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ON THE RECORD WITH DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL NOMINEE BILL PEDUTO
INCOMING Peduto, and his coalition, sweep city elections (May 22, online only) “The voters of Pittsburgh can’t even pick the best Democrat. Wagner offered the city a much better skill set with an impressive resume. … After the honeymoon period I can’t wait to watch the infighting because Bill Peduto has proven in the past that he cannot work with others.” — Comment from City Paper’s Facebook page from “Jeff Becker”
A Tale of Two Wards: Measuring the enthusiasm gap in mayoral race (May 22, online only) “I’d like to think, and certainly hope, that the public nowadays goes to the polls knowing for whom they intend to vote, rather than being told by Committeemen or anyone else at the entrance to the polling place.” — Web comment from “Audrey Glickman” “Wait. [City Councilor Natalia] Rudiak won?! Didn’t people see Lamar Advertising’s billboards? Rudiak wants to tax billboards, people. BILLBOARDS. A billboard tax is just the thin edge of the wedge! Next thing you know, there’s a hammer and sickle on the City-County Building and your kids are all being trained in madrassas! What’s next, soccer at Heinz Field?” — Web comment from “Jason Togyer”
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Budget cuts from federal sequester taking toll on local social programs (May 22) …[M]ore liberal crying BS.” Web comment from “Sequester Rules Chick”
When @billpeduto wins in November he should change his Twitter tagline back to “Speaker of truth to Assclowns” — May 24 tweet from “Keystone Politics” (@keystonepol)
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Peduto celebrates with his supporters at his Election Night victory party, held at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers headquarters on the South Side.
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ILL PEDUTO sat down with City Paper two days after becoming the Democratic nominee to be the city’s next mayor — a goal he has pursued for the better part of a decade. An extended version of this interview can be found at www.pghcitypaper.com.
SO CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. HAVE YOU GOTTEN TO MEET TIGER WOODS YET? Nope. I’ve never met anyone named Tiger. WHAT HAVE THE PAST COUPLE DAYS BEEN LIKE? More reflective than euphoric. It’s sort of like if your deck’s falling apart and you think, “One day I’m going to fix the deck.” You spend years obsessing over how you’re going to fix the deck: You hire the best people, they write the plans, and one weekend it’s sunny out and you fix the deck. You don’t then go, “WE FIXED THE DECK!!” … There were two moments [on Election
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Day] where there were tears in my eyes, but they were both with family. The only time in the campaign when I thought we could lose was those few hours before the polls closed.
so we were going to have to win it in the field. I always felt that even if [Wagner] stayed ahead 5 percent, we were still going to win, because we were going to push out the vote.
REALLY? THERE WERE TIMES WHEN SOME OF YOUR SUPPORTERS WERE ANTSY. About six weeks out, we were anywhere from 7 to 10 points down, and [Jack] Wagner had gone up on the air first. Over the next
WAGNER WAS COMPLAINING RIGHT UP TO THE END ABOUT THE NEGATIVE AD YOU RAN, SAYING HE NEVER CUT MEALS ON WHEELS, AS YOU MADE IT SOUND. DO YOU HAVE ANY REGRETS ABOUT THE SPOT? We’d been told by supporters of Ravenstahl that they were going to come out against us with negative ads that were going to be very harsh. So we had to go up on a comparative against Wagner. And the strongest comparative we had was “pay raise versus pay cut.” [Wagner had voted himself a pay raise as a state senator; Peduto supported a plan to give up a small portion of his salary to help defray police layoffs.] And the other part, which dealt with [Wagner’s position on] the Corbett budget, was factual.
“It’s so damn exciting that I finally get my chance” {BY CHRIS POTTER} five weeks, he outspent us 2-to-1. … And on top of that, [Mayor Luke] Ravenstahl starts his crazy ads, and they run over $300,000 worth. But we had built a field campaign that would crush Ravenstahl. We were never going to have as much money as Luke,
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On Election Day, Peduto toted a sign inspired by a City Paper cover dating back to 2005 — the year of his first mayoral run.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT INDEPENDENT OBSERVERS SAID: THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUPPORTING CERTAIN BUDGETARY PRINCIPLES [AS STATE AUDITOR GENERAL, WAGNER HAD, AGREEING WITH REPUBLICANS ON SOME KEY ASSUMPTIONS] AND SUPPORTING ANY GIVEN CUT. But the debate was very real about what would be cut if the budget got approved. If he’s arguing that he didn’t cut Meals on Wheels, then the question is, “What did he think would be cut?” … Jack had been attacking me at every debate: “The problem with this city is you’ve got this mayor and THIS council.” … He used his surrogates to say not what he was going to do, but why I was a bad person. And my surrogates were told, “Don’t mention his name. Talk about what we’re going to do for Pittsburgh.” … His attacks were personal, cloaked in very charged issues. When you put up the neighborhoods of Homewood and the Hill District [in ads], you aren’t being subtle. YOU STILL SOUND PISSED OFF. I get upset when I hear people commenting, “This has been a very negative campaign by both sides.” We had a lot of arrows in the quiver, and we could have made it a personal attack as well. Every time he said [that] I don’t talk to [fellow city councilors] Ricky Burgess or Darlene Harris, we could have reminded people that there was a coup against [Wagner] in city council, and they ousted him as president. YOU ESPECIALLY TOOK A BEATING FROM THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, WITH FOP HEAD MIKE LAPORTE ACCUSING YOU OF LYING ABOUT TAKING A PAY CUT, AND FOR USING ACTORS DRESSED AS POLICE IN YOUR ADS. I’ve never seen a public-employee union
head take actions like that. ... There’s a group within the bureau that controls certain operations, especially around off-duty details [providing security at bars and events]. They are so afraid that if I get in, the gravy train will end. And guess what? The gravy train is going to end.
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ON THE OTHER HAND, I CAN’T THINK OF A LOCAL RACE WHERE I’VE SEEN $100,000 COME FROM A SINGLE SOURCE, AS YOU GOT FROM THE LABORERS UNION. SHOULDN’T WE BE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THEY EXPECT IN RETURN? They had been isolated by the Ravenstahl administration, and they were looking for the best person to win against him. … The building trades — the other side that is also influenced by people like Mike Turzai, Republican powerbrokers — were not only sticking with Ravenstahl, but going to Wagner. They put in close to a quartermillion dollars. BUT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TAXPAYER WHO WORRIES, “NOW THERE’S GOING TO BE A SWEETHEART CONTRACT FOR [LABORERS WORKING ON THE CITY PAYROLL]” — WHY SHOULDN’T THAT BE A CONCERN? Just because of the way I do business. I make it clear upfront that I don’t negotiate the deal in order to get the endorsement. I haven’t promised one person a job. Everyone says, “Guy Costa [the former city Public Works director who managed Peduto’s campaign] is coming back!” Guy went back to work for the county today. That’s a discussion that I will have with him at the appropriate time, but the appropriate time wasn’t before Election Day. STILL, WHEN CAMPAIGNS APPEAL TO YOUTHFUL IDEALISM, PEOPLE GET DISENCHANTED QUICKLY WHEN CANDIDATES DON’T LIVE UP TO THEIR CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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HOPES. HOW ARE YOU MOST LIKELY TO DISAPPOINT US? Maybe by renaming Heinz Field “Laborers Field.” … I guess it would be that, while I’m very committed to doing the national search for people, there may be enough talent inside this city — not necessarily inside city government, but inside the city — that there wouldn’t be a lot of people coming from outside the state. I’ve thought about it in the past 48 hours: There are so many different people that I know, some of them couldn’t get involved in the campaign because they worked in nonprofits, but they’d be really good people. I don’t know if I can convince them to work for city government, but if I could, people would say, “See? He hired locally. He was just saying that.” OR THAT YOU JUST HIRED YOUR BUDDIES. I think people are going to expect that I clean up government and don’t operate in a way to help a few people get rich. They’re going to expect me to get more involved in education, and deal with issues of poverty. They’re going to expect me not to be divisive, but to rise above it when it occurs. They’re going to expect me to invest in neighbohoods that haven’t seen investment. I’m not going to change my opinion on fracking in the city, or the UPMC lawsuit. I’ve planted those flags already. And I hope that I can let people see
me more than they have when I was on council. I think you know that I’m a pretty funny guy. (SILENCE.) Well, I’m not just a policy wonk that’s stiff, and I come off that way to a lot of people. I’ve gotta learn to let the guard down more. I think that’s what the city needs too. YOU’LL BE SHIFTING FROM A LEGISLATIVE TO AN EXECUTIVE POSITION — A ROLE YOU’VE NEVER HELD BEFORE. DOES THAT WORRY YOU? Not at all. I have the ability to look through a budget and see a picture. I have the ability to look into neighborhoods and see the potential. I have the ability to connect with people. Those are the characteristics of a good mayor. … I’ve been watching people play the video game for 19 years. It’s so damn exciting that I finally get my chance that there’s nothing fearful about it. It’s more anticipation. WHICH RAISES THE QUESTION: WHAT VIDEO GAME DO YOU THINK RUNNING A CITY WILL BE MOST LIKE? [Bally Midway’s 1983 game] Tapper. You’re a bartender and you have to run around as the customers come in and the beers are coming out. It’s impossible to keep up. The people keep coming down, and they get angry if you don’t give them their beer. And you have to get the empty glasses, too. C P OT T E R@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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FORMER COP ACQUITTED Despite judge’s verdict, city says it has ‘no intention’ of reinstating Garrett Brown {BY LAUREN DALEY} GARRETT BROWN’S criminal trial may have
ended with an acquittal on insurance fraud on May 20, but the former city police ofďŹ cer’s legal saga is far from over: His attorney says he hopes to rejoin the police force. “He should absolutely get his job back,â€? says William H. Difenderfer, Brown’s attorney. “He just wants to get on with his life.â€? Brown, 42, was charged with lying to investigators when he told Erie Insurance he was rear-ended by a donut delivery truck driven by Blaine Johnston and Matt Mazzie in the early morning of Nov. 18, 2010. Johnston and Mazzie contend — in a story they recounted ďŹ rst in a 2011 City Paper story, and later in court — that Brown chased them in his pick-up truck and confronted them without identifying himself as an off-duty police ofďŹ cer. In a series of confrontations, they alleged, Brown screamed profanities, threw coins at their window, punched the side of their van and then rammed it off the road. The pair ďŹ led a federal lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh, Brown and seven other city police ofďŹ cers who responded to the incident that night at Children’s Hospital. Difenderfer says Brown was sitting at a red light when Johnston’s van collided with the truck, from driving too fast. Brown didn’t intentionally wreck it, Difenderfer says. “He’s a classic cop ‌ he loves his truck,â€? he says. “He’s not wrecking the truck for these two idiots.â€? Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jill E. Rangos ruled during a May 20 non-jury trial that there were too many inconsistencies to say beyond a reasonable doubt that Brown lied to insurance investigators. (For more details, visit www.pghcitypaper.com.) Rangos said that Mazzie and Johnston offered different versions of how Brown rammed their van. Johnston said he didn’t see what part of Brown’s truck struck their vehicle, but guessed it was the front quarter panel. Mazzie testiďŹ ed that Brown struck their van with his truck’s back quarter panel. And while both men testiďŹ ed in court that their vehicle was moving, during a 911 call made by Mazzie at the time, he told dispatchers they’d been sitting at a stop light when they were struck. “Some psycho just tried to run us off the road,â€? Mazzie said. Both men testiďŹ ed in court that they feared for their safety. In a 911 call made by Brown, the ofďŹ cer is heard telling dispatchers he was rear-ended and that the van drove away.
The case took another hit when the prosecution’s accident-reconstruction expert, William Simcox Sr., was withdrawn by prosecutor Nicholas Radoycis Jr. after Rangos and Difenderfer questioned his credentials. Rangos ruled that Brown hadn’t been entirely honest in his insurance report. “It’s pretty clear Mr. Brown did not answer truthfully [on the Erie Insurance accident questionnaire] as to if there had been any words between the parties,â€? she said. “It’s pretty clear there were words exchanged.â€? But, she ruled, there wasn’t enough evidence to sustain a conviction because “[t]he witnesses were unclear on how the accident occurred,â€? she said. “I need beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.â€? Brown can attempt to rejoin the force using arbitration, according to Bryan Campbell, an attorney for the Fraternal Order of Police. As of press time, no petition had been made, according to bureau spokeswoman Diane Richard. Michael LaPorte, FOP president, did not return calls for comment. Mike Huss, the city’s public-safety director, said Brown was terminated in September 2011 because of this incident. “We as an administration didn’t have the same burden of proof as a criminal charge,â€? Huss said. “And we have no intention of reversing our position.â€? OfďŹ cer ďŹ rings have been reversed in the past after not-guilty pleas, however. The city rehired Paul Abel after he was cleared in an off-duty altercation with Kaleb Miller. In 2011, a Commonwealth Court judge reinstated Eugene Hlavac, who was cleared in a 2009 incident of allegedly slapping his girlfriend and dislocating her jaw. As City Paper reported in March 2011, citizen complaints have been ďŹ led against Brown in the past, though many were ruled unfounded or resulted in exoneration. In March 2011, the city settled a civil-rights case arising from a January 2008 trafďŹ c encounter — when Brown was off-duty — with Texas man Leonard Hamler. As for Mazzie and Johnston’s federal lawsuit — their attorney, Thomas McClain, says he is studying the verdict’s impact. Mazzie says he’s concerned that Brown could be back on the streets. As for alleged discrepancies, Mazzie stands by his story. “How do you concoct a story like that? Everything I said in my statement concurred with my 911 call,â€? he says. “I know what happened that night.â€?
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES Peduto’s win shows a new Pittsburgh taking root — and taking over {BY CHRIS POTTER} JACK WAGNER’S election-night party wasn’t
like a wake, exactly. The scene at the South Side’s IBEW ballroom, where supporters awaited results in the city’s mayoral race, was more like a 50th-wedding anniversary celebration ‌ one where everyone knows the marriage is on the rocks. A few blocks and a world away, City Councilor Bill Peduto’s party was in high gear, with DJs spinning for a multi-ethnic, multigenerational throng. But at Wagner Central, the crowd was middle-aged and then some, and almost exclusively white. A guitarist, tucked into an alcove, played chart-toppers from four decades ago. And as the numbers refused to budge from a double-digit Peduto lead, Wagner’s loyalists tried to explain it. Peduto had been building his campaign for years; Wagner had jumped in only weeks before, after Mayor Luke Ravenstahl dropped his re-election bid. What’s more, Wagner lacked not just time but room to run: While he chafed at being the “Ravenstahl candidate,â€? he couldn’t distance himself from the label. Peduto had captured the anti-Ravenstahl vote, which left Wagner with the mayor’s constituency or no one at all. But maybe Wagner’s biggest challenge, his backers admitted, was this: While Wagner, a lifelong Beechview resident, never truly left Pittsburgh ‌ Pittsburgh had moved away from him. Wagner’s polling, campaign sources told me, showed that Pittsburgh had become a much different city since 1993, when he’d last run for mayor. Polls showed that more than half of primary voters identiďŹ ed themselves as liberals. And Wagner, a conservative Democrat, could never ďŹ nd his footing in the new landscape. In a campaign ad, his daughter praised him for having “evolved a lot on social issues.â€? But when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked about the claim, Wagner said, “That ad has nothing to do with any speciďŹ c issue — nothing.â€? Often, the same could have been said of his entire campaign. But in many ways, the former city councilor, state senator and state auditor general reects the best Pittsburgh’s old guard has to offer. During his council stint three decades ago, he took a strong position on gun control, and helped spin off Phipps Conservatory
from city control, allowing it to blossom as a green role model. Most of all, he was a fundamentally decent guy who never forgot where he came from. It’s not his fault if, for an increasing number of Pittsburghers, that place is just a memory. Part of what’s changed is the political lines. “There’s a whole new way to campaign,â€? Peduto later told me. “And the group that controls elections in this town is a group of progressive young people who’ve won every single race that they’ve gone up against the old machine.â€? Of the city candidates who won their primaries this spring, for example, only one had the Democratic Party’s endorsement: Peduto’s own aide, Dan Gilman. But there have been deeper social shifts as well. Environmentalism, equal rights for same-sex couples, greater political transparency ‌ these can no longer be derided as concerns merely for East End liberals. And after spending two decades fretting about how to hold onto young people, Pittsburgh might ďŹ nally be listening to them. Of course, Peduto is not the ďŹ rst guy to beat the city’s “old machine.â€? It was done three decades ago by Pete Flaherty, and arguably once or twice since. Yet the machine has clanked on, and sometimes the would-be reformers found themselves working the levers. This is, after all, not the ďŹ rst time Wagner lost to another high-minded reformer. Tom Murphy, too, started out as a champion of grassroots activism. By the time he left ofďŹ ce, though, his reputation was somewhat different. Once you’re at the controls of the machine, it’s hard not to use it. Peduto has pledged to “turn upsidedown the top-down modelâ€? of governance used by Murphy — and almost every other mayor dating back to David Lawrence. I think he means it. But a bottom-up approach asks a lot of everyone else ‌ and only about 45,000 people voted this spring. Passive-aggressive citizenship may be one old-school habit that still hasn’t died. To borrow one of Wagner’s favorite campaign tropes, That Has To Change. Otherwise, the next mayoral election might feel like a marriage gone sour as well.
