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EVENTS 8.6 – 10am HALF-PINT PRINTS Factory Studio This monthly silkscreen printing activity for families with children ages 1 to 4 years old takes place the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Free with museum admission
9.14 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: YO LA TENGO WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAMBCHOP Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with WYEP. Tickets $20/$15 Members & students
9.29 – 11am POP GENERATION: ANDY’S ANTIQUITIES For the generation that inspired Warhol, Pop Generation features educational tours exclusively for older adults, age 65 and over. Email popgeneration@warhol.org or call Leah Morelli at 412.237.8389. Tickets $10/FREE Members
9.30 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: AN EVENING WITH JOAN SHELLEY The Warhol theater This performance is co-presented with Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. FREE parking in The Warhol lot Tickets $15/$12 Members & students
10.7 – 7pm SENSORY-FRIENDLY EVENT FOR ADULTS (21+) Join us for a sensory-friendly program designed specifically for adults with autism spectrum disorders and those with sensory sensitivities. To register please contact Leah Morelli at morellil@warhol.org or call 412.237.8389. FREE
June 4 - August 28
The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and Christopher Tsai and André Stockamp. Additional support was provided by the Quentin and Evelyn T. Cunningham, the Hollen Bolmgren, and the W. Paul Spencer Funds of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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OKÉMON GO is getting more gamers off their couches than any smartphone game before it. The new mobile application requires users to physically walk around to catch Pokémon and collect supplies; logging steps is required to unlock certain game features. But we’re here to take your next Pokémon outing to the next level. Here’s a list of prime Pokémon hunting grounds and instructions for how to get the highest health and fitness score from your experience.
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Every true Pokémon trainer knows that the proper mode of transportation is a bicycle, and the best option for getting around Pittsburgh on bike is the Three Rivers Heritage Trail. In terms of scenery, it can’t be beat, and the trails are lined with Pokéstops. Be prepared to capture plenty of water Pokémon and stock up on items at stops as you ride along the rivers. {CP ILLUSTRATION BY VINCE DORSE}
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Schenley Park We are spoiled here in Pittsburgh by the sheer number of Pokéstops in any given neighborhood. But for more rural folks, parks are generally where most stops are. Luckily, we have parks, too. In proper Pokémon-trainer fashion, take a hike through Schenley Park — Pittsburgh’s own Viridian Forest. And keep an eye out for all the bug Pokémon in the woods. CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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Downtown Downtown Pittsburgh has the highest concentration of Pokéstops in the whole city. It’s not exactly a park, but you’ll burn some calories and catch Pokémon in no time. As it’s a densely trafficked area, there are several lure modules attached to Pokéstops. Pop a Lucky Egg into an incubator to make those steps count. It’s the ideal place to replenish lost Pokéballs (the device you’ll need to catch the little creatures).
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Oakland is chock-full of droves of college students wandering the streets looking for Pokémon. So the PokéGyms — locations where your Pokémon can battle others — are highly contested. To level up your Pokémon, take the time to explore this vast neighborhood, checking out the plentiful Pokéstops at wall murals. Then wander on over to the hilly university campuses and work those glutes on hundreds of sets of stairs.
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The Strip is outfitted with plenty of Pokéstops that show off this neighborhood’s plentiful restaurants and street art. Yeah, yeah. We’re trying to be healthy here, and it’s hard to pass up Deluca’s when there’s a Pokéstop on its rooftop rooster, but we here at CP trust that you can resist that temptation. Take a break from your hunt to grab fresh produce instead.
Polish Hill Polish Hill’s elevation offers walkers, runners and bicyclists the opportunity to burn extra calories while traveling on an inclined plane. It’s not too steep that it’s an unbearable climb, but Pokéstops will offer a nice cool down for those heading up that way. For a real challenge, do a few hill sprints.
Arsenal Park Arsenal Park has plenty of fields and courts for your enjoyment. Gather some friends who play Pokémon Go — and sports — and organize a softball, kickball, baseball, basketball or tennis game. Between innings, games and matches, take a cool-down walk around Arsenal Park with your teammates and hit up some Pokéstops.
Three Sisters Bridges There’s at least one Pokéstop on each bridge crossing the Allegheny River. The Three Sisters, at Sixth, Seventh and Ninth streets (Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol and Rachel Carson, respectively) allow players to make a figure eight, back and forth over the river. Stops will be along the edge of Downtown and the North Shore as well, so there’s no shortage of item-stocking opportunities. Do lunges across the entire length of the bridges to reap the rewards and burn some calories.
South Side Riverfront Trail We return to the river (and bike trail) for this final area on our list of Pokémon hunt locations. Bike this trail with phone in hand. Plug in some headphones and stop at each “ding” you hear to catch the accompanying Pokémon. There isn’t a shortage of Pokéstops, so keep an eye on your phone. And play the bike-trail theme songs from the original Pokémon games to have a real nostalgic trip.
Bonus: (Mythic Source and Piazza Lavoro at Allegheny Landing North Shore) This spot near PNC Park isn’t as large as our previous examples. But if you’re not interested in covering a lot of ground, this location has four Pokéstops registered within feet of one another. People gather here often, so there is a constant presence of lure modules for drawing Pokémon. RN U T TA L L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Donated milk at the Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank
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MOTHER’S MILK Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need {BY ASHLEY MURRAY} LAST SPRING, the Three Rivers Mothers’
Milk Bank set up shop in an unassuming concrete building on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. There’s no big sign outside touting it, but the 80,000 ounces of donated breast milk that have come through the building’s doors have fed well over 200 babies in Western Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “We’ve just assigned donor No. 250 to get blood work,” founder and executive director Denise O’Connor told City Paper last week. The office — with pastel-colored walls — houses the usual administrative desk and conference areas, but in the back are 10 freezers full of bagged, frozen breast milk and two low-temp pasteurization units that kill off pathogens but let the healthy bacteria live. In order to deliver safe milk to all of UMPC’s and Allegheny Health Network’s neonatal intensive-care units — in addition to hospitals in Johnstown, Allentown, the state of New Jersey and soon the University of Pennsylvania — milk-bank staff screen donors using a four-step process; it ends with a blood screening that looks for the same things a blood bank would.
The reason for the milk bank: prematurely born infants — whose mothers for one reason or another can’t produce or use their breast milk — are at risk for gastrointestinal complications called necrotizing enterocolitis, a.k.a. NEC, if they don’t receive human milk. According to research published in the journal Pediatrics, preterm infants who are fed only human milk have a nearly 80 percent reduction of NEC. “The medical community has realized that our smallest and sickest infants need to be fed with breast milk to achieve the best outcomes,” Dr. Jennifer Kloesz, of Magee-Women’s Hospital’s NICU, said in an official statement on the milk bank. “Unfortunately, not all of these babies’ mothers are able to provide enough breast milk to feed their babies. Having a localdonor milk bank allows us to cover this gap and ensure the best nutrition possible for all of our babies.” Another big rule at the Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank: Donors are not paid. Payment is a contentious issue in the world of breast-milk banks that revolves around social class and resources for mothers. (Just Google the word “Medolac.”)
“I WAS THINKING EVERY BABY SHOULD HAVE THE BEST BEGINNING.”
“When you have compensation, there are issues,” O’Connor says. “First of all you’ve monetized it, so you may have potential for fraud. Also, what about the woman who is low-income and receiving WIC [Women, Infants and Children food assistance] and she is trying to support other children? Maybe she will end up using formula from WIC and donating her own milk for money.” But payment wasn’t on the mind of donor Leah Shenot, of Wexford, who has donated about 100 ounces so far to Three Rivers. (For context, a newborn drinks about 3 to 5 ounces every few hours.) “I was thinking every baby should have the best beginning,” Shenot says. “I couldn’t imagine being in that position, not being able to nurse my baby.” The breast milk costs $4.15 per ounce, paid to the milk bank by hospitals, or by the family if the baby is sent home with a prescription for human milk. This money pays for overhead costs at the milk bank. That’s why O’Connor’s next step is advocacy — making sure breast milk is covered by insurance and regulated for safety. “There’s no mandated [health-insurance] coverage here in Pennsylvania,” O’Connor says. “In some areas [of the state,] some hospitals have less means. It can also be a barrier [for families] that there is no insurance reimbursement for donor milk.” AMU R R AY@PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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couple of meters by jumping into the river when you run out of space. “Dash ’n’ splash” would have been a better name. 5TH EVENT
Discus – Bridges, Downtown/North Side What would Pittsburgh be without its bridges? Difficult to navigate. Celebrate the ’Burgh’s pro-bridge spirit with a classic discus-throw off a bridge. The best spots for this would be the Rachel Carson, Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol bridges, all names for people who, coincidentally, were terrific discus throwers. (BYOD.) 6TH EVENT
Ice-skate Wrestling – Allegheny River (frozen)
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BICENTENNIAL OCTATHLON Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games {BY ALEX GORDON} WHILE PITTSBURGH may not be the health-
iest city in the world (that’s Copenhagen), or in America (Washington, D.C.), or even just in Pennsylvania (I don’t know, Punxsutawney?), things are starting to turn around here. We’ve got bike lanes, improved air quality, and restaurants that serve super-foods like “kale” and “the almond.” If you know where to look, you’ll find that Pittsburgh is overflowing with opportunities to get easy exercise on the cheap. It’s baked into our landscape, like bacon in a quiche. The hills and rivers offer natural exercises like sledding and jet-skiing; the labyrinthine streets provide good practice for turning left and right; and the bike lanes are a great place to bike. As Pittsburgh’s 200th birthday aligns with both the 2016 Summer Olympics and CP’s Health Issue, we thought now would be the best time to take advantage of the city’s health and history with the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Octathlon: eight athletic events to help you break a sweat while you learn something about this remarkable city.
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Bike-Javelin – Schenley Park, Oakland Like shooting a rifle while skiing, there’s just something deeply logical about throwing a javelin from a bike. And all the better if you’re doing it in the beautiful 450-plus-acre tree factory known as Schenley Park. If you’re worried about not understanding the rules of bike-javelin, rest easy: Nobody does! Even the pros wing it. 2ND EVENT
Stairs – Cathedral of Learning, Oakland
This iconic landmark on the University of Pittsburgh campus is the second-tallest educational building in the world, and the tallest one in Pittsburgh. It’s 42 stories, and its stairs have some of the smoothest handrails in Pa. And those stairs: Start at the bottom and don’t stop until you Here’s what we have in mind. (We don’t hit the top. It’ll be worth it. “Great view recommend actually trying any of this.) of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood,” 10
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you’ll pant nauseously from the penthouse. 3RD EVENT
Clambering – Monongahela Incline, Station Square The Monongahela Incline and its pompous younger cousin, the Duquesne Incline, are prime examples of the city’s functional architecture. In this event, you’ll clamber (to climb, e.g. “I clambered out of the trench”) on up the tracks at top-clambering speed, as if Station Square was on fire. Intense! Take the incline car on the way down, though. No need to overdo it. 4TH EVENT
100m Dash – U.S.S. Requin, North Side Pittsburgh’s No. 1-ranked submarine, the U.S.S. Requin, is a great spot to get the old ticker pumping (heart beating quickly). At 312 feet long, it’s just shy of the 100 meters you’d need for the traditionallength dash, but you can tack on another
Rumor has it that during the 1940s, a Strip District gang known as the Bayardstown Boys used to rumble with a rival North Side gang by skating onto the frozen river and duking it out on this neutral territory. Hardcore! Very scary. In honor of these mischievous criminals of yore, skate out onto the frozen river and wrassle* with a friend. 7TH EVENT
Swimming – Washington’s Landing, Herr’s Island In 1753, legend says that our debut president spent a night on Herr’s Island after his ship capsized on a mission during the French and Indian War. You’ll want to skip the near-drowning, but this 400m(ish) swim is a great way to get exercise just like George “capsize-your-way-to-skinny” Washington did back in the day. 8TH EVENT
Introspection – Allegheny Cemetery, Lawrenceville This is a beautiful park-like and historical cemetery. No physical action in this event, just Olympic-tier selfreflection. Who are you? And why? Have fun out there. A L E X G ORD ON @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
*Editor’s Note: Wrassling isn’t technically an octathlon event, but neither are stairs. None of this is real. Don’t do any of this. Especially stay off the incline.
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Sip suds from local brewers while exploring the science behind the bubbly beloved beverage. Live music, cash bars, snacks available for purchase, lots of science fun, and no kids! Visit CarnegieScienceCenter.org for details and to register. Cost: $19
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Aerial silk at Pittsburgh Dance Center
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to hold a Volkswagen Beetle. That’s what I tried to focus on as I found myself hanging upside down at my first aerial-yoga class at Verve360 two years ago. During the class — which is part gymnastics, part circus performance — participants use Lycra or nylon fabric to perform traditional yoga postures. You’ll do tree pose — standing in mid air with one foot wedged in the silk— or a pigeon stretch, but hanging upside down. Individual experiences vary, but it was performing the upside-down poses — with nothing but my locked legs keeping me from tumbling to the ground — that gave me the greatest adrenaline rush. I’m not what you’d call athletic, and mostly lack the coordination to master activities like ice-skating or rollerblading. So a fitness class where I frequently found myself suspended upside-down a few feet above the ground was definitely out of my comfort zone. Like that aerial-yoga class, there are hundreds of different fitness classes across the city which are designed to take participants out of their comfort zones. Verve no longer offers group classes, but during the four years I took classes there, I sampled many
popular fitness-class trends. (Verve still has private sessions; check out our list of other venues offering a wide variety of classes.) My first class at Verve was the traditional Pilates mat class. Pilates builds strength, flexibility and lean muscle tone through controlled, repetitive movements designed to put your body, particularly your spine, in alignment. Think crunches — lots of crunching — but not Jane Fonda or Richard Simmons crunches. Pilates is all about your core: that area below your shoulders and above your pelvis, and not just your stomach. During any Pilates exercise, whether it’s a rollup (kind of like a sit-up) or a bridge (a beginner’s backbend), your core should be engaged. It taught me the importance of engaging the core in any situation, even waiting for the bus or sitting at my desk. Yoga was another component of Verve’s schedule. Usually, I went to the session during my lunch break when, because of the time, I often found myself practicing with just one other person. Our instructor often took the opportunity provided by the small class size to give us more individualized instruction, and he spent much of the class adjusting my posture. My hips have never been squarer during warrior pose, my tri-
angle pose never more triangular. Yoga is one of the more popular fitness classes available in Pittsburgh. There’s power yoga, hot yoga and even PIYO, a yoga/Pilates hybrid. By trying a range of classes, you can find what works for you. One morning, I had the opportunity to take a Zumba class taught by KDKA-TV anchor Jennifer Antkowiak. Zumba is a Latin-inspired dance workout that combines cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility. There’s also an accessories line of bangle bracelets and sashes that jingle as you move. After a few near-collisions with other dancers — I salsa-ed when I should’ve meringue-ed — I quickly learned Zumba wasn’t for me.
