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The Warhol welcomes back the ambient music duo A Winged Victory For The Sullen, consisting of Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie. Their second album, Atomos, was released on Kranky Records in fall of 2014. The album was realized through a unique collaboration with Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet.

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public hearing on Feb. 23, Homewood native Arnold Perry called on the school board to approve a charter school he believes will have a positive impact on children and families throughout the city.

Perry was among four who attended the meeting to speak in support of the K-8 Robert L. Vann charter school, vowing not to rest until it is approved. But two days later, the board voted against the charter school.

“I’m so disgusted,” Perry said a few days after the vote. “We’re going to keep pushing. We need to figure out a way to help these kids.”

But if recent results are any indication, a charter school — a public school run independently of the district — might not be one of them. In a climate where school districts and charter schools compete for much-needed funding, advocates say it has become nearly impossible to get a charter school approved in Pittsburgh. Although the approval process is supposed to be objective, critics say decisions are influenced by the controversy surrounding charters, instead of the merits of individual applicants.

“As long as the charter school meets the requirements, generally the school district has to approve it,” says Tim Eller, head of the Keystone Alliance for Public Charter Schools. “Unfortunately, what we’re seeing in the past few years is districts [that] are pushing back on charter schools.”

Now the only hope for the Vann school lies with the Pennsylvania Department of Education charter appeals board, which is

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designed to serve as an independent decider in charter approvals. But here too, charter advocates say bias persists, and recent statements by Gov. Tom Wolf indicate that getting a charter approved could become even more difficult at the state level.

“I wouldn’t say the prospects are too good for getting a charter approved,” says Randall Taylor, a former Pittsburgh schoolboard director who has been advocating on behalf of the Vann school. “It looks bad for the charter-school movement.”

THE ROBERT L. VANN proposal calls for a K-8 “micro-society” school with a curriculum

that would engage students by making connections between the classroom and real life. The school would have an extended school year with 190 days and would incorporate elements of the nationally recognized Harlem Children’s Zone, which provides students with wrap-around services such as health care and afterschool programs.

“We have a lot of retired educators who are part of it,” says Taylor. “We plan to give the parents and the community a real plan and a real stake in their children’s education. That’s very different from anything the district is doing and anything the

district can do.”

Charter schools are controversial; critics say they unfairly drain funds from traditional public schools without, in many cases, educating students any better.

Although the Vann school would serve students throughout the city, it would be based in Homewood, a neighborhood with struggling academic institutions. At Faison K-5, only 26 percent of third-graders scored proficient or advanced in reading on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests last year. At Westinghouse Academy, the neighborhood’s 6-12 school, only 35 percent of eighth-graders were proficient or advanced in reading.

“When I visited Faison, I wasn’t impressed, and I realized the Pittsburgh public schools didn’t have a lot to offer. I’m not exaggerating — it’s a mess,” says Perry, who will serve on the Vann school’s board if it’s ever approved. “I looked at what [Vann wanted] to do in terms of working with our children and I was inspired.”

This is the second time the board has denied the charter school’s application. Last year, Robert L. Vann was among three charter applicants, all denied by the board. This year, the charter school was the only one to apply. Since 2008, the district has approved only two charter schools out of 15 proposed.

According to the report by the charter application-review team, the application was deficient in eight of the nine criteria used to evaluate applications. The criteria, which comes from the state charter-school law, includes community support, financial viability and curriculum.

The review team deemed the application’s curriculum deficient because the proposal included curriculum only for grades K-2. According to the proposal, the school would open with students in grades K-2 and later expand to K-8.

“It is mandated that the curriculum that needs to be submitted, needs to be submitted for every grade that’s being proposed,” says Lisa Augustin, the district’s director of assessment, who led the team. “We go by the documentation that was submitted to us by the deadline.”

The review team also said the school would not be financially viable because the application did not include a description of insurance plans. And according to budgets provided in the application, the school’s monthly cash flow would be negative for the first seven months of operation.

“They have very specific budgeting criteria that they have to submit,” Augustin says. “If they submit a budget that has CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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negative balances, that is a deficiency.

Anything that is required in the daily operation of the school, if they don’t demonstrate that they can do that, that’s a deficiency.”

The only area where the team deemed the application sufficient was in terms of the location identified for the school.

The team said the application demonstrated that the building would comply with all federal, state and local health and safety regulations.

“We have an obligation to vet those applications and make sure the board has the information to make their decisions,” Augustin says.

At the school board’s vote on Feb. 25, director Mark Brentley was the lone vote in support of the charter proposal.

“I have said since we started approving charter-school applications, they are highly political,” Brentley said at the meeting.

But fellow school-board member Regina Holley disagrees. She says she based her vote on the recommendation of the review team that evaluated the charter application.

“That’s why I didn’t vote for it,” Holley says. “I vote on the recommendation from the data they give us from the actual proposal.”

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highly subjective. While the state does outline what criteria should be used in evaluations, determining whether an applicant meets the criteria isn’t so cut and dry.

“One person’s definition of a quality academic program is going to be different from someone else’s,” says Eller, of the Keystone Alliance for Public Charter Schools. “School districts kind of have a bias because the charter school is going to be their competitor.”

Eller says that charter-school advocates would like to see an independent state authorizer for charter schools who would be able to evaluate applications objectively.

And in some ways, the state’s charter appeals board attempts to serve in this capacity as a nonpartisan authority.

“The appeal process enables applicants that are denied at the district level the opportunity to present their application and their arguments about why the denial was wrong to an independent body,” says state Department of Education spokesperson Jessica Hickernell.

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filed appeals at the state level. While six of the appeals are still pending, one, for the Vann school, was denied and another was approved.

Since 2011, four of the appeals filed at the state level involved charters in the Pittsburgh Public Schools district. Of those, three appeals were granted and one, the Vann school, was denied.

In order to appeal, applicants must collect either 1,000 signatures of support for their charter school, or the signatures of 2 percent of the school district’s population, whichever is fewer. They must then demonstrate why their application meets the state’s criteria for charter schools.

“I’d encourage [the Vann school] to appeal the decision,” says Eller. “If the applicant believes they have a quality program, any program is going to be an improvement for students. We continue to advocate for quality programs.”

But the Vann charter school lost its appeal last year, and there is no guarantee it will win this year. Advocates argue that the appeals board, too, favors school districts.

A new piece of legislation referred to the state House of Representatives education committee on Feb. 18 would change the dynamic by placing both a parent and charter-school manager on the charter appeals board. The house has yet to vote on the bill.

Other changes at the state level could also mean fewer charter approvals. Earlier in February, Gov. Wolf demoted Bill Green, the chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, after Green approved five new charter schools. Wolf, a Democrat, is warier of charter schools than his predecessor, Tom Corbett, a Republican.

“The Wolf administration continues to believe that the district’s financial situation cannot responsibly handle the approval of new charter schools,” said a statement from Wolf’s office. “Gov. Wolf remains committed to restoring cuts and delivering more funding to public schools across the commonwealth to ensure our children have the resources necessary to succeed. It is imperative for both our children and our economy that we reverse Pennsylvania’s publiceducation deficit.”

Wolf was also expected to make a statement about charter-school reform during his March 3 budget address, but details weren’t available at press time. But regardless of that, or any other announcement, Taylor says the fight for charter schools in the city will continue.

“We’re going to continue this battle because the kids need it. So we’re going to keep at it next year and the year after,” says Taylor. “I think we are going to be successful one day because we have to bring a real school to that community.”

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Chelsa Wagner served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, she took time off — just 10 days — to have her first child.

“I was the first and only Democrat ever to give birth while in office,” she says.

Women representatives prior to her had been mothers while in office, but the whole thing was “seemingly foreign there.” (Pennsylvania ranks 39th for the proportion of women in the legislature, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics.)

Her husband, meanwhile, was granted two months’ paid paternity leave from his employer to stay home with their new child. She had her second child three years ago, a year into her term as county controller.

“I experienced some of the hardships while seeing some of the benefits,” Wagner says of paid leave. “I’ve seen a lot of my friends’ experiences too, in both the public and private sectors.”

This past Labor Day, Wagner announced that the roughly 100 employees in her office — which is independently run from the rest of county government — would have the option of paid family and emergency leave.

Wagner’s office was the first public em-

ployer in the region to offer the benefit — six weeks at two-thirds of the employee’s base salary. Last month, both Pittsburgh and Allegheny County approved paid parental leave for their full-time non-union employees at full salary for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a new child. So far, one employee has taken the leave.

“We know when parents get to spend time with children early on, all society benefits. And when we give employees flexibility to enjoy family life, we tell them we value their well-being, and that helps retention,” says Pittsburgh City Councilor Natalia Rudiak, who brought the resolution to city council.

Wagner’s office, the city and the county are now offering their workers something that, compared to the rest of the developed world, the U.S. is lagging on.

Of the 185 countries surveyed by the International Labor Organization, the U.S. is one of two nations that does not offer paid time off. (The other is Papau New Guinea.)

“Every other developed country offers paid maternity-leave benefits through social-security programs, so businesses don’t have to shoulder the entire cost,” says Heather Arnet, CEO of the Women and Girls Foundation of Western Pennsylvania.

“WE KNOW WHEN PARENTS GET TO SPEND TIME WITH CHILDREN EARLY ON, ALL OF SOCIETY BENEFITS.”

Opponents claim that companies cannot afford paid family leave. But Arnet says that according to the Society for Human Resource Management, every time an employee quits, it costs between six and nine months of that employee’s salary to recruit and train a replacement.

“If the employer invested that money in retaining a valuable employee, the long-term return on investment would be much greater,” Arnet says.

That’s why Wagner jumped on board last year.

“One of the big concerns for us was retention and attraction of talent,” Wagner says. Her office is mainly comprised of auditors, IT professionals and accountants, who she says are difficult to recruit.

California, New Jersey and Rhode Island have implemented social-securitystyle family leave for public and privatesector workers, rather than putting the liability on the employer. According to the National Partnership for Women & Families, another organization advocating for paid leave, the policies have improved worker retention and, in many cases, have been cost-neutral for companies.

In Pennsylvania, the only option for private-sector workers is the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) — 12 weeks off unpaid, offered to employees at companies with more than 50 workers. Additionally, employers can require employees to exhaust all sick time and vacation days before taking it, a criterion that is not required by Wagner’s policy, nor the city’s nor the county’s.

“Then there’s no time for follow-up doctor appointments or future sick days [upon return], and it makes life difficult for families,” City Councilor Rudiak says.

“We want to be as forward-thinking and progressive as possible.” She also says the city chose the six-week timeline because daycares do not accept newborns before that age.

“Pennsylvania doesn’t really do much beyond what federal law requires, and beyond extended benefits for some state workers,” says Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. Her organization gave Pennsylvania a grade of D on its report about the 50 states’ family-leave policies.

The commonwealth’s 73,000 workers do not receive paid leave, but can take six months unpaid while keeping their benefits, a policy that was implemented in 2007.

Starting this spring, under a new Philadelphia law, companies with 10 or more employees will have to provide paid sick leave under new legislation. Employees earn one hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked.

Rudiak says that Pittsburgh City Council cannot pass such legislation due to a 2009 Supreme Court ruling that basically decided that the city cannot govern certain personnel issues of private businesses.

The issue is also being debated on the national stage. The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, which would be a national insurance leave program under Social Security — was introduced in 2013

by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), but remains in committee.

As for increasing family-leave benefits locally, Rudiak says, “When Pittsburgh leads, the region follows,” and she applauded the county’s policy that followed suit. “I hope private industry follows.”

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Two thieves broke into a closed casino in Calgary, Alberta, and made off with an ATM. Security footage shows the two masked crooks loading the machine onto a dolly and wheeling it to their vehicle. On the way, it toppled onto one of the thieves, but they loaded it and made their escape. “There’s no money in the machine,” Staff Sgt. Travis Baker said, explaining that ATMs are unloaded several times daily and at the end of the business day. Noting that stealing ATMs requires heavy lifting and then “tools like grinders, axes and chisels” to break through to the cash box, Baker called it “a very ineffective way to make a living.” (Canada’s National Post)

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When Joseph Carannante, 21, built a gun range in his yard in a St. Petersburg, Fla., community, neighbors complained that he was putting everyone, especially children, in danger. Police said it’s legal. “I don’t want to hurt anybody,” Carannante explained. “I just want to use this as my enjoyment. I don’t want to have to go to a gun range, when I can just go outside my door.” He promised to alert neighbors whenever he intends on firing his 9 mm pistol. (Tampa’s WFLA-TV)

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Location: Stanwix activities Street. Free, RSVP to (412) 391-2060 x237 or on-line at Additional11outreach will be posted at marketsquarepublicart.com www.publicartpittsburgh.org throughout the run of the installation.

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Investigators concluded that the crash of a single-engine aircraft near Watkins, Colo., was caused by the pilot photographing himself and his passenger and becoming disoriented by the camera flash. “It is likely that cellphone use during the accident flight distracted the pilot and contributed to the development of spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control,” the National Transportation Safety Board report said. Explaining the NTSB is seeing “more and more” distractions from personal devices in all forms of transportation, board official Keith Holloway said, “But the self-photographs in an airplane, that’s something new for us.”

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Moving beyond social media, people are taking grievances to the skies by hiring airplanes to tow banners announcing their stance. Recent targets in New York City have been the mayor, including one calling for his resignation, and the general manager of the New York Jets (“Jets: Rebuilding Since 1969”). A banner costs $1,000 for a twoand-a-half-hour ride over the Hudson River.

Ashley Chalmers, whose Jersey Shore Aerial Advertising flew the anti-mayor and anti-Jets banners, said he never takes sides: “I’m just the messenger.” (The New York Times)

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a tandem jump. Six crewmembers jumped with the six passengers strapped to them as planned, followed by the pilot. All landed safely. (BBC News)

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Air-traffic control officials received reports of 193 incidents of “drone misbehavior” in 2014, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Several were close calls involving aircraft with people on board, including one pilot who had to take evasive action above Oklahoma City when a 2-foot-wide drone came within 10 feet of his plane at 4,800 feet. Some incidents involved drones flying as high as 15,000 feet.

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Cleaning crews at Indian government buildings in New Delhi are switching to a new cleaning liquid derived from cow urine, which is in abundant supply and whose antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties make it possible to avoid using synthetic products.

The product, named Gaunyle, also contains neem (oil extracted from a pine tree) and pine scent and costs about the same as conventional cleaners. “It is a win-win situation for us,” said Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi, who came up with the idea. “No harm to janitors by way of daily exposure to chemicals, and cows will be valued more.” Buoyed by the product’s acceptance, Anuradha Modi, who heads the Holy Cow Foundation, which supplies Gaunyle, said her organization is looking for other ways to market the “piles of cow dung and cow urine” that go to waste in India. (India’s The Economic Times)

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Dwayne Jackson, 48, forced his way into a home in Ewing, N.J., found a spatula in a kitchen drawer and tried to slit his throat with it. When that failed, police Capt. Rocco Maruca said, Jackson used a butcher’s knife to stab himself in the stomach. At that point, the 76-year-old homeowner appeared with a loaded .357 handgun, which Jackson wrestled away from him and shot himself in the face.

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Ottawa firefighters responding to an alarm at the construction site of one of the Canadian government’s most secret installations discovered an “extreme vulnerability” that allowed them to enter the $800 million building: a back gate secured only by a simple padlock. The small fire, caused by cans of tar and a heater left by construction workers, was quickly extinguished. Afterward, the Toronto Star requested documents pertaining to the incident, only to be told by Communications Security Establishment Canada officials that the information would make the spy agency vulnerable to “attack from a hostile entity” if it were revealed “that there is nothing but a padlock protecting our gates.” The agency then mistakenly provided all the information to the paper, including security-patrol schedules, names of CSEC employees, the number of broken surveillance cameras and other top-secret details. (The Toronto Star)

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Carnegie Mellon University Men’s Soccer program is hosting a co-ed youth soccer camp August 3-7, 9am to 3pm. Our camp is designed for soccer players of all levels from ages 5 to 14 years old.

The cost of camp includes a daily lunch in our dining hall, t-shirt, and the use of a variety of campus facilities:

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Mini-campers, ages 5 to 7, will attend the first half of camp and depart after lunch.

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The Animal Rescue League’s Wildlife Fun Camp allows kids to discover the habits of native Pennsylvania animals in an educational and engaging way. During the camp, children will have the opportunity to spend time outdoors and become

WGF’s GirlGov program kicks off with a trip to Harrisburg June 14th – June 17th. Girls entering 9th -12th grade in SW PA will learn about government, advocacy, and women’s history. They will meet women who help run the state and shadow their state legislator. Visit GirlGov.org for

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POP-UP MEALS {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} At a time when celebrity chefs are all the rage, Dinner Lab wants to introduce you to the other folks in the kitchen.

