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LEXIS JOY D’ACHILLE was happily married with a great career and family. But after she gave birth to her daughter, Adriana, in 2013, she felt anxious and out of control. Her husband, Steven, knew something was wrong with his young wife, who had been thrilled to carry the couple’s first child.

Alexis sought help, but was not able to get the care she needed. She took her own life six weeks after Adriana was born.

“It’s just not fair. The care she needed just didn’t exist anywhere,” Steven D’Achille says. “I was heartbroken that she had to feel this much pain. She was asking for help and recognizing something was wrong, and no one could help her.”

After her death, D’Achille was determined that what happened to Alexis should not happen to other women. He started the Alexis Joy Foundation with the goal of helping women affected by postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.

Husband uses wife’s suicide as a catalyst to help women with postpartum depression {BY KIM LYONS} “It started off as an epiphany,” he says. “I thought: ‘Something good has to come from this.’”

This fall, the Alexis Joy D’Achille Center for Women’s Behavioral Health will open at West Penn Hospital, funded in part by a $100,000 grant from the Alexis Joy Foundation. The goal is to make it easier for women to seek treatment and to look at new models of care.

Under one roof, the center will house all the treatment options available to women after giving birth, with a focus on mental well-being. Women can take part in weekly therapy sessions, which can be tailored to their individual conditions.

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giving birth, but women may experience its symptoms up to a year after their baby is born.

“Even if you have the best baby in the world, and everyone’s telling you how wonderful it is, I don’t think society realizes how brutally hard it is for women who give birth to realize they’re in trouble,” D’Achille says.

It’s been historically difficult to spot postpartum disorders because nearly all women go through a postpartum hormonal fluctuation (colloquially called the “baby blues”) that can cause moodiness and feelings of sadness and anxiety.

But when those symptoms persist for longer than two weeks postpartum, it’s cause for concern.

Of the women who have a perinatal mood disorder, only about 15 percent get any kind of medical treatment for it.

“Historically speaking, we’ve been incredibly bad at identifying women who are depressed or anxious,” Dr. Sarah Homitsky, medical director of West Penn Hospital’s perinatal psychiatry program, says of the medical profession as a whole. “We have made tremendous strides in treatment, including the universal screening of all pregnant and postpartum women for mood disorders and depression.”

The symptoms of postpartum mood disorders can manifest in a variety of ways; some women feel depressed that they’re overwhelmed by their new ba-

bies and worry that they’re not good mothers. They may not be able to feel any emotional connection to their babies. In postpartum psychosis, which is the most severe perinatal mood disorder that usually presents in women with a personal or family history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, a new mother is at risk of harming herself or her baby.

All programs in the Alexis Joy D’Achille Center will allow women to bring their babies with them, which Homitsky says is a huge benefit that a lot of other postpartum-treatment programs don’t offer. “A lot of women decline this kind of treatment because it takes them away from their babies,” she says, which is particularly challenging for moms who are breastfeeding exclusively. “Now we have a program where you can go and have a 30-minute infant massage and get classes on how to interact with your baby.”

The feeling of not measuring up, especially for new mothers, is magnified for women who are depressed.

“Mothers are very good at feeling guilty; we normalize it,” Homitsky says. “It’s not really talked about, and so many women may be experiencing the same things. Inevitably, women who go through this say the best part of the group is being around other mothers.”

Some women are reluctant to take medications after giving birth, especially if they’re breastfeeding. But Homitsky says that shouldn’t preclude

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someone from seeking help. “There is a time and place for medications, but we talk through other treatment options as well,” she says.

Homitsky stressed that there is a need to dispel the myth that if a woman is well-dressed and wearing makeup that everything is fine, and that she can’t possibly be depressed. Indeed, that was the case with Alexis D’Achille.

“Even on her worst day, she looked like she had it together,” D’Achille says.

“Even though she was unraveling, nobody took her seriously, or she would be here today.”

Family and community support play a huge role in a woman’s treatment, but the resources for fathers, and for other family members of women with postpartum depression, have not always been readily available, Homitsky says.

Part of the treatment program at West Penn educates the new mother’s partner on how to talk to a woman who is depressed or anxious. “We teach them why you can’t just tell the woman to ‘snap out of it,’ that that’s not a constructive thing to say.”

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He says that since starting the foundation in Alexis’ name, he’s been heartened to hear from other people who have benefited from hearing her story. “One of the things I’m most proud of is that we’ve been able to reach so many dads,” he says. “I just talked to a guy in Nashville, who told me, ‘If it wasn’t for your story, I wouldn’t have known what to do.’

His wife was suffering and he was able to get her help.”

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AFTER CARE Medical respite center is in need of expansion, but faces uncertainty under possible federal health-care changes {BY RYAN DETO} IT’S ONLY about a year old, but the Pitts-

burgh region’s only medical respite center is already showing signs of success.

The program is run by Allegheny Health Network and it’s meant to provide care to a uniquely vulnerable population: the homeless and unstably housed.

This month, the program had too many patients for the 10 beds that AHN rents between two local Downtown humanservices centers, Bethlehem Haven and Wood Street Commons.

The respite center is meant for patients who have healed enough to no longer require immediate hospitalization, but still require long-term care to ensure their health problems don’t return. For stably housed patients, this care would normally be provided by frequent nurse or caretaker home visits. But for homeless patients, such regular attention is difficult to provide.

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vulnerable, they ended up coming back to emergency rooms at very high rates.”

Perri says the program is hoping to expand. He says more than 50 percent of the respite center’s patients have health issues relating to opioid use, and he believes respite can offer the type of care needed to confront the growing opioid epidemic.

AHN nurses and respite patients agree, but they all worry the program could have the rug pulled from under it if the Affordable Care Act is repealed and the health-insurance landscape is dramatically altered.

The latest score from the Congressional Budget Office on the U.S. Senate’s proposed ACA repeal says 22 million Americans will eventually be without health insurance. Perri says without support from Medicaid and other insurance, the respite program could be in danger, increasing the vulnerability of an already vulnerable homeless population.

“For the long-term sustainability of a respite program, one of the best ways to secure that is through the [healthinsurance] payers,” says Perri.

One current respite patient, who asked to remain anonymous, says her six weeks in the center has provided the closest thing to becoming fully healed since she became addicted to opioids decades ago.

“This is the only place that I have ever gotten the kind of care that I needed,” she told Pittsburgh City Paper from her room in Bethlehem Haven.

Her room is noticeably different from the sterile halls typical of hospitals. There is a colorful quilt and paintings on her

walls. A handwritten sign with the patient’s name greets visitors. She says she suffered a back injury when she was a teenager and was prescribed OxyContin, an opioid pain medication. She says a few years after the injury, she went to visit her doctor, but the doctor was not in. This led her to seek out heroin as a replacement for her prescribed opioids; she has been dealing with addiction ever since.

However, she says respite care has given her some renewed hope. She says nurses and staff helped her sign up for health insurance, which she had never had before, and all the individual attention has helped with her addiction issues.

“This program has got to stay alive,” she says. “It’s the only way to help people like me fight.”

Her nurse, Danielle Dipre, says respite centers provide a type of care that hospitals can’t provide. For example, Dipre recently took a patient to get glasses, and used the patient’s insurance to pay for them, something the patient was unaware was possible. “If they are addicted, getting glasses is the last thing patients think of.”

Dipre also says respite centers actually save hospitals money, since many of AHN’s respite patients suffer from infections related to drug injections, and need weeks of antibiotics. Instead of keeping those patients in costly hospital beds, patients can receive their antibiotics at respite centers. There, they can also be put in contact with other social services to help them get their life on track, and even sometimes find permanent housing.

And Perri says this success has played out with one of their first patients. Perri says the man was addicted to heroin, but after going through the respite program “he is back to work, he is re-engaged with his family and he’s off heroin.”

But Perri says this positive momentum could be in trouble if the ACA were repealed, because the repeal could drastically alter Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income individuals. Perri says the vast majority of respite patients are on Medicaid.

“Any kind of shirking of those funds would be devastating,” says Perri. “If they were to lose that health-care coverage, it would be devastating not just to respite [care], but to all the ancillary and preventative care attached to respite. This would place more strain on vulnerable patients, and probably create more need for respite care. A dangerous snowball effect could play out.”

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The fact is that more children in Pennsylvania rely on Medicaid than any other segment of the population.

The future of Medicaid is unclear however, as U.S. House and Senate bills, as well as President Donald Trump’s budget, have sought cuts to the program. It’s been proposed that Medicaid funding be restructured into either per capita caps or block grants.

“The real concern is that even if they don’t end up cutting it very much, if they get the structure in place where they could cap it or convert it to block grants, then it becomes easier over subsequent years to reduce it,” says Vanessa Rastovic, policy manager at ACHIEVA, an advocacy organization for people with disabilities.

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writes Sasha Pudelski, assistant director of the School Superintendents Association, in a January report entitled “Cutting Medicaid: A Prescription to Hurt the Neediest Kids.”

Currently, federal funding fluctuates to match states’ health-care costs. Under block grants or per capita caps, Medicaid funds would have a preset limit, either in a lump sum to be divvied up at the state’s discretion, or set at a limited amount per enrollee. If a state’s needs exceed federal funding, the state will either have to cover the costs, reduce services offered or limit enrollment. The Congressional Budget Office reported that if the Senate bill had passed, 22 million fewer Americans would have health insurance by 2026.

That prospect scares parents like Casey Dye of Monroeville.

“Medicaid is a lifeline for my daughter,” says Dye, whose daughter Chessie receives therapies for her severe speech and language delay. Though Chessie is now 8, she communicates at the level of a 3-to-5-year-old. Dye says that when her husband lost his job in 2015, they turned to Medicaid.

Dye, a licensed practical nurse, says that private insurance wouldn’t provide adequate care to her daughter.

“A lot of private insurers do not recognize speech and language delay, so some of them would not cover it at all.

Or, if you’re lucky, they might give you 10 [therapy] sessions a year. How can

you plan those 10 sessions a year out and have it be effective?” Dye says. “You can’t.” Though it is sometimes claimed that Medicaid coverage is very limited, for many families it actually allows them access to more care than private insurance does.

“Overwhelmingly, people that have Medicaid are happy with their coverage,” says Erin Ninehouser of the health-care advocacy group, Pennsylvania Health Access Network. “I hear stories all the time from parents for whom it’s their secondary insurance to cover their kids with disabilities. They say that it gives them access to doctors and care that they couldn’t have afforded with the co-pays [through] their private health insurance.”

Chessie currently attends 10 speechand occupational-therapy sessions a week, some of which are at her school, University Park Elementary, and are also funded by Medicaid. Schools have been able to register as Medicaid providers since 1988, allowing them to receive reimbursement for the care they provide to students who are covered by the policy. In Chessie’s school district, Gateway, 29 percent of students are on Medicaid. At Pittsburgh Public Schools that number is 50 percent.

“We want to make sure that kids are healthy enough to learn, and sick kids can’t learn,” says Pudelski, of the School Superintendents Association. “[Medicaid] allows schools to address the health barriers to learning that kids have.”

While only about 1 percent of federal Medicaid dollars go to schools, Medicaid can have a large impact on the quality of care and education provided to students with health concerns or disabilities.

“I just wish that in 2017, I didn’t have to worry if my daughter was going to have health care or not,” Dye says. Without Medicaid, Chessie’s therapies would cost her family $2,240 a month.

“I feel like some of our congressmen and [congress]women who are supposed to be fighting for our children are the ones who are putting up [more] roadblocks that she’s going to have to hurdle over to get where she needs to be.”

For families like Chessie’s, the future is uncertain. They wonder whether Medicaid will be cut and how it might affect them. They lose sleep at night worrying about how they will care for their child if Medicaid is taken away from them.

“We just want what every other parent wants,” says Dye. “We want our daughter to have a great childhood.”

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MODERN-DAY HOUSE CALLS Telemedicine services in Pittsburgh say a lot about the future of health care {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} GOING TO the doctor can be a pain. That’s certainly not a slight on medical professionals; having a doctor that you know and trust is an invaluable tool to staying healthy. But what about those days when you know you should see a doctor, but finding the time in your schedule is just impossible?

These days, many people are doing what they’d do in most any other situation — they’re going online. Telemedicine, consulting with a medical professional electronically, is a rapidly growing health-care tool. According to a survey conducted by Rock Health, a telemedicine research and investment firm, the use of telemedicine, particularly video consultations, grew exponentially between 2015 and 2016. In 2016, videobased telemedicine saw a 22 percent increase in users, up from seven percent in 2015. Many states have also passed

laws requiring that telemedicine services be covered under insurance plans.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Elder Vogel, of Beaver County, introduced a similar bill last month, and it is expected to be taken up this year in both legislative chambers.

