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ERNIE SANDERS’ presidential campaign is surging. In July, nearly 10,000 supporters gathered in Madison, Wis., to hear the 73-year-old socialist U.S. senator denounce the Koch brothers and corporate greed. Another 7,500 came to hear him in Portland, Maine. He fired up a crowd of 11,000 in Phoenix, Ariz.

More and more Americans are tuning in to the grumpy grandfather who never strays from his message and who rails against income inequality and the corruption of U.S. politics wrought by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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“billionaire class.”

Sanders’ sudden popularity has surprised pundits trapped inside the Beltway, but not Vermonters closely acquainted with his political biography. They’ve watched his evolution from a fringe candidate of the far-left Liberty Union Party, in the 1972 governor’s race, to mayor of the state’s largest city nine years later, to his current status as one of Vermont’s most popular politicians.

In 2012, Sanders won re-election to his U.S. Senate seat with 71 percent of the vote.

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his first electoral victory — as mayor of Burlington in 1981 — and his subsequent ascent to the national political scene in the 1990 race for Vermont’s sole U.S. House seat helps explain his growing appeal.

Underlying all of Sanders’ electoral successes is his ability to win the support of white working-class voters. Sanders’ friends, former campaign staff, and academic analysts who have watched him over the decades agree on the elements that comprise his political repertoire: charisma, authenticity, trustworthiness, and simplicity and consistency of message. Sanders wins respect among moderates and even some conservatives, these sources add, by abstaining from ideology and by taking a pragmatic, but always principled, approach

to governing and legislating.

“Bernie doesn’t talk in terminology laden with Marxist lingo,” says Terry Bouricius, a Burlington activist who helped Sanders achieve his upset mayoral breakthrough.

“His socialism is more like liberation theology. He speaks about economic injustice as something ‘immoral,’ not as ‘the inevitable product of capitalism.’”

As a candidate who has lost six elections, Sanders has always displayed doggedness and “political fearlessness,” adds University of Vermont religion professor Richard Sugarman, Sanders’ longtime friend. Sanders is unintimidated by the forces arrayed against him, adds Erhard Mahnke, another Sanders ally who now lobbies for the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition.

“People see that Bernie has a fighting spirit, that he means it when he says he’s on the side of vulnerable, low-income, ordinary Americans,” Mahnke observes. “He’s not packaged.”

Sanders has also been a beneficiary of sheer good luck, especially in the two pivotal races of his career.

sistant city attorney Gene Bergman. That amounted to a significant show of strength, considering that Burlington’s population numbered roughly 38,000, and fewer than 9,000 voters would decide the outcomes of the election that year.

Sanders sympathizers were also galvanized by the election four months earlier of archconservative Ronald Reagan as president. “There was a strong feeling that there had to be a local response to that,” Mahnke says.

Paquette, a working-class Democrat who had compiled a partly liberal record, had meanwhile alienated big chunks of the electorate by calling for a steep rise in residential property taxes. And in what would become an incongruous characteristic of his socialist politics, Sanders was opposed to raising taxes.

In the run-up to the ’81 election, Paquette “managed to piss off tenants, the cops and firefighters,” Nelson notes, by failing to address the issue of rising rents and by opposing pay raises for members of the police and fire departments. Sanders supported those wage demands, again departing from leftwing orthodoxy — this time by refusing to view the police with suspicion, let alone outright animosity. Sanders would never adopt the ’60s leftist rhetoric of cops as “pigs.” He instead viewed them as “workers,” Sugarman points out.

The Burlington police union rewarded the Jewish socialist from Brooklyn — Sanders had moved to Vermont as a young man — by endorsing him for mayor of a mostly Catholic and WASP-y city. “That was the key to the race,” says Huck Gutman, Sanders’ friend of four decades, who would later serve as his chief of staff in the U.S. Senate.

The insurgent was simultaneously adding to Paquette’s political pain by portraying the mayor as a tool of real-estate interests seeking to build high-rise, high-priced condominiums downtown on scenic Lake Champlain. Sanders’ slogan of “the waterfront is not for sale” proved powerful, Sugarman says, because “the condos would not only have diminished the aesthetics but would have deprived people of an important piece of the city that many viewed as their backyard.”

But even with all these weather systems converging, Paquette might have survived the Sanders storm if he had seen it coming.

“The Democrats didn’t pull out all the stops in that race,” recalls Bouricius, who has made a career of analyzing election reform.

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‘Perfect Storm’ By 1980, Bernie Sanders had earned a reputation as a perennial loser at the ballot box.

But University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson recalls that as the Reagan decade was dawning, “a perfect storm” was gathering in Burlington.

Sanders’ friend Sugarman felt the wind shift. He pointed out to his then-39-yearold friend and political soul mate that Burlington had been the source of Sanders’ highest vote percentages in the statewide races he had run in the 1970s as a Liberty Union candidate. Sanders, he suggested in 1980, should run for mayor against fourterm Democratic mayor Gordon Paquette.

“I told him he had a chance, a small chance, to actually win,” Sugarman recounts.

Burlingtonians had already assembled a progressive political infrastructure. Lawyer John Franco, another longtime Sanders confidante, points to a food co-op, a community health center, and grassroots antipoverty groups such as People Acting for Change Together as local expressions of a movement rooted in the antiwar politics of the Vietnam era.

Many residents involved in those causes were also mobilizing in 1981 behind a ballot item calling for a freeze on nuclear-weapons deployment. About 1,500 Burlingtonians had signed a petition to put the freeze referendum on the same ballot topped by the Paquette vs. Sanders contest, notes veteran peace campaigner and as-

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have ended in a Paquette victory. But as luck would have it, Sanders benefited from a spoiler.

Richard Bove, a local restaurant-owner and erstwhile ally of Paquette’s, had secured a spot on the mayoral ballot out of pique at a perceived slight by the local Democratic establishment, Nelson says. Bove got about 400 votes, and “all those votes would have gone to Paquette,” Nelson reckons. Instead, Sanders managed to squeak out a 10vote victory.

The sort of political revolution Sanders is urging today actually occurred on a smaller scale in what soon became known as “the People’s Republic of Burlington.”

Sanders became a hands-on mayor who practiced the principles of “Sewer Socialism.” In keeping with the precedent set by a series of progressive mayors of Milwaukee in the first half of the 20th century, he focused on effective and efficient delivery of basic municipal services. Voters also affirmed the radical mayor’s affordablehousing initiatives, as his three re-election victories would attest.

“He couldn’t be portrayed as a tax-andspend liberal,” Mahnke says. “He was all about making government more efficient and more effective. For him, plowing the streets was a vital responsibility.”

Bitterly opposed by the city’s Democratic establishment, Sanders succeeded by attracting a set of bright staffers. They were fiercely dedicated to the causes championed by a mayor who was often irascible with staff behind the scenes.