“We’re bringing in sous chefs and line cooks, the people in the kitchen whose job it is to execute someone else’s vision of what cuisine should be,” says Zach Kupperman, the co-founder of Dinner Lab, a subscription-based, pop-up restaurant venture that made its Pittsburgh launch last week. “This is an opportunity for emerging culinary talent to produce their own menus, to test out new ideas in food.

“What that means for diners is an experimental, one-of-a-kind experience.”

Dinner Lab was born in New Orleans in 2012 and is now in nearly 30 U.S. cities. Diners buy a subscription for $125 which gives them access to a website providing pricing and chef information for upcoming events — about one a week. They can buy a ticket at an all-inclusive price, usually $50-80, which includes dinner, drinks and tip; the day before the event, they receive a message disclosing the location.

“At the dinner, the kitchen is open so diners can interact with the chef, and the meal is served at long communal tables,” explains Kupperman. The venues are also out-of-the box, and have included old churches and a parking garage. Although the first dinner date has not been released, the first chef will be Mario Rodriquez, a New Jersey-based chef who specializes in Malay cuisine. www.dinnerlab.com CDEITCH@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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appeal, elevating the food at humble establishments above all other concerns, restaurateurs and diners know that a great dining room can enhance the entire dining experience.

Traditional fine dining offered one formula, with candlelight, crisp white table linens and obsequious servers in black tie. But modern tastes are more colorful, casual and quirky. For a great dining room, there is no canonical approach.

At One Thirty One East, one of a flurry of stylish new businesses on Main Street in Carnegie, the answer seems to lie in gorgeous color, a little bit of sparkle and plenty of elbow room. We understand the impulse to maximize square footage, but we appreciate a privacy buffer between our table and the next. One Thirty One accommodates this with a spacing that feels generous, even luxurious. Especially in the season of voluminous outerwear, it was great not to have to crab-step between our table and our neighbors’. We also appreciated the restrained but sophisticated color scheme,

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the deep slate blue walls with white trim and shimmering accents reminiscent of a snowy, starry night.

It was an elegant atmosphere in which to contemplate our menus, full of dishes billed as “world fusion freestyle.” This seemed to translate into a recombined panoply of global flavors and ingredients,

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CP APPROVED especially those from Asia and the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on the housemade. And if each dish seemed to have two or three ingredients too many, they did appear confidently combined.

The crispness in crispy Brussels sprouts came not from pan-fried leaves, but from “fried wontons” (actually crunchy fried

noodles) topping this decidedly Asianinflected version of this au courant dish.

Zingy ginger, sweet soy and a tiny bit of sinus-clearing wasabi added sweetness and savor to the vegetable’s distinctive flavor, muting without obliterating it.

Crispness really came into play with the flatbread, which was thin and cracker-like, with light toppings so as not to overload.

We ordered a vegetarian version with caramelized onion, apple, pear, arugula, asiago and Maytag bleu cheese. In this wonderfully autumnal combo, sweet fruit and onion played off peppery, just-wilted arugula and bold bleu, with the asiago providing a base that was sharper and nuttier than more traditional mozzarella.

Salty gravy too often overwhelms poutine, both in texture and in flavor. But One Thirty One’s lamb gravy was mild yet flavorful, and thin enough to coat the bed of classic golden-brown fries that are the base of this dish without smothering them.

Hanger steak, the simplest entrée on the menu, was a real testament to the kitchen’s prowess. This cut, while full of beefy

flavor, can tend toward chewiness or bits of gristle, but One Thirty One’s rosy pink rendition was nearly as tender as tenderloin, with a great crust and robust flavor.

Bordelaise sauce added a hint of richness.

Rosemary-and-sea-salt fries weren’t especially herbal, but as with the poutine, good, crispy-creamy fries carried this concoction.

A double-cut kurobota pork chop was glorious. The server told us the chef recommended medium, to which Jason reluctantly assented, but the chop did in fact retain some pink, and the associated juiciness. It was topped with “crispy pork belly” — not a fatty slab with thin crust, but something closer to very thick-cut bacon, without bacon’s smoky flavor, which would have competed with the chop’s. Meanwhile, the simple pan sauce made a wonderful coating for substantial little cavatelli. We don’t think “root vegetables” should really mean celery and carrots, but the wintry vegetable duo was a good enough complement.

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CORNER BARS Two popular breweries open new neighborhood outposts There are two breweries within walking distance of my house, and a half-dozen more just a short drive away. With great beer so accessible, it’s easy to forget the more far-flung options. Recent taproom openings, however, keep two of the region’s best breweries’ names in the mix.

In January, Meadville’s Voodoo Brewery opened the doors to its Homestead pub, located in the town’s former municipal building. The design of the building, which owner Jake Voelker called “one of Homestead’s most historic and monolithic structures,” smartly weaves the vibrant Voodoo brand into the space’s history, leaving intact bits of decay and nods to its fire-station past.

“WE’RE JUST EXCITED TO BRING OUR BEER TO A MARKET THAT’S ALWAYS BEEN SO GOOD TO US.”

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Paella was the only disappointment of our meal. Instead of the traditional skillet full of seafood and saffron rice, we received a small plate of the same. Though initially taken aback by the presentation, the portion size, scaled for a single diner, was fine.

More at issue were the weak flavor and small, gritty mussels. Angelique, who’d ordered this dish, looked longingly at the substantial meats on the table, lavished with seasoning and bursting with flavor, and wished she’d chosen differently.

For dessert, housemade vanilla ice cream had a grainy texture, but the flourless chocolate torte had thrown off its usual density for an airiness more reminiscent of a mousse, while still tasting intensely chocolatey.

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On tap are Voodoo’s six year-rounds and six rotating brews, including H2P, a West Coast-style IPA exclusive to this location. There is plenty more in the works for the enormous pub, including Voodoo’s very own food truck. “We’re just excited to bring our beer to a market that’s always been so good to us, and in turn help revive Homestead,” says Voelker.

Less monolithic but no less impressive, the Wild Side Pub is Full Pint’s addition to Butler Street’s beer scene. Adjacent to Wild Purveyors, in Upper Lawrenceville, the taproom features the North Versailles brewery’s flagships as well as a number of its more experimental beers, such as a milk stout aged on wormwood and a variety of sours. Food can be ordered from next door, and the menu suggests beer pairings for snacks like Wild Purveyors’ homemade pickles and local cheese plates.

Like many of the brewery’s beers, the décor is funky. Shoe stretchers, antique electric fans and little pieces of nature adorn the rough-hewn wooden walls, and the space strikes the perfect balance between Lawrenceville hip and inviting coziness.

Both spots are unique. Not quite brewpubs but certainly not typical bars, Voodoo and Full Pint are bringing their beers to a whole new audience.

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This storefront restaurant offers primarily Cambodian food alongside Thai and a limited Chinese selection, with a menu balanced between unfamiliar and familiar dishes. For less common fare, try Cambodian puffed rice squares, or saramann, cubes of chuck slow-simmered in a thick, warmly spiced coconutmilk sauce. KF

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THE BLIND PIG TAVERN. 2210 E. Carson St., South Side.

412-586-5936. This South Side bar, whose name derives from Prohibition slang, offers a satisfying, pig-centric menu of pub grub. Look for the pig in pulled-pork sliders and pepperoni rolls. Or branch out with pizza, grilled cheese sandwich (add bacon!) and other popular bar fare. Wash it all down with legal beverages. JE BRILLOBOX. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. A bar that serves well-designed retro chic with its whiskey and beer, Brillobox is (for now) the cool place to be. The menu isn’t lengthy, but it’s broad: Choose from bar staples or more inventive (and veggie-friendly) specialties such as Moroccan roasted-vegetable stew or herbed polenta wedges. JE

J.W. Hall’s Steak and Seafood Inn {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} red-sauce pasta, chops and an unusual predilection for Mornay sauce. But that’s not to say that dinner here is rote. From the fritto baguette to the rarebit-ish Chicken Wisconsin, the classics prove quite surprising. JE

trash” theme, or feel bemused at ordering sautéed shrimp and wood-grilled portabella on a faux TV-dinner tray. But there’s plenty of good vegan fare, beer and a fun filling-station-turnedrestaurant ambience. KE

DAPHNE. 5811 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-441-1130. Outside seating is a plus here, but the well-prepared Turkish food is a year-round asset. The menu is familiar — hummus, falafel, gyros, shish kebab — but the execution is notable and the flavors rich. Lamb features as sausages, chops and a burger, and grilled chicken breast doesn’t get much better than Daphne’s shish kebab. KF

D’S SIX PAX & DOGZ. 1118 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square.

412-241-4666. This established venue is known for its revered pub fries and the classic wiener with kraut (plus plenty of beer to wash it down). But don’t miss the pizza, with a top-notch crust. D’s continues to raise the preparation of salty, cheesy, fatty comfort food to an art. JE E2. 5904 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-441-1200. The popular, cozy brunch spot has expanded, adding a dinner menu that refracts traditional, Old World recipes through the prism of the contemporary American kitchen (fresh, local, seasonal). It’s as elemental as cannellini beans with red-pepper flakes, or as elaborate as seared scallops with butternut-squash mash, fried leeks and Portobello, and truffled pumpkin seeds. KF

THE CAMBOD-ICAN KITCHEN. 1701 E. Carson St., South Side.

412-381-6199. Having made the jump from street truck to modest sit-down venue, the owners retained their menu, so popular with the late-night crowd, of fresh-cooked Cambodian cuisine. Kabobs, fried wontons, chicken, shrimp cakes, curried vegetable bowls and fried noodles are among the restaurant’s staples, as is its distinctive in-house “moon sauce” and fresh limeade. JF THE CAPITAL GRILLE. 301 Fifth Ave., Downtown. 412-338-9100.

This dark, clubby restaurant excels at VIP service, and offers a menu highlighted by steaks, chops and seafood, with sophisticated but straightforward preparations such as crab cakes with added lobster, or steak encrusted in Kona coffee beans. Also, the Grille employs its own butcher (for cutting and dry-aging), and desserts are made on site. LE THE CHELSEA GRILLE. 515 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont. 412828-0570. The menu here covers mostly familiar ground, with

Himalayas {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} DELUCA’S. 2015 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-566-2195.

DeLuca’s doesn’t have the White House cachet of Pamela’s, but the portions are large and the quarters are close. On weekends, it’s one of Pittsburgh’s great gathering places. Try the “Super Bowl” omelet. J DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. 2339 E. Carson St., South Side (412-3901111) and 100 Adams Shoppes, Route 288, Mars (724-553-5212).

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HARRIS GRILL. 5747 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-362-5273.

A neighborhood bar and grill (with two outdoor patios) where fun is as important as the fresh food and the cold beer. What else to make of a place that serves “Britney Spears” (chicken tenders on a stick), Cheeses of Nazareth and The Wrongest Dessert Ever, and offers free bacon at the bar on Tuesdays? JE HIMALAYAS. 20445 Route 19, Excel Center Plaza, Cranberry.

724-779-4454. This restaurant features the cuisine of Nepal, fare influenced by neighboring India and China. Thus, expect chow mein to be flavored with subcontinental spices, and to

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There’s standard ChineseAmerican fare, but also sushi, hibachi-style Japanese cooked to order, popular offerings such as crab legs and roast Peking duck, and even frog legs. KF

OISHII BENTO. 119 Oakland Ave., Oakland. 412-687-3335. Bamboo walls and a low counter with colorful cloth cubes for seating denote a place for moderately priced Japanese food, including sushi. Oishii also adds a few Korean dishes for variety and spice; those J.W. HALL’S STEAK seeking a little heat AND SEAFOOD INN. might consider bulgogi, 2284 Broadhead oad, the Korean BBQ. JF www. per Aliquippa. 724-375a p ty pghci m 6860. This old-fashioned, THE PORCH. Schenley .co family-style steakhouse Plaza, Forbes Avenue offers a satisfying, welland Schenley Drive, executed menu of surf-and-turf Oakland. 412-687-6724. favorites, including broiled An attractive wood-and-stone shrimp appetizer, langostinos structure set in the verdant and prime rib. The menu’s heart of Oakland, The Porch emphasis on steak and seafood offers cuisine that is modern rises to special occasions, while without being stark, homey plenty of pasta dishes, sandwiches without being heavy. Consider and pub-style appetizers a pizza dressed with butternut accommodate regulars. LE squash, pork belly atop roasted pumpkin, or lasagne with LA PALAPA. 1925 E. Carson house-made chive pasta. KE St., South Side. 412-586-7015 or 412-586-4943. Among the basic TASTE OF INDIA. 4320 Penn offerings at this bright, colorful Ave., Bloomfield. 412-681-7700. storefront Mexican restaurant — Yogi Berra groused about the tamales, nachos, tacos, enchiladas restaurant nobody went to — — there is other less familiar because it was always too fare, such as a squid and shrimp crowded. Taste of India is the salad. And the staple dishes excel opposite: Everyone goes there with the inclusion of expertly partly because you can always cooked meats, which are moist get a table. The atmosphere is and flavorful. KF almost surreally quiet, but the food is consistently good (try LULA. 515 Broad St., Sewickley. the paneer). Portions are ample, 412-749-1200. Seating at this prices reasonable. JE informal tapas bar is loungestyle indoors, and in warm YAMA. 538 Third St., Beaver. weather, along the sidewalk at 724-774-5998. This Japanese café tables. The menu, which also restaurant offers familiar favorites offers a few entrees, is eclectic, such as tempura, sushi and and suggestive of Mediterranean teriyaki, but takes an artistic cafés, with plenty of seafood, approach to authentic cuisine. cured meats, cheeses and seasonal Thus fried gyoza dumplings are produce. Portions are adequate garnished with a small tumblefor sharing, if you can bear to weed of finely grated carrot, and part with, say, asparagus spears an octopus salad is graced with wrapped in ham. KE cucumber matchsticks. KF

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POP PIONEER Hannah Jenkins didn’t even tell her parents that she was trying to secure a recording contract.

Keeping it between her roommates and older sister, Jenkins quietly submitted three of her original songs for consideration to Pioneer Records, a brand-new record label run by Point Park’s Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management (SAEM) program. Once Jenkins heard that she edged out two other finalists to become Pioneer’s first signee, she called her mother a few minutes before going to work to share the good news.

“She had so many questions, but I couldn’t even tell her, because I had to go to work,” says Jenkins, a 19-year-old Point Park marketing major.

This April, Jenkins’ at-home project will become a tangible reality when Pioneer releases 300 copies of her yet-to-be-titled debut EP on CD, and hosts an outdoor release performance on campus. Since Jenkins won the competition late last year, students in the SAEM program have been working on a strategy to market and distribute her record.

While students are highly involved in the business end, Point Park has enlisted professional help for the recording process: Jesse Naus, owner and head engineer of Red Caiman, has recorded Jenkins at his commercial Uptown studio. In addition to bringing together a full band to complement Jenkins’ raw, acoustic songs, Naus has helped Jenkins incorporate some fundamentals — like using a metronome — into her playing.

Jenkins’ reference points fit nicely into pop’s current obsession with folky singer-songwriters who ooze tasteful amounts of heartbreak. She cites Stevie Nicks, Sara Bareilles and, especially, Ed Sheeran (“If I could be the female version of him, I would be”) as her primary influences, and promises that early tracks will place a strong emphasis on storytelling.

But even if a recording career doesn’t ultimately pan out for Jenkins, she already has a backup plan: marketing for music. She acknowledges that the creative side can be “a hard business to get into,” so by majoring in SAEM, Jenkins is prepared to enter the music industry in another capacity.

“If I’m not the one singing or producing music, I want to still be around it and help other people,” Jenkins explains.

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OME OF Harrison Wargo’s musical influences are obvious. “I found Daft Punk’s Discovery and it sounded so magical and different,” recalls Wargo, who will bring his project, Badboxes, to the Brillobox stage March 10. “They were the first band that I found that was all mine.”

The Daft Punk sound — with its electronic and house-style grooves — factors heavily into Wargo’s work. But then there’s that other obvious element — smooth, catchy hip-hop loops reminiscent of ’90s producers like Timbaland. That didn’t come from an obvious source.

“The hip-hop influence comes from my sister,” he explains. “She … was really into ’90s hip hop. She would ride me to drum lessons and play Missy Elliot — all that Timbaland stuff. The dynamics were amazing.”

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instrument, his parents supported any extra instrument that the young Harrison, now 24, found interesting.

“My parents were amazing, they were like, ‘You want to play cello? OK, here are cello lessons.’”

