which has been marinating in jus, on a hard roll. The entire thing is dipped back in the jus, then smothered in a pickled hot-pepper mixture called giardiniera. Usually, I can only get this sandwich in Chicago, but recently I stumbled across Yovi’s Hot Dogs in the basement of a Market Square building. Owner Lee Yovanof moved to Pittsburgh in 1983 after running his own dog and beef shop in Chicago after college. For 19 years, he operated a hot-dog shop on Liberty Avenue Downtown, before moving to his current location a couple of years ago. At Yovi’s, I ordered the Italian beef, and when I asked Yovanof if it came dipped, he smiled at me: We were on the same delicious page. The sandwich was as good as, if not better than, many I’ve had in the Windy City, and the giardiniera was among the best I’ve eaten. Most of Yovi’s business is selling Chicago-style hot dogs. When Pittsburghers want a “hoagie,” they want it “real dry” and loaded with lettuce. But converts can be made. “I’ve asked some of the folks, ‘Just try it with the peppers on top, just a little,’” Yovanof says. “After that taste, they get hooked on it.” CDEITCH@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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Central Asian dining — a category which did not even really exist in Pittsburgh before last year. It began with a mini-wave of Nepalese restaurants; now Kavsar, an Uzbek restaurant on Mount Washington, brings us yet another tantalizing new cuisine to discover. Like Nepal, Uzbekistan’s location along the old Silk Road made it a crossroads for disparate cultures and cuisines. Kavsar’s menu clearly reflects both Uzbekistan’s recent history as a former Soviet Socialist republic, with beef stroganoff and blini-like crepes rolled around savory fillings, and its proximity to China, evident in many dishes based upon noodles and dumplings. We started with bread, which, as per the menu, is called non and baked in a clay tandyr. Yet, it in no way resembled naan from a tandoor. Instead, the loaf was nearly donut-shaped, with a flattened middle surrounded by a ring of hearty, crusty, risen dough, brushed with butter, browned in the oven and sprinkled with sesame seeds. It was so good, we ordered

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two more loaves to enjoy at home with coffee and/or wine. (Like other Muslimrun establishments, Kavsar does not serve or permit alcohol.) In addition to capitalizing on Uzbekistan’s primary agricultural product — grain — the cuisine prominently features meat. Historically that means mutton, thanks to a tradition of sheep farming, but

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CP APPROVED Kavsar appears to have adapted its dishes to American tastes by substituting plenty of beef. A richly flavored beef broth amped up the savor in many of our dishes. Samsa, chopped meat and onion in a flaky pastry, was like an excellent, savory croissant, intensely flavored from within by the broth

that bound the filling and soaked into the bread without making it soggy or limp. Meat pancakes, served blini-style with sour cream, featured a simpler groundbeef filling, but again the flavor was bigger than the meat, while the crepes were both tender and sturdy enough for the filling. The crepes made a beautiful presentation in julien, gathered like purses around a stroganoff-like filling of meat, mushrooms and vegetables in a sophisticated, sour-cream-infused sauce. Salads ranged from simple — long, julienned strips of carrot with onion in a bold dressing of garlic, vinegar and hot paprika — to meal-worthy, with additions of chicken, beef or eggs. A half-dozen soups covered a similar range. We enjoyed the hearty “borsch” with beans in addition to potato, cabbage and beef in a crimson beef-beet broth. We detected Indian influence in nuhot shurak, a dish of chickpeas in Kavsar’s delicious beef broth, topped with hunks of slow-cooked chuck roast and lively spiced onions. And manti — big dumplings

available with meat, spinach or pumpkin filling — appeared linked directly to the momos of Nepal. Ours featured wonderful, delicate wrappers around pumpkin that was full of warm spices and earthy flavor. A dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of dill reminded us, though, of Uzbekistan’s relationship with Russia. Then there is the Middle Eastern influence evident in kebabs. The chicken was juicy dark meat, heady with smokiness. Beef cubes were a bit well done for our tastes, but tender and flavorful nonetheless. An unexpected treat were little salads that were far tastier than their garnishlike proportions suggested, with tomatoes quite good for May, onion softened by vinegar or a touch of heat, and a bright, nearly fruity, dressing. A side of garlic-herb fries was scanty on seasoning, but perfectly golden crisp without and fluffy within. At first, we thought it odd that the stroganoff is served on fries, but having tried them, we understood better.

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TAPPED FOR SUCCESS Long-awaited Braddock brewery opens this week The Brew Gentlemen — Asa Foster and Matthew Katase — made a big splash in 2012, when they introduced their own beer for a Carnegie Mellon University class project. But after a stint spent pouring at dinners and street festivals — always in their charcoal-gray logoed jackets — the duo basically disappeared. The reason is simple: Because their marketing efforts had to (literally) make the grade, Katase says, “We were forced to be more public than we wanted to. We weren’t ready for that.” So they backed off the promotional campaign, and focused on raising money from private investors and a Kickstarter campaign. That financed a move to Braddock, where they built a brewhouse and taproom. Now they’re ready to go public again: Their brewery is set to open the day this issue hits the streets. “I think we have everything dialed in right now,” says Katase. “It’s not as variable batch-to-batch as it used to be.” Brew Gentlemen will serve four flagship beers: White Sky, a chai-spiced wheat; General Braddock’s, an East Coast IPA; Business Casual, a low-alcohol red ale; and Build and Destroy, a wheat stout. It’s also producing special releases and experimental brews in what the brewers call their “Rapid Prototype Factory Series.” An example of that is Chipotle Mango IPA. But don’t let the untraditional blend fool you, says head brewer Brandon Capps, who moved from Georgia to work with Foster and Katase. “It’s always, always, always at its core beer,” he says. “But sometimes I like adding complexity.” The brewers are betting that beer enthusiasts will make a trip to Braddock, where their polished taproom is open 4-10 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and features smart details like USB chargers under the bar. All this is just the beginning, Katase says: “Who knows how long it will take, but in the next few years we want to build a production facility in Braddock that’s larger in scale, and then start distributing outside of the state.”

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Lagman was a stir-fry dish in which clearly homemade noodles, their pliant chewiness evoking udon, were topped with diced red and green peppers, chopped green beans and, of course, beef — here thinly sliced across the grain for a melting texture. The menu promised Asian spices, and the dish’s Chinese origins were apparent, but it was distinctly Uzbekistan’s own. Finally, we tried Uzbek palov, the national dish, traditionally prepared by men. This simmered dish of beef and carrots over pilaf-style rice was perhaps the meal’s only disappointment. It was not overtly ﬂawed, but a little bland compared to the other dishes we sampled. Perhaps a shake of the white-vinegar cruet on the table would have enlivened it. We ordered as much Uzbek food as we could possibly try, and were rewarded with a dining experience that has, truly, expanded our palates. Kavsar is a welcoming and wonderful introduction to a delicious cuisine. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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of freshly squeezed and blended juices and smoothies. JF EGGS N’AT. 8556 University Blvd., Moon Township. 412262-2920. This stylish and cheery diner offers a variety of pancakes, as well as sandwiches and combo platters of breakfast foods. The “Mama Evans” pancakes are filled with blueberries and bacon, a combination that is smoky, sweet and savory all at once. Also on offer: muffuleta, a New Orleans-style multi-layered and pressed sandwich. J HARRIS GRILL. 5747 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-362-5273. A neighborhood bar and grill (with two outdoor patios) where fun is as important as the fresh food and the cold beer. What else to make of a place that serves “Britney Spears” (chicken tenders on a stick), Cheeses of Nazareth and The Wrongest Dessert Ever, and offers free bacon at the bar on Tuesdays? JE IL PIZZAIOLI. 703 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-3444123. This popular neighborhood café serves Neapolitan-style pasta and pizza, including the scandalously cheesy quattro formaggi pizza. The front room overlooks bustling Washington Avenue; in season, lucky diners can enjoy the rear garden courtyard. KE KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. 6012 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-6012. The vintage aesthetic isn’t retro at this longtime neighborhood hangout; it’s the real thing. And the original 1940s fare has been updated with taste and style: Burgers and fries share space with Asian potstickers and satay. The mini mac-and-cheese is a classic. JE CONTINUES ON PG. 20

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MALLORCA. 2228 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-488-1818. The ambience here is full of Old World charm, with just a touch of hipness bolstered by attentive service. The fare is Spanish cuisine, and there’s no mistaking the restaurant’s signature dish: paella, featuring a bright red lobster tail. In warm weather, enjoy the outdoor patio along lively Carson Street. KE

SOBA/UMI. 5847-9 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-362-5656/ 412-362-6198. Here, the local Big Burrito group offers two different menus in the same building. Soba offers pan-Asian fusion (from Korean barbeque to Thai corn chowder and Vietnamese hot-and-sour shrimp) in a minimalist yet elegant restaurant/lounge. Umi’s Japanese menu, meanwhile, focuses on sushi and teriyaki; it’s a perennial finalist in City Paper’s “Best of Pittsburgh” issue. LE

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“Years ago this land was green — we put money in the soil,” sings T. Mitchell Bell on “Freedom Rust.” “Tide has turned and we learned to trade blood for oil. / Fill the air and skies above with mystery cocktails, / Chase it down with a shot of carbon to forget that it was there.” The song’s the keystone track on Bell’s new album, Witness, in which the local singer-songwriter expands upon environmental concerns broached on his 2008 release, The Ballad of Philo Paul. Bell has served on the board of the Center for Coalfield Justice and performed at benefits for environmental causes. He jokes about preparing to “lock down” in protest if the fracking trucks ever roll in Peters Township, where he lives in an old farmhouse with his wife and three children. Witness, however, mostly avoids preaching. Instead, it’s a rich and varied song cycle featuring a full band of local talent (including Bob Banerjee and Steve Sciulli) dealing out folk- and blues-inflected rock. Thematically, says Bell, it’s “one big long song.” The Celtic-accented “Valley Below,” about mountaintop-removal coal-mining, forges the link between economic and environmental injustice. “Empty Inside” explores the spiritual hollowness of planet-eating consumerism; in the harmonica-driven “Give and Take,” personal wholeness can’t survive nature’s exploitation. “Iron Bird” tunefully excoriates political fecklessness. “Freedom Rust” is an elegy for America’s mid-century industrial heyday … whose fossil-fueled brawn Bell nonetheless well understands drove climate change. “We have to evolve or we’re gonna live on a dying planet,” he says. Still, “I wanted the record to be kind of a hopeful thing rather than a downer,” he says. “We need to focus on the future generations. They’re going to inherit what we … dump everywhere.” Speaking of kids, an upcoming concert is a family affair. On July 25, T. Mitchell Bell and the Wandering Coalition perform live on the WDVE Coffeehouse. And that night, the band plays the Rex Theater with: The Steamshovel Blues Band (featuring Bell’s dad); The Weathered Road and The Rusty Haywhackers, each of which features one of Bell’s adult sons; and The Recipe, featuring Bell’s niece.

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In the wake of the music-industry collapse, some artists walk a fine line promoting brands while pursuing art.

T THIS YEAR’S South By Southwest festival in March, Lady Gaga, the epitome of pop stardom, partnered with Frito-Lay — a deal that didn’t endear her to some critics. As the festival began, music writer John Pareles slammed Gaga in a New York Times blog post: “My face, physical presence, and social media accounts are not a snack-food marketing tool,” wrote Pareles, who said he’d skip Gaga’s performance at SXSW. “Lady Gaga, feel free to scarf down my promotional bag of chips. As if.” But in a keynote speech at the indie-centric fest, Gaga gave critics something more to think about — and spelled out a mindset that a lot of musicians, including some based in Pittsburgh, are echoing. “[W]hoever is writing or saying all of

those things, you don’t know fuck about the state of the music industry,” Gaga said. “I think it’s also about how the artist chooses to engage in these sorts of relationships. What’s the type of relationship? What’s the philosophy behind the collaboration? Do you have things in common?”

A MARKETING DEAL CAN COVER EVERYTHING FROM A FEW MONTHS’ RENT TO A FEW YEARS’ SALARY. The controversy highlighted an industry-wide trend: While marketing partnerships have drawn a backlash from some musicians and fans, among many others

there’s been a gradual shift in opinion about partnering with corporations. And festival season, the extended spring-to-summer music-industry holiday, is the most obvious reﬂection of the change. From Ultra to Coachella to SXSW, advertisers keen on reaching the coveted millennial audience have capitalized on the festival format. But beyond the branded stages, branded parties and branded dinners, there’s been a change of ownership and power — from major labels to big brands. And plenty of artists are cool with that. “I think 20 to 30 years ago, generally speaking, people were more apt to say, ‘Oh, that person sold out because they licensed a song to a commercial,’” says Kristian Dunn of the band El Ten Eleven. “I think these

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days, people aren’t as critical in that regard because it’s just harder to make money as a musician.” El Ten Eleven is comprised of Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty (a Pittsburgh native). The pair creates a unique blend of postrock-inﬂuenced indie music, with Dunn on a double-neck bass that he loops over Fogarty’s electronic drums. While experimental in its approach, the band has gained a lot of experience making original music for ﬁlm scores and commercials, so it can slip into a pop aesthetic on a whim. “There’s not really CD sales anymore,” Dunn explains. “I think the general public is more forgiving of musicians licensing their music to commercials because they know they’ve got to pay the rent. In one shot, you can sell a song and it’s like, ‘OK, cool: I don’t have to have a day job for two more months, and in that time I can work on my art.’”

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Connect — who also performs with Fortified Phonetx — gets self-reflective on eight tracks (plus a bonus track), produced by FTdub. A lot of Connect’s rhymes deal with hip hop itself, language and power dynamics; he’s the contemplative counterpart to Phonetx bandmate Moemaw Naedon, who guests on a track here, spitting more aggressively. But both are thoughtful, and indignant about the right stuff: rappers who “rap stupid shit,” aggro South Side dudes and the like. FTdub’s production — sparse samples of often heavy or psychedelic-sounding rock, giving Connect space to work — is appropriate for the project, and at times downright hooky. Good stuff.

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EP of country tunes from the local sixpiece. That the first two songs are called “Carolina” and “Tennessee” should give an indication of where this one is coming from: raucous, sometimes tender, with banjo foregrounded. These are mostly oldstyle honky-tonk tunes, with a dose of rock ’n’ roll injected — the album closer, “I Want to Find You,” is more rock than country — and are largely catchy, if conventional. There are some sweet vocal harmonies here, but also some moments where the lead vocals feel a little put-on. A nice EP all in all, though, and a good taste of what this band is capable of. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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I’ve had some pass up a million dollars because they don’t believe in the product. My job is to always give them the offer.” Dolan, who moderated a panel discussion titled “The Shifting Brandscape” at SXSW this year, says she’s watched brands inﬁltrate the music industry over the past decade. Having worked at Leo Burnett Chicago for seven years as a music producer, she’s seen artists and fans alike take a more forgiving approach to partnerships. “At Comma, I’ll do a showcase when bands come through,” she says. “These artist showcases happen with advertising agencies in New York and Chicago. And what we do at Comma is invite all the agencies, so the band can get in front of all the agencies to let them know they’re interested in getting their music out there.” Dolan says the roster of bands interested in such partnerships spans the spectrum from indie to mainstream. And while El Ten Eleven, for example, may not be getting sponsorships with American Express a la Jay Z, Dunn and Fogarty have found balance in making art and a living simultaneously. Having toured the festival circuit for years, they’ve landed spots at North Coast Music Fest and What the Festival, just to name a few, alongside names like Wu Tang Clan and Afrojack.

