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May 12 after the Pennsylvania State Senate overwhelmingly passed its second medical-marijuana bill in eight months didn’t last long before the hangover set in.

Days after the senate voted 40-7 to pass legislation legalizing the use of cannabis extracts for medicinal purposes, House Speaker Mike Turzai sent the bill to the house health committee and into the hands of state Rep. Matt Baker (R-Wellsboro), the committee’s chair and a staunch opponent of such legalization. And that leaves many wondering whether it’s ever going to leave.

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a cannabis-advocacy group. “And even if it would somehow get out of committee and pass, we’ll likely not see a single gram of Pennsylvania-produced medicine before 2018 because we’ll need a complete set of regulations drawn up.

Despite stalling in the state house, medical-marijuana legalization could still rise from the ashes {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} “I don’t see any of this happening in the very near future.”

But while things might look bleak, state Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery) says the law isn’t dead yet.

Legalization efforts in Pennsylvania have been around for years but didn’t gain

any real headway until last year, when conservative Republican Sen. Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) joined the long-time efforts of Leach, the progressive Democrat, after meeting with the parents of seriously ill children who believed they could be helped by medical cannabis. Many families have spoken out about children with an array of physical ailments, including very dangerous seizure disorders that can produce hundreds of seizures per day. Since legalization has hit other parts of the country, a lot of anecdotal evidence has surfaced indicating that these children have been helped by oils extracted from cannabis.

A bill was originally passed in October and died after Turzai sent it to the house judiciary committee. That bill never reached the house floor for a vote, and there are fears that the same thing may be happening now.

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that not only does he still believe a bill can be passed this year, he suspects it could potentially be on the governor’s desk by the end of summer.

“I’m very confident that this can get done,” Leach says. “Some people in the general public panicked when the bill was sent to the health committee, but I always knew it would happen.” Leach says there has been negotiation with house leadership, which he says is working on its own bill, one that would provide medical marijuana “in a wide variety of forms for a wide variety of medical conditions.” However, he adds, “the core of the bill will largely remain the same and it will then be sent to the appropriate committee.” Asked whether he worries about any new bill being steamrolled, Leach replies: “I don’t think the house would draft a bill just to send it to the health committee.”

But still, for the patients who say they need the medicine, the delays have been frustrating. Supporters of the measure question how one or two conservative legislators can stop a bill that, according to a 2014 Quinnipiac Poll, is backed by 85 percent of Pennsylvanians.

“It’s frustrating, because we believe that if we can get it to the floor, it will pass,” says state Rep. Ed Gainey (D-Pittsburgh), a staunch supporter of the bill in the house.

“It may have been a deliberate move by leadership, but right now that doesn’t matter. The bill is in the health committee with Rep. Baker, so that’s where we have to take the fight.”

“The last time this measure was passed it wasn’t supported by Gov. Tom Corbett,” continues Gainey. “This time, we have the

governor [Tom Wolf, who favors medical marijuana]. We have to continue to apply pressure and not let up.”

WHEN IT COMES to medical marijuana,

however, Matt Baker seems immune to outside pressures. In an email interview with City Paper, he supplied information that he says has formed his opinion on why medical marijuana should not be passed at the state level until it is given full study and approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration. He also says he favors expanded clinical trials of a drug that claims to be a substitute for medical marijuana.

He points to marijuana’s labeling as a Schedule 1 narcotic under federal law along with heroin, LSD and meth. He sent letters from groups like the American Epilepsy Society, American Psychiatric Association and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society that show their stance against legalization.

He also sent an email containing more than 150 links entitled, “Scientific Studies Showing the Dangers of Marijuana.”

Add to that three committee hearings on the matter and Baker appears as unmoved toward legalization as ever. “[F]ederal law places Marijuana as being so potentially harmful and dangerous that it has listed the drug as a schedule 1 drug right next to Heroin, LSD, Ecstasy, Meth, and many other drugs. This is in stark contrast to marijuana activists claiming Marijuana is harmless and should be approved as medicine,” Baker writes. “I have not found a preponderance of evidence that would support putting either children or adults at risk of serious adverse health reactions for

“I’M BECOMING MORE AND MORE SKEPTICAL THAT WE’LL EVER BE ABLE TO PASS ANY SORT OF CANNABIS LEGISLATION IN THIS STATE.”

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cannabis oils that have not conclusively been proven to be safe, effective or even have the necessary support by the American Epilepsy Society, FDA, American Academy of Pediatrics, … and many other groups too numerous to recite.

“I do actually care about this issue deeply and it is why I have now read nearly a thousand pages of reports, research, articles both pro and con both medical, scientific and anecdotal and I truly hope that extensive research and trials prove once and for all if in fact marijuana or its derivatives can be safely and effectively demonstrated to be used as medicine and whether its benefits outweigh its risks to help children and adults.”

Proponents of the measure, however, say Baker’s evidence is conveniently tailored to fit his opinions. For example, Nightingale says that very few people even argue anymore that marijuana should continue to be a Schedule 1 narcotic. “Cocaine is a Schedule 2 drug,” he says. “Is the representative really suggesting that marijuana is more dangerous than cocaine? It’s all reefer-madness bullshit.”

In May, Leach sent Baker an email expressing his concerns over the studies on which the Republican was basing his opinions.

Leach told Baker that “these articles have nothing to do with the Medical Marijuana bill the Senate passed. And I hope you really consider this. There is an enormous amount of unnecessary human suffering at stake.”

Leach wrote that Baker’s citations are all “derivative of a couple of studies that examine the affects of marijuana on

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young teens with developing brains who frequently use marijuana recreationally.”

He wrote that the senate bill authorizes medical use for certain conditions and won’t change the law regarding recreational use.

Leach adds that the studies Baker cites don’t directly address medical-marijuana use. “They don’t compare the risks of marijuana with the risks of the alternatives. If you look at the side-effects and risks of the drugs [we] prescribe now for epilepsy, they make long-term psychic changes [look] extremely mild,” Leach writes in the email.

“Their common side-effects include liver failure, kidney failure, respiratory failure, blindness and death. Chronic pain, which again, is extremely rare in children and teenagers, is treated with Oxycontin, Percoset, and morphine. All of which are far more damaging (and often less effective) than anyone’s ever alleged cannabis to be.

“The one approved condition which does impact young children and teens disproportionately is epilepsy. But the strains effective for treatment of Dravet’s syndrome and other forms of childhood epilepsy are high CBD, low THC strains. These strains are not psychoactive. They do not get people high. And they do not risk the sort of damage to a developing brain that you are concerned about.”

Leach concluded his email to Baker: “This is an issue that should transcend ideology. That is why it passed the Senate overwhelmingly. That’s why liberals such as me, and conservatives such as Senators Folmer, Wagner, Corman and Bartolotta voted for it. Anyone can get sick[,] Matt. Anyone can have someone in their family who desperately needs this help.

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“FDA approval is impossible,” Nightingale says. “The government will never fund studies for medical marijuana. But when you try and present these [facts] to [Baker] or talk to him about this, he suddenly becomes tone-deaf. Many of these links that he provides lead to articles about studies, not studies, and a lot of them have already been debunked.

“Then you have links to things that aren’t relevant to the topic at hand. What good is it to talk about the dangers of driving under the influence of marijuana when we’re trying to talk about how we can get medicine into the hands of people who need it most?”

Like Leach, Gainey says he is hopeful that a bill can still be passed this summer.

For the sake of those in need, he hopes it’s sooner rather than later.

“We can work together and tweak this

legislation if necessary, but let’s not be an obstructionist,” Gainey says. “How can we continue to let these people and their children be held hostage by politics? These parents would walk through hell and back for their babies, and they will continue to fight because they’ve seen that this medicine works and they will do what they have to do for their children.

“We owe these people a good explanation about why we aren’t giving them the medicine they need.”

For his part, Baker says it’s his caring for the health of families that has kept him from moving this bill. He writes, “I want only the best medicine that is proven to be safe and effective for our children and my heart breaks for children and parents who have to endure very serious epileptic seizure activity.”

If he truly feels that way, say Gainey and others, the bill should be removed from committee and put up for a vote.

“But they will never do that because they know the bill will pass and they don’t want that,” Gainey says. “How am I so sure that they know it will pass? Because if they thought it would fail, they’d put it up for a vote tomorrow.”

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old; Clayton Brunson, a 27-year-old father of one; Kaamil Arnold, a 36-year-old shot and killed on the Fourth of July; Tina Crawford, a 34-year-old witness in a federal drug case; and Deondre Kenney, a 15-year-old who was found shot to death in a car. These are just some of the lives lost between May and September in Pittsburgh over the past few years.

In the city, rising temperatures in the summer months tend to correlate with an increase in gun homicides. Over the past decade, according to an analysis of homicide data by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July and August topped the list for the months with the most homicides.

Now, community activists are predicting this summer could be even worse than previous years. Since May 25, three shootings have occurred in the city, and activists say the growing trend of violence spawned from disputes on social media and the lack of summer youth activities could drive this season’s gun-death rate above last year’s.

“I don’t want to speak it into existence, but there’s a chance of it being a pretty bad summer,” says Taili Thompson, executive director of Youth Opportunities Development, a nonprofit that works with at-risk youth. “We just have to get out in front of this stuff.”

This summer, City Paper will launch a new project to shed light on gun homicides in the city. CP’s Summer Gun-Homicide Report, which can be found on www.pghcitypaper.com, will take a closer look at the lives behind the numbers: Who are the victims and perpetrators, and how are their communities being impacted?

Through his current work with youth in YOD, and his former involvement with One Vision One Life, a now-defunct violenceintervention organization, Thompson has seen the trend of increased violence during the summer for many years. He says this trend is tied to scarce employment opportunities for youth during the months they are out of school.

And in recent years, Thompson says, youth violence has been increasing as a result of social-media sites like Facebook and video-sharing sites like YouTube, where arguments escalate to brawls in Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods.

“Social media plays a significant part,” says Thompson. “We’ve had an increase in violence over the last two or three years and I attribute that to social media. Some of these things that have happened, we’ve

seen them coming. If you take social media away, some individuals wouldn’t even know the other person doesn’t like them.”

Richard Garland, a visiting professor in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and former executive director of One Vision One Life, has been monitoring the growing impact of social media as well. For nearly a decade, he worked with One Vision, intervening in disputes between local gangs. But he says what’s happening on the Internet is different.

“Social media is killing us right now,” says Garland. “I call them ‘Internet gangsters’ now, because you can post a lot of stuff on the Internet and think you won’t be threatened because it’s the Internet, but it catches up to you.”

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And activists say violence is also promoted on these websites through videos of fights and pictures of teenagers holding firearms.

“I talk to these kids, and it’s always about social media, what someone said on Facebook,” says Amber Sloan, another activist working to curb street violence. “What happens is these kids will make Facebook pages and … there are guns all over their page.

Social media is out of control. They actually plan to meet up and fight over Facebook.”

For its part, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police says it routinely monitors social media. And with the help of a communitypolicing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, public-safety spokesperson Sonya Toler says the bureau is working to “improve its ability to use data to predict hotspots and work with the community to prevent crime.”

“The main focus of the Bureau is to decrease violent crime no matter what time of the year it occurs,” Toler writes in an email.

“To that end Chief [Cameron] McLay has reassigned some detectives back to uniform patrol so as to have more of a presence in the areas where homicides are more likely to occur. In addition, the Bureau has put a concerted effort into building and improving upon relationships with communities.

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Police said they received their “strongest investigative lead” in the case of 80 frozen pizzas stolen from a warehouse in Gambell, Alaska, when John Koozaata, 29, and Lewis Oozeva, 21, called the police station and tried to sell the pizzas to on-duty officers.

(Anchorage’s Alaska Dispatch) Police who found a 43-year-old man covered with blood in Suffern, N.Y., said the victim said his son stabbed him several times in the head with a screwdriver during an argument. After putting out a description of suspect Jared Hudson, 23, officers received a call from police headquarters that a man fitting Hudson’s description had just been spotted running into the station to use the bathroom.

He was promptly arrested. (New York’s The Journal News)

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Daimler’s Wolfgang Bernhard said autonomous trucks were likely to be on the road before driverless cars because they operate “in a less complicated traffic environment” on open highways, whereas passenger cars spend more time in congested urban settings. The 18-wheelers still need human drivers to perform more challenging off-highway maneuvers, such as backing into loading docks. Bernhard said he expects other states to join Nevada, resulting in a regulatory framework and providing an incentive to truck operators, who would save on fuel and wages. “These guys have to make money,” he pointed out. (Reuters) Google Inc. disclosed that 11 of its driverless vehicles have been involved in minor accidents on California roads since testing began six years ago. The incidents involved “light damage, no injuries,” Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car project, explained.

“Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.” (Associated Press)

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cement-based construction,” said Ritwick Dutta, an Indian environmental lawyer. “That’s why the sand mafia has become so huge.” (Wired)

The world is running low on sand, a finite resource that’s the material basis of glass and concrete. Both are vital to construction, the prime user of sand. Sand is also used in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels and silicon chips. Demand is causing riverbeds and beaches worldwide to be stripped bare to provide the more than 40 billion tons of sand that people consume every year. That figure is increasing due to the worldwide construction boom, particularly in the Arab world, whose abundant desert sand is unsuitable for concrete. As a result, criminal gangs in some 70 countries are dredging up tons of sand to sell on the black market. In India, for example, “sand mafias” have killed hundreds of people, including police officers and government officials, to capitalize on demand for sand. “The fundamental problem is the massive use of

Fred Habermel, 72, filed a lawsuit against Norton Healthcare for losing part of his brain. The complaint said doctors at Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Ky., extracted a piece of brain tissue to use to develop a vaccine to inject into Habermel’s head in an experimental procedure to fight a brain tumor that had resisted previous treatment. “I can see losing a blood sample, but how do you lose brain tissue?” his attorney, Gary Weiss asked. “I can’t imagine worse negligence.” Weiss said Habermel doesn’t have enough of the affected tissue left in his brain to undergo the procedure again. Despite his client’s poor prognosis, Weiss noted one silver lining: The hospital told them they wouldn’t have to pay for the surgery.

(Louisville’s The Courier-Journal) Jennifer Burbella, a nursing student at Pennsylvania’s Misericordia University, is suing the school after failing a required course twice because, she claims, her professor didn’t do enough to help her pass. She acknowledged that he provided a distraction-free environment and extra time for her final exam the second time, but said she “broke down and wept more than once” because he didn’t respond to telephoned questions as he had promised.

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Melanie Nash, 53, admitted smashing the concrete vault that held her father’s corpse, along with three other people, and rifling through the casket in search of his “real will” because she felt she hadn’t received her proper inheritance. Instead, she found only vodka and cigarettes. Police in Colebrook, N.H., discovered the crime the next day when a patrolman reported “the gravesite of Eddie Nash did not look right,” Judge Peter Bornstein said when he sentenced Nash to 1½ to three years in prison. “That is the understatement of the century.” (Associated Press)

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FAST PIZZA {BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN} If timeliness is next to godliness, then Kerien Fitzpatrick is a saint. Of pizza.

Standing on the back patio of Arsenal Cider House, Fitzpatrick is manning what he calls an “open-air pizzeria” — a mobile pizza unit that he boasts can churn out a pizza in 90 seconds.

“People are amazed when they see us at wedding receptions and [can] handle 200 people,” says Fitzpatrick of Wood Fired Flatbreads, a roaming enterprise that he operates with his wife, Kim. The couple has two separate rigs, each fueled by kiln-dried oak that heats the oven to precisely 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That temperature allows Fitzpatrick to cook pizzas quickly, with almost no room for error.

With a reasonable dose of journalistic skepticism, I ordered a basic $9 margherita pizza (fancier options with other toppings are also available).

Magically, it spent just one minute, 16 seconds in the oven — and was delivered four-and-a-half minutes after I ordered it.