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The Washington Post reported in April that the federal government is due to spend $890,000 this year to safeguard … nothing. The amount is the total fees for maintaining more than 13,000 short-term bank accounts the government owns but which have no money in them and never again will. Closing the accounts is easier said than done, according to the watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste, because the accounts each housed separate government grants, and Congress has required that, before the accounts are closed, the grants must be formally audited — something bureaucrats are rarely motivated to do, at least within the 180 days set by law (though there is no penalty for missing the deadline).
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It’s good to be the county administrator of Alameda County, Calif. (on San Francisco Bay, south of Oakland). The San Francisco Chronicle revealed in March that somehow, Susan Muranishi negotiated a contract that pays her $301,000 a year, plus “equity pay” of $24,000 a year so that she makes at least 10 percent more than the next highest paid official, plus “longevity” pay of $54,000 a year, plus a car allowance — and that she will be paid that total amount per year as her pension for life (in addition to a private pension of $46,000 a year that the county purchased for her).
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The Way Washington Works: In rare (these days) bipartisan action, congressional military “experts” of both parties are about to force the Army to continue building Abrams tanks — when the Army said it doesn’t want them and can’t use them. The tank manufacturers, of course, have convinced Congress that it needs the contracts, no matter what the Army says (according to an April Associated Press analysis).
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The Jewish Museum in Berlin is currently staging what has become popularly known as the “Jew in the Box” exhibit to teach visitors about Judaism — simply featuring one knowledgeable Jewish person who sits in a chair in a glass box for two hours a day and answers questions from the curious. Both supporters (“We Germans have many insecurities when it comes to Jews”) and critics (“Why don’t they give him a banana and a glass of water [and] turn up the heat?”) are plentiful.
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The weather in Hong Kong on April 25 wreaked havoc on American artist Paul McCarthy’s outdoor, 50-foot-tall piece of “inflatable art” in the West Kowloon Cultural District.
“Complex Pile” (a model of an arrangement of excrement) got punctured, which mostly pleased McCarthy’s critics since his recent work, reported the South China Morning Post, has often centered around bodily functions.
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Frequent Flyers: (1) Chicago police have arrested Ms. Shermain Miles, 51, at least 396 times since 1978, under 83 different aliases, for crimes ranging from theft (92 times) to prostitution and robbery. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, she is a virtuoso at playing “the system” to delay her proceedings and avoid jail time. (2) Alvin Cote, 59, passed away in February of poor health in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, following a “career” of 843 publicintoxication arrests.
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Danielle Parker was hospitalized and awaiting DUI charges after a crash near Gaston, N.C., in March, even though she had been in the passenger seat of the car. She had handled the wheel momentarily because Brittany Reinhardt, 19, in the driver’s seat, was busy texting. (Reinhardt, apparently sober, was charged with “aiding and abetting” a DUI.)
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The biggest news out of Newtown, Conn., recently — not involving the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School — came when local environmental officials announced on April 29 that they were investigating the finding of “200 to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs” filled with urine in a home “in a state of disrepair.” No charges were filed against the homeowner, but officials sought to assure neighbors and users of the property that no health hazard was present. (The average person, reported the Connecticut Post, produces about six cups of urine a day.)
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Mr. Datta Phuge perhaps overly personifies India’s national obsession with the beauty of gold. For special occasions, he outfits his “knuckles, neck and wrists” with golden “signet rings, chunky bracelets and a medallion,” wrote BBC News in April after Phuge had also purchased a crinkly gold tailored shirt made for him for about $250,000. The 7-pound shirt (from Rankar Jewellers in the city of Pune) has a velvet lining to keep it from irritating his skin, and he must, of course, always travel with a bodyguard.
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Stan Worby, 39, made headlines internationally in February when, dressed as Batman, he hauled fugitive Daniel Frayne, 27, into a Bradford, England, police station. It turns out he was just helping his friend Daniel turn himself in (on an outstanding arrest warrant). In a separate incident in April, the two “friends” were arrested together and charged with burglarizing a garage in Bradford.
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In a confessional in the April GQ magazine, the sportswriter Buzz Bissinger (creator of TV’s Friday Night Lights) admitted that his later-in-life fame had enabled a narcissism that caused him to impulsively buy 81 leather jackets in a three-year period, plus 75 pairs of boots, 41 pairs of leather pants, 32 pairs of upscale jeans, 10 evening jackets and 115 pairs of leather gloves, among other extravagances and aberrations.
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{BY CHRIS POTTER} There’s no such thing as a free lunch, politicians often say. Except on Election Night, when candidates lay out victoryparty spreads for the faithful. Owing to professional ethics, I generally refrain from sampling the buffet line. But eating is a social — and thus political — ritual, and politicians know it. District 4 City Councilor Natalia Rudiak, for example, was accused by her opponent of not patronizing Brookline’s Moonlight Café often enough. Her election-night gathering was held just down the street at the Isis Café, an Egyptian-themed eatery that, like a handful of other ethnic restaurants, opened up during her first term. But the key match-up, of course, was the mayoral race. Jack Wagner’s event, held at the IBEW hall on the South Side, was very much in tailgating mode: nachos, soft pretzels, burgers and dogs. On tap was Yuengling, a suitable choice for a former Pennsylvania Auditor General: economical but made in state. (Coors was also available.) A few blocks away, meanwhile, City Councilor Bill Peduto tapped Lawrenceville’s Church Brew Works to wash down pizza, hot dogs and that other hometown delicacy, Eat’n Park Smiley cookies. When Peduto launched his campaign late last year, guests were provided with bowls of “Peduto Punch.” I tried some — purely in the spirit of journalistic inquiry — and found it fruity but not insipid. When asked to provide the recipe, however, Peduto demurred, citing an “ancient Italian secret.” Needless to say, I’ll be scouring his campaign spending records for clues. CPOTTER@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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around the intersection of Centre Avenue and Craig Street, in Oakland. There’s an Indian grocery (two, if you count the one a couple blocks away on Craig nearer Forbes) and now, with the opening of All India, two Indian restaurants. None of the record stores and anonymous pizzerias that have occupied All India’s storefront over the years has ever beckoned us inside, so we had no idea how large the space is. It’s huge, and far too deep to be brightly lit by the storefront windows. The restaurant’s owners have made the most of this challenging condition by embracing it. Dark-stained plywood arabesque cutouts create a pleasing rhythm on the spice-colored walls, colorful garlands of silk flowers festoon doorways, and handsome pendant lamps cast a soft glow over even the tables farthest from the front. The elegant touches extend to the table settings, where brass water goblets and good, heavy flatware suggest a commitment to quality, down to the last detail. But best of all is All India’s menu, which
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attempts to live up to its name. With more than 200 items, All India’s menu is both epic and exciting, including novel choices such as Goan coconut shrimp and green jackfruit curry alongside the old denizens, chicken curry and the tandoor.
ALL INDIA 315 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-681-6600 HOURS: Tue.-Thu. lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 5-10 p.m.; Fri. lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., dinner 5-10:30 p.m.; Sat. lunch noon-3 p.m., dinner 5-10:30 p.m.; Sun. lunch noon-3 p.m., dinner 5-10 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $4-10; entrees $9-19 LIQUOR: BYOB
CP APPROVED We started with an array of savory appetizers. Our longtime favorite, the enigmatically named “chicken 65,” was gloriously tender chunks of moist dark meat. What it lacked in fluorescent red color, it more than made up for in subtly spicy fried coating. Punjabi-style crispy tilapia was also fried in bite-size nuggets, but pos-
sessed a crisper exterior and even deeper spice notes. Hut-K kabab, a new-to-us dish of ground paneer and vegetables, had the texture of a finely ground veggie burger in the form of a sausage link; the flavor was of melded herbs and spices, with no single ingredient predominating. Our appetites whetted, we confronted the rest of the menu, which ran the gamut from soups and flatbreads to “Indo-Chinese Delicacies.” Our choices were made all the harder by the fact that the menu descriptions are brief to the point of obfuscation. It was difficult to know if and how, for instance, a dish “cooked in delicate spices” was different from one “gently cooked with rare spices and herbs.” Overwhelmed, we ended up defaulting to a couple of old favorites, such as Angelique’s favorite, channa masala, and some multi-dish platters that allowed us to sample small portions of several items. One of these was the tandoor mixed grill, and it was terrific, even the seafood. We’ve often wondered why Indian restaurants subject seafood to the tandoor, whose
blasting heat dries the meat and converts the oils into fishy-smelling compounds, but All India shows that the tandoor needn’t ruin fish. The salmon, marinated in yogurt, turmeric and fenugreek leaves, was done a bit much for our tastes, but retained good flavor, while the juicy, smoky, herbinfused shrimp was simply extraordinary. The meats were pretty good as well — highlights being lamb sheekh (ground and spiced, like a sausage) that was exceptionally juicy, and chicken tikka that remained moist despite being white meat. A generous mound of sautéed peppers and onions helped to round out the platter. A thali, or combination platter, is a great option for both the unadventurous (a couple combos consist almost completely of Indian-American greatest hits like samosa and naan) and for the explorer (others consist largely of items we’ve never heard of, listed with no explanation). Thali is also perfect for a solo diner who wants the experience
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CHILL FACTOR Mastro Ice provides cold comfort to local mixologists
of multiple tastes without lugging home a stack of takeout containers. Our Gujarati thali presented an intriguing array of vegetarian items: a simple, tasty golden daal; undhio, a thick curry of potatoes, mashed beans and lentils; mirchi pakora, a green chile stuffed, tamale-like, with a spiced paste; and kadi pakoda, chickpea-flour fritters in a thick, rich, tangy yellow sauce. From the southern Indian list, we tried egg dosa, the classic lentil-rice crepe fried with a thin layer of scrambled egg; the effect was, paradoxically, that of a crisp omelet. From the north, paneer makhni was smooth and creamy as bisque, while channa masala (chick-pea curry) was satisfying, if not revelatory. At All India, old-favorite dishes are prepared with care, and there are plenty — we do mean plenty — of new ones to try.
Making ice might not seem like a big deal to most of us — take water, put in freezer — but perfecting the craft is an art. “Everything we do is high tech — for ice,” says Joe Mastro. He and his brother Mike have been producing top-shelf ice at their Polish Hill location since the late 1970s. At Mastro Ice, the process begins with what Joe Mastro calls “really good municipal water,” which is then run through a series of filters and UV lights. Then, the water is agitated constantly while an ammonia-cooled machine freezes the ice from the bottom up. “Only the purest water freezes,” says Mastro. Pure frozen water is what the city’s tonier cocktail bars are demanding. “There’s nothing worse than making a good drink, pouring it over ice, and seeing that ice melted after five minutes,” says Tender Bar + Kitchen bartender Sean Rosenkrans. A top-shelf ice program demands cubes of pure water with maximum surface area. Larger ice cubes melt at a slower rate than their common icemachine brethren, which means the drinks will remain a purer expression of the bartender’s intention. Purity assures that any ice that does melt will not impart off-flavors to a drink. Preparing the ice for service is as much an art as freezing it is. “There are so many little things that factor into carving,” says Giuseppe Capolupo of Bar Marco. He was — at least in Pittsburgh’s modern cocktail resurgence — the first barman to purchase large blocks from Mastro Ice. Capolupo revs up a chainsaw and cuts 48 squares from a 25-pound block. He aims for perfection: after the squares are cut, he polishes the cubes on a hot plate until they become transparent blocks of crystal glass. Still, Rosenkrans says, as he uses an ice pick to shape a block of ice into chunks of rough-cut diamonds, this hard work should go mostly unnoticed. “You want it on the periphery. They should have the experience without really knowing they’re having it.”
