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job in January 2011 while she was pregnant, 38-year-old Erica Yesko dreaded the idea of having to search for work again. For Yesko, who got into trouble while using drugs 10 years ago, jobs are very, very hard to ﬁnd. “It’s not that I don’t have the skills, or interviewing skills. I have great customerservice skills,” she says. Her biggest obstacle is “the box” — the space on many job-application forms that applicants are instructed to check if they’ve ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor. Filling in that box, says Yesko, keeps her from getting her foot in the door. “The whole facial expression on a person changes when they read [the answer to] that question,” she says. On one occasion, Yesko recalls, she watched the clerk in a mall clothing store toss her application in a trash can. And almost two years after losing the telemarketing position, she’s still jobhunting. She lives in a homeless shelter in North Braddock, with her 7-year-old

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Activist Dean Williams is asking Pittsburgh City Council to “Ban the Box.”

and 1-year-old. “It has been 10 years since I’ve been arrested,” she says. “I paid my debt. Will I ever be able to move forward?” Yesko was one of about 75 people — many with criminal records — who appeared before Pittsburgh City Council last week, urging lawmakers to “ban the box” from job applications. Its presence on hiring forms, they say, keeps those who are trying to live responsibly from being able to do so.

“When I see that box, it takes me to a place where I see stigma and hopelessness,” says Neecy Long, 59. Long, who also has 10-year-old convictions related to drug use, says she eventually gave up looking for full-time work as a result. She volunteers now for the Center for Spirituality in Homewood and lives off Social Security income. “I volunteer because society holds me in bondage [to] my past,” she says. “The box is the issue,” says Dean CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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rehabilitation program, he joined a volunteer group that helped people with convictions on their records get them expunged and leveraged that into a job with the Philadelphia-based X-Offenders for Community Empowerment group. Shortly after, he branched off into his own nonprofit, the FCCP. “I would never have been where I’m at today had I not had a criminal record,” he says. “I would not have the drive. I came out fighting. A lot of people don’t have that fight. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be productive citizens.” Cheryl Wallace, one of those who testified last week in front of city council, agrees. A 50-year-old trained medical assistant, Wallace says the box has kept her from working in the career path she set out on. The felonies blocking her way, she says, are more than two decades in her past. “I’ve been clean and sober 20 years. You talk about an accomplishment,” she says. But, “with this box on the application, I can’t move forward.” Stuck in a minimum-wage fastfood job, she also struggles to pay off the student loan for the career she’ll never have. “I do get very emotional about this. My family has taken me back,” she says. “Why can’t the city of Pittsburgh give me that second chance to get gainful employment?” A B ROW N @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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HEADING TO COURT? CPRB mulls legal action to force council to appoint new members {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} THE CITY’S Citizens Police Review Board marks its 15th anniversary in November … but reaching its 16th birthday may require it to sue Pittsburgh City Council. The seven-member board, which investigates complaints of police misconduct, lost three of its members in June and July. As a city ordinance requires, Executive Director Beth Pittinger notified council of the vacancies. But at the CPRB’s Sept. 25 meeting, Pittinger said council has failed to do its part by nominating the correct number of replacements. Without new board members, the board will be nearly crippled: Unless all four current members attend a meeting, then the board cannot meet, due to a lack of quorum. “Unfortunately, this is the most pressing issue we face right now,” Pittinger told the board. “The work of this board risks being disrupted with just four members.” Pittinger asked the board to authorize its solicitor, Robert Ridge, to investigate filing a writ of mandamus to force councilors to comply with their own laws. If successful, Pittinger said, the writ “will compel them to do what they are legally required to do” — through court order, if necessary. “The viability of this group is now at risk,” added Ridge. Should Ridge find that a mandamus action is viable, the board has authorized its chairman, Ralph Norman, and Pittinger to make the final determination to move forward with the action. The board did so in case it does not have a quorum at its October meeting to act on Ridge’s recommendation. If the board does not have a quorum, all complaints against city police officers would sit in limbo, without action. For example, the board has an investigation pending on the Jordan Miles complaint against three city officers and has also planned a public hearing in November to examine police procedures that have come into question following the Miles case. Without a quorum, those cases would be on hold indefinitely. This is not the first time there have been concerns about board turnover. In 2010, amid a dispute over the board’s attempts to investigate the city’s handling of the complaints following the G-20 economic summit, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl touched off a firestorm by replacing five board members who’d been serving on expired terms.

The mayor controls three appointments to the board; council appoints the other four members — including the three who stepped down this summer. Under the new rules, once notified of a vacancy, city council’s nine members are to form three, three-member subcommittees. Each subcommittee submits one nominee for each opening to the mayor, who then selects one person for the vacancy. If the mayor fails to act within 30 days, council can then make its own choice. Council was required to send nine names for the three vacancies. But on Sept. 11, council sent just two names, Misi Bielich and Paul S. Homick, to the mayor. Ravenstahl has not acted on the appointment resolution — and Pittinger told the board that, because council’s submission doesn’t meet requirements, Ravenstahl “has no duty to act on this resolution, nor does he merit criticism for ignoring it.” Council President Darlene Harris, who is in charge of forwarding the names to the mayor’s office, told City Paper that she is working on finding candidates. She said she originally had three names to send to the mayor’s office on Sept. 11, but one nominee withdrew. “Because of the time constraints, I went ahead and made the decision to send over the two names that we have,” Harris says. “Now the mayor has until Oct. 11 to choose one of those names.” Harris says it would “not be a fair assumption at all” to say council is neglecting the board. Instead, she said, she was handling each appointment one at a time. That way, if one candidate is passed over the first time around, their name could be resubmitted for the other vacancies. “Do they want us to send nine names to the mayor at once?” Harris asked. “I’d rather send three names at a time of people who want to serve.” She hopes to have three more names to submit to fill the second vacancy by Fri., Oct. 5. As a general rule, Pittinger says, that would be “a sensible way to approach” the process. “The problem is that those names should have gone to the mayor [in August]. We are so behind with just four members that the preservation and integrity of the board is in jeopardy. “We’re just worried about this board’s future,” she adds, “because we have such a fragile structure.”

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executives create a sprawling medical empire capable of governing our very lives? Or when they don’t? Last week, Pittsburghers were just settling in for another comfortable round of UPMC-bashing. A series of Pittsburgh PostGazette reports had just documented that the health-care giant owns more property in Allegheny County than anyone else … and pays property tax on almost none of it. But then came more surprising news: UPMC’s only real competitor, the West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS), was scrapping a $475 million deal to be acquired by Highmark. “Our impending partnership is over,” WPAHS board chair Jack Isherwood told reporters. Highmark had set out to rescue the debt-ridden hospital system, but Isherwood said the insurer had since decided “[t]he only way out … is to put the patients, nurses, physicians and suppliers … at risk through bankruptcy.” And that, he said, was what WPAHS had partnered with Highmark to avoid. If you’re suffering symptoms of whiplash, you aren’t alone. Last year, UPMC itself warned that Highmark would help WPAHS too much. The insurer would abuse its role as a “gatekeeper,” UPMC insisted, funneling policyholders to Highmark-owned facilities, and using UPMC’s money to shore up rival facilities. But state ofﬁcials forced Highmark and UPMC to renew their innetwork relationship anyway … and these days, WPAHS sounds envious of Highmark’s relationship with UPMC. “A reasonable rate increase … such as the one Highmark recently gave to UPMC, would go a long way to toward stabilizing West Penn Allegheny Health System,” Isherwood said, somewhat wistfully. Highmark insists it had “been working in good faith with WPAHS,” and that the partnership was “in the best interests of both parties and … the entire community.” But this is just the latest installment of a soap opera in which Highmark, UPMC and WPAHS alternately sue each other and end up in bed together. It’s like a love triangle in which everyone else gets hurt. State Sen. Jim Ferlo (D-Lawrenceville) speculated that the whole Highmark/ WPAHS afﬁliation “was nothing more than a ruse.” Highmark’s interest in WPAHS, he surmised, was just a head-fake “to provide

leverage in their negotiations with UPMC” on new rates. Ferlo may be giving Highmark executives too much credit for strategic thinking. This would, after all, make two busted-up marriages for Highmark executives in a single year, following the bizarre allegations involving former CEO Ken Melani’s affair with an employee. And as the Post-Gazette reported over the weekend, after Melani’s departure, Highmark execs may have reconsidered some of his other impulses, too. UPMC, at least, saw trouble coming. Before state legislators last September, CEO Jeffrey Romoff noted that Highmark was taking on more than $1 billion in WPAHS pension obligations and debt. “UPMC will watch with interest as Highmark … faces the same obstacles that we in the provider community have confronted,” he added. In other words: Welcome to my nightmare, suckers. It’s a nightmare which WPAHS nurses and doctors can’t seem to escape. Many survived a previous effort to build a medical empire on the back of Allegheny General Hospital. The result was the 1990s AHERF fiasco, in which outsized egos drove the nonprofit into bankruptcy. Last week, Cathy Stoddart, who represents unionized nurses at Allegheny General, was trying to stanch the bleeding from the amputation her bosses had just performed. “We’ve been through this — we went through AHERF,” she told me. “There’s no Chicken Little feeling here, because we know the care we provide, and we know the public wants a choice in providers.” “We’re not trying to take sides,” she added, though workers hoped the partnership would continue. “As labor leaders, we’ve always believed that continuing to talk is the best medicine.” The talking cure may not be enough: By the time Stoddart and I spoke, bond-rating agencies had warned that they were likely to downgrade West Penn’s debt. WPAHS may find another willing buyer. But most observers seem to think a for-profit hospital chain is the likeliest option. And that may entail shock treatments, too. So we’re back where we started, with health-care giants that threaten either to trample us underfoot, or drag us down with them, all in the name of “competition.” Can someone remind me why a government-run health system would be such a bad thing?

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At a conference in August, researchers from North Carolina State University demonstrated their latest technological advance in aiding “first responders” to peacetime and wartime disasters: cockroaches. Outfitting Madagascar hissing cockroaches with electronic backpacks that include antennas, batteries, cameras and microphones, the scientists hacked the bugs’ nervous systems to steer them remotely into the tiniest of openings — a crucial step toward finding survivors of earthquakes or bomb damage in densely built-up areas. Said one researcher, to ABC News, “[S]omewhere in the middle [of tons of rubble] your kid is crying,” and huge machines are “not very efficient” at finding him.

Weapons for the 21st Century: Thousands of farmers in the northeastern India state of Assam are growing the world’s hottest chili peppers and selling them to the army to make weapons, reported London’s The Guardian in a July dispatch. One expert said a “few drops” of “bhut jolokia” “could make you senseless.” Blasting a container of it into a terrorist hideout, he said, would “make them all drop their guns” after “just one breath.” (Bhut jolokia has also been used traditionally to repel elephant attacks.)

In a tactical risk, Russian gay-rights leaders went to court in Moscow in March to demand the right to hold a rally not only this year but, daring the city to oppress them, also a rally every year for the next 100 years. However, the city did not blink. It rejected the demand, and in August, a Moscow city court ruled that the city could be gay-rights-rally-free until the year 2112.

Because the words were not those ordinarily used by vandals keying a car’s paint, Newcastle, England, police looked immediately to a better-educated vandal — and arrested University of Newcastle professor Stephen Graham, a prominent critic of neighborhood parking rules that allowed outsiders to use the few spaces on his street. Scratched into several outsiders’ luxury cars’ exteriors were words such as “arbitrary” and “really wrong” and “very silly.”

