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ANIMAL ISSUE

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OR THIS YEAR’S ANIMAL ISSUE, we decided to focus on working animals who have jobs just like us. Since humans first domesticated animals, we’ve been using them for various kinds of labor, physical and otherwise. As human jobs and industries have evolved, so too have those for our furry, winged, and/or hoofed employees. Now, in addition to animals working in law enforcement or therapy, there are also animal influencers and landscapers.

In this issue, you’ll read about therapy dogs and horses that provide emotional and physical comfort, a highly decorated show dog, an armadillo that educates visitors at the National Aviary, goats that remove weeds and poison ivy, a Chihuahua influencer on Instagram, and more.

For each animal, you’ll find its job title, as well as its salary, because all living beings deserve to be paid for their work. Unfortunately, there is no universal animal currency (that we know of), so animals get paid in different forms: unlimited treats, a cushy home, and human affection. Unless, of course, you’re a show dog, in which case the salary is “the satisfaction of a job well done.”

Regardless of their job, salary, or breed, these animals have one thing in common that many humans can never obtain: They are extremely cute.

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NAME: Brooke ANIMAL TYPE: Golden Retriever JOB TITLE: Animal Therapist SALARY: Lovies, meeting new people, making new friends

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T LEAST FIVE STUDENTS are petting Brooke at

once as she visits Point Park University during midterm exams. The Golden Retriever is a part of Campus Canines, a group of about 60 volunteer dogs (and their humans) who have been helping to alleviate the stress of college life at local campuses for the past 18 years.

The dogs also visit Duquesne University twice a month and the University of Pittsburgh every Tuesday.

Marsha Robbins, founder of Campus Canines, says there is usually a line of people at Pitt every week, waiting their turn to start petting the dogs that come to each session.

“Scientific research shows the benefits to both the humans and the dogs,” says Robbins, who adds that the visits help lower blood pressure and alleviate anxiety, which explains why Point Park recruited the dogs during midterms.

Yes, “chemistry between people and dogs is real,” cites a 2015 study Oxytocin-gaze Positive Loop and the Coevolution of Human-dog Bonds. Oxytocin, deemed the “love hormone,” is released by both dogs and

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Brooke visits Point Park University students during midterm exams.

humans when they’re gazing into each other’s eyes.

Robbins says the dogs enjoy the visits just as much as the students, which could be, in part, because these animals know what it’s like going to school, too. To get the esteemed title of a “therapy dog,” every animal has to go through obedience classes and training at Humane Animal Rescue before getting their titles, and not all of the dogs who enter the program are up to the challenge.

But you don’t actually have to be a student to pet one of the dogs — the weekly sessions at Pitt are open to the public, so if you’re stressed out at work or home, you can come release some oxytocin, too.

Robbins says the dogs get paid in “lovies,” which is what their humans get paid too. All of the animals and their humans in the program, including Robbins, are volunteers. She said everyone continues to participate because they love dogs and love making people happy. ur “We like doing our part to make the world a little better,” she says.

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NAME: Di Dippy ANIMAL TYPE: Dinosaur (Diplodocus carnegii) JOB TITLE: Beloved Museum Mascot SALARY: Paid in Twitter followers and scarves

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IPPY THE DINOSAUR was born about 150 million years ago, but age is just a number

for this world-famous dino hanging out at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland.

According to museum marketing assistant Samantha Bastress, Dippy’s fossilized bones were discovered in Sheep Creek, Wyo., on July 4, 1899. He’s been on display at the Carnegie Museum since April 1907. Andrew Carnegie financed the acquisition of the skeleton in the late 1890s, and Dippy is formally named Diplodocus carnegii.

“He’s become ‘the dinosaur,’ or so to speak, which not a lot of people know about. He has four different replicas throughout Europe,” says Bastress. “He’s really popular with school kids over there.”

Even though he’s got replicas — or “brothers,” as Bastress called them — all around the world, the Dippy you’ll see at the museum in Oakland is almost entirely authentic; the few parts of him made of replica bones were made to fill in a few gaps in the skeleton.

The statue outside of the Carnegie Library in Oakland, just a few steps away from the museum, was made in Dippy’s likeness in 1999 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his discovery. The statue is known for its fashionable outfits, including a top hat and bow-tie combo to celebrate the Royal Wedding in England, an 18-foot-long scarf knitted by a fan, and Harry Potter merchandise declaring his proud status as a Hufflepuff.

If you can’t make it out to the museum to see Dippy himself, fear not: He has a Twitter account, @Dippy_the_Dino, which has just surpassed 3,500 followers.

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NAME(S): Willy & Wonka ANIMAL TYPE: Southern Three-banded Armadillo JOB TITLES: Animal Ambassadors SALARY: Willy and Wonka live in cushy armadillo penthouses and enjoy their favorite foods (worms and mushy fruit)!

N ADDITION TO peering in on penguins, owls, and other birds, visitors to the National Aviary can get up-close and personal with a variety of wingless creatures during Animal Encounters.

Willy and Wonka, two armadillos, meet with adults and children alike. The small mammal is distinct for its hard outer shell, which is more flexible than it looks.

“Visitors are always interested in learning about an armadillo’s primary method of defense: rolling up into a ball,” says Molly Toth, spokesperson for the Aviary. But visitors don’t usually get to see this mechanism, which Toth says is a good thing, because curling into a ball would mean they don’t feel safe and comfortable.

While visitors can’t hold the ‘dillos, they might get to lightly touch its armor. The little critters climb onto a bowl to show that they’re comfortable enough for a little touch. They can also sense people nearby with their “tiny, wiry hairs,” which gauge how close they are to objects around them.

Like other armadillos of their breed, Willy and Wonka are insectivores, meaning they consume a diet of ants, termites, and worms. “Much like the smell of coffee rouses people from slumber, Willy and Wonka enjoy a good worm to start their days,” says Toth.

When not engaging in encounters, Willy and Wonka like to hang out alone, explore, forage, and dig.

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NAME: Oja TYPE OF ANIMAL: Rescue Cat JOB TITLE: Part-Time Pet (“all the love, none of the work”) SALARY: Premium kennel-free accommodations, unlimited human-provided affection, and free healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)

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HE RESCUE CATS at Colony Cafe

sure do have it tough. Their job requirements entail looking cute, sleeping whenever they want, and meeting new people who are eager to play with them every day.

Since opening in 2017, the cat cafe (located at 1125 Penn Ave. in the Strip District) has adopted out over 300 cats through its rescue partner Animal Friends, averaging about two adoptions every week. Oja is a three-year-old feline who currently shares space with 11 other cats on the second floor loft where they have free range to roam 24/7 until they’re adopted.

But the cats provide a service to those who can’t adopt, too. They’re great part-time companions for anyone whose lease doesn’t allow pets or for those with allergic family members.

According to owner Sue Hendrickson, most of the cats are older rescues who often get overlooked at the shelter.

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Humans can reserve a one-hour visit for $8 per person, with discounts on Thursdays for college students with a valid school ID. And if you’re tired of the cubicle life, three-hour blocks are available for “co-working with cats” for $20.

“There is a noticeable difference in many guests’ stress levels from the beginning to the end of their Cat Loft visit,” says Hendrickson. “It means a lot that we can offer a brief respite after a rough day.”

That applies to the owner, too.

Hendrickson says she wishes she could take all of the cats home every day. “I rationalize this by pretending they’re m, ‘Mama loves lov you’ all mine, telling them, eaves.” after everyone leaves.”

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NAME: Jack Daniels aka Daniel ANIMAL TYPE: Golden Retriever (dog) JOB TITLE: Show dog SALARY: The satisfaction of a job well done

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T SIX YEARS OLD, Jack Daniels (“Daniel”) has accomplished more than some adult humans. He was named the best Golden Retriever nationwide in both 2018 and 2019, has won 19 Best in Shows, 26 victories at specialty shows (ones featuring only his breed), and most recently, won his group at the Westminster Dog Show in February. This is all in addition to being a new father (his daughter, Stevie Nix Gold Dust Girl, is now three).

With a trophy case as stacked as his, Daniel has settled comfortably into semiretirement, says his owner/breeder Tammy Tomlinson of Hillock Golden Retrievers in Ligonier, adding that he’ll go out for the big shows and maybe go back to Westminster “if we like the judges.”

When the day finally comes to hang up his collar, Daniel will return to his first love (and breed specialty) of hunting, aka retrieving. In addition to his Hollywood looks and enviable smarts, Daniel is a consummate hunting buddy and overall just a terrific companion.

“His personality is ... anything you ask him to do, he will do for you,” says Tomlinson.

“Whatever it is, he’s game for anything.”

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Left to right: Reggie, Munch, Max, Cannonball, Lord Stanley, and Spirit outside the Jefferson Memorial in DC

NAME: Spirit ANIMAL TYPE: Shire breed JOB TITLE: Police Patrol Horse SALARY: Apples, carrots, starlight mints 10

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PIRIT IS ONE OF THE eight horses used by the City of Pittsburgh for patrolling and public relations. He was donated to the police by Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt — all Pittsburgh Police horses are acquired through donation — after being found (alongside a cow) abandoned on an elderly couple’s farm by a vet tech in upstate New York. Both animals were rescued and listed for adoption on a website, and Tuitt purchased the horse for donation. (Maurkice Pouncey and Ramon Foster of the Steelers have also donated horses.)

