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T’S EASY TO imagine that the battleground for the region’s top financial watchdogs would be fraught with arguments about finances.

But to many political observers, the races that will determine who occupies the city and county controller’s offices might have little to do with pension obligations or auditing procedures — and will instead test whether Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald will be able to expand their political influence.

“It’s inter-party politics,” says William J. Green, a Republican political analyst.

“To make it to be anything other than that would be in error.”

Nowhere is that clearer than in the race between incumbent Allegheny County

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Controller Chelsa Wagner and challenger Mark Patrick Flaherty. That contest, argues Green, is fundamentally about whether Fitzgerald will be able to wrest authority from a controller who has often created political problems for him (including recently

The selection of city and county watchdogs is all about control {BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN AND CHARLIE DEITCH} pressuring him into cutting the county a roughly $42,000 check after Wagner argued that Fitzgerald used a county Jeep for personal and political use).

“I’ve known [Flaherty] for a long time and like him a lot,” says Green, noting he did an “adequate” job as county controller, an office he previously held for eight years.

But “who’s supporting him? The chief executive. What’s at stake is the independence of the office.”

On the other hand, the city controller race, in which Pittsburgh City Councilor Natalia Rudiak is trying to unseat two-term incumbent Michael Lamb, is not quite as stark. Though there is a similar dynamic at work — a challenge to an incumbent controller who is politically at odds with the executive branch — some argue Rudiak’s campaign doesn’t seem to have fully articulated its message. For instance, Peduto called for an internal investigation into a delayedpayroll program, leveling a criticism of “lack CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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of oversight” at Lamb. Still, Rudiak isn’t mounting a campaign with the same level of vigor as Flaherty.

“I think [Rudiak] has support,” says Don Friedman, a Democratic political analyst. But “I don’t think she has a particularly great case to make to fire [Lamb] — which is what she’s asking people to do.” (Full disclosure: Friedman is working for the Wagner campaign, but is neutral in the city-controller race.)

While each of these controller races has its nuances (explored more fully below), both pose a fundamental question about whether executive branch-backed challengers could make for less effective watchdogs. If political and financial resources are flowing from top politicians in city and county government to candidates who might ultimately audit city and county government, does that create an inherent conflict of interest?

“We have these functions in the counties and cities to watch everybody’s tax dollars,” says Green. “If people wanted the controller to be part of an administration, we wouldn’t have elected ones. … As much as that sounds like civics 101, that’s exactly what it is.”

For Green, the independence of the controller’s office isn’t merely theoretical. He points out that Wagner has taken various county authorities to court in an attempt to audit them — a move that has been challenged by the county.

“If [Fitzgerald] gets his own controller, then Flaherty … would be more inclined to listen to him to not audit the airport authority or Port Authority,” Green says. “If you’re welded at the hip, it’s pretty hard to unweld it when you’re elected.”

To be fair, while Flaherty and Rudiak have Fitzgerald and Peduto’s support, it is not yet clear the extent to which Fitzgerald, Peduto or associated political action groups have supported any candidate financially.

Candidates are not required to disclose their financial backers until May 8, after this story went to press — and Fitzgerald did not respond to a request for comment.

But not everyone thinks independence necessarily grows out of political tension.

“Under both Mayor Caliguiri and Mayor Masloff, we always had an adversarial relationship with the controller,” says Joseph Sabino Mistick, who worked in both of those administrations. “Some of our folks got plenty frustrated with the criticism that the administrations would receive from the controller’s office.”

The controller’s office, Mistick adds, is “very important to the smooth operation of

root out ineffective programs. She often cites the Bureau of Police, which was embroiled in scandal after top officials diverted money into an unauthorized account for personal use.

“If the police bureau had been properly audited, we could have caught these issues much earlier on,” Rudiak says. “It shouldn’t have to take a grand-jury investigation to catch issues of corruption.”

Lamb called that criticism “absurd” and “despicable,” noting that city council didn’t create a trust fund for the city’s share of secondary employment revenue, so “there was nothing for us to audit.”

Rudiak also points to the JD Edwards system — but blasted Lamb for allowing cost overruns on the payroll component of the system to balloon to over $ 1 million.

“He was the last person to sign the checks Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb and challenger Natalia Rudiak on all those bills,” Rudiak says, noting that the payroll system has not yet been implemented. now,” says Lamb, who is seeking a third government. [But] that doesn’t mean you Lamb says the cost of the payroll system term as the city’s top financial watchdog. “I have to be political adversaries.”

At least one influential group, however, think my job in this campaign has been to has grown because the city demanded the seems to value the political independence remind people about the good work we do company change its software to work with existing accounting practices and that it of candidates in the controller races. The every day in the city controller’s office.”

Lamb touts the ways he’s modernized wasn’t his project to shepherd.

14th Ward Independent Democratic Club, an If elected, Rudiak says, she would digiimportant progressive East End group, en- the office: He put monthly expenditure and dorsed Wagner and Lamb over Flaherty and revenue reports online; created searchable tize the controller’s office, which still relies Rudiak — partly due to their independence databases for city contracts and campaign heavily on paper invoicing; create a scorefinance data; and worked with the county card for city spending on women- and from the mayor and county executive.

Wagner’s “independence from the to implement the JD Edwards financial- minority-owned businesses; and institute a new claims-management system that county executive certainly played a role in management system, which Lamb would let the city address the her getting the endorsement,” says Kathie says saved the city about $10 mil“spiraling cost of legal claims Smith, the club’s president. “People are gen- lion in that initial upgrade. against the city.”

E He also helped spearhead R erally not happy with [Fitzgerald] putting MO N Supporters of Rudiak’s O I candidates up … seeming the creation of The Congress T C LE E E agenda include: AFSCME G of Neighboring CommuA like revenge candidates.”

COVERINE Retirees, the Laborers DisIn the city race, Smith nities, an effort to get 37 ONLhcity trict Council of Western acknowledges that people communities surrounding g p at m Pennsylvania, paramedics “see Rudiak as a leader of Pittsburgh to collaborate on paper.co and Teamsters/Graphic Comthe progressive wing of the everything from transit to munications Workers Local 24. party.” However, Smith says, sewer issues.

She’s also supported by the Sierra “If you look at my career, it’s “in addition to progressive values we also have good- been a career of reform and implementing Club Allegheny Group, Steel City Stonegovernment values. And we think Michael change … bringing technological innova- wall Democrats and African Americans tion to the fore — whether it’s my prior life for Good Government, among others. And, Lamb represents good government.”

But Green also cautions against reading at the county or now in the city,” Lamb says. of course, Peduto and Fitzgerald.

But like the county race, Lamb and RuMany of the city’s top endorsers appear too much into the politics of the moment.

“When you have a one-party county or city to agree. Lamb has the support of the Al- diak have differing views about what it as we do, you get four or five families of in- legheny County Labor Council, teacher and means to be an “independent” controller, fluence in this city and people get aligned police unions, the LGBT-friendly Gertrude the only citywide elected office other than with those groups.” And of the disputes Stein Club, Pittsburgh Building Trades, 14th the mayor.

“My record has been one of indepenbetween them, he says, “some of them go Ward Independent Democratic Club and dence,” says Lamb, “and … she’s pretty the county Democratic Party. back years.”

His challenger, City Councilor Natalia much a rubber stamp for the Peduto Rudiak, doesn’t have such a rosy view of administration.”

Rudiak counters that the relationship Lamb’s record and is trying to frame the election as a choice between a “vision for between the controller and mayor should MICHAEL LAMB is comfortable with the the next chapter of Pittsburgh’s history” mimic a company’s chief financial officer and its executive. “The CFO of any organizapolitical cliché that all elections are a and “legacy politics and machine politics.”

Rudiak, who serves as chair of coun- tion should be realistic and collaborative,” referendum on the incumbent.

“We’re doing more audits, we’ve got cil’s Finance and Law Committee, says she says.

Asked whether she worries about the more advanced degrees and CPAs on staff Lamb has failed to catch corruption and

“IT’S BEING A WATCHDOG VERSUS BEING A LAP DOG.”

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Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner and challenger Mark Patrick Flaherty

criticism that she’s running to get rid of one of Peduto’s political adversaries, she says, “I can scream until I’m blue in the face, but a lot of people have their minds made up about the lens through which they’ll view this election. … I have been fiercely proud of the independence of my donor base.”

Though neither candidate would provide a list of campaign contributions in advance of the filing deadline, Lamb wonders what that might reveal.

“You don’t want to seem overly beholden to the executive,” he says. “It’s going to be interesting to see where the money is coming from.”

ALLEGHENY COUNTY CONTROLLER are two Democrats runOFFICIALLY, THERE

ning for Allegheny County Controller on May 19 — incumbent Chelsa Wagner and challenger (and former county controller) Mark Patrick Flaherty. But it’s hard, actually impossible, to talk about the race without a third name entering into the conversation: Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.

Wagner and Fitzgerald have been political foes almost from the start of her term as controller, more than three years ago. They have fought over his use of a county vehicle and her rights to conduct audits. He gave the car back last year and wrote a check for the mileage. She has sued the county and several departments and authorities including the Allegheny County Police, the Sports and Exhibition Authority, ALCOSAN, the airport authority and the Port Authority.

Now Wagner faces a challenge from Flaherty, who himself engaged in a nasty campaign against Fitzgerald when the

pair ran for county executive in 2011.

Flaherty is supported by the county executive and by a PAC started by Fitzgerald called “Better Jobs Better Future,” run by Mike Mikus, Flaherty’s current campaign spokesperson and the architect of Fitzgerald’s 2011 county executive campaign.

Flaherty says the biggest issue is about turning the office back into a professional operation — after, he says, Wagner turned it into a political one.

“Do you want a controller who has sent the office in a political direction or do you want a professionally run controller’s office?” Flaherty asks. “That’s the way I ran the office. I think we did a great job. That office had built up a lot of credibility and showed that they can do the work, protect the public, be a watchdog and hold the government accountable. That reputation was built up through 30 years of good work. To tear it down in just three years because someone has a political agenda is just wrong.

“But, I think it’s good for the voters because they have a clear choice. Do you want to continue on this political bent that she’s brought to the office or do you want to go in a professional direction?”

Flaherty says Wagner’s “unprofessional” operation of the controller’s office — from holding press conferences to release audit findings to suing county authorities for the right to audit — is the main issue in the race.

Wagner has a different take. She says she’s modernized the office through a move toward more paperless transactions.

She says the office is also certified to conduct three different types of audit, which has eliminated the need to hire outside vendors for that work, thus resulting in

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lower costs. The controller’s office, she says, is “the only department you’ll find in county government that is spending less than it did four years ago.”

“There are two people questioning how this office has been run,” Wagner says. “One is Rich Fitzgerald, who earlier submitted a check for $43,000 [for use of a county vehicle questioned by Wagner’s audit] and Mark Flaherty, who is running at Rich’s direction.

“To me this race is about the role of the controller. The controller is an independent watchdog, and if you don’t have checks and balances in the county controllers, there are major risks for this government.”

Wagner says her fear of having a potentially non-independent controller is bolstered by how county government has operated under Fitzgerald. Since Fitzgerald took office in 2012, Wagner says, 272 pieces of legislation have passed county council and “only 10 of them were authored or prime-sponsored by members of council.

The rest came from Rich Fitzgerald.” Add to that, she says, the fact that county authorities have attempted to block her from auditing them, and have forced her into court, shows that a truly independent watchdog is vital.

“The idea that the controller’s biggest supporter would be the county executive would to me render the controller’s position meaningless,” she says. “It’s being a watchdog versus being a lap dog.”

But Flaherty says you can have disagreements between the controller and executive in government without being “unprofessional and disruptive.”

“When I ran for controller in 2003, Dan Onorato supported my candidacy, and I held county government accountable for eight years because it was my job,” Flaherty says. “And don’t forget, I was Rich Fitzgerald’s opponent four years ago and we disagreed on a lot of things. Quite frankly, we still do.

“But as controller, you have to know how to hold government accountable and then also work together to fix the problems.

The standards are in place from the General Accounting Office to make sure you do your job. Unfortunately, [Wagner] doesn’t know the job well enough to do that.”

Voters will have a chance to see Flaherty and Wagner square off in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters at 7 p.m. Tue., May 12, at O’Hara Elementary, 115 Cabin Lane in Fox Chapel.

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They might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but Randy Zotter and Bobby Wilson, who are both trying to unseat three-term City Councilor Darlene Harris, agree that the district needs fresh leadership. To some political observers, the race for District 1 (which covers most of the North Side) will turn on whether residents want a vocal opponent to Mayor Bill Peduto’s agenda. {COMPILED BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN}

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Harris is looking to win her fourth term on council and has previously served as that body’s president, as well as president of the Pittsburgh Public Schools Board. Is a staunch critic of the Peduto administration and has frequently clashed with the mayor’s supporters on council.

A University of Pittsburgh researcher, Wilson credits his interest in local communities to his longtime involvement in the Sarah Heinz House and Boys and Girls Club. Ran for council in 2011 and was defeated handily by Harris in the primary.

A retired carpenter, Zotter has been involved in a number of North Side community organizations and has worked on issues ranging from nuisance bars to senior housing. Proudly — and often — proclaims he “has no desire to be a career politician.”

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Says there need to be more public-safety officials on the streets.

Has criticized Peduto for lobbying to keep Pittsburgh’s financially distressed status as a negotiating tactic with the police union — which she says could limit pay increases and keep morale low.

Says one of the biggest impediments to public safety is lack of personnel.

Wants to hire more police and building inspectors, and supports the mayor’s budget. Says Harris’ lone “no” vote on the budget “could have put the North Side and city at risk.”

Generally supportive of newish police Chief Cameron McLay. Says one of city’s biggest public-safety problems is keeping the bureau competitive with nearby police departments. Wants housing incentives to keep officers in the city and supports a transparent disciplinary process.

Touts her record securing funds for business districts — including better lighting and signage — and notes her support of the North Side as a “preservation community.” “I don’t think anyone wants to tear down the community, which is what they’ve done in East Liberty.”

Says he would lobby for more URA and CDBG funds, and work closely with community groups to ensure a robust planning process. “That way when money does become available, we’d already have shovelready projects.”

Says the key to robust community development is making sure all residents are included in decisions about the neighborhood. Wants to create a program that offers tax abatements to people who take on troubled properties, and supports Peduto’s “complete streets” initiative.

Says “my opinion is coming from the community.” Stands by her vote against the budget and questions the wisdom of Peduto’s decision to drop legal action against the city’s nonprofits. “I think Peduto wants yes-people … you can’t buy my vote.”

With the endorsement of both Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, it’s no surprise Wilson is critical of Harris’ posture toward the mayor: “It’s going to take someone to reach across the table and repair relationships that have been destroyed.”

Argues Harris’ opposition to the mayor has hurt the neighborhood.

“Look at what’s happening in East Liberty, Lawrenceville and South Side — and then look at the Garden Theater. We need to work with Grant Street, not fight against it.”

Harris has secured endorsements from major labor groups, including the Allegheny County Labor Council, firefighter and police unions, and Teamsters. She’s also supported by the Allegheny County Democratic Committee. As with all candidates, financial disclosures are not required until May 8.

In addition to being endorsed by the city and county’s chief executives, also has union support from the Laborers’ District Council of Western Pennsylvania and Fraternal Association of Professional Paramedics.

He’s also endorsed by Steel City Stonewall Democrats and the Sierra Club Allegheny Group.

Though he says he has not received any endorsements, Zotter notes he has served in a number of community organizations such as the Central North Side Council and the Mexican War Streets Society.

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Incumbent Corey O’Connor, the well-known son of late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor, faces first-time challenger Kimberly Kaplan in the race for District 5, which encompasses Glen Hazel, Greenfield, Hays, Hazelwood, Lincoln Place, Squirrel Hill, Swisshelm Park and part of Regent Square.

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O’Connor secured the District 5 office in 2012, when Doug Shields left office. He’s a resident of Swisshelm Park and now serves on the ALCOSAN board.

BUDGET

Wants to expand the budget “without hurting the average person,” by tying the increases to property taxes to the cost-ofliving index and by taxing nonprofits that own property valued at $50 million or more.

O’Connor says city council has cracked down on wasteful spending by getting rid of free spending and access credit cards for city departments, as well as “trying to do as many projects in-house” as possible.

Wants to have more communication with residents about the site. Says affordable housing must be a key part of the project and that businesses on the brownfield site should hire from the community.

Anticipates jobs coming to Hazelwood once the site is complete. Says the “whole key is to blend it with Hazelwood” and that his efforts over the last four years, including a school opening and library renovation, have set the stage.

WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

Says most people want to focus on sewer overflow in Squirrel Hill, but says bigger problems lie in Hays, where residents’ living conditions and property values are affected by flooding. Would fight for federal money to solve the issue.

Says he’s been involved with EPA consent decree as member of the ALCOSAN board. Says his office helped secure funding and collaborated with federal, state and local governments for green infrastructure in Schenley Park and porous sidewalks in lower Greenfield.

The campaign budget on her website lists $2,015 in private donations, but did not list individual donors. Says people “shouldn’t have to pay for good representation.” She has received no formal endorsements.

O’Connor received the endorsement of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, the Sierra Club Allegheny Group and Clean Water Action.

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Founder and executive director of New Voices Pittsburgh, a group dedicated to the health of black women and girls. Has received several honors from groups including Planned Parenthood and the Greater Pittsburgh YWCA and was also named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2005 “40 Under 40” list.

As a former block-watch captain, Gross is a proponent of similar crime-prevention strategies. Says communication between community organizations and police is key to monitoring criminal activity. Will advocate for using data from complaint forums like the city’s 311 line as early detection for crime trends.

Mayes is a proponent of community policing, where citizens are familiar with the officers in their neighborhoods. She’s particularly concerned with the violence people of color and LGBTQ individuals have experienced at the hands of police, and she has been vocal at police-brutality rallies and protests throughout the city.

Has spent much of her tenure aiding the growth of small businesses in her district. Says she’ll make sure the “community has a say in development.”

This includes maintaining housing affordability. Credited with sponsoring land-bank legislation designed to redevelop blighted property.

As development in District 9 continues, Mayes says it should not create challenges for the people living in the district. She cites years of experience as a community organizer in the areas of affordable and sustainable development and would bring this expertise to council.

