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LACK WOMEN ARE the best invention on earth.”

This firmly held belief I keep in my head, spirit, and heart in order to navigate the world, I recently said out loud to a former colleague.

This person, a white man, exclaimed, “Oh, I have never heard that before.”

Of course he hadn’t. Where on this green-blue capped Earth would someone hear that Black women are the best creations?

OK, arguably water or gravity is, but my intention, my albeit human-centric argument, was that the original woman, who came to be known as African woman, later known as Black woman, is the best invention.

I had hoped my City Paper columns would show the importance of Black Girl Joy. Even with time to pause and talk, real talk, about the special challenges of being a Black woman in Pittsburgh, I didn’t want this column to be a catalog of Black Girl Pain.

But here we are, in the aftermath of the much-discussed University of Pittsburgh report titled “Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race,” which was quickly followed by the horrific assault of two Black women customers at a local gas station. This capped a week of discussion leading with “Pittsburgh is the worst place to be Black,” and “for the first time ever” skin color was connected with gender — which was not, in fact, the case. Earlier University of Pittsburgh studies, Black women-led organizations, and anyone listening to Black women would have known it was not, in fact, the first time.

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Vanetta Olds protests at the Exxon Mobile gas station near Marshall-Shadeland following the alleged assault of two Black women customers.

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However, there is a tendency to talk about the African American as a male experience and the woman’s experience as being white — this mindset is literally killing Black women in America, in Pittsburgh.

Ignoring Black women, including, it seems, a group of Black researchers who could have written this report, is evidence not taken into account. And my own “anecdotal” evidence, aka my own damn life, has been dismissed consistently. Over social media, a datastatistically focused analysis told me that I am “not an average Pittsburgher,” implying that I do not count for much in the telling of Pittsburgh.

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The reaction to this report was interesting, funny-not funny, disappointing, gaslighting, heartbreaking, affirming, and a myriad of other complex feelings reflecting the reality of being Black woman in Pittsburgh.

There was the inevitable “Well, it is bad everywhere” response, which somehow in the 21st century means we are powerless to do anything about it — the hope spring is dried up due to the climate crisis.

Then there’s the white liberal “Sorry, it sucks to be you, tell me all about it (you

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ONLINE NOW AT PGHCITYPAPER.COM: Community activist Amber Sloan, pictured above in the #MADEIT shirt, was charged with misdemeanor harassment last week after allegedly posting a threatening video while protesting the alleged assault of two Black women at the Exxon Mobile gas station in Marshall-Shadeland. She spoke with CP about her comments.

have 15 seconds)” reaction. This is just enough time to seem to care before they go back to centering and celebrating whiteness. Then there’s the white conservative, “I want to hear about this alleged report.” This group actually gives more than 15 seconds to the report, like hate-watching a show on Hulu.

Oh, and I forgot the optimistic white liberal reaction of “Maybe THIS will be the report to make a difference.” Without having a personal history or interest in anti-racist activism, there’s that 15 seconds again. The Black ‘n’ Gold flag-waving white Pittsburgher who has remained silent — their money is made on the “A Most Livable City” ruse.

There is the all too rare anti-racist white person who knew this to be true already, shared the report by mainly retweeting the words of Black people — Black women first.

Layla, 4, joins the protests with her cousins.

Then there was the “Should I stay or should I go?” battle among Black Pittsburghers. The shame of leaving, the pitying of those who want to stay. The “self-righteous” stay-camp, the “selfish” go-camp. The “self-preserving” go-camp and optimistic “we-built-this-city” stayers. Which also meant Black folks were arguing among ourselves (again) instead of looking at the systems, policies, and people responsible (again).

But there were also thoughtful and open conversations among Black women and men about the report — some in person and some online. There was some good analysis and critique — hopeful and calming, as well as some support from other People of the Global Majority. It felt like family.

There was gaslighting by some Black men who were unable to sit out of the conversation for one minute and say, “Well, sisters, we want to hear from you.”

The men who spent their energy shutting down the voices of Black women. Here was a chance to center Black women, but overall, that did not happen enough.

There were the text threads, conversations, and discussions among Black women and femmes that would best be summarized by the Oprah meme with the W-shaped arms up, head tilted: “We’ve been saying this for years.”

What is important to understand, dear Pittsburgh, is every time you talk about Pittsburgh but don’t talk about

Black women, Brown women, Black femmes, Black transwomen, and Black non-binary people, every time you only listen to a small selection of vetted “pick me” Black people who won’t ever challenge the status quo, every time you center whiteness and or maleness — you do harm to Black women.

Even if you don’t gang up on us, hit us in the back with your own fists or kick us on the ground with your own feet. In many ways you are, because my Dear Pittsburgh, place of my birth, but hopefully not place of my death, you provide the energy for that fist to punch and that foot to kick our beautiful, important, and valuable Black lives.

You make it easier for a doctor to say, “Black woman, your pain is not real.”

You make it easier for a teacher to say, “You talk too much, too loud, too often.”

It makes it easier for a Black man to say, “These bitches, these females.” It makes it easier to record a beating than to stop a beating.

It makes it difficult for someone, even for some Black women, to see our value as humans, as women — it makes us easier to hurt us.

And Pittsburgh, you are hurting us.

You are not protecting or listening to Black women. Maybe this time it will be different. However, I do not know how much more time or patience or energy I have to find out. Would you?

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HEN PROMINENT SPORTS journalists weigh in on controversial issues that are outside of the realm of sports analysis, whether it’s politics, culture, or even commenting on labor or social issues relating to sports, they are met with a typical retort: “stick to sports.”

Legendary sports broadcaster Bob Costas would sometimes comment on issues like gun control or concussions in football. Jemele Hill, the former ESPN analyst, also would comment on topics outside of basketball, such as racial inequality, police brutality, and criticizing the racism of President Donald Trump. Both shared liberal or left-leaning points of view on politics and social issues, both were met with outrage that altered their careers.

Hill was eventually suspended by ESPN and removed from her role as anchor in 2018. She parted ways with ESPN months later. Costas’ comments led to tensions with his employer, NBC, and Costas opted out of his contract earlier this year.

But in Pittsburgh, there’s very little backlash, if any, when popular figures in sports media share political opinions. City Paper spoke with local sports journalists across the political spectrum to discuss the dynamics in Pittsburgh, and how sports and politics intersect in an area as passionate about sports as Pittsburgh during a time as politically fraught as 2019.

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MARK MADDEN AND Paul Zeise are two

of the most popular sports personalities in Pittsburgh who semi-regularly wade into non-sports territory on their social media. Madden’s radio show is consistently one of the top in ratings for the Pittsburgh area. He has more than 140,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter combined. Zeise has his own late night talk show on 93.7 The Fan, the highest rated all-sports radio station in Pittsburgh. Zeise also has a weekly column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Neither identify as conservative or Republican, but both often share conservative views. Zeise is known to reply critically to left-leaning politicians, like Elizabeth Warren, on Twitter and frequently decries paying taxes. Madden goes on rants about student loan debt and calls younger people “entitled.”

They aren’t the only sports journalists in Pittsburgh to share right-leaning opinions, but their popularity provides them influence greater than most.

And while sports personalities are as entitled to their views as anyone, these strong viewpoints don’t seem to be met with the same response as national names like Costa and Hill.

In Pittsburgh, “stick to sports” just doesn’t seem to have the same cache.

ON JUNE 24, Madden went on a tirade on

social media, decrying efforts to lower or cancel student loans. Currently, Americans are collectively facing more than $1.6 trillion in student-loan debt, and the average student loan debt in 2018 was about $30,000.

“If you took a student loan. Pay it off.

I did. Not everything’s a gift, or should be. Accountability is a dying art in this country,” Madden tweeted in June, which was followed by several more tweets on student-loan debt. (There were hundreds of replies, many of them criticizing this stance, though not as many as the 2,000plus likes on the tweet.)

This came just a day after presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a plan to cancel every Americans’ student-loan debt. Support for student debt forgiveness varies, with some polls showing a majority of voters backing the plans and other polls indicating around 40 percent support. Democrats overwhelmingly back the proposal.

Zeise also wrote some politically charged tweets regarding Sanders’ plan on June 24 and indicated support for the Republican tax cut plan.

“Because tax cuts aren’t paying out money. They are allowing people to

keep their own money,” wrote Zeise.

“People that whine about ‘tax cuts for the rich’ are intellectually dishonest and they know it. Writing a check for $1.6 trillion is silly, pandering to millennials and not practical.”

It’s not that sports media figures in Pittsburgh receive no pushback for conservative comments, but they don’t drum up calls to “stick to sports” the way they seem to in other cities or with other political opinions.

Neither Madden nor his producers at 105.9 The X responded to requests for comment for this story. Zeise’s employer, 93.7 The Fan, also didn’t respond to a request for comment.

However, Zeise points out that more than 90 percent of his tweets are focused on sports. This appears to be the same for Madden.

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Zeise says he doesn’t share any political views on his talk show or in his P-G columns, with the exception of a crossover issue like the National Anthem.

“I try and minimize how much politics and religion I talk or write about because frankly it doesn’t make for good radio and we have political commentators to write about politics,” says Zeise, who identifies as a libertarian.

He says he gets some criticism on social media for allegedly aligning with Trump but rejects that assessment. He doesn’t see anything wrong with sometimes sharing his political opinions, calling social media “a different animal” and says he is an “independent thinker.”