Carl Funk, 58, told Broward County, Fla., judge John Hurley (on a video feed from jail to a courtroom) that he is innocent of the seven-year-old charges (trespassing and openalcoholic-container counts) and that, besides, he is now wheelchair-bound in pathetic medical condition and should be allowed to go home. The judge was skeptical, but finally, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel report, he offered to fine Funk only $50 on the charges, and Funk agreed to plead guilty. “Good luck, Funk,” said Judge Hurley. At that point, Funk rose from his wheelchair and quickly walked away. Wrote the Sun-Sentinel: “Raising both hands, Judge Hurley declared, ‘He’s been cured.’”

Missouri Associate Circuit Judge Barbara Peebles was suspended in September and recommended for removal by the state judicial commission for various offenses, including being late for work and destroying a court document in order to avoid embarrassment. The most seri-

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ous charge, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, was that she allowed her “clerk,” Whitney Tyler, who was Peebles’ personal friend and hairdresser (and apparently without formal legal training), to dispose of as many as 350 cases as Tyler saw fit. Said one lawyer, “Until the judge [showed up], [Tyler] was the judge.”

A sign at the entrance of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor asks that visitors “conduct yourself with dignity and respect at all times. Remember, this is hallowed ground.” However, as the New York Post reported in September, visitors to the National September 11th Memorial in New York City show no such restraint, with some treating that hallowed ground more like a “Disney attraction.” They sit (or worse, lie down) on the bronze-plaque names of the dead, and lay (and spill!) their drink cups on them, creating an “almost cheerful” atmosphere, the Post said. The head of New York City’s retired association of emergency medical service firefighters said the elegant memorial more resembled a visitor’s “kitchen table.”

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“Number 1” Complaints: (1) Albert Sultan filed a lawsuit in August in New York City against his hard-charging former boss, realestate broker Jack Terzi, accusing Terzi of various workplace abuses including (to make a point in front of co-workers) deliberately urinating on an item of Sultan’s clothing. (2) Timothy Paez, 22, was arrested in Boulder, Colo., in July based on an incident at Shooters Grill and Bar, in which, after being rejected by a woman, he later approached her and allegedly urinated on her leg. (3) Australia’s Illawarra District Rugby Union reported in July that it was investigating an unnamed Avondale player who had allegedly urinated all over his uniform pants during play so as to discourage his Vikings opponents from trying to tackle him.

Desperate Cries for Help: (1) The two aspiring robbers arrested for hitting Zhen Yang’s convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec, in June were also immortalized by the store’s surveillance video. As Yang resisted the masked, knife-wielding men, he spritzed one with a can of bear spray, sending the second man fleeing and temporarily blinding the first. As the heavily doused man tried to climb over the counter, Yang punched him, over and over again, on his buttocks. Police picked up both shortly afterward. (2) Latasha Singletary, 30, was arrested in Fall River, Mass., in June after allegedly robbing the same liquor store three times in a 24-hour period. The owner recognized her immediately because she had robbed the store two years earlier.

A 44-year-old man dressed as Bigfoot (in a military-style ghillie suit) was accidentally run over by two cars on U.S. 93 south of Kalispell, Mont., on Aug. 26. Friends of the man said he was wearing the costume to convince people of Bigfoot’s existence.

Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman acknowledged in July that he had recently met with his long-estranged father after 42 years. Mr. Philander Rodman lives in the Philippines, and by his count, has fathered 29 children by 16 mothers.

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MAC TONIGHT {BY ANDY MULKERIN} Nancy Sukits had spent years in the food-service industry — catering, working at country clubs, working in food services for a nonprofit — before striking out on her own. Now she’s not just at the helm of her own restaurant; she’s at the helm of the area’s first … mac-and-cheesethemed diner. The MAC Diner, which opened at the end of July, sits on William Flinn Highway in Hampton, where Sukits hails from. “When I was living here but working all the time, I never spent time here, never went to restaurants here,” Sukits explains. “I wanted to give back.” Her form of giving back: lots of macaroni and cheese. Plain ol’ mac; hamburger mac; reuben mac; Mexicaninspired mac called, yes, “The Macarena.” (Besides mac-and-cheese, the diner does offer some standards: pancakes, omelets, burgers and a few meat-andpotatoes dishes.) The other catch to The MAC: It’s themed, to an extent, around ’70s décor and ’70s TV. You’ll find the face of Carol Brady, among others, decorating the menu. “Everyone does a ’50s diner,” Sukits says. “The average person around here is 43 — they don’t remember the ’50s. We remember, in the ’70s, coming home and sitting around the table to a homecooked meal. We don’t do that anymore — that’s what I want to recreate. “Everything we do is scratch cooking,” she says. “If you see something you like but you want it done your way, we can do it.” AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ACK WHEN VIVO WAS in Bellevue, it was the crown jewel of that little Ohio River town’s restaurant scene, offering fresh and innovative Italianinspired food in surroundings reminiscent of a room from a Tuscan villa. A few years ago, owners Sam and Lori DiBattista relocated downriver to Sewickley, though by keeping the short, sweet name, with its pleasing suggestions of vigor and vino, they maintain a connection with their successful beginnings. The DiBattistas took the opportunity of the move to rethink and refresh their restaurant (as well as to add a liquor license, t prohibited in Bellevue). The update is imp mediately apparent in the restaurant’s aesm thetic. Where the old Vivo was announced t by b a fanciful iron-and-glass awning attached to an old storefront, the new Vivo t is i entered through gates that open onto a private courtyard beside the dining room, p which is sleek and modern where its predew cessor was funky and eclectic. Lori DiBattisc ta’s t warm hospitality still greets customers at a the door, but instead of reciting the daily

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menu to each table, she now serves as hostess and delivers printed menus of much greater length — and breadth — than could be spoken from memory. This points to the most fundamental change, which is in the food itself. No longer can Vivo be described, even loosely, as an “Italian” restaurant. Chef Sam DiBattista’s new offerings are contemporary American with a vaguely European ac-

VIVO KITCHEN 432 Beaver St., Sewickley. 412-259-8945 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. 5-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 1-10 p.m. PRICES: Starters $7-9; entrees $15-30 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED cent, featuring elegantly simple preparations of elemental, straightforward ingredients: roasted mushrooms with gorgonzola, scallops with blood-orange sauce. Flavorings such as lemon, garlic and fennel reﬂect DiBattista’s Mediterranean heritage with some speciﬁcity, but the entrees, especially, focus on grilled

and roasted meats, intriguingly flavored. Having said that, two of our starters were classically Italian: locally made rigatoni in “simple red sauce” and a porkchevre meatball in spicy pepper cream. The former was so simple, with no frills to hide behind, that it had to be delicious — and it was, with bright, smooth tomatoes clinging to firm, dimensional pasta. The latter was quite distinct from a typical meatball in that it was made of a coarse grind of pork, loosely formed, for an almost sausage-like texture. Chevre crumbled on top added an almost pungent tang that complemented the hearty flavor of the pork, while the thick, rich, subtly spicy pepper-cream sauce was good (and plentiful) enough to eat with a spoon. Everyone at our table clamored for a taste of an appetizer that riffed on a classic American breakfast: a fried egg with bacon jam on grilled bread. This did, indeed, contain all the flavors and textures that make that breakfast so satisfying (if not revelatory), condensing them from a hungry man’s platter into a single small plate.

The appetizers had done their job; our appetites were piqued as we waited for our entrees. And waited, and waited. When they finally arrived, the varying temperatures of a cold pork chop, a lukewarm piece of fish and piping hot lamb shank suggested a lack of coordination in the kitchen. Our server, who had largely abandoned us during our wait, offered little or no apology, let alone explanation, for the delay. Fortunately, superb preparations mostly compensated for these issues. Rich, forktender lamb paired perfectly with an earthy-sweet celeriac mash. Prime rib was robust and juicy, seared on the outside, which effectively contained and countered the tenderness within. A classic garlic-herb pan sauce was perfect to heighten the meat’s natural flavor. And if root vegetables could be described as ripe, the tender-sweet potatoes served alongside would have been at their peak. But broccolini was so salty that we left it on the plate, uneaten.

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Grilled bronzino was available whole or ﬁlleted, simply dressed with lemon, olive oil and sea salt, and served on a bed of Israeli-style couscous, whose larger grains had a satisfyingly substantial texture and a light, late-summer ﬂavor. The citrus gremolata served with the veal chop was a touch too assertive for the mild meat, and the chop itself was a bit fatty, but these were quibbles about an otherwise very good dish. Vivo’s chic new appearance provides a suitable ambience for its new menu, which relies — wisely, we think — on ingredients and preparations that are classic without being reiterative. Only the warmth — of food and service — that we remember so fondly from the old Vivo has yet to fully relocate.

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KELLY’S BAR & LOUNGE. 6012 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-6012. The vintage aesthetic isn’t retro at this longtime neighborhood hangout; it’s the real thing. And the original 1940s fare has been updated with taste and style: Burgers and fries share space with Asian potstickers and satay. The mini mac-and-cheese is a classic. JE

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SALVATORE’S PIZZA HOUSE. 612 Penn Ave., Wilkinsburg. 412-247-4848. A neighborhood pizza place and more, Salvatore’s offers something even rarer than good pizza: fast food of the finest quality. “Fresh” is the watchword, and the large, fullcolor takeout menu has dozens of dishes in a score of categories. Shellfish are prominently featured, and worth trying. K

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THAI GOURMET. 4505 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-681-4373. Located in a narrow former lunchroom, Thai Gourmet is the casual, no-nonsense and no-frills member of Pittsburgh’s Thai restaurant club. The prices are on the low end, but the food quality is high and the portions are huge. The decor mixes Asian themes with diner kitsch in a delightful way. JF VIETNAM’S PHO. 1627 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-281-8881. The menu features a manageable selection of noodle and rice dishes and the eponymous pho soups. There’s also a tempting assortment of simple vegetable dishes and appetizers that go beyond mere spring rolls, such as whole quail with lemon leaves and herbs, and ground-shrimp patties on sugar-cane skewers. JF

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TABLE LAKESIDE BRICK OVEN AND BAR. 200 N. Lakeside Drive, Canonsburg. 724-746-1126. Perched on the edge of manmade lake, this clubby restaurant offers casual American cuisine, with outside dining in season. A brick oven produces a variety of “phatbreads” topped creatively, such as the “lawnboy,” with prosciutto, tomatoes and wilted arugula. Burgers, chops, seafood and pasta dishes round out the menu. KE