In neighborhoods experiencing population changes and increased development, Gross says transit improvements are necessary to aid her district’s transformation. This includes changes to transportation and traffic infrastructure such as crosswalks and stoplights.

Since Mayes says her district has lower rates of car ownership, she says neighborhoods must have multi-modal transportation that includes public transit, biking and walking. She says city leaders should work with the county to ensure people who most need access to buses have it.

Endorsements include Allegheny County Labor Council, SEIU, Fraternal Order of Police, Stonewall Democrats, Sierra Club Allegheny Group, Allegheny County Democratic Committee, Young Democrats of Allegheny County, Equality PA, Planned Parenthood PA and Clean Water Action.

Has been endorsed by the Gertrude Stein Political Club, who said Mayes “embodies what our club is all about.”

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Gross was elected to city council in a 2013 special election. She has been involved with the Lawrenceville Corporation, the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance, and the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania. She also started a business that helps nonprofits connect with the business community.

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Incumbent City Councilor Ricky Burgess faces three challengers: former City Councilor Twanda Carlisle, businessman Andre Young and long-time community organizer Judith Ginyard. The candidates agree on the problems facing the impoverished district, which includes Homewood, Garfield, Larimer, Point Breeze, Friendship and parts of East Liberty, but differ in their blueprints for making improvements.

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TWANDA CARLISLE

The two-term incumbent wears many hats. Along with his council duties, he has served as pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church for the past 30 years and teaches communications at Community College of Allegheny County.

Served on city council for five years before resigning while under indictment for charges of theft and criminal conspiracy. Was convicted of diverting $42,000 in public money for personal use and sentenced to state prison. Since being released, she has worked as a receptionist for the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP.

For eight years, Ginyard served as the executive director of the Lincoln-Larimer Community Development Corporation. She is currently the workforce-development and training coordinator at the Homewood-based Community Empowerment Association. Ginyard also owned her own real-estate firm and is a veteran of the United States Army.

As an entrepreneur, Andre Young has owned a variety of businesses including stationery, seasonal, gift and coffee stores. He is also currently a partner in businesses at the Pittsburgh International Airport. He is on the board of Pittsburgh Major Taylor Cycling Club and helped develop a program to provide bikes to Pittsburgh youth.

Claims to have proposed more legislation related to public safety than any of his predecessors. Responsible for: creating the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime; implementing the Shotspotter gunshot-detection system; and 40 surveillance cameras. He also sponsored legislation to require annual reports from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police.

Is an advocate of more diversity on the police force and would look at testing barriers that prohibit African Americans from getting onto the force. Would also push for more police officers to walk through neighborhoods and get to know residents.

Says elected officials need to speak out against police brutality, and police officers must be fired if they engage in such conduct. In terms of reducing crime, she is critical of Councilor Burgess’ initiatives, saying they haven’t reduced homicides in the district and have unfairly targeted ex-offenders.

Says local incidents of police brutality, particularly the case of Leon Ford, who was shot and paralyzed by Pittsburgh police, were what inspired him to run for office. Young says education is key to reducing youth crime and would work to spur youth interest in public-safety careers.

Says he’s responsible for the largest development investment the district has seen in 50 years: a $30 million, 400-home development in Larimer.

During his tenure, he’s also fought to make sure CDBG funds are used for individual neighborhood needs, instead of city-wide distribution. District CDBG funds are distributed through the nonprofit POISE foundation.

During her time on council, Carlisle allocated funds for a Walgreens pharmacy in Point Breeze and development in Garfield. When it comes to future development, she says community input is integral to preserving the “community’s roots.” Would work to rehabilitate existing homes in the district instead of tearing down homes and giving land to developers.

With experience in residential development as a real-estate broker, and through involvement in the construction of new homes in the district, she would use construction companies within the community to spur new development.

Would also bring control of the district’s CDBG monies back to the council office and says residents should have more input in development.

As a proponent of home ownership, Young would dedicate resources to helping residents become self-sufficient.

“Homeownership is an integral part of building wealth,” Young says. He’s also a proponent of increasing services for senior citizens who want to remain in their homes.

Says the district has seen an increase in contracts for minority developers, leading to an increase in employment opportunities. Also worked to make the minority-contract process more transparent. Sponsored legislation to ban questions regarding a person’s criminal background from city job applications.

Says it is important to create “familysustaining” jobs in the district. Says she would continue to push for African Americans to be employed by developments in their communities as she did during her time on council.

Ginyard operates a construction-industry training program for young adults and would be an advocate for expanding similar programs. Says her work has connected youth with entry-level positions and she would use this expertise to increase employment throughout the district. Would also partner with local businesses and nonprofits to train youth in other fields.

As a business owner, Young says he has employed more than 200 individuals.

Would focus efforts on job-training and workforce development in the trade industries. He’s especially interested in helping locals take advantage of jobs associated with the Marcellus Shale industry. Is working to build transportation infrastructure to connect District 9 residents with those jobs through the Homewood-Brushton Business Association.

Endorsed by the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, the Allegheny County Labor Council and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers.

Has not received any endorsements.

Has not received any endorsements.

While Young’s only endorsement came from the Sierra Club, he has also drawn support from Vernard Alexander, a prominent figure in the African-American community.

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Some even showed police officers posted outside the centers accepting bribes. “What can the government do to stop cheating if parents and relatives are not ready to cooperate,” Bihar Education Minister P.K. Shahi said. “Should the government give orders to shoot them?” (BBC News)

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After an explosion singed the eyebrows, eyelashes and hair of Joseph T. Brennan Jr., and burned his face in Quincy, Mass., he jumped out of his car and told a bystander rushing to his aid, “I’m an idiot. I lit a cigarette with the gunpowder in the front seat.” Police who searched the car found 14 liquids and powders, some of which could be combined to create a destructive device. Brennan explained he had gotten the materials from a friend to tinker with, but insisted, “I wasn’t going to do anything malicious.”

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A drone delivering asparagus to a Dutch restaurant crashed on a country road and burst into flames. The delivery had been arranged as a publicity stunt by the De Zwann restaurant in Etten-Leur, North Brabant, to celebrate the beginning of asparagus season.

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“Demonic activity is increased by the practice of magic and visiting fortune tellers which can increase the likelihood of demonic possession.” Last year, the International Association of Exorcists referred to the trend as “a pastoral emergency.” (Caribbean360)

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TEA TIME {BY MARGARET WELSH} It’s not always easy being a tea drinker in a coffee world, but Arnold’s Tea Shop and Café — which opened in the North Side at the beginning of March — caters to those who prefer their beverages steeped.

The menu features hot and cold signature teas, including chai lattes (masala, rooibos vanilla, chocolate or matcha) and Pom Pom (rooibos with pomegranate). There’s also an impressive selection of loose-leaf teas, ranging from basic black to the exotic (chocolate marshmallow maté, coconutcream banana). For sustenance, Arnold’s offers a wide selection of sandwiches and pastries. And, yes, there’s even coffee — regular or decaf.

Owner Verna Arnold — who grew up in Hazelwood — always dreamed of owning some kind of food-service business. But tea didn’t enter the picture until she retired from her job as a principal in the Pittsburgh Public School system and took time to travel.

“Everywhere we went, we ended up in tea houses,” she says. “I thought, ‘Pittsburgh needs something like this.’

It was a chance to bring tea and food service together.”

Buisness has grown steadily since opening, and Arnold says the spot — which is spacious but cozy with its plentiful seating, chalkboard menu and wood flooring — has become a popular place for meetings. “It’s not just grab-and-go,” Arnold explains. “It’s become a place not just to find, in my opinion, the best tea in Pittsburgh, but a place where people can feel at home.”

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We looked at the menu online. Customblend burgers, check. Wings and fries, check. Pot stickers and edamame — intriguing! But it was the house-smoked meats that reeled us in.

No wonder the menu looked so good; we discovered that Barrel Junction is headed by chef/owner Ron DeLuca, formerly of Blue in the North Hills and the erstwhile Pangea in Shadyside, both excellent (though more upscale) establishments. Located in a corner of a mini-strip mall, tucked almost out of sight behind Mars National Bank, Barrel Junction was not easy to find, but the nearly full dining room demonstrated that it is already on plenty of people’s maps. The interior — all slate-stained wood, chalkboard paint, brushed stainless steel and caged Edison

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bulbs — was rustic in a way that felt peculiarly modern: minimalist yet full of tone and texture.

The small size of the combined bar and dining room translated to plenty of attention from our server, who didn’t mind multiple stops to check in on us while we pondered drafts and starters. Cajun-fried

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CP APPROVED catfish bites were an easy first choice, and even easier to polish off. Morsel-sized strips of moist, tender filet were lightly coated with an ultra-fine breading for an almost smooth, delicately crispy exterior. The Cajun spicing was distinct yet not too spicy; the real kick came from a house tartar sauce that combined heat with creamy cool and

an addictive slaw that seemed to be tossed in the same heady mixture.

Nachos, available with chipotle chili or the kitchen’s own smoked meat, were sized to share. Though sturdy enough to stand up to the freight of several toppings, the house-made tortilla chips were as exquisitely delicate, almost brittle, as fine pastry. We further appreciated that the nacho toppings were well distributed, including a pleasing, lacy application of sour cream from a squeeze bottle, instead of being heaped on the top. Pulled pork was lightly smoky, with the meat’s natural sweetness coming forward. The porter barbecue sauce, used instead of salsa to complement the house-smoked meats, was too sweet for Angelique’s taste, but Jason didn’t mind it.

Speaking of sweetness, we were dubious about the sweet soy sauce that came with the edamame, which in our opinion really need no adornment but salt. But our first taste humbled us. As in so many cases, a little sweet to balance the salt was delicious.

The attention to detail in our dishes was adding up to something very impressive.

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Pizza is available in several varieties.

With the traditional red, white or thickcrust pan pizzas, diners select their own toppings from a standard list, but there are also several specialty topping combinations.

Our pepperoni pan pizza looked beautiful, the edges of the crust a deep golden-brown.

But the center of the pie was more floppy than crisp, the thick dough didn’t really add much other than chewiness, and, dare we say, there might actually have been too much cheese. It wasn’t a bad pie, but lacked the careful balance of our other orders.

The burger, on the other hand, was a stand-out. For one thing, it weighed in at a hefty 11 ounces, but an even bigger deal was its mighty flavor, a potent combination of short rib and chuck. Lots of toppings are available, but even plain, this burger revealed lots of beefiness, savory seasoning and ample juiciness. Fries alongside were a couple shades darker than golden, fluffy inside, and beautifully seasoned.

Our smoked-brisket sandwich came out on a long bun, griddled for crisp edges, and topped with muenster, pickles, shaved red onions and a bit of barbecue sauce. The meat was intensely, gorgeously smoky, tender and moist, and the supporting cast each played their roles well. This is as good a brisket sandwich as you’ll find in the Pittsburgh area.

Aside from fries, three traditional barbecue sides are offered: baked beans, spicy slaw and sweet Carolina slaw. The beans, a combo of black and cannellini, were firm and a bit creamy, but the sauce was a clumsy combination of sugar and vinegar. The slaws, on the other hand, featured good, crispy cabbage in dressings that were light yet flavorful.

At Barrel Junction, a seasoned chef plays with the all-time favorites of casual American cuisine and shows just how good they can be.

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“Just because it’s weird and ugly, doesn’t mean that it’s bad,” says Naomi Auth, coowner and brewer of Red Star Kombucha.

She lays a hand affectionately on a severalgallon glass jar, the home of one of the SCOBYs, or Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast, that make her brewing possible.

This spongy culture takes tea and sugar and converts it into the lovely, effervescent fermented tea known as kombucha.

“In Glob We Trust” is the proud slogan of Red Star, and it’s the “glob” that led Auth and co-owner Joe Reichenbacher to open their new Buch Bar in the Pittsburgh Public Market, in late February.

Having already launched Pennsylvania’s first licensed kombucha brewery, Auth and Reichenbacher wanted to try new recipes and make their kombucha more readily available.

The response has been overwhelming. “I’m going through as many kegs as I can make,” says Auth, smiling.

“The kegs allow me to do a lot more interesting experiments.” While Red Star products are available locally in bottles, kegging is cheaper, allowing Auth to explore barrel-aging and dry-hopping some brews. She is also developing a line of 5 percent ABV cider ’buch, with cider from Soergel’s, a local orchard.

Many people’s experiences with kombucha don’t extend beyond their local health-food store. Without a liquor license, a store can carry only kombucha with less than .5 percent ABV. To ensure flavor and quality, Auth and Reichenbacher make only authentic kombucha, which means leaving the alcohol content at the level it would naturally attain after fermentation.

“When you make it subtle, well balanced and naturally carbonated, you end up with half of a percent of alcohol,” says Auth.

After tasting a flight of what was on tap that day, I recommend stopping by the bar for a pint, a growler or even a workshop — those who can do, also teach! — on brewing your own ’buch.

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THE BLIND PIG TAVERN. 2210 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-586-5936. This South Side bar, whose name derives from Prohibition slang, offers a satisfying, pigcentric menu of pub grub.

Look for the pig in pulledpork sliders and pepperoni rolls. Or branch out with pizza, grilled cheese sandwich (add bacon!) and other popular bar fare. Wash it all down with legal beverages. JE BRILLOBOX. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

A bar that serves well-designed retro chic with its whiskey and beer, Brillobox is (for now) the cool place to be.

The menu isn’t lengthy, but it’s broad: Choose from bar staples or more inventive (and veggie-friendly) specialties such as Moroccan roastedvegetable stew or herbed polenta wedges. JE BURGATORY. Multiple locations. www.burgatorybar. com. Nestled in an off-thepath corner of The Waterworks strip mall, Burgatory is in the running for best burgers in town. It starts with its own blend of ground sirloin, chuck, brisket and short rib, and buttery buns — then piles on the toppings. (There are prefab combinations and checklists for custom orders.)

Add shakes, fries — or perhaps an extra-ordinary salad. JE CORNERSTONE. 301 Freeport Road, Aspinwall. 412-408-3258.

The contemporary American fare at this warm and welcoming venue offers a creative take on a traditional menu. Every dish is served with a twist, but none — such as fancified mac-ncheese, slow-roasted brisket sliders, grilled lamb burger or pulled-pork nachos — is too twisted. KE CURE. 5336 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-252-2595.

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Vivo Kitchen {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} part of the locally inspired menu at this rustic-chic Lawrenceville restaurant. A short menu offers seasonal specialties (wild onions in spring), often combined with pork, but vegetables get a spotlight in dishes such as risotto with local mushrooms. LE E2. 5904 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-441-1200. The popular, cozy brunch spot has expanded, adding a dinner menu that refracts traditional, Old World recipes through the prism of the contemporary American kitchen (fresh, local, seasonal).

It’s as elemental as cannellini beans with red-pepper flakes, or as elaborate as seared scallops with butternut-squash mash, fried leeks and Portobello, and truffled pumpkin seeds. KF

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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 HOKKAIDO SEAFOOD BUFFET. 4536 Browns Hill Road, Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1422. This buffet-style restaurant rises above the scourge of the steam table to offer some true gems among its panoply of East Asian offerings. There’s standard Chinese-American fare, but also sushi, hibachistyle Japanese cooked to order, popular offerings such as crab legs and roast Peking duck, and even frog legs. KF IMPRESSIONZ. 6008 Broad St., East Liberty. 412-362-7134. This family-run Jamaican restaurant specializes in island cuisine — and welcoming service. The menu offers the island specialty, jerk chicken, and a variety of fish preparations (including jerk), as well a few stews and curries. For a tender meat dish, don’t miss the well-prepared goat curry or the ox-tail stew. KF J.W. HALL’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD INN. 2284 Broadhead Road, Aliquippa. 724-375-6860.

This old-fashioned, family-style steakhouse offers a satisfying, well-executed menu of surfand-turf favorites, including broiled shrimp appetizer, langostinos and prime rib.

The menu’s emphasis on steak and seafood rises to special occasions, while plenty of pasta dishes, sandwiches and pub-style appetizers accommodate regulars. LE KUSUKA INDONESIAN CUISINE. Ponsi Plaza, 13380 Lincoln Highway, North Huntingdon. 724-382-4968.

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Tan Lac Vien {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} still remains distinctive. The menu spans appetizers like the crispy street-food pancake martabak and fish cakes to entrees such as Javanese fried noodles and spicy curry-like stews. J LUKE WHOLEY’S WILD ALASKAN GRILLE. 2106 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-904-4509.

Expect fresh fish from this finedining but casual establishment.

There’s a well-curated selection of mostly grilled fish with various sauces. Appetizers include favorites such as calamari, mussels and crab cakes, but also grilled corn with feta cheese. KE

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THE RED RING. 1015 Forbes Ave., Uptown. 412-396-3550.

This Duquesne University venue is a decided cut above student dining. The dining room is spacious, with a handsome fieldstone bar. The fare is contemporary American cuisine, with a thoughtful selection of internationally inflected classics like chipotle barbecue pork tenderloin and blackened chicken alfredo. Artisanal touches like a side dish of “chef’s grains” complete the picture. KE

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It’s an oddly signed storefront restaurant, but this is Sichuan TAN LAC VIEN. 2114 Murray cuisine that rises above its peers Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8888. with food that’s well cooked, This Vietnamese restaurant expertly seasoned and offers the popular pho fearlessly spicy. The and bun entrees, but less-typical entrees also less-common include cumin mutton, dishes. The menu has dan dan noodles, a section of com tam www. per pa tea-smoked duck (“broken rice”) dishes, pghcitym .co and Chendu fried dry including some topped hot chicken. JF

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This tiny storefront café boasts a Greek deli, complete with a steam table and a display cooler with salads. Its namesake bakednoodle casserole is a winner, but much of the menu changes daily according to what’s fresh. J PIACQUADIO’S. 300 Mount Lebanon Blvd., Mount Lebanon.

412-745-3663. There’s still pleasure to be had in oldfashioned breaded chicken and veal, served up at this classic Italian-American restaurant.

Indulge in old-school comfort foods, such as manicotti (made with crepes) and beans and greens (with sausage), as well as chicken and pastas specials. KE POINT BRUGGE CAFÉ.