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sandwiches) are also distinctive options, including German potato pancakes, ham off the bone and a sandwich tantalizingly called a “meatloaf melt.” J EASY STREET. 301 Grant St. (One Oxford Centre), Downtown. 412-235-7984. A relaxing Downtown venue succeeds with inventive bar fare such as a pork-belly sandwich and yellow-fin tuna tacos that straddle the Latin-Asian flavor divide. Less exotic fare is treated well, too: Pastrami is made in house, and the braised-beef sandwich features arugula, pickled onions and cambozola cheese. KE
GIA VISTO. 4366 Old William Penn Highway, Monroeville. 412-374-1800. The menu at this welcoming Italian restaurant ranges from simple classics to elegant inventions. Whether it’s a fried risotto appetizer enlivened with a elemental but sublime red sauce, or a perfectly cooked salmon on a Mediterranean-inspired bed of beans and vegetables, the fare . www per exhibits the kitchen’s a p ty pghci m attention to detail. KF .co
DASONII KOREAN BISTRO. 6520 Steubenville Pike, Robinson. 412-4943311. Grilled meats and egg-topped dishes are among the specialties of this Korean restaurant, which also serves sushi. Dasonii offers the traditional Korean “BBQ” — thinly sliced marinated meat, grilled — as well as bibimbap, the savory hot pot combining noodles, vegetables and meat piled atop rice. Also worth trying: the stir-fried udon noodles, and short ribs. KE
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PLUM PAN-ASIAN KITCHEN. 5996 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-7586. The swanky space incorporates a dining room, sushi bar and cocktail nook. The pan-Asian menu consists mostly of well-known — and elegantly presented — dishes such as lo mein, seafood hot pot, Thai curries and basil stir-fries. Entrées are reasonably priced, so splurge on a signature cocktail or house-made dessert. KE SMILING BANANA LEAF. 5901 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-362-3200. At this absolute jewel-box of a restaurant, the menu emphasizes authentic Thai dishes rather than Thaiinflected Chinese food. Grilled meat appetizers are beautifully seasoned, and the pad Thai offers a lively balance of ingredients. The assertively spicy pumpkin curry features a special variety of Thai gourd. JF TAVERN 245. 245 Fourth Ave., Downtown. 412-281-4345. Step into this Downtown fancy-casual pub, with smart looks and tasty, updated bar fare. “The Farm” entree featured sliders made with chicken, pulled BBQ pork and steak fillet, on a potato roll with red pepper and goat cheese. The fried calamari come with a basil-garlic aioli, and the robust Yuengling beer-cheese sauce was the perfect complement to “Pittsburgh potatoes.” JE VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. 220 Fifth Ave., Downtown. 412394-3400. The venerable Italian restaurant from Greensburg now has a Downtown outpost. In this elegant space, some classic dishes are updated; a few favorites, like turtle soup are retained; and the fresh mozzarella bar deserves to become a classic. Try the distinctive pizza, with a layered, cracker-like crust. EL WAFFLES, INCAFFEINATED. 1224 Third Ave., New Brighton (724-359-4841) and 2517 E. Carson St., South Side (412-3011763). The fresh-made waffles here are a marvelous foil for sweet and savory toppings. Sweet options include the Funky Monkey (chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter and chocolate sauce). The Breakfast Magic has bacon, cheddar and green onions inside, topped with a fried egg and sour cream. Or customize your waffles with a dizzying array of mix-ins. J
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THE MEMORY of the lunch makes my stomach growl: smoked-salmon cheesecake with horseradish; mushrooms pickled in vinegar infused with coriander, jalapeño, bay leaves and mustard seeds; honey-brined chicken with lemon and sage; and Gruyere macand-cheese. That it was served in an office cafeteria where such meals are the norm makes me contemplate offers I would make to work there. Roasted lamb, stuffed quail, foie gras — all have been menu items at Google’s Pittsburgh campus café in Larimer. The meals, served three times a day (except for dinner on Fridays), are free for its 300 employees. “My favorite meal was for Leap Year,” says Cathy Serventi, executive assistant for the office, where she has worked for the past seven years. “They served frog legs and rabbit and other ‘leaping food.’” Food is also available 24/7 in five micro-kitchens spread throughout the office building. Each is stocked with cereal, hard-boiled eggs, fruits, yogurt and other snacks. “You can always get a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich,” Serventi says. The philosophy behind the free meals is to provide both a communal respite from the computer screen and easy, quick access to healthful food. “Free, healthy and delicious food options make for happier Googlers, and happier Googlers are more productive,” says Becca Ginsberg, a spokeswoman for the company. But, “it’s not ‘get your food and get back to work,’” says Serventi. Google employees are welcome to bring family members and friends as guests during meal times, and a variety of activities are offered during those hours, including cooking classes and lectures. The benefits, at least anecdotally, can’t be denied. Serventi, who worked at a university before joining Google, says she no longer spends half a morning thinking about where she’s going to eat lunch or worrying about skipping a meal or settling for a fastfood sandwich when time is short. “It has freed me up to think more about the health and pleasure of food than the logistics of it,” she says. A B ROW N @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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FILMING GREAT UNKNOWNS While working on Don’t Give Up Your Day Job — a documentary exploring the lives of “hidden musicians”— filmmaker Tom Weber met Steve Bodner, of local band The Damaged Pies. “He’s a guy who, when his family goes on vacation, he finds the local rock ’n’ roll shrine and plays a gig there. And that to me is just fascinating,” Weber says. “As soon as I met him I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is perfect.’” Thursday, at Club Café, The Damaged Pies open for singer-songwriter Peter Case — who happened to be the focus of an earlier Weber documentary, Troubadour Blues. Weber, an Erie native, will be at the show, too, collecting footage of Bodner for Don’t Give Up Your Day Job, which is still in production. While Troubadour Blues looked at life on the road from the perspective of a few ramblin’ singer-songwriters, Weber’s new film focuses on the musicians at home, with families to support and mortgages to pay. “The point I’m kind of after is to showcase where the real talent and the real creativity in music is: outside of the spotlight.” That title is not to imply that his subjects should pack it up. Rather, Weber — who began making Super 8 movies as a kid, and went on to get his master’s in radio, TV and film — hopes to give viewers a sense of the un-famous musician’s life. Weber began by interviewing musicians from Erie and Pittsburgh. Having promoted Troubadour Blues the way an independent musician promotes a record — by going on a national tour and holding screenings at small music venues — Weber befriended musicians from across the country, many of whom are in the film. “We never hear about the millions of people who play in bands on the weekends or make a living as a musician [by playing] in four or five bands and teaching lessons,” he says. “But I think their stories are, in many ways, more interesting than those of famous musicians.”
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From soccer to sedition: Anti-Flag (from left: Pat Thetic, Chris #2, Chris Head, Justin Sane)
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and guitarist of Anti-Flag. The Pittsburgh-based political punk band is now older than many of its fans, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a tour featuring songs from all of its records. He spoke with us at the band’s Glenshaw studio.
I loved the Ramones and some other bands that weren’t political, but I was brought up and indoctrinated into the idea that punk rock was political. I was the youngest of nine and a lot of my older brothers and sisters were into punk rock that was political. I had the idea to call the band Anti-Flag when I was probably 13.
YOU GREW UP RIGHT NEAR HERE, RIGHT? I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in ANTI-FLAG 20TH Shaler. [Drummer Pat Thetic] grew up two ANNIVERSARY SHOWS or three miles up the highway, and we met 7 p.m. Thu., May 30, and Fri., May 31. Mr. Small’s Theatre, in under-9 soccer. And that was the begin400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15-17 ning of Anti-Flag! We were two misfit kids ($28 two-day pass). All ages. in Shaler. In 1990, when I’d wait up at the 412-828-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com top of the hill to get the bus into town, I was a kid with a mohawk and I couldn’t be up there for more than two minutes without WHAT WAS THE CLIMATE LIKE FOR A someone driving by and yelling “Faggot!” POLITICAL BAND IN PITTSBURGH AT or dudes stopping to beat me up. THAT TIME, THE EARLY- TO MID-’90S? Being a political band in Pittsburgh WHAT WAS THE IMPETUS FOR was easy, because almost everyone in STARTING THE BAND? Pittsburgh who was in a punk-rock band For me, punk rock was always political. was in a political band. You were either
a party band or a political band. I think that went back to the working-class roots of Pittsburgh. It never occurred to a lot of the kids in Pittsburgh that you could be in something other than a political band. That was just part of the fabric of the scene. Aus Rotten was just starting out then. Submachine wasn’t really political, but they really supported that — they were political in that they wanted a local scene that was positive and inclusive. Same with The Bad Genes. HOW DID YOU END UP GETTING YOUR FIRST FULL-LENGTH, DIE FOR THE GOVERNMENT, ON NEW RED ARCHIVES, OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO? New Red Archives was run by Nicky Garratt, who played guitar in the UK Subs. We met Nicky in Erie through a guy who had a radio show, he was called “The Old Man.” He put us in touch with Nicky and said, “You should really work with this guy!” We were obnoxious. We didn’t even CONTINUES ON PG. 22
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know it. But we were so passionate about what we were doing, and we really believed that we were just right about everything we did. We were those kids. And I look back on it now, like, “Oh man, no wonder people wanted to kill us.” But in retrospect, that flamboyance and that belief in what you’re doing — those are the things that make people notice a band.
AT THAT POINT, YOU WERE STILL A THREE-PIECE, WITH ANDY FLAG INSTEAD OF CHRIS HEAD AND CHRIS #2. Andy was still playing bass at that point. Andy quit right before Die for the Government came out. We’d done a couple of tours that were a couple of weeks. And touring is a whole other world, especially when you’re young, and your personalities, the conflicts, they’re driven to CONTINUES ON PG. 24
A BIG ANNIVERSARY {BY ANDY MULKERIN} Anti-Flag’s 20th-anniversary concerts are part of another anniversary celebration: Mr. Small’s, the 650-capacity venue in a former church in Millvale, is celebrating 10 years in operation. What began as a skate park, venue and recording studio is now mostly just a venue: The skate park closed last year, and the studio’s main space is now on the North Side. But it’s one of the city’s premier spots for a mid-sized show, and it’s in the midst of another change: The area that was the skate park will now house a seven-day-a-week restaurant called The Funhouse. “The studio was originally called Mr. Small’s Funhouse,” says owner Liz Berlin. “But then we opened the venue as Mr. Small’s Theatre, and the “Funhouse” name kind of got lost. We’re excited to bring that back — it’ll be a fun atmosphere, with board games, Xboxes, all kinds of things.” The restaurant doesn’t have an official opening date yet, but Berlin says she hopes to have the deck open for tours during the upcoming anniversary shows that booking partners Opus One Productions have scheduled between May 29 and June 14. Opus is bringing back plenty of old Small’s favorites, like Lotus (whom Opus One manages, playing June 6 and 7), Punchline (the local pop-punk band that played the venue’s first show, returning with The Starting Line on June 2) and Bloc Party (June 1). Ten years out, it’s fair to say that Pittsburghers’ view of Millvale has changed some, and that’s due in no small part to Small’s. “When we opened our first recording studio here it was 15 years ago,” says Berlin. “It was just the place where we could find the cheapest rent. Then the opportunity to buy the old St. Anne’s Church property came up, and we thought long and hard. Nobody knew where Millvale was at that point, even though it’s five minutes out of the city. “Mr. Small’s Theatre is a destination; people come here from all around for the music, and I think it’s really benefitted the community.” AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM th
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the tempest-in-a-teacup level. We were just young and immature, we didn’t get along, and he quit.
that turned heads. And immediately there was, “Do you hate America?” The dialogue would start right away.
AS YOU STARTED PLAYING BIGGER CLUBS, DID YOU FEEL SOME COGNITIVE DISSONANCE? The minute we did a record with New Red Archives, because New Red Archives had real distribution, we got labeled a sellout right in our own scene. I think part of it was jealousy, but part of it was that people really believed it. And I understand it, because I’d been that kid. Even to this day, when kids give us shit over things, I understand where that kid’s coming from. We always had that conversation: Is this in line with what we set out to do? Is this in keeping with our value system? Because ultimately, yeah, we wanted to play in basements and whatnot, but I think our goal was always to play to as many ears as we could, to spread the ideas we had, which I think at the time were ideas people weren’t hearing. To be called AntiFlag, just on its own, there was something
IF YOU’RE PLAYING TO A FEW THOUSAND KIDS, HOW MANY ARE REALLY ENGAGED WITH YOUR IDEAS, HOW MANY MINDS HAVE YOU CHANGED? It’s ebbed and flowed. Doing this tour, the 20th-anniversary shows, there are people coming out who haven’t been to a show in 10 years, and they’re lawyers with the ACLU, they’re environmental lawyers. The theme from all of them is, “I do the work I do because of your band.” I can’t believe the band was able to have that kind of an impact. I don’t believe that we can trust politicians to do the right thing when it comes to sending men and women of the military into harm’s way; I don’t believe that anyone should join the military. And over the years, so many people have told me the story, “I was going to join the military, I found your band, I changed my mind.” And those are the stories that give me an inspiration to keep doing what we’re doing.
“THE MINUTE WE DID A RECORD WITH NEW RED ARCHIVES, WE GOT LABELED A SELLOUT RIGHT IN OUR OWN SCENE.”
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ON THE RECORD with Erika Laing {BY ANDY MULKERIN}
Erika Laing of Faithful Sinners, with saw
Erika Laing of the local duo Faithful Sinners organized the first ever Pittsburgh Musical Saw Festival, which includes three local acts and one touring act, all of which incorporate the musical saw in different manners. WHEN DID YOU BECOME A MUSICALSAW ENTHUSIAST? I saw it used by Asylum Street Spankers — she used the musical saw for a soundtrack for a silent movie, and I thought that was really cool, and I also saw it in Delicatessen, the film, and got really excited. ARE THESE JUST REGULAR SAWS? I started on a regular saw from Home Depot because I thought this was the kind of hobby that probably wouldn’t last — so I better get something that’ll also cut wood, just in case. But they also make musical ones, and much later, my brother got me a Stradivarius; they make violins, but they also make musical saws every now and then. Pretty much a few hundred are made a year, across the world. They’re thinner and usually a little bit longer. ARE THEY ALSO LESS SHARP? Some don’t have teeth at all. Mine has teeth, but they’re not as sharp as my original saw. The first one I played would cut through all my pants. The one I play now will cut my skin, but I don’t get as many cuts as I used to. My old saw case had blood on it, which is sort of gross but also hardcore. AMULKERIN@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk
[INDIE POP] + FRI., MAY 31 Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk write music that is, quite simply, charming as all hell. Making use of pianos, ukuleles, horns and what sometimes seems like dozens of other instruments, they produce a sound that is not only pleasant, but also incredibly full and multifaceted. Each song manages to generate just the right mood to accompany Mann’s gorgeous voice as she breathes new life into what might otherwise be tired tales of escape, love and heartbreak. It’s this atmosphere that you can expect to hear filling the room when she plays at the Smiling Moose tonight. John Lavanga 6:30 p.m. 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4668 or www.smiling-moose.com
He and his band are uniquely talented and garnering positive attention from the press. (The Cleveland Scene, that town’s weekly, called them one of the top local bands to watch this year.) Tonight, they play Club Café for the late show, along with The Womack Family Band. Andy Mulkerin 10 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com
[COMEDY] + SAT., JUNE 01 Forget Billboard, Pitchfork, Spin and all the rest. For decades now, the true symbol of breaking through into the mainstream has been for “Weird Al” Yankovic to write a spoof of your song. The merry parody writer has managed to become a household name through taking oddball themes and working them into the top songs of the moment, often with hilarious results. His output has slowed ever so slightly in the past decade or so, but his comedy has remained on point, as evidenced by the popularity of his Lady Gaga parody “Perform This Way.” JL 8 p.m. The Meadows Racetrack & Casino, 210 Racetrack Road, Washington. $24.95-$34.95. 724503-1200 or www. meadowsgaming.com
[INDIE FOLK] + SAT., JUNE 01 Demos Papadimas isn’t quite local to Pittsburgh, but almost — the Americana songwriter hails from closer to Cleveland. He’s been widening his horizons lately, though, and with good reason:
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[HIP HOP] + MON, JUNE 03 Even before his almost universally acclaimed studio debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar had already earned the respect of Dr. Dre, Talib Kweli and Lil’ Wayne. Demos But with idiosyncratic Papadimas singles like “Swimming Pools” — and a pure West Coast sound, which evokes Tupac and Biggie without being derivative — good kid granted Lamar some well-deserved stardom. See him Monday at Stage AE, along with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul — who, with Lamar, make up the supergroup Black Hippie. Kid Ink opens. Margaret Welsh 6:30 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $40-45. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com
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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Jazzam. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
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SUN 02 BEACH HOUSE RESTAURANT. The Dave Iglar Band. Finleyville. BOSTON WATERFRONT. Got Your Six. McKeesport. 412-751-8112. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Pitbull, Ke$ha. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400. HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. One Hit Wonder Spaktacular w/ Elliott Sussman feat. Neighbours. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Starting Line, Punchline, Paper States. Millvale. 866-468-3401. TUGBOAT’S. Deliverance. East Pittsburgh. 412-829-1992.
ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Dance/ top 40 hits. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3730. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.
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ELWOOD’S PUB. Dan & Chris. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. SHEREE’S TAVERN. Bobby Hawkins Back Alley Blues. Sutersville. 724-872-9918.
CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Saturday Night Meltdown. Top 40, Hip Hop, Club, R&B, Funk & Soul. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. THE NEW AMSTERDAM. HARD ROCK CAFE. Otherwise. Tom Cox, Jwan Allen, Preslav. Station Square. 412-481-7625. Lawrenceville. 412-904-2915. SMILING MOOSE. REDBEARDS. DJ Kayoss. Motive Motive. South Dance/top 40 hits. Side. 412-431-4668. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3730. . w w w ROWDY BUCK. Top aper p ty ci h CLUB CAFE. The Dirty g p 40 Dance. South Side. .com River Boys, Nameless 412-431-2825. In August. South Side. S BAR. Pete Butta. 412-431-4950. South Side. 412-481-7227. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Frank
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Turner & the Sleeping Souls, The Architects, Beans On Toast. Millvale. 866-468-3401. RIG 13 ALEHOUSE. The Hawkeyes, Highland Brothers Band. Butler. 724-607-1300. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ David Throckmorton. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
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6119 PENN AVE. The Bronx. East Liberty. ALTAR BAR. Ariel Pink. Strip District. 412-263-2877. CLUB CAFE. The What Else feat. Chris Theorette, Misfit Cowboyz, Larry Dawgiello, Emily Rogers, Heather Kropf, The Weedrags, Mike Why, more. A Benefit for Denny Strauser’s Eye Surgery Fund. South Side. 412-431-4950. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Metric. Millvale. 866-468-3401. ROCK BOTTOM. Good Brother Earl. Waterfront. 412-462-2739.
DJS THU 30 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555. CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood. 412-969-0260. PARK HOUSE. Jx4. North Side. 412-224-2273.
FRI 31 for the fans who just can’t get close enough... FIELD PASSES are available. Watch the concert from the infield at the foot of the stage!
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AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Summer Fling Fridays. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Salsa Fridays. DJ Jeff Shirey, DJ Carlton, DJ Paul Mitchell. Downtown. 412-456-6666. CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Reggae Fridays. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.
RIVERS CASINO. DJs Bill Bara & Digital Dave. North Side. 412-231-7777. SMILING MOOSE. The Upstage Nation. DJ EzLou & N8theSk8. Electro, post punk, industrial, new wave, alternative dance. South Side. 412-431-4668.
AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Open Turntable Night. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.
WED 05 AVA BAR & LOUNGE. When Life Gives You Lemons.DANCE. East Liberty. 412-363-8277. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Fuzz! Drum & bass weekly. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. HAMBONE’S. DJ Mangler. 50s-70s Old Time Rock N Roll. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Brotha Mike & DJ Skooze. Lawrenceville. 412-904-2915. SPOON. Spoon Fed. Hump day chill. House music. aDesusParty. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
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THU 30 CHAMP’S SPORTS GRILL AND LOUNGE. The Fabulous Mr. “B” & the Bad Boyz Mr. B & the Bad Boys Band. North Versailles. 412-829-5100.
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SAT 01 FRANK’S PUB & GRILL. Shot O’ Soul. 412-833-4606. Shot O’ Soul. Bethel Park. 412-833-4606. INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. The Rhythm Aces. South Side. MOONDOG’S. Jake’s Blues. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. ROCKY’S ROUTE 8. The Blue Bombers, Patrick Scanga. Shaler. 412-487-6259.
JAZZ THU 30 CJ’S. Rodger Humphries & The RH Factor. Strip District. 412-642-2377. LITTLE E’S. Jessica Lee & Friends. Entrepreneurial Thursdays. Downtown. 412-392-2217. PALACE THEATRE. Josh Carns Trio. T.G.I.S Concert Series. Greensburg. 724-836-1123. PAPA J’S RISTORANTE. Jimmy Z & Friends. Carnegie. 412-429-7272.
FRI 31 CAFE NOTTE. Roger Barbour Jazz Trio. Emsworth. 412-761-2233. LA CASA NARCISI. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters. Gibsonia. 724-444-4744. NEW HAZLETT THEATER. OPEK. Music of Sun Ra. North Side. 412-320-4610.
SAT 01 BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Ron Wilson, Jeff Grubbs. Downtown. 412-325-6769. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Moorehouse Jazz. Strip District. 412-281-6593. CJ’S. The Tony Campbell Saturday Jazz Jam Session. Strip District. 412-642-2377. FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Brad Paisley, Chris Young, Lee Brice. Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.
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LEVELZ. Bizarre of D-12. South Side. 724-290-8076.
ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas, Larry Belli. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. GATEWAY CLIPPER FLEET. Rodger Humphries & The RH Factor. Boarding at 12:30 p.m. Station Square. 412-355-7980. LIGONIER DIAMOND. Swing City Band. Ligonier. 724-238-4200. OMNI WILLIAM PENN. Frank Cunimondo. Downtown. 412-553-5235.
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STAGE AE. Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, AB-Soul, Jay Rock. North Side.
AVA BAR & LOUNGE. Interval Jazz Mondays. East Liberty. 412-363-8277.
SAT 01 THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Illumination 2, Reason & EOS, Doclvly, Shad Ali, Pav Medicinal, CreativeChemistry, Eye of the Storm. Bloomfield. 412-758-8575.
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PARK BRUGES. Slide Worldwide. Highland Park. 412-661-3334. ROYAL PLACE. Jerry Lucarelli, Vince Taglieri, Sunny Sunseri. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8000.
TUE 04 CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. André Mehmari, Kenia. Shadyside. 412-772-1900.
WED 05 720 RECORDS. James Johnson, Paul Thompson, Cliff Barnes. Lawrenceville. 412-904-4592. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, HOMEWOOD. New Show Band. Jazz on the Steps. Homewood. 412-441-2039.
These tours aren’t coming to Pittsburgh — but maybe they’re worth a road trip!
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THU 30 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL. Mark Pipas. Wexford. 724-934-1177. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. Robinson. 412-489-5631. ELWOOD’S PUB. Harry Johnston. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. MULLIGAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE. Acoustic Night. West Mifflin. 412-461-8000. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Buddy Nutt, Roe Family Singers, Faithful Sinners, Wayward Strangers. Pittsburgh Musical Saw Festival. Lawrenceville. 412-478-3273.
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PHILADELPHIA {Tue., Aug. 06}
Beth Orton World Café
FRI 31 BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Mark Shuttleworth. Regent Square. 412-999-9009. BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Phil Lee, Steve Cohagen. Harmony. 724-452-0539.
SAT 01 BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Jack McLaughlin. Regent Square. 412-999-9009. CLUB COLONY. Gina Rendina Acoustic Duo. Scott. 412-668-0903. ELWOOD’S PUB. John Farley. Cheswick. 724-265-1181. OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants. Downtown. 412-255-0525. PATRICK’S PUB. Rick Revetta. Coraopolis. 724-457-9770. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. David Nemo & Friends. Strip District. 412-281-4505.
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SAT 01 BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Grand Bon Rien. West Homestead. 412-461-6188. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE. David Newman aka Durga Das. Oakland. 310-622-3151. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET. Vince Burns. Strip District. 412-281-4505.
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MON 03 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. The Music of John Williams feat. conductor, Lawrence Loh. Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland. 724-643-9004 x 2.
OTHER MUSIC THU 30 CLUB COLONY. Mark Vennere. Scott. 412-668-0903. CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES. Phil Stacey, Chris Sligh. Export. 724-733-0070.
HAMBONE’S. Calliope East End Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
PENN BREWERY. The Flow Band. North Side. 412-237-9400 x120.
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HAMBONE’S. Monday Night Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. MARS BREW HOUSE. Dylan Latimer, Kevin Ritzert, Jay Wiley, Jeff Wiley. Mars. 724-625-2555. NORTH COUNTRY BREWING. Bluegrass Night. Slippery Rock. 724-794-2337.
BAJA BAR AND GRILL. Ras Prophet. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640.
INN-TERMISSION LOUNGE. Patricia Wake, The Molecule Party, I, Synthesist, DJ Samurai. South Side. 412-381-3497.
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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Weds. North Side. 412-321-1834.
RAMADA INN HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER. Dallas Marks. Greensburg.
THU 30 HARD ROCK CAFE. Brian Davis. Station Square. 412-481-7625.
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HAMBONE’S. Cabaret. Jazz Standards & Showtunes singalong. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 05 MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. South Hills Keystone Chorus. Barbershop Concert. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.
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THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
Attack Attack! MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests The Plot In You, Get Scared & more. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 6:30p.m.
THURSDAY 30 Guster
CARNEGIE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL Munhall. 412-368-5225. All ages show. Tickets: carnegieconcerts.com. 7:30p.m.
The Kreutzer Sonata HENRY HEYMANN THEATRE Oakland. Tickets: pictheatre.org or 412-461-6000. Through June 22.
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MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests The Swellers, Hostage Calm & more. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb. com/opusone. 7:30p.m.
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Johnny Miller and the Back Slidin’ Fools ATLAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests Frank Vieira & more. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.
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Dave Matthews Band FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or livenation.com. 7p.m.
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FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. With special guests Chris Young & Lee Bruce. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or livenation.com. 7p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION
William Tell Overture Theme to the Lone Ranger HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. Through June 2.
SUNDAY 2 29 Animal Friends' Mutt Strut
SOUTH PARK FAIRGROUNDS. To register & for more info visit thinkingoutsidethecage.org/ muttstrut2013. 9a.m.
Wild Belle THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
Pitbull & Ke$ha
ANIMAL FRIENDS' MUTT STRUT
42nd Street BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: pittsburghclo.org.
FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or livenation.com. 7p.m.
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ATLAR BAR Strip District. 412263-2877. With special guests Tuesdays Too Late & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
Otherwise HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. With special guests OWS, Act of Pardon & more. Limited All ages. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.
Kendrick Lamar STAGE AE North Side. With special guests Kid Ink, Schoolboy Q & more. All ages show. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
TUESDAY 41 Frank Turner
MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. With special guests Architects & more. All ages show. Tickets: 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.
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A DREAM, AFLOAT {BY AL HOFF} Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg docu-drama Kon-Tiki is a recreation of a recreation, but it’s nonetheless a story that bears repeating to a new generation of armchair adventurers. This real-life ripping yarn is set in 1947, when Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) and five plucky companions set out to prove that Polynesia could have been populated from the Americas, and not Asia as then believed. So Heyerdahl built a balsa-wood raft, and he and his crew floated off from Peru, hoping to recreate an ancient voyage, powered only by wind and current. Nearly 5,000 miles of ocean, and no back-up plan.
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If you have ever seen one of the 50 million printed copies of Heyerdahl’s eponymous book, you can guess that the outcome was favorable. In the film, the mariners ride out the usual sea-going troubles: sharks, storms and, most interestingly, the human conflicts that arise when six people are confined to a tiny space for more than 100 days. The Oscar-nominated film is a bit cheesy in spots, but is entertaining and well shot, particularly the scenes at sea which must have been a logistical challenge. Heyerdahl’s journey is still an inspirational tale, and one of the last great low-tech adventures of the 20th century: a wooden raft on which sunbaked men pit their faith in a “crazy” idea against seemingly insurmountable odds — and win. Starts Fri., May 31. Manor AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
AXE GIANT: THE WRATH OF PAUL BUNYAN. The fabled lumberjack of the northern woods is back, and this time, he’s bigger, meaner and more homicidal. Gary Jones directs this t horror adaptation of the North American America myth. 9:15 p.m. Fri., Fri May 31; 10 p.m. Sat., June Jun 1; and 7 p.m. p.m Sun., June 2 (with (w director directo Q&A). Hollywood Hollyw
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USTIN LIN’S Fast and Furious 6 is everything fans of the franchise want: good-looking people; soupedup cars; car chases; car wrecks; chick fights; guy fights; clutch-poppin’ and downshifting; exotic locales; villains with cheesy facial hair; a plot that makes so little sense that it can be instantly disregarded; and the promise of Fast and Furious 7 (a.k.a. this shit ain’t over, bro). All the gang is back — including the formerly dead Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) — plus MMA star Gina Carano and Luke Evans as the bad guy who spices up his street-racing with international terror plots. Most of the story occurs in London (with a quick jaunt to Cali for the obligatory Mexican-cartel cameo), or on Spanish highways. When not bogged down in existential discussions — at its heart, this film is about the restoration of the family institution — Lin moves things along with his patented flash-and-crash. It’s all about the action, and if the nighttime streets are slick with rain and reflecting the artful lighting, so much the better. At more than two hours, this bloated outing is too long, but it delivers the critical numbers. AHO F F @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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Number of baldies: 11 — 10 action dudes, plus one baby Times our heroes say “Ride or die”: 2 Other life codes: “Precision” (the villain), “Family” (heroes),
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Likelihood of such stunts being successful using real-world physics: 0 Estimated number of wrecked cars (includes direct hits, collateral spin-outs, robotic overrides and being crushed by a tank):
10,000 Injuries (car-related): 0
FAST AND FURIOUS 6 DIRECTED BY: Justin Lin STARRING: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Estimated number of other cars in central London during chases and races: 12 Jumps from speeding vehicles: 10 Times audience gasped at the audacity of a stunt move: 3
Injuries (gun-related): 1 Bullets removed from broken hearts: 1 Scenes featuring the “Tokyo drift”: 1 Estimated length of airport runway on which the final showdown involving a Russian transport jet occurs: 20-30 miles
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NEW AFTER EARTH. A father and son crash-land on Earth 1,000 years after humans evacuated it, and are forced to seek help. Is anybody there? Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden star; M. Night Shyamalan directs this sci-fi thriller. Starts Fri., May 31. BAND OF SISTERS. “We are the risk-takers of the Church,” explains one Roman Catholic nun. “We are down with the people. We know what the needs are.” Mary Fisher’s documentary profiles a number of American nuns who, since being released from habits and cloisters by Vatican II in the 1960s, have reinvented what it means to serve their faith. Missions no longer mean teaching school or being a nurse, but run the gamut from social-justice issues (fair housing, immigration reform) and environmentalism (including Gaia gardens) to political activism challenging both U.S. and Vatican laws. Fisher’s film traces some of these personal evolutions, as these nuns (most now elderly) recount being influenced by the civil-rights movement, feminism, ecology, science and, most especially, a sense of their own collective power. Much of this activism involves building bridges to non-religious groups to form likeminded coalitions.
After Earth a hurriedly sketched set-up whereby the Wolf Pack have to take a road trip and are bedeviled by the mayhem-wreaking Mr. Chow. (Ken Jeong’s shtick has grown sooooooooooooo tiresome.) The story isn’t funny, and the film relies mostly on pratfalls and people blurting out curse words for laughs. Even the patented gross-out joke doesn’t appear until the end credits, and there’s a WTF bit in which a giraffe is decapitated for laughs. The entire enterprise seems like a giant setback for all involved, and I wondered just what kind of contractual obligation, feckless greed or demonic spell made everyone return. Supposedly, there will be no more Hangovers, but who hasn’t heard that before? (AH)
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NOW YOU SEE ME. A group of illusionists also use their skills to rob banks. Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo and Isla Fisher star in this thriller. Louis Leterrier directs. Starts Fri., May 31.
