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EVENTS EVERY FRIDAY IN JANUARY GOOD FRIDAYS PRESENTED BY UPMC HEALTH PLAN FREE admission

1.15 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: GABI, WITH SPECIAL GUEST SLEEP EXPERIMENTS The Warhol theater Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

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The Warhol welcomes Pittsburgh’s own The Red Western for a special record release show. The current band features Jay Leon, Jonathan Gunnell, Lauren DeLorenze, and Sean Finn, who are members of several current and former Pittsburgh bands including Satin Gum, Life In Bed, My Sexiest Mistake, and Derek White and the Monophobics. On its forthcoming album, the band blends folk, alternative country, and soul influences with sonic elements of indie rock, punk, and power pop.

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has been busy preparing some sort of year-in-review package. We’ve done the same, of course, but were initially stymied on how exactly to proceed. First off, what passes for news nowadays can make your head spin, with stories about “celebrities” like Kanye and Kim dominating our news feeds.

Secondly, in the past we have tried to be all-encompassing by listing every notable news event in Pittsburgh from the previous year. But others will do that, and we questioned whether it really fit our style.

While we spent time last year covering some big or breaking news events, we mainly focused on events that we thought our readers cared about, and tried to take a different angle on them. We also tried to give in-depth coverage to stories that no one else was telling. So we compiled a list — checked seven or eight times — of the top City Paper stories of 2015. We then voted on our top 10, which you will find below.

But first, I wanted to mention some of the stories that didn’t make this list but are still worth noting, talking about and going back to read if you haven’t already. There was Rebecca Nuttall’s piece about Shawn Burton, a man serving time in prison for a crime that others have come forward to say he didn’t commit; Bill O’Driscoll’s coverage of the layoffs and eventual leadership turnover at the venerable Pittsburgh Filmmakers; our Fulbright Fellow and amazing summer intern Jessica Hardin’s story on the importance of making Narcan available to combat heroin overdoses was some of the earliest local in-depth coverage of the drug; and Nuttall’s story on the health dangers of hospital disinfectant Oxycide was the first major piece on the topic written in the country.

As we move into 2016, ready to cover a whole new batch of stories, here’s a look back at our top 10.

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August 2015: Conflict Kitchen worker Quinton Steele embraces a technical worker from Allegheny General Hospital, who was there in support of the restaurant’s new labor union.

10. THE FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS This year has seen ups and downs for the city’s labor movement. While nearly 2,000 workers at Allegheny General Hospital voted to unionize this summer, UPMC workers say they continue to struggle. On a smaller scale, 59 grocery workers at the East End Food Co-op and 15 restaurant workers at Conflict Kitchen, in Oakland, voted for and negotiated union contracts. Meanwhile, protests and rallies around town localized the national call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. And local and regional politicians have done their share of playing to those constituents. Campaigning for U.S. Senate, Katie McGinty stopped here to galvanize Fight for $15 voters; Mayor Bill Peduto touted his $15/hour minimum wage for city workers; and last month, Pittsburgh City Councilor Ricky Burgess asked his colleagues to declare support for a wage hike to $15. Along with a higher minimum wage, city workers also received paid parental leave this year. (Some county workers got that in late 2014.) But that’s not happening for non-city workers. And city CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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July 2015: Parents rally in front of the Mars Area School District campus, where unconventional natural-gas drilling development could take place less than a mile away.

council handily passed a paid-sick-days bill for all workers within city limits in August — only to face a lawsuit from small businesses, and then watch as an Allegheny County judge struck down the law as “unenforceable.” Though still trying to claim a moral victory, the city says it will not fight the ruling further.

occurred before his tenure and secured Pittsburgh a spot in the federal communitypolicing initiative. He also began training officers in implicit bias to reduce racial profiling.

In an effort to reduce crime, McLay reorganized the police bureau to better target violent crime, specifically by combining the robbery and homicide squads into one Violent Crime Unit. He also has set the wheels in motion to implement a violence-reduction strategy previously referred to as the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime. Despite his efforts, the city saw a spike in violent crime this summer.

But unlike in years past, the goodwill McLay brokered kept the community from blaming him and instead led people to ask how they could help. As the year ended, McLay vowed to completely investigate the conduct of city officers involved in a fracas outside the Wood Street T Station in December, in which a teen girl was pushed by an officer wielding a baton.

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September 2015: Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay

9. POLICE CHIEF CAMERON MCLAY MAKES AN IMPACT The year started off with a bang for Pittsburgh’s new Police Chief Cameron McLay when he was photographed during Downtown’s First Night festivities with a sign that read, “I resolve to challenge racism @ work. #endwhitesilence.”

Though it technically happened last Dec. 31, it set the tone for McLay’s 2015.

McLay spent the year focused on community-policing initiatives in an effort to increase trust between the police and city residents following several high-profile cases of alleged police brutality and misconduct that

organized to shut down an unconventional natural-gas drilling, or “fracking,” site less than a half-mile from their children’s school.

Four residents and two environmental organizations filed suit against Middlesex Township for allowing fracking in nearly 90 percent of the community. In 2013, the state Supreme Court ruled that municipalities had the power to regulate where drilling can happen through zoning laws. Fearing this could open the floodgates for municipalities acting as Middlesex Township has, the two environmental groups joined the parents’ efforts, arguing based on property rights and invoking the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment, which says residents “have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of … the environment.” A judge issued a stay on work at the Rex Energy site located on private land behind a school campus attended by more than 3,000 students.

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July 2015: Jessica Hawkins comforts her daughter Antania, who she treats with medical cannabis.

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May 2015: Obama Academy senior Donald Lewis, who despite earning a 3.7 G.P.A., didn’t receive the Pittsburgh Promise.

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more than 25 percent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools student body) make up just 13 percent of Promise recipients. The piece didn’t question the good work of the program, or how it’s responsible for getting more kids into college. It merely pointed out that the district must do better in aiding these young men, who already face obstacles in life that other students don’t face, in getting this potentially life-changing benefit. And while the story was attacked, called sensationalist and belittled by the Promise’s own executive director, there was one claim that critics couldn’t make: that it wasn’t true.

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mixed feedback as did one looking at why so few black males are receiving the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship. The story pointed to the very stark fact that black males (who make up

proponents expected the long-debated medication to be legalized. And for a while it looked like it might happen. In September, CP obtained an early copy of a bipartisan list of recommendations that was meant to move a bill forward. While the resulting bill wasn’t as strong as some had hoped, it still brought a reasonable level of legalization to the Commonwealth. But then two things happened. First, the state failed (and is still failing) to pass a budget, which put most other major business on hold. Second, a group of Republicans tacked on more than 100 amendments to proposed legislation that basically cut the guts out of the bill. As CP reported in June, most of the arguments against legalization are based on debunked science and paranoia. In July we told you the story of Jessica Hawkins, just one local mother who has decided to defy the law and give her sick child the medication anyway. Thanks to a December vote by Pittsburgh City Council to decriminalize marijuana, medical-marijuana users won’t necessarily face long prison sentences if they’re ever caught.

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June 2015: Attendees of Roots Pride staged a healing circle and river walk during Pride Week.

5. PITTSBURGH PRIDE PROTESTS When the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh announced in June that rapper Iggy Azalea would headline Pride in the Streets, Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest LGBT festival, all hell broke loose.

Backlash was instantaneous from the LGBT community, with many citing Azaleaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social-media posts that many considered racist and homophobic. A boycott of the event formed, and even Pittsburgh City Council President Bruce Kraus, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first openly gay politician, joined the masses of angry supporters.

Azalea cancelled her appearance and was replaced a few days later by Nick Jonas. But the damage was done, and the anger brewing inside some members of the LGBT community finally erupted.

Protests ensued against the Delta Foundation, the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest LGBT organization, and the alternative festival Roots Pride was formed. Roots Pride called for inclusivity of queer and trans people of color, something advocates felt was glaringly absent at the Delta Foundation and its events. And while Roots gave a voice to LGBT folks who felt excluded, it remains unclear whether Delta has adopted any new inclusionary principles as a result, given that Delta and Roots have yet to have a thorough discussion.

But some hope that the pro- and antiDelta campaigns stop, and that supporters and funders look at every LGBT organization in the region and spread the love evenly.

4. STATE SUPREME COURT RACE This year marked an important election for Pennsylvania: For the first time in history, three seats on the state Supreme Court were up for grabs at one time. The justices will have final say on a wide range of legal issues, as well as on reshaping state house, state senate and U.S. Congressional districts.

The openings were the result of ethics controversies that forced two justices to vacate their seats. Former Justice Joan Orie Melvin was convicted in 2013 for using legislative and judicial staff for campaign work. And in 2014, Justice Seamus McCaffery resigned after he was linked to the statewide pornographic-email scandal. In January, Justice Ronald Castille took mandatory retirement after reaching age 70.

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January 2015: The Allegheny County Courthouse gallery was ďŹ lled for Judge Woodruffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement on his plans to run for the State Supreme Court.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably going to have the biggest long-term impact of any race out there,â&#x20AC;? said Sam Hens-Greco, chair of the 14th Ward Democratic Committee, one of many groups that spent the year educating voters on the importance of the election.

More than a dozen Democrats, Republicans and even an Independent stepped forward to claim the empty seats. After the votes were tallied, three Democrats, Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht, emerged as the victors.

This race was also marked by another milestone: With spending totaling $15.8 million, it was the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history.

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June 2015: A screen capture of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Caitlyn Jenner op-ed

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3. COVERAGE OF TRANSGENDER RIGHTS Civil rights for transgender individuals were thrust into the national limelight this year after Olympic gold-medal-winning athlete Bruce Jenner transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner and was subsequently awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN’s ESPY Awards.

Jenner also created a buzz locally when a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette assistant editor, Jennifer Graham, wrote an op-ed with a headline that included the words “Caitlyn Jenner still a mister.” The piece was widely criticized by the LGBT community, and City Paper criticized the piece’s incorrect usage of gender pronouns and the author’s position that others should do the same when referring to Jenner. Graham is no longer on staff at the P-G. CP also announced that it would be using “they” as a singular pronoun for individuals not identifying with a particular gender.

Earlier this year, the battle to improve transgender rights was also being fought at the state level, where LGBT health-care advocates fought to have transition-related care included under Medicaid coverage.

And more recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development detailed further protections for trans men and women in its housing guidelines. However, despite these efforts, changes have not been made to Medicaid, and trans individuals are still being turned away from homeless shelters.

But the city also saw a small victory of its own this year when, in October, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police welcomed its first transgender officer to the force.

2. ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL HEALTH CARE In May, two inmates died on the same day inside the walls of the Allegheny County

Jail. To an outsider, this might seem a freak occurrence, but those paying close attention knew it was the culmination of two years of oft-criticized health services by the jail’s health-care provider, Corizon.

The Tennessee-based for-profit company’s tenure saw the deaths of 11 inmates, which is twice the average at jails across the country.

Even more disconcerting, according to a county audit, was that those deaths occurred with inmates spending an average of only 58 days in confinement.

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September 2015: At a vigil held outside the Allegheny County Jail, Julia Johnson consoles Tomi Lynn Harris, whose son died at the jail in January.

In May, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced that Corizon’s contract would not be renewed. In September, the county took jail health-care management in house, with doctors provided by Allegheny Health Network (and increased the jail’s health-care budget for 2016 by $3 million, or 25 percent). Since then, there have been no inmate deaths.

But some are still not satisfied. Advocates at the Allegheny County Jail Health Justice Project believe that some culpability for the 11 deaths lies with county officials, and the group is calling for the firing of warden Orlando Harper. Julia Johnson, of the Justice Project, believes treatment of inmates will improve only if those in charge are held accountable.

1. AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN PITTSBURGH For the past few years, low-income housing has

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been especially hard to find. Many residents can’t find landlords willing to accept Section 8 housing vouchers, and waitlists at subsidized units are up to five years long in some areas.

So low-income residents are moving farther and farther out of the city, and the toll on the city’s African Americans is especially stark.

From 2000 to 2010, Pittsburgh lost 13,000 African-Americans residents, while Penn Hills, a suburb just east of the city, has gained more than 4,000 black residents.

As a result, low-income and AfricanAmerican communities have grown increasingly anxious over the years. Those anxieties came to a head when 90-day eviction notices were issued in July for 200 households occupying the Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty. The 312-unit complex was one of the last rental complexes with non-subsidized affordable rents in the neighborhood, which is growing more popular (and expensive) thanks to luxury apartments, big-box stores, and Google moving in nearby.

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July 2015: East Liberty resident Uyless Sample outside the Penn Plaza apartments

to hold regular meetings for its Affordable Housing Task Force. But whether serious and swift action is actually being taken is up for debate. Pittsburgh needs more than 21,000 permanently affordable units to serve its poor population. But of the more than 8,000 units slated for development, experts say only about 3 percent are affordable.

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JUST REWARDS {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} EVERYBODY KNOWS that you can’t be a

legitimate newspaper column without having year-end awards. So without further adieu, I give you the never-acclaimed 2015 Cheap Seats Awards (CSA). While most end-of-the-year reviews focus on the positives, being a bastion of fair-and-balanced coverage requires the CSAs to include the worst as well. That sense of fair play has led to the highly creative names of The Bestie and The Worstie for our soon-to-be coveted awards. We tried to get Neil Walker to host this year, but the Buccos shipped him off to the Mets and the show must go on.

Bestie for Best Destruction of an Inanimate Object. Also known as the Jeff

Reed Award, this year’s winner is Pirates utility man Sean Rodriguez. Serpico gave Bucs’ fans the only highlight of the Pirates nine-inning postseason. Rodriguez beat up a Gatorade cooler like a fresh-faced mob hitman beating up a snitch. His appetite for destruction earned him another one-year contract with the team.