He was soon looking to advance to higher offices. Sanders ran for governor in 1986 and the U.S. House in 1988, but lost both races.

His stage-left entry on the national political scene in 1990 — when he finally managed to win a statewide race — was made possible, in part, by his opponent’s blunders.

Incumbent Republican House member Peter Smith, who had beaten Sanders by four percentage points in a six-way race in 1988, alienated many conservative Vermonters, Nelson suggests, by insulting President George H.W. Bush and by casting a vote that caused the National Rifle Association to campaign against him.

Bush flew into Burlington in the fall of 1990 to help Smith stave off Sanders’ challenge. But the intended beneficiary of Bush’s benediction proceeded to criticize the president’s tax policy on the stage they were sharing.

Smith had also voted for a ban on assault weapons after pledging his allegiance to the NRA’s policy of opposing any and

all gun-control measures. That spawned a negative ad campaign in hunter-friendly Vermont: “Smith & Wesson, Yes. Smith & Congress, No.” Sanders won the election by a 16-point margin.

From there, Sanders would go on to win seven more elections to the House and to score easy victories in races for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2012.

Throughout all of his campaigns, the once-obscure outsider never departed from his central themes of fighting economic inequality and calling for reforms that would benefit working-class Americans. Voters who seldom support liberal Democrats, let alone radical independents, have responded by standing with Sanders.

Franco doesn’t doubt anecdotal evidence that some Burlingtonians who voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 also cast ballots for Sanders. Similarly, Mahnke remembers seeing, during the 2000 campaign, “Bernie for Congress” signs on many of the same lawns in the state’s remote and rural Northeast Kingdom that were also displaying “Take Back Vermont” posters signifying opposition to a controversial same-sex civilunion law enacted earlier that year.

How could this be? Why would many anti-gay rights residents of Vermont’s poorest and most conservative region simultaneously support a socialist?

It’s that Sanders “doesn’t foreground those issues,” Gutman observes.

Nelson agrees, framing Sanders’ approach this way: “His politics are horizontal, not vertical. Bernie’s class-focused arguments cut across the usual racial and ethnic lines. He’s seen, first and foremost, as the champion of the underdog, and no part of the state is more of an underdog than the Northeast Kingdom.”

Veteran Politician During his 25 years in Congress — by far the longest tenure of any independent — Sanders has raised his Brooklyn-accented voice to call for bank reform, a higher minimum wage and steeper taxes on wealthy Americans. But he has also fought hard for a group rarely associated with socialist views: military veterans.

Although he voted against the war in Iraq, Sanders chaired the Senate veterans’ affairs panel for two years — the first time, political-science prof Nelson says, that an independent has headed a U.S. Congress committee. Throughout his full nine-year tenure on veterans’ affairs, he has worked to safeguard and improve federal services for former members of the U.S. armed forces, including health care delivered via the Veterans Administration. Sanders cites the VA’s coverage as a successful example of CONTINUES ON PG. 10

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announced her candidacy, she was thought by many to be a shoe-in for the Democratic Party nomination.

But in recent months, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has emerged as a legitimate threat, pushing Clinton onto uneven footing.

On several issues, Clinton has had to shift her rhetoric to more closely mirror Sanders’ liberal stances. Political analysts say Sanders is drawing larger crowds than her at his appearances around the country. And all the while, Clinton has had to fend off a barrage of GOP vitriol.

But can Sanders actually harness this momentum all the way to the White House?

And how will Sanders’ brand of socialism fare in Pennsylvania, a middle-of-the-road state that doesn’t skew Democrat or Republican? Can he connect with the working-class rural voters of the state? And can he count on support from socialist contingents in the commonwealth’s urban centers?

“His audiences are eclipsing [Clinton]. [But] she’s got a reservoir of support that Sanders doesn’t have,” says G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College. “We’re a long way off, but it’s one of the most unpredictable races I’ve ever seen.”

According to poll results from May, Pennsylvanians found Hillary Clinton more favorable than Sanders.

But a greater percentage of Pennsylvanians (54 percent) also found her unfavorable compared to just 28 percent for Sanders. At the time, more than 50 percent of the Pennsylvanians surveyed were still unsure about the Vermont senator.

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And Sanders’ liberal message has forced Clinton to shift her rhetoric to be more progressive. This has been apparent, analysts say, in her recent comments on economics and criminal justice.

“In her conversation with Black Lives Matter a few weeks ago, she was talking about the prison-industrial complex, and she wouldn’t have done that if it weren’t for Bernie,” says Morrill.

But winning Pennsylvania could be about more than appealing to liberals and the working class. Clinton has done well here in the past and has Pennsylvania roots that include family ties to Scranton.

“Pennsylvania is pretty much these days a bellwether in elections.

We’re not a truly progressive state, we’re not a conservative state,” says Morrill. “I think they need to come to Pennsylvania. There needs to be some face time.”

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This involvement with vets is consistent with Sanders’ career-long advocacy for the interests of working-class Americans, Nelson notes. “Veterans are mostly workingclass guys who depend on federal aid,” he says. “It’s a perfect cause for Bernie.”

That unwavering willingness to stick up for the little guy has won over plenty of conservative voters, Bouricius says. “I’ve got in-laws who always vote for Republicans — and for Bernie,” the former city councilor notes. “They say he’s their guy because he always speaks his mind.”

“He doesn’t do focus groups,” Mahnke adds. “He doesn’t raise his finger to see which way the political wind is blowing.”

In addition to avoiding leftist jargon, Sanders talks about down-home concerns that many radicals ignore. Sugarman says: “They’re into macro. Bernard is more about micro. He connects with people on the level of their lived experience — the quality of the schools their kids attend, for example.”

Above all, suggests Burlington activist and lawyer Sandy Baird, “Bernie doesn’t fight the cultural wars. He was never a hippie,” she points out. “He can attract working-class votes because he is working class.

He’s from an immigrant family that didn’t have a lot, so it’s clear that he knows of what he speaks.”

Sanders has approached legislating in Congress the same way he handled administering a city — by presenting issues as moral choices to be made on behalf of, and with the support of, his constituents.

Today, he’s campaigning for the highest office of them all, having launched the Bernie-for-President drive on the Burlington waterfront, where condos were once proposed but which instead became a lakeside park.

Initially treated by national political savants as a figure for ridicule, Sanders has again shown that he can surprise those who underestimate him. As was the case 35 years ago in Burlington and 25 years ago in many parts of Vermont, big-dog Dems are saying Sanders has no chance of winning.

His growing crowds haven’t gotten the message yet.

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Robert Morris helped finance the Revolutionary War and is credited with introducing the dollar sign and putting his name on a couple of famous documents.

He went from George Washington’s righthand man, all the way to debtor’s prison.

That’s where we find the school’s football program at the moment. The winners of six league championships since their inception during the Clinton administration, last season the Colonials found themselves at the bottom of the Northeast Conference.