Band of Sisters If all this sounds antithetical to the conservative nature of the Vatican and the institution of the Church, it is. The film touches on the pushback American nuns received from Rome in 2010, but I’d have liked a broader look at that ongoing conflict. (Also, are there conservative nuns who aren’t so free-thinking?) Another issue was barely addressed, and it may be the most critical of all: For all the good work these nuns have done and are doing, where are the generations of younger nuns to keep selflessly toiling in the trenches? Starts Fri., May 31. Harris (Al Hoff) THE HANGOVER PART III. A hangover is proof that a lesson in control was not learned. And indeed, the only lesson in evidence for this unwarranted “epic finale to the Hangover trilogy” (per Warner Bros.) is that still more cash can be squeezed out of a very tired comic premise, directed again by Todd Phillips. Honestly, nobody even tries this time. Gone is the drunken flashback gimmick, replaced by
PING PONG. Hugh Hartford’s recent documentary follows eight senior citizens (ages 81 to 100) from around the world as they compete in a tabletennis competition in Inner Mongolia. In English, and various languages, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Thu., May 30, and 11 a.m. Sat., June 1. SouthSide Works 100 BLOODY ACRES. An organic-fertilizer business owes its success to the luckless people who get ground up as the secret ingredient. (See also 1980’s Motel Hell.) Brother Colin and Cameron Cairnes direct this horror comedy from Australia. 7:30 p.m. Thu., May 30. Hollywood STOLEN SEAS. This recent documentary from Thymaya Payne examines what happens when,
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THE 400 BLOWS. Adolescence is presented unsentimentally, but not without poignancy, in François Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical 1959 film. Antoine is a lively Parisian teen, no better or worse than any other, but through the carelessness of adults, he falls through the cracks. Truffaut’s careful direction and keen sense of empathy make this beautifully constructed film feel loose and natural, until we are jolted — not by events, but by one unforgettable shot. In French, with subtitles. 8 p.m. Wed., May 29. Melwood. $2 (AH)
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FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF. A teen bunks off school; crazy stuff happens. Matthew Broderick stars in this beloved 1986 comedy from John Hughes. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 29. AMC Loews. $5
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in 2008, Somali pirates take over a Danish-owned merchant ship for two months. In various languages, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Fri., May 31. Hollywood DAISIES. Vera Chytilova’s 1966 film follows the adventures of two bored young women who embark on a series of destructive pranks. In a perhaps inadvertent advertisement for its anarchic charms, the Czech film was banned by the Communist party upon its release. See it now, without restrictions, in a new 35 mm print. In Czech, with subtitles. Fri., May 31, through Sun., June 2. Melwood GREMLINS. The little furry guys sure are cute, but when the rules get broken, hordes of misbehaving gremlins get loose, unleashing comic mayhem on a small town. Joe Dante directs this 1984 comedy. 10 p.m. Fri., May 31, and 10 p.m. Sat, June 1. Oakmont
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GREASE SING-ALONG and GREASE. You already know that “Grease is the word,” but what about the rest of them? In this new singalong version of the 1978 hit movie musical (itself adapted from a Broadway show), all the words you need appear magically on screen. Other than that, it’s the movie you remember, in all its color-saturated, fantasy-’50s glory, where high school is for sock-hops, drive-in movies, shop class and falling in love again with that perky Australian girl. Directed by Randal Kleiser, the film stars John Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn at their dreamiest. “Tell me more, tell me more …” The June 1 screening will be sing-along, and include a costume contest, goodie bags, trivia and a hand-jive competition. 7 p.m. Sat., June 1 (sing-along version; $10), and 2 p.m. Sun., June 2 (regular version). Hollywood SABRINA. In this 1954 romantic comedy from Billy Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, the daughter of a chauffeur, juggles the affections of two brothers — the charming David (William Holden) and the more aloof Linus (Humphrey Bogart). Whom does she truly love? The film opens a month-long, Sunday-
night series of films featuring legendary screen couples. 8 p.m. Sun., June 2. Regent Square AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Much like 1977’s Saturday Night Fever would later be blamed when disco went big, so too was George Lucas’ 1973 film flagged as the impetus for the 1970s’ tiresome fascination with an idealized 1950s (Happy Days, Grease, long-buried dreck like Sha Na Na’s TV show). Yet at their heart, both films are downbeat looks at particular moments in youth culture, however glossy such milieus appear on the surface. Set in 1962, American Graffiti tracks four high school buddies taking one last cruise around their small Northern California town before heading off to college. Their travails are innocent enough — drag-racing, chasing girls — as is the bittersweet transition from youth to adulthood. But an early ‘70s audience would have filled in the rest to come — JFK, Vietnam, the political and social upheaval of the 1960s — and rightly processed this nostalgic look back through a glass darkly. The ensemble cast famously includes many soon-to-be film and TV stars such as Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfus, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford and Suzanne Somers. (AH) STUCK IN LOVE. Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly star in this new romantic comedy about a family of writers. 7:30 p.m. Thu., June 6. Hollywood THE MOUNTAIN. Join CP contributor Robert Isenberg as he presents his latest film, a 48-minute documentary about his recent adventure, a trek up Mount Whitney, the tallest in the continental U.S. It’s a snow-capped peak that looms over Death Valley, so expect highs and lows. 8 p.m. Thu., June 6. Melwood. $10 ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www.warhol.org
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If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps change is the mother of reinvention. Such was the case for Beth Corning. After a string of life-changing events, including the death of her mother, the dancer and choreographer set about reinventing herself as an artist. Corning is a veteran dance creator and performer with an international résumé, including several years leading Pittsburgh’s Dance Alloy Theater. More recently, her original works for CorningWorks: The Glue Factory Project have celebrated the artistry of dancers over age 40. Last year, Corning turned to Tony Award-winning physicaltheater director Dominique Serrand, coartistic director of Saint Paul, Minn.’s The Moving Company, for help thinking about new ways of working. “I was brought up with the philosophy if you want to ski better, you ski behind someone who is better than you,” says Corning. “I chose a pro and sometimes I got lost in the spray, but it was great.” Through a grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation, Corning embarked on a year-long residency with Serrand. From that experience, she developed the fourth annual Glue Factory production, the one-woman show Remains. Corning will perform it June 5-9 at the New Hazlett Theater. Serrand says that as Corning presented him with ideas for a new work, he initially played the role of observer. “We started to work on the shape of a show thematically at first,” says Serrand by phone from St. Paul. He worked with Corning as he would with an actor, and Serrand says their interactions quickly grew into a collaboration. He co-created Remains as its dramaturge and director, with Corning as choreographer and performer. The hour-long multimedia work, set to an eclectic mix of music, is about loss and what remains after loss, in terms of memories and objects. Says Corning: “We all get inducted into this club [of loss] whether we want to or not. The question becomes, ‘What do we do with the remains?’” Corning says that working with Serrand showed her how to streamline material to better convey thoughts and emotions to an audience. “We worked toward a clarity and transparence of sentiments,” says Serrand. Of the finished product, Corning says, “I think it is a really poignant work. There is humor and pathos in it.”
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Improv and more: a performance at Arcade Comedy Theater during its sneak-peak opening, in January.
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writer/performers converted a former Liberty Avenue retail space into the newest addition to Downtown’s Cultural District. Feeding Pittsburgh’s comedy boom, the 75-seat Arcade Comedy Theater has hosted local and touring comedic talents ranging from standup, sketch groups and improv teams to musicians and magicians. Audiences are treated to offbeat, experimental shows that might not have a home elsewhere. So far, it’s worked. Arcade has “more sold-out shows than not,” says Randy Kirk, who founded the theater with Kristy Nolen, Jethro Nolen, Abby Fudor and Mike Rubino. Still, this remains a risky venture: Most comedy venues focus on one style of performance, like standup or improv. “When we talked about mixing these comedy genres, it was a big question mark,” says Kristy Nolen. “The fact that we are getting feedback that people like this is a relief and a joy.” Arcade’s approach might seem better
suited for a trendier neighborhood, like Lawrenceville. But the group believed it could bring something unique to Downtown. “Our hope was that if we made this place, gave people a space, gave them technology, lights, and all of that, they would
NEXT AT ARCADE COMEDY THEATER: Live stage reading of the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 8 and 10 p.m. Fri., May 31. $10 Dodge Intrepid and the Pages of Time (comic classic-radio-style adventure serial), 8 and 10 p.m. Sat., June 1. $10 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-339-0608 or www.arcadecomedytheater.com
be inspired to come up with new kinds of shows,” says Rubino. “I’ve been very happy to see what has come of that.” Consider the sold-out live script reading of the popular 1993 comedy film The Sandlot, featuring “Pittsburgh Dad” creators Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton: Due to
overwhelming demand, a second show was added. Two May 31 live reads of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie feature Fudor and Rubino alongside Preksta, Wootton and special guests like WTAE anchor Sally Wiggin and comic Aaron Kleiber. Variety seems to be what is driving crowds to Arcade. As Preksta says, “One of the best things about Arcade is the varying show formats, rather than just standup and group improv every week — everything from the live reads to variety/sketch shows styled after The Carol Burnett Show.” Arcade does face challenges. Its budget is incredibly lean. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust owns the building and provides a reduced-rate lease, but the five partners generate all operating money. “Everyone is impressed with how far along we are,” says Rubino. “People think that we are rich, that we’re filled with fat Cultural Trust dollars. But we’re not. We’re five investors that somehow put this together.” Those investors did much of the remodeling themselves. Touring the space, they’re CONTINUES ON PG. 38
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What is justice, exactly? Isn’t justice just systematized revenge? A man kills your spouse, so he disappears to a concrete box for the rest of his life. Someone steals your TV, so he endures some months of cafeteria fights. A guy gets caught with a baggie of marijuana — confinement, terror, despair. They languish, while we, the free people, feel safe and vindicated by their distant suffering. But justice leaves scars. Photographer Mark Perrott has long turned his lens on abandoned prisons, and E Block is his latest exhibit (and accompanying book), focusing on Western Penitentiary. The prison lurks just down the Ohio River from PNC Park. Perrott shot inside Western Penitentiary before it closed in 2005. The fortress-like structure re-opened in 2007. As explained in his artist’s statement, Perrott was drawn to prisoners’ prolific graffiti. Throughout E Block, inmates sketched pictures and scrawled messages, some thoughtful, others profane, all expressions of personal hell. None of these drawings are Michelangelos, the images and penmanship roughly those you’d find in a men’s-room stall. But the iconography howls with rage and anguish. Instead of promising good times, the inmates document their unspeakable inner lives. Not surprisingly, the drawings have a lot to do with sex — the kind of pornographic sex that groups of cloistered men obsess over. Crude anatomical drawings aside, one portrait depicts only a hand: “My girlfriend for the next ten years,” reads the caption. The sexual starvation is palpable, and the images disturbing, like blueprints for their next assault. Other scribbles reveal a sadder humanity. “This is my family tree,” a caption reads, but the “tree” is actually a gallows, and a frowning figure dangles from its noose. A drawing of a squad car states, without comment, “Erie Police.” Some inmates forego images altogether; a paragraph of text starts this way: “Nothing is quite as rediculous [sic] as a man who walks the streets as some sort of tough guy — then comes to jail playing like he is religious.” Perrott has illustrated this world before, in his series Hope Abandoned, about Eastern State Penitentiary. But the subject never gets old: We are the most incarcerated nation in the world, and there are always more stories to tell. Justice doesn’t end with a gavel strike. Too often, it gets life. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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“Welcome Home Convict,” (detail) by Mark Perrott
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quick to note pieces of decor from their personal collections. “We made so many runs to Home Depot,” says Kirk. Another challenge is lingering audience negativity about the neighborhood. “There’s still a perception of Downtown and Liberty Avenue,” says Kristy Nolen. “First of all, that nothing goes on here. Secondly, that people don’t go Downtown after dark. I don’t think everyone in Pittsburgh is aware that there is an up-and-coming arts scene emerging Downtown.” Indeed, all five members of the Arcade team have performed Downtown, for instance at improv and sketch-comedy showcases at the Trust’s own Cabaret at Theater Square. Still, many neighboring restaurants and bars close early. As a theater that might draw the elusive college demographic, Arcade hopes to change that. “If we drive business Downtown, people will follow suit,” says Fudor. “If we keep having full houses for 10 p.m. shows, businesses are going to adjust their schedules. There just hasn’t really been a need up to this point.” All five partners have full-time responsibilities outside of the theater, including careers and families. Fudor and Rubino are
engaged but have delayed wedding plans for the sake of Arcade. “It’s been six months of people asking when we are going to set a date,” says Fudor. Such juggling leads to occasional tension. However, “I’m 100 percent sure that all five of us are equally passionate about this theater succeeding,” says Fudor. “When we have hard times, or we fight, we usually end it with jokes and laughing.” “It may be a stressful two hours before the show, but once it starts, it’s like, ‘We were fighting over nothing,’” says Rubino. “There are times when I’m performing and I become aware that I’m onstage at my own comedy theater,” says Kirsty Nolen. “That’s a lifelong dream. It’s important to take those moments in.” Arcade’s founders realize that success means Arcade will eventually outgrow its first home. “We ask ourselves, ‘What will we grow into in a few years? How much of a draw will we be nationally? Will people be able to launch from here?’ That’s where our investment really is,” says Kirk. “We want to make opportunities for people who are willing to take them. But we all agree that we would like to stay in the Cultural District.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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‘DIVISION,’ INDEED {BY MICHELLE PILECKI} THAT LARGE object hovering above Little
Lake Theatre Co.’s production of Miracle on South Division Street is Disbelief, trying mightily to remain suspended. There’s a good chance you won’t see it up there, though, because it too often crashes through the many holes in Tom Dudzick’s 2009 “comedy” about a family, its secrets and how its members have been kidding themselves.
MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET continues through June 8. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive (off Route 19), North Strabane. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelake.org
The central story the Nowaks have been telling is about a statue commemorating the visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Grandpa in his barbershop. Think that’s hard to swallow? The backstory is that Grandpa and Grandma, then newlyweds, left Poland in 1942 for Buffalo. Uh-huh. By Dudzick’s timetable, after Hitler and Stalin had divvied up Poland, the able-bodied young barber, living under Soviet occupation, wasn’t shipped off to a work camp or the army. Instead, he and his wife left shortly after the Nazis re-invaded. So if you think WWII was a kind of cakewalk, believing that the BVM dropped by for a chat is easy. This casual relationship with reality is no surprise. After suffering through the only other Dudzick play I’ve seen (Over the Tavern), I longed for the verisimilitude of
Petticoat Junction. But America is the land of second chances, right? Could Miracle possibly be any worse? Yes. In Miracle, as in Tavern, Dudzick mocks the piety of his Polish-Americans, who even as adults retain the naïve Catholicism of a First Communicant, overlaid with bigotries. And instead of the stomach-pit gnawing of Tavern, Miracle delivers a sharp punch to the throat. Disclosure: Yes, like Dudzick’s characters, I grew up in a Polish-American, working-class, very Catholic family. And my choirboy brother married a nice Jewish girl — the “situation” that conjures so much “comedy” in Miracle. The congenial son is abused for daring to even go bowling with a Jewish woman, because — horrors! — their kids would be Jewish. Last century, Pope John Paul II — you know, the Polish one — condemned anti-Semitism as “a sin against God and humanity,” but Dudzick and his characters remain tone-deaf to the issue. The only virtues in Miracle are that it’s relatively cheap and easy to produce (Little Lake director Jena Oberg and her team delivered a fine set, sound, lights, etc.) with loquacious if not credible roles for three women. Liz Roberts delivers her usual solid performance as the somewhat sensible daughter. Martha Bell struggles with the infantile mother who 180s her personality before the curtain falls. Jennifer Sinatra scores the most in the thankless role of the younger daughter, a stereotypical hardedged botched-bleach-job twinkie. And Gregory Caridi copes with the closest-tosympathetic character. Dudzick heaps preposterous atop ridiculous for an extended unfunny ethnic joke with a reference to the Holocaust as the punchline. It would take a miracle to make this show worthwhile. I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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At the Pittsburgh Public Market, you can find local vendors selling produce, meat and dairy. But this Strip District buffet includes more than food: You can also catch performances by everything from magicians to guitar players, as well as the occasional stray songbird. Since February, the Market has hosted open-stage shows on the first Sunday of every month. With the weather warming up, the warehouse, mere blocks from the recently frigid Allegheny River, is attracting bigger crowds of young parents, urban farmers and, yes, birds. Between the taquerias, coffeeshops and cheesemakers, the atmosphere begs for the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar. Selecting artisan cheeses is an experience best accompanied by folk music, in any national style. Rachel Kudrick, who organizes community events and outreach at Pittsburgh Public Market, knows her venue’s strengths. Recent open-stage hosts have included bossa nova bard Tracy Drach and local emissaries of Brazilian choro style Choro No Vinho, who were twice invited back to play the space on their own.