Barre was another trend at the studio during my final months there, and it’s becoming popular throughout the city. The ballet-inspired workout combines dance, Pilates and yoga moves done at a ballet barre. At Verve, it was called Booty Barre, but most variations include plies, an outward bending of the knees with your feet either flat on the floor or up on your toes. I enjoyed the calorie-burning effect of Barre and that wobbly-leg sensation I felt at the end of classes. Barre, yoga, Pilates and Zumba are just a few of the many fitness classes around the city, and new trends emerge every week. You’ve just got to get out there and give them a try. RN UTTAL L @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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Pittsburgh Kettlebell and Performance
North Side No-cost workout classes from volunteer coaches who also provide information on nutrition and fitness. 404-293-2629
Greentree Work out with kettlebells, battle ropes, medicine balls, pull-up bars, Olympic barbells, sand bags, sledgehammers and tires. 412-758-0308
Bodytech North Hills Classes like yoga, spinning, bootcamps, interval training and the popular Insanity plyometrics workouts. 412-364-7334
Push 40 Fitness Bridgeville A 40-minute workout that takes you through four different cardio stations: bike, treadmill, suspension training and free weights. 412-219-7874
Fitness with a Twist South Side Specializing in pole-dancing, this studio also offers chair- and floor-dance routine classes, plus aerial yoga. 412-377-5889
South Hills Power Yoga Dormont
Fullbody Fitness Club
This studio offers a vigorous take on traditional vinyasa yoga, sometimes incorporating music. 412-207-9535
Brentwood Offers high-intensity interval cardio and Zumba, along with acrobatic classes like aerial silks, hoop/trapeze and pole-dancing. 412-253-2512
Stray Dog Yoga Studio
Pittsburgh Dance Center Bloomfield
Heated vinyasa yoga in a temperaturecontrolled studio designed for deeper breathing and focus. 724-719-2055
Adult, youth, family and line-dancing classes. Or defy gravity with aerial-silk and circus classes. 412-681-0111
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The Barre Code Ballet-inspired workouts that combine kickboxing, cardio, weight-training, high-intensity interval training and yoga. 412-802-8585
Pittsburgh FIT Braddock This studio offers classes that combine aerobic conditioning, weight-training and gymnastics. 412-445-2154
The Hott Spot Extreme Wellness
Pittsburgh Fitness Project Lawrenceville Personal training and group classes. Check out Zombiefit for everything you need to survive a zombie apocalypse. 724-998-2323
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Mellon University student Blue Martin says she thinks one of the best ways to foster interest in the sciences is by encouraging hobbies that allow opportunities to build and create things. “Our souls are only satisfied by what we make with our own hands, whether that’s knitting or building a robot,” Martin says. “And collaborating with others is [an] important part of any learning process.” Now, a smartphonesized device she’s creating could one day help treat one of the world’s most insidious diseases by using magnets. Martin, a CMU doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, was working as an undergraduate in the mechanical-engineering machine shop when she decided she wanted to focus on medical devices. She originally hoped to work on artificial-heart research, but there was a project already underway on a device that would help treat malaria. Martin was intrigued. “I knew I wanted to work on something that would help people,” she says. According to the Centers for Disease Control, last year there were 214 million
cases of malaria around the world. The disease killed 438,000 people in 2015, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. There are numerous challenges with treating malaria. For one, the version of the disease that affects humans most severely doesn’t affect animals, making testing treatments difficult. Additionally, many malaria patients, especially those in impoverished areas, suffer through and recover from the disease several times, and may only seek treatment when their symptoms become lifethreatening. They often end up developing a resistance to the drugs most commonly used to treat malaria, and can become anemic and develop other serious conditions, such as organ failure. Martin’s still-theoretical device would filter out inflected blood cells from malaria patients using magnets. It’s called mPharesis, and the name is a mashup of the words “magnetic apheresis.” No, of course you don’t know what that is, you’re not a biomed Ph.D. candidate at CMU. Apheresis is a procedure that treats disease by removing blood from the body and separating it into plasma and cells, which allows antibodies from autoimmune
“I KNEW I WANTED TO WORK ON SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP PEOPLE.”
diseases to be removed. Researchers have long known that malaria patients’ red blood cells are magnetic, because the parasite that causes malaria crystallizes the iron, or hemoglobin, in their cells. The mPharesis device would use magnets to draw out the iron, essentially skimming the infected cells away. The patient’s healthy, filtered blood would then be returned. Once fully developed, the hope is that the mPharesis device could replace dialysis as a treatment option for malaria patients. Martin explains that one of the many challenges she faced was finding the right size and strength of magnets to use. The first design had one large magnet, but she discovered that smaller, strategically placed magnets were more effective. As it’s designed now, the mPharesis device passes a paper-thin layer of blood over magnets and wires, and would take more than one pass to fully purge the parasite from the patient’s cells. She says the device is able to remove about 20 percent of the infected cells on the first pass, even in a patient who is gravely ill.
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Ideally, mPharesis will be able to be used without electricity, Martin says, but it’s still a long way from even being close to patient testing. That lengthy process from concept to production of an actual, functioning medical device can be wearying for the engineers and scientists involved, Martin says. She says it’s easy to get too focused on the science of the process, and to lose sight of the ultimate goal of treating patients and curing disease, especially for someone without a medical background, like herself. As part of her further study, she plans to educate herself about the people mPharesis would help.
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POLITICAL COURAGE {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} TWO GREAT RESULTS came out of the Re-
publican National Convention last week, and both of them involved the speech by former GOP presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. First, Cruz took the stage at the RNC in Cleveland and refused to endorse Donald Trump, a man who not only attacked Cruz personally during the election but unmercifully attacked Cruz’s family, including his wife and father. Cruz was booed by RNC delegates while Trump and his family watched disgustedly from the audience. Trump would later claim he knew about Cruz’s non-endorsement two weeks ago, but his face was that of a man who had been blindsided, as if he were a contestant fired from his own reality show. Cruz told the world to “vote your conscience,” and in that moment proved that GOP unity isn’t all we’ve been told it is. He also showed Donald Trump that there are consequences for your actions, although that’s a lesson that I’m not sure will stick. The second result? In making that speech, Cruz committed political suicide. He upstaged the party in what was supposed to be its finest hour. Why is that a great result? Had it not been for Trump, Cruz would have been the likely nominee. And while Donald Trump is a train wreck into a dumpster fire, Cruz is no friend of progressive thinking. He’s bad on women’s health issues, gun control, immigration, LGBT issues, the environment and just about everything else that Trump and the rest of the GOP are bad on. So in summation: I’m glad Ted Cruz screwed over Donald Trump, and I’m thrilled that, after his convention performance, Ted Cruz will never, ever be elected to the White House. That said, however, I have great respect for what Cruz did. It’s rare to find someone in American politics willing to take a stand against his own party because it’s the right thing to do. Bernie Sanders tried to do it, and his attempt to overcome a wellfunded, ethically suspect Hillary Clinton was beaten back by Clinton. Moreover, we
now know, thanks to Wikileaks, that the Democratic National Committee was actively plotting against him, because, I can only assume, it felt challenged by Sanders’ desire to take this country down a different path: a path to an America where everyone would get the chance to live on more equal footing. But that was never to be. The party wanted Clinton and it got her. Given the two choices, I will vote for Clinton over Trump because she is by far the better candidate. There’s nothing politically courageous about that, but Trump is a disaster. I really see it as a vote for the survival of this country. Civil and individual rights in this country will take a beating under Trump. The more politically courageous move would be to seek out a thirdparty candidate, like Jill Stein of the Green Party. She’s offering herself as the Bernie Sanders substitute. Her views on a lot of issues line up with the most progressive of progressives. But in this two-party system, Stein won’t win. When I was younger, I believed candidates like her could win. (Yes, I once supported Ralph Nader.) But the fact is she won’t, and, yes, I’m aware that people like me are exactly the reason that she and other third-party candidates will never be able to crack the system. That’s why when we see a display like the one we got from Ted Cruz last week in Cleveland, we need to take note of it and be thankful for it. He stood up in front of his party with a chance to be a “hero” and endorse Trump. He had a chance to swallow his pride and fall spinelessly in line just like Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan did. Ryan never looked happy about it, but he endorsed Trump anyway. That’s what makes what Cruz did worth congratulating. I still think he’s a horrible politician, a horrible policy-maker and on the wrong side of history on just about every important issue facing this country. But he was right in standing up to the bully Donald Trump, and regardless of what side of the aisle you stand on, you have to respect that.
“I’M GLAD TED CRUZ SCREWED OVER DONALD TRUMP.”
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OLYMPIC TRIO {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} THE 2016 Olympics kick off in just over
a week. The summer games, which are the second-best kind of Olympic Games, take place mostly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Besides political unrest, bodies washing ashore, the Zika virus and some buildings not being completed, Rio is all set to host the world’s best athletes. I rank the warm-weather games as second-best because you can’t take an event seriously if it includes ping-pong and badminton. Any sport your dad might have played at a college frat house while wearing plaid shorts shouldn’t be a sport. Changes for this year’s Olympiad include the additions of golf, rugby and kitesurfing. Baseball and softball were removed before the previous summer games. Perhaps the International Olympic Committee found those sports to be boring, and so replaced them with the fast-paced excitement of golf. It’s about time some rich kids got a chance to be in the Olympics. Rugby is new this year, too. Rugby sevens (seven players instead of 15) debuts, as rugby has become internationally hot. It’s football without all that silly over-protective equipment. And say goodbye to windsurfing and hello to kite-surfing. Sorry to all the old-school windsurfing enthusiasts; the new sport is similar but just a little more dangerous. This year’s roster of athletes doesn’t contain as many Pittsburghers as in the past, but they all have one thing in common: They’re all women. PineRichland’s Meghan Klingenberg, the World Cup-winning, President Obama-meeting, ticker-tape-parade-having soccer all-star is in her first Olympics as a starter. The 2012 Olympic alternate wants to add gold to her already impressive résumé. Last week, this column haphazardly omitted a women’s Mount Rushmore, honoring Pittsburgh’s female athletes. So to set the record straight: Meghan would be on this list along with Lauryn Williams, Swin Cash and Suzie McConnell-Serio. Klingenberg, the current Portland Thorn, is even featured in the FIFA 2016 soccer video game — the first time women were included in the game. Now back to the Olympics. From the halls of Oakland Catholic High School comes swimmer Leah Smith. How Pittsburgh is she? She is the great-niece of Pittsburgh boxing legend Billy Conn. Smith’s
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high school is not far from the road named after her great-uncle. Leah qualified in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle this year. She had a standout career as a Virginia Cavalier and set many school and Atlantic Coast Conference records in her four years there. Pittsburgh breeds football players, wrestlers and boxers, but now we have swimmers too. Not bad for a city with 30 days of sunlight a year. Our other Olympian, rower Amanda Polk, also went to Oakland Catholic a few years before Smith. Her college career at Notre Dame ended with her becoming the most decorated rower in the program’s history. A four-time All-American as a Fighting Irish rower, her career in Pittsburgh was almost as remarkable. She went undefeated in her senior year as a rower and was named captain of her basketball team. A year before that, she was a state champion. Rowing in the Olympics is generally dominated by Great Britain. Now, with that country’s recent uncertainty in the world, it’s time to take advantage and beat the Brits once again! Plus, the entire Russian team might be banned for drug use. All the cards are falling into place for Pittsburgh to bring home some gold. Here we go, soccer, swimming and rowing, here we go. The Olympic Games always change with the times. They used to have art competitions until 1948. Motorboating — no, not that kind — used to be an Olympic sport as well. Tug-of-war, too, was on the list, although I think they should bring that one back. Dueling with pistols has also fallen by the wayside, as has croquet. And while those events might sound silly, remember, we still have ping-pong. And once cornhole gets its Olympic credentials, we’ll quickly see more Western Pa. Olympians on this list.
ONCE CORNHOLE GETS ITS OLYMPIC CREDENTIALS, WE’LL QUICKLY SEE MORE WESTERN PA. OLYMPIANS ON THIS LIST.
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There are only 138,000 Amish citizens in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the newly-formed Amish PAC is hoping they’ll swing the states for Donald Trump. The Central Pennsylvania Business Journal reports that the Virginia-based PAC has launched billboard and printmedia campaigns in parts of the states with significant horse-and-buggy traffic. Brazenly, the organization is insinuating similarities between members of the devout, pacifist, hyper-modest, technology-abstaining sect and the Republican candidate, a thrice-married, self-aggrandizing reality-TV star/casino-and-hotel owner addicted to Twitter. In its first print ad, Amish PAC notes that “Trump is known for his strong work ethic” and his “business is family-run,” adding that while running for president, “He has tasked his adult children with running his business” — apparently trying to create parallels between Trump’s oft-bankrupt “luxury” brand companies and the family farms and furniture-making shops of Lancaster. The ad also notes that Trump “abstains from alcohol,” but fails to mention he plastered his name on wine and vodka brands.
had been submerged under 21 feet of water long enough for freshwater mussels to cling to it. Divers did not find a body or evidence anyone died in whatever wild night put the vehicle there, Springdale’s acting police chief told
THE BRAIN IS LIKELY A STOLEN TEACHING SPECIMEN. the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Divers attached a tow line to the front of the object and the fire department tried to haul it up, but the beam axle attached to the line broke off. As of now, authorities do not know how and when it got there.
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While a relative was cleaning out a trailer in Penn Township inhabited by Joshua Lee Long, currently in the Cumberland County Prison on a string of burglary charges, she reportedly discovered a human brain in a Walmart bag beneath a porch. A coroner told The Sentinel newspaper of Carlisle that the brain is likely a stolen teaching specimen. Long, 26, allegedly told the relative that he and his roommate, Robbie Lee Zoller, wetted marijuana in the formaldehyde in which the brain is soaked to enhance the drug. (It’s not clear from the report if the brain is in a jar of the fluid or simply retains it.) Long, who faces new charges for abuse of a corpse, reportedly said he and Zoller nicknamed the organ “Freddy.” This, everyone, is your brain on drugs — and also apparently your drugs on brain.
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Pokémon Go, the smart-phone scavenger-hunt craze, is 1-1 in terms of harm vs. benefit in its role in Pittsburgharea auto accidents. For starters, a 15-year-old girl in Tarentum was struck by a car while crossing an intersection to “collect” the cartoon creatures — virtual game pieces that players “catch” by traveling to physical locations. She suffered collarbone and foot injuries. Her mother, Tracy Nolan, predictably blamed the new youth trend, not her daughter or herself, for the accident. Nolan told WPXI, “The Pokémon game took her across a major highway at 5 o’clock in the evening. … Parents, don’t let your kids play this game because you don’t want to go through what I went through last night.” On the other hand, WPXI also reports a man searching for Pokémon in West Deer witnessed a car veer into a creek and helped pull the driver to safety before it burst into flames.
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Every time you take your children to the grocery store, they might die! Or so we are to believe after watching the fear-mongering WTAE promo that announces, “THOUSANDS OF KIDS HURT by simple mistakes parents make every day. Maybe even you! Action News Investigates shows you the shopping-cart risks that have local medical experts worried. Don’t miss it TONIGHT at 5:30 p.m.” During the intense promo, a woman (who later turns out to be “our nurse”) forebodes, “Totally shocked! Totally shocked!” Another woman recounts, “She fell out of the cart, head first,” of an event that we will later find out happened 15 years ago. Beau Berman tells the story on July 21, revealing, “Honestly, I never would have guessed how many injuries related to shopping carts, of all things, there actually are. But I asked a trauma nurse from Children’s Hospital straight up, ‘Did you realize how bad this was?’ [and] she told me, ‘No idea’ … ” In fact, this information was first reported in myriad, well-trafficked online publications in 2014, when the statistics were released after a Clinical Pediatrics study showed 24,000 children are injured each year in shopping-cart-related incidents. If the situation was so dire, why did Channel 4 wait two years to tell us? Perhaps because Giant Eagle has unveiled a new, baby-friendly shopping cart! After Berman inquired about local shopping-cart injuries, Children’s Hospital nurse Chris Vitale said she discovered that 155 kids with such injuries have come through its ER since 2011, and about one-third had to be admitted. Berman asked, “Is this what you expected?” She answers (as is seen in the promo) “Totally shocked! Totally shocked!” WTAE claims in its promo that it speaks with “medical experts.” So how can she not know this? Also, there is a big difference between interviewing one person who works in the field and “experts” plural. Berman then employs a watermelon as a prop in lieu of a baby’s head, and drops it from the height of a shopping cart for dramatic results. Everyone needs to chill — including Berman. Shopping carts are most likely not going to kill your kids. But the kids might get hurt if you take your eyes off them, which any parent can do. If you have children, you already know there’s nothing shocking about what can happen to them if they’re unattended, even for a second. If changing the design of the shopping cart helps an already overwhelmed parent, then let’s change the design, like Giant Eagle has done. And spare the watermelons, for cripe’s sake!