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He’s come a long way from those early lessons. Wargo has toured with multiple pop-punk outfits, released two albums with Badboxes, and now works professionally as a studio engineer. It’s a vocation born of his personal frustrations with scheduling and paying for studio time.

“I was tired of having to pay to re-

cord ideas,” admits Wargo, “So, I got into Garage Band and that gave way to Logic, and I started to really pay attention to the software and became obsessed with making music with a computer — you can do anything you want when your instrument is a computer.”

Wargo’s studio work captured the attention of E. Dan, founder and owner of Pittsburgh’s ID Labs. The two recently coproduced the official remix of Fall Out Boy’s “Uma Thurman,” featuring Wiz Khalifa.

“There is such a huge amount of respect I have for what ID Labs is doing,” Wargo says. “Collaboration is my favorite way to work.”

That project was turned around quickly, he adds, something he’s not used to doing as a studio engineer for other people’s work.

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for weeks, but I’ve found that I like that stuff less — I think it gets worse the longer I work on it.”

The professionalism and quality of Wargo’s songwriting is reason enough to give Badboxes a thorough listen, but his philosophy — quite refined for someone in his mid-20s — should also be noted. Relationships, sex, drug use and wrestling with inner demons are focal points. The name Badboxes is a reference to the metaphorical and physical places we store the bad things in our life. While Wargo does all his recording, including mixing and mastering, he uses a rotating crew for live performances.

Currently he enlists the services of Punchline drummer Cory Muro for the live set.

Badboxes debuted in February 2013 with the EP, JSMN — the poppy antecedent to Violet, which was released last Halloween. Both reflect the painstaking care Wargo puts into his craft as he carefully juxtaposes the aura of the instrumentation with the emotion of the lyrics. For example, JSMN balances bright melodies with stygian lyrical concepts. Violet is the opposite, with its dark and epic instrumentation supporting the rather lighthearted subject matter of the lyrics. The two albums stand almost as mirror images of each other.

“The epic darkness [of Violet] was the result of what’s going on in the world. On a subconscious level it makes its way into your project,” Wargo explains. “But lyrically, Violet was lighthearted because of what was going on in my personal life. I was happy and I didn’t feel the need to rip those deep, dark lyrics out because they just weren’t there.”

Despite the lightheartedness in both soundscape and lyrics, there still exists a through line of tenebrous material in Wargo’s writing.

“I think a lot of people inherently have a lot of dark demons,” he says. “People experience a lot of what they don’t talk about. This is very interesting to me. … We live in a culture that can be very hard on people, especially artists. We so often need to tweak ourselves in order to fit into a certain category.”

The professionalism of Badboxes’ debut, JSMN, showcases a rare confidence, which Wargo asserts comes from many attempts and many failures. Though Badboxes seems quite a departure from those early punk bands, the confidence gleaned from years of recording, playing live and touring have remained.

“Touring taught me a lot, but it was the sitting in a Starbucks for four hours waiting to play that [caused] the reflection necessary for confidence,” Wargo says. “You have a lot of time to think — you do it for a lot of years and eventually you start to notice that you’re getting better.”

Formerly based in Pittsburgh, Greg Hoy moved to New York in the mid-’90s, and later to San Francisco. His last release, Hair of the Mouth, was pure Pittsburgh, inspired by the music Hoy grew up listening to on WDVE. This time around, he retains some of the swagger of that record — channeling the likes of Joe Walsh and Mudhoney — but The 21 Day Myth is more college radio than classic rock. In this case, the goal was to write, record and upload 21 songs in as many days. Though he didn’t make it to 21, the collection sprawls in a way that evokes the up-all-night stream-ofconsciousness of Guided by Voices. It’s a lot, but solid songwriting and lots of variety keeps things interesting.

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Your interest in Bare Wire and Water in particular and this local three-piece in general may be determined by your feelings — musically, not personally — about Thurston Moore. This isn’t a Sonic Youth rip-off, despite the “Dirty Boots” vibes of the EP’s opening track “Everything and Everything.”

But singer/guitarist Todd Thomas is Moore’s vocal doppelganger — think of Sonic Youth’s cover of the Beach Boys’ “I Know There’s an Answer,” and you get the idea.

However, on the record’s best track, “Go Away From My Door,” Thomas gets in touch with his inner Neil Diamond, circa “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon.” More of that, please.

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HEAVY CONTROL {BY MARGARET WELSH} WHEN IT COMES to his music, Enabler’s Jeff Lohrber does pretty much whatever he wants. That’s one of the perks of being the band’s only consistent member.

Lohrber started the metallic hardcore project in 2009 as a personal venture, devoting whatever free time he had from playing drums in other bands, including the Harlots, a grind-core outfit from Dayton, Ohio, and Today Is the Day, an eclectic noise-core band out of Nashville.

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“I decided I would like to play guitar and sing in a band, and make that band an actual reality. And since then,” Lohrber says, with a slight hint of surprise, “it’s gone pretty far.”

Enabler’s revolving-door lineup — which has featured members of Milwaukee hardcore band Abaddon and, to the misplaced chagrin of some, Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy — allows Lohber optimal creative control. It also makes room for an impressive level of productivity.

“The songs get written very fast,” he says. “If I think something’s a good idea, I just go for it.” That’s not to say that Lohrber is a tyrant; band members are invited to add their own special touches. But ultimately, the songs remain the songs.

“I just kind of work, like, ‘Well, I want

to do this and if I [want to write] this kind of music, this is what I’m going to do. And if you don’t want to be here, that’s fine. If you want to be here, let’s fucking do it,’” he explains.

Audiences, however, don’t always seem to know what to make of the setup. “I think that it confuses people,” he says. “Most times when people come see the band, there’s a different face.

My mentality is, if you don’t like the band because someone isn’t there, you didn’t like the band in the first place, because it sounds exactly the same. When I eat, I like my food for how it tastes, not how it looks.”

The current touring lineup includes Frank Godla of Meek Is Murder on drums and Error Records owner Nathan Landolt on bass. But for the next record, slated for a summer release, Lohrber jettisoned the band entirely, recording all of the instrumentation himself with the help of producer Greg Thomas. On this record, the songwriting was inspired by major life changes —like a move from Milwaukee to his home state of Ohio — and recent extensive tours with NOLA sludge legends Eyehategod: “That kind of kicked me in the ass, like, ‘I want to write some fucking heavy, heavy songs.”

Lohrber also found new inspiration from bands like Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy and the Ramones. “I think it’s going to be a really adventurous record for people who are into this band, who are into this kind of music,” he says. “It’s kind of a melting pot of everything I love about heavy music.” While there might be a rock ’n’ roll twist, he adds, “It’s still fucking harsh. It’s still as heavy as we can possibly be. It’s never going to lose that edge.”

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Perhaps inspired by former producer El-P’s wildly successful Run the Jewels, Cannibal Ox is coming back to an awfully welcoming environment for underground rap duos. Its first album in 14 years, Blade of the Ronin, had been in limbo for a few years before its release this week. Following the highly esteemed debut The Cold Vein is no small task, but Can Ox has enlisted MF Doom, U-God, Elzhi and more to fill out Blade. Although they haven’t released an album in 14 years, Vast Aire and Vordul Mega have toured on and off in the meantime (including a 2013 Pittsburgh stop at Belvedere’s). Can Ox plays Mr. Small’s tonight with Crimson Godz, Dos Noun & BZE, Hubbs and Fortified Phonetx.

Shawn Cooke 8:30 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15.

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[ELECTRONIC] + TUE., MARCH 10 Although nobody said his name during the show, Cashmere Cat was involved with a major moment of the recent Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special. It was Kanye West, Sia and Vic Mensa onstage, but they were debuting the Cashmereproduced “Wolves” — the first track on West’s forthcoming album. The performance was a recent peak in Cashmere’s ascent to producer stardom, which has also included production credit on Charli XCX’s “Break the Rules” and Ariana Grande’s My Everything. He plays a pair of shows tonight, opening for Grande at the Petersen Events Center and doing a headlining gig at the Rex Theater with Le Moti and

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[ROCK] + TUE., MARCH 10 He’s traveled far from his punk-forefather roots with The Modern Lovers, but Jonathan Richman has stuck with what made him a more recognizable face — playing with drummer Tommy Larkins. Richman’s profile rose to new heights in the comedy There’s Something About Mary, when he played in a Greek Cashmere chorus duo with Cat Larkins. It’s uncertain if they’ll break out any of that plot narration tonight at Mr. Small’s, but it’ll certainly be an easygoing, joke-filled acoustic show. SC 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15.

412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

[FOLK] + TUE., MARCH 10 Few artists have been as prolific in recent years as Charlie Parr — in any genre. He’s preparing to release his fifth album in the last five years, Stumpjumper, this April, and it’s a change of pace on several accounts.

Not only is it his first full-length with Red House Records, but it’s also Parr’s first solo album with a backing band. Lead single “Over the Red Cedar” suggests that his brand of bluesy folk won’t become any less personal or immediate with a band. Fellow roots-man JD Wilkes will open tonight at Club Café.

SC 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $12.

412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com

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{ALL LISTINGS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 9 A.M. FRIDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION}

ROCK/POP THU 05 ALTAR BAR. Mod Sun. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Ellis Paul.

South Side. 866-468-3401.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Lights, X Ambassadors. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Pink Talking Fish, Mister F. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

FRI 06 ALTAR BAR. Suicide Silence, Emmure, Within The Ruins, Fit For An Autopsy. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

BIG MIKE’S TAVERN. Ridgemont High. Etna.

412-784-1940.

CLUB CAFE. Ben Shannon, Robby Hecht, Caroline Spence.

South Side. 866-468-3401.

FRIDAY FAITH CAFE. The Chrisagis Brothers. Washington.

724-222-1563.

GOOSKI’S. Patton, Skycoffins, Can’t. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

LEMON TREE LOUNGE. The Dave Iglar Band. Oakdale.

724-926-9965.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Blade of the Ronin w/Crimson Godz, Dos Noun & BZE, Hubbs, Fortified PhonetX. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

PALACE THEATRE. Jefferson Starship. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

RIDGEWOOD CHURCH. S.O.G., MadeSacred, Heard Matthews Band, After the Fall. West View.

412-758-8199.

SMILING MOOSE. A Wilhelm Scream. South Side.

412-431-4668.

STAGE AE. G. Love & Special Sauce, Matt Costa. North Side.

412-229-5483.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Brewers Row w/ Nick Africano & Paul Tabachneck. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

SAT 07 BILLY’S ROADHOUSE. Still Not Sober. Wexford.

724-934-1177.

CLUB CAFE. One Sweet Burgh (Dave Matthews Tribute).

South Side. 866-468-3401.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Leftover Blue. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Red Elvises. Station Square.

412-481-7625.

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HERMINIE VFW POST 8427.

Instant Gators. 724-446-7166.

MOONDOG’S. 8th Street Rox. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. PARTYNEXTDOOR. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

OAKS THEATER. Bo Wagner w/ Jimmy Sapienza.

Tribute to Sinatra.

Oakmont. 412-828-6311.

SMILING MOOSE. Uh-Huh Baby Yeah!, Lion in the Mane, Come Summer, Dreamercatcher.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

SUN 08 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Donna O. Oakland.

412-622-3151.

CLUB CAFE. Chatham County Line. South Side.

866-468-3401.

THE DEAD HORSE CANTINA & MUSIC HALL. Tartarus, Egaility, & Dreadeth.

McKees Rocks. 412-973-3295.

THE NEW BOHEMIAN. Andre Costello & Cool Minors, Red Bells, Molly Alphabet. North Side.

412-251-6058.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. River City Extension, Air Traffic Controller, The End of America.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

MON 09 ALTAR BAR. Datsik. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

GOOSKI’S. Elder, Molasses Barge, Carousel.

Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

TUE 10 BRILLOBOX. CRUISR, BADBOXES, The Velcro Shoes.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. Charlie Parr, J.D. Wilkes. South Side.

866-468-3401.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Hypercolor, Microwaves, Billy Castle. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Jonathan Richman feat.

Tommy Larkins. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

PETERSEN EVENTS CENTER. Ariana Grande w/ Rixton.

Oakland. 412-648-3054.

SMILING MOOSE. Alcoa, Choir Vandals. South Side.

412-431-4668.

WED 11 BENEDUM CENTER. Sarah McLachlan. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

CLUB CAFE. Driftwood.

South Side. 866-468-3401.

HOWLERS COYOTE CAFE. Mouth Reader (TN), Pet Clinic, Ricky Steece, Charmaine Evonne, Thousandzz of Beez. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

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BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2555.

CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood.

412-969-0260.

CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

BRILLOBOX. PANDEMIC: Globa Dancehall, Cumbia, Balkan, Bhangra, Chalga, Dancehall. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Cannibal Ox w/ Crimson Godz, Dos Noun & BZE, Hubbs, Fortified PhonetX. Millvale. 866-468-3401.

THE NEW AMSTERDAM. Hank D. Lawrenceville.

412-682-6414.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

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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FRI 06 MEADOWS CASINO. Ruff Creek.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

PARK HOUSE. Slim Forsythe’s Annual Northside Irish Show.

North Side. 412-224-2273.

SAT 07 HARVEY WILNER’S. Eldorado.

West Mifflin. 412-466-1331.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Grievous Angels w/ The Mavens. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side

FRI 06 10 STRING SYMPHONY. RSVP required. Bottlebrush Gallery & Shop, Harmony.

724-452-0539.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Performing Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Part of BNY Mellon Grand Classics series. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

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William Fitzsimmons

Mr. Small’s Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale

SAT 07

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CATTIVO. Illusions w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

S BAR. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-481-7227.

TUE 10 SMILING MOOSE. DJ T-Money & Sean Martin.

Belvedere’s karaoke night.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

WED 11 SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B SAT 07 ALTAR BAR. Crizzly, Antiserum, K Theory.

Strip District. 412-263-2877.

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Beth Hart Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall

SAT 07 Night w/ the Howie Alexander Trio.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

FRI 06 ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-512-8820.

THE SPOT, ETC. Etta Cox & Al Dowe Band. Penn Hills.

412-727-2141.

TUE 10 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange Series w/ Palindromes.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. Maria Beycoates-Bey. Downtown.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE 412-512-8820.

SQUARE. Eve Goodman.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT Downtown. 412-456-6666.

THEATRE SQUARE. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Acoustic Jeremy Fisher Trio w/ Night w/ Mike & Frank.

Don Aliquo. Downtown.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

412-325-6769.

ELWOOD’S PUB. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD West Deer CHOPHOUSE BAR. Bluegrass Review.

Jerry & Louis Lucarelli, . w ww per 724-265-1181.

Vince Tagliari, a p ty ci h pg Sunny Sunseri w/ .com Peg Wilson. Strip District.

ELWOOD’S PUB. 412-281-6595.

Doc & Tina. 724-265-1181.

LITTLE E’S. Kelly Burgos, Doug Wilkins & Tommy Valentine. Downtown.

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. 412-392-2217.

Hannah & Maggie. Shadyside.

MCG @ 800 PENN AVENUE. 412-621-8008.

Kenny Barron & Cyrille Aimee.

OLIVE OR TWIST. The Vagrants.

Downtown. 412-322-0800.

Downtown. 412-255-0525.

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SAT 07 565 LIVE. The Monday Blues Review. Bellevue.

412-522-7556.

GROWN & SEXY II. Blues Orphans. Strip District.

412-728-4155.

SUN 08 THE R BAR. The Midnite Horns. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

JAZZ THU 05 ANDYS WINE BAR. Dane Vannatter. Downtown.

412-512-8820.

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EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Dr. James Johnson Jr, Pamela Johnson, Lou Schreiber, James Johnson III. North Side.

412-231-0454.

MON 09 ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Open Jazz

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SUN 08 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Performing Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Part of BNY Mellon Grand Classics series. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Performing Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony. Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Shadyside.

412-682-4300.

OTHER MUSIC FRI 06 ROCK ROOM. Rockaraoke.

Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.

SAT 07

WED 11 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Eve Goodman.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

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BACH CHOIR: LOVE KNOTS. Hill House Kaufmann Center, Hill District.

BUTLER COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Butler Intermediate High School, Butler.

724-283-1402.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Performing Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Part of BNY Mellon Grand Classics series. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

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412-461-6188.

PALACE THEATRE. Celtic Connections. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

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CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

Elemeno Pea CITY THEATRE South Side.

412-431-CITY. Tickets: citytheatrecompany.org.

Through March 22.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412206-9719. All ages show. With special guests Dillon Cooper, Blackbear, KR, Karizma, DJ Gnash. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

IN PITTSBURGH 4th Annual B*tches Ball PITTSBURGH OPERA Downtown. Tickets: animalrescue.org/b-balltickets. 5:30p.m.