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farm animal passes through the city’s animal shelters most frequently and the answer comes easily — potbellied pigs. “I think because they are a spontaneous buy. They’re very easy to purchase, and they’re adorable,” she says. “But they get big by hundreds of pounds. People will get over their heads with the pigs.” It’s also not unusual for other farm animals to find their way to the city shelters. At first, Phillips, who has worked with Animal Friends, the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society and the Animal Rescue League, was taken off guard. Along with pigs, she would see abandoned chickens and ducks “which is weird in the middle of the city,” she adds. G r e t c h e n F i e s e r, spokeswoman for the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, says that the number of abandoned farm animals increased dramatically after the city passed its first Urban Agriculture Zoning Code in February 2011. The intent was to make it easier for city residents to produce their own food, including eggs from chickens and honey from bees. “As soon as we saw that, we started to see a lot more chickens come through. Some were [quite] exotic,” Fieser says, adding that the number of overall farm animals increased from a few here and there to several hundred each year. The shelters, both Phillips and Fieser say, are not equipped to handle such animals. That’s in part why Phillips was inspired to build a sanctuary for them. Hope Haven Farm will be the first of its kind in Pittsburgh. She bought seven acres in the Sewickley area in June 2011. The barn is built and the main pasture fenced in. With only a bit more work to be completed, she expects to open to the public for tours in the spring. The sanctuary is also inspired by a movement led by the national group Farm Sanctuary, which strives to put the spotlight on the lives of animals on factory farms, which Phillips plans to highlight too. Phillips, a vegetarian who is in the process of transitioning into a vegan, says she hopes it fosters conversations about eating meat. In fact, a fundraiser this past weekend was sponsored by several restaurants offering vegan/vegetarian fare, including Gluuteny Bakery, in Squirrel Hill, and Piper’s Pub, on the South Side, in an effort to showcase non-meat options. “I think becoming a vegetarian or a vegan is a process. I don’t want to cram gory, horrible information down [the public’s] throats. I want them to make their own choice,” Phillips says. ABROWN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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DRUMMING UP SUPPORT There are few things the Baltimore Ravens have over the Steelers in the teams’ AFC North rivalry. One area where the dirty birds do have an edge, though, is their team marching band — one of only two in the NFL. But if Vince Wallace has his way, the Steelers will someday at least have an official drum line. Wallace, a graduate of Gateway and IUP who teaches music in the Propel charter schools, came up with the idea for a Steelers drum line last year, and with help from friend Dustin Lowes and a few others, he brought Steeline to life this past summer. The group — with the same general set-up you’d expect in a high school or college drum line — played an official Steelers gig at the last preseason home game. “We have a lot of friends who do this in other cities; there’s a group in Philadelphia, for example,” Wallace explains. “We thought, ‘Why can’t we do it in Pittsburgh?’”

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So far, the group isn’t officially affiliated with the team, so Wallace is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds so that Steeline can buy its own drums. (The players, who number about 20, currently rent or borrow drums and cymbals for performances.) Members of Steeline also act as inhouse composers, working out original pieces and all-drum versions of popular pump-up tunes (“Get Ready for This,” “Black and Yellow”). The group is currently working out a percussive “Steelers Polka.” This is no student group; the players are almost all over 21, trained percussionists who play in other bands or work in music education. The hope is that if Steeline proves itself to be a crowd favorite — one that’s in it for the long haul — it will become an official Steelers fixture. In the meantime, the group plays tailgates and bars on home game days, roving about to entertain Pittsburgh pigskin supporters with percussion ... and having a little fun, too. “Right now, we’re all-volunteer,” Wallace says. “We do this because we enjoy it.” The Steeline Kickstarter campaign can be found at www.tinyurl.com/steelinekick.

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HE INTERSECTION of technology and art is a bit of a frontier: No matter how much it’s discussed, it’s still largely uncharted. This week, the third annual VIA Music and New Media Festival will turn Pittsburgh into a site for art-and-tech exploration. It’s not just a music and art festival, but something more akin to a classroom with parties that happen after video-game class. You may have no idea who the hell Laﬁdki is, or how plants can make sound, but that’s kind of the point — it’s more about discovery than anything else. “In our third year, we really wanted to take on the challenge of programming a whole week,” says VIA co-founder Lauren Goshinski, “but doing it in a way that’s digestible because we’re realizing that there’s a lot of people in Pittsburgh who have different comfort levels.” VIA’s goal has always been to engage as many kinds of people as possible … although with headliners like Detroit house legend Moodymann and the

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{WED., OCT. 03} Halloween comes early at Melwood Screening Room, where Demdike Stare will rescore the scandalous French horror film La Vampire Nue.

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{FRI., OCT. 05} Planet Mu may have made it trendy, but juke and footwork have been around for a while. Spinn & Rashad will be offering the best of those frenetic styles of dance at 6000 Penn.

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spooky soundscape duo Demdike Stare, it can sometimes seem as if the roster of artists was chosen with only the investigative nerds in mind. “At this point, not everyone will know every name on [the lineup],” says Tom Cox, a member of the dance-music label and performance group Pittsburgh Track Authority, which has performed at several VIA Presents events. “But I think the trust level has been built up so much. They’re providing something that, even if you have no clue whatsoever, if you just show up, it’s going to be something special.” While music tends to be the biggest draw for festival-goers, it’s all of the surrounding activities that set VIA apart from other music festivals. Some of the non-music elements began earlier this week: Monday featured a 3-D graphics exhibit including work that’s been screened at MoMA, Sundance and at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Tuesday welcomed esteemed ﬁlmmaker and theorist Jonathan Walley, who gave

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a lecture at Carnegie Mellon titled “Not to Make Films: Dismantled, De-materialized and Unmade Cinema.” And before the synths and mixers are plugged in and the monitors turned up on Friday, the first part of a hands-on arcade-gameconstruction workshop called Babycastles will take place. All of this for free, and generally kid-friendly. “Whether you’re a person with no money, whether you’re a person who has kids, whether you’re a person who wants to party for three days straight, every single person has an option,” says Goshinski. “Even if you’re a more heady academic person and you’re not comfortable with people grinding around you.” Aiming for that breadth of programming doesn’t just speak to VIA’s goal of engaging as many people as possible; it also aligns with the organization’s goals to educate a younger audience. Di-Ay Battad, a video artist who’s been a part of VIA’s A/V performances since its first year, is an arts educator whose students range from middle school to early high school. “No matter who they are,” she notes, “I can say, ‘VIA: producers, DJs, arcade games, code, tech stuff.’ I can throw out all those words and it would all appeal to them.” And as a CMU graduate who blended art and technology through a degree in electronic and time-based art and an academic concentration in computer science, Battad is all for championing VIA’s unofficial mission: to demystify technology. “There’s actually a lot going on in Pittsburgh at Assemble [Gallery] and the Children’s Museum where they’re producing ways for people to access technology,” says Battad. “It’s not that hard. Technology isn’t a mysterious black box that people make it out to be. “And VIA is about connecting Pittsburgh to experimental scenes around the world. They’re not just doing electronic music: They’re about changing the atmosphere of Pittsburgh.” At least some part of the lineup will read like Greek to festival-goers. VIA is not about to cater to a fickle crowd with trendy musical acts. The substance is in the fact that you have to probe the program a bit, and maybe look a few things up. “That’s always the best way to get a knowledgeable fan base,” says Cox. “If you spoon-feed them too much, then they’re just following.” Look at it as a challenge, with really great parties for four nights straight. And in the end, the experience will have produced not a bunch of followers, but a crowd of curious people looking for more. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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On the road again: Faun Fables’ Nils Frykdahl and Dawn McCarthy

FAMILY ROAD TRIP {BY NICOLE CHYNOWETH} SOME WOMEN HAVE TO put up a ﬁght to breastfeed their children in open places like amusement parks, malls or publictransit vehicles. Dawn McCarthy once breastfed onstage at an outdoor musical festival … while yodeling. “What can you do, you know? I was just making it work,” McCarthy says. McCarthy is half of Faun Fables, a melodic folk duo that blends theatrical storytelling and songwriting to create whimsical yet eerie tunes, all while raising two daughters, 4-year-old Edda and 2-year-old Ura, on the road. “It’s just a great marrying of all worlds,” McCarthy says. “I know some women feel like it drains them to have two kids out on the road. “I think I’m a glutton for punishment,” she adds with a laugh. McCarthy grew up surrounded by a musically inclined family. She spent her 20s gigging with bands, performing in vaudeville-like shows in New York City and playing solo shows around Europe. She met Nils Frykdahl in the 1990s, and he’s since been her “partner in crime,” both artistically and romantically. “He was very different from me, and I liked the difference,” she says. “He had this theatrical element and was a very transformational performer. We were drawn to each other like an opposites kind of thing. He wanted to learn what I was doing, and I wanted more of what he was exploring.” The California couple has been collaborating for about 14 years, making music, or “songtelling,” as McCarthy calls it. Readings, props and characters add “theatricality” to Faun Fables’ show, Mc-

Carthy says, but it’s “still about the music and the singing.” Faun Fables’ six albums showcase a vision rooted in vocals, with dramatic percussion, piano and plucked guitar strings moving each story along. Having their two daughters along for the ride feels just like home for McCarthy. “Because I don’t have them in any daycare or preschool back at home, and I’m used to being with them pretty much all the time, having them on tour feels really natural,” she says.

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Choosing to include the little ones in Faun Fables’ musical adventure has provided McCarthy with the opportunity to watch them grow up while she grows as an artist. “There’s this window of time before they’re going to school and turning toward the world more,” she says. “I work from that basic platform: that it’s really a priority to be with them, but I try to slip in as much of my art as I can with them.” McCarthy says motherhood has affected her inspiration. Having not written much material for three years, she says she is “just starting to open up now,” and much of her future work will take inspiration from her children. “I feel like having kids has deﬁnitely just made me sensitive about things that I didn’t feel that strong about before,” she explains. “My heart is bigger, maybe a little more fragile but also stronger, too. It’s feeling a little more of this universal mother thing, just feeling a care for things.” I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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{ART} There might be no better signifiers of the Gilded Age than the fussy ornaments of its unoccupied rooms. A new exhibit of paintings by artist and society tastemaker

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Adventuresome theatergoers are sought for For the Girl Who Sleeps in Snow, the debut production from multidisciplinary ensemble Co(lab)trix. It’s interactive, site-specific theater about how people cope with impending disaster. Six artists (all instructors at Hope Academy) incorporate live music, dance, installation art, shadow puppets and multimedia into a show that moves through multiple rooms in the cavernous East Liberty Presbyterian Church. At two free performances tonight, “the more brave and courageous you are, the more interesting the experience will be,” says contributing artist Meredith Hoppe. Bill O’Driscoll 7 and 8:30 p.m. Penn Ave., East Liberty. Free (donations accepted). meredithahoppe@gmail.com

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free event After five years as a storefront gallery, Jason Sauer’s Most Wanted Fine Art is a fixture on the Penn Avenue arts corridor. But Sauer keeps reaching beyond the typical gallerycrawler. So while his venue is open for this Friday’s installment of the popular Unblurred crawl, on Sat., Oct. 5, Sauer and the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative will close a half-block of Garfield’s Winebiddle Street for Vehicular Abstraction. The free daytime event is a showcase for art cars, which are legally drivable vehicles painted or otherwise altered to make them artworks — everything from simple airbrushing to reconfiguring your VW van as a giant toaster (something Sauer saw in art-car hub Houston). At least 20 cars will participate in the juried decorated-car exhibit, featuring audience voting and judging by Andy Warhol Museum curator Nicholas Chambers; two-time Pittsburgh Gran Prix winner George Patterson; and Pittsburgh City Councilor Bill Peduto. There will also be a live carpainting competition featuring four local artists; miniature wooden cars for kids to paint; and a fair for neighborhood arts vendors. Sauer, who’s big on using the arts to develop communities, calls art cars “a nice unifier” between arts people and nontraditional arts audiences. Also on Saturday: a family-friendlier mini-Unblurred, with galleries open from noon-3 p.m. Bill O’Driscoll Unblurred: 6-10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 5. Vehicular Abstraction: 9:304 p.m. Sat., Oct. 5. Saturday Unblurred: Noon-3 p.m. Sat., Oct. 5. www.paai.org