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The multicultural atmosphere doesn’t end with musical genres. The stage is open to performers of all stripes, from standup comics to jugglers. As hot as the space can get in summer, it hosted a bellydancer back in the wintry days of March; it makes you shiver just to think of it. Other months, the dancers are off-stage: The market is popular with young parents, and it’s not unusual to see kids bopping along with the music in the ample space. But the market space doesn’t demand or even request exotic work. After all, half of the fun of open-stage shows is seeing people perform, for the first time, something that blossomed in their basement. The April show concluded with an impromptu trio by several performers. Five to 10 minutes on stage are available to anyone who asks, says Kudrick, as long as it’s kept family-friendly. “I’m just amazed that folks are willing to share their talents, even when they’re unsure of themselves,” she says. “It makes me very happy to have been able to provide a space for that.”
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+ THU., MAY 30 {STAGE} In Jon Robin Baitz’s critically acclaimed Broadway hit Other Desert Cities, sparks fly in Palm Springs heat. The 2011 family drama, praised for its wit, reunites the old-guard-Republican movie-star-turned-ambassador Lyman Wyeth; his wife, Polly; her fresh-from-rehab sister; and the Wyeth children, a trash-TV producer and a serious writer. And it all transpires in the politically charged days shortly after “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, amid family secrets. Pittsburgh Public Theater’s local-premiere production stars Helena Ruoti, Pilar Witherspoon and John Patrick. (The latter two are pictured.) The first performance is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Continues through June 30. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15.75-55. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org
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Darrel R. Whitney, who for years played Caiaphas on the national Broadway tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. For this staging at Carnegie’s Off the Wall Theater space, the Company promises live music by “an orchestra of
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features two familiar City names and two newcomers. The four days of readings by professional actors, workshops and panels begin tonight with a reading of Hope and Gravity, a “nonlinear play about fate” by Michael Hollinger, who wrote Opus. On Friday and Sunday, see readings of Holliday with Mulligan, a 1964-set memoir play about singer Judy Holliday by The Morini Strad playwright Willy Holtzman. Other readings include Anna Ziegler’s drama Variations on a Theme and Andy Bragen’s tennis-themed comic drama Don’t You F*cking Say a Word. BO 8 p.m. Festival continues through Sun., June 2. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $5 per show; $20 four-day pass. 412-431-2489 or www.citytheatrecompany.org
+ FRI., MAY 31 {MUSIC} Want a sneak preview of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming 12-concert European tour? In three shows starting tonight, music director Manfred Honeck leads the PSO through works by Rossini, Haydn and Strauss. The concerts include Haydn’s Symphony No. 93 in D major and Strauss’ tone poem “Ein Heldenleben.” The most widely heard piece is Rossini’s William Tell Overture — from his 1829 opera, and later the source of the Lone Ranger’s theme music. BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Sat., June 1, and 2:30 p.m. Sun., June 2. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $20-93. 412-392-4900 or www. pittsburghsymphony.org
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{STAGE} MOMENTUM, City Theatre’s annual festival for new plays,
Filmmakers have three weeks from today to submit their brief masterpieces to At Play, the Carnegie Museum of Art’s third annual 2-Minute Film Festival. Documentarians and experimentalists alike are invited to explore the concept of “play.” Selected films will screen July 18 in the Carnegie’s courtyard and
sp otlight When he moved to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles, in 2011, one thing Alan Olifson left behind was WordPlay. The standup comedian had created this series for literary storytelling as an outlet for comic essays read aloud and enhanced by music from a live DJ. (Inspirations included radio’s This American Life.) “The crowds had a little longer attention span” than comedy-club audiences, says Olifson. The popular series lasted five years, until Olifson relocated here with his wife, a Pittsburgh native, and their two young daughters. But starting May 31, WordPlay returns as a quarterly series, courtesy of Bricolage theater company and a startup grant from the Sprout Fund. Olifson, a blogger (www. themanchild.net) and award-winning humor columnist, chooses the essays. The first batch reflects his role as host of Pittsburgh’s monthly Moth StorySLAM, at the Rex Theater: May 31 WordPlay storytellers include Olifson, reigning Moth GrandSlam champ David Harris-Gershon and Moth veterans Nora Matthews, Amanda Hamilton Roos and Todd Shaffer. The DJ is Nancy Steadle (DJ Firefly), a long-time WRCT-FM host and and keyboardist for local band Universal Beat Union. Like the essays, the music aims for funny — no surprise to fans of Olifson, whose one-man show Manchild: My Life Without Adult Supervision, debuted at Bricolage last year. Olifson is already taking submissions for the second WordPlay, scheduled for September. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Fri., May 31. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $15. www.bricolagepgh.org
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oars for USRowing’s National Learn to Row Day. Rowing rookies are invited to the Lambert Boathouse to develop their sweeping and sculling skills. Participants will learn some techniques on the ergometer (rower jargon for “rowing machine”) before trying them out on the Allegheny River. No prior knowledge is necessary, but rowers must be over age 12. OL 10 a.m. 300 Waterfront Drive, Washington’s Landing.
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{PARTY} Artists Image Resource is a hidden Pittsburgh gem. The printmaking studio offers education and affordable equipment access to the public, plus exhibits and funding. Tonight’s the nonprofit’s summer fundraiser, Ten or Twenty in Twenty Thirteen. For a donation of either $10 or $20 at the door, you get refreshments (including discounted treats from area food trucks), printing access, and music from the likes of Josh Verbanets (from Meeting of Important People) and other groups and DJs. In AIR’s famous art raffle, a $10 ticket enters you in a drawing for donated works by top regional artists. BO 5-11 p.m. 518 Foreland St., North Side. $10-20. 412-321-8664
Park, spectators will gather on bleachers facing the Allegheny River to witness The Baiji’s Last Swim. Local artist Jennifer Nagle Myers has created this performance to imagine the last swim of the recently extinct Chinese river dolphin and honor its 20-million-year existence. The piece includes an aquatic performance from Stacey
girls looked like adults and half the boys were still zitencrusted mantises. But we bet your middle-school dance didn’t have DJs like DJ Sinister and Electric Slim, let alone hip bands like Pet Clinic and Action Camp. Unless, that is, you’re actually using tonight’s Brillobox event as your middle-school dance … which you can’t, because it’s 21 and
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compete for prizes. Films will also be on the 2MFF website, where viewers can vote on their favorites. Olivia Lammel Submission deadline: June 21. Complete rules and entry form at www.2mff.cmoa.org
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+ THU., JUNE 06 {SCREEN} When he’s not a mildmannered CP scribe, freelance writer Robert Isenberg is often out seeking one adventure or another. Isenberg,
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{ART} Tonight, Sweet Mortality opens at The Gallery 4. This exhibit of cake sculptures was crafted by Oakland, Californiabased mixed-media artist Scott Hove. The self-taught sculptor is perhaps best known for his installation Cakeland, in which he decorated pretty cakes with nature’s defense mechanisms. (Think horns and teeth.) Obsessed with the intersection of beauty and brutality, Hove continues to blend desire and danger with the frosted assault-weapon sculptures in this new exhibit. An opening reception includes free (and fangless) hors d’oeuvres. OL 7 p.m. Exhibit runs through June 29. 206 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. Free. 412-363-5050 or www.thegallery4.us.
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+ SUN., JUNE 02 {DANCE} Alba Flamenca, Pittsburgh’s chief proponent of flamenco culture, hosts its annual spring Flamenco Party, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Flamenco means both music and dance, and guitarists and dancers from the troupe will perform. So will Alba Flamenca students. There’ll be food, too. BO 7 p.m. 6300
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lately turned filmmaker — his 2012 Great Allegheny Passage biking documentary The Trail ran on WQED — visits the Melwood Screening Room tonight with a documentary about another recent adventure. “The Mountain” is a 48-minute film about his quest to hike up California’s Mount Whitney, tallest peak in the lower 48. From desert landscapes to ice fields, Isenberg is your East Coast-bred guide to Western heights. BO 8 p.m. 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland. $10. www.robertisenberg.net
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Wasserman. Presented by the Company of Pittsburgh. May 30-June 2 and June 5-8. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie. 724-873-3576. MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET. Comedy by Tom Dudzick. Thu-Sun. Thru June 8. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300. MOMENTUM. Readings of 4 new plays, playwrights’ panel, more. May 30-June 2. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. MOONLIGHT & VALENTINO. A light-hearted comedy that captures the warmth & spirit of 4 women seeking answers to life’s biggest questions. Thu-Sun. Thru June 1. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park. 412-831-8552. THE NERD. An odd character wears out his welcome when he visits a fellow veteran he saved in Vietnam. Presented by Saint Vincent Summer Theatre. May 30-June 1 and Tue-Sat. Thru June 15. St. Vincent College, Latrobe. 724-537-8900.
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WED 05 COMEDY NIGHT AT BUCKHEAD SALOON. First Wed of every month Buckhead Saloon, Station Square. 412-232-3101. JOKEE OAKEE. Comedy open stage hosted by Tonnochi:B. Wed Younger’s, North Side. 412-452-3267. STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m. The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-904-4502.
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NEW THIS WEEK 707 PENN GALLERY. Talus. Paintings by Lindsay Merrill and Paul Rouphail. Opening May 31. Downtown. 412-325-7017. 709 PENN GALLERY. Abstract Jazz Works. Abstract oil paintings created during live performances with Jesse Dandy, Art Blakey, Winton Marsalis, Jimmy Owens, & others. Opens May 31. Live painting w/ musician Roger Humphries, June 9, 4:45-6:15 p.m. Downtown. 412-471-6070. BOULEVARD GALLERY. Richard P. Rauso, Leslie Sorg, Christina Roselle, Laura Tabakman. Watercolors, batiks & oils, designer handbags & jewelry design. Opening reception June 1, 6-9 p.m. Verona. 412-828-1031. BOXHEART GALLERY. Marshes, Mountains, & Fields. Paintings by Crista Pisano. Opening reception: June 1. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. THE GALLERY 4. Sweet Mortality. Recent works by Scott Hove. Opening reception: June 1, 7-11 p.m. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. HOMESTEAD PUMP HOUSE. The Landscape of Steel. Photographs by Kevin Scanlon. Opening reception: May 31, 6-8 p.m. Munhall. 412-464-4020. MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY. In- Visible: When Personal Is Political. Artworks of Dafna Rehavia-Hanauer. Artist talk: May 30, 7 p.m. Garfield. 412-362-0274. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. The Civil War. A collection of rare and historic images printed from original glass plate negatives that survived the harrowing travels of Civil War Photographers. Opens June 1. North Side. 412-231-7881.
U.S. POST OFFICE & COURTHOUSE. Whitehall Arts Courthouse Exhibit. Paintings by Whitehall Arts members. Opens June 1. Downtown. 412-561-4000.
ONGOING ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. The National Society of Arts & Letters’ National Visual Art Competition. 1st place competition winners from all 18 chapters of the NSAL, including PA. 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. AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE. SOLO Exhibits. Work by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates & Tina Brewer. Gallery Crawl: April 26, 5:30-9 p.m. Downtown. 412-258-2700. BE GALLERIES. The Latest Works. Work by Vivian Fliegel. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2606. BLUE OLIVE GALLERIES. Original Belgian Botanical Illustrations. Bruxelles 1828 Hand Colored Lithography, presented by J. & K. Willison. All Local Artists. Muli media, pottery, woods & jewelry. Frazier. 724-275-7001. THE BREW HOUSE. Botanizing the Asphalt. Site-specific work by Edith Abeyta. South Side. 412-381-7767. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Exhibition. The 102nd show from the oldest continuously exhibiting visual arts organization in the country. One & the Same. Sound installation by Susan Philipsz.
Japan is the Key: Collecting Prints & Ivories, 1900–1920. Collections from the early years of the Carnegie Institute. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection. Shadyside. 412-365-1232. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Rebirth. Work by Connie Cantor, Jean-Gaudaire Thor, & Heather Tabacchi. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. EASTSIDE GALLERY. New Door. Work by Joan Downing, Bernie Pintar, Phiris Kathryn, Sickles, more. East Liberty. 412-465-0140. FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. E Block. Photography by Mark Perrott. Oakland. 412-681-5449. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. A Kind of Alchemy: Medieval Persian Ceramics. A look at the diversity of ceramics made in ancient Persia, now present-day Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan. Feat. 10th-century splashware, buffware, slip-painted ware, lusterware & 14th-century fritware, more. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FUTURE TENANT. Live, Waste, Live. Window exhibit by Marie Barcic feat. printed & stenciled full body portraits of Pittsburghers grown from compost. Downtown. 412-325-7037. GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. RetroFRESH. Contemporary paintings by James Kennedy, Claire Hardy, Donald Deskey, Alexander Minewski, Louise Evans-Scott, Vladimir Naiditch, & Henri de Waroquier. Oakland. 412-716-1390. GALLERIE CHIZ. Material Matters: An Adventure! Work by Priscilla Hollingsworth & Jeffrey Moyer. Shadyside. 412-441-6605. CONTINUES ON PG. 44
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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. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix. Feat. imagery, film & oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, & innovations. Downtown. 412-258-2700. BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments and music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment. O’Hara. 412-782-4231. BOST BUILDING. Collectors. Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Tlingit Totem Pole. Carving & installation by Tommy Joseph. BugWorks. Feat. beautiful photography of insects, amazing specimens, & live bugs! Garden of Light: Works by Paula Crevoshay. Feat. nearly 70 fine art jewelry pieces. Ongoing: Earth Revealed, Dinosaurs In Their Time, more. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad and Village, USS Requin submarine, and more. North Side. 412-237-3400. CARRIE FURNACE. Built in 1907, Carrie Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely rare examples of pre World War II ironmaking technology. Rankin. 412-464-4020 x.21. COMPASS INN. Demos and tours with costumed guides featuring this restored stagecoach stop. Ligonier. 724-238-4983. CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards from the International Hall of Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Ohiopyle. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436.
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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. What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions, 2007–2012. Botanical illustrations from the early 19th century through the present. Oakland. 412-268-2434. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Chalk Hill. 724-329-8501. KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont. 412-826-9295. LAWRENCE HALL GALLERY. Silk Road. Photo exhibition of images taken along the Silk Road in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal & India in 1972 by Albin & Virginia Curtze. Downtown. 412-391-4100. MARIDON MUSEUM. Beautiful Birds. Display of art from the museum’s study storage facility. 724-282-0123. Collection includes
jade and ivory statues from China and Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. 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. NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-624-6000. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott. 412-851-9212. OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park. 412-835-1554. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides and exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area and Trolley Theatre. Washington. 724-228-9256. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly Forest. Watch butterflies emerge from their chrysalises to flutter among tropical blooms. Summer Flower Show. Glass art surrounded by colorful blooms. Feat. work by Daviea CONTINUES ON PG. 44
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GARFIELD ARTWORKS. Faith in Rituals. Work by Dave D’Incau Jr., Lindsey Hayakawa, & Stephen Haynes. Garfield. 412-361-2262. 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. JAMES GALLERY. James Gallery Group Exhibition. West End. 412-922-9800. 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. Steel City Medley. Photographs by Jay Ressler. Point Breeze. 412-365-2117. MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MENDELSON GALLERY. Rare Gems. Work by Thommy Conroy. Shadyside. 412-361-8664. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots! Work by Nancy Adams, Marilyn Andrews, Ronit Dagan, Eric Boos, Barbara Poole, Frank FLynn, Lavon Williams, more. Shadyside. 412-441-5200.