Bestie for Sweetest Mustache. This

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award goes to Baldwin native and former Pitt head football coach Dave Wannstedt. Since Pittsburgh now has the Mustache Hall of Fame, mustaches are as important here as hockey is in Canada. Although he no longer works in the city proper, he is still involved in college football. He boasts one of the best native ‘staches since George Westinghouse.

Bestie for Team of the Year. The year’s winner

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Demitrius “Fake Pedro” Thorn

that is Ric Flair. We do not need 38,000 of him (all apologies to Buddy Rogers and Buddy Landell). Admit it. If it were another city whose fans walked around wooing like they just climbed Space Mountain, you would want to hit them with a Gatorade bucket.

Worstie for Worst Spelling of the Name Jeff. This award is a clear runaway for

former Pirate Jaff Decker. Yes, it is pronounced Jeff, but a mistake on his birth certificate made him Jaff. Apparently his parents were too lazy to go back and correct it. But Jazzy Jaff is old enough now that he can change it himself. Another ex-Pirate Geoff Jenkins is a previous winner of this award.

POOR FAKE PEDRO, IT’S NOT EASY SORT OF RESEMBLING A BASEBALL PLAYER WHO HITS .236.

is the Pittsburgh Passion professional women’s football team. These ladies brought home a second-straight world championship in 2015. The Steelers and Penguins are both in seven-year championship droughts while the Pirates drought is approaching middle age.

Seems like all the heavy trophy-lifting around here is being done by the women.

Next Man Up Bestie. Pitt running back Qadree Ollison is the clear winner here.

Although, I have to say that I detest the term “next-man-up mentality.” It’s not a mentality but a requirement. There is no team in any sport that doesn’t have a backup player ready when someone gets injured. Nobody plays shorthanded in a game because they don’t have a replacement. Stop saying, “We have adopted the next-man-up mentality.” It is in no way unique to anyone. Alas, Ollison wins it for filling in for the injured James Connor at running back for Pitt. He responded by rushing for more than 200 yards in his first game as a freshman.

Worstie for Worst Fan Trend. Pirates

fans win here for their incessant “wooing” at PNC Park. There is only one Nature Boy and

Worstie for Worst Trade of the Year. And the

winner is ... former Jags kicker Josh Scobee. A draft pick was given up for a kicker that lost us a couple of games and was replaced by someone who never played in an NFL game. Had the Steelers traded two Beanie Babies, a Cosby Show DVD, and an old sandwich to the Jags for him, they still would have lost that swap.

Worstie for Worst Off-Season Move That Negatively Affected a Fan’s Life (the WOSMTNAFL for short) goes to the Pirates for not re-signing Pedro Alvarez. This move effectively ended the career of the fan known as Fake Pedro. Fake Pedro (also known as Demitrius Thorn) had received media attention (including a City Paper cover) and love from the fans because he kind of looked like Alvarez.

He showed up to the games dressed as his quasi-doppelganger and oddly enough was a better fielder. Now what is Fake Pedro to do?

He could lose weight, grow his hair out and try to be Fake Sean Rodriguez. His only other option is to move to whatever city signs Real Pedro and just hope those fans will embrace him. Poor Fake Pedro, it’s not easy sort of resembling a baseball player who hits .236.

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SWEET SPOT

{BY MARGARET WELSH}

The name is a mouthful, but the concept of Lawrenceville’s Butterwood Bake Consortium is simple. “It’s sort of inspired

by Austrian/Viennese coffee shops,” explains owner/baker Ally Slayden. But while the shop offers beverages from Munhall’s Klvn Coffee Lab, the focus is dessert. And thanks to unusually long hours — from 8 or 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. most days — it’s a welcome after-dinner (or cake-for-breakfast) destination.

Since it opened in late October, most of its business has been word-of-mouth.

“It’s got people talking because there’s nothing like it,” Slayden says, noting that, while many restaurants offer excellent sweets, some diners might feel awkward skipping straight to the last course. “It definitely helps that there’s not really major competition for dessert at night.”

The menu changes daily, featuring inventive offerings like buttermilk honey cake with vanilla-honey buttercream and, Slayden’s favorite, a basic chocolate cake with pistachio buttercream. And thanks to animal-product-free versions of favorites like chocolate pot de crème and pear cobbler, vegans account for some of the bakery’s most loyal customers.

With its low-key Victorian décor and warm service, the Butterwood Bake Consortium is just fancy enough to match the beautiful desserts, which makes it a great place for a date. “I’ve seen a lot of couples come in to have coffee and share a piece of cake,” Slayden says. “That’s exactly what I’d hoped, that … it would be a place you could hang out for an hour and talk.”

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Mars, is so new it’s old again. Its bar and other interior features are constructed from materials reclaimed from the demolition of the previous building on the site. Other decor reaches even farther back in time — to when a foundry stood b on the site along the Harmony Shortline o railroad route that ran through the valley ra alongside Breakneck Creek. There’s a mural a of the foundry, rendered in gray tones to reo ssemble a black-and-white photograph, and railroad artifacts repurposed in ingenious ra and attractive ways, such as spikes bent a into coat hooks and electrical insulators as in pendant lights.

But for all these rustic touches, this is no throwback, rail-themed shed. Lighting is warm, colors are cool, and the overall feel is current and contemporary. The menu, too,

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is on trend with sliders, flatbread pizzas and meats prepared on the grill, and salads that call their greens by name (arugula, baby spinach and, of course, kale). Pub standards like crab cakes and mussels are represented, too. In keeping with the overall sustainable theme, everything is scrupulously sourced.

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CP APPROVED The sandwich selection looked especially tantalizing. The mahi Cuban was a standout, with grilled fish wrapped in Ser-

rano ham and topped with tricolor slaw, house pickle and spicy mayo. Two salads — quinoa and baby kale, and warm beet and goat cheese — caught our eye as well.

But on a chilly evening, seated near one of two fireplaces in the lounge area, we went with the more wintry Brussels sprouts.

Diminutive, halved sprouts were lightly roasted and tossed with parmesan and cured-lemon aioli. They were perhaps a little too lightly roasted; we would have liked crispier, almost-caramelized outer leaves.

But the creamy, bright aioli, studded with nutty slivers of parmesan, was a delightful counterpoint to the sprouts.

A crab-cake “sammich” was more sophisticated than its name implied, served between slices of grilled focaccia with a slice of fried green tomato, leaves of arugula and a smear of cajun remoulade. The cake

was suitably mild, yet satisfyingly creamy and briny, and set off by the tart tomato and subtly piquant remoulade.

An order of wings consisted of massive whole ones, available smoked or fried. We got fried, and loved the thin, crisp crust that held succulent meat. House BBQ sauce was perhaps too sweet, but we didn’t mind too much, since it was sparsely applied, allowing the skin to stay crisp and the inherent flavors to emerge.

The same sauce worked better on the sweet and smoky pig flatbread, where it coated pulled pork mingled with chewy chunks of house-smoked pork belly, and then topped with jalapeño, white cheddar and crispy onion straws. The hot chili was scarcely apparent, but the smoky belly counteracted the sweet sauce and creamy melted cheese, while the light, crunchy straws contributed texture. The grilled crust was crisp yet chewy and held up well under all the toppings.

On the RoCKs

{BY CELINE ROBERTS}

BE SEEIN’ YA AT MORCILLA

New restaurant’s drinks menu looks to Spain Stepping across its threshold, I realized that having waited even two weeks after its opening to have a drink at Justin Severino’s new Lawrenceville venture, Morcilla, seemed a criminally long time. Dark wood ceilings slant cozily inward, with simply carved embellishments that repeat throughout the dining room and bar.

Cured meats hang from the ceiling, while warm light from the open kitchen illuminates diners’ faces. As you approach the standing bar, you’ll see a life-sized silver arm reaching from the bar top, standing out against the tiled wall. Artfully arranged garnishes look like tiny bouquets. Morcilla — pronounced more-see-a and named for a type of blood sausage — serves Spanish, particularly Basque, food, and the bar provides an intricate look into that cuisine’s liquid side.

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“We’re serving things that are Spanish or very popular in Spain,” says bartender Zachary Maddox. This means an extensive drink list focused on Spanish cider, or sidra; wine, sherry, and gin and tonics; and, of course, sangria. After researching menus from bars all over Barcelona, Maddox sharpened his focus on the details.

“There are all sorts of gin bars throughout Spain where you choose a gin and a tonic, and it comes out with lavish garnishes,” says Maddox.

Around 10 gins and house-made tonic make sure that Morcilla takes its G&Ts seriously.

Along with an excellent gin and tonic, sidra is the other thing to order.

Spanish ciders are mostly wild-yeastfermented, cloudy and dry, with a distinct funk and a breadiness that is completely unique. The silver arm, modeled after a human arm, rises a yard above the bar, allowing the cider to be poured from a height, to cut some of its natural carbonation as it breaks against the glass. The arm was sent as a gift from the Trabanco family, who run one of Spain’s premier siderías, after Severino and his wife, Hilary, visited while doing research.

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Flat-iron steak was served in thick, broad slices over sides — we tried whipped potatoes and mushroom risotto — surrounded by demi-glace. The beef was tender and flavorful, nicely cooked to order, and the demiglace was subtle enough to contribute some depth of flavor while letting the beef maintain center stage. The potatoes were also good, although less finely textured than “whipped” implies. The mushroom risotto was excellent, generously studded with shiitakes and pleasingly earthy. The arborio grains could have been a touch looser, but weren’t too gummy.

At a moment when all too many new restaurants — and pubs — seem to be copying each other in a Möbius strip of imitation, Breakneck Tavern stands out.

Certainly there is nothing new any longer about striving for sustainability, but Breakneck pulls it off with uncommon commitment. From the lively menu to a deep appreciation of the history of what appears to be an average suburban intersection, Breakneck Tavern breaks with formulaic approaches to deliver something unique to its time and place.

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CAFÉ DELHI. 205 Mary St., Carnegie. 412-278-5058. A former Catholic church in Carnegie now houses an Indian café, with a menu ranging from dosa to biryani to palak paneer. From a cafeteria-style menu, order street snacks (chaats, puris), or the nuggetlike, spicy fried “Chicken 65.”

Hearty fare includes chickpea stew, and a kebab wrapped in Indian naan bread. JF

GAUCHO PARRILLA. 1607 Penn Ave., Strip District.

412-709-6622. Wood-fired meat and vegetables, paired with delectable sauces, make this Argentine-barbecue eatery worth stopping at. The beef, chicken, sausage and seafood is all infused with flavor from the wood grill. Add-on sauces include: chimichurri; ajo (garlic and herbs in olive oil); cebolla, with caramelized onions; and the charred-pepper pimenton. KF

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BISTRO 9101. 9101 Perry Highway, McCandless. 412318-4871. This North Hills bistro offers a fresh take on familiar fare, in a white-tablecloth-casual setting, such as: pig wings,” salmon cakes, a brisket burger on a pretzel bun and “Jambalini” — a riff on jambalya in which shrimp, mussels and scallops were served over fetticini in a “spicy” tomato broth. LE

CAFÉ NOTTE. 8070 Ohio River Blvd., Emsworth. 412-761-2233.

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

The small-plate preparations are sophisticated, and the presentations are uniformly lovely. Flavors range from Asian-style crispy duck wings and scallops-three-ways to roasted peppers stuffed with ricotta. KE

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412-281-5013. This upscale restaurant offers fine foods with Steeltown flair, like “Pittsburgh rare” seared tuna (an innovation borrowed from steelworkers cooking meat on a blast furnace).

The menu is loaded with similar ingenious combinations and preparations. KE

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GRAN CANAL CAFFÉ.

1021 N. Canal St., Sharpsburg.

412-781-2546. The menu here is classic coastal Mediterranean.

Even dishes rarely seen at other Italian restaurants — such as

Twisted Thistle {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} snails and penne stuffed with seafood — are traditional, not made up to satisfy eclectic contemporary tastes. The cannelloni alone merits a visit to one of Gran Canal’s cozy, familyfriendly dining rooms. KE JG’S TARENTUM STATION GRILLE. 101 Station Drive, Tarentum. 724-226-3301. An old-school continental menu and a well-restored train station make this restaurant a destination. The menu leans toward Italian fine dining, plus steaks and chops. But well-charred chicken Louisiana and dishes featuring habañero and poblano peppers denote some contemporary American updating. LE

Café Notte {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} MAD MEX. Multiple locations. www.madmex.com. This local chain’s several lively, funkily decorated restaurants boast an inventive selection of Cal-Mex cuisines. Mad Mex is a good stop for vegetarians, with dishes such as chick-pea chili and eggplant burrito. It’s not genuine Mexican by a long shot, but if there were

a country with this food, it’d be great to vacation there. JE OSTERIA 2350. 2350 Railroad St., Strip District. 412-281-6595.

You won’t get better casual Italian cooking for your money than here. The menu has been pared to the essentials of Italian cuisine: antipasti, pizza, panini and pasta — and their preparations represent a unique marriage of Old-World recipes and local ingredients. JE PAPAYA. 210 McHolme Drive, Robinson. 412-494-3366. Papaya offers a fairly typical Thai menu — from pad Thai to panang curry — augmented by sushi and a few generic Chinese dishes. The selection may have erred more on the side of reliability than excitement, but the presentations show that the kitchen is making an impression. KE PINO’S CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN. 6738 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. 412-361-1336.