Kim Jacobs, vice president of consumer innovation at the UPMC Health Plan, knows the value that telemedicine provides. The company began offering an email-based system in 2013, which had no face-to-face contact between doctor and patient, called UPMC AnywhereCare. In November 2016, the program was retooled to allow patients to have a direct consultation via smartphone or other wireless device. Patients could interact with a doctor, physician’s assistant or certified registered nurse practitioner through an encrypted online app 24 hours a day.

“At first, there was no mobile app at that time, but rather a patient portal on the UPMC website. They would put in their information … and it would send an encrypted email to a nurse practitioner,” Jacobs says. “That medical professional would then send back a care plan within 30 minutes. It was very convenient, very fast and could be accessed from anywhere. The problem was you were tied to your computer.

“That was where we started, but it

wasn’t the future.”

Jacobs says the new AnywhereCare program is growing rapidly and is popular among its patients. In the three years that the old system was in place, he says, there were 10,500 patient visits. In the seven months since the mobile program was launched, the program has already treated about 3,500 patients. “Telemedicine is in vogue,” Jacobs says. “There really has been a groundswell of interest for these services, and ours offers you a service that is easy to use [and] backed

by UPMC’s world-class medical staff.”

Jacobs says the service is mainly used to treat non-emergency situations like rashes, pink eye, urinary-tract infections or upper-respiratory issues. If you have a rash, for example, you just move your phone’s video camera over the area for the doctor to examine it. The process, Jacobs says, takes roughly nine minutes and prescriptions, if needed, are sent directly to the pharmacy. Since its inception, the program has an approval rating of 4.8 out of 5. The service is covered by insurance for patients in the UPMC Health Plan, and others pay $49 out of pocket.

Jacobs says about 58 percent of AnywhereCare patients are age 47 and under. The surprising number, says Jacobs, is the number of patients over the age of 65 who use the service. Nine percent of users fall in that range, and Jacobs says the number has been climbing in the past seven months. “What we’re seeing is the myth of seniors not using technology is fading,” he says.

Another benefit of UPMC’s program is that there’s no risk in trying out the service if you’re not sure if your condition can be handled remotely. “If the service is not completed,” Jacobs says, “there’s no charge.” So, if a parent has a sick child at 3 a.m., they can log on to the app and consult with a medical professional.

“They’re seeing someone eyeball to eyeball who can assess the situation and either diagnose and handle the problem, or advise that the person needs to go to an urgent-care center or the emergency room. Having a doctor triage a patient and advise on the proper care makes people feel better about the situation.”

It’s not just health systems and large service providers getting on board the telemedicine train. Earlier this year, an app was launched called MyHouseCall.

The service not only provides telemedicine services, but also old-fashioned

house calls from its team of doctors and nurse practitioners. The company is based in Pittsburgh and was founded and developed by brothers Michael and Eric Cole, along with doctors Stephen Ritz and Chris Fleissner.

Ritz says the app has seen “slow, steady growth” since its inception and has similar patient demographics as the UPMC plan. Patients range from millennials who are used to getting services when they wanted to young mothers who are strapped for time or unable to easily get their child to a doctor’s offers, as well as some older patients. Ritz says older patients who have difficulty leaving their home and don’t have family nearby are taking full advantage of the service, especially the home visits.

“Things like this, I think, illustrate the value of the app,” Ritz says. “But one of the best parts is that relative to an urgent-care or emergencyroom visit, we can offer these services at a lower cost to the patient.”

MyHouseCall charges $39 for an exam via video chat and $99 for a house call. The service is available 12 hours a day beginning at 9 a.m. And while the company is not currently accepting insurance, Ritz says that could change in the future. Patients are provided information so they can submit the cost to their insurance company for reimbursement.

“But right now, the simplicity of the system helps us keep costs down.” The service can also provide other home services like breathing treatments, urine tests and splints for minor orthopedic injuries at additional costs.

“There are a number of medical situations that aren’t conducive to the videochat function,” Ritz says. “There are more complicated issues like abdominal pain or a severe sore throat that need a handson evaluation. These services allow us to provide high-quality medical services and hopefully prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency-room visits by managing a condition before it reaches the point where the patient would require more extensive and expensive treatments.”

“We really think that this is the future,” he says. “This is truly a patientcentric system instead of a systemcentric system. The current system is geared toward the needs, resources and interests of the provider. Telemedicine focuses on the needs and interests of the patients.”

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A California man’s 2,000th visit to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. on June 22 made him a celebrity in the park. Jeff Reitz began visiting Disneyland every day after receiving an annual pass as a gift in 2012. At the time, he was unemployed, but he continued his habit even after finding a job, using the $1,049 Disney Signature Plus Passport. “Until today, cast members would think I looked familiar, but now they know who I am,” Reitz said. “It’s been positive, it’s been a motivator, it’s been my workout gym.

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Yasushi Kobayashi, 61, told police that he’d been lifting lingerie for 20 years because he enjoys wearing them. Police found more than 1,000 pieces during a search of his home.

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HE ABILITY to be a full-time artist is very difficult in the current economy. It was even more difficult a few years ago before the Affordable Care Act. Then, abstaining from a “day job” meant footing all the bills for your health care, without the help of a workplace insurance plan. Now, as a result of the ACA, some artists get by with an affordable single-payer option if they’re in good health, while others opt to stay on parental insurance until age 26.

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issues. Musicians with chronic illnesses face a serious and even deadly dilemma if Republicans succeed in repealing the ACA.

Musicians and other artists face an even harder road if ACA is repealed {BY MEG FAIR} Forrest Larson, guitarist of emo outfit Primer & Grayscale, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2014. He is a student

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mula and sold over the counter. According to an article published by the Kaiser Health Network in conjunction with NPR, this type of insulin is the only way some patients can get the drug. However, it doesn’t control blood sugar as long as other brands of insulin and administering the wrong dose is a very real problem and can lead to more health problems.

“This is,” Larson explains over email, “of course, the worse-case scenario.”

If the ACA was repealed without a replacement, Larson would lose access to his mother’s insurance. Having increased medical costs would mean he would have to work a lot more on top of his school schedule, leaving very little time for creating his art.

“The less time and money we spend worrying about our medicines that we need, the more we can spend on creating culture and art — true hallmarks of a civilization,” writes Larson. “If we get rid of that, we become culturally dead.”

“In my opinion, I believe that a government’s job is to protect and serve its people,” he continues. “Keeping them healthy should be one of its tenets. Unfortunately, [private] companies are here to make millions of dollars of profit off of people like me who are born [with], or have developed these diseases, without any control, and it makes me sick.”

Merilette, is a Pittsburgh art-pop musician who also has chronic ailments. She has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, from two separate sexual assaults; borderline personality disorder; anxiety; and depression.

She takes multiple doses of two medicines daily, in addition to attending therapy once a week when her condition is manageable. When things were at their worst, she attended three therapy sessions a week in addition to group therapy.

In the past, she’s had in-patient treatment.

“I don’t want to always make art about mental health,” explains Merilette, “But it literally consumes me; it’s constantly present.”

She currently is insured under her father’s plan, as the ACA extended coverage for certain dependents until the age of 28.

“I have no idea what’s going to happen when I reach 28,” says Merilette, although she still has a few more years to figure it out. “My current treatment is just strong enough to just be the fingers clinging on to the edge of the cliff. I’m not going to be well, maybe ever.”

Without insurance, even the generic medicines she takes would cost around $800 a month. That doesn’t include therapy or visits to doctors to deal with the

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“The government is supposed to represent us, but that’s not how it actually works,” says Merilette. “The people in power can’t empathize, even sympathize with my experience because they’ve never been through it.”

For Merilette, a repeal of the ACA with no replacement or similar safety net suggests grim consequences. “If I lose my insurance, I’m going to die. That’s the reality.”

Ideally for Merilette and her partner, the two would move to Texas and work for a family friend’s business and focus on creating art. But that would mean her partner would lose his insurance from his current job, since that Texas business doesn’t yet offer health-insurance benefits. And even that would still not provide her with a solution once she ages out of the ACA. “I want to be a full-time musician, but at this point that means I won’t have insurance,” says Merilette. “I can’t make art if I’m dead.”

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same thing over and over again.

Founded in 1983 in tiny Montesano, Wash. — two hours’ drive southwest from Seattle — the band led by Buzz Osborne (a.k.a. King Buzzo) has always done things in its own, idiosyncratic way. “Anytime I could do something that’s a little different, I’m down,” says Osborne in a phone interview with City Paper. “That’s it: Just adding a flavor you might not have thought of.”

After 2016’s themed release Basses Loaded (the album featured a large cast of guest musicians handling bass duties), the band returned this month with a double album called A Walk With Love and Death.

The first disc, Death, is, by Melvins standards, a fairly conventional album.

It features nine songs that explore musical territory familiar to fans of the band’s deep catalog: heavy, mid-tempo tunes with memorable guitar riffs and a thunderous bottom-end. While some tunes showcase

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yelping lead vocals, others — like “Edgar the Elephant” — display vocal harmonies that recall late-period Beatles.

After a long succession of bassists — eight at last count, many of whom returned to guest on Basses Loaded — in 2016, Redd Kross bassist Steven McDonald took re-

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sponsibility for supplying Melvins’ low frequencies in his own style. “I want the way he plays; that’s what I’m interested in,” Osborne says. “Not Steven McDonald playing what I tell him to play.”

A Walk With Love and Death’s second disc has a completely different feel. Subtitled Love, it’s the soundtrack to a film of the same name. Some of the tracks on the sec-

ond disc are recordings of impromptu, oneoff jams. Commenting on the seemingly offhand nature of those tracks, Osborne says, “That’s what it sounded like that day, and we accomplished what we were trying to accomplish.” Reaching for a handy metaphor, he adds, “We tried to throw out the baby and keep the bathwater.”

In between the short songs on Love are odd bits of “found sounds,” weird spokenword bits and psychedelic audio experiments. As good as Melvins’ regular albums are, it’s this disc that’s really intriguing.

“We recorded a lot of the stuff with really ambient techniques,” says Osborne.

“On a couple of tracks, we would record to a microphone outside, and then record [other sounds] over that.” He points out that Death has some of this ambient material as well. “But you have to listen for it,” he says.

The crowd sounds, blips and bleeps scattered across Love may remind some listeners of Pink Floyd’s landmark 1972 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Osborne

concedes there’s some similarity. “I would find it difficult to find any bands that weren’t in some way influenced by that,” he says. “Especially the ambient stuff; Pink Floyd were geniuses at that. But do we sound like Pink Floyd? Not really.”

In fact, Osborne is very wary of Melvins being compared to other artists, especially those from the Pacific Northwest. “I don’t identify with anything, musically,” he says.

“I’m very much not a joiner; I don’t want to be part of anything. I’m a Groucho Marxist: I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”

Washington and Oregon have a long tradition of hard-edged, heavy rock, and rhythm and blues, from the Sonics and Paul Revere and the Raiders to Nirvana and Soundgarden. But Osborne bristles at the prospect of being labeled as part of that lineage. “There’s lots of crap bands up there too, so how do we explain that?” he asks.

Besides, he points out, he left the region 35 years ago. “I’ve made the vast majority of my music since I’ve lived in California,” he says. “So who do we blame for that?”

Melvins are also defiantly outside the mainstream of the current music industry.

In an era that focuses on downloads of individual songs, a sprawling double-album/ soundtrack is cheerfully out of step with current fashion.

“Not everybody wants music dictated to them by what they can download,” he says.

Paradoxically, Osborne believes that more popular individual downloads become, the better it is for his band. “The more impersonal it gets, the more personal [our music] will be for people who like what we’re doing,” he says. “So it’s creating its own monster. I’m into it.”

Melvins’ current dates are in support of A Walk With Love and Death the album, but not the film. That’s because the latter hasn’t been released yet. A minute-long trailer debuted in April, but it’s anyone’s guess when the Jesse Nieminen film will see official release. “I’m not sure exactly when,” says Osborne. “But it’s coming.

We’ve always thought, ‘Our stuff is perfect for soundtracks,’ but since nobody was asking, we just did our own.”

In the meantime, a listen to Love should provide listeners with a mental movie; strange tracks like “Park Head” have a hypnotic, swirling feel reminiscent of early Flaming Lips audio experiments, and/or a particularity distressing and disorienting acid trip. Even though Love, Death and the film (when it’s finally released) are three physically distinct things, Osborne considers them as a single, unified work.

“It’s very strange,” admits Osborne, “as it should be. We’ll make people uncomfortable; that’s what we want.”

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PERSONAL POLITICS {BY HANNAH LYNN} These days, many musicians choose to disengage with social and political topics, and would rather move their careers forward than risk losing them by speaking out.