“There is definitely a line where it can be too much, but I never cross that line. And I don’t hammer away at people with my beliefs day after day after day,” says Zeise. “Every so often I’ll venture into that world if it is appropriate.”

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ZEISE SAYS HE HAS BEEN told in the past to reel back some of his political commentary and knows other liberal or progressive sports journalism that have been told the same.

He rejects any notion that the Pittsburgh sports world is more favorable to conservatives. He says most sports journalists in Pittsburgh are liberals and progressives.

But a local sports journalist and broadcaster who spoke to City Paper on the case of anonymity for fear of reprisal feels the opposite.

“There does seem to be more of a conservative bent from prominent Pittsburgh people compared to progressives,” says the journalist.

The journalist says this could be the result of the demographics that follow sports closely, which is likely more male and older than the average population.

The journalist also notes Madden’s and Zeise’s general popularity could be a factor as to why their political comments don’t draw criticism, especially from management.

Dan Kingerski, a former broadcast journalist at 93.7 The Fan who currently runs the website Pittsburgh Hockey Now, feels Pittsburgh sports media is somewhere in the middle between conservative and liberal.

“If you let Pittsburgh sports Twitter pick the next president, you would get a moderate Democrat,” says Kingerski.

“I certainly don’t feel there are more conservatives in the local sports world.

Perhaps they are more vocal.”

He doesn’t mind that Madden, Zeise,

and even John Steigerwald, a longtime sports journalist who now talks conservative politics on AM radio, share political opinions, but he cautions sports journalists from going too far. Kingerski says strong political opinions, either left of right, can drive away sports fans and lower online engagement.

“There is an inherent danger that diving into politics brings. Google might put you on the naughty list,” says Kingerski, noting that he has had to tell writers to stop the political commentary on social media because he believed it was lowering his site’s search engine optimization.

There are vocal left-wing and leftleaning sports personalities in Pittsburgh too. Jim Wexell, a freelance Pittsburgh sports journalist with a large following,

still regularly tweets in opposition to Trump. Well-known columnist Gene Collier has always skewered politicians and offered political opinions, but he isn’t exclusively a sports columnist.

Ed Bouchette, a senior writer for The Athletic and former longtime P-G sports reporter, has retweeted posts with liberal takes on things like gun control but rarely posts about his personal opinion.

It doesn’t appear to be an apples-toapples comparison on how much leftand right-leaning personalities stray for sports coverage and into political and cultural issues.

For example, in 2017, Bouchette mocked the goal of the Republicans tax cut bill in a tweet. This appears to be his only tweet about the political implication of taxes. Zeise, on the other hand, has

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regularly shared his thoughts in opposition to paying taxes, even defending the Republican tax cuts. Zeise has dozens of other examples of tweets that express an anti-tax mindset.

Also, Pittsburgh’s left-of-center sports Twitter appears to have less of a platform compared to those sharing right-of-center views. And the smaller engagement shows. Retweets, likes, and replies fill Zeise’s, Madden’s and Steigerwald’s political and cultural posts, while Wexell’s political and cultural tweets get far less engagement.

The anonymous sports journalist says the influence of Pittsburgh conservative sports journalists shouldn’t be discounted.

“I think we would be fooling ourselves in how big of a sports fan city Pittsburgh is, and what effect [sports personalities have] on our culture,” says the sports journalist. “For some, sports is a unifier, but it’s hard to separate that with some of this stuff on social media.”

Another Pittsburgh sports journalist, who spoke to CP on the condition of anonymity, says the vast majority of the time, local sports journalists are free to share what they want on social media, on air, and in print, whether liberal, moderate or conservative. But, when divisive topics are up for grabs, that’s when sides seem to be chosen.

“I would want to make clear that 99 percent of the time I pretty much get to say what I want and no one says word one to me,” says the journalist. “But it’s noticeable which way the wind blows on the rare times something truly divisive pops up.”

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HE PROGRESS made by LGBTQ

Americans throughout the last decade has been remarkable. Winning marriage equality in all 50 states was one of the most important victories to allow LGBTQ people to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. Research suggests more Americans than ever before support full equality for LGBTQ people under the law.

Sadly, our laws don’t yet reflect this.

Pennsylvania remains one of 30 states where LGBTQ people can still be fired, denied housing, or turned away from a business simply because of who they are or who they love.

In Pittsburgh, we’ve long known that wasn’t good enough. Nearly 30 years ago, we passed non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation, and this July, City Council unanimously passed a bill to include gender identity and gender expression in the city’s non-discrimination law. The City regularly scores 100 on the Municipality Equality Index.

Pittsburgh has proudly pushed the boundaries of inclusion in Pennsylvania because we know our diversity is our strength and our LGBTQ neighbors are valued members of our city. But because our state and federal law lacks enduring protections, we know our residents are still vulnerable to discrimination in their daily lives. Dignity and respect should never depend on what zip code you call home.

On Oct. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear three cases about LGBTQ employment discrimination that will determine if federal law protects LGBTQ people in Pennsylvania and across the country. This is a pivotal moment in history, and the stakes could not be higher for those of us who believe that no American should ever be discriminated against or

fired because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

This summer, I was proud to join mayors across the country signing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of LGBTQ non-discrimination protections.

It reads in part: “Local anti-discrimination laws promote the prosperity and vitality of American communities. Among other things, these laws enhance innovation and economic opportunities. ... Adopting specific protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status has facilitated LGBTQ individuals’ participation in, and contribution to, their communities, enriching both the individual and the whole. And it has achieved that end with no real difficulties of implementation or administration, all while avoiding burdening taxpayer resources to remediate the harms of workplace discrimination against LGBTQ residents.”

As Mayor, I know that our LGBTQ neighbors make important contributions to our community, and they just want the same things as every other resident: to raise a family, to make a decent living, and to feel accepted in the city they call home. And as Mayor, it’s my responsibility to make sure all of our residents are treated with dignity, fairness, and respect. No form of discrimination has any place in the City of Pittsburgh, nor in the United States.

By acknowledging that our federal laws already protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination, the Supreme Court has an opportunity to affirm basic dignity and respect for LGBTQ people who simply want to live with their loved ones in a community that treats them unequivocally as equals.

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DE FER COFFEE & TEA

BY MAGGIE WEAVER MWEAVER@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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E FER COFFEE & Tea has come a

long way in two years.

It started as a small-batch roastery in 2017 with a mission to “bring amazing coffee and tea to more people — and to make the world a better place while doing it.” Today, it has a full menu and bar at its brick-and-mortar location in the Strip District. And it still focuses on roasting, with blends available wholesale at five Pittsburgh locations, and offers online ordering, a subscription service, and local delivery.

Through all that, the founding principle hasn’t wavered. The business still prioritized using something as accessible as coffee and tea to “empower farmers across the world.” Every bean, tea leaf, and product on De Fer shelves is responsibly sourced.

In its bright cafe, studded with artwork from local artists and shelves flaunting a selection of Pittsburghbased wholesalers, the roaster sits a level above tables, so diners can smell and experience the process. De Ferroasted coffee and teas are always in stock, available behind the counter and in bags. The selection is wide, with beans across a spectrum of flavors from farms across the globe.

De Fer — “of Iron” in French (the meaning lived out in the cafe’s mural of a Viking blacksmith) — is modeled after European all-day cafe culture. There’s a long list of drinks, lattes, cortados, pour overs, and tea. Apart from caffeine, there’s a creative Negroni program, craft cocktails, a wine list, a few drafts, local spirits, and to-go wine and beer.

The food selection is similarly varied,

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A latte, chevre and fig jam toast, blueberry banana bread, and halloumi

featuring a mix of breakfast bites like yogurt, quiche waffles, and toast, along with a small pastry selection, sandwiches, and a case full of charcuterie.

If a midday pick-me-up means wine instead of coffee, if you burn a French press, or put sugar in your coffee, De Fer is not here to judge. As the cafe makes a point to say on its website, “You decide what makes you happy — we’re just here to help.”

The cafe’s Negroni list is worth exploring. Four variations of the classic drink (gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth)

make the menu: one barrel-aged, one made with white peony tea, one that features pink peppercorn, and another that uses anise.

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The three I tried (peppercorn, barrelaged, and peony) were strikingly different. The composition of each drink complemented the natural, floral flavors

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of gin and Campari beautifully, a testament to the roastery’s understanding of balance in both coffee and cocktails. The peppercorn was lightly spicy, the barrelaged screaming with citrus, and the peony aromatic and delicate.

Sandwiches were appealingly simple. Grilled halloumi paired with roasted peppers and hummus wasn’t lost on a brioche bun, and the fluffy bread added texture to the thick slice of cheese. An uncomplicated prosciutto panini, supported with mozzarella, pesto, and aged balsamic, was a top-notch, no-frills dish where every element was given room to shine.

By day, De Fer can be a trendy family spot for great coffee and pastries or a midday wine pick-me-up. By night, it’s a stop for a cocktail and dessert or an intimate first date. De Fer has something for everyone.

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much White Claw. The popular hard seltzer, known for having “no laws,” has been flying off shelves so fast that the company can’t keep up.

Don’t panic: Local brewery Mindful Brewing has joined the hard seltzer craze with the release of Zemu: Blackberry Edition, giving Pittsburghers another — and better — option.