401 Hastings St., Point Breeze.

412-441-3334. This cozy neighborhood bistro reflects a concerted effort to translate the European neighborhood café — warm, welcoming, unpretentious yet delicious — to Pittsburgh.

with a fried egg; there is also a jellyfish salad with pickled carrot and daikon.

Another worthy entrée was banh xeo, savory crepes filled with shrimp, sautéed pork and vegetables, or try the make-yourown summer roll option. FK TESSARO’S. 4601 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-6809. This immensely popular Bloomfield institution, set in an old neighborhood corner bar, has built its reputation on enormous woodfired hamburgers: choice meat, ground in-house; fresh rolls; and a variety of toppings. Regulars sit at the bar, and, on busy weekends, diners line up to get in. KE VIVO KITCHEN. 432 Beaver St., Sewickley. 412-259-8945. The fare is contemporary American with a vaguely European accent, featuring elegantly simple preparations of elemental, straightforward ingredients, such as roasted mushrooms with gorgonzola or scallops with blood-orange sauce.

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Like many millennial rappers, Norman Dean started his journey in the back of the classroom: scribbling down lyrics that he would later record into his phone and send to friends, asking for opinions.

Unlike most, he stuck it out through the ups and downs of self-promotion and selling tickets for the promoters who put him on shows.

Now he has a team behind him, a fully functioning recording studio in Carnegie, and is hitting the road for out-of-town shows nearly every other month. His team is epic, literally. It’s called Team Epic, and it has been making big moves, getting Dean on showcases at the AC3 festival in Atlanta, and at South by Southwest, in Austin.

Listening to Dean, you can hear the upbeat, hippie vibe that Wiz Khalifa made famous, but he also brings a harder, more diverse feel to songs like “Demons.”

Dean knows that performing is only half the battle. He’s investing his time wisely, learning all aspects of the industry.

After setting up his studio (in a former garage) in early 2014, he began recording not only himself, but other artists from around the tri-state area.

“I’ve had 60 to 70 clients come through and record over the first year,” Dean says. “I’m just starting to get more serious with pushing the studio as a brand and a business.”

Dean has become what some might call a “lab rat.” In hip-hop terms, this means someone who spends the majority of their time in the studio. It may sound condescending, but the phrase has been used to describe some of hip hop’s greatest artists and producers, like Eminem and the late J Dilla.

“I spend at least 30 to 40 hours a week in [the studio] at the bare minimum,” Dean says. “If it’s a week where I have a lot of sessions or songs, I could be in there anywhere from to 60 to 80 hours.”

Next up, Norman is set to drop a mixtape entitled My Brother’s Keeper, with fellow Team Epic member Space Jam Jiff at the end of May. Norman will also join Pittsburgh-based rapper Beedie on his Counter Culture Tour, which kicks off this Friday, in Erie.

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NDERS RHEDIN IS what you might

call a true cosmopolitan. Until about a year ago, the Danish musician, who performs under the name Dinner, split his time between Los Angeles, Berlin and Copenhagen. Now he spends most of his time, a little improbably, in L.A. “It’s really weird,” he says, his voice deep and accent glossy. “I shouldn’t feel at home there at all. I don’t fit in, in any way.

But you know, Werner Herzog lives there, Adorno lived there, so I’m thinking, I’m not the only Euro guy that for some reason really likes L.A.” This week, Dinner performs as part of the #NOWSEETHIS party at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Co-presented by VIA and the museum, the event celebrates CMOA’s Hillman Photography Initiative, a program which aims to foster innovation and to change the way we look at and

think about photographic images. Dinner — who just finished up a tour with Mac DeMarco — is taking the place of the band Lower Dens, who amicably dropped off to take a slot touring with Belle and Sebastian. But even as a late arrival, it’s a

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natural fit on a bill that includes experimental electro/R&B artist Kelela and DJ/ producer and noted trans activist Juliana Huxtable, plus live and interactive visual art by a variety of artists.

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lives (like Instagram) are very much in the Now and a way to build, explore and craft personal identity,” VIA organizer Quinn Leonowicz says via email, explaining the thought process behind curating #NOWSEETHIS. “Taking the importance of identity into mind, words that came to mind when it came to booking talent were: fresh, exciting, timely, self-aware, unique, chill, multi-faceted, evolving, now, inspiring, future. Kelela, Julianna, and Dinner possess these in spades.”

Fittingly, the art world has played a significant role in Rhedin’s developing identity. “My ex, whom I was with for 13 years, was a visual artist,” he explains.

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Merritt were singing for the Psychedelic Furs. Rhedin’s humor and pop sensibility add to the complexity of his work. Songs like “Going Out” and “3rd Presence” have a vivid, buzzy, electric quality. It’s not a stretch when he cites visual artist Bruce Nauman, best known for his vibrant neon signs, as a primary influence.

Place, of course, plays a role in any artist’s developing identity — as Rhedin puts it, “it makes sense to me that you have Red Hot Chili Peppers from L.A., and No Doubt from San Diego, and Nirvana from Aberdeen.” In the case of Dinner, Los Angeles has had a darkening effect.

Soon after moving to L.A., Rhedin worked as a commercial pop songwriter, a job he says made him feel like ripping off his clothes and running down the street, screaming. “I felt a stronger sense of not belonging than I usually feel,” he recalls. “I like to compare it to black magic.”

Where white magic would be used to help others, “black magic would be something you would do with only your benefit in mind. Those pop sessions were pretty much that. There’s this undercurrent of evil, dark energy in Los Angeles, and I feel that pop songwriting in L.A. has that undercurrent of demonic energy.”

To follow up the three EPs he’s already released, Rhedin has a nearly finished Dinner full-length in the works, which is slated for release in October. “It’s a little less lo-fi sounding,” he says. Thematically, the record deals heavily with “communication with spirits or communion with God, whatever you want to call it” — something” closely tied with Rhedin’s decade-lon practice of daily meditation. “This sounds super pretentious, but it’s true nonetheless: I do sometimes meet what you could call spirit entities or fragments of the subconscious,” he says, with a cautious matter-of-factness, as if he thinks he might sound a bit, well, L.A., but doesn’t really care. “It’s something that does not feel like myself. The communication with these entities or fragments of my psyche — whatever you want to call them — is definitely something that I find very related to music. For me, listening not to my thinking mind, but to these fragments of my subconscious, that’s, I feel, what the creative process is about.”

Which is not to say that he takes himself or his music too seriously. When making this record, “we recorded it in a studio that looked like … if Coldplay built [its] own studio, it would look like that,” he says with a laugh. “I’m not kidding you.

There were three grand pianos, and one of them was the most expensive brand of pianos in the world. So we got our soft-rock vibes going.”

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NEW RELEASES {BY MARGARET WELSH}

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Living, more or less, up to the potentially overblown self-description of “a freight train from hell,” the band’s latest release delivers a collection of songs which span country, psychobilly, heavy metal and good-old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. If that sounds like a lot, know that — 10 years in — the Hucklebucks have developed quite a talent for subtle genre-blending, even if that’s just about the only subtle thing about them. The songwriting has a cohesive feel, and the individual tracks, though diverse, hang together. Fans of Reverend Horton Heat or Hank III or Danzig — or, weirdly enough, the Doors — will likely find something to enjoy here. It may not be a reinvention of the pompadour, but, dang, it’s a lot of fun.

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On this new record, Don Strange ventures out on his own without his band, the Doosh Bears. Strange moved to Pittsburgh in the early ‘00s to pursue a master’s degree in creative writing, and his songs reflect that background. In its best moments (“The Day the Mutants Fell,” “Don’t Set Yourself on Fire”), the album mixes the frank narrative songwriting of The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle with the bratty humor of the Dead Milkmen. There are a couple weak spots — name-checking Morrissey and The Wire in the same line feels a bit labored — but generally, Strange hits a catchy indie-rock sweet spot.

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WHEN HE WAS in high school, singersongwriter and Bethel Park native Steve Moakler played music all over the Pittsburgh area. After finishing high school in 2006, he moved to Nashville and began a career as both a performer and a songwriter. He has written for mainstream country artists like Dierks Bentley and Kellie Pickler, and currently has a new solo record in the works. He spoke to City Paper last week in advance of his show Friday at Club Café.

TALK ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND A BIT: YOU GREW UP IN PITTSBURGH AND MOVED TO NASHVILLE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? I started writing songs and had a couple bands in middle school. I was always the lead singer and songwriter, and we took it as far as we could as a high school local band. I was offered a small, independent record deal and ended up turning it down and moving to Nashville. I went to college there a couple of years, and that was my gateway into the city. I went to class during the week, toured on the weekends and wrote songs. I dropped out of school after a couple years. My career has been a slow, but steady, climb so far.

PITTSBURGH HAS A PRETTY ACTIVE MUSIC SCENE. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO HEAD TO NASHVILLE INSTEAD OF STAYING HERE? My first love is songwriting, even more than performing. There were a few artists in Nashville that weren’t country artists, but were part of this cool, independent,

rootsy pop singer-songwriter scene and that drew me there. Nashville is a lyric town, and writing songs has always been the most important thing to me.

HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC TO PEOPLE? YOU’VE WRITTEN SONGS FOR MAINSTREAM COUNTRY ACTS, BUT DO YOU LEAN THAT WAY AS A PERFORMER? I’ve struggled with this a bit, actually.

I think country at this moment in time is a very abused word, and it means a lot of different things. To me, country is mainstream, pop, singer-songwriter with twang-type music. Country is also such a songwriter’s format. It’s not about the sound or innovative production methods — it all comes down to the melody and the message.

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WHAT’S THE CAREER PLAN MOVING FORWARD? This is my second club tour as a headliner.

This is really a grassroots thing. We never had a song on the radio or had any type of press before. For the past four or five years, my entire team has consisted of me and a friend who was my manager. But we parted ways and I now have an amazing team. We’ll be making a new record this spring and, honestly, we’re starting to move toward that mainstream country sound. While I struggle with the word sometimes, I think that’s the audience for what we’re doing.

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Now fully co-ed, Chatham offers over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs across three schools.

Now fully coed, Chatham University is home to nearly 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded in 1869, Chatham is comprised of two distinct campuses.

The Shadyside Campus includes Chatham Eastside, home to our health sciences and interior architecture programs, and Woodland Road — a national arboretum with tree-lined pathways, a pond, a labyrinth, academic and residence halls cradled in stately mansions mere minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.

Qualified undergraduates can be admitted into our integrated undergrad and graduate programs in physical and occupational therapies, physician assistant studies, and more.

Shadyside Campus is an oasis of greenery in the heart of Pittsburgh and Eden Hall Campus (opening to residential students in 2015) is the

Located just north of Pittsburgh in Richland, PA, our 388-acre Eden Hall Campus is the world’s first academic community built from the ground up for the study and practice of sustainability. Eden Hall meets the highest levels of sustainability design, including net zero energy; zero carbon emissions; and onsite management of all storm and waste water. In addition to fields, orchard, gardens and greenhouses, it features a field lab, amphitheater, café, and classroom buildings, with student residence halls, a dining hall and kitchen, and flexible meeting spaces. In addition to sustainability programs, Eden Hall also offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programming for North Hills residents in areas including business management, psychology, and education.

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Chatham offers 14 NCAA Division III athletic teams: eight for women and, beginning in fall 2015, six for men.

Consistently ranked as a best college by U.S. News & World Report, Chatham earned the highest ranking among western Pennsylvania institutions in the “Regional Universities – North” category for 2015.

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Chatham’s academic excellence is centered within three schools: the Falk School of Sustainability, the School of Health Sciences, and the School of Arts, Science, and Business. Chatham has been recognized by the Sierra Club as the 20th greenest university in the nation, and as the highest-ranked Western Pennsylvania institution in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges “Regional North University” rankings.

Undergraduate students can choose from over 40 majors, and reap the benefits of the Chatham Plan: a 5-step approach that instills professional preparation into every aspect of the undergraduate experience, starting day one, year one. Through the Integrated Degree Program, qualified students to earn both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in as few as five years.

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Service learning is also important components to a Chatham education, and most students complete at least two internships or career-related experiences in their fields.

We offer NCAA DIII sports for women: basketball, cross country, ice hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track and field, and volleyball, and for men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, swimming and diving, track and field, and volleyball.

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Featured Program: Medical Assistant A medical assistant program is now offered in Westmoreland County! Graduates of ICTC’s medical assistant program are qualified for a variety of entry-level positions in a medical practice’s administrative office, examining room, and office laboratory, with opportunities for future career advancement. Students learn the latest techniques from qualified practitioners who are some of the best educators in the field. The 1030-hour program includes 12 months of classroom instruction and a customized externship. All students are equipped with an iPad and a kit with tools of the trade. Graduates are eligible to sit for multiple healthcare certifications.

We’re What’s next! For more than 50 years, CGS has been addressing the unique needs of students who are busy with work, family, and other obligations. We support adult learners, transfer students, veterans, and others who want the personalized attention of a small academic community, and the competitive advantage of a degree from a world-renowned university.

We Invest In Your Success! With our results-oriented degree programs, flexible course formats—including online and hybrid courses—and convenient evening and weekend classes, CGS is the region’s best choice for busy people who want to fit a college education into their already full lives. Even our academic success programs, career development seminars, and free tutoring sessions are held in the evening to help even the busiest students succeed.

For more information, contact ICTC at 724-3496700 ext. 131, or visit us online at www.ictcmedicalassistant.com. Financial aid is available for those who qualify.

Most Popular Majors: Administration of Justice; Health Services; Media & Professional Communications; Natural Sciences (includes premed track)

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Carlow University is a co-educational, private, Catholic, masters comprehensive University looking for young men and women who share our commitment to making the world a better place for themselves and others.

Listed among the Top 20 best Bang-for-the-Buck private colleges by Washington Monthly, and ranked in the Top 100 by Educate to Career for doing the best job preparing students to find well-paying jobs in their fields after graduation, Carlow will provide you with more than just an education. Your teachers will become mentors, your classmates will become friends, and your friends will become family. And when it’s time to leave, you’ll be prepared not just for a career for when you graduate, but for opportunities that don’t even exist yet.

Access to Financial Aid More than 40 percent of CCAC students receive need-based financial aid, making it easier for them to attend college. CCAC students are eligible for scholarships, work-study jobs and grant funds, in addition to student loans.

Transfer Opportunities CCAC students have transferred credits to 462 colleges and universities and the college currently has articulation agreements in more than 125 programs.

Savings — College Made Affordable CCAC students save $19,000 over the cost of public fouryear colleges and universities and $54,000 over the cost of private four-year colleges and universities—all by spending their first two years at CCAC. Expanded Learning Options No matter how busy a student’s schedule is, CCAC provides flexible learning options. From the convenience of eight campus and center locations to thousands of online learning options — CCAC gives students access to 24/7 education. Eight degrees and seven certificates can be completed online, while more than 50 percent of required courses can be completed online for numerous degree and certificate programs.

Education for the Careers of Tomorrow in Two Years or Less CCAC offers associate degrees, certificates and diplomas in more than 150 programs.

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With more than 50 undergraduate majors, Carlow offers a wide variety of programs that turn a spark of curiosity into real-world skills that make a difference. Carlow undergraduates can also save time and money by working on their graduate degree as an undergraduate student through our accelerated degree options.

At Carlow, students can take volunteerism to a new level, exercise their civic responsibility, and increase their understanding of social issues and problems by working on various service-learning projects: a unique feature of a Carlow education.

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Carlene Carter bears a striking resemblance to her mother, June Carter Cash, in both her face and her voice — a fact she doesn’t shy from on her 12th release, 2014’s Carter Girl. Made in tribute to her family legacy, the album includes Carter Family classics, as well as original nods to Carter’s roots (which she doesn’t handle with too much reverence). While her name has, no doubt, helped her along over the years, Carter is an artist in her own right, with her own fascinating story to tell.

Tonight she opens for another American-music heavyweight, John Mellencamp, at the Benedum Center. (MW) 7:30 p.m. 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $44.25254.25. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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A word of warning if you’re going to see The Body at the 31st Street Pub tonight: Don’t forget your earplugs.

The Rhode Island-bred, Portland-based duo blends doom and black metal with experimental noise to create some of the loudest, most punishing sounds you’ll ever have the pleasure of hearing. The Body will be joined by tourmates — and masters of brutality in their own right — Full of Hell. That grindcore outfit just released an intense collaborative album with Japanese noise artist Merzbow, and are planning something similar with the Body, sometime in the not-too-distant future. Get psyched. Anwar Sadat from Louisville and locals Microwaves will also appear. (MW) 9 p.m.

3101 Penn Ave., Strip District. $10. 412-391-8334 or www.31stpub.com

It’s easy to imagine Hakim Rasheed singing in front of a panel of American Idol judges, the camera panning across their approving faces. “You’re going to Hollywood!”

OK, so maybe that particular scenario hasn’t happened, but Pittsburgh-based soul singer Rasheed has made an impression on the local level, being voted Best Male Singer at the Pittsburgh Hip Hop Awards, and winning multiple talent competitions, including Pittsburgh’s Got Talent. His self-released record, Souler Eclipse, is a slick collection of radio-ready R&B in the vein of Ne-Yo and Musiq Soulchild.

He appears tonight at Club Café with Urban Ivory. (MW) 10:30 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

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Musician and producer Toro y Moi (a.k.a. Chaz Bundick) has traveled a bit, musically speaking, since his 2010 full-length, Causers of This.

That record of laid-back synth-pop — and the dancier follow-up, Underneath the Pine — made Toro y Moi almost synonymous with chillwave, then the genre du jour. On his new record, What For?, he takes things in a considerably more rocking direction, while staying true to his loungy-electro roots.

And judging from tracks like “Buffalo” and “Lilly,” someone owes Steely Dan a big thankCarlene you. Catch Toro y Moi Carter tonight at Mr. Small’s Theatre, with Vinyl Williams. (Margaret Welsh) 9 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $18-20. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

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ALTAR BAR. Fidlar w/ Nox Boys, Strip District. 412-391-8334.

The Umbrella Corporation. Strip THE BLIND PIG SALOON. District. 412-206-9719.

King’s Ransom. New Kensington.

BRILLOBOX. The Donkeys w/ Cape 724-337-7008.

Cod, The Tilt Room. Bloomfield.