As for Gaga, her actual performance at SXSW was just about the last thing you’d expect to see in a commercial from the Frito-Lay brand. She spun around on a spit like a pig while singing songs from last year’s album Artpop, as her backup dancers completed the tableau of rebellious revelry around her. To ﬁnish off her performance, she had fellow performance artist Millie Brown vomit paint on her. Vomiting in relation to a snack brand? The Internet went crazy. In her keynote afterward, Gaga praised the experience of “watching the fans have an experience with me and then having Doritos support that to its core, not telling me how to do the show, what it should be like, or putting chains around my neck.” Frito-Lay, she added, “just said, ‘We just want to support you in having a great experience [at the festival]. We want to help your foundation. We want to help spread the message. How do we do that?’ And they came up with ‘Bold Bravery,’ and it all came together.” “The truth is, without sponsorships, without these companies coming together to help us, we won’t have any more artists in Austin,” she added. “We won’t have any festivals, because record labels don’t have any fucking money.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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Robert Ashley’s opera Perfect Lives is a bit different from most pieces of music; for one thing, it’s not meant to be performed in one place. The nomadic composition goes indoors and out, here and there. Performed as part of this week’s Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, it’ll take place everywhere from Market Square to Marty’s Market (in the Strip District) and James Simon’s sculpture studio (Uptown). It’s the first Pittsburgh performance of the piece, and it’ll be carried out by Varispeed, a Brooklyn group that has performed the piece before, with praise from Ashley (who died this past March). Also featured at the festival, put on by Alia Musica: Frederic Rzewski in a rare performance of his own work (Sat., May 24); the outdoors-set piece “Inuksuit,” by John Luther Adams (Sun., May 25, at Lake Elizabeth on the North Side); and more. Andy Mulkerin 11 a.m. Continues through Sun., May 25. Multiple venues; most performances at New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. Individual concert tickets range from free to $15; festival pass $40. 412-361-0194 or www. pghnewmusic.com

[POST-ROCK] + SAT., MAY 24 Phil Manley, Nathan Means and Sebastian Thomson of Washington, D.C.-based Trans Am were paving the way for post rock well before the likes of Caspian or Explosions in the Sky; the band just released its 10th studio album, Volume X. Trans Am’s relevance in the music world comes from the band’s range in sound, using effects on every instrument, which creates fuzzy, distorted guitar and spacey, sometimes menacing keyboards. At times using heavily modified vocals reminiscent of Peter Frampton, the band doesn’t stay static, and keeps the listener tuned

in to its soundscapes. The band plays the Smiling Moose tonight with Microwaves and The Lopez. Zach Brendza 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. $10.80-$14. 412-431-4668 or www.smiling-moose.com

[EMO] + SUN., MAY 25 Coming up in the DIY scene, Old Gray has a sincere style with heartfelt lyrics and intensity in each instrument, with chords slammed out of guitars and drums pounded to a breaking point. Its sound is reminiscent of better-known hardcore acts like La Dispute, The Saddest Landscape and Caravels. The New England-based band released a new song, “An Epitaph,” earlier this month and it embodies its sound Ingrid Michaelson and who the members are: a passionate band playing genuine music with somber words to go along. The band plays The Mr. Roboto Project tonight with Frameworks, Annakarina, Driver and Sorta Lonely. ZB 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $8. All ages. www. therobotoproject.org

[POP] + SUN., MAY 25 The latest from Ingrid Michaelson, Lights Out, features collaborations with everyone from indie group A Great Big World to singer-songwriter Mat Kearney and Michaelson’s husband, musician Greg Laswell. So far, though, the biggest hit from the record has been from Michaelson alone: The pop tune “Girls Chase Boys” has climbed the charts since its release in February. Tonight, Michaelson, who’s made a name with lots of TV placements (and that orange-juice commercial where she sang a Beatles tune while floating with a piano), brings her show to Stage AE tonight. AM 6:30 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $25-27. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

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Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, June 1

31ST STREET PUB. 3101 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-391-8334 ALTAR BAR. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-206-9719 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. 412-237-8300 BACH, BEETHOVEN AND BRUNCH. Mellon Park. Fifth Avenue at Shady Avenue, Shadyside. 412-255-2493

BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. 3008 Penn Ave., Strip District. www.bayardstown.com BENEDUM CENTER. 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-456-6666 BILL CHISNELL PRODUCTIONS. 1111 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-251-5601 BRILLOBOX. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 421-621-4900 BYHAM THEATER. 101 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-456-6666

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MAY 22 Abigail Williams. 31 Street Pub Man Overboard. Altar Bar Animals as Leaders. Rex Theater For All I Am. Smiling Moose Rusted Root, The Wailers. Stage AE st

MAY 22-25 Pittsburgh Festival of New Music. New Hazlett Theater

MAY 23 Invisible Things, Martin Bisi. 31st Street Pub Primal Fear. Altar Bar Steelesque, Addison Steele. Club Cafe (early show) Artistree. Club Cafe (late show) The Saddest Landscape. Garfield Artworks Red Elvises. Hard Rock Cafe Trespassers. Mr. Roboto Project Green River Ordinance. Rex Theater Backstabbing Good People. Thunderbird Cafe

MAY 24 Shannon and the Merger. Club Cafe (early show)

Wine and Spirit. Club Cafe (late show) Rise. Latitude 360 Nied’s Hotel Band. Moondog’s Joy Ike, Cello Fury. Pittsburgh Winery Trans Am. Smiling Moose

Nonstandard. Garfield Artworks Stephanie Nilles. Hambone’s mbone’s Pub Old Gray, Frameworks ks. Mr. Roboto Project

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Dr. Nasty & the Mountain Men. Rex Theater

Bane. Smiling Moose Ingrid Michaelson. Stage AE

MAY 26 Black Star Riders. Altar ar Bar Pure Disgust. Mr. Roboto oto Project Aesthetic Perfection. Rex Theater

MAY 28 Autarch. Mr. Roboto Project oject The Monkees. Palace Theatre Steel Panther. Stage AE

MAY 29 Murder Junkies. 31st Street treet Pub Jen Chapin, The Damaged aged Pies. Club Cafe Mia Z. Mellon Square Hounds of Hate. Mr. Roboto oboto Project Death in June. Rex Theater eater R5. Stage AE Ultraviolet Hippopotamus amus. Thunderbird Cafe

Munhall. 412-368-5225 CATTIVO. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157 CITY OF ASYLUM/PITTSBURGH. 318 Sampsonia Way, North Side. 412-323-0278 CLUB CAFE. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. 412-431-4950 CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. 412-642-1800 FIRE K STUDIOS. 5001 Curry Road, Suite 3, Baldwin. 412-655-3030

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. 665 Rt. 18, Burgettstown. 724-947-7400 FLAGSTAFF HILL. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-422-6426

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Atmosphere. Mr. Small’s Theatre Zomboy. Rex Theater Chvrches. Stage AE Amos Lee. Three Rivers Arts Festival

MAY 30 Gibbzmatik. Altar Bar Broken Fences. Club Cafe Stranger Convention. Garfield Artworks The Mavens. Moondog’s Katie Hate. Mr. Small’s Theatre America. Palace Theatre Vic and Gab. Smiling Moose Joe Grushecky and the House Rockers. South Park The Head and the Heart. Stage AE Mike Medved Band. Thunderbird Cafe

JUNE 12 Stryper. Altar Bar Ratking, Show Me the Body. Brillobox Mother Falcon. Club Cafe Indigenous. Hard Rock Cafe Lyndsey Smith & Soul Distribution. Mellon Square

Jazz in the Garden: Benny Benack Jr. and Benny Benack III. Phipps Conservatory The Smithereens. Three Rivers Arts Festival

MAY 31 Klaymore. 31st Street Pub Kalin and Myles. Altar Bar Pitchblak Brass Band. Brillobox Bill Toms and Hard Rain present A Tribute to Chuck Berry. Club Cafe

JUNE 13 Hellstompers. 31st Street Pub World’s Fair. Altar Bar Nitty Scott, MC; Alex Wiley. Cattivo David Wilcox. Club Cafe Andy D. Howlers Ron & the Rumpshakers. Moondog’s Grand Piano. Rex Theater The Clintones. Rivers Casino Jennel Garcia. Smiling Moose Pittsburgh Opera. South Park Lindsey Stirling. Stage AE Gedeon Luke & the People. St. Clair Park Curtis Harding. Three Rivers Arts Festival

(early show) Influx, Velvet Heat. Club Cafe (late show) The Traditional. Garfield Artworks The Red Western, Lowly the Tree Ghost, Satin Gum, Andre Costello. Howlers theCAUSE. Moondog’s Round Two, Restricted Highways. Mr. Small’s Theatre Mark Dignam & the House of Song. Rex Theater

JUNE 01 Unearth. Altar Bar Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas. Club Cafe Skye Steele. Garfield Artworks Mon River Ramblers, Hart Kline Read (& Young). Shadyside Nursery Bastille. Stage AE

JUNE 02

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Backstreet Boys, Avril Lavigne.

JUNE 06

Quiet Company, Driver Friendly.

Jeremy Messersmith. Club Cafe (early show) The Black Six, Discount Guns.

Curtis Harvey. Howlers Eyehategod. Rex Theater

Club Cafe (late show) Tim McGraw. First Niagara Pavilion

JUNE 03

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Sage Francis. Altar Bar JD McPherson. Club Cafe Saintseneca. Brillobox Needtobreathe, Foy Vance. Stage AE

The Frick Art & Historical Center Lily Wine Affair. Hard Rock Cafe

Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials. South Park

JUNE 04

Ray LaMontagne.

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Matt Munhall. Club Cafe

Nicole Atkins.

The Trews.

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Hard Rock Cafe Old 97’s, Lydia Loveless. Mr. Small’s Theatre

Jeff Tweedy.

Dailey & Vincent. New Hazlett Theater Pablo Cruise. Palace Theatre

Three Rivers Arts Festival Dianne Reeves at Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival, June 20-22

Tyler, the Creator. Stage AE Oumar Konate. Thunderbird Cafe

JUNE 05 The Menzingers. Altar Bar Titus Andronicus. Cattivo Diana Chittester. Club Cafe The Black Lillies, Arlo Aldo. Pittsburgh Winery

The Naked and Famous. Stage AE Cory Henry. Thunderbird Cafe

The Cheats. 31st Street Pub Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express.

The Red Western, May 31, June 28, July 25 and Aug. 3

JUNE 07 Beauty Slap, Memphis Hill. Altar Bar

Whitney Ann Jenkins and Her Platonic Guy Friends. Club Cafe (early show)

Jazz and Jokes with One Eye Callowood. Club Cafe (late show) 9Sundays. Hard Rock Cafe Mikey Riot. Moondog’s Cabinet. Rex Theater Roger Humphries. Riverview Park No Mames: DJ Thornato, Pandemic. Round Corner Cantina

Smiling Moose Sam Bush. Three Rivers Arts Festival Scarlet and the Harlots. Thunderbird Cafe

First Niagara Pavilion Terry Bradshaw. Meadows Casino

Doug Demming with the Jewel Tones. Moondog’s

Melinda. Pittsburgh Winery Chaka Khan. Pride in the Street, Downtown

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Screeching Weasel, The Queers. Altar Bar Blitzen Trapper. Club Cafe Michael Logen. Fire K Studios Wreck Loose, Andre Costello and the Cool Minors, Round Black Ghosts, The Big Bend. Gateway Clipper 28 North, 7Horse. Hartwood Acres The Hills and the Rivers, Cousin Boneless. Shadyside Nursery Colonizing the Cosmos, Twnsppl, Brooke Annibale.

Johnny Angel & the Halos. Rivers Casino Reggie Watkins. Riverview Park Pity Sex. Smiling Moose Lucinda Williams. Three Rivers Arts Festival

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JUNE 09 Skinny Lister. Thunderbird Cafe

JUNE 10 The Features. Brillobox James McMurtry. Club Cafe Hellbound Glory. Hard Rock Cafe Polica, Reputante. Mr. Small’s Theatre Andy Irvine, Callan. Pittsburgh Winery Tweak Bird. Smiling Moose Dr. Dog. Stage AE Kaiser Chiefs. Three Rivers Arts Festival

JUNE 11 DevilDriver, Whitechapel. Altar Bar Eagulls. Brillobox King Kahn & the Shrines. Club Cafe Center Stage Band. Flagstaff Hill Crown Larks. Mr. Roboto Project

JUNE 15 Allegheny Brass Band. Bach, Beethoven and Brunch The Jaggerz. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille Moldies and Monsters, Essential Machine. Shadyside Nursery Modern Baseball. Smiling Moose Jake Bugg. Three Rivers Arts Festival

JUNE 16 Crystal Stilts. Cattivo

JUNE 17 Asher Roth. Altar Bar Reuben and the Dark. Club Cafe Arctic Monkeys, White Denim. Stage AE (outdoor)

JUNE 18 The Fuckies. Club Cafe Gramsci Melodic. Flagstaff Hill O.A.R., Philip Philips. Stage AE (outdoor)

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“Stars at Riverview” jazz concerts in the park, Saturdays, June 7-Aug. 30

Miranda Sings. Carnegie Library of Homestead Music Hall Sol Cat. Club Cafe Average White Band. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille Ethel. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater Charm & Chain. Mellon Square Sharon Van Etten. Mr. Small’s Theatre Matt Kerekes. Smiling Moose Tegan and Sara. Stage AE

Man With a Mission. Cattivo Sonny Landreth. Hartwood Acres Heather Kropf. Pittsburgh Winery The Armadillos, Shelf Life String Band, Tom Moran. Shadyside Nursery The Wild Feathers. Stage AE Wild Child, Shakey Graves.