Brewing a hard seltzer is not easy; the process is most similar to producing a sparkling wine. The head brewer at Mindful, Marcus Cox, says it’s beyond the difficulty of brewing a lager, because seltzer is “a much more exposed product, any defect is more obvious, so there is nowhere to hide.” It takes six to eight weeks for the seltzer to move through Mindful’s 10-barrel system, twice the time of any of its other brews.

Zemu’s alcohol content, however, is more like a beer. It’s an easy-to-drink 5 percent and tastes slightly malty, though there’s no actual malt in the seltzer. Zemu is made with corn sugar — similar to table sugar — with a champagne-like yeast.

“The way that that yeast ages into the beer, it gives a very specific kind of a savory note,” says Cox. “The mouthfeel that savory note gives is what people would normally associate with that sweetness in beer.”

To get the fruit flavor right — which the brewer notes they nailed in the first batch — Mindful uses From The

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Named Fruit (FTNM) flavors. Cox calls that approach the “Rolls Royce” of flavorings; there’s nothing artificial about it. Natural flavors from actual fruits are compressed into a distillation, making a higher-end extract. It’s a strong, organic taste. One ounce of blackberry FTNM can flavor an entire keg.

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It’s no surprise that the difference between the flavor of Zemu and other hard seltzers is so immediately identifiable. As someone who has partaken in their fair share of White Claws, I’ve started to expect the cough syrup taste of a spiked can. But Mindful Brewing keeps the light berry flavor without making the seltzer cloying. The blackberry hits at the finish, leaving a refreshing, natural taste.

That characteristic is how the seltzer got its name. Zemu is the largest glacier in the Eastern Himalayan Mountains, “a vibe of clean, pure, and natural.”

Cox is already dreaming up new flavors for Zemu. Lemon-lime will follow the blackberry, then cranberry for the holidays, and the brewer is hoping to have the seltzer in cans by the new year. Once he balances the long brewing process with demand, Pittsburgh will be seeing a lot more of Zemu.

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.FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 3

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every time my birthday season comes around, I set aside an entire day to engage in a life review. It lasts for many hours. I begin by visualizing the recent events I’ve experienced, then luxuriously scroll in reverse through my entire past, as if watching a movie starring me. It’s not possible to remember every single scene and feeling, of course, so I allow my deep self to highlight the moments it regards as significant. Here’s another fun aspect of this ritual: I bestow a blessing on every memory that comes up, honoring it for what it taught me and how it helped me to become the person I am today. Dear Libra, now is an excellent time for you to experiment with a similar celebration.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

“Depression is when you think there’s nothing to be done,” writes author Siri Hustvedt. “Fortunately I always think there’s something to be done.” I offer this hopeful attitude to you, Scorpio, trusting that it will cheer you up. I suspect that the riddles and mysteries you’re embedded in right now are so puzzling and complicated that you’re tempted to think that there’s nothing you can do to solve them or escape them. But I’m here to inform you that if that’s how you feel, it’s only temporary. Even more importantly, I’m here to inform you that there is indeed something you can do, and you are going to find out what that is sooner rather than later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “How inconvenient to be made of desire,” writes Sagittarian author Larissa Pham. “Even now, want rises up in me like a hot oil. I want so much that it scares me.” I understand what she means, and I’m sure you do, too. There are indeed times when the inner fire that fuels you feels excessive and unwieldy and inopportune. But I’m happy to report that your mood in the coming weeks is unlikely to fit that description. I’m guessing that the radiant pulse of your yearning will excite you and empower you. It’ll be brilliant and warm, not seething and distracting.

Because I suspect you will be ripening fully into a role and a mission you were born to embody and express.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1956, the U.S. federal government launched a program to build 40,000 miles of high-speed roads to connect all major American cities. It was completed 36 years later at a cost of $521 billion. In the coming months, I’d love to see you draw inspiration from that visionary scheme. According to my analysis, you will generate good fortune for yourself as you initiate a long-term plan to expand your world, create a more robust network, and enhance your ability to fulfill your life’s big goals.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born YouTube blogger Hey Fran Hey has some good advice for her fellow Bulls, and I think it’ll be especially fresh and potent in the coming weeks. She says, “Replacing ‘Why is this happening to me?’ with ‘What is this trying to tell me?’ has been a game changer for me. The former creates a hamster wheel, where you’ll replay the story over and over again. Victimized. Stuck. The latter holds space for a resolution to appear.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.” So declared French author Victor Hugo. I don’t share his view. In fact, I regard it as an insulting misapprehension.

The truth is that the soul achieves flight through vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational hypotheses and wild hopes — and maybe also by a few illusions. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to nurture your soul with vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational hypotheses and wild hopes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

I envision the next 12 months as a time when you could initiate fundamental improvements in the way you live.

Your daily rhythm 12 months from now could be as much as twenty percent more gratifying and meaningful. It’s conceivable you will discover or generate innovations that permanently raise your long-term goals to a higher octave.

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I predict you’ll welcome a certain novelty that resembles the invention of the wheel or the compass or the calendar.

I know people of all genders who periodically unleash macho brags about how little sleep they need. If you’re normally like that, I urge you to rebel. The dilemmas and riddles you face right now are very solvable IF and only IF you get sufficient amounts of sleep and dreams. Do you need some nudges to do right by yourself? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker says that some of the greatest athletes understand that “sleep is the greatest legal enhancing performance drug.” Top tennis player Roger Federer sleeps 12 hours a day. During his heyday, worldclass sprinter Usain Bolt slept ten hours a night and napped during the day. Champion basketball player LeBron James devotes 12 hours a day to the rejuvenating sanctuary of sleep.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Modern literary critic William Boyd declared that Aquarian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was “the best shortstory writer ever,” and “the first truly modern writer of fiction: secular, refusing to pass judgment, cognizant of the absurdities of our muddled, bizarre lives and the complex tragi-comedy that is the human condition.” Another contemporary critic, Harold Bloom, praised Chekhov’s plays, saying that he was “one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.” We might imagine, then, that in the course of his career, Chekhov was showered with accolades. We’d be wrong about that, though. “If I had listened to the critics,” he testified, “I’d have died drunk in the gutter.” I hope that what I just said will serve as a pep talk for you as you explore and develop your own original notions in the coming weeks.

Actor and dancer Fred Astaire was a pioneer in bringing dance into films as a serious art form. He made 31 musical films during the 76 years he worked, and was celebrated for his charisma, impeccable technique, and innovative moves. At the height of his career, from 1933 to 1949, he teamed up with dancer Ginger Rogers in the creation of ten popular movies. In those old-fashioned days, virtually all partner dancing featured a male doing the lead part as the female followed. One witty critic noted that although Astaire was a bigger star than Rogers, she “did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and while wearing high heels.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you may soon be called on to carry out tasks that are metaphorically comparable to those performed by Rogers.

PISCES

Your number one therapy in the coming weeks? Watching animals. It would be the healthiest thing you could undertake: relax into a generously receptive mode as you simply observe creatures doing what they do. The best option would be to surrender to the pleasures of communing with both domesticated AND wild critters. If you need a logical reason to engage in this curative and rejuvenating activity, I’ll give you one: It will soothe and strengthen your own animal intelligence, which would be a tonic gift for you to give yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

(Feb. 19-March 20):

Pisces-born Dorothy Steel didn’t begin her career as a film actress until she was 91 years old. She had appeared in a couple of TV shows when she was 89, then got a small role in an obscure movie. At age 92, she became a celebrity when she played the role of a tribal elder in Black Panther, one of the highest-grossing films of all time. I propose that we make her one of your inspirational role models for both the coming weeks and the next twelve months. Why?

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

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Left to right: Dykes, Camera, Action; Scream, Queen!; Where Justice Ends

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BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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tage. But in the case of the Reel Q International Film Festival, opening after other LGBTQ film festivals around the country makes programming a lot easier.

“We always have the upper hand of showing the best of the best, because we get the sense of what won awards at the other festivals, what are people talking about, what’s big on social media right now,” says Reel Q executive director, T.J. Murphy.

“We have that unique advantage to bring those really exciting, thought-provoking films here.”

Now in its 34th year, Reel Q finds a new home at Row House Cinema (it previously took place at

Harris Theater) with a full schedule of 25 featurelength films and over 60 short films from around the world. Murphy says the festival is once again being held over 10 days after experimenting with a single-weekend schedule last year.

It begins on Thu., Oct. 3 with the opening night film Papi Chulo, starring Carnegie Mellon University alum Matthew Bomer as a lonely TV weatherman who strikes up a friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker (Alejandro Patiño).

“I’ve never seen anything quite like it in the realm of gay cinema, so we’re really excited to bring that,” says Murphy, adding that the BomerPittsburgh connection also helps. “It’s a really timeless

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story that would really resonate with anybody, which is another reason why we picked that up. It’s not necessarily a queer-specific narrative in ways that some of our other films might be.”

In addition to the 10-day schedule, Reel Q will also bring back its youth shorts program with Teen Dreams, a series of works made by young filmmakers including some from the local Steeltown program, Reel Teens.

“The current political climate, I’m sure, has young people really hungry to tell their stories, so there was just a lot of content this year that was created by teenagers and geared toward teenagers that we really wanted to highlight,” says Murphy.

He says this was also a strong year for documentaries. Among those featured are Dykes, Camera, Action, a “crash course on the history of lesbian cinema”; Where Justice Ends, a look at how trans people are

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mistreated by law enforcement; and the closing night film Gay Chorus Deep South, the screening of which includes a live performance from the Pittsburgh LGBTQ choral group Renaissance City Choir.

“THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE ISN’T ABOUT JUST COMING TO SEE A FILM.” The history of LGBTQ representation in the horror genre is examined with Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, a documentary about A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Often cited for its homoerotic overtones, the 1985 sequel went on to rile fans and ruined the career of lead actor Mark Patton (who is gay), only to become a camp classic hailed as one of the first LGBTQ horror movies.

As an added treat for local horror fans, the Scream, Queen! screening includes a live appearance from Patton and leads into a midnight matinee of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2.

Alongside the documentaries is a

diverse array of narrative films, including An Almost Ordinary Summer (described

by Reel Q as La Cage aux Folles meets Mamma Mia) and two French imports, The Shiny Shrimps and Sauvage/Wild, as well as Billie and Emma, a romance about two adolescent girls set in 1990s Philippines.

The festival will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Trick, an American romantic comedy about two men, a budding Broadway musical writer and a go-go dancer, who spend a sexually frustrating night together in late-90s Manhattan.

While the films are the obvious focus, Murphy points out that Reel Q hosts plenty of other events created to both entertain and educate audiences, including parties, panel discussions, and more. The Transtastic Shorts program, for example, includes a postscreening happy hour at Blue Moon Bar where guests can interact with local trans organizations.

“The festival experience isn’t about just coming to see a film,” says Murphy.

“It’s about coming and meeting people, making new friends, meeting like-minded people, and experiencing what the community has to offer as well, which is why we really pride ourselves in working with as many local organizations as we can to help program and let people know what’s available to them.”

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Acorn : Our goal is to always keep our guests needs top of mind and provide them with the best ingredients our region has to offer, prepared and presented in a way that makes them feel valued and comfortable. Simple. Honest. Soulful.

de Fer Coffee & Tea : Their mission is to bring amazing coffee and tea to more people–and to make the world a better place while doing it “We believe that coffee and tea are one of life’s simplest and most accessible pleasures. By enjoying top-quality coffee and tea created through a responsible and ethically managed supply chain—you empower farmers across the world. Drinking great coffee, tea, and helping people.”

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Station Restaurant : is a modern American restaurant and bar located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood. Under the direction of executive Chef Curtis Gamble, the restaurant features familiar dishes and ingredients in unique and inventive ways, prepared in New American style with a Mediterranean influence, and sourced locally from partner farms when possible.

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THE LOCAL 913: RELIABLE CHILD

BY LIZ FELIX // LIZ@WYEP.ORG

Mike Berginc, of Pittsburgh band As Ladders, describes his new solo project, Reliable Child, as “minimal, acoustic, and live-sounding.” Maybe that’s because of the technique he used to write the songs on his new EP, Some Blue Imagination.

“I got into demoing songs live on the internet — on Instagram and Facebook,” Berginc says. “It allowed me to broaden my perspective on songwriting and also get feedback from people I’d maybe never met. I’m still on that journey of, like, ‘What am I capable of putting in a song?’”

Some Blue STAY UP-TOImagination mainly deals with DATE WITH THIS relationships, WEEK’S LOCAL but the EP’s MUSIC NEWS standout opener, “Grayside,” veers WITH CP MUSIC WRITER JORDAN off that path.

SNOWDEN “That one has a theme of AND WYEP embracing the EVENING MIX silver linings HOST LIZ FELIX in situations in life. Sometimes Listen every the glass is halfWednesday full. Sometimes at 7 p.m. on it’s half-empty.

91.3FM WYEP I think things are a little more nuanced now in the current climate of popular opinion. There’s safety in saying that there’s no right or wrong answer. It’s just a nuanced situation that we’re all in, so keep a positive outlook.”

After his experience with the live social media demos, Berginc has a more positive outlook on performing than he ever has. He describes his past attitude to live performances as feeling like an obligatory part of writing music and being in a band. But now, Berginc says, “I’m learning that that’s the most powerful interaction, to actually play music live in front of people.” •

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LOT CAN happen in a year.

In Garter Shake’s case, a year’s time has brought them a new band member, a small dose of local notoriety — the alternative/indie rock group were featured on WYEP’s The Local 913 — and stage time at major Pittsburgh music festivals such as Millvale Music Festival, Three Rivers Arts Festival (TRAF), and Deutschtown Music Festival.

“We’ve been able to get in front of audiences that you may not find in the traditional club scene in town,” says Kathryn Heidemann, the newest member of Garter Shake.

“It’s really important to us to make sure we are accessible to new audiences that may not be active members in the Pittsburgh music scene.”

Heidemann joined Garter Shake – now made up of herself, Becki Gallagher (lead vocals, guitar), Jenn Jannon-Fischer (guitar, vocals), and Steve Gardner (drums) — around this time last year after responding to a post in the Pittsburgh Women Musicians group on Facebook. The band was looking for a substitute guitarist and Heidemann was looking to be involved in an active band but didn’t have the drive or resources to start one from scratch.

“I learned the songs very quickly and had my first show about a month later,” she says.

This was the arrangement for about five months, with Heidemann substituting in until bassist Maura Jacob, who also plays in doom-post-punk band Action Camp, felt overcommitted with the two projects in addition to graduate school and left Garter Shake.

“I felt like I was holding back because it was still in my mind that I was a sub, so to speak,” says Heidemann. “As a songwriter, I didn’t want to necessarily invest 110 percent

knowing I would be leaving. When the decision happened that I would be coming on as a permanent member, a different part of me was released. I allowed myself to let my guard down at that point. Almost a week later I contributed a song to band, ‘A/B.’” That was the start of a new beginning for Garter Shake, a shift Gallagher felt when the group was practicing for TRAF. “During [WYEP’s The Local 913], things were still new and we were feeling each other out,” she says. “When we really put the time in, things solidified in a way where we trusted each other and were comfortable with each other.

Things didn’t feel so uneasy and scary because we were feeling like we all knew each other and how we were playing.”

Heidemann went on to say that the group has “become one voice and it seems the band has gotten a lot more confidence, a little bit harder and energetic. We have a lot more ownership as who we are individually but also who we are as a band. I’ve heard from audience [members] that we click together as a band and have officially found our Garter Shake sound.”

Gallagher feels that this mentality

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Garter Shake

GARTER SHAKE WITH JAGS ON THE MON AND HONEY PRISM 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 5. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. facebook.com/gartershakeband

of being true to themselves, both personally and collectively, is the reason that the band has had so much progress in a year. In addition to Garter Shake, Gallagher is part of Pittsburgh-based rock band LoFi Delphi.

“This is my first time being in two bands,” she says. “Garter Shake found its way a little bit quicker than LoFi Delphi because I think that the four of us are kind of unapologetic in who we are and when we play to our audience. We are ourselves 100 percent of the time and that resonates with people 100 percent of the time.”

In the next 12 months, Garter Shakes hopes to start recording, either in late winter or early spring. With the addition of Heidemann, they have a lot of new material ready to be heard not only at shows. The group also plans to split their time between Pittsburgh and Ohio, as Heidemann now lives in Cleveland, for more coverage.

“I moved to Cleveland in August and it’s been fun to bridge the Ohio-Pennsylvania network,” says Heidemann. “We love the Pittsburgh music scene, but we’re excited to get our music out there in a more regional base.”

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WHAT THEATERS DO YOU SHOOT? HOW’D YOU START? I regularly work with Quantum [Theatre], off the WALL, PICT. I worked for City Paper; we covered entertainment events and I was photographing performances as a staff person. That led to people asking me to do it as a freelance photographer.

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE WORKS THAT YOU SHOOT? Most of the time, no. I walk in and deal with whatever’s in front of me. Now, so much is preview mode that a lot of the time I’m in before set, lighting, costumes.

Sometimes there’s very little to work with except actors. Most companies hire me twice. One mode is publication and publicity so they can get butts in the seats; second is archival reference for the company.

HOW DO YOU PHOTOGRAPH A PLAY YOU DON’T KNOW? I get as much information as I can on the

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front end, but it’s often very spontaneous.

I ask the director, “What is the feeling of this play? What’s the mood? Is it dark, comedic?” The actors aren’t off book at that point; they’re recreating action, so the words don’t matter to me. No one’s going to hear what’s being said. They should recreate the scene using dummy text, improvising but recalling the mood.

If they’re having an argument, I want them to have intensity. A love scene needs to look intimate.

SO THEY’RE NOT HOLDING STILL AND POSING? Running scenes is more effective, more authentic. Sometimes we hold something to give me time to make an adjustment — angle, lighting — but for the most part, I ask them to play as if they were in the scene. It results in more lively and active looking images.

HOW IS IT DIFFERENT THE SECOND TIME? Lighting changes constantly and quickly.

I’ve never seen the show, I have to work fast to capture moments, and I don’t know when the scene is changing, when is the last opportunity before the lights go down.

[At] rehearsal, I can say, “I like this moment” and run it again. But a dress rehearsal or a performance, I’m watching the same way the audience is, for the first time, and hope I get all the critical moments.

Quantum does a lot of location-based stuff where the audience is moving. I have more opportunity in a scenario like that than stationed in a seat. That’s the most restrictive scenario that I have and that’s really hard.

DO YOU THINK AS A PHOTOGRAPHER WHEN YOU ATTEND AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER? If it’s a show I worked on, I notice the opportunities I missed. Other than that, when I’m there as a photographer, I’m not really seeing the show at all.

I’m in my own head thinking about

the technical things I have to do.