The menu at this Italian eatery spans from sandwiches that hearken back to its pizzeria days, through pastas of varying sophistication, to inventive, modern entrees. Some dishes pull out the stops, including seafood Newburg lasagna and veal with artichokes, peppers, olives and wild mushrooms over risotto. But don’t forgo the flatbread pizzas, many with gourmet options. KE PLUM PAN-ASIAN KITCHEN. 5996 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-7586. The swanky space incorporates a dining room, sushi bar and cocktail nook. The pan-Asian menu consists mostly of well-known — and elegantly presented — dishes such as lo mein, seafood hot pot, Thai CONTINUES ON PG. 20

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TWISTED THISTLE. 127 Market St., Leechburg. 724-2360450. This cozy restaurant, set in a restored 1902 hotel, offers above-average fare, reasonably priced. Alongside the contemporary American flavors are numerous Asian-inspired dishes, such as soup made from kabocha pumpkin. From po’boy oyster appetizers to crab cakes and over-sized short ribs, each dish is carefully conceived and prepared. KE

curries and basil stir-fries. Entrées are reasonably priced, so splurge on a signature cocktail or house-made dessert. KE ROOT 174. 1113 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square. 412-2434348. The foundation of the menu is also a basic formula: fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. To this, add an adventurous selection of meat products, such as bone-marrow brûlée and smoked salmon sausage. Dishes have lengthy ingredient lists, but it all comes together in satisfying and surprising ways. LE SUN PENANG. 5829 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-7600. Sun Penang’s aesthetic is Asian — simple but not austere — and to peruse its menu is to explore the cuisines of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. The Pangan ikan is a house specialty, and the Malaysian kway teow (practically the country’s national dish) may be the best you ever have without a tourist visa. JE TANA ETHIOPIAN CUISINE. 5929 Baum Blvd., East Liberty.

412-665-2770. The menu offers a variety of stewed meats, legumes and veggies, all rich with warm spices. Order the sampler platters for the best variety of flavors, and ask for a glass of tej, a honey-based wine that is the perfect accompaniment. KE

JG’s Tarentum Station Grille {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} authentic preparations of pho, TIN FRONT CAFÉ. 216 E. noodle bowls and fried-rice Eighth Ave., Homestead. dishes. The menu is small, 412-461-4615. Though the but the atmosphere is lively menu is brief, inventive and inviting. JF vegetarian meals push past the familiar at this charming TSUKI JAPANESE Homestead café. The RESTAURANT. 11655 emphasis is on fresh, Frankstown Road, local and unexpected, Penn Hills. 412-242such as asparagus 0188. Most of the slaw or beet risotto. www. per a p pghcitym myriad sushi rolls on In season, there’s a .co offer center on just a charming rear patio. JE handful of raw options, rounded out with traditional TRAM’S KITCHEN. 4050 cooked ingredients such as eel Penn Ave., Bloomfield. and shrimp. The menu offers the 412-682-2688. This tiny familyfull gamut of maki, from classics run storefront café packs in the like cucumber or tuna to truly regulars. Most begin their meal original creations, some of them with an order of fresh spring just short of gimmickry. KF rolls, before moving on to

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URBAN TAP. 1209 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-586-7499.

Though it’s wallpapered in giant TVs, the menu here is mostly devoid of sports-bar clichés.

Instead, there is duck-confit poutine, mac-and-cheese with smoked Gouda, a burger topped with pork belly and even aged rib-eye steak. With top-notch service and excellent food, Urban Tap elevates tavern dining. KE VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. 424 S. Main St., West End. 412-458-0417. This warm, welcoming, and satisfying Italian restaurant is a reason to brave the West End Circle.

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Local music showcases are popping up at the rate of vape shops on East Carson Street. This year, along with existing showcases like the Deutschtown Music Festival and RANT, we saw the inaugural editions of the Strip District Music Festival, Bloom-Fest and Layer Cake Festival.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better crash course in whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the Pittsburgh music scene than attending one of these blowout festivals. But, unlike those vape shops (popcorn lung, bruh!), thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of room for more.

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Generator. Enter your middle initial and the street where you grew up and it generates a double-album of never-beforeheard Wu-Tang classics just for you.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been two-and-a-half years since Days Are Gone became the solo dance-party album for every chick you know who wears lots of leather only to hide her big, soft heart. Since then, the SoCal sisters have toured nonstop, hung out with Stevie Nicks and joined T. Swiftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad. Ladies, please take a break from having perfect hair, and release some more perfect songs.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first night of Pittsburgh punk band No Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mid-December mini tour and, because drummer Tom Moran lives in Philadelphia, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first time all five members have played together in weeks. But for the audience crowded under the low, Christmas-light-studded beams of this West Philly basement, chemistry and showmanship obscure rustiness. Guitarists Nick Pilz and Nick Leombruno and bassist Rick Mauck grim-facedly bob their heads while Moran wildly tosses his long arms around the drums. Singer Adam Thomas barks lyrics into the mic, stomping and lurching around and pummeling the air to punctuate sing-along parts, of which there are many.

Thomas, Moran and Mauck started No Time in 2013, when their former band, crusty hardcore outfit Heartless, was winding down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted â&#x20AC;Ś something more fun, a more simplistic style,â&#x20AC;?

Thomas explains pre-show, before making his transformation from mild-mannered dude to aggro frontman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Heartless, we wrote songs we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play.â&#x20AC;? No Time, in contrast, quickly moved to the realm of Oi!, a genre pioneered by British skinheads and working-class punks, inspired in part by drinking songs and football chants.

Lyrically, No Time engages with a dayto-day of pessimism â&#x20AC;&#x201D; listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;AntiSocial Todayâ&#x20AC;? and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely find yourself mentally referencing it in routine frustrating situations.

Since forming, No Time has toured Europe and released a 7-inch record and a Mind Cure single; the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longawaited full-length will be put out by Massachusetts-based label Six Feet Under Records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a bunch of songs we scrapped,â&#x20AC;? Thomas explains of the delay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think [they] were what they could be.â&#x20AC;? After that, Thomas started writing a little every day, until the band had a new batch of songs to choose from.

The release is tentatively planned for February, but eager fans can listen to three songs from the record on the newly released promo tape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stylistically itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more diverse than the 7-inch, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mix of genres â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some straight-up rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll,â&#x20AC;? Thomas says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it sounds like us, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more to it.â&#x20AC;?

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FIVE PITTSBURGH HIP-HOP ARTISTS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2016

JKJ Reese Youngin Joel Kellem Norman Dean Asco

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AN EASIER WAY TO SYNC MUSIC AMONG DEVICES

The Target exclusive edition of Adeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25 came with three bonus tracks, so naturally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like a trillion other human beings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I bought it.

Imagine! A compact disc! How quaint! Trouble is, the only place I can listen to it is in my car.

If anyone has tips on how to sync a CD with a disc-drive-less MacBook Air and a smartphone on which I listen exclusively to Spotify and podcasts, please advise. Otherwise, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be that driver bellowing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Water Under the Bridgeâ&#x20AC;? at red lights until the album starts to skip.

Remember that? Scratched CDs? Oh, nostalgia.

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A while back, ultra-posi Cali pop singersongwriter Colbie Caillat provided me with some unexpected enlightenment. Two-thirds of the way through her set, she explained that she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like encores, and that the audience could consider whatever crowd-pleasing cover she was about to play her encore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What an excellent idea!â&#x20AC;? I thought. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always found the assumption of an encore a bit presumptuous; more and more Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found the charade of leaving the stage and then bashfully returning after 60 seconds of applause almost unbearably awkward. So, big-name touring bands: In 2016, why not let the end be the end? Play the hit youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been saving, leave the stage, allow the lights to come up. And if the crowd really, really begs for more, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it feel so much better knowing you truly earned it?

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MORE ALL-AGES VENUES

If you book shows or play in a band and arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t currently making an effort to support the youth and parents of Pittsburgh, consider this an easy way to start. It matters for everyone regardless of whether you have a child. Being a parent shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t force you to give up your social life or blow your bank account on child care. Joining my first band as a teenager in North Carolina introduced me to an inspiring community of people that made high school infinitely more bearable. How else can we connect and foster the next generation of Pittsburgh bands if we arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exposing them to music and art theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen before?

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JASIRI X BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY (1HOOD MEDIA) WWW.JASIRIX.COM

Of all the spoken-word samples that introduce tracks on Jasiri Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black Liberation Theology, the one Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been replaying the most is both familiar and revelatory. It opens the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Greatest [My God],â&#x20AC;? and fires off a segment of Rev. Jeremiah Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monologue which was only boiled down to soundbite fodder during the 2008 election cycle: â&#x20AC;&#x153;God bless America. No, no, no. God damn America â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Bible.â&#x20AC;? But like most context-free quips, it gains significance when you hear what comes before it, which in this case is Rev. Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s methodical trip through our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history of systemic racism.

On his latest album, Jasiri unapologetically reclaims the belief system which some right-wingers (wrongly) thought would be a TKO to Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign. Black Liberation Theology is an urgent, laser-focused account of blackness in present-day America. Some artistic reactions to high-profile police killings of black citizens have come through a mournful lens, but Jasiri flips the script, converting sorrow into searing rage. His rapping and the production that supports it are even more purposeful and refined than on his previous effort, Ascension.

The albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure follows a formula: Nearly every track wraps up around the three-minute mark, and every song opens with a sampled spokenword excerpt. Occasionally, the blueprint doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give Jasiri enough room to explore, but it more frequently provides thrilling results. On early highlight, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Liberation Theology Part 1,â&#x20AC;? Jasiri and David Banner surround chants of â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoot back, strike back, fight backâ&#x20AC;? with some of the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest verse-work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tempting to wonder why Jasiri crowds so many other voices into an already lean album, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing clumsy about the choice.

By closing the album with a posse cut, which shares its name and members with his activist organization, 1Hood, Jasiriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s observing that when waging against unjust forces, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to go it alone.

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378 Freeport Road, Blawnox. $10. 412-828-2040 Less than a month ago, the Ace Hotel opened or www.moondogs.us its newest boutique hotel in East Liberty’s former YMCA. Tonight, it partners with creative [ROCK] + THU., DEC. 31 collective VIA to present VITAMIN NYE, a As a transplant to Pittsburgh who came here cornucopia of electronic and analog dance from the Philadelphia area in 2009, I didn’t have music, including DJ sets such as Pittsburgh quite the familiarity that many Pittsburghers Track Authority, Clark Price, Boo Lean, Kelly have with Rusted Root. To me, this local Carter, Slowdanger and more. Visuals both sensation was that band I heard on Y-100 psychedelic and nostalgic will be provided sometimes, who sounded like a fanciful by artists Ben Tabas and Julie Mallis. There marriage of Dave are a lot of New Matthews Band and Year’s Eve events Morrissey. Mind you, happening tonight, Slowdanger I mean this as a but this one is compliment. Tonight, assuredly the one the long-standing, to choose if you’re world-music-inspired, aiming to see and jammy rock ensemble be seen. (It’s also plays at the Rex one of the few Theater with Derek parties where you Woodz Band and can stumble upstairs Bastard Bearded to bed without Irishmen. AW 9 p.m. annoying your hosts.)

1602 E. Carson St., Andrew Woehrel South Side. $35-75.

7 p.m. 120 S. 412-381-6811 or Whitfield St., www.rextheater.com East Liberty. $10.

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Pittsburgh has its fair share of beloved quasi-celebrities — people who are heroes to the locals while remaining relatively unknown outside Western Pennsylvania. This isn’t a result of a lack of ability on the part of artists, but perhaps a reluctance to leave one’s hometown, or maybe it’s a Pittsburghian urge to hoard the best talent to ourselves. Norm Nardini — who has been playing raucous blues rock since the 1960s and has toured all over the country — is a perfect example of this phenomenon.

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If your idea of a good New Year’s Eve party is something less glitzy and a little more grimy, make a stop at the New Year’s Eve Punk Rock Blowout at The Shop, featuring performances by local acts EyeRoll, Fuk Boiz, Liebestod and Skullyzzzbar. This event is hosted by Peace Through Strength, a Pittsburgh political-activism group, and all proceeds benefit Food Not Bombs Pittsburgh, an anti-corporate charity group that feeds the hungry. Aren’t the holidays supposed to be about helping the less fortunate? Maybe this year, Santa will scream, “Oi! Oi! Oi!” instead of chuckling, “Ho! Ho! Ho!” AW 9 p.m. 4314 Main St., Bloomfield. 412-951-0622

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You read City Paper’s music coverage every week, but why not listen to it too?

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THU 31

FRI 01

AUGUST WILSON CENTER. Joy Ike. Downtown.

412-258-2700.

BYHAM THEATER. Billy Price Band. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

COACH’S BOTTLESHOP AND GRILLE. Soul Merchants.

Dormont. 412-207-9397.

COLE’S PUB. Dave & Andrea Iglar Duo. Imperial.

412-487-8326.

COURT TIME SPORTS CENTER. House of Soul.

Proceeds benefit Tiffany Fine.

Elizabeth. 412-667-1117.

MEADOWS CASINO. In the Mood. Washington.

724-503-1200.

MOONDOG’S. Norm Year’s Eve w/ Norman Nardini.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

THE R BAR. The Party Band w/ Craig King. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

REX THEATER. Rusted Root & Derek Woodz Band.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

STAGE AE. Lotus w/ Emerson Jay. North Side.

412-229-5483.

STEEL CITY STEAKHOUSE. The Watts Brothers Band.

Monroeville. 412-646-4695.

FRI 01

CRUZE BAR. Hot Metal Hardware. Strip District.

412-471-1400.

SAT 02

ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

BRILLOBOX. Pandemic: Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. 10th anniversary party. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown.

412-874-4582.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

412-381-1330.

SAT 02

CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

LAVA LOUNGE. The Night Shift DJs. Obsidian: gothic/industrial dancing.

South Side. 412-431-5282.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

WED 06

SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. Welling, Autumn Pool, Dan Kunkel + Angel Dust, snwv, Echo Lightwave Unspeakable. Knoxville.

412-291-8994.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Donte Spinosi. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

HOWLERS. Mud City Manglers, Amoeba Knievel, Vertigo-go, Lorenzo’s Oil. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

THE R BAR. Norm Nardini.

Dormont. 412 942-0882.