JUNE 20

MAX. Altar Bar Joe Purdy. Rex Theater Wild Cub. Stage AE

Very Be Careful. Bayardstown Social Club The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute. Carnegie Library of Homestead Music Hall

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Bobby Long. Club Cafe (early show) White Hinterland. Club Cafe (late show) Big Leg Emma. Rex Theater Pissed Jeans. Smiling Moose Buckwheat Zydeco. South Park Everclear, Soul Asylum, Eve 6, Spacehog. Stage AE (outdoor) Cello Fury, Joy Ike. St. Clair Park

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Blood on the Dance Floor. Altar Bar Ziggy Marley. Carnegie Library of Homestead Music Hall Scott Stapp. Latitude 360 Andy C. Rex Theater

JUNE 25

more. Multiple venues Downtown. (www.pittsburghjazzlive.com)

JUNE 26

Jamestown Revival. Altar Bar Deutschtown Music Festival fundraiser with Brewer’s Row, Paddy the Wanderer, more. Bill Chisnell Productions

Pandemic. Brillobox Masters of the Universe, B-Side Basterds, The Nightly Standard, Roma. Club Cafe Luke Bryan. Heinz Field Songwriters in the Cellar, hosted by Tim Mulhern. Pittsburgh Winery Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Rex Theater Paul Thompson. Riverview Park Masked Intruder, Direct Hit! Smiling Moose

Pinata Protest. Thunderbird Cafe Chet Vincent & the Big Bend, Jester Jenkins. The Waterfront

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Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival. Dianne Reeves and many

JUNE 21

June 28 Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives

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Black Flag. Altar Bar Gemini Club. Club Cafe Justin Fabus Band. Flagstaff Hill Foghat. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille

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Weapons of Choice. 31st Street Pub Xavier Rudd. Altar Bar Simone Felice. Club Cafe Nightrain. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille The Bill Ali Band. Mellon Square Bonerama, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds. Rex Theater Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes. Stage AE

JUNE 27 Thunder Vest. 31st Street Pub The 65s. Club Cafe Journey, Steve Miller Band. First Niagara Pavilion

Michael Stanley and the Resonators. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille

Shelf Life String Band. Marty’s Market The Bo’Hog Brothers. Moondog’s Instead of Sleeping. Mr. Small’s Theatre Drymill Road, Gary Antol. Pittsburgh Winery The Stickers. South Park CONTINUES ON PG. 14

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Counting Crows, Toad the Wet Sprocket. Stage AE (outdoor) Leroy Justice. St. Clair Park Chuck Mead & the Grassy Knoll, The Mavens. Thunderbird Cafe

JULY 04 The Goddamn Gallows. 31st Street Pub No Bad JuJu. Rivers Casino The Idol Kings. St. Clair Park

JULY 05

JUNE 28 Sloppy Seconds. 31st Street Pub Guttermouth. Altar Bar Nat Baldwin. Andy Warhol Museum Speedy Ortiz. Club Cafe Dave Matthews Band. First Niagara Pavilion Chevy Woods. Mr. Small’s Theatre Gordon Lightfoot. Palace Theatre

Aaron “The Uke Slinger” Jones. Club Cafe The Clintones. Hard Rock Cafe Elysium. Latitude 360 Oak Ridge Boys. Meadows Casino EOE Reunion. Mr. Small’s Theatre Broken Road. Rivers Casino Thomas Wendt. Riverview Park No Mames: Pandemic. Round Corner Cantina

Tania Grubbs Quartet.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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Sam Roberts Band, Valerie June, Elizabeth and the Catapult, The Red Western.

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JUNE 29 Edgewood Symphony Orchestra. Bach, Beethoven and Brunch

JULY 07 Circa Survive. Mr. Small’s Theatre

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JULY 01 Delta Rae. Altar Bar Andy Grammer. Mr. Small’s Theatre

JULY 02 John Hiatt & The Combo, Robert Cray Band. Altar Bar Bear Hands. Cattivo Darryl & Kim. Flagstaff Hill

JULY 03 The Living Deads. 31st Street Pub Fall Out Boy, Paramore. First Niagara Pavilion

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Neko Case, Laura Veirs. Byham Theater Melodime. Hard Rock Cafe Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Mr. Small’s Theatre The Pressure, Alba Flamenca.

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L’Lamint Dance Band. Flagstaff Hill Peter Frampton. Palace Theatre Yonder Mountain String Band, Railroad Earth. Stage AE

JULY 10 Big Smo. Altar Bar Snowmine. Brillobox Caravan of Thieves. Club Cafe Kiersten Kelly. Mellon Square Yarn. Pittsburgh Winery Brand New. Stage AE

JULY 11 Mike Stud. Altar Bar 10,000 Maniacs. Palace Theatre Vulvapalooza (benefit for the Women’s Center & Shelter), night one. The Shop Pentimento, Have Mercy. Smiling Moose Ha Ha Tonka. South Park The Neighbourhood. Stage AE Hollis Brown. St. Clair Park

JULY 12 Deutschtown Music Festival. Many local bands at various venues. North Side. (www.deutschtownmusicfestival.org) CONTINUES ON PG. 16

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Bruce Hornsby

Joe Gruschecky & The Houserockers (Rock) Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials with Jill West & Blues Attack (Blues) Pittsburgh Opera

The Abby Lee Dance Company’s Kick-Off to Summer! 28 North with 7Horse (Rock)

Buckwheat Zydeco (Zydeco)

Father’s Day Car Cruise followed by Pure Gold (Oldies-Cruise 2-7 pm Concert 7:30 pm)

The Stickers with Christian Beck Band (Country)

Sonny Landreth with Kevin Garrett (Delta Blues/Guitar)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (8:00 pm)

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers (Pop/Folk/Jazz/Jam)

Ha Ha Tonka with Townsppl (Indie Rock) Sister Hazel (Alternative Rock)

Serena Ryder

Lake Street Dive

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (8:00 pm)

South Park Gospel Music Night

BNY Mellon Jazz Presents Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra with Special Guest Paquito D’Rivera

Serena Ryder with The Harlan Twins (Pop/Rock)

Lake Street Dive with Brooke Annibale (Indie Pop/Jazz/Soul)

The Hitmen featuring original members of Tommy James and the Shondells, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and other mega-hit acts

Pittsburgh Blues Festival featuring Bernard Allison, Dr. John, JJ Grey & Mofro, and more! For times and tickets visit pghblues.com

Lovebettie (Swagger Pop)

Jerry Douglas with Nameless in August (Bluegrass)

BNY Mellon Jazz Presents Gloria Reuben and Caribbean Jazz Ensemble

Macy Gray (R&B/Soul)

River City Brass Band

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Gloria Reuben

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Duquesne University Tamburitzans Allegheny County Music Festival featuring a hometown favorite! (5:00 pm, $20 donation benefiting Dept. of Human Services)

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The Putz. 31st Street Pub Zac Brown Band. First Niagara Pavilion Vulvapalooza, night two. Howlers Digital Getdown. Latitude 360 Owls. Mr. Small’s Theatre Songwriters in the Cellar, hosted by Ben Shannon. Pittsburgh Winery Women of Metal Fest. Rex Theater The Brydge. Riverview Park

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Who’s Bad. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille Nied’s Hotel Band. Mellon Square The Donkeys. Smiling Moose

JULY 18 The Gimme Gimme Yeah Yeahs.

JULY 13 Tom Roberts. Bach, Beethoven and Brunch Zepparella. Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra with Paquito D’Rivera. Hartwood Acres Zach Schmidt, Arlo Aldo. Shadyside Nursery Caspian. Smiling miling Moose Blues Traveler elerr, Sugar Ray y, Uncle Kracker kerr, Smash Mouth. tdoor) Stage AE (outdoor)

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JULY 19 Marissa Nadler. Cattivo Kopecky Family Band. Club Cafe Tobacco. Mr. Small’s Theatre The Charlie Thomas’ The Drifters, The Coasters, The Cry Crystals. Palace Theatre

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Natalie Merchant. Carnegie Library of Homestead Music Hall

Matthew Sweet Rock Show. Club Cafe Katy Perry. CONSOL Energy Center Nickel Creek. Stage AE (outdoor)

JULY 23 Gas House Gorillas. Club Cafe Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band.

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JULY 25-27 Pittsburgh Blues Festival feat. Dr. John, many more. Hartwood Acres

Black Finger. 31st Street Pub Briar Rabbit. Club Cafe Dave Arcari. Howlers 7 Bridges. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille

AUG. 01 Natural Vibrations. Altar Bar Pandemic. Brillobox Girlz in Black Hats. Club Cafe Wiz Khalifa, Jeezy, Tyga. First Niagara Pavilion

Jerry Grcevich Tamburitza Orchestra. The Frick Art & Historical Center

Billy the Kid and the Regulators. Rivers Casino

Serena Ryder. South Park Panic! at the Disco, Walk the Moon, Magic Man. Stage AE (outdoor) The Duhks. St. Clair Park

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Smokey Robinson. Meadows Casino Pittsburgh Jazz Legends Show. Rivers Casino Poogie Bell. Riverview Park No Mames: Pandemic. Round

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Tyler Ward. Altar Bar The Grid. Flagstaff Hill

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Skid Row. Altar Bar Eric Sommer. Club Cafe The System. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille Kung Fu Radio. Mellon Square

OneRepublic. First Niagara Pavilion Future Islands. Mr. Small’s Theatre The Hitmen. South Park Dark Star Orchestra. Stage AE The Horse Flies. St. Clair Park

AUG. 22 J. Roddy Walston and The Business.

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Toby Keith. First Niagara Pavilion Red Wanting Blue. Mr. Small’s Theatre Salsamba Latin Jazz Group. Riverview Park

AUG. 10 Klezlectic. Bach, Beethoven and Brunch Macy Gray. Hartwood Acres Salsamba Latin Jazz Group. Highland Park

AUG. 11 Steely Dan. Benedum Center

Those Mockingbirds. Smiling Moose Gloria Reuben and Caribbean Jazz Ensemble. South Park Grendel. Thunderbird Cafe Birds of Chicago. St. Clair Park

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the snow, and soon we’ll be seeking the relief of an air-conditioned movie theater. Here’s what you can expect to see this summer while enjoying a cool-down. Some of your favorites are back: XMen: Days of Future Past opens May 24; catch up with the amusing fire-breathers in the animated How to Train Your Dragon 2 (June 13); and in what we can only hope is the end, Transformers: Age of Extinction drops on June 27. On July 11, it’s Dawn of the Planet Boyhood, of the Apes (July 11), Aug. 1 a.k.a. now the apes are in control; July 18, get ready for murder day, in The Purge: Anarchy. Bruce Willis is back in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Aug. 22), four tales adapted from Frank Miller’s graphic novels, and all the other old-guy action stars just keep on ticking in The Expendables 3 (Aug. 15). Two comedies also return: 22 Jump Street (June 13), in which undercover cops

pose as college students, and Think pos Like a Man Too (June 20), where planned weddings are sure to the p hit snags. Lots of fantasy action and adventure this summer, starting with Maleﬁcent (May 30), Disney’s take on the Sleeping Beauty villainess, starring Angelina Jolie. On July 18, see Jupiter Ascending (July 18), a sci-ﬁ actioner from Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix); Dwayne Johnson stars as the Greek he-man in Hercules, opening July 25. Guardians of the Galaxy hits the big screen on Aug. 1; Chris Pratt stars in this comics-based action adventure. Aug. 8 is when you can meet Lucy; Scarlett Johansson is a juicedup warrior in Luc Besson’s actioner. Thrillers opening this summer include: Edge of Tomorrow (June 6), set in a war-torn, time-looping future, and starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt; Life of Crime (Aug. 29), adapted from Elmore Leonard’s The Switch; and The Most Wanted Man (August), a John Le Carré spy tale starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Summer laughs kick off cowboy-style with A Million Ways to Die in the West (May 30), from Seth McFarlane (Ted). On July 2, Susan Sarandon and Melissa McCarthy take a trip to Niagara Falls,

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in Tammy; Sex Tape, a comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel and — oops — a viral video, opens July 25. For law-enforcement chuckles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Aug. 8) are still keeping the crime rate low in NYC, and two guys dressed as cops for a costume party are mistaken for real police in Let’s Be Cops (Aug. 13). Other light fare includes: Jersey Boys (June 20), Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the popular musical; Begin Again (July 18), a sentimental tale of musical redemption starring Mark Ruffalo, from John Carney (Once); and Magic in the Moonlight (July 25), a rom-com from Woody Allen, set in the French Riviera.

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On Aug. 1, check out Wish I Was Here, Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-funded follow-up to Garden State, and Chadwick Boseman steps into the shoes of the hardestworking man in show biz, James Brown, in the biopic Get on Up. And while it will be sweet and funny, be sure to bring plenty of hankies to the much-anticThink Like ipated The Fault a Man Too, in Our Stars, the June 20 teens-with-cancer dramedy shot in Pittsburgh; it opens June 6. In early June, Pittsburgh Filmmakers will host a series of eight free art-related documentaries (subjects range from photography to puppetry) in conjunction with the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Also booked for Filmmakers: the Texas-set drama Cold in July (May 30); For No Good Reason (June 6), the doc about illustrator Ralph Steadman; the restored version of the 1964 Beatles’ comedy A Hard Day’s Night (July 4); Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (July); and Richard Linklater’s document of a childhood, Boyhood (Aug. 1). The warmer weather means area drive-ins are open, and Pittsburghers can also walk to several city parks for outdoor ﬁlms: The Cinema in the Park series returns on June 7, with recent and classic family faves including Frozen and E.T. And at the Oaks Theater, in Oakmont, the annual Moonlit Matinee series of classic ﬁlms mostly from the ’80s (Stand By Me, Lethal Weapon) begins this week.

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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden. Discovery Garden Day, Sat., May 24; Party in the Tropics, June 6; Tropical Forest India Mango Festival, July 12; Butterfly Forest, through Sept. 1; Summer Flower Show, through Oct. 5; plus permanent exhibits. 707 Penn Gallery. Digital Hand (digitally fabricated works by Penn State art students), through May 25. Frick Art & Historical Center. An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting, through May 25.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Mark Yanza and Rachel Yoke: New Work

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(photography), through May 25. Carnegie Museum of Art. Architecture + Photography, through A May M 26; The Sandbox: At Play With the th Photobook, through July 28; David Da Hartt: Stray Light (exhibit on Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Co. Ch building), through Aug. 11; Outtakes bu (photo (pho and film works by Carnegie International artists, but that were Inter out of the exhibition), through Sept. 1; left o and Teenie Harris Photographs: Baseball in an Pittsburgh, through Sept. 22. P Associated Artists of Butler County. 84th Annual Spring Show; Shane Parcell exhibit; and Floral Design Show, all through May 30. Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts. 2014 Regional Juried Exhibition, through May 30. Boulevard Gallery. Touch of Class II (watercolors from adult art students, jewelry by Georgie Nix and painted glassware by Ilona Ralston), through May 30; multimedia art by Ed Rickus and photography by Elizabeth Jones, through June 30. Assemble Artspace. Picture Pals (exchange program with Pittsburgh and Haitian grade-schoolers), through May 31. DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery. Greensburg Salem Art Club (juried show), through May 31. Gallerie Chiz. Nature and the Metaphysical (sculptures by Caroline Bagenal and drawings by Don Dugal), through May 31. Garfield Artworks. Artists Against

Fracking, through June 1.

Morgan Contemporary Glass. Teapots! 8th Invitational, through June 1.

UnSmoke Artspace. Terrestrial (multimedia exhibit from Nashville-based curatorial collective COOP), through June 1. fieldwork. CSA PGH show (exhibit by local artists in subscriber service), through June 6. Gallery on 43rd Street. Observations (paintings by Maura Doern Danko), through June 6.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown. The Art of Healing Exhibition: Reflections 2014 (works created by patients in a residency program at the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute), through June 6. ModernFormations Gallery. Death Masked (water colors by Stephen Tuomala), through June 20.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts. Wild Things Juried Art Exhibition, through June 21.