A COUPLE FAVORITE SHOWS YOU’VE PHOTOGRAPHED? I loved Mark Thompson’s Kimono a couple years ago at off the WALL. It was very dark and very mysterious. I loved Quantum’s Billy the Kid. It was cool to be inside the Garden Theater, having passed by it so many times and wondering what it looked like in there. I also really liked the play.

WHAT’S THE MOST FULFILLING PART? I really like watching actors. It’s fun being in a rehearsal, watching people working things out between them. And it makes my job so easy because they are always putting something out there for the benefit of the audience, or in my case, the camera. When you have great lighting and great costume design and great set design and people who really are skilled, it makes it not feel like work at all.

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SEVEN DAYS OF CONCERTS SPIRIT FIRST FRIDAY FRI., OCT. 4 The Garfield/Bloomfield area is known for its First Friday event, Unblurred. But that’s not the only part of the city that throws down on the first weekend evening of the month. This week, head over to Lawrenceville for Spirit’s October First Friday. Along with work from local artist Zach Brown, rock band Pet Clinic, roots rock musician James Wolff, garage punk band Bat Zuppel, and DJ Brian Siewiorek will all be performing downstairs in the Lodge. The event is 21 and over, with $3 Straubs until midnight. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. Free. spiritpgh.com PHOTO: SHAUNA MILLER

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THURSDAY OCT. 3

COUNTRY

METAL

TYLER RICH. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille. 8 p.m. Warrendale.

ROCK

FOLK

BLUE CLUTCH (ALBUM RELEASE).

Mr. Smalls Theatre.

8:30 p.m. Millvale.

GHOST HOUNDS. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall.

8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

DEFEATER, FIELD MOUSE. Mr. Roboto Project. 7 p.m. Bloomfield.

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PINK TURNS BLUE. Spirit. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

CLASSICAL PITTSBURGH OPERA RESIDENT ARTIST. Market Square.

11:30 a.m. Downtown.

ACOUSTIC

ROANOKE. Club Cafe.

7 p.m. South Side.

JAZZ ROGER HUMPHRIES. Wallace’s Whiskey Room + Kitchen.

7 p.m. East Liberty.

FRIDAY OCT. 4 ROCK THE POPRAVINAS. Club Cafe. 6 p.m. South Side.

IN COLD BLOOD, UNREAL CITY. Preserving Hardcore.

7 p.m. New Kensington.

TRIBUTE THE TEN BAND (PEARL JAM).

Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

9 p.m. Whitehall.

RESPECT (ARETHA FRANKLIN).

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

8 p.m. Downtown.

ELECTRONIC GLO PHASE, PINK SKY, LUXI. Nights of Conroy.

7 p.m. North Side.

WEST DEER BLUEGRASS REVIEW. Elwood’s Pub. 7:30 p.m. Tarentum.

CATATONEYA (ALBUM RELEASE). Rex Theater.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

ELECTRONIC

RED ELVISES. Hard Rock Cafe.

7:30 p.m. South Side.

FAZE2. REMEDY Restaurant and Lounge. 10 p.m. Lawrenceville.

MERCYME (CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN). PPG Paints Arena.

7 p.m. Downtown.

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

SPICES PECULIAR, JASON GREENLAW QUARTET (JAZZ).

Howlers. 9 p.m. Bloomfield.

TRIBUTE CHURCH OF CASH. Crafthouse Stage & Grill. 8 p.m. Whitehall.

SHELIA E. Meadows Racetrack & Casino. 8 p.m. Washington.

PUNK

TIM VITULLO, CREEPING JENNY. Moondog’s Pub. 8 p.m. Blawnox.

THE QUEERS, BOILED DENIM. Cattivo. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

THE FLESHTONES, THE SINISTER SIX. Get Hip Records.

7:30 p.m. North Side.

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FOLK THE GHOST OF PAUL REVERE. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall.

8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

N-TYPE, JOE NICE. Cattivo. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

A DAY WITHOUT LOVE, TITLES SHADOWS. 222 Ormsby. 7 p.m. Mt. Oliver.

SATURDAY OCT. 5 COVERS THECAUSE. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall.

8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

COUNTRY

METAL

JUSTIN FABUS. Hard Rock Cafe.

9 p.m. South Side.

ASSAULT. Black Forge Coffee House. 6 p.m. McKees Rocks.

R&B/SOUL

ROCK

CHANTAL JOSEPH. Enix Brewing. 8 p.m. Homestead.

PRISSY WHIP. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 7 p.m. Millvale.

FOLK

FOLK

ARTISTREE SOUL BAND. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

9 p.m. Whitehall.

MICHAEL G. BATDORF. Club Cafe. 1 p.m. South Side.

SMOOTH HOUND SMITH. Club Cafe. 7 p.m. South Side.

FUNK

FESTIVAL

TITLE TOWN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. Spirit.

9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

MONDAY OCT. 7

JAZZ

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

“ALL-SCENE” ENTERTAINMENT FESTIVAL. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

3 p.m. Millvale.

ELECTRONIC VYTEAR, SKYMALL, DIVTECH. 3577 Studios. 9 p.m. Polish Hill.

NIXIE UNTERWELT. Black Forge Coffee House.

7 p.m. Allentown.

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE SHONEN KNIFE, DRESSY BESSY, THE SHADOW EVENT. Cattivo. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

BEN VEREEN. MCG Jazz. 7:30 p.m. North Side.

HALF ALIVE. Stage AE. 7 p.m. North Side.

RAVI COLTRANE QUARTET. New Hazlett Theater.

8 p.m. North Side.

METAL

SUNDAY OCT. 6 JAZZ

JOHN-ALLISON “A.W.” WEISS. Mr. Roboto Project.

7 p.m. Bloomfield.

NIGHT CLUB BAND. Thelma Lovette YMCA. 5:30 p.m. Hill District.

WITT LOWRY. Mr. Smalls Theatre.

8:30 p.m. Millvale.

ROCK

COUNTRY

MELVINS. Rex Theater. 8 p.m. South Side.

FRED EAGLESMITH. Hard Rock Cafe. 8:30 p.m. South Side.

JAZZ

PIERCE EDENS, THE MIXUS BROTHERS. Club Cafe. 6 p.m. South Side.

HIP-HOP/RAP

HIP-HOP/RAP

BEN VEREEN. MCG Jazz. 7 p.m. North Side.

CHANCE THE RAPPER. PPG Paints Arena. 7 p.m. Downtown.

WARBRINGER, ENFORCER. Cattivo. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

WAGE WAR. Rex Theater. 6 p.m. South Side.

ROCK KULICK. The Smiling Moose.

6:30 p.m. South Side.

THE BLACK KEYS. PPG Paints Arena. 7 p.m. Downtown.

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE NANA GRIZOL, LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES. Mr. Roboto Project. 7 p.m. Bloomfield.

THE HUNTRESS AND HOLDER OF HANDS. Club Cafe. 7 p.m. South Side.

FOUR CHORD MUSIC FESTIVAL SUN., OCT. 6 The Four Chord Music Festival returns for its biggest year yet: a larger venue, more top-names in punk and pop-punk, and even some live wrestling. Now in its sixth year, the festival, which previously took place in spaces like XTAZA Nightclub and The Smiling Moose, has moved to Highmark Stadium and will feature veteran California punks The Offspring, as well as Simple Plan, Anberlin, Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Grayscale, Seaway, Eternal Boy, and more. VIP packages are available, which consist of a special acoustic performance from one of the acts in addition to brunch, private VIP lounges and restrooms, and festival merch. 12-11 p.m. 510 W. Station Square Drive, South Side. $59.99-140.59. fourchordmusicfestival.com

PUNK

JAZZ

MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN. Spirit. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

R&R JAZZ TRIO. The Park House.

8 p.m. North Side.

TIGER ARMY, SADGIRL. Mr. Smalls Theater.

7 p.m. Millvale.

CLASSICAL

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE

ELECTRONIC

ORION STRING QUARTET. Carnegie Music Hall.

7:30 p.m. Oakland.

AUSTIN PLAINE, KELLEY JEANNE. Club Cafe. 7 p.m. South Side.

ZEDD. Stage AE. 6:30 p.m. North Side.

TUESDAY OCT. 8

WEDNESDAY OCT. 9

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL. Crafthouse Stage & Grill.

6 p.m. Whitehall.

ROCK

JAZZ

HUGH JACKMAN. PPG Paints Arena.

7:30 p.m. Downtown.

AVRIL LAVIGNE. Roxian Theatre.

7 p.m. McKees Rocks.

REMO DRIVE. Spirit.

7 p.m. Lawrenceville.

STRUNG OUT. Crafthouse Stage & Grill. 8 p.m. Whitehall.

THE DISTILLERS. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 8 p.m. Millvale.

JAM BANDS SPAFFORD. Rex Theatre. 8 p.m. South Side.

POP BYRNE BRIDGES, SWAMPWALK, BIG BABY. The Government Center. 7 p.m. North Side.

ROOSEVELT COLLIER, ELECTRIC KIF. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

MOONCHILD. Spirit. 7 p.m. Lawrenceville.

ROCK

MUSICALS

ACOUSTIC ERIC HUTCHINSON. Rex Theater.

7 p.m. South Side.

BLUES/AMERICANA

PUNK

JIMMIE VAUGHAN. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille.

8 p.m. Warrendale.

DIAVOL STRÂIN, JESUCRISIS, SILENCE. Cattivo. 8 p.m. Lawrenceville.