Snowflakes in the Cemetery CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY’S KRESGE HALL Oakland. 412-268-2000.

Free show. Through March 7.

7:30p.m.

SUNDAY 88

G. Love & Special Sauce

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 8p.m.

Comedian Troy Davis

An Evening with Chatham County Line

River City Extension PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000. Over 21 show. Tickets: tickefly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

(As Seen on Comedy Central) TUESDAY LATITUDE 360 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555. Tickets: Charle Parr / latitude360.com/pittsburgh-pa. J.D. Wilkes Through March 7.

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ SATURDAY opusone. 8p.m.

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A Wilhelm Scream SMILING MOOSE. South Side. 412-431-4668. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

412-206-9719. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6p.m.

STAGE AE North Side. All ages show. With special guest Matt Costa. Tickets: ticketmaster. com or 800-745-3000. Doors open at 7p.m.

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Cannibal OX - Blade Lights / X Ambassadors of the Ronin MR SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. All Ages Show. Tickets: ticketweb. com/opusone or 866-4683401. 8p.m.

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Crizzly “Real Thugz Tour”

MARCH 6-7 LATITUDE 360

MR SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. Ben Shannon / Robby Hecht / Caroline 412-821-4447. All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ Spence CLUB CAFE South Side. opusone or 866-468-3401.

412-431-4950. Over 21 8:30p.m.

show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/ opusone. 7p.m.

Suicide Silence ALTAR BAR Strip District.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-206-9719. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Alcoa SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668. All ages show.

With special guest Choir Vandals. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

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EXTENDED STAY {BY AL HOFF}

THIS PLACE HARBORS FORCES WHICH HAVE DESTROYED MAN AND MONSTER ALIKE

On a short list of sequels that aren’t necessary is The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, John Madden’s followup to 2011’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. At least the title doesn’t lie: This is second best of the two.

Hotel guests: Judi Dench and Bill Nighy

Our British ex-pats have settled snugly into lively retirement in Jaipur, India, rambling about the still charmingly shabby Marigold Hotel, run by the comically frantic Sonny (Dev Patel). Plots designed to get everybody hot and bothered and up in everyone else’s business include: Sonny’s wedding; the purchase of a second hotel; a visit from a hotel reviewer; and whether a couple of the golden-agers are ever going to make their own leaps into romance.

Most of the actors from the first film reprise their roles, including Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and Celia Imrie.

Richard Gere plays a debonair American visitor, and we get a side trip to San Diego, of all places. That trip to California is about the most surprising aspect of Second Best, which remains a lightly curried, wholly predictable rom-com. (Oh, will there be a gigantic Indian wedding dance?) It does admirably depict people over 60 embracing life and its changes.

But we got all that when we checked in the first time. Starts Fri., March 6 AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

CHAPPIE In the near-future, a robot is stolen from the mechanized police force and reprogrammed to think for itself.

Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and Dev Patel star in this sci-fi thriller directed

by Neill Blomkamp (District 9).

Starts Fri., March 6.

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Beached: huge sea monsters and tiny humans

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N ITS SIMPLEST reading, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s drama Leviathan presents a contemporary version of an age-old tale: An everyman fights against the corruption of the prevailing institutions, and loses badly.

Leviathan was Russia’s entry to the best foreign film category of the 2015 Academy Awards, and it received one of the five nominations; Zvyagintsev also directed the 2003 thriller The Return.

Auto mechanic Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) lives in a rundown fishing town on Russia’s Barents Sea, and is disputing the town’s eminent-domain claim on his family property. He has recruited his old army buddy, Dimitri (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), now a Moscow lawyer, who arrives with a folder of dirt on the mayor (Roman Madyanov). Also caught in the increasingly tense, angry and booze-fueled struggle are Kolya’s wife, Lilya, (Elena Lyadova) and his teenage son.

It is a deceptively spare tale — matching the beautifully photographed, strikingly barren landscape and gray seas. This place

harbors forces which have destroyed man and monster alike, as depicted in the opening shots of the bleached-out skeletons of fishing boats and whales.

Leviathan unfolds slowly, over nearly two-and-a-half hours, with no music (save for a Philip Glass piece which bookends the film) and many scenes of silence. Yet once it finds its groove — a steady slide downward, greased with a pervasive sense of dread occasionally relieved with a bit of mordant humor — Leviathan proves gripping.

LEVIATHAN DIRECTED BY: Andrey Zvyagintsev STARRING: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov In Russian, with subtitles.

Starts Fri., March 6. Harris

CP APPROVED And for the more thoughtful viewer, there is plenty to unpack: Zvyagintsev’s film offers fodder for political allegory; for re-works of both the Old Testament’s Leviathan and Thomas Hobbes’ 17th-cen-

tury eponymous philosophical work; and for pointed critiques of powerful Russian institutions, such as church and state.

(Russia’s leaders, past and present, get a few cameos.)

Kolya has little hope against the larger forces of corruption, personified by the mayor, himself a stand-in for institutions such as government and the church.

(An opulently clothed Russian Orthodox priest takes time to assure the mayor of exactly what it is that God wants.) Kolya’s hopeful trip to court depicts an immobile judicial system, in which the rapid monotone recitation by the judge suggests a rote, mechanical procedure not open to dissent.

While Zvyagintsev’s characters fight external foes, they also flail against their own inescapable monsters — hopelessness, anger and arrogance that also drag them down as surely as any mythical sea creature. The eventual outcome can only be loss, betrayal, violence, glasses of vodka turning to bottles of vodka, and skeletons of past lives crumbling on the beach.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Ken Scott directs this comedy about a business trip to Europe that goes awry; Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson star. Starts Fri., March 6

= CITY PAPER APPROVED

NEW THIS WEEK FOCUS. “You get them to focus, and you take whatever you want.” Such is the art of the steal that veteran con man Nicky (Will Smith) explains to junior con artist Jess (Margot Robbie), whom he’s begun tutoring. Will they fall in love over pilfered watches? Likely. Will trust always be an issue? For sure. Do women need men to explain complicated stuff to them? Always. (Pay attention, ladies!)

This amiable who’s-zooming-who caper from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa is split into two chapters. The first finds our couple hard at work at a New Orleans sporting event, freeing drunk and distracted fans from their jewelry, credit cards, gadgets, wallets and so on. It’s a scary-fun tutorial through every possible terrible thing some well-organized con artist could lift from you, and you’ll surely hold your popcorn a little closer. (Real-life “gentleman thief” Apollo Robbins is an adviser to the film.)

This adventure is capped by the film’s nerviest scene, in which Nicky goes head-to-head with a high-stakes compulsive gambler (B.D. Wong) at the big game.

Then the film moves to Buenos Aires and settles in for a long con, involving Formula One racing, and every bit of it — from the are-they-or-aren’t-they romance to the various plot twists — feels a lot more contrived and a lot less zippy. Still, plenty of Focus gets by — like any good con man — on the easy charm and good looks of its stars. If you’re left a trifle unsatisfied, remember next time not

WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD. Not seeing enough zombies? Can’t wait for this summer’s Mad Max reboot? This new Australian horror comedy from Kiah Roache-Turner should hold you, as a small band of beer-drinkers armors up to face undead flesh-eaters in the bush. Head shots galore, leavened by some throwaway gags. The faced-paced film does stumble in places — there’s a kidnapping/ mad-scientist plot that doesn’t make sense, and maybe the government is up to no good? — but few people come to zombie cinema for the intricate plots. Wyrmwood does offer plenty of zombie kills, including one with a boomerang, because Australia.

10 p.m. Sat., March 7; 7 p.m. Sun., March 8; and 7:30 p.m. Tue., March 10. Hollywood (AH)

These Final Hours to get distracted upfront by shiny objects like Will Smith. (Al Hoff) THE LAZARUS EFFECT. Working in one of those horror-movie labs where the lights are mostly kept turned off, a small research team discovers a serum that will re-animate the dead. It works on a dog (with some admittedly worrisome results), so when one of the team is killed in a lab accident, an on-site re-boot seems logical. David Gelb’s film could have worked as a decent thriller, a compact survival tale of five people — one of them undead, angry and super-humanly strong — trapped in a confined

INTERNS WANTED

City Paper’s editorial team is seeking several interns for the summer.

Please send résumé, cover letter and writing samples to the appropriate editor listed below. Each internship includes a small stipend. No calls, please.

NEWS INTERN The news intern will pitch and write stories for both the print and online editions, as well as assist news reporters with research and fact-checking. Basic writing and reporting experience required. Apply to editor Charlie Deitch, cdeitch@pghcitypaper.com.

space. But instead, Lazarus is 83 minutes of jumbled set-up that goes nowhere: playing God, religion vs. science, afterlife (yes or no?), PTSD, energy transformation, corporate espionage, the pros and cons of academic research grants, a crazed dog on the loose, a wandering security guard … But then the film just stops. Seriously — nothing is resolved, except the likelihood of a sequel. But don’t be fooled by a potential re-birth: This story is DOA and beyond resurrection. (AH) THESE FINAL HOURS. So, the world’s about to end in a fiery cataclysm in a few hours — what are you going to do? That’s the set-up in writerdirector Zak Hilditch’s new drama, set in Perth, Australia. For feckless James (Nathan Phillips), the plan is to obliterate himself at a massive sex-anddrugs party, but navigating the lawless streets to get there, he winds up rescuing Rose (Angourie Rice), a young girl separated from her family. Hours then becomes a mini-road film as the pair drives around town trying to find relatives and settle their souls for the inevitable. Along the way, James does make it to the party, but the wild-and-crazy set piece with its cartoonish attendees doesn’t gel well with the film’s quieter, better material about facing a reckoning and seeking redemption. 7 and 9 p.m. Fri., March 6; 5 and 7 p.m. Sat., March 7;

MUSIC INTERN The music intern will have a working knowledge of the local music scene and assist the music editor by writing new-release reviews and previews of upcoming shows, as well as artist features. Apply to music editor Margaret Welsh, mwelsh@pghcitypaper.com.

ARTS INTERN The position is focused on reporting and writing about local people, performances, artworks and events, in fields including but not limited to theater, visual art, literature, dance, comedy, and film and video. Apply to arts editor Bill O’Driscoll, driscoll@pghcitypaper.com.

PHOTO INTERN The photo intern will work for both City Paper’s print edition and its promotions department.

We are looking for a photographer with an artistic eye who can tell a story through images.

Editorial work will include shooting assignments to supplement the paper’s news and arts coverage. Promotions duties include taking photos at City Paper-sponsored events.

Weekend availability is required. Apply to editor Charlie Deitch, cdeitch@pghcitypaper.com.

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ROW HOUSE CINEMA. Victorious Villains.

Braveheart (Mel Gibson leads a Scottish uprising in this 1995 historical actioner), March 4. The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey stars in this twisty-turny crime thriller from 1995), March 4-5. Rocky (underdog takes on the champ in Sylvester Stallone’s low-key, bittersweet boxing film from 1976), March 4-5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991 cat-and-mouse thriller pairs FBI agent with serial killer; filmed in Pittsburgh), March 5. Movies That Rock. Almost Famous (2000 semi-autobiographical tale about a teenage journalist traveling with the band), March 6-8 and March 10-12.

The Blues Brothers (1980 musical comedy, adapted from Dan Aykroyd-John Belushi SNL skit), March 6-11. Sid & Nancy (1986 docudrama recounts the destructive relationship of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen), March 6-12. This Is Spinal Tap (classic mockumentary from 1984), March 6-9 and March 12. Call or see website for times and complete listings. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5-9.

412-904-3225 or www.rowhousecinema.com THE DARK CRYSTAL. A thousand years ago on another planet, a group of peaceful wizards hopes to locate a magical crystal, the source of power for their evil birdlike dragon overlords. This oddball 1982 fantasy adventure, peopled by puppets and animatronic creatures, is from Jim Henson and his character factory. (See also: The Muppets.) 7:30 p.m.

Wed., March 4. AMC Loews. $5 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Jack Nicholson stars in Milos Forman’s 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel. A rebellious man thinks he can cheat the criminal-justice system by pleading insanity and serving time at a mental institution. But things — including an insurrection against the asylum’s

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Film by Elias Kurlfink at Film Kitchen dictatorial Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) — don’t go as well as he hoped. 7 p.m. Thu., March 5. Melwood TRAIL RUNNING FILM FESTIVAL. This program of documentary films celebrates running on trails, often through some pretty nice scenery, as in the featurelength The Long Haul: John Muir Trail. Also screening are these short films: “The Crossing,” “2014 Gorge Waterfalls 50K,” “Around Patagonia,” “100 Miles High” and “Depressions.” See www.trailfilmfest.com for complete film descriptions. 6 p.m. Fri., March 6.

Hollywood. $15 DIVIDED TIME. “Do I even want to rhyme anymore? … I gotta change a diaper.” In this hour-long documentary from William Feagins about aspiring rappers caught between music and fatherhood, sometimes the choice is that sharp. But for most of these men, embracing the responsibilities of fatherhood is something they seek to balance with their creative sides. Still, they note that the more carefree lifestyle they once enjoyed isn’t so compatible with what parenthood demands: stability, steady finances, being available. Among the independent artists interviewed are Damaja D, Stanza, Snub Zero and Arablak, and the film includes performance footage as well. The film was recently accepted into the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival. Feagins, a former Pittsburgh resident now based in Atlanta, will present the film, and also screen a short film, “Underexposed: Indie Hip Hop in Atlanta.” 5 p.m. Sat., March 7. Row House Cinema, Lawrenceville. $6

curated by Matthew Day, also includes four short (and mostly silly) music videos by Pittsburgh-based artist Unfinished Symphonies: the comedy rock of “blowjob,” the quirk-pop of “Don’t Package the Peas,” spoken-word experiment “the black lodge,” and rock spoof “Catnip for the Ladies” (complete with faux British accent). All three filmmakers will attend for a Q&A session. 8 p.m. Tue., March 10 (7 p.m. reception). Melwood (Bill O’Driscoll) BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. In Stephen Herek’s 1989 comedy, two student doofuses (Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter) show how to ace history class – by building a time machine and checking out the past in person. 7:30 p.m. Wed., March 11. AMC Loews. $5

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. In this 1934 romantic comedy from Frank Capra, a news reporter (Clark Gable) pursues a runaway rich girl (Claudette Colbert) through Depression-era America. Times grow so lean that the mismatched pair are forced to chastely share a motel room (separated by a hanging blanket, or “the Wall of Jericho”), but you won’t surprised to learn that they transcend their differences. The film continues a month-long, Sunday-night series of digitally restored Capra films. 8 p.m. Sun., March 8.

Regent Square FILM KITCHEN. The monthly series features short work by three local or independent artists. A highlight is Elias Kurlfink’s “The Gospel of Ernie,” a lively, inventive farce about the fate of a stridently atheist TV talk-show host after God proves his own existence; the skilled cast features top local stage actor Tony Bingham as Ernie. Also, Ohio-based Holly Hey screens “Bread Elegant,” a documentary in which a college professor committed to baking and sustainable food systems tells his story and builds an outdoor brick oven. And in Hey’s diaristic, 21-minute “The dum dum capital of the world,” the filmmaker and her partner discuss their lives in rural Ohio, and a death and a birth, exploring themes of “landscape, home, memory, queerness and time.” The hour-long Film Kitchen program,

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“IT’S THE CLOSEST THING HE LEFT US TO A MEMOIR.”

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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents PBT PREMIERES 8 p.m. Fri., March 6; 8 p.m. Sat., March 7; and 2 p.m. Sun., March 8. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $27-107. 412-456-6666 or www.pbt.org

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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Julia Erickson and Robert Moore in Jiří Kylián’s “Petite Mort”{PHOTO COURTESY OF DUANE RIEDER}

If Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s 45th-anniversary season were wine, it would be a vintage year: Every production is a most desirable bottle, none more so than PBT Premieres, to be performed with the PBT Orchestra, March 6-8 at the Benedum Center.

The program of three masterworks by three choreographic giants ranks among artistic director Terrence Orr’s finest offerings in the 18 years he has led the company.

It opens with Jerome Robbins’ comedic gem “The Concert (OR, THE PERILS OF EVERYBODY), A Charade in One Act” (1956). Set to music by Chopin, performed live by pianist Yoland Collin, the 26-minute ballet for 21 dancers sends up the concert-going experience. From patron discomforts and the fantasies of a hen-pecked husband to some hilariously absurd bits, the ballet taps into Robbins’ experience with comedic vaudeville. “It’s a ballet you cannot not enjoy,” says Kipling Houston, a répétiteur of the ballet for the Jerome Robbins Foundation, by phone from New York.