But while the result is tasty — Fitzpatrick notes they are committed to fresh ingredients — it’s not the same as a pizza that has spent 10 minutes in an oven. The crust, for one, tends to be less uniformly cooked: crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside. And the end product is decidedly thin (which both allows for fast cooking and explains the “flatbread” nomenclature).

Fitzpatrick is no apologist for his pizza.

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This made the opening of Senti Restaurant and Wine Bar, an unabashedly upscale Italian restaurant in the traditional finedining vein, a bit of a jolt to our expectations. The tradition lies not so much in the food, but in the plush furnishings, white linen and black-tie service. What the attentive, professional and gracious servers bring is Italian — not Italian-American — food done up in modern style, which is to say with artfully composed plates, modest (but sufficient) portions and awareness of trendy foods like pork belly. The overall effect is what we might imagine a tastefully contemporary restaurant in an Italian city to be like.

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Some of Senti’s polish derives from its location in a new apartment building at Doughboy Square. Its storefront spans quite a bit of sidewalk glass, extending into a recessed courtyard. Senti eschews

SENTI RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR 3473 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-4347 HOURS: Tue.-Sat. lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; dinner Tue.-Thu. 5-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5-10 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.

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CP APPROVED the current trend for rustic neutrals in favor of a crisp color scheme that contrasts stark white with plush purple, accented by bold, abstract paintings on the walls. A long booth — more like a couch — upholstered

in white leather breaks up one of the dining rooms, and the corners make for cozy, if not private, dining.

For the most part, we found the food worthy of its posh surroundings. The menu is almost as minimalist as the decor (not a fault in our book — we appreciate a kitchen that knows its strengths). But the daily specials fill in the gaps, and sounded so good we were tempted to order them almost exclusively. One that we couldn’t resist was a housemade mozzarella ball, stuffed with a white anchovy and served atop a slice of local tomato amid arugula pesto and wisteria flowers. The cheese didn’t have the tender texture of buffalo mozzarella but rather something a bit closer to firm, creamy chevre. The anchovy’s assertively briny, but not fishy, flavor made this a glorious morsel.

Cuttlefish with polenta consisted of pliant slices of cephalopod, their texture

similar to that of Portobello mushroom, served alongside a compact wedge of corncake that was neither fluffy nor granular, but more like a firm custard. The textures were the most notable feature of this appetizer, which had flavors so mild that it was almost bland.

Radicchio salad with cream of beans sounded like a balanced flavor combination; we expected the earthy, slightly sweet beans to temper the bitterness of the radicchio. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so. The pureed white beans were too scant, and even when we scooped a lot onto a single piece of radicchio, its bitterness was overpowering. Most of this plate returned to the kitchen.

A special of grill-smoked filet mignon on a bed of springtime risotto was a great success, however. The meat was cooked perfectly, with the grill imparting just enough flavor to the mild steak without smothering it in char. The risotto had been cooked in a rich broth and included finely diced, chewy, savory bits of prosciutto, ramps and white asparagus, each component distinct but delectably complementary.

Duck breast was served over more custard-like polenta and slathered with pevarada, an oily sauce studded with finely minced liver that enlivened the polenta but was superfluous with the beautiful, rich, rosy fowl.

Lasagna alla Veneta, a.k.a. Bolognese, was intensely creamy with bechamel enveloping rich ground meat between stacks of tender noodles. Amid all Senti’s modern adaptations, this was an example of an Old World classic that should instantly win over any American, despite how it differs from the familiar red-sauce version of this dish.

Spaghetti in Salsa here means an olive oil-based sauce featuring sautéed, sliced onion and chopped anchovies. This was so dramatically different from any pasta sauce we have ever had that, despite its simplicity, it took a few bites to acclimate to its taste. But once we did, we fell for its unique combination of pungent, fruity and umami notes, so much more delicately composed than that of traditional tomatoand-meat sauce.

Chocolate bread pudding for dessert was every rich, moist, cocoa-licious thing we had hoped for, even if the rosemaryinfused ice cream was crystalline.

By keeping portion sizes eminently reasonable, Senti is able to offer its excellent Italian fare at prices far more affordable than those at comparably fancy restaurants. Indeed, by far the dearest items on the menu are the wines, which range from expensive to stratospheric. We’d rather swoon at the food than the beverage bill, but at Senti, you can do both.

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LONG-AWAITED WIGLE BOURBON Slice…Nice Locally sourced ingredients lead to deep flavor Don’t panic, but rumored bourbon shortages are real. With companies like Buffalo Trace and Maker’s Mark acknowledging that their stores look a bit low to meet consumer demand, it would be easy for brown-liquor enthusiasts to despair. Fortunately, Pittsburghers won’t have to suffer.

On May 29, Wigle Whiskey (www. wiglewhiskey.com) released its first bourbon. “We said we’d never make a bourbon,” says Wigle Distillery co-owner Meredith Grelli, “but people ask for it every day.” Always up for a challenge, Wigle staff found a way to reconcile bourbon distilling with their company’s off-beat spirit. They sought out organic ingredients from local sources, dug through local history, and taste-tested their way to the release of two batches, one of cask strength and one of 92 proof. The bourbon is made with organic, heirloom Wapsie Valley corn from Weatherbury farms in Washington County; soft winter wheat; and malted two-row barley.

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“WE SAID WE’D NEVER MAKE A BOURBON, BUT PEOPLE ASK FOR IT EVERY DAY.” Wigle’s forays into Pennsylvania’s rich history of spirit production have mostly centered on rye whiskey, its primary product. A look into bourbon history reveals that this would be, by most accounts, the first commercially distilled Pennsylvania bourbon in about 40 years.

Bomberger’s Distillery, near Schaefferstown, was the last bastion of the liquor, but hadn’t made bourbon for years before it closed, in 1989. The last remaining bourbon made there, A.H. Hirsch Reserve, a 16-year-old sour mash, is considered one of the world’s best by connoisseurs. It’s also among the most expensive. A bottle from the PLCB’s cache goes for $1,520.

The first release of Wigle’s bourbon will be about 500 bottles, and will first be available to Pittsburgh. A mid-May sneak peak at (or, rather, taste of) the 92-proof whiskey revealed a delightfully deeply flavored spirit. Vanilla and caramel notes dominated, and its velvety drinkability made it ideal for a straight pour. The cask-strength, while also complex in flavor, is arguably only for bourbon enthusiasts with bacchanalian leanings.

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724-940-7777. Adjacent orchards are one of the attractions at this comfortable, clubby suburban restaurant. The Italian-inspired menu features the fruits of these orchards in several apple-based dishes, including apple ravioli and apple bruschetta. Bella Frutteto combines an innovative but unfussy menu with friendly service and congenial seating. KE BENJAMIN’S WESTERN AVENUE BURGER BAR. 900 Western Ave., North Side.

412-224-2163. A casual-chic burger-and-sandwich joint is a tasty addition to the North Side.

The menu consists of a matrix of burgers (two sizes, nine topping combos, beef or veggie patty), four other sandwiches and eight beer-friendly “snacks” (from nuts to a charcuterie platter).

Prices aren’t diner-cheap, but then some burgers come with red-wine-braised onion and truffle mustard. KE CHINA STAR. 100 McIntyre Square, 7900 McKnight Road, North Hills. 412-364-9933. Though a standard Chinese-American menu available, the real action is on the humbly Xeroxed Sichuan menu that’s all in Chinese. Fortunately, there is a translated version available, and the names read like a gourmand’s exotic fantasy: duck with devil’s tongue yam, rabbits in flaming pan. These authentic dishes may sound mysterious, but they’re delicious. KE COCA CAFÉ. 3811 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-621-3171.

This café is somehow hip but not pretentious. Variety predominates: The omelets alone include smoked salmon, wild mushroom, roasted vegetable, sun-dried tomato pesto and four-cheese.

(Coca also caters to vegans, with options like scrambled tofu in place of eggs.) JF GREEN FOREST. 655 Rodi Road, Penn Hills. 412-371-5560. Tucked into a nondescript office plaza is this churrascaria — a Brazilian all-you-can-eat restaurant. Servers pull barbequed meats right off the rotisserie grill and present them at your table, ready to carve off as much freshly cooked meat as you like. There are hot and cold buffets as well, but savvy diners load up on the juicy meats. KE

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Johnny’s {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} will find authentic Korean recipes refreshingly not reconstituted for timid Americans — no egg rolls or Chinese-American stir-fries.

Dumplings contain kimchi, and the soup is pumpkin. Entrees include the more-familiar bulgogi (barbecued beef), as well as bibimbap, in which meat and veggies are mixed with rice. KE

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Nu Modern Jewish Bistro JOHNNY’S. 112 Westinghouse Ave., Wilmerding. 412-824-6642.

This Wilmerding institution offers well-prepared Italian-American cuisine and a welcoming atmosphere around a horseshoe bar. The menu offers the expected standards in the pasta, veal, chicken, meat and seafood categories. But overall, the preparations are fairly up-todate: exceptionally bright and slightly chunky marinara, fluffily battered calamari and legitimately spicy arrabiatta. KE THE LIBRARY. 2304 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-381-0517. The entrée list at this bookish-themed bistro is short, usually a good sign that the chef is focusing on the strengths of his kitchen and the

season’s freshest foods. Dishes revolve around the staples of meat, seafood and pasta, but in fearless and successful preparations that make the menu a worthwhile read. KE NAKAMA JAPANESE. 1611 E. Carson St., South Side.

412-381-6000. Pittsburghers are crazy about this sushi bar/ steakhouse, and every weekend pretty people crowd inside to watch the knife-wielding chefs.

Presentation is key for customers and restaurant alike: The interior is smart, the chefs entertaining, and the food is good, if pricey. LE NICKY’S THAI KITCHEN. 856 Western Ave., North Side (412-321-8424) and 903 Penn Ave., Downtown (412-4718424). This restaurant offers outstanding Thai cuisine — from familiar options to chef’s specials that are truly special, such as gaprow lad kao (a Thai stir-fry) and salmon mango curry. The flavors here are best described as intense, yet without overwhelming the fresh ingredients. KF NU MODERN JEWISH BISTRO. 1711 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill.

412-422-0220. This modern take on the traditional Jewish deli makes the argument that such Eastern European cuisine deserves to be served alongside the world’s favorites. Stop in for matzoh-ball soup, egg creams, blintzes and classic deli sandwiches, including one made with “Montreal meat,” a sort of Canadian hybrid of corned beef and pastrami. JF OSTERIA 2350. 2350 Railroad St., Strip District. 412-281-6595. You won’t get better casual Italian cooking for your money than here. The menu has been pared to the essentials of Italian cuisine: antipasti, pizza, panini

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PALAZZO 1837 RISTORANTE. 1445 Washington Road, North Strabane. 724-223-1837. This restored mansion provides a charming setting for fine dining.

The menu is primarily Italian, with traditional but thoughtfully considered dishes. The hearty, but refined, farfalle rustica pairs wild-boar sausage with wild mushrooms and a sherry sage cream sauce, while housemade crepes substitute for noodles in the crepe lasagna. LE

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412-431-4668. The Carson Street bar and nightclub offers a top-notch sandwich and salad menu, by bringing creativity, quality preparation and a knack for well-selected ingredients to the burgers, sandwiches and appetizers. Options include: shrimp skewers with smoked peppers, corn-andblack-bean fritters and a roster of inventive sliders. JE

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Long before Sovren ever dreamed of becoming a rapper, he had visions of rock stardom. After hearing Drake’s 2007 project “Comeback Season,” his perspective changed, helping him find the path he leads now.

“I feel like people look at hip hop and see kind of what rock used to be. That outlet for the youth of the era, whether political or social, or whatever it is. People look for that message,” Sovren says.

Being able to express himself through his music is one of Sovren’s favorite aspects of hip hop. But with expression come outside thoughts and opinions, and negative perceptions are what Sovren says he likes the least about the hiphop community.

“People think that hip hop has to stay where it was 20-30 years ago and it can’t grow,” Sovren says. “They think it’s only drugs, money and women. Or it’s only violence and killing, only having a negative effect.”

Sovren describes his music as “innovative” and about the “sonic experience.” There’s a self-proclaimed Drake influence, but he also brings to mind artists like Chicago’s Lupe Fiasco. His sound differentiates him from most in the local scene, using a darker undertone.

Songs incorporate sounds you wouldn’t normally hear on the radio, such as the 911 dispatcher on his song “Bad Dream,” from the recent Blues The New Black EP. Sovren plans to continue releasing singles in the coming summer months.

After that, he may have a new EP ready for release.

“I’m not trying to impress you with lyrics; I’m not trying to necessarily impress you with flow. With the beat I use, I’m trying express to you the overall sound,” he says.

“Expression” is a word that comes up in Sovren’s vocabulary more than with the average person. This is because he isn’t just a rapper, but an artist, using his voice and a beat instead of ink and canvas.

“Sovren is more than person, he’s an idea. The idea of Sovren is, everything is a pink matter: you can choose to create whatever you like out of it, and currently my tool of expression is music,” he says.

“The end goal is true artistry, and being able to work within all mediums.”

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NOVEL APPROACH {BY CARALYN GREEN}

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HERE’S ONE WAY to describe Kate

Tempest, which is as a Ted Hughes Award-winning poet, rapper, playwright and novelist who was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize for her debut album Everybody Down.

This way is complex, yet too simple. It buries the truth that first and foremost, Kate Tempest is a storyteller.

Fresh off of being selected as one of 2014’s Next Generation Poets — an honor bestowed just once each decade — and a New York Times profile that quotes Billy Bragg describing her performances as “incendiary,” Tempest is in the midst of her first U.S. tour to support Everybody Down. A narrative in 12 chapter-songs about the characters of Becky, Harry and Pete as they muck through their recession-era existence in modern-day London, Everybody Down is written and per-

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formed by Tempest, and produced by Dan Carey, who’s worked with Bat for Lashes and Yeasayer. Tempest, no surprise, is transforming her album into a novel, to be released next year.

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“I know that it’s a hard listen, and I know that it’s quite demanding. At first when we were trying to get a record deal with it, people were like, ‘It’s cool but nobody’s going to want to listen to it, it’s ridiculous, it’s too complicated, there are too many words, it’s too hard,’” says Tempest.

“And actually what I found is that people

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“Incendiary” storyteller: Kate Tempest

have been really blown away by having this opportunity to go in, to build, and to be asked for their attention.”

Born Kate Esther Calvert, Tempest — who is not yet 30 — grew up in South London as a “kind of weird tomboy, chubby, gay kid,” she says. She was a bit of a troublemaker, but scoring a record-store job at age 14 and enrolling at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology (where Adele, Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheeran also studied) helped ground her. She started rapping at 16, got a lit degree from Goldsmiths College in London, then went off performing and publishing in any and all forms, inspired by the artists with whom she found kinship, including E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Lauryn Hill and the Wu-Tang Clan.

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to have an idea and try to get myself to the place where I can make the idea a reality,” says Tempest. “Obviously I have a little doubt, sure, but the thing that I have is this unshakable conviction and this absolute passion and belief in trying to say more, trying to make myself better, more able to do this thing I was born to do.”

Tempest engages in conversation like lines of verse: repetition, the rule of three, a rapid cadence that upticks at the end of a flow — followed by an “innit?” or “d’you understand what I’m saying?” for emphasis and just to check in. A seen-it-all drawl that might mug you on the Tube, then buy you a pint and lend an ear to your tears. She wants to hear your story, even more than she wants to tell hers.

For Tempest, the youngest of five kids with a laborer dad who worked his way through law school, storytelling is “how we kept each other safe, it’s how we keep each other together.”

“I feel like we, as human beings, the way we organize ourselves, our moralities, or communities, is through narratives, stories, fictions we believe in,” says Tempest.

“Like, the organizing principle of any community is the stories that we tell each other about who we want to be, who we don’t want to be. It’s how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. It’s the absolute bedrock of what makes us human.

It’s just part of life, innit?”

Tempest, a cherub-faced white woman with a mess of red-blond curls, is often compared to the Streets’ Mike Skinner. But beyond the accent, she evokes the thrillingly genre-smashing poetics of Kendrick Lamar, or the story-driven folk tradition currently embodied by Laura Marling.