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“Only on 11,” a grandmother explains how she helped police “take down” a burglary suspect, and WPXI fishes for divisive comments on its Facebook page. Amy Marcinkiewicz reports from Ambridge: “Well, she could have panicked after hearing a stranger in her house, rifling through her things. She didn’t.” She asks the grandma, who didn’t want her face on television: “What does your shirt say?” The pistol-packin’ granny answers, “Keep Calm and Carry.”
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Marcinkiewicz narrates: “She grabbed that .38, stood at the top of the stairs and called 911. She stayed on the phone with dispatchers until Ambridge police arrived and arrested the burglary suspect. … She said police were there so fast, she didn’t have to take matters into her own hands.” Our faceless heroine confesses, “I didn’t want to do it, but I knew that if I had to … I would have shot.” Let’s be glad she didn’t need to.
WHITE FIRE
In a column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ruth Ann Dailey tries to explain events in Nice, through a conversation with her daughter, in which she explains, “The fire is war anywhere, at any time, not declared by nations but carried out by self-selected true believers of various and sundry causes.” “When did it start? For Americans, 1983, perhaps — the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Or maybe it was the taking of American hostages in Tehran in 1979. Whichever you pinpoint, some will argue that the U.S. had it coming — payback for our actions in the Middle East during the Cold War.” That only leaves out the slaughtering of thousands of black men and their allies by the KKK and maybe some anti-Semitism here and there … well, you get the idea. All of these things happened well before 1979. File under: Things only an unwoke white woman can write.
RIP “CHILLY BILLY”
Local icon Bill “Chilly Billy” Cardille, host of Chiller Theater, died last week after suffering from cancer. My Saturday nights as a kid were made all the better by the movies he showcased, like The Hills Have Eyes and Gargoyles. Pittsburgh is going to miss him. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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FRESH TACOS, MEXICAN-STYLE {BY RYAN DETO} A true taqueria-style Mexican joint should offer a few staples, and none of them should be giant bowl-like glasses of blue margaritas. They should include homemade cinnamon-rice beverage horchata and fresh-fried tortilla chips. And, of course, inexpensive cuts of marinated meat, stewed for hours, then shoved in smallish corn tortillas to be consumed in seconds. This is what taquerias are like in Mexico, and this is how Edgar’s Best Tacos owner Edgar Alvarez runs his establishment; he recently opened a new brick-and-mortar location in the Strip District.
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“When I decided to get into the restaurant business, I wanted to do it just like in Mexico City,” says Alvarez, who had been operating a popular taco stand five blocks down Penn Avenue at 21st Street. Alvarez says the move was necessary because a bigger kitchen was needed to accommodate the growth of his business, which also includes a food truck. And that growth has been driven by customers seeking the true flavors of south-of-the-border fare. He cites the popularity of dishes like barbacoa, marinated lamb and lengua (stewed beef tongue), which illustrate how Pittsburghers’ tastes are evolving. (In fact, Alvarez says he used to only buy one beef tongue, which he says is “better than filet mignon,” per week, but now must purchase three to keep up with demand.) The new spot also entices customers with bags of dried and fresh chilies, handmade empanadas and giant jugs of aguas frescas, or fresh-made beverages. Alvarez is hoping to add another food truck to his fleet soon and continue to spread the flavors of his native land and create as many new authentic-taco fans as he can. “Pittsburgh is growing so fast, I am seeing a lot of new faces every day.” RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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HE NAME OF The Abbey might be inaccurate, but it isn’t misleading. The building’s former roles as a masonry shop, foundry and funeral home have resulted in a sprawling, eclectic array of spaces embellished with medievalesque stonework, heavy wooden ceiling beams and stained glass — details that lend it an almost-religious, deeply Old World atmosphere. It would take a highly iconoclastic vision to adapt this assemblage to a restaurant, and Abbey owners Eric Kukura and Chris McAleer have supplied it. Within its various rooms are contained an array of services: a coffee bar, cocktail bar and dining room. Flourishes have been added flourishes that update the spaces while working with their distinctive character. The lyrics of “Bohemian Rhapsody” have
been calligraphed on a frieze board extending the length of a hall, where a giant, round booth awaits. Television screens are tuned to nature scenes. The frame of an enormous rose window serves as a magnificent ceiling fixture.
THE ABBEY ON BUTLER STREET 4635 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-682-0200 HOURS: Mon.-Sat. Lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; dinner 5-11 p.m.; Sunday brunch 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. PRICES: $6.50-14.50 LIQUOR: Full Bar
CP APPROVED The menu is rather more restrained, in both length and breadth. It’s in the au courant gastropub mode, but the limited selection — 10 appetizers and small
plates, three burgers and three pastas — requires considerable curation on the part of executive chef Thomas Christakos. Flavors bounced from Italian to Mexican to Southeast Asian. The Back Yard Burger was what it sounds like, but with the chef’s “1K sauce,” essentially house-made 1,000 Islands dressing. The plump patty was mild, more like tenderloin than the chuck stated on the menu, with a trace of sweetness and not quite enough sear to add really deep, smoky flavor. Sriracha chicken dip was a more exciting venture. Finely shredded chicken in a mild, cream-cheese-based medium — spreadable more than scoopable — was kicked up by the sriracha to an unmistakable heat. Served with triangles of fluffy grilled naan, this was irresistibly delicious.
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Alas, the same condiment was out of place on an otherwise outstanding banh mi bruschetta, a clever deconstruction of the famous Vietnamese hoagie using tender pork belly and shredded, lightly pickled vegetables on bias-cut, grilled slices of baguette. The bread had plenty of character without being too tough to bite and chew. However, the relatively one-dimensional heat of the sriracha threatened to overwhelm the toppings without contributing the necessary smoky-sweet notes. A seasonal mushroom bruschetta with fresh herbs and asiago cheese is also available and represents one of several worthy options for vegetarians. Others include fried halloumi cheese in a roastedred-pepper sauce; Mexican-style grilled corn-on-the-cob with cotija cheese and a sprinkling of salt; and zucchini a couple of ways: tempura-battered with wasabi aioli and ponzu for dipping, or shredded into noodle-like ribbons and tossed in pesto with tomatoes, garlic and mushrooms. Surprisingly for such a brief menu, there were also two potato dishes with overlapping preparations: papas bravas — roasted and fried with ancho chili sauce and cotija cheese — and smashed ovenbaked Yukon Golds with Gouda cheese, sour cream and scallion oil. We chose the smashed, but they were disappointing. Good smashed potatoes retain a crust where they have been mashed against the hot pan; these were crustless. Worse, the interiors were light and fluffy in some bites, but in others, barely cooked. The beans, intensely flavored with garlic and rosemary, were the best part of grilled shrimp and white beans. The shrimp’s complementary flavor was bold to match, but its texture was a little mushy. Mac-and-cheese has become de rigueur from taverns to fine-dining establishments, but whether overloaded or understated, seldom rises to the occasion. The Abbey’s “Abbey Normal” mac-andcheese shows how it should be done: a simple, sophisticated blend of cheddar and asiago cheeses; the perfect pasta, cavatappi, whose helical tubes delivered the maximum amount of the creamy, sharp, nutty sauce from the dish to our taste buds; and a restrained yet flavorful suite of mix-ins: savory bacon, juicy tomato and zesty green onion. If only all macand-cheese could be this good. When most new restaurants seem to be following similar formulas to compete for Pittsburgh’s newly hip clientele, The Abbey is genuinely both original and comfortable, deservedly confident in its ambitious, iconoclastic concept. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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BRILLIANT BROWNIES BY A BRAINY BICYCLIST {BY MYA ZERONIS} I love riding my bicycle in the summer. I’m not a cyclist who eats mouthfuls of simple carbs to “race” by themselves. I can ride fast, but I ride at a pace that allows me to enjoy the scenery. I pack four or five of these brownies, made without wheat, added sugar, eggs or dairy, to give me energy. The walnuts, dates, unsweetened raisins and pure raw cacao give me fuel for a 30- to 40-mile ride. Unprocessed cacao is a superfood, and walnuts are brain food. I don’t even bake these brownies, and they can be made in 20 minutes! I save a lot of time for thinking about new recipe ideas and bigger projects. I’m a chef who weighs 98 pounds, and I’m currently riding my bicycle from coast to coast. Off the bike, I’m organizing my recipes for my upcoming cookbook, Eat Slowly, Move Fast: Plant-Perfect Recipes by a Holistic Chef & Cross-Country Cyclist. I’m also working toward certification in nutritional therapy. INGREDIENTS • 1 lb. walnuts • 1 lb. unsweetened organic raisins • 1 lb. dates, pits removed •2½ oz. raw organic cacao powder INSTRUCTIONS Process a half-pound each of the walnuts, raisins and dates in a food processor until ground. A few bits of walnuts should still be visible. Add half of the cacao powder to the mixture and process for about 2-3 minutes until the mixture is consistent and smooth. It should be oily from the natural oils in the dates and stick to the food-processor blades as if it were a dough. Repeat the process with the remaining half of the ingredients. Place the mixture in a square ceramic baking dish (about 8-by-8-inches) and firmly press until the mixture is packed and leveled. Cut into quarters. Then cut each brownie quarter into four more pieces. Tip: Brownies last for a week at room temperature and are best eaten within four days. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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rabbit hole, I stumbled upon a memorable print by British artist William Hogarth. It depicts a grotesque scene of London in the 18th century, its denizens driven to prostitution and violence. A beggar tries to wrestle a bone from a dog. A child careens headfirst toward the ground, falling from the lap of his careless, syphilitic mother. A madman marches through the streets waving a baby impaled on a pole. The cause of this suffering and mayhem? Why, it’s gin. In its comically outsized way (the Georgian version of clickbait), “Gin Lane” addressed the very real problem of rampant alcohol abuse among England’s working classes. And while few these days worry about skewered infants, gin is still a woefully misunderstood and underappreciated spirit. When most of us consider gin, we likely think of the London Dry versions: crisp, clean spirits with a pronounced juniper flavor (think Beefeater and Tanqueray). These gins have been prized for years, the ideal choice for a proper, potent martini. For some, however, the sharp pine flavor of the style is a total turnoff. Not to worry. The U.S. government defines gin as “spirits with a main characteristic flavor derived from juniper berries.” This rather vague definition leaves distillers ample room for interpretation. In 1999, a Scottish company found wild success with Hendrick’s Gin, a softer spirit that features cucumber and rose petal. Many American
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BREATH OF FIRE Christian Groblewski in his future record store {CP PHOTO BY MARGARET WELSH}
With his label, SuperMonkey Recording Company, Christian Groblewski aims to do for Pittsburgh what Sub Pop did for Seattle. “I’m a child of the ’90s, I was influenced by the grunge scene,” he says, sitting behind the desk in SuperMonkey headquarters, an Allentown storefront which — thanks to a grant from the neighborhood nonprofit Hilltop Alliance — will eventually open to the public as a record store. He’d also like to capture the camaraderie of that moment in music history, and build the kind of support system for Pittsburgh bands that he still sees on trips to visit family in Seattle. “Everyone is building each other up,” he says. Groblewski may sound like an idealist, but he’s no music-biz newbie. In addition to his record label, he does concert promotion (also as SuperMonkey) and is a partner in McKeesport-based recording studio Tonic. He’s also a veteran musician — his bestknown band, the original SuperMonkey, recently played its last show, and he has a couple new bands in the works. Groblewski started his label in 2012, so he could more easily release his music. In 2014, with the help of semi-legendary local promoter Pat DiCesare, he launched the PennRock Scholarship, a showcase of Pittsburgh bands and alternative to the contest-style Battle of the Bands. The winner, judged on a range of criteria, gets a SuperMonkey record deal, studio time, photo and video shots and more. “Things,” Groblewski says, “that would actually help take [bands’ careers] to the next level.” The CD by last year’s winners, the Dirty Charms, is already prominently displayed in the Allentown space: When the shop is operational, Groblewski plans to devote the whole front room to SuperMonkey artists, with a wider selection of vinyl, and some guitars, in the back. Groblewski doesn’t mince words about his aspirations for SuperMonkey. “I’m trying to find the next Foo Fighters, the band that’s going to sell out arenas,” he says. And considering the radio-ready sounds of signees like roots-rock singer/ songwriter Brett Staggs or Groblewski’s own AQUAROCKET, such goals don’t seem entirely lofty. After all, Sub Pop started out as a small label that got lucky with a little band called Nirvana. And, as Groblewski puts it, “I’ve always felt that the harder I work, the luckier I get.”
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album, Paradise, the Vancouver band sends a signal that things are changing. The song in question — “Below” — moves at a much slower BPM than anything the band released on previous albums. It’s more conventionally pretty than the visceral two-minute punk-rock rave-ups the trio is mostly known for, and its production is crisper, its climax’s highs are that much higher as a result of a more spacious arrangement overall. It’s not quite a ballad, not quite an anthem, but if I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s a hit. Mainstream radio has yet to pick up on “Below,” but commercial impact aside, the song and by extension Paradise marks some notable shifts in the band’s approach. Ahead of its summer U.S. tour, vocalist Mish Barber-Way explains in a phone interview that the members’ instinct to challenge themselves was much greater this time around. “Think about it this way: You start off being Taylor Swift and playing your
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White Lung (Mish Barber-Way, center)
country ditties ... you eventually need to branch out from there. So where do you go? You start doing something a little harder and a little edgier, because that’s the opposite of what you began with,” she says. “And I think that’s just naturally what happens. With us, we started in punk and
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hardcore, and you grow as a songwriter and you say ‘I want to challenge myself as a songwriter’ and do something that branches out and reaches and maybe is super unusual for us without breaking what made us great in the first place.” “That was one of the first riffs that Kenny [William, guitarist] showed me and I think I told him it sounded like a video
game, and I hated it,” she adds. “And then in the studio it came to life, and it was like this great song with so much room to grow on. I mean, that’s probably one of my favorites on the record.” “Below” isn’t necessarily the only song of its kind on Paradise, if only because — even at a slower tempo — it still sounds like an extension of White Lung’s previous work. Similarly, the album’s first single “Hungry” has an edgier sound to it, but one that’s less immediately aggressive than usual. With Paradise, Barber-Way, William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou teamed up with veteran alt-rock producer Lars Stalfors, whose credits also include albums by The Mars Volta and HEALTH. As a result, it’s their biggest sounding record yet. But even when White Lung is firing on all cylinders and powered by punk fury, the details are often what stand out. The low end in opening track “Dead Weight” feels massive and consuming, while William’s guitar effects on “Narcoleptic” are dreamy and hypnotic despite CONTINUES ON PG. 28
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the general sense that the song could punch a hole clean through a brick wall. For her part, Barber-Way sounds even more dynamic as a vocalist than ever before, hitting even higher notes and showcasing a wider range in songs about serial killers, fading beauty and fuckedup white-trash love. Barber-Way — who outside of performing also writes a sex column for Vice called “Muff Stuff” — says that, in order to surpass what they’ve done before, it was important to embrace modern technology and recording techniques, rather than to get stuck in the rut of romanticizing an obsolete idea of how to make records. “There was this interview with Jimmy Page where he was like, ‘Yeah, of course, we were using all of the technology we had available at that moment to make the craziest thing we could,’” she says. “And I’m not equating us with Zeppelin in any way, but this mentality of making something sound vintage or old, I just don’t get it. Why would you want to do that? You have all this money to do something great, why not just use it and make it weird and great?” For how much effort White Lung have put into updating its studio creations, it’s still, at heart, a punk band. The members play loud and fast, deliver blistering live performances, and they’re likely not going to let off the intensity any time soon — even if they do manage to write a hit. “That’s how we play together. That’s what we do really well, that’s what makes the best live songs. That’s the thing we do best, the three of us,” she says. “A song like ‘Paradise,’ which I think we wrote in the studio in like 20 minutes, it’s my favorite song on the record. Kenny played his part, and I went into the booth and was like, ‘I know exactly what I’m going to do.’ I don’t think we’re going to lose the 238 BPMs because that’s how Anne-Marie drums. That’s still in there, and it’s probably never going to go away.” Barber-Way is serious about the importance of growing in a band, but shrugs off the idea that White Lung has gone “pop” by any dramatic measure. White Lung is continuing to expand on the foundation it’s already built via its more abrasive first three albums. And if that’s a problem with any of their fans, well, it’s sure not a problem with her. “It’s really not that crazy of a change, you know,” she says. “I think people are blowing it out of proportion. Doing the same thing each time is so boring. But if you don’t like this one, our old records are still available and you can listen to those.” INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
A version of this story originally ran in the San Diego City Beat.