Spirit is a Shire breed, which is a British breed of draft horse (working horse) and the largest in the world.

They are often mistaken for Clydesdales because of the feathering around their hooves. The city’s police horses weigh between 1,400 and 2,000 pounds (one ton) and are 16 to 18 hands (hand = four inches) tall. Sampson, the largest horse ever recorded, was a Shire (3,360 pounds, 21.25 hands) from Bedfordshire, England.

Each horse goes through sensory training before they can be accepted by the police, as everyday details in cities, such as painted white lines, can startle a horse. One of the tests is to see how they react when an inflatable ball is thrown past them, which determines whether they are easily rattled.

If you see a police horse on the street, feel free to go up and ask the officer questions. Pittsburgh Police Commander Ed Trapp says that the officers love to talk about the horses. It wouldn’t hurt if you carried around some starlight mints, as the horses love them and will be able to find them if you have them in your pocket. Watch out for Lord Stanley, though. He has a bit of a slobbering issue, according to Trapp.

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NAME: Punxsutawney Phil ANIMAL TYPE: Groundhog JOB TITLE: Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, Weather-Prophet Extraordinary SALARY: Looks at shadows

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HE MOST FAMOUS groundhog in Pennsylvania has a pretty daunting job. It’s not easy predicting the weather, but according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club’s website, Phil is right 100% of the time.

Punxsutawney Phil is “protected and cherished” by the Inner Circle, a group of “local dignitaries responsible for carrying on the tradition of Groundhog Day every year.” Currently, there are about 15 human members of the Inner Circle, plus one beloved woodchuck.

Phil’s favorite drink is the “elixir of life,” a magical potion that extends the groundhog’s life by seven years — this, of course, is how Phil has been making his weather predictions every year since 1886.

Phil is responsible for upholding

age-old traditions that date back to the early Christian holiday of Candlemas, which takes place on Feb. 2.

Christians would take their candles to church to have them blessed. This, they thought, would bring blessings into their house for the remainder of the winter.

Animals were introduced into the holiday celebrations in Germany, where lore dictated that if a “hedgehog saw his shadow on Candlemas Day there would be a ‘Second Winter’ or six more weeks of bad weather.” As a result of German immigration into the U.S., the first Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney was recorded in newspapers in 1886 — and Punxsutawney Phil has been hard at work ever since.

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EXTINCT JOB: CANARY IN A COAL MINE Some jobs require personal sacrifice, something working canaries know all too well. The small yellow bird, which is named for its homeland of the Canary Islands off the coast of northwest Africa, was used for nearly 100 years to warn mine workers of dangerous carbon monoxide leaks.

Until 1986, canaries were still used in mines as a warning sign. Physiologist John Scott Haldane, who studied respiratory issues and often experimented on himself, discovered that carbon monoxide could be deadly and determined it was a common cause of death for many miners. He suggested employing a mouse or small bird, who metabolize toxic gases faster than humans. Canaries were preferred because they showed signs of distress more easily (and also took in more oxygen).

When the last coal mine canaries were phased out of England in the late ’80s, BBC wrote that miners had become fond of their winged colleagues. “They are so ingrained in the culture miners report whistling to the birds and coaxing them as they worked, treating them as pets,” wrote BBC. Lucky for canaries, their jobs were eventually replaced by automation, with miners using a more accurate digital reader. But the phrase “canary in a coal mine” continues to be used as a metaphor for a warning of danger to come. Its usage will likely increase as environmental disasters grow. If one bird in a mine can be a warning sign for a small amount of workers, then a 2019 report about the disappearance of 3 billion birds in North America since 1970 should be a huge shrieking canary.

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NAME: Rocky ANIMAL TYPE: Rocky Mountain gelding JOB TITLE: Therapy horse SALARY: Hugs, hay, Nutrena Senior horse feed, occasional carrot, apple, or peppermint meltaway

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IPPOTHERAPY, THE PRACTICE of using horse-

back riding as a treatment for a variety of conditions, has existed for over half a century.

But it takes a special kind of temperament to be a therapy horse, as they work with people of all ages and abilities.

Rocky is one such horse. The 19-year-old Rocky Mountain gelding has been working with patients at the STAT Inc./Ligonier Therapeutic Center in Ligonier since 2015.

“Rocky is our best all-around horse,” says STAT Inc. founder Catherine Markosky, who also serves as the center’s general manager. She became interested in hippotherapy as a way to treat her son, Mason, who was born with a variety of serious medical conditions, including cerebral palsy.

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She adds that Rocky gets along with his herd mates, is “calm, cool, and collected” with small, fragile children, and can connect on an “intimate level with patients who come in for psychotherapy treatment.” She attributes his gentle nature to the positively reinforced training he received by a Native American group in upstate New York.

Rocky is so chill he was even able to keep his head during a scary situation last summer when he became stuck in a four-foot-deep mud hole while a young girl was riding him. Markosky says he remained calm as she dug him out.

“We are now bonded for life,” she gushes. “He is a fantastic therapy horse who loves children and hugs from everyone who enters the barn.”

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Lu-Seal

NAME: Lu-Seal ANIMAL TYPE: Chihuahua/terrier mix JOB TITLE: Instagram pup-fluencer/pet obesity awareness advocate SALARY: A variety of treats. “Anything edible is really her jam.

She’s not picky.”

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HEN JULIA MORLEY visited the Humane Animal Rescue in 2016, she had every intention of adopting a larger dog. Then she found Lu-Seal, a Chihuahua mix.

“She was so cute that I couldn’t resist her, so I took her home that day,” says Morley.

But while Lu-Seal was tiny, she had a big problem: She was severely overweight, which was taking a toll on her health. Morley says she could barely walk and had to go on a variety of medications.

After years of proper dieting and exercise, Lu-Seal — now estimated to be about 12 years old — went from 16 to 8 pounds, and has become a pet-obesity awareness advocate through her popular Instagram account (@lusealdog).

“At first the goal was to document her journey because I wanted to post weekly photos of her weight,” says Morley. But as Lu-Seal’s audience grew (she now

has over 52,000 followers), Morley saw an opportunity to promote healthy pet habits and to help overweight dogs get adopted.

She adds that Lu-Seal has really taken to the role, thanks in part to the treats Morley has offered whenever she wants to snap a photo.

“She associates the camera with treats,” says Morley. “I can’t even sneak up on her to take photos because she gets so excited when she sees the camera that she will stop whatever she’s doing and just pose.”

She hopes Lu-Seal inspires potential adopters to give overweight rescue dogs a chance and makes people more aware of how weight can affect an animal’s quality of life.

“We love what we do and we’re glad we can make a difference,” says Morley.

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NAME: Cypress ANIMAL TYPE: Goat JOB TITLE: Goatscaper SALARY: A full belly and a healthy diet

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NLIKE HUMANS, goats aren’t allergic to poison ivy.

In fact, they like to eat it. This, in addition to their constant appetite, makes goats a more environmentally friendly alternative to noisy, equipment-heavy landscapers.

“It’s great because it’s what goats naturally do,” says Rainy Laux, owner of Have U Herd Goatscaping in Collier.

“They start eating as soon as they wake up.”

Laux has 34 goats that are available to hire for landscaping (and goat yoga) needs in Pittsburgh. Some of her more prominent clients have included the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Botanic Garden.

Depending on the size of the gig, an average of 6-12 goats are let loose on a property to clear out bothersome plants, and at the head of the herd is Cypress, a female goat.

“Goats have a matriarchal society,” says Laux. “So, they follow a queen.”

Whatever Cypress is eating, all the others want to graze upon too.

“She’s an awesome leader because she’s firm,” says Laux, “but doesn’t walk around abusing everyone, like slamming into them. She’s already established her hierocracy.”

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NAME: River ANIMAL TYPE: Golden retriever JOB TITLE: Semi-retired Pittsburgh Canine Ambassador SALARY: Miscellaneous lunch scraps and unlimited treats

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OR SOME TIME, River the golden retriever was roaming the halls of Pittsburgh’s City-County Building, snatching lunches from government workers naive enough to leave food unattended. He was Pittsburgh’s Canine Ambassador, but now he is semi-retired and living with former mayoral spokesperson Katie O’Malley.

“Every day is a Saturday,” says O’Malley of River’s post-ambassador life. “He put politics aside, and he is just connecting with nature.”

While most of his time was spent indoors and at events, River is now reconnecting with the outdoors, getting as many zoomies as he can at Pittsburgh dog parks. But it’s not just a life of leisure for River.

O’Malley says he still gets recognized by people and participates in some city events.

River is currently in the process of re-applying for his official service dog status, and O’Malley says the goal is to have him do formal animal therapy. O’Malley adds that it’s nice to see River’s legacy live on as well, in dogs like Zane, the Pittsburgh Police’s new Canine Ambassador. And fret not, River isn’t gone from Grant Street forever.

“He still visits City Hall, and the mayor still says he can return for a visit anytime,” says O’Malley.