What is it about her art that escapes accusations of tone-deaf cultural appropriation that tend to plague white rappers?

Tempest may be the only rapper who’d respond to a question about Iggy Azalea with a quote from William Blake: “I take my influences and I acknowledge them. William Blake says that if you don’t acknowledge your influence, you’re only holding a candle to the sunshine.”

“The way I respond to everything hip hop taught me is by being me, not trying to be a ‘rapper’,” says Tempest. “So judge me by my work, by the content of my character and what I do. I think it’s a luxury that’s been afforded to men, but I think women are just starting to be able to demand that kind of attention. Like, stop looking at me and listen to me. Listen to what I’m saying. We’ve got a lot to say and we’ve been saying it many different ways for a long time.”

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ON THE RECORD with Alvvays’ Molly Rankin {BY SHAWN COOKE}

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Alvvays

Last year, Toronto’s Alvvays burst down the aisle with an infectious single (“Archie, Marry Me”) and debut album. This weekend, the band plays a free show at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. CP talked to lead singer Molly Rankin about a missed show, cynicism toward marriage and a life outside of music.

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BORDER WHEN YOU MISSED OPENING FOR THE DECEMBERISTS IN PITTSBURGH A COUPLE MONTHS AGO? There are certain borders that are more scrutinizing than others … and this one was rejecting our T-shirts. It’s just, like, a gray thing, depending on how big you are as a band. Sometimes you go through and they demand that you have a carnet, which is really expensive.

For us, it doesn’t financially make sense.

MANY OF YOUR SONGS SEEM TO HAVE A TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO MARRIAGE AND ROMANCE – WHAT INSPIRES THAT? There’s kind of a misconception about “Archie, Marry Me”; it’s really kind of making fun of traditional marriage.

That’s still a huge thing at home, where you find a wife and find a job and buy a house and start a family, and things are so different now economically and environmentally. I don’t even think I’ll ever own a house at this point.

IF YOU WEREN’T PLAYING MUSIC, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM JOB? Initially, I wanted to be a veterinarian, but I feel like at this point, I would want to be some kind of social worker where I help young kids going through bad patches or something — help to counsel them.

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ALVVAYS. 7:30 p.m. Sun., June 7.

Dollar Bank Stage, Downtown. Free. www.3riversartsfest.org

LISTEN UP! You read City Paper’s music coverage every week, but why not listen to it too?

Each Wednesday, music editor Margaret Welsh crafts a Spotify playlist with tracks from artists featured in the music section, and other artists playing around town in the coming days.

Tune in while you read, and judge for yourself whether that indie band’s guitar work is really angular, or if that singer actually sounds like Sandy Denny.

Find it on our music blog, FFW>>, at pghcitypaper.com

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Past Pink: Wire

LIVE WIRE {BY MIKE SHANLEY} WIRE EMERGED during the first wave of

British punk in the late ’70s and became one of the most influential bands of that era. The group’s debut album, Pink Flag, pounded out 21 songs in 36 minutes.

Some lasted less than 30 seconds; some were built largely on a single chord, while others were extremely catchy. Umpteen aspiring bands — virtually every hardcore band in the ‘80s — took cues from that album, to the point where Wire’s name has essentially become akin to an adjective used to describe all that is minimal and aggressive.

Punk rock wasn’t built for longevity, but Wire was, and it moved away from its initial approach almost immediately, channeling punk through a more artistic lens.

Although it disbanded twice since forming in 1976, it never, in active periods, rested on its laurels. The recently released 13th studio album, simply titled Wire, reveals a band with plenty of fire 39 years down the line.

Vocalist and guitarist Colin Newman isn’t fazed by the band’s influence over the years because it’s often reduced to a small fraction of a larger work. “If people only know the ’70s stuff, I find it a bit boring,” he says. “If they listen to everything that we do, then they have a broader idea of what we’re about. I find the obsession with Pink Flag really tedious. From the perspective of now, Pink Flag is probably the most conventional record that Wire has ever made.

Because it’s the one that sounds the most like other people’s records. At the time people thought it was very harsh.”

While the band’s style has evolved over the years, Wire still has the potential to sound harsh. “Harpooning,” which closes the new album, tests the strength of your speakers with eight minutes of low-end throbbing, none of it excessive. It’s a suitable climax to a set that, as always, combines visceral play with verbal play, heavy moments with catchier ones. In lesser hands, a song like “Blogging” might read like an attempt to stay relevant. In Wire’s hands, it’s a droll set of lyrics that place Internet technology in the hands of those present for the birth of Jesus: “Three king researchers/ use Google maps/ Bethlehem manger/ a high-rated app.” Humor “is very much a part of what we do. Always has been. It’s not necessarily always obvious,” Newman says.

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Besides Newman, bassist Graham Lewis and drummer Robert Grey (originally known as Robert Gotobed) have been with the band since its inception. When original Bruce Gilbert departed in 2004, the band didn’t want to replace him, preferring to just recruit a second guitarist for tours.

But Matthew Simms sounded better than a hired gun. “He was more than just filling the parts. It started to feel like we would be crazy to let him go,” says Newman. “As we started to think about the next album [2012’s Change Becomes Us], I just couldn’t really imagine doing it without Matt.”

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Hop Along

Local rockers The Me Toos have a new collection of bluesy, country-tinged rock ’n’ roll — which is entirely different from “rock” or “indie rock” — to share with their friends and fans tonight.

The brand-new self-titled EP, which follows full-length album When Wilkes Met Barre and the All My Creatures EP, offers five tracks that mostly take it easy in the midtempo range (aside from the optimistic, garagey “Baby’s Night Out”). It’s a spirited nod to the heroes of classic-rock radio, with a lo-fi coating for modern listeners. The band takes Howlers tonight with Roulette Father Waves and The Neffs.

John Shawn Cooke 9 p.m.

Misty 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. 412682-0320 or howlers coyotecafe.com

[FOLK] + SAT., JUNE 06 I understand why it’s tough to love Father John Misty: He’s totally irreverent, a little too sincere and might just be a complete caricature of the live-hard-die-fast ’70s songwriters your parents idolized. Hell, they might like Misty (until they make out the “Mascara, blood, ash and cum” line on I Love You, Honeybear’s opening track). You have to question the man’s authenticity, but with love songs as tender and gorgeous as those on Honeybear — even if he’s smothered them with sardonic ruminations — Misty (or, as his family presumably calls him, Josh Tillman) seems to be the real deal. He performs tonight at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall with Mini Mansions. SC 8 p.m.

510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $25-35. 412-462-3444 or www.librarymusichall.com

[INDIE ROCK] + SAT., JUNE 06 Frances Quinlan’s unbelievable switchblade of a

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voice is the first thing we hear on Painted Shut. At first, it’s comparatively gentle and smooth — or shut, if you will. But throughout her band Hop Along’s excellent second album, it pops open to slice up everything in sight.

Some have compared Quinlan’s early freakfolk music to Joanna Newsom, and it’s easy to hear some of the harpist’s trademark cracks and full-bodied growls in her music with Hop Along. Luckily, the Philadelphia-based Quinlan has a lockstep rock band to channel that vocal ruckus. Forget any hockey rivalries — we should be forever indebted to Philly for giving us some of the best recent indie-rock bands. Hop Along plays Cattivo tonight with Field Mouse and Skull Kid. SC 7 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $10-12.

412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com {PHOTO COURTESY OF EMMA ELIZABETH TILLMAN}

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The too-broad term “world music” can be problematic for a number of reasons — mostly for functioning as an open-ended “other” category for music that doesn’t originate in North America or, implicitly, in white culture.

But Leni Stern, a white musician from Germany who came to study at Berklee College of Music and who finally landed in Mali, might earn the misleading genre tag more than most artists.

With her 2007 LP Africa, Stern traded in her American-jazz chops for the traditional music of her new home, and she hasn’t looked back since. For the current tour, stopping tonight at Club Café, Stern’s road-testing some new Senegalese music with her trio comprised of Alioune Faye and Mamadou Ba. SC 8 p.m.

56 S. 12th St., South Side. $12-15. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com

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ROCK/POP THU 04 31ST STREET PUB. The Murder Junkies, Super Fun Time Awesome Party Band, Filthy Lowdown.

Strip District. 412-391-8334.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Eliot Lewis.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. The Skinny Tie Club. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

LAVA LOUNGE. So Death Cannot Find Me, Bryan Vamp, Black Souled Pope. South Side. 412-431-5282.

REX THEATER. The World/Inferno Friendship Society w/ Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Anita Fix, Aurora.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

FRI 05 BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Beagle Brothers & Armadillos.

Strip District. 412-362-0201.

CLUB CAFE. Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas w/ Working Breed, Hard Money. South Side.

412-431-4950.

HAMBONE’S. Rig.1, Middle Children. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

HARD ROCK CAFE. Nasty Habit.

Station Square. 412-481-7625.

CLUB CAFE. Jesse Mader & the INK DIVISION. The Penske Urban Rock Project w/ AMBITION File, Mace Ballard, Playoff the Kid, DJ Climax. South Side.

Beard, Latecomer. Braddock.

412-431-4950.

412-381-1104.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Albion Cross.

LEMONT. Take Two. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Dave LINDEN GROVE. Metro.

Matthews Band. Burgettstown.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

724-947-7400.

MEADOWS CASINO. Billy Price HARVEY WILNER’S. The Woo Band. Washington. 724-503-1200.

Hoo Band. West Mifflin.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. 412-466-1331.

Brimstone Coven, HOLIDAY PARK Argus, Lady Beast.

UNITED METHODIST Millvale. 412-821-4447.

CHURCH. My Only PITTSBURGH Safe Haven. Plum. www. per WINERY. Lean On Me. pa 724-327-6552. pghcitym Bill Withers Tribute. Strip .co KEAN THEATRE. District. 412-566-1000.

The Bronx Wanderers.

SMILING MOOSE. Gibsonia. 724-882-5566.

Delusions of Grandeur, Save Us LEMONT. NightStar.

From The Archon, Greywalker Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

Flock of Walri, Danger Signs, THE R BAR. The Dave Iglar Band.

The Filthy Lowdown. South Side.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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SMILING MOOSE. Rat Tits, THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. The Best Evers The Danzas, Jenny Lewis. Dollar Bank Stage.

Post Traumatik, Westerburg, Downtown. 412-281-8723.

Brazilan Wax. South Side.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Charlie 412-431-4668.

Wheeler Trio. Lawrenceville.

SONNY’S TAVERN. All Kinds 412-682-0177. of Wrong, Will Simmons,

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CLUB CAFE. The Movement w/ The YJJ’s, Stationary Pebbles.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Andrew W.K., The S/cks, Naked Spirit. Bloomfield.

412-345-1059.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Wire w/ Julian Lynch. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

SMILING MOOSE. Serial Hawk, T-Tops, Cyrus Gold, Khees Seriel Hawk, The T-Tops, Cryrus Gold, khees. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SOUTH SIDE RIVERFRONT PARK. Joel Lindsay & The Blvd of the Allies. South Side.

THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. Essential Machine & Alvvays.

Dollar Bank Stage. Downtown.

412-281-8723.

Each week we bring you a new track from a local artist. This week’s song is by Grand Piano, from its newest EP, Sea. Stream or download “Blowfish” for free on FFW>>, our music blog, at pghcitypaper.com.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Miss Massive Snowflake, Scott Fry Experience, South Seas Sneak.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

THE VALLEY HOTEL. King’s Ransom. Clarion.

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FALL INTERNS WANTED City Paper’s editorial team is seeking several interns for the fall. Please send résumé, cover letter and writing samples to the appropriate editor listed below

by July 23, 2015. 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.

MULTIMEDIA INTERN The multimedia intern will produce content for our digital platform at pghcitypaper.com.

The right candidate must be capable of working in the field as well as in the office.

Necessary skills include: recording and editing audio and video, writing and copy-editing, as well as a working knowledge of social media. Apply to multimedia editor Ashley Murray, amurray@pghcitypaper.com.

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.

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Different Places in Space.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Andrew W.K., Bat Zuppel.

Bloomfield. 412-345-1059.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Clean Bandit. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler Street Sessions. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

These tours aren’t slated to come to Pittsburgh, but maybe they’re worth a road trip!

TUE 09 CLUB CAFE. The Dovewires w/ Coronado. CD Release show.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

WED 10 ARSENAL LANES. Next 2 the Tracks. Lawrenceville. 412-683-5992.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Sundials, Lilac Daze, Run Forever, Naked Spirit, Alleys. Bloomfield.

412-345-1059.

SMILING MOOSE. Bloody Diamonds, Daily Grind. South Side.

412-431-4668.

THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. Milo Greene.

Dollar Bank Stage. Downtown.

412-281-8723.

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THU 04 BELVEDERE’S. Neon w/ DJ hatesyou. 80s Night. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

CLUB TABOO. DJ Matt & Gangsta Shak. Homewood.

412-969-0260.

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FRI 05 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BRILLOBOX. Pandemic : Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ NIN. North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side.

412-381-1330.

SAT 06 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.

WED 10 SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B SAT 06 GROWN & SEXY II. Rhythm Band & Teresa Hawthorne.

Strip District. 412-728-4155.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Lil Dicky w/ Joel Kellem, Sheezy Bung.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

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BLUES FRI 05 BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Gringo Zydeco. West Homestead.

412-461-6188.

SAT 06 DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Sweaty Betty. Mars. 724-553-5212.

NIED’S HOTEL. Jimmy Adler Trio. Lawrenceville.

412-781-9853.

TAMBELLINI BRIDGEVILLE RESTAURANT. The Witchdoctors.

Bridgeville. 412-221-5202.

SAT 06 RIVERVIEW PARK. Charles “Poogie” Bell. North Side. 412-255-2493.

VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. Tony Campbell & Jazzsurgery.

West End. 412-458-0417.

SUN 07 SAHARA TEMPLE. Tony Campbell & Smooth Jazzsurgery. Braddock.

412-271-0502.

MON 08 ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Open Jazz Night w/ the Howie Alexander Trio.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

TUE 09

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Yinzide Out. Warrendale.

724-799-8333.

KATZ PLAZA. Erik Lawrence.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Flexure. Space Exchange Series.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. Hurray for the Riff Raff w/ The Felice Brothers. Dollar Bank Stage.

Downtown. 412-281-8723.

JAZZ FRI 05 ECLIPSE LOUNGE. Roger Barbour Jazz Trio. Lawrenceville.

412-251-0097.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Boilermaker Jazz Band. Ballroom. North Side.

412-904-3335.

RIVERS CLUB. Jessica Lee & Friends. Downtown. 412-391-5227.

SOUTH SIDE RIVERFRONT PARK. Poogie Bell Band. South Side. www.southsideworks.com THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. The Boilermaker Jazz Band.

Gateway Center Stage. Downtown.

412-281-8723.

ACOUSTIC THU 04 CLUB CAFE. Joe Firstman of The Cordovas w/ Chris Hannigan,

Nameless In August. South Side.

412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mike & Frank from The Lava Game.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. West Deer Bluegrass Review. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

University Eden Hall Campus, Gibsonia. 412-365-1375.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. BeethovenFest: The Immortal. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

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FRI 05 COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL. Rachman Nachman. Squirrel Hill.

412-521-1100.

SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. Donna Groom. South Park. www.alleghenycounty.us/parks.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Gina Rendina. Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800.

BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Phil Lee & Jess Hoglund.

Harmony. 724-452-0539.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. ORCHESTRA. BeethovenFest: Weekend at Blarneys. South Side.

The Immortal. Heinz Hall, 412-381-4800.

Downtown. 412-392-4900.

ELWOOD’S PUB. STEEL CITY MEN’S CHORALE. Doc & Tina. Rural Ridge.

First Evangelical Lutheran 724-265-1181.

Church, Sharpsburg.

FRICK ART & 412-417-4800.

HISTORICAL CENTER. Old Man Luedecke. Point PITTSBURGH www. per pa Breeze. 412-371-0600.