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NIK SEA LIVING ON THE OUTSIDE (SELF-RELEASED) WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NIKSEAOFFICIAL
Nik Sea’s Living on the Outside is a solid, grooving rock effort, offering funk-fused music that leans into pop sensibilities, while still incorporating some moments of grit and edge underneath messages of love and lust. It’s evident that the ensemble is proficient musically and well versed in the genre of funky rock — think Dave Matthews Band or John Mayer. The musicians boast a cohesive sound and have the ability to groove off one another with ease. Standout tracks include “Completely Yours” and “Daydreaming,” a sensual track that has the feel of a more mellow Bad Rabbits. Living on the Outside grows a little monotonous at times, but Sea clearly has an ear for the genre. BY MEG FAIR
PAUL LABRISE DAY MOON (SELF-RELEASED) WWW.PAULLABRISE.COM
On his new record, guitarist Paul Labrise, who has previously released music with the more vocal-driven Paul Labrise and the Trees, offers a collection of instrumental pieces. With the help of bassist Ray Vasko and drummer Troy Cramer, Labrise crafts a nicely cinematic little record — it almost begs for someone to write a movie around it. Tastefully incorporating elements of vintage surf, country and jazz, Day Moon brings to mind acts like Calexico or perhaps a slightly sunnier Dirty Three. Occasionally things veer in the direction of overly ponderous background music (another reason it would make for a great soundtrack), but overall it’s a nice and engaging listen. BY MARGARET WELSH
PAUL LABRISE ALBUM-RELEASE SHOW 10 p.m. Thu., July 28. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-0320 or www.howlerspittsburgh.com
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ARTS ADVOCATE {BY CALEB MURPHY} JOSH GROBAN was bullied as a kid.
He describes his younger self as shy and sensitive, very unlike the Groban we know now, the multi-platinum-selling artist who belts some of the most powerful ballads in the modern operatic world and makes cameos in shows like The Office and Parks & Recreation. His response to that bullying was sharpening his own humor — humor that has now earned him more than 800,000 Twitter followers. “I think that’s probably the case with a lot of comedians,” Groban says over the phone. “I think humor winds up being a defense.” Bullies will always roam schools, but now they walk the hallways of the internet too. “I wasn’t in school when there were iPhones and Twitter,” Groban recalls. “And there are now a hundred new ways to bully people that weren’t around when I was young. You had to actually step up to someone face to face when I was a kid — it was, like, the real assholes back then because they were the only ones that had the courage to actually shove you around in person.” In addition to humor, Groban says the arts, and specifically music, got him through those rough days. “Music absolutely saved me,” he says. “It was the music teachers; it was my arts teachers; it was my theater teachers; it was my improv-comedy class — it was that group. I said, ‘Oh my god, these are my people. We all have the same inspiration for that kind of self-expression and making
people laugh, or singing something that’s beautiful.’ That was my saving grace.” Now Groban runs the Find Your Light Foundation which encourages and funds arts education around the country. “I think that the arts [is] the one core subject that really teaches some of the self-expression that is universal in all of us,” Groban says, citing research showing that arts education increases graduation rates and student grades in subjects like math and science. “It is a language that is in everybody, no matter how naturally talented you are at a particular artistic skill. “When everything in the world … is blaring to us 24/7 how divided we all are, the arts teach people how to communicate to everyone in their own special way … it makes us not so myopic about our own worlds. … It gives us a much broader picture of how similar we all are.”
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If only his bullies knew what could be done through music and the arts, Groban may have escaped his childhood misery. But, on the other hand, we may not have the Josh Groban we know today. “I think that, while bullying and feeling a little bit like an outcast was certainly not fun at that time in my life — and certainly caused a lot of tears at home — I look back on it, and I say to myself, ‘Well, I can wear that badge proudly, and I can say it helped me build character. It helped me discover what my strongest attributes are,’” he says. “And you grow from it.” INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Femi Kuti and the Positive Force will fill the Rex Theater with funk-drenched Afrobeat, intended to get you grooving. Kuti is a multiinstrumentalist (and son of the legendary Fela Kuti) with major chops on the saxophone, trumpet and keyboard. Kuti and the Positive Force create music that is bursting with life and energy. Opening the show is DJ Pandemic Pete, who marries traditional folk music from around the globe to innovative dance music, creating a cultural stew you can shake your booty to. Meg Fair 6 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $23-25. All Femi Kuti ages. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com
[INDIE ROCK] + THU., JULY 28 Esmé Patterson’s music explores human themes through her bright vocals and intimate lyrics. She understands the charm of country music, unlike other indie artists in the game, and infuses it with a myriad of other genres. From the twang of “Wantin Ain’t Gettin” to the rockabilly energy of “Feel Right” and the grimier underbelly of “The Waves,” Patterson’s music feels personal and sounds infectious. Cowboy Relics and The Awful Truth open tonight’s gig at Club Café. MF 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $12-14. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com
[METAL] + SAT., JULY 30 First Niagara Pavilion is about to get delightfully bizarre as Slipknot and Marilyn Manson join forces to fill the amphitheater with a heavymetal freak show. Prepare to be dazzled by the production that Slipknot has developed over its career, including the famous full masks, pyrotechnics and more. Marilyn Manson joins Slipknot in the ranks of legendary performanceart-meets-metal acts, delivering a spooky
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sound and attitude unmatched by most current metal artists. Former Warped Tour act Of Mice & Men will represent the current guard of metalcore. MF 6:30 p.m. Pennsylvania Route 18, Burgettstown. All ages. $22.50-325. 724- 947-7400 or www.livenation.com
[HIP HOP] + SUN., JULY 31 Where else could the #PittsburghSummerJam be held other than the biggest party street in Pittsburgh? The Southside Event Center, just off East Carson, hosts Young Thug and PnB Rock, as well as locals Hardo and EFB and more. Young Thug’s infectious brand of hip hop is sure to keep the party going late into the night, especially with the bottle-service packages included in the high-end ticket options. Be sure to roll up on time so you can catch local trap hero/Taylor Gang vet Hardo, as he spits some raw bars and samples local news audio. MF 5 p.m. 415 Bingham St., South Side. All ages. $30-1,500. 800-350-8850 or eventbrite.com (search #PittsburghSummerJam) {PHOTO COURTESY OF REMI ADETIBA}
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[FUZZ POP] + WED., AUG. 03 Tonight See Through Dresses stops at the Mr. Roboto Project. Tiny Engines is putting out the band’s latest effort, End of Days, an EP that oozes fuzzy angst through pop melodies, emulating the New Wavey sound that has earned renewed interest from Millennials™. Pittsburgh’s Cotopaxi will be there too, so you can cry into your Spak sandwiches to tunes from its heartwrenching full-length Having All the Fun. And if you’ve been sleeping on opener Blød Maud, it’s time to wake the heck up and open your ears to that band’s bedroombred post-punk. MF 7 p.m. 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $5. All ages. www.robotoproject.org
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ROCK/POP THU 28 CLUB CAFE. Esme Patterson w/ The Awful Truth, The Cowboy Relics. South Side. 412-431-4950. DIESEL. Nina Diaz & Scarlett Sails. South Side. 412-431-8800. THE FIREPIT WOOD FIRED GRILL. Right TurnClyde. Irwin. 724-515-2903. REX THEATER. Femi Kuti & The Positive Force. South Side. 412-381-6811. RIVERS CASINO. Chris Higbee Duo. North Side. 412-231-7777. STAGE AE. Lindsey Stirling. North Side. 412-229-5483.
FRI 29 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. Lenny Smith & The Instant Gators. North Side. 412-322-1850. BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. People’s Champs. Strip District. www.bayardstown.com. CLUB 206. EZ Action. Braddock. CLUB CAFE. Lisa Ferraro & Erika
Luckett. South Side. 412-431-4950. w/ Mama’s Madness, Gary Smith. South Side. 412-431-4950. LINDEN GROVE. Move DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Gashouse Makers Band. Castle Shannon. Annie. North Huntingdon. 412-882-8687. 724-863-8181. THE MEADOWS. Philip Fox Band. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Trainwreck. West Mifflin. 412-650-9000. Robinson. 412-489-5631. RIVERS CASINO. Nick Fiasco. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. North Side. 412-231-7777. Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, SMILING MOOSE. The Of Mice & Men. Burgettstown. Incandescents, Johnny hates 45s, 724-947-7400. Hippie Friends Maension, FundetGETAWAY CAFE. The Dave Iglar ta, 5am at Funeral Home, Skuzzy Trio. Brookline. 412-343-1333. Puppy Nurse. South Side. GOOSKI’S. T-Tops, 412-431-4668. The Black Black, Thick, STAGE AE. The Ivy Bells. Polish Hill. Dead Deads, Bush & 412-681-1658. Chevelle. North Side. THE HOB NOB 412-229-5483. www. per pa LOUNGE. King’s pghcitym o .c Ransom. West Mifflin. 412-461-8541. BALTIMORE HOUSE. HOT METAL HARLEY Bled Zeppelin. Pleasant Hills. DAVIDSON. The Dave Iglar Trio. 412-653-3800. West Mifflin. 412-464-9453. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE JAMES STREET GASTROPUB TAVERN. Benefits, Pond Hockey, & SPEAKEASY. LoFi Delphi, Impossible Colors. Bloomfield. SunHound & the Park Plan. 412-682-8611. North Side. 412-904-3335. CLUB CAFE. The Besnard Lakes w/ MR. SMALLS THEATER. Marianas Different Places in Space Pasadena Trench w/ Skylar Stecker, Vertigo Smokey Bellows, Cousin Boneless, Essential Machine. Millvale. 412-821-4447. NIED’S HOTEL. Johnny Pina Colada. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Brad Byrd. Strip District. 412-566-1000. THE R BAR. Randall Troy & Mojo Hand. Dormont. 412-942-0882. RIVERS CASINO. Mark Ferrari. North Side. 412-231-7777. SMILING MOOSE. Noah Rabe, Bre Marin Yungn Voorheez, Johnny Bianco, Sintax, Rita Rose, Kyd Kahlil and Ruzee Ru, Demo Demon, Devereaux, Top Flight Boyz. South Side. 412-431-4668.
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Each week we bring you a new song from a local artist. This week’s track comes from rapper Gallo. He teamed up with DJ Goodnight for the hot-weather jam “Summers Mine,” which you can stream or download for free at FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.
SUN 31 BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. Plebeian Grandstand, Pyrrhon & Slaves BC. Knoxville. 412-291-8994. HOWLERS. Brimstone Coven, Molasses Barge, Blizaro, Castle. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. PARADISE ISLAND. Gone South. Neville Island. 412-264-6570. THE R BAR. BTK & Randall Troy. Dormont. 412-942-0882. SHADYSIDE NURSERY. TranSaharan Ensemble, Arlo Aldo, Working Poor. Weather Permitting series. Shadyside. 412-363-5845. SHOOTIN’ BULL. King’s Ransom. Murrysville. 724-339-7299. THE SHOP. Bottle Rat, Latecomer,the Bloody Muffs, Murder For Girls. Bloomfield. 412-951-0622. TIKI BAR. The Dave Iglar Band. Washington. 724-348-7022. CONTINUES ON PG. 34
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MON 01 DIESEL. Trapt, Gears, You’re Too Kind & Alter the Design. South Side. 412-431-8800.
TUE 02 BELVEDERE’S. Michale Graves Acoustic, Vincent Renfield, Bryan McQuaid. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Josh Groban. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400. HOWLERS. Sam Vicari, Ragweed & Rye, Fossil Jane. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. STAGE AE. Phillip Phillips & Matt Nathanson. North Side. 412-229-5483.
WED 03 AVONWORTH COMMUNITY PARK. Neil Diamond Tribute. Ohio Township. 412-766-1700. BRILLOBOX. Corbu w/ J.Butler. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. CLUB CAFE. White Lung w/ Greys, The Wire Riots. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Posh Lost, Little Flowers, Olivia II. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. KEYSTONE BAR. The Bo’Hog Brothers. Ellwood City. 724-758-4217. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Heffron Drive, Big Time Rush w/ Gavin Becker. Millvale. 412-821-4447.
Here are the songs that photographer and HughShows blogger Hugh Twyman can’t stop listening to:
FRI 29 ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900. ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884. THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. 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.
“Talk of the Town”
Pretenders
“Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues”
The Kinks
DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis. ‘The 1990s (& a bag of chips)’ dance party. Garfield. 412-661-1727. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.
“Tumbleweed”
Sun Hound
MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the
HIP HOP/R&B FRI 29 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.
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André Costello and the Cool Minors Campbell. East Liberty. 412-665-0555.
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ANDORA RESTAURANT - FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. Fox 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Chapel. 412-967-1900. Open Elements. Avalon. ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani. 412-424-9254. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL BUILDING. RML Jazz. Cranberry. GREENDANCE - THE WINERY MOONDOG’S. Jason Ricci & New AT SAND HILL. RML Jazz. Blood. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. Sand Hill. 724-547-6500. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie MOONDOG’S. Alexander. Downtown. Miss Melanie & the 412-391-1004. Valley Rats. Blawnox. www. per JAMES STREET 412-828-2040. pa pghcitym GASTROPUB & .co SPEAKEASY. Olga Watson. North Side. 412-904-3335. LACASA NARCISI. Etta Cox Trio. ANDYS WINE BAR. Gibsonia. 724-444-4744 Anqwenique Wingfield. REVEL + ROOST. Funk + Soul Downtown. 412-773-8884. Fridays. Downtown. 412-281-1134. DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY. Max Leake Trio. Genesius Theater. Uptown. 412-396-6000. AFRO-AMERICAN MUSIC JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & INSTITUTE. Afro-American Music SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Institute Jazz Festival. Homewood. Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side. 412-241-6776. 412-904-3335. ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs. SENTI ITALIAN RESTAURANT Downtown. 412-773-8884. AND WINE BAR. Antionette. LEMONT. Take Two. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4347. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET Eric Johnson. Downtown. CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every 412-394-3400. Saturday, a different band. WALLACE’S TAP ROOM. Tony
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SUN 31 WED 03 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays. North Side. 412-321-1834. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.
REGGAE FRI 29 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. MONTOUR HEIGHTS COUNTRY CLUB. The Flow Band, Joe Spliff Finneydredlox, Deb Star, Sam Fingers & D. Lane. Coraopolis. 412-264-5950.
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ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Lonesome, Lost & Foggy. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. GATEWAY CLIPPER FLEET. Rick Revetta. Station Square. 412-355-7980.
PITTSBURGH WINERY. Planes on Paper. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
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Monroeville. 412-728-4155. RIVERVIEW PARK. Lee Robinson & ISKA. North Side. 412-255-2493. WICKED FOX. Etta Cox Trio. Fox Chapel. 412-794-8255.
SEVEN SPRINGS. The Flow Band, Joe Spliff Finneydredlox, Deb Star, Sam Fingers & D. Lane. Seven Springs. 814-352-7777.
SUN 31 SCHENLEY PARK. The Flow Band, Joe Spliff Finneydredlox, Deb Star, Sam Fingers & D. Lane. Oakland. 412-255-2539.
COUNTRY FRI 29 ROBERTSHAW AMPHITHEATER. Kelsey Waldon. Greensburg.
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RIVERS CASINO. Justin Fabus. North Side. 412-231-7777.