Head coach John Banaszak looks to improve on a 1-10 effort. A pretty good player in his own right, Banaszak, a former defensive end, has four championship rings — three from the Steelers in the 1970s and one from the long-gone but never completely forgotten USFL. Although I’m guessing no one ever asks to see his Michigan Panthers jewelry.

It’s never easy to replace a legend, and there is no bigger legend at RMU than Joe Walton. Walton invented the football program from scratch 21 years ago, and the stadium even has his name on it. He is Bear Bryant, Knute Rockne and Eddie Robinson all rolled into one, but with a Beaver County accent. After graduating from Pitt, Joe turned pro and played offense and defense for Washington in the late 1950s. Then onto the New York Giants, where he shared a locker room with Y.A. Tittle (sorry, I can’t help giggling) and Frank Gifford.

Walton wasn’t like the spoiled kids of the modern football era who have access to trainers, advanced medicine and protective gear. Walton played in the 1950s, when you strapped on your comical leather helmet, put a raw steak on your

eye when you got punched in it three times a game and, after getting smacked in the mouth, spit out your tooth so you could get back on the field. He was even the head coach of the New York Jets in the 1980s. Just try to replace that.

Leading rusher Rameses Owens returns to the Colonials offense for his sophomore season. Jake Tkach (84 tackles last season), Mike Stojkovic (82 tackles) and Andy Smigiera (74 tackles, three interceptions) all return on defense. The Colonials are predicted to come in seventh this season, which wouldn’t sound bad if it weren’t a seven-team league.

The good news: Predictions are meaningless. The last time the team was predicted to come in last was 2006 — and it went 8-3.

So let’s give Robert Morris football a chance. It’s really had only one bad year.

Born in 1994, this is a small football program that is just barely old enough to drink. It’s put three players in the NFL, including Hank Fraley, who cashed a check in the pros for 10 years with the Eagles, Browns and Rams.

Take a drive to Moon Township to check out RMU’s squad this season. The Colonials open the season against the Dayton Flyers on Sept. 5, at noon. Then it’s off to Youngstown, a city best known for giving us Ed O’Neill, Boom Boom Mancini, the mafia and meth labs. So get out to Joe Walton stadium. Single-game tickets are $10 for adults (notice the dollar sign?) and $5 for kids and old adults. With prices like that, at least you won’t end up in debtor’s prison.

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STEELERS PREVIEW Le’Veon Bell, making a move against the Green Bay Packers during an Aug. 23 preseason game, may be the best running back in football and will be crucial to the Steelers success this season.

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EN ROETHLISBERGER is shredding the defense.

Play after play, rep after rep, the outcome is the same: Snap. Drop back. Touchdown.

A pass to Antonio Brown in the middle of the end zone. A run up the gut by Deangelo Williams. A run off left tackle by Le’Veon Bell. A pass to Martavis Bryant in the corner of the endzone.

Snap. Drop back. Touchdown.

This Steelers offense is good. So good that Roethlisberger has said that he expects the team to put up 30 points every game. At least, that’s the goal.

“Unless we score every single time we have the ball, we [leave] points on the board,” he says. “We had a pretty good year last year, but that was last year. So like I said, we just have to work our butts off to be the best that we can be.”

How good can this offense be? Guard David DeCastro explains it rather simply.

“The sky’s the limit, really,” says DeCastro, one of Roethlisberger’s primary blockers. Once much-maligned, this offensive line blossomed last year into a unit that gave Roethlisberger and the Steelers running backs room to operate. That offense gained nearly 5,000 yards, and Roethlisberger threw a career-high 32 touchdowns.

By the look of the offense on this day at training camp, the sky is indeed the limit. And as the Steelers offense goes, so should the team this season.

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Jarvis Jones needs to take a step forward in 2015.

For those who spent their hours at school doing actual schoolwork, a cootie catcher was that awesome piece of grade-school origami that, when you picked the right combination of colors and numbers, would reveal the name of your future spouse. And although it’s not as powerful as a Ouija board or a crystal ball, I feel that those experiences uniquely qualify me to predict every Steelers game this season. I foresee a good year that goes a little something like this.

young defense with a lot of question marks.

In the team’s third preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, for example, Aaron Rodgers made the Steelers’ starting 11 look foolish at times. Receivers were left wide open. Running backs were allowed safe passage into the open field. It didn’t look like a Steelers defense. Hell, at times it didn’t even look like a mediocre Quad A WPIAL defense.

“I THINK WE CAN LIGHT UP THE SCOREBOARD.” But there’s a slight problem.

The defense being dismantled on this day also belongs to the Steelers. Once dominant, the defense transitioned in recent years from a Steel Curtain that stops everything to a bend-don’t-break-unit that tried to at least stop the big plays. And most weeks last year, it didn’t even do that. That defense was more like a dollar-store camp chair trying to support the weight of Casey Hampton — more often than not, it gave way.

There were changes in the backfield. Long-time defensive coordinator Dick Lebeau, whose defenses had lost their edge and become increasingly easy for offenses to figure out, left for the Tennessee Titans (and not, most watchers agree, of his own volition). Gone also are defensive stalwarts Troy Polamalu, the aging safety who had once done things in an NFL secondary that you couldn’t even do in a video game, and Ike Taylor, a cornerback who for years was able to earn a starting job because of his coverage capabilities despite near-invisible interception numbers. Add to that the loss of Brett Keisel and the shocking retirement of linebacker Jason Worilds, and the Steelers are left with a

There were bright spots, though. James Harrison sacked quarterback Rodgers for a safety, and the Steelers tallied five more sacks on the Pack’s back-up squad.

But while there were bright spots, there was still plenty of room for concern.

“Defensively, we warmed up … which we can’t afford to do,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said after the game. “You don’t always get the opportunity to warm up in our business.”

WEEK 1:

Sept. 10 at New England The Steelers kick off the NFL season with a win over the Patriots in New England. It’s a 20-13 victory over the defending champs who were Brady-less thanks to his misspent post-season deflating balls. Former Patriot and all-time NFL homicide leader Aaron Hernandez — who out-paces fellow hall-of-shamers Rae Carruth and O.J. Simpson (allegedly) — can hear the fans’ disappointment from his prison cell near Gillette Stadium.

THE OFFENSE, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to need much time to get things going. Against Green Bay, even though the Steelers didn’t score until the second quarter, Roethlisberger appeared to move the ball pretty well.

His main target was Antonio Brown, a receiver who showed signs of being a superstar in 2013 and cemented it last year with nearly 1,700 yards and 13 touchdowns. In very limited action, Roethlisberger hit Brown for four catches as well as a 58-yard touchdown pass that was negated on an offensive pass-interference call.