REX THEATER. The Cause.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

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THE R BAR. Midnite Horns.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Merging Art w/ Gene Stovall, DJD PGH & Tom Mosser Art. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

Each week we bring you a song by a local artist.

This week’s offering comes from singer-songwriter Tom Breiding; stream or download the timely “Refugee” for free at FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

EARLY WARNINGS

BLUES {PHOTO COURTESY OF MATTHEW GREELEY}

THU 31

DOUBLE TREE HILTON MOON TWP. Blues New Year’s Eve Blues Bash. Moon.

724-888-6183.

TUE 05

BLUSH SPORTS BAR. Shari Richards. Jam session.

Downtown. 412-281-7703.

JAZZ

Titus Andronicus

THU 31

ANDYS WINE BAR. Quintet feat. Tania Grubbs.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session.

Ballroom. North Side.

412-904-3335.

LEMONT. Judi Figel & Dave Crisci, Groove Doctors w/ Kenny Blake. Mt. Washington.

412-431-3100.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Neon Swing X-Perience. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER. Dwayne Dolphin.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. Roger Barbour Jazz Trio. West End. 412-458-0417.

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Black Breath

The Smiling Moose, 1306 E. Carson St., South Side

Priests

Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield {TUE., FEB. 23}

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Mr. Small’s Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale

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GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Benny Benack. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

Neko Case

Mr. Small’s Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale {SUN., MARCH 20}

Titus Andronicus

SAT 02

Cattivo, 146 44th St., Lawrenceville

THE CLUB BAR & GRILL 1.

Tubby Daniels. Monroeville.

412-728-4155.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Dr. Zoot. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side.

412-224-2273.

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NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Rick Matt. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

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THU 31 BENEDUM CENTER. River City Brass. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

BYHAM THEATER. The Magic of Matt Sigler. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

PITTSBURGH CAPA. The Junior Tamburitzans of South Hills.

Youth folk ensemble. Downtown.

412-338-6100.

REGGAE

THU 31

AMERICAN LEGION LANGLEY POST 496.

Bill Couch. Sheraden.

412-331-0341.

TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER. The Early Mays, Brooke Annibale.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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FRI 01

CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side.

412-381-4800.

SAT 02

THU 31

CULTURAL DISTRICT. The Wailers.

Downtown.

412-456-6666.

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CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System.

East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

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FRI 01

VOCES SOLIS. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

PARK HOUSE. Zak Kane.

North Side. 412-224-2273.

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Lawrenceville. 412-904-4248.

SAT 02 BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Grand Bon Rien. West Homestead.

412-461-6188.

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What to do Dec 30 - Jan 5 Cirque Dreams Holidaze

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown.

412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 2p.m. & 7:30p.m.

THURSDAY 31

Highmark First Night 2016

CULTURAL DISTRICT Downtown.

412-456-6666.

For info & schedules visit trustarts.org/firstnightpgh. 6p.m.

Jeff Dunham

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER Downtown.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. 3p.m.

Tick Tock Rockin’ New Year’s Eve 2015

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 event.

Tickets: showclix.com. 9:30p.m.

Lotus

STAGE AE North Side.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com

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Doors open at 8p.m.

BENEDUM CENTER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30

New Year’s Eve with Rusted Root REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

105.9 The X Official NYE Party featuring SAVED BY THE 90’S ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. Over 21 event.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Throwback New Year’s Eve 2016 RIVERS CASINO BANQUET ROOM North Side.

Over 21 event.

Tickets: riverscasino.com. 9p.m.

Cirque Dreams Holidaze, Ornaments on a Tree. Courtesy of Cirque Productions.

WEDNESDAY 30

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Altar Boyz

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghclo.org.

Through Jan. 10.

MONDAY 4

Mary Ann Mangini Jazz Quintet JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

No cover. 7p.m.

TUESDAY 5

Carnegie Trees: Holidays in the Highlands

Official New Year’s Day Party

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

SUNDAY 3

FRIDAY 1

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10p.m.

Dark Side of the Moon: A Pink Floyd Experience

SATURDAY 2

Holiday Hangover

featuring theCause REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART Oakland. 412-622-3131.

Free with museum admission.

For more info visit cmoa.org/visit/holidays.

Through Jan. 11.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT IS A TALL TALE, RATHER THAN A DRAMATIC STUDY

MOVIE MEN {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Hard to believe now, but 50 years ago, Alfred Hitchcock was widely seen as merely a highly successful light entertainer.

Film writer Kent Jones’ new documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut recounts the exact moment that began to change. In 1962, French New Wave wunderkind Francois Truffaut instigated a series of conversations with his hero Hitchcock about the older man’s films. The transcriptions, supplemented by film stills arrayed storyboard-style, became a 1966 book that has influenced generations of filmmakers and, not coincidentally, helped reform the critical view of Hitchcock as a groundbreaking auteur.

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Jones’ cinephile’s-dream doc recaps those long-ago conversations at Universal Studios (which were facilitated by a translator), including charming still photos and liberal doses of original audio. Contemporary directors, such as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Oliver Assayas, weigh in on both Hitchcock and the Hitchcock/Truffaut book. The documentary explores how Hitchcock’s films played with the experience of time and privileged plot over character development, and also how he handled actors. Extended consideration is given to Vertigo, which exemplifies Hitchcock’s theme of erotic obsession, and Psycho, which demonstrated both his eagerness to surprise audiences and his willingness to subvert cinematic convention. You might also be pleased to learn that those 1960s conversations created a lifelong bond of friendship between Hitchcock and Truffaut. Starts Fri., Jan. 1. Regent Square DRISCOLL@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Making a Murderer.

Fans of the Serial podcast or HBO’s The Jinx should check out this new 10-part doc on Netflix.

A true-crime saga from Wisconsin shot over 10 years with numerous twists and turns.

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One of the eight: Samuel L. Jackson

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HEN Quentin Tarantino’s new three-hour film The Hateful Eight begins with a titled “Overture,” one can’t help but worry about selfindulgence. The opening credit, over a snow-covered crucified Jesus, reads “The Eighth Film by Quentin Tarantino” and we learn the film is to be delivered via titled chapters (“Chapter 1: Last Stage to Red Rock”).

Settle in. The plot, set in post CivilWar Wyoming, is relatively simple — two bounty hunters (Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell), the prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and a Confederate hold-out (Walton Goggins) — hole up during a blizzard at the isolated one-room Minnie’s Haberdashery. Already there are four other men, of assorted occupations (Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth). Everybody’s armed and shifty, and the night will be a roundelay of revelations, betrayals and gruesome deaths.

Aside from a flashback or two, the action plays out mostly in real time.

The Hateful Eight is a dark comedy that

riffs on Westerns (and Tarantino snagged Ennio Morricone for its score), but also has antecedents in the popular stage and screen gimmick of stranding a group of strangers in a room for dramatic purposes.

(Also included, winks to the cozy murder mystery, in which the detective outlines his solution to the room of suspects: “One of you is the killer!”)

THE HATEFUL EIGHT DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins AMC Waterfront in 70 mm; opens wide in digital format Fri., Jan. 1

It’s a set-up that works well for Tarantino’s men-in-a-room-delivering-snappydialogue, and less so for his old-school use of 70 mm. The widescreen format gives the cabin depth and fosters side-by-side actors, but man, does it feel good to get outside to those big snowy vistas!

Hateful Eight is a Tall Tale, rather than a dramatic study, and fans of Tarantino

(warts and all) will find it entertaining: It’s fun watching actors like Jackson, Roth and Goggins preen and prance, while archly delivering nutty dialogue. (Leigh’s also good, if all eyes and face and few words.) It’s not without its baroque set pieces, but the concerns of Tarantino’s detractors are real: The bloody violence is played for laughs; it’s laden with racist and sexist material (arguably historically accurate, but this is a wholly manufactured fictional universe); and it’s too long and oddly paced.

By my reckoning, The Hateful Eight was a mixed bag: There’s amusement to be had seeing the basic plot tangling and untangling itself, less in some of the overworked gags (a busted door, Russell’s self-conscious John Wayne impressions). After a slow start, the middle third works best as characters crash and bang into each other. But by the final third, it’s something of a tongue-in-cheek death march, where the baser impulses of Tarantino take over: Set ’em up, knock ’em down, giggle, repeat.

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JOY. You can see the appeal: director David O. Russell reuniting with his actors from Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle for another quirky chapter of Americana — struggling mom invents and successfully markets a newfangled mop. But alas, even the powerhouse trio of Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De N iro can’t rescue this misfire.

The tale is inspired by the real-life Joy who came up with the Miracle Mop and hawked it on QVC. I can’t speak to her life, but the mop parts of this movie trump the wackyfamily parts. (The world deserves a decent mop, and I’d like to hear about it.) And when Joy (Lawrence) learns how to translate her scattered dreams (and our desires for better mops) into success via a new home-shopping cable channel, there’s a glimpse of a betterfocused film.

When Joy first visits QVC’s studios, its genius breakthrough is explained to her by its smooth-talking marketing whiz (Cooper): We come into people’s homes as friends, sharing products; the selling is soft, and thus, so much more effective. Ironically, it’s a critique that this movie, which visibly strains to be warm, inspirational, oddball and marketable all at once, could take to heart. Hey Joy, we can see you trying to sell us, and that makes us uninterested in buying. (Al Hoff) POIN T BREAK. A former extreme athlete turned FBI agent goes undercover with a

crew of extreme-sports enthusiasts who might also be staging extreme heists. I wish I could add “extreme” to this film’s accolades, but at best, Ericson Core’s reboot of the 1991 neo-classic is extremely pointless. The plot makes zero sense — some mystical eco-quest that involves snowboarding and dropping looted bills on Mumbai, all to pay back Gaia — and offers gripping dialogue like “That’s the difference between us — all you see is lies, we see the truth.”

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All Point Break has in its favor is nice Alpine scenery and some cool extreme-sports stuff, like big-wave surfing and wing-suit flying. But you might as well hit up one of the many available extreme-sports documentary showcases for this hot-doggery, and spare yourself the flat acting, the random Eurotrash rave scenes and the forced bromance babble. Like one of the bearded cool dudes says, “It’s time to choose which side you’re on.” In 3-D, in select theaters (AH) THEEB. Naji Abu Nowar directs this simple but affecting tale of a Bedouin boy living in a remote corner of the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I. Theeb (Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat) is the youngest member of a tribe of guides, and when his older brother is asked to lead a British soldier through a tricky part of the desert, he tags along.

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explicit details about those he encounters are few, but you’ll easily intuit what’s happening. The film is beautifully shot, taking full advantage of the dramatic desert landscapes.

It’s one boy’s coming-of-age tale, but the wider implications are clear from our perspective a century later. Theeb’s awakening occurs (and is precipitated by) a transitional period between life defined by ancient tribes, and life defined by borders and national allegiances. Colonialism and new technologies will cause this region to undergo its own turbulent transformation, in which brotherhood and allegiances will be sorely tested and violently defended. In Arabic, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Jan. 1. Regent Square (AH)

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LORD OF THE RIN GS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. In which a hobbit and some friends set out to return a piece of jewelry to its rightful home. Peter Jackson directs this 2001 epic saga adapted from the J.R.R. Tolkien books. 7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 1, and 7:30 p.m.

Tue., Jan. 5. Hollywood LORD OF THE RIN GS: THE TWO TOWERS. Look, getting this ring back to where it belongs is getting complicated. And violent. Peter Jackson directs this 2002 adventure, the second part of the epic saga adapted from the J.R.R. Tolkien books. 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 2, and 7:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 6. Hollywood LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING. Finally, Mount Doom is in sight, and the ring can be returned. But first, more trouble. Peter Jackson directs this 2003 conclusion of the epic saga adapted from the J.R.R. Tolkien books. 7 p.m. Sun., Jan. 3, and 7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 7. Hollywood THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Most people know the 1956 version, starring Jimmy Stewart, but Alfred Hitchcock first directed this thriller in England in 1934. Leslie Banks stars as a man torn between alerting the authorities to a planned crime and saving his kidnapped daughter. 8 p.m. Sun., Jan. 3.

Regent Square THE JERK. “The new phone books are here!” That’s just one of the many keeper lines from Carl Reiner’s off-kilter 1979 comedy about a simple-minded man (Steve Martin) who gets rich from a lucky invention.

7:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 6. AMC Loews. $5

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WINDOW PROJECTS ARE POPPING UP LIKE DANDELIONS IN MAY

SET POINTS Discussing “the use of space” seems like theater wonkery, but there is something to be said for approaching venue not as mere parking space for a play, but as integral to the production. So I’m saying it (in no particular order) to wrap up 2015.

A novel, even challenging approach to space has been standard operating procedure for all 25 years of Quantum Theatre, but founder/artistic director Karla Boos topped herself (again) with The Winter’s Tale in the landmark Union Trust Building. The collaboration/adaptation of Shakespearean antics (with Chatham Baroque and Attack Theatre) echoed the froth and whimsy of Downtown’s Flemish Gothic masterpiece. The intimate view of the building’s stained-glass rotunda added to the fun.

In its 126 years, the world’s very first Carnegie Music Hall has seen many productions, many changes and several names. It’s now the New Hazlett Theater, and Kinetic Theatre Co.’s take on August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death upended the interior’s standard versatility. Producing artistic director Andrew S. Paul eschewed the normal seating, instead crowding the audience onstage for this intimately vicious comedy.

The distressed borough of Braddock is seldom taken for a wonderland. But with true theater magic, that’s exactly what Bricolage Production Co. and Real/Time Interventions pulled off with Saints Tour, conceived and written by Molly Rice.

Multimedia, multicultural and familyfriendly, the play was a memorable and fun journey through local history and legend via bus, hike and parade.

Speaking of Braddock, the new home of barebones productions is possibly the most intimate black box in town, but with a wonderfully raked seating area. Audiences literally must walk across the stage to get there, allowing a discerning eye to examine the finely detailed sets of the venue’s first two shows, Miki Johnson’s American Falls and John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair.