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River at Point State Park

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FINAL WEEKEND

.FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 5

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

In 1637, renowned English poet John Milton wrote “Lycidas,” a poetic elegy in honor of a friend. Reading it today, almost four centuries later, we are struck by how archaic and obscure the language is, with phrases like “O ye laurels” and “Ah! who hath reft my dearest pledge?” A famous 20th-century Piscean poet named Robert Lowell was well-educated enough to understand Milton’s meaning, but also decided to “translate” all of “Lycidas” into plainspoken modern English. I’d love to see you engage in comparable activities during the coming weeks, Pisces: updating the past; reshaping and reinterpreting your old stories; revising the ways you talk about and think about key memories.

Luckily, the turning point you have arrived at doesn’t present you with 20 different possible futures. You don’t have to choose from among a welter of paths headed in disparate directions.

There are only a few viable options to study and think about.

Still, I’d like to see you further narrow down the alternatives.

I hope you’ll use the process of elimination as you get even clearer about what you don’t want. Let your fine mind gather a wealth of detailed information and objective evidence, then hand over the final decision to your intuition.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Progress rarely unfolds in a glorious, ever-rising upward arc. The more usual pattern is gradual and uneven. Each modest ascent is followed by a phase of retrenchment and integration. In the best-case scenario, the most recent ascent reaches a higher level than the previous ascent. By my estimate, you’re in one of those periods of retrenchment and integration right now, Aries. It’s understandable if you feel a bit unenthusiastic about it. But I’m here to tell you that it’s crucial to your next ascent. Let it work its subtle magic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are most likely to be in sweet alignment with cosmic rhythms if you regard the next three weeks as a time of graduation. I encourage you to take inventory of the lessons you’ve been studying since your birthday in 2019. How have you done in your efforts to foster interesting, synergistic intimacy? Are you more passionately devoted to what you love? Have you responded brightly as life has pushed you to upgrade the vigor and rigor of your commitments? Just for fun, give yourself a grade for those “classes,” as well as any others that have been important. Then — again, just for fun — draw up a homemade diploma for yourself to commemorate and honor your work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you ready to seize a more proactive role in shaping what happens in the environments you share with cohorts? Do you have any interest in exerting leadership to enhance the wellbeing of the groups that are important to you? Now is an excellent time to take brave actions that will raise the spirits and boost the fortunes of allies whose fates are intermingled with yours. I hope you’ll be a role model for the art of pleasing oneself while being of service others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was an influential intellectual and literary critic. One of his heroes was another influential intellectual and literary critic, Edmund Wilson. On one occasion, Trilling was using a urinal in a men’s room at the New School for Social Research in New York. Imagine how excited he was when Wilson, whom he had never met, arrived to use the urinal right next to his. Now imagine his further buoyancy when Wilson not only spoke to Trilling but also expressed familiarity with his work. I foresee similar luck or serendipity coming your way soon: seemingly unlikely encounters with interesting resources and happy accidents that inspire your self-confidence.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Poet Conee Berdera delivered a poignant message to her most valuable possession: the flesh and blood vehicle that serves as sanctuary for all her yearnings, powers, and actions. “My beloved body,” she writes, “I am so sorry I did not love you enough.” Near the poem’s end she vows “to love and cherish” her body. I wish she would have been even more forceful, saying something like, “From now on, dear body, I promise to always know exactly what you need and give it to you with all my ingenuity and panache.” Would you consider making such a vow to your own most valuable possession, Leo? It’s a favorable time to do so.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Certain artists are beyond my full comprehension. Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand their creations or I’m not deep enough to fathom why their work is considered important. For example, I don’t enjoy or admire the operas of Wagner or the art of Mark Rothko. Same with the music of Drake or the novels of Raymond Carter or the art of Andy Warhol. The problem is with me, not them. I don’t try to claim they’re overrated or mediocre.

Now I urge you to do what I just did, Libra, only on a broader scale. Acknowledge that some of the people and ideas and art and situations you can’t appreciate are not necessarily faulty or wrong or inadequate. Their value may simply be impossible for you to recognize. It’s a perfect time for you to undertake this humble work. I suspect it will be liberating.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio-born Ralph Bakshi has made animated films and TV shows for over 60 years. His work has been influential. “I’m the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world,” he says. Milder versions of his experience are not uncommon for many Scorpios. People are prone to copying you and borrowing from you and even stealing from you. They don’t always consciously know they’re doing it, and they may not offer you proper appreciation. I’m guessing that something like this phenomenon may be happening for you right now. My advice?

First, be pleased about how much clout you’re wielding.

Second, if anyone is borrowing from you without making the proper acknowledgment, speak up about it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Vainly I sought nourishment in shadows and errors,” wrote author Jorge Luis Borges. We have all been guilty of miscalculations like those. Each of us has sometimes put our faith in people and ideas that weren’t worthy of us. None of us is so wise that we always choose influences that provide the healthiest fuel. That’s the bad news, Sagittarius. The good news is that you now have excellent instincts about where to find the best long-term nourishment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” I believe this same assertion is true about people of all genders. I also suspect that right now you are in a particularly pivotal position to be a candid revealer: to enhance and refine everyone’s truth-telling by being a paragon of honesty yourself. To achieve the best results, I encourage you to think creatively about what exactly it means for you to tell the deep and entire truth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Through some odd Aquarian-like quirk, astrologers have come to harbor the apparently paradoxical view that your sign is ruled by both Saturn and Uranus. At first glance, that’s crazy!

Saturn is the planet of discipline, responsibility, conservatism, diligence, and order. Uranus is the planet of awakening, surprise, rebellion, barrier-breaking, and liberation. How can you Aquarians incorporate the energies of both? Well, that would require a lengthy explanation beyond the scope of this horoscope. But I will tell you this: During the rest of the year 2020, you will have more potential to successfully coordinate your inner Saturn and your inner Uranus than you have had in years. Homework: Meditate on how you will do just that.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes.

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HAT KIND OF CHEESE do you like?”

Anaïs Saint-André Loughran asks this question as she leans over the cheese case at Chantal’s Cheese Shop, a specialty store she owns with her husband Chris, surveying the diverse range of wheels and bricks in front of her. My answer, whether it’s gouda, or mozzarella, or Kraft Singles, will tell her exactly what she needs to know.

Loughran fell in love with cheese in 2012, almost six years before she and her husband opened the Penn Avenue shop. It was the mix of love for cheese, love for Pittsburgh, and dissatisfaction with other city cheese stores that pushed the duo to see the shop as a reality and finally open in 2018.

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Chantal’s offerings also include cheese-adjacent products, from jams and olive oils to cured meats and mini toasts.

Classes have become a routine part of their operations, too, covering fondue, pairings, and the age-old question of how to build an — actually — good cheese board.

The cheese case is fittingly international — “What is cheese, really, if not a bridge?” the Loughrans ask on the shop’s website. Loughran laughs that she tries to feature the “weird stuff.” The

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Chantal’s Cheese Shop in Bloomfield

shop houses soft cheeses of France, hard parmesans of Italy, along with selections from Ireland, Spain, and nearby states.

There’s a category devoted entirely to blue cheese.

Chantal’s cheesemongers are armed with an impressive catalogue of information. Ask for a cheese to pair with white wine, coffee, or even chocolate cake, and they’ll have four kinds ready

FAVORITE FEATURES: Local foods Look for local favorites, like Goat Rodeo Dairy, on Chantal’s shelves.

Bit Bin Look for small pieces of great cheese in Chantal’s fridge.

Wholesale Craving cheese? Find Chantal’s out of their shop. Look for snack boxes at farmer’s markets and coffee shops.

to suggest based on your preferences (and often, a story to go with it).

Apart from their charcuterie options, Chantal’s offers a grilled cheese lunch service that changes daily. While I was there, the special was a mellow spinach and chili oil with mozzarella. A housemade vegan cheese with harissa, a beautifully smoky-salty mix of gruyere, prosciutto, and mustard, and the classic, basic cheese, is available every day.

Chantal’s plain grilled cheese came as close to perfect as the sandwich can.

I hesitate to even call it “plain,” because even though it was just cheese and bread, the sandwich was more than the sum of its parts. It was a clear example of the fact that better ingredients made for better food.

First, the bread: The shop uses crusty baguettes from La Gourmandine in place of thickly sliced bread. The baguette’s crunchy outside was a nice match for the smooth, melted cheese. It was just

thick enough to keep the melted cheese — mostly — in the actual sandwich, the soft, fluffy inside pressed into the crust to make a clumsy wall.

A blend of cheddar, Havarti, and gouda (in total, one-third of a pound of cheese, according to Chris), made up the guts of their cheese sammie. There was sharpness echoed in the cheddar and gouda, followed by butteriness from Havarti. It was the meltiest grilled cheese I had ever encountered; without the sandwich’s wrappings, hot cheese would have dripped all over me.

To me, there is one thing that sets Chantal’s apart from Pittsburgh’s other cheese shops, besides their grilled cheese. The Loughrans — or any of the shop’s other cheesemongers — will gladly take an hour out of their day to walk you through their cheese case. Chantal’s is not just pumping out cheese; they’re making good cheese more approachable.