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A drab homework assignment evolves into something considerably more stimulating in Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure. The new traveling exhibit introduces children to major concepts of evolutionary biology via a pair of animated characters. Ages 5 and up can follow Charlie’s discoveries about the kiwi bird’s past through the story theater, series of exhibits and interactive dis-

covery area at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. CS 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Exhibit continues through May 12. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $11.96-17.95. 412-622-3131 or www.carnegiemnh.org

{ZINES} Maybe you’ve heard of the seed library at Carnegie Library of PittsburghLawrenceville, where borrowers are asked to return

the harvested seeds of plants they’ve grown. The Carnegie and project originator Amanda West also plan gardening and seed-saving classes. The project has sprouted a literary component, too, and now you can see the results of a month-long series of workshops for the Pittsburgh Seed and Story Library’s very own zine, featuring seed and gardening stories. Tonight’s launch party heralds the

zine’s release to seed libraries nationwide. BO 6-8 p.m. 4812 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. seedandstorypgh@gmail.com

{WORDS} Pizza and literature should be combined more often. At least Wood-Fired Words does it every October. Sherrie Flick, late of the Gist Street Reading Series, created this event at Braddock’s UnSmoke Systems Artspace,

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{OPERA} The story of Verdi’s Rigoletto fulfills all your expectations of opera. Licentious dukes, tragic beauties and vengeful noblemen make typical bedfellows in an Italian court where a misshapen jester is the unlikely protagonist. It’s an apt opener for the 74th season of Pittsburgh Opera. Baritone Mark Delavan (from last season’s Tosca) takes the titular role, tenor Michael Wade Lee makes his Pittsburgh debut, and soprano Lyubov Petrova (from 2006’s Ariadne auf Naxos) returns to the Benedum Center. CS 8 p.m. Also 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 9, and Oct. 12 and 14. Seventh Street and Penn Avenue, Downtown. $10.75179. 412-456-6666 or www.pittsburghopera.org

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+ SUN., OCT. 07 {FESTIVAL} The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh hosts its first annual Fall Fest. Wear a white T-shirt if you’re doing the noon Peace Walk (which starts in Oakland, at Forbes and Bigelow). The fest itself, held at Schenley Park’s Bartlett Shelter, includes food, live music, fitness classes and informational tables furthering the GLCC’s mission of education, support, networking and advocacy. BO Noon-6 p.m. Oakland. Free. 412-422-0114 or www.glccpgh.org

ish thriller, about a woman and her lover scheming to kill her husband, prefigured the French New Wave and made a star of Jeanne Moreau. It remains acclaimed for its inventive blending of imagery and its soundtrack by Miles Davis. Malle, of course, went on to direct films including Au Revoir, Les Enfants. Gallows gets a rare screening tonight at the

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To accompany its production of a classic American play, Pittsburgh Public Theater is summoning a classic expression of American democracy. In the midst of staging the comedy Born Yesterday, the Public has organized the Town Hall Project. The series of free themed panel discussions begins tonight with “Born Again,” with prominent local women discussing their empowerment. Panelists include state House candidate Erin Molchany; Bluebird Kitchen restaurateur Liz Moore Pessaro; education blogger Jessie B. Ramey; and Alecia Shipman, of Dream

Jostling for space in the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Season is Justin Torres, whose 2011 debut novel We the Animals opens with the declaration “We wanted more.” Torres draws his concise material from a gritty upbringing in upstate New York, reflected in the bestselling, critically acclaimed novel. Torres is currently the Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and his fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Granta. The 32-year-old

{SCREEN} In 1957, a young French filmmaker named Louis Malle (a former assistant to both Jacques Cousteau and the great Robert Bresson) released his first feature. Elevator to the Gallows proved a milestone: The noir-

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THEATER THE 39 STEPS. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic. Thu-Sat. Thru Oct. 13. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. THE BLUES BROTHERS REVUE. W/ Wayne Catania & Kieron Lafferty, a.k.a. Jake & Elwood. Thu., Oct. 4, 8 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000. BORN YESTERDAY. Comedy about a corrupt junk dealer who brings his showgirl mistress to Washington D.C. Tue-Sun. Thru Oct. 28. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. CRIMES OF THE HEART. Tragic comedy feat. 3 sisters in a dysfunctional family. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 13. Comtra Theatre, Cranberry. 724-591-8727. DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY. Includes audience participation, giveaways, more. Wed-Sun. Thru Oct. 14. Backstage Bar at Theatre Square, Downtown. 412-456-6666. DREAM ALONG WITH ME. A Celebration of Perry Como’s 100th Birthday. Fri, Sat. Thru Oct. 20. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park. 412-833-5300.

FOR THE GIRL WHO SLEEPS IN Sat., Oct. 6, Tue., Oct. 9, Fri., Oct. 12 SNOW. Multidisciplinary theater and Sun., Oct. 14. Benedum Center, piece exploring how we survive in Downtown. 412-456-6666. a dangerous world. Presented by ROPE. A man persuades his Hope Academy’s Co(lab)trix. Part of weak-minded friend to assist Unblurred. Fri., Oct. 5, 7 & 8:30 p.m. him in the murder of a fellow East Liberty Presbyterian undergraduate “for the fun of it.” Church, East Liberty. Thu-Sun. Thru Oct. 14. Pittsburgh 412-441-3800 x 11. Playhouse, Oakland. HER HAMLET. 412-392-8000. Shakespeare’s A VAMPIRE REFLECTS. youngest daughter A comedy by Frank is haunted by the Semerano. Tue-Sun. www. per ghosts of her father’s Thru Oct. 13. Butler pa pghcitym .co characters. Tue-Sun. Little Theatre, Butler. Thru Oct. 13. Henry 724-287-6781. Heymann Theatre, THE WHO’S TOMMY. Rock Oakland. 412-624-7529. musical about that deaf, dumb & MURDERED TO DEATH. Mystery blind kid. Colonial Theatre, Massey spoof. Presented by The Bobcat Hall. Thru Oct. 7. Robert Morris Players. Oct. 5-6 and Oct. 11-13. University, Moon. 412-397-5454. Beaver Area High School, Beaver. YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 724-494-1680. FESTIVAL. Six one-act plays. OFF THE RECORD XII: REASSESS Oct. 6-7. City Theatre, South Side. THIS! Musical satire spoofing 412-431-2489. Pittsburgh issues & personalities. Benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Thu., Oct. 4, 8 p.m. Byham Theater, Downtown. 412-456-6666. COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by RIGOLETTO. Verdi’s opera. Derek Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Thru Presented by the Pittsburgh Opera. Nov. 22 Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-855-2749.

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THU 04 - SAT 06 GREG FITZSIMMONS. Oct. 4-6 The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

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CRITIC: Jiane Amoroso, 18, a

PITTSBURGH COMEDY SHOWCASE W/ MIKE WYSOCKI. Fri, 9 p.m. Corner Cafe, South Side. 412-488-2995. TIM GREALISH, THE REV. CANNON DR. JAY GEISLER. A Night of Recovery Comedy benefiting Oasis Recovery Center & CLEAR. 8 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 412-320-4610.

student from Plum EVENT: Attack Theatre’s

Some Assembly Required: Public, Schenley Plaza, Oakland WHEN: Thu., Sept. 27

SAT 06 This was interesting. It gave you insight into the choreography process. You saw how dancers took individual movements and live music and incorporated them into making an improv show in response to a piece of public art. There was a power and liveliness behind each individual movement. It was like a movie to see each section created with the audience all come together. My favorite part was at the end where the dancers all did their own thing, and also the “wildcard,” where the director suddenly introduced an extra bit of choreography and the dancers had to improvise along with everything that had been scripted. It made me think about public art differently. It made me really pay attention to the art around the city, the stories behind it, and if the artist who made it could possibly have imagined how people would see their artwork today. It definitely inspired me.

AMY SCHUMER. 7 & 10 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side. 412-381-6811. MIKE CONLEY, DAVID MICHAEL, SHARON DALY. Penn Hills VFD 224/ Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Association Funny Fundraiser. 6 p.m. Penn Hills VFD #224, Verona. 412-828-0860. SCIT SOCIAL IMPROV JAM. For new & experienced improvisers. Sat, 6:30 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, North Side. 412-322-1000. TOM ANZALONE, BILL BENDEN, DAVID KAYE. Harrison City VFD Funny Fundraiser. 7:30 p.m. Harrison Room, Harrison. TY MAC, TONNOCHI B., LINDA DUTY, CE-CE. 9 p.m. Genuine Pub, Verona. 412-795-2400.

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NEW THIS WEEK 3RD STREET GALLERY. 2012 Aqueous Open. The Pittsburgh Watercolor Society presents its 66th Annual International Exhibition. Opening reception: Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. Carnegie. 412-276-5233. 5165 BUTLER ST. Photographs of the Spirit in Pretty Flesh. Work by Reality & Grace. Opens Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Lawrenceville. 412-531-1740. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Artistic Reflections. Group show feat. painting, photography & jewelry. Opening reception Oct. 6, 6-9 p.m. Verona. 412-828-1031. EASTSIDE GALLERY. Bernie Pintar. Feat. ceramic work by new co-op member. Opening reception: Oct. 4, 5:30-8 p.m. East Liberty. 412-465-0140. FEIN ART GALLERY. 2012 PSA Annual Exhibition. Group show juried by Vickie A. Clark. Opening reception Oct. 5, 5:30-8 p.m. North Side. 412-321-6816. GALLERIE CHIZ. In Your Face. Paintings & Mixed Media by Daniel Bolick. Opening reception: Oct. 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. It’s a Long Way to the Top . If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll! New works by Michael Walsh. Opening reception Oct. 6, 7-11 p.m. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER. A World of Art. Work by Leah Bevilacqua, Jon Howe, Gemma Allan, & Sylvia K. Opening reception: Oct. 7, 6-9 p.m. Downtown. 412-422-0114. INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART GALLERY. Sculptoberfest. Work by the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors. Opens Oct. 5, 7-10 p.m. Part of Unblurred. Garfield. IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Pittsburgh by Pittsburgh Artists II. Group show feat. all media. Opening reception Oct. 5, 7-10 p.m. Garfield. 412-924-0634.

MENDELSON GALLERY. Worlds Within. Work by James P. Nelson, David Aschkenas, Robert Qualters, Philip Rostek, more. Opening reception: Oct. 5, 79 p.m. Shadyside. 412-361-8664. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. Looking Deeper: The Artwork of Aimee Manion. Opening reception Oct. 5, 7 p.m. Garfield. 412-362-0274. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. Cheers, Salute, L’chaim To The Next 50! Group show feat. Ellen Abbott & Marc Leva, Alex Bernstein, Judi Charlson, more. Opening reception Oct. 5, 5:30-8 p.m. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. SHAW GALLERIES. The Color of Life. Photography by Christopher Caffee. Opening reception: Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884. SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Out of Context. Slippery Rock University Art Faculty & Student Exhibition. Artist reception: Oct. 13, 7-9 p.m. Friendship. 412-559-8168.