709 Penn Gallery. The Occasional Market (installation by Tom Sarver), through June 22.

Wood Street Galleries. Electrified (Edwin van der Heide and Alexandre Burton’s homage to Nikola Tesla), through June 22. Space Gallery. Psychic Panic (group show curated by Olivia Ciummo), through June 29. Mattress Factory. Detroit Artists in Residence (Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orland and Frank Pahl), through June 30 (Hocking through June 1 only); Trace of Memory (house-wide installation by

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Legacy: 65 Years of Original Art from Golden Books, through July 5. Box Heart Gallery. Modern+Contemporary (paintings by Mark Loebach, Cara Livorio, Melissa Kuntz and Jennifer Satterly and assemblage by Daria Sandburg), through July 18. Silver Eye Center for Photography. Here and Now: Queer Geographies in Contemporary Photography (group show), through July 19.

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Society for Contemporary Craft Satellite Gallery. Penny Mateer: Protest Series (quilts inspired by 1960s protest songs), through Aug. 3.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. Scrap Redefined: Works by Mei Greer and Ronald Nigro, through Aug. 10. The Andy Warhol Museum. Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede (about parallels between Warhol and the iconic fashion designer), through Aug. 24. Childrenâ€™s Museum of Pittsburgh. XOXO (exhibit about love and forgiveness) and other permanent interactive exhibits, through Sept. 21. Clay Place at Standard. Independent Pittsburgh Area High School Students Exhibition, through September. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Race: Are We So Different?, through Oct. 27. Plus Dinosaurs in Their Time and other permanent exhibits. CONTINUES ON PG. 34

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Summer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra It’s a sizzling line-up at Heinz Hall this summer. Grab family and friends and chill to the music of Boyz II Men, the music of gladiator and a tribute to the Bee Gees. We’ll wrap up the season with a unique performance of classical, pops and contemporary pieces. It’s the music of summer, every way you like it. For tickets, call 412-392-4900 or visit pittsburghsymphony.org

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Check out what’s hot at Heinz Hall this summer! June 17 . 7:30 PM Acura/ELS Presents

The Ben Folds Orchestral Experience featuring his new piano concerto & his pop hits

Ben Folds is joined by your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to bring his ﬁrst-class melodies and ironylaced lyrics to Heinz Hall for one performance only!

June 23 . 7:30 PM

Happy Together tour Flash back to the ’60s with The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron (of Three Dog Night), Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, and Mark Farner (of Grand Funk Railroad)!

July 17 . 7:30 PM

Stayin’ Alive

One Night of the Bee Gees with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Join the Pittsburgh Symphony for Stayin’ Alive: One Night of the Bee Gees, a tribute featuring all of your Bee Gees favorites.

July 19 . 2:30 PM

Music of John Williams Soar to new heights with your Pittsburgh Symphony and the music from legendary composer John Williams’ well-known movie scores, including “Star Wars,” “E.T.” and “Harry Potter.”

Happy Together is not a performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony.

June 24 . 7:30 PM WDVE Presents

The Music of Queen performed

with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Queen’s epic masterpieces, including “We Will Rock You,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and more, performed live by the Pittsburgh Symphony and vocalist Brody Dolyniuk.

July 23 . 7:30 PM

Boyz II Men

live at Heinz Hall with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra See one of the most truly iconic R&B groups live in concert accompanied by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

June 28 . 8:00 PM

July 25 . 7:00 PM

Play It Again, Marvin!

A Symphonic Celebration

Written and produced by pianist Kevin Cole, this world premiere celebrates the award-winning music of Marvin Hamlisch through song, family videos and personal memories.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh and the Pittsburgh Symphony throw ˇ a summer symphonic celebration featuring Dvorák’s Carnival Overture. Enjoy a breathtaking performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 for Piano featuring Olga Kern and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3.

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Investigations in Terraforming opens Aug. 1 at the Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination. Art by New Academy Press

Society for Contemporary Craft. Transformation 9: Contemporary Works in Ceramics (group show), through Nov. 1. Carnegie Science Center. Highmark SportsWorks, roboworld and other permanent exhibits. National Aviary. Taking Flight: An Avian Adventure Free-Flight Bird Show, Penguin Encounter and other ongoing and permanent exhibits. Photo Antiquities. Ongoing exhibit of historic images from daguerrotypes on, as well as cameras and other paraphernalia.

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Greensburg Art Center.

show with 11 artists from the U.S., Israel and Palestine), June 1-July 27. Filmmakers Galleries. Sites of Passage: Borders, Walls & Citizenship (collaborative group show involving 11 artists from the U.S., Israel and Palestine), June 1-July 27. DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery. Sculpted Paintings (recycled colors and new images by Elisabeth Minningham), June 1-July 31.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 103rd Annual Exhibition, June 1Aug. 31; The Way and the Wayfarers (art by Joshua Hogan, Jay Knapp and Kuzana Ogg, inspired by Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet), June 4June 29.

Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts.

Pittsburgh Pastel Artists Color!!! Juried League and Exhibit (2-D and On The Prowl (art by ceramics by 3-D work), Sat., Rick Schmiedlin), through Sat., May 24, at Christian Kuharik, May 24-June 27. The Gallery 4 both June 3-July 25. Toonseum. 8-Art: Gallerie Chiz. An The 8-Bit Art of Victor Illustrious Age (oil Dandridge, Sat., May 24-July 6. paintings of Pittsburgh’s past Future Tenant. Lucky After Dark: by Fritz Keck) and Alchemy: Turning Clay into Gay and Lesbian Nightlife in Pittsburgh, Glimmering Metal (work by Nancy McNary 1960-1990 (first exhibition of Harrison Smith), June 5-July 12. Apple’s Pittsburgh Queer History Project), Three Rivers Arts Festival. Multiple venues, May 30-June 29. Downtown, June 6-15. be Galleries. Of Crayons, Cats, Dolls and Assemble Artspace. Transformed Linearities Monsters (paintings and installation with (work by Julie Mallis), June 6-28. stuffed animals and dolls, by Tara ZalewskyPanza Gallery. In Good Company Part 2 Nease), May 31-June 28. (group show featuring Zivi Aviraz, Lila Carnegie Museum of Art. Small Pieces, Hirsch-Brody, Joel Kranich, Lilli Nieland, Phiris Big Artists: Masterpieces from the Renaissance Sickels and Susan Sparks), June 7-July 5. to the Baroque, May 31-Sept. 15. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. Blind Intersections: A Stadiumstrash Group Show, June 6-July 4; also Summer Soiree Mattress Factory. Sites of Passage: Borders, (free festival), June 19. Walls & Citizenship (collaborative group

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(Susan Goethel Campbell’s crowd-sourced exhibition of locally distributed air filters), June 6-July 13. Fort Pitt Museum. History Inspires (prints and paintings from local artists inspired by the history of 18th-century Western Pennsylvania), June 6-July 14. Morgan Contemporary Glass. synthesis 2 (fusing & kilnforming group show), June 6-Sept. 13. Gallery 4. RAW Artists Pittsburgh Regional Winner 2013: Mixed Moss Media works with Ashley Hickey, June 7-28. Boulevard Gallery. Chasing the Sun (oil paintings by Nadya Lepets and Vicki Schilling), plus pottery by Gloria Tsang, June 7-28.

Frick Art & Historical Center. Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist: Works on Paper by the Artist and His Circle, June 28-Oct. 5. Sweetwater Center for the Arts. Artist Interrupted: The Art of Tess Senay b. 1992 d. 2012, June 29-Aug. 2.

Associated Artists of Butler County. Regional Woodturners Show, June 13-July 11.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown. Face of India: Photography of Donald M. Robinson, June 13-Aug. 22. Carnegie Science Center. BLUE! (new exhibit in which visitors can build structures from blue foam blocks ), opens June 14. Future Tenant. Drive By Drag on Public Performance (street-drag presentation by Dani LaMorte and Veronica Bleus), June 14. Meadowcroft Rock Shelter. Annual Atlatl Competition, June 21. Insider tour of the Rock Shelter (with paleoanthropologist James Adovasio), June 28. Mattress Factory. Urban Garden Party (annual fundraiser), June 20, and Community Day (free activities), June 22. Showcase Noir. Gallery and market for artists and crafters of the African diaspora, June 21 and 22, Downtown, www.trustarts.org Revision Space. Great Waves: Summer Show, June 27-Sept. 7. Carnegie Museum of Art. Faked, Forgotten, Found: Five Renaissance Paintings

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JULY DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery. Window installation by Mark Barill, July 1-Aug. 31; recent paintings by Marcia Koynok, July 1-Sept. 30. Assemble Artspace. Digital Divide: Art and Communication in a Virtual World (work by online artist collective Manifesto-ish), July 3-26. Meadowcroft Rock Shelter. Independence Day Celebration, July 4. Boulevard Gallery. Nancy Smith and Jeanne Adams: New Work (watercolor), July 5-26. Gallery 4. New Paintings by Anthony Purcell, July 5-26. Future Tenant. Window installation by Dakotah Konicek (kinetic, interactive 2-D and 3-D works), July 7-26. Associated Artists of Butler County. Invitational Art Show (Cranberry), July 9-18. Gallery Crawl. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s summer crawl, plus an after-hours Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh fundraiser party, July 11. www.trustarts.org 707 Penn Gallery. Some Begins (Meg Shevenock and Jamie Boyle’s collaborative exploration of “the lives of objects”), July 11-Aug. 31. Space. Cataloguing Pattern (group show by regional and national artists), July 11-Aug. 31. Wood Street Galleries. La Cour des Miracles (robotic installations by Bill Vorn and Louis Philippe Demers), July 11-Sept. 7. be Galleries. Collecting: Woods to Water (mixed media, fiber and paintings by Sharon McCartney), July 12-Aug. 16.

Toonseum. Cartoons Are the Best Medicine:

Boulevard Gallery. Elaine Bergstrom:

a Healthy Dose of Bizarro by Dan Piraro, July 12-Oct. 12. North Hills Art Center. Summer Artisan Bazaar (hand-crafted items by local and regional artisans), July 19-Aug. 9. Greensburg Art Center. Retrospective: Betty & Allen Reese (pastels, oils, pen and ink), July 19-Aug 29. Carnegie Museum of Art. The eight-venue Pittsburgh Biennial begins with the Carnegie’s portion, the solo exhibit Corey Escoto: Sleight of Hand, July 19-Sept. 29.

New Work (botanical and oriental art) and Charles Sawyer: New Work (woodturnings), Aug. 2-29. Gallery 4. Surreal Minimalist Landscapes With Thomas Frontini, Aug. 2-30. Box Heart Gallery. Jay Knapp: New Work (photography and sculpture), Aug. 5-Oct. 3. Future Tenant. What Will Her Kids Think? (prints, body prints and figure drawings by Sally Deskins), Aug. 8-31.

Associated Artists of Butler County. Invitational Illustrators

Associated Artists of Butler County. Invitational Art Show

Show (motorcycle theme), Aug. 8-Sept. 5 Filmmakers Galleries. The eight-venue 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial continues with Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ portion, Aug. 15-Oct. 19.

(Butler), July 23-Aug. 2. Toonseum. Comic Uni-versus (original artwork of Marvel and DC superheroes, displayed in matchups for public to decide the victor), July 26-Sept. 20.

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Gallerie Chiz. Life in Mexico City:

Pittsburgh Biennial continues with the PCA portion, Aug. 15-Nov. 2.

Drawings (Jason Schell) and Handmade Artist Books (Todd Sanders), Aug. 1-30.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. Retrospective: William

Irma Freeman Center for Imagination.

M. Hoffman Jr., Aug. 22-Nov. 9. be Galleries. Mary M. Mazziotti: New Work (mixed media and fiber), Aug. 23-Sept. 13.

Investigations in Terraforming (with New Academy Press), Aug. 1-Sept. 5. Pittsburgh Glass Center. The eight-venue 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial continues with the Glass Center’s portion, featuring new work by Bob Beckman, Jeremy Boyle, Toby Fraley, Vanessa German, Ayanah Moor, Will Schlough and Kara Skylling, Aug. 1-Oct. 26.

SEPTEMBER DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery. Window installation by Gabe Felice, Sept. 1-Oct. 31. Gallery 4. Dreamlike Creatures of Great Beauty with Hannah Clark, Sept. 6-24.

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SAT 24 OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525. THE R BAR. Barbara Ray & The Sting Rays. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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CASA RASTA. Gena y Pena, Cha Miguel. Beechview. 412-344-4700.

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AVA CAFE & LOUNGE. Roots of a Rebellion, The Pressure. Oakland. 412-904-3400.

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LATITUDE 40. Country Night. Live bands and/or DJs. North Fayette. 412-693-5555.

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ICPLAYERS. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-336-8199.

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COUNTRY THU 22 ELWOOD’S PUB. Midnight Rooster. 724-265-1181.

SAT 24 BOSTON WATERFRONT. Moonshine Steel. McKeesport. 412-751-8112. MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL. Steeltown Steeltown. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000. NIED’S HOTEL. Slim Forsythe, The Neon Swing X-Perience. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

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

PENN BREWERY. Autobahn Band. North Side. 412-237-9400.

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THE BLIND PIG SALOON. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. New Kensington. 724-337-7008. CJ’S. Stevee Wellons. Strip District. 412-642-2377. ENIGMA ELITE LOUNGE. Paul Thompson, Alton Merrell, James Johnson III. Downtown. 412-818-5604. NINE ON NINE. Mark Pipas. Downtown. 412-338-6463.

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MARKET SQUARE. Perfect Lives (Varispeed). Miniature operas staged in everyday locations. Starting at Market Square, venues across the city. Part of Pgh Festival of New Music. www. pghnewmusic.com. Downtown. 412-471-1511. NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Bugallo-Williams piano duo. Music by Kurtág, Williams, Garcia-De Castro, & more. Part of the Pgh New Music Festival. North Side.

FRI 23 NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Alia Musica Pittsburgh. Part

of the Pgh Festival of New Music. www.pghnewmusic.com. North Side.

SAT 24 NEW HAZLETT THEATER. Pittsburgh Soundpike. www.pghnewmusic.com Frederic Rzewski. Part of the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music. pghnewmusic.com. North Side.

SUN 25 LAKE ELIZABETH PARK. Inuksuit by John Luther Adams. A piece for 99 musicians. Part of the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music. www.pghnewmusic. com. North Side. PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE COGIC. Memorial Day Workshop Concert. Gospel event presented by James Ziegler. Email studiojz@yahoo.com for more information. East Liberty.

WED 28 CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. Hello Donny: A Showtunes Sing-Along. http:// trustarts.culturaldistrict.org/ event/3941/hello-donny-a-showtunes-sing-along. Downtown. 412-325-6769. THE HANDLE BAR & GRILLE. Dueling Pianos w/ Hermie & Harry. Canonsburg. 724-746-4227.