WEEK 2:

Sept. 20 vs. San Francisco This is a battle of two NFL franchises with a combined 11 Lombardi trophies. But the Steelers have won one more Super Bowl than the Niners and they’ll win this game too, by a score of 23-15. The Steelers are looking good at 2-0.

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Sept. 27 at St. Louis The Rams are terrible and pre-occupied with rumors of moving back to Los Angeles. They don’t even show up for this one and the Steelers cruise to 3-0 with a 31-17 victory in the rematch of Super Bowl XIV. Unfortunately for the Rams, Ben Roethlisberger is not Neil O’Donnell.

WEEK 4:

Oct. 1 vs. Baltimore The Ravens named their team as an homage to Edgar Allen Poe, which has always confused me. He wasn’t born there and didn’t write many books there, either. His main connection to Charm City was shacking up with his underage cousin, and that’s where she lived. History lessons aside, the Ravens squeak by with a 23-21 win and irate Steelers fans immediately call up sports talk shows demanding the head of coach Mike Tomlin.

WEEK 5:

Oct. 12 at San Diego The Steelers stumble on Monday night to fall to 3-2. Phillip Rivers finds some holes in the Steelers’ young defense and then acts like a surly jerk (as usual) at the postgame press conference. Chargers 22, Steelers 17.

WEEK 6:

Oct. 8 vs. Arizona Fans get some welcome relief as the Steelers return home and whip the Cardinals 41-26. The Cardinals, who earlier in the week signed former Steelers Plaxico Burress, Yancy Thigpen and Kent Graham, just can’t find enough old Steelers to beat the current ones this season. Despite the win, calls for Tomlin’s removal persist. When asked about waning fan support, Tomlin replies that he won’t get into “things of that nature.”

WEEK 7:

Oct. 25 at Kansas City The Steelers are rolling now and improve to 5-2 after a 30-24 victory at Arrowhead. Chiefs coach Andy Reid spent too much time the night before preparing for his role as Chris Farley in a one-man show and admits his team was not ready.

Willie Gay has two pick-sixes in the game, but sales of his jersey remain stagnant even though he has now doubled Ike Taylor’s career interception-for-touchdown totals.

Brown looks faster than ever, and even in the preseason, his route-running looks smooth and deliberate. He might be the most important person to the Steelers this year, for both his on-field performance and as the emerging face of the franchise off the field. The Steelers have been criticized in recent years for diverging from the socalled “Steelers Way.” The team signed players with troubled pasts, and kept players, like Roethlisberger, despite serious off-field distractions. The recent signing of backup quarterback Michael Vick is just the latest example. (See related story, page 17.)

At training camp this summer, Brown’s was the name the fans were screaming.

He’s the one they most come to see. In fact, during practice he spent time playing to the crowd, getting them to cheer even more.

His value to the team is immeasurable, but it’s his play in concert with Roethlisberger and tailback Le’Veon Bell that will carry the offense this year. The trio is being hailed as one of the NFL’s premier triple threats.

“We have Le’Veon, Antonio Brown and Ben Roethlisberger,” says tight end Heath Miller. “That’s three good pieces to start with.”

And the offense isn’t content to match last year’s success. The goal is to exceed it.

“I think that we can be a lot better than we were last year,” says Bell, a phenom in his rookie year with more than 1,360 yards and eight touchdowns. “There were a couple of games last year where we were not as consistent, or we didn’t start as quick, or we hurt ourselves with penalties and turnovers.

“I think this year, our main goal is to make sure that we are consistent. If we go out there and be consistent, we have guys all over the field that can make plays, so I think we can light up the scoreboard.”

At the beginning of the season, they’ll have to do that without Bell, who was suspended for the first two games after the police found marijuana in his car during a traffic stop last year. Former Carolina Panther DeAngelo Williams, a big, strong contrast to Bell’s speed, will start in his place.

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The offense took another hit on Aug. 27 when second-year wide receiver Martavis Bryant was suspended four games for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. According to ESPN’s Ian Rappaport, Bryant’s suspension is for “multiple failed marijuana tests.” In his rookie campaign, Bryant racked up more than 525 yards and scored eight times, and was expected to have a breakout year. That means more work for No. 2 receiver Markus Wheaton and a big opportunity for rookie wideout Sammie Coates.

But in order for those guys to be good, the offensive line has to hold strong. A big part of that line was shattered in the Green Bay game, when center Maurkice Pouncey broke his left fibula.

He’ll miss a lot, if not all of the season. That means center duties will fall to backup Cody Wallace. As insurance, the Steelers signed former offensive lineman Doug Legursky, who filled in for Pouncey when he was out in 2013.

“We have to count on whoever is going to step up their game to match the level of intenAntonio Brown

sity Pouncey brought,” Roethisberger says.

“He was downfield every play, and that’s what makes him special. People always talk about how often he is injured, but that’s just him being in the play. He’s always around the ball because of his intensity.

“There aren’t too many linemen trying to block safeties for their running back. That speaks for his desire to be the best.”

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is the Steelers defense. Former linebackers coach Keith Butler has taken over for LeBeau and will be expected to quickly turn around a young defensive unit. And while some would expect a learning curve, Tomlin says otherwise.

“I don’t grade on the curve. I don’t take present circumstances into the equation,” Tomlin says. “The standard is the standard, and we expect our guys to play good, dominant defense, regardless of who they are.

“We have a young group, and we’re trying to instill hustle and physicality into their mindset.”

There are still veterans on this unit, like William Gay, Will Allen, Cortez Allen and James Harrison. But since 2011, the Steelers have been drafting guys to take over for aging stars now no longer with the team, players like Hampton, Keisel, Polamalu and Taylor. It’s time for guys like Cam Heyward, Jarvis Jones, Shamarko Thomas, Ryan Shazier and rookie linebacker Bud Dupree to step up and start playing at a high level.

The players say that change is coming.

“I think we’re getting better. We’re taking small steps every day at every position,” says safety Will Allen. “There’s always room to improve.”

“You’re starting to see guys buying in to what coach Butler is preaching. Guys are putting forth the effort and not complaining. Once you see guys putting in an effort, you know we have a chance to get better.

We have the athletic ability and the talent.

Now it’s about correcting our mental errors and getting more consistent.”

Allen is third on the depth chart behind last year’s free-agent acquisition Mike Mitchell and Thomas, a 2013 draftee and the player many see as the heir apparent to Polamalu. Even though they no longer play together, Thomas says he’s still turning to Polamalu for advice.

“I texted Troy a couple days after the Jaguars game and he was telling me, ‘Just do your job and everything will just fall into place,’” Thomas said after the Green Bay game. “The inclination is to be like Troy. And you want to go out there and make big-time plays, but I just have to do what I do, and Troy’s right, things are falling into place.

“I think we’ve progressed a lot since the beginning of training camp. We have a little more work to do, but the chemistry is there, the communication is there. We’re coming along.”