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CITY OF ASYLUM. Roger Humphries & RH Factor. North Side. 412-321-2190.
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ACOUSTIC MUSIC WORKS. Devon Niall Flaherty, Evan Cory Levine & Hoot & Holler. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-0710. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. Robinson. 412-489-5631.
PITTSBURGH WINERY. The Billy Price Band. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
FRI 29 ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Well Strung. Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968. RIVERS CASINO. Tres Lads Acoustic. North Side. 412-231-7777. SCHENLEY PLAZA. Brooke Annibale. Oakland. 412-682-7275.
SAT 30 ALLEGHENY COMMONS EAST PARK. Anti Flag Acoustic, Endless Mike Solo, Beagle Brothers, Grand Piano, Chiodii Trio. North Side. 412-330-2569.
MARY CATHERINE LEVRI. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-4951.
SAT 30 THE MEADOWS. The Holidays. West Mifflin. 412-650-9000. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Christopher the Conquered. Strip District. 412-566-1000.
MON 01 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 03 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. SLB All Stars. North Side. 412-322-5058. PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside. 412-621-2919.
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CATTIVO Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
Diet Cig SPIRIT Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
THURSDAY 28 Lindsey Stirling
STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.
Yo Gotti XTAZA Nightclub Strip District. 412-720-1396. Over 21 show. Tickets: yogottipgh.com. 9:30p.m.
IN PITTSBURGH
412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.
412-381-6811. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
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AcoustiCafe with Jenda Domaracki & Pittsburgh Mandolin Society
WYEP’s Final Fridays Concert Series: The Record Company SCHENLEY PLAZA Oakland. Free show. 7p.m.
BUSH & CHEVELLE STAGE AE JULY 29
Bush & Chevelle STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 5p.m.
Station Square Summer Jam: Bruce in the USA BESSEMER COURT STAGE Station Square. With special guest The Delaneys. Free show. 7:30p.m.
Regent Square. Tickets: cinema.pfpca.org. 7:30p.m.
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Free show. 7:30p.m.
Christopher the Conquered
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Summer Safari PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM Highland Park. Over 21 event. Tickets: pittsburghzoo.org. 6:30p.m.
PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000. Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 9p.m.
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FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com or
HARTWOOD ACRES Hampton.
Slipknot
Esmé Patterson
Lo and Behold Reveries of the Connected World
CLUB CAFE South Side.
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JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333. Tickets: jergels.com. 8p.m.
Planes on Paper PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000. Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 7p.m.
County Parks Summer Concert Series: Randy Baumann’s Ramble
I Prevail REX THEATER South Side.
MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. All ages show. Free event. 7p.m.
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Phillip Phillips & Matt Nathanson STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6p.m.
Josh Groban FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. With special guest Sarah McLachlan. Tickets: livenation.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.
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THE ADVENTURE THAT UNFOLDS IS AS MUCH STAR WARS AS TREK
{BY HARRY KLOMAN} The perennial Woody Allen’s new film, Café Society, is a smorgasbord of pluses and minuses that add up to maybe five, a romantic dramedy set in the 1930s that, let’s just say, seems like old times. It revolves around a young man (the perpetually uncharismatic Jesse Eisenberg) who leaves his family’s jewelry business in New York to move to Hollywood, where he works for his uncle (Steve Carell, rather miscast), a big-shot agent. There he meets a captivating woman (Kristen Stewart, the poor man’s Scarlett Johansson) who’s involved with a married man. Complications ensue, people change, and everyone talks about it, then they talk about it some more.
Bright Young Things: Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart
Parker Posey (surprisingly crisp), Blake Lively (unusually charming), Jeannie Berlin (forgotten but not gone) and the fine Corey Stoll complete the cast, who speak Allen’s profundo staccato dialogue with vigor and gravity, accompanied by Allen’s wizen narration. It’s only creepy twice, and once again Allen ponders notions of life, death, love, success, happiness and Jews. The music is period standards, the look sumptuous (photographed by Vittorio Storaro), the script unusually humorless, or else just not very funny. (Lively gets the best line: Dating a Jew plays into her “rebellious stage.”) There’s a better movie in it somewhere, but it would take an artist less concerned with his own ego — and less versed in his own oeuvre — to make it. Starts Fri., July 29 INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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ILL ANYTHING WITH the name “Star Trek” ever again boldly go anywhere that it hasn’t gone before? Probably not. So calling the new movie Star Trek Beyond is a bit of a tease. In fact, this third entry of the second Star Trek universe (commonly known as the “reboot”) is somewhat less than even routine: It’s all action, and you have to cup your hands to your ears to hear what little it has to say. The story revolves around a rescue mission that unwittingly puts the Enterprise into the clutches of Krall (a fierce Idris Elba), a sort of malevolent Klaatu and former soldier who can’t accept the new normal of peace. Uhura (Zoe Saldana) calls his assault an act of war, but he sees struggle as character-building, and unity as imperialism, so he retorts: “The Federation is an act of war.” As directed by Justin Lin, the adventure that unfolds is as much Star Wars as Trek, and Krall is a coarser-looking hyper-
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Klingon with a Borg-like army. This new Star Trek line seems to want to have it both ways. Most of the seven Enterprisers resemble their ’60s counterparts, except when they don’t (Uhura, at last, has some agency). Yet the central philosophy is decidedly reboot: Kirk is bored
STAR TREK BEYOND DIRECTED BY: Justin Lin STARRING: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba In 3-D, in select theaters
with exploring space, and he asks, “If the universe is endless, what are we chasing?” The answer, of course, is strange new worlds — that is, pure knowledge. But neither he nor the movie seems to care about that, a twist that violates the very premise of the franchise.
The actors are fine overall: Chris Pine is a sturdy Kirk, Karl Urban a surly Bones, Simon Pegg (who co-wrote the screenplay) a ne plus ultra Scotty, and Zachary Quinto has been, and always shall be, a mechanical Spock. This is the last time we’ll see the charming Anton Yelchin as Chekov, and he has a little more to do than usual, a barely fitting finale. Beyond also deals with the death of Ambassador Spock (Leonard Nimoy), who transported to the past, and met his younger self, two films ago. And get this: Sulu (John Cho) is gay, with a husband and a child. That’s a step forward in the notoriously homophobic Star Trek universe, and a nod to George Takei, the now-out actor who played the original (and straight) Sulu. Word is they edited out a kiss between Sulu and his husband, a simple thing that we see on TV nowadays, but that still seems to be this enterprise’s final frontier. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. In Brian De Palma’s rock ’n’ roll reboot of the classic Phantom of the Opera tale, a nefarious impresario (Paul Williams) steals the music of a disfigured composer (William Finley) and gives it to a variety of musical acts. It’s a campy affair incorporating glam rock, music-biz injokes and even some of De Palma’s stylistic fingerprints, like split screens. The 1974 film concludes a month-long, Sunday-night series of De Palma classics. 8 p.m. Sun., July 31. Regent Square
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NEW BAD MOMS. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn headline this comedy about overworked mothers who decide to de-stress by going wild. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore direct. Starts Fri., July 29 BREAKING A MONSTER. Luke Meyer’s new documentary chronicles the journey from obscurity to possible fame and fortune of three teenage African-American 13-year-olds who play heavy-metal music on the streets of New York City. When one of their YouTube videos goes viral, they attract the attention of a music producer who gets them a five-album deal with Sony Music. Then comes a tour and the complexities of dealing with the music industry. Mon., Aug. 1, through Thu., Aug. 4. Hollywood CAPTAIN FANTASTIC. Viggo Mortensen stars in Matt Ross’ dramedy about a family raised off the grid that must learn to navigate the modern world. Starts Fri., July 29. Manor, South Side Works JASON BOURNE. Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass reunite to bring us more adventures of the reluctant spy. In this outing, Bourne remembers his past, and undoubtedly somebody, somewhere exotic, is going to have to account for it. Starts Fri., July 29 NERVE. A young woman joins a social-mediadriven, truth-or-dare-style game, where online “watchers” keep ramping up the intensity. Emma Roberts and Dave Franco star in this thriller from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Starts Wed., July 27
REPERTORY DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Wed., July 27 (Schenley) and Sat., July 30 (Riverview). The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Thu., July 28 (Brookline); Fri., July 29 (Arsenal); and Sat., July 30 (Grandview). Miracle, Sun., July 31 (Schenley); Tue., Aug. 2 (West End/ Elliott); and Thu., Aug. 4 (Brookline). Race, Wed., Aug. 3 (Schenley). Films begin at dusk. 412-255-2493 or www.citiparks. net. Free KILL BILL — VOL. 1 and VOL. 2. Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 two-parter follows bad-ass heroine The Bride (Uma Thurman) as she seeks revenge on a handful of assassins who tried to leave her dead at the altar. Chock-full of action, repartee, and nods to kung-fu actioners and spaghetti Westerns. Vol. 1: 6:30 p.m.; Vol. 2: 8:30 p.m. Wed., July 27. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. This recent POV documentary profiles activist Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American woman who worked for more than 70 years in the African-American community in Detroit. Boggs died last year at the age of 100. The film screens as part of a monthly series of films highlighting labor and social-justice issues. 7:30 p.m. Thu., July 28. Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront St., Munhall. Free. www.battleofhomestead.org LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD. Catch this sneak preview of Werner Herzog’s new documentary which examines the impact of new technologies like the internet and robotics. Portions of the film were shot in Pittsburgh, a.k.a. RoboCity. Three experts
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FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF. A teen bunks off school; crazy stuff happens. Matthew Broderick stars in this beloved 1986 comedy from John Hughes. Continues the monthly series of Rooftop Shindigs. Live music from Brightside at 7 p.m.; film at sundown. Wed., Aug. 3. Theater Square Garage roof, 667 Penn Ave., Downtown. Bring your own chair (or buy one on site). www.downtown pittsburgh.com. Free THE TERMINATOR. James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi actioner put some real kick into time travel, when a cyborg from the future is sent back to now to essentially save himself. The film made a bona fide star of Arnold Schwarzenegger. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 3. AMC Loews. $5
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
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Purple Rain
(1984) 7/30 @ 10:00pm, 7/31 @ 7:00pm
Come see it on the big screen and celebrate Prince’s life and music! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Can’t Stop The Serenity Pittsburgh 7/30 @ 5:00pm
Benefit for Equality Now with games, raffle, and a screening of Serenity (2005). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Breaking a Monster
(2016) 8/1 @ 7:30pm, 8/2 @ 7:30pm, 8/3 @ 7:30pm
Chronicles the break-out year of the teenage metal band Unlocking The Truth.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI. In the Coen brothers’ 1998 comic homage to Raymond Chandler, a bloated hippie, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), gets mixed up with dirty rugs, kidnap and ransom; another guy called Jeff Lebowski; and a couple of intense bowling games. Also starring a full slate of indie faves including John Turturro, Steve Buscemi and John Goodman. July 29-Aug. 2 and Aug. 4. Row House Cinema RAISING ARIZONA. Way back when, the Coen brothers scored lots of laughs with this 1987 comedy that depicted a childless couple — Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter — who help themselves to one of another couple’s quintuplets. July 29-Aug. 1 and Aug. 3-4. Row House Cinema BURN AFTER READING. Mistaken identities, misplaced desires, rocky marriages and the self-important, semi-paranoid state of life within the Washington. D.C., beltway combine to propel a near-meaningless act into a roundelay of betrayal, law-breaking and bloody violence. This light 2008 dark comedy from the Coen brothers feels like an amuse bouche — a tasty trifle to be popped between the filmmakers’ heavier dramatic courses. July 29-31 and Aug. 2-4. Row House Cinema NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The 2007 Coen brothers movie, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, is methodical, handsomely made, and ultimately disappointing. In theme and setting, it superficially echoes their first movie, Blood Simple — except that here, husbands and wives love each other; one man, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), is unqualifiedly good; and even Llewelyn (Josh Brolin), who finds $2 million in drug money isn’t a bad fellow. His antagonist is equal parts psychopath and metaphor: Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem. The movie looks gorgeous, and the Coens give you plenty of time to appreciate every image. July 29-Aug. 3. Row House Cinema (HK)
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FRESH IDIOT Television broadcasts another shooting, police brutality and Black Lives Matter protests. Facebook spotlights countless disturbing scenes worldwide. Twitter drowns in partisan bickering. A media-saturated everytown is the setting for Green Day’s American Idiot. The 2010 Broadway rock opera returns to Pittsburgh for four performances by Alumni Theater Company (ATC), a troupe that celebrates the experiences and contributions of young urban artists. The new production broadens themes like the effect of media to include the realities of black teenagers today. In the musical, friends Johnny, Tunny and Will are fed up with media saturation, each rebelling against suburban ennui and confronting drugs, war, rage and love. ATC’s version highlights an Afro-punk sensibility — African pride mixed with anti-establishment political beliefs. “The punk-rock movement, in itself, is very rebellious and has a lot of parallels to the Black Lives Matter movement,” says ATC’s Hallie Donner, who directs the show. “The struggles are very similar in terms of feeling like you are in a system that seems to be against you.” The all-black cast ranges in age from 16 to 23. Videos projected for the audience display a media narrative about African Americans that expands the underlying themes to encompass Black Lives Matter. Unlike the original musical’s focus on television, the images here come mainly from social media. “While initially [videos depicting police violence have] been used to bring light to these issues, it actually furthers our trauma,” says Tyra Jamison, who plays Will’s girlfriend Heather. “How would it feel to be scrolling down your timeline, just for something mindless, and you see someone who could be you or someone you love [harmed] over and over again? How does that affect who you are? I think what I want audiences to walk away with is a sense that this is real.” Donner seconds the 2004 album’s continuing significance. “All of the issues [Green Day was] writing about — being so blinded by media all the time — are so much more prevalent now than they were,” she says. “Now everyone carries media around wherever they go, which wasn’t really the case when the concept of this musical was first created. All of the things they were cautioning Americans against have gotten so much worse. As time goes on, it has become even more relevant.” INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
AMERICAN IDIOT Fri., July 29-Sun., July 31. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-18. 412-945-0282 or www.alumnitheatercompany.org
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Jim Ferris, author of The Hospital Poems, wrote this about the poetics of affliction: Disability is dangerous. We represent danger to the normate world, and rightly so. Disabled people live closer to the edge. We are more vulnerable. ... But there is something glorious in being considered so odd, so marginal to society. Disability brings with it a wonderful range of remarkable and powerful vantage points.
While the Americans with Disabilities Act sought to end handicapped discrimination, powerful perspectives from writers like Susan Sontag and Larry Eigner discovered new ways to consider disease and disability. There have also been poetry anthologies (Beauty Is a Verb), awardwinning films (My Left Foot) and a slew of memoirs bringing to light the art and day-to-day struggles of those dealing with
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a range of health matters. Perhaps with all that in mind, local poet Kristofer Collins’ Low Ghost Press has released two collections that mostly hew to living with health-related issues. These new works by Pittsburgh’s Jason Irwin (A Blister of Stars) and Brooklyn-based Ally Malinenko (Better Luck Next Year) are by turns physical and philosophical, offering unique perspectives with straightforward, narrative writing. Much of A Blister shows Irwin’s speaker
trying to overcome birth defects personified as the “monster.” (Though in one poem he mentions a clubfoot needing to be amputated, Irwin is rarely explicit about the defects, writing in “Monster” of being “swaddled in my disfigured armor.”) These poems paint a sad yet beautiful picture of a child’s life revolving around frequent hospital visits. In the prose-y “Their Hands,” he writes of “their hands holding me down: my mother’s, / father’s, a young nurse’s gripping my left arm and the doctor’s. Before / each prick into my skin, he assured me it wasn’t a needle.” The poem ends with the speaker reflecting on “the chimpanzee they told me lived in a cage in the hospital’s / basement. He learned sign language and every morning begged his / handler to set him free.” The terror and final resignation in this piece remains both palpable and captivating. Isolation is another theme Irwin visits in this 75-page collection, especially in ways that separate his speaker from the more quotidian rhythm of routine childhood. In “Cheese Sandwiches,” he writes of
missing out on pizza and hot dogs, growing “tired of chewing and chewing, / wanting only to be outside with my classmates, / who have left me with Tony, the school janitor, / who sings Sinatra as he mops the floor.” The poem’s ending, “to feel satiated, to feel like I belong,” gives readers both hope and mindful insight. While later poems move away from this focus, giving a glimpse of the speaker grown up and getting along in the world, the physicality of details in poems like “Ostomy Bag” (“a translucent pouch / that shimmered like a jellyfish”) and “Hospital Room” (“the gurney’s squeaky wheel, / my veined hands”) make A Blister of Stars a detailed glimpse at a childhood often spent suffering.