FUNDRAISERS THU 30 HOT MESS DRESS PARTY. Wear your most hideous prom or bridesmaids dress. Donations of new or gently used dresses/ tuxedos will be accepted. Benefits Project Prom Pittsburgh. 7 p.m. Olive Or Twist, Downtown. 412-255-0525.
FRI 31 HARD HATS & HIGH HEELS FASHION SHOW. Feat. ensembles created by Art Institute students w/ materials from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Also feat. performance by Abby Lee Dance Company. Benefits Veterans Build at Habitat. 6:30 p.m. DoubleTree Hotel, Downtown. 412-351-0512 x 11. NETIP SPEAKER SERIES: COMEDY FOR CHARITY. Benefits Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh. 8 p.m. AVA Bar & Lounge, East Liberty. 412-605-4807.
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THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Natalie Gable. Paintings. Lawrenceville. 412-904-2915. NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Regional Multi-Media Art Show. Juried art show feat. amateur & professional artists. Ross. 412-364-3622. 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. Significant & Sublime: The Critical Role of Art Teachers in Public Education. Feat. work of 23 Pittsburgh-area public school teachers. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Photography of the Great Gatsby Era. See what cameras were popular in the Roaring 20’s including Kodak Vest Pocket Cameras & Vanity Cameras, beautifully housed in Art Deco styled cases. Some even came complete with a mirror and lipstick for those flappers on the go! North Side. 412-231-7881. PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHY & GIFTS. Photography by Brenda Knoll. Lawrenceville. 412-688-0240. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Fiberart International 2013. Juried exhibition of contemporary fiber art. Presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh. 30:2. Group exhibition presented by Associated
Symphony Orchestra. 11 a.m. Greensburg Country Club, Jeannette. 724-837-1810. 2013 ARTHRITIS WALK. Benefits the Arthritis Foundation of Pittsburgh. arthritiswalkpittsburgh.kintera. org 8 a.m. SouthSide Works, South Side. AIR SPECIAL FUNDRAISING EVENT. Live music by Red Western & Josh Verbanets, art raffle, printing activities, more. 5-11 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. FULL BLOOM SUMMER DANCE PARTY. Food & drink, music by Tracksploitation, more. 9 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000. THE HAMPTONS IN THE HEIGHTS. Cocktails, auction, croquet, live entertainment, strolling supper, & Honorary Chairperson, Ina Garten. Benefits the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. 7 p.m. Allegheny Country Club, Sewickley. 412-444-4464. RELAY FOR LIFE OF SOUTH HILLS. Benefits the American Cancer Society. 10 a.m. South
Artists of Pittsburgh. Coming Home. Fabric installation by Kay Healy. Friday Nights at Guitar Center. Work by Allison Kaufman. Rites of Passage. Oil paintings by Maggie Mills. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Consciousness. Flameworked glass by Eunsuh Choi. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SCHOOLHOUSE ART CENTER. Cinco de Mayo Art Show. Work by South Arts artists. Bethel Park. 412-831-8156. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Continuum. Work by Doug DuBois & Aaron Blum. South Side. 412-431-1810. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. Kevin Turner: New Work. Sculpture. Downtown. 412-261-7003 x 15. SPACE. Thad Kellstadt: On the Glass Surf. Video, installation & sound create a haunted paradise on the border of fracture & utopia. Downtown. 412-325-7723. TRINITY GALLERY. Adrienne Borkowski: A Solo Exhibition. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2458. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. An Art(ist) in Motion. Work by Aaronel deRoy Gruber. Born of Fire: The Valley Work. Greensburg. 724-837-1500. WOOD STREET GALLERIES. Memento Mori. Sculpture by Gregory Barsamian. Downtown. 412-471-5605.
Park High School, South Park. 724-222-6911. SUMMER SUPER BINGO. 1 p.m. Plum Senior Community Center, Plum. 412-795-2339. W.A.R. (WALK & RIDE) AGAINST HUNGER. Hosted by UPMC Health Plan & Rainbow Kitchen Community Services. Great Allegheny Passage Trail, Homestead. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 412-464-1892.
SUN 02 THE BEN ROETHLISBERGER FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER. Strolling dinner, auctions, live music, more. Benefits K-9 Police & Fire units & Make-A-Wish. 6-10 p.m. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, Warrendale. 412-441-1077. BIKE FRESH ALLEGHENY COUNTY. 25, 50 or 75 mile bike routes. Benefits the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. 7 a.m. North Park Ice Skating Rink, Allison Park. 412-365-2985. BOOK ‘EM BOOKS TO PRISONERS WORK PARTY. Read & code letters, pick books, pack ‘em or database ‘em! Sundays 4-7 p.m. or by appt.
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MON 03 ART@SEVICHE. Live music, tapas, more. Benefits Gateway to the Arts. 5-8 p.m. Seviche, Downtown. 412-632-6982. GOLFIN’ A ROUND FOR THE ARTS. Golf outing benefiting the Westmoreland Cultural Trust. 11 a.m. Hannastown Golf Club, Greensburg. 724 836-1123 x 10. PCCR + WIGLE: A COCKTAIL FUNDRAISER. Whiskeyrelated craft projects, live music, more. Benefits Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse. 6-9 p.m. Wigle Whiskey, Strip District. 412-473-0100. ST. BARNABAS CHARITABLE GOLF. Special guest: Jim O’Brien, local sports author. Benefits the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. 7:45 a.m. Butler Country Club, Butler. 724-444-5326.
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trapping, wildflower walks, geocaching, taxidermy demos, children’s activities, more. Presented by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Powdermill Nature Reserve, Rector. 412-622-3131.
CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session. Wed, 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3116. LIGHT LITERARY LUNCH CLUB. Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara. 12 p.m. Amazing Books, Downtown. 412-281-7141.
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.
SAT 01 BOOK SIGNING W/ STEVE BLASS. Book signing w/ author of A Pirate for Life. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Waterfront. 412-462-5743. POETRY READING: DEENA NOVEMBER & RYAN TAYLOR. 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
MON 03 OPEN POETRY WORKSHOP. Presented by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. First Mon of every month, 7-10 p.m. Brentwood Library, Brentwood. 412-882-5694. READING ROUND TABLE. Feat. plays from August Wilson & new works by up & coming playwrights. First Mon of every month, 7 p.m. August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown. 412-258-2700.
TUE 04 JAPANESE CONVERSATION CLUB. First and Third Tue of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. KID’S BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS BOOKCLUB. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838. LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.
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KIDSTUFF THU 30 - WED 05 ADVENTURES W/ CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG. 9-foot tall Clifford w/ tail slide, build a sandcastle on T-Bone’s beach, play instruments in the Musical Marina, more. Thru Sept. 1 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solarpowered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.
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120TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN. Keynote speaker: Marlo Thomas. 5:30 p.m. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-421-6118. FREE MARRIAGE PREPARATION WORKSHOP. Thu. Thru June 6 ART LAB: SCULPTING W/ LIGHT. Faith Community Church, Create slides to project & explore Penn Hills. 412-242-0210. light. 1-4 p.m. Mattress Factory, INTERNATIONAL North Side. 412-231-3169. WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF OUTDOOR FAMILY FUN PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural FITNESS PARTY. 10:30 a.m.club of American/international 1:30 p.m. D-Fit by Deawna women. Thu First Baptist Church, Fitness & Wellness Studio, Oakland. iwap.pittsburgh@ Wexford. 412-376-7008. gmail.com. SUMMER FAMILY FUN DAYS: PAINT & SIP. Painting CRITTERS & CREATURES. Create workshop. 6:30-8:30 p.m. bird sculptures, crazy flyswatter Sweetwater Center for the Arts, art, more. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sewickley. 412-741-4405. Frick Art & Historical Center, RENAISSANCE DANCE Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, AFTERNOON OF THE Room A18A. Thu, . w w w ELVES. Play based 8 p.m. Carnegie aper p ty ci h g p on the book by Janet Mellon University, .com Taylor Lisle. Presented by Oakland. 412-567-7512. Playhouse Jr. Sat, Sun. Thru THE SIX FACTS OF June 9 Pittsburgh Playhouse, FEAR: HOW FEAR ADVERSELY Oakland. 412-392-8000. EFFECTS PEOPLE’S LIVES, MAKESHOP CITY. Design BUSINESS & CAREER. w/ & build a miniature city from Alexandra Sabina. 7 p.m. the ground up using recycled Mount Lebanon Public Library, materials & found objects. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. June 1-2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. WEEKLY WELLNESS Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, CIRCLE. Group acupuncture North Side. 412-322-5058. & guided meditation for THE KID WHO RAN FOR stress-relief. Thu DeMasi PRESIDENT. A 12-year-old Wellness, Aspinwall. & his campaign manager 412-927-4768. organize a political campaign WEST COAST SWING. Swing that will change the world. dance lessons for all levels. Thu, Presented by The Theatre 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Factory KidWorks. Sat, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111. Sun and Fri., June 7. Thru YMCA LIGHTHOUSE END June 9 The Theatre Factory, OF THE YEAR CELEBRATION. Trafford. 412-374-9200. Music performances & media SELF-PORTRAITS. June 1-2, presentations created by the 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Children’s teens of the Lighthouse Project. Museum of Pittsburgh, North 6 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Side. 412-322-5058. East Liberty. 412-363-3000.
PITTSBURGH 5K FOAM FEST AND MUD RUN Operation Walk Pittsburgh, which offers assistance to those in need of orthopedic surgery, has teamed up with the Pittsburgh 5K Foam Fest and Mud Run. It’s a benefit race that is, essentially, a carwash for people. Volunteers are needed June 11, 12 and 15 and on race day, June 16, to set up obstacles, spray foam and more. Call 412-641-1938 or email morgan@amd3.org.
CELEBRATING THE A’S: ACADEMICS, ATTITUDE, ARTS, ATHLETICS. Recognizing & celebrating students from Pittsburgh Faison, Lincoln, Obama, & Westinghouse. 6-9 p.m. Carnegie Library, Homewood. 412-243-7083. DOWNTOWN HAUNTED WALKING TOUR. Begins at City County Building, Downtown. Sat. Thru Aug. 31 412-302-5223.
read their own funny, & often poignant, true stories with a live DJ score. Feat. David Harris-Gershon, Nora Matthews, Alan Olifson, Amanda Hamilton Roos, Todd Shaffer. 8 p.m. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999.
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EARLY AMERICAN HEARTH COOKING. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Old Stone House, Slippery Rock. 724-738-4964. FIFTY SHADES OF GAY PRIDE SHOW. Burlesque & drag show presented by Hot Metal Hardware, the Bridge City Bombshells, & the East Coast Angels. 9 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. 412-345-3464. GATEWAY TO WELLNESS: PASSPORT TO HEALTH. Free community symposium feat. workshops, health screenings, more. Presented by Gateway Medical Society. 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside. 412-281-4086. INCLINE HAUNTED WALKING TOUR. Begins at the bottom of the Monongahela Incline. Sat. Thru Oct. 26 412-302-5223. KOREAN FOR BEGINNERS. Korean grammar & basic conversation. Sat, 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. KOREAN II. For those who already have a basic understanding of Korean & are interested in increasing proficiency. Sat Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. PENNSYLVANIA MICROBREWERS’ FEST. Sample beer from 25+ microbreweries. 1-4 & 6-9 p.m. Penn Brewery, North Side. 412-237-9400 x 112. CONTINUES ON PG. 46
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[KIDSTUFF] SATURDAY NIGHT SALSA CRAZE. Free lessons, followed by dancing. Sat, 10 p.m. La Cucina Flegrea, Downtown. 412-708-8844. 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. SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Friendly, informal. At the Starbucks inside Target. Sat, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Target East Liberty. 412-362-6108. STAGE RIGHT OPEN HOUSE. 1-3 p.m. Stage Right, Greensburg. 724-832-7464. SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. WHITE HOT NIGHT. Cocktails, dancing, more. 9 p.m. Cavo, Steubenville. 412-480-1624.
friends & neighbors. For seniors. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SLOVAK LESSONS. For beginning students. Sponsored by the Western PA Slovak Cultural Association. Tue. Thru June 4 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-2990. WELLNESS WORKSHOP. Learn about buying local, developing a healthy lifestyle, more. 8:30 a.m., Wed., June 12, 8:30 a.m. and Thu., June 20, 8:30 a.m. East End Food Co-op, Point Breeze. 412-242-7726.
SUN 02 2ND ANNIVERSARY PARTY & PET VENDOR FAIR. Venders, pet-friendly activities, more. 12-4 p.m. Petagogy, Shadyside. 412-362-7387. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAFE. Weekly letter writing event. Sun, 4-6 p.m. Panera Bread, Oakland. 412-683-3727. ARTISTS ON ART GALLERY TALK: ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH. w/ Nancy McNary Smith, Erika Osborne, & Chuck Johnson. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. 412-622-3131. THE AWAKENING OF HUMANITY. w/ Sheila Forester & Mary Beth Steisslinger. Pittsburgh Theosophical Society. 1:30-3 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-462-4200. BELLYDANCE CLASS W/ JEMEENA. Sun, 10 a.m. Thru June 30 Wilkins School Community Center, Swissvale. 412-337-1846. CANONSBURG SUNDAY CAR CRUISE. Sun, 1-5 p.m. Thru Sept. 22 The Handle Bar & Grille, Canonsburg. 724-746-4227. ITALIANO-ESPRESSO. Italian conversation club. Presented by Mondo Italiano. Sun, 11 a.m. Thru June 30 Biddle’s Escape, Regent Square. 412-478-3682.
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Auditions for new TV show, I Want To Be Discovered. Log onto www.iwant2b discoveredonline.com & post video of group or individual talent. 3 minutes max. THE DOCHERTY AGENCY. Open auditions for adult models & actors. First Tue of every month. Downtown. 412-765-1400. MCCAFFERY MYSTERIES. Ongoing auditions for actors ages 18+ for murder COMPETITIVE SCRABBLE. mystery shows performed Seeking new players, no in the Pittsburgh area. experience necessary. 412-833-5056. Wednesdays, Squirrel Hill. NEW CASTLE PLAYHOUSE. 412-422-7878. Auditions for Rabbit Hole. ENGLISH CONVERSATION June 3-4. Call or email (ESL). Wed, 10 a.m. Mount info@newcastleplayhouse.org Lebanon Public Library, Mt. for info. New Castle. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. 724-654-3437. FARMERS AT PHIPPS. PITTSBURGH BATTLEGROUNDS. Farmers’ market. Wed, Auditions for the Pittsburgh 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 30 Battlegrounds rap battle. Phipps Conservatory & June 7. https://www.facebook. Botanical Garden, Oakland. com/events/539278332782624 412-622-6914. Frankie’s, Squirrel Hill. LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH! Practice 724-290-8076. conversational English. Wed, THE PITTSBURGH SAVOYARDS. 5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. Auditions for Princess Ida. 412-622-3151. June 3 & 11. Prepare a Gilbert PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER & Sullivan (preferred), standard SUMMER LECTURE SERIES. musical theater, or classical song. Discussion of contemporary No a capella selections. http:// glass art feat. Karen www.pittsburghsavoyards.org/ Willenbrink Johnsen & Our Lady of Victory Maronite Jasen Johnsen. 6-8 p.m. Catholic Church, Carnegie. Pittsburgh Glass Center, 412-734-8476. Friendship. 412-365-2145. POOR YORICK’S PLAYERS. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW Auditions for Shakespeare OFFS. A meeting of jugglers in the Park production of & spinners. All levels welcome. Henry V. June 15-16. Men/ Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, women, 2-min. Shakespearean Highland Park. 412-363-4550. monologue. Call for REDUCING CANCER RISK appointment. http://www. THROUGH DIET. Workshop pooryoricksplayers.org/ Tall presented by George Trees Amphitheater, Monroeville. Eisman of Coalition for 412-277-2226. Cancer Prevention. Call R-ACT THEATRE to reserve a spot. PRODUCTIONS. 6:30 p.m. East End Food Co-op, Auditions for Point Breeze. Maroon for Murder. . w ww per 412-242-7726. June 9. Men/women a p ty ci h pg SPANISH II. Geared age 20+, script .com toward those who readings. RACTProd@ already have a basic gmail.com Bridgewater. understanding of Spanish 724-775-6844. & are interested in increasing THE RAGE OF THE STAGE proficiency. First and Third Wed PLAYERS. Auditions of every month Carnegie Library, for a sexy, steampunk play Oakland. 412-622-3151. adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s TEA CLASS & TASTING. horror novel, The Picture of History of tea, steeping Dorian Gray. Call or visit www. techniques, Storing Tea, facebook.com/rageofthestage Health Benefits, more. Tea for info. South Park Theatre, samples & European cookies Bethel Park. 724-292-8427. will be served. First Wed THE SUMMER COMPANY. of every month, 7 p.m. Auditions for 2013 season. Margaret’s Fine Imports, May 30. Men/women age 17+, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-1606. 2-min. contemporary monologue. URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. Non-equity, walk-ins welcome. 3rd floor. Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Peter Mills Theater ( Duquesne, Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. Rockwell Hall ), Uptown. 412-242-4345. 412–243-6464.