Not so for Hurray for the Riff Raff, the decade-long project of Alynda Segarra: The New York-born singer, of Puerto Rican heritage, has never been one to hold back her political beliefs. For the first few albums, queer-identifying band HFTRR was classified as country and folk music.

You’ll hear strains of the socially-aware songwriting of her classic folk forebears, like Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie.

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On The Navigator, released in March, Segarra maintains the political edge, but turns the focus to the struggles of her own story, of growing up as a queer Latinx woman in New York City. The album pays tribute to Segarra’s ancestors, to the NYC Latinx community, and to anyone losing their world to assimilation and gentrification. There are references to artists and activists of the Nuyorican Movement, like the Pedro Pietri poem, “Puerto Rican Obituary.” The album’s title track is about navigating a once familiar but now disappearing land, as Segarra sings, “Oh where, will all my people live? / The navigator won’t forgive.”

When HFTRR came to Pittsburgh this time last year, the band performed in front of Puerto Rican and LGBT Pride flags; it played “Rican Beach,” a then-unreleased track which is on The Navigator. The song warns against wall-building politicians: “And all the poets were dying / Of a silence disease / So it happened quickly and with much ease.” It was still months away from the November election and I was painfully unaware of how prescient this would later feel. But Segarra knows from experience and history that our country has deeprooted issues that persist regardless of who is president. She knows too that political music moves us forward, and keeps us sane.

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RETURN ENGAGEMENT {BY JUSTIN VELLUCCI} CALL IT a purge.

Asked recently to perform at a friend’s memorial service, former Faith No More frontman Chuck Mosley felt inspired and kicked into songwriting overdrive, churning out 11 compositions in two months.

“It was all of a sudden,” Mosley says.

“I had to block the faucet because they were coming out faster than I could learn how to play them.”

Fans of the Los Angeles-bred, Clevelandbased musician won’t have to wait long to preview the material. Mosley plans to play three or four of the new songs when he hits Howlers July 29 as part of a nationwide tour. Post Traumatik and Dumplings also will perform.

The show marks Mosley’s first trip back to the Steel City in roughly 20 years and — no surprise to anyone living here — much has changed, from the music scene to the local cuisine. While Mosley will skip much of Pittsburgh’s booming restaurant scene — “the Primanti’s sandwich, that I’m gonna get. The foodie stuff? I can get that anywhere,” he says — he’s looking forward to reconnecting with the Pittsburgh crowd.

For that opportunity, fans can thank Nicole Naab and Nick Schmitt, two Pittsburghers who answered Mosley manager Doug Esper’s call on the internet for venues.

“He’s one of those shows that’s on my list. I’ve always wanted to see him perform,” says Schmitt, who lives in Carrick.

“Pittsburgh seems to get skipped over a lot.

Me and Nicole and Doug started talking and just said, ‘Let’s do this!’”

Esper, who plays congas in Mosley’s band, says Mosley’s absence has nothing

to do with “the whole Pittsburgh/ Cleveland thing.”

“I’ve lived in Cleveland, Buffalo. My parents lived in Detroit. I’ve lived in Youngstown, Ohio,” he says. “These former steel towns, we’re similar. There’s a kinship.”

Mosley, who grew up in Los Angeles’s nascent late-’70s punk scene, toured with Bad Brains and fronted Cement after leaving Faith No More 30 years ago in the wake of the band’s second LP, Introduce Yourself. He now fronts rockers VUA and recently completed a solo acoustic tour in England. Many of these angles will figure prominently at Howlers.

CHUCK MOSLEY, POST TRAUMATIK, DUMPLINGS

HOT MUSIC by some of the region’s

9 p.m. Sat., July 29. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $10. 412-682-0320 or www.howlerspittsburgh.com

greatest acoustic acts every Friday night!

“It’s a total mix. I guess you could call it an anthology of my whole career, going back to [the band] Haircuts That Kill,” Mosley says. “It’s mostly acoustic but we’ll throw out some electric stuff we can pull off. There’s some Cement, a little Faith No More medley in there, a Mike Patton tribute.”

Pittsburgh isn’t the only thing that’s changed since Mosley’s last visit to Southwestern Pennsylvania.

“I’ve got a little more gray hair. My voice is rustier and I’ve learned to stay in tune more than I was back then,” Mosley says. “The new set is totally awesome.

We’ve got four dudes playing, which gives it a full sound ... I’m actually proud of that.

You know, I am what I am — I’m selfdeprecating and I’ve got low self-esteem, but I’m going to put the emphasis on doing a good show. That’s what I do.”

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MONROEVILLE 6-8PM Absent-Minded Professors

PENN HILLS 5-7PM

Stillhouse Pickers Bluegrass Band

SHARPSBURG 4-6PM Carrie Collins

SWISSVALE 6-8PM Donna O

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[EMO PUNK] + WED., JULY 26

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Formed in 1994, Piebald was a quiet pioneer of the emo and pop-punk genres. In the 2000s, the band would not see the same success as those acts influenced by Piebald did, but there was and remains a cult following for this criminally underrated outfit. The band wrote songs like “American Hearts,” a song about inequity that’s impossible not to sing along to — “Hey! You’re part of it.” With its music, Piebald built a community of passionate, empathetic humans, and an environment of genuine connection that remains in many pop-punk and emo scenes today.

Pittsburgh heavyhitters Same and Naked Spirit kick off this gig at Mr. Smalls.

Meg Fair 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $20-22. All ages.

412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

[COUNTRY] + THU., JULY 27 Country music can get a bad rap, but that’s usually because those critics have only heard country Top 40, which can be extremely boring. Enter South Carolinian Nikki Lane clad in custom Nudie suits and a leopard coat. She sounds like Loretta Lynn, if Loretta had grown up on rock ’n’ roll, and has a smooth voice that cracks when warranted. Lane plays Stage AE tonight, showcasing her latest album, Highway Queen, which celebrates all your road-trip dreams, complete with gambling, heartbreak and driving into the sunset. Hannah Lynn 7:30 pm.

400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $15-17.

412-229-5483 or www.promowestlive.com

[DINOSAUR NIGHT] + SAT., JULY 29 Two out of the three bands playing Mr. Roboto

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Project tonight have dinosaur-themed names; do what you will with that information.

New Yorkers T-Rexstasy make upbeat and fun punk music that dares to be funny, like the painfully true “Gap Yr Boiz,” about a certain kind of millennial male who takes time off to find their passions, or “Galleryhopping Gil” and “Eco Terrorist Eric.”

Joining the band are fellow New Yorkers, the minimalist jazz-pop of Zenizen, whose latest EP Australia creates a groovy landscape.

Pittsburgh’s own prehistoric indiepop Dinosoul will round out the night. HL 7 p.m.

5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $8.

All ages. www.the robotoproject.org

[THROWBACK] + TUE., AUG. 01 Do you remember LFO, the late-’90s almost-boy band?

To refresh your memory, its biggest hit “Summer Girls” was an amazing four minutes of Nikki Lane non-sequiturs like “New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits / Chinese food makes me sick” or “There was a good man named Paul Revere / I feel much better baby when you’re here.” There was also “Every Other Time,” about a boy who loves a girl, even though she does donuts on his lawn and gives him the finger. Hey, we’ve all been there. But the best part of this act is that its name is actually an acronym for Lyte Funkie Ones. Yes, you read that correctly. Joining the Funkie Ones at Hard Rock Café is Pittsburgh electro-pop duo ALBVS and rapper/entertainer Jordan York. HL 8 p.m. 230 W. Station Square Drive, South Side. $20-100. 412-481-7625 or www.hardrock.com/cafes/pittsburgh

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ROCK/POP THU 27 THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Pity Party, Ramona, Medium Ugly & Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs!

7 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-452-2054.

FRI 28 AMERICAN LEGION LANGLEY POST 496. Moose Tracks. 8 p.m.

Sheraden. 412-331-0341.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. MaxXouT, Yigga Digga & Brazenhead. 10 p.m.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

BRILLOBOX. Fist Fight In The Parking Lot & Molasses Barge.

9 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

THE CAFE AT THE FRICK. Elle Casazza. 6:30 p.m. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

CLUB CAFE. Tristen. 6 p.m.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

FRANKIE I’S. Hellin Back Band. 9 p.m. Washington.

724-743-3636.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. School of Rock.

Speakeasy. 6:30 p.m. North Side.

412-904-3335.

THE LAMP THEATRE. TUSK. The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute.

8-10 p.m. Irwin. 724-367-4000.

SOUTH SIDE PARK. JD McPherson, Dan Getkin & Twelve Six. 7:30 p.m. South Side.

412-246-9090.

STAGE AE. Amos Lee & Lake Street Dive. 7 p.m.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

SAT 29

Flash w/ Southside Jerry. 7 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

THE R BAR. The Bill Ali Band.

9:30 p.m. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

RIVERS CASINO. Donnie Iris & The Cruisers. 8 p.m. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SATALIO’S. The Putz, Scratch ‘N Sniffs & The Skratchtrax. 9:30 p.m.

Mt. Washington. 412-770-4983.

SMILING MOOSE. Pop Punk Night. Last Sat. of every month, 10 p.m. South Side. 412-439-5706.

TUGBOAT’S. Zack Wiesinger, Randall www. per pa Troy, Mark Cyler & Joe pghcitym .co DeSimone. 9 p.m. East Pittsburgh. 412-829-1992.

FULL LIST ONLINE

BAJA BAR AND GRILL. Dancing Gueen. 8 p.m. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Total Package. 8:30 p.m.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

HOWLERS. Chuck Mosley, Dumplings & Post Traumatik.

9 p.m. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Sun King Warriors. 9 p.m.

Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

MOUSETRAP. The GRID. 9:30 p.m. Beaver. 724-796-5955.

NIED’S HOTEL. Jumpin’ Jack

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MON 31 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Hurray For The Riff Raff. 7 p.m.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

STAGE AE. Glass Animals w/ Little Dragon. 6 p.m. North Side.

412-229-5483.

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MOON BABY

Each week, we post a song from a local artist online for free. Moon Baby’s new album, Barbara, is set for release this fall, and we’ve already heard the excellent debut single “Pumps by the Pool” (song of the summer?). There’s a lot to look forward to, but today we’re looking back, with XOMwonderful’s remix of the standout track, “Tip of my Tongue,” from the 2016 album Hollywood Killed Tara Reid. Stream or download “Tip of my Tongue (remix)” at FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

SUN 30 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Foxygen. 7 p.m. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

THE R BAR. Billy The Kid & the Regulators. 6 p.m. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Bachelor Boys Showcase. 7 p.m. North Side.

412-904-3335.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Phantogram. 7 p.m. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

SMILING MOOSE. Thieves & Lovers w/ Auburn Row, Blue Clutch & Tarby. 10 p.m. South Side.

412-431-4668.

STAGE AE. The Shins. 7 p.m.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

WED 02 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. K-Pop Dance Party: Second Edition. speakeasy. 7 p.m.

Backup Planet. ballroom. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Live at the Fillmore. 8 p.m.

Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

KEYSTONE BAR. The Bo’Hog Brothers. 7 p.m. Sewickley.

724-758-4217.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Tana Mongeau and Friends. 6 p.m.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

DJS THU 27 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse.

9 p.m. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

HEAVY ROTATION

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. 10 p.m.

Downtown. 412-471-2058.

Here are four songs that CP music writer Meg Fair can’t stop listening to.

FRI 28 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. 5 p.m. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

BELVEDERE’S. Down N Derby. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. 10 p.m. South Side.

412-586-7644.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. 9 p.m. Downtown.

412-874-4582.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. 10 p.m. South Side.

412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. 9 p.m. South Side.

412-381-1330.

Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

ACOUSTIC

CLASSICAL

FRI 28 AMERICAN LEGION LANGLEY POST 496. Bill Couch. 8 p.m.

Sheraden. 412-331-0341.

SAT 29 ART IN MOTION. The Stapletons.

8 p.m. Sharpsburg. 412 759 0522.

CRANBERRY SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Right TurnClyde. 7 p.m.

Cranberry. 724-776-5500.

THE SHARP EDGE CREEKHOUSE. Tracy Lee Simmen. 7 p.m. Crafton.

412-922-8118.

VINOSKI WINERY. Barb & John.

1 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.

Rozwell Kid

“Wendy’s Trash Can”

Dan Croll

“From Nowhere”

SAT 29

SUN 30 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. Rebecca Loebe & Jesse Terry w/ Brad Yoder. 7 p.m. Shadyside.

412-621-8008.

TUPELO HONEY TEAS CAFE. The Hills & the Rivers. 10 a.m.

Millvale. 412-821-0832.

VINOSKI WINERY. Ashley Ryann.

1 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.

Ratboys

DIESEL. DJ CK. 10 p.m.

South Side. 412-431-8800.

MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis.

‘The 1990s (& a bag of chips)’ dance party. 9 p.m. Garfield.