SYMPHONY pghcitym .co ORCHESTRA W/ PITTSBURGH MAPLEWOOD OPERA. Dollar Bank Stage.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Brad Yoder. Greensburg.

Downtown. 412-281-8723.

724-834-4960.

MARS BREW HOUSE. Brad Yoder. Mars. 724-625-2555.

KATHY LINGER, ELLEN FAST, RON SAMUELS. Present Franz Schubert’s lied, “The POINT STATE PARK. Shepherd on the Rock”, as 3 Rivers Thunder, Circle well as music of Strauss, in the Square. Downtown.

Handel & Purcell. Shadyside 412-422-7435.

Presbyterian Church, Shadyside.

412-682-4300.

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RIVERS CASINO. Jeff Jimerson Duo. North Side.

412-231-7777.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. BeethovenFest: The Immortal. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

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SAT 06 THE ABANDONED STORE. Hand & Knee, Veins Like Water, Dominant Life, Spreaders, Channel 63, Somalian Meth Gang, Transient in Barcelona, The Lame Ducks. Swissvale.

724-961-4583.

RIVERS CASINO. Kevin Howard Trio. North Side. 412-231-7777.

THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL. Railroad Earth.

Dollar Bank Stage. Downtown.

412-281-8723.

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BRILLOBOX. Kate Tempest w/ Christiane D. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

THE CHADWICK. Doo Wop, Pop & Rock. w/ Latshaw Pops Orchestra. Wexford.

724-853-4050.

CLUB CAFE. Leni Stern African Trio. South Side. 412-431-4950.

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BREW ON BROADWAY. Cherylann Hawk. BYOB. Beechview. 412-563-6456.

WED 10 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

REGGAE FRI 05 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

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All ages show.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.

Doors open at 7p.m.

Twiztid ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Walk of Shame MELLON SQUARE PARK Downtown. All ages show.

Free event. For more info visit: bobfm969.com or qburgh.com.

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THE WORLD / INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY REX THEATER South Side.

CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

FRIDAY 5

Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival POINT STATE PARK, GATEWAY CENTER & CULTURAL DISTRICT Downtown. Free event.

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MONDAY 8

Magic Mike Male Revue ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

Over 18 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

David Feherty BYHAM THEATER Cultural District. 412-456-6666.

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8p.m.

Comedian Chris Gorges (As Seen on Comedy Central) Nasty Habit LATITUDE 360 Robinson Twp. 412-693-5555.

Tickets: latitude360.com/pittsburgh-pa.

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HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10p.m.

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412-263-2877.

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MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447.

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HELPING HAND {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}

THE STURDY, LIKABLE DWAYNE JOHNSON SELLS EVERY RIDICULOUS PHYSICAL FEAT

In rural France in the late 1800s, a young nun in fragile health insists on schooling an adolescent girl who, blind and deaf from birth, has neither language nor any sense of how to live among people.

Isabell Carré postrays Sister Marguerite

So yes, Marie’s Story can be fairly described as “The Miracle Worker in a convent,” with dauntless Sister Marguerite in the Anne Sullivan role. (The film, based on a true story, is even contemporaneous with Helen Keller’s life.) Marie, played by deaf-from-birth Ariana Rivoire, starts out completely ungovernable, and the first hour of Marie’s Story has more wrestling than Foxcatcher. But of course, we know exactly where things are going, from Mother Superior’s skepticism to Marguerite’s tuberculosis. The lone real twist is that many of the convent’s other nuns and young students are also deaf, and a good part of the dialogue is transacted in sign language.

Still, the film is gorgeously lit, and director Jean-Pierre Ameris elicits engaging performances from his leads, including Isabelle Carré as Marguerite. And the film’s final reel, if wholly predictable in narrative terms, is a poignant consideration of death and the power of friendship.

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In French and sign language, with subtitles.

Starts Fri., June 5. Regent Square

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 This spooker from Leigh Whannel is a prequel to the events of Insidious chapters 1 and 2, but you still get a teenager tormented by demons. Starts Fri., June 5.

ROCK SOLID {BY AL HOFF}

Can this marriage be saved? Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino ride out the Big One.

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earthquake tears apart California, prompting Los Angeles Fire rescuehelicopter pilot Ray (Dwayne Johnson) to collect his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) and head to San Francisco to rescue his daughter (Alexandra Daddario). Also, maybe the couple can talk through the divorce in between aftershocks.

But who came for the plot? San Andreas is spectacle of vicarious destruction, and as these things go, is pretty awesome. We get Landmark Tragedy (Hoover Dam, Hollywood sign, Golden Gate Bridge) and the wholesale destruction of America’s two great Western cities, plus all the cow towns in between.

(Look closely during the final scene and note that San Francisco is now an island.) There is also alarming stuff we can relate to, like getting trapped in an underground garage, driving on a road that suddenly drops off into a huge crack, having an office cubicle fill up with water, or getting stuck babysitting

English tourists when you’re busy surviving a 9.6 shaker.

Leave your science cap at home because there’s no place for it: You will see a man outrun an earthquake and a tiny boat safely crest a bazillion-foot wave.

Standing in for both real and fake science is Paul Giamatti as a Cal Tech seismologist who, seconds before the big quake, discovers a way to predict big quakes.

(The advance warning still boils down to: “Drop, cover and hold on.”)

SAN ANDREAS DIRECTED BY: Brad Peyton STARRING: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario In 3-D, in select theaters

The epic scale of death is mostly ignored — the collapse of Hoover Dam gets kind of a shrug, as if there’s nothing downstream from 10,000,000 acre-feet of rushing water — but we get a couple

of pointed fatalities. The movie’s villain — besides whatever problem Mother Nature has with California — is a selfimportant architect (Ioan Gruffudd), who is exterminated in a particularly amusing and low-rent fashion. There’s also a villainess, played by Kylie Minogue, who has two bitchy lines before literally dropping off the face of the earth.

On one side of the giant earth crack, Ray is the greatest rescue dude ever — he stops at nothing to save his family, and the sturdy, likable Johnson sells every ridiculous physical feat. (This Rock don’t crack!) On the other hand, he’s a LAFD employee who not only doesn’t report to work on the Worst Day Ever, but takes a much-needed helicopter for personal use! In the end, he’s standing by the flag-draped busted Golden Gate Bridge saying, “Now, we rebuild,” and I’m like, “Yeah, dude, might as well, because you are awesome and stuff, but also so fired.”

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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks’ loving 1974 spoof of the classic film Frankenstein features Gene Wilder as Dr. Franken-STEEN, Teri Garr as his comely assistant, Peter Boyle as the creature and the incomparable Madeline Kahn as the doctor’s taffeta-clad fiancée. It opens the Rooftop Shindig Summer Film Series, presented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. Doors at 6 p.m.; music at 7 p.m.; film at dusk.

Wed., June 3. Top of Theatre Square Garage, Seventh Street and Penn Avenue, Downtown. Free and bringyour-own-chair.

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NEW THIS WEEK DARK STAR: H.R. GIGER’S WORLD. The best part of Belinda Sallin’s loose bio-pic about H.R. Giger is all the wandering around viewers do in the Swiss artist’s home. It’s as murky and cluttered and packed with weird artifacts as one would expect from the master of darkly themed, sort of erotic, sort of sci-fi-ish surrealist art. (Bonus: It sits in an otherwise bland modern neighborhood, even as its garden features a “perinatal ghost ride.”) And for fans, this film provides rare access to Giger (and his various helpmates and cat, Müggie III) and some elucidation of his artistic process and philosophies.

But it’s not much of a primer: Giger’s bestknown work was on the 1979 film Alien, and though production scenes are shown, I’m pretty sure the word “Alien” isn’t even mentioned.

Too many people appear rather randomly in the film. Giger seems in poor health (he died shortly after the film was completed), and his contributions are clearly a struggle for him. Still, a must for fans. In English, and various languages, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 5; 4 p.m.

Sat., June 6; 3 p.m. Sun., June 7; 7:30 p.m. Mon., June 8; and 7 p.m. Wed., June 10. (For $18, Fri., June 5-Sun., June 7, patrons can see a triple feature of Dark Star, Alien and Aliens.) Hollywood (Al Hoff) ENTOURAGE. The gang from the HBO comedy series are now in a movie, about how they’re making a movie. The boys are back: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and

THE GOONIES. A treasure map! A spooky cave!

A group of kids embark on an adventure in this 1985 comedy from Richard Donner. 7:30 p.m. Wed., June 3. AMC Loews. $5 GLEN CAMPBELL: I’LL BE ME. James Keach’s recent documentary follows the popular country-western singer as he embarks on his final world tour, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Presented by the Jewish Association on Aging. 6:30 p.m. Thu., June 4. SouthSideWorks

Love and Mercy Jeremy Piven, plus cameos from Andrew Dice Clay, Tom Brady and Warren Buffet, among others. Doug Ellin directs.

LOVE AND MERCY. Bill Pohlad’s bio-pic about Beach Boy Brian Wilson is two films of unequal appeal stitched together. One takes place in the 1960s, when Wilson (Paul Dano) is transitioning the group’s sound from carefree melodies about sun and surf to the complex, weirdly gorgeous soundscapes of Pet Sounds and Smile. The music flows, but Wilson’s mental health is increasingly fragile. The other

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THE LIFE, LOVE AND GENIUS OF

BRIAN WILSON CO-FOUNDER OF THE BEACH BOYS

“MIRACULOUS. AWE-INSPIRING.”

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half is set in the 1980s, when an isolated, unhappy Wilson (John Cusack) is kept under the control of a therapist (Paul Giamatti), until a chance meeting with car saleswoman (Elizabeth Banks) helps him regain his agency.

I really enjoyed the first half: Dano disappears into Wilson’s logy, awkward form, and even in Wilson’s moments of triumph, he always lets us see the terrified child inside. Filming creative work is difficult, but these scenes of music-making incorporate both the mechanical of the instrumentation and the magical of Wilson’s inspirations, drawn from his bittersweet torments. (Wilson knows beauty, but it’s suggested the sweet, heavily layered music he creates is a form of armor or psychological buttress.) The intercut 1980s material isn’t bad, but Cusack can’t match Dano; the older, sedated Wilson is a tougher character to make compelling. Without the creative process to drive the story, the second half falls into the familiar beats of a romantic dramedy. But I liked the 1960s portion enough to recommend that, like Brian Wilson, you hold on through the 1980s. Starts Fri., June 5. (AH)

BIGFOOT THE MOVIE. In this new locally produced comedy-horror film from Jared Show, three guys from Ellwood City have to sort things out when Bigfoot comes to town. The film features plenty of well-known Western Pennsylvanians including: Curt Wootton (“Pittsburgh Dad”), comedian Jim Krenn, WDVE’s Mike Wysocki and former news anchor Darieth Chisolm. 8:45 p.m. Thu., June 4. Riverside Drive-In. www.bigfootthemovie.com

POLICE STORY: LOCKDOWN. This new crime actioner from Sheng Ding finds a police captain (Jackie Chan) mixed up in a dangerous hostage situation. In Mandarin, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Fri., June 5; 4 p.m. Sat., June 6; and 6 p.m. Sun., June 7. Parkway, Mckees Rocks SPY. Melissa McCarthy stars in Paul Feig’s comedy about a CIA desk jockey who takes an undercover assignment. Starts Fri., June 5.

REPERTORY ROW HOUSE CINEMA. Graduation series. The Perks of Being Wallflower (2012 adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s popular young-adult novel), June 3. Adventureland (2009 comedy about working at an amusement park; shot at Kennywood), June 3-4. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton’s 1991 coming-of-age drama set in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood), June 3-4. The Graduate (in Mike Nichols’ 1967 dramedy, a young man faces uncertainty), June 4. Arnold Schwarzenegger series. Kindergarten Cop (1990 comedy about an undercover cop), June 5-7 and June 9-10. Conan the Barbarian (classic fantasy swords-and-sandals actioner from 1982), June 5-10. The Running Man (1987 sci-fi thriller about deadly game show), June 5-8 and June 10-11. Predator (Arnold vs. freaky alien in this 1987 action pic), June 5-9 and June 11 (June 5 is RiffTrax edition). Call or see website for times and complete listings. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5-9. 412-904-3225 or www.rowhousecinema.com

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE DEATH OF JONNY GAMMAGE. The starting point of local filmmaker Billy Jackson’s 2005 documentary is a re-enactment of the death of black businessman Jonny Gammage at the hands of Brentwood police during a 1995 traffic stop. The hour-long documentary also recalls the large-scale street protests that followed, and explores the investigation into Gammage’s death, along with allegations of police misconduct in that case and in other then-recent fatal encounters between black men and law enforcement, and prospects for reform.

The screening continues a monthly series of films about labor and social justice presented by the Battle of Homestead Foundation, and director Jackson will be on hand to discuss the film. 7:30 p.m. Thu., June 4.

Pump House, 880 E. Waterfront Drive, Munhall. Free. www.battleofhomesteadfoundation.org (BO) TRACING OUTLINES. Cayce Mell’s new featurelength documentary tells the story of Betty Rockwell, the 21-year-old society woman (and Mell’s grand

Entourage mother) who in 1941 vaulted well ahead of her time by founding Pittsburgh’s first gallery of modern art.

8 p.m. Fri., June 5; 2 p.m. Sat., June 7; and 6:30 p.m.

Wed., June 10. Free. Harris

ily drama and perversion of the American Dream writ large belongs. The film kicks off a month-long, Sunday-night series of American classics. 8 p.m. Sun., June 7. Regent Square

GHOSTS OF AMISTAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE REBELS. This recent hour-long documentary from local filmmaker Tony Buba is based on The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, Pitt historian Marcus Rediker’s book about the famous 1839 slave revolt. The film follows a 2013 journey to Sierra Leone, in which Rediker and colleagues sought out living descendants of those taken aboard the Amistad, as well as the site of Lomboko, the former slave-trading depot. 3:30 p.m. Sat., June 6; 6:30 p.m. Mon., June 8; and 6:30 p.m. Thu., June 11. Harris. Free

FILM KITCHEN. The monthly series for local and independent artists holds its annual short-film contest.

This year’s theme is “Kitsch.” The evening includes both films in competition (with live judging by a panel, an audience-favorite award and cash prizes) and an invitational. The event is held in conjunction with the Three Rivers Arts Festival. 8 p.m. Tue., June 9 (7 p.m. reception). Harris Theater, 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $8

HOMEMAKERS. Filmed mostly in Pittsburgh, Colin Healey’s comedy depicts a wild child (a fierce and fearless Rachel McKeon) who flirts with settling down after inheriting a ramshackle house in Bloomfield.

It’s loosely plotted (a bit mumblecore-ish), but beneath the chaos Healey makes some cogent points about identity, growing up and forming community.

5:30 p.m. Sat., June 6; 8:30 p.m. Wed., June 10; and 8 p.m. Fri., June 12. Harris. Free (AH) PROGRESSION. Lawrenceville’s long-running, real-life annual progressive dinner is the setting for this zesty 2014 ensemble comedy, the debut feature from local filmmakers Gab Cody and Sam Turich.

The tone is equal parts screwball and romantic, as a mismatched set of neighbors traipses from one house to the next, more engrossed in the cascade of socially awkward situations than in the lovingly prepared dishes. 8 p.m. Sat., June 6; 8:15 p.m. Mon., June 8; and 5:30 p.m. Sat., June 13. Harris. Free (Bill O’Driscoll)

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THE UMBRELLA MAN. Michael Grasso’s 2014 drama, set in 1983 Pittsburgh, finds a couple distraught after the death of their son. The dad finds solace in pursuing various conspiracy theories, especially that of “the umbrella man,” a mysterious figure associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination. 4:30 p.m. Sun., Jun 7; 8:15 p.m. Thu., June 11; and 8 p.m. Sat., June 13.

Harris. Free

JURASSIC PARK. It’s been nearly 30 years since dinosaurs — well, those impressive digital creations we encountered in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 actioner — stalked this earth. Get caught up before the new Jurassic World opens later this month, and ponder anew the perils of messing around with science.