“It’s very clever,” says second-year company dancer Hannah Carter. At the 8 p.m. performance on March 8, the 23-year-old from Essex, England, dances the role of the “Dingbat,” whose every move goes humorously wrong.

Next, the company performs Ji i Kylián’s “Petite Mort” (1991), one of contemporary ballet’s most famous works. The 17-minute ballet for six men, six women and six fencing foils, set to music by Mozart, is an “erotic work,” says Roslyn Anderson, rehearsal director for Kylián Productions, who staged the work for PBT. “Petite Mort” (“little death”) is a euphemism for orgasm. The dancers wear skimpy, flesh-colored costumes, and the men use the foils as extensions of their manhood, partnering them as they would the women dancers.

“The work has an elegance to it,” says Anderson. “There is nothing crude or vulgar about it. The dancing is very subtle, delicate and sensual.”

The program will conclude with Mark Morris’ “Sandpaper Ballet” (1999), set to music by American composer Leroy Anderson, including his familiar “The Typewriter” and “The Syncopated Clock.”

Répétiteur Tina Fehlandt, speaking by phone from New York, says that the 30-minute ballet for 25 dancers “is a big, celebratory work” that humorously plays with rhythm.

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HE LATE August Wilson’s legacy is secure. But there’s one last piece of it that the towering playwright’s hometown has yet to experience.

How I Learned What I Learned is the one-man show Wilson himself performed for a couple of years before his death. It’s standup memoir, mostly about his artistic formative years as a young poet living in the Hill District, confronting racism and working odd jobs around town. Pittsburgh Public Theater’s staging of this Pittsburgh premiere, with actor Eugene Lee, is a homecoming on several levels: Director Todd Kreidler says that the seed of Wilson’s final play were sown in the concrete right outside the Public’s own O’Reilly Theater.

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Director Todd Kreidler (left) and actor Eugene Lee on the set of the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of How I Learned What I Learned

It was 1999. Wilson had left Pittsburgh two decades earlier, and was now a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. He was back to stage the world premiere of King Hedley II, the latest in his monumental 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle that includes Fences and The Piano Lesson. Kreidler,

HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED March 5-April 5. Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15-62. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org

meanwhile, was a young Public staffer who got to trading life stories with Wilson one day on break during rehearsals.

Wilson would eventually hire Kreidler, a Duquesne University grad who grew up near Vandergrift, as his assistant.

Kreidler says that impromptu storytelling session helped inspire Wilson, by then living in Seattle, to envision a monologue he initially called I’m Not Spalding Gray (after the famed monologist). He toyed with the alternate titles Move Over, Chris Rock and, provocatively, Sambo Takes on the World, before settling on How I Learned What I Learned. The show, with Kreidler directing, premiered at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2003 and was performed around the country.

When Wilson died, in 2005, at age 60, he left Kreidler to continue the show with an actor in his place.

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When How I Learned reached offBroadway, in 2013, starring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, it took audiences on a raconteur’s companionable, episodic yet incisive ramble through Wilson’s racially segregated Pittsburgh of the 1950s and ’60s. “My ancestors have been in America since the early 17th century, and for the first 244 years, we never had a problem finding a job,” the Wilson character begins, wryly. He recalls quitting high school — and more than one job — because of racism. But he also bemusedly delineates experiences from his first kiss to his dangerous affair with a married woman.

And he sketches the scene in the still-thriving Hill, where fascinating characters roamed the streets and bars — and where, one night, John Coltrane played loudly enough to serenade a sidewalk audience who couldn’t afford entry to the famed Crawford Grill.

Friends of Wilson’s love to mimic the playwright’s raspy voice. But while Lee, a veteran playwright and stage, film and TV actor, did How I Learned last year at At-

lanta’s True Colors Theatre, don’t expect any August Wilson impersonations at the Public. “We’re not trying to recreate him,” says Kreidler. “We’re trying to coax or conjure him idler through the stories. It’s AuTodd Krene Lee e g u E gust’s stories that live on.” and ing on keep son’s What will audiences get Wil t s u g u A from the play that’s not in t www. rk alive aaper o w August Wilson: The Ground pghcityp on Which I Stand, the new .com 90-minute PBS American Masters documentary?

“This takes a closer and deeper look at the 20-year-old poet,” says Lee. “[Wilson’s] exploration on the page is always, ‘Where do the ideas and the attitudes of his characters come from?’ This is an opportunity to see, ‘Where do the ideas and attitudes of August Wilson come from?’” says Kreidler. “It’s a gold mine. … It’s the closest thing he left us to a memoir.”

The play’s staging here is especially important for local artists whom WilAugust Wilson on an early set for How son influenced. Mark Clayton Southers, I Learned What I Learned for instance, was first drawn to theater

“THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE, ‘WHERE DO THE IDEAS AND ATTITUDES OF AUGUST WILSON COME FROM?’”

by Kuntu Repertory Theatre’s 1984 staging of Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

In 1998, the fledgling playwright met and studied under Wilson. That fall, at his home in Schenley Heights, Southers founded a play-reading group for Wilson’s plays by local actors. One night, when they planned to read Jitney, Wilson himself phoned to ask if he could join them.

Southers didn’t say no. He speculates that Wilson thought, “They’re reading one of my plays in the Hill. I have to be there.”

In 2003, inspired by Wilson, Southers founded Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. to showcase local talent. The troupe has produced Wilson’s entire Pittsburgh Cycle (it’s staging Fences again in May) and Southers is in demand around the country as a director of Wilson’s plays.

“He was a great guy,” says Southers. “I miss him.”

Kreidler acknowledges the pressure of doing How I Learned in Pittsburgh.

“Eugene and I have discovered from the first day [of rehearsal] how special it is to do this here,” says the director, who is based in Vandergrift with his wife, Erin Annarella, and 2-year-old son, Evan August. “We’re bringing this home.”

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NO-FLY ZONE {BY TED HOOVER} SEVEN YEARS AGO, there was a rapturously reviewed Broadway revival of a ’60s French sex farce called Boeing Boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, in a translation by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans.

It’s about Bernard, a man who is juggling three stewardesses, and how everything gets messed up when an old school chum, Robert, stops by for a visit.

After seeing the current Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret production, I’m wondering whether I’ve lost my mind. Instead of being swept away, I left the theater dispirited and disgusted.

Yes, I know these sorts of plays are meant as nothing more than a bit of cheeky fun. And at their best, there is a certain pleasure to be had from the clockwork precision of the slamming doors and mounting hysteria. (None of which, by the way, Boeing Boeing possesses.)

What irritates me about sex farces, however, is the way the playwright titillates an audience with the illicit tingle of infidelity but then, in the last five minutes, transforms the cad into a loving, monogamous husband. Boeing Boeing follows the same path … and the transformation here is especially eyerolling, happening as it does in less than three seconds.

But mostly I dislike the genre because of its view of women, presented as little more than tissues to be discarded once the man has done his business in them.

Boeing Boeing is especially guilty in this regard: Bernard is unbelievably demeaning and selfish in his treatment of the

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Conor McCanlus and Amanda Pulcini in CLO Cabaret’s Boeing Boeing

stewardesses. Yes, it’s just a silly comedy.

But in order for the jokes to work, you need to have a specific opinion about women … which I do not.

BOEING BOEING continues through April 26. The Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $34.75-39.75. 412-325-6766 or www.clocabaret.com

Part of my reaction might be based on this by-the-numbers CLO produc-

tion, directed by Van Kaplan. The actors, a hard-working cast to be sure, led by Tony Bingham and Connor McCanlus, say their lines and hit their marks with verve. But the show never really catches fire; that foreboding sense of the impending discovery of Bernard’s chicanery fails to gather.

On the plus side, set designer Tony Ferrieri has created the fantastic 1960s swingin’ bachelor apartment. If he could only get the tenant to move out.

band and father haunts the family home in more ways than one, and the play becomes an exercise in gradually dismantling 19th-century mores as Ibsen incinerates orphanages (and the reputations of honorable men).

The play’s offensiveness — the main root of which was found in its onstage discussion of syphilis — has mostly been left behind. But at Off the Wall, as directed by Simm Landres, Ghosts still manages to be an open sore of emotional unreserve.

This is largely due to the acting. Virginia Wall Gruenert is at the center as the matriarchal Helene. Helene is willful and decisive, but as the play unravels, so does her resolve. Fortunately, Gruenert oscillates between repression and effusion effectively as the walls burn down around her (some of them literally).

Other characters as written leave something to be desired. But this doesn’t stop the actors. Sarah Silk particularly shines as Regina, a young maid who is subject to the whims of just about everyone around her. Silk takes the little agency Regina is granted and makes it resonate, exuding the hope, naiveté and skepticism of a life lived in subservience.

In its original Danish, “ghosts” is “gengangere,” a word which signifies more than the empty apparitions of its counterpart in English. It refers to the return of someone who has left, not just in a physical or paranormal sense. It’s about the legacy of the dead, even if it’s one of depravity and neglect. While the loneliness of the play’s title befits the bleakness of the production, at Off the Wall, Ghosts might not be the perfect word — here, it seems, the dead never left in the first place.

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{BY TYLER PLOSIA} LIKE MANY Ibsen plays, Ghosts was con-

troversial when it was first produced.

After its London premiere, in 1891, The Daily Telegraph called it “an open drain: a loathsome sore unbandaged; a dirty act done publicly.”

GHOSTS continues through March 14. Off the Wall Theater, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $5-35.

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WHILE I CERTAINLY enjoyed Point Park’s Conservatory Theatre production of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend, and the excessively talented cast, I’d suggest a warning on the poster: “For Musical-Comedy Fans Only.”

The work was written in 1954 as an homage to musicals from the 1920s, and I salute Wilson’s saluting Rodgers & Hart, Porter, Kern, etc. But I’ll also say that ’20s musicals aren’t exactly known for the, um, depth of their dramaturgy.

The Boy Friend takes that and runs with it. Set in a French finishing school, the show asks us to follow Polly Browne: She’s rich but she’s sad, too, because her father won’t allow her to date. Would you be surprised to hear that she falls in love

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with a penniless delivery boy? Would you be surprised to learn heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only pretending to be poor? Would it shock you when Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart is melted by love?

Maybe the question should be: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Would you care?â&#x20AC;? I think I speak for most when I say no. What do I care about, however, is this energetic, entertaining production, directed with enormous vigor by Jack Allison and choreographed with eye-popping pizzazz by Eileen Grace.

Kristin Serafini and Michael J. Brown frolic in Point Park Conservatoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Boy Friend

True, Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs are largely forgettable. But by the time Allison, Grace and company ďŹ nish working their magic, you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more charmed.

Kristin SeraďŹ ni and Michael J. Brown are fresh and fun as the leading lovebirds, and all the featured actors do outstanding jobs. But this production shines because of the great work of the ensemble, and I must mention that Dorsey Ziller, as the soubrette Maisie, and Matt Augustyniak, as her hapless suitor, have a number titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t You Charleston With Me?â&#x20AC;? that blows the roof off the joint.

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Jim Studenyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waterfowl at the Battle of Fujikawaâ&#x20AC;? (detail)

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My sole complaint is that someone thought: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be fun to add two textually unsupported characters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dancers dressed like Pierrot and Pierrette â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to emphasize the already screamingly obvious emotional beats from the side of the stage via the miracle of mime?â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d answer yes, but only if you changed the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;funâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;mind-numbingly annoying.â&#x20AC;?

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This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offering continues that tradition. With 24 works by 20 artists from 10 countries, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a clunker in the bunch. But a few pieces resonate as particularly captivating â&#x20AC;&#x201D; aesthetically irresistible, intellectually spellbinding or both, standing out in a collection of stand-outs.

Pennsylvania artist Jim Studenyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showstopper â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waterfowl at the Battle of Fujikawaâ&#x20AC;? combines the traditional beauty of Japanese woodblock prints with the vivid coloring of the superflat movement and a hint of comic influence in a large painting that commands immediate attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sampson County Cotton Field,â&#x20AC;? by Micah Mullen (New York), hums with vibrance and movement, a rich depiction of earth and sky with lushly verdant woods within. Wood is the medium for Ric Taylor (Texas) in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earth and Fire,â&#x20AC;? specifically buckeye burl, carved into a delicate, softball-sized planet.

Israeli artist Revital Falkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixed-media work â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jewish Goblinâ&#x20AC;? is a joyous, lively beach scene of yoga-posing or sunbathing humans surrounded by dogs chasing cats, playing, pooping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horses Run Foreverâ&#x20AC;? across the canvas of Reza Rafiei Rad (Iran), twin steeds saluted expressionistically.

Victoria Goro-Rapoportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Russia) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Flowersâ&#x20AC;? painstakingly connects human, nature and the desire of one to manipulate the other.

One of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artists, Irina Koukhanova, was BoxHeartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 Artist of the Year. Her solo exhibition Panoptic Landscape, with sculptures, paintings and drawings finding cheekiness and hope within a bleak environment, was a highlight of last year. But Art Inter/National is a group show, and it functions, regardless of its geographical range, the same way all group shows function. It is an introduction to those you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know already, who based upon that swift and casual interaction you might find you want to know better. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to like and love here, and for as many merits as the show holds in its own right, it possesses even more as a gateway for further exploration.

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Sounds like a drag show. So that’s exactly what Rodef Shalom is doing. In partnership with OUTrageous Bingo, the congregation hosts a night of cocktails, costumes, prizes, dancing and a musical drag Purim play, Queen Esther’s Cabaret. The holiday celebrates the survival of the Jewish people in Persia thanks to the bravery of Queen Esther.

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The gigantic hit has been described as “lively and a helluva good time”; Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s new production features performances by Tim Hartman, Trey Compton and Lara Hayhurst. The first showing is tonight. ZM 7:30 p.m.

Continues through March 15.

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Frankenstein’s monster comes alive at the Byham Theater in Mel Brooks’ musical Young Frankenstein, and he breaks out into a chorus of Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

Based on the 1974 movie of the same name, this parody of classic horror films offers a new take on the famous story about scientist and monster.

MARCH 06 Horror Realm Convention

Halloween is months away, but Pittsburgh’s annual Horror Realm Convention offers more than enough fright for horror buffs and scream queens. The threeday convention at the Pittsburgh West Crowne Plaza is fan-run and includes a full dealer room featuring vendors of movies, apparel, books and comics, games and art. Celebrity guests include Tony Todd (Candyman, pictured) and Naomi Grossman, Rose Siggins and Erika Ervin from American Horror Story: Freak Show, with photo ops all three days. ZM 5-10 p.m. Also 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat., March 7, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., March 8. 401 Holiday Drive, Green Tree. $10-35.

412-922-8100 or www.horrorrealmcon.com

{DANCE} Almost certainly, the violence faced by women in campus settings (and indeed, everywhere) is vastly underreported, not least

FreeEvent Art by Rebecca Lessner

“I’ve grown up hunting and living off the land. There’s so much going on now about knowing where your food is coming from. I think the thing with hunters is that we know exactly where our food comes from,” Rebecca Lessner says about her upcoming photography exhibit at 707 Penn Gallery, Hunter Gatherer. Addressing the methodical thought that goes into the hunt, Hunter Gatherer suggests that the act of harvesting directly from the land instills a respect for it that cannot be grasped while picking over the shelves of a supermarket. With photos taken in Chesapeake Bay and York County, the exhibit depicts the process of hunting and cleaning pheasant, deer and fish, and includes repurposed deer-skull sculptures. Meanwhile, next door at 709 Penn Gallery, photographer Joey Kennedy captures the unique movements of light in everyday Pittsburgh landscapes and natural spaces. The images in Light & Landscape were crowdsourced from Kennedy’s Instagram account, where many of the images featured were ones that earned the most “likes.” The images that resonated most with the audience — the most popular on Instagram — were printed proportionately larger. Pittsburgh’s skyline and green spaces are featured prominently.

The opening receptions at both of these adjacent galleries are this Friday. Zacchiaus McKee Receptions: 5:30-8 p.m. Fri., March 6. Exhibits continue through April 12. 707 and 709 Penn Ave., Downtown. Free. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

because many victims themselves fear speaking up. Snowflakes in the Cemetery is a new dance/ installation work addressing such issues. It’s a collaboration between two Carnegie Mellon students — writer and composer Theo Teris and video artist MacKenzie Bates — and Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, choreographed by Bodiography’s Maria Caruso. The show, subtitled “A Journey into Womanhood That Turns into a Testament of Survival,” is performed tonight and tomorrow night at CMU’s Kresge Hall. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Also 7:30 p.m.