412-661-1727.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. RJD2 w/ Cutups & Keeps. 8 p.m.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Tenova. ladies night. 9 p.m.

Downtown. 412-471-2058.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

10 p.m. South Side. 412-431-2825.

“Elvis Is in the Freezer”

ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

Pittsburgh Banjo Club. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band.

9 p.m. North Side. 412-224-2273.

WHEELFISH. Jason Born. 7 p.m.

Ross. 412-487-8909.

“Cash Machine”

WORLD

TUE 01 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta.

Reggae & dancehall. 10 p.m.

Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

SUN 30

SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. 9:30 p.m.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Strange Brew. 1 p.m. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

THE R BAR. Billy The Kid’s American All-Stars. 7 p.m.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

HIP HOP/R&B

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THU 27

WED 02

LEVELS. Darryl & Kim w/ Southside Jerry. 9 p.m. North Side.

412-231-7777.

BLUES THU 27 THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Jack of Diamonds. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-904-2915.

FRI 28 ELWOOD’S PUB. Jack of Diamonds. 8:30 p.m. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

MOONDOG’S. Tommy Z. 8:30 p.m.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

SAT 29 FORTY BAR AND GRILL. Strange Brew. 9 p.m. Washington.

724-470-9703.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Litz, Boogie Hustlers, Dan Bubien & The Delta Struts.

Ballroom. 7 p.m. North Side.

412-904-3335.

VINOSKI WINERY. Terrence Vaughn Trio. 6 p.m. Greensburg.

724-872-3333.

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FRI 28 ANDORA RESTAURANT FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders. 6:30 p.m. Fox Chapel.

412-967-1900.

VINOSKI WINERY. Avi Diamond.

6 p.m. Greensburg. 724-872-3333.

SAT 29 BELLA TERRA VINEYARDS. RML Jazz. 2 p.m. Greensburg.

412-370-9621.

FRESCO’S. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Max Leake. 6 p.m.

Wexford. 724-935-7550.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Tony Campbell

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ARSENAL CIDER HOUSEWEXFORD. Christopher Thompson. 4:30 p.m. Wexford.

724-777-2402.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Travlin’. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

RIVERS CASINO. Velveeta. 10 p.m.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

SOUNDS, SIGNPOSTS & MEMORIES. Chris Cerrone’s unique voice is personal, haunting, lyrical, unafraid, and deeply connected to our modern world.

He seems to conjure vibrations that bring hundreds of people in a room together for a single, intimate, and transformative moment. 8 p.m. City Theatre, South Side. 412-206-9323.

THE JASON KENDALL BAND. 6 p.m. Vinoski Winery, Greensburg.

724-872-3333.

OTHER MUSIC

LINDEN GROVE. Elmoz Fire. 9 p.m.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

RIVERS CASINO. Chris Higbee w/ The Hobbs Sisters. 7 p.m. Jeff Jimerson & Airborne. 9 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SCHENLEY PLAZA. Wreck Loose & Cloud Nothings. 7 p.m. Oakland.

412-682-7275.

SAT 29

SUN 30 STAGE AE. Primus w/ Clutch. 6:30 p.m. North Side.

412-229-5483.

MON 31 REX THEATER. The Melvins w/ Spotlights. 7 p.m. South Side.

412-381-6811.

THU 27

WED 02

LINDEN GROVE. Karaoke. 8 p.m.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

REX THEATER. David Gans

STAGE AE. Rancid & Dropkick Murphys. 6 p.m. North Side.

412-229-5483.

REGGAE THU 27 PIRATA. The Flow Band. 9 p.m.

Downtown. 412-323-3000.

FRI 28 REX THEATER. The Wailers.

8 p.m. South Side. 412-381-6811.

SUN 30

MON 31

BAJA BAR AND GRILL. Ras Prophet. 2 p.m. Fox Chapel.

412-963-0640.

HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane, Ronnie Weiss & Tom Boyce.

Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. 6:30 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Chillent. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

COUNTRY THU 27 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Love & Theft. 8 p.m. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

TUE 01

FRI 28

RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Jazz Happy Hour w/ Martin Rosenberg.

5:30 p.m. Carnegie. 412-279-0770.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Christian Beck. 9 p.m. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

WED 02

SAT 29

THE BLIND PIG SALOON. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff & Eric DeFade.

7:30 p.m. New Kensington.

724-337-7008.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Free Music Series: Chris Colditz. dining room. 7 p.m.

David Gurwin. Speakeasy. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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SEVICHE. Hot Salsa & Bachata Nights. 10 p.m. Downtown.

843-670-8465.

ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell, John Hall, Howie Alexander & Dennis Garner. 7 p.m.

McKees Rocks. 412- 875- 5809.

ARTS

SOUNDS, SIGNPOSTS & MEMORIES. Chris Cerrone’s unique voice is personal, haunting, lyrical, unafraid, and deeply connected to our modern world. He seems to conjure vibrations that bring hundreds of people in a room together for a single, intimate, and transformative moment. 8 p.m. City Theatre, South Side. 412-206-9323.

TUE 01

Jam Session. Speakeasy. 5 p.m.

Benny Benack III. Speakeasy.

7-11:30 p.m. North Side.

412-904-3335.

THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. 7 p.m.

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

SUN 30

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. 8 p.m.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Jazz Happy Hour w/ Martin Rosenberg. 5:30 p.m. Carnegie.

412-279-0770.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. 5:30 p.m. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

FRI 28

SUN 30

WED 02

D.R.A.M.

w/ Fungus. 8 p.m. South Side.

412-381-6811.

RIVERS CASINO. Lee Alverson.

7 p.m. North Side. 412-231-7777.

EVENTS

THE LAMP THEATRE. Pure Prairie League. Irwin. 724-367-4000.

OAKS THEATER. Cash Unchained.

The music of Johnny Cash. 7:30 p.m.

Oakmont. 412-828-6322.

TUE 01 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Michael Christopher. 7:30 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY 26

Doors open at 7p.m.

STAGE AE North Side.

With special guest The New Pornographers.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 7p.m.

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-1681. Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

8p.m.

Spoon

Citizen Zero HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square.

412-481-ROCK. With special guests Highland Rose & Silver Screen.

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

THURSDAY 27 Love & Theft

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

With special guest Michael Christopher. Tickets: ticketfly. com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

FRIDAY 28 285 Amos Lee & Lake Street Dive

STAGE AE North Side.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

NEWS

The Wailers

or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6:30p.m.

GLASS ANIMALS STAGE AE JULY 31

Foxygen MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447. With special guests Cut Worms & Wreck Loose. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opus one. 8p.m..

Mama Mia! BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org.

Through August 6.

MONDAY 31 Glass Animals

STAGE AE North Side.

With special guest Little Dragon. Tickets: ticketmaster. com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 6p.m.

Strand of Oaks SCHENLEY PLAZA Oakland.

With special guest Emerson Jay. Free show. 7p.m.

Hot Summer Nights ST. VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORES. Live music & 10% discount on purchases after 4p.m. For more info visit svdppitt.org.

21+ Night: The Science of Beer CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. Over 21 event.

For tickets visit carnegie sciencecenter.org. 6p.m.

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PITTSBURGH FITNESS PROJECT Lawrenceville.

Free event. For more info visit pittsburghfitnessproject.org.

9a.m.

Riverhounds Food Truck Festival HIGHMARK STADIUM Station Square.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Through July 30.

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Through July 30.

Phantogram

SUNDAY 30

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-421-4447.

With special guest Skott.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

Primus

Vine Rewind

Health Fair

STAGE AE North Side With special guest Tennis.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000.

Doors open at 7p.m.

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With special guest Clutch.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com

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[DANCE]

IT’S SIMULTANEOUSLY SELF-PROMOTIONAL AND SELF-DEPRECATING

CHILDS’ PLAY {BY STEVE SUCATO}

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THE BLANKET presents LUCINDA CHILDS: THE EARLY WORKS 7:30 p.m. Fri., July 28; 7:30 p.m. Sat., July 29; and 3 p.m., Sun., July 30. Monongahela Wharf Amphitheater, Point State Park, Downtown. Free. www.theblanket.org

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Blanket’s dancers rehearse in Point State Park {PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN VIATORI}

A program of a living dance legend’s early works comprises the first major production for Pittsburgh’s newest dance-centric producing organization. The Blanket presents Lucinda Childs: The Early Works July 28-30 outdoors, at Point State Park’s Monongahela Wharf Amphitheater.

The Blanket was founded by Caitlin Scranton, a dancer with New York-based Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and Matt Pardo, who recently left the company to teach at North Carolina’s Elon University.

Even though neither of them lives here, Scranton will present work only in Pittsburgh.

Both have connections to the city whose arts scene, they say, offers significant opportunities.

“What we noticed is that there is a thriving arts community [in Pittsburgh],” says Scranton. “There are so many incredible dancers … but you are just not necessarily seeing the kinds of dance productions seen in other places.”

Work rarely seen here includes that of postmodern pioneer Childs. In New York, in the early 1960s, she and Judson Dance Theater colleagues, including Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown, created groundbreaking works. Much like 19th-century French impressionists developed a new approach to painting, Childs and company changed the look of dance.

The informal 50-minute Lucinda Childs: The Early Works will feature four of Childs’ works from the late ’70s that are performed in silence. The Blanket’s 11 dancers, including Pardo, Scranton, Lindsay Fisher and Jil Stifel, will utilize Childs’ pedestrian movement vocabulary (walking, skipping, jogging), developed on geometric patterns. “Radial Courses” (1976) is based on circular patterns, “Katema” (1978) on diagonals, and “Interior Drama” (1977) on triangles. In “Reclining Rondo” (1975), a trio of dancers performs while seated or lying on the ground.

“With the river, the Fort Pitt Bridge and the tunnel as a backdrop to the performance space, you will be able to watch these very architectural works in a pretty architectural setting,” says Pardo.

(There is no formal seating, so bring a chair or blanket.) Adds Scranton: “As a spectator, you are seeing the space demarcated in a specific way because [Childs] utilized in the works simple repetitious movement, so that the spatial patterns become an integral part of the choreography in a way that in dance that is more physical, you don’t quite see.”

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Clockwise from upper left: Night view of 1939 Pittsburgh skyline; kids on the Irene Kaufmann Settlement’s rooftop playground, in the Hill District, in 1924; Diane Taylor outside Forbes Field during the 1960 World Series; brothers Frederick (left) and Thomas Gretton take an 1883 “selfie”

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IXBURGH: A Photographic

Experience, at the Sen. John Heinz History Center, manages to deftly summarize the feeling of the city through its title alone. The current exhibition of photographic works documenting the evolution of the Steel City plays well with words before the first image is even revealed. Yes, “Pix” is short for pictures. But it also references how we pronounce our city’s name in our own unique and mellifluous (ear of the beholder) dialect. It’s simultaneously self-promotional and self-deprecating, a position that’s come to be typical of Pittsburghers who’ve been around town long enough that beneath the superhero cape of the shiny green present we still carry the sooty mantle of decades past.

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What we can see here goes back much farther, in a set of about 400 photos curated by museum staff from the Center’s extensive archives of donated and collected images, and ranging from official-looking doc-

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umentation and formal portraiture to picks from family albums. (During the course of the exhibit, other images were contributed by the public via the Center’s website.) We

start midway through the 19th century, and focus begins with the collective, moving on to the personal. Early within the collection are streets and landmarks barely recognizable, streets submerged in flood, a clock that provided the meeting point for thousands upon thousands of Downtown visitors, the excavation of tunnels, and the greatest home run in the history of baseball. (If you’re not sure to what this last refers, welcome to Pittsburgh. You’ll love it here.)

Sections are devoted to family portraits, work, play, ceremony. We see smiling female pilots, wearing summer dresses, standing in front of small planes; candy makers; factory employees. A 1920s shot of Harbison Walker brick-makers demonstrates an enviable sense of ease between white men and

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A section features the family members not related by blood, with a cat or two, mostly dogs, even a horse. There are candid shots of hounds primed to hunt or in repose in the living room; being fed beer or milk; fulfilling their duties as team mascots. A portrait of Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is particularly intriguing and glorious. Tanner is finely dressed, elegantly posed, reading material in hand, Dalmatian at his feet.

Considering how long it would have taken to effectively produce a daguerreotype in the 1860s, two things are evident: First, it was important to Tanner that his dog be included. Second, the dog is a good boy.

While dogs dominate, there is a spectacular shot of two solemn children in a cart being pulled by a goat. The goat is also solemn.

Children scream and laugh on terrifying wooden roller-coasters, adults in muumuus and Hawaiian shirts raise glasses to each other and the camera. Men display fish for posterity and proof; women guffaw heartily in billowing chiffon dresses; children climb on jungle gyms.