That showed late in the Green Bay game when the defense was getting to the quarterback and to the ball, Jones says. That performance is a sign of marked improvement.

“Coach Tomlin challenged us to get to the quarterback and to make explosive plays,” Jones says. “Guys did it. They were flying around and making plays.

“We’ve got plenty of room to improve.

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We’ve got a lot of young guys in here, but we’re starting to gel together. There’s a lot of work to be done, but we’ve got a special group and we can get a lot of things done this year.”

There’s no question that the raw talent of this defensive unit is there. The only question is whether the players can pull it together in time to make a splash this year.

Because while the defense may be young, the goals of this entire team is as old as the franchise itself.

“We’re the Steelers,” Thomas says.

“Our only goal is to win the Super Bowl.

That’s our expectation — nothing short of that.”

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EXTRA POINTS:

In an effort to make the PAT a little more exciting, the NFL now requires kickers to hit a 33-yard kick for the extra point. Or, if they so choose, teams can try a two-point conversion from the two-yard line, a play the Steelers have run several times in preseason games.

But if the Steelers can put up 30 points a game as they plan, PATs shouldn’t be too necessary.

WEEK 8:

Nov. 1 vs. Cincinnati You know how Roethlisberger will have one of those streaks where he throws for 400-plus yards every game for a month? He’s in one of those now.

Ben throws four touchdown passes to Antonio Brown in a 42-14 rout of the Bengals to improve to 6-2 at the season’s halfway point. Cincinnati goes home a loser, as they have done every single season since their inception.

WEEK 9:

Nov. 8 vs. Oakland Even the cold November rain can’t cool off the red-hot Steelers. Le’Veon Bell breaks out the good stuff and rolls for more than 200 yards in a 28-10 victory over the hapless Oakland Raiders.

Pittsburgh sits at an impressive 7-2.

WEEK 10:

Nov. 15 vs. Cleveland

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Johnny Manziel is tied for third on the Browns’ list of post-season wins by a quarterback since the Super Bowl era.

Bernie Kosar had three, Vinnie Testaverde had one and Manziel is tied for third with zero. Despite that honor, the Steelers win 34-7 and roll into the bye week at 8-2.

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December is upon us and the poor grass at Heinz Field starts looking like an underfunded high school gridiron.

But this is the best game of the year as the Steelers get back on track with a 33-30 overtime victory over the Indianapolis Colts. Indy owner Jim Irsay is so dismayed that he can barely (allegedly) drunk-tweet that night.

WEEK 14:

Dec. 13 at Cincinnati In a pre-game ceremony, the Bengals honor every Hall of Famer to proudly wear the Cincinnati jersey. It’s not a long ceremony because they only have one.

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“HERE’S MY ISSUE WITH THE MICHAEL VICK BASHING: AN INCONTROVERTIBLE BELIEF IN SECOND CHANCES.”

Adding context to the Michael Vick signing {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} There are few things in this world that elicit more emotion from people than animals.

Just being in the same room as them can make us so happy that we forget all of our troubles for a few minutes. On the flipside, seeing them hurt or in pain — especially out of negligence or, even worse, the deliberate infliction of harm — can bring about a seething, unforgiving rage that we didn’t even recognize we were capable of.

That’s where a lot of Pittsburghers — football fans or not — find themselves today. Last week, the Steelers signed free agent quarterback and convicted felon Michael Vick to a oneyear contract. The team made the move after backup quarterback Bruce Gradkowski suffered a season-ending injury Sept. 23.

Vick needs no introduction. He is the talented, prolific college quarterback who brought his game to the NFL and to another level in 2001 when the Atlanta Falcons drafted him first overall. His big arm and quick feet led him to three Pro Bowls and a couple of playoff appearances in his first six seasons.

Then he screwed up big. He became the target of a federal racketeering investigation that alleged that Vick was the central figure in a massive dog-fighting operation. The allegations were disgusting. The fights were put on as sport. Money was wagered. Dogs

tore each other apart and, if they performed poorly, Vick and his associates tortured and killed them. It was despicable.

In August 2007, Vick pled guilty to financing the operation, prospering from the proceeds and to the destruction of several animals. He turned himself in and that November began serving time before being sentenced a month later to 23 months in prison. He was released in July 2009 after serving 18 months in the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. After prison, he spent five seasons playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, and last season with the New York Jets. And now Vick is with the Steelers, and a lot of fans aren’t happy.

Just ask Twitter: “How the ‘f’ does Michael Vick get signed to the Steelers on #NationalDogDay.” “Bye Bye @steelers. I’ll be back when you get rid of Michael Vick!”

“Sucks to be a steeler fan now.

Thank you Michael Vick for ruining #steelernation” Emotionally, I see why people are upset. But when I stop and think about it, and I process this situation through my own personal belief

system, this new level of Michael Vick hatred seems unwarranted and a bit unfair.

To be clear, I’m taking football completely out of it. Could Michael Vick help the Steelers?

Maybe, if it comes to that. From a football standpoint, he’s a 35-year-old quarterback whose skills have declined and who has been inconsistent in recent years. But he was probably the best veteran backup available. I’m also refusing to answer this absurd notion that signing Vick is not the Steelers way. That somehow this franchise is better than that.

The team’s handling of past legal controversies of guys like Ben Roethisberger, Alameda Ta’amu, James Harrison and Santonio Holmes, to name a few, shoots holes through that whole conversation.

Here’s my issue with the Vick bashing: an incontrovertible belief in second chances. We have written many stories here at City Paper over the years about the need for programs that give those released from prison a chance to turn their lives around. We have covered Amachi Pittsburgh, a program that works with the children of inmates to help them cope with a parent’s incarceration and helps the family reunite after the inmate’s release. We have written about efforts to “ban the box,” undoing the requirement that those previously convicted of a crime check a box on a job application

indicating their past incarceration.

Michael Vick has been out of prison for more than six years. He hasn’t reoffended. He has put his life back together. He has fought for stronger laws against dog fighting. He paid to rehabilitate the dogs from the grotesque dog-fighting ring. So why, six years later, are we so put off by him playing football in this city?

The answers are simple. First, he’s a professional athlete, and second, his victims were animals.

If you are a person who believes in second chances, this type of scrutiny is wholly unfair.

I believe that if Mike Vick were just an Average Joe in the same situation, many of the same people who want him run out of town in an Uber would applaud him for turning his life around.

Regardless of his job, I’m glad that he turned his life around because it was in a really bad place. The same as I cheer for other ex-offenders who get out of prison and make something of their lives.

Look, fans are right for hating what Michael Vick did in the past. And those actions might still burn so much that some people don’t like him now. But regardless of who he is, he has done enough with his second chance to earn at least a little grace from a city that knows a little something about making the most out of second chances.