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SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

THURSDAY 22

Ring of Fire The Music of Johnny Cash CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE. 412-456-6666. Tickets: clocabaret.com. Through August 17.

Pittsburgh Festival of New Music MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. For more info & tickets visit pghnewmusic.com. Through May 25.

Rusted Root STAGE AE North Side. With special guests The Wailers & Adam Ezra. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6p.m.

Animals As Leaders

Allegheny Square. Tickets: pghnewmusic.com. 7:30p.m.

REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

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STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Storyman, Sugar & The Hi Lows. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

IMPROV Waterfront. Over 21 show. Tickets: pittsburgh.improv.com or 412-462-5233. Through May 25.

Man Overboard ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Transit & more. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Primal Fear ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Arctic Flame & more. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

FRIDAY 23 Comedian Louie Anderson

LATITUDE 40 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555. Tickets: latitude360.com/pittsburghpa. 8p.m. Through May 24.

Red Elvises HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-7625. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10p.m.

Green River Ordinance REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Alia Musica Pittsburgh NEW HAZLETT THEATER

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HARTWOOD ACRES Allison Park. All ages event. Tickets: pyrofest.com. 3p.m.

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MONDAY 26

Black Star Riders “The New Thin Lizzy” ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. With special guests Bad Mother Trucker & more. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

TUESDAY 27 Rod Stewart and Santana

SATURDAY 24 PYRO FEST

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GODZILLA SEEMS TO BE ON MANKIND’S SIDE, THOUGH WHO KNOWS WHY?

{BY AL HOFF} In late-18th-century Britain, mixed-race Dido (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is raised in genteel wealth by her white father’s family, headed by Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson). But while she enjoys tremendous privilege, her coming-of-age is complicated by both her gender and her race. Amma Asante’s film Belle is an historical fiction, inspired by a painting of real people (Dido and her cousin, Elizabeth) and incorporating a significant legal case regarding slavery, presided over by Lord Mansfield.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido

As such, it’s a swirl of larger issues — the legal and cultural limitations of gender and race, and the burgeoning abolition movement — intertwined with domestic melodrama (love and marriage). The film also works to draw parallels between the state of slaves and women, vis-à-vis their lack of agency: “We are but their property,” bemoans Elizabeth. But marriage isn’t enslavement, and it’s a tougher sell when we only see rich people courting and none of slavery’s visceral ugliness. Belle can get a bit soapy: It has all the heaving bosoms in gorgeous dresses, overheard secrets and upper-class side-eye you’d expect from a quality period parlor drama. So it’s entertaining in that respect, if a bit lifeless: Its heroes and villains are clear, as its outcome, and its predictable romantic travails tend to reduce the film’s meatier issues to mere obstacles along the path of true love. Starts Fri., May 23 AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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big screen as Godzilla (né Gojira), and viewers love to see the super-sized irradiated sea lizard stomp cities and battle other giant beasties. Gareth Edwards delivers that in his new Godzilla … but be prepared to endure a lot of ﬁller. There’s a muddled backstory about mining disasters and a nuclear-plant meltdown in Japan before we get to the present day, in which we pretend to care about the barely sketched-in characters: a bland Navy guy (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), his wife (Elizabeth Olsen), his nuclear-engineer dad (Bryan Cranston) and a Japanese researcher hep to the unexplained (Ken Watanabe).

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GODZILLA Directed by: Gareth Edwards STARRING: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe In 3-D in select theaters

48 Hour Film Project. On July 11-13, those folks will be rushing to write, shoot, edit and score a short film in just 48 hours. Registration is now open, and early birds save: $140 before June 16; $160 before July 1; and $175 for the last-minute johnnies. Full details at www.48hourfilm.com/pittsburgh

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is gobbling up nuclear waste in Nevada — but they’re the bad guys. The big brawl goes down in San Francisco, where Godzilla has easy on-off access from the Pacific. It also takes place during a power outage, which makes everything dark and murky. This is a good-looking monster, though; too bad the special-effects work doesn’t look as impressive for all the fake buildings he’s smashing. Hitting screens just a few years after the first nuclear bombs inflicted unprecedented devastation on Japan, 1954’s Gojira offered unmistakable and sobering commentary about that event — and more broadly, about the morality of humans tampering with nature’s deepest secrets. While Edwards’ film nods toward the Fukushima disaster and loads up on Sept. 11 imagery (pierced skyscrapers collapsing), it’s too incoherent to make any larger point. (It doesn’t help that this is a global crisis which seemingly affects fewer than 10 people.) Godzilla seems to be on mankind’s side, though who knows why? Suffice it to say, Godzilla is back, and if enough of you go see his new movie, he’ll surely return again. AH O F F @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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NEW BLENDED. It starts as a blind date gone wrong (at Hooters, natch) between Jim (Adam Sandler) and Lauren (Drew Barrymore) and ends up in the happily ever after. In between, our two love matches — each a single parent — take their broods on an awkward shared vacation to a South Africa resort, where common ground is found at the all-you-can-eat buffet. Frank Coraci’s comedy employs the kinder, gentler Adam Sandler, though you should not infer a recommendation; it’s less vulgar than usual, but for plot and wit, it barely rises above those exotically located Brady Bunch episodes. (The audience did laugh agreeably, but it was Terry Crews, as a manic Greek-chorus-style entertainer, who stole the show.) Curiously, the film whiffs its best feature: visiting a scenic place. The gang barely leaves the hotel! Nearly 30 years ago, Little Steven Van Zandt sang about how we shouldn’t support Sun City, the South African resort featured in this film. Apartheid is no more, but this cheesily themed resort looks like “Africa, Orlando’s newest place for fun in the sun.” I’d still stay away. Starts Fri., May 23. (Al Hoff) CHEF. Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars in this road comedy about a food truck. Starts Fri., May 23.

Ernest and Celestine AND CELESTINE. This sweet CP ERNEST animated family film from Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner is a welcome antidote to the frantic toy commercials that frequently appear as kids’ movies. (It was nominated for a 2014 Oscar, but lost to Frozen.) Illustrated in a charming watercolor style, it tells the simple story of a young mouse, Celestine, who befriends a bear, Ernest, each defying the world order in which bears and mice are enemies. The film is whimsical and gently funny throughout, with many nods to other works that even kids will recognize (Madeleine, Bugs Bunny). Even its gentle but engaging style recalls a storybook come to life (it is adapted from Gabrielle Vincent’s books), and its emotional subplot about two oddballs who find each other should resonate with both young and old. In French, with subtitles, and dubbed in English (weekends only). Regent Square (AH) FED UP. Stephanie Soechtig’s documentary takes a look at the state of America’s diet (with a special focus on added sugars) and the related health crises. AMC Loews X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Alas, not a film of The Moody Blues’ similarly titled concept album, but a new set of adventures for the Marvel Comics crew of mutants. Starring Hugh

Blended Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart and scores more; Bryan Singer directs. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., May 23.

REPERTORY CLEVELAND/ROCKS FILM FESTIVAL. The Parkway Theater in McKees Rocks is presenting seven films that screened earlier this year at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Screenings continue through Sun., May 25, and include: Awful Nice, a comedy about two brothers; Amka and the Three Golden Rules, a coming-of-age story from Mongolia; a comedy about Hollywood, He’s Way More Famous Than You; a stoner comedy, Oliver, Stoned; and Grantham & Rosie, in which two troubled teens take a road trip. Also playing is a pair of shorts: “Young Americans,” about teens planning a robbery, and “Shipbreakers,” an eye-opening documentary about laborers who dismantle ships by hand. All films screen multiple times; see website for complete schedule. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. 412-766-1668 or www.parkwaytheater.org. $7 single ticket, or various passes ($11-45)

DONNIE DARKO. Writer/director Richard Kelly’s debut is a hard-to-categorize tale about a

HORROR REALM FILM FESTIVAL. The fourday festival of horror films begins tonight with a reception; screenings and other events follow Fri., May 23, through Sun., May 25. Full details at www. horrorrealmcon.com, with advance tickets at www. showclix.com. 8 p.m. Thu., May 22. Hollywood THE NEVERENDING STORY. A book leads a bullied boy into a fantasy land where he has a chance to be the hero. Wolfgang Petersen directs this 1984 family adventure film. 10 p.m. Fri., May 23, and 10 p.m. Sat., May 24. Oaks

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doomed teen. Over 28 days, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles to understand his suburban world, which is tilting toward madness, steered by a giant rabbit named Frank. Kelly excels at capturing Donnie’s dread with verve, yet he and Gyllenhaal ground this anxiety so firmly in the confusion and inarticulateness of ordinary adolescence that there’s no easy fantasy loophole. A hybrid of time-travel treatise, ’80s snapshot, troubled-kid drama and dark comedy. The 2001 film kicks off a series of films featuring Patrick Swayze. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 21. Hollywood (AH)

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Fed Up from local filmmaker Tony Buba is based on The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, Pitt historian Marcus Rediker’s book about a 1839 slave revolt. The film follows a 2013 journey to Sierra Leone, in which historians sought out living descendants of those taken aboard the Amistad, as well as the site of Lomboko, the former slave-trading depot. Buba and Rediker will be on hand to present the film, which continues a series of monthly screenings of films related to labor issues. 1:30 p.m. Sat., May 24. The Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront Drive, Munhall. 412-831-3871 or www. battleofhomesteadfoundation.org. Free

at times seems to dash about like one of the story’s over-excited party guests. In French, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Wed., May 28. Melwood (AH) THE SOUND OF MUSIC. These hills are alive … with the sound of music. Julie Andrews stars in Robert Wise’s 1965 musical dramedy about the singing Von Trapp family. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 28. AMC Loews. $5

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! The gang at the found videotape repository have put together two new compilations, “Comic Relief Zero!” (featuring standup, natch) and “Everything Is Terrible! Does the Hip-Hop” (corporate rap). Films will be introduced live, and with lots of fake fur and glitter. 8 p.m. Sat., May 25. Melwood. $10 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 hair-dos ever. The film concludes a month-long series of 1980s adventure films. 8 p.m. Sun., May 25. Regent Square BACK TO THE FUTURE. Through the use of a kicky time machine, young ’80s dude Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) finds himself back in the 1950s, where he’s tasked with getting his parents to hook up, lest he never be born. Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson also star in Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 comedy. 4 and 7 p.m. Mon., May 26; 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 28; 7:30 p.m. Fri., May 30; and 3 p.m. Sat., May 31. Hollywood THE RULES OF THE GAME. Jean Renoir’s scathing 1939 critique of contemporary French society is set in a country estate, topped with all the requisite hallmarks of a farce. The ensemble cast comprises the wealthy set, assorted guests and various servants. It’s a self-absorbed society Renoir called “rotten to the core.” Rules is the study of that world; there is no central character, and likewise no clearly defined heroes or villains. In this realm of moral relativism, betrayals and cruelties are fine — as long as all parties adhere to the rules: He who is sincere is not, in fact, playing by the rules — and must be excised in order to restore the perverse, but preferred, corrupted order. The film is well-composed, with an innovative use of deep space and a lively camera that

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The Rules of the Game RETURN OF THE STREET FIGHTER. It’s Sonny Chiba versus a phony charity set up by the Yakuza, in this 1974 martial-arts actioner from Shigehiro Ozawa. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 28. Hollywood DEAD MAN. Johnny Depp stars in Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 Western (of sorts), in which an accountant from Cleveland finds the frontier a complicated and deadly place. Also stars Crispin Glover, Gary Farmer and Gabriel Byrne, and features the last screen appearance of Robert Mitchum. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 29; 10 p.m. Fri., May 30; and 7 and 10 p.m. Sat., May 31. Hollywood ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www.warhol.org

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Convention labels Rachel Carson as the mother of modern environmentalism. But Carson, too, had a mother — and plenty of spiritual grandmothers, sisters and granddaughters. Fifty years after her death, Robert K. Musil’s book Rachel and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment (Rutgers Press) honors Carson, even while dismantling the myth that she was “a lone literary genius.” “I wanted to show that she was not just a lone figure … but that she stood on the shoulders of other women, starting with her mother,” says Musil, an environmental scholar who heads the Maryland-based Rachel Carson Council. Maria Frazier Carson was a teacher who, Musil says, surely introduced her daughter to the work of 19th-century nature writer Susan Fenimore Cooper, whose stylistic influence Musil locates in books like Silent Spring. Other foremothers included conservationist and birding pioneer Florence Merriam Bailey and physician Alice Hamilton, who pioneered occupational and environmental medicine in the U.S. Nor was biologist Carson a solitary researcher, even while exploring the effects of pesticides for the paradigm-shifting Silent Spring. “She was very proud to work with a whole set of scientists around the country,” as well as groups like the Sierra Club, says Musil in a phone interview. Yet Carson broke new ground. Previously, “environmentalists” were either conservationists — protectors of the land — or anti-pollution campaigners. Carson showed how nature’s health is also ours. Though Silent Spring is recalled for its role in banning DDT to protect birds, notes Musil, “Most of the book is about human health.” Musil, a former executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, teaches about climate change and environmental politics at American University. He says Carson’s combination of writing skill and scientific knowledge was also rare: “That’s what made Rachel powerful and unique,” he says. Women following that dual path today include Terry Tempest-Williams, Devra Davis and Sandra Steingraber. Musil visits Springdale’s Rachel Carson Homestead this week for a book talk and signing. (The free event includes a catered picnic.) He’ll emphasize that the scientist and author knew that mere knowledge wasn’t enough. “Her real legacy is in reaching out to the public and saying, ‘This is the science. … We have a duty to do something about this.’”

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What’s in store: Wooden puppets by Tom Sarver

OM SARVER’S art is characterized by a satire so gentle that it can be hard to tell whether it’s meant as criticism. Often, an established institution, in the broader sense of the word, is adapted to ﬁt Sarver’s artistic program. For example, The Tom Museum (2006-2008), though sponsored by the Mattress Factory museum and located in one of its satellite row houses, was not actually a museum. Rather, it toyed with the idea of “museum” as a nexus for the collection, presentation and even production of art. Throughout, the tone was light and open and generous, as Sarver extended to other artists some opportunities to exhibit. That symbiotic relationship is typical of contemporary art museums, which provide such opportunities while also needing the artists’ products to ﬁll their galleries. But The Tom Museum was mostly an evolving installation of artwork made

by Sarver himself. It was an artist’s project that, though low-key and uncontentious, felt like a gentle rejoinder to the (somewhat beleaguered) view of curators as indispensible arbiters of taste.