ONGOING 419 BEAVER ST. Rebound: Reconceptualizing Our Notion of the Physical Book. An exhibition of artist books presented by the Sewickley Arts Initiative. Sewickley. 709 PENN GALLERY. Rob Larson: Derby. A collection of portrait photography showcasing roller derby & its players. Downtown. 412-471-6070. 937 LIBERTY AVE. Currency. Group show feat. new works by local artists. Downtown. 412-456-6666. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video and Television. Long-term exhibition of Warhol’s film & video work. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side. 412-237-8300. BFG CAFE. Artists of the Cafe

Show. Past & new works by artists of the cafe will be displayed for purchase. Garfield. 412-661-2345. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. All Local Artists. Multi media work. Artist in the Window. Oils & acrylic paintings by Lynda Sadecky. Frazier. 724-275-7001. BOXHEART GALLERY. Trinity. Work by Lyn Ferlo. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD. From the ‘Burgh, Abroad & Back Again. Photographs by Dave Schafer. Homestead. 412-462-3444. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Natural History. A playful exhibition that explores the myriad ways that contemporary artists respond to nature. Whistler & Rebellion in the Art World. An exhibit feat. Whistler’s aesthetically radical prints. White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes. 6 innovative institutions dedicated to the experience of culture & nature. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUILDING. Park Journeys: Yellowstone. Work by Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild students. Downtown. 412-456-6999. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. InterRelated: One Artist’s Response to Silent Spring. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Paintings, Drawings & A Sculpture Or Two. New work by Michael Lotenero. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CONCEPT ART GALLERY. Curator’s Choice. Group show feat. Dylan Vitone, Caren Mincemoyer, Ryder Henry, more. Regent Square. 412-242-9200. CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. The River Beneath the River. Mixed media on paper by Jessica Heberle. Bloomfield. 412-681-5225. FALLINGWATER. Touchstone Center for Crafts Faculty Exhibition. Work by Andrew Cooperman, Shoji Satake, Fredrick Crist, Kathleen Zimbicki,more. Ohiopyle. 724-329-1370. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FUTURE TENANT. A Matter of Convenience. Feat. work by Anna E. Mikolay, Maria Mangano, Rose Clancy, Suzy Meyer, & Unfinished Symphonies + The Tortured Genius. Downtown. 412-325-7037. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Beyond the City Lights. New work by Marian Sallade. CONTINUES ON PG. 38

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HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts and exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666. AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. Incredible Grace: One People, Two Continents, Three Centuries Of War. Exhibit by John L. Ford examining the wars that African Americans & Africans fought during the last three centuries. Downtown. 412-258-2700. BOST BUILDING. Collectors. Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives that Transform Communities. Folk art objects illustrating the power of women working together to provide for their families, educate their children, promote equality, & give back to their communities. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing p specimens, & live bugs! Life: A Journe Journey Through Time & Populatio Population Impact thru Jan., Winging It: Experimental Gallery About Bi Birds thru March, Lord of the Cran Crane Flies thru April. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, Re Dinosaurs In Their Tim Time, more. Oakland. 412-622412-622-3131. CARNEG CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetar (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Villa Village, USS Requin submarine, and more. mor North Side. 412-237412-237-3400. COMPAS COMPASS INN. Demos and tours with costumed guides featuring this re restored stagecoach stop. Ligon Ligonier. 724-238-4983. FALL FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed CONTINUES ON PG. 40

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Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. THE GALLERY ON BAUM. New Orleans: The Spirit Lives. Photography by Mark David Miller. Oakland. 412-621-2286. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Best of the Bunch. Greensburg Art Center juried exhibit. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. INTERNATIONAL IMAGES. Journey Through Georgia. Work by Dato Shushania, Vissarion Bakradze, Alexander Bandzeladze & Gogi Mikaladze. Part of the Sewickley Fall Gallery Walk. Sewickley. 412-741-3036. LA PRIMA ESPRESSO. Paintings/Prints of Italy. Prints of Vince Ornato’s oil paintings of Italy. Strip District. 412-281-1922. LAKEVUE ATHLETIC CLUB. Pop-Up Gallery. Work by a variety of artists. Valencia. 724-316-9326. MAKE YOUR MARK ARTSPACE & COFFEEHOUSE. Polly Mills-Whitehorn Photo Exhibit. Point Breeze. 412-365-2177. MATTHEWS ARTS GALLERY. Watercolors. Work by Doug Brown & his students. Bellevue. 412-761-0301. MATTRESS FACTORY. Feminist and.. New work by Julia Cahill, Betsy Damon, Parastou Forouhar, Loraine Leeson, Ayanah Moor, & Carrie Mae Weems. Ongoing Installations. North Side. 412-231-3169. MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Gestures: Intimate Friction. Group show feat. Nina Marie Barbuto, Dee Briggs, Jeremy Ficca, Pablo Garcia, Jenn Gooch, Ling He, more. Guest Curated by Mary -Lou Arscott. North Side. 412-231-3169. MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Feat. photographs, sculpture, architectural models & drawings, that together examine the relationships between design & health. Oakland. 412-268-4754. OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE. Faces & Places: Photographs of Old Economy. Never before seen photography from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Ambridge. 724-266-4500. PANZA GALLERY. Scapes. Work by the Pittsburgh Society of Artists. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield. 412-441-6147-ext.-7. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Halloween Photography Exhibit.

Photographs of Frankenstein, Zombies, sorrowful photos of dead children & grandmothers, & other haunting things. The History of Photography. Plus preservation and education exhibits. Shantytown - The Ed Salamony Photographs. Experience the Depression in Pittsburgh’s shantytown through this historic photographic documentary. North Side. 412-231-7881. PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHY & GIFTS. Photography by Brenda Knoll. Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 2012 Artist of the Year & the 2012 Emerging Artist. Work by Charlee Brodsky & Vanessa German. Brodsky artist talk & exhibit tour Oct. 4, 6 p.m. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. American Idols. Exhibition by John Moran feat. glass busts of all 43 U.S. presidents. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SCHOOLHOUSE ART CENTER. Autumn Harmony. Feat. pastels & oil paintings by Margo Barraclough. Bethel Park. 412-835-9898. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. No Job No Home No Peace No Rest. Installation by Will Steacy. South Side. 412-431-1810. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Humor in Craft. Political, sarcastic, & amusing works by 33 artists from the US & abroad. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. Circles of Commotion & Moving Pauses. Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes & Jason Rhodes. Downtown. 412-325-7723. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First Fruit XVI: Tending Our Mothers’ Gardens Exhibition. Installations by Ann Tanksley, LaVerne Kemp, Charlotte Ka, Christine Bethea, Tina Brewer & Leslie Ansley. Part of the MAVUNO Festival. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. UNSMOKE ART SPACE. Activating Space: New Works. Paintings by Anna E. Mikolay. Braddock. 415-518-9921. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Modern Dialect. American Paintings from the John & Susan Horseman Collection. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WILDCARD. Plastic Horizon. Work by Daniel Shapiro. Lawrenceville. 412-224-2651. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. The City & the City: Artwork by London Writers. Visual art by authors of experimental poetry, fiction, history & geography, exploring new ways to combine literature & art in an examination of the modern city. Downtown. 412-471-5605.

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Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. FORT PITT MUSEUM. Reconstructed fort houses museum of Pittsburgh history circa French & Indian War and American Revolution. Downtown. 412-281-9285. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, with classes, car & carriage museum. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion and stable complex, and enjoy hikes and outdoor activities in the surrounding park. Allison Park. 412-767-9200. HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium. Showcasing watercolors & drawings of 48 American botanical artists, archiving plants growing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Oakland. 412-268-2434. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open for tours, lectures and more. Monroeville. 412-373-7794. NATIONAL AVIARY. Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. With classes, lectures, demos and more. North Side. 412-323-7235. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott. 412-851-9212. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants and floral displays from around the world. Oakland. 412-622-6914. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Tintypes. Photographs on polished steel that brought the first lower-cost, indestructible photos within price range of the average person. North Side. 412-231-7881. PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639. RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos and artifacts of her life & work. Springdale. 724-274-5459. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. More than 200 football artifacts, rare photos, & one-of-a-kind documents. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, and exhibits on local history, more. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland. 412-621-4253. ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side. 412-323-9504.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice and the immigrant experience in America. Millvale. 421-681-0905. WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling and coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. Scottdale. 724-887-7910.

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SAT 06 BELLYDANCE PERFORMANCE. Informal performance feat. Mariah of Ohio & local dancers. Free bellydance lesson at intermission. 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield.

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FRI 05 - SUN 07 HAUNTED HILLS HAYRIDE/ VALLEY OF DARKNESS HAUNTED WALKING TRAIL. Benefits The Autism Society of Pittsburgh & The Spectrum Charter School. www.hauntedhillshayride. com Fri-Sun and Oct. 24-Nov. 2. Thru Oct. 21 Haunted Hills, North Versailles.

SPECIAL THU 04 - WED 10 RADICAL DAYS. Dozens of cultural establishments will offer free admission on designated days. Visit radworkshere.org for full schedule. Thru Oct. 13

FESTIVALS THU 04 - SUN 07 PLEIN AIR MT. LEBANON FESTIVAL. Open air painting festival. Demos, competitions, vendors, more. Thru Oct. 7 Washington Road Business District, Mt. Lebanon. 412-343-3400.

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PERSPECTIVE. Presented by Continuum Dance Theater. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Oct. 6 The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze. 412-860-1628.

THU 04 OAKLAND CATHOLIC’S LEADING LADIES GALA. Broadway music, live auction, more. Benefits Oakland Catholic High School. 6 p.m. Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown. 412-682-6797.

THU 04 - FRI 05 VIVACE! Boutique shopping event to benefit the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. Thru Oct. 5 Greensburg Country Club, Jeannette. 724-837-1850.

FRI 05 CELEBRATION OF CARING. Dinner & music by the OrtnerRoberts Duo. Benefits Northside Common Ministries. 6-9:30 p.m. The Priory, North Side. 412-323-1163. SETTING A PLACE FOR MY SISTER. Breakfast, raffles, live auction, more. Benefits Sisters Place, Inc. 7:30-9 a.m. Marriott City Center, Downtown. 412-233-3903.

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MISSING LINKS (THE RAINBOW JUMPY). Bounce, jump, roll, run & walk through a 30-foot inflatable “jumpy” art piece created by Felipe Dulzaides. On loan from The New Children’s Museum, San Diego CA. Oct. 6-Feb. 3 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

WED 10 FREEDOM FOR BIRTH. Reception, film screening & panel discussion feat. local providers of maternity care. Benefits The Midwife Center. 6:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Oakland. 412-321-6884.

TUE 09 - WED 10 CHARLIE & KIWI’S EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Join Charlie as he travels back to the Age of Dinosaurs to discover how evolution works. Feat. story theater & discovery area. Presented by Commonwealth Connections Academy. Tue-Sun. Thru May 12 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

POLITICS THU 04 PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON. Robert Morris University’s Pittsburgh Speakers Series. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. GREEN PARTY MEETING. First Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Citizen Power, Squirrel Hill. 412-231-1581.

LITERARY THU 04 ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students. Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. Thu The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, GERALD LAFEMINA. Poetry reading. 8 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-365-1100. STEPHEN DAU. Discussion w/ author of The Book of Jonas. 7:30 p.m. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. 724-837-7040.