SOUTH SIDE _________ MONROEVILLE MALL

METAL

ART ALEXAKIS. Hard Rock Cafe.

8 p.m. South Side.

OPERATORS. Club Cafe. 7 p.m. South Side.

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The Offspring at Výstavište BVV in the Czech Republic

RECONQUISTA. Arsenal Bowl. 9 p.m. Lawrenceville.

WORLD JESSE COOK. Byham Theater.

8 p.m. Downtown.

These listings are curated by Pittsburgh City Paper’s music writer Jordan Snowden and include events from our free online listings. Submit yours today at www.pghcitypaper.com/submitevent PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER OCT. 2-9, 2019

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WHEN THE RIVER SOUNDS

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HE LONGER THE current prob-

lems at the U.S. border continue, the more it produces horrifying images that make the news. Photos of families struggling to cross the border, young kids detained in detention camps, bodies of those who didn’t make it.

They’re painful to see and hear, and while these images and videos and stories provide more information on the people bearing the burden of the border crisis, there’s still an anonymity to it all. These people are known more for what they endure than who they are as people, where they came from, and why they left. In his exhibit Cuando el Río Suena at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, artist Jaime Guerrero makes these migrants known with detailed, life-size glass sculptures that capture a delicate portrait of the

children who have experienced it.

The exhibit, opening Fri., Oct. 4 and continuing through Jan. 26, 2020, features a collection of glass sculptures depicting migrant children, whether they made it across the border to the U.S., or if they’re being held indefinitely at a detention center. Another collection honors the children who died while migrating (at least seven children have died in immigration custody in the past year, while others have died while making the journey).

The Glass Center exhibit, which Guerrero created during a nine-month residency at the facility, is his third on the topic of immigration, with two previous displays in his home state of California.

He used the previous exhibits as opportunities for visitors to share their stories of immigration, from South and

Central America, as well as immigrant stories from all over the world. They wrote letters about their experiences, and a wall of them will be displayed at the exhibit, where visitors can continue sharing.

“I wanted to share with the public personal stories of why [they are immigrating] as an attempt to humanize these children’s lives,” says Guerrero.

“We don’t know these kids’ names, we don’t know who they are or where they came from or what their backgrounds are or why they left. I feel it’s a story that’s missing.”

The sculptures of immigrant children, many of which are based on images of real people seen on the news, are made completely from clear glass, which helps Guerrero highlight the fragility of their lives in this situation, but also that, like

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“They’re visible as far as we hear in the news, but they’re invisible as far as their personal journeys,” he says.”

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The children who have died are portrayed with angelic wings, made of opaque white glass, presenting them as guardian angels to those still making the journey. Besides glass, the exhibit will bring attention to immigrant lives with projected videos of some of the children, an area fenced in like a detention center, and a border wall.

Guerrero hopes the exhibit will fill in the gaps some people have in their knowledge about immigration, humanize the faces and bodies people see on

the news, and provide context into why so many people choose, or are forced to, leave their home country. The title, Cuando el Río Suena, is part of a South American proverb, which in full reads “Cuando el Río Suena es porque agua lleva.” Guerrero says it translates to “when the river sounds, it is because it carries water” — a similar meaning to the English expression, “when there’s smoke, there’s fire.” In other words, danger is coming, or already here.

It came to Guerrero around the time an image went viral of a man, Óscar Ramírez, and his two-year-old daughter, Valeria, who drowned while trying to cross over the Rio Grande into Texas. “I thought the title was very appropriate to think of the horrific dangers that these desperate people seeking asylum have to endure, or in this case not endure, because they didn’t make it,” he says.

The river has always carried water, but with Guerrero’s exhibit, we might at least get to know its victims.

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BY ALEX GORDON // ALEXGORDON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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UNK SCENES ARE rarely wel-

comed into communities with open arms, but it’s fair to say that the culture of Washington, D.C., and the punk/hardcore scene of the late 1970s/early ’80s had a particularly incompatible relationship.

“People said, ‘You cannot do this here. This is a radical kind of music and it can’t happen in D.C.’ But once it took root, it grew in ways we could have never imagined,” opens the trailer for Paul Bishow and James Schneider’s new documentary Punk the Capital, which explores that dynamic and chronicles the scene from 1976-1983 through archival footage and interviews with the people and bands who were there (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag, and many more).

Since the documentary premiered in June, Schneider has been traveling the country for screenings and Q&As with the people featured in the film.

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the screening to discuss note-keeping, underage shows, and reliving your youth on screen 40 years after the fact.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

PUNK THE CAPITAL SCREENING AND Q&A WITH JAMES SCHNEIDER AND JEFF NELSON 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 8. Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave., Highland Park. $12. dcpunkrockdoc.info

I SAW AN ARCHIVAL PHOTO THAT’S IN THE FILM THAT’S ATTRIBUTED TO YOU. WERE YOU DOCUMENTING A LOT OF YOUR LIFE AT THAT TIME? I’ve always kept really good files and records and squirreled things away.

Ian [MacKaye, Minor Threat singer and Dischord co-founder] did as well.

We have quite extensive archives, we didn’t keep them the same years, but we both kept journals so that’s helpful and hilarious to dip into.

WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU AND IAN DISCUSSED AT THE OUTSET

OF DISCHORD, TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE ARCHIVING AND KEEPING NOTES? No, that was not something that we’d be discussing. For me, it’s just an inherited trait from my parents and grandparents, keeping things and preserving things.

THE FILM FRAMES THE PUNK SCENE AS FUNDAMENTALLY AT ODDS WITH THE CULTURE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE? It’s hard to say whether it’s that different from other cities and their early punk scenes. I think punk was shocking early on whenever and wherever it took place.

CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE YEARS LEADING UP TO THE SCENE EXPLODING IN THE EARLY ‘80S? The D.C. scene was very tiny. Those of us from the later scene, meaning ‘79 or ‘80, are very excited about all the things that came before us. We never knew that much about it, we weren’t going to shows at that point. We think it’s great that the people who came before us are getting their props. The film does a good job of showing the very earliest years of

the scene. Before we came along, it was still a very small, tight-knit community.

When we came along, there were very few punks. I’ve never thought that just because someone was a punk or a hippie or any other follower of a style, I’ve never thought that that meant that automatically you had things in common with them or that they were a good person.

But in general, there were so few of us in the punk scene that when you did see a fellow punk, it was a big deal.

The scene became very incestuous in terms of bands, but it was incredibly low-key, no thoughts whatsoever that four decades later people would care about the scene. In other words, it was just what little shows you could get in somebody’s basement or garage, or at a rented hall. Or as the case of the Teen Idles, which was our second band, before Minor Threat, we would sometimes manage to get shows opening for some other band, but rarely got asked back. Occasionally [we’d] actually [get] banned, but usually just not asked back. Either they were nervous about the dancing – which at that point was quite tame, similar to slam dancing but it was much more friendly and less aggressive early on – but also the fact that it was such a young scene, and we weren’t drinking alcohol, which is how clubs make their money. Plus they were always worried about underage kids drinking. It was always a risk.

Most notably when Ian met with the owner of the 9:30 Club and discussed that very fact. “Why don’t you let us play matinee shows? We can put big Xs on hands” — which later came to symbolize straight edge around the world — “but most of the kids won’t try to drink, they don’t want to drink.

They’ll buy Cokes and stuff, but you won’t have to worry about underage drinking or getting in trouble. And we’ll fill your club.”

I IMAGINE WATCHING ALL THIS OLD FOOTAGE AND RELIVING THESE STORIES WAS A MIXED BAG: ENTERTAINING, NOSTALGIC, MAYBE UNCOMFORTABLE. I don’t think there’s anything uncomfortable other than wishing I didn’t speak in such a monotone voice. I just thought it was pretty great. It made me happy and proud for the part I played, and even if musically it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, it’s still a totally enjoyable story.

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F YOU GREW UP watching Saturday morning cartoons, you owe much of those memories to animator Ron Campbell. Over the course of 50 years, Campbell helped shape television by working on dozens of hit animated series, including The Beatles cartoon show in the late ’60s, a gig that led to his work on the band’s musical fantasy film, Yellow Submarine.

Now, the 80-year-old Campbell will appear at Maser Galleries in Shadyside to present pop art paintings inspired by his long career, all of which reinterpret the iconic characters he helped create for animation giants like Hanna-Barbera and Disney. Taking place Oct. 4-6, the show will partly serve to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ album Abbey Road with a selection of Campbell’s work depicting the iconic band.

Almost every month, Campbell travels from his home in Arizona to various parts of the country, selling paintings, meeting with fans, and drawing for the children who come to his cartoon pop art shows.

“People come in and they see a

painting and they’re swept back to their childhood,” says Campbell. “The nostalgia overtakes them, and they say, ‘Oh, I just adored Scooby-Doo.’ Then they buy a picture of Scooby-Doo to look at on their wall for the rest of their life, and they say things like, ‘Every time I walk in the room and look at it, I smile to myself.’”

Born in the Australian state of Victoria, Campbell started his long career when American production companies came to his home country looking for help developing animated television programming. At the time, he says he never believed cartoons would take off, especially because The Beatles only lasted one season.

“In those days, everybody was frightened about children’s Saturday morning cartoons,” says Campbell. “Nobody was really confident that money could be made from it, so investment available for production was very limited.”