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Similarly, Sarver presented on numerous occasions between 2007 and 2013 the Art Olympic Theatre, in which teams of artists raced against the clock to produce works that were judged competitively by a panel of arts professionals. This combination of art, performance and social interaction also underlay Sarver’s Bait & Tackle (2009), a paean to ﬁshing, rural life and the bait store as community center. For his cur-

rent exhibit, The Occasional Market, Sarver again adapts the concept of “store,” though in this case rifﬁng on art-gallery-as-store. In 707 Penn Gallery, which is a storefront, Sarver combines the concept of nonproﬁt art gallery with the concept of store in a sendup of commercial art galleries, some of which are present in Pittsburgh but don’t exactly dominate the scene. Sarver, who grew up in the area, builds on his background and experience, as his grandfather owned a grocery store in Pittsburgh. If anything, the “store” element seems underplayed, as most aspects of the display are in line with conventional gallery display — grey walls (white walls seem so yesterday), professionally framed works, and paintings on stretched canvas nicely spaced and hung at eye level. The nods toward an actual market include a roll of butcher paper, some shallow shelves and a couple of tables in lieu of pedestals. But those elements feel CONTINUES ON PG. 100

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misogyny and misanthropy. Whether handmade or bricolaged, the small sculptures run a gamut of quirkiness, from tiny clay spaceships to a tower of plastic bottlecaps to whatnots of wood scraps left over from cutting out other shapes. (It’s the “hamburger strategy” pioneered in art by Frank Stella’s sculptures: No scrap goes to waste.) The puppet-like painted wooden ﬁgures are delights, each a small sculpture representing a distinct character. (A group of similar pieces was exhibited in the 2013 Carnegie International under the auspices of invited artist Paulina Olowska.) For me, Sarver’s drawings such as “Good & Plenty” (2012) stand out, combining a multitude of images yet cohering through being rendered in a single medium. By comparison, the collages are cacophonous, layering paint upon images, though we can extract tidbits of humor, grace, imagination and environmental concern. While The Occasional Market doesn’t feel much more store-like than most galleries, it evokes the kind of store I prefer to patronize. Fresh, local and amiable, it’s mercantilism with a touch of humanity.

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minor and are overshadowed by, for example, the track lighting dear to art galleries. With art in various mediums, there is some sense of miscellany that could suggest that we are perusing the goods of multiple suppliers; one visitor to the gallery did ask the attendant who the artists are. But most of what’s present are Sarver’s drawings, assemblages and mixed-media collages in his signature style of loose, slightly wacky cartoonish expressionism. It’s a style that a few years ago suddenly seemed to be everywhere, but Sarver had a deep claim to it, having spent decades making ﬁgurative puppets, while also being a core organizer of Pittsburgh’s long-running (and now defunct) Black Sheep Puppet Festival. This exhibit’s press release promises interactivity, which might occasionally be true when the artist is in the gallery “making alterations, playing records, performing puppet shows, and pawning his wares,” but for most visitors the experience is not one of social interaction. It’s art to be looked at, pure and simple, and fortunately, Sarver’s artwork is rewarding and varied. Canvases feature homey stories — Richard Prince-like texts but without the

It’s always surprised me that there are so few commercial galleries in Pittsburgh. While it’s not uncommon for mid-sized cities to lack a robust art trade, Pittsburgh is so culturally rich that it seems it could support more than a few. While commercial galleries are not the only key to a thriving visual-art scene, the Art Fair phenomenon has made them essential features of the current art “market.” To quote critic A.O. Scott in a recent New York Times article, “money is now an important measure — maybe the supreme measure — of artistic accomplishment.” Because the current market-driven system favors recognizable names, commercial ventures tend to avoid underrecognized or experimental work. But commercial galleries both support and exhibit artists, making them essential components of that system. And many of them do show under-the-radar artists who deserve our attention. Housing a unique and eclectic mishmash of mediums and styles, Shadyside’s Gallerie Chiz is a far cry from a pristine white-cube gallery. Its owner/director, Ellen

Chisdes Neuberg, displays paintings, drawings, jewelry, ceramics and the odd three-dimensional creature in one big cacophonous floor-to-ceiling array. And there are definite gems amidst the clutter. In addition, Neuberg has carved out a traditional white-walled space in the middle of her gallery to showcase specific artists for her monthly changing exhibitions. The current exhibition, Nature & the Metaphysical, includes sculptures by Caroline Bagenal and drawings by Don Dugal. Although Bagenal often creates large-scale sculptures, on display here are smaller, delicate abstracts from her Marsh Poems series. Made from bamboo and marsh reeds wrapped in paper from books and magazines, the pieces were inspired by the manmade objects she sees on walks near her Massachusetts home. One is a tiny cage painted an iridescent Yves Klein blue, another a jumble of cast-off sailing rope. While many of Dugal’s drawings also reflect his surroundings, they often spill into the surreal while exploring the range of shades and textures possible with charcoal. “Nitelites,” a nighttime landscape of a tree-covered hill, teeters on the edge of abstraction, while “Polar Reversal” combines both recognizable and abstract components. Using different mediums and methods, both Bagenal and Dugal strive for that transcendent space between realism and abstraction, temporality and the sublime. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

NATURE & THE METAPHYSICAL continues through May 31. Gallerie Chiz, 5831 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-441-6005 or www.galleriechiz.com

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CORNER STORY {BY TED HOOVER} THERE’S A GREAT deal of pleasure to

be had from Marlon Erik Youngblood’s Comfort Zone, at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. Foremost is Playwrights’ nurturing of this local playwright and his play. Comfort Zone debuted as a one-act in the company’s 2012 Theatre Festival in Black & White, and now appears in a fulllength version. The play opens the morning after two young man have fought — and one died — in a Pittsburgh corner store. The community is on edge, with everyone wondering whether the proprietor, Checkers, has “snitched” to police about the murderer’s identity.

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COMFORT ZONE continues through Sat., May 24. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-25. 412-687-4686 or www.pghplaywrights.com

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RELATIONSHIPS ARE a work in progress. That sentiment is at the heart of A Love Affair, a romantic comedy by former television writer Jerry Mayer that follows Jimmy and Alice Diamond across four decades of marriage. The story opens after a string of bad

continues through May 31. South Park Theatre, Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road, South Park. $12. 412-831-8552 or www.southparktheatre.com

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Checkers has spent the past several decades going along to get along, cultivating friends and avoiding creating enemies … but with this death, he’s wondering whether having lived his life in that “comfort zone” has harmed the neighborhood around him. He remembers a time when people in this predominantly African-American community looked out for each other, and he sees, for the first time, how far people have slipped from that ideal. He must choose to speak up or disappear into insularity. Youngblood is a good old-fashioned storyteller, and in his first act especially, it’s a joy to watch him work; the characters are finely drawn and the plot moves forward with a compelling logic. Director Mark Whitehead leads a very solid company through Youngblood’s tale. The always-powerful Kevin Brown is even stronger here as Checkers; Brown does great work making us understand Checkers’ struggle. Bryant Bently’s turn as best friend and cold-eyed realist Slick Atkins helps keep the play rooted in the here and now. Mark Clayton Southers, Cheryl ElWalker, Monn Washington and Jamilah Chanie are given detailed supporting roles and each brings color and immediacy to the characters. I have to say that Comfort Zone goes a bit haywire in the second act. Here Youngblood can’t resist the temptation to get a bit preachy, and his plot suddenly feels stagey and muddied.

luck and bad investments forces the middle-aged couple, played in this South Park Theatre production by Bob Scott and Cindy Swanson, to sell their beloved home. As they clean out the attic, they begin reminiscing, and soon the audience meets the couple as young newlyweds (Noah Zamamiri and Erin McAuley).

— ﬁrst with the older pair giving guidance to their younger selves, and ultimately the younger duo dispensing the wisdom. Both sides offer shrewd counsel, but whether Jimmy and Alice will take their own good advice is never quite so straightforward. Rounding out the cast is Genie Evanko, who portrays six diverse characters who shape the couple’s life together over the years. From the femme fatale who almost breaks up the marriage to a gynecologist who diagnoses Alice with a “normal” case of menopause, Evanko handles each of her roles with aplomb. Adrienne Fischer’s scenic design makes effective use of the limited stage, and between acts, the small crew did a terriﬁc job converting the set from a run-down attic to the almighty bedroom. This might not be a Broadway-scale production, but the attention to detail is just as meticulous. Likewise, Melissa Hill Grande’s direction keeps the laughs moving at a quick pace, but encourages the audience to ponder the little moments that make a marriage. Alice and Jimmy’s sprightly dialogue mixes touching insights about relationships with crass commentary in which partner intends to amuse, and sometimes wound, the other. Though the older couple shares more on-stage chemistry than the younger pair, this works in the play’s favor, dovetailing with the theme that while age might not bring security, it does foster devotion. The end result is a story that’s sweet but never saccharine.

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+ THU., MAY 22 {STAGE} Let’s make this plain — because Johnny Cash would have. Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, getting its Pittsburgh premiere courtesy of the CLO Cabaret, is not a bio of the Man in Black, nor does it mimic a concert. Rather, performers in

Pittsburgh-based literary magazine that has won the support of writers from Dave Eggers to Dear Sugar’s Cheryl Strayed, hosts its first annual Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference starting today at Oakland’s University Club. Along with discussions of craft, an entire day will be devoted to independent and digital publishing. Featuring

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Richard Maltby Jr.’s 2006 show use Cash songs like the title tune, “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Daddy Sang Bass” to illuminate scenes of characters moving through life. The first performance of this summerlong production at the Cabaret at Theater Square is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Show continues through Aug. 17. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $39.75-44.75. 412-456-6666 or www.pittsburghclo.org

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modern classic about geeky kids on the edge. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s Tony-winning 2004 musical about six kids trying to put all the letters in the right order for cash, all while seeking to please their parents. Four selected audience members also get in on the fun in a show the New York Times called “irresistible” and “refreshingly hand-crafted.” Zeva Barzell directs this new production, recommended for audiences ages 13 and older, which opens tonight. BO 7 p.m. Show continues through June 8. 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $7. 412-392-8000 or www. pittsburghplayhouse.com

lectures from magazine founder Lee Gutkind and National Book Prize winner Dinty W. Moore, the conference hopes to put some control back into the hands of unpublished writers. Dan Willis 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Continues through Sun., May 25. 123 University Place, Oakland. Single-day registrations start at $125. 412-688-0304 or www.creativenonfiction.org

{STAGE} Point Park University’s Playhouse Jr. has spent 65 seasons entertaining young people. Appropriately, it’s closing this big anniversary year with a

Brand-new dance troupe fireWALL Dance Theater presents its first full-length show. On the Rox depicts six characters in a cocktail lounge, each of whom tells his or her story in dance. The work, created by the dancers and choreographer/dancer Elisa-Marie Alaio, is one of the first to take place at the likewise newly rebranded Off the Wall Performing Arts Center (formerly Off the Wall Theater). On the Rox will be performed six times over two weekends, starting tonight. BO 8 p.m. Continues through May 31. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $5-20. 724-873-3576 or www.insideoffthewall.com

{SCREEN} “The Race to the Coffin Comedy Tour,” goes its press release, “is the collective efforts of five young comics from Pittsburgh who believe their ambition and potential exceed their life expectancy.” The DIY tour boasts that it “has yet to make a dime.” But John Dick Winters, Alex Stypula, Jesse Irvin, Tim Ross and Shannon Norman have made a DVD. And tonight they premiere this standupcomedy special, titled Social Suicide Pact, at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room. The ticket price includes a DVD and (for those of age) complimentary beer —

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We are currently at peak ’90s nostalgia. We also have no shortage of artists sampling and recontextualizing ready-made bits of audiovisual material from every time and place they can think of. But very few of these artists can maintain the balance between humor and intelligence quite as well as the gang behind YouTube sensation and unlikely touring company Everything Is Terrible! Nic Maier, a.k.a. Commodore Gilgamesh, is one of the video artists for the project. “We take old VHS tapes from the ’80s and ’90s and remix them into a psychedelic and comedic mashup,” he says. But in most cases, the majority of the psychedelia comes from the source material itself. Nic and his band of plunderers just make tweaks, stretching out highs and tightening lows to point out just how hilariously absurd these clips are. This tour, they’re presenting two new compilations, a collection of so-bad-it’s-good stand-up comedy called Comic Relief Zero and EIT! Does the Hip Hop, a retrospective of what Nic describes as “corporate rap, used to sell stamps and Egg McMuffins,” where the commercialism and the history of the music “cancel each other out in kind of a yin and yang situation.” It should be smart, funny, subtly political and, well, terrible! Dan Willis 8 p.m. Sun., May 25. Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. $10. 412-681-5449 or theaters.pittsburgharts.org

always helpful in social-suicide situations. BO 8 p.m. 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. $10. racetothecoffin@gmail.com

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Pyrofest returns for Memorial Day weekend. Not to be confused with Pyrotopia (the fire-arts festival earlier this month), Pyrofest is straight-up fireworks and live music. The Hartwood Acres gates open at 3 p.m.; fireworks start at 5:30 p.m. with some daylight displays. Bands including Johnny Angel & The Halos and Brooklynbased alt-country act The Defibulators lead to the big after-dark shows, which include a production by Spain’s Ricardo Caballer Ricasa Fireworks. The capper is the world premiere of “Whole Lotta Love,” a “pyromusical” set to popular love songs. BO 3-11 p.m. $14-70 (free for children under 6). Hampton Township. 800-854-4705 or www.pyrofest.com

stated to downright ostentatious. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh artist Mark Loebach offers a retrospective of his panAmerican pastel-colored landscapes. Also showing works are Cara Livorio, Melissa Kuntz and Daria Sandburg. DW 5 p.m. 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. 412-687-8858 or www.boxheartgallery.com

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BNY Mellon’s JazzLive concert series and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust present jazz saxophonist and flautist Eric DeFade 23 tonight at the Theater Rox Square Backstage Bar. The Grammy-winner and Carnegie Mellon Jazz Ensemble director is seasoned, to say the least. Born and raised by musicians in Pittsburgh, he has gone on to tour with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Artie Shaw Band and legendary bluesjazz vocalist Nancy Wilson. He’s returning to his hometown to showcase his improvisatory prowess in a quartet featuring local talents Tom Wendt, Alton Merrell and Tony DePaolis. DW 5 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. Free. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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Workshops with visiting lecturers are also available throughout the summer. DW 6 p.m. 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship. Free. 412-365-2145 or www. pittsburghglasscenter.org

throughout the summer, and tonight, you can hear Carol Milner discuss her “knitted glass” technique, where interwoven strands of wax are casted to produce glass sculptures where filaments appear to be knitted together. Also speaking is Janusz Pozniak (pictured), who will describe his work with artists around the world, including Dale Chihuly.