SAT 06 CRACKER JACK BOOK CLUB. First Sat of every month, 12-1 p.m. Bradley’s Book Attic, Downtown. 412-232-9506. THE LITERARY WORKS OF BILL DEASY. Discussion & book signing w/ local songwriter & author of Ransom Seaborn. 3 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. MARGARET MURRAY. Reading w/ author of Dreamers. 2 p.m. Awesome Books - Downtown. 412-471-1899. PITTSBURGH SEED & STORY: STORY GATHERING WORKSHOPS. Participate in a series of writing workshops aimed at creating a seed library zine publication highlighting seed & gardening stories. 6-8 p.m. The Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe, Bloomfield. 412-687-4323. WOOD-FIRED WORDS. Readings by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sarah Leavens, & Salvatore Pane. Also feat. The East End Book Exchange, paintings by Anna Mikolay, &

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SUN 07 wood-fired pizza. 7 p.m. Unsmoke Art Space, Braddock. 415-518-9921. YOUNG PEOPLE’S WRITERS SERIES. Workshop to assist young writers in the exploration of self-expression through poetry & prose. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Homewood, Homewood. 412-464-0321.

KIDSTUFF THU 04 - WED 10 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. TOUGH ART. Interactive artworks feat. John Pena, Scott Andrew, Jonathan Armistead, Jeremy Boyle, Kevin Clancy & Will Schlough. Thru Jan. 13, 2013 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

FRI 05 - SAT 06 OPEN CLAY WORKSHOP. Ages 3+. Fri, Sat, 1-3 p.m. Thru Oct. 14 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

FRI 05 - SUN 07 PUMPKIN PATCH TROLLEY. Ride an antique trolley to the Pumpkin Patch where children get to pick & decorate a pumpkin. Fri-Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington. 724-228-9256.

SAT 06 FIDDLESTICKS FAMILY CONCERT - CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. Feat. Strauss’s Pleasure Train Polka & America the Beautiful. 11:15 a.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. FREE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA FOR FAMILIES. All levels of orchestra instruments are invited. Parents are invited to join & play w/ their children. Sat, 3-4:30 p.m. Thru May 18 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800 x 11. POLAR PLAY DAY. Play the Polar Plunge game, meet a zoo keeper, more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Carnegie Science Center, North Side. 412-237-1637. PUMPKIN PAINTING PARTY. Pumpkin painting, Halloween crafts, face painting, more. 1 p.m. The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-232-0199.

SAT 06 - SUN 07 ARTHUR’S HALLOWEEN. A Halloween musical based on the beloved aardvark Sat, Sun. Thru Oct. 28 Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. CHARLIE & KIWI’S EVOLUTIONARY ADVENTURE. Join Charlie as he travels back to the Age of Dinosaurs to discover how evolution works. Feat. story theater & discovery area. Presented

FALL FOLIAGE WALK. 2 p.m. Jennings Environmental Center, Slippery Rock. 724-794-6011.

TUE 09 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.

OTHER STUFF THU 04 CHARLEE BRODSKY. Artist talk & exhibit tour. 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Shadyside. 412-361-0873. DR. SKETCHY: GEEK YOUR HEART OUT. Life drawing w/ a twist. 7:30 p.m. The ToonSeum, Downtown. 412-232-0199. AN EVENING OF CELEBRATION & INSPIRATION W/ LAURA KAEPPELER, MISS AMERICA 2012. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Rivers Club, Downtown. 412-391-5227. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. PECHAKUCHA 20X20. A dynamic presentation style where presenters have 6 minutes & 40 seconds to pair words & images. Presented by AIA Pittsburgh. 7:20-9 p.m. Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown. RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall,

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DAY PARADE. Starts at the corner of Blvd. of the Allies & Commonwealth Place, Downtown. 11 a.m. 412-392-0322. ANTIQUES APPRAISAL DAY. 25 p.m. Waverly Presbyterian Church, Regent Square. 412-242-0643. CELEBRATE THE RAIN! Watershed awareness & rain barrel workshop. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. PITTSBURGH TERROR Mattress Factory, North TROLLEY TOURS. Side. 412-231-3169. Thu-Sat, 7 & 9 p.m. HALLOWEEN CEILI. and Wed., Oct. 31, Irish dancing workshop. 7 & 9 p.m. Thru Oct. 27 www. per All skill levels welcome. pa Station Square, Station pghcitym .co 7 p.m. Morningside VFW, Square. 412-281-2085. Morningside. 412-254-3130. JOBSTART RESOURCE & EMPLOYMENT FAIR. Student RAINBOW RISING COFFEE Activities Center. 12-6 p.m. Point HOUSE. For gay, lesbian, bisexual Park University, Downtown. and transgendered individuals 412-255-2134. and friends. Music, games, movies, SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA entertainment and more. CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by Unitarian Universalist dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. La Cucina Congregation, Smithton. First Fri Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844. of every month 724-872-5056. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. TENDING OUR MOTHERS’ Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing GARDENS LECTURE. Exhibition follows. No partner needed. Curator Elizabeth Asche Douglas. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Part of the MAVUNO Festival. 6:30Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 8:30 p.m. Sweetwater Center for 412-683-5670. the Arts, Sewickley. 412-741-4405. SWING CITY. Learn & practice WILKINSBURG’S 125TH swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m. ANNIVERSARY COMMUNITY Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. RECEPTION. Speakers include 412-759-1569. Mayor John Thompson & other community leaders. 6 p.m. Hosanna WILKINSBURG’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY COMMUNITY House, Wilkinsburg. 412-727-7855. PARADE. Begins at 1230 Park Ave., Wilkinsburg. 11 a.m. 412-727-7855. Begins at 1230 Park Ave., AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE Wilkinsburg. 11 a.m. 412-727-7855. Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512. WEST COAST SWING. Swing dance lessons for all levels. Thu, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

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DogtoberFEST will you find pups in adorable costumes? The event — sponsored by the Coalition to Adopt, Rehome and Match Abandoned Animals — features all things canine, including vendors, adoptable dog meet-and-greets, Ask-a-Vet/Ask-a-Trainer booths and a Pooch Pride Parade Costume Contest. 11a.m.-4 p.m., Sat., Oct. 6. SouthSide Works, 445 South 27th St., South Side. Visit www.carmaapetadoption.com for more information. TUE 09 HISTORY OF MEADOWCROFT ROCKSHELTER. Speaker: Dr. James Adovasio. Presented by the Squirrel Hill Historical Society. 7:30 p.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-417-3707. LIFE IN MOTION. Performance by The Cashore Marionettes. Ages 12+. 7:30 p.m. Washington & Jefferson College, Washington. 724-223-6546. NATE STANIFORTH. Street magic & multimedia stage show. 7 p.m.

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MON 08 BORN AGAIN. Panel feat. local women discussing how they became empowered to follow a dream. Part of the Town Hall Project. 7 p.m. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

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WED 10 ART BAR. A grown-up art class for all levels. Materials are provided. 7-9 p.m. Remedy, Lawrenceville. 215-779-4118. FREEDOM FOR BIRTH. Reception, film screening & panel discussion feat. local providers of maternity care. Benefits The Midwife Center. 6:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Filmmakers,

Oakland. 412-321-6884. PITTSBURGH GONG SHOW. Wed. Thru Oct. 24 Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550. WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, South Side. 916-287-1373.

AUDITIONS CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE, MON VALLEY DANCE COUNCIL. Auditions for A Christmas Carol, The Musical. Oct. 6. Male/female singers & dancers, age 6-adult. California University, California. 724-938-4220. COMTRA THEATRE. Auditions for It’s A Wonderful Life. Oct. 6-7. Call for more information. Cranberry. 724-591-8727. CROWNE PLAZA CABARET DINNER THEATRE. Oct. 13. Seeking adult & teen performers, both singers & non-singers, for upcoming musicals & murder mysteries. Bring a recent photo. Those auditioning for singing roles should prepare 32 bars of 2 songs. Call for details. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park. 724-746-1178. UNDERCROFT OPERA. Auditions for The Barber of Seville. Oct. 5-7. Will be presented in Italian, fully staged with full orchestra. Visit www.undercroftopera.org for info. Thru Oct. 7. First Baptist Church, Oakland. 412-621-0500

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{BY AL HOFF} Life choices, already tricky, are made more complicated by time travel in Rian Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper. In 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a thirtysomething guy working as a “looper,” an assassin in Kansas whose work comes from 2074. There, gangsters using forbidden time-travel machines zap victims back to 2044, where Joe kills and disposes of them. All fine, until sixtysomething Joe (Bruce Willis) turns up in 2044. Loopers “retire” by killing their elderly selves, who bring 30 years’ worth of retirement money from the future, but Old Joe has his own fix-the-past/ cure-the-future plan: finding the boy who will become his late-in-life tormentor.

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Taken 2: Retired CIA op Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has no luck. First, in 2008’s Taken, bad guys kidnapped his daughter. Now, more bad guys take him and his wife hostage. Frankly, my money’s on Neeson. Olivier Megaton directs this pulpy actioner. Starts Fri., Oct. 5.

Inside looking out: Nasser-Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric)

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pointment? So it would seem in Chicken With Plums, a live-action French fable, based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, and written and directed by the Iranian-born Satrapi (Persepolis) and Vincent Paronnaud, a French illustrator with a taste for the bizarre. The premise of their dark tale is rather simple: Nasser-Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) is a great Persian violinist in Tehran, c. 1958, whose beloved instrument has been destroyed (we eventually learn how). He searches for a new one, but none will do. Then, he buys a magniﬁcent Stradivarius from an eccentric shopkeeper who also sells authentic magic wands (so we’re squarely in the realm of magic realism here). He takes the instrument home, gets a good night of sleep, goes for a shave and haircut, and then sits down to play (what else?) a mournful tune of

sharps and ﬂats. But it’s not right, and after shedding a few more tears for his beloved former violin, he decides to die. He contemplates some grizzly options and ﬁnally lets death simply overtake him.

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Chicken With Plums cuts quickly to his funeral, eight days later, then flashes back to record the bittersweet hours that build to his finale. And while he waits, the directors recall his life with a series of whimsical-cum-surreal episodes — there’s a riff on American sitcoms, a silent-film sequence, an animated Angel of Death — in the life of

an ardent artist who can’t hear the music because he’s too busy regretting the past. Chicken With Plums is a depressive ﬁlm but not so much a depressing one: It seems to believe that sadness is darkly funny, and that confronting it puts it in its place (guillotine humor, you could say). It’s helped a lot by Amalric, the quirky French actor who’s played a Bond villain (in Quantum of Solace), but who’s just as adept at pathos. “There was someone, there was no one.” This, we’re told, is how all Persian stories begin. And so the individual may not even exist in this crazy world of ours. Because of its framing aphorism, Chicken With Plums seems at ﬁrst to trade in archetypes. But slowly, a story of passion, however misguided it might be, emerges as we watch Nassir meander to his death, leaving behind two children and a world that offers more pleasure than he’s willing to embrace. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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NEW FRANKENWEENIE. A kid brings his beloved dead dog back to life in this stop-motion animated comedy from Tim Burton. In 3-D in select theaters. Starts Fri., Oct. 5. HEADGAMES. It’s a topic most Pittsburghers know well: serious head injuries sustained by professional athletes. We treasure the “inspirational” stories — Sid Crosby is back! — and shrug off the sad ones, like learning after his death that Steeler Mike Webster’s brain was severely damaged. The slow path to making fans and players (pro and amateur) aware of concussion-related injuries and their potentially devastating and lifelong effects (such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy) is the subject of Steve James’ illuminating documentary. James (Hoop Dreams) lets Christopher Nowinski be his guide. Nowinski played football for Harvard and was a professional wrestler, and his own injuries led him to research the under-reported damage to players’ brains, as well as the resistance by players, coaches, leagues and parents to acknowledge any danger. Professional players who had career-ending brain injuries weigh in, as do parents, sportswriters and, most compellingly, doctors, who explain how the brain isn’t designed to take repeated hits and how the damage is not only permanent, but can “spread” over time. (“It’s your brain,” says one doctor, mystified that anyone would risk damaging it.)