After moving to the U.S. in 1966, he says he found himself working on what he calls the “golden age of Saturday morning cartoons.” Besides Scooby-Doo, he produced, directed, animated, or story-

RON CAMPBELL CARTOON POP ART SHOW AT MASER GALLERIES Various times. Fri., Oct. 4-Sun., Oct. 6. 5427 Walnut St., Shadyside. masergalleries.com

boarded The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Captain Caveman, among others. His Hollywood studio, Ron Campbell Films, Inc., also produced and directed the animation for The Big Blue Marble, which ran from 1974 to 1983.

He continued working through the 1980s and 1990s on Saturday morning mainstays like The Smurfs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as the hugely popular Disney Afternoon lineup and various shows for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. The industry changed, however, when things shifted from handdrawn to computer-generated animation in the early-2000s.

After this change, Campbell retired and began painting, a pursuit that allows him a certain freedom compared to his life in cartoons.

“Every animator is under restrictions,” says Campbell, adding that you could never draw characters “off-model,” meaning they always had to look exactly the same. “But now I’m doing paintings and nobody can tell me what to do.”

While he laments the evolution of animation away from his preferred hand-drawn style, he enjoys the new life painting has afforded him.

“It’s a nice way for me to end my life actually, just meeting the audience for the first time,” says Campbell.

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started with the image of a young boy laying in the grass looking up at the clouds, imagining, as so many kids do, that he sees something in them. A dog, perhaps, or a cow.

But Imaginary Friend (Grand Central) begins with a more portentous tone.

“My original idea is what would happen if a little boy looked up at a cloud and realized, for the last two weeks, he’s always seen a face looking back at him,” says Chbosky, who appears on Oct. 7 as a guest of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures New & Noted series.

Chbosky is best known for his debut 1999 YA novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

He also directed the film version of Perks, as well as the 2017 film Wonder, and co-wrote the screenplay for the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast.

But Imaginary Friend breaks new ground for the Upper St. Clair native.

Imagine Stephen King and C.S. Lewis collaborating on a novel, with J. R. R. Tolkien as the editor, and you get a sense of the breadth and scope of the 700 plus pages Chbosky wrote over 10 years.

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“It took over my life at various points,” says Chbosky of the story, which centers on Christopher Reese, a seven-year-old boy who arrives with his mother in the fictional Western Pennsylvania town of Mill Grove. She is fleeing from her abusive boyfriend. He suffers from dyslexia and is a social misfit.

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brilliant, confident child.

There are elements of horror, thriller, and even religious fiction in the story, and Chbosky says his recent projects bled into the novel.

“Directing Perks got me back to my Pittsburgh roots,” he says. “It got me back to a lot of the themes I tackled in the book, but in a much more literal way, because film is more literal than fiction. Beauty and the Beast woke up my desire to tell fairy tales. It also got me thinking about writing for larger audiences, from younger readers to older. And Wonder, just working with all those little kids, and the teenagers and adults, was telling a multi-generational story, which I had never done before.”

The religious aspect of Imaginary Friend can’t be revealed without giving away crucial plot elements, but a clue can be found in a famous line from The Usual Suspects: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.

That line — written by Chbosky’s friend, Christopher McQuarrie — hearkens back to his Catholic childhood and the idea of how talking to oneself (which the character seems to do) is closely related to prayer.

But more than that, “the tradition, the identification of being Catholic, never goes away,” Chbosky says. “Just like writing about Pittsburgh, even though I don’t live there, never goes away.”

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inherently tense, but made even more so when the case involves marines who have sworn to live up to a certain code of ethics and honor. These issues are tackled in Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 play (and 1992 movie) A Few Good Men, directed by Marya Sea Kaminski, which runs at the Pittsburgh Public Theater through Sun., Oct. 13.

The play opens in Guantanamo Bay where two young marines, Private FirstClass Louden Downey and Lance Corporal Harold Dawson, are charged with the murder of a fellow marine under mysterious circumstances. The lawyer assigned to their case, Daniel Kaffee, cares more about playing on his work softball team than fighting tough battles in the courtroom.

Then, another marine lawyer, Joanne Galloway, shows up, who’s convinced that there’s more to the case than what they’ve been told. She is adamant that the case involves a misguided “Code Red,” an unofficial hazing ritual. Colonel Nathan Jessep, the commanding officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay, insists that Code Reds were strictly forbidden and that Private William Santiago, the murder victim, was a weak and substandard marine.

As the legal team starts to dig deeper into the story, they learn that more goes on in Guantanamo Bay than they’ve been told about — not only do high ranking officers know about Code Reds, they sometimes order them, maybe even in the case of Santiago. Kaffee, Galloway, and their colleague Sam Weinberg find themselves in a moral dilemma, questioning who and what they believe, and their duties as lawyers and marines.

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The play feels like a bit of an odd fit for a theater company in 2019, as it’s a courtroom drama about violence between the marines stationed in Guantanamo Bay. We know now that far more horrific things have gone on in Guantanamo Bay that have nothing to do with inter-marine politics. It’s weird to watch a play about the U.S. military in 1989 that hasn’t been at all updated to reflect the current state of the military and doesn’t acknowledge the 30-year gap, or that some of Sorkin’s condescending monologues about morals in the military don’t hold up in present day. The year is barely referenced, so it’s almost disguised as a contemporary play.

A FEW GOOD MEN Continues through Sun., Oct. 13.

The O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $31-81. ppt.org

Script and plot aside, the actors are mostly well-cast for their roles and bring out the characters’ strengths. As Kaffee, Doug Harris has all the boyish charm and cockiness needed to play a smart, but overly confident young lawyer. Alison Weisgall brings the intensity and teacher’s pet energy to Joanne (although, this is Sorkin, so there’s only one woman and her main personality trait is that she’s a nag.) As Jessep, Burke Moses stands out for his fiery and commanding delivery.

It’s hard to watch a play like A Few Good Men and pretend that it or its audience is apolitical towards the military, but the strong performances and intrigue surrounding the murder are enough to make it a compelling watch.

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THURSDAY OCT. 3 EVENT Swap out beer for ketchup at Heinztoberfest.

The month-long celebration, in honor of Heinz’s 150th anniversary, kicks off with a 21-and-over night at the Heinz History Center. Bask in the shadow of an 11-foot ketchup bottle on your way to enjoy the hot dog bar, craft cocktails, and tastetests of your favorite Heinz products.

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The celebrations continue until Oct. 19, ending with a Heinz-inspired edition of Hometown-Homegrown, Good Taste!

Pittsburgh’s annual food expo. 6:30 p.m.

1212 Smallman St., Downtown. $15. heinzhistorycenter.org

FRIDAY OCT. 4 BOOKS If your space needs some sprucing up,

skip buying another throw pillow and give your coffee table some love instead. The Silver Eye Book Fair includes “beautiful, strange, and utterly unique” photo books from publishers and artists across the country, including Pittsburgh’s own Spaces Corners, an artist-run bookstore specializing in contemporary imagery. The annual event at Silver Eye Center for Photography will also feature presentations and panel discussions on the state of photo books. 5-10 p.m. Also 11-6 p.m., Sat., Oct. 5. 4808 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10

suggested donation. silvereye.org

ZINES Each year, the Pittsburgh Zine Fair brings together a collection of independent artists and their experimental, funny, sad, and weird zines. While the event isn’t until later this month, you can get an early peek at what’s to come at the Pittsburgh Zine Fair Preview Party at PULLPROOF Studio during the Unblurred gallery crawl.

There will be zines, prints, and drawings for sale. 7-10 p.m. 5112 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. Free. pghzinefair.com

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^ Sat., Oct. 5: My Castle is a Dorm: Air and the Tulpa Called Night Compass

STEPS BikePGH’s new event series Steps We Take asks Pittsburghers to take a walk — specifically on the robust network of stairs that have helped locals navigate our hilly terrain for decades.

The program has different themes for different neighborhoods: West End (Oct. 5) is a stairwell fashion show; Troy Hill (Oct. 10-12) is an audio walk and art installation; and the inaugural event turns Polish Hill’s steps into a “vertical block party,” with food, activities, (and places to sit down) at intervals between the stairwells. The series serves as “a playful reminder that the city steps are Pittsburgh’s most unique public infrastructure and deserving of continued civic investment.” 7 p.m.

Continues through Sat., Oct. 12. Multiple locations. Free. bikepgh.org

DRAG Bathhouse Betty, a local showcase for LGBTQ artists and performers, welcomes Yovska from the reality competition series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. Now in its third season, the show is described in a press release as featuring “monster drag artists” from around the world, all competing for a cash prize and title of Dragula. Yovska, ^ Fri., Oct. 4: Pittsburgh Zine Fair Preview Party

who competed on season three, will appear at Club Pittsburgh for one monstrous night that includes music

by Jellyfish. 11:55 p.m. 1139 Penn Ave., Strip District. $10/15 at the door. Search “Bathhouse Betty: Yovska” on Facebook

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EVENT Ever wondered what’s inside that gorgeous building you walk past every day?

What does it feel like to stand center-stage in Heinz Hall or walk the Mayor’s halls? Satisfy your curiosity at DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh.

Learn about the city’s past, present, and future while exploring over 50 buildings and behind-the-scenes spaces on the North Side and Downtown over the two-day event. Be as nebby as you want — this is the only time some of these buildings are open to the public.