Sat., March 7. CMU campus, Oakland. Free. www.snowflakesballet.com

{WORDS} While Pittsburgh-based indie publisher Autumn House Press has branched into fiction and essays, it made its name with poetry. It continues staking that claim with the third edition of its Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Many of the 106 poets whose work is included are locally based. Several of them read tonight at a free book-release event in Chatham University’s Mellon Board Room. Among the poets: Jan Beatty, Ed Ochester, Sheryl St. Germain, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and Michael Wurster.

BO 7:30 p.m. Chatham campus, Shadyside. Free. www.autumnhousepress.org

points. “Being a nerd, I know how to make other nerds mad, and that’s getting their obsession wrong,” he says in one bit, recounting the time he yelled, “Star Trek sucks!” at Star Wars fans lined up to see Attack of the Clones: “I’m sitting in the car going,

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The Italian-born, Pittsburghbased artist’s mostly abstract compositions in muted colors have been exhibited internationally and at area showcases including the Pittsburgh Biennial and The Andy Warhol Museum exhibit Factory Direct. Tonight, a show featuring a dozen of Gerbino’s latest works opens MARCH 07 with a reception Cyrille Aimee at Galerie Werner, located inside Shadyside’s Mansions on Fifth. BO 5-8 p.m. Exhibit continues through May. 5150 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. Free.

‘Ha ha, nerds!’ and I’ve got a RSVP at 412-716-1390 or stack of comic books in the passenger seat.” The comedian info@galeriewerner.net.

— known for his roles on Mr. Show and The Sarah {MUSIC} Silverman Program — appears In a powerhouse double tonight at the Rex Theater. billing, Manchester Margaret Welsh 8 p.m.

Craftsmen’s Guild Jazz 1602 E. Carson St., South presents jazz legend Kenny

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Barron and vocalist Cyrille Aimee. A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and Grammy nominee, Barron is a solo pianist and jazz traditionalist whom popmatters.com ranks “among jazz’s greatest pianists.” Aimee (pictured) is a French singer who covers everything from Grover Washington’s “Just the Two of Us” to Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.” Each artist does two sets tonight. ZM 6 and 8:30 p.m. 1815 Metropolitan St., North Side. $49.50-55. 412323-4000 or www.mcgjazz.org

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{ART} Leslie Minnis offers a fresh take on the graphic novel.

The Pittsburgh-based artist’s Echoroad is a set of five comic books comprising a single graphic novel, one for each of the five main characters.

In the story’s future fantasy world, memories have become tangible objects. Minnis (who also co-wrote the book with Andrew States) plots the panels as irregular shapes that flow together to show the whole story at once, like a narrative mosaic. The book’s release party, tonight at The Gallery 4, opens an exhibit of her work. BO 7-11 p.m. Exhibit continues through March 28. 206 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. Free. 412-363-5050 or www.thegallery4.us

A new open-mic night for poetry launches tonight.

Po’it Up takes place at the venerable Homewood Coliseum, a former roller rink repurposed as an arts and events venue. Po’it Up is hosted by Hotep the Artist, who says the evening’s themes will range from “Love Jones” to “World Changing Words.”

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THEATER ANIMAL FARM. Animals overthrow their farmer masters, revolutionizing society. But is it for the better? Presented

by Prime Stage Theater Co. Sun, 2:30 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru March 15. New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

ELEMENO PEA. A have & have-nots comedy by Molly Smith Metzler. Thu, Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 5:30 & 9 p.m., Sun, 2 p.m.

Thru March 22. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489.

GHOSTS. The classic by Henrik Ibsen. Sun, 3 p.m. and Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru March 14. Off the Wall Theater, Carnegie.

724-873-3576.

LUNCH LADY CABARET. It’s 10pm Friday night in the North Hinterland High School cafeteria & lunch ladies Gladys, Agnes, Mavis & Doris are letting their hairnets down for an evening of song, dance & irreverent entertainment served up hot. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru March 22.

McKeesport Little Theater, McKeesport. 412-673-1100.

THE MIKADO. Gilbert & Sullivan’s

Revisit the Civil War era at a free all-day symposium, then travel back to the modern world for underground hip hop in Millvale.

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comic opera presented by the Pittsburgh Savoyards.

BRIAN POSEHN. 8 p.m.

Thu-Sat., 8p.m. and Sun., Rex Theater, South Side.

2:30p.m. Thru March 15. Andrew 412-381-6811.

Carnegie Free Library Music IMPROV MADNESS Hall, Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

TOURNAMENT. A 3 part MOTOWN THE MUSICAL. tournament of short form The story of Motown founder games & improv. BYOB. Fri, Berry Gordy’s journey from 8 p.m. Thru March 20 featherweight boxer to the Arcade Comedy Theater, heavyweight music mogul Downtown. 412-339-0608. who launched the careers IRONY CITY. Long form improv of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, feat. U.S.S. Improvise, a Smokey Robinson & Star-Trek themed group. more. Thru Dec. 3, 8 p.m.

10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Heinz Hall, Downtown.

Theater, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

412-339-0608.

MURDER IN www. per MAGICIANTINSELTOWN. Old pa pghcitym COMEDIAN MICHAEL .co Hollywood themed GIGLIOTTI. Magic murder mystery. Dinner & comedy. Fun for the whole at 6:30pm & show at 8pm. family feat. Master Magician Fri. and Sat. Thru March 7.

Michelangelo. Fri, 5-7 p.m.

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park.

Mullen’s Bar & Grill, North Side.

724-746-1178.

412-231-1112.

T-ROBE, ANDY PICARRO, SEAN COLLIER, MATT LIGHT, MIKE WYSOCKI, JEFF KONKLE. Hosted

By Bill Crawford. 10:30 p.m. Club PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Cafe, South Side. 866-468-3401.

Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at TROY DAVIS. 8 p.m. Latitude 360, Theater Square, Downtown.

412-325-6769.

North Fayette. 412-693-5555.

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art. Subjecting her film to unusual processes like streaking it with mascara, covering it with perfume, running over it on a bike and dragging it through tar pits, she adds another layer of performance to her work. West will screen and discuss a few of her films, and several works on 16mm from the Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collection, as part of the museum’s Double Exposure Series. The event is free.

6:30 p.m. Thu., March 5. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

FRI 06 - SAT 07 ARTIE LANGE. 8 p.m. and Sat., March 7, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Improv, Waterfront. 412-462-5233.

SAT 07 BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL COMEDY SHOW. 10 p.m.

Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

TUE 10 TUESDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Tue, 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

WED 11 BEERHIVE COMEDY. Open Mic. Hosted by Aaron Kleiber. Wed, 8 p.m. Thru March 25 The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-904-4502.

COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m.

Scarpaci’s Place, Mt. Washington.

412-431-9908.

JOKING OFF. Presented by Race to the Coffin Comedy.

Hosted by John Dick Winters.

Wed, 9 p.m. Thru April 29 Caliente Pizza & Bar, Bloomfield.

412-904-1744.

STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC. Wed, 8 p.m.

The BeerHive, Strip District.

412-904-4502.

EXHIBITS ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts & exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum.

724-224-7666.

ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour.

The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

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 & 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.

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“A Sunday on the Monongahela” (oil on wood panel, 2014), by Miss Dingo.

From the solo exhibit Nice, but Mean, at Revision Space, in Lawrenceville.

VISUALART NEW THIS WEEK 707 PENN GALLERY. Rebecca Lessner: Hunter Gatherer. A photography exhibition exploring living off the land. Opening reception March 6, 5:30pm. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

709 PENN GALLERY. Light & Landscape. A photography exhibition feat. a dozen printed canvases of urban landscapes & natural settings by artist Joey Kennedy. Opening reception March 6, 5:30-8pm.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

BOULEVARD GALLERY. Ed Rickus, Karen McKee, Claudia Salvatore. Multimedia, pottery & jewelry. Opening reception March 7, 6-9pm.

Verona. 412-828-1031.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Double Exposure Series. Los Angelesbased artist Jennifer West screens a few of her films, along w/ a selection of 16mm films from Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collection, as she discusses her process, influences, & the persistent appeal of film in a digital world. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

EASTSIDE GALLERY. John Eastman & Josh Hogan.

By appt. only. Opening reception March 8, 2-5pm. Forest Hills.

412-465-0140.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. Fabrizio Gerbino. New paintings by artist.

Opening reception March 7, 5-8pm. Oakland. 412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Liz Goldberg & Patty Gallagher. Dual exhibtion w/ Goldberg’s painting & drawings for “Cigar Queens of Havana” & Gallagher’s wearable art, “Hot Tropics”. Opening reception March 6, 5:30-8pm. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. Echoroad.

New sequential art &

comic book release by Leslie Minnis. Opening reception March 4, 7-11pm.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Liza Brenner. “Plein Air Landscapes”. Oil on paper works by artist. Opening March 6, 7-10pm. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. ABC@PGC. A colorful exhibition feat. glass sculptures combined w/ an interactive illuminated word building piece that visitors can touch, rearrange & wear like apparel. Created by Jen Elek & Jeremy Bert. Opens March 6.

Friendship. 412-365-2145.

REMEDY. RUBBERNECK. New work by Lizzee Solomon.

Opening March 6, 9pm.

Lawrenceville. 847-372-0958.

THE SHOP. Jennifer Lee & Terry Young. New work by these artists.Opening reception March 6, 5-9pm. Bloomfield.

412-951-0622.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Time & Materiality. Work by Laura Tabakman, Camilla Brent Pearce & Michelle Browne.

Opening reception March 8, 3-6pm. Friday March 20 & 27, potlucks 6pm. Please RSVP. Friendship. 412-441-0194.

ONGOING ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent. A full-scale survey covering more than 30 years of work by American artist Corita Kent; a designer, teacher, feminist, activist for civil rights & anti-war causes. Permanent collection. Artwork and artifacts by the famed Pop Artist.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery.

The works of Timothy Kelley & other regional & US artists on display. Sculpture, oil & acrylic paintings, mixed media,

found objects, more. North Side. 724-797-3302.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Antoine Catala: Feel Images. A new body of work

by Antonia Catala in sculpture, photography & video that addresses the way that images provoke emotion, especially as they travel virtual & physical distances via the internet. Sketch to Structure. Unfolding the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape.

Will close temporarily on May 25 & reopen on June 6. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY. Culture in Context. African Art from the Olkes Collection.

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Susan Winicour.

An expressionist whose art expresses meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. A love themed show.

Squirrel Hill. 412- 421- 8888.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors

by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003).

Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition..

Collectors Showcase. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Pittsburgh Photo Section.

Exhibit celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Pittsburgh Photo Section.

Oakland. 412-681-5449.

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CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. H2Oh!. Experience kinetic water-driven motion & discover the relations between water, land & habitat.

How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, USS Requin submarine & 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.

CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature & biotechnology.

Open Fridays 5-8, Saturdays 12-4 & Sundays 12-4. Garfield.

412-223-7698.

COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ costumed guides feat. this restored stagecoach stop.

724-238-4983.

CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. University of Pittsburgh Jazz Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards from the International Hall of Fame.

Oakland. 412-648-7446.

DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement & history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

412-486-0563.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. 724-329-8501.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows.

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Reconstructed fort houses museum of Pittsburgh history circa French & Indian War & American Revolution.

Downtown. 412-281-9285.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ classes & programs for all ages. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion & stable complex. Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in the surrounding park.

Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

724-329-8501.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont.

412-826-9295.

MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection includes jade & ivory statues from China & Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler.

724-282-0123.

MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open for tours, lectures & more. Monroeville.

412-373-7794.

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the 20th century. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

GALLERY 808. New work by 1st/2nd year MFA students at CMU in a month-long pop-up gallery “Gallery 808”. Artists: Daniel Allende, Kevin Brophy, Zhiwan Cheung, Brittany DeNigris, Jamie Dickerson, Nima Dehghani, Hannah Epstein, Ada-Scarlett Hopper, Jesse Kauppila, Tucker Marder, Adam Milner, Daniel Pillis & Moses Williams. Receptions every Thursday at 5pm.

Shadyside. 412-268-2409.

GALLERY-VERY FINE ART. Group Show. Work

by Linda Price-Sneddon, Peggy Habets, James E. Trusko & others. South Side.

412-901-8805.

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.

HILLMAN LIBRARY. Get to The Point!. An exhibition of early drawings, paintings, postcards, engravings, maps, & photographs from the University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives Service Center that document the history of the Point & Point State Park. Ground Floor. Oakland. 412-648-3330.

HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. Crafts Faculty of Edinboro University. An exploration of ceramics, furniture & jewelry

by Cappy Counard, Chuck Johnson, Lee Rexrode, Suzanne Amendolara, Karen Ernst & Linda Cordell. Gloria Stool Karn.

Pulp Art Illustrations from the 1940s. New Castle. 724-652-2882.

JAMES GALLERY. Headliners.

species. W/ classes, lectures, demos & 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 & exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

Washington. 724-228-9256.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants & floral displays from around the world. Tropical Forest Congo.

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New paintings, mixed media works, glass & ceramics. Feat.

Christine Aaron, Eileen Braun, Claire Cotts, Jamie Harris, Ben Johnson, Micheal Madigan, Susan Morosky & Scott Turri.

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.

724-316-9326.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Rhodes Revisited. Works by the acclaimed artist, author & educator, Daniel Rhodes.

Reception March 12, 6-8pm.

North Side. 412-322-1773.

MARKET SQUARE. Jennifer Wen Ma: Installation.

Downtown. 412-471-1511.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Artists in Residence.

Installations created inresidence by Danny Bracken, John Peña, Ryder Henry, Kathleen Montgomery, & Benjamin Sota. Part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. 3d@mgg.

A exhibition of artists working in three dimensional media.

Shadyside. 412-441-7258.

PANZA GALLERY. Behind The Murals: Histories & Other Stories. Exploring the historic, social & artistic influences impacting each stage of the creation of Maxo Vanka’s murals in St. Nicholas Croatian

Catholic Church. Presented by The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of MaxoVanka.

Millvale. 412-821-0959.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Fri., March 6, 6-10 p.m. Garfield.

412-441-6147-ext.-7.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Nine Solo Exhibits. Feat. the work of Scott Andrew, Vlad Basarub, Terry Boyd, Oreen Cohen, Joy Christiansen Erb, Katie Ford, Joseph Lupo, Katie Murken & Hisham Youssef.

Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

PJR PHOTOGRAPHY & STUDIO 1.0. Michael Aaron Glass. Photography exhibit, “Uganda, the Pearl of Africa” & Ugandan handmade arts & crafts.

Bellevue. 412-287-2642.

REVISION SPACE. Nice But Mean. Paintings & woodblocks by Miss Dingo.

Lawrenceville. 412-735-3201.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Fellowship 15. Feat. work

by Christopher Meerdo from his projects Iceland & Cataphote. Works also by Matthew Conboy, from his project “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”.

South Side. 412-431-1810.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Bridge 13. Work by Elisabeth Higgins, Keith Lo Bue, & Jason Walker. Strip District.

412-261-7003.

SPACE. UNLOADED. A multimedia group show that explores historical & social issues surrounding the availability, use & impact

An exhibit highlighting some of Africa’s lushest landscapes.

Oakland. 412-622-6914.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Photographs & Jewerly. A hundred years (1839-1939) of photographs that incorporated jewelry. For guided tours, call 412- 231-7881. North Side.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club.

West View. 412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos and artifacts of her life & work.

Springdale. 724-274-5459.

RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Homestead Mill. Steel industry & community artifacts from 1881-1986. Homestead.

412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From

Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the antislavery movement. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley.

412-741-4487.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland.

412-621-4253.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side.

412-323-9504.

of guns in our culture.

Closing reception April 24.

The Sideways Museum.

A collection of works by Pittsburgh-based artists exploring folk & visionary art traditions. Viewable 24 hrs. a day w/ periodic alterations. Interior open for special occasions. Downtown.

412-325-7723.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. West Hills Art League Exhibition. A sampling of the wide array of West Hills Art League members’ artistic styles ranging from traditional watercolors & oil paintings to acrylics, pastels, clay, paper, & more. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

TIP TYPE. Jason David LaCroix. Drawings, prints & paintings of landscapes & domestic scenes. Wilkinsburg.

412-501-3807.

WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY. Faculty Arts Exhibition. Selected sculptures, jewelry, drawings & paintings

by Professors Andrew Heisey, Kathleen Rearick, Dr. Don Simson & Ron Jesiolowski.

724-852-3274.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Reconstructed Paintings. New works

by Gary Jurysta. Greensburg.

412-559-8168.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. In the Absense of Self.

Installations, video projections & ‘flicker’ objects ft. Ivana Franke, Lauri Astala, Bryndis Hronn Ragnarsdottir & Mirjana Vodopija. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale.