The tools among those used to create the images are on hand as well, ranging from a 1920s Deardorff & Sons behemoth from the Westinghouse Museum, and a 1950s Polaroid (with text noting that “shake it like a Polaroid picture” became a catchphrase so popular that it was used in a hit song — yeah, that would be “Hey Ya,” by OutKast, and it topped the charts 50 years later), to Time magazine’s 2007 “Invention of the Year,” the firstgeneration iPhone.

This is the evolution of photography, literally, tangibly. But the physical manifestation of the contraptions necessary to preserve an instant in time tells a lot about how the photograph, and how we document our lives, has changed in a centuryand-a-half.

Today, there’s nothing easier. With whatever generation of iPhone it is we’re on at the moment, in a matter of minutes we can capture a hundred reproductions; after that, in a matter of seconds we can share those with anyone from one select individual with whom we entrust our likeness, to the entire world. It costs us nothing. Its value is diminished by its ubiquity.

It used to be hard. The equipment was unwieldy. You needed more than one piece of gear. There were multiple steps. It was dear. And so we were selective. We were making an investment, and a lot of thought went into what we chose to preserve.

Happily, some people picked two children and a goat.

In an essay on word-craft, “Meretricious Kisses,” poet Ann Townsend contends, “We read and write for contact; thus poetry seeks an audience, recipients who can be convinced to take our breath and touch for their very own. Poetry is a body.” It’s this level of awareness that permeates many of the well-balanced lyrical and narrative moments that bubble up throughout the 68 pages of Jenny Johnson’s anticipated debut collection, In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books).

Johnson, a Winchester, Va., native, holds a master-of-fine-arts degree from Warren Wilson College and has received both a Whiting Award and a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.

She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and while the ’Burgh doesn’t appear explicitly in poems here, Johnson is deft at capturing flashes of experience and spinning them into something more sublime.

One example, “The Bus Ride,” reads, in full: “When she turns from the window and sees me / she is as lovely as a thrush seeing for the first time all sides of the sky. / Let this be a ballet without intermission: the grace of this ride beside her / on the green vinyl, soft thunderclaps in the quarry. / let me be her afternoon jay, / hot silo, red shale crumbling —” The vividness of colors and implied calls of figurative birds combine with a sense of desire to capture the delight of a speaker basking in a seemingly mundane human encounter.

Johnson is also unafraid to explore gender roles and sexuality, as several poems plumb both the erotic and the quirky.

There’s a sense of innocence in “There Are New Worlds,” where she writes, “I first kissed a woman / after hours of silence and shared cherry Chap Stick / late at night on a bench.” The poem “Altitudes” uses wordplay and runs steamier, as “a finger slips / down, down your blue button down / taps your chest. Granite cliff face, oh El / Capitan.” There’s also much to like in “Ladies Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner,” with its focus on the corporeal: “Clinking whiskey glasses we wipe away sweat and old flames /… Own this acreage, / this new ground rippling under rolled sleeves.”

While longer poems like “Dappled Things” and “Aria” might not jibe with readers seeking brevity, readers should give them a chance, as In Full Velvet beautifully presents Johnson as a poet fulfilling big expectations.

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by Idle and John Du Prez, the show, which is sure to please fans of the source material, adds just enough panache to the familiar storyline to make it more than worth the price of admission.

Under the direction of Becki Toth, the cast is superb, with most of the performers assuming the Python tradition of playing multiple roles. In addition to James as King Arthur, other standout performances come from Carl A. Hunt as the put-upon yet loyal Patsy, Jeremy Spoljarick as the violent and valorous Lancelot, and Chad Elder who seamlessly doubles as both Galahad and the Black Knight. And in a production

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could have written A Roman Holiday* and Spartacus? A tender coming-of-age story of a fragile young woman and a testosteronecharged tale of an ancient slave revolt.

Even more remarkable is the glimpse of that combination of fragility and righteous rage in that writer, James Dalton Trumbo (1905-76), in the South Park Theatre production of Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted. His son, Christopher Trumbo (19402011), wrote the bioplay, first produced in 2003, based mostly on his father’s letters and public statements. But Trumbo is not about just one person, but about the hole

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TRUMBO COMBINES WIT, BRAVERY AND TRUE PATRIOTISM. ripped in American culture by the “blacklist” (how many people remember?) that tore apart the careers of hundreds of talented people.

Back in the days of real political “witch hunts,” the U.S. House Un-American Ac-

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tivities Committee fought the Cold War by attacking left-leaning artists as the Red Menace. Those “now-or-ever-been-a-member-of-the Communist-Party” witnesses who informed on their friends kept their jobs, if not their souls. Those who didn’t inform didn’t do so well. Trumbo peaks with a spine-shivering speech dissecting HUAC, on Americans and on informing and on victims, well delivered by Greg Caridi in the demanding title role. He’s well supported

by Drew Campbell-Amberg as the youthful Christopher and the multi-cast Dalton (really!) Wynegar, both in Congress and in comical distress.

Given the limitations of community theater, director Christopher Josephs does a most creditable job of delivering the drama, along with biting wit of a great writer and his surprising sensitivity as a devoted husband and father. Trumbo’s wife of 38 years, Cleo, and their son and

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10, Trumbo served time in prison for “contempt of Congress.” He agreed: “As far as I was concerned, it was a completely just verdict. I had contempt for that Congress and have had contempt for several since.” * Ian McLellan Hunter, Trumbo’s “front,” was originally credited with writing the movie and received the Oscar in his name.

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{BY GWENDOLYN KISTE} IF YOU’RE IN need of a fun night out to help you look on the bright side of life, then search no further than Monty Python’s Spamalot, now playing at Stage 62. “Lovingly ripped off” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this 2004 musical follows the exploits

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awash with male leads, Stephanie Ottey offers a much-needed female voice as The Lady of the Lake, delivering her show-stopping songs with equal parts soulfulness and sass.

For Python fans, the show is exactly what you would expect: silly, frenetic and often bawdy. All of the favorite numbers from Holy Grail have been co-opted for the show, including the Plague Village, the French castle and the Killer Rabbit. Of course, for those who never found Monty

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two daughters, all suffered mis-aimed abuse from the “Red Scare.” Sometimes those unjustified fears are comical; some left lasting wounds on the families.

Trumbo combines wit, bravery and true patriotism. One of the original Hollywood

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Rob James (left) and Carl Hunt in Spamalot, at Stage 62

Python to be their particular cup of tea, then this fast-paced, episodic musical might not be the order of the day. But let’s face it: Who among us can really resist cracking a smile over that Killer Rabbit (which in this version is played by a red-mouthed hand puppet)? For anyone who enjoys their musical numbers over the top and their humor irreverent, Monty Python’s Spamalot is a rollicking good time.

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07.27-08.03.17 Full events listed online at www.pghcitypaper.com Myq Kaplan knows how to sell himself.

“If you haven’t heard of me, I’m the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of,” he says by phone. “My act will speak directly to you. It will make you feel good, no matter how you feel good. Whatever you like, I do it.”

The comedian headlines at Cranberry’s Comtra Theatre July 28 and 29 for the first in a new comedy series from Drinking Partners Podcast hosts Ed Bailey and Day Bracey, pairing nationally touring acts with local craft breweries.

Comics Sean Collier and T-Robe will also perform, and while free samples of mead from Apis Meadery and beer from Rhinegeist Brewery will be available, this is a BYOB event.

^ Fri., July 28: Carnegie Science Center

thursday 07.27 TALK Kaplan says that in his act he broaches a long list of subjects, including magic, drugs, language, philosophy and kindness.

When it comes to words, he is often found playing around with them. “I put out an album last year about not wanting children called No Kidding,” he said. During a standup routine on Conan, he explained that having kids is like doing drugs — “It’s not for everybody, you gotta be in the right mindset, it costs a lot of money, there’s peer pressure involved, and it could ruin your life.”

If something is prominent in his life, he tends to focus on that. “The commonality is that I’ve been striving to know myself; know myself as a growing, changing thing,” he says.

What are his current goals or aspirations?

“Oh, I’m actually trying to undo all the success I’ve ever had,” he says. “It’s hard to do, because once you’ve done things it’s hard to, without a time machine, go back and undo them.” I can assure you, he was just joking.

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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg visit the Carnegie Library’s main branch to talk comics. And these two Pittsburgh guys should know: Piskor, already a global success with his multi-volume graphic history Hip Hop Family Tree, recently announced a huge project to retell the epic story of the X-Men in a series of publications for Marvel Comics. Rugg is widely known for projects including Street Angel, The PLAIN Janes and Afrodisiac.

Their joint talk tonight includes a Q&A and signing, with books for sale. Bill O’Driscoll 6:30 0 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-622-3151 1 or www.clpgh.org

STAGE Big Pittsburgh theater news: Pittsburgh burgh Playwrights Theatre Co.’s 2016 world-premiere e production of artistic director Mark Clayton Southers’ thers’ Miss Julie, Clarissa and John — one of last year’s ear’s stage highlights here — is touring in August. The play, inspired by Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, relocates ca es the cat action to Reconstruction-era Virginia, ia, where a landowner’s daughter plays dangerous ngerous games with her father’s head servant vant and his partner in a riveting exploration oration of race in America. The show, with h the original cast (Chrystal Bates, Kevin n Brown and Tami Dixon) and director (Monteze Freeland), is bound for the National Black Theatre Festival, in North Carolina, and then Scotland’s famed Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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But first, partly as a send-off and partly as a fundraiser, the show gets three more performances here, tonight through Saturday, at Bricolage Productions. BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m.

Fri., July 28, and 5 p.m. Sat., July 29. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $30-35. www.pghplaywrights.org

friday 07.28 FESTIVAL Just like every year at this time, Pittsburgh’s in a pickle.

Actually, a whole bun bunch of them, and not just the cucumber kind. Picklesburgh Pickl is the Pittsburgh Partner Downtown Partnership’s two-day celebration of everything pickled, or with pickled stuff inside. Today al along the Roberto Clemente and tomorrow, all d Bridge, look for dozens of vendors of ready-to-eat foods (and ready-to-drink ready cocktails) with pickled ingredients, from pierogis and ice cream to pop. demos a crafting area for kids, and There are also demos, live music. Tonight’s Tonigh headliner is Nevada Color; tomorrow’s is Emerson Jay. BO Noon-10 p.m. noon Also noon-10 p.m. Sat., July 29. Downtown.

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BEER S SCIENCE In case you didn’t know, booze and science scienc make a great pair. Carnegie Science Scien Center hosts a 21-and-over Science Scien After Dark night of science and a drinking. A dozen local breweries < Th Thu., July 27: Ed Piskor

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will offer free samples, including Penn Brewery, North Country Brewing, Southern Tier Brewery and Couch Brewing. There’s a science and history to beer; experts will be on tap for educational presentations and demonstrations, covering topics like how beer is made. Matt Petras 6-10 p.m. 1 Allegheny Ave., North Side. $24.

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SCREEN Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey filmed San Diego Surf in California, in May 1968.

In June, Warhol was shot, and nearly died, and it was decades before Morrissey finished editing the film; it premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, in 2012.

Now the campy, colorful spectacle featuring Warhol superstars Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro and Ingrid Superstar, in a story set in a seaside mansion full of young male surfers, gets its Pittsburgh premiere at The Andy Warhol Museum. Tonight’s Silver Screen Bazaar (accompanying the exhibit Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen) includes a display of Hollywood-related memorabilia and collectibles from local vendors, a DJ set by The Garment District, and handson artmaking at The Factory Swing Shift. BO 7-10 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. Free with museum admission ($5-10).

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STAGE You know Avenue Q, that irreverent, hit Tony-winning musical where puppets sing {PHOTO COURTESY OF CHERYL CAPPEZUTTI} ^ Fri., July 28: Avenue Q about racism and internet porn.

You know Cheryl Cappezutti, probably Pittsburgh’s best-known puppetmaker (as seen at First Night, etc).

And you might know Alumni Theater Company, which stages contemporary musicals cast entirely with young African Americans. But you don’t know Avenue Q courtesy of ATC with Cappezutti’s hand puppets. At least, not yet: The production premieres tonight, and gets three performances this weekend at the New Hazlett Theater. Going beyond her familiar parade-sized puppets, Cappezutti branches into silicone-and-polyfoam puppets (think Muppets), each

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Fierce! International Queer Burlesque Festival James Street Ballroom, North Side

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Fri., July 21 To be honest, I’ve never been to a burlesque show. I’ve known many friends who have been involved in this kind of thing. A couple of my friends, a couple days ago, are just like, “Hey, we’re all going down to this thing, you wanna go?”