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The brine from olives cuts the metallic taste of mass-canned beers and adds flavor to lagers that are otherwise bland and watery. Plus, it’s nice to have a snack at the end of your drink.

Beertinis go against everything craft-beer stands for. And seeing as Pittsburgh is still experiencing a growth of homegrown breweries, it’s worth pointing out that this “cocktail” is not meant to cancel out the great brews being made locally. In fact, I wouldn’t even recommend attempting to add olives to a pilsner from East End Brewing Company or a Kolsch from Grist House Craft Brewery. Though they qualify as “light,” they do just fine without garnishes. It’s the cut-rate beer where the olives can make a big difference.

Based on Pittsburgh’s affinity for easy-drinking, it seems like the Dirty PBR would fit right in here. But in the time I’ve lived in Pittsburgh, I’ve only been brave enough to ask for it a few times. More often than not, I’m greeted with a confused — and on the rare occasion, equally dirty — look, though every now and then, I get a bartender to sacrifice a few martini olives for an order. (Note: the olives have to be green.

Kalamatas don’t do the trick.)

If olives aren’t your thing, you can substitute with pickles; in the same way that pickle juice takes the burn off of whiskey in a pickleback shot, the brine of actual pickles works well with lighter, Czech-style beers. Both are fermented, and when put together, the similar flavors play together nicely.

BEERTINIS GO AGAINST EVERYTHING CRAFT-BEER STANDS FOR. Another member of the Midwestern ‘tini family is the Red Beer, a light beer topped with tomato juice and salt.

Though I can’t speak to this combination — tomato juice is low on my list of drinkable things — it’s nearly as revered as the classic beertini. The drink is not quite as flavorful as a michelada, but is built on a similar concept as the Dirty PBR. Tomato juice adds a memorable zest to a not-so-memorable beer.

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Artist Jen Vaughn taking sound vibration recordings of mushrooms in eastern Oregon, 2019.

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N TRYING TO GUESS the largest organism on Earth, the answers would

probably range anywhere from the nearly 100-foot long blue whale to the California coastal redwood tree, which can grow to over 360 feet tall. But the correct response is neither animal not plant — it’s a mushroom, the honey fungus, to be exact. Scientifically known as Armillaria ostoyae or Armillaria solidipes, it covers a 3.5-mile area, most of it underground, in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest. It’s also estimated to be more than 8,000 years old.

Now Oregon-based artist Jen Vaughn and local artist Erin Mallea have produced work inspired by the honey fungus with Cumulative Skies, Deep Soils, running March 7-April 5 at Phosphor Project Space. The exhibition centers on an immersive audio and sculptural installation that combines lighting design with forest field recordings, mushroom vibrations, Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions, and NASA sound recordings. It will also feature a collaborative artist book visitors can read while sitting on “small, sculptural blocks constructed of mycelium, meteorites, cement, found debris, and plastic.”

Vaughn and Mallea spoke to the Pittsburgh City Paper about mushrooms, working long distance, and climate change.

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HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT ARMILLARIA OSTOYAE? WHY DOES IT INTEREST YOU? JEN: I first heard about Armillaria ostoyae, the honey fungus, a few years ago when I was doing research for my master’s thesis in fine art. I had been cultivating other types of mushrooms in discarded industrial materials and presenting them as sculptures that were simultaneously growing and decaying. When I found out that one of the largest organisms in the world was a fungus and located only a few hours away, I was thrilled.

Mushrooms are fascinating organisms.

Although we commonly associate them

with plants they actually have strong genetic ties with animals. They breathe like animals — inhaling oxygen and exhaling CO2, whereas plants, of course, do the opposite, breathing in CO2 and exhaling oxygen. Beyond these simple comparisons, there is a lot of research happening on the bioremedial qualities of fungi and their abilities to absorb toxins, pollution, waste, and radiation.

The age and size of the [honey fungus] is astounding and mysterious. My exploration to find it proved daunting — most of the fungus is hidden underground, only revealing its profile in the large stands of dead firs trees that it has killed.

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Image of fungus in Allegheny National Forest sent out via SSTV early 2020.

WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE WORK WAS CREATED “FROM A DISTANCE,” DOES THAT IMPLY THE LONG-DISTANCE NATURE OF YOUR COLLABORATION? OR IS IT MORE IN-DEPTH THAN THAT? J: I think it’s both. We certainly collaborated from opposite coasts, but it is also about the idea of making contact — across time, space, and species. It’s a purposeful slowing down and fighting against the ease of distance, the losing of touch.

ERIN: Another element of distance in the project is related to the SSTV transmissions we sent leading up to the exhibition.

SSTV is a mode of image communication that utilizes shortwave radio frequencies to transmit still images. It is slow and specific, taking anywhere from eight seconds to five minutes for each image to be built from modulating audio frequencies. The possibility of these images being heard, and therefore seen, lies with those who are actively listening, diligently open to receiving unknown, distant communication.

IT SEEMS LIKE THIS SHOW COMBINES TWO AREAS — SCIENCE AND ART — THAT ARE USUALLY SEEN AS UNCONNECTED. WHAT’S THE VALUE OF USING ART TO DELVE INTO SOMETHING LIKE BIOLOGY? J: I hesitate to label this particular work as scientific, although it is certainly inspired by and launched from our fascination with biology, ecology, and

space. Our approach is more speculative, for instance, the measurements and audio recordings of the [honey fungus] isn’t scientifically accurate. We aren’t attempting to generate scientific knowledge through our mushroom vibration recordings. Rather, we want to use them as means of generating sensory experience. It’s about another kind of knowledge, one both imagined and felt.

This space of reimagining and valuing the sensory experience often falls outside the scope of scientific inquiry, for understandable reasons. For me, art opens up that possibility to have both rational knowledge and the experiential come together in a way that generates authentic change and empathy.

E: Jen and I were both influenced by Rachel Carson’s A Sense of Wonder.

Carson emphasizes the importance of a connection to the natural world that is beyond scientific and analytical: one that is also personal, emotional, and maintains an ongoing ethic of care, closeness, and awe. Many advances in science and technology have increased the nature-culture divide and alienated individuals and communities from the larger social and ecological systems we exist within. This alienation not only propels climate change but perpetuates environmental, economic, and racial injustice. For us, this work comes from our own fascination with nature and a desire for intimacy with one another and the world around us.

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Lots of us dream of starting bands, but finding like-minded musicians to play with can be tough. That’s what happened to Ben Orrvick, the Pittsburghvia-Oil City native behind the moniker Kahone Concept.

He says that as a kid he wanted to be a guitar player in a band, but he couldn’t find anyone to play with. So when he got to high school and still hadn’t joined a band, he took matters into his own hands, teaching himself to sing and piece together all the parts of the songs he wanted to make by himself. “One of the benefits is you get to make whatever you STAY UP-TOwant, but the downside is that DATE WITH THIS it’s kind of hard WEEK’S LOCAL to bounce ideas MUSIC NEWS off of yourself,” WITH CP MUSIC Orrvick says.

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The success of the new single might be in part because Kahone Concept’s songs have gotten more personal.

“Attention Addict” is “about being human and accepting that we have emotions,” Orrvick says. “If you feel sad about something, you feel sad. You don’t need people’s justification to feel the way you do.” That’s true, especially when you have the ability to channel your feelings into a super catchy pop song. •

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N NEW YEAR’S DAY, music promotion company Make Sure You Have Fun launched its new online radio platform, MSYH.FM, from Pittsburgh. But the inspiration for the idea came from some 9,000 miles away in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

MSYHF owner Ryan “RB” Brown and his partner, Sarah Kochin, are longtime fans of online radio stations and discovered the popular Malaysian station Dua Radio.

“We fell in love with the structure and how it felt,” says Brown, “And we were like, ‘Well, we have the people for that here in Pittsburgh, let’s try to do something similar.’”

Dua Radio is broken into multiple shows, such as Late Night Drive and Malaya Disco Show, allowing for different DJs, personalities, and styles to each have their own time.

Dua’s goal is to use its shows and listening parties to strengthen the music communities locally in Kuala Lumpur, as well as internationally. MSYH.FM follows suit with shows featuring local DJs like DJ Yamez (Phonk In Da Trunk), pvkvsv (Currents), Formosa (Wave Galactic), and TJ Groover (The Corduroy Boogie), in addition to DJs from outside of the city. Some of the shows are recorded as close as Dover, New Jersey (Tribe and Vibe Radio with KILLGXXD), and as far away as

Belgium (Afroplug Radio with ms mavy).

MSYH.FM plans to release a few shows a week each month, but on Jan. 1, the team dropped nine shows — 11 hours of music — at once. Brown and Kochin drew inspiration from Soulection Radio, a radio show housed on Apple Music Beats 1. Every New Year’s Day, Soulection takes over Beats 1 Radio, and different DJs play two-hour sets for Soulection All Day. It’s a tradition for Brown and Kochin to tune in when they wake up and listen throughout the day.

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Shows on MSYH.FM, like the promotional entity MFYHF, cover a variety of genres, and the format for each ranges from traditional radio to shows with hardly any talking.