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something big happened before the season even started: a four-game suspension for violating the league’s substanceabuse policy. That will give rookie Sammie Coates time to try to make a Bryant-like splash of his own. At 6’2”, Coates, who played his college ball at Auburn, is a shade shorter than Bryant. But he brings that big-play ability that the Steelers have relied on over the years from guys like Plaxico Burress, Mike Wallace and Bryant (at least until his first four games went up in smoke). Coates is fast, and in college averaged a staggering 21 yards per catch.

In one preseason game, he torched Green Bay’s secondary. If he does that in the first four games of the regular season, he may steal Bryant’s thunder — and his spot as the No. 3 receiver.

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Dick LeBeau:

Regardless of how long he coaches the Tennessee defense, the Hall of Famer will be seen as a Steelers coach. (After all, who even remembers that he was head coach of two of the worst Bengals teams in history?) But LeBeau was forced out at the end of last season because his once-unbeatable defenses had become, well, beatable. It will be interesting to see whether LeBeau can recapture his Steelers

success, or if it will become as sad as seeing Franco Harris in a Seattle uniform in 1984.

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The race for the AFC North: Last year, all three teams in

one of the toughest divisions in football — Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati — made the playoffs. “Three?” you ask.

“There are four teams in the division,” you say. “What about the Steelers’ hated rival, the Cleveland Browns?” I think that until the Cleveland Browns decide to take themselves seriously, we should all refuse to even acknowledge their existence.

A lot of experts appear to favor the Bengals in this division, but the only thing that’s keeping the Steelers from that spot are questions on defense. All three teams should once again be in the hunt. As for the Browns, probably the only thing they’ll be hunting for at season’s end is another new coach and another starting quarterback.

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With his steely gaze and his ability to keep driving forward no matter what, or who, is in front of him, Harrison has always sort of looked like the Terminator. Or maybe that’s just because of the “I’ll be back” mantra he’s displayed in recent years. He left the Steelers after the 2012 season, fell flat in Cincinnati in 2013 and promptly retired. Then he rejoined the injury-depleted Steelers for the last 11 games of 2014 and racked up five-and-a-half sacks in limited playing time. Already in the preseason, he has two sacks, including a pancaking of Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers for a safety. As first-round draft pick Bud DuPree acclimates to life in the NFL and on the Steelers defense, look for Harrison to turn in one more impressive season.

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Teams always have one of these games every year where nothing goes right and it’s just a flat-out bust. The Steelers lose to Denver 44-10. Peyton Manning throws two late touchdown passes while up by 20 points just to prove he is the biggest stat-whore of all time. NBC analyst and well-known Steelers hater Cris Collinsworth is so enamored of the performance that he has plastic surgery to elongate his forehead in honor of the great Peyton.

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Dec. 27 at Baltimore In Baltimore, the Steelers avenge an earlier loss by defeating the Ravens 10-9. Drunken Steelers fans jubilantly pull down the Ray Lewis statue Saddam Hussein-style after the game. This only adds intensity to the rivalry.

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Jan. 3 at Cleveland It’s let-down week in Cleveland as the Steelers get caught looking ahead to the playoffs, allowing the Browns to earn their fourth victory of the year. Cleveland immediately fires its head coach and starts preparing to draft a woefully inadequate quarterback in 2016. The Steelers finish the regular season at 11-5 and prepare for the postseason.

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Round One: vs. Denver The Steelers get to skip the Wild Card round and look to get back at the Broncos for the loss a few weeks earlier.

The Steelers beat the Broncos 24-20. This sends Peyton Manning to his NFL-record 14th post-season loss. Papa John cuddles the regular-season great and feeds him mediocre pizza to ease the pain.

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Unfortunately, Steelers fans, it all ends here. The Patriots come up with a new way to cheat and end the Steelers season. I cannot foresee how they will cheat because that would just be a ridiculous prediction. Aaron Hernandez raises a glass of toilet wine from his cell as the Steelers fall 20-17.

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Downtown has plenty of places to buy canned soup and paper towels. But this employment hub, cultural center and burgeoning residential neighborhood hadn’t had a bona fide grocery since 2010.

That changed in April, with the opening of Market Street Grocery — a market in Market Square. It’s the only place Downtown well stocked with fresh produce and fresh meats, plus staples.

The bread, milk, lamb, chicken and sausage are locally sourced, and organic offerings include the spice rack. The feel is boutique, with imported and domestic cheeses, gourmet pasta and specialty items like wild-boar salami. There’s even a coffee bar and a small satellite location of Gaby et Jules patisserie, serving French sweets.

While there are no paper towels for sale, you can get six-packs of craft beer, and imported Abruzzi wine by the bottle or glass in the Wine Bar Shop (which is open till 11 p.m. on weekdays — even later than the grocery, open until 9 p.m.)

Co-owner Julian Vallozzi says prepared foods for the office crowd are the store’s biggest source of income, with a hot-and-cold deli counter, hot soup and fresh sandwiches to go. Outdoors, the brand-new mobile lunch cart offers a mixed grill dish, a Cuban sandwich and more.

Still, Vallozzi adds, produce sales are higher than expected, and Downtown residents are using the store as a “dayto-day pantry.”

“It’s wonderful,” he says. “It’s a neighborhood grocery.”

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Tartine opened a couple years ago on South Main Street with limited hours and light offerings. But it has gradually expanded to include, if not quite a full menu, then a far-ranging one, from salads and sandwiches to full-on, and filling, French classics like cassoulet.

Underlying it all is a deep and abiding Francophilia, exemplified by the rusty antique bicycle-cum-flower-planter out front, selected because its skirt guard resembles that in a photo of a Parisian cafe circa 1938 — which is, of course, displayed indoors.

You can even bring home a memento of France in the form of imported cookies and jams sold near the dessert counter.

But first you’ll want to explore that menu. Tartine’s quiche Lorraine, an iconic

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CP APPROVED tween daughter, bitterly disappointed at the absence of crepes and deeply skeptical of quiche, immediately fell in love with this dish. Bacon lardons helped, as did excellent potatoes Lyonnaise, thinly sliced wedges browned with softened onion, on the side.

Jason is a different kind of tough audience for a turkey sandwich on croissant:

He’s always up for trying one, but his standards for really liking one are high. Tartine’s croissant, alas, was a bit of a letdown. We found it too bready, although it also avoided the pitfall of being too flaky to contain sandwich fillings. But those fillings were superb: The turkey was thick, hand-carved slabs; slices of brie were generous; and the greens and tomatoes were dressed, not dry.

We got more of those greens in salade Niçoise, and with the same dressing, a light, refreshing lemon-basil vinaigrette that’s also used in the house salad. Salade Niçoise is a classic, hearty, meal-grade salad, and as such, brings together myriad ingredients into a cohesive whole that is more than the sum of its parts. Tartine’s met this standard handily. We especially appreciated the use of oil-poached tuna in place of the seared steak that has become de rigueur in most restaurant preparations, but which all too often tries to hog center stage instead of working in concert with the half-dozen other components of the salad. There was but one off note: The haricots verts were raw, or else so lightly cooked as to seem so. Now,

this might be fine with actual French green beans, which are thinner and more tender than American ones. But these were American green beans, albeit relatively young ones, and they were distractingly firm and crunchy; a mere minute of steam or blanching would have done wonders.