And I was like, “I have no plans, why not?” [This show] is incredibly entertaining. I’m not even sure where to begin. I mean, obviously I’ve seen burlesque videos on YouTube, things like that. Those don’t quite do it justice. [There’s] definitely a certain, I guess you could say, flair for the grandiose about it that’s pretty entertaining.

Oh, absolutely, [the show was inclusive]. I’m not gonna lie — I feel like I’m hardly the person to talk [as] a typical cisgender straight white male [laughs]. You can very clearly and immediately see people of every race, creed, orientation, gender … it is quite literally a rainbow in there.

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designed to resemble the visible actor performing the role.

BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Sat., July 29, and 7 p.m. Sun., July 30.

6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-18. 412-945-0282 or www.alumnitheatercompany.org

monday 07.31 TALK A new Consumer Health Coalition initiative called The Human Library brings folks together to discuss personal experiences with behavioral health. The first meeting, at the Carnegie Library’s East Liberty branch, welcomes four speakers to tell stories about their own histories with behavioral health, says organizer Kali Stull. Anyone interested can sign up to attend, and can also request to speak at a future event.

Content warnings will be issued as needed. MP 6-7:30 p.m.

130 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty.

Free. 412-456-1877 or www.consumerhealthcoalition.org

Summer is for stuff unique to summer, and that includes the Celebrate the Bloom! Summer Festival at Jennings Environmental Education Center.

Each year, on the final Saturday in July, this state park near Slippery Rock honors its 20-acre prairie ecosystem — the easternmost prairie in the U.S. — with a full day of free activities. Take guided nature walks (focusing on birds, butterflies and wildflowers) and see distinctive prairie flowers like the bright-purple blazing star. At 10:30 a.m., catch a program with live reptiles and amphibians. And enjoy local vendors, plus live music by the Carpenter Ants, Dana Cooper, and Devilish Merry. BO 9 a.m.6 p.m. 2951 Prospect Road, Slippery Rock. Free. 724-794-6011 or www.celebratethebloom. wordpress.com {ART BY DESATURATED WORLDS}

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Mixed-media artists Casey Sommers and Angela Briggs work slowly, building up layers with materials including “gesso, glaze, latex, acrylic, tempera, spray paint … string, tape, glass beads, rocks, wood chips, tissue paper and sand.” Lots of texture there, and the duo, working as Desaturated Worlds, encourages viewers to touch the art. A new collection of 30 works, You can’t get there from here, opens today at Lawrenceville’s FrameHouse & ^ Wed., Aug. 2: Desaturated Worlds Jask Gallery; a formal reception follows from 6-9 p.m. Fri., Aug. 4.

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The annual, international Can’t Stop the Serenity event 412-586-4559 or www.framehouseonline.com returns, represented in Pittsburgh with a screening of the film Serenity at the Hollywood Theater. Put on by the PA DANCE Browncoats and Geek Pittsburgh, this charity event seeks to Spinning off her popular Lifetime television series, Dianna raise money for the women’s-rights advocacy group Equality Williams — or Miss D, or Coach D, depending on whom you Now and youth education group the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage ask — is touring the country with Bring It! LIVE, including Center. Games and raffles precede the screening. Serenity, tonight’s stop at Heinz Hall. Fans should be familiar with the directed by Joss Whedon, is the sequel to Whedon’s cult-classic energetic dance routines by Williams and her Dancing Dolls. sci-fi television show Firefly. MP Noon. 1449 Potomac Ave., This summer tour is hitting 40 cities, up from its 30-city tour Dormont. Event: free; screening: $10. 412-563-0368 or last summer. MP 7:30 p.m. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $37-54 www.thehollywooddormont.org (VIP: $104). 412-392-4900 or www.pittsburghsymphony.org

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THE SRIRACHA AND CHICKEN PANINI WAS AN OUTSTANDING SANDWICH

FOOD FOR MEDICINE After some health complications with antibiotics a few years back, Jenneta Mammedova thought there had to be a better way to heal. So, she decided to start fermenting foods and eating them for the health benefits. After four years eating kimchi, sauerkraut and fermented beets, she thought it was time to bottle her creations, and Prescription Foods was born.

“I started this business because I have seen so much healing brought to me and my family,” says Mammedova, who runs the business out of her North Side home. “I wanted to share what I have experienced.”

Fermented foods create probiotics (a.k.a. “good bacteria”) that can have a positive effect on gut health. And when probiotics are created without the use of sugars or vinegar, like Prescription Foods products, those probiotics can be very beneficial. And Mammedova says that ingesting good bacteria created naturally in food is better than taking over-the-counter supplements.

“You should make food your medicine,” says Mammedova, who believes this can get to the core of health problems. “You shouldn’t just take medication that masks the symptoms.”

She was inspired to introduce more fermented foods into her family’s diet due to her upbringing in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan. There, Mammedova says, fermented foods are part of every meal, typically as condiments to help digest meats and starches.

With Prescription Foods, Mammedova offers Turkmen-style sauerkraut, as well as fermented coconut products that are unique to the Pittsburgh region. (She says fermented coconut water and milk provide benefits of dairy-like cultures, without the dairy.)

For those turned off by the sour taste of fermented foods, Mammedova says people should start slow, with just a tablespoon a day. “If someone gives you medicine, it can taste nasty,” she says.

“Fermented foods are better than that.”

Prescription Foods can be purchased at Allegheny City Market, in the North Side; Sunny Bridge Natural Foods, in Peters Township; and the Health Hut, in Beaver Falls.

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Prescription Foods’ fermented coconut water and kimchi {CP PHOTO BY RYAN DETO}

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Chicken-and-Gruyere crepe, tiramisu waffle, and raspberry-and-goat-cheese French toast

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Pinocchio, but locally it’s now the name of an eclectic Butler Street café.

Geppetto’s first line of charm is its decor, which is part art installation, part toy-shop whimsy. And part hipster — this is Lawrenceville, after all, and barn wood is inevitable. Here, it’s applied judiciously between a silvery corrugated-steel bar back and the storefront’s old tin ceiling; little potted plants and miniature bikes deliver the message that Geppetto is both fashionable and friendly. On the whitewashed opposite wall, wooden marionettes hang from astronomical iron light fixtures by local metalsmith John Walter. A eclectic array of books is suspended by twine from the ceiling, with Pinocchio hanging lowest; the back of the space opens up a bit and

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has a coffeehouse feel with local art, turquoise faux-finished walls, and a flock of colorful children’s umbrellas seemingly floating above the tables.

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adults don’t want to indulge in a s’mores milkshake? All the menu categories — crepes, waffles, French toast and panini — are foods that can be topped or filled with ingredients either savory or sweet.

These include: bechamel, sriracha and pesto; also, maple syrup, Nutella and dulce de leche. But not all together. Geppetto leaves its quirkiness on its walls; flavor combinations are uniformly copacetic, and execution is top-notch. The crepes had the sturdiness of buckwheat flour without the dark color; they were big and both tender and slightly chewy, satisfying in both their savory and sweet guises.

The chicken-and-Gruyere option featured tender, moist roasted chicken, thoughtfully diced into small pieces, caramelized onion and melted cheese, all folded into a crepe that had been drizzled

with a “homemade spicy sauce,” which seemed a lot like a sriracha aioli. It wasn’t really very spicy, but it had just enough kick to keep the other, milder ingredients from completely blending into one another. The side salad of field greens with cherry tomatoes and a light vinaigrette was excellent, as well.

If the house recipes don’t appeal, you can create your own in the crepe and waffle categories from a dizzying array of sweet and savory options. Bacon and goat cheese was blissfully simple, the crumbled cheese softened but not quite melted by the warm crepe, the bacon thin and crisp in good proportion. Our only quibble was that the bacon would have been better crumbled or diced, as the chicken had been; whole strips were tricky to cut within the tender crepe.

French toast, made with Mancini challah bread, was the epitome of the genre, soft but never soggy, with some crispness at the edges and the character of the crust maintained, but only just.

The batter was eggy enough to make its presence felt, but still played nicely with syrup and whipped cream. Those with a serious sweet tooth can try more elaborate concoctions, such as s’mores-stuffed, and for the traditionalist, there’s a Monte Cristo. Our Merry Berry waffle was also superb, its crevices capturing Nutella and whipped cream rather than the traditional butter and syrup.

Panini were made on a flat roll similar to a ciabatta, but less crusty, which was good, since the softer crust took on the crisp ridges of the press more readily. Melted butter enriched the flavor but also made for messy fingers. All options looked pretty good, including pesto chicken with avocado and goat cheese, but it was sriracha chicken that won us over. There was enough sauce for some fire, but not so much it leaked out the sides, while melty Gruyere and sweet, intense caramelized onions rounded out the flavor profile. This was an outstanding sandwich.

Geppetto is open for breakfast and lunch, meals at which stimulating beverages are key. Featured are La Prima coffee, a wide variety of teas and some far-from-rote milkshakes, such as tiramisu, s’mores, strawberry cheesecake and Nutella. And just in case your sweet tooth hasn’t had ample opportunity to be satisfied, gelato from Mercurio is on offer, as well.

Geppetto Cafe is a delightful antidote to the recent proliferation of darkly lit, selfimportant gastropubs in Lawrenceville and elsewhere. Appearances aside, the food is seriously good.

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{BY KELLY ANDREWS, GREENFIELD} Growing up, the closest I ever came to eating kale was watching Popeye guzzle cans of spinach on TV. I don’t even know if it was an edible plant in the ’80s, but it definitely wasn’t a food I encountered until later in life. If you also had a childhood of mostly boxed dinners accompanied by after-school cartoons, then please let me pass on some kale-prep wisdom that a few healthier-than-me friends have shared. I thought consuming all leafy greens was the same —you know, like, chop it up, throw some almonds on, etc., but not so with this fussy guy. If buying it in a bunch, you should cut the leaf from the stalk.

And, you should actually massage oil-based dressings into the kale. Like, really. I can’t remember when I last had a good rub, but I sure know how to show a bowl of power greens a good time. And I realize that it doesn’t get any more bougie than having to pamper your food before eating it.

But this is 2017, the age of self-care and a treat-yo’self mentality, so really fondle each piece lovingly in the homemade oil-andvinegar dressing recipe detailed below.

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This came third-hand from a friend with no specific measurements included, aside from “use equal parts olive oil and apple cider vinegar.” I started with a small batch of ½ cup oil and ½ cup vinegar. The rest of the ingredients are estimates of what I think I put into the dressing: INGREDIENTS • 1 tsp. Dijon mustard • 2 tsp. honey (or in general, more honey than mustard) • garlic powder or a few cloves of chopped garlic • freshly ground pepper • salt INSTRUCTIONS Pour all of the ingredients into a mason jar and shake them up before adding to the kale. This will yield a fairly vinegary dressing, so adjust according to your taste. You likely won’t use all of it in one sitting, so I suggest drizzling some onto the greens and then getting those limber fingers wet and to work. Add in more dressing as needed and top with your favorite salad fixings.

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STEP UP YOUR SANGRIA It’s more than a dumping ground for leftover wine {BY DREW CRANISKY} AT MANY BARS, the sangria pitcher is a

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dumping ground for past-prime ingredients. Have some wine that’s been open a bit too long, or orange slices left over from last night? Add some sugar and booze, and those former waste products turn into a tidy $9 cocktail.

Though it may sound shameless, this approach fits with the history of sangria.

For centuries, inventive drinkers have been devising ways to salvage wine that’s cheap, oxidized or otherwise unpalatable.

Sangria is simply Spain’s way of jazzing up humdrum wine.

Smallman Galley Sangria Note: Cappelletti is a bitter, wine-based aperitif. If you can’t find it, substitute Campari or Aperol. This recipe makes one serving, but can easily be scaled up for a group.

• 3 oz. rosé • 1½ oz. Cappelletti • 1½ oz. fresh grapefruit juice Combine all ingredients in a wine glass filled with ice. Garnish with fruit and a sprig of mint.

But sangria needn’t be a limp, sickly sweet concoction guzzled at chain restaurants. With a little effort, sangria can be a refined, refreshing beverage perfect for summertime sipping.

Buy decent wine: Since wine is the star, put a bit of thought into the bottle you pick.

For traditional sangria, grab a young, Spanish red (sangria means “blood” in Spanish).

Of course, white wines, rosés and even sparkling wines are great for sangria as well. Don’t break the bank — just find an affordable, straightforward option to use as your base.

Use the seasons: Classically, sangria is loaded with chopped fruits like apples and pears. But don’t limit yourself. Hit the farmer’s market and see what looks good, from berries and peaches to melons. Make sure to include some citrus in the form of slices or fresh juice. And think about what will complement the wine: strawberries, for instance, are a natural fit for a rosébased sangria.

Go easy on sweet: A little sugar goes a long way, and nobody wants a syrupy drink on a blazing hot day. Add your sweetener (whether it’s sugar, honey or a liqueur like triple sec) slowly and taste until you find the perfect level.