The House That Disco Built by Pittsburgh-based DJ Samuel Andres, for example, begins with Andres giving background information on house music, a few facts about himself, and an overview of what to expect on the show before launching into tunes for two hours straight. Curated by Arie Cole, another Pittsburgh-based DJ, is the closest to a traditional radio format.

“He does a good job of setting up what the show is, what it’s going to feature,” says Brown. “He produces, so he plays one song he produced that month, and is good at featuring Pittsburgh music and saying ‘Hey, the song you just heard is this.’”

On the opposite end of that is Flowbot Mela by Kerim The DJ in D.C. It’s described as “a sonic montage. Audio time capsule. Collections of sounds that represent his human experience and Kerim’s own instrument, used to improvise the entire show.” Brown says Flowbot Mela is exactly that. “[It’s] a very creative mix that includes not only Kerim DJing,” he explained.

“But he includes sound bites, comedy, memes — in the first episode he had clips from the president as it concerned the impeachment proceedings.”

In the short time it’s existed, MSYH.

FM has drawn in audiences from across the globe. At the time that Pittsburgh City Paper spoke with Brown, New York, L.A., Islington (UK), and Toronto ranked among the online radio’s top streaming cities after Pittsburgh. After the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Russia, and France rounded out its top streaming countries.

MSYH.FM has different shows for different moods, no matter the location.

“WE COULD NOT OPERATE WITHOUT EVERYONE’S ENERGY AND EXCITEMENT AND INPUT.” “Music for me is about moods,” says Brown. “Getting ready to head out? Put on Curated, The Corduroy Boogie, or FUEGO: Tropical Heat. Wanna chill with something more mellow? There’s Currents, Tribe and Vibe Radio, and Wave Galactic.”

MSYHF launched its first event in November 2017 and is mostly operated

by Brown and Kochin. But MSYH. FM’s team includes Brown, Kochin, Stephanie Tsong (Jellyfish), and Nate Roots.

“We could not operate without everyone’s energy and excitement and input,” says Brown. They are also open to newcomers joining the team, no matter the skillset. Just reach out to Brown.

MSYH.FM is available to stream on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, and Apple Podcasts.

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ESI EDUGYAN ON WASHINGTON BLACK

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OVELS CAN ENTERTAIN, inspire,

and sometimes bring history into focus. Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Vintage) is the rare book that accomplishes all three. It’s the story of a young slave who escapes a sugar plantation in Barbados with an unlikely accomplice, a rousing adventure story that also illuminates the slave trade in the early decades of the 19th century.

“My favorite books entertain and take me places I haven’t been before,” says Edugyan. “But I also come away with a sense of having understood something about history that previously escaped me, or I hadn’t thought about. Even though I didn’t set out to write a novel that would educate people, I am attracted to stories that have some connection to a larger history, stories that have been overlooked or largely forgotten.”

ESI EDUGYAN 7:30 p.m. Mon., March 9. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-35. pittsburghlectures.org

Edugyan appears March 9 in Oakland as a guest of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Ten Evenings series.

Washington Black, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018, earned Edugyan the Giller Prize for excellence in Canadian fiction. The Vancouver resident’s previous novel, Half-Blood Blues, also won the Giller Prize in 2011.

Those novels, alongside her debut, 2004’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, explore issues of identity and race, often through the prism of characters who have ignored perspectives other than their own.

In the latest novel, George Washington Black — known as Wash — takes a miraculous journey, escaping from Barbados with Titch, the brother of the plantation’s slave owner, via a primitive hot-air balloon. They journey to Virginia and the Arctic; Wash eventually makes his way to Nova Scotia, England, and Morocco.

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One of the men he meets on his journey, the biologist GM Goff, gradually warms up to Wash and admits he failed to recognize him and others as having value, a lesson that can be applied to contemporary life.

“I feel what is really lacking now is a sense of wanting to, first of all, listen and hear others’ narratives and perspectives,” Edugyan says. “But also listening with openness and empathy.

Empathy is a word that maybe is tossed around too much, but there it is. There are things to gain from perspectives that are completely different from your own, and values that you hold dear. For me, that is part of what reading has given me, this way of entering somebody else’s thought process down to a very granular level. Realizing how people are thinking and what they’re saying, and then trying to really think about what it’s like to live out somebody’s existence, and how the features of somebody’s life might be different from mine, but still of value and importance.”

Washington Black has been optioned

by Hulu as a limited series, with actor Sterling K. Brown of This is Us set to produce. What the production will encounter is a layered story that invites readers to make their own conclusion about Wash’s fate.

“I’ve had a lot of readers come up to me about the open ending, and how there’s no fixed idea of what (Wash) will do,” Edugyan says. “I even really don’t have a definitive idea where he will go from there. … It’s all in there and it’s filled with possibilities. Maybe it’s something I’ll come back to in 20 years and pick up, or maybe not. I kind of like how open it is.”

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Name: T. Elon Dancy II, Ph.D. Helen S. Faison Endowed Chair Professor of Urban Education and Director, Center for Urban Education in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh cue.pitt.edu

WHAT IS THE CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION? The mantra of the center is “Learn, Share and Transform,” and that speaks to two areas of impact that we hope the center is having: one on research and one in service. The learning part is about the knowledge that we are trying to discover, that has to do with urban education, issues, and concerns.

The sharing piece is about how all of our efforts disseminate what we know to the people and organizations where it can be most useful. Transform is about change, [bringing] about change in education and society, the change that is necessary for minoritized, marginalized, and vulnerable populations, as we think about teaching and learning both formalized and informalized.

YOU ARE RELATIVELY NEW TO THIS POSITION AND PITTSBURGH. I came here from the University of Oklahoma. When this position came available, I realized I would get a chance to center my work in the areas where I am most motivated. The entire scope of my work would get to think with communities, organize with communities about advancement and education ... and think with people on how to organize education in a way that isn’t predicated on Black suffering and Black anti-humanity within these [educational] spaces. How do we shift that and transform that kind of relationship?

That has been very rewarding.

AND REVOLUTIONARY WORK! [LAUGHS] HOW DO FASHION AND STYLE COME INTO THE AREA OF ACADEMICS, INTELLECTUAL SPACES? I think about the quote from RuPaul,

“We are all born naked and the rest is drag.” [Laughs] It is always a style; it is always a drag. You are always saying something about yourself when you wardrobe yourself. It is kind of funny to me how some academics I have encountered in the past think they are making decisions that exempt them, as though you can be too serious for style and that style is something that serious academics don’t think about, but however they style themselves is a style.

SO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR STYLE. I love clothes and I love to express myself through clothes. I have a varied style — today I am wearing a suit but the shirt has a print. What it’s saying, I suppose today, is that I am in charge of a multimillion-dollar budget but I do know how to have fun. [Laughs] I tend to like a sleek, buttoned-up look.

But I also like straight, skinny jeans. As a Masculinity scholar, there are messages that men get, that you shouldn’t be wearing maybe jeans that are tight to the leg or whatever ... but we have to be critical about that. Is that a spiritmurdering message or life-giving? Does it foreclose opportunities for our expression or does it open opportunities?

I love it so I wear that look with boots, Polo boots or Timbs, so I look at the fashion of a Nas or Jay-Z, it influences the way that I look. So when I am teaching classes, I tend to wear jeans, hoodies sweatshirts — I think about Trayvon Martin, the hood is about the discourse of whether or not he deserved to die?!

I love a hooded sweatshirt, and when I wear it, I think of it as a form of resistance. There are message sweatshirts that represent my pride and love of Blackness and Black people.

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WHAT ARE YOU WEARING TODAY FROM HEAD TO TOE? The glasses are actually Warby Parker, the suit is an Italian suit I had tailored, the shirt may be Banana Republic — it is a bold print like a Hawaiian tropical flower print — with a Calvin Klein navy tie and silver tie pin. The watch is a Michael Kors watch. I love a gold watch; it is a pop of color on your wrist. Wearing

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SEVEN DAYS OF CONCERTS PITTSBURGH’S VERY OWN FRI., MARCH 6 Four times a year, Pittsburghers have the chance to witness some of Pittsburgh’s most exciting young artists all on one bill at Pittsburgh’s Very Own. (Previous PVO performers include Benji., INEZ, Clara Kent, and livefromthecity.) The next one features Cam Chambers, Mani Bahia & The Mob, Jrouz3, and Shawna Roxanne. Expect to hear a mix of hip hop and R&B — and maybe discover your next favorite artist. 7 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $10. mrsmalls.com PHOTO: ERIN ALLPORT

Simone Davis performing at Pittsburgh’s Very Own in August

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THURSDAY MARCH 5

ACOUSTIC

ELECTRONIC

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

BAKER’S DOZEN DJ BATTLE. CAKE. 9 p.m. Strip District.

ROCK STANDARD BROADCAST, LOFI DELPHI, ERIKA JUNE & THE TUNES. Club Cafe.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

THE COLLISIONS. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

7 p.m. Whitehall.

COUNTRY ASHLEY MCBRYDE. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 7 p.m. Millvale.

DARYL SHAWN. Scratch Food & Beverage.