CLUB CAFE. Melodime, JD Eicher 412-621-4900. & the Goodnights. South Side.

CLUB CAFE. Matt Duke, 412-431-4950.

Andrea Nardello w/ DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Haley Slagle. South Side.

Waiting for Ray. 412-431-4950.

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HOWLERS COYOTE 412-489-5631. w. w w CAFE. The Megatons er HAMBONE’S. hcitypap g p w/ Johnny Fay & the .com Allegheny Rhythm Bel Aires. Bloomfield.

Rangers w Th’ Royal 412-682-0320.

Shakes. Lawrenceville.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Toro Y 412-681-4318.

Moi, Vinyl Williams. Millvale.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. 412-821-4447.

Charlie Hustle & The Grifters SMILING MOOSE. Turbo Fruits, w/ Grand Bell. Bloomfield.

Eternal Summers. South Side.

412-682-0320.

412-431-4668.

MEADOWS CASINO. 8th Street THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Drag The Rox. Washington. 724-503-1200.

River w/ Paul Luc. Lawrenceville.

MONROEVILLE CONVENTION 412-682-0177.

CENTER. Almost Queen.

Monroeville. 724-853-4050.

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MOONDOG’S. Commander Cody.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

PALACE THEATRE. River City Brass.

Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

THE R BAR. 3 Car Garage.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

SMILING MOOSE. Anti-Flag, The Code, Mace Ballard, Hidden Hospitals Slaves Among Death, Mutalist Corpuscide, United By Hate. South Side. 412-431- 4668.

SOUTH PARK. NOMaD. Celebrating the re-opening of South Park Fairgrounds.

South Park.

STEEL CITY STEAKHOUSE. The Watts Brothers. Monroeville.

XLERATOR BAR & GRILLE. Dave Iglar Band. Beaver Falls.

724-581-4880.

SUN 10 HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Heartsounds, Counterpunch, Barons, Naked Spirit. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

STAGE AE. Mastodon & Clutch.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

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31ST STREET PUB. Midnight Ghost Train, Six Speed Kill, Weapons of Choice. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Turpentiner & Gordy G of Title-town. Strip District.

412-251-6058.

CLUB CAFE. Steve Moakler w/ Neal Carpenter. South Side.

412-431-4950.

HAMBONE’S. Flock of Walri.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE Working Poor, Olympic Village & Robin Vote. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

KENDREW’S. The Grid. Aliquippa.

724-375-5959.

MEADOWS CASINO. Silent Partner. Washington.

724-503-1200.

MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

NIED’S HOTEL. Tim & John.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

THE R BAR. Nicole Beli. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

SMILING MOOSE. TurnPike Gardens, There You Are, Good Ship Gibraltar (Early). Brimstone Coven, Argus, Apostle of Solitude. South Side. 412-431- 4668.

STAGE AE. Styx. North Side.

412-229-5483.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Chris Vipond & The Stanley Street Band w/ Two Bridges Band.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Each week, we bring you a new track from a local artist. This week’s song comes from Mariage Blanc; stream or download “Nowhere Town” from the new record, No Autobiography, for free on FFW>>, our music blog at pghcitypaper.com.

412-231-0454.

OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo/Pat Crossly.

Downtown. 800-843-6664.

SAHARA TEMPLE. Tony Campbell & Smooth Jazzsurgery. Braddock.

412-271-0502.

MON 11 ALTAR BAR. We Are Harlot,Twelve Noon. Strip District. 412-206-9719.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Ellen Siberian Tiger w/ Princess Barbara.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Antlers, Mutual Benefit. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler St. Sessions w/ Moment Being.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

BENEDUM CENTER. John Mellencamp. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

CLUB CAFE. Emily Kinney w/ Dylan Gardner, Adam Tressler. South Side.

412-431-4950.

SMILING MOOSE. Eli Whitney & the Sound Machine, Super Fun Time Awesome Party Band, Freya Wilcox & the Howl, Jerry Fels & the Jerry Fels. South Side.

740-424-0302.

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THU 07 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

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

FRI 08 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BRILLOBOX. LazerCrunk w/ Otto Von Schirach. Bloomfield. 412-320-1476.

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

RIVERS CASINO. DJ NIN. North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

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BRILLOBOX. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

REMEDY. Touching Without Feeling. Lawrenceville.

412-781-6771.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Digital Dave.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

WED 13 SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 08 CLUB CAFE. Hakim Rasheed w/

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Urban Ivory . South Side.

412-431-4950.

SAT 09 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Palindromes.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Lyndsey Smith. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Man’DANCE, Jack Wilson, Tracksploitation.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

BLUES TAMBELLINI BRIDGEVILLE RESTAURANT. The Witchdoctors.

Bridgeville. 412-221-5202.

TIKI BAR. Strange Brew.

Washington. 412-491-9356.

WED 13 NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Dan Bubien. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

JAZZ THU 07 ANDYS WINE BAR. Maura Minteer. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

TENDER BAR + KITCHEN. Tom Roberts. Lawrenceville.

412-402-9522.

FRI 08 3RD STREET GALLERY. Haywood Vincent, Phil Salvato, Bob Hughes, Dale Hertrich. Carnegie.

412-276-5233.

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SAT 09 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: DISNEY’S FANTASIA. A Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra live performance accompanying scenes from Walt Disney’s original Fantasia (1940) & Disney Fantasia 2000. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

WED 13 ANDYS WINE BAR. Antonio Lordi. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: DISNEY’S FANTASIA. A Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra live performance accompanying scenes from Walt Disney’s original Fantasia (1940) & Disney Fantasia 2000. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

THU 07 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Brian Diamond. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. West Deer Bluegrass Review. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

HAMBONE’S. Che Zuro.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 13 DAVID BENNETT & DANIEL MAY W/ JENNIFER STEELE. Performing

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PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: DISNEY’S FANTASIA. A Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra live performance accompanying scenes from Walt Disney’s original Fantasia (1940) & Disney Fantasia 2000. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

TENDER BAR + KITCHEN. Susanne Ortner-Roberts & John Marcinizyn. Gypsy swing.

Lawrenceville. 412-402-9522.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ Lina Allemano Four. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. Mark Pipas.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. James Street Swing Allstars (Ballroom). Ken Karsh Quartet (Speakeasy). North Side.

412-904-3335.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Benny Benack. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff. Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

SAT 09 ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

GROWN & SEXY II. No Ordinary Soul. Strip District. 412-251-0615.

LITTLE E’S. RML Jazz. Downtown.

412-392-2217.

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

by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo w/ Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-691-0536.

VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. Tony Campbell & Jazzsurgery.

West End. 412-458-0417.

SUN 10 ANDYS WINE BAR. Phat Mandee & Cultural District. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Dr. James Johnson, Jr, Pamela Johnson, Lou Schreiber and James Johnson III. North Side.

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1810 TAVERN. John Farley. Beaver.

724-371-0732.

31ST STREET PUB. The Body, Full of Hell, Microwaves, Anwar Sadat.

Strip District. 412-391-8334.

CLUB CAFE. Matt Pond PA, Young Buffalo. South Side. 412-431-4950.

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ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Open Jazz Night w/ the Howie Alexander Trio.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Geri Allen & Time Line. East Liberty.

412-363-3000.

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CLUB CAFE. Mandolin Orange w/ Jill Andrews. South Side.

412-431-4950.

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RIVERS CASINO. Mark Ferrari.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

FRI 08 LEMONT. Mark Venneri.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100 x1.

RIVERS CASINO. Pete Hewlett & Scott Anderson Duo. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SAT 09 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Ruckus Bros: Motown Records Night. North Side. 412-904-3335.

RIVERS CASINO. Artistree.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

SUN 10 HAMBONE’S. Steel City Ukulele Group. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

MON 11 HAMBONE’S. Cabaret Jazz Standards & Showtunes. w/ pianist Ian Kane. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

WED 13 HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Johnny Foodstamp, ThunderSnowcone & Grandpa Egg. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Linda McRea w/ Dan & Casey Deely.

Harmony. 724-452-0539.

CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side.

412-381-4800.

SAT 09 CLUB CAFE. Jeremy Caywood w/ Josh Verbanets. South Side.

412-431-4950.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Tony Germaine.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. Bill & Kate Isles, Tim Ruff. Shadyside.

412-621-8008.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

Live Music

EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Swing Dance Every Friday to a Live Band

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Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

REGGAE FRI 08 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

COUNTRY THU 07 ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

724-265-1181.

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IN PITTSBURGH Next To Normal

WEDNESDAY 6

THROUGH MAY 17 ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & MUSIC HALL

Cinderella's Tom Keifer ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Toro Y Moi MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

9p.m.

FRIDAY 8

Halestorm STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6:30p.m.

Comedian Lisa Dapprich (As Seen on Date Night TV) LATITUDE 360 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555.

Tickets: latitude360.com/pittsburgh-pa.

Through May 9.

THURSDAY 7

In This Moment STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6p.m.

Blossom Tour 2015 MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, LAWRENCEVILLE. Free event.

For more info visit lvpgh.com.

Through May 10.

"Next to Normal" presented by Stage 62 ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & MUSIC HALL Carnegie.

Tickets: stage62.org or 412-429-6262.

Through May 17.

Taylor Caniff "The Oddrhyme Tour" ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

Turbo Fruits / Eternal Summers SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

Pittsburgh Wine Festival HEINZ FIELD North Side.

Over 21 event.

Tickets: pittsburghwinefestival.com.

VIP Tasting 5p.m., Grand Tasting 7p.m.

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Disney FANTASIA HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900.

Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org.

Through May 10.

SATURDAY 9

George Benson Greatest Hits Tour BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

CMOA & VIA Present #NOWSEETHIS CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART CAFE & FOYER. Oakland.

Over 18 show.

Tickets: nowseethis.org/party.

7p.m.

Mother's Day Tea TRAX FARMS South Hills.

Reservations required.

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Styx STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6:30p.m.

The Antlers MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

Matthew Curry HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Limited ages show.

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

Audra McDonald BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org.

8p.m.

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Shaman's Harvest HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} A local series, produced for the Web, hits the big screen at a strong installment of Film Kitchen. The monthly showcase for local and independent artists features the first five episodes of Dog Bytes, a darkly comic serial directed by Melissa Martin.

In episode one (made as an acclaimed standalone 2012 short film), Tammy Tsai and Adrienne Wehr play women somehow under the power of blustering, abusive Randy (John Gresh). Wehr’s bruised Jane is in a dog collar; Tsai’s Alice is fixing Randy’s breakfast. Both are plotting his imminent demise.

Adrienne Wehr (left) and Tammy Tsai in Dog Bytes

That riveting first episode, featuring Randy’s bizarrely lyrical monologue, was scripted by local playwright Amy Hartman.

Four more episodes, scripted by Martin, followed, adding characters, twists and backstory. A Kickstarter campaign to fund additional episodes is planned.

Film Kitchen, curated by Matthew Day, also features two potent shorts by Bob Buncher. “Cut You Right Here” (2014) is a brooding, 33-minute character study about a troubled young poet (Tom Kolos), also featuring Wehr. And “Pennsylvania NW” is an incisive two-hander about one government official (played by Robert Haley) confronted by another (John Shepherd) who feels he betrayed him.

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8 p.m. Tue., May 12 (7 p.m. reception).

Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. $5. 412-682-4111

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT

You and your buddies get just 48 hours to write, film and edit a short film.

Completed films compete for “best in Pittsburgh,” and that winner goes on to compete nationally, perhaps even globally! Shooting is July 10-12, and registration is open now, with early-bird discounts. www.48hourfilm. com/en/pittsburgh

FRESH BATTLES

“Hi, I’m Ultron.”

{BY AL HOFF}

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HEEE! IT’S Avengers: Age of

Ultron — this season’s Big Comic Book Movie from Marvel! It’s almost pointless to evaluate these films as good or bad: Fans reliably love (or hate) them, and increasingly, new works exist in a continuum, not as an individual piece of art. So perhaps a better approach is: Does Joss Whedon’s Age of Ultron give the people what they want?

Basic Good vs. Bad Dilemma. Much of the story concerns “Ultron,” an artificially intelligent being created by Tony Star, a.k.a. Iron Man. It’s hoped Ultron will bring “peace in our time,” but super-smart Ultron decides humans are the problem and the planet is better off without them. (“Ultron can’t tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it.”) There are more shades of gray in this outing about who’s good or bad, plus the emotional burden of being a superhero (part man, part monster) and whether the team can work together effectively.

Serious Nod to Real World. Arms-mer-

chant Stark: “I tried to create a suit of armor around the world ... but I created something terrible.” Weapons as peace-keepers and peace-keepers as weapons: Discuss.

Vicarious CGI Destruction. Plenty, including two headquarters, an entire city and a child’s toy. But the heroes get called out — finally! — for the collateral damage their

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON DIRECTED BY: Joss Whedon STARRING: Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans In 3-D, in select theaters

do-gooding causes, and an effort is made to protect people. Nobody speaks for the buildings, though. Tough times for masonry.

Barely Explained Sprawling Mythology to Help Separate True Fans From Civilians Just Seeing a Movie. The movie begins with no preamble, with the Avengers — last seen together in the 2012 film

— involved in a full-on assault on a HYDRA bunker in Sokovia. These enemies have Loki’s scepter and are training two villains with extra-special skills and also building something. Hold on tight! Later, there is a lot of chatter and trouble about an “infinity stone.” Psychically induced nightmares help fill in individual Avenger backstories, which will be most meaningful to those in the know.

New Characters. Yes, a set of extraordinarily-abled twins (“he’s fast, she’s weird”), plus Ultron, of course.

Quips. These come as fast and as furious as the Hulk-thumping, and nearly everybody gets at least one funny line. Stark gets the most (even namechecking Banksy), but the mordantly witty Ultron (voiced by James Spader) holds his own. Also, the requisite Stan Lee cameo gets a big laugh.

Possibility of Sequel: 110 percent. I’ve seen a lot of abrupt endings in my time, but this film ends in mid-sentence.

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a friendly pack of similarly homeless mutts, before getting swept up in a brutal dog-fighting ring.

(Sensitive viewers have been warned.)

Lilli’s despair turns to anger and, not surprisingly, so does Hagen’s, and both girl and dog lash out. The dog’s actions recall the eco-terror films of the 1970s, when the natural world — with some justification — rose up against the “superior” humans controlling it. And while you can view Mundruczo’s film as just an offbeat animal tale, its critique of institutions categorizing humans as “better” and “lesser” and treating them accordingly is explicit. As even recent events in this country have shown, such ingrained forms of cultural control often have unintended, and violent, consequences. In Hungarian, with subtitles.

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NEW THIS WEEK THE D TRAIN. Dull family man Dan (Jack Black) is working on the committee for his high school reunion, but he’s no more popular than when he was a student. Then, watching TV, he sees a former classmate, the popular Oliver Lawless (James Marsden), starring in a sunscreen commercial. If Dan could convince Oliver to come to the reunion, then he’d be the golden boy. So he tells his boss (Jeffrey Tambor) a fib about a business deal in Los Angeles, and flies west to seal the deal.

The trip is a success, if one considers having the time of one’s life boozing, drugging and carousing Hollywood-style with the most popular guy in your high school class to be success — and Dan sure does! Naturally, it all goes horribly wrong.

This comedy, written and directed by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, has a couple of laughs, but strains too hard over some pretty familiar set-ups. Much of the humor relies on Dan not seeing what a giant d-bag Oliver is, which strains credulity. Black is working a less impish version of his dialedback Bernie role, while Marsden seems to be the guy they got when James Franco didn’t sign on. Poor Kathryn Hahn, as Dan’s wife, is utterly wasted in a straight-man role, as is the comic premise which winds up not in gleeful darkness or knowing cynicism, but in a makenice lesson about caring. Starts Fri., May 8.

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LIKE NOTHING YOU’VE SEEN ON SCREEN BEFORE. FIERCE AND BEAUTIFUL. “

A series of soaring, astonishingly choreographed scenes.”

– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“I cannot say enough about this extraordinary film.

WILDLY EXHILARATING.” - Dennis Dermody, Paper

“POWERFUL,

BREATHTAKING AND EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX.”

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White God HOT PURSUIT. A by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) escorts a drug boss’ widow (Sofia Vergara) to safety through comic mayhem in Anne Feltcher’s film. Starts Fri., May 8.

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WELCOME TO ME. When Alice (Kristen Wiig) wins an $86 million lottery prize, she goes off her psychiatric medications and purchases time on a local TV channel to broadcast her own talk show. The socially awkward Alice is inspired by Oprah — whose talk shows she can recite verbatim — but she isn’t interested in guests or topics of general interest. The show, Welcome to Me, is all about her — from her “dream” opening in which she glides on stage in a swan boat to recreations of dramatic events from her past, such as when somebody at summer camp tampered with her makeup bag. (It seems ludicrous, but how many of us, if we could, would expand our Facebook-Instagram-Vine-Twitter personalities into a TV show all about ourselves?)

The TV show, in all its shambolic, chaotic and navel-gazing glory, gives Alice what she has been lacking: an unfettered voice, even if what she needs to say is banal or misunderstood. Having quit her meds and her psychiatrist, Alice’s newfound financial freedom lets her self-medicate with what has always brought her comfort: television, with its familiar, homey patterns and its implied rapt audience.

Shira Piven’s dark comedy about mental illness, fame and self-actualization isn’t for everyone. But those willing to glide along in the swan boat will find an uneven but fascinating character study — of one unbalanced woman, but also of us all — that opens up as many discussions as it offers uncomfortable laughs. There’s not a lot of plot, though something about Welcome’s meandering shagginess suits it. And this is a fantastic performance by Wiig, a talented comic actress who, as she did in last year’s The Skeleton Twins, can imbue humor with a visceral sadness. It’s a tricky role — Alice isn’t an easy person to know, and it’s unfair to laugh at her — but Wiig elevates her above a comic foil into an individual worthy of understanding, no matter how weird or frustrating she is. Starts Fri., May 8. Hollywood (AH)

WILD TALES. Six darkly comic tales comprise this anthology film from Argentine writer-director Damian Szifron. If there is a theme, it is that people under stress often behave very poorly and with violence; each film also depicts some element of revenge. It begins with the shortest film, a funny bit of misdirection involving a woman traveling by plane for business, and ends with the best-worst wedding party ever. Two other films — one about a demolition expert who blows up his own life, another about a traffic accident — are more explicit about civic corruption and the power of money. My favorite was the two-man tale about road rage (with class overtones) and its perfectly logical but breathtaking escalation of violence (and likely, a hat-tip to the road-rage classic Duel). Well-acted and -produced, Szifron’s compendium might not deliver any fresh insights into the foibles of the human animal, but it is an entertaining, twisty and twisted examination. In Spanish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., May 8. Harris (AH)

REPERTORY ROW HOUSE CINEMA. Documentary Week.

Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog’s 2005 doc about a man who tries to live among bears in Alaska), May 6. Burroughs: The Movie (1983 film profiling Beat author William S. Burroughs), May 6-7. Misery Loves Comedy (new documentary about standup comics), May 6-7. Adventure Kids Series. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (things get more complicated for the boy wizard in this second installment), May 8-13.

Labyrinth (1986 fantasy film featuring Jim Henson creatures and David Bowie), May 8-12 and May 14.

The Goonies (misfit kids search for treasure in the 1985 adventure comedy), May 8-14. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (kid wins trip to super-weird candy factory in this 1971 favorite), May 8-10 and May 13-14. Call or see website for times and complete listings. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5-9. 412-9043225 or www.rowhousecinema.com

- Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

“The first thing to be said about this film, is that

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THERE’S NEVER BEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE IT The whole production speaks well for the power of film; ”

IT’S A SERIOUS STUNNER. - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

Orson Welles’ 100th Birthday

5/6 @ 7:30pm - Citizen Kane projected in 35mm, a cake, and intro by Bob Hoover. Also presenting the film in 35mm on 5/7 @ 7:30pm. _______________________________________________

Welcome To Me

(2015) 5/8 @ 7:30pm & 10:00pm, 5/9 @ 2:00pm, 5/10 @ 4:00pm & 7:00pm, 5/11 @ 7:30pm, 5/12 @ 7:30pm, 5/13 @ 7:30pm, 5/14 @ 7:30pm When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show. Starring Kristen Wiig. _______________________________________________

Hollywood Birthday Party/Fundraiser with Special Guest Tom Atkins

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5/9 @ 6;00pm - Our annual celebration. Live music, food and drink, raffle, and a screening of the newly restored Escape From New York (1981). _______________________________________________

Breakfast and a Movie

5/10 @ 10:30am with the film The Sound of Music (1965) starring Julie Andrews, buy tickets by 5/7 for catered brunch.

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WHITE GOD. Like the mixed-breed dog that is its star, Kornel Mundruczo’s film combines several genres — coming of age, crime, dog adventure and cultural allegory — into one heady work. Viewers will surely be captivated by the film’s cold open: a girl bicycling through a deserted Budapest followed by a pack of dozens of charging dogs. (Mundruczo cast 274 shelter dogs, trained them and used no CGI for the pack scenes.)

Teenage Lilli and her pet dog, Hagen, must spend a month with her divorced dad, who is already angry and disconnected from his daughter.

After refusing to pay a newly imposed tax on mixedbreed dogs, he dumps Hagen on the roadside.

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CITIZEN KANE. Celebrate director Orson Welle’s 100th birthday with this 35 mm screening of his dark 1941 portrait of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 6 (with cake) and 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 7. Hollywood (AH) THE RISE AND RISE OF BITCOIN. Nick Mross’ 2014 documentary examines bitcoin, the new opensource digital currency that might or might not be the future of finance. The screening is a fundraiser for Village Theater Company, in Sewickley, and will be followed by a Q&A, with the filmmakers and local finance representatives. Tickets include a pre-show reception at adjacent Atlas Bottle Works.

6 p.m. Thu., May 7 (doors at 5 p.m. for reception).

Row House Cinema, Lawrenceville. $55. www. villagetheatercompany.com/events/ MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS. In Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s 1960 drama, shot in stark blackand-white, a young priest finds his faith shaken by nuns who appeared to be possessed. Continues a two-month series of digitally remastered Polish masterpieces, curated by Martin Scorsese. In Polish, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 7, and 5:30 p.m.

Sat., May 9. Harris. $5

THE REFUGEES OF SHANGRI LA. This recent documentary from Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter depicts the struggles of a large population of ethnic Bhutanese (originally brought from neighboring Nepal to thwart British imperialism) who are now being expelled. Many live for years in refugee camps in Nepal and India, hoping to be re-settled in other countries and cities (including Pittsburgh). This screening is presented by the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, and will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. 7 p.m. Fri., May 8.

St. Pius Byzantine Catholic Church, 2336 Brownsville Road, Carrick. Free. 412-393-7600 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. After New York City bottoms out, Manhattan is turned into a maximumsecurity prison. Or so it happens in John Carpenter’s 1981 actioner. When the president’s plane crashes in NYC, a crafty, eye-patched criminal named Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is sent in to collect the leader.

At this screening, noted local actor Tom Atkins, who portrayed the military commander Rehme in Escape, presents the film. The evening is a celebration of the Hollywood’s re-opening four years ago, as well as a fundraiser. There will be music from The Retro Agents, cake, hors d’ouevres, beer, wine and an auction. 7:30 p.m. Sat., May 9 (door at 6 p.m.). Hollywood. $20 (includes two drink tickets)

RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM

The 17th annual symposium offers a selection of mostly recent Russian films tied to this year’s theme, “Red Empire Reloaded.” Some films screen on the University of Pittsburgh campus during the day, through Fri., May 8. Nighttime films screen at the Melwood Screening Room, in Oakland. A complete schedule is at www. rusfilm.pitt.edu.

FRAGMENT OF EMPIRE. In this 1929 silent film from Fridrikh Ermler, a former soldier suffering from amnesia regains his memory and wakes up in the new-to-him Soviet Union, marked by new buildings, statues of Lenin and hearty socialist workers who assure him that now he is the boss. A political comedy with some bite, and for silent-film fans, a nice example of fabled Soviet montage. With live musical accompaniment.

7:30 p.m. Wed., May 6

Wild Tales 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. 11 a.m. Sun., May 10. Hollywood

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CASABLANCA. In this 1942 classic directed

by Michael Curtiz, an American guy has a café in Casablanca, Rick’s, where everybody goes. It all takes place in one room; the love story is hokey, based on ridiculous coincidences and interrupted by complicated war details, cheesy patriotism and one-liners; and there are dozens of bit players. Yet it’s as close to perfect as a Hollywood film ever was. Continues a month-long, Sunday-night series of highly quotable films. 8 p.m. Sun., May 10. Regent Square (AH) THE BREAKFAST CLUB. A little sad, a little happy is one way to sum up this 1985 dramedy about high school from John Hughes. You don’t need me to re-tell the plot (five kids from different cliques discover they have plenty in common). So, whether you’re a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess or a criminal — just be there when the bell rings. 7:30 p.m.

Wed., May 13. AMC Loews. $5 THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE. This 2013 documentary from Canadian filmmakers Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg charts the divergent histories of health care in Canada and the U.S., particularly the fight for a single-payer system. The screening continues a monthly series of films about labor and social justice presented by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 14.

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Thu., May 7 ORDERED TO FORGET. Khusein Erkenov’s docudrama relates how, during World War II, various ethnic groups were routed from their homelands. Here, it’s Chechens, in the mountain village of Khaibakh, who discover that compliance or resistance is equally futile, especially when mandated military expediency requires a horrific solution. In Russian and Chechen, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Fri., May 8 THE HOPE FACTORY. A northern industrial town offers a relatively comfortable life, but the trade-off is accepting a spoiled landscape, remote location and long, gloomy winters. Thus, in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s coming-of-age drama, teenage Sveta struggles with whether to stay — her friends combat the tedium with boozy antics — or go, but to where? In Russian, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Sat., May 9

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St. Jimmy performs The Food at Our Feet.

For an underground-arts initiative, Pittsburgh Fringe had a decent first year.

With stage performances by little-known artists in offbeat or improvised Shadyside venues, the 2014 festival drew about 1,000 and broke even financially, says Fringe founder Dan Stiker.

Stiker hopes to build on that success with the second Fringe, now relocated to a neighborhood where on-street parking is easier. The May 8-10 fest includes 75 performances of 25 individual productions. Most of them are spread across seven North Side venues, including: Max’s Allegheny Tavern; City of Asylum’s tent; the New Bohemian; and outsider-art landmark Randyland.

Because Fringe seeks to nurture performance talent, the festival remains uncurated: All applicants were accepted, Stiker says.

(Most proceeds also go directly to the artists, who this year paid application and venue fees, Stiker says.)

The program is a mix of local and visiting talent; most shows run an hour or less. Based partly on last week’s preview event, at Arnold’s Tea Shop, here are some of the more intriguing works.

Three fringe-circuit favorites make their local debuts. Philadelphia-based Chris Davis — who’s starred at Scotland’s famed Edinburgh Fringe — performs Bortle 8, a solo show about “a search for darkness in an age of artificial light.” Acclaimed, nationally touring St. Jimmy (“a perfected human being and everyday home cook”) explores TV cooking personalities like Paula Deen as manifestations of the divine in The Food at Our Feet. And ManDamsel and FellaLady offer the “musical family comedy” Tales Too Tall for Trailers.

Local performers include: Jennifer Schaupp (writer) and Joanna Lowe (performer) serving up Woman in the Raw, a solo piece about self-perception and social media; Cup-A-Jo Productions’ experimental-theater piece “Who is Bob Friendly?,” exploring one character from multiple perspectives; the troupe Jongleur’s improvised musical theater; and Kellee Van Aken and Cheryl Capezutti’s puppettheater work Songs from a Lost Civilization and Other Stories.

Offerings from local group StorySwap include “The Shades of Shel,” Sean Miller’s performance of poet Shel Silverstein’s blue, rhyming 30-minute solo Hamlet. The fest also includes a staging of John Cameron Mitchell’s cult-favorite rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

When moving between venues, watch out for The Traveling Salespeople of Fringe, a bit of interactive street theater from the group City of Play.

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HIS YEAR, THE Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival has a distinctly local flavor. But while the sixth annual incarnation is perhaps disappointingly short on out-of-town talent compared to years past, newMoves remains unique in the region as a showcase for both local and visiting artists performing new contemporary dance.

The festival runs May 7-9 at the KellyStrayhorn Theater and KST’s Alloy Studios.

It offers three nights of performances featuring works by 14 choreographers performed by 44 dancers, with most presenting artists based in Pittsburgh. This year’s festival has also expanded the number of complementary events, including workshops, master classes, mixers and parties.

Headlining this year’s festival is Minneapolis-based BodyCartography Project.

The troupe offers two performances, May 8 and 9 at KST’s Alloy Studios, of a 50-minute excerpt from its 2012 dance-theater work Super Nature. Founded in 1997 by New Zealand-native Olive Bieringa, BodyCartography Project’s contemporary-dance works range from intimate performance installations to interactive works in public space,

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like on mass transit and in parks. The company has performed across the U.S., and in Canada, Europe and South America.

We call it “a radical ecological melodrama,” says Bieringa, speaking of Super Nature by telephone from Minneapolis.

The work for eight dancers and four local guest performers is choreographed by Bieringa and co-artistic director Otto Ramstad.

NEWMOVES CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL

PROGRAM A: 8 p.m. Thu., May 7. PROGRAM B: 6 p.m. Fri., May 8. PROGRAM C: 9 p.m. Sat., May 9.

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. BodyCartography Project performs Super Nature 9 p.m. Fri., May 8, and 7 p.m. Sat., May 9. Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave., Friendship.

Individual events: $8-20 (festival pass: $50).

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The piece is set to an original soundscape

by Bessie Award-winning composer Zeena Parkins and explores the civilized and wild aspects of human nature.

The Pittsburgh debut of Super Nature

will be a separate ticketed event in addition to the festival’s trio of hour-long nightly programs at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater.

The latter include: Program A (Thu., May 7) is an all-local artist evening featuring Murphy/Smith Dance Collective’s Jamie Erin Murphy who is returning to newMoves for the fourth time, with her 2014 quartet “Makeshift.” Set to music by Ben Frost, the work “explores the idea of temporary replacement and support,” Murphy says.

Gravity and the metronome of time serve as inspirations for Alexandra Bodnarchuk’s “... and counting.” The solo, danced to an original composition by Brandon Musser, has Bodnarchuk grappling with these concepts and revealing what she says “is hidden beneath the seams of her existence.”

Yes Brain Dance Theater artistic director Moriah Ella Mason’s new work-in-progress duet “Diasporate” reflects on white American Jewish identity. Rounding out Program A is “memory 3: swimmoon,” a work-inprogress duet by dancers Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, a.k.a. slowdanger. Says Thompson: “The work is a reinterpretation of a memory in the present.”

Program B (Fri., May 8) will feature improv master Gia T. (Gia Cacalano) performing her new work-in-process “kimono.” Inspired by the traditional Japanese garment, its beauty and the culture surrounding it, she will create her solo in real time dancing to music

by Korean composer Jong Kagi Park.

Also on the program are works by three festival first-timers. Dancer/choreographer Jil Stifel investigates “how shared body schema can allow us to work intricately as a single unit” in her new work-in-progress duet “Knuckle Press.” Maree ReMalia, who recently relocated to Washington, D.C., returns with her troupe merrygogo in “Circulation Project,” a new work-in-progress about the phenomenon of habit. And veteran local dancemaker Joan Wagman premieres her dance-theater work for four dancers, “PINKIFICATION.” Set to a music mix that ranges from Bengali techno to a 1940s field-recording of a chain gang, the work, says Wagman, “explores the human urge to make troubling issues rosy.”

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The festival’s lone student-performed work comes from Athens, Ohio’s Factory Street Studio. “Revolution,” choreographed

by Elizabeth Atwell, reflects on what dance means to its quartet of high schoolage performers.

Filling out Program C are three works by area dancer/choreographers. Brady Sanders’ “The Screen Between Us” looks at our love affair with technology. Anthony Williams’ “beingHUMAN” explores sexuality and self-worth in the fast-paced world of clubbing. And Jean-Paul Weaver’s new solo, “Lalin,” explores humanity’s relationship with the moon.

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All of the works in the Freeman Center’s The Big Little Show: Art in Miniature are fascinating in their delicate intricacy, even if they make the viewer feel at times like a careful Godzilla treading lightly through Tokyo.

Lisa Demagall’s glass sculptures of chandeliers are beautiful in their fragile, finely crafted vulnerability. Exhibit curator and Freeman Center founder Sheila Ali’s “Hermeneutics in Outer Space” is a short, stopaction video with props made of found objects and discarded junk evoking the late, great Ray Harryhausen, including an awesome dog spun out of fur.

Pressing your eye to a peephole is worth it for a glimpse of Alberto Almarza’s astonishing dioramas, about the size of a deck of cards, such as “The Miniature Museum of Modern Art,” complete with renderings of works by Van Gogh and Dali smaller than postage stamps; the reproduction of “Guernica” is particularly breathtaking. Etta Cetera’s “The Miniature Library” is a desk strewn with tiny handmade volumes, matchbook-sized, gathered over several years from artists across the globe. The desire to pick these up and thumb through them, which is not allowed, borders on maddening.

Doug Duerring’s photographs themselves are large, colossal even within the context of the exhibition, but capture carefully constructed scenes of workers built with pieces that seem to be scaled to doll-house proportions (it’s hard to discern exact size), rendered in stark and moody black and white, nodding to a film noir aesthetic. Another photographic series documents models that Sandra Streiff created for Fred Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make Believe, along with the real-life local structures that inspired them. While the photos are fascinating, sadly, none of the models are present.

Be aware: As the pieces in this show are small, so is your window of opportunity to view them. Gallery hours are limited to Saturdays from 2-5 p.m., during special events and by appointment.

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Program C (Sat., May 9; contains adult content) features Philadelphia’s Megan Mazarick bringing an unlady-like approach to our cultural obsession with princesses in her new solo, “monster,” set to original music by Mohamed Shafik. “This idea of princesses and wanting to be one is so nauseating to me,” says Mazarick via Skype from Giza, Egypt, where she is premiering the work.

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a show remains unproduced for 25 years.

But now I’m convinced the hiatus was because the Theater Gods were waiting until {BY TED HOOVER} PICT director Alan Stanford could assemble THIS SEASON, PICT Classic Theatre has been Daina Michelle Griffith, Justin Lonesome, staging productions not just in its “home,” Caroline Nicolian and Jonathan Visser to at the Stephen Foster Memorial Theater, perform the material, and Douglas Levine but also in Downtown’s Trust Arts Educa- was available to function as music direction Center. For the second show in this tor, bringing together musicians John Marnew venue, the company is … well, “dis- cinizyn, Pierce Cook and P. J. Gatch. I cannot interring” might not be the right word, imagine this show will ever be as soaring as but there is an element of exhumation in what PICT has done.

Brel’s work — especially by contempopresenting Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well rary standards — can’t be easy material to and Living in Paris. perform (or, honestly, for an audience to cotton to). Resolutely rejecting the classic JACQUES BREL IS AABA structure, Brel’s songs are moody, ALIVE AND WELL AND range-y and infused with more than a little melancholy. If you get them right, however, LIVING IN PARIS they can fly, and this production gets every continues through Sat., May 9, at the Trust Arts Education Center, 805 Liberty Ave., Downtown, one absolutely right. and continues May 14-17 at the Henry Heymann Stanford’s directorial approach is stunTheatre, 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $7-54. ning — he treats each of the 25-plus num412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org bers as its own self-contained play, establishing the song’s universe and sending the This cabaret-styled revue of songs performers off to explore that world and

by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques locate the joy or heartache inside.

As an ensemble, noticeably in such Brel was put together by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, with English lyrics and numbers as “Old Folks” and “Next,” the cast additional material, for a lengthy off- is sublime. With Stanford’s direction and Broadway run in 1968. The show played Levine’s musical direction, the dramatic around the world, and every now and and musical tones are pitch-perfect. In again gets revived. But it’s been absent smaller pairings, Visser and Lonesome on from Pittsburgh stages for years. The first, “The Middle Class” and Griffith and Nicoand last, time I reviewed it was in the late lian with “Sons Of …,” the effect is haunting.