Brandy, you’re a fine spirit: While brandy is the traditional choice for sangria, decent bottles can get expensive. I prefer to stray from tradition and add some rum, gin or pisco. Better still, try playing with bitter liqueurs like Campari or Cynar (check out Smallman Galley’s bitter sangria at left). They will add some necessary sweetness while still providing a stimulating, bitter kick.

Experiment!: Ultimately, sangria is more of a loose concept than an established recipe. Keep it simple or get as creative as you like, adding herbs, exotic fruits or unexpected liqueurs. The drink’s versatility makes it perfect for a summer gathering, able to be whipped up in minutes for groups of any size. And if you start with fresh fruit and decent wine, it’s hard to go wrong.

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BOOZE BATTLES {BY CELINE ROBERTS}

Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle; this week, it’s a battle inside one bar. Go yourself, taste both drinks and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and using #CPBoozeBattles.

If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage writer Celine Roberts, at celine@pghcitypaper.com.

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DRINK: Del Sol INGREDIENTS: Dos Equis lager, lime, ice, salted rim OUR TAKE: This classic michelada is light and refreshing, and thus a perfect candidate for those nights when a low ABV is desired. The lager and lime balance yeasty notes and acidity.

Think Lime-A-Rita but fancy.

DRINK: España INGREDIENTS: Dos Equis lager, signature Bloody Mary mix, jalapeño, lime OUR TAKE: Spicy, vegetal and salty, with the lager providing a neutral and slightly carbonated base on which to build complex flavors. Jalapeños make a strong showing on the palate and encourage the drinker to savor the cocktail slowly.

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IT STARS A WHITE COTTON SHEET, AND IT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY

AT WAR {BY AL HOFF} Christopher Nolan’s ensemble drama Dunkirk depicts the historic events of May 1940, when more than 300,000 Allied troops were trapped in that titular French harbor town. Behind them the German army, before them the English Channel, and above them Germany bombers — and somewhere, a plan to slowly evacuate the men from the woefully exposed beach in small boats.

Staying alive: Fionn Whitehead

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The harrowing and fraught mission is told in three threads: “The Mole,” which covers a week’s time on the beach, where besieged young men scramble to find outward passage; “The Sea,” the events of a day on board a personal craft sailing from England to provide rescue; and “The Air,” in which British Spitfires battle with German Luftwaffe over the course of an hour. Nolan cuts between them, and the stories do intersect, but the overall effect is intentionally disorienting.

No matter when and where you are — and Nolan puts viewers right in it — you are under attack and fighting for survival.

In his films, Nolan likes to bend time, but there’s also a wartime logic where a terrifying hour can feel like a week.

Nolan shot in 70 mm, and you should spring for the IMAX ticket to get the wallto-wallness of the action. The experience also includes effective sound design, from the sudden crack of bullets and the ominous creaking of boats to charged silence of exhausted men. Overall, the film is more experiential than plot-driven, unfolding in vignettes. Most are immersive action, while a few are moments of quiet horror (“The tide is turning now.” “How can you tell?” “The bodies come back.”)

Dunkirk employs some recognizable actors — Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh — but no real protagonists; newcomers Fionn Whitehead and Harry Styles portray the young everyman soldiers. The star is the collective nature of sturdy Britons rallying to the cause, and the minute-tominute experience of war itself. Here, the battle is appropriately tense, horrific and tragic, not without beauty — whether in the grateful gasp of a man saved from drowning, or Nolan’s gorgeous shot of a miles-long beach at dawn on which flanks of desperate men are lined up.

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AKE HEED: A Ghost Story is not a horror film, a jump-out spooker, or anything to do with the popular paranormal genre. David Lowery’s minimally plotted, low-budget film is a slowmoving, elliptical meditation on grief, loneliness, time, memory and the fleeting nature of all our lives. It stars a white cotton sheet, and it might make you cry.

Lowery, who wrote and directed the film, reunites with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, who also starred in his 2013 feature Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. Here, they portray an unnamed couple living in a small house. We hang out with them for a bit; she recounts a childhood quirk, where she would leave tiny notes hidden in various houses where she lived. (“So that if I ever wanted to go back, there’d be a piece of me there waiting,” she explains.)

After the man is killed in a car wreck, he returns to the house as a ghost, watching over the woman and waiting. It’s best if the rest of the film unfolds in its own way, free from expectations.

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The ghost is a person wearing a sheet.

There is a legitimate argument that this sheeted ghost is laughable and ridiculous, a last-minute Halloween costume, or a vestigial character from a Little Rascals two-reeler. But I found the ghost deeply affecting. It’s not clear whether it’s Academy Award-winning Affleck under the sheet, but whoever is beneath it conveys a fair

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seeking, grieving, enduring something — and these are universal states that are easy to project, even onto a draped sheet.

There is also something nostalgic about the sheeted ghost, reinforcing the film’s melancholy about the past, and how it slips away. (Lowery shoots the film using a square aspect ratio, with rounded corners, recalling a once-familiar snapshot format.)

And yet, there is something weirdly gorgeous about the sheeted ghost working its way across the early-morning fields, returning to the little house.

The film is 90 minutes, and that’s fair for an offbeat, lyrical work that doesn’t so much offer a plot as a flow. Things happen, and some other things happen as a result, but the vibe is more contemplative than expository. There is little dialogue, and Lowery favors long takes, even of empty rooms, often holding the camera well past the point where it makes sense narratively.

It creates a peculiar form of tension, and adds to the sensation that despite looking, perhaps we aren’t really seeing everything.

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NEW ATOMIC BLONDE. Charlize Theron stars as an undercover MI6 agent sent to Berlin in this Cold War actioner from David Leitch.

Starts Fri., July 28 THE EMOJI MOVIE. A “multi-expressional” emoji named Gene (voice of T.J. Miller) sets out on a journey to become a “normal” emoji. Given this set-up, I suppose anything could happen in this animated comedy starring such popular emoji as Hi-5, Smiler and Poop. Tony Leondis directs. Starts Fri., July 28 THE LURE. In Agnieszka Smoczynska’s new musical dramedy with a touch of horror, two mermaids wind up performing at a family-run seedy nightclub. In Polish, with subtitles. Starts Thu., July 27, through Sun., July 30 (Melwood), and Aug. 6-9 (Harris)

beach planet, where very willowy creatures harvest jewels, before they perish in an attack from the sky. Then it’s back to Alpha where our intrepid soliders, Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne), are tasked with obtaining a gismo from a virtualreality super mall; rescuing their kidnapped commander (Clive Owen); and figuring out what’s causing a weird disturbance in the very heart of Alpha. Honestly, this does all make sense in time, particularly after several scenes of chunky exposition in the last reel.

Other than the lead actors — and I am sad to report that both DeHaan and Delevingne are miscast — the film is almost primarily recreated digitally. Besson doesn’t lack for imagination, and there is a near riot of color, costumes, creatures, locations and whizz-bang action. Some of it worth a nod of admiration, or a chuckle, but despite the ever-eye-popping eye candy, Valerian can also be tagged as a clever pastiche of scenes, locations, characters and plot bits of the last four decades of sci-fi adventure films (plus Indiana Jones and Cabaret, for good measure).

subtitles. 3 p.m. Wed., July 26, and 5 p.m. Thu., July 27. Row House Cinema THE BIG SLEEP. This 1946 film from Howard Hawks is the gold standard of Marlowe movies, as Humphrey Bogart seemed born to play Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective. Just don’t try to follow the story; enjoy the snappy dialogue and the pairing Bogart and Lauren Bacall instead. 5 p.m. Wed., July 26, and 7 p.m.

Thu., July 27. Row House Cinema

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS. In this fantastical actioner from Luc Besson (The Fifth Element), adapted from the French comics series, there is trouble to be sorted out at Alpha, the titular city which is a massive conglomeration of many peoples and lifeforms. But first, we get a prologue set on some balmy

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CALCUTTA. Shot in the late 1960s, this 1969 documentary from Louis Malle captures scenes from the crowded, often-chaotic Indian city.

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Harris DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Fred MacMurray stars as the insurance salesman who gets ensnared in the web (and anklet) of an unhappily married woman (Barbara Stanwyck). Can they get away with murder and a big payout? Billy Wilder directs this classic 1944 film noir. 7:20 p.m. Wed.,

POP AYE. In a chance encounter, a Bangkok man reunites with an elephant he knew in his past, and the two make a journey across Thailand to find the farm where they once lived. In Thai, with subtitles. Starts Fri., July 28. Hollywood RADIO DREAMS. Mohsen Namjoo heads up an ensemble cast depicting a somewhat random group of people who pass away a day at a Farsi-language community radio station in San Francisco. Namjoo portrays Hamid Royani, who is a well-known poet in Iran and a sensitive soul. But here he has the less-inspiring task of programming a day’s worth of entertainment (which runs the gamut from Russian love songs to invented slices-of-life from Iranian immigrants now living in the U.S.), interrupted by low-rent commercials for hamburgers and body-hair removal. The station’s manager is more interested in wrestling, and his stylish daughter just seems bored. The marquee event is a scheduled appearance of the Bay Area metal legends Metallica, who will jam on air with the members of Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s only metal act, who wait patiently in the lobby. The day — and film — unfolds slowly, composed of vignettes both comic and melancholic.

Babak Jalali’s dramedy is an affirmation of the trans-cultural aspect of art, but also notes the irresolvable sadness when one no longer resides in the homeland that once fed one’s soul. In English, and other languages, with subtitles. Starts Fri., July 28, at Harris. Also 7 p.m. Sun., July 30, at Melwood. (Al Hoff)

man’s (and femme fatale’s) inability to manage what has been wrought by the nuclear age. 9:35 p.m. Wed., July 26, and 2:45 p.m. Thu., July 27.

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SAN DIEGO SURF. In 1968, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey filmed this campy feature-length tale about a dysfunctional family and surfers hanging out on a mansion in Southern California. The film featured Warhol regulars such as Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro and Ingrid Superstar. Warhol was shot soon after shooting, and the film wasn’t finished until decades later.

The Pittsburgh premiere is tonight. 7 p.m. Fri., July 28. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $5-10. www.warhol.org JUMANJI. Robn Williams stars in Joe Johnston’s 1995 adventure comedy about a board game that comes to life. July 28-Aug. 3. Row House Cinema MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO. When two girls move to the country, they befriend magical creatures in the woods. Hayao Miyazaki directs this 1988 animated tale. Screens in both dubbed and subtitled versions. July 28-Aug. 3. Row House Cinema

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The plot flirts with serious issues: A peaceful race is wiped out, and justice is ill-served because, you know, white men still seem to hold all the power. But nobody would ever accuse Valerian of being thoughtful, other than viewers thinking “WTF?!” a lot. So your enjoyment will be pegged to your tolerance for spectacle over substance, costumes over character and action over acting. In 3-D, in select theaters (AH)

DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Good Lie, Wed., July 26 (Schenley Park: Flagstaff Hill) and Sat., July 29 (Riverview). Nine Lives, Thu., July 27 (Brookline). A Dog’s Purpose, Fri., July 28 (Arsenal); Sat., July 29 (Grandview); Sun., July 30 (Schenley Plaza); Tue., Aug. 1 (West End/ Elliott Overlook); and Thu., Aug. 3 (Brookline).

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KISS ME DEADLY. Adapted from Mickey Spillane’s popular novel, this 1955 film opens with a bang. On a dark rainy highway, tough-guy detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) almost runs over a beautiful and incoherent blonde — who’s wearing only a raincoat. The night only gets crazier. Soon Hammer is clashing with the blonde’s roommate, gangsters and rogue scientists, all in pursuit of a mysterious glowing box, a veritable Pandora’s box of nuclear annihilation. Director Robert Aldrich easily adapts the free-floating post-war paranoia typical of noir features into a terrifying real-world tale about

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A NEW SPORTSWORKS EXHIBIT EXPLORES THE SCIENCE OF FEAR

This week in Pittsburgh Sports History {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} JULY 27, 1986 Joe Tucker, the “voice” of the Pittsburgh Steelers, passes away at age 76. Tucker, who also did play-byplay for baseball, basketball and hockey, was a friend of Steelers founder Art Rooney and the team’s announcer from 1936 through 1967.

JULY 27, 2011 MLB umpire Jerry Meals becomes the most hated man in Pittsburgh sports history when he blows a call at 2 a.m. to end a 19-inning game at PNC Park between Atlanta and Pittsburgh. Pirates catcher Michael “Fort” McKenry took a throw from third baseman Pedro Alvarez and tagged Atlanta’s Julio Lugo several feet in front of the plate. Meals apologized later. The team, a playoff contender at the time, collapsed, thus sealing the team’s 19th-straight losing season.