By Jason Irwin Low Ghost Press, 75 pp., $8
BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR By Ally Malinenko Low Ghost Press, 126 pp., $10
A body’s betrayal of itself is also at the heart of Better Luck, which follows Malinenko’s 27-year-old speaker over 126 pages, walking readers through her discovery of and treatment for breast cancer. It’s a disease both of her parents are dealing with as well, and when she withholds her diagnosis from them, it only adds to the tension of a life-changing situation. The first poem, “The Day Before,” acts as demarcation, the end of her pre-cancer life, the speaker enjoying beers with friends at a poetry reading. When they get caught in the rain, it’s a last hurrah: “I didn’t know it then / but I was saying goodbye for good / to all of you, yes / but also to me / because / this me / now / is not me.” The short, choppy lines here represent, perhaps, a lack of answers for why this is happening and who she’s become, the “lost / slivers of herself like pencil shavings.” Malinenko’s witty, conversational tone keeps Better Luck from veering into weepy sentimentality. When her speaker describes the sonogram of her tumor, it’s “[l]ike the red spot on Jupiter / a hurricane the size of a planet / here now / inside me” — a brilliant use of simile. When she writes of this news sinking in, “I whisper. Fuck. / The smallest hurricane of a word I know,” it’s powerfully restrained. In the end, Better Luck Next Year is a book of immersion, taking the reader on a journey into big questions that go unanswered, but also into the small spaces of bathrooms and waiting rooms where discoveries of the speaker’s new self are made daily.
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FRESH CAESAR {BY STUART SHEPPARD} IF DONALD TRUMP had read Julius Caesar, he wouldn’t have let Ted Cruz speak at the recent Republican National Convention. For any student of this deeply instructive political play of Shakespeare’s would have known that Cruz would likely say, “I come to bury Donald, not to praise him.” Productions such as the new one by Throughline Theatre Company are what keep the Bard fresh even in the 400th anniversary of his death. Director Joseph Ryan Yow’s utilization of a bare-bones set and cross-gender casting in many roles is, ironically, very Elizabethan, yet makes for wonderfully modern theater. And it brings exciting freshness to scenes often moribund with convention.
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Furthermore, the text’s original pronouns are preserved, so a female actor playing a male role — such as Caesar — gets to truly inhabit the character’s personae. Perhaps the most moving result of these reversals occurs in the deliciously tender scene between Jessie Wray Goodman (Brutus), and Craig James Ketchum (Portia). They enable us to experience this exchange without the centuries of conditioning that have trained us to not really
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hear the words, but only see the empty ritual of such moments. Goodman brings great strength to the play’s major part, yet seems to believe that Shakespeare’s language should be spoken in a fast, clipped style. Unfortunately, much of the performance races forward as if the audience might be bored otherwise, and characters often deliver their lines out of breath.
THROUGHLINE BRINGS EXCITING FRESHNESS TO SCENES OFTEN MORIBUND WITH CONVENTION. Lydia Gibson, however, is spectacular as Mark Anthony, and moves like a dancer burdened with armor, even though her shoulders are covered only by spaghetti straps. Gibson delivers the key “let slip the dogs of war” speech in Act III with arresting sensitivity, instead of the usual dramatic bombast. Krista Ivan’s neo-Mad Max/Matrix costumes somehow really work, as do the quirky array of swords and weapons. From the solid cast of 18, special mention should be made of Hazel Carr Leroy (Caesar), Richard Eckman (Casca), and David Loehr (Cassius). Also, as dramaturg, I’m sure Loehr contributed enormously to this show’s success through the creative theatrical risks it takes. This may not be your father’s Julius Caesar, but certainly ends up all the richer for being your mother’s. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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“ONCE MORE into the breach!” Or so I imagine David Whalen said as he slipped on his red smoking jacket for his fourth portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, here for Kinetic Theatre Company’s production of The House of the Baskervilles, adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle by Steven Canny and John Nicholson. Whalen previously appeared in three other Holmes tales in Pittsburgh, two (The Mask of Moriarty and The Crucifer of Blood) with PICT Classic Theatre and last year, for Kinetic, Sherlock’s Last Case. Each had a different adapter and director, and each emphasized different elements of the canon’s comedy, mystery or thriller aspects. This Baskerville focuses solely on the laughs and reunites Whalen and Andrew Paul, his director from last year (and Kinetic’s artistic director). While it’s a send-up of Baskervilles (a man moves home to his country seat, where his male relatives have all died under mysterious circumstances), in the end, the novel doesn’t prove that important. The evening is really about Whalen, along with James FitzGerald and Connor McCanlus, playing the story’s 20 or so characters. Much of the attraction is watching the cast make lightning-fast costume changes even as they shove set pieces on and off stage while trying to navigate props, plot and dialects with occasional stops to break the fourth wall and address us directly. If you’ve seen the stage version of The 39 Steps or The Complete Work of William Shakespeare (Abridged), that should give you an idea.
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES continues through Aug. 7. Kinetic Theatre at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-40. www.kinetictheatre.org
I’m happy to salute the protean work of all three of these actors who can fly around the stage like dervishes but still find occasion in the middle of the madness to provide firm footing; thanks also to Paul for managing this chaos. The set, lights and costumes (Johnmichael Bohach, Jenna Ferree and Kim Brown respectively) all add color and fun to the proceedings. Ultimately, this is an evening of silliness and, truth be told, not really all that inspired. But while it sort of runs out of steam toward the end, there are still lots of laugh to be had. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
get what you want, but sometimes you can get what you need. And if you’re as clever about it as the folks at Stage 62 with their production of Jesus Christ Superstar, people might not want anything else. Here’s a secret about community theater. At times it can be difficult rounding up all the male performers you need … doubly so for a musical. I don’t know if that’s the reason behind a few of director Seamus Ricci’s casting choices, but it could be why we get a female Judas, Annas and Simon. But here’s the thing — it absolutely doesn’t matter. For starters, it’s theater and it’s, you know, not real. If you can buy a Caucasian Jesus, a female Iscariot is no biggie. More to the point, Ricci thankfully just cast the best singers for the roles; if he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have heard Mary Johnson-Blocher rip through Judas’ numbers with a powerhouse voice and dynamic theatrical presence. Larissa Jantonio’s Annas is as oily, and expertly sung, as any I’ve seen, and Anna Gergerich’s Simon is a high-energy delight.
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR continues through Sun., July 31. Stage 62 at Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $15-20. 412-429-6262 or www.stage62.com
None of which detracts from the “normally” casted performers: Nina Napoleone’s gorgeous and beautifully warm voice gives depth to Mary Magdalene’s numbers; Jeff Danner is downright creepy as Caiaphas; and Matthew J. Rush’s Pilate is a moving portrayal of a man stretched to breaking. Appropriately holding the center is Jeff Way in a thrilling performance as Jesus; his full-frontal attack on “Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)” is a small masterpiece. Ricci, along with musical director Thomas Octave, has created one of the most impeccably sung productions of Superstar I’ve seen, and Ricci’s casting is without flaw. On a conceptual level, he needs to do a little more work. Visually, it’s a woefully cluttered and nonsensical mess. You don’t plop a giant raked platform down front, forcing the cast to endlessly climb on and off and up and down to reach center stage. Honestly, I felt like I was at a step-aerobics class. Ultimately, however, even that doesn’t matter. Just close your eyes and bask in those glorious voices. I NF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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+ THU., JULY 28 {WORD} As animal names go, “hellbender” is a pretty good one. So if Mark Spitzer’s book-length poem about North America’s largest salamander (which can grow to more than 2 feet long) is titled Glurk! (Anaphora Literary Press) instead, it’s for reasons you’ll have to learn for yourself when the Arkansas-based author reads at East End Book Exchange. Tonight’s reading, backed by music made on the custom-made stringed instrument called The Electric Hellbender, also includes words from New York-based poet Lea Graham and local luminaries Che Elias, Karen Lillis, John Thomas Menesini and Don Wentworth. Bill O’Driscoll 7 p.m. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. 412-224-2847
{COMEDY} Ever want to try your hand at standup? Pittsburgh Comedy Festival partners with Arcade Comedy Theater to find one final comedian to complete its performance lineup for this August. Tonight is the first round of competition for up to 15 contestants who’ll do fiveminute sets for a surprise panel of judges. Audiences can also
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vote for their three favorites. Only 10 comics from the first two rounds (round two is Thu., Aug. 4) will go on to the Aug. 11 finals, where the winner will receive a festival slot and a performer’s pass for the entire
With films like Fantastic Mr. Fox, ParaNorman and Frankenweenie keeping stop-motion animation active, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh introduces the medium to a whole new generation. Today, the museum’s ever-changing hands-on-creation station, the MAKESHOP, will have teaching artists on hand to help kids create short films out of individual photos using the app iMotion HD. All the movies will follow the MAKESHOP’s July theme of carnivals. TD 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 10 Children’s Way, Allegheny Center. $14-16. 412-322-5058 or www.pittsburghkids.org
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Confluence, Pittsburgh’s longest-running literary conference, returns to celebrate all things science fiction, fantasy and horror. Parsec, a nonprofit devoted to promoting such genres in all media, hosts the expanding, weekend-long conference in a new location, the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel. Award-winning novelist Saladin Ahmed; J.D. Barker, bestselling author of Forsaken; and Klingon language expert Lawrence M. Schoen highlight this year’s list of speakers. There are also art exhibits, musical performances, writing workshops, poetry readings and science programming. TD 3-11 p.m. Also 10 a.m.11 p.m. Sat., July 30, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun., July 31. 1160 Thorn Run Road, Coraopolis. $22-40 ($55 for all three days). www.parsec-sff.org/confluence
{ART} Ethno Mythologies is the name of the new show at Gallery Christine Frechard. In the heart of Squirrel Hill, the show combines selected works from a local collection of African art with new works on slate by Pittsburgh-based artist Jennifer Nagle-Myers, recently an award-winner at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The opening reception is tonight. BO 5-8 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 29. 5871 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888 or www. christinefrechardgallery.com
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Sandra Valls is no stranger to high-profile gigs. She starred in two hit comedy specials on Showtime, The Latin Divas of Comedy and Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam, and on Logo TV’s Out Laugh Festival, to name a few credits. Valls’ Red, Hot & Herlarious Tour stops by Cruze Bar tonight for an evening of brash humor, presented by iLaugh Pittsburgh. Local comic Chi Chi Rivera hosts. TD 7:30 p.m. 1600 Smallman St., Strip District. $15-30. 412-471-1400 or www.cruzebar.com
include keyboardist Howard Alexander III (pictured); keyboardist Theron Brown (the Akron, Ohio, resident who portrayed Herbie Hancock in the recent Miles Davis biopic); drummer James T. Johnson III; and the PJO Little Big Band. Food vendors are planned; Akil Esoon emcees. Donations will be accepted, with all proceeds benefiting AAMI. BO 2-8 p.m. 7131 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. www. afroamericanmusic.org
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Last year’s inaugural Pittsburgh VegFest went pretty well. “The turnout was just absolutely amazing,” says Leila Sleiman, who along with co-founder Natalie Fristick welcomed more than 4,000 visitors to Allegheny Commons Park East for a day of nibbling and info-gathering centered on veganism and a plant-based lifestyle. Sleiman and Fristick, of the group Justice for Animals, approach veganism from an animal-rights angle, but you don’t have to: The environmental and health benefits of eating more plants and fewer animal products are well documented. And in fact, VegFest 2016 is expanding its offerings for a crowd that organizers expect to double in size from last year’s. Along Cedar Avenue starting at East Ohio Street, on the North Side, look for 75 vendors including both animal-welfare groups and, of course, top vegan eateries like Double Wide Grill, Franktuary and B52. (Picknicking is encouraged.) Free amusements for kids include a bouncy castle and arts-and-crafts activities. Also new is a full day’s lineup of mainstage performers, including speakers on food justice and animal welfare. Local bands include The Beagle Brothers, Grand Piano and, in a rare acoustic set, hometown punk heros Anti-Flag. Sleiman also touts the VegFest goodie bag, filled with giveaway items and coupons, and available to the first 250 visitors. Bill O’Driscoll 11 a.m.-5 p.m. North Side. Free. www.pittsburghvegfest.org
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post-film Q&A with robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon University, who are featured in the film. If you miss this premiere, don’t worry: Lo and Behold opens in theaters in August. BO 7:30 p.m. 1035 S. Braddock Ave., Edgewood. $8. 412-681-5449 or www.pfpca.org
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was a rock-musical version: Phantom of the Paradise (1974), directed by Brian De Palma and starring songwriter Paul Williams. It’s an amusing slice of mostly forgotten mid-’70s trash and spectacle, and it screens tonight at Regent Square, as the theater wraps up a Sunday-night series of De Palma films. Phantom never achieved the cult status of its brethren Rocky Horror Picture Show, so why not show it some love now? Al Hoff 8 p.m. Sun., July 31. 1035 S. Braddock Ave., Edgewood. $9. www.pghfilmmakers.org
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thriller featuring a juicy spy story mixed w/ a dash of Monty Python mayhem. Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru Aug. 14. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769. AMERICAN IDIOT. Alumni Theater Company brings an Afropunk edge to Green Day’s punk rock musical about disillusioned young suburbanites struggling to find identity in a world of media overload. July 29-30, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 31, 2 & 7 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. www.newhazletttheatre.org. BEAUTY & THE BEAST. A twist to the popular fairy tale, not only does the mysterious crone transform the prince into a beast, but his servant becomes a silly puppy. Fri, Sat, 1:30 p.m. and Wed, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 6. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. CHICAGO. Presented by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Benedum Center, 412-456-6666. Downtown. 412 456 6666.
THE DINNER DETECTIVE Amphitheater, Monroeville. INTERACTIVE MURDER LOOKING GLASS LAND. Tue, MYSTERY DINNER SHOW. Thu, Sat, 11 a.m. Thru Aug. 5. Sat, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriot City Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont. Center, Downtown. 866-496-0535. 724-468-5050. FOREVER SUNSET. A reading of A PIRATE’S TALE. A swashbuckTobias Forrest’s “Forever Sunset.� ling pirate musical. Sun, 2 p.m. Tue., Aug. 2, 7 p.m. City Theatre, and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru July 31. South Side. 412-431-2489. Carnegie Stage, Carnegie. THE HOUND OF THE www.showclix.com. BASKERVILLES. Adapted THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN from the book by Sir Arthur BRODIE. Miss Brodie, an Conan Doyle. Sun, 2 p.m., unorthodox teacher at Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and the traditional Marcia Mon., Aug. 1, 8 p.m. Blaine School for Girls Thru Aug. 7. Pittsburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland, Playwrights Theatre, www. per is determined to instill pa Downtown. www.pgh pghcitym in her students a passion .co playwrights.com. for independence, ambiJESUS CHRIST SUPERtion, truth & beauty. ThuSTAR. Sun, 2 p.m. and Thu-Sat, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun., Aug. 7, 2 p.m. 8 p.m. Thru July 31. Andrew Thru Aug. 14. Little Lake Theatre, Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. Carnegie. 412-276-3456. THE SPITFIRE GRILL. A mix of JULIUS CAESAR. Shakespeare’s country, bluegrass & Broadway classic. Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Thu, styled pop ballads. Thu-Sat, Fri, 8 p.m. Thru July 30. The 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 31, 2 p.m. Grey Box Theatre, Lawrenceville. Thru Aug. 6. Apple Hill Playhouse, 412-586-7744. Presented by Delmont. 724-468-5050. Poor Yorick’s Players. www. UBU THE KING. Alfred Jarry’s pooryoricksplayers.org. Fri-Sun, 1896 masterpiece of absurdoabsurdo 7 p.m. Thru Aug. 6. Tall Trees
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FRI 29 CHI CHI RIVERA, SANDRA VALLS. 7:30 p.m. Cruze Bar, Strip District. 412-471-1400. DAVON MAGWOOD W/ TINA MOSS, OLIVIA TRANI, MARCUS MICK, JORDAN WEEKS, HOWARD LESTER. 10:30 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950. GOOD JOKE / BAD JOKE BINGO. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.