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WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, South Side. 916-287-1373.
As generations of readers know, Clifford was a tiny red puppy who grew to be a Big — 25 foot — Red Dog. At Adventures With Clifford the Big Red Dog — developed by the Minnesota Children’s Museum, and now on display at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh — young fans can visit Clifford’s home of Bidwell Island, meet his canine friends, build a sandcastle on T-Bone Beach and more. Through Sept. 1. 10 Children’s Way, North Side. Call 412-322-5058 or visit www.pittsburghkids.org. MINDFUL AWARENESS WORKSHOP. 3:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church Pittsburgh, Shadyside. 412-681-4222. OBSERVATORY HILL HOUSE TOUR. “The Park In Our Backyard”: Tour centered around three historic buildings in Riverview Park. 1-5 p.m. Riverview Park, North Side. 412-736-2489. RIVERS OF STEEL SUNDAY HERITAGE MARKET. Farm & artist market. First Sun of every month and Third Sun of every month. Thru Sept. 15 Homestead Pump House, Munhall. 412-464-4020. SPAGHETTI WESTERN DINNERS: GRAND DUEL. Spaghetti dinner & film screening. Call for reservation. 5 p.m. The Parkway Theater, McKees Rocks. 412-766-1668. VERONA’S CREATIVE MARKETPLACE. Arts & crafts vendors, live music, more. First Sun of every month, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thru Sept. 1 Verona Borough Building, Verona. 412-828-8080.
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MON 03 24TH ANNUAL BEST RESTAURANTS PARTY. 6 p.m. Heinz Field, North Side. 412-304-0900. MORNING SPANISH LITERATURE & CONVERSATION. Mon, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-5311912. OLD ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL MUSEUM SELF GUIDED TOUR. Mon, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thru June 24 Court of Common Pleas, Family Division, Downtown. 412-4715808. OVERVIEW OF SLOVAK FOLKLORE & CRAFTS. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. 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. SPELLING BEE WITH DAVE AND KUMAR. Mon Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.
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SUBMISSIONS ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF BUTLER COUNTY. Seeking submissions for outdoor sculpture contest. Artists must submit at least 2 quality photographs or digital images for each piece entered that accurately represents 2 views of the sculpture. Deadline: June 15. More info at http://www.aabcartcenter.com/ current-calls-for-artists2/ 724-283-6922. BLAST FURNACE. Seeking submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2. Theme is “travel.” Submit poetry about physical travel/ world travels, travels of the mind, travels outside of the box, etc. Submit no more than 3 of your best. http:// www.blastfurnacepress.com/ BRICOLAGE THEATER. Seeking stories that are true, funny, & between 1,500 to 2,000 words for WordPlay, a new storytelling event. Email submissions to alan@ olifson.com. THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate in First Fridays - Art in a Box. For more information, email thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com. 412-403-7357. GLCC. Seeking 2D art submissions for Super! Exploring the Homoerotic Subtext of the Superhero Culture. More info at http://www.glccpgh.org/ 724-331-9692. THE PITTSBURGH WATERCOLOR SOCIETY. Seeking entries for 67th Annual International Aqueous Open exhibition. http://www. pittsburghwatercolorsociety.com 412-731-0636. THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@ hotmail.com WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Seeking individual artists & artist groups for month-long exhibitions in a new transitional gallery measuring. Artists will be responsible for all aspects of their exhibition. Send images & a brief introduction to the work to: bljones@ wmuseumaa.org w/ a cc: to jotoole@wmuseumaa.org & jmcgarry@wmuseumaa.org. Greensburg. 724-837-1500.
Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
I’m seeing an amazing guy who I met doing sex work — as in, he was paying me for sex. We share a lot of interests and have a great connection, and the sex is awesome. When I was seeing him for pay, I would think, “I would totally date this guy.” We transitioned to friends-with-benefits several months back. Then some “I love yous” were exchanged, and now we are in a monogamous relationship. I keep thinking that there must be something “wrong” with the way we met, but maybe that’s internalized attitudes toward sex work? Everything about our relationship feels positive, but sometimes I think, “Really? Dating your john?” Maybe I just need your OK to feel better. DATING MY JOHN
You’ve got my okay — and Siouxsie Q’s, too. “People meet their significant others through work all the time,” says Siouxsie, host of The WhoreCast, a weekly podcast about sex work. “But navigating love, sex and work can be sticky and difficult.” And when you’re a sex worker, internalized shame and social stigma can make a “workplace” relationship more difficult. “In most of the stories we see about ourselves in the media,” says Siouxsie, “we end up dead, alone or in service to Richard Gere for eternity. All terrible options. But sex-worker/client relationships occupy a wide spectrum. I have clients who I barely know. I have clients who I feel genuine love, affection and even attraction for. And while I have never dated a client, it is not unheard of.” So instead of worrying that you met your boyfriend working, Siouxsie suggests that you focus on what’s working about your boyfriend. “It sounds like this guy meets all the criteria for dating a sex worker. He’s not creepy, he’s not trying to ‘save’ you from your work, you have a great connection and great sex,” says Siouxsie. “There is no ‘normal’ relationship or ‘right’ circumstance to meet someone. But when everything feels right and the only thing holding you back is this idea that ‘this could never work,’ you would be foolish not to give it a shot.” Listen to The WhoreCast at thewhorecast.com and follow Siouxsie on Twitter at @Siouxsie_Qxxx.
because He likes to make me. And He’s amazing and amazingly hot, and I’d do anything He asks. SAVAGE LOVE APPEARANCE VERIFIES EVERYTHING
Thanks for sharing, SLAVE. I’m a woman in a relationship with an AMAZING guy for eight years. My man has this fantasy about seeing me fuck his friends. It comes up EVERY SINGLE TIME we have sex. He begs me to call out their names during sex. I love to please him and I find it super-hot. But we never talk about it outside the bedroom. How can I open up this topic without giving him the idea that I actually would let one of his friends bone me? If this was something that he REALLY wanted to do, I’d be willing, but how do I ask him if he thinks about actually doing it? PLEASE HELP ME
Some people will dirty-talk about shit they wanna experience IRL*, ATKS**, and some people will dirty-talk about shit they never wanna experience IRL. But the only person who knows if your boyfriend wants to do this shit IRL is your boyfriend. It’s possible that your boyfriend wants to realize these fantasies IRL, but is so paralyzed by shame that he can’t talk about his fantasies when his dick isn’t hard. His own shame may have led him to misread the fact that you’ve never raised the subject outside the bedroom. He may be thinking, “We talk about it every single time we have sex! But she never brings it up when we’re not having sex, so she must not be into it.” But it’s just as possible your boyfriend doesn’t want to realize these fantasies. You’ve spent eight years demonstrating that you’re down with his kinks. So it stands to reason that your boyfriend would’ve asked you to fuck his friends by now if he wanted you to. So what do you do? Grab a drink with your boyfriend and ask him to talk about his kinks. Don’t say, “Hey, do you really want me to fuck your friends? Because I would — I totally would — if that’s what you wanted!” Instead, tell him you want to talk about his fantasies in a general, open-ended way — because healthy couples can talk about their fantasies. Start by telling him what turns you on about these fantasies, and then ask him what turns him on about them. Hopefully, he’ll open up and you’ll get some clarity about the IRL issue. But if he can’t talk about his fantasies when you aren’t fucking, that means you’re never gonna fuck his friends. Not because he doesn’t want you to — he may — but because realizing these sorts of fantasies requires open, honest and exhaustive communication. And if he can’t do that (communicate with you), you can’t do them (his friends).
IN MOST MEDIA DEPICTIONS OF SEX WORKERS, “WE END UP DEAD, ALONE OR IN SERVICE TO RICHARD GERE FOR ETERNITY. ALL TERRIBLE OPTIONS.”
I think someone asked you a question about me and my amazing Boyfriend. I set up and re-rack the weights when we work out. The person who wrote saw me kneel and tie my Boyfriend’s shoe and was wondering what was up. You told the guy to ask my Boyfriend. He hasn’t asked, so my Boyfriend told me to write. My Boyfriend is dominant and I’m submissive. But we keep things very subtle in public. Observe us closely, and you’ll see signs of my submission. But since we’re not doing anything hardcore in public — no verbal abuse, no hitting — we don’t see why we should have to keep it completely hidden. So, yeah, I tie His shoes. Not because He can’t, but
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* In real life. ** As the kids say. My new book — American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics — has been called one of the best books of the summer by Publishers Weekly. It is available now.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the Lonely Planet travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as inhibited as you dare this week — not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodleslurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.” I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me? I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions? Would you at least temporarily consider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling and unpredictable playtime? According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabble-rousing revelry.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night? A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowledge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor. You generate authentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For
hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today? I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those. You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate.
we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it? Here’s
what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage. Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is really true.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Wash., announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break — maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you. Name one of your least useful attitudes: a belief or perspective you know you should live without, but which you haven’t had the courage to banish. Freewillastrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States, and had to get special permission to enter the country. Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to any outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a renowned artist, photographer and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down-to-earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down-to-earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively.
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ACROSS 1. Moore who won a Golden Raspberry for “Striptease” 5. Doctor who started a labor movement? 11. Pitchfork group 14. “Argo” setting 15. Lemon cousin 16. “So that’s your game!” 17. Pair of satanic nations, in the bible 19. Ad ___ (extemporize) 20. Valley where the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is located 21. “Thank you, come again” speaker 22. Heavy metal mix, perhaps 24. Cartesian phrase 27. Big name in Japanese semiconductors 28. Lucy Lawless character widely interpreted as queer 29. Part of a Cookie Monster costume 35. Noted Irish New Age singer 38. Pallid 39. One of the original top-level domain name endings 40. Unit at the top of a browser 41. Jewish event that might include cutting remarks? 43. Engage in 61-Across, as it were, or what each of this puzzle’s theme answers
literally includes 47. Kick to the curb 49. ___ polloi (commoners) 50. Ruined 56. Former food label abbr. 57. ___-en-Provence 58. “Dream Home” channel 60. Enjoy some powder 61. Certain flexible attraction 65. One of Crayola’s standard colors 66. Team that moved to the American League in 2013 67. Foil cousin 68. One of the original top-level domain name endings 69. Mr. or Ms. Right 70. Ding in the door, say
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A Garfield museum explores how humans remake the world in their own image {BY ABBY MENDELSON} ON PENN AVENUE in Garfield, in the Center for PostNatural History,
we enter the realm of the truly weird. Here there are Biosteel goats, which have been gene-spliced with silkworms to produce milk laced with spider silk, whose incredibly strong fibers are used for body armor. There are the GloFish, whose eerie underwater colors are right out of The X-Files. Everywhere are chickens of varying breeds — black fighting cocks and blue hens and the truly remarkable silkies, with feathers like rabbit fur, blue skin and black bones — “every recessive gene in the business,” offers organizer and curator Richard Pell. “This is how human beings shape the planet we live on,” he adds: “the stuff we eat, enjoy, live in.” Pell, who also teaches video and electronic art at Carnegie Mellon University, created this mini-museum to explore the social implications of emerging technologies. And what more emerging technology is there than biotech, the industry mankind increasingly turns to in order feed and sustain itself — and to exercise greater control over the planet?
rather than Oakland, the city’s intellectual core? “This is where we could afford to be,” Pell says with a shrug.) From orchids to oranges, carnations to kittens, he says, “We’re interested in what these organisms tell us about people.” For example, while all chickens have a common ancestor, they’re genetically manipulated for different uses. In the Philippines, they’re bred for fighting. In Southeast Asia, for aesthetics — sharply contrasting black and white plumage, for example, is highly prized. In America, chickens are bred to be fat, tender and entirely edible. “In the United States,” Pell says, “we like chickens to have big breasts and look the same.” Sort of like Miss America. And humans have altered themselves as well, using steroids and human growth hormones to bulk up whippet-thin baseball hawks (read Barry Bonds) into Incredible Hulks. “Gene therapy is already a reality,” Pell says. “Once we get good at fixing broken things, the idea of improving things wouldn’t be far behind.”
“THE SAME DESIRES AND FEARS THAT SHAPE BUILDINGS ALSO SHAPE LIVING THINGS.” “PostNaturalism” — a term Pell coined — “is like architecture,” he says. “The same desires and fears that shape buildings also shape living things.” Although such gene-bending ideas may smack of Brave New World and The Bourne Legacy, they’re as old as the book of Genesis, where Jacob bred sheep for particular colors. And they can be as benign as Luther Burbank’s apples, almonds and potatoes. And while some react with primal fear to the more hideous Alien-type experiments, bio-engineering goes on unabated. These days, at the top of the list is good old American genetically altered corn — manipulated to produce better or more efficient fuel, food, plastic, sugar. Fruits, too, are bred to resist herbicides and fungus, modified for size, color and flavor. “They’re easier to industrialize that way,” Pell says. “We treat them like chemical factories.” PostNaturalism’s exhibits run the gamut from the relatively harmless — transforming rapeseed into hardy, low-fat canola oil — to the truly demonic, including the Nazi attempts to create a race of sterile workers, human drones produced bee-like through multiple births. Although he began to investigate the field seriously in 2006, Pell opened the center last year to introduce the public to PostNaturalism’s benefits and concerns. (Why Penn Avenue in Garfield
Hello, Dr. Mengele. But like it or not, fearful or not, the PostNatural inflects everything from the clothes we wear to the food we eat. As proof, Pell whips out photos of monstrous, bloated pumpkins — a 1,360-pounder the prize winner. “Some people are terrified by everything they see here,” Pell gestures. “They are concerned with genetically modified organisms from the lab. There’s an almost mythological fear of monsters escaping.” Does Pell share that fear? Does he hope his museum will scare the pants off an unsuspecting, and preternaturally complacent, populace? Not in the slightest, he says: “I’m not a scientist. I’m an artist. I do not take an advocacy position. My job is to present this stuff to people and let them draw their own conclusions.” So without comment he displays anti-malarial mosquitoes, all-white mice bred for experimentation, seedless watermelons and grapes, ruby red grapefruit, and lab rats glowing with jellyfish genes, obese, bald, cancered. “We share an open-endedness with the Smithsonian,” he says. “We exist for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge. The collection is here for people to interpret.” He pauses, perhaps ominously. “With all the stuff that’s invented all the time, our job is never going to be done.” INF O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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