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Erik Youngblood about the aftermath of a shooting & how it impacts a community. www. pghplaywrights.com/zone Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru May 24. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown. HOPE & GRAVITY. Nonlinear comedy about fate. Thu, Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 5:30 & 9 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 25. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. A LOVE AFFAIR. Romantic comedy about a couple clearing out their attic & reliving moments from a 38-year marriage. Thu-Sat, 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 25. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 412-831-8552. PETER & THE STARCATCHER. Prequel to Peter Pan. Thru May 22, 7:30 p.m., Fri., May 23, 8 p.m., Sat., May 24, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., May 25, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. RING OF FIRE. Tribute to Johnny Cash. Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sun, 2 p.m. and Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 16. Cabaret at Theater

Square, Downtown. 412-456-6666. SAUDADE: A SENSEPLAY. Two to four short performances of stories focusing on events of separation. Presented by Alarum Theatre. 33 Watson Blvd., Perry North. www.alarumtheatre.com Wed-Sat, 7 p.m. Thru May 31. WHEN WE ARE MARRIED. On an evening in 1908 when 3 upstanding couples gather to celebrate their 25 years of wedded bliss, a secret is revealed that hilariously upends the party: none of them are legally married. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru June 7. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

COMEDY THU 22 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru June 26 Hamboneâ€™s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. OPEN STAGE COMEDY NIGHT. Thu Eclipse Lounge, Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097. PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square,

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Downtown. 412-325-6769. THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL. Thu, 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

FRI 23 BEST OF THE BURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE. Fri, 8 p.m. Thru July 25 Corner Cafe, South Side. 412-488-2995. THE DRAFT. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. MAGICIAN-COMEDIAN EXTREME MICHAEL GIGLIOTTI. Amazing strolling magic & comedy. Fun for the whole family feat. Caesars Palace award winning Master Magician MICHAELANGELO. Fri, 5-7 p.m. Mullenâ€™s Bar & Grill, North Side. 412-231-1112. RACE TO THE COFFIN COMEDY DVD PREMIERE. www.facebook. com/RaceToTheCoffin 8 p.m. Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. 412-682-4111. STEAMER. Fri, 9:30 p.m. Thru May 30 Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

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FRI 23 - SAT 24 JOHN EVANS, DANNY PALUMBO. May 23-24, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. LOUIE ANDERSON. May 23-24, 8 p.m. Latitude 40, North Fayette. 412-693-5555.

FRI 23 - SUN 25 STEVE TREVINO. 8 & 10:15 p.m., Sat., May 24, 7 & 9:15 p.m. and Sun., May 25, 7 p.m. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

SAT 24 ARCADE HOOTENANNY. 10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. BAR PROV. 11 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. THE DEATH SHOW. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. FAST & SLOW PROV. 9:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695. JEFF KONKLE, DAY BRACEY, KRISH MOHAN, MIKE SASSON, RON RENWICK, RAY ZAWODNI. Pittsburghâ€™s Finest Comedy Showcase. 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

SUN 25 EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! LIVE! Live & video sketch comedy. www. showclix.com/event/eitpittsburgh 8 p.m. Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. 412-682-4111.

MON 26 UNPLANNED COMEDY IMPROV. Mon, 9 p.m. Thru May 26 Hamboneâ€™s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

TUE 27 TUESDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Tue, 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

WED 28 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m. Scarpaciâ€™s Place, Mt. Washington. 412-431-9908. STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-904-4502.

EXHIBITS ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery. An eclectic showroom of fine art sculpture & paintings from emerging artists. North Side. 724-797-3302. AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix. Feat. imagery, film & oral history narratives to explore communities, CONTINUES ON PG. 105

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Revolutionary War graves. Scott. cultures, & innovations. Downtown. 412-258-2700. 412-851-9212. BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. Large collection of automatic This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion roll-played musical instruments site features log house, blacksmith and music boxes in a mansion shop & gardens. South Park. setting. Call for appointment. 412-835-1554. O’Hara. 412-782-4231. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly NATURAL HISTORY. RACE: Forest. Watch butterflies emerge Are We So Different? Text, from their chrysalises to flutter photographs, interactive among tropical blooms. Summer audiovisual components, & Flower Show. Feat. a variety of related artifacts challenge imaginative railroad displays perceptions about race. Oakland. enhanced by flowers, plants 412-622-3131. & interactive features. 14 indoor CARNEGIE SCIENCE rooms & 3 outdoor gardens CENTER. Ongoing: feature exotic plants Buhl Digital Dome and floral displays (planetarium), from around the Miniature Railroad and world. Oakland. . w w w Village, USS Requin 412-622-6914. aper p ty ci h g p submarine, and more. PINBALL PERFECTION. .com North Side. 412-237-3400. Pinball museum & COMPASS INN. Demos players club. West View. and tours with costumed guides 412-931-4425. featuring this restored stagecoach PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG stop. 724-238-4983. AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 CONNEY M. KIMBO animals, including many GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh endangered species. Highland Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Park. 412-665-3639. Awards from the International Hall SENATOR JOHN HEINZ of Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446. HISTORY CENTER. Pittsburgh’s DEPRECIATION LANDS Lost Steamboat: Treasures MUSEUM. Small living of the Arabia. Exhibit feat. history museum celebrating the nearly 2,000 once-hidden treasures settlement and history of the exploring Pittsburgh’s important Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. role as a Gateway to the West & 412-486-0563. a national hub for the steamboat FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with classes, car & carriage museum. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, and enjoy hikes and outdoor activities in the surrounding park. Allison Park. 412-767-9200. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. 724-329-8501. KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont. 412-826-9295. MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection includes jade and ivory statues from China and Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open for tours, lectures and more. Monroeville. 412-373-7794. NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures, demos and more. North Side. 412-323-7235. NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-624-6000. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ,

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NEW THIS WEEK GREENSBURG ART CENTER. COLOR!!! Juried exhibition feat. regional artists. Opening reception: May 24, 6-8 p.m. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. REVISION SPACE. Savage Elements. Work by Nugent Kos. Opening reception: May 23, 6-10 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-728-4916.

ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. The Occasional Market. Work by Tom Sarver. Downtown. 412-456-6666. 709 PENN GALLERY. Digital Hand. Digital fabrication works by students at the Penn State School of Visual Arts. Downtown. 412-456-6666. 720 RECORDS. The Art of Julie Mallis. Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592. AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Synagogues of Prague & Budapest. Photographs by David Aschkenas. Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8011 x 105. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Halston & Warhol: Silver & Suede. Exhibition integrating Halston’s garments & accessories w/ photography, video & paintings by Warhol. 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. ART INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH. Inspired Life: The Art, Craft, Vision, & Inspiration of Art Institute of Pittsburgh Alumni. Feat. 30 artists in a variety of mediums. Downtown. 412-291-6499. ARTDFACT. Timothy Kelley. Paintings & sculpture. North

Side. 724-797-3302. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. People Who Live in Tin Houses Shouldn’t Throw Can Openers. Assemblage & metal collages by Robert Villamagna. Downtown. 412-325-6768. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Touch of Class II. Watercolors by Marci Evancho Mason. Verona. 412-828-1031. BOXHEART GALLERY. modern+contemporary. Work by Melissa Kuntz, Cara Livorio, Mark Loebach Jennipher Satterly, & Daria Sandburg. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Nia Quilt Guild Member Show. Meet the Quilters reception: May 25, 1-3 p.m. Oakland. 412-622-3151. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Architecture + Photography. Feat. works from the Heinz Architectural Center & Carnegie Museum of Art’s photography collection, demonstrating the symbiosis between architecture & photography. David Hartt: Stray Light. Feat. color photographs, sculptures, & video installation. Teenie Harris Photographs: Baseball in Pittsburgh. Feat. an inside look at some of the greatest moments in Negro League, Major League, & sandlot baseball in Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Antonio Puri. Large-scale contemporary pieces. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CONSTELLATION COFFEE. Bryan C. Mickle:

Recent Watercolors. Lawrenceville. 814-419-9775. DV8 ESPRESSO BAR & GALLERY. Greensburg Salem Art Club Juried Art Show. Curated by Gabby Walton, Laura Rosner & Sarah Thomas. Greensburg. 724-219-0804. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined with some of the world’s most talented contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting. Feat. American artists from the nation’s early years of independence through the dawn of the 20th century. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. City Scenes: Finding Harmony in Pittsburgh’s Changing Colors. Paintings by Claire Hardy. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. Nature & the Metaphysical. Work by Caroline Bagenal & Don Dugal. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. On the Prowl. Paintings by Keith Schmiedlin. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Observations. Paintings by Maura Doern Danko. Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. CONTINUES ON PG. 107

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building industry in the mid-19th century. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, and exhibits on local history, more. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. 412-621-4253. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland. 412-621-4253. 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. WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling and coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. 724-887-7910. CONTINUES ON PG. 106

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FRI 23 - SUN 25 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND HOME & CRAFT FESTIVAL. Music, food, vendors, more. 6-9 p.m., Sat., May 24, 11 a.m.8 p.m. and Sun., May 25, 11 a.m.7 p.m. Meadows Casino, Washington. 724-503-1200.

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PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE SCHOOL SPRING PERFORMANCE. 7 p.m. Byham Theater, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

FRI 23 - SUN 25 ON THE ROX. Performance by fireWALL Dance Theater. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun., May 25, 3 p.m. Thru May 31 Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 1-888-718-4253.

SUN 25 PARANGAL: A TRIBUTE TO THE PAST, A GIFT FOR THE FUTURE. Performance showcasing the diversity of Philippine culture & the richness of its history through dance. Presented by the FAAP Dance Troupe. 3-5 p.m. Bellefield Hall, Oakland. 724-498-6757.

WED 28 HAWAII IN THE HIGHLANDS. Performance of traditional music & dance of Hawaii. Presented by Latshaw Productions. 2 & 7:30 p.m. Ligonier Theater. 724-238-6514.

FUNDRAISERS THU 22 POWER PROMISES: A NIGHT OF HOPE. Dinner, music, auction, & a brief program by emcee Brenda Waters. Benefits POWER. 5:30-9 p.m. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-243-7535 x 223. A TRIBUTE TO VETERANS. Hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, tribute program, more. Benefits the Veterans Leadership Program of Western PA. 5 p.m. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 1-888-718-4253.

SUN 25 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.

LITERARY THU 22 ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students. Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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KIDSTUFF THU 22 - FRI 23 LITTLE SPROUTS SINGLE SERVINGS: OUR BUTTERFLY FRIENDS. Ages 2-3. May 22-23, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-441-4442 x 3925. TWIST RESIST. Twist, paint, & unfold to reveal a one-of-a-kind painting. Thru May 23, 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

THU 22 - WED 28 I’ve been to The Andy Warhol Museum several times; I just wanted to come and visit to see if they updated anything. It’s in Pittsburgh and it’s a free event, so why not? He did a lot, from his commercials to his fashion. I liked seeing all the commercials that he did from 1970 to 1986. He did a lot of things; he didn’t just paint or draw or take photographs. He did video and fashion and computer art and all these different things. He was a very talented man and I’m glad we have this space for his art. There should be more places like this. There are a lot of artists out there, inner city and outer city, and we should have museums displaying everyone’s particular interests and talents. BY DAN WILLIS

THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress. com Thu, 7-9 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. SPANISH CONVERSATION CLUB. Second and Fourth Thu of every month, 6-7 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

FRI 23 - SUN 25 THE THE 2014 CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITERS CONFERENCE. Workshops & presentations on writing memoir, personal essays, more. May 23-25 University Club, Oakland. 412-688-0304.

SAT 24 BOOK SIGNING W/ JASON GRILLI. The Pittsburgh Pirate will be signing copies of his autobiography Just My Game. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Waterfront. 412-462-5743.

MON 26 BRING YOUR OWN BARD: SHAKESPEARE’S INSULTS. An informal scene night in which professional actors & non-actors alike take a crack at their favorite Shakespeare pieces. 7:30 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-6406. GERMAN CONVERSATION CLUB. Second and Fourth Mon of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

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TUE 27 GET YOUR WORKSHOP ON. Creative writing workshop. Tue, 79 p.m. Thru June 24 Biddle’s Escape, Regent Square. 412-999-9009. LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. XOXO: AN EXHIBIT ABOUT LOVE & FORGIVENESS. Explore love & forgiveness through interactive experiences. Thru Aug. 31 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

FRI 23 - SUN 25 THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Six adolescents compete for the coveted Spelling Bee Championship. Presented by Playhouse Jr. Fri, 7 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru June 8 Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000.

SAT 24 DISCOVERY GARDEN DAY. Games, hands-on crafts, storytelling, more. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical

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Start the summer off in a literary fashion by lending a hand at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s 14th annual Summer Reading Extravaganza on June 8. The family event features theatrical performances, educational activities and a book sale, among other things. Volunteers are needed to set up, direct guests, distribute refreshments and more. Email schwalla@carnegielibrary.org for information.

PITTSBURGH CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP. Tue, 6 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield. 412-224-2847.

WED 28 CONVERSATION SALON. Second Fri of every month, 2 p.m. and Fourth Wed of every month, 1 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100. PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Discussing The Drowned River 7:30 p.m.

Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. HAND BUILD W/ CLAY. Sat, 12-2 p.m. Thru May 31 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. MARTY’S MARKET KIDS’ CORNER. Ages 5-11. Sat, 3-5 p.m. Marty’s Market, Strip District. 412-586-7177. MEET THE BEES! Master Beekeeper Joseph Zgurzynski will introduce thousands of his bees (safely behind glass), explain why bees make honey, how they help put food on your table,

more. 12-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

SAT 24 - SUN 25 HUSH: AN INTERVIEW W/ AMERICA. A reporter thinks she’s found a great story about a young girl w/ mystical visions from Hush, Kansas, but the attention has uncomfortable consequences. Presented by Playhouse Jr. Sat, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 25 Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. The story of four animal friends exploring the English countryside. Presented by Playhouse Jr. Sat, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 25 Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000.

TUE 27 HOMEWORK HELP. For grades 1-8. Tue, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Assemble, Garfield.

PHOTOGRAPHING HISTORY. w/ Pittsburgh Tribune Review photojournalist, Justin Merriman. 7 p.m. Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg. 724-532-1935 x 210. 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.

THU 22 - SUN 25 HORROR REALM FILM FESTIVAL. http://www. horrorrealmcon.com/ May 22-25 Hollywood Theater, Dormont. 412-215-6317.

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FRI 23 WISE WALK. 1-mile walk around Oakland. Fri, 10:30 a.m. Thru June 6 Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

SAT 24 LAUREL HIGHLANDS HIKING TRAIL. 7 Saturday hike of the 70-mile trail. www.venture outdoors.org Sat. Thru June 14

TUE 27 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.

WED 28 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 22 CHINESE CONVERSATION CLUB. Second and Fourth Thu of every month, 6-7 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE & CHINESE CULTURE. Thu, 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. 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, 6-7:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. LUNCH & LEARN: JOB COUTURE & HOW TO DRESS TO GET THE JOB YOU WANT. 12:15 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141.

FRI 23 - SUN 25 HAUNTED PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR. Fri, Sat, 7 p.m. Thru Oct. 25 City-County Building, Downtown. 412-302-5223.

SAT 24 BEGINNING TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9-10 a.m. Thru June 28 Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-362-9880. CELEBRATION OF THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES AUTOGRAPH & MEMORABILIA SHOW. Feat. signings by Andrew McCutchen, Gerrit Cole, Pedro Alvarez, Bill Mazeroski, more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. 610-524-0822. FASHIONED BY HIS GLORY. A musical fashion show fundraiser to benefit students wanting to attend Virtuous Academy. 7 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000. FRUGAL GARDENING: REDUCE, REUSE & RECYCLE. 2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141. HAUNTED PITTSBURGH MT. WASHINGTON WALKING TOUR. Begins outside of Monongahela Incline on W. Carson St. Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 25 412-302-5223.