7:30 p.m. Wed., June 10. AMC Loews. $5 SOAKED IN BLEACH. Benjamin Statler’s new biodoc looks at the life and death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, drawing from the investigative work of a private detective who was hired to track down the missing musician days before he was found dead.

7:30 p.m. Thu., June 11. Hollywood

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten (2014) 6/3 @ 7:30pm, 6/4 @ 7:30pm

Critically acclaimed Cambodian rock documentary. _____________________________________________________

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World (2014) 6/5 @ 7:30pm, 6/6 @ 4:00pm, 6/7 @ 3:00pm,

6/8 @ 7:30pm, 6/10 @ 7:00pm New doc. on the artist who created the monsters in the Alien franchise. _____________________________________________________

Alien (1979) - 6/5 @ 9:30pm, 6/6 @ 6:00pm, 6/7 @ 5:00pm, 6/9 @ 7:30pm

Classic science-fiction horror film directed by

CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Sandlot, Sun., June 7 (Schenley); Tue., June 9 (West End/Elliott Overlook); and Thu., June 11 (Brookline). Million Dollar Arm, Wed., June 10 (Schenley). Films begin at dusk. 412255-2493 or www.citiparks.net. Free THE GODFATHER. Catch one of the most enduring and influential American films of the late 20th century on the big screen, where Francis Ford Coppola’s multi-generational 1972 mafia fam-

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Aliens ( 1986) - 6/5 @ 11:45pm, 6/6 @ 8:30pm, 6/7 @ 7:30pm, 6/10 @ 9:15pm

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Rocky Horror Picture Show - 6/6 @ Midnight with live shadowcast by the JCCP!

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“MY ANCESTORS KILLED MY ANCESTORS.”

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NEW fireWALL’s Admission {PHOTO COURTESY OF DUERRING PHOTOGRAPHY}

Familiar themes of self-acceptance, female empowerment and sisterhood are the driving forces behind fireWALL dance theater’s latest production, Admission.

The 50-minute intermissionless dance work, choreographed by fireWALL artistic director/dancer Elisa-Marie Alaio, was staged at the company’s home, off the WALL Performing Arts Center. Set to original music and sound by Ryan McMasters, the production began with its all-female cast of six (including Alaio) in silhouette behind a row of large panels at the back of the stage. As a cacophony of recorded whispered voices filled the theater, the dancers, in shadow, poured forth a series of gestures that revealed them in states of worry, self-doubt, and feeling trapped by their own fears.

The dancers then emerged from behind the panels onto a stage crisscrossed with bungee cords. As if caught in a web of similarly destructive feelings, the dancers one by one pushed, pulled and stretched the cords with their bodies, seeming to battle some oppressive force. The bungee cords were miked, and when struck by the dancers they emitted thunderous sounds, adding drama to the sequence that ended with all the dancers coming together to dismantle the bungee web.

For the first half of the largely non-narrative work, Alaio’s choreography offered visual metaphors for the dark feelings and emotions underlying its themes. But Admission’s real strength and entertainment value came in the onslaught of full-throttle, energetic and athletic dance sequences that followed.

As if suddenly empowered and given the green light to let loose, the dancers launched into exhilarating sequences full of power and pace that had them traversing the stage as a unit in Alaio’s bold choreography.

Whirlwind solos by Alaio, Cammi Nevarez and Jenna Rae Smith followed as a seemingly relentless succession of harddriving movement phrases came one after the other. Alaio’s choreography mixed styles from jazz to hip hop, creating wonderful bursts of dancing that at times had the feel and intensity of an opening routine on TV’s So You Think You Can Dance.

The evenly matched cast also included dancers Sara Cohen, Grace Cohen and Glenna Clark. They were fabulous, as were the efforts of the production crew, Bob Steineck’s lighting and McMaster’s filmic score.

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wishing to be seen or heard in Pittsburgh, it’s hard to top the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. The free fest, now in its 56th year, draws an estimated 400,000 during its 10 days in and around Point State Park. That’s down from the estimated 600,000 attendees annually pre-2009, when the festival lasted 17 days. But it’s still more bodies than you’ll find anywhere else in a comparable timeframe — even if many of them come just for the free concerts, crafts market and deep-fried snacks.

This year, festival director Veronica Corpuz, of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is taking advantage of those numbers to highlight less-exposed viewpoints via the festival’s visual-arts, dance, film and literary components. (And don’t forget that this year’s festival run incorporates the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s CREate Festival, three ticketed, tech-oriented days of art, workshops, performances and parties Downtown; www.create-festival.com.)

The 2015 arts festival’s theme, “Unseen/Unheard,” is perhaps most evident in its public-art offerings, curated by Nadine Wasserman (who’s also a regular CP contributor). For instance, though the message might be oblique, at least two of the festival’s four public artworks reference the Point’s history as a place where indigenous people were killed off or forced out —

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silenced — by European newcomers.

Troy, N.Y.-based Fernando Orellana says his installation “Confluence” memorializes the 60 million or more Native Ameri-

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cans estimated to have died in the wake of European exploration and colonization of the New World, most from diseases previously unknown here. The installation, in

the reflecting pool beneath the park’s Portal Bridge, consists of dozens of hospitalstyle beds (wood-framed, with sod mattresses and folded blankets), some adorned with sculpture of dogs. Reached by phone, Orellana says he was inspired by both the Point’s infamous history of biological warfare — British soldiers handing smallpoxinfected blankets to Native Americans — and his own ancestry: The El Salvadoranborn artist has both Mayan blood and, probably, that of conquistadors. “My ancestors killed my ancestors,” he says.

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“Baby: Corps of Re-Discovery” is an installation spotlighting display of his 16-foot Pacific outrigger canoe, complete with sail, which he’s sailed in eight U.S. cities to comment on the Lewis and Clark expedition (which began in Pittsburgh, in 1804). It’s a take on colonialism, and de-colonization, by the Phillipines-born Arcega, whose inspirations include anthropology’s tradition of essays on the “Nacirema” people — actually, satirical deconstructions of modern American culture. “I’m trying to find out and understand who these people are who have occupied the landscape and edged out the native population,” he says by phone.

The two other public artworks are further takes on “Unseen/Unheard.” At Rochester, N.Y.based Michelle Illuminato’s “Lost + Found Factory” (occupying the old Gateway Center visitors’ center), artists will work to recreate beloved objects people have lost, and to return them to their owners. (The installation will also prompt Attack Theatre’s “Lost + Found: Memories Through Movement,” a June 7 dance performance incorporating interaction with festival patrons.) And New York-based Rudy Shepherd’s “Black Rock Negativity Absorber” is a cryptic, 14-foot-tall monolith meant to give visitors a new way to approach social ills like terrorism and policy brutality. Shepherd, who exhibited an earlier version of “Black Rock” in New York City, says by phone that the New-Agey concept began as “sort of a joke” but is also “serious on some level.” On June 6, he’ll perform an

“induction ceremony” with live music.

The festival’s two major fine-art exhibitions also go “Unseen/Unheard.” Applicants to both the Juried Visual Art Exhibition and the Pittsburgh Society of Artists group shows were told to respond to that theme. The JVAE, for the first time in two decades, accepted applications from artists outside the region. Juror Astria Suparak (formerly of Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery) winnowed 500 entries from across the U.S. and as far away as Tehran down to 41 works by 31 artists, including many unfamiliar to Pittsburgh, for exhibition at the Trust Arts Education Center. The PSA show, Intr(au)spective, at 937 Liberty Gallery, features work by 30 member artists, juried by Freya Spira, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Performance highlights also address the theme. On June 6, choreographer Alexandra Bodnarchuk premieres Dance! From the Inside Out, a collaborative dance/video project. And on June 14, there’s a breakdance battle featuring two crews, Hidden Characters and The Get Down Gang. The spoken word gets its due, as well, with readings by local and visiting poets and a June 14 mainstage performance by Pittsburgh-based rapper and social-justice advocate Jasiri X. And among much else, on June 9 there’s a special performance by Signshine, a signlanguage performance group of middleand high school students from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.

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The plein-air tradition is revived in an excellent exhibit of Diane Grguras’s new pastels at the Gallery on 43rd Street. Working mostly in the long tradition of landscapes, Grguras is inspired by the natural world that she strives to interpret and not merely represent, using impressionist techniques to suggest outdoor light and employing an unerring craftsmanship.

In an interview, Grguras avows that she sees the hand of God in nature. A background in medical illustration informs her insights into the biology of living things. For instance, she sees trees as entities that tell stories about the environmental conditions shaping their growth. In the exhibit, we see trees in sumptuous forests, groping trees covered in snow, a cherry willow lyrically swinging its yellowgreen branches in a summer wind.

Grguras’ method requires concision and quickness. While she sometimes uses photos, she recognizes that “intangibles” can be found only while working before nature itself. The soft, sketchy chalks are more brilliant than oils and perfectly suited to a painterly technique. But Grguras also excels at detail. She paints the curly white wool of a grazing ewe, the ringlets so defined that you could touch them.

Like Hudson River School artists, Grguras portrays the grandeur of nature.

There are paintings of serene New Jersey beaches, dramatic setting skies of purple and gold, clouds full and heavy over unidentified seashores, a boardwalk in ebbing twilight. She also depicts Western Pennsylvania’s rolling hills, Pittsburgh’s skyline, a Bloomfield sandwich shop, and quaint scenes like one featuring American flags.

The painting “Tree at Childmark Pond” has a monumental quality and unpretentious manner that might qualify for comparison to the artist’s revered precursor, William Wendt. The nearly abstract “Shadows on Snow” depicts the brilliant white light of sunlit snow mottled by blue shadows from a bush that covers three quarters of the painting. “Glimpse” shows unusual atmospheric formations over the ocean that are at once mysterious and awesome.

One notes that Grguras might be a little too academic in her penchant for violets and blues, but this is often overcome by the high key of the work. It is singular that we have such a dedicated artist working quietly among us, able to reveal a state of being we long for.

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PICT Classic Theatre presents 1969’s How the Other Half Loves, one of Ayckbourn’s earliest successes and a foreshadowing of his later work. We’re in the homes of the Fosters (Fiona and Frank) and the Phillipses (Bob and Teresa). But here’s the gimmick: It’s the same home — or rather, it’s the two homes mashed up together.

One armchair is in the Phillips’ home, another is in the Fosters; one half of the sofa is Foster territory, the other, Phillips. This allows us to be in both places at the same time as Suburban Infidelity rears its head: Fiona has had an affair with Bob (who works for Frank) and, for reasons of plot, they both involve Bob’s coworker William Detweiler and his wife, Mary, as their alibis. Pretty soon, lies are building upon lies

and the whole thing works up into a classic farcical froth.

Or it should. Ayckbourn has stated that 50 percent of the laughs in the show come from the comedic pressure engendered by the composite set. But PICT director Martin Giles has chosen to de-emphasize that feature. Instead of clockwork movement, interwoven blocking and the juxtaposition of action in the two households, this production feels more like a split screen, with two independent plays happening side-by-side.

Giles’ penchant for brusque, angry acting is in evidence here — this is a loud production where, from lights-up, everyone onstage already seems furious with everyone else. What should be a series of comedy mishaps feels like sorties into the enemy camp.

It’s understandable, then, that the performances get a bit broad and most of the characters seem to be a collection of quirks and bits, rather than fully developed human beings. But I did enjoy Daina Michelle Griffith’s underplaying as Fiona, and James FitzGerald, for holding off on the histrionics for as long as possible.

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HER STORY {BY TYLER PLOSIA} THE BEST OF Everything, now at Little Lake Theatre, is the type of community-theaterfriendly production that could easily turn soapy. The 2012 play revolves around a secretary who strives to achieve editor status (and love) while working at a New York

publishing house in the early 1950s. But as directed by new Little Lake Artistic Director Roxy MtJoy, the play shrugs off the limitations of its setting and reminds us that not only do glass ceilings still exist in the corporate world, but they sometimes appear on stages, as well (if not on this one).

It’s difficult not to compare Caroline Bender (Jane Joseph), the lead of The Best of Everything, to Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. The two are ambitious young women at prestigious, male-dominated New York businesses. As if inviting the comparison, Little Lake bills the production as “set in the Mad Men era.”

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What sets this story apart from the litany of period pieces about urbane mid20th-century America — other than the fact that playwright Julie Kramer based her script on a text from the era, Rona Jaffe’s eponymous 1958 novel — is its diverse collection of female characters. Most are secretaries, yes; but they aren’t mere background gossipers, as they’re so often depicted.

There’s Amanda, the sole female editor.

Hollie Kawecki plays her with brutal honesty — and the occasional hint of a love so tough that no one attempts to coax it out.

And there’s Gregg (Lindsey Bowes), the struggling actor who’s prone to bouts of obsession and delusion. The most ostensibly stereotypical secretary is Mary Agnes, but Teresa Madden Harrold has such a charming presence that when she reveals she “hates to read,” her candor is winsome rather than repellent.

There are more women, each a full personality instead of a cardboard cutout (which some of the male parts are, in the most literal sense). The Best of Everything suffers from a somewhat melodramatic script, but it’s rife with lively roles for women, and the Little Lake production allows each of its actors to inhabit them in her own style.

boarding videos, the stories of the youth of one decade are often incomprehensible to youth of the following decade.

Age, in this regard, ages more slowly than youth. New Horizon is mounting another run of The Dance on Widow’s Row, written by Samm-Art Williams, and directed by Eileen J. Morris, who previously directed the show in 2003. In Widow’s Row, a group of four widows hosts a party to try to revive their reputations.

The gags are fast and evergreen. Magnolia, the host, played by Linda Haston, puts her late husband’s picture away, informing him, “I gave you a good funeral, so we’re even.”

Casting for this show was excellent, particularly Brenda Marks as Lois, who most emphatically did not poison either of her husbands, but even if she did, they deserved it. Marks’ performance as a kind of mad scientist of cooking is without compare. New Horizon also got the eminently charming Charles Timbers Jr., who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite actors in Pittsburgh, as the romantic lead. He brings an easygoing attitude that grounds the show’s sillier aspects in reality — for the most part.

Billed as a romantic comedy, The Dance on Widow’s Row extends uncommonly far into both romance and comedy. The comedy gets quite funny, and the romance is of the slowdancingto-the-classics variety. It’s in these extremes that the show’s one odd point reveals itself.

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You know how in some shows there’s a tonal mismatch, like when, say, Hamlet is struggling with the knowledge that his uncle killed his mom, and then Polonius shows up and kills the brooding mood with a bunch of pompous verbiage? It’s not always a bad thing (see: Hamlet).

But in contemporary shows like this one, where the people talk like people, if everyone blithely accepts weirdness, you’re left questioning your grip on reality. That disconnect makes the final 20 minutes or so of Widow’s Row — I’m trying not to spoil a second-act twist — the sort that will be on your mind for days. Give it a look.

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+ THU., JUNE 04 {ART} If Atticus Adams’ new exhibit is called Mesh Lab, can we say he’s “breaking good”? Adams, a nationally exhibited West Virginia native based in Pittsburgh, works primarily in metal mesh; the results are sometimes abstract, and sometimes suggest creatures spirited from the sea floor. Recently, he’s begun incorporating elements like interior illumination. His new solo show, formally titled Mesh Lab: The Experiments, opens with a reception tonight at The Mine Factory.

Bill O’Driscoll 6-9 p.m. Exhibit continues through June 27. 201 N. Braddock Ave., Point Breeze. www.theminefactory.com

+ FRI., JUNE 05 {ART} Bedtime Stories is a new exhibit exploring “the liminal state between wakefulness and sleep,” between “conscious thought and dreams.”