The black box of Grey Box Theatre was resplendent in Throughline Theatre Co.’s multimedia vision of the exotic but dystopian world of José Rivera’s Brainpeople. Ever-changing projections helped to actualize the magic realism, directed by Sean Sears, assisted by Casey Cunningham and Vance Weatherly.

Also worth a mention is the daring if dangerous “immersion” play Professor Eldritch’s Asylum for Uncanny and Extraordinary Women, from Uncumber Theatrics and Devious Maid Productions.

And let us not forget the song-filled Downtown café created from the unlikely Peirce Studio of the Trust Arts Education Center by PICT Classic Theatre for Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, directed by Alan Stanford.

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Clayton Merrell’s “The Sky Beneath Our Feet,” at Pittsburgh International Airport

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present a challenge, if not an outright problem, that goes beyond corners. The “white cube” carries a lot of baggage, including expectations from artists, curators, funders and audiences. Still, galleries continue to be indispensible for many kinds of art, with some artists happily disrupting or even disrespecting gallery conventions. Other artists enjoy a different kind of freedom by working outside of gallery spaces altogether.

Ideas that developed out of the ’60s questioning of tradition continue to offer alternative approaches. Sitespecific installation is one such form that, when done with even a modicum of commitment, is enriched by what makes a place what it is. Iteration 2 of the biennial Alloy Pittsburgh (Sept. 26-Oct. 31) once again seized an unfair advantage by utilizing the truly special relic that is the Carrie Blast Furnaces site at the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area. Project curators Sean Derry and Chris McGinnis prodded the exhibiting artists to engage with

the characteristics, history and meaning of the site. The result: All of the projects were interesting and relevant, while Rose Clancy’s rust-induced impressions on fabric, Oreen Cohen’s contemporary take on stained glass, and Dan Ivec and Nick Liadis’s delightful sequence of annotated sketches stood out for me in their ability to connect with, as well as activate, the historic site.

Sometimes there’s thinking outside the box inside the box. One evergreen idea, spanning various forms of new music and sound art, is that sound can be directed through a process rather than being specifically composed. Aftersound: Frequency, Attack, Return (Aug. 21-Nov. 22), curated

by Melissa Ragona and Margaret Cox for Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery, acknowledged roots, most notably chance-composition pioneer John Cage, who was also a visual-art pioneer. This challenging and, at times, demanding exhibit fast-forwarded to the present, with elaborate processes and vaguely sculptural accumulations of hardware often upstaging the nonmelodic sounds.

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Suddenly, window projects are popping up like dandelions in May. In the category of Good Ideas, there’s windowSPACE, curator Murray Horne’s vision that an underused corner of SPACE could engage passersby as effectively as a department-store window.

There’s much promise in this quirky Downtown venue if artists can see it for what it is, and isn’t. Tom Sarver’s The Sideways Museum (Jan. 23-May 3) mounted a fine exhibit of folk and visionary art that both needs and merits a more conventional setting, but here struggled with window-glare, viewing distance and lack of labels. On the other hand, Thinkerers (May 15-June 28),

by Randy Gilson of the North Side’s Randyland (a you-gotta-love-it-or-hate-it project if ever there was one), held the space with a less-nuanced advertisement for himself.

At the Atwood Window Gallery, in Oakland, Leo Hsu is overseeing projects that bring life and fresh paint to the long-dormant façade of Spice Island Tea House’s adjacent storefront. The Warhol Store, at The Andy Warhol Museum, also has been providing window space to young artists. Daniel Pillis’ “Andy Warhola’s Living Room” (which closed March 1), a 3-D version of an early Warhol painting, was site-specific and able to hold its own amongst the merchandise.

If you think that the Pittsburgh International Airport’s concourse is just something to run across as your plane takes off, then think, and look, again. Contemporary landscape maestro Clayton Merrell designed an elegant terrazzo floor, enhancing the place with that rarest quality in public art: subtlety. With silhouettes of local skylines including the North Shore, Oakland and, of course, Downtown, Merrell’s scheme graces the space around the increasingly high-end shops that, frankly, benefit from some modulation of their single-minded purpose. Compliments to Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art for its role in tapping a local artist who’s up to the big-budget job, and to the skilled crew who executed it beautifully.

Meanwhile, Conflict Kitchen, directed

by Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski, is more vital than ever. Begun in 2010 as a nontraditional art project and currently sited to catch workaday residents as well as the occasional special-events crowd on Schenley Plaza, its exterior is an eye-grabbing affront to ethnic and racial narrowmindedness. With restaurant-quality food, an expanded menu of info and events, political relevance du jour provoking an occasional brouhaha that proves people are watching, and now unionized restaurant employees, Conflict Kitchen is maturing into a forum that shows what’s possible when art really and truly disregards boundaries.

Five notable 2015 books by Pittsburghbased writers, alphabetically by author or editor: The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing), edited by Eric Boyd. This book’s 38 contributors of nonfiction, poetry, visual art and photography range from relative unknowns to nationally known poets Robert Gibb and Terrance Hayes and 2015 MacArthur genius-grantee LaToya Ruby Frazier. Boyd excels at representing a gritty, historically grounded Pittsburgh that risks being swamped by a latter-day tsunami of hipsterism, civic boosterism and national “best city for” lists.

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives (Algonquin Press Chapel Hill), by Theresa Brown. Brown’s follow-up to Critical Care deepens the registered nurse and former English professor’s exploration of the health-care industry through her relationships with four very ill patients. The former New York Times columnist honors the work of nurses and the lives of patients — and arrives at some disturbing conclusions about hospitals. the GAFFER (Arktoi Books), by Celeste Gainey. This debut poetry collection draws heavily from Gainey’s years in the film industry, when she worked on productions including Taxi Driver and was the first woman electrician admitted to the stagehands union. But whether her subject is filmmaking, fashion or sex, wrote CP critic Fred Shaw, “educational moments of experience and sharpeyed expertise abound.”

How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets), by Terrance Hayes. Hayes, already a National Book Award winner for 2010’s Lighthead, was a finalist for this collection, in which his experiments draw on forms ranging from séance instructions and conceptual maps to crime reports. And the volume showcases his characteristically scintillating wordplay, as in “Wigphrastic”: “The men all paws. Animals. The men all fangles, / the men all wolf-woofs and a little bit lost, lust / lustrous, trustless, restless as the rest of us.”

West of Sunset (Viking Penguin),

by Stewart O’Nan. The veteran novelist (Last Night at the Lobster) drew raves coast to coast for this novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, scuffling years, with its wonderfully imagined recreation of late-1930s Hollywood. West of Sunset offers an indelible portrait of a man, a time and a place: clear-eyed but still alive to the possibilities of romance and dreaming.

Also noted: Lori Jakiela’s latest memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books); historian Gary Scott Smith’s Religion in the Oval Office (Oxford University Press); and Robert Yune’s debut novel, Eighty Days of Sunlight (Thought Catalog Books).

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IN A CURSORY perusal of Chris Antemann’s porcelain works for Meissen Couture Art Collection, there is nothing that separates them greatly from what the house of Meissen customarily generates. Though the German manufactory’s wares include fountain pens, chairs, textiles and what you and I would commonly call lamps but are titled within their environs as “table lights,” it’s Meissen’s china and porcelain pieces that have established its name.

Even if that name isn’t recognizable, the work, and the multitudes of knockoffs it’s inspired, is firmly rooted within the collective unconscious. The statuettes are the most pervasive, starry-eyed ladies-in-waiting plucking lutes while a deer companion curls up at their feet; a lively goatherd scrambling up an apple tree to tempt a shy milkmaid waiting at the trunk; pug dogs dozing on velvet pillows, collar with real bells encircling their fluffy necks.

Vases, clocks, candlesticks loaded with the same fanciful elaboration of acquiescent nymphs and gleeful peasants, festooned with gold piping, overblown peonies, fluttering butterflies, stacked high with embellishment after embellishment after embellishment. You might remember the like from your great-aunt’s house, where you sat rigidly still with your feet crossed

and your hands in your lap, after almost sending one flying with an errant elbow to reach for a candy dish that turned out to be filled with those diabolical ribbons.

While Meissen produces new limitededition art works every year, for the most part the latest releases are stylistically indistinguishable from the baubles and bric-a-brac of two or three hundred years ago. There’s a system to it, what could even be called a formula. And it’s what works for Meissen: One presumes the company has nailed down exactly what those who are willing to shell out the bucks are looking for, even if most of us can’t really fathom dedicating a shelf to a whole tiny orchestra of monkeys in formalwear.

But recently, Meissen has traveled very, very slightly away from this selfestablished standard to collaborate with internationally exhibited American sculptor Chris Antemann on a line called “Forbidden Fruit.” The line takes the staples of the Meissen oeuvre and spices them up with not-quite sex. They depict lovers, or would-be lovers, in standard Meissen surroundings, with considerably fewer garments. A selection is currently on display at the Frick Art and Historical Center.

These pieces are sassy, cheeky, maybe even a wee bit saucy, particularly if contextualized as the output of a 300-yearold porcelain titan. But they don’t cross a line into irreverence. They’re not even

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really bawdy, despite the freeing of the nipples; all of the seducers and seduced tempting each other with pomegranates in gazebos, or coyly ducking away from attempted smooches in swan boats, maintain propriety, and no one is really misbehaving.

In everything that Meissen produces there is a sense of opulent decadence, whether it be gowns so laden with embroidery, sequins and pearls that they threaten to collapse the wraithlike models slouching within their weight, or the latest annual holiday limited-edition figurine necessary to supplement your collection, a fragile, snowy-white roebuck meant to pose upon your tabletop, hooves frozen amidst the gravy boats and compote dishes. But even here, it’s not a decadence rich with pleasure or heady with indulgence of the senses. It’s the decadence of consumption, from the first accent of gold leaf to the last petal curling open on the tiniest blossoming rose. It’s all gaudily pretty in a stiff yet insubstantial way, like a wedding cake elaborate with buttercream roses and candied-sugar violets — nature made, to some, even more beautiful by eliminating nature’s inherent wildness.

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Antemann’s work in following this conservative lead is formidable; the collaboration seems destined based upon her execution within their framework.

Selected by appointment to create at MEISSEN artCAMPUS, the artist (who grew up near Johnstown) has proven herself a worthy inclusion in that rococo court. But reading the labels naming the works, or the catalog for the exhibition — previously on view at Portland Art Museum and Washington state’s Bellevue Arts Museum — you’ll see trademark and copyright symbols attached to each and every piece, and they don’t give ownership to Antemann. Given that what we’re looking at is pretty tame, yet tiptoeing around the possibility of something wilder, one can’t help but wonder which side is holding back.

It’s more likely the corporation than the individual. It will be interesting to see what kind of work Antemann comes up with when there’s no boundaries to stay inside.

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GAME-CHANGERS {BY STEVE SUCATO} In a year filled with wonderful dance productions, here are six that graced local stages and proved game-changers for the artist, presenter or art form.

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Malpaso’s Pittsburgh appearance was one of the company’s first forays outside of New York in exposing U.S. audiences to Cuban contemporary dance. For the KellyStrayhorn, the company’s appearance featured two U.S. premieres, and also showed that the theater could land a production usually reserved for much larger presenters, like the Pittsburgh Dance Council.

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Usually the domain of the world’s largest ballet companies, the exotic Middle Eastern-themed story ballet was the company’s largest undertaking in its 43-year history.

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In another stellar blending of dance and theater, dancer/choreographer Beth Corning brought together her decades of dance-making experience in the U.S. and Sweden to create a work that had the look and feel of one you might see on stage in Stockholm or Berlin. With an exceptional cast and concept, Beckett & Beyond proved a seminal work for Corning.

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If it seems like Steve Byrne performs here a lot — well, he did grow up here. The Hampton High grad’s comedy career has taken him around the world, and through three seasons of TBS’s Pittsburghset Sullivan & Son. With that sitcom on the books, Byrne’s on tour, ringing in New Year’s with two shows at the Pittsburgh Improv, then four more sets this weekend.

Tonight’s specially priced shows include either champagne and a carnation ($40) or, for $75, dinner with champagne hampagne and dessert.

Bill O’Driscolll 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Also Fri., Jan. an. 1-Sun., Jan. 3 ($20).

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Science Center into a sloppy playground. For the ninth annual MessFest, all four floors of the Center will be the province of slime, muck and goo, as symbolized by that is-it-liquid-or-is-it-solid perennial favorite Oobleck.

At the Egg Drop, see if you can design a package to protect a raw egg from a steep plummet. See explosive presentation Kaboom!, get into your guts with “It’s Alimentary, Watson,” and try finger-painting, making handprints and more.

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Skip the hair of the dog and start 2016 on the right foot with one of two New Year’s Day hikes. City-dwellers can find a brisk four- to five-mile outing in Frick Park: the New Year’s Resolution Hike, courtesy of Venture Outdoors.

If you’d prefer to get out of town, Jennings Environmental Education Center hosts the one- to two-mile First Day Hike on its Oakwoods Trail.

Alex Gordon Jennings: 1-3 p.m. (Slippery Rock; free; 724-794-6011 or www. dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks).

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There’s water on Mars, and Star Warss is back in theaters: theaters It’s a good time for stargazers and lovers of space. Celebrate the intersection of pop culture and spaceexploration with Out Of This World: Jewelry in the Space Age, e in the Carnegie Museum of Natural

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sp otlight From the heart of Downtown to far-flung ’burbs, there are plenty of places to ice-skate around here, some of them year-round.