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SUN 25 2014 PITTSBURGH AUTOGRAPH SHOW. Presented by the Universal Autograph Collector’s Club. 9 a.m. Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Oakland. 626-304-2492. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727. CHINESE FOR BEGINNERS. Second and Fourth Sun of every month, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. HOMEWOOD CEMETERY MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY & CEMETERY TOURS. 10 a.m.3 p.m. Homewood Cemetery, Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1822.

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GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Pittsburgh Artists Against Fracking. Group exhibit feat. Rick Bach, Gabe Felice, Carolina Loyola-Garcia, Laura Jean McLaughlin, James Simon, more. Benefits Protect Our Parks. By appointment through June 1. Garfield. 412-361-2262. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. GREENSBURG GARDEN AND CIVIC CENTER. Ligonier Oak Grove Art Club Exhibit. Greensburg. 724-836-3074. IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Robert Pollard:Junk Collector & Scrabble King. Collages by Robert Pollard. Garfield. 412-924-0634. JAMES GALLERY. Response. Work by 11 contemporary artists, each w/ a physically unique interpretation of “the constructed” by nature or human. West End. 412-922-9800. LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922. LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. 724-316-9326. MATTRESS FACTORY. DETROIT: Artists in Residence. Work by Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orlando, Frank Pahl. Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory. Site-specific installation focusing on the body w/ relation to place & space. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MENDELSON GALLERY. 40 Year Love Affair with the Arts. Work by Not Vital, Harry Schwalb, Thaddeus Mosley, Jane Katselas, Rob Rogers, Elaine Morris, Jack Weiss, more. Shadyside. 412-361-8664. MERRICK ART GALLERY. Legacies: The Merrick Masters

MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670. SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

Art Exhibition. Juried by Carol R. Brode. New Brighton. 724-846-1130. MINE FACTORY. Origins & Gravity. Work by Ryan Lammie. Homewood. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Death Masked. Paintings by Stephen Tuomala. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots! Work by Ceres Rangos, Rae Gold, Meryl Ruth, Ronit Dagan, more. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. MOST-WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Criminal Damage. A mixed-media project based on street art, & street art themes, showcasing authentic graffiti pieces & ‘inspired’ pieces, photography & instillations. Garfield. 412-328-4737. NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. The 2014 Regional Show. Juried exhibit feat. works by regional artists in various media, including watercolor, pastel, oil, acrylic, pottery, mixed media, more. Ross. 412-364-3622. PANZA GALLERY. Generations. Works by Anthony & Philip Kram. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. The Life & Times of Abraham Lincoln. Photographs following Lincoln’s rise to the United States presidency from 1847-1865. North Side. 412-231-7881. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Artist of the Year/ Emerging Artist of the Year. Work by Hyla Willis & Mia Tarducci Henry. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Breaking Through: Moving 4ward. Work by Lisa Demagall, Laura Beth Konopinski, Anna Mlasowsky, Nadine Saylor. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Here & Now: Queer Geographies in Contemporary Photography. Group show feat. work of artists embarking on physical & emotional journeys to define & discover queerness across the

TUE 27 BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. Fourth and Second Tue of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry. 412-366-1300. QUILT IN A DAY. w/ Patricia Knoechel & Eleanor Burns. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Harmony Museum, Harmony. 724-452-7341.

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American landscape. South Side. 412-431-1810. SOCIAL STATUS. impe’kyoonees. Contemporary work by NY-based photographer Applecubed. Downtown. 412-456-2355. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Penny Mateer: Protest Series. Quilts & fiber pieces inspired by protest songs from the 1960s & current political debates. Downtown. 412-261-7003. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Transformation 9: Contemporary Works in Ceramics. Feat. work by 31 artists. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. Psychic Panic. Feat. 25+ artworks by 9 artists working in a range of media. Downtown. 412-456-6666. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Wild Things. Exhibit feat. 2D, 3D & kinetic artworks. Juried by Cynthia Shaffer. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. THE TOONSEUM. Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books. Collection of original illustration art from the Little Golden Books series. Downtown. 412-232-0199. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ART GALLERY. Encounters: Art in the City. The culminating event showcasing artwork by Pittsburgh SciTech students from an experiential learning course offered by the History of Art & Architecture department. Oakland. 412-648-2394. UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Terrestrial. Work by Alex Blau, Paul Collins, Rocky Horton, Ron Lambert, Jonathan Rattner, Thomas Sturgill, & Willard Tucker. Braddock. WESTMORELAND @RT 30. Pop-Up Exhibition: Mark Panza & Rachel Yoke. Latrobe. 724-837-1500. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Electrified. Interactive installations by Edwin van der Heide & Alexandre Burton. Downtown. 412-471-5605.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During the next 12 months you will have exceptional opportunities to soak up knowledge, add to your skill set and get the training you need to pursue interesting kinds of success in the coming six to eight years. What’s the best way to prepare? Develop an exciting new plan for your future education. To get in the mood, try the following: Make a list of your most promising but still unripe potentials; meditate on the subjects that evoke your greatest curiosity; brainstorm about what kinds of experiences would give you more control over your destiny; and study three people you know who have improved their lives by taking aggressive steps to enhance their proficiency.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The moon shows us a different phase every 24 hours, which makes it seem changeable. But in fact, not much actually happens on the moon. It has no atmosphere, no weather, no wind, no plant life, no seasons. There is some water, but it’s all frozen. Is there anything like this in your own life, Cancerian? Something that on the surface of things seems to be in constant motion, but whose underlying state never actually shifts or develops? According to my analysis, now would be an excellent time for you to revise the way you understand this part of your world, and then update your relationship with it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you thought of organizing a crowdfunding campaign to boost your pet project or labor of love? I suggest you get serious about it in the next four weeks. This coming phase of your cycle will be a favorable time to expand your audience, attract new allies and build a buzz. You will have a sixth sense about how to wield your personal

charm to serve your long-term goals. More than usual, your selfish interests will dovetail with the greater good — perhaps in unexpected ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago I had a Virgo friend who was a talented singer. She had technical skill, stylistic flair and animal magnetism, making her worthy of being a lead vocalist in almost any great band. And yet when she was asleep and had dreams of performing, she often found herself standing in the shadows, barely visible and singing tentatively, while her back-up singers hogged the spotlight at center stage. Moral of the story: Some of you Virgos are shy about claiming your full authority. It doesn’t always come easy for you to shine your light and radiate your power. And yet you can most definitely learn to do so. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in this direction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is always an enormous temptation in all of life,” writes Annie Dillard, “to diddle around

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making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end … I won’t have it. The world is wider than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Libra, is to transcend whatever is itsy-bitsy about your life. The alternative? Head toward the frontier and drum up experiences that will thrill your heart and blow your mind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours,” writes novelist Heidi R. Kling. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind these days, Scorpio. Those little imps and rascals that live within you may get you into bad trouble if they feel bored. But if you arrange for them to have play dates with the imps and rascals of people you trust, they are far more likely to get you into good trouble. They may even provide you with bits of gritty inspiration. What’s that you say? You don’t have any demons? Not true. Everyone has them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When people tell you who they are, believe them,” writes blogger Maria Popova (Brain pickings.org). “Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.” Those suggestions are especially crucial for you to keep in mind these days. You are entering a phase when your best relationships will be up for review and revision and revitalization. To foster an environment in which intimacy will thrive, you’ve got to be extra receptive, curious, tolerant and tender. That’s all! Not hard, right? A good place to start is to proceed as if your allies know who they are better than you do — even as you ask them to return the favor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Kludge” (pronounced klooj) is a slang word that refers to a clumsy but effective fix for an engineering problem. It’s a cobbled-together solution that works fine, at least temporarily, even though it is inelegant or seems farfetched. Let’s use this concept in a metaphorical way to apply to you. I’m guessing that you will be a kludge master in the coming days. You will be skilled at making the best of mediocre situations. You may have surprising success at doing things that don’t come naturally, and I bet you will find unexpected ways to correct glitches that no one else has any idea about how to fix.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hesitate to compare you to your fellow Aquarian Kim Jong-il. When he was alive and ruling North Korea, he was an egomaniacal tyrant. You’re definitely not that. But there are

certain descriptions of him in his official biography that remind me of the kinds of powers you may soon exhibit. He was called The Great Sun of Life and Highest Incarnation of Revolutionary Comradely Love, for instance. Titles like that might suit you. It is said that he invented the hamburger. He could command rain to fall from the sky. He once shot eleven holes-inone in a single round of golf, was a master of gliding down waterslides and never had to use a toilet because he produced no waste. You may be able to express comparable feats in the coming weeks. (Do it without falling prey to excessive pride, OK?)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Even if you had a sensitive, nurturing mommy when you were growing up, and even if she continues to play an important role in your life, now would be a good time to learn how to mother yourself better. You are finally ready to appreciate how important it is to be your own primary caregiver. And I’m hoping you are no longer resistant to or embarrassed about the idea that part of you is still like a child who needs unconditional love 24/7. So get started! Treat yourself with the expert tenderness that a crafty maternal goddess would provide.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I believe your persuasive powers will be stronger than usual in the weeks ahead. The words coming out of your mouth will sound especially interesting. I also suspect that your intelligence will get at least a temporary upgrade. The clarity of your thoughts will intensify. You will see truths you have been blind to in the past. Innovative solutions to long-running dilemmas are likely to occur to you. The only potential snag is that you might neglect to nurture your emotional riches. You could become a bit too dry and hard. But now that I’ve warned you of that possibility, let’s hope you will take steps to ensure it won’t happen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If there was a Hall of Fame for scientists, physicist Isaac Newton (1642-1727) would have been the charter member. He was like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were to rock ’n’ roll, like Babe Ruth was to baseball. The theory of gravity and the three laws of motion were his gifts to the world. He made major contributions to mathematics and optics, and was a central figure in defining modern science. There is also a legend that he invented the cat door, inspired by his pet felines. Whether or not that’s true, it serves as an excellent metaphor for this horoscope. It’s an excellent time for you to apply your finest talents and highest intelligence to dream up small, mundane, but practical innovations. Name a beautiful thing you were never capable of doing until this past year. http://RealAstrology

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THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH

(2) locations: Mckees Rocks & South Side. 412-403-6069

Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Room 251, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213, on June 3, 2014, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for: • Clayton Academy 1901 Clayton Avenue, Pgh, PA 15214 Installation of Security System Electrical Prime Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on May 19, 2014 at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700) 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is nonrefundable. Project details and dates are described in each project manual.

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We are an equal rights and opportunity school district. Parent Hotline: 412-622-7920 www.pps.k12.pa.us TA S T E

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The life and times of legendary local jazz sideman Lou Schreiber {BY ABBY MENDELSON} IT’S A FETID Tuesday night at the North Side Elks, and the air inside is redolent with fried shrimp. People are ﬁlling the long tables in the Allegheny Room: moms ’n’ pops, grammers ’n’ grampers, kids giggling and running about. Up on stage, the members of the Pittsburgh Banjo Club unsheathe their instruments: banjoes, sure, but also brass — trumpet, tuba, trombone — in the service of simple, centuryold tunes. Sitting by himself, a short man with a shaved head ﬁngers a metal clarinet. Wearing a green zippered jacket, plaid shirt and blue pants, he runs scales between sips of a Penn Pilsner, seemingly almost oblivious to his surroundings. But as the band launches into “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby,” the leader comes over and whispers to the clarinetist, who, at the appropriate time, stands and rips off a solo. He ranges from lows to highs as easily as mountain goat ascending a sheer cliff. Perfectly ducking in and out of the melody, he takes the ending high, his timing and phrasing exquisite.

was like a drug. I couldn’t put it down.” He hit all the Hill District hot spots, sitting in at the legendary Hurricane and Crawford with George Benson, Jimmy McGriff and Richard “Groove” Holmes. But when Kloss split for New York to cut blistering jazz sides, Schreiber elected to stay home. “Pittsburgh was enough for me,” he recalls. “I knew the place.” And the place certainly knew him. A sideman rather than a leader, Schreiber became a Zelig-like musical chameleon. He ﬁt in everywhere, and nowhere better than in the lobby of the William Penn hotel, where for 18 years he laid down some of the most exquisite sounds in local memory. No surprise that when vocal superstar Jimmy Sapienza fronted Five Guys Named Moe — one of the hardest-driving bands on the planet — Schreiber was one of the Moes. Or that two weeks after his Banjo Club appearance, Schreiber found himself a mile away, playing at the North Side’s Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

“THE SAX WAS LIKE A DRUG. I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN.” The audience applauds. The soloist nods slightly, barely smiling, and sits. “We’re fortunate tonight to have the great Lou Schreiber with us,” the leader tells the audience. “Pittsburgh’s premier jazz musician.” “There are very famous people — you only have to say their ﬁrst name and everyone knows who they are,” offers Henry Shapiro, a guitarist and frequent Schreiber bandmate. “Miles, for instance, or Madonna. In Pittsburgh jazz circles, Lou is one of those. “He has a harmonic depth that most players don’t,” Shapiro adds. “Perfect intonation. Perfect timing. When I play with Lou, I have to bring my ‘A’ game.” Schreiber has been bringing his own ‘A’ game since childhood. Blind from birth and a pianist since second grade, Schreiber was a musical prodigy at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children: By the time he was 10, he was playing in a band with classmate Eric Kloss, the sax colossus. As a teen, he demonstrated an encyclopedic memory for melodies, an incredible gift for harmony, rhythm, time. After switching to reeds, Schreiber played six hours a day, gigged around the city four nights a week, all jazz all the time. “It had ﬁre when I started playing it,” he recalls. “And the sax

The church’s jazz series, which has been running since the early ’80s, draws jazz luminaries and a decidedly ecumenical crowd. Tonight the audience is small, but includes a mix of ages and races. “Living the question: What’s the next thing that I should be doing?” Father Donald Youse says, by way of introducing the spiritual side of two jazz classics. The band begins to play “Walkin’,” a tune that ﬁrst appeared on a mid-’50s Miles Davis release. The melody — which prowls about, both physically and spiritually — is a good bouncy line to lead into evening. Schreiber’s tenor recalls Sonny Rollins, a strong, self-assured player in his prime. Schreiber is not a blower, not a John Coltrane. He’s softer, more pensive. This is church, after all; we’re on a spiritual quest, not at a prize ﬁght. The musicians segue into Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” the familiar, legato chords of the jazz classic just right for a trek into the spiritual self. Schreiber gently moves in, a man hesitantly sliding into uncharted waters. As a storm picks up, he plays with more intensity; there is much to be cleansed, much to be accomplished. The tenor reasserts the theme, the depth of the soul’s quest. People nod, heads bobbing in time with the music. “I can feel an audience when I play,” Schreiber says. “I can feel when they’re happy. I like that.” INF O @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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