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{ART} A new exhibit promises a reflective, even meditative take on police brutality against black people. Hands Up, at Garfield’s Local 412, is a group show of national

including Alisha Wormsley, Shikeith, D.S. Kinsel, Vanessa German and Paradise Gray, New York-based Dread Scott, St. Louis-based Damon Davis and others. Tonight’s reception is part of the monthly Unblurred gallery crawl. BO 6-10 p.m. Exhibit continues through June 26. 4901 Penn Ave., Garfield. Free. ikechukwu. onyewuenyi@gmail.com

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{STAGE} French playwright and director Pascal Rambert is in town to create a new version of his 2010 work A (micro) history of world economics, danced. The show, which uses dance and theater to examine the impact of economics on people’s lives, is being recreated through a

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series of City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh workshops with some 45 disabled people and their families, friends and caregivers; a chorus from the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh; and three professional actors. ctors.

Artist and activist John hn Malpede plays an economic onomic philosopher. The show, w, originally conceived during the European n economic crisis, has been staged in cities including Paris, Tokyo, New York and Cairo, Egypt.

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sp otlight While Pittsburgh’s underground hip-hop street-dance scene is thriving, hip-hop concert dance here is nearly nonexistent. B-girl and hip-hop dance-theater artist Teena Marie Custer is one of the few bridging those worlds. A member of streetdance crews Get Down Gang and the all-female Venus Fly Trap Crew, Custer presents her new 35-minute concert-dance solo My Good Side at the New Hazlett Theater, on Thu., June 11. The multimedia work set to electronica music, part of the theater’s Community Supported Arts series, is a nonlinear commentary on how people portray themselves online. “I find that people tend to curate their lives on social media,” says Custer. “They want to project a certain image and they make sure all their posts and photos match that image.” Custer describes her solo — featuring breaking, waacking, house and locking — as a journey from fantasy to reality that comes from a personal place. Sharing the program is dancer/choreographer Roberta Guido, performing her new work RETREAD/together/apart, which investigates the notion of “leaving one’s mark.” A student at The College at Brockport: State University of New York, Guido says the work draws from emotional and intimate personal narratives exploring what it means to be “together” and “alone.” Steve Sucato 8 p.m. 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $20. 412-320-4610 or www.newhazletttheater.org

The Gallery 4 holds the opening reception for Ben Patterson’s exhibit Thoughts and Feelings. Patterson is a painter and chalk artist with a contemporary, pop-surrealist style. The works in this latest show star characters devoid of traditional human form in a number of contexts, and often humorously engage with modern issues. An Arizona native, Patterson has lived and worked in Pittsburgh since 2013 and is an active member of its arts community.

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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. An adaption of Rona Jaffe’s 1958 bestseller about ambitious secretaries in the big city. June 7, 8 p.m. and June 13, 8 p.m.

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BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, & befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

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June 14, 3 & 7:30 p.m. Carnegie MARY POPPINS. The troubled Library, Homewood, Homewood.

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FENCES. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru June 27.

Prize-winning play presented by Comtra Theatre, Cranberry.

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DERICK MINTO. Open mic. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

FRI 05 ATOMIC JANE. Long form improv. 9 p.m. The Maker Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

THE DRAFT. Team improv. 8 p.m.

The Maker Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

PLAY DATE. Short form improv.

10 p.m. and Fri., June 19, 10 p.m.

The Maker Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

YOUR LIFE: THE MUSICAL. Improv comedy based on an audience member’s life.

8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 513-288-2734.

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society & is Parliament ready for a paranoid-schizophrenic, who believes he is God? Presented by Throughline Theatre Company. Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Thu, Fri, 8 p.m. Thru June 13. The Grey Box Theatre, Lawrenceville.

1-888-71-TICKETS. SAINTS TOUR. Molly Rice’s site-specific play built for the neighborhood it occupies, taking the form of a bus & walking tour during which magical things happen.

Co-presented by Bricolage & Real/Time Interventions.

Wed-Sun, 7 p.m. Thru June 13.

722 Braddock Ave., Braddock.

412-471-0999.

Penn Brewery hosts the 19th annual Pennsylvania Microbrewers Fest.

More than 25 craft breweries, many of them from Pittsburgh, will be there with brews to sample. Live music is courtesy of local band The Commonheart. Penn Brewery will also offer a special menu, and brewery tours, for festival-goers. 5-8 p.m.

Sat., June 6. Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial St., North Side. $50. www.pennbrew.com.

DINNER W/ THE NOLENS. An improv show feat. Second City alumni, Jethro & Kristy Nolen improvising w/ guests.

BYOB. First Sat of every month, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

DOC DIXON & DAVID KAYE. 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of The Valley Church, Monessen.

724-379-4777.

THE DUO SHOW. Improv. 8 p.m.

The Maker Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

JOHN EVANS, TOM MUSIAL, MATT LIGHT. Team Tiffany fundraiser. 8:30 p.m. St. Bernadette Church, Monroeville.

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“Stephanie, Beirut, Lebanon” (inkjet print, 2010), by Rania Matar. From the series “A Girl and Her Room” and the exhibition She Who Tells A Story, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland.

NEW THIS WEEK CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Jacqueline Humphries.

Comprised of entirely new works, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in nearly a decade of her silver & black-light paintings. Opening reception June 10, 7-9 p.m. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

FUTURE TENANT. Bedtime Stories. A group show of artists working in a variety of media including painting, photography, sculpture & sound. Participating Artists: Aaron Blum, Olga Brindar, Ashley Cecil, Eric S Dickson, Gary Duehr, Charles Johnson, Michael Koehler, Victoria Mills, Josh Mitchel, David Stanger, Christopher Ruane, Sherry Rusinack & Wanda Spangler-Warren.

Opening reception June 5, 6p.m.

Downtown. 630-388-8365.

THE GALLERY 4. Thoughts & Feelings. New & collected works by Ben Patterson, a chalk pastel artist & painter. Opening reception June 6, 7-11pm.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

MINE FACTORY. Mesh Lab: The Experiments. Work by Atticus Adams. Opening reception June 4, 6-9pm.

Homewood. 925-963-3097.

PERCOLATE. Quartet. Work by Katy DeMent, Samir Elsabee, Shamus Fatzinger & Nora Gilchrist. Opening reception June 6, 6-9 p.m. Wilkinsburg.

412-606-1220.

PITTSBURGH TATTOO COMPANY. Summer Group Art Show. Work by local artists.

June 5, 7 p.m. Downtown.

412-201-9075.

TRUNDLE MANOR. Zocto31’s Firmamental Coagulation.

Painted works by Lorne Zeman.

Opening reception June 6, 7 p.m. w/ body painting & live music. Swissvale. 412-916-5544.

WASHINGTON PARK. Art in

Action. A one-day interactive art show feat. demonstrating artists, art activities for the whole family & live entertainment. June 7, 11 a.m.7p.m. Historic Stone Pavilion.

Washington. 404-695-1530.

ONGOING 28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. Marc Snyder: Life Drawing. Closing reception June 5, 5-8 p.m. Greensburg.

724-205-9033.

707 PENN GALLERY. Vascular Caverns. Papercut sculpture depicting abstracted, anatomical imagery by Gianna Paniagua. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

709 PENN GALLERY. One Out of Many, One People. Works

by Tamara Natalie Madden. An exploration of the vast cultural heritage of Jamaica. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Exposures. Works from Pittsburgh based artist, Cecilia Ebitz’s “Good Intentions”, inspired by the work & teachings of Corita Kent. Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York. Work from Pearlstein, Cantor & Warhol from their time as students at Carnegie Tech to their early days in New York. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

ART SPACE 616. Hereafter.

Work by Ryan Lammie & Alisha Wormsley. Sewickley.

412-259-8214.

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.

BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Only Perfect Quiet. Painting by Tony Cavalline. Barco Law Library

Gallery. Oakland. 412-648-1376.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Visiting Van Gogh: Still Life, Basket of Apples. Van Gogh’s “Still Life, Basket of Apples” (1887),”Le Moulin de la Galette” (1886–1887), “Wheat Fields after the Rain” (1890), & Paul Signac’s “Place des Lices, St. Tropez”, visiting from the Saint Louis Art Museum. Sketch to Structure. Unfolding the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape. Will close temporarily on May 25 & reopen on June 6. She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.

The work of 12 leading women photographers who have tackled the notion of representation w/ passion & power, questioning tradition & challenging perceptions of Middle Eastern identity.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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

Shadyside. 412-365-1232.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Mara Light.

Paintings inspired by the neo-classical, Renaissance & romantic eras by Mara Light.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL BUILDING. Cranberry Artists Network Member’s Show. http://www. cranberryartistsnetwork.com.

Cranberry.

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.

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JOHN KNIGHT, MIKE WYSOCKI, LISA DAPPRICH. South Allegheny Band fundraiser.

8 p.m. Liberty Borough Volunteer Fire Department, McKeesport.

412-672-1820.

KEYSTONE COMEDY SHOW. Stand-up hosted by Garrett Titlebaum. 10 p.m. and Sat., June 20, 10 p.m. The Maker Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

NOTHING PERSONAL. Long form independent improv troupe. 9 p.m.

The Maker Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

MON 08 COMEDY SAUCE SHOWCASE. Local & out-of-town comedians.

Mon, 9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield. 412-682-9603.

TOTALLY FUN MONDAYS. SCIT resident house teams perform their brand of long form improv comedy. Mon, 8 p.m. The Maker Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

TUE 09 TUESDAY NIGHT STAND-UP. Tue, 9 p.m. Hot Rod Cafe, Mt. Washington. 412-592-7869.

WED 10 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Ronald Renwick. Wed, 9:30 p.m.

Scarpaci’s Place, Mt. Washington.

412-431-9908.

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.

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. 412-464-4020.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Animal Secrets. Learn about the hidden lives of ants, bats, chipmunks, raccoons & more. Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens. Permanent. Hall of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, gems & precious stones from all over the world. Population Impact. How humans are affecting the environment.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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the relations between water, land & habitat. How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, EVENT: USS Requin submarine & more. , North Side. 412-237-3400.

Downtown, Strip District CARRIE FURNACE. Carrie Blast Furnace. Built in 1907, Carrie and Lawrenceville Furnaces 6 & 7 are extremely rare examples of pre World War II CRITIC: iron-making technology. Rankin. , 34, a 412-464-4020 x 21. release manager CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL from Bloomfield HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature WHEN: & biotechnology. Open Fridays 5-8, Saturdays 12-4 & Sundays 12-4.

Garfield. 412-223-7698.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Missing Links It’s a really awesome concept called ciclovia that started in (The Rainbow Jumpy). Bounce, Bogota, Colombia. Every Saturday and Sunday they close jump, roll, run & walk through off a lot of the major arteries to cars. Ciclovia roughly a 30-foot inflatable “jumpy” art translates into English as “open streets.” It’s this big idea piece created by Felipe Dulzaides & on loan from The New Children’s of keeping the space for the people and not just one Museum, in San Diego CA. particular group who travel in one particular way and are North Side. 412-322-5058. only trying to get from point A to point B. Open Streets COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ is a jubilant experience. Looking at the street, there’s costumed guides feat. this restored nobody with a surly face. It’s a place to just exist and be stagecoach stop. North Versailles.

724-238-4983. and experience your neighborhood. Think about what a CONNEY M. KIMBO GALLERY. pain in the ass it is to try to park in the Strip District for University of Pittsburgh Jazz lunch. So why not come and get your first visit to Lucy’s Exhibit: Memorabilia & Awards [banh mi sandwich shop] of the season without having to from the International Hall of worry about “Where do I put my stupid car?”

Fame. Oakland. 412-648-7446.

DEPRECIATION LANDS B Y J OS E P H P E I S E R MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement & history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

412-486-0563.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this FALLINGWATER. Tour the 412-624-6000.

Tudor mansion & stable complex. famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in 724-329-8501. features 1823 pipe organ, the surrounding park. Allison Park.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Revolutionary War graves. Scott.

412-767-9200.

CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany 412-851-9212.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the stained-glass windows.

OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Downtown. 412-471-3436.

This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion 724-329-8501.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. site features log house, blacksmith KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & shop & gardens. South Park.

Tours of a restored 19th-century, Assimilation on the 18th Century 412-835-1554. middle-class home. Oakmont.

Frontier. During the mid-18th PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY 412-826-9295. century, thousands of settlers of MUSEUM. Trolley rides & MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection European & African descent were exhibits. Includes displays, includes jade & ivory statues from captured by Native Americans. walking tours, gift shop, China & Japan, as well as Meissen Using documentary evidence picnic area & Trolley Theatre. porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. from 18th & early 19th century Washington. 724-228-9256.

MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY sources, period imagery, & PHIPPS CONSERVATORY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes artifacts from public & & BOTANICAL GARDEN. open for tours, lectures private collections in the Butterfly Forest. Watch & more. Monroeville.

U.S. and Canada, the butterflies emerge from their 412-373-7794. exhibit examines the chrysalises to flutter among MOUNT PLEASANT practice of captivity tropical blooms. Summer Flower GLASS MUSEUM. www. per a p from its prehistoric roots Show. Watch as model trains The Bryce Family & pghcitym o .c to its reverberations in chug through living landscapes & the Mount Pleasant modern Native-, African- & displays of lush foliage & vibrant Factory. Telling the story Euro-American communities. blooms. 14 indoor rooms & of the Bryce family & their Reconstructed fort houses 3 outdoor gardens feature contributions. Mount Pleasant. museum of Pittsburgh history exotic plants & floral displays from 724-547-5929. circa French & Indian War & around the world. Tropical Forest NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters American Revolution. Downtown.

Congo. An exhibit highlighting of the Sky. Explore the power & 412-281-9285. some of Africa’s lushest landscapes. grace of the birds who rule the FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Oakland. 412-622-6914. sky. Majestic eagles, impressive CENTER. Rolling Hills, Satanic PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. condors, stealthy falcons and Mills: The British Passion for Orotones. A display of glass their friends take center stage!

Landscape. This exhibit explores plate images which have been Home to more than 600 birds landscape painting in Britain form enhanced w/ real gold-laced from over 200 species. W/ classes, the Industrial Revolution to the lacquers to bring a gilded-tone lectures, demos & more. North eras of Romanticism. Ongoing: to the people & places depicted.

Side. 412-323-7235. tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, North Side. 412-231-7881.

NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 w/ classes & programs for all ages.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball rooms helping to tell the story

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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 & 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. We Can Do It!: WWII. Discover how Pittsburgh affected World War II & the war affected our region.

Explore the development of the Jeep, produced in Butler, PA & the stories behind real-life “Rosie the Riveters” & local Tuskegee Airmen whose contributions made an unquestionable impact on the war effort. From Slavery to Freedom.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery 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.

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 & coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. West Overton.

724-887-7910.

DANCE FRI 05 AN EVENING ON THE MEDITERRANEAN. A performance by Pgh Bellydance Academy. A rumba class followed by general dancing. 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh Dance Center, Bloomfield. 412-681-0111.

FUNDRAISERS THU 04 THE ART OF FOOD. Feat. The Pittsburgh 10 group exhibition, food & wine pairings, live entertainment, more. Benefits

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FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

GALERIE WERNER, THE MANSIONS ON FIFTH. upStage – An Exploratory of Dance. Work by Peggi Habets, Claire Hardy, Jeannie McGuire & Christine Swann. Oakland.

412-716-1390.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Looking Forward, Looking Back.

Work by Dennis Bergevin & Leonard Leibowitz.

Shadyside. 412-441-6005.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Diane Grguras. New pastel paintings. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

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.

HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Elements.

Drawings & watercolors of bird nests w/ a focus on the natural & man-made materials incorporated into these architectural structures.

The featured artists are Sue Abramson, Wendy Brockman, David Morrison & Kate Nessler.

Oakland. 412-268-2434.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. The Big Little Show. An exhibition curated by Sheila D. Ali w/ local & international artists: Abira Ali, Alberto Almarza, Bill Shannon, Dougie Duerring, Eliza Henderson, Etta Cetera, Katy Dement, Laverne Kemp, Lisa Demagall, Nino Balistrieri (ACBIII), Michael “Fig�

Magniafico, Merrily Mossman McAllister, Ryder Henry, Sandra Streiff, Sheila Ali & Waylon Richmond. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

JAMES GALLERY. All Terrain Vehicle. Exploring the contemporary landscape

the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry. 5:30-9:30 p.m.