But your best bargains are likely at three long-running public rinks — all outdoors, as nature intended: Schenley Park, North Park and South Park. And with Schenley’s rink finally opening Dec. 22 (11 days later than planned, due to warm temperatures), all three are operating. Admission at each is just $3-5 depending on your age, and skate rental is $2-3 a pair. (Prices at North and South parks are for county residents.) For a fee, the rinks even offer lessons. While their hours vary daily, the North and South park rinks operate six days a week, and on four of them, they’re open from before noon until 9 p.m. or later. Schenley’s rink is open daily, starting as early as 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, and staying open until 11:30 p.m. three nights a week. Weekly specials at Schenley include: discounted sessions for college students; Thursday Family Skate Nights (with one youth admitted free with each adult admission); and adults-only sessions three nights a week. All three rinks are also open on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, though in some cases with limited hours. Bill O’Driscoll Schenley: 412-422-6523 (Overlook Drive, Oakland). North Park: 724-935-1280 (McCandless Township). South Park: 412-833-1499 (South Park Township).

History’s Wertz Gallery. It’s the final weekend to get up close with nearly 200 pieces of jewelry and assorted objects inspired by space culture, from Jules Verne to Sputnik. AG Noon-5 p.m.

Exhibit continues through Sun., Jan. 3. $11.9519.95 (free for kids under 2). 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412622-3131 or www. carnegiemnh.org

and a peek at the restored historic library are a bonus. AG 3 p.m. 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. Free. 412-276-3456 or www.carnegiecarnegie.org

early-20th-century Christmas.

A generation of locals has enjoyed seeing the live greens, poinsettias and formal dinnerware that marked the occasion for a rich family of that era, on self-guided or docent-led tours. Holidays at the Frick continues through Jan. 10; reservations are recommended. This year, a focus on porcelain complements the Frick Art DEC. 31 neighboring Museum’s exhibit, Steve Byrne Forbidden Fruit. Also explore the newly expanded Car and Carriage Museum. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (open till 9 p.m. on Fri., Jan. 8).

7227 Reynolds St., North Point Breeze. Clayton tours: $10-12 (free for children 16 and under). 412-371-0600 or www.thefrickpittsburgh.org

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For the third year running, the holiday season closes with a free performance from chamber choir Voces Solis, presenting Magnificat: Contemporary Lesson and Carols at Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. The elite ensemble’s Yuletide Concert features compositions by Arvo Pärt, Henry Purcell and more. If you’re a fan of choral music and haven’t witnessed Voces Solis in person, this performance leading off 2016 is a great place to start.

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Arguably the most widely and favorably reviewed novel from a Pittsburgh resident in 2015 was West of Sunset (Penguin). Stewart O’Nan’s searching evocation of the twilight days of F. Scott

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Fitzgerald is new in paperback. The acclaimed author’s national book tour begins tonight, at the Barnes & Noble in West Homestead, with a reading. The tour also includes a Jan. 25 stop at Sewickley’s Penguin Book Shop. BO 7 p.m. 100 W. Bridge St.,The Waterfront, West Homestead. Free.

412-462-5743 or www.stores. barnesandnoble.com

A Monroeville native and three Point Park University alumni are among the ensemble in this new stagemusical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. Opening in Pittsburgh tonight at Heinz Hall, the award-winning production offers all the favorites from the original film, as well as new numbers

by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd

Weber. The production, featuring Sarah Lasko as Dorothy, has been touring the U.S. since 2013. The eight performances here, courtesy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, are part of the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series. AG 7:30 p.m. Continues through Mon., Jan. 11.

600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $31-$78. 412-392-4900 or www.trustarts.org

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Safe to say that Highmark First Night Pittsburgh, in its 22nd year, is Pittsburgh’s biggest New Year’s Eve party. The family-friendly, alcohol-free, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust-organized festival draws some 40,000 Downtown for live music, street performers, comedy, theater, dance, arts and crafts, and more. And 90 percent of the attractions are indoors.

Between the kids’ fireworks at 6 p.m. and the big pyro show at midnight, your First Night button gets you bands from local openers Lyndsey Smith & Soul Distribution to the headliner, reggae legends The Wailers. Other live music includes the Appalachian-inspired vocals of The Early Mays, and established local talents from Joy Ike and Brooke Annibale to jazz bassist Dwayne Dolphin, jazz singer Tania Grubbs, and River City Brass. All evening, check out art shows from the closing night of India in Focus exhibits, at Wood Street Galleries, to new shows at 707 Gallery, 709 Gallery and 937 Liberty Ave. The Harris Theater runs classic movie trailers dating to the 1970s. At 8 p.m., the big community-style parade on Penn Avenue includes marching bands, art cars, fire trucks and giant puppets. Take Latin American dance lessons, hang a promise on the Children’s Museum’s First Night Resolution Tree, and watch live ice-carving alongside the fire dancing of Steel Town Fire at Eighth Street’s Fire & Ice Plaza. First Night buttons are available at Giant Eagle, and by phone, online and at the Theater Square box office. Some indoor shows (including sets by the Billy Price Band, and improv comedy) require free vouchers, available online and at the venues. A VIP package includes priority seating. Bill O’Driscoll 6 p.m.-midnight. Downtown. $8-10 (free for kids 5 and under). 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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FOOL. Foolish theater for smart audiences. Thu., Dec. 31, 7 & 9 p.m. Pittsburgh CAPA, Downtown. 412-338-6100.

THE VOYAGE OF SEASOAR. Join the sea-faring crew of the Revelle for an interactive theatre experience. Thu., Dec. 31, 7, 8:30 & 10 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999.

UNE BELLE SOIRÉE ET FÊTE. A evening of dinner, music from an 18 piece chamber orchestra & celebration w/ the Pittsburgh Opera. Thu., Dec. 31.

Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland.

412-281-0912, ext. 231.

COMEDY THU 31

J. RUSS & GAB BONESSO. 7:45 & 10:15 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown.

412-325-6769.

JEFF DUNHAM. 3 p.m.

Consol Energy Center, Uptown.

800-745-3000.

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ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts & exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum.

724-224-7666.

COMEDY SAUCE SHOWCASE. ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE Local & out-of-town comedians.

LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Mon, 9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour.

Bloomfield. 412-682-9603.

The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of OPEN MIC COMEDY NIGHT. the Grand Army of the Republic Mon, 10 p.m. Lava Lounge, served local Civil War veterans South Side. 412-431-5282. for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the BROOKLINE United States. Carnegie.

COMMUNITY OPEN 412-276-3456.

MIC. A community www. per pa ANDY WARHOL run open mic. Wed, pghcitym o .c MUSEUM. Yevgeniy 7-10 p.m. Brookline Pub, Fiks: Andy Warhol & Brookline. 412-531-0899.

The Pittsburgh Labor Files.

SECOND CITY. 9 p.m. Nico’s A collection of documents that Recovery Room, Bloomfield. afford various impressions of 412-681-9562. the left-wing political, economic & artistic life in Pittsburgh, from the communist movements ALLEGHENY CITY HISTORIC of the 1920s, to the union GALLERY. Historical images & rallies of the 1930s, to the items forcusing on the North Side Red Scare of the 1950s. of Pittsburgh. North Side.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

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STEVE BYRNE. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

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Jeff Dunham: Perfectly Unbalanced Tour. A renowned

standup comedian and scary-good ventriloquist, this isn’t Dunham’s first rodeo. He carries a stellar reputation as a jokester, with multiple Comedy Central specials and appearances on programs like The Late Show and The Tonight Show. 3 p.m. Thu., Dec. 31. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $53. www.ticketmaster.com

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Ring in the New Year with First Night, catch a few laughs and hope for ice-skating weather.

BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments & music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment.

O’Hara. 412-782-4231.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead.

412-464-4020.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. The Propeller Group: The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music. A video based exhibition that looks at colorful, spirited funeral traditions in Vietnam & New Orleans. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Animal Secrets. Learn about the hidden lives of ants, bats, chipmunks, raccoons & more.

Out of This World! Jewelry in the Space Age. A fine jewelry exhibition that brings together scientific fact & pop culture in a showcase of wearable & decorative arts related to outer space, space travel, the space age, & the powerful influence these topics have had on human civilization. Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens. Permanent. Hall of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, gems & precious stones from all over the world. Population Impact. How humans are affecting the environment.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. H2Oh!. Experience kinetic water-driven motion & discover the relations between water, land & habitat.

How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, USS Requin submarine & more. North Side.

412-237-3400.

CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature & biotechnology.

Sundays 12-4 p.m. Garfield.

412-223-7698.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Voyage to Vietnam. An immersive exhibit celebrating the Vietnamese Tet Festival.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ costumed guides feat. this restored stagecoach stop.

North Versailles. 724-238-4983.

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by Fiona Amundsen. From the exhibition Like a Body Without Skin, at Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side.

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937 LIBERTY AVE. BROKN. Art about brokeness & hope

by Lynndell Lorenz, Keith Schmiedlin, Michael Lotenero, Brian Holderman, & Matthew Lorenz. Downtown.

412-471-0999.

SHAW GALLERIES. Pirates!

Buccaneers, Privateers, & Swashbucklers Revealed.

Explore hidden treasures of the past - ghost ships, legendary buccaneers, & adventure on the high seas - through antique maps & prints. Open Dec. 31, 6 p.m. - 12 p.m. Downtown.

412-281-4884.

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707 PENN GALLERY. Poison.

A look at the enduring relationship between drugs & the urban community.

Downtown. 412-325-7017.

709 PENN GALLERY. Post Erotica: The Anthropology of Motherhood. A visual diary of being a mom w/ works by Fran Flaherty. Downtown.

412-471-6070.

937 LIBERTY AVE. Humanae/I AM AUGUST. A series of photographs of everyday Pittsburghers

by Angelica Dass.

Downtown. 412-338-8742.

ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. East Liberty In Focus: The Photographs of Teenie Harris. An exhibit of a few curated photographs from CMOA collection. East Liberty.

412-361-3300.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop

Artist. Warhol By The Book. An exhibition on Warhol’s book work, from early student-work illustrations to his commercial work in the 50s. North Side.

412-237-8300.

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.

ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE. Printwork 2015. Feat. prints created by 22 artists from around the country, the exhibition features innovative techniques combined w/ solid conceptual thinking. North Side.

412-321-8664.

BANTHA TEA BAR. Benevolent Creatures. An exhibition of 18 Stormtrooper helmets reimagined by artists across The Walt Disney Company, including Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Marvel & Pixar. The iconic Star Wars helmets began as 6 inch white vinyl derived from the original CG animation file & have been redesigned into new benevolent creatures. Penn Hills.

412-404-8359.

BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 5 Artists: A Collection of Works.

Works in various mediums by Brandy Bock-Tott, Jeffrey Phelps, Linda Breen, Joyce Werwie Perry & Cindy Engler. Sewickley.

412-519-3377.

BOXHEART GALLERY. No Boundaries: Work by The Pittsburgh Group. Main gallery.

The Watcher The Watched.

Work by Kyle Ethan Fischer, Carolyn Reed Barritt, Irina

Koukhanova, Danny Licul, & Sherry Rusinack. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. HACLab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern. An exhibition of over, under architecture highlighting successive histories of pioneering architectural successes, disrupted neighborhoods & the utopian aspirations & ideals of public officials & business leaders. Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk. Displaying the work of 60s German emigre & Pittsburgh industrial design Peter Muller-Munk, who started as a silversmith at Tiffany’s.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Compensatory Dreaming. Works by Dean Cercone. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Steel Mill Artwork: A Tribute to Present & Past. Work by Keith Clouse featuring black & white imagery of both working & decaying mills & the people who worked in them, translated through lithography printing. Steel Mills Past & Present: Lithography by Keith Clouse. Black & white imagery of both working & decaying mills and the people who worked in them translated through lithography printing.

Presented in conjunction w/ Carolyn Pierotti of Purple Room Fine Arts. Lawrenceville.

412-477-4540.

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Now is the time to buy one. Get wordier in 2016.

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The 30th anniversary of The Replacements’ major-label debut is a fine excuse to revisit its stellar songcraft dressed in firecracker guitars, explosive drums and yowling vocals.

Cake and Coffee at Pittsburgh Public Market {PHOTO COURTESY OF HBO/LACEY TERRELL}

Conveniently, Café D’Amore and Eliza’s Oven are side-by-side. www.pittsburghpublicmarket.org

Getting On

Set in a hospital for female geriatrics, this HBO comedy brings refreshingly smart roles to a wide range of actresses. Now concluded, its three seasons are perfect for winter binge-watching.

How to Grow Up: A Memoir

Whatever dumb, regressive decisions you’ve made in your life, Michelle Tea has probably made worse ones. But her bluntly funny collection of personal essays shows that it is, in fact, possible to get your life together.

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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.

724-329-8501.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows.

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier. During the mid-18th century, thousands of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans. Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. & Canada, the exhibit examines the practice of captivity from its prehistoric roots to its reverberations in modern Native-, African- & Euro-American communities.

Reconstructed fort houses museum of Pittsburgh history circa French & Indian War & American Revolution.

Downtown. 412-281-9285.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ classes & programs for all ages.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion & stable complex. Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in the surrounding park.

Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Dunbar. 724-329-8501.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont.

412-826-9295.

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

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

412-373-7794.

MOUNT PLEASANT GLASS MUSEUM. Bells, Bells, Bells: A Lenox Holiday. A collection of Lennox Christmas bells.

724-547-5929.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters of the Sky. Explore the power & grace of the birds who rule the sky.

Majestic eagles, impressive condors, stealthy falcons and their friends take center stage!

Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. W/ classes, lectures, demos & more.

North Side. 412-323-7235.

NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh.

Oakland. 412-624-6000.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ,

war effort. From Slavery to Revolutionary War graves. Scott.

Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s 412-851-9212. role in the anti-slavery movement.

OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. Western PA Sports Museum, This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion Clash of Empires, & exhibits on site features log house, local history, more. Strip District. blacksmith shop & gardens.

412-454-6000.