Won’t Back Down Dissected diseased brains; athletes suffering from depression, dementia, memory loss and other brain trauma; footage of immobile athletes after a hit — this is scary stuff. Yet toward the end of the film, James highlights the disconnect between knowing that certain sports are potentially dangerous and most Americans’ fervent love of athletics (playing or spectating). A hockey player forced into retirement lets his teen-age son play, and the kid relishes full contact; the pediatric neurologist lets her kids play rough sports; the head-rung teen-age soccer player won’t quit. James also underscores this ambivalence by intercutting his muckraking with footage of a kids’ football game. In it, tiny boys from the inner city clearly benefit from the teamwork and discipline the game requires, but also hit the ground head first with alarming frequency. Obviously, football isn’t the only way to foster maturity in kids, but try changing our culture, which assigns sports, even (or especially) violent ones, such lofty attributes as leadership, perseverance and courage. That fans tolerate the physical damage wreaked on the players — and which players, coaches and leagues tacitly accept — is the twisted price paid for both these enduring myths and our entertainment. Starts Fri., Oct. 5. Harris (Al Hoff)

WON’T BACK DOWN. Twice in this film, a struggling single mom counsels interrogators not to talk down to her. If only Daniel Barnz’s film had heeded its own advice. This “inspired by real events” drama about two women working to reform the public-school system treats its audience like we’re in a remedial class for tough issues. Or, to put it another way: Barnz takes the complex issue of school choice, and reconfigures it as an underdog-teams sports weepie. (With sports. Half the film’s budget appears spent on Pirates, Penguins and Steelers gee-gaws. The story is set in Pittsburgh, but didn’t actually happen here.) So we get two plucky women attached to a failing public elementary school — a teacher (Viola Davis) and a manic, perky mom (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Barnz layers on the Lifetime — money troubles, a bad husband, kids with learning disabilities — and then pits the can’t-possibly-win pair against the wellfunded enemy, the teachers’ union. If you don’t know what happens, well, then you’ve never seen the movie where the team rallies behind a lockerroom speech, has a boozy night bonding, wins in the very last second with an out-of-nowhere save and lives happily ever after in a cheery epilogue. These actresses — and this complicated issue — deserve better than a shmaltzy feel-gooder scored with a second-rate Tom Petty song. (AH)

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REPERTORY SOME LIKE IT HOT. On the run from the mob during Prohibition, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women to travel incognito with an all-girl band, in Billy Wilderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1959 comedy. As if struggling with girdles and high heels werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, both men fall for the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexy lead singer (Marilyn Monroe) and, oops â&#x20AC;&#x201D; also discover theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some man trouble of their own! Every year, drag gets more passĂŠ, but remarkably, this genderbending farce remains fresh and funny, thanks to top-notch performances and plenty of sly jokes and barely disguised perversions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; right in the middle of the good old-fashioned 1950s. To be followed by a discussion led by Mitchell Lieb, president of the Pittsburgh Lesbian and Gay Film Society. 7 p.m. Thu., Oct. 4. Melwood (AH)

TO THE ARCTIC. Greg MacGillivrayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest IMAX adventure takes viewers to the icy Arctic wilderness, and into the lives of a polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs. Meryl Streep narrates this 45-minute doc. Starts Fri., Oct 5. Rangos Omnimax Theater, Carnegie Science Center, North Side. www. carnegiesciencecenter.org ZOMBIE SHORTS. The undead lurch among us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in short films. This eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program showcases zombiethemed shorts from local filmmakers. 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 5. Hollywood, Dormont

Elevator to the Gallows DEATH BY CHINA. The complicated and sometimes fraught economic relationship between the United States and China is the focus of this documentary from Peter Navarro, a business professor at University of California-Irvine and author. Navarro will lead a Q&A session after each screening. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 5, and 7:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6. SouthSide Works BEETLEJUICE. Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton star in Tim Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1988 comedy about a haunted house, and the aggrieved ghosts who live there. 9:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 5; 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6; 6 p.m. Sun., Oct. 7; and 7:30 p.m. Tue., Oct. 9. Hollywood, Dormont THE LOST BOYS. This 1987 MTV-style twist on vampires â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if an â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s hair-metal band turned to blood-sucking and remade Rebel Without a Cause â&#x20AC;&#x201D; holds up as a decent goof and even has a few creepy moments. Keifer Sutherland heads a crew of punky vamps who hang out at the beach boardwalk and generally seem to relish being night freaks (â&#x20AC;&#x153;sleep all day, party all nightâ&#x20AC;?). When Sutherland tries to recruit the new kid in town (Jason Patric), he runs afoul of a trio of pint-sized vampire hunters (including the two Coreys, Feldman and Haim). Directed by Joel Schumacher, it all ends in a bloodbath of unholy proportions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as it should. 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 5, and 10 p.m. Sat. Oct. 6. Oaks (AH) KLITSCHKO. Sebastian Dehnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary tells of Ukraineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir,

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Last week, I appeared at a “Savage Love Live” event at Radford University, in Radford, Va. The students submitted more questions than I could answer in two hours — and Radford students managed to stump me. Twice. I promised I would get answers for the two stumpers and answer as many of their other questions as I could this week.

don’t come out because no one’s out, and no one comes out because you’re not out. My advice: If you’re in a position to come out, come out. If you’re not in a position to come out, make plans to get to a place where you can come out. In the meantime, refrain from whining about a problem that your choices and/or limitations contribute to creating.

When I sneeze, I ejaculate. Is this normal? Yes, totally. This happens to all guys. That’s why they make men’s underwear out of cotton, dude.

Can you come out your butt? Sure, but only if someone else came in it first — and no one should be coming in your butt without a condom on his dick.

Why do all the beautiful girls only go for guys who are assholes? Why do all the guys only go for the beautiful girls who only go for assholes? I really like this guy and I know he likes me, but he is so unapproachable! He always seems to be pissed off. How can I get his attention? Someone who knows you’re interested in him and who’s genuinely interested in you but who affects an unapproachable, pissed-off demeanor is a game-playing douchebag. Surely there are some attractive guys on your campus — guys you like, guys who like you — who aren’t grumpy, game-playing assholes. Maybe you could date one of them? Is it normal for girls to orgasm from dry humping alone? Many girls learn to masturbate by grinding their crotches/clits against something — a pillow, typically — and dry humping is an effective way to recreate that sensation, i.e., it provides the intense, direct clitoral stimulation she needs to get off.

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Can you get an STI from a dead body? This is one of the questions that stumped me. “As long as this isn’t a thinly veiled necrophilia question, the answer is no,” says Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, founder of the Order of the Good Death, and the star of the hilarious and informative “Ask a Mortician” YouTube video series. “When the AIDS epidemic first hit in the ’80s, there were terrible stories about funeral homes that would charge more for bodies with HIV/ AIDS, or tell the family the body was a threat and needed to be cremated immediately. Thankfully, that’s now considered wildly unethical and incorrect. Unless you’re an embalmer or coroner and dealing closely with fresh corpse fluids, there should be almost zero risk to you.” Is it OK to want to be single for 15 more years? More and more people are delaying marriage or remaining single — you might want to read Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men and Eric Klinenberg’s Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. It’s generally OK to make your own choices and live your own life. Should I not have sex with my best friend’s babydaddy even though he was my boyfriend before he was hers and we were about to get back together before I found out my best friend was pregnant? Yes, you should not. Do you have any advice for non-openly-gay people at a school where gays are almost nonexistent? Recognize that you’re part of the problem. You

How do you tell someone that they are bad at sex? You don’t. You tell someone that there are particular ways you like to be touched/kissed/fucked/ bound/whatever. Hopefully this will lead to someone getting better at sex over a few months. If someone doesn’t get better at sex in that time frame, then someone either is incapable of getting better at sex or doesn’t care that you’re unhappy, and it’s time to dump someone. Can you get a yeast infection from licking a yeast infection? Another stumper, another guest expert: “Wet folds are a great place for yeast to grow,” says Dr. Anna Kaminski, associate medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, “especially if other things are a little out of balance. For example, a woman might be more prone to yeast infections due to other things in the vagina — spermicide, blood, antibioticinduced changes in vaginal pH balance or hormonal changes. But mouths are really good at keeping yeast in check. So it would be unusual for a person to get a yeast infection orally — unless you suffer from something that predisposes you to oral yeast infections, e.g., you are on antibiotics, you are immune-compromised, you have bad oral hygiene.” If a guy asks a girl if she wants to have anal sex, is he curious about gay sex? No. Why do straight guys like doggie-style so much? Because they’re gay. I’m a guy who does not find guys physically attractive. Even so, I like to give and receive blowjobs with men. Does this mean anything about my sexual orientation? Yes. I’ve always considered myself a lesbian, but a few weeks ago, I got really drunk and slept with one of my male friends. Am I not a lesbian? Female sexuality is a lot more fluid, as they say, and many lesbian-identified women have slept with men. Your sexuality identity — the label you choose to apply to yourself — should communicate the essential truth about your sexual interests and partner preferences. So you’re free to identify as a lesbian even if you slip and fall on the occasional dick. Who is your dream guy? Janice from the Muppets with a dick. OK, Radford, that was fun. Thanks for the invite and the great event!

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10. Dobbs who blasted “The Lorax” for its environmentalist message 11. Decompose from the inside, as a tree stump 12. Enter the scene 13. Beyoncè’s fashion line 16. Drunk’s affliction, for short 20. Arizona city where parts of “Infinite Jest” are set 23. ___ Spiegel (Hamburger’s rag) 24. “Eff off!” 26. Double ___ Oreos 28. Basic earring 31. The D in LED 32. “Coming ___ Parents” (book my mom bought me when she thought I was gay) 34. Immaculate Conception year 37. Iran, once 39. Moral philosopher

Immanuel 40. Schlep 41. Old hippie who plays an even older hippie in “Wanderlust” 42. “___ noted” 46. Mountain lion prey 47. George Burns’s wife 48. Was a persistent door-to-door salesman 49. Very, very 50. Mecca-toMedina trip 51. Put in a crypt 54. Comics cry 58. Big name in home security 60. Berry in modern diet supplements 62. Cambodian money 64. Don Ed Hardy design, briefly 65. Tour de France distances: Abbr. 67. Common Market inits. 68. U.S. territory that’s now two states

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LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): While doing research in South America four decades ago, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss found an indigenous tribe whose people claimed they could see the planet Venus in the daytime. This seemed impossible to him. But he later consulted astronomers who told him that in fact Venus does emit enough light to be visible by day to a highly trained human eye. My prediction for you, Libra, is that in the coming months you will make a metaphorically equivalent leap: You will become aware of and develop a relationship with some major presence that has been virtually undetectable. And I bet the first glimpse will come this week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Whether or not anyone has ever called you an “old soul” before, that term will suit you well in the coming months. A whole lot of wisdom will be ripening in you all at once. Past events that never quite made sense before will more clearly reveal the role they have played in your life’s master plan. Relatively unimportant desires you’ve harbored for a long time will fade away, while others that have been in the background — and more crucial to your ultimate happiness — will rise to prominence.

last 30 years. So then why do their bizarre interpretations of the nature of reality get so much play? One reason is that they shout so loud and act so mean. Your upcoming assignment, Aquarius, is to do what you can to shift the focus from small-minded bullies to big-hearted visionaries, whether that applies to the Christians in your sphere or any other influences. It’s time to shrink any tendency you might have to get involved with energy vampires. Instead, give your full attention and lend your vigorous clout to life-affirming intelligence.