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JULY 28, 1971 Forbes Field in Oakland is demolished — only home plate and the left-field wall are left.

JULY 28, 2001 Down by seven, with two outs and the bases clear in the bottom of the ninth, the Pirates become the first team in MLB history to win a game in that scenario.

Brian Giles finishes Houston off with a walkoff grand slam and a final score of 9-8.

JULY 29, 1941 Boxing legend Fritzie “The Croat Comet” Zivic, of Lawrenceville, loses his World Welterweight Title to Red Cochrane in the latter’s home state of New Jersey.

JULY 30, 1975 The Pirates host “Babushka Night” at Three Rivers Stadium. The team started a ladies’ night promotion earlier in the month to help draw fans to the park.

Pirates announcer Bob Prince nicknamed those women the “Babushka Brigade.” It worked. More than 43,000 fans showed up (nearly 13,000 were women) and received a black-and-gold head scarf.

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OU’RE STANDING AT the top of a mountain. Maybe it’s 8 feet above the ground; maybe it’s 80. But either way, as you peek over the edge, your heart starts racing, and you feel lightheaded.

For anyone with acrophobia, or a fear of heights, these symptoms are familiar and difficult to overcome.

But a new exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center’s Highmark SportsWorks facility can help you conquer this fear, or at least learn more about the science behind it. The Ropes Challenge course allows visitors to explore the physiology of fear and thrills, along with how you perceive the world around you.

“It gives us a really great way to explore the science of balance, but also the science of fear,” says Matt Needles, education coordinator at the Science Center.

The exhibit, which opened June 19, features a 20-foot-high course with 11 different rope and steel obstacles, including

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a rope bridge, rolling logs and a horizontal net. The main feature is a 60-foot-long zip line that serves as a sort of reward for overcoming your fears and completing the obstacles.

The course can be daunting for some, whether they have a fear of heights or not.

“We’ve had a few very nervous people,” says Needles.

In order to put visitors at ease, Needles talks about the science behind the exhibit.

He also explains that the harness attached to each visitor is weight-tested to support up to 5,000 pounds. But sometimes these explanations aren’t enough. One visitor wasn’t convinced to take on one of the obstacles until Needles sat down into his harness and hung securely from it.

“And once he saw that, he was OK,” Needles says.

Through the course, visitors can also learn about the elements involved in the science of climbing such as center of mass

and inertia.

“It’s been hugely popular,” says Jill Rible, marketing communications manager for the Science Center.

The Ropes Challenge has replaced many of the exhibits previously housed in the SportsWorks facility, including the rollercoaster simulator and trampoline exhibit.

“We always like to keep our exhibits fresh,” Rible says. “With our trampoline, it was really fun, but we could only get one person on at a time.”

The new Ropes Challenge can accommodate 20 visitors at a time. And the Science Center capitalized on the space by building a SkyTykes ropes course beneath the larger exhibit for the younger adventure seekers.

Visitors must be at least 48 inches tall, and there is a weight limit of 300 pounds.

All visitors must wear closed-toe shoes with backs in order to participate in either of the exhibits.

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THE PIRATES CYCLE {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} PITTSBURGH IS FULL of it — civic pride, that

is. Any time someone outside the 412 mentions Michael Keaton, Wiz Khalifa or Christina Aguilera, we are sure to remind them from where they came.

However, one celebrity we don’t brag about enough is award-winning playwright August Wilson. The pride of the Hill is a certifiable legend in literature and on Broadway. All of his outstanding plays took place in the sequential decades of the 20th century, and is known as the Pittsburgh Cycle. Since cycle is also a baseball term, it made me start thinking about the best Pittsburgh Pirates by decade. So, with a nod to Wilson, here are the best Pittsburgh Pirates over the past 10 decades — the Pirates Cycle.

The 2010s If anyone wants to argue that Andrew McCutchen isn’t the greatest Bucco of this decade, I will fight you. Meet me outside the Galleria Mall tomorrow at noon; I’ve got a couple of other fights already scheduled there.

Cutch ushered in an era of hope and change as the leader and catalyst for a resurgent franchise. Three consecutive postseason appearances seemed like something that would never happen. This season he has his team back in a division race. Early in the 2017 campaign, the former MVP was called washed up by many, but now he is hitting bigly. The latest surge will hopefully put an end to all the rumors of him being traded soon. So far this decade, the Pirates are a winning franchise at 614-567.

ing. The last decade at Three Rivers Stadium started with a bang but ended with a thud.

Jim Leyland got out of town and won a World Series in Miami, and we never saw another winning season for 20 years.

The ’90s were a mixed bag as the team went 774-780. Close to .500 but no cigar (a phrase that would take on a whole new meaning in the 1990s, thanks to Bill Clinton).

The 1980s A brutal decade as the steel mills laid off more than 150,000 workers. All the Atari games and Rubik’s Cubes in the world couldn’t distract us as the city slid farther into decline. The Pirates were no help lifting spirits, as some of the players spent time in court on cocaine charges. On the field, the nose candy wasn’t exactly enhancing anyone’s performance as the team floundered with a 732-825 record. One bright spot was the maddeningly consistent hitting of Bill Madlock. The Mad Dog won two batting titles in 1981 and 1983 and was the only bright spot for fans who had seen much better days.

The 1970s The best decade for Pirates fans by far.

The Bucs won six division titles and two World Series trophies. People were smoking cigarettes on buses, in restaurants and in libraries. But nobody cared because they were drunk or on ‘ludes and heading to the red-light district on Liberty Avenue. Hall

people can understand how improbable the 1960 World Series win was.

The 1940s Ralph Kiner led the league in home runs for a remarkable seven straight seasons from 1947-52. He was in beast mode before beast mode was even a thing. Returning GIs from the last major war we ever won witnessed a new power-hitting phenomenon.

The 1930s Not even Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner or Arky Vaughn could lift the spirits of people during the Great Depression. Paul Waner was the best of a very good class.

Big Poison hit .300 in 13 of his 14 seasons in the “Smoky City.” His lifetime .340 average with Pittsburgh is the all-time highest and very likely will never be broken.

For the decade, the Pirates were a very respectable 812-718.

The 1920s A bar in McKeesport is rumored to have coined the phrase “speakeasy.” Which meant “keep {PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME} quiet about the hooch or some Pie Traynor copper will pinch you, see.” You The 1950s couldn’t drink at the games Yes, Dick Groat won the MVP in 1960, legally, but the Pirates and Pie Traynor but his 1950s were pretty good too. But the roared through the decade and won it all Pirates certainly were not. The Bucs lost in 1925. Flappers, Hollywood and the Pitts100 games three times and finished 307 burgh crime family all had a pretty good games under .500 (616-923). Your grand- decade. 877-666 was their record with no parents liked Ike, but nobody could dig the losing seasons. Unfortunately, the Pirates Pirates, daddio. There was only one win- wouldn’t even sniff a World Series for 35 ning season in the decade, so now maybe years.

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The 1990s Barry Bonds only played three seasons with Pittsburgh in the 1990s, and two of them were MVP years. Pittsburgh loved Sophie Masloff, stonewashed jeans and listening to Paulsen and Krenn in the morn-

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The 1960s Roberto Clemente won 12 consecutive Gold Gloves and threw more runners out from right field than anybody in history.

No, you weren’t tripping — those lasers were real. A solid decade (848-755) at Forbes Field where opposing teams couldn’t get anything past the team’s second-best player of the decade, Bill Mazeroski. Who, as we all know, started the turbulent ’60s off with the biggest clutch hit of all time.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you really have to be the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dear Hard Worker: Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness. Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation. Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun and pleasure — or else! No excuses will be accepted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If extraterrestrial beings land their spaceship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras. Right now, at least, you’re nobler than the rest of us, and more sparkly, too. You’re dealing smartly with your personal share of the world’s suffering, and your day-today decisions are based more on love than fear.

You’re not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than

everyone else to laugh at the craziness that surrounds us. And even if aliens don’t appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring? I hope not. if you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the four years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece? Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric-art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker. Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion — as long as it’s not in service to a transitory

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desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical.

So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. 1. A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born.

2. An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. 3. The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian novelist James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.” My challenge to you, Aquarius — in accordance with the astrological omens — is to prove Joyce wrong.

Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

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Years after he had begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. “I am learning to see,” he wrote. “I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.” Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won’t happen like magic. You can’t just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive — if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that’s flowing toward you — you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you feeling as daring about romance as I suspect? If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-for-word or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your openhearted explorer. Want to be mine? We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solidgold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You still have a wound that never formed a proper scar. (We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention.

Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction?

The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle. All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire on your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem “The Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary. As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings.

I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

Make a prediction about where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing on Jan. 1, 2020. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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I’m a reader in Kansas with two teenage daughters, 16 and 18. My girls recently met a boy where they work and both took an interest in him. The 18-year-old was devastated that he was more interested in her younger sister. I spoke to the 16-year-old about it, which is when I found out this boy is going to be a sophomore in college. The fact that he’s interested in a 16-year-old is a red flag. I asked the 16-year-old to keep her distance. She agreed, but I saw a shirtless photo he sent her. I don’t know what other photos he’s sent and I don’t know what she’s sent him, but I immediately removed all photo apps from her phone. The girls have had public fights about this boy. They’ve made peace with each other, but now my 18-year-old wants to date him. I can’t control the actions of an 18-year-old but (1) it seem likely this guy is a complete creep and (2) isn’t her relationship with her sister more important?

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1. I’m not ready to pronounce this guy a creep — at least not for the age difference. It sounds like he met your daughters someplace they’re all working this summer, which is a lot less icky than some college boy creeping on high-school girls via Instagram. And you say this boy is going to be a sophomore in college, KANSAS, but don’t give his age. There are 30-year-old

age your daughters’ love lives. Parental disapproval has a way of driving teenagers into each other’s arms, KANSAS. If you don’t want your daughters having a fuck-you-mom threesome with this guy before the summer is over, you’ll let them work through this on their own — but go ahead and stitch “boys come and go but sisters are forever” on a couple of pillows and put them on their beds.

My college-student daughter lives in an apartment over our garage. She has a boyfriend, age 19. After many loud “discussions,” he is allowed to sleep over. My daughter got an IUD without informing me, so I assume they’re sexually active.

Two days ago, I crept into the apartment to check on something and found bondage items on her bed — a set of formidable leather restraints. I’m worried she’s being pressured to do things someone her age wouldn’t be interested in. We agreed not to go into the apartment when she wasn’t present, and I know there will be a loud “discussion” if I tell her what I saw.

The mental image of my bound daughter distresses me, and I worry for her safety.

What do I do?

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You stay the fuck out of your offspring’s apartment when she isn’t home, OHIO, per your agreement. And you keep these things in mind: Just as there are young queer people out there,

“LEATHER RESTRAINTS DISTRIBUTE PRESSURE EVENLY, MAKING THEM LESS LIKELY TO PINCH A NERVE OR CUT OFF CIRCULATION.” college sophomores, of course, but if this boy went straight to college from high school, that would make him 19 years old. If your 16-yearold is closing in on 17, this guy could be “older” by two years and change. While I can understand why you wouldn’t want your younger daughter dating college boys, I think you are overreacting to the age difference — and it’s a moot issue, as he’s no longer pursuing your younger daughter.

1.5. You know what is creepy? Pursuing a pair of sisters. The possibility of conflict was so predictable, it was likely a motivating factor for him. Getting off on drama and public fights isn’t a crime, but it is a red flag.

2. You ordered your 16-year-old to stop seeing this guy and deleted apps from her phone. (It’s cute you think your daughter isn’t tech-savvy enough to re-download and hide all the same apps.) You should warn your daughter about the risks of sexting — it may be legal for her to have sex (16 is the age of consent in Kansas), but she could face child-porn charges for sending photos, and this boy could wind up on a sex-offender registry for receiving them. (Laws meant to protect young people from being exploited are routinely used to punish them.) But don’t attempt to microman-

there are young kinky people out there too.

Your adult daughter might be one of them. For all you know, the restraints were her idea and her boyfriend is the one getting tied up. And a scary-to-mom set of restraints is a lot safer than nylon clothesline or cheap handcuffs. Leather restraints distribute pressure evenly, making them less likely to pinch a nerve or cut off circulation. Like your adult daughter getting herself an IUD, formidable bondage gear is a good sign that she takes her safety seriously. (And how did you find out about the IUD she got without informing you? Did you wander up her vagina one day to “check on something”?)

Finally, OHIO, it’s perfectly understandable that you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter tied to the bed in her apartment (her apartment, not the apartment), but I’m guessing you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter with a dick in her mouth, either. Just as you don’t torment yourself by picturing the blowjobs your adult daughter is almost certainly giving her boyfriend, don’t torment yourself by picturing whatever else she might be doing with, to, or for him.

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