1980s, and my only recollection is that the And when each steps forward for his or her theater was so hot and humid by the eve- solo spot, it’s breathtaking.

A word to the wise: Most performances ning’s end that the cast — in white shirts and blouses — had sweated so profusely are already sold out, and the company has added five dates in Oakland. But no you could see through their clothes.

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Lisa Phillips {PHOTO COURTESY OF ROY GUMPEL}

{BY AKIRAH ROBINSON} Romantic crushes are universal and, typically, innocent experiences. But what happens when your crush is unrequited?

With time, most of us snap out of it and figure out how to cope. Others, however, find themselves trapped by incessant thoughts of their crush, unable to move on. In her book, Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession (Harper, $25.99), Lisa Phillips describes the plight of women faced with that struggle.

In the late 1990s, Phillips was pursuing her master degree in fine arts at the University of Pittsburgh when she fell in love with B, sharing tender moments with him, from Schenley Park to Eat’n Park. At some point, however, B began distancing himself, leading to Phillips’ rockbottom moment: an unannounced visit to his Squirrel Hill apartment at the crack of dawn.

When he opens the door, bat in hand, it’s clear to the reader (though perhaps not to a younger Phillips) that this visit was not only unannounced, but also unwelcome.

It’s the first of many personal experiences Phillips (now based in Woodstock, N.Y.) shares as she explores the topic of female romantic obsession. Her stories, along with the anecdotes of other women who also struggled to cope with one-sided love, are woven throughout the book.

Unrequited is well researched by Phillips, and the historical context she provides in each chapter is impressively comprehensive. For instance, in the chapter “Boy Chaser,” Phillips discusses the hormones that come into play when women act “masculine,” examples in literature of women pursuing men, and ample studies of the “male pursuer/female pursued” model of dating. Connecting this data with the stories of women who went to great lengths to pursue unavailable love interests makes the content interesting and relatable. Phillips makes good use of this writing style, motivating readers to consider their own experiences. For example, regardless of your gender, it’s likely you have either rejected gender roles in the past or cling tightly to them now. This particular chapter of Unrequited gives readers space to think about why — and it’s not the only chapter that offers such space.

When researching Unrequited, Phillips surveyed more than 260 women and interviewed 30 others, which suggests just how common romantic obsession is.

While Phillips does not justify inappropriate behavior, she finds a way to normalize the intense heartbreak that underlies it. In short, Unrequited offers a compassionate perspective toward those seeking insight into complicated heartache, particularly women struggling to move forward with their love lives.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks tonight. The astrophysicist, author and TV host (Cosmos, PBS’ Origins) is one of those rare humans who’s become nationally famous for being smart in public. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust event, at the Byham Theater, is sold out, but tickets are probably floating around somewhere in the solar system.

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The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal is acclaimed for both its plot and score. Tackling the issue of mental health, the Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey musical follows a suburban family struggling with the mother’s mental illness. Taking the audience into the mind and heart of each character, it’s a story of love and sympathy. A new

production by Stage 62, at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, stars Nick Black, Cynthia Dougherty, Chad Elder and Kristin Carmella. A special May 10 Mother’s Day event

His work went over big as part of a group exhibition this past summer. Now Travis K. Schwab is back at Revision Space with his first solo exhibition.

Scratching the Itch gathers new paintings and drawings by a local artist whose national illustration credits include New American Painting and The New Republic. Described as “mostly color-blind,” Schwab works in both color and black and white. His signature techniques include smeared and “out of focus” imagery.

The opening reception is tonight. BO 6-10 p.m. Exhibit continues through June 14.

5262 Butler St., Lawrenceville.

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Drawn from the collections of the National Museum of Wales, Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape opens at The Frick Art & Historical Center today. The exhibition explores landscape painting in Britain from the Industrial Revolution and the eras of Romanticism, Impressionism and Modernism through to postmodern imagery. The exhibit includes Lionel Walden’s 1985-97 Art by painting “Steelworks, K. is Trav Cardiff, at Night”. ab Schw Works by masters like Claude Lorrain, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable and MAY 08 e Itch t g th Claude Monet Scratching are also featured.

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#NOWSEETHIS is an evening of live music and new media art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, marking the first year of the Carnegie’s Hillman Photography Initiative. Organized by the museum and local music/art/tech collective VIA, it spotlights visiting performers Kelela, Lower Dens and Juliana Huxtable (about whom see more on page 25). One highlight of the visual-art offerings will in fact be integrated into the stage performances. Carnegie Mellon students led by Kevin Ramser — a VIA veteran specializing in media design — are collaborating with Berlin’s Pussykrew collective on live-mixed video for the shows. The artists will also be combining live camera feeds from the stage with CGI and live navigations of virtual environments; Ramser calls it “a way to explore liveness in CGI, and to ground content that feels ephemeral or artificial in something that’s happening physically in front of you, and in real time.” Also look for CMU students’ Augmentats, an installation offering temporary tattoos via virtual reality, and for CrashKiss, a group photo booth by artists Rollin and Tad Leonard that mashes two visitors’ faces together in a “surreal kiss” (pictured). In a more traditional vein, the evening also marks the launch of the Hillman Initiative’s print photo book A People’s History of Pittsburgh. Bill O’Driscoll 7-11 p.m. Sat., May 9. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-20. www.nowseethis.org/party

award-winning 2004 documentary about three women in New York City who became activists after their sons were unjustly killed by police. The film, which originally aired on PBS, screens today at Garfield’s BOOM Concepts as part of the Enough Is Enough Film Series, meant to spark social change.

The free screening is followed by a discussion facilitated by educator Maritza Mosquera and filmmaker and Enough Is Enough curator Thomas Poole. The series, presented by Provide/Media4U and Nommo Productions, concludes on May 16 at Artists Image Resource with the documentary The Central Park Five. BO Noon.

5139 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free. providemedia4u@gmail.com

{STAGE} Scottish playwright David Greig’s The Monster in the Hall was a highlight on local stages when City Theatre produced it in 2012: a raucous, music-filled comedy about salt-of-the-earth characters in urban Scotland.

Greig’s back at City with his

new one, Midsummer (a play with songs), and this time he has musical help from Gordon McIntyre, of Scottish rock band Ballboy. The show stars

first two performances are tonight. BO 5:30 and 9 p.m.

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{COMICS} The post-apocalyptic landscape is a nearly irresistible draw for artists.

The latest to turn his attention to it is Josh Simmons, whose work includes the acclaimed graphic novel

Randy Redd and Carey Van Driest, in their City debuts, as a small-time crook and a divorce lawyer who are launched on a wild weekend in Edinburgh by some ill-gotten cash, a local gangster and plenty of booze.

“Midsummer is all about new beginnings,” says City’s Tracy Brigden, who directs. The

{WORDS} “This is the best book of poems about Kansas by a native Kansan that I have ever read,” said poet and critic B.H. Fairchild about the work of Jeff Worley. Poet Worley, who writes about the vortex of human experience that is Wichita and his fading family, reads tonight at East End Book Exchange. The author of five books and three chapbooks, and editor of one anthology, Worley’s career spans decades.

Joining him is local poet Charlie Brice. ZM 7 p.m.

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{MARKET} No longer simply unwanted clothes and old knick-knacks, flea markets have become more chic over the past few years. The Neighborhood Flea, launched this past summer, returns today to the Strip District. Created to connect

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It doesn’t get any more local, or natural, than stuff you find growing in the woods. Today, Powdermill Nature Reserve continues its Sunday Science and Nature Lecture Series with “Wild Edibles and Medicinal Herbs,” a nature talk and weather-permitting interpretive hike about trees, herbs and fungi usable for food and wellness. The program at this Carnegie Museum of Natural History facility, located east of Pittsburgh, is free.

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H3O, an artist series hosted by artist group The Drift, aims to transform bodies of water into immersive experiences in sound, expanded media and installation art. For the second event, H3O//002, the group teams with a Carnegie Mellon School of Art Urban Intervention class to develop an exhibit along the Allegheny River. The showcase, which takes place under Veterans Bridge tonight, features audio/visual installations and virtual-reality experiences.

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MUSICAL. A musical comedy about a group of die-hard bingo players & friends whose lives are thrown into a tizzy when a young stranger blows through their bingo hall & makes them confront their past.

Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 17, 3 p.m. Thru May 17.

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CHARLEY’S AUNT. When Charley’s aunt’s visit is delayed, Charley & Jack persuade their friend Lord Fancourt Babberly to impersonate her. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m.

Thru May 18. McKeesport Little Theater, McKeesport.

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THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Donizetti’s comic opera presented by Pittsburgh Opera. Fri., May 8, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 10, 2 p.m.

Benedum Center, Downtown.

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MEN ARE FROM MARS, Prize-winning play presented by WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre A one-man fusion of theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, & stand-up w/ John Frusciante, 3 & 8 p.m. Thru May 30. Pittsburgh based on the book. May 7-8, Playwrights Theatre, Downtown.

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A rock musical about an 724-836-8000. escape from East Berlin & THE MOUSETRAP. glam rock. Fri., May 8, Prime Stage presents 6:30 & 10:15 p.m. and Agatha Christie’s Sun., May 10, 3:30 p.m. murder mystery classic.

The New Bohemian, Sun, 2:30 p.m. and Fri, North Side. www. per pa Sat, 8 p.m. Thru May 412-983-1993. pghcitym .co 17. New Hazlett Theater, HELLO DOLLY! Jerry North Side.

Herman’s classic musical NEXT TO NORMAL. A presented by Mon River Arts. musical exploring how one Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. suburban household copes Thru May 17. Grand w/ crisis & mental illness.

Theatre, Elizabeth. 412-405-8425.

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JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE Thru May 18. Andrew Carnegie & WELL & LIVING IN PARIS. Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

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Nothing’s On. Presented by Valley Thru May 9. Trust Arts Education Players of Ligonier. Sun, 2:30 p.m.

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OTHELLO. William Shakespeare’s classic drama. Presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Wed-Sat, 2 & 7 p.m., Tue, 7 p.m., Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun., May 17, 7 p.m. Thru May 17.

O’Reilly Theater, Downtown.

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SOMETHING’S AFOOT. A musical that takes a satirical poke at Agatha Christie mysteries & musical styles of the English music hall of the ‘30’s. Thu-Sat, 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 16. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 412-831-8552.

THE WHALE. A six-hundred pound recluse hides away in his apartment eating himself to death. Desperate to reconnect w/ his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued & wildly unhappy teen. Fri, Sat. Thru May 9. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576.

WOMAN IN THE RAW. A one-woman show generated from personal blog entries, monologues, & Facebook status updates, by Jen Schaupp, performed by Joanna Lowe.

Part of Pittsburgh Fringe Festival.

Sat., May 9, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 10, 3:30 p.m. Randyland, North Side. 412-781-4439.

fashion, accessories, housewares, vinyl, home décor, artwork, books, toys, small furniture and collectibles will be for sale. Jump into the time warp by grooving to a few DJ sets, trying your hand at a cocktail demonstration or stopping for a trim at Graham’s Barbershop. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Sat., May 9. 1212 Smallman St., Strip District. $10. 412-454-6000

DERICK MINTO. Open mic. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

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PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown.

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FRI 08 TY MAC. Fundraiser for Mothers Against Cancer. 8 p.m.

Royal Place, Castle Shannon.

412-338-1919.

FRI 08 - SAT 09 LISA DAPPRICH. 8 p.m. and Sat., May 9, 7 & 10 p.m.

Latitude 360, North Fayette.

412-693-5555.

SAT 09 JEFF BLANCHARD, TOM MUSIAL, DAVID KAYE. Fundraiser for the Allenport Civic Club. 8 p.m. Allenport Municipal Building, Allenport.

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“Cadmium Sky” (collage and encaustic on board, 2014), by Dawn Tekler. From the exhibition Light From the Furnace, at Shaw Galleries, Downtown.

NEW THIS WEEK FIELDWORK: CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY. Moving Language.

Artist talk w/ Sarah Zeffiro, w/ art & music. Garfield.

412-573-1870.

FUTURE TENANT. Daydreaming Through a Child’s Eyes. An installation exhibition by Dave Calfo alongside Pittsburgh Children’s Festival. Opens May 8.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Diane Grguras. New pastel paintings. Opening reception May 8, 7-10pm. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

REVISION SPACE. Scratching the Itch. Work by Travis K. Schwab. Opening reception May 8, 6-10pm.

Lawrenceville. 412-735-3201.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Following the Visual Path.

Sculpture by Paul Ben-Zvi & works on paper by Richard Claraval. Opening reception May 9, 5-8pm. Friendship.

412-441-0194.

VAGABOND GALLERY. Vagabond Gallery Opening.

May 9th launch, from 5-8pm, of a three month pop up gallery, open until the end of July. Shadyside.

412-913.4966.

ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. Vascular Caverns. Papercut sculpture depicting abstracted, anatomical imagery by Gianna Paniagua.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

709 PENN GALLERY. One Out of Many, One People. Works

by Tamara Natalie Madden. An exploration of the vast cultural heritage of Jamaica. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE. Ceramic Tile Quilt Exhibit. Raising awareness of domestic violence.

Downtown. 855-222-8211.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Exposures. Works from Pittsburgh based artist, Cecilia Ebitz’s “Good Intentions”, inspired by the work & teachings of Corita Kent.

Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side.

412-237-8300.

ART SPACE 616. Martin Prekop.

A survey of work from the 1970s to the present. Sewickley.

412-259-8214.

ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery.

The works of Timothy Kelley & other regional & US artists on display. Sculpture, oil & acrylic paintings, mixed media, found objects, more. North Side.

724-797-3302.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Vixens from the Vault. Pin-Up Photography

by Laura Petrilla. Downtown.

412-325-6766.

BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Only Perfect Quiet. Painting by Tony Cavalline. Barco Law Library Gallery. Oakland. 412-648-1376.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Visions.

Work in oils & watercolors by Bill Perry. Work by Dorothy DeGroat in the Different Strokes Gallery.

Verona. 412-828-1031.

BUTLER ART CENTER. 2015 Spring Art Show.

Works by many artists in the mediums of painting, drawing, photography & digital art, mixed media, sculpture, fiber art, ceramics & printmaking.

Butler. 724-283-6922.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Visiting Van Gogh: Still Life, Basket of Apples.

Van Gogh’s “Still Life, Basket of Apples” (1887), ”Le Moulin de la Galette” (1886–1887), “Wheat Fields after the Rain” (1890), & Paul Signac’s “Place des Lices, St. Tropez”, visiting from the Saint Louis Art Museum. Sketch to Structure.

Unfolding the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape. Will close temporarily on May 25 & reopen on June 6. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

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

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Two Italian Masters. Works by Pier Luigi & Laura D’Andrea. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ 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.

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Awards from the International Hall of Fame. Oakland.

412-648-7446.

DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement & history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

412-486-0563.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

TUESDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. 724-329-8501.

Tue, 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows.

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by FORT PITT MUSEUM. Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m.

Reconstructed fort houses Scarpaci’s Place, Mt. Washington. museum of Pittsburgh history 412-431-9908. circa French & Indian War & American Revolution. Downtown.

412-281-9285.

ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY FRICK ART & HISTORICAL HERITAGE MUSEUM. CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Military artifacts & exhibits Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ classes on the Allegheny Valley’s & programs for all ages. Point industrial heritage. Tarentum.

Breeze. 412-371-0600.

724-224-7666.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour ANDREW CARNEGIE this Tudor mansion & FREE LIBRARY MUSIC stable complex. Enjoy HALL. Capt. Thomas hikes & outdoor Espy Room Tour. activities in the The Capt. Thomas Espy surrounding park.

Post 153 of the Grand www. per Allison Park. pa Army of the Republic pghcitym 412-767-9200. .co served local Civil War KENTUCK KNOB. Tour veterans for over 54 the other Frank Lloyd years & is the best preserved Wright house. 724-329-8501. & most intact GAR post in NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to the United States. Carnegie. more than 600 birds from over 412-276-3456.

200 species. W/ classes, lectures, BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. demos & more. Masters of the Sky. Large collection of automatic Explore the power & grace of the roll-played musical instruments & birds who rule the sky. Majestic music boxes in a mansion setting. eagles, impressive condors, Call for appointment. O’Hara. stealthy falcons and their friends 412-782-4231. take center stage! North Side.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

412-323-7235.

Preserved materials reflecting NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 the industrial heritage of rooms helping to tell the story Southwestern PA. Homestead. of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

412-464-4020.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. 412-624-6000.

Distant Feel. Work by Antoine OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church Catala that re-brands empathy. features 1823 pipe organ, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

Revolutionary War graves. Scott.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. 412-851-9212.

Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. (planetarium), Miniature Railroad This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion & Village, USS Requin submarine site features log house, & more. H2Oh! Experience kinetic blacksmith shop & gardens. water-driven motion & discover South Park. 412-835-1554. the relations between water, PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY land & habitat. How do everyday MUSEUM. Trolley rides & decisions impact water supply exhibits. Includes displays, & the environment? North Side. walking tours, gift shop, 412-237-3400. picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

CARRIE FURNACE. Carrie Blast Washington. 724-228-9256.

Furnace. Built in 1907, Carrie PHIPPS CONSERVATORY Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely rare & BOTANICAL GARDEN. examples of pre World War II Butterfly Forest. Watch iron-making technology. Rankin. butterflies emerge from their 412-464-4020 x 21. chrysalises to flutter among CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF tropical blooms. Summer Flower PITTSBURGH. Missing Links Show. Watch as model trains (The Rainbow Jumpy). Bounce, chug through living landscapes & jump, roll, run & walk through displays of lush foliage & vibrant a 30-foot inflatable “jumpy” art piece created by Felipe Dulzaides blooms. 14 indoor rooms & 3 & on loan from The New Children’s outdoor gardens feature Museum, in San Diego CA. North exotic plants & floral displays from Side. 412-322-5058. around the world. Tropical Forest CONNEY M. KIMBO Congo. An exhibit highlighting GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh some of Africa’s lushest landscapes.

Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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FIVE MINUTES OF FAME OPEN MIC. A melting pot of poets, singers, comedians, dancers, musicians & entertainers.

Presented by Chicksburgh. Sun, 8 p.m. Thru May 31 Gus’s Cafe, Lawrenceville. 412-315-7271.