8 p.m. Troy Hill.

ANNA MCCLELLAN, MERCE LEMON, DREAM HOME. Howlers. 8 p.m. Bloomfield.

FRIDAY MARCH 6 PUNK LOOK OUT LORETTA, YOUR FRACTURED FAIRYTALE. The Smiling Moose.

5:30 p.m. South Side.

NEW BOMB TURKS. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

8 p.m. Whitehall.

LUA PROC (ALBUM RELEASE).

Preeti’s Pitt.

7 p.m. Strip District.

JAZZ

OUTSIDEINSIDE (ALBUM RELEASE).

Brillobox.

9:30 p.m. Bloomfield.

ROCK

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL. Stage AE. 6:30 p.m. North Side.

CALYX, HIT LIKE A GIRL, SHORT FICTIONS. The Mr. Roboto Project.

7 p.m. Bloomfield.

THE GOODFOOTS, CREEPING JENNY, POLKAMANIACS. Moondog’s. 8 p.m. Blawnox.

THE LADY SWINGS. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall. 7:30 p.m. Carnegie.

ELECTRONIC

ABRACADABRA. Sweetwater Center for the Arts.

7 p.m. Sewickley.

FAZE2. Remedy Restaurant and Lounge. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

DOPAPOD. Rex Theater.

8 p.m. South Side.

ROCK

REGGAE ROME & DUDDY. The Palace Theatre.

8 p.m. Greensburg.

FAME ON FIRE. The Smiling Moose.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

RAELYN NELSON. Excuses Bar & Grill.

8 p.m. South Side.

THE NERD HERDERS, REGAL SWEET, THE REMOTE. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

8 p.m. Millvale.

EKALI. Rex Theater.

8 p.m. South Side.

METAL SECT, HIVE. Preserving Underground.

7 p.m. New Kensington.

NEVERWERES. Club Cafe. 6:30 p.m. South Side.

WORLD

HIP HOP/R&B

RIVER CITY BRASS. Palace Theatre.

7:30 p.m. Greensburg.

LEELA JAMES. August Wilson African American Cultural Center. 8 p.m. Downtown.

BEAR HANDS. Stage AE. 7 p.m. North Side.

MULTI GENRE

POP

THE RITA, BLACK LEATHER JESUS. 3577 Studios. 7:30 p.m. Polish Hill.

NEW WORKS SHOWCASE. Alumni Theater Company.

7 p.m. Homewood.

DWEEZIL ZAPPA Jergel’s Rhythm Grille.

8 p.m. Warrendale.

SPIRIT FIRST FRIDAY W/ CRAFTED SOUNDS. Spirit. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

OF MONTREAL. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

7 p.m. Millvale.

REGGAE

NEW SHOW BAND, DJ RICK THE RULER. Wilson’s Nite Out. 7:30 p.m. Swissvale.

THE ROOF. The Smiling Moose.

9:30 p.m. South Side.

TRUTH AND RITES. Shady Grove. 9 p.m. Shadyside.

JAZZ ROGER HUMPHRIES. Con Alma. 8 p.m. Shadyside.

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JUST FINE! (MARY J. BLIGE TRIBUTE).

Oaks Theater. 7:30 p.m. Oakmont.

MR. JIMMY (LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE).

Hard Rock Cafe.

8 p.m. South Side.

SATURDAY MARCH 7 CLASSICAL BROWN BAG CONCERT. Pittsburgh Opera.

12 p.m. Strip District.

DESOLENCE. The Smiling Moose.

10 p.m. South Side.

ELECTRONIC

TOM BORAX, BRUISER BEEP, JIM STORCH. 3577 Studios.

9 p.m. Polish Hill.

LETITIA VANSANT. Hambone’s.

8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

MULTI GENRE

THE LONG HUNT, GHOST:HELLO. Gooski’s. 9 p.m. Polish Hill.

GLADSTONE DELUXE, PATRICK BACKERIS. Brillobox. 9 p.m. Bloomfield.

FOLK

SHAY PORT. Mansions on Fifth.

5:30 p.m. Shadyside.

METAL

GINA CHAVEZ. Carnegie Lecture Hall.

7:30 p.m. Oakland.

BRIT FLOYD (PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE).

Benedum Center.

8 p.m. Downtown.

FOLK

CARBON LEAF. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall.

8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

AUBREY BURCHELL. Oaks Theater. 7:30 p.m. Oakmont.

R&B DYNASTY. Johnny’s Restaurant & Lounge. 7:30 p.m. Wilmerding.

AQUILLA RENEE Q. Rocks Landing Bar & Grille.

8 p.m. McKees Rocks.

DJS VALESUCHI, BOO LEAN. COBRA. 10 p.m. Bloomfield.

SUNDAY MARCH 8 WORLD PAUL BYROM. Edgewood Country Club.

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POP

R&B

JAZZ

DERMOT KENNEDY. Roxian Theatre.

8 p.m. McKees Rocks

ALLEN STONE. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 7 p.m. Millvale.

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille.

8 p.m. Warrendale.

PUNK VERMONT, SWITHER. The Mr. Roboto Project.

7 p.m. Bloomfield.

ELECTRONIC STEVE AOKI. Stage AE. 8 p.m. North Side.

METAL OM. Sprit. 7 p.m. Lawrenceville.

PUNK WORLD

WEDNESDAY MARCH 11

THE CHIEFTAINS. Heinz Hall. 7:30 p.m. Downtown.

JAZZ

LUX, LIVING WORLD, BIG BABY. Gooski’s. 9 p.m. Polish Hill.

JAZZ HOWIE ALEXANDER TRIO. Con Alma. 5 p.m. Shadyside.

ROCK

ROCK HEWLETT ANDERSON. Kingfly Spirit. 2 p.m. Strip District.

ACOUSTIC

FEA, MURDER FOR GIRLS, BENEFITS. Club Cafe. 6:30 p.m. South Side.

DOUBLE DOUBLE. City of Asylum.

7 p.m. North Side.

ROCK TWEED (ALBUM RELEASE).

Spirit. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

MELVIN SEALS AND JGB. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille.

7 p.m. Warrendale.

MOTHERFOLK, BAD BAD HATS. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

7 p.m. Millvale.

BRAD BENDIS. Mindful Brewing Company.

6 p.m. Castle Shannon.

TUESDAY MARCH 10

MONDAY MARCH 9

HIP HOP

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

WORLD

VIREO, LAVA GULLS. OWL Hollow. 6 p.m. Hazelwood.

COMBO CHIMBITA. Club Cafe. 6:30 p.m. South Side.

BAD OMENS. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

5:30 p.m. Whitehall.

METAL

POP

POP

VARIALS. The Smiling Moose.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

KEITH HARKIN. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

8 p.m. Whitehall.

GLASS MANSIONS. The Smiling Moose.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

MC CHRIS. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

8 p.m. Millvale.

DJS DJ NUGGET, ALEX RIVERA. The Goldmark.

10 p.m. Lawrenceville.

METAL

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N THE ANNALS OF CAMP, there are

few moments more iconic than the infamous wire hangers scene from Mommie Dearest, the 1981 biopic based on the bestselling tell-all book about Joan Crawford. It’s a moment so connected with the late Hollywood star that local multimedia artist, Scott Andrew, says most people don’t think of her at all beyond that.

Andrew and dance artist Jesse Factor are exploring that idea with I Am A Haunted House, a collaborative piece that combines movement with found footage and audio of Crawford as a way to reconsider the past. The duo will present this, their first-ever project together, on Fri., March 6, as part of their Freshworks residency at Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios.

“It really is about how an iconic figure haunts our psyche,” says Andrew, an active member of the Pittsburgh arts community who, among other things, co-curates the annual LGBTQIA variety performance series TQ Live! at the Andy Warhol Museum.

He adds that he and Factor were interested in “reconstituting some version of Joan Crawford or many different versions of how she’s been represented throughout time.”

Factor agrees that they were both fascinated by how Mommie Dearest has defined Crawford. Besides being a major film and television star, she helped popularize Pepsi-Cola, for which she served as a board member and spokesperson following the death of her husband, who led the company as CEO and president.

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“The actual person has been eclipsed by this singular scene in this film, and so I was really interested in that,” says Factor.

Factor says they started with the idea of a shadow or silhouette in conversation with a live body, which would be performed to a looped interview that Crawford gave at the end of her life.

To convey this, Scott made projections using Crawford-related imagery to create an atmosphere around Factor as he moves on stage. This is complemented by music from Andy Hasenpflug, as well as music collaborators Angela Washko

and Jesse Stiles. Andrew says Washko and Stiles were invited to use their method of running audio through digital processing to create lyrics with found dialogue from Crawford.

Factor says the music deals “a lot with repetition and remix and glitching, as if some of this material were perhaps downloaded incorrectly.”

In terms of dance style, Factor recalled his time as a performer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Because he sees the two women as contemporaries — both becoming huge influences in their respective fields around the same time — he wanted to treat Graham with a similar approach as with Crawford by “riffing” on her physicality for his own “fantastical purposes.”

