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02.17/02.24.2016
Editor CHARLIE DEITCH Arts & Entertainment Editor BILL O’DRISCOLL Music Editor MARGARET WELSH Associate Editor AL HOFF Multimedia Editor ASHLEY MURRAY Listings Editor CELINE ROBERTS Assistant Listings Editor ALEX GORDON Staff Writers RYAN DETO, REBECCA NUTTALL Interns COURTNEY LINDER, AARON WARNICK, ANDREW WOEHREL
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{ART} Director of Operations KEVIN SHEPHERD Production Director JULIE SKIDMORE Art Director LISA CUNNINGHAM Graphic Designers JEFF SCHRECKENGOST, JENNIFER TRIVELLI {COVER ARTWORK BY RASHAD JAMAAL}
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can’t recall a time when there has 06 “Ibeen such a positive relationship between a mayor and a county executive.” — Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto assessing the first term of Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald
[VIEWS] we really devolved into a nation 16 “Have that thinks it’s OK for a black man to die because he was drinking in a bus shelter?” — Charlie Deitch on the further widening of the racial divide
Director of Advertising JESSIE AUMAN-BROCK Senior Account Executives TOM FAULS, PAUL KLATZKIN, SANDI MARTIN, JEREMY WITHERELL Advertising Representatives SCOTT KLATZKIN, MELISSA LENIGAN, ERICA MATAYA, DANA MCHENRY, MELISSA METZ, JAMES PORCO, MARIA SNYDER, KARIN TURKOVICH Classified Manager ANDREA JAMES Radio Sales Manager CHRIS KOHAN National Advertising Representative VMG ADVERTISING 1.888.278.9866 OR 1.212.475.2529
{MARKETING+PROMOTIONS} Marketing Director DEANNA KONESNI Marketing Design Coordinator LINDSEY THOMPSON Radio Promotions Director VICKI CAPOCCIONI-WOLFE Radio Promotions Assistants ANDREW BILINSKY, NOAH FLEMING
[TASTE] bites were coated in a barely21 “Catfish there breading but packed plenty of buffalo punch.” — Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth review Scratch Food & Beverage
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[MUSIC] like the idea of having a real hit. 30 “IMaybe I’ll just start making that my goal.” — Kurt Vile on becoming semi-famous
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Smith — the actress is on 35 “Maggie top of her game, but when is she not?”
[ARTS] were slaves, why are they (whites) 38 “Ifangrywewith us?” — From Larry E. Davis’ new book Why Are They Angry With Us?: Essays on Race
[LAST PAGE] regularly chronicles her existential 54 “She struggles and doles out Old Testamentstyle love.” — Frances Rupp on Wendy Bell’s Facebook page and interviewing style in this week’s This Just In
{REGULAR & SPECIAL FEATURES} CHEAP SEATS BY MIKE WYSOCKI 18 EVENTS LISTINGS 42 SAVAGE LOVE BY DAN SAVAGE 49 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY 50 CROSSWORD BY BRENDAN EMMETT QUIGLEY 52 +
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