SAT 30 JOHN MCINTIRE DANGEROUSLY LIVE COMEDY/TALK SHOW. 8 p.m. The Parkway Theater, McKees Rocks. www.pghcomedy.com. KNIGHTS OF THE ARCADE: EPIC D&D COMEDY ADVENTURE. Each month, a cast of improvisers & comics go on a Dungeons & Dragons adventure inspired by audience suggestions. Last Sat of every month, 10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.
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NEW THIS WEEK 709 PENN GALLERY. We ART Here. An exhibit curated by artist Fran Flaherty for the Festival & for arts managers attending the Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disabilities Conference. All artists exhibiting have self-identified as artists w/ disabilities. Downtown. 412-471-6070. 824 CHESTNUT STREET. Roadside Attraction. Sculpture by Amy Masters. Outwardly nondescript, the sculpture’s interior landscape can be experienced through a series of portholes. North Side. www.neukirche.org. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Ethno Mythologies. New works on slate by Jennifer Nagle Myers & selected pieces from an African art collection. Opening reception July 29, 5 - 8 p.m. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CREATIVE REUSE GALLERY. Altered Art. Work by Cynthia Andujar, Darnell Chambers, Naomi Chambers, Akia Cyrus, Joy KMT, Katie Rearick, Rachel Saul Rearick & Sam Thorpe. Opening reception July 28, 6 - 9 p.m. Point Breeze. 412-473-0100. HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. Shaping Ceramics: Daniel Rhodes. Opening reception August 5, 6 - 8 p.m. New Castle. 724-652-2882.
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photographs of everyday Pittsburghers by Angelica Dass. The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden. This exhibit chronicles the careers & influence of Wolfgang Oehme & James van Sweden & feat. 52 contemporary & newly commissioned photographs of important residential, civic & commercial landscape architecture projects. Downtown. www.trustarts.org. ALREADY FAMOUS ON PENN GALLERY. Cuba on the Verge. Photography exhibit by Polly Mills Whitehorn. Documentation of what is now Cuba - Havana is a city of contradictions while you see great efforts to restore buildings there are many more from colonial times in shabby decay or have completely collapsed leaving residents displaced. Downtown. 412-377-5619. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Exposures: Hanging Fruit. An original installation by Zhiwan Cheung. Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei. A major international exhibition feat. two significant artists of the 20th & 21st centuries—Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. What They Say, What They Said. A collaboration between The Andy Warhol Museum, BOOM Concepts & Artists Image Resource (AIR). D.S. Kinsel’s mural is the project’s
introductory iteration of prints installed on the Rosa Villa, a shuttered building across the street from The Warhol. 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. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Colors of Summer. Work by Zivi Aviraz. Downtown. 412-456-6666. BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 10 Artists: a Collection of Works. Sewickley. 412-519-3377. BOXHEART GALLERY. Childhood Feedback: Mixed Media Collage. Work by Shawn Watrous. Long Songs: Symphonic Paintings. Work by Susan Constanse. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Celebration Red. Conceptual artist, Allison Knowles reprises her 1962 work by asking visitors to bring in a red item to contribute to a large grid. Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups. This exhibition explores how photographers throughout history have used multiple images to create narratives or explore subjects more deeply than is possible w/ a single picture. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Work from 56 regional artists. Oakland. 412-622-3131.
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54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie. 412-276-3456. 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. BRADDOCK’S BATTLEFIELD HISTORY CENTER. French & Indian War. The history of the French & Indian War w/ over 250 artifacts & more. Braddock. 412-271-0800. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 50 Greatest Photos of National Geographic 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. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, USS Requin submarine & more. H2Oh! Experience kinetic water-driven motion & discover the relations between water, land & habitat. How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? North Side. 412-237-3400. CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature & biotechnology. Sundays 12-4. Garfield. 412-223-7698. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit. Step into Daniel Tiger’s world & join him to explore some favorite places. Work together to solve problems, engage the imagination to transform surroundings & play along w/ Daniel’s sing-able strategies to better understand & navigate everyday emotions. North Side. 412-322-5058. COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ costumed guides feat. this restored stagecoach stop. North Versailles. 724-238-4983. 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. Mill Run. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stainedglass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436. FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on
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CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. OFF the wall Gallery Collection. Art from local, national & international artists. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Images in Watercolor. Work by Natiq Jalil. Lawrenceville. 412-772-1473. CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. The summer I left Pittsburgh to fall in love with somewhere else & came back loving it more. Bloomfield. 412-681-5225. 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. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Recent Works. Photographs by Ruthanne Bauerle. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FRAMEHOUSE. Impressions. Exhibit showcases Pittsburgh Print Group members & regional artists working in prinmaking media. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heeled Shoe. Deadly sharp stilettos, architecturally inspired wedges & platforms & a number of artfully crafted shoes that defy categorization are featured in this diverse presentation of style & design.
Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. THE GALLERY 4. Full Spectrum Ahead. New work by Marion Di Quinzio & Carolyn Frischling. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Inspired by Animals. Work by Sheryl Yeager. 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. GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL. mateRE:AL. Work by artists Christine Bethea, Blaine Siegel, Christina Springer & Suzanne Werder. Downtown. 412-391-2060. HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reflections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt.edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330. HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. His Stories & Her Stories. The work of illustrators John Manders & Stacey Hogue. Kathleen Zimbicki. A solo exhibition of watercolors. New Castle. 724-652-2882. JAMES GALLERY. Transformation. An evolving collection. West End. 412-922-9800. MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell,
the 18th Century Frontier. During Tours of a restored 19th-century, the mid-18th century, thousands middle-class home. Oakmont. of settlers of European & African 412-826-9295. descent were captured by Native MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection Americans. Using documentary includes jade & ivory statues from evidence from 18th & early 19th China & Japan, as well as Meissen century sources, period imagery, porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. & artifacts from public & private MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY collections in the U.S. and Canada, LOG HOUSE. Historic homes the exhibit examines the practice open for tours, lectures & more. of captivity from its prehistoric Monroeville. 412-373-7794. roots to its reverberations in NATIONAL AVIARY. Butterfly modern Native-, African- & Gardens. Mingle w/ butEuro-American communiterfly species native to the ties. Reconstructed fort region, including Painted houses museum of Ladies, Monarchs, Black Pittsburgh history circa Swallowtails, Red Spotwww. per pa French & Indian War & ted Purples, Viceroys pghcitym .co American Revolution. & Giant Swallowtails. Downtown. 412-281-9285. Species in the exhibit will FRICK ART & vary over the summer months. HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: Soar! Masters of the Sky. Explore the tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, power & grace of the birds who rule w/ classes & programs for all ages. the sky. Majestic eagles, impressive Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. condors, stealthy falcons and their HARTWOOD ACRES. friends take center stage! Home to Tour this Tudor mansion & stable more than 600 birds from over 200 complex. Enjoy hikes & outdoor species. W/ classes, lectures, demos & activities in the surrounding park. more. North Side. 412-323-7235. Allison Park. 412-767-9200. NATIONALITY ROOMS. KENTUCK KNOB. 29 rooms helping to tell the story Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. 412-624-6000.
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OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott. 412-851-9212. OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park. 412-835-1554. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides & exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area & Trolley Theatre. Washington. 724-228-9256. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. The Butterfly Forest. An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Summer Flower Show. From whirligigs & water fountains to rotundas & Rube Goldberg machines, Playgardens for guests of all ages w/ interactive elements. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants & floral displays from around the world. Tropical Forest Congo. An exhibit highlighting some of Africa’s lushest landscapes. Oakland. 412-622-6914. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. Pictorialist Photography -
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project: An Expanded View. New photography & video works by Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson, Martha Rial, and Joe Seamans & graphics by Frac Tracker Alliance that document the social & environmental effects of natural gas drilling in the region. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Turned On: Lighting Hooks Up with Sculpture. Work by Rik Allen, Christina Bothwell & Robert Bender, Amber Cowan, Jean Fernandes, Evan Kolker, Carmen Lozar & Matthew Urban, Adam Holtzinger & Susan Spiranovich Julian Maturino, Janis Miltenberger, Corey Pemberton, Susan Taylor Glasgow & Leo Tecosky. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. The Hereditary Estate: Daniel Coburn. The solo exhibition explores the dark undercurrent of the artist’s family history through a series of lyrical & mysterious photographs. Homo Bulla: Megan Ledbetter. The solo exhibition is a study of surfaces & life cycles in the American South. South Side. 412-431-1810. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Fiberart International 2016. The 22nd in a series of triennial juried exhibitions sponsored by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc, featuring works by established & emerging artists the exhibition
Photography As Fine Art. Pictorialist photography of the 19th & early 20th centuries made use of alternative film developing processes, such as gum bichromate - a printing process that involves multiple layers of light sensitive chemicals on watercolor or printmaking paper, yielding a painterly quality to the image. Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on glass, many hand-painted. The largest display of 19th Century photographs in America. North Side. 412-231-7881. PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View. 412-931-4425. PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639. RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos & artifacts of her life & work. Springdale. 724-274-5459. RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Homestead Mill. Steel industry & community artifacts from 1881-1986. Homestead. 412-464-4020.
provides a unique opportunity to see current trends & innovations in this constantly evolving medium. Practices of Listening. Recording stories from the public & working w/ ceramics by Christian Morris. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. John Riegert. 250 portraits of John Riegert by different artists. The exhibit ranges from paintings to sculptures to conceptual pieces to performances to photographs to films & videos. Downtown. 412-325-7723. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Standing in No Place: A New Landscape of Motherhood. Work by Martyna Matusiak. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom. Open showroom w/ the artists. By appt. only. Lawrenceville. 412-980-0884. UNSMOKE SYSTEMS ARTSPACE. Non-Material Effects of Material Processes. Work by Kara Skylling, Jeremy Tarr & Robert Weaver. Braddock. www.unsmokeartspace.com. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. A Shared Legacy. More than 60 works of sculpture, paintings & furniture, exemplifying the variety of media given life during the late 19th & early 20th centuries in America. Greensburg. 724-837-1500.
SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland. 412-621-4253. ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side. 412-323-9504. ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale. 412-407-2570. WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. CONTINUES ON PG. 48
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DANCE THU 28 - SAT 30 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER DANCE PERFORMANCE. 412-392-8000 or visit http://www. pittsburghplayhouse.com/. July 2829, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., July 30, 2 p.m. George Roland White Performance Studio, Point Park Univ., Downtown. 412-621-4445.
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City of Play This nonprofit brings a playful atmosphere to events around town, like the giant ball at this year’s Pittonkatonk (pictured). The organization also hosts weekly pub games and pick-up sports. www.cityofplay.org
FUNDRAISERS Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain’s lively, bittersweet novel follows a young soldier and his squad who, on a short visit from Iraq, are given a heroes’ welcome at a Cowboys game. Read the book before the movie version this fall.
THU 28 VOODOO BREWERY FOOD TRUCK THROWDOWN. Benefits the Homeless Children’s Education Fund For more information contact jadams@homelessfund.org. 6:30 p.m. The Priory, North Side. 412-231-3338.
SAT 30 CAN’T STOP THE SERENITY PITTSBURGH. Games, raffles & live entertainment, w/ a screening of Joss Whedon’s sci-fi cult classic “Serenity.” All proceeds benefit Equality Now. 5 p.m. Hollywood Theater, Dormont. 412-344-1245.
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MON 01 OPEN POETRY WORKSHOP. A place to bring your poetry for discussion. Presented by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. First Mon of every month, 7-10 p.m. Brentwood Library, Brentwood. 412-882-5694. STORYSWAP. An open forum to swap stories. First Mon of every month, 7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-3668100.
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[The performance] picked up in the second act. It was fun to be at. I was really into it. I like looking at all the kids, too. There was a little girl with all the hair — she was really good, had a lot of energy. The guy that came out in all white was doing all the tumbles and little rolls — that was really fun. I enjoyed that. There was a lot of music, lots of rhythm, high energy. That’s how African dance is. It’s really fun workout music to get moving. It’s really nice.
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. KID’S BOOKS FOR MARK SPITZER, LEA www. per GROWN-UPS BOOKGRAHAM, CHE ELIAS, a p ty ci pgh m KAREN LILLIS, CLUB. First Tue of every .co JOHN THOMAS MENmonth, 10 a.m. Penguin ESINI, & DON WENTBookshop, Sewickley. WORTH. Book release & reading. 412-741-3838. 7 p.m. East End Book Exchange, THE MOTH. A themed story-telling Bloomfield. series where all the stories must be 412-224-2847. true, be about the storyteller & be told w/o notes. Every show has a theme. First Tue of every THE AFTERMATH: HEALING IN month, 8 p.m. Rex Theater, South THE WAKE OF VIOLENCE. Side. 412-381-6811. An afternoon of solidarity & comSTEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic munity as storytellers & performers poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of from around the city come 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m. together to share their experiences Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty. w/ neighborhood violence & heal412-362-1250.
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WED 03 SMART (SCIENCE, MATH & ART) KIDS. Each month, children in grades K-3 will explore a Science, Math or Art topic while having plenty of hands-on learning and fun! June 8: Fingerprints & Forensics, July 13:Weather Science & August 3: Fruit & Vegetable Portraits. 6:30 p.m. Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255.
OUTSIDE THU 28 THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Free & open to ages 18 & older. Meets rain or shine every Thursday of the year. Naturalists guide these walks. Thu, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park.724-935-1766.
SAT 30 THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Meet WPMC member Mike Ott at the North Park Swimming Pool parking lot. 10 a.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.
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KIDSTUFF THU 28 - WED 03 CITIPARKS ROVING ART CART. Art activities & crafts that travel to different parks throughout the summer. For a full schedule visit www.citiparks.net. Thru Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-255-2539.
SAT 30 ART OF ORIGAMI. 2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141.
MON 01 HOW TO BUILD A COMPUTER. Children ages 10-13 can learn how to assemble a working desktop computer & discover the components that make up a computer interact w/ each other. Register in the Children’s Library. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turned-Teaching Artist Molly. Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
TUE 02 CHESS CLUB. For students in grades K-7. First Tue of every month, 6:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412531-1912. KIDSPLAY. Free happenings each week, often including visits by local personalities & activities presented by local performing arts groups & non-profit organizations. For a full schedule, visit www.downtownpittsburgh.com. Tue, 10-11:30
WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.
OTHER STUFF THU 28 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http://city dharma.wordpress.com/schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARYTHE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. Film screening. 7:30 p.m. Homestead Pump House, Homestead. 412-464-4020. ARTS & DRAFTS: ROOFTOP EDITION. Live music by Timbeleza, Lyndsey Smith & Soul Distribution w/ live art by Jeremy Raymer, mini art activities, more. 5 p.m. Theater Square Garage, Downtown. BOARD GAMES NIGHT. Fourth Thu of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. CROWN OF ETERNITY SOUND JOURNEY. Enter a cosmic journey as you bathe in waves of sound from multiple gongs, bells & metal singing bowls. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP. Thu, 6 p.m. C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, Edgewood. 412-708-9423. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. MARKET SQUARE FARMERS MARKET. Thu. Thru Oct. 27 Market Square, Downtown. 412-471-1511.