But, as is the case with Freshworks, I Am A Haunted House is still a work in progress. Andrew hopes that the upcoming show, along with a following workshop, will encourage outside forces to help him and Factor fully bring their vision to life. “[We’re] hoping it will stimulate interesting conversations that will help us to inform how we work with the project and maybe even find community members who are interested in engaging in other ways,” says Andrew.

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How can your family and friends tell that you’re in a silly or fun mood?

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Usually after drinking coffee. When I drink coffee, I start bouncing around. I keep it positive generally, but the coffee is definitely a booster.

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What’s your go-to before or after show meal?

ROBABLY BEST known for throwing

cakes during performances — an honor now saved for his “diehard fans” — Steve Aoki touches down in Pittsburgh on Sun., March 8 at Stage AE in support of his forthcoming album, Neon Future IV. In addition to being a two-time Grammy-nominated DJ/producer, Aoki is the founder of Dim Mak Records, an independent label that has boosted acts such as The Chainsmokers, Dillon Francis, Zedd, Travis Scott, and Lil Uzi Vert.

Before a possible “caking” in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh City Paper chatted with Aoki for The 412, CP’s music feature where you can find band/musician updates and fun, random tidbits of information, all in one.

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6:30 p.m. Sun., March 8. Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $30-280. promowestlive.com

QUESTIONS ABOUT EMOTIONS How do you rectify a bad day?

You have to reset. Mediation is a good way of resetting, like putting ginger in your mouth when you don’t feel good.

When’s the last time you cried from happiness?

Before, I try not to eat too much because I hate food bouncing around in my stomach while I’m jumping around on stage. I’m on a strict diet against carbs, so I’m eating a lot of fish and veggies.

And I love me some rice, that’s the one carb I’ll eat. Probably the best time to eat is right after a show.

QUESTIONS ABOUT HAIR Are you a comb or a brush person?

Probably last night. My mom celebrated her birthday — birthday brunch, birthday dinner — you know, I’m just so happy seeing my mom happy and so grateful for my family.

What’s one song you can’t listen to without getting emotional?

Linkin Park, “A Light That Never Comes”

Definitely brush. My hair is way too thick for a comb. It gets tangled and a comb does it no justice. When I see a comb, I run away.

What’s a hair product that you can’t live without?

This hair product that I got in Japan that I really like — I don’t promote them at all — Satinique.

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NIGHT VISION

BY HANNAH LYNN // HLYNN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HE UNFORTUNATE part of Netflix’s

algorithm is that it flattens its shows together, regardless of quality. It advertises watching Love is Blind next to reruns of The Office, next to yet another true-crime series.

Regardless of how much time or effort they took, they all get reduced to “something on Netflix.”

Like most post-Planet Earth nature documentaries, Night on Earth, now streaming, depicts corners and creatures of the planet that humans otherwise would never see in their lifetime. The series focuses almost exclusively on the nighttime habits of animals, from polar bears hunting on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, to seals on the Peruvian coast fending off their vampire bat predators.

The show’s uniqueness comes from its array of heat-detecting cameras and other equipment that can capture animal activity even on a pitch-black savanna plain. The result looks like when a computer screen is inverted,

making the colors neon and unfamiliar; a glowing lion chasing a glowing giraffe, a grasshopper mouse chomping on a neon blue scorpion, a light-white elephant wading into the water. It looks and feels alien, which much of it is.

Throughout the series, narrator Samira Wiley indicates that certain nighttime animal behaviors have never been captured on camera until now. Cheetahs, for example, were long thought to hunt exclusively in daylight, but Night on Earth captures them hunting at night as well.

Night on Earth is a continuation of the modern nature documentary that once felt like it could change people’s minds about how they treat the Earth or each other, or some other important lesson. Planet Earth and the follow-up 10 years later, Planet Earth II, feature some of the most incredible footage you could ever imagine. But as the definition of TV shifts, streaming platforms have tried to offer every kind of show

that was once provided by several different channels on cable TV, including in-depth nature documentaries that take months, if not years, and intense amounts of human labor to make. The filmmakers spend hours in subzero temperatures, hot deserts, and deep oceans just to show us something cool for a few minutes.

NIGHT ON EARTH now streaming on Netflix

Despite its genuinely impressive footage, something about Night on Earth feels slightly hollow, which was also true with other similar nature documentaries. Even though it’s technically a documentary about science, it doesn’t feel like its goal is to teach viewers about how the world works or how the other 99.9% of living beings on the Earth exist. At the end of the

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episode featuring polar bears, Wiley delivers a quick sentence about the polar bear’s future being uncertain because “weather conditions across the world [are becoming] increasingly erratic,” which is a diluted way of explaining it, considering Antarctica reached 70 degrees in February. Even the way the camera pans away or strategically blocks the scene when one animal kills another animal feels disingenuous to the purpose of the show, equating the sight of a lion eating a wildebeest to humanon-human violence. Music cues like the synth-y score that ramps up the intensity during a chase scene feel like projecting the emotions of an action movie, or the semi-live-action Lion King, onto animals.

It made me wish I could watch it with no music at all.

But regardless of the music, or the documentary’s goals, or how it’s distributed, there’s nothing quite like watching a bat suck blood out of a baby seal in the middle of the night.

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^ Mon., March 9: Roses & Thorns

THURSDAY MARCH 5 STAGE [Cue music.] “My heart wants to beat like the wings of the pigeons that rise from the Monongahela to Point State Park.” Get out your whistle, line your children up in a row, and head Downtown as Pittsburgh Musical Theater brings one of the most loved musicals of all time to the Byham Theater. [Cue music.] “Yes, the hills (of the Steel City) are alive with The Sound of Music.” Times vary.

Continues through Sun., March 15.

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101 Sixth St., Downtown. $18.25-55.25. pittsburghmusicals.com

EXHIBIT People always want to talk about the divisions between different generations, but Channel, an exhibit at Museum Lab, centers on conversation between youth and adults. The exhibit is interactive and includes a chalkboard response wall, a barbershop installation, and a library of inspirational books. It includes work from artists Saige Baxter, Corrine Jasmin, Jameelah Platt, and more.

Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Continues through Sun., April 19. 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. 21+. museumlab.org

FRIDAY

MARCH 6 CONVENTION Pittsburgh’s premier horror convention returns for its 10th year, featuring an unmissable slate of panels, contests, screenings, vendors, and of course, celebrity guests. Horror Realm 2020’s stacked lineup includes Judie Aronson (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter), Marty Schiff (Dawn of the Dead), Tiffany Shepis (too many horror-comedy classics to mention), David Howard Thornton (Art the Clown in Terrifier, look him up, holy

shit), John Russo (co-writer of Night of the Living Dead), and, naturally, the great Tom Savini. And it’s all going down in one of the spookiest settings of all: a tasteful hotel in the South Hills! 5 p.m. Continues through Sun., March 8. Crowne Plaza Suites, 164 Fort Couch Road, Bethel Park.

Prices vary. horrorrealmcon.com

GAMING Get ready for some not-so full-contact sports when the Pittsburgh Passion professional women’s football team presents an adult Field Night at Ace Hotel.

Inspired by athletic activities designed for school kids, the event offers friendly competition in categories such as the sit

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^ Fri., March 6: Big Dumb Face

and reach, the standing long jump, and the vertical jump. You might not win a Presidential Youth Fitness award, but you will get to show off your skills while contributing to a fundraiser to help the Pittsburgh Passion keep playing. Plus, if participation isn’t for you, it’s free to watch. 5-11 p.m. 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty. $20 to compete. Registration required. acehotel.com/pittsburgh

ART Pittsburgh Glass Center hosts an opening reception for its latest exhibition, Silica Valley. Curated by John Sharvin, the show invites guests to contemplate the relationship between humans and technology by showcasing artists described by the center as “leading the way in developing new and unique techniques in glass.” See collaborations by Jenn Figg and Mathew McCormack, and Brandyn Callahan and Phirak Suon, as well as works by Vanessa Cutler, Daniel Cutrone, Fred Kahl, Joanne Mitchell, and Norwood Viviano. 6-9 p.m. Continues through Sun., May 24. 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship. pittsburghglasscenter.org

TATTOO The Pittsburgh Tattoo Expo returns to offer tons of cool artists, activities, deals, and more to anyone interested in the industry of ink. Head to the Station Square Sheraton for a full weekend where you can meet over 200 tattoo artists from all

over the country, as well as the stars of reality shows like Ink Master and Tattoo Nightmares. Get new tattoos or piercings, enter a tattoo competition, and enjoy live entertainment like the Miss Pittsburgh Pin-Up Contest. 6 p.m. Continues through Sun., March 8. 300 W. Station Square Drive, South Side. $25-50. Kids under 12 free with paying adult. pittsburghtattooexpo.com

ART Enter the weird and misshapen world of painter/sculptor Nick Sardo with his show Big Dumb Face at PULLPROOF Studio. Sardo has made a large-scale sculpture of a severed hand and painted a mural of a four-eyed creature.