412-407-2570.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling & cokemaking in this pre-Civil War industrial village. 724-887-7910.

DANCE FRI 06 - SUN 08 PBT PREMIERES. Pittsburgh Ballet Theater w/ Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra presents 3 masterworks by choregraphers, Jiř Kylián, Mark Morris & Jerome Robbins. March 6-7, 8 p.m. and Sun., March 8, 2 p.m. Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666.

SAT 07 THE NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY OF IRELAND. Presenting “Rhythm of the

Dance,” a fusion of traditional Irish dance & modern stage technology. Live band. 7:30 p.m.

Hillman Center for Performing Arts, Fox Chapel. 412-968-3045.

FUNDRAISERS THU 05 CRUSHED GRAPES. Annual wine-tasting event to raise funding for Sisters Place. Wine, live music & silent auction. 5:30-9 p.m.

The Wintergarden, Downtown.

412-233-3903.

FRI 06 COCKTAILS & CONSERVATION. Benefits the restoration & upkeep of the Maxo Vanka murals. Hosted by David Conrad.

6 p.m. St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, Millvale.

412-407-2570.

HISTORY UNCORKED: WE CAN DO IT!. Live entertainment from DJ Mad Maxx, Wreck Loose & Zig Daniels; food & beverages from more than 25 local vendors & silent auction. Learn 1940s dance moves. Wear your 1940s attire. All proceeds benefit the programs & services of the History Center & Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum. 7-11 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District.

412-454-6000.

HOOKED ON A CAUSE WINE DINNER. Wine Dinner to raise money for Catholic Charities during Lent. 6:30 p.m. Carlton, Downtown. 412-391-4152.

SAT 07 EVENING OF ARTS FOR AUTISM. Performances include film, dance, music & the art of illusion. Hors d’oeuvres, silentauction & cocktail hour.

All proceeds benefit the Arts for Autism Foundation of Pittsburgh. 6:30 p.m.

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

Q BALL. Food, drink, art, dancing & entertainment all to support Quantum Theatre’s new season. 7 p.m. Energy Innovation Center, Hill District.

Call 412-362-1713.

SUN 08 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.

Thomas Merton Center, Garfield.

412-361-3022.

MOBSTERS, MOLLS & MARINARA. A murder mystery dinner & comedy.

All proceeds benefit the Lupus Foundation. 2-5 p.m. Spaghetti Warehouse, Strip District.

412-261-6511.

TUE 10 GEMINI CHILDREN’S THEATER BENEFIT DINNER. 6 p.m. Soba, Shadyside.

412-362-5656.

LITERARY THU 05 THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress. com Thu, 7-9 p.m. Lot 17, Bloomfield. 412-687-8117.

SPOKEN JAZZ. Open mic-less night w/ musical accompaniment for poetry, prose, song, more. First Thu of every month, 8-10 p.m.

The Space Upstairs, Point Breeze.

412-225-9269.

FRI 06 PAT DICESARE. “Hard Days, Hard Nights” reading & book signing. 7 p.m. Classic Lines, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-2220.

THU 05 - WED 11 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

SAT 07 FAMILY FRIENDLY KIDS OPEN MIC. Sat, 6 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

MARTY’S MARKET KIDS’ CORNER. Ages 5-11. Sat, 3-5 p.m. Marty’s Market, Strip District. 412-586-7177.

SUN 08 ABC@PGC FAMILY DAY. Explore the art of the alphabet.

Photos, games, free play & read stories w/ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Make your ABCs in glass. 1-4 p.m.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Friendship.

412-365-2145.

SAT 07 ITALIAN CONVERSATION. Third and First Sat of every month, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

THREE KINDS OF DISASTER. A reading w/ Jason Baldinger, Sarah Shotland, & Sean Thomas Dougherty.

7 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

amazing ball. Experience how it moves, how it looks & the story of how it came to be. Thru March 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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SUN 08 INTRO TO PERSONAL STORYTELLING W/ LISA KIRCHNER. Learn the basics of storytelling, w/ an emphasis on personal stories. You’ll come away from this session knowing the elements of a compelling story & how to craft one. 1-2:30 p.m., Sun., April 12, 1-2:30 p.m. and Sun., May 3, 1-2:30 p.m.

Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

MON 09 GERMAN CONVERSATION CLUB. Second and Fourth Mon of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials and processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turned-Teaching Artist Molly. Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

TUE 10 HOMEWORK HELP. For grades 1-8. Tue, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Assemble, Garfield. 412-432-9127.

WED 11 HOP INTO HISTORY: TAMING THE TOMATO. Explore seeds, farms, vegetables & cooking with ketchup! Hands-on session for 2-5 yr. olds w/ music, dance & games.

10:30-11:15 a.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District.

412-454-6000.

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PITTSBURGH CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP. Tue, 6 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

STEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m.

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

INTO THE SUGARBUSH. Explore the process of making maple syrup. Located in the Parker Room. 1 p.m. Powdermill Nature Reserve. 724-593-4556.

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STEWART O’NAN. Public reading from Point Park University Writers’ Series. 6 p.m. Lawrence Hall Gallery, Downtown. 412-392-6190.

WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine.

Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

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BOUNCE. Interactive exhibit celebrating the world’s most

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH.

TUE 10 SURVIVAL BASICS. Tue, 3-4:30 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-477-4677.

Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com.

NO MORE SILENCE ON VIOLENCE. Community forum on violence & benefit concert.

Benefits the D.M.H. Scholarship Fund Buy a Book Program.

7-9 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 720-477-0187.

PURIM MASQUERADE. 50/50 raffle, costumes & dancing. 7 p.m.

Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland. 412-621-6566.

RENAISSANCE DANCE GUILD. Learn a variety of dances from the 15-17th centuries. Porter Hall, Room A18A. Thu, 8 p.m.

Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-567-7512.

WEEKLY WELLNESS CIRCLE. Group acupuncture & guided meditation for stress-relief. Thu DeMasi Wellness, Aspinwall.

412-927-4768.

WEST COAST SWING. Swing dance lessons for all levels. Thu, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

WISSAHICKON NATURE CLUB MEETING. Glenn Davis & Donna Billings will present National Parks Quest,an arm chair tour to some of the lesser-known parks. Tea, coffee & potluck dessert. 7 p.m. Fern Hollow Nature Center, Sewickley.

412-741-6136.

ZEN MEDITATION. Hosted

by City Dharma. Thu, 6:30-8 p.m. and Sat, 7-8:30 a.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

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FRI 06 FISH FRY FRIDAY TOURS. A visit & fish fry at Most Holy Name of Jesus, Troy Hill. Pickup is in Station Square across from the parking garage. 4 p.m.

Station Square, Station Square.

412-323-4709.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m.

Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale. 412-945-0554.

RAINBOW RISING COFFEE HOUSE. For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals and friends. Music, games, movies, entertainment and more. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Smithton. First Fri of every month 724-872-5056.

SOCIAL MEDIA SERIES: DEVELOPING A PLAN OF ATTACK. The first of three in the Social Media Series, this hands-on session is designed for business-to-business & business-to-consumer organizations that want to learn the simple steps for creating a social media plan.

Rockwell Hall. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Duquesne University, Uptown.

412-396-1633.

WAGNER: HIS LIFE & MUSIC. Dr. Cleon Cornes returns to the library for this six-week class

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*Stuff We Like

Kennywood in Winter Seen from a passing bus, it’s all bare and gray and slushy, with a promise of fun that, for the melancholy among us, is much better than real fun could ever be.

Penn Avenue Fish’s Late Hours The Strip District location has extended its hours until 8 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday, with the lower-cost lunch menu served late as well. Perfect for fish-centric Lent. 2208 Penn Ave.

K.C. Constantine The Pittsburgh-based author’s Mario Balzic mysteries were written over a span of three decades, and chronicle a familiar-sounding landscape during the post-steel era with a keen ear for good dialogue.

Coasters at Andys Wine Bar Printed with different Warhol quotes, ranging from amusing to deranged. Fairmont Hotel, Downtown {PHOTO BY CELINE ROBERTS}

Lush’s Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner Moisturizing is such a drag, but this rose-scented potion goes on while you’re still in the shower.

Save your skin this winter and save time. www.lush.com

Broad City Girls can say “dude,” smoke pot and crack fart jokes, too. See for yourself on Abbi Jacobsen and Ilana Glazer’s Comedy Central show, now in its second season. 10:30 p.m.

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examining the life & music of Richard Wagner. Fri, 10 a.m. and Fri, 10 a.m. Thru April 17 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: RuPaul’s Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons Tour,

FRI 06 - SUN 08 HORROR REALM SPRING BREAK MASSACRE. Meet celebrity guests, shop in large dealer room, enjoy film screenings, attend guest & author Q&A panels. 5-10 p.m., Sat., March 7, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sun., March 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bethel Park.

412-344-7444.

at the Byham Theater, Downtown CRITIC: Dave Shive, 24, a student from Highland Park WHEN: Tue.,

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FRI 06 - WED 11 PITTSBURGH HOME & GARDEN SHOW. Presented

by Duquesne Light. Offering 1600 exhibits. Sun, 10 a.m.6 p.m., Fri, Sat, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Mon-Thu, 4-10 p.m. Thru March 15 David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown.

412-565-6000.

SAT 07 ALL ABOUT THE BURGH, THE CULTURE TO KETCHUP TOUR!. Step aboard a vintage 1920’s style Trolley & experience Pittsburgh w/ a guided 2-hour tour. Sat, 12:45-2:45 p.m.

Thru April 25 Station Square, Station Square. 412-391-7433.

BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669.

CERAMIC TILE DIGNITY & RESPECT QUILT. Design a tile that will become part of a Ceramic Tile Dignity & Respect Quilt to be displayed at Bethlehem Haven.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District.

412-281-0995.

CORITA KENT IN HER CONTEXTS. Ori Soltes explores Corita Kent’s contributions to art history. Warhol Theater.

2 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300.

DOMINIC FRAGMAN DRUM CLINIC. Focuses on developing composition, improvisation & innovation.

12 p.m. U Rock Music Center, McMurray. 724-941-1435.

INTRO TO ESSENTIAL OILS. Taught by Janice Polansky of Young Living. 2-4 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw.

412-486-0211.

PIEROGI CONTEST & PUB TOUR. Benefits South Side Bar & Restaurant Association.

Register http://www.pgh stpracticeday.com/. 1-7 p.m.

412-267-7613.

PUBLIC ART 101. How to structure a public art project, how to work with an artist, & how to develop a public art plan. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Landmarks Housing Resource Center, Wilkinsburg. 412-391-2060.

ROAD TO APPOMATTOX. The full day symposium will focus on the end of the Civil War & oblique aspects of Lincoln’s

It was just a bunch of fabulous queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race on stage — doing little solo performances and group numbers and games — and it felt like I was watching an episode of RuPaul, honestly. I loved it. It was a little long, but it was really funny. The queens are so talented. I particularly loved Jinkx [Monsoon], who performed “The Last Midnight” from Into the Woods in the exact costume Meryl Streep wore in the movie. She was my top favorite; she stole the show. I was actually so disappointed with Raja. She was so good on the show. [Pittsburgh-based] Sharon Needles performed some of her original songs, too. I go to the ballroom scene a lot, not drag shows, but I think this was a great way for the LGBT community to come together. I’m a social worker, so I’m all about the community finding itself and finding a safe space. This was a safe space.

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assassination. The days programming is geared towards educators, historians & Civil War enthusiasts.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

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.

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills. Sat, 8 p.m.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827.

WORM YOUR WAY INTO COMPOST. Learn & receive the tools to start your own worm bin compost.

Registration required. Learning Center. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Harrison Hills Park, Natrona Heights. 412-488-7490 ext. 226.

ZEN MEDITATION. Hosted

by City Dharma. Thu, 6:30-8 p.m. and Sat, 7-8:30 a.m.

Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

SUN 08 ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS. Arabic for Beginners gives an introduction to the language & culture of Saudi Arabia.

month, 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

ANNUAL ICE SKATING SHOW. Showcasing ice skating talents from beginner to advanced all to the theme of “Dancing Under the Stars”. 7 p.m. North Park Ice Skating Rink, Allison Park.

724-935-1280.

BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A support group for women 30+. Second and Fourth Mon of every month Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN COURSE. Phipps Conservatory & Botanic Gardens Master Gardener & landscape designer Claire Schuchman will teach this three-week course geared to the novice gardener. Topics include “right plant/right place,” shading out weeds w/ ground covers, use of hardy natives plants & installing rain barrels or permeable pavement. Attendees should bring: graph paper, pencils, ruler, package of different colored pencils & some 18”- 24” tracing paper. Mon, 5:30 p.m. Thru March 23 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.

Second Sun of every month, 2-3 p.m. and Third Sun of every month, 2-3 p.m. Thru April 19 Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

CAPOEIRA ANGOLA. Tue, CHINESE FOR BEGINNERS. 6:30-8 p.m. Irma Freeman Second and Fourth Sun Center for Imagination, Garfield. of every month, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

412-924-0634.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

CHINESE RESTAURANTS 412-622-3151.

IN AMERICA. Speaker by THE GRIEF REVOLUTION. restaurateur, Michael Chen.

Presented by the Theosophical Presented by the Squirrel Hill Society. Debbie Pakler, Ph. D. Historical Society. 7:30 p.m. discusses her book on dealing Church of the Redeemer, w/ grief. Rm. 103, Woodland Squirrel Hill. 412-417-3707.

Hall. 1:30-3:30 p.m.

CROSSROADS CONFERENCE. Chatham University, Connecting women to one Shadyside. 412-462-4200. another & to the community PRIDE BOWLING resources which can LEAGUE. Seeking help further their bowlers of all levels. professional careers Every other Sunday. & strengthen their Every other Sun, personal lives. www. per a p 6:30 p.m. Forward Speakers, lunch & pghcitym o .c Lanes, Squirrel Hill. workshops. 8 a.m.412-337-0701.

4:30 p.m. Wyndham RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia Grand Pittsburgh, game hosted by DJ Jared Evans.

Downtown. 412-391-4600.

Come alone or bring a team. Sun, LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH!. Practice 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont. conversational English. Tue, 6 p.m.

412-828-6322.

Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill, SUNDAY MARKET. A gathering Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650. of local crafters & dealers selling unique items, from home made foodstuffs to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m.

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP. For Widows/Widowers The Night Gallery, Lawrenceville. over 50. Second and Fourth 724-417-0223.

Wed of every month, 1-2:30 p.m.

St. Sebastian Church, Ross.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 412-366-1300.

CONVERSATION SALON. A PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly forum for active participation in meeting. Second Mon of every

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Large Print Room. Second Wed of every month, 10:15 a.m.12 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

DETROIT STYLE URBAN BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor.

Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345.

LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH!.

Practice conversational English.

Wed, 5-6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome.

Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.

TAROT CARD LESSONS. Wed, 7 p.m. Dobra Tea, Squirrel Hill. 412-449-9833.

WEST COAST SWING WEDNESDAYS. Swing dance lessons. Wed, 9 p.m. The Library, South Side. 916-287-1373.

WIGLE WHISKEY. Upper Strip Amble. Walk through the Strip & enjoy locals drinks & eats. Includes cocktail at Wigle Whiskey & live music, appetizer at Savoy & spiked milkshake at Klavon’s. Check in at Wigle Whiskey. Wed, 4p.m. Strip District.

412-224-2827.

& “Broadway in the Park”. For more information, visit http:// www.keystonestatemusictheater. org/. Auditions on March 18, 5-9pm. 724-480-1211.

THE THEATRE FACTORY. Auditions for “My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra”.

Actors age 18+. Prepare 32 bars of musical theater rep. particularly jazz or swing & a 2 minute monologue. Picture & resume. tfauditions@gmail.com. or 724-374-9200. Mar. 7, 4-7pm & Mar. 8, 6-8pm.

THE VILLAGE HOTEL. The Village Hotel, part of the 2015 Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, seeks two actors. Both characters are male. One between the ages of 18 & 25. The other is 40 to 60. All races & ethnicities.

Send headshot & resume to thevillagehotelpittsburgh@ gmail.com. Deadline March 15.

The Maker Theater, Shadyside.

908-914-7778.

SUBMISSIONS BLAST FURNACE VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1. Call for poems w/ the theme of mistakes, as well as original poetry outside of this theme. No more than 3 poems per poet that may not exceed three

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TREASURE HOUSE FASHION

Treasure House Fashions is a nonprofit, resale women’s clothing boutique that also helps clothe women in times of need or transition. Volunteers are needed to help clients with clothing selections; to steam and stock clothing; and to arrange displays and organize the shop. For more information, visit thfashions.org or call 412-979-1534.