Angelique can never resist croque monsieur, that wonderful mashup of French toast and grilled ham-and-cheese.

Tartine’s version arrived with the Gruyere cheese melted on top, not inside, giving an added resemblance to grilled flatbread — although with those thick-cut hunks of “Parisian” ham inside, there was nothing flat about this sandwich. Dijon bechamel and a slice of tomato enhanced the savory flavors in every bite with creamy and astringent notes.

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Tartine takes its name from another kind of sandwich peculiar to France, the open-face hot sandwich, particularly “one with a rich or fancy spread,” as noted by an online dictionary. With its cheese on top, the croque monsieur nodded to the tradition of tartine; the menu’s desserts actually are tartines. Of the four on offer, we selected bananes et Nutella to share. The grilled country bread provided a pleasantly unsweetened base for the simple but delectable slick of chocolate-hazelnut spread and layer of sliced bananas; raspberries and strawberries garnished the plate, adding both color and seasonal fruit flavor.

Beyond quiche, sandwiches, salads, and dessert tartines, this charming French cafe serves a select few more substantial lunch specials, such as the intriguing French meatloaf, and prix fixe dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. Tartine brings French cafe culture — and cooking — to the already charming West End village.

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The solution? Make them at home.

Caitlin Nagelson and her partner Colin Anderson, who have years of combined experience working at the city’s best bars, boast an impressive home bar. But you don’t need much to get started, they explain.

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When stocking the booze, let your own preferences guide you. “We always have rum, gin and whiskey, because those are the spirits we prefer to drink,” says Nagelson. From there, a few simple additions give you lots of options. Start with rye whiskey, for instance, and add a bottle of Angostura bitters for a killer old-fashioned. Then grab sweet vermouth (store it in the fridge, please) to bring a Manhattan into your arsenal.

There’s no reason to reach for the top shelf if you’re looking to make cocktails, as the nuances of exceptional spirits are often lost in mixed drinks.

Though you’ll want to avoid the big plastic jugs, there are plenty of midpriced spirits that are perfect for mixing.

Nagelson and Anderson like superaffordable Cruzan rum for daiquiris, and use Bauchant orange liqueur instead of its pricier, better-known cousins.

Professional bartenders have plenty of tricks that would be tough to pull off at home, and it’s certainly nice to let them do the heavy lifting.

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ALL INDIA. 315 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-681-6600. With more than 200 items, All India’s menu is both epic and exciting, including novel choices such as Goan coconut shrimp and green jackfruit curry alongside the old denizens, chicken curry and the tandoor. Here, a thali, or combination platter, is a great option for the culinary explorer who wants the experience of multiple tastes. KF

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The menu here does include the usual noodle, rice and curry categories, with various protein options for each one.

But also innovations, like the avocado summer roll and the spicy lemongrass salad, and more soup options (roast duck, spicy noodle and roast pork with fish balls). KF AVENUE B. 5501 Centre Ave., Shadyside. 412-683-3663. This intimate corner restaurant has only a brief, seasonal menu, but its offerings are all tantalizing, each combining several pedigreed ingredients. Such selections have included piquillo-pepper lasagna with a different filling in each layer; green-bean and sweet-potato tempura; and fresh pasta topped with beef short ribs, chard and crisped cipollini onions. LF

Wild Sage {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} Starters might be a remade Caesar salad with baby kale, roasted Brussels sprouts or rich mac-and-cheese. Game dishes, such as quail and rabbit, are available as entrees, as are popular standbys such as burgers, with fries and pickles. KE CARIBÉANA. 6022 Saltsburg Road, Penn Hills. 412-793-9937.

This Jamaican restaurant offers Caribbean specialties in a modest, but welcoming setting. Among the iconic dishes offers are fried plantains (with pepper jam), jerk chicken (with a spice rub and sauce), stewed chicken, oxtail stew and a selection seafood dishes. Entrees are accompanied by rice and beans, and excellent steamed cabbage. KF

BLUE LINE GRILLE. 1014 Fifth Ave., Uptown. 412-281-2583.

This hockey-themed venue rises above standard sports-bar fare, despite dishes named “Hat Trick” and “Pen Wings.” The menu shows variety; the apps range from Montreal poutine and chorizo quesadillas to blistered asparagus and pretzel buns with dipping cheese. More substantial fare includes pizzas, sandwiches, hamburgers and pasta. KE BOB’S DINER. 211 Mansfield Blvd., Carnegie. 412-429-7400.

Well-prepared fare and a warm atmosphere distinguish this local diner chain. Bob’s serves the classic diner array of all-day breakfast fare, hot and cold sandwiches and stick-toyour-ribs dinner platters. The fried chicken is a winner, with a skin that is deep goldenbrown and shatteringly crisp. J BUTCHER AND THE RYE. 212 Sixth St., Downtown.

412-391-2752. Amid the twee décor, diners can find outstanding food (and house-recipe cocktails).

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 FAT HEADS. 1805 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-431-7433.

This place seems to expand every few years, with reason: terrific beer selection, chicken wings and industrial-sized sandwiches. There’s outdoor eating on the “fatio,” but timing is everything: No matter how many tables they add, you may end up waiting for one. JE GRIT & GRACE. 535 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-281-4748.

Small plates with plenty of unexpected ingredients and designed for sharing mark this Downtown venue. The menus offers updates on classics (Rueben, ramen) and eclectic Asian fusion fare to dim sum and “pork face” sandwich.

Fortunately, the kitchen brings a confident approach to a wildly various list of boldly complex dishes. KE

Ten Penny {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} CHICKEN LATINO. 155 21st St., Strip District. 412-246-0974.

This quick-serve chicken joint serves up Peruvian-style, woodfired and deliciously seasoned rotisserie chicken. Besides the bird, hamburgers and the occasional special (pork, ceviche), sides include such south-ofthe-border staples as plantains, refried beans and fried yucca. J

LEGUME BISTRO. 214 N. Craig St., Oakland. 412-621-2700.

The former Regent Square bistro now has a more urbane Oakland location.

To its inspired cuisine based on fresh, seasonal and local, Legume has also added a full bar and in-house butchering.

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Asiatique Thai Bistro {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} MENDOZA EXPRESS. 812 Mansfield Road, Green Tree.