South Park. 412-835-1554.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY HISTORY CENTER. Museum MUSEUM. Trolley rides & commemorates Pittsburgh exhibits. Includes displays, industrialists, local history. walking tours, gift shop, Sewickley. 412-741-4487. picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS Washington. 724-228-9256.

MEMORIAL HALL. War in PHIPPS CONSERVATORY the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. & BOTANICAL GARDEN. a collection of military artifacts 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor showcasing photographs, gardens feature exotic plants uniforms, shells & other & floral displays from around the world. Winter Flower related items. Military museum Show & Light Garden. dedicated to honoring military Each of the changing exhibit service members since the rooms will embody the spirit Civil War through artifacts & of the oft-sung holiday tune personal mementos. Oakland. w/ arrangements of LED lights, 412-621-4253. props & seasonal favorites such ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. as poinsettias, amaryllis & a Features 5,000 relics of massive evergreen situated Catholic saints. North Side. in the pond of the Victoria 412-323-9504.

Room. Garden Railroad.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN Model trains chug through CATHOLIC CHURCH. miniature landscapes Maxo Vanka Murals. populated w/ living plants, Mid-20th century whimsical props & fun murals depicting war, interactive buttons. social justice & the Runs through Feb. 28. immigrant experience Tropical Forest Congo. in America. Millvale. www. per a p An exhibit highlighting 412-407-2570. pghcitym o .c some of Africa’s lushest WEST OVERTON landscapes. Oakland.

MUSEUMS. Learn 412-622-6914. about distilling & cokePHOTO ANTIQUITIES making in this pre-Civil War MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC industrial village. West Overton.

HISTORY. 3-D Photos on glass 724-887-7910. plates. Peer through antique viewers for examples of 3-D effects & see scores of other glass hand-colored transparencies.

Displaying 660 different movie FIRST NIGHT PITTSBURGH. cameras, showing pictures on Live music, art, fireworks, comedy, glass, many hand-painted. The ice sculpture, more. For a full largest display of 19th Century schedule of events, visit http:// photographs in America. North firstnightpgh.trustarts.org/.

Side. 412-231-7881.

Downtown Pittsburgh, PINBALL PERFECTION. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Pinball museum & players club.

West View. 412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many PITTSBURGH BALLET endangered species. Highland THEATER SCHOOL. 6:30 p.m.

Park. 412-665-3639.

August Wilson Center, RACHEL CARSON Downtown. 412-258-2700.

HOMESTEAD. A Reverence STAYCEE PEARL DANCE for Life. Photos & artifacts PROJECT. Presenting of her life & work. Springdale.

Playground Plus. 8:30 & 724-274-5459.

9:45 p.m. August Wilson Center, RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL Downtown. 412-258-2700.

HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits STEEL TOWN FIRE. Fire dancing. on the Homestead Mill. Steel Fire & Ice Plaza. 6:30, 7:30, industry & community artifacts 9 & 10 p.m. Cultural District, from 1881-1986. Homestead.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

412-464-4020.

UNSUK. A variety of bellydance SENATOR JOHN HEINZ styles, including Egyptian style, HISTORY CENTER. We Can veil dance, fusion skirt dance Do It!: WWII. Discover how & folklore Khaleeji. 6:15, 9:15 Pittsburgh affected World & 10 p.m. Pittsburgh CAPA, War II & the war affected our Downtown. 412-338-6100. region. Explore the development of the Jeep, produced in Butler, PA & the stories behind real-life “Rosie the Riveters” & local Tuskegee Airmen ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK whose contributions made an CLUB. For advanced ESL students. unquestionable impact on the Presented in cooperation w/ the

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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.

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STORYSWAP. An open forum to swap stories. First Mon of every month, 7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless.

412-366-8100.

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

THE MOTH. A themed storytelling series where all the stories must be true, be about the storyteller & be told w/o notes. Every show has a theme.

First Tue of every month, 8 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side.

412-381-6811.

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.

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STEWART O’NAN. Speaking on his new book, “West of Sunset.” 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Waterfront, Waterfront.

412-462-5743.

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HAPPY NOON YEAR! Families can welcome the New Year & countdown to 12 o’clock (noon) w/ stories, songs, treats & crafts. 11 a.m.

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

JANE’S JUNGLE ADVENTURE. Interactive, musical theater for kids presented by Gemini Children’s Theater. 6:30, 8:30 & 9:45 p.m.

Fifth Avenue Place, Downtown.

412-243-6464.

MAKESHOP: NOISEMAKERS. Experiment w/ different materials & techniques to create a sound-making instrument.

Ring in the New Year w/ your new noisemaker. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

STORYTELLING W/ TIM HARTMAN. Thru Dec. 31, 1-1:30 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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MESSFEST 2016. Get slimy, yucky, ooey & gooey as you learn about messy science! Experience globs of oobleck, pie-eating races, finger painting, slime, more.

Carnegie Science Center, North Side. 412-237-3400.

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MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books.

Listen to stories read by librarianturned-Teaching Artist Molly.

Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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CHESS CLUB. For students in grades K-7. First Tue of every month, 6:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

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TWILIGHT SNOWSHOE. Register online w/ Venture Outdoors. http://www.venture outdoors.org/. 7-9 p.m. South Park, South Park. 412-255-0564.

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

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A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

BENEDICTINE SISTERS NEW YEAR’S EVE PEACE VIGIL. 5-8 p.m. Vespers, meal & peace concert. RSVP required.

724-502-2600.

BOOKS & BEER NEW YEAR’S BASH. 8 p.m. Amazing Books, Downtown. 347-483-2432.

BREW YEAR’S EVE AT SMALLMAN GALLEY. All about craft beer, including Spoonwood, Gristhouse, Hop Farm, Helltown, Arsenal, Full Pint, Fathead’s, & more.

8 p.m. Smallman Galley, Strip District. 412-315-5950.

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

412-802-6028.

NEW YEAR’S EVE FAMILY CELEBRATION. Ring in 2015 w/ an early countdown that the whole family can enjoy.

6 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

412-622-6914.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY W/ ST. FERDINAND CHURCH. 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriott North, Cranberry. 724-776-2888.

NYE PARTY AT LFG. 8 p.m.

Looking For Group, Brookline.

774-482-1264.

PAVILION LIGHT SHOW. Thru Jan. 2, 2016, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Oakdale.

800-784-9675.

RADICAL TRIVIA. Thu, 9 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-431-4668.

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Kathryn Sickels, Sue Pollins & Kathleen Zimbicki. Forest Hills.

412-465-0140.

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. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

ESPRESSO A MANO. The Whole Kit & Caboodle. Feat. quirky cats & whimsical floral acrylic paintings by Maura Taylor. Lawrenceville.

412-918-1864.

FRAMEHOUSE. Except For The Sound of my Voice: Photogravures by Leslie A. Golomb. Feat. selections from Wielding the Knife, woodcuts

by Master Chinese Printmaker, Li Kang. Lawrenceville.

412-586-4559.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Forbidden Fruit. Porcelain figurines in the 18th century style by Chris Antemann. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Trip the Light Fantastic! Holiday Show.

Work by Doreen Baskin, Peter Calaboyias, Manuela Holban, Thomas Kelly, Bill Miller, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg, Cory Rockwood, Bruce Senchesen & Marike Vuga. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Addicted to Trash. Assemblage & metal collage by Robert Villamagna. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

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

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

HOLOCAUST CENTER, UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION. In Celebration of Life: Living Legacy Project. A photographic/multimedia exhibit honoring & commemorating local Holocaust survivors.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1500.

JAMES GALLERY. James Gallery Select. An eclectic mix of style. West End. 412-922-9800.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. Jane Haskell: Drawing in Light. An exhibition of 30 sculptures, paintings & drawings by the artist. Squirrel Hill.

412-521-8010.

MALL AT ROBINSON. Digital Designs: Showcase of Student Design Work.

Robinson. 412-788-0816.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Works

by Turrell, Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler &

Woodrow. Factory Installed.

Artists Anne Lindberg, John Morris, Julie Schenkelberg, Jacob Douenias, Ethan Frier, Rob Voerman, Bill Smith, Lisa Sigal & Marnie Weber created new room-sized installations that demonstrate a uniquely different approach to the creative process. North Side.

412-231-3169.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. parallelgenres. Christine Barney, John Burton, Granite Calimpong, Bernie D’Onofrio, Jen Elek, Saman Kalantari, David Lewin, David Royce, Margaret Spacapan & Cheryl Wilson Smith exploring an interconnected set of parameters through different genres. Shadyside.

412-441-5200.

NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Like a Body Without Skin. Work by Fiona Amundsen addressing the relationships between steel manufacturing industries & their mobilization into a united national front that produced everything from planes to bombs during WWII. North Side. 412-322-2224.

PANZA GALLERY. Fusion.

An exhibition showcasing two artists, Christianna Kreiss & George Kollar, using unique forms of photography. Millvale.

412-821-0959.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl.

Garfield. 412-441-6147-ext.-7.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Learning for a Greener Future: A Youth Art Exhibition. Through a series of photography workshops, Phipps’ summer interns were encouraged to explore whatever crossed their paths from beautiful flowers, to people, to architecture. The teens selected their favorite pictures to display in this gallery space. The pictures demonstrate the power of communication & art through the view of a camera lens. Oakland.

412-622-6914.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 50th Anniversary Annual Exhibition. A nonthemed juried exhibition showcasing the best work of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists in all mediums. Guild Exhibitions from the Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Society of Sculptors & Group A. Work from guild members. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. In the Air: Visualizing what we breath. Photographs that show the effects of western PA’s air quality. Oakland. 412-681-5449.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Indagare. Work by Therman Statom. Friendship.

412-365-2145.

REVISION SPACE. Fired in Freedom. A group exhibition feat. ceramic artists from Northeast Ohio & Pittsburgh.

28 firings in less than four years from a single wood-fired kiln have resulted in clay objects that range from contemporary sculptures to traditional pots.

Lawrenceville. 412-735-3201.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Golden Hour: Thoughts on the Contemporary Photo Book. An exhibition of images from recent or upcoming publications, experimental installations & thoughtful & evocative sequences that add a new perspective to existing book-based projects.

South Side. 412-431-1810.

SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. A Very Long Engagement. The works collected in this exhibition emerge from lengthy encounters with string – whether knotted, netted, interlaced, woven or percussed.

Created by six fiber artists, the works form a kind of network of linked ideas, processes, physical properties & material qualities. Downtown.

412-261-7003 x15.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art. More than 30 works created by 14 contemporary artists explore the impact that mental illness is having on society & the role the arts can play in helping to address these issues.

Strip District. 412-261-7003.

SPACE. The Mountain & the Bumblebee. An multi-artist, multimedia exhibition exploring our ideas about landscapes.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

THE TOONSEUM. Darth Vader & Friends. Work by Jeffrey Brown.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom.

Open showroom w/ the artists.

Fridays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. & by appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

WINDOWSPACE. Mixtape: God Bless The Child That’s Got His Own. Work by Paul Zelevansky. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. At Home. London based artist Hetain Patel unveils the photographic series “Eva,” & a newly commissioned work for the exhibition “Jump.” Part of India in Focus showcase.

Nandini Valli Muthiah. Nandini’s photography incorporates traditional ideas of popular Indian art in contemporary, everyday settings. Part of India in Focus showcase. Downtown.

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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.

PAVILION LIGHT SHOW. Thru Jan. 2, 2016, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Oakdale. 800-784-9675.

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Nature Reserve, Rector.

724-593-4070.

SUNDAY MARKET. A gathering of local crafters & dealers selling unique items, from home made foodstuffs to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m.

The Night Gallery, Lawrenceville.

724-417-0223.

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ROCK BAND 4 KARAOKE. Playing Rock Band 4. BYOB. 7 p.m. Looking For Group, Brookline. 774-482-1264.

SHOULD IT STAY OR SHOULD IT GO? THE CONFEDERATE FLAG & THE MEANING OF AMERICA. Speaker Pete DiNardo, a Mt. Lebanon High School history teacher, will survey the historical evolution of the meanings of the Civil War through debates over the flag & other symbols, exploring their relation to memory & the “great divide” of race in America. Presented by the

BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting [VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY] House, Oakland. 412-683-2669.

CLASS W/ NURLAN ABOUGALIEV. Master Class w/ former Principal dancer Crisis Center North, a domestic-violence counseling and of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre educational-resource center, is seeking volunteers to & Moscow City Ballet, open answer its 24-hour hotline. (All calls are taken on your cell to advanced level students phone.) Forty hours of training will be provided. Formal age 12 & up. Space is limited counseling experience is helpful but not necessary. An so RSVP to allegroballetpa@ application and screening process is required. For more gmail.com. 2 p.m. Allegro Ballet Academy, McCandless. information, contact Darla at dbarie@crisiscenternorth.org 412 931-6220.

PAVILION LIGHT SHOW. Thru Jan. 2, 2016, 7 p.m.

Historical society of Mount SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Lebanon. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing Oakdale. 800-784-9675.

Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. follows. No partner needed.

PITTSBURGH FILM OFFICE 412-531-1912.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace MOVIE TOUR. Interactive Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. tour through city backdrops of 412-683-5670. movies such as The Dark Knight 2016 FARMING FOR SLOVAK HERITAGE. Juraj Rises, Perks of Being a Wallflower, THE FUTURE CONFERENCE. Adamik will demonstrate the Flashdance, Next Three Days, PASA Scholarship & WorkShare fujara, a typical folk instrument Inspector Gadget, Abduction, Applications are open for the of mountain shepherds in Jack Reacher, more. 10 a.m. conference. To learn more or apply, Slovakia. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Station Square, Station Square. visit pasafarming.org/conference.

Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-323-4709.

Thru Jan. 4, 2016.

412-531-1912.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. BOULEVARD GALLERY & Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. follows. No partner needed.