He describes his work as “a uniquely satirical take on the idea of the divine,” with inspirations from religious iconography and H.P. Lovecraft. 6 p.m. 5112 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. nicksardoyes.com

STAGE The Alumni Theater Company (ATC) presents another edition of its New Works Showcase, a selection of excerpts from original plays and other pieces by the ATC Professional Ensemble. In line with the company’s mission to nurture aspiring playwrights and performers, the event will include a talkback that allows the audience to provide feedback on how the ensemble can continue to develop their works. Leave the younger kids at home, as this event is recommended for CONTINUES ON PG. 42

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^ Fri., March 6: Glasswork by Vanessa Cutler at Silica Valley

ages 10 and up. 7 p.m. Also 7 p.m. Sat., March 7. 6601 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $12-18. alumnitheatercompany.org

PARTY The late David Bowie blooms back to life during the latest Party in the Tropics at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Party On Mars? celebrates the final weekend of the space-themed Orchid and Bonsai Show: Out of This World with a Bowie tribute and dance party full of music inspired by the legendary glam rocker, from New Wave hits to synth-pop.

There will also be tasty food and cocktails.

Bowie-inspired costumes encouraged.

7-10 p.m. 1 Schenley Park, Oakland. $17.95-19.95. Registration recommended.

21 and over. phipps.conservatory.org

STAGE The Outsiders, a classic coming-of-age tale written in 1967 by 18-year-old S. E. Hinton, pits rival gangs the “greasers” against the “socs” in a socio-economic battle that transcends generations. For its upcoming production, Prime Stage Theatre brought on former teen gang member, now antiviolence advocate, Richard Garland to serve

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as production consultant. “If doing this can help me save one person from the life I had, it’s worth it,” says Garland. 8 p.m. Continues through Sun., March 15. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $5-30. newhazletttheater.org

SATURDAY MARCH 7

MUSIC The Frick Pittsburgh pairs live music with its current exhibit, Maker and Muse, during Music in the Museum: Musical Gems. Head over to the rotunda to hear musicians Sue Garton and Mary Rita Rossetti perform music from the early 20th century to “set the mood for a musical experience complementary to the exhibition.” 11 a.m. 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. Registration required. thefrickpittsburgh.org

MARKET Casa Brasil takes over Bryant Street for the Fantasy Bazaar.

Presented by the quarterly pop-up art

show Leslie’s Arcade, the event includes vendors and artists selling clothing, ceramics, jewelry, crochet, and more.

There will also be live music by pvkvsv, Sky Visco and Dave Ross, and Ninja Papes!, and adult beverages. 7 p.m. 5904 Bryant St., Highland Park. casa-brasil.com

STAGE You know that pot comedy script you never finished called “High Finance”? Now’s your chance to stage it live for the world to see at Glitter Box Theater. The 10 Minute Play Festival is a community theater event where you collect your fellow thespians and put on a play that’s somewhere around 10 minutes or less. There are no requirements to submit an idea. 7 p.m. 460 Melwood Ave., Oakland. $5-10. “10 Minute Play Festival Pittsburgh” on Facebook

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MARCH 8 MARKET Celebrate International Women’s Day by supporting over 25 local

Pittsburgh female artists and makers at All Rise: A Female Maker Faire. Wares range from gorgeous jewelry by Horsethief and Gypsum Hollow to the whimsical fiber art of Moon and Yarn.

The event is hosted by The Wild Rose Collective, a Pittsburgh group aiming to “celebrate, honor, and encourage womxn of today through the stories of our foremothers,” and the first 100 guests will receive a free tote bag. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Ace Hotel Pittsburgh, 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty. thewildroseco.com

MONDAY MARCH 9 FASHION Experience a night of opera-inspired fashion at Roses & Thorns. Pittsburgh Opera partnered with New York-based designer Lela Rose, local retailer Choices Pittsburgh, and the Studio Booth salon to create looks based on the lusty, colorful opera Carmen, set to open on March 28 at the Benedum Center. Enjoy live music performances by the opera’s Resident

TEEN SHOPPING STUDY The RAND Corporation, in Pittsburgh, is conducting a research study to learn about what teens, ages 11-17, buy at convenience stores.

Participation requires completion of a 30 minute web survey and one 90 minute visit to the RAND study center. Teens who complete the study will be compensated for their time and effort with $40 in gift cards. Parking or bus passes will be provided. To see if your teen qualifies, please call 412-204-7353 or e-mail c-storestudy@ The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

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^ Mon., March 9: Tarana Burke

Artists, gourmet food and desserts, signature cocktails and wine, and, of course, couture inspired by the classic story of a Spanish seductress whose passion for life and love knows no bounds. 6:30 p.m.

2425 Liberty Ave., Strip District. $45-175. pittsburghopera.org

LIT Last week, the most infamous predator of the #MeToo movement was found guilty of his crimes, a moment that owes a lot to the women who came forward as part of the online movement. Tarana Burke, an activist who began using the phrase “me too” on social media in 2006 to talk about sexual assault, has called it a “movement, not a moment.” She will speak at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center as part of their TRUTHSayers series.

7 p.m. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $38.50. aacc-awc.org

TUESDAY MARCH 10 FILM Not to finger wag or disparage monumental achievements like Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall, but Pink Floyd’s three-album run from 1970-’72 is way too impressive to be as overlooked

as it is. Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, and Obscured By Clouds may not be as polished or profound — Atom Heart Mother, for instance, has a 12-minute song featuring the band’s roadie explaining the breakfast he’s cooking in absurd detail — but there are some incredible gems to be found here. Drummer Nick Mason performs songs from these records, as well as the Syd Barrett days, in the live concert video Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets: Live at the Roundhouse. It’s not as visceral as seeing the real thing live, but Rangos Giant Theater at Carnegie Science Center might be the next best thing. 7 p.m.

1 Allegheny Ave., North Side. $13.95. carnegiesciencecenter.org

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AM A genderfluid* queer person

who works a full-time job at a small, queer-owned business with a largely queer staff. It’s a job that pays me a living wage, has benefits, and offers me a stable work and friend community. (Shout out to Pigeon Bagels!) *For me, genderfluidity means moving all around the gender binary — sometimes I’m a girly boy, sometimes I’m a boy, sometimes I’m a lady, sometimes I’m both or neither.

I’m in a rare situation, unfortunately.

Service workers are grossly underpaid across the United States, and in the state of Pennsylvania, the minimum wage is an abysmal, embarrassing, and grossly exploitative $7.25 an hour. That’s about $13, 920 a year in earnings for full-time work. The Fight for $15 is important and would lift a lot of people above the poverty line. It is also just the bare minimum in moving towards paying people a sustainable wage for the work that they do.

Plenty of research shows LGBTQ people are much more likely to live in poverty or experience instability in their socioeconomic status. The American Psychological Association even recommends raising the federal minimum wage as a solution to LGBTQ folks’ disproportionate rates of poverty.

It’s also important to remember that even finding a job as an LGBTQ person can be challenging, especially for transgender workers and LGBTQ

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workers of color, as they experience much higher levels of discrimination in the workplace and in hiring processes. Given that a damning report was released this year about the significantly lower quality of life for Black women in Pittsburgh, you can easily imagine how this would be exacerbated for queer women of color.

Allegheny County and Pittsburgh have laws on the books that prevent LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, but Pennsylvania is one of the only northeastern states to not have state laws that protect LGBTQ folks.

If you do find a job in the service industry, working a service job as a

visibly queer person can be challenging for a plethora of reasons based on intersecting identities. Depending on your workplace, harassment within the business and from customers can be more common. As someone who works in an incredibly queer-friendly shop, customers still frequently misgender or broadly make assumptions about the staff members’ genders.

While I do my best to be sympathetic and realize not everyone knows people who live outside the gender binary or are even gay or trans, it can be absolutely exhausting and dysphoric to be misgendered all day. You truly do not need to involve gender in every

transaction you make for goods.

Instead of a, ‘See ya, ladies!’ try ‘See y’all later’ or ‘Bye, yinz!’ Ma’am and sir are just kind of weird and too formal for most service interactions anyway, so avoid them altogether.

But when you face this kind of misunderstanding all day or night from customers and potentially your coworkers at a job where you can barely make ends meet? That feels like absolute trash. It’s not emotionally or financially sustainable, and given that most service workers can’t afford or even have the free time for therapy, there’s no way to manage that extra stress.

In a strange twist, we’re also living and working in a bizarre time where having a visibly queer staff can be used to show how “cool” and “hip,” a place is, virtue signaling that a business cares about and supports that community. That being said, if a business isn’t paying its LGBTQ employees (or any of their employees, for that matter) a living wage, it cannot be considered progressive at all. In fact, touting your business as progressive for having a diverse staff while underpaying your employees is pretty evil.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 12 • 6-7:30PM • $15 non-members ARCHITECTURE DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: GLENN MURCUTT—SPIRIT OF PLACE Glenn Murcutt— Spirit of Place explores the life and work of Australia’s most internationally recognized architect. Murcutt’s extraordinary reputation rests on the beauty and integrity of his buildings. With numerous awards (including the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal and the 2009 American Institute of Architect’s Gold Medal) Murcutt has literally put Australian architecture on the world map. Murcutt’s focus has been the creation of energyefďŹ cient masterpieces perfectly suited to their environment and his breakthrough designs and teaching have inuenced architects around the world.

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