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PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Orotones. A display of glass plate images which have been enhanced w/ real gold-laced lacquers to bring a gilded-tone to the people & places depicted.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club.

West View. 412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos & artifacts of her life & work. Springdale.

724-274-5459.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. We Can Do It!: WWII. Discover how Pittsburgh affected World War II & the war affected our region. Explore the development of the Jeep, produced in Butler, PA & the stories behind real-life “Rosie the Riveters” & local Tuskegee Airmen whose contributions made an unquestionable impact on the war effort. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more.

From Slavery to Freedom.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. 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 & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale.

412-407-2570.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling & coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. West Overton.

724-887-7910.

FESTIVALS SAT 09 BLOGORDIE MUSIC CONFERENCE. A music conference allowing artists to network w/ & perform for music industry professionals.

1 p.m. Hyatt House, South Side.

412-689-7979.

FRIENDSHIP FLOWER & FOLK FESTIVAL. A neighborhood event w/ local musicians, book sale, arts & crafts, vendors & locally grown flowers. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Film Showcase & Photography Exhibit. A photography exhibit featuring work by six students in The Photography Intensive program. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Fabrizio Gerbino. New paintings by artist. Oakland.

412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Looking Forward, Looking Back.

Work by Dennis Bergevin & Leonard Leibowitz. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. 100 Flowers Bloomed. Work by Brian Gonnella. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

GALLERY-VERY FINE ART. Group Show. Work by Linda Price-Sneddon, Peggy Habets, James E. Trusko & others.

South Side. 412-901-8805.

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.

HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. Annual Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibit. Showcasing Pittsburgh area artists. New Castle. 724-652-2882.

HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Elements.

Drawings & watercolors of bird nests w/ a focus on the natural & man-made materials incorporated into these architectural structures.

The featured artists are Sue Abramson, Wendy Brockman, David Morrison & Kate Nessler.

Oakland. 412-268-2434.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. The Big

THE STEEL CITY PIZZAFEST. Activities, crafts, vendors, pizza and live performances from The Pressure, The Bessemers, Devon Moses & The Saved, The Turpintiners & Molly Alphabet. 12-6 p.m. Arsenal Park, Lawrenceville.

DANCE THU 07 - SAT 09 NEWMOVES CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL. 4 dancers, 14 choreographers, 3 nights of performances, workshops, panels, more. May 7-9 Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

SAT 09 THE CHINESE NUTCRACKER. A Chinese twist on the

Little Show. An exhibition curated by Sheila D. Ali w/ local & international artists: Abira Ali, Alberto Almarza, Bill Shannon, Dougie Duerring, Eliza Henderson, Etta Cetera, Katy Dement, Laverne Kemp, Lisa Demagall, Nino Balistrieri (ACBIII), Michael “Fig” Magniafico, Merrily Mossman McAllister, Ryder Henry, Sandra Streiff, Sheila Ali & Waylon Richmond. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy.

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

412-281-1922.

LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. 724-316-9326.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Artists in Residence. Installations created in-residence by Danny Bracken, John Peña, Ryder Henry, Kathleen Montgomery, & Benjamin Sota. Part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial.

Ongoing Installations.

Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side.

412-231-3169.

MICHAEL HERTRICH ART & FRAME. Landscape & Abstraction. Work by Patrick Ruane. South Side.

412-431-3337.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots!

A mixed media show exploring the common teapot in uncommon ways.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Shades of Spring Craft Show.

Featuring hand-crafted, unique items from more than 30 artisans. Proceeds benefit children’s art programs at the North Hills Art Center. Ross.

412-364-3622.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. ABC@PGC. A colorful

299 2 29 9 West Bridge St. We W West e Homestead, PA

exhibition feat. glass sculptures combined w/ an interactive illuminated word building piece that visitors can touch, rearrange & wear like apparel.

Created by Jen Elek & Jeremy Bert. Friendship. 412-365-2145.

SHAW GALLERIES. Light from the Furnace. Industrial themed artworks by Lyudmila Devlysh, Dawn Tekler, Mark Muse, Dave Kelsch, Sasha Williams & a mystery guest artist.

Downtown. 412-281-4884.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. A World Imagined: Kelli Connell & Sara Macel. Photography that reflects on authorship, on photographic construction & on the ways in which we define relationships through our subjective experiences of them. South Side.

412-431-1810.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Bridge 13. Work by Elisabeth Higgins, Keith Lo Bue, & Jason Walker. Strip District. 412-261-7003.

SPACE. The Sideways Museum. A collection of works by Pittsburgh-based artists exploring folk & visionary art traditions.

Viewable 24 hrs. a day w/ periodic alterations. Interior open for special occasions.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Selections From The Elgin Park Series.

Photographs by Michael Paul Smith. Shaping New Worlds.

A national exhibition of constructed photography.

Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. The World Revolves Around You. Work by HC Gilje.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Nutcracker presented by Yanlai Dance Academy. 7 p.m.

Byham Theater, Downtown.

412-456-6666.

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Lemont, Mt. Washington.

412-348-2588.

SUN 10 SUNDAYSERIES @ POINTBREEZEWAY. Dancer/Choreographer Jessica Marino, Musician Janelle Burdell, & Dancer/Choreographer Jamie Erin Murphy. 4 p.m.

PointBreezeway, Point Breeze.

412-335-5293.

MON 11 8TH ANNUAL RACE FOR GRACE. Family-friendly 5K run/walk & 1 mile walk for pediatric brain cancer. 7 a.m.

Norwin High School, North Huntingdon. 412-848-7201.

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Pittsburgh Opera, Strip District.

412-421-4787.

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Awake After a car accident, a detective’s life is split into two worlds: one where his wife survived and one where his son survived. This 2012 NBC show only had one season, but it’s available now on streaming services.

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This recent report shows that 274,000 people in Allegheny County live within a half-mile of freight lines that carry potentially explosive crude oil.

There’s even a handy map to see if your house is in an evacuation zone! www.publicsource.org

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A rabbit’s head on a human body. A decorative faux taxidermy-style deer head. A robot in a business suit. Who wouldn’t want these locally made, totally bizarre hand-sculpted statues in their home? www.eastendgoods.com

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Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

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.

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.

Lot 17, Bloomfield. 412-687-8117.

RICHARD MILNER. Presenting his new book “Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms.”

12 p.m. The University Store on Fifth, Oakland. 412-648-1455.

SPOKEN JAZZ. Open mic-less night w/ musical accompaniment for poetry, prose, song, more. First Thu of every month, 8-10 p.m.

The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

SAT 09 PITTSBURGH WRITERS PROJECT - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS. Second Sat of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

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

PRETTY OWL POETRY SPOTLIGHT SERIES. A night of poetry & flash fiction, w/ Jennifer Jackson Berry, Kamala Gopalakrishnan, Jill Khoury, & Jason Peck. 7 p.m. Classic Lines, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-2220.

TUE 12 PITTSBURGH CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP. Tue, 6 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

STEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m.

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

KIDSTUFF THU 07 - WED 13 ALLEGHENY COUNTY MARBLES PROGRAM. Free games & lessons for children 14 & under. Tournaments.

Various locations. Thru May 27.

412-821-5779.

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

SAT 09 FAMILY PARTY NIGHTS. Hands-on dinosaur, nature & culture-related activities, shows in the Earth Theater, face painting, live animal encounters, take-home artifacts, snacks, more.

Advance registration required.

Registration closes one week before the event. 6-8:30 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland.

412-622-3288.

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International Queer Burlesque Festival Friday Night Showcase, Cattivo Bar, Lawrenceville CRITIC: Krystol Thomas, 25, a correctional officer from Beechview WHEN: Fri.,

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This is my home bar. I fucking love it, and I love burlesque.

I love coming out to support everything they do. I knew what to expect, but being here and watching it is just mind-blowing. The performers were fantastic; I can’t even pick a favorite. It’s so great to see the queer community coming together, especially queer burlesque performers.

The way they bring it, their charisma, their stage presence is everything. It’s completely amazing. I’ve been to other burlesque festivals, and this one has much more of a variety. It’s not just cut one way. It’s cut all different ways.

It’s a little bit more experimental. The events seem to be running really smoothly. I went to the show yesterday at Blue Moon as well, and the performers were fantastic there, too. I’m just ready to see more.

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PENNY ARCADE: KIDS COMEDY SHOW. Second Sat of every month, 1 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.

412-339-0608.

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MUD ON THE MOUNTAIN. The seven mile mud run & obstacle course. 8 a.m. Seven Springs. 814-352-7777.

MAKER STORY TIME. Explore SPRING BIRD WALK. Steve tools, materials & processes Gosser & Mary Ann Thomas inspired by books. Listen to lead a spring migratory bird stories read by librarian-turnedouting. Pre-registration is Teaching Artist Molly. Mon, required by emailing friendsof 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s harrisonhills@comcast.net Museum of Pittsburgh, or calling 724-224-4102.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

Overlook Shelter. 8:30 a.m.

Harrison Hills Park, Natrona Heights.

HOMEWORK HELP. SPRING NATURE For grades 1-8. Tue, WALK. Bring sturdy, 3:30-5:30 p.m. water resistant www. per Assemble, Garfield. walking or hiking pa pghcitym 412-432-9127. o .c shoes & dress for the YOUNG NATURE weather. 10 a.m. Bushy EXPLORERS CLASS. Run Battlefield, Jeannette.

Getting kids outside, exploring 724-527-5584. nature. Pre-registration required, THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 724-935-2170. Latodami Nature MUSHROOM CLUB. Meet Center. Second Tue of every Western Pennsylvania month, 9:30-11 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m.

Mushroom Club Identifier North Park, Allison Park.

Joyce Gross at the Watts 724-935-1766.

Overlook parking lot. 10 a.m.

Harrison Hills Park, Natrona Heights. 724-295-3570.

HOP INTO HISTORY: WWII. A program for 2-5 yr. olds. Plant a WEDNESDAY MORNING mini victory garden to take home WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or & help make food based on shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, wartime recipes. Registration Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100. required. 10:30-11:15 a.m. Senator THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA John Heinz History Center, MUSHROOM CLUB. Meet Moni Strip District. 412-454-6000.

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Hartwood Acres, Allison Park.

412-767-9200.

OTHER STUFF THU 07 AROMATHERAPY & ESSENTIAL OILS. Learn what essential oils are & how to use them for your benefit.

Angora Gardens. Registration required. 1-2:30 p.m.

White Oak Park, White Oak. 412-675-8556.

BIOPHILIA: PITTSBURGH. A meet-up group dedicated to strengthening the bond between people & the natural world. Come discuss an enviromental topic & share ideas. 5:30 p.m.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

412-622-6914.

EARLY INTERVENTION FAMILIES WORKSHOP. Workshop Topics: Parenting a Child w/ Developmental Delays; Creating a Plan for your Child & Family; Advocating for your Child, The Parent Movement; Early Intervention Laws & Your Rights in the Early Intervention System; Promising Practices: Inclusion, Family Centered Principles, Parent/Professional Partnerships; Finding Community Resources.

Thu, 6-8:30 p.m. Achieva, South Side. 412-323-3979.

HIGHER EDUCATION 1.

Workshop led by Bridget Kennedy, Bidwell Training Academy. Call to register.

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Environment & Energy Community Outreach Center, Larimer. 412-904-4718.

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

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON. An evening w/ American astrophysicist, author & science communicator.

7:30 p.m. Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

ZEN MEDITATION. Hosted

by City Dharma. Thu, 6:30-8 p.m. and Sat, 7-8:30 a.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

ZERO-DAY THREATS AROUND THE WORLD. Learn about online security threats over beers & appetizers.

Presented by Dagostino Electronic Services, Inc. & Fortinet. 3 p.m. Penn Brewery, North Side. 412-894-7024.

THU 07 - SAT 09 RED EMPIRE RELOADED. The 17th Annual Russian Film Symposium presents classic & modern films. Wesley Posvar Hall & Melwood Screening Room. www.rusfilm.pitt.edu.

FRI 08 AFRICAN DANCE CLASS. Second and Third Fri of every month and Fourth and Last Fri of every month Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield.

412-924-0634.

THE FLAVOR OF PITTSBURGH! Visit iconic ‘Burgh eateries featured in Man vs. Food; Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives; Food & Wine magazine; Huffington Post & more.

Wed, Fri, 10 a.m. Thru May 8 Crazy Mocha Coffee Company, Downtown. 412-323-4709.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m.

Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale. 412-945-0554.

YOUTH INVASION: EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE. Multi-faceted project featuring teens’ unique take on Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, w/ a fashion show, bands, dancers, & poets.

5 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300.

the Hillman Photography Initiative’s first year. 7-10 p.m.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

PARSEC MEETING. Monthly meetings for Pittsburgh’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization feature guest speakers & discussions. Second Sat of every month, 1:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill.

412-287-0896.

THE PITTSBURGH BREWERY TOUR. Visit the three most iconic breweries in Pittsburgh.

Tour includes safe transportation to all locations, an entertaining guide, craft beer samples & guided tours at each brewery.

11:30 a.m. and Sat., June 20, 11:30 a.m. The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-323-4709.

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.

SECOND SATURDAY ART WORKSHOPS. Classes in jewelry making, painting,

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boundaries while building practical coping techniques & tools in a confidential, healing & supportive environment. Sat, 10:30 a.m.

Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry.

412-366-1300 ex. 129.

ZEN MEDITATION. Hosted

by City Dharma. Thu, 6:30-8 p.m. and Sat, 7-8:30 a.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

SUN 10 H3O. Meet beneath Veteran’s Bridge. Transform sites along the rivers of Pittsburgh into immersive experiences in sound, cinema, & new media art, featuring video work from 14 international artists & animators.

9 p.m. North Shore Trail, North Side. 412-499-0843.

NATURE LECTURE SERIES: WILD EDIBLES & MEDICINAL HERBS. Learn about the uses & seasonality of some familiar plants as well as plants you’ve never noticed before. 1 p.m.

Powdermill Nature Reserve.

724-593-6105.

NEIGHBORHOOD FLEA. Local small businesses, food trucks, live music & workshops at 23rd Street & Penn Avenue.

Second Sun of every month, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thru Oct. 11, Strip District.

$2 16oz Lite drafts & $6 Lit Lite Pitchers DURING PIRATES GAMES

Alexion’s

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Gay for Good is a national community-service group that mobilizes LGBT outreach with monthly volunteer projects.

G4G is seeking volunteers for a Lawrenceville clean-up day in honor of the late San Francisco politician Harvey Milk.

Volunteers are needed on multiple sites to pick up trash, mulch, plant flowers and more. 9 a.m.-noon. Sat., May 23.

Search “Gay for Good Pittsburgh” on Facebook for more information.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly meeting. Second Mon of every month, 7 p.m.

First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A support group for women 30+. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry. 412-366-1300.

TUE 12 SAT 09 BEECHVIEW CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION. Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo in one of Pittsburgh’s most Hispanic neighborhoods w/ live Hispanic music & dance, Mexican food & beer, more. 12-10 p.m. Las Palmas, Beechview.

BIRMINGHAM BIKE-TACULAR. A block party for all things bike related on 24th St. in the South Side. 12-5 p.m.

CONTAINER GARDENING: PREPARING & CARING FOR EDIBLE VEGETABLES IN CONTAINERS. Led by Mykie Reidy. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

LIVING WITH CANCER: DEVELOPING A FAMILY TOOLKIT. Learn how to deal w/ stress & create an emotional toolkit for yourself & your family.

2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141. #NOWSEETHIS: DANCE, SNAP, SHARE. Come celebrate

cartooning, puppet making, quilting, more. Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown.

412-471-6079.

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

Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. 412-441-0194.

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

VINTAGE PITTSBURGH. A vendor fair of vintage goods presented in partnership w/ Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6000.

WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side.

412-224-2827.

WOMEN’S SELF CARE SUPPORT GROUP. Reduce stress, tackle anxiety & strengthen

BEGINNING UKULELE. Learn the basics of selecting & playing a uke. 7 p.m. and Tue., May 26, 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

CAPOEIRA ANGOLA. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634.

COLLEGE CAREER DAY FAIR. Open to children in Kindergarten through fifth grade. Representatives from Penn State, Duquesne, Pitt, & Robert Morris. 12 p.m.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery, Downtown. 412-577-5140.

FALLOW GROUNDS & NEU CITY ARTIST TALKS. Discussions w/ Sarika Goulatia, Jesse Kauppila, Nicole Anderson & Scotty Bye. 7-9 p.m. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224.

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THE WORLD CLASS BATTLEFIELD NEXT DOOR THE BATTLE OF BRADDOCK’S FIELDS, 1755”. Speaker Robert T. Messner, director of the Braddock’s Battlefield History Center. 7:30 p.m.

Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-417-3707.

WED 13 ARTATTACK PITTSBURGH. Live Competitive Painting.

7 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side.

412-381-6811.

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP. For Widows/Widowers over 50. Second and Fourth Wed of every month, 1-2:30 p.m.

St. Sebastian Church, Ross.

412-366-1300.

CONVERSATION SALON. A forum for active participation in the discussion of the meaningful & interesting events of our time.

Large Print Room. Second Wed of every month, 10:15 a.m.12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

DETROIT STYLE URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m.

Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg.

412-242-4345.

EDEN HALL TOUR. Learn how the campus is being built as a sustainable community from below the ground, up.

Dress to be outside in any weather & wear shoes you don’t mind getting muddy.

4 p.m. Chatham University Eden Hall Campus, Gibsonia.

412-365-2416.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome.

Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.

AUDITIONS ADVANCED LABOR & CULTURAL STUDIES. Seeking an actress & a singer/guitarist for a production of “Woody & Marjorie: Hard Traveling”.

Please be familiar w/ the songs of Woody Guthrie. If you are interested, email outreach@ alcstudies.org with “audition” in the subject line for more info.

Thru June 1. 412-353-3756.

JOHNNY APPLESEED CHILDREN’S THEATRE. Seeking adults, teens & youngsters over 8 years old to audition for “The Invisible Dragon”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” & the musical, “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs”.

May 1, play auditions 9am 11am & musical auditions, 12-3pm. Schedule by emailing: boxoffice @applehillplayhouse. org. Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont. 724-468-5050.

THE JUNIOR MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Seeking young singers from 8th through 12th grades.