WOMEN’S (CHEESE) DAY. Exploring the contributions of female fromagères to our store’s cheese selection.

Caldwell Linker, our Co-op’s cheese buyer & resident cheese expert, will guide us through an exploration of cheeses developed, produced, or sold by women.

6:30 p.m. Gemini Theater, Point Breeze. 412-242-3598.

AUDITIONS BUNKER PROJECTS. Open call for performers & new media artists for interactive theater event. Thru March 12.

FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS. Auditions for The Last Five Years.

Trained singers/actors, male & female, ages 22-30. Head shot & resume. Mar. 9, 6:30pm10pm & Mar. 10, 6:30pm7:45pm. Pittsburgh Musical Theater, West End. 412-551-4027.

KEYSTONE STATE MUSIC THEATER. Casting AEA, EMC & Non-Equity actors for productions of “Always...Patsy Cline”, “Pinkalicious, the Musical”,

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pages in length individually. For more guidelines, see the website.

Deadline Mar. 20, 12pm.

BOULEVARD GALLERY & DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Searching for glass artists, fiber artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016. Booking for both galleries for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months. Ongoing.

412-721-0943.

THE DAP CO-OP. Seeking performers & artists to participate in First Fridays Art in a Box. For more information, email thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com.

Ongoing. 412-403-7357.

THE GALLERY 4. A salon style competition. Send image files of up to 5 finished pieces to thegallery4@gmail.com or via the website. Include title, dimensions, medium(s) & write SALON APPLICANT 2015 in the subject line. Deadline Mar. 22.

412-363-5050.

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THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR REVIEW. Seeking submissions in all genres for fledgling literary magazine curated by members of the Hour After Happy Hour Writing Workshop. after happyhourreview.com Ongoing.

INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. Submit your film, 10 minutes or less. Screenings held on the second Thursday of every month. Ongoing.

DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery, Greensburg. 724-219-0804.

THE NEW YINZER. Seeking original essays about literature, music, TV or film, & also essays generally about Pittsburgh.

To see some examples, visit www.newyinzer.com & view the current issue. Email all pitches, submissions & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail.com.

Ongoing.

PITTSBURGH WATERCOLOR SOCIETY. New Member Screening. Water colorists age 18+ invited to submit.

Bring 3 paintings, framed & “exhibit ready”. No size limit.

Register at http://pittsburgh watercolorsociety.com/ event-1842889/Registration.

March 22, 1:30-3pm.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail.com Ongoing.

SALON SHOW 2015.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

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While I typically encourage people to keep their questions brief, it is possible to be too brief, NH. But I’ve gotten so many questions from wannabe cuckolds with wife issues over the years that I’m going to hazard a series of guesses and take a shot at advising you …

I’m guessing you’re a straight guy and you’re interested in cuckolding — the kink where the wife sleeps with other men, and either she tells the husband about her adventures or she “forces” him to watch her with other men. Cuckolding can involve elements of humiliation and/or degradation, and in some cases includes “forced bi” interactions between the cuckolded husband and the men his wife “cheats” on him with. And I’m also guessing you told the wife about your interest in cuckolding and she wasn’t interested and you wound up arguing about it, NH, and now your sex life is in the toilet, a.k.a. “lack of intimacy.”

So what do you do now?

You drop it, NH, as cuckolding — which is a big ask for the wife (the sexual and emotional risks fall on her) — is a kink that both partners have to be equally excited about exploring. If she doesn’t want to go there, NH, then you’re not going there. Not getting to explore cuckolding — and dropping the subject — is the price of admission you’ll have to pay to revive your sex life.

And if restoring your sex life isn’t incentive enough to drop the subject, NH, this reader’s experience might inspire you to drop it: “My husband, almost exactly 10 years older than me, confessed a cuckold fetish to me shortly before our fifth anniversary,” a happily married straight lady wrote (her letter appeared in “Meet the Monogamish,” Jan. 4, 2012). “I said no, but a seed was planted: Whenever I would develop a crush on another man, it would occur to me that I could sleep with him if I wanted to.” She eventually met someone she wanted to sleep with and went back to her husband — five years later — to ask if he was still interested in cuckolding. He was — and guess what? He’s a cuckold now. So shut the fuck up, NH, and you may eventually get what you want.

right: It will be bad for our future if our sexual needs are so different. Yet I don’t want to let him go because of this. I love him madly. I don’t view this lack of sex as a negative thing. I just don’t make sex as much of a priority as he does. I could see looking the other way if he needs to get his sexual needs met by someone else or with a professional, but it makes me nervous, mostly because I’d be devastated if he fell in love with someone else.

SEXUAL NEEDS UNDERMINING GOOD GIRL’S LOVING EXPECTATIONS

Barring a medical issue or a common-sense issue — get your hormone levels checked, try to incorporate your vibrator into the sex you’re having with your boyfriend, ponder the possibility that you fall somewhere on the asexual spectrum and perhaps marrying a sexual isn’t the greatest idea (particularly if you can’t see yourself opening up the relationship) — this sounds like just another average, ordinary case of mismatched libidos. My advice: Break up now, before you have children, before his feelings of rejection (already at devastating levels) and your feelings of resentment (at having to go through the motions) metastasize into an explosive case of mutual loathing.

“BREAK UP NOW, BEFORE HIS FEELINGS OF REJECTION AND YOUR FEELINGS OF RESENTMENT METASTASIZE INTO AN EXPLOSIVE CASE OF MUTUAL LOATHING.”

Thanks for HUMP! I’ve been in a steady relationship with my boyfriend for five years, and since year two, when we got pregnant despite using a condom, we’ve had sex maybe five times. Three of those times were in the year after the pregnancy, then once on Valentine’s Day last year and again last night after seeing HUMP! We’ve been in couples counseling for six weeks, and therapy laid a foundation for becoming intimate again. But things have been so awkward for so long that it just seemed impossible. But something clicked for us at HUMP! It’s like we both seemed to realize that people have sex in all shapes and sizes and methods and that you can dive in. You have always been a sex-positive force in my life — thanks for the reminder and bringing SF some excellent entertainment!

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My boyfriend and I have been together three years. We plan to start a family, we are very happy together, we go on many adventures together — all that good stuff.

For the past year or so, I feel like I’ve been losing my sex drive. Not just toward him but in general. I should mention that I’m 30 and he’s 25, but our age gap has always been a nonissue. I have a stressful job and am often too tired to have sex on weeknights, so we’ve pretty much gone down to having sex once a week. He has said this devastates him. He feels like I’m not attracted to him because he always initiates, and he is worried about our future sex life. I used to deny there was a problem and assure him, “No, we’re fine, I’m just tired,” etc. But I admit it’s a problem. I’ve recently been coming to the conclusion that he’s

Thanks for the lovely note, SFH, and I’m thrilled HUMP! provided you and your boyfriend with the goose/spark/inspiration you needed to dive back in. But you two did the heavy lifting — getting counseling, hanging in there, keeping those lines of communication open — and you two deserve the credit, not my silly little porn festival.

Now keep diving in!

HUMP! is the Pacific Northwest’s biggest, best and only amateur-porn film festival. It’s in its 11th year, and for the second time ever, HUMP! is touring the country. HUMP! features hardcore, softcore, erotica, animation and musicals, and HUMP! is straight, gay, queer, kinky, vanilla, cis and trans — and, as SFH’s experience shows, HUMP! also features inspiration. To find out if HUMP! is coming to your town, go to HUMPtour.com.

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Free Will Astrology

FOR THE WEEK OF

03.04-03.11

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, the state had the eighth-largest economy in the world, right behind Italy and just ahead of Brazil. Schwarzenegger had never before held political office. When Cambodian doctor Haing Nor performed in the film The Killing Fields, for which he ultimately won an Oscar, he had no training as an actor. He was a novice. Will you try to follow in their footsteps, Pisces? Is it possible you could take on a role for which you have no preparation or seasoning? According to my divinations, the answer is yes. But is it a good idea?

That’s a more complex issue. Trust your gut.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): To depict what lay beyond the limits of the known world, medieval mapmakers sometimes drew pictures of dragons and sea serpents. Their images conveyed the sense that these territories were uncharted and perhaps risky to explore.

There were no actual beasties out there, of course. I think it’s possible you’re facing a comparable situation. The frontier realm you are wandering through may seem to harbor real dragons, but I’m guessing they are all of the imaginary variety. That’s not to say you should entirely let down your guard. Mix some craftiness in with your courage. Beware of your mind playing tricks.

Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.” Do you agree with Flaubert, Leo? I don’t. I say that you can live with such resilient innocence that your heart’s leaves grow back after a big wind, and become evermore lush and hardy as you age. You can send down such deep, strong roots and stretch your branches toward the sun with such vigor that your heart always has access to the replenishment it needs to flourish. The coming weeks will provide evidence that what I say is true.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Whenever I close my eyes and seek psychic visions of your near future, I see heroic Biblical scenes. Moses is parting the Red Sea. Joseph is interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. Jesus is feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. What’s the meaning of my reveries? Well, this psychic stuff is tricky, and I hesitate to draw definitive conclusions. But if I had to guess, I’d speculate that you are ripe to provide a major blessing or perform an unprecedented service for people you care about.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In a cartoon, Tom Gauld outlines “The Four Undramatic Plot Structures”: 1. “The hero is confronted by an antagonistic force and ignores it until it goes away.” 2. “The protagonist is accused of wrongdoing, but it’s not a big thing and soon gets sorted out.” 3. “The heroine is faced with a problem, but it’s really difficult, so she gives up.” 4. “A man wants something. Later, he’s not so sure. By suppertime he’s forgotten all about it.” In my astrological opinion, Gemini, you should dynamically avoid all four of those fates. Now is a time for you to take brave, forceful action as you create dramatic plot twists that serve your big dreams.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright,” said heavyweight German philosopher Walter Benjamin, a fellow Cancerian. I am happy to report that there’s a good chance you will soon be blessed with an extraordinary measure of this worry-free selfawareness. And when you do — when you are basking in an expanded self-knowledge infused with self-love and self-appreciation — some of your chronic fear will drop away, and you will have at your disposal a very useful variety of happiness.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “As you get older, the heart sheds its leaves like a tree,” said French novelist Gustave Flaubert.

“You cannot hold out against certain winds.

“I will not wait to love as best as I can,” says writer Dave Eggers. “We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” That’s your keynote for the coming weeks, Virgo. That’s your wakeup call and the rose-scented note under your pillow and the message scrawled in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. If there is any part of you that believes love will be better or fuller or more perfect in the future, tell that part of you to shut up and embrace this tender command: Now is the time to love with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I love the song “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,”

by Pink Floyd. Other favorites are Tool’s “Third Eye” and Yo La Tengo’s “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind.” But all of these tunes have a similar problem. They’re more than 10 minutes long.

Even before my attention span got shrunk by the Internet, listening to them tested my patience.

Now I have to forcefully induce a state of preternatural relaxation if I want to hear them all the way through. In the coming days, Libra, don’t be like a too-much-of-a-good-thing song. Be willing to edit yourself. Observe concise boundaries. Get to the point quickly. (You’ll be rewarded for it.)

climb the 29,029-foot peak. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh got into a bathyscaphe and sailed to the lowest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It took them four hours and 47 minutes to go down 36,070 feet. Based on my analysis of your astrological omens, I think the operative metaphor for you in the coming weeks should be the deep descent, not the steep ascent. It’s time to explore and hang out in the depths rather than the heights.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The African country of Ivory Coast has two different capital cities. Yamoussoukro is the official capital, while Abidjan is the actual capital, where the main governmental action takes place. I suspect there’s a comparable split in your personal realm, Capricorn: a case of mixed dominance.

Maybe that’s a good thing; maybe it allows for a balance of power between competing interests.

Or perhaps it’s a bit confusing, causing a split in your attention that hampers you from expressing a unified purpose. Now would be a favorable

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve gone on three book tours and done my spoken-word show in scores of bookstores. But one of my favorite author events took place at the Avenue C Laundromat in New York City’s East Village. There I performed with two other writers as part of the “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose” reading series. It was a boisterous event.

All of us authors were extra loose and goofy, and the audience offered a lot of funny, good-nature heckling. The unusual location freed everyone up to have maximum amusement. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, might thrive by doing what you do best in seemingly out-ofcontext situations. If you’re not outright invited to do so, I suggest you invite yourself.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sneaking around isn’t necessary, Scorpio. There’s no useful power to be gained by hiding information or pursuing secret agendas. This is not a time when it’s essential for you to be a master of manipulation who’s 10 steps ahead of everyone else. For now, you are likely to achieve maximum success and enjoy your life the most if you are curious, excitable and transparent. I invite you to embody the mindset of a creative, precocious child who has a loving mommy and daddy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It took them seven weeks to

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SERVICE WORKER {BY ABBY MENDELSON}

IT’S ENTIRELY INFORMAL, a man standing in front of 40-odd people

in a large, open, high-ceiling room in an industrial park. Jacket, no tie, he is easy, affable, commonsensical. He speaks about normal failures — ego, fear, complacency — things that cripple leaders and organizations.

“We believe that people are made to be given work that is of true and deep service,” John Stahl-Wert says. “Work that matters to the world. Work where they can experience joy and satisfaction. Work where, at the end of the day, their efforts counted.”

Murmurs, head nods all around.

“A great company is a great company because lots and lots of people show up every day intent on doing great things. The question is how you build that culture,” he says.

In a career that’s gone from pulpit to practical, Stahl-Wert, an ordained Mennonite minister, now brings traditional Protestant Faithe and Workes to goodness and decency in the workplace.

In his early days, he founded the Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience (PULSE) which helped young graduates engage with their community through service. These days he helps companies cultivate future leaders through his company Serving Ventures.

he asked.

Opening PULSE, Stahl-Wert went to career fairs, talked with collegians who couldn’t figure out what to do post-grad. “You tell me what’s in your heart,” he said, “and I’ll introduce you to organizations that are cool. And we’ll see what happens.”

What happened are hundreds of twentysomethings over two decades who have lent a hand to everything from JobLinks to Habitat for Humanity.

Then there was the Union Project, where he spearheaded the transformation of a derelict and defrocked East End church into a community center, now home to everything from beauty pageants to Zumba classes.

“Take a snapshot of PULSE and the Union Project,” he says, “and you’d have my heart.”

Adding a berth at the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, where he worked with businesspeople making positive change, after a dozen years, Stahl-Wert felt ready to open his own shop. At Serving Ventures, he now does a bit of everything, including teaching and coaching people “how to build companies that people want to work for — because they are good places to work and because they bring good to the world.”

“I’M FAR MORE INTERESTED IN SERVING SOMEONE WHO HAS A DREAM AND A PASSION THAN IN SERVING MY OWN.” “People need positive affirmation to maintain a future focus,” he says. “But they also need urgency — a compelling emotional reason to care, a way to make work personal, a direct connection to their lives and everything that they cherish.

“I love it when human beings see ways they can contribute. I love businesspeople who create jobs — and solve planetary problems.”

Scion of Lancaster Mennonites, son of a farm-country carpenter, “growing up I had crafts,” he recalls, “but no arts and letters.”

At age 9 he discovered novels and realized, he says, “I was part of a large human family.”

A year later he saw Funny Girl at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. “Until then, I hadn’t been out of the cornfields,” Stahl-Wert says.

“That experience ruined me for the country.”

In his early 20s, with a freshly minted social-work degree from a Mennonite college, he became director of a volunteer service program, supervising some 300 young people in 30 urban and rural impoverished communities. Moving hither and yon, some 25 years ago he found himself in Pittsburgh, pastor of a Mennonite church.

After six years and three churches, in ’94, he dove back into social work. “Why don’t we give college students something worth doing?”

With such blue-chip clients as Children’s Hospital, Bombardier, Fannie Mae and Merrill Lynch, among others, Stahl-Wert tells his clients, “Never say, ‘It’s just grubby business.’ Work is sacred, and we seek to integrate a life of faith and a life of work.”

“The DNA in that,” he adds, “comes from my Mennonite upbringing. Mennonite business teaching stresses servitude — and servitude is stitched into a Mennonite boy’s soul. That shows in my work.”

“One thought underlines everything,” he adds. “I’m far more interested in serving someone who has a dream and a passion than in serving my own.”

Back on the shop floor, back among people with safety glasses and plastic pocket protectors, he’s talking quietly, forcefully. “Let’s not do what we’re supposed to do,” he shakes his head. “Let’s do what we should we do. Let’s create that.”

Smiles and approval all around.

“The work that you do demands you to work with others who have your back,” he gestures about him. “God has designed us to need other people. We are essential to each other. So find people who are awesome in the things you aren’t. And hook up.”

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