2025 Wightman St., Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8443.

CAN YOU AFFORD TO IGNORE ME? Luncheon & guest speaker, Elisabet Rodriguez Dennehy. Proceeds benefit Bethlehem’s Haven. 11:30 a.m.1 p.m. Fairmont Pittsburgh, Downtown. 412-391-1348 ext.244.

SAT 06 BLACK & WHITE CHARITY DINNER DANCE. Dinner, dance, auctions & door prizes. Dress is semi-formal black & white.

through painting & photography. Bound.

Woven fiber forms by Elizabeth Whyte Schulze.

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. Lakevue.

724-316-9326.

MAGGIE’S FARM DISTILLERY. Grain Of Salt. Works by Lizzee Solomon. Strip District.

724-884-3261.

MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. MCG Invitational Arts Exhibition. Showcasing the winners of the Friedberg Family Arts Scholarships: Jameelah Platt, Breanna Stanton, & Sarah Hudson.

North Side. 412-465-0140.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots!

A mixed media show exploring the common teapot in uncommon ways.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. 2015 Regional Show. More than 40 artworks are on display, submitted by local amateur & professional artists. Mediums include oil, pastel, watercolor, fiber, stoneware & threedimensional pieces in metal.

Ross. 412-364-3622.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield.

412-441-6147-ext.-7.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 90 Pittsburgh Neighborhoods. Work by Ron Donoughe. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

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. Friendship.

412-365-2145.

6:30-11 p.m. DoubleTree Monroeville, Monroeville.

412-867-6994.

BLOCK PARTY AT THE WOODLANDS. Live music

by Good Brother Earl, games, a raffle & food trucks. 4 p.m.

The Woodlands, Wexford.

724-935-6533.

FULL BLOOM SUMMER DANCE PARTY. Live music & dance performances, local fare, beer & dancing. 7 p.m.-12 a.m.

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

RAINBOW KITCHEN & UPMC HEALTH PLAN WALK &

REVISION SPACE. Scratching the Itch. Work by Travis K. Schwab. Lawrenceville.

412-735-3201.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. A World Imagined: Kelli Connell & Sara Macel. Photography that reflects on authorship, on photographic construction & on the ways in which we define relationships through our subjective experiences of them.

Closing reception, cocktails & a talk by curator, Leo Hsu June 13, 6pm. 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. Repetition, Rhythm & Pattern. Work by Kim Beck, Corey Escoto, Lilly Zuckerman, Megan Cotts, Brian Giniewski, Kate McGraw, Crystal Gregory, Alex Paik, Anna Mikolay, Helen O’leary, Lindsey Landfried & David Prince. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Selections From The Elgin Park Series. Photographs

by Michael Paul Smith.

Shaping New Worlds. A national exhibition of constructed photography.

Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

TOONSEUM. Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream.

Contemporary comics artists honor Winsor McCay’s work w/ original art. Thru June 28.

Downtown. 412-232-0199.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom. Open showroom w/ the artists. Fridays 10a.m.- 4p.m. & by appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

VAGABOND GALLERY. A pop up gallery featuring work from local artists through the end of July. Shadyside.

412-913-4966.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. The World Revolves Around You. Work by HC Gilje.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

RIDE AGAINST HUNGER. A walk & ride to fight hunger & a Health & Wellness Expo. 9 a.m. The Pump House, Homestead. 412-464-1892.

SUN 07 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.

CAROL RABER MEMORIAL GOLF CHALLENGE. 18 holes of golf, refreshments, dinner & prizes.

Benefits Pink Steel Dragonboat Team for Breast Cancer Survivors.

12 p.m. River Forest Country Club, Allegheny. 412-377-3063.

MON 08 JOURNEY TO NORMAL: WOMEN OF WAR COME HOME. Support for a documentary telling the experiences of deployment & reintegration of eight women who have served in Iraq & Afghanistan.

Cocktail reception, dinner & live auction & screening of the 20-minute short film, adapted from the original work. 5:30 p.m.

Hotel Monaco, Downtown.

412-398-3183.

LITERARY THU 04 THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappy hour.wordpress.com Thu, 7-9 p.m.

Lot 17, Bloomfield. 412-687-8117.

PRETTY OWL POETRY READING. Contributers to online journal “Pretty Owl Poetry� will read from their latest works.

7-9 p.m. Classic Lines, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-2220.

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.

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FRI 05 HEATHERASH AMARA. Book signing. 6 p.m. Journeys of Life, Shadyside. 412-681-8755.

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BENJAMIN CREME & SHARE INTERNATIONAL. Author spotlight. 1-4 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-952-7974.

BERRY, KINDRED & KAY. Saturday night poetry. 7 p.m.

Classic Lines, Squirrel Hill.

JASON BURKE. Book release & signing. 3-9 p.m. American Croatian Club, . 412-466-9766.

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SOOTHING SUNDAYS. Poetry, comedy & R&B. Presented by poetry.com First Sun of every month House of Savvy, North Side.

412-867-0827.

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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.

KIDSTUFF THU 04 - WED 10 BACKYARD EXHIBIT. Musical swing set, sandbox, solar-powered instruments, more. Ongoing Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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*Stuff We Like

Urban Gardener

Ask the friendly staff for advice while purchasing flowers and herbs from this independent garden center. They’ll help you choose the best fit for even the trickiest city landscapes.

1901 Brighton Road, North Side

M3: MATERIALS, MEDIA, AND ME! Explore a new material & make a project every Saturday of the summer! For youth in 4th through 8th grade. Sat. Thru Aug. 29 Assemble, Garfield.

412-432-9127.

STRIDER BIKE RACES. Balance bike races for children between 2 & 5 years old & family festival.

9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Station Square, Station Square.

lure & capture the insects of the night. 8:45 p.m. Powdermill Nature Reserve, Rector. 724-593-6105.

FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Shop for local, organic & Certified Naturally Grown on Phipps front lawn. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 28 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

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MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & 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.

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

WED 10 HOP INTO HISTORY: DOWN

BY THE RIVER. Explore these important resources, navigate a steamboat, & have a splash in our Pittsburgh water table.

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

412-454-6390.

Apple Fritters from Paddy Cake

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Bigger-than-a-hand super-donuts, enhanced with apple chunks and cinnamon. And for just $1.

4763 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield

Moonlite Horse Rides

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Ride a horse under the stars at Bridgeville’s Rolling Hills Ranch, then finish with a hayride to a BBQcatered bonfire. No horse-riding experience required, but must be over 21. www.rolling-hills-ranch.com

OUTSIDE SAT 06 FLIGHTS OF FANCY. A day of nature activities & hands-on demonstrations for all ages including geocaching, taxidermy, wildflower walk, birding, herpetology & nature drawing.

8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Powdermill Nature Reserve, Rector. 724-593-6105.

MEXICAN WAR STREETS YARD SALE. The boundaries are Brighton Rd. to Federal St. & North Ave. to Jefferson St. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

PA HIKING WEEK HIKE. 5 mile hike. Wear proper footwear & clothing. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Raccoon Creek State Park, Hookstown.

724-899-3611.

ROLLER COASTER RACE. 10K Race & 5K Run/Walk. 8:30 p.m.

Kennywood Park, West Mifflin.

434-951-8572.

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Fungi Education Day. Mushroom walk at 2:30 p.m. 9:15 a.m.-4 p.m.

Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

TUE 09 YOUNG NATURE EXPLORERS CLASS. Getting kids outside, exploring nature. Pre-registration required, 724-935-2170. Latodami Nature Center. Second Tue of every month, 9:30-11 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m.

North Park, Allison Park.

Volunteer Tree Tenders

Props to volunteers who take care of the urban forest.

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WED 10 EVENING ENTOMOLOGISTS. An unseen world of night flying insects exists. From splendid silk moths to seldom-seen spiders.

We’ll deploy special equipment to

THU 04 BIOPHILIA: PITTSBURGH. A meet-up group dedicated to strengthening the bond between people & the natural world. Come discuss an enviromental topic & share ideas. First Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD EMPLOYMENT CENTER’S JOB FAIR. Meet w/ more than 90 employers: banks, training programs, healthcare, retail, social services, more. Veterans, youth in foster care & individuals w/ background issues will receive early entry to the job fair at 2 p.m.

3-6 p.m. Eastminster Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-362-8580.

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.

FRI 05 FIRSTFRIDAY ARTWALKS. Art, live music, shopping at local businesses & food trucks along the route on Ellsworth Ave. 5:308:30 p.m., Fri., July 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fri., Aug. 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m. and Fri., Sept. 4, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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.

PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES WORKSHOP. Integrated garden design for fruit, food, culinary herbs, medicinal plants & beneficial habitat. Hosted by Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. 4-6 p.m. Three Sisters Farm, Sandy Lake. 724-376-2797.

RAINBOW RISING COFFEE HOUSE. For gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgendered individuals & friends. Music, games, movies, entertainment, more.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Smithton. First Fri of every month 724-872-5056.

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Habitat For Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh seeks to provide housing and community for people in need.

Volunteers can aid construction projects in the community or take shifts at ReStore, a shop that sells reusable building and home materials. For more information, call 412-351-0512 or visit www.pittsburghhabitat.org.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com.

OHIO RIVER TRAIL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Open house & welcoming. 3-7 p.m.

Community College of Beaver County, Monaca. 724-775-8561.

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.

SPLENDOR. Presented by RAW Pittsburgh. Including film screening, musical performances, fashion shows, a pop-up art gallery, performance art w/ featured hairstylists & makeup artists. 7 p.m. Mr. Smalls Theater, Millvale. 412-821-4447.

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

412-927-4768.

SUMMER FRIDAYS AT THE FRICK. Picnicking, tours, wine bar, yard games, music & different food trucks every week.

Fri, 5-9 p.m. Thru Aug. 7 Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FRI 05 - SUN 07 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS BIENNIAL CONVENTION. Delegates from local Leagues from across the state will assemble to adopt program, elect officers & directors, adopt a budget & participate in workshops. A series of local tours will be offered to delegates. June 5-7 Hotel Monaco, Downtown. 412-261-4284.

SAT 06 ARTIST PANEL. An artist panel featuring the public artists of the 2015 Three Rivers Arts Festival: Michelle Illuminato, Rudy Shepherd, Fernando Orellana & Mike Arcega. 11 Stanwix Auditorium. 6 p.m. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Downtown.

412-391-2060 ext. 237.

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

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COPMMUNITY--DIGNITY FOR EVERYONE. program will explore how to advance racial, cultural & economic justice in our city & region. Panelists: Julia Johnson & Carl Redwood. 1:30 p.m. The Pump House, Homestead. 412-831-3871.

LAWRENCEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET. Near Allegheny Valley Bank. Sat, 1-4 p.m.

Thru Oct. 31 Near Allegheny Valley Bank. 412-802-7220.

PENNSYLVANIA MICROBREWERS’ FEST. Over 20 local breweries & live entertainment. 5-8 p.m.

Penn Brewery, North Side.

412-237-9400 x120.

PITTSBURGH ETSY CRAFT PARTY. The theme is Kaleidoscope: Paper Taking Shape. 3-5 p.m. TechShop, East Liberty. 412-532-9440.

THE PITTSBURGH RECORD & CD CONVENTION. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Bridgeville VFD, Bridgeville.

412-221-1711.

THE PITTSBURGH THUNDERBIRDS. Competing in the American Ultimate Disc League. 7 p.m., Sun., June 28, 2 p.m., Fri., July 10, 7 p.m. and Sat., July 18, 7 p.m. Cupples Stadium, South Side. 330-979-9347.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

ST. MICHAEL’S OF THE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY FAIR. Pony rides, face painting, games, Wood Bridge activities, a puppet show & picnic.

9 a.m.-2 p.m. St. Michael’s of the Valley, Ligonier. 724-238-9411.

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. 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.

WOMEN’S SELF CARE SUPPORT GROUP. Reduce stress, tackle anxiety & strengthen boundaries while building practical coping techniques & tools in a confidential, healing & supportive environment. Sat, 10:30 a.m.

Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry, .

412-366-1300 ex. 129.

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 07 BOARD GAME NIGHT. Third and First Sun of every month, 6 p.m.

Brew on Broadway, Beechview.

412-437-8676.

HIGH TEA. Sponsored by the Gaelic Arts Society of Pittsburgh.

2 p.m. St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, Homestead. 412-863-7119.

THE PRACTICE OF HAPPINESS. Lecture by Laura Parkinson.

Presented by The Theosophical Society. F117 Falk Hall. 1:30-3 p.m.

Chatham University, Shadyside.

412-365-1100.

RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia game hosted by DJ Jared Evans. Come alone or bring a team. Sun, 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

SUNDAY MARKET. A gathering of local crafters & dealers selling unique items, from home made foodstuffs to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m.

The Night Gallery, Lawrenceville.

724-417-0223.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

TAROT CARD LESSONS. Wed, 7 p.m. Dobra Tea, Squirrel Hill.

412-449-9833.

AUDITIONS AFTERSOUND: FREQUENCY,

ATTACK, RETURN. Artists & practitioners will be considered for an extended on-line exhibition that pushes the envelope of how sound might be visualized. Send your most innovative examples in the form of a high res image, video or url link to miller-gallery@ andrew.cmu.edu. Deadline July 1.

Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-3618.

COMTRA THEATRE. Auditions for “Cats”. A prepared song is not nessessary. Dress comfortably in clothing & footwear convenient for AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL dancing. A children’s chorus is being PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly added for young performers ages 6 meeting. Second Mon of every to 11. June 6, 12-2:30pm & June 7, month, 7 p.m. First Unitarian 3:30-6:30pm. Cranberry. Open Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008. audition for “Two by Two”, to ASK A PHYSICAL THERAPIST. showcase vocal range w/ movement 7 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, & cold readings. June 13, 12-2:30pm Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. & June 14th, 3:30pm - 6:00pm.

BOUNDARIES & SELF CARE. A Cranberry. Auditions for Seussical! support group for women 30+. the Musical. Shoes for a dance Second and Fourth Mon of every audition. Ability to play mulitple month Anchorpoint Counseling instruments a plus. Bring a Ministry. 412-366-1300. headshot. No appt. necessary.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. June 23, 6:30-10pm & June 25, 6:30Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing 10pm. Cranberry. 724-773-9896. follows. No partner needed.

THE HERITAGE PLAYERS. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m.

Audition for Peter Pan Jr. Grace Episcopal Church, Seeking ages 7 to adult.

Mt. Washington.

Prepare 16 bars of a 412-683-5670. song of your choice. .

Cold readings from www per a p ty ci pgh m the script. Resumes & .co headshots helpful. June CAPOEIRA ANGOLA. 6, 2 p.m. Seton Center, Tue, 6:30-8 p.m. Irma Brookline. Auditions for “A Freeman Center for Imagination, Celebration of the Great American Garfield. 412-924-0634.

Songbook”. Singers may prepare GETTING TO KNOW OUR a short song of their choice. Sheet NEIGHBORS- A HISTORY OF LAWRENCEVILLE. Presented by music or a CD is optional. June 8, the Squirrel Hill Historical Society & 7 p.m. Seton Center, Brookline. speaker Jim Wudarczyk, researcher Auditions for “Seventh Annual for the Lawrenceville Historical Summer Broadway Revue”.

Society. 7:30 p.m. Church of the Seeking performers ages 13-19.

Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

Please prepare a one minute dialogue & 32 bars of a Broadway song of your choice. June 22 & BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP. June 24, 7 p.m. Schoolhouse Art For Widows/Widowers over 50.

Center, Bethel Park. Auditions for Second and Fourth Wed of every the musical, “The Secret Garden”. month, 1-2:30 p.m. St. Sebastian August 9, 7 p.m. Seton Center, Church, Ross. 412-366-1300.

Brookline. 412-254-4633.