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theater may be performed, in First Fridays - Art in a Box. but these should demonstrate a For more information, email classical singing technique rather thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com. than belting. To schedule an Ongoing. 412-403-7357. audition call Emily Stewart at GIRL GOV. Open to all girls 412-926-2488. Auditions will be entering 9th-12th grade in conducted on August 27, after the Fall of 2015 who live in 3:30pm. Third Presbyterian southwestern PA. Girls will Church, Oakland. travel to Harrisburgh to shadow THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR gov. officials, learn about civics, OF PITTSBURGH. Spring advocacy, philanthropy, community auditions for all voice parts involvement, youth organizing, for the 2015/2016 season. women’s history & leadership.

Volunteer singers will be heard Apply online. http://wgfpa.org/ on May 11, 12 & 13. Professional what-we-do/activities/girl-gov/ Core singers will be heard Deadline May 15.

May 17, 18 & 19. For audition THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY criteria & to make an appt, go to HOUR REVIEW. Seeking www.themendelssohn.org. Third submissions in all genres for Presbyterian Church, Oakland. fledgling literary magazine 724-263-5259. curated by members of the THE PITTSBURGH SAVOYARDS. Hour After Happy Hour Writing Stage & vocal auditions for Workshop. afterhappyhourreview.

“Iolanthe”, June 22, 7:30-9pm com Ongoing. & June 24, 7:30-9pm. Prepare INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. a song from either Gilbert & Submit your film, 10 minutes Sullivan (preferred), standard or less. Screenings held on the musical theater or classical.

Accompanist provided. second Thursday of every Bring resume & headshot. month. Ongoing. DV8 No appt. necessary.

Espresso Bar & Gallery, Our Lady of Victory Greensburg.

Maronite Catholic 724-219-0804.

Church, Carnegie.

THE MT. LEBANON ww. r w 412-734-8476. pape ARTISTS’ MARKET. pghcitym SEWICKLEY AREA .co Looking for artists THEATRE COMPANY. for a T-Shirt Design Auditions for “The Wizard Contest for the 2015 Of Oz”. May 11 & 12, 6pm. event. The winning design All ages. Prepare a 32 bar will be printed on T-Shirts musical theatre uptempo song to be sold at this year’s market. or ballad & a short (< 1 minute) The contest is open to everyone. monologue from a contemporary For details visit http:// play or musical. More info at www.cwpress.com/art-prep/. www.sewickleymusicals.org.

Deadline May 15.

St. James Parish, Sewickley.

THE NEW YINZER. Seeking 412-879-0355. original essays about literature, THE THEATRE FACTORY. music, TV or film, & also essays Seeking men & women 18 + generally about Pittsburgh. To for a production of “Chicago”. see some examples, visit www.

Prepare 32 bars of Musical newyinzer.com & view the current theater rep-jazz or swing & issue. Email all pitches, submissions one 2 minute monologue. & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail.

There will be a group com. Ongoing. choreography audition. Bring THE POET BAND COMPANY. picture & resume. Audition dates are May 15, 6-9pm & Seeking various types of poetry.

May 16, 1-4pm. Call 724-374-9200 Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. or email tfauditions@gmail.com com Ongoing. for an audition slot. The PRINTMAKING 2015. Work Theatre Factory, Trafford. must be original, created within the last three years & not previously exhibited within a 150 THE AUTHORS’ ZONE. radius of Pittsburgh. A printmaking Accepting submissions for process – relief, intaglio, silkscreen the 2nd Annual TAZ Awards, lithography, monotype – must showcasing independent be central to the execution of all authors from Southwestern PA entries. Photographs, offset & beyond. Entrants must reproductions, or reproductions complete the online entry form of artwork originally produced (www.theauthorszone.com) & in another medium will not be submit payment by August 1, 2015 considered. Deadline June 2. for their work to be considered.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 412-563-6712.

Shadyside. 304-723-0289.

BOULEVARD GALLERY & THE WRITERS’ PRESS POETRY DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. CHAPBOOK COMPETITION. Searching for glass artists, fiber Open to new & emerging artists, potters, etc. to compliment writers. No theme restrictions. the exhibits for 2015 & 2016.

Prizes include publication w/ Booking for both galleries for Createspace & online distribution 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 w/ Amazon & Barnes & Noble. months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. thewriterspress@gmail.com.

THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate Thru May 30.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

Last summer, I reconnected with a high school teacher I hadn’t seen for a year. We first met when I was 15, and I had nothing but respect for him and his intelligence. I also had a crush on him for the next four years. Fast-forward a year. He is sexting me and sending dick pics and wants to hook up. He has told me he loves me. I feel violated and tricked, like he was supposed to be someone I could trust and he didn’t respect that. Now I wonder how teachers really see underage high school girls. This whole experience has made me feel dirty.

Moreover, he has never respected that I want nothing to do with his advances. I met with a former classmate, and she told me that this teacher and another teacher said similar things to her. Ew! Most former classmates of mine still believe him to be a respectable man and a great teacher. But I know him for what he really is, and when I think of it, I get so angry. How do I move on from this?

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of their careers as educators — but if these guys are trying to fuck their current students and/or grooming their current students for fucking after they graduate, then both should get the fuck out of teaching.

As for feeling dirty, STOP, I don’t understand where that’s coming from. You didn’t do anything dirty. The realization that this teacher might have had a crush on you back when you had one on him — and he might not have had a crush on you then — shouldn’t hurl you into some sort of existential crisis. If knowing that a teacher might have found you sexually attractive when you were a junior in high school leaves you feeling violated, tricked and angry, STOP, if that realization has you convinced that all teachers are secret perverts, then you seem to be operating under faulty assumptions about what teachers are. They’re not robots, they’re not eunuchs, they’re not humanoids from a parallel universe where life isn’t occasionally complicated by an unwanted sexual attraction. Teachers are human beings, and like all other human beings (except for asexual humans, of course), they sometimes experience sexual attraction, including sexual attraction of the unwelcome and/or inappropriate variety. What they choose to do about it determines whether they’re respectable men and women and (possibly) great teachers, or total creeps and/or sex offenders.

This does not excuse what your former teacher is doing to you now. He’s sexually harassing you. Tell him to stop and threaten to take it up with the school board if he doesn’t. How do you move on? You do what I do on Twitter: Block and forget the asshole — BAFTA.

“THE REALIZATION THAT THIS TEACHER MIGHT HAVE HAD A CRUSH ON YOU BACK WHEN YOU HAD ONE ON HIM SHOULDN’T HURL YOU INTO SOME SORT OF EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.”

I would never minimize the creepiness factor of a former teacher sending you dick pics and refusing to take “I want nothing to do with your advances” for an answer. And I definitely believe high school teachers — all teachers who work with minors — should refrain from fucking current students and from sending dick pics to former students.

One is statutory rape and an abuse of power (fucking underage students); the other is career suicide (hitting on former students will get your ass fired eventually). As for the other issues you raise …

This guy was your teacher when you were 15 … you had a crush on him for four years … a crush he doubtless picked up on … and you somehow reconnected with him after not seeing him for a year … and one year after reconnecting, he’s still contacting you despite your rejection.

If I’ve got the timeline right (math is still hard!), STOP, you were 19 or 20 when you reconnected with your former teacher, and you’re 20 or 21 now. Maybe even 22. That means nothing happened — nothing appropriate or inappropriate — until you were (1) no longer his student and (2) legally an adult. Your former teacher did nothing inappropriate when you were his student, and so far as you know, he’s never behaved inappropriately toward a current student. Which means either your former teacher has a solid age-range floor or he’s capable of exercising self-control.

Your former classmate’s story complicates the picture, but she was a former student and an adult when these teachers said “similar things” to her, right? That’s still creepy, of course, it’s still not OK, and it’s still potential career suicide for both these idiots. But it’s not technically illegal.

If you honestly believe that either or both of these idiots are behaving inappropriately toward current students, STOP, you should approach the administration at your old high school with your concerns. Doing so will result in the end

Male here, 21 years old. I’ve been in a relationship with my girlfriend for a year-and-ahalf. We have somewhat kink-themed sex, though nothing too intense. Recently, my girlfriend and I had a fight, and while things were still kind of heated, she suggested I “punish” her by spanking her, which I did, and we wound up having a much better, calmer conversation after the spanking. The next day, she proposed that this be something we do more often. I am not certain about all the dynamics at play here. Is this a healthy approach to resolving conflict?

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Enjoying a spanking, asking for one, giving one on request, etc., isn’t evidence that there’s something wrong with you or your relationship. As for whether it’s a good idea to spank your girlfriend in the heat of an argument, well, that depends on two things: whether she wants to be spanked at those times and whether the spanking — for you — represents an extension of the argument or a suspension of the argument. If you’re setting aside the argument to enjoy a spanking and then picking it up later, after you’ve both enjoyed a spanking, then I don’t see the harm.

On the Lovecast, science PROVES that liberals are happier than conservatives: savagelovecast.com.

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

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health: Withdraw your attention from the life that lies behind you, and be excited about the life that stretches ahead of you. Forget about the past, and get wildly inventive as you imagine the interesting future you will create for yourself. Forgive everyone who has offended you, and fantasize about the fun adventures you’ll go on, the inspiring plans you’ll carry out and the invigorating lessons you hope to learn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine volunteers to pull a long chain of train cars up a steep hill, even though it’s not confident it has the power to do so. As it strains to haul the heavy weight, it recites a mantra to give itself hope: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The story ends happily. The little blue engine reaches the top of the hill with its many cars in tow, and is able to glide down the rest of the way. As you deal with your own challenge, Gemini, I recommend that you use an even more forceful incantation. Chant this: “I know I can, I know I can, I know I can.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a confession: I have taken a vow to foster beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness and hope. To do this work is one of my life goals. I approach it with the devotion of a monk and the rigor of a warrior. Does that mean I ignore difficulty and suffering and cruelty?

Of course not. I’m trying to diminish the power of

those problems, so I sure as hell better know a lot about them. On the other hand, my main focus is on redemption and exaltation. I prefer not to describe in detail the world’s poisons, but rather to provide an antidote for them. Even if you don’t normally share my approach, Cancerian, I invite you to try it for the next two weeks. The astrological time is right.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The hill where I take my late-afternoon hikes is teeming with the six-petaled purple wildflower known as the elegant cluster-lily. Every one of them — and there are hundreds — lean hard in the direction of the sun in the west. Should I deride them as conformists that follow the law of the pack?

Should I ridicule them for their blind devotion?

Or should I more sensibly regard them as having a healthy instinct to gravitate toward the life-giving light? I’ll go with the latter theory. In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to ignore the opinions of others as you turn strongly toward the sources that provide you with essential nourishment.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Am I reading the astrological omens correctly? I hope so. From what I can tell, you have been flying under the radar and over the rainbow. You have been exploiting the loopholes in the big bad system and enjoying some rather daring experiments with liberation. At this point in the adventure, you may be worried that your lucky streak can’t continue much longer. I’m here to tell you that it can.

It will. It must. I predict that your detail-loving intelligence will paradoxically guide you to expand your possibilities even further.

In 1934, Capricorn baseball player Dizzy Dean was named the Most Valuable Player after winning 30 games. It was a feat that no National League pitcher has repeated ever since. After Dean retired, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Never shy about acknowledging his own prowess, he declared that “if you can do it, it ain’t bragging.” It is in this spirit that I invite you to freely expound on your talents and accomplishments in the coming week. You won’t be boasting. You will simply be providing information. And that will ultimately result in you being offered an interesting new opportunity or two.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to the three science-fiction films collectively known as The Matrix, we humans suffer from a fundamental delusion. What we think is real life is actually a sophisticated computer simulation. Intelligent machines have created this dream world to keep us in suspended animation while they harvest our energy to fuel their civilization. Now as far as I can tell, this scenario isn’t literally true. But it is an apt metaphor for how many of us seem to be halfasleep or under a spell, lost in our addiction to the simulated world created by technology. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favorable time to diminish the hold that the metaphorical Matrix has on you. What can you do to at least partially escape your bondage?

(Hint: A little more contact with nature could do the trick.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, you may be as alluring and intriguing and tempting as you have been in a long time. I suggest you capitalize on this advantage. Proceed as if you do indeed have the power to attract more of the emotional riches you desire. Assume that you are primed to learn new secrets about the arts of intimacy, and that these secrets will make you even smarter and more soulful than you already are. Cultivate your ability to be the kind of trusted ally and imaginative lover who creates successful relationships.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Physicist Frank Wilczek won a Nobel Prize for his research into quarks, the tiny particles that compose protons and neutrons. The guy is breathtakingly smart. Here’s one of his operating principles: “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Let’s enshrine his advice as your meditation, Sagittarius. I think you’re strong enough and brave enough to go hunting for some new super-rich dilemmas. Yes, they may lead you to commit some boo-boos. But they will also stretch your intelligence beyond its previous limits, giving you a more vigorous understanding of the way the world works.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There has rarely been a better time than now to refine the art of being your own mommy or daddy.

You’re finally ready to take over from the parental voices in your head and assume full responsibility for raising yourself the rest of the way. What do you want to be when you grow up? You may feel a giddy sense of freedom as it becomes clear that the only authority who has the right to answer that question is you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The universe has always played tricks on you. Some have been so perplexing that you’ve barely understood the joke. Others have been amusing but not particularly educational. Now I sense a new trend in the works, however. I suspect that the universe’s pranks are becoming more comprehensible. They may have already begun to contain hints of kindness. What’s the meaning of this lovely turn of events? Maybe you have finally discharged a very old karmic debt. It’s also conceivable that your sense of humor has matured so much that you’re able to laugh at some of the crazier plot twists.

Here’s another possibility: You are cashing in on the wisdom you were compelled to develop over the years as you dealt with the universe’s tricks.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Benedictine monks observe the Latin motto Laborare est Orare. The 19th-century abbot Maurus Wolter interpreted these words to mean “work is worship” or “work is prayer.” He was trying to impress upon his fellow monks that the work they did was not a grudging distraction from their service to God, but rather at the heart of their devotion. To do their tasks with love was a way to express gratitude for having been blessed with the gift of life. I propose that you experiment with this approach in the coming weeks, even if your version is more secular. What would it be like to feel contentment with and appreciation for the duties you have been allotted?

No one can make you feel any emotion unless you agree to feel it. You are the sovereign of what happens inside you. Explain why at FreeWill Astrology.com.

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Artist’s first gallery show finds inspiration in magic, witchcraft {BY IAN THOMAS}

ON A BALMY DAY in April, as the last vestiges of sunlight illuminate the dust that floats in the air of her Polish Hill studio, artist Adrienne Rozzi is thinking about spring more than most.

A track from Sisters of Mercy plays quietly, but persistently, from her MacBook. The faint scent of incense hangs in the air. Rozzi is in the process of creating the screen prints that will be featured in her first solo show, at Artisan gallery, in Garfield. Her art — which most often takes the form of sparse, haunting illustrations and screen prints — focuses on the subject matter and symbolism associated with pagan history, alchemy and the ways witches have been portrayed in different cultures. Her show will focus on May Day, the tradition that celebrates the arrival of spring.

Rozzi’s interest in occult knowledge has long been a part of her life, though even her cursory investigation quickly revealed it to be widely misunderstood. From her self-directed study, she learned that the portrayal of occult knowledge in popular culture didn’t capture its inherent subtleties and nuances.

“Magic in this world is not as fantastical as what it sounds like, but I think magic in this world can be anything that is a very strong coincidence or a universal consciousness,” she says. “Everything I would study would always go back to ancient history and the ancient cultures.

The tradition of witchcraft was not so frowned upon.”

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burgh. In 2010, armed with the knowledge she obtained at Pitt and the business lessons taught by stints working at The Andy Warhol Museum and a printshop internship, she launched Poison Apple Printshop. It offers prints, T-shirts and other ephemera emblazoned with Rozzi’s illustrations of witches and occult symbols.

It was her work at Poison Apple that caught the attention of Mind Cure Records founder Mike Seamans, who recognized an authenticity in Rozzi’s illustrations and commissioned her to provide artwork for the label.

“She was an easy person to collaborate with because we had a very similar aesthetic. I can relate to the references from which she draws,” Seamans says. “While I may not know much about witchcraft, her imagery is part of a visual vocabulary that has come to be strongly

“I THINK MAGIC IN THIS WORLD CAN BE ANYTHING THAT IS A VERY STRONG COINCIDENCE OR A UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS.” the first intersection between her life and her interest in these ancient cultures that depended on the Earth for sustenance in a more direct way than we do today.

“I’m really interested in the relationship between people and nature, and how much it has changed since a very long time ago. I think there is something really special and magical in that relationship,” she says.

“I think with civilization evolving the way it has, we’ve lost touch with that.”

“I grew up outside of the city,” she explains. “We lived in a more rural area, so I’m used to having trees and grass and smelling the fresh spring air. You lose that in the city, but it almost makes it that much more special when you do immerse yourself in it again.”

Rozzi’s parents were artists and, as the youngest of three, she found unconditional support from them in her chosen career.

“Our whole lives, they were really supportive of the three of us doing art. When we were little, we would always sit down and draw each other,” she says. “I was just so intrigued by the process of making. I just wanted to learn to make everything in the world.”

Rozzi studied art history, studio art and film at the University of Pitts-

associated with punk and heavy metal.”

Rozzi was excited when she learned that her show would open on May 1, or May Day. The coming of spring and the allusions to birth offer a fitting parallel to Rozzi’s very first solo show. May Day also fosters a spirit of community, the drawing together of disparate elements. This is best represented by the “May Wheel” she created as the centerpiece of her show.

According to information accompanying the piece in the show, “Wheels and magical circles have been used by magical practitioners dating back to ancient cultures. The wheel acts as a graphical microcosm of the universe itself and represents the sorceress’ relation to her surroundings.”

“I designed this wheel myself, choosing the subject matter and imagery by what is important to me about spring festivals from different cultures,” Rozzi says.

“So many different cultures throughout history have celebrated the coming of spring and worshipped the Earth because of that,” she says. “That’s why I always like to mix the symbols. It shows that it’s more universal.”

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Adrienne Rozzi’s show runs through the end of May at Artisan Gallery, 5001 Penn Ave., Garfield.

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