Searching for glass artists, fiber A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace artists, potters, etc. to compliment SITTING GROUP. Tue, Thu Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. the exhibits for 2015 & 2016.

Church of the Redeemer, 412-683-5670.

Booking for both galleries Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE for 2017. Exhibits run from MT. LEBANON CLUB. Free Scrabble 1 to 2 months. 412-721-0943.

CONVERSATION games, all levels.

THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY SALON. Discuss current Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount HOUR REVIEW. Seeking events w/ friends & Lebanon Public submissions in all genres for neighbors. For seniors.

Library, Mt. Lebanon. . w fledgling literary magazine curated First Tue of every ww per 412-531-1912. a p ty ci h by members of the Hour After month, 10 a.m. pg SWING CITY. Learn & .com Happy Hour Writing Workshop.

Mount Lebanon Public practice swing dancing afterhappyhourreview.com.

Library, Mt. Lebanon. skills w/ the Jim Adler Band.

INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. 412-531-1912.

Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Submit your film, 10 minutes NO-BAKE TREATS W/ RITA Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. or less. Screenings held on & MELISSA. Whip up easy VOICECATCH WORKSHOP the second Thursday of every & delicious holiday desserts W/ KATHY AYRES. A community month. DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery, without turning on the oven. writing workshop & writing Greensburg. 724-219-0804.

First Tue of every month, 6 p.m. space provided by Chatham’s THE NEW YINZER. Seeking Carnegie Library, Oakland, Words Without Walls program. original essays about literature, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

Sat, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Carnegie music, TV or film, & also essays Library, East Liberty, East Liberty. generally about Pittsburgh.

412-363-8232.

To see some examples, visit BOARD GAME NIGHT. WIGLE WHISKEY www.newyinzer.com & view the $5 to play board games all BARRELHOUSE TOURS. current issue. Email all pitches, night. Come & meet new Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle submissions & inquiries to people. 7 p.m. Looking For Whiskey Barrel House, newyinzer@gmail.com.

Group, Brookline. 774-482-1264.

North Side. 412-224-2827.

PITTSBURGH POETRY REVIEW. CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Seeking submissions of no less Informal knitting session w/ than 3 & no more than 5 poems. literary conversation. First & RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia game Interested in series’ & linked Third Wed of every month, hosted by DJ Jared Evans. poems. For more information, visit 4:30-5:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Come alone or bring a team. Sun, www.pittsburghpoetryreview.com.

Oakland, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

Thru Jan. 15, 2016.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW 412-828-6322.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & STORYTIME ARTS & Seeking various types of spinners. All levels welcome.

CRAFTS: BEAR SNORES poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@ Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, ON. Book by Karma Wilson hotmail.com.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I am a 30-year-old straight man and I’ve been with a 28-year-old bisexual woman for a year. Early in our relationship, after much discussion, we established that it would be open. I would have the liberty to see other women and so would she.

We just had to be safe and always keep each other informed. The key was that she agreed to see only other women.

I was uncomfortable with the idea of her being with another man, and she went along with it. Fast-forward a few months, and she told me that she had drunkenly kissed a male coworker.

Hearing her say that hurt me. However, since then she has explained to me that the rule that she can be only with women is unfair because she’s bisexual and she’s attracted to both men and women. I can see whomever I might find attractive, but she has to limit herself. After much soul-searching, I came around to her point of view and she now has the option to see men too. My question: How do I deal with the jealousy and emotions that will come up when she does kiss another man? Or does even more with another man? We love each other, and I think it’s important to note that while we have both been on dates with other people, neither of us has had sex with someone else yet.

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side of his fear isn’t that he’s actually turned on by the thought of her with other men.

Lots to explore, once he’s certain he wants to explore it. But, again, if this is a nonnegotiable — if this really isn’t something HERMAN wants, despite his desire to be fair — it might be better to end the relationship than to attempt to be someone he’s not or agree to something he’ll never be at peace with.”

Follow Christopher Ryan on Twitter @ChrisRyanPhD, and check out his podcast (Tangentially Speaking), videos and swag at ChrisRyanPhD.com.

Longtime reader and listener (magnum podcast subscriber!) here, and I have a conundrum. My partner and I have a DADT agreement in regards to extramarital relations. I’m a fortysomething woman who travels a lot on business, and I find those trips a great opportunity to have NSA flings with younger men, all in good fun. So far, Tinder seems to be a good way to meet people, and I try to take precautions to ensure they are who they say they are by checking them out on social media and meeting them first in a public place. But a girl can’t be too careful.

Sometimes I wish I had someone I could call and just say, “Hey, I’m hosting a stranger tonight at my hotel. Could you call me at a specific time to check he hasn’t chopped me up into little pieces?” My partner can’t be that person because of the whole DADT thing. My friends don’t know about my flings. And the front desk seems inappropriate. Is there an app out there providing this kind of service? Or does someone need to create one?

“MAYBE HE COULD ASK HER TO SET UP A THREE-WAY WITH A MAN THEY BOTH LIKE SO HE CAN FACE THE DRAGON, SO TO SPEAK.”

“Hard Truth No. 1: Renegotiating is crucial to the survival of all long-term relationships — even more so in unconventional, custom-designed relationships where there’s no established template,” said Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships.

“And while I don’t see any unfairness in HERMAN ’s girlfriend wanting to have the same freedom he has (to see whomever she wants), if he agreed to the open relationship on the condition that she ‘see only other women,’ then renegotiating is going to be difficult.”

Your description of that particular limitation — only other women — as “key” to opening up your relationship, HERMAN , left Ryan feeling less than optimistic.

“Hard Truth N o. 2: It’s a time-wasting mistake to negotiate nonnegotiables,” said Ryan. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t be willing to learn and grow by trying new things. But our first task is to ‘know thyself’ and take it from there. For example, if you’re certain you want or don’t want kids, then that shouldn’t be open to negotiation just because you met someone you like (or love) whose dreams go the other way.”

Assuming you’re willing to renegotiate, HERMAN, where do you start?

“Perhaps the question of why he’s more bothered by her being with men than women,” said Ryan. “Maybe he could ask her to set up a three-way with a man they both like so he can face the dragon, so to speak. See if the flip

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A Tinder-like app to hook up random people who are about to hook up with other random people so the randos who met via the Tinderlike app can verify neither was murdered by the randos they met via Tinder itself? Sounds a little complicated, SDCS, and I’m not sure the market for your proposed app is big enough to attract investors. I also don’t think introducing a second potentially unreliable and/or sinister stranger into the mix is going to make your hotel hookups appreciably safer.

Here’s a better idea/simpler life-hack: Schedule a wake-up call for an hour or two after your Tinder rando is due to arrive. You can schedule wake-up calls for any time of day, SDCS, and in nicer hotels you can even ask the front desk to ring you personally instead of scheduling a robocall. Just tell the receptionist you’re a heavy sleeper and you need them to verify that you’re awake/alive in time for your big meeting.

Or you could take a risk and confide in a friend about your open marriage, your flings and your need for a safety buddy.

Start the New Year right and subscribe to the Savage Lovecast: savagelovecast.com.

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his essay “The Etiquette of Freedom,” poet Gary Snyder says that wildness “is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.” The fact that it’s a “hard-shelled” seed is a crucial detail. The vital stuff inside the stiff outer coating may not be able to break out and start growing without the help of a ruckus. A fire or flood? They might do the job. But I propose, Capricorn, that in 2016 you find an equally vigorous but less disruptive prod to liberate your dormant wildness. Like what? You could embark on a brave pilgrimage or quest. You could dare yourself to escape your comfort zone. Are there any undomesticated fantasies you’ve been suppressing? Unsuppress them!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Frederick the Great was King of Prussia between 1740 and 1786. He was also an Aquarius who sometimes experimented with eccentric ideas. When he brewed his coffee, for example, he used champagne instead of water. Once the hot elixir was ready to drink, he mixed in a dash of powdered mustard. In light of the astrological omens, I suspect that Frederick’s exotic blend might be an apt symbol for your life in 2016: a vigorous, rich, complex synthesis of champagne, coffee and mustard. (P.S. Frederick testified that “champagne carries happiness to the brain.”)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

wandered around, always shifting positions in relationship to the stars. But now and then, at irregular intervals, a very bright star would suddenly materialize out of nowhere, stay in the same place for a while and then disappear.

Chinese astronomers called these “guest stars.”

We refer to them as supernovae. They are previously dim or invisible stars that explode, releasing tremendous energy for a short time.

I suspect that in 2016, you may experience the metaphorical equivalent of a guest star. Learn all you can from it. It’ll provide teachings and blessings that could feed you for years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

My Piscean acquaintance Arturo plays the piano as well as anyone I’ve heard. He tells me that he can produce 150 different sounds from any single key. Using the foot pedals accounts for some of the variation. How he touches a key is an even more important factor. It can be percussive, fluidic, staccato, relaxed, lively and many other moods. I invite you to cultivate a similar approach to your unique skills in 2016.

Expand and deepen your ability to draw out the best in them. Learn how to be even more expressive with the powers you already possess.

Be alert for an abundance of interesting lessons in 2016. You will be offered teachings about a variety of practical subjects, including how to take care of yourself really well, how to live the life you want to live and how to build the connections that serve your dreams. If you are even moderately responsive to the prompts and nudges that come your way, you will become smarter than you thought possible. So just imagine how savvy you’ll be if you ardently embrace your educational opportunities. (Please note that some of these opportunities may be partially in disguise.)

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

John Koenig is an artist who invents new words.

Here’s one that’s applicable to your journey in 2016: “keyframe.” Koenig defines it as being a seemingly mundane phase of your life that is in fact a turning point. Major plot twists in your big story arrive half-hidden amidst a stream of innocuous events. They don’t come about through “a series of jolting epiphanies,” Koenig says, but rather “by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next.”

In revealing this secret, I hope I’ve alerted you to the importance of acting with maximum integrity and excellence in your everyday routine.

The silkworm grows fast. Once it hatches, it eats constantly for three weeks. By the time it spins its cocoon, it’s 10,000 times heavier than it was in the beginning. On the other hand, a mature, 60-foot-tall saguaro cactus may take 30 years to fully grow a new side arm. It’s in no hurry.

From what I can tell, Leo, 2015 was more like a silkworm year for you, whereas 2016 will more closely resemble a saguaro. Keep in mind that while the saguaro phase is different from your silkworm time, it’s just as important.

The coming months look like one of the best times ever for your love life. Old romantic wounds are finally ready to be healed. You’ll know what you have to do to shed tired traditions and bad habits that have limited your ability to get the spicy sweetness you deserve. Are you up for the fun challenge? Be horny for deep feelings. Be exuberantly aggressive in honoring your primal yearnings. Use your imagination to dream up new approaches to getting what you want. The innovations in intimacy that you initiate in the coming months will keep bringing you gifts and teachings for years to come.

“The sky calls me,” wrote Virgo teacher and poet Sri Chinmoy. “The wind calls me. The moon and stars call me. The dense groves call me. The dance of the fountain calls me. Smiles call me, tears call me. A faint melody calls me.

The morn, noon and eve call me. Everyone is searching for a playmate. Everyone is calling me, ‘Come, come!’” In 2016, Virgo, I suspect you will have a lot of firsthand experience with feelings like these. Sometimes life’s seductiveness may overwhelm you, activating confused desires to go everywhere and do everything. On other occasions, you will be enchanted by the lush invitations, and will know exactly how to respond and reciprocate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

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The longest river in the world flows through eastern Africa: the Nile. It originates below the equator and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Although its current flows north, its prevailing winds blow south. That’s why sailors have found it easily navigable for thousands of years. They can either go with the flow of the water or use sails to harness the power of the

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In many cases, steel isn’t fully useful if it’s too hard. Manufacturers often have to soften it a bit. This process, which is called tempering, makes the steel springier and more malleable.

Car parts, for example, can’t be too rigid. If they were, they’d break too easily. I invite you to use “tempering” as one of your main metaphors in 2016, Sagittarius. You’re going to be strong and vigorous, and those qualities will serve you best if you keep them flexible. Do you know the word “ductile”? If not, look it up. It’ll be a word of power for you.

Check out my audio horoscopes, which provide expanded forecasts about your destiny in 2016: http://bit.ly/BigView2016.

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breeze. I propose that we make the N ile your official metaphor in 2016, Scorpio. You need versatile resources that enable you to come and go as you please — that are flexible in supporting your efforts to go where you want and when you want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

In ancient times, observers of the sky knew the difference between stars and planets. The stars remained fixed in their places. The planets

that horses pulled. But as cities grew larger, a problem emerged: the mounting manure left behind on the roads. It became an everincreasing challenge to clear away the equine “pollution.” In 1894, a British newspaper predicted that the streets of London would be covered with nine feet of the stuff by 1950.

But then something unexpected happened: cars. Gradually, the threat of an excremental apocalypse waned. I present this story as an example of what I expect for you in 2016: a pressing dilemma that will gradually dissolve because of the arrival of a factor you can’t imagine yet.

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14. Oakland Athletics executive Billy 15. PokerStars pro Hershiser 16. Surrounding light 17. Dimin.’s opp.

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20. Pre-telegraph means of communication 23. Lines up 26. Ito of crosswords and jurisprudence 27. 1914 Booth Tarkington novel 28. Work involved in heavy lifting?

31. Closest star 32. It’s a wrap on the set 33. Big bone 34. Blog feed format 35. Naive 39. ___ Wayne 41. The 1975 lead singer Matthew 42. Sputnik letters 45. Letters for green jobs 46. About 47. “For example ...”

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THEY ’RE

director of programs

probably going to

and communications,

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PITTSBURGH AIDS

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about sex on

TASK FORCE ( pat f )

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GONORRHEA and SYPHILIS are on the rise.

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the STD rates are higher

these STDS

among some groups.

asymptomatic. gay and bisexual men

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