POETRY & PINTS. Fourth Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m. East End Brewing Company, Larimer. 412-537-2337. PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. Experienced screen printers can utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints. A volunteer-driven environment designed for short-run projects that can be completed in one evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. SALSA NIGHT. Free dancing lessons w/ host & instructor DJ Bobby D from 9:30-10 p.m. Thu, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Perle Champagne Bar, Downtown. 412-471-2058. SILENCED FILMS: VICTIM. This series, co-presented by Jacob Burns Film Center, features weekly screenings of international films banned or censored around the world. 8 p.m. City of Asylum, North Side. 412-321-2190.
POLLINATORS IN THE PARKS. In this program presented by Paula Purnell the importance of beneficial insects will be discussed. We will explore the habitat that breeds, attracts & sustains pollinators, & learn about their lives by playing the Pollinator Game. Participants will make an art/craft project & a butterfly-inspired snack. 1 p.m. Historic Hanna’s Town, Greensburg. 724-836-1800. RAVENWOOD COLLECTIVE OPEN HOUSE. Art exhibit, food trucks, live music, tarot readings, more. 7 p.m. Ravenwood Collective, Lawrenceville.
FRI 29 - SAT 31 THE RIBFEST. Live music, kid’s activities, food, more. www. paradiseparkpa.com. July 29-31 Paradise Park, Cowansville.
SAT 30 AMORE DANCE CLUB. Lesson & open dancing. 7 p.m. 412 Mulberry Street, Coraopolis.
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JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING If you want to help seniors, the JAA is seeking volunteers. Some positions include providing companionship; reading to residents or taking them outside to the gardens; assisting the office staff; translating Russian and Yiddish; and helping with special events. For more information, visit www. jaapgh.org, or contact Sharyn Rubin at srubin@jaapgh.org.
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NORTH AMERICAN FRUIT EXPLORERS ANNUAL MEETING. A discussion about fruit exploring, mentorships, small-scale nurseries & breeding projects, niche crops, public fruit parks, 99 year leases & the basics and nuances of all things pomological. July 28-31 Camp Swatara, Bethel. 717-933-8510.
ARTIST TALK. W/ M. Illuminato, Amy Master, Monique Redmond & Layne Waerea. 4 p.m. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224. BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669. MOBILE SCULPTURE WORKSHOP. Learn basic techniques of welding & metal fabrication. 10 a.m. Tripoli St. & Chestnut St., North Side. www.neukirche.org. WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827.
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AFRICAN DANCE CLASS. Second and Third Fri of every month and Fourth and Last Fri of everymonth Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634. 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. PENDULUM DIVINATION. We will be making our own pendulums (materials will be provided) & then learning how to use your pendulum for divination. 7 p.m. Blooming Spirit Enterprises, Regent Square.
CROSSTOWN COOKOUT. Live spray paint art by Jeremy Raymer & A. Gaglia, live music, Gaucho Parrilla Argentina, The Vandal, Leena’s Food Truck, The Summit Pittsburgh & Popup Embury. 3-8 p.m. Mon Wharf, Station Square. www.showclix.com. PAWS, CLAWS & LAWS. Industry experts who will be discussing the importance of what & how we feed our pets, what it means to be your pet’s advocate & how to navigate through pet food ingredients. 10 a.m. The Dog Stop, Strip District. 412- 315-7050. SONNTAG: SUNDAYS IN
UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL. Parade, live music, activities, more. www. ukiefestrox.com. Thru July 30 St. Mary’s Ukranian Orthodox Church, McKees Rocks. 412-331-9288
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MON 01 EMSDC YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR SCHOLARSHIP TOURNAMENT. Connecting minority business enterprises to corporations while benefiting a scholarship fund for MBEs to attend advanced education training programs. www.EMSDC.org. 10 a.m. Quicksilver Golf Club, McDonald. www.quicksilvergolf.com. MINDFUL EATING: A COMPASSIONATE APPROACH TO EATING. Deborah Brooks, a member of the Order of Interbeing (a community of monastics & lay people established by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh), will provide a new perspective to how we approach our daily meals. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.
TUE 02 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http://city dharma.wordpress.com/schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903. BRAZILIAN COOKING W/ KEYLA. Brazilian flavors & learn to make corn fritters, black-eyed pea salad & fresh pineapple & mint juice. No registration is necessary for these sessions. Seating for all workshops is available to 20 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. 6 p.m., Tue., Sept. 6, 6 p.m. and Tue., Oct. 4, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3114. HANDS ON HISTORY: THE CIVIL WAR. A talk by a private in full dress from the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, Co. A (38th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry), who will provide a glimpse of what like was like for the infantryman in the Civil War. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. Experienced screen printers can utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints. A volunteer-driven environment designed for short-run projects that can be completed in one evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. SALLIE BOGGS TOASTMASTERS CLUB. Helping people from all walks of life to improve their communication & leadership skills. For any questions email Sallieboggstm@ gmail.com or call 412-365-5803. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m. C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, Edgewood. 412-731-0909.
Master the challenges associated w/ being in a lawsuit. Lower legal fees. Call 724-875-4111 for more info. 6:30-7:45 p.m. Carnegie Library, Lawrenceville. 412-682-3668. CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session w/ literary conversation. First and Third Wed of every month, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 26 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. FLEET FEET SPEED SQUAD. At the track. Coach Alex from Fleet Feet Sports Pittsburgh hosts weekly Wednesday night speed workouts. The workouts are free & open to the public. Anyone who wants to improve their speed & form are encouraged to join. Wed, 7 p.m. Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon. 412-851-9100. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.
Lutheran Church, Oakland. 412-683-4121. CUP-A-JO PRODUCTIONS. Casting for all roles for Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. Prepare a 1 minute monologue. Cold readings. For more info or an appt. call 412-334-3126. Auditions on July 30 & 31. Millvale Community Center, Millvale. THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Professional Core & volunteer singer auditions in the tenor & bass sections for the 2016/2017 season. August 24 & 25. To schedule an audition, please review the audition criteria on our website: www.themendelssohn.org & call MaryColleen Seip at 724-2635259. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Upper St. Clair. TB TALENT & CASTING. Open casting call for models & actors. July 30, 1 - 4 p.m. Contact 412-973-7812 or Terri@TBtalent.com. 500 Daylight Studios, Emsworth.
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ZINE FAIR. This event is free to all ages & promises an afternoon of art, literature & hands-on activities. Registration is open from June 21 to August 12 at http://goo.gl/forms/ TXKhyC8dcqyFlPvs1. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550. BOULEVARD GALLERY & DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Searching for glass artists, fiber
Looking for male-identified singers interested in joining community men’s choral ensemble. Volunteer role, 1 2.5 hr rehearsal/week, 2 concerts a year. For more info, visit www.steelcitymenschorale.org. Thru Aug. 6. First Trinity Evangelical
SUBMISSIONS THE 6TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH
artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016. Booking for both galleries for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR REVIEW. Seeking submissions in all genres for fledgling literary magazine curated by members of the Hour After Happy Hour Writing Workshop. afterhappy hourreview.com Ongoing. INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. Submit your film, 10 minutes or less. Screenings held on the second Thursday of every month. Ongoing. DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery, Greensburg. 724-219-0804. THE NEW YINZER. Seeking original essays about literature, music, TV or film, & also essays generally about Pittsburgh. To see some examples, visit www. newyinzer.com & view the current issue. Email all pitches, submissions & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail. com. Ongoing. PITTSBURGH QUARTERLY. Looking for new work by local poets. Please check out Robert’s poem “Home Movies” at http:// pittsburghquarterly.com/betweenthe-issues-items/item/1082home-movies.html. Ongoing. Pittsburgh Quartley, Fox Chapel. THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. com Ongoing.
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I’m 28 years old and live in the Midwest. I’m intersex, but I identify as female. I am not out about being born intersex. Due to surgeries and hormones, I look like a fairly attractive female. I have been hanging out with a chill hetero guy, and things are getting very flirty. Is it unethical of me to not disclose my intersex-ness to him? IN NEW TERRIFIC EROTIC ROMANCE
“We all have to make decisions about what we disclose to partners or potential partners and when we disclose it,” says Alice Dreger, an historian of medicine and science, sex researcher and author. Dreger, for readers who might not be familiar with her, is the founding board chair of the Intersex Society of North America and the author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice. Intersex, for readers who may not be familiar with the word, is an umbrella term covering dozens of different inborn conditions. “They all involve someone having something other than the standard male or standard female body as those that are defined by doctors,” explains Dreger. “There are lots of different ways to be intersex, including some so subtle that you might never even know you had that particular variation of development.” So that chill hetero boy you’re thinking about disclosing your intersex-ness to, INTER? He could be intersex himself and not know it. But you do know it, and does “knowing it” obligate you to disclose? “Lying is a bad idea, of course, but she’s not lying by presenting herself as a woman and identifying as a woman,” said Dreger. “She is a woman, just one whose body came with some parts that aren’t common to most women, or maybe lacking some parts that are common to most women (depending on her particular intersex condition).” Dreger suggests making a mental list of the things a long-term partner might want, need or a have a right to know about your history and your body. “For example,” says Dreger, “if this chill hetero guy talks about wanting kids someday, and the letter-writer is infertile, she might want to mention sooner rather than later that she was born with a condition that left her infertile. Do her genitals look or work differently than he might be expecting? If so, she might think about when it would be best to give him some guidance about how her body is a little different and what works best for her.” Each of us has to balance our partner’s legitimate right to certain information, INTER, with our right to medical privacy as well as our physical and emotional safety. “There’s no reason for her to feel like she has to announce, ‘I’m an intersex woman.’ She could opt to say, at some point, ‘I was born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia,’ or ‘I was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome,’ or whatever her specific condition might be, and then answer his questions,” says Dreger. “If the label ‘intersex’ were part of her core identity — a critical part
of who she feels she is — then she might want to tell him early on, just as someone might talk about her ethnicity, if that’s really important to her. But otherwise, she can [disclose] just like nonintersex people do with regard to fertility, sexual health, sexual sensation, sexual preferences and sexual function — at a pace and in a way that promotes a good relationship and makes you feel honest and understood.” My husband looks at porn … porn of women with a body type almost the polar opposite of mine … Example: big boobs and tattoos … Does that mean he’s no longer attracted to my body? I’m so confused … He says I’m hot and sexy, but what he looks at does NOT make me feel that way. PERSONALLY OFFENDED REGARDING NUDES
Is it possible your partner is attracted to … more than one body type? Example: Your body type and its polar opposite? And if your partner were looking at porn that featured women with your exact body type … would you feel affirmed? Or would you be writing to ask me why your husband looks at porn of women with your exact body type when he can look at you? And is your husband sharing his porn with you … or are you combing through his browser history? Either way, PORN, if looking at what he’s looking at makes you sad … maybe you should stop looking at what he’s looking at? And if he’s not neglecting you sexually … if he isn’t just saying he finds you hot and sexy but showing you he does … why waste time policing his fantasies? People enjoy what they have and fantasize about what they don’t. So long as we don’t take what we have for granted … it’s not a problem … unless we decide to make it one.
“SHE IS A WOMAN, JUST ONE WHOSE BODY CAME WITH SOME PARTS THAT AREN’T COMMON TO MOST WOMEN.”
My partner and I got married last weekend. For his vows, he wrote a hilarious, wonderful song. (He’s a professional singer in Los Angeles, so the song was pretty spectacular.) I’m a Femme Dom who loves ropes, while he’s pretty vanilla. Despite that, we’ve had a dynamite sex life for the last eight years, in part because he’s so GGG. Early on, I got him to start reading your column, and that concept made a huge impression on him. Here’s the verse from his song/vows that you inspired: “Now next I should obey you / But that one’s a little tricky / I’m what you call ‘vanilla’ / And on top of that I’m picky / Instead of blind obedience / I hope it’s understood / I promise to continue / Being giving, game and good!” Thanks for all you do! BELOVED REVELS IN DAN’S LOVE EDUCATION
Congrats on your wedding, BRIDLE, and thanks for a lovely note — one that will give hope to kink-discordant couples everywhere. Perfect fits, sexually speaking, are rare. But whip a little GGG into the mix, and that imperfect fit can become a perfect match! On the Lovecast, Dan chats with the directors of the movie Tickled: savagelovecast.com.
SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET AND FIND THE SAVAGE LOVECAST (DAN’S WEEKLY PODCAST) AT SAVAGELOVECAST.COM
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PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 07.27/08.03.2016
FOR THE WEEK OF
Free Will Astrology
07.27-08.03
{BY ROB BREZSNY}
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimismfueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have just begun your big test. How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, “If it doesn’t make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life.” In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs — scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you’d be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more selfsufficiency. Here’s an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier
dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned and well developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Where is everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3. Humbly ask — out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination — for precisely what you want.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.
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The people of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An Interesting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s
unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong — you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): [Editor’s note: The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?” or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a T-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.” Is it possible there’s something you really need but you don’t know what it is? Write Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce animal elegance.
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Police monitoring Cleveland’s Public Square
SMOTHERED FLAMES {BY RYAN DETO}
WHILE IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to nail down exact numbers, estimates indicate 8-foot-high chain-link fence, cutting off access to a square-mile section there were far more police and journalists (20,000!) than delegates and of downtown Cleveland. University of Pittsburgh professor David Harris, an expert on policing, protesters at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week. This could explain why protests there didn’t explode like many says the setup for demonstrators and protesters was not a very fair one. The majority of the protests occurred at Public Square, which was thought they would; protesters were just outnumbered. blocks from the convention entrance and easily avoided by delegates. Nowhere was this dichotomy more evident than in downtown “You want delegates to see the protests, and not effectively cut Cleveland’s Public Square. Any time a small argument occurred off the protests to the people who count the most,” says Harris. between conflicting protesters, a small circle of cameraIf this sounds familiar to Pittsburghers, it’s because a touting reporters (including City Paper’s) and uniformed FollowNC similar set-up occurred in Pittsburgh in 2009, when the city officers would instantly form around the shouting match; D our ge on hosted the G-20 Summit at the David L. Lawrence Convena obscenities would be yelled for a minute or two; and then r e cov .pghcity tion Center. Highway exits, bridges and Downtown streets the crowd would disperse. And this played out over and w w . w er.com were blocked, police-officer lines kept many protest marches over again, every afternoon of the convention. pap from getting near the convention center, and no international Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio leaders saw any protests. won a case against the RNC challenging its strict protest Similar tactics were used in Cleveland. In addition to Public rules. But despite this victory, protests during the four days of the Square, Cleveland officials did designate another “demonstration site” convention lacked the fire many anticipated. On July 20, CP spoke with Cleveland Chief of Police Calvin Williams in the city. But as CP reported, it was more than two miles away and who said “so far so good” when asked how police were handling the basically silent throughout the week.
“PROTESTERS WERE JUST OUTNUMBERED.” protests. And by the time the convention ended Thursday evening, the most “controversial” public events were a rowdy appearance by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in Public Square and a flag-burning demonstration outside the convention entrance, which resulted in 18 arrests, but no injuries. In fact, Williams told the New York Times the police only intervened in the flag-burning because the flag-burner “lit himself on fire.” But sheer numbers of police officers and paid-police-officer-watchers (a.k.a. journalists) might not have been the only deterrent to protesters. The convention site was also walled off by more than two miles of
Ultimately, it was the best possible outcome for Clevelanders and RNC delegates. Most locals said they knew many neighbors who left town to avoid the commotion of the RNC. And two of CP’s most popular RNC-related tweets were the one about how friendly Cleveland’s Chief Williams was, and an innocuous picture of a local artist holding up a sign reminding people that Cleveland Cavaliers star Lebron James is still technically a free agent. Hopefully, the Democratic National Convention also offers peaceful street scenes, but allows the voices of those protesters to be more easily heard by the people they’re directed toward. RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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