CONVERSATION SALON. A THE JUNIOR MENDELSSOHN forum for active participation in CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Seeking the discussion of the meaningful young singers from 8th through & interesting events of our time.

12th grades. Prepared solo of Large Print Room. Second Wed of your choice, preferably a classical every month, 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m. selection (art song, aria, etc.)

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

Carefully selected works from 412-622-3151. musical theater may be performed, DETROIT STYLE URBAN but these should demonstrate a BALLROOM DANCE. 3rd floor. classical singing technique rather Wed, 6:30-8 p.m. Hosanna House, than belting. To schedule an Wilkinsburg. 412-242-4345. audition, call Emily Stewart at FATHER’S DAY SCREEN PRINT 412-926-2488. Auditions will be WORKSHOP. Learn basic screen conducted on August 27, after printing techniques. 7-9 p.m. Level 3:30pm. Third Presbyterian 20 Sports Lounge, Bethel Park.

Church, Oakland.

412-532-9440.

THE PITTSBURGH SAVOYARDS. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. Stage & vocal auditions for A meeting of jugglers & spinners.

“Iolanthe”, June 22, 7:30-9pm & All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

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PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS. Auditions for “King Lear” w/ Shakespeare in the Parks.

Non-union actors only. Actors should arrive prepared for movement, interaction w/ other group members & a memorized Shakespearean monologue. Actors may also optionally prepare to perform any singing, musical instrument playing, juggling or tumbling skill. Auditions will be held June 6 at the Blue Slide Park, in Frick Park in three group sessions. By appt. only. To schedule an audition email Helen Meade at hmmeade@yahoo.com. Frick Park, Regent Square.

R-ACT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS. Auditions for men & women of all ages for “T.V. Dinners”. Cold readings, no preparation needed.

Resume & head shot appreciated June 5, 7-9 p.m. & June 6, 12-3 p.m.

Rochester. 724-775-6844.

SUBMISSIONS THE AUTHORS’ ZONE. Accepting submissions for the 2nd Annual TAZ Awards, showcasing independent authors from Southwestern PA & beyond.

Entrants must complete the online entry form (www.theauthorszone. com) & submit payment by August 1, 2015 for their work to be considered. 412-563-6712.

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 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. afterhappy hourreview.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.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry.

Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. com Ongoing.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date No. 2: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.” This usually catches my date off guard because I’m “not the kind of guy I’d have thought could do that.” But I can hardly get past date No. 2 after this, because this information is “too much to handle.” Sometimes my dates will admit to having cheated too. Not even other cheaters are interested in seeing me again. I was a good husband and father for seven years. But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women.

Two years and 20 women later, I got caught.

I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes.

I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes.

But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.” In my mind, anything less than complete honesty would validate the belief that I’m still a lying cheat. But complete honesty is kicking my ass and ruining potential relationships.

FORTHRIGHT ABOUT CHEATING, THEN SILENCE

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, FACTS, and assume that mistreatment, neglect and stress didn’t extinguish your wife’s libido. I’m also going to assume that you made a good-faith effort to address the sexless state of your marriage before you began self-medicating with all those beautiful women.

These favorable assumptions — of the kind typically extended to persons seeking advice in a format like this — don’t exonerate you of all responsibility for cheating on your wife. But if they’re accurate, FACTS, they do put your cheating in a particular guilt-mitigating context.

And that’s what you need to do when you answer that question about why your marriage ended: Put your cheating in context. Most people intuitively understand that wedding vows aren’t sexual suicide pacts, and are capable of feeling sympathy for those who find themselves in sexless marriages. But instead of emphasizing the context in which you cheated — the emotional dynamics of your marriage, those long sexless years — you’re emphasizing the break-dick pace at which you cheated and the quality of the pussy you landed.

Instead of saying, “I cheated with 20 women, all of them babes,” omit the detail about the number of women you cheated with while emphasizing your determination to avoid making the same mistake in your next committed relationship. Tell your date that you are looking for a strong sexual connection (and other things) with someone you can communicate with about sex (and other things). Because you’re not a cheater — not anymore.

pression that turned our 10-year marriage into a loveless, sexless, miserable thing that I didn’t recognize, I knew what I had to do.

I couldn’t get out for various financial, personal and practical reasons, so I began an emotionally fulfilling, sanity-saving affair with a married man in the same situation.

My emotional and sexual needs are getting met for the first time in years. The problem is that when we are together, my mind goes to how much I wish we could both chuck our marriages and be together all of the time, and I feel more miserable in my marriage because I can’t help comparing the two men in my life. Do you have any advice for keeping from mentally going to “happily ever after” when you are trying to stay balanced in marriage-saving-affair land?

SECRET AFFAIR NECESSARY ESCAPE

An affair doesn’t come bundled with the same crap that a marriage does, so your time with Happy Affair Man isn’t burdened by mental- and/or physical-health crises, just as it’s not roughed up by ever-festering conflicts about money or chores. So let’s say you left Depressed Husband Man for Happy Affair Man, and he left his wife for you. How long would it be before you were facing down some similar crap or brand-new crap? Probably not long. You might be happier, but you won’t be happily-ever-after happier because no one ever is.

The subject is moot, of course, if you’re not in a position to end your marriage and he isn’t either.

“INSTEAD OF EMPHASIZING THE CONTEXT IN WHICH YOU CHEATED, YOU’RE EMPHASIZING THE BREAK-DICK PACE AT WHICH YOU CHEATED.”

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I’m a 36-year-old heterosexual female who has been reading you for the better part of 20 years. That’s why when my formerly lovely husband descended into a hellish de-

I have been in a gay relationship for almost six years, and we are getting married in September. We are both predominantly tops, so we’ve been having threesomes for the majority of the time we’ve been together. About eight months ago, we had a threesome with someone who has since become a good friend. I have developed a strong bond with our third. My fiancé is not an overly affectionate person, and while I’ve had issues with that in the past and overlooked it, these past months have shown me how much I long for physical affection. My fiancé is threatened by the two of us showing affection. I reassure him as best I can, but nothing I say makes him feel less threatened by my wanting to have alone time with our third.

If we could help him get more comfortable, it could be a perfect situation for everyone.

SINCERELY PERPLEXED LAD IN TRIAD

Seeing as your third sounds like a better match for you than your fiancé in several important ways — bottom to your top, more physically affectionate — I’m wondering why you wouldn’t want to dump the fiancé to run off with your third. Your fiancé is probably wondering the same thing.

You’ll probably have to pick one or the other.

And seeing as how you employ “we” in your last sentence — in reference to you and the third, not you and the fiancé — it sounds like you’ve already made your choice.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Seattle author Jason Schmidt about his memoir, A List of Things That Didn’t Kill Me.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nobel Prize-winning physicists Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr were both amused at how counterintuitive their innovative theories seemed.

Once, Pauli was lecturing a group of eminent scientists about a radical new hypothesis. Bohr got out of his seat in the audience and walked up to the front to interrupt his colleague. “We all agree that your theory is crazy,” Bohr told Pauli. “The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” Pauli defended himself. “It is crazy enough!” he said. But Bohr was insistent. “It’s not crazy enough!” he argued. I’m going to pose a comparable query to you, Gemini. Are your new ideas and possibilities crazy enough to be true? Make sure they are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ve wandered into an awkward phase of your cycle. Missed connections have aroused confusion. Disjointed events have led to weirdness. I’ve got a suggestion for how you might be able to restore clarity and confidence: Make a foray into a borderland and risk imaginative acts of heroism. Does that sound too cryptic or spooky? How about if I say it like this: Go on an unpredictable quest that will free your trapped vitality, or try a mysterious experiment that will awaken your sleeping magic. P.S. For best results, ask for help every step of the way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Gesamtkunstwerk is a German word that can be translated as “total art work” or “all-embracing art form.” It refers to a creative masterpiece that makes use of several genres. The 19thcentury composer Richard Wagner had this in mind when he produced his opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, which included orchestral music, singing, theater and literature. I’m invoking the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk for your use, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to synthesize and coordinate all the things you do best, and express them with a flourish.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Defender was a popular video game that young people played in video arcades during the 1980s. Fifteen-year-old Steve Juraszek was profiled in Time magazine after he racked up a record-breaking 16 million points while playing the game for 16 hours straight. But when his high school principal found out that Juraszek had skipped classes to be at the arcade, he was suspended. I’m wondering if there may soon be a similar development in your own life, Virgo. Will you have to pay a small price for your success? You should at least be prepared to risk an acceptable loss in order to accomplish an important goal.

needs met by helping other people get their needs met. It’s thrilling to behold the paradoxical Scorpio assets in action: the combination of manipulativeness and generosity; the animal magnetism working in service to the greater good; the resourceful willpower that carries out hidden agendas and complex strategies designed to make the world a better place. I expect to see a lot of this idiosyncratic wisdom from you in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree,” says the Talmud. “But it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.” That’s a lyrical sentiment, but I don’t agree with it. I’ve come to prefer the shimmering dance over the static stance.

The ever-shifting play of light and dark is more interesting to me than the illusion of stability. I feel more at home in the unpredictable flow than in the stagnant trance of certainty. What about you, Sagittarius? I suggest that in the immediate future you cultivate an appreciation for the joys and challenges of the shimmering dance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The core of your horoscope comes from the poem “A Color of the Sky,” by Tony Hoagland.

Imagine that you are the “I” who is saying the following: “What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.” Please understand, Capricorn, that speaking these words might not make total sense to you yet. You may have to take them on faith until you gather further evidence. But I urge you to speak them anyway. Doing so will help generate the transformations you need in order to make them come true.

People I meet are sometimes taken aback by the probing questions I ask them. Recently an acquaintance said to me, “Why don’t you feel driven to talk about yourself all the time, like everyone else?” I told him the truth: “Being curious is just the way I was made. Maybe it’s because of my Mercury in Gemini, or my seventh-house sun, or my three planets in Libra.” I suspect that you are due to go through a phase similar to the mode I’m so familiar with. If it doesn’t happen naturally, I suggest you coax it out. You need to be extra inquisitive. You’ll benefit from digging as deeply as you dare. The more information you uncover, the better your decisions will be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I love to watch an evolved Scorpio get his or her

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Persian scholar Avicenna was so well-rounded in his knowledge that he wrote two different encyclopedias. Even as a teenager he was obsessed with learning all he could. He got especially consumed with trying to master Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which did not easily yield its secrets to him. He read it 40 times, memorizing every word. When he finally understood it, he was so excited he celebrated by giving out money and

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it’s rush hour in Tokyo, unwieldy crowds of commuters board the trains and subways. They often need help at squeezing in. Railway workers known as oshiya, or pushers, provide the necessary force. Wearing crisp uniforms, white gloves and neat hats, they cram the last stragglers into each car. I foresee the possibility of you being called on to perform a metaphorical version of the service these pushers provide. Is there a polite and respectful way for you to be indelicate in a worthy cause? Could you bring lighthearted tact to bear as you seek an outcome that encourages everyone to compromise?

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gifts to destitute strangers. I suspect you will soon be having an equivalent breakthrough, Aries. At last you will grasp a truth that has eluded you for a long time. Congratulations in advance!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lessons in luck are coming your way. Will they help you attract more luck? Maybe. Will they show you how to make better use of your luck?

Maybe. A lot depends on your ability to understand and love the paradox of luck. I’ve assembled a few enigmatic teachings to prepare you.

1. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams. 2. “It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.” — Baltasar Gracián. 3. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.”

— Lorii Myers. 4. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Samuel Goldwyn. 5. “You’ve got to try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” — Jimmy Dean. 6. “Go and wake up your luck.” — Persian proverb.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

room. But hundreds of years ago, it had a more specific definition. It was a room where a wellbred girl was sent when she was pouting. “Boudoir” is derived from the French verb bouder, which means “to sulk.” If it were in my power, Pisces, I would send you to the sulking room right now. In fact, I would encourage you to sulk. In my opinion, a good long sulk would be just the right prescription for you. It would trigger brainstorms about how to change the soggy, foggy conditions that warranted your sulking in the first place.

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SOUND OF SUCCESS {BY ALEX GORDON}

STUART DAY WILL BE the first to tell you that archtop guitars are something of a niche market. For starters, not everyone plays guitar, and those who do aren’t necessarily in the market for a jazz guitar. Fewer still are willing to shell out the typical $2,000 it costs to get one made by hand.

Despite those numbers and the tedious amount of work that goes into building one from scratch, Stuart Day is betting that his company, Stuart Day Guitars, and his new Pittsburgh shop will pay off. With a debut appearance next week at the Memphis Acoustic Guitar Festival, the largest of its kind in North America, it seems like a smart bet.

“It’s tough in a society that favors mass-production of cheap goods. It’s hard to make a living doing this,” says Day, 31. “But if you can make a name for yourself, you can.”

Archtop guitars are acoustic or semi-acoustic guitars often favored by jazz players. There’s a variety, but in general they look like something between a cello and an acoustic guitar. The guitar body often has f-holes, like you might find on a violin — as opposed to the round sound hole on an acoustic — plus various metal knick-knacks that look important even if you don’t know what they do. And of course it has the signature archtop, in which the face of the guitar is swelled or curved, rather than flat, as in a more-familiar “flat-top.”

{PHOTO COURTESY OF STUART DAY}

Stuart Day works in his basement shop.

as a craftsman and eventually as shop foreman at Ribbecke Guitars (named for owner Tom Ribbecke, considered by many to be one of the best archtop-guitar builders in the world).

At Ribbecke Guitars, Day learned the business firsthand, like how to build on a deadline with little margin for error for big-name clients (pop star Seal among them). But after six years, Day felt he needed to go out on his own. His parents had moved to Pittsburgh years before, and he was drawn to the city’s history of old-school manufacturing, so he took the leap.

Today, Day is working full-time out of his basement shop in Brighton Heights. This week, he’s tweaking and finalizing the

“THE LONGER I DO IT, THE MORE IN LOVE I GET WITH IT.” “It’s kind of sculpture in a way. That curve is really crucial to the way an instrument sounds, so there’s a lot of foresight and a lot of intuition that’s involved with that sculpting process,” says Day. “That’s the thing that sets them apart from flat-tops.”

Archtop guitars, with their ornate design and customizability, are a perfect fit for Day, who moved to Pittsburgh in 2013 to start Stuart Day Guitars. Before his career as a luthier — a builder of stringed instruments — Day was a sophomore at Penn State, waffling between potential majors such as fine art, painting and philosophy. He played in a band and he liked school, but nothing jumped out at him until he ran into an old high school acquaintance who showed him his new archtop guitar.

“I noticed it didn’t have a brand name on it,” says Day. It turned out the friend had built it himself. “Up until that point, I never really thought about where [guitars] came from.”

That was enough to send him on his way. Day enrolled at the Galloup School of Lutherie in Big Rapids, Mich., and after completing the six-month program, he spent the next two years as an apprentice under the school’s founder, Bryan Galloup. That apprenticeship led Day to Sonoma County, Calif., where he worked

three guitars he’ll be sharing in Memphis next week, variations on his newest archtop — the fifth under the Stuart Day Guitars brand — called The Steel City.

“The Steel City is designed as a nod to some of the more classic archtop guitars of the past,” explains Day. “[It’s] kind of a minimalistic approach, aesthetically. [It’s] meant to be played.”

“Meant to be played” is an important detail here, because a lot of archtop guitars look like they were built for display cases.

They look like impeccably maintained antiques. With the Steel City, Day kept the overall weight minimal so it’d be easy to play around the house.

Although his company is less than two years old, Day was one of roughly 70 luthiers accepted to share their work at the Memphis Acoustic Guitar Festival, among them his former mentors Ribbecke and Galloup. (Day will be the only luthier from Pennsylvania.) This will be Stuart Day Guitars’ official debut on the luthier circuit. With an average six or seven guitars sold a year so far, and a growing list of international dealers, Day is optimistic.

“The longer I do it, the more in love I get with it,” he says. “It’s a very dynamic craft, there’s a lot to it. It’s kind of a renaissance art.”

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