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In most of my horoscopes I tell you what you can do to make yourself feel good. I advise you on how can act with the highest integrity and get in touch with what you need to learn about. Now and then, though, I like to focus on how you can help other people feel good. I direct your attention to how you can inspire them to align with their highest integrity and get in touch with what they need to learn about. This is one of those times, Sagittarius. I’m hoping you have your own ideas about how to perform these services. Here are a few of my suggestions: Listen with compassionate receptivity to the people you care for. Describe to them what they’re like when they are at their best. Give them gifts they can use to activate their dormant potential.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you’ve ever watched tennis matches, you know that some players grunt when they smack the ball. Does that help them summon greater power? Maybe. But the more important issue is that it can mask the sound of the ball striking the racket, thereby making it harder for their opponents to guess the force and spin of the ball that will be headed toward them. The coming week would be an excellent time for you to hunt down a competitive advantage that’s comparable to this in your own field of endeavor.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many people seem to believe that all of America’s Christians are and have always been fundamentalists. But the truth is that at most 35 percent of the total are fundies, and their movement has only gotten cultural traction in the

[WARNING: The following horoscope contains more than the usual dose of poetry.] Mirthful agitation! Surprising deliverance! I predict you will expose the effects of the smoke and mirrors, then find your way out of the labyrinth. Lucid irrationality! Deathless visions! I predict you will discover a secret you’d been hiding from yourself, then escape a dilemma you no longer need to struggle with. Mysterious blessings arriving from the frontiers! Refreshed fertility roused by a reborn dream! I predict you will begin to prepare a new power spot for your future use.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a full heart there is room for everything,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” That’s an important idea for you to meditate on right now, Aries. The universe is conspiring for you to be visited by a tide of revelations about intimacy. And yet you won’t be available to get the full benefit of that tide unless your heart is as full as possible. Wouldn’t you love to be taught more about love and togetherness and collaboration?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I turn inward and call forth psychic impressions of what’s ahead for you, I’m seeing mythic symbols like whoopie cushions, rubber chickens and pools of fake plastic vomit. I’m seeing popcorn shells that are stuck in your teeth and a dog that’s eating your homework and an alarm clock that doesn’t go off when it’s supposed to. But as I push further into the not-too-distant future, exploring the deeper archetypal levels, I’m also tuning into a vision of fireflies in an underground cavern. They’re lighting your

way and leading you to a stash of treasure in a dusty corner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That’s the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ bestselling novel A Tale of Two Cities. The author was describing the period of the French Revolution in the late 18th century, but he could just as well have been talking about our time — or any other time, for that matter. Of course many modern cynics reject the idea that our era is the best of times. They obsess on the idea that ours is the worst of all the worst times that have ever been. When your worried mind is in control of you, you may even think that thought yourself, Gemini. But in accordance with the current astrological omens, I challenge you to be a fiery rebel: Come up with at least five reasons why this is the best of times for you personally.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso. That’s certainly true for me. I can purify my system either by creating art myself or being in the presence of great art. How about you, Cancerian? What kinds of experiences cleanse you of the congested emotions that just naturally build up in all of us? What influences can you draw on to purge the repetitive thoughts that sometimes torment you? How do you go about making your imagination as fresh and free as a warm breeze on a sunny day? I urge you to make a study of all the things that work for you, and then use them to the max in the coming week.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” So said literary critic Lionel Trilling. Now I’m passing his idea on to you, Leo, just in time for the No-Blaming Season. Would you like to conjure up a surge of good karma for yourself? Then for the next 10 days or so, refrain from the urge to find fault. And do your best to politely neutralize that reflex in other people who are sharing your space, even if they love to hate the same political party or idiot fringe that you do. P.S.: For extra credit, engage in speech and activity that are antidotes to the blaming epidemic. (Hint: praise, exaltation, thanks.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the reasons platinum is regarded as a precious metal is that it is so infrequently found in the Earth’s crust. A second reason is that there are difficulties in extracting it from the other metals it’s embedded in. You typically need 10 tons of ore to obtain one ounce of platinum. That’s a good metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Virgo. The valuable resource you’re dreaming of is definitely worth your hard work, persistence, and attention to detail. But to procure it, you’ll probably need the equivalent of several tons of those fine qualities. Comment on this line from a poem by Daniel Higgs: “Truth obscured by the symbols of truth.” Freewillastrology.com

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Healthy Volunteers Needed for Hormonal Vaginal Ring Research Study You may be eligible to participate if you are: 18-39 years old In general good health Have regular periods Not pregnant or breastfeeding • Are willing to abstain from sexual activity, OR are sexually active and willing to use condoms, OR you are sterilized OR with one partner who has a vasectomy • Are willing to come to MageeWomens Hospital for up to 54 visits over 8 months • • • •

Do you have 2 or more years of sales experience? Are you creative, relentless and driven to succeed?

If the answer to the above questions is YES, City Paper might be your new home. We are currently looking for outside sales representatives to join our advertising team. Send your resume and cover letter to jbrock@steelcitymedia.com

Participants will be compensated up to $2,930 fo their time and travel

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

For more information please contact:

The Center for Family Planning at

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or visit: www.birthcontrolstudies.org

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Our board-certified physicians have been conducting clinical trials to advance primary care practice and the health of patients since 2003. We are currently enrolling for clinical trials in the following areas: • Asthma • COPD • Migraine • Diabetes • Cardiovascular • High cholesterol • IBS with diarrhea

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Are you interested in a long-term method of birth control? YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF YOU: • Are a non-pregnant woman between 16 and 45 years old • Are in need of contraception • Have regular periods • Are willing to come to Magee-Womens Hospital to complete up to 14 or more visits over a ﬁve year period The Center for Family Planning Research is conducting a research study of an investigational contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD). Participants will receive study-related exams and study-related birth control at no cost. To see if you qualify, please call the Center for Family Planning Research at 412-641-5496 or visit our website at www.birthcontrolstudies.org.Participants will be reimbursed up to $1030 over ﬁve years.

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You may be eligible to participate if you are: • • • •

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ABDOMINAL PAIN? BLOATING? DIARRHEA? If you have abdominal pain and diarrhea from irritable bowel syndrome, call about our research study of an investigational medication. Adults who qualify receive study-related care and study medication at no cost, and compensation for time and travel may be available for each completed visit.

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DeMarco Properties Newly Remodeled One Bedroom Apt $500/month + Utilities

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1304 Boyle $139,000 3BR, 1 BA, 3 story, Brick. Totally renovated. 1 block from AGH. 1 assigned parking

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SOLD 1222 Sherman $395,000 3 BR, 2 BA, 3 story brick hse. Completely renovated. Extra Lot. 4 blocks from AGH.

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SOUTH FOR RENT

Looking for a non-hormonal method of birth control? The center for Family Planning Research is conducting a study of an investigational spermicidal vaginal gel. Participants will complete 5 visits to Magee Womens Hospital over 6 months

REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Kennedy Twp. West Hills 3025 Timbercreek $195,000 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA Brick & Vinyl 2 car att/grg.

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FREE Community Yoga Sunday, October 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th at 11:30 AM All donations will benefit Family Resources (501c3). www.familyresourcesofpa.org

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THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH Sealed proposals shall be addressed to and deposited with Mr. Peter Camarda, CFO/COO, at the School District of Pittsburgh, Administration Building, Room 251, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, on November 6, 2012, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time, for the following Prime Contract(s), Building(s), Locations(s), and Project Site Work:

Off-site work shall be started on the Project no later than ten (10) days after the execution of a Contract with the Owner or as otherwise directed in writing. On site work shall start January 16, 2013. The work shall be substantially completed and ready for Owner use on April 20, 2013. Punch list items must be completed 30 days after substantial completion.

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Calling all USC High School 1987 graduates! Attend the 25th reunion party on 1027-12 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Canonsburg, PA 15317 from 7:30 pm until 11:30 pm. Drinks, dinner, DJ and dancing and other fun! RSVP at www.myevent.com

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DANCE INSTRUCTOR

PITTSBURGH STEEL CITY STEPPERS CHICAGO-STYLE STEPPIN’ DANCE LESSONS Wednesdays 7 -8:30 PM Wilkins School Community Center CONTACT: steelcitysteppers@ hotmail.com “friend” us on Facebook and Meetup.com

Details regarding: Pre-Bid Conferences, Substance Abuse, Eligible Business Opportunity Program, procedures for withdrawing bids, Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act, etc. are described in each project manual. Project Manual and Drawings for bidding purposes will be available for purchase by the Contractors October 1, 2012 at Modern Reproductions, 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, between 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Modern Reproductions may be contacted by Phone 412-488-7700 or Fax 412-488-7338 to determine the cost of the Project Manual and Documents. The cost of the Project Manual and Documents is non-refundable.

The School District of Pittsburgh reserves the right to waive any informality in bids or to reject any or all bids. By Order of the Board of Public Education Dr. Linda Lane, Superintendent of Schools and Secretary We are an equal rights and opportunity School District

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OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH Sealed proposals shall be addressed to and deposited with Mr. Peter Camarda, CFO/COO, at the School District of Pittsburgh, Administration Building, Room 251, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, on October 9, 2012, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time, when separate bids will publicly be opened and read aloud for electrical work at various schools: • Electrical Maintenance Agreement • Extraordinary Electrical Maintenance Agreement • Maintenance Agreement – Integrated Access Control Intrusion Detection and Surveillance Systems

Presents an Evening with Dr. Alexander Cooley, Tow Professor of Political Science Topic: Central Asia and the New Great Game: Lessons for a Multipolar World When: Tonight, Oct. 3, 2012 6-8pm Where: 929 Liberty Avenue (Downtown)

October 6 • 7:00pm Clarion Hotel • Greentree $20 advance — $25 at door Appetizers & Cash Bar • Silent & Chinese Auctions Blues Legend Sponsors:

Cost: $15 includes, drinks, appetizers, networking and a great discussion. To register, visit worldpittsburgh.org or call 412-281-7970

Details regarding Pre-bid Conferences, Substance Abuse, Eligible Business Opportunity Program, procedures for withdrawing bids, Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act, etc., are described in each project manual. Project Manual and Drawings for bidding purposes will be available for purchase by the Contractors Monday, September 17, 2012 at the 1305 Muriel Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15203, between 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. PPS may be contacted by Phone 412-488-4321 or Fax 488-4340 between 9:00 A. M. and 4:00 P. M. to determine the cost of the Project Manual and Documents. The cost of the Project Manual and Documents is non-refundable.

The School District of Pittsburgh reserves the right to waive any informality in bids or to reject any or all bids.

Proceeds benefit Circle C Youth & Family Services

Free Debate Viewing Party to follow starting @ 9PM.

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Blues Hall of Fame Sponsors:

All contracts shall be for a period of twelve (12) months, commencing January 1, 2013 and ending December 31, 2013.

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By Order of the Board of Public Education Dr. Linda Lane, Superintendent of Schools and Secretary

For More Information

412.937.1650 X227

We are an equal rights and opportunity School District

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LONGEST RUNNING

INTERACTIVE DINNER SHOW

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Friday, October 19 at 7pm Saturday, October 20 at 2pm and 7pm

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