Continues Sun., Oct. 6. Various locations. $6-17. doorsopenpgh.org

PARTY Allegheny City Brewing celebrates three years in its homey North Side taproom with ACB Turns 3. In addition to food from PGH Taco Truck and Romulus Pizza al Taglio, the brewery is ringing in year No. 3 with a slew of new releases, CONTINUES ON PG. 42

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including Impawssible Perspective (brewed with paw paws), a tequila barrel-aged gose, the Singletrack Mind IPA brewed in collaboration with Dirty Harry’s Bike Shop in Verona, and more.

(And if these new ones aren’t your thing, don’t worry, they’ll have 14 taps pouring their regular lineup.) Music provided by Dead and in the Way and DJ Reason.

2 p.m. 507 Foreland St., North Side. alleghenycitybrewing.com

FESTIVAL The old Pittsburgh adage “Build bridges, not walls” comes to life in event-form at the sixth annual All-Scene Entertainment Festival. It’s a lineup unrestricted by genre, medium, style, and experience, with music, visual art, comedy, dance, yoga, and more for a day-long affair at Mr. Smalls Theatre.

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There’s music from kidmental, Sikes and the New Violence, Tribe Eternal, and many more; comedians including Cassie Bruno and Stacey Fleurime; dance performances from Lost Culture Dance Crew; and art from The Mindful Elephant, Black Girl Absolute, Eric Papineau, and many more.

OK, there are simply too many participants to list here, but if you were hoping for an open mic and an all-are-welcome drum circle, you won’t be disappointed. Find the full lineup online. 3 p.m. Mr. Smalls Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $10. mrsmalls.com

ART A new exhibit at UnSmoke Systems Artspace, My Castle is a Dorm: Air and the Tulpa Called Night Compass by Andrew W. Allison, explores how identity is formed through myths,

memories, and magical thinking. (Tulpa is a spiritual concept of creating an object or being through mental power.)

Celebrate the exhibit on opening night, with a collection of new works that feature brightly colored and surreal paintings and sculptures. 6-9 p.m. Continues through Thu., Oct. 31. 1137 Braddock Ave., Braddock. Free. unsmokeartspace.com

STAGE The Thornburg Village Players, a group of performers based in the Borough of Thornburg, Pa., presents a production of the physical comedy-filled play Drop Dead. Written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, the show follows a cast of hasbeen actors trying to revive their careers in a staged murder mystery, while encountering actual killings and other disasters.

7-9 p.m. Continues through Sun., Oct. 13.

604 Hamilton Road, Crafton. $10. facebook.com/ThornburgVillagePlayers

SUNDAY OCT. 6 FILM Reel Q wraps up the first weekend of its LGBT+ Film Festival (Oct. 3-12) with Transtastic Shorts at Row House Cinema. The program includes short films that turn the lens on the modern trans experience. A networking happy hour with local organizations like Trans YOUniting, a trans-based non-profit that provides educational programs for trans folks and allies, will follow at Blue Moon. 5-7 p.m.

4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $7-10. rowhousecinema.com

^ Sat., Oct. 5: Kauffman’s Grand at DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh

MONDAY OCT. 7 ART The Artist Resource Fair returns with another round of opportunities for Pittsburgh’s creative community. Now in its sixth year, the event connects local artists with local and national foundations and arts service organizations that provide grants, residencies, and other support. Among those in attendance are the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, BOOM Concepts, and many more. The event includes presentations followed by a networking reception, as well as catering

by Sprezzatura. The fair will take place at New Hazlett Theater. 5:30-9 p.m.

6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. Free with RSVP. $10 with RSVP and donation. newhazletttheater.org

TUESDAY OCT. 8

ART Attend an Artists Talk reception for Mixed Red, a collection of new mixed-media works by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh member Scott Hunter.

Presented as part of a series of member exhibitions at Point Park University’s Tomayko Gallery, Mixed Red is “steeped in the mysteries of random pairings of images found in everyday detritus,” with acrylic paintings containing elements of collage. The reception is included in the lineup of events for RADical Days. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Continues through Sun., Dec. 8. 201 Wood St., Downtown. Free. aapgh.org

FILM Washington, D.C. is most known for its political mayhem, but in the late 1970s, there was a burst of musical mayhem too. In that decade and into the next, the punk scene flourished.

The documentary Punk the Capital explores this era of punk and where it fits within the larger rock scene, featuring bands like Bad Brains and Minor Threat. The film will screen at Union Project, with special guests Jeff Nelson, cofounder of Dischord Records and a member of Minor Threat, and James June Schneider, the director of the film.

7 p.m. 801 N. Negley Ave., Highland Park. $12. unionproject.org

WEDNESDAY OCT. 9 FILM It may seem quaint to imagine a found-footage horror film taking the world by storm today, but in 1999, thanks to the novelty of the idea and a genius (and cheap) marketing campaign swearing by the film’s legitimacy, The Blair Witch Project did just that. It’s a “documentary” about three pals who are not very good at making films, but experts at losing maps and yelling at each other in the remote woods of Maryland (?) while searching for a witch. It was followed up by a spectacularly awful sequel in 2000 and the mildly awful Blair Witch in 2016, but the original’s legacy is pretty air tight and holds up 20 years later. Head back to a simpler time of huge cameras and broken cell phones when AMC screens the original for one night only. 7:30 p.m. AMC Waterfront 22, 300 W. Waterfront Drive, Homestead. • PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER OCT. 2-9, 2019

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IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD19-11213. In re petition of David Alan Marrah and Brandy Nichole Reichenberger for change of name to David Alan Carie-Marrah and Brandy Nichole Carie-Marrah. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 7th day of November, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-19-12696, In re petition of Kiera Robinson parent and legal guardian of Kiellé Rose Amor Taylor, for change of name to Kiellé Rose Amor Robinson-Ratliff. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 8th day of October, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-19-10499. In re petition of Lawarren Speed Rush for change of name to Lawarren Speed Macklin. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 21st day of October, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-19-013034, In re petition of Gaurav Sudhakar Narkhede parent and legal guardian of Neera Gaurav Narkhede, for change of name to Neera Shraddha Narkhede. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 22nd day of October, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-19-12824, In re petition of Tenicia McLean parent and legal guardian of Gianna Ericka Evans, for change of name to Gianna Ericka McLean.

To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 11th day of October, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-19-13072, In re petition of Michelle Nguyen parent and legal guardian of Lucas Fiumara, for change of name to Lucas Fiumara Nguyen. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 17th day of October, 2019, at 9:45 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for

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PEEPSHOW A sex and social justice column

BY JESSIE SAGE // PEEPSHOWCAST@GMAIL.COM

The [Ancient] Greeks […] originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt into the body and advertised that the bearer was a slave, a criminal, or a traitor — a blemished person, ritually polluted, to be avoided, especially in public places.

– Erving Goffman

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HIS WEEK MARKS my one-year anniversary as the Pittsburgh City Paper’s sex columnist. It has been an incredible year, one in which I have been able to address so many important topics, including kinks, fetishes, gender identity, relationship structures, sexual communication, sex acts, sexual health, reproductive rights, and the politics of sex work.

While I have worked to incorporate the voices of a variety of folks into my column, I have also made it clear that my own perspectives have been shaped by my experience as an adult performer and as a writer/podcaster covering the sex industry. In other words, week after week, I have outed myself as a sex worker in a widely circulated publication in my own city.

In some ways, this has been freeing: You have very little to hide once you’ve decided to publish stories about your personal sex life, as well as your very stigmatized profession. In other ways,

it has meant perpetually facing decisions on how to manage my safety and identity, as well as considering the way that my work impacts my relationships with those outside of my sex work community. That is to say, this year has been an exercise in managing stigma.

It is fitting, then, that last week I was hired to give a presentation at Penn State University on the impacts of stigma with my colleague Dena Stanley, founder of Trans YOUniting. After the trip, I began to reflect on all of the subtle ways that stigma impacts the lives of sex workers in addition to more obvious ones that we covered in our presentation, such as violence, criminalization, housing, workplace, and

banking discrimination, among others.

In his 1963 book Stigma, Erving Goffman theorizes what it means to live with stigma. He points out that while stigma is no longer associated with cuts or burns made in the skin of criminals, traitors, and slaves (as happened in Ancient Greece), stigma still works in much the same way, branding a person as having “a spoiled identity.” Stigma, in Goffman’s words, changes someone “from a whole and usual person to a tainted and discounted one.”

While walking through Oakland with my dad yesterday, I pointed to a City Paper stand, telling him that this is the publication for which I write. His response was, “You write for a paper?”

He then quickly changed the subject, making it clear that my career was not something we were going to discuss.

Conversely, acquaintances sometimes introduce me as a sex worker in contexts where it is irrelevant, leaving me with a sinking suspicion that these interactions are less about me as a person and more about cashing in on some progressive cultural cachet that comes with hanging around sex workers. In both cases, I am being seen through the lens of sex work, either by being pushed to detach from it or by being reduced to it.

In her brilliant essay “Once You Have Made Pornography,” porn performer Lorelei Lee says, “If you continue to do this job, it will become harder and harder to have a life outside of it. More and more, it will be the people you work with who will understand that your work ... doesn’t tell them who you are, and it will be civilians for whom the knowledge that you’ve been naked for money will be a kind of flattening — a thing they cannot see around.”

I am grateful for this column, that I have a platform I can use to present sex workers and other marginalized folks as whole people. But I am also aware that we have a long way to go before this translates into better conditions since we are all still seen through a lens of intense stigma. In the meantime, I am going to keep on writing.

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