412-429-8780. The décor is pure kitsch — sombreros on the walls, etc. — and the location is a bit obscure. But the menu is ample, and the food is as authentic as you’ll find in Pittsburgh. (Try the rebozo, a scramble of chorizo, peppers and cheese.) JF

steakhouse — modern, funky and moderately priced. Much of the restaurant’s menu is casual fare such as sandwiches, sushi and tacos, with a rotating selection of higher-end dishes, particularly at the Downtown location. KF SUBBA ASIAN RESTAURANT. 700 Cedar Ave. (second floor), North Side. 412-586-5764 or 412-853-1070. A humble restaurant offers a broad menu.

Among the more common, but well-prepared, Chinese stir-fries and Indian curries are such Nepalese specialties as momo dumplings (meat and vegetarian); sadako, a sort of sauceless stir-fry; and curries, served on a large platter filled with many tasty and complementary components. JF

NOODLEHEAD. 242 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. www.noodleheadpgh.com. In a funky atmosphere, Noodlehead offers an elemental approach to the delightful street food of Thailand in which nothing is over $9. A small menu offers soups, noodle dishes and a few “snacks,” among them fried chicken and steamed buns with pork belly. The freshly prepared dishes are garnished with fresh herbs, pork TEN PENNY. 960 Penn cracklings and pickled Ave., Downtown. www. per mustard greens. JF pa 412-318-8000. This pghcitym .co restaurant offers an OLIVES AND appealing old-school PEPPERS. 6052 William “industrial” atmosphere — Flynn Highway (Route 8), old wood beams and Edison light Bakerstown. 724-444-7499. This bulbs — with a contemporary casual Italian spot that offers American menu. Expect to find pizza, pasta and sandwiches as new standards like roasted well as more refined entrees. The Brussels sprouts (with bacon), meat-and-cheese sandwiches are beet salad, goat cheese and a forte, with ciabatta “panini” flatbreads, as well as favorites and hoagies options. The lasagna like hamburgers (with fried egg), is enormous, its homemade pasta, chops and stews. KE noodles laden with a creamy five-cheese mix and a savory TESSARO’S. 4601 Liberty Ave., Bolognese sauce with meatballBloomfield. 412-682-6809. This like chunks of beef. KE immensely popular Bloomfield institution, set in an old OVER THE BAR BICYCLE CAFÉ. neighborhood corner bar, has 2518 E. Carson St., South Side. built its reputation on enormous 412-381-3698. This twowood-fired hamburgers: choice wheel-themed café and bar meat, ground in-house; fresh offers a creative pub-grub menu rolls; and a variety of toppings. (with many offerings named for Regulars sit at the bar, and, bicycle parts). The salads are on busy weekends, diners line more impressive than those up to get in. KE you’ll find at most bars, and the menu features vegetarian and WILD SAGE. 3932 William Flynn vegan options. Try the battered Highway, Allison Park. 412-486zucchini planks wrapped around 1800. Here, a contemporary melty cheeses. JE American menu is graced with French and Mexican accents.

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As the lead force in The Garment District, Jennifer Baron takes inspiration from artists and genres ranging from My Bloody Valentine to 1960s British psychedelia, creating her own swirling sonic stylings. On Sept. 4, at Howlers in Bloomfield, she’ll release Luminous Toxin, a dreamily cinematic, multi-instrumental pop album.

Baron composed and performed the entire record herself, but she doesn’t aim to present her work alone. The release show will utilizes a blend of local talent, an evening with a uniquely charming, collaborative Pittsburgh vibe.

“One of the things I love about Pittsburgh is that it’s a place where you can create something from concept to fruition,” says Baron, who — prior to starting The Garment District — was the founding bassist of Brooklyn-based indie-pop band The Ladybug Transistor. “It’s a place where it’s manageable to be a maker and be part of the creative process.” For Baron, Pittsburgh and its topography provide a significant amount of inspiration for her work: “It’s a very textured place, architecturally and visually. Here, the seasonal changes are dramatic,” she says. “I’m very impacted by all of that and [that is reflected] on this album.”

The live-band configuration of The Garment District has shifted since Baron founded the project several years ago. But on Friday, the lineup will include Ashlee Green, of Butterbirds, on vocals, and Dan Koshute, of Dazzletine, on guitar. Other members are Greg Langel (Baron’s husband and long-time collaborator) on keys and Shivika Asthana (of Boston’s Papas Fritas) on drums and backing vocals.

But Baron is firm that Luminous Toxin is a personal work, written in what she describes as a “cocoon” last winter. “I was home by myself a lot, and was watching a lot of old shows like Rod Serling’s Night Gallery,” she laughs. “It was like this other world.” From there, her music emerged and is now ready to fly: “I always hear melodies and layers and textures, and I like to integrate that with a free-form approach,” she adds. “Luminous Toxin has come together like a coherent collection of compositions that is able to span a range of times.”

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joy more than parsing the particulars of genres and subgenres, and when Christian Mistress is on the turntable, it’s hard to describe the band without invoking the new wave of British heavy metal.

And it’s not just because the band channels the gritty, triumphant sound of bands like Judas Priest and Motorhead: Christian Mistress has a deep connection to punk and DIY culture, both of which were integral to the development of the NWOHM genre in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

But the band’s singer, Christine Davis, doesn’t care much for musical labels. It’s not that she disagrees with the categorization; she’s just coming from another place.

“For me as a musician, I’ve never been in a band and said, ‘We’re going to do this style, and [that’s] all it’s going to be and fuck everything else,’” she says.

Around 15 years ago, she started singing and playing unconventional instruments —like distorted clarinet — in heavy bands in her hometown of Portland, Ore.

“There weren’t many metal bands in Portland to play with, and it’s kind of the opposite now,” she says. “There was no metal scene, just lots of punks.”

Eventually she moved to Olympia, Wash., and there helped form Christian Mistress in 2008. The energy in Olympia was similar to Portland, she says, in terms of how open fellow musicians were to multiple influences.

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“[Christian Mistress] used heavy metal as a platform to showcase and enjoy the music that we’re able to play,” she says. “I come from a more punk-rock background than my other bandmates, but we’re still a punk band. That’s how we think of ourselves, because we don’t really subscribe to

doing what other people want us to do.”

Christian Mistress recorded its debut, Agony and Opium, for $500. That release received some well-deserved attention on its own, but got an extra boost when Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, one half of the influential black-metal band Darkthrone (and a tastemaker in his own right) started tossing the name Christian Mistress out in interviews.

“What’s not to like?” Fenriz asked Stereogum in a 2010 interview. “They play heavy metal the old way, the exact way we enjoy it ourselves. Also, they have balls enough to turn the heaviest fuzz off when they play leads, other bands do it the opposite way.”

The follow-up, 2012’s Possession, was released in a whirlwind: Davis says the band recorded it quickly while fielding several offers from various record labels (they eventually signed to Relapse Records). “We went from zero to 100 and I think we just weren’t sure how to deal with it,” she recalls. “[We were] dealing with all this legal business at a time that we would have preferred to be focusing on the music. It’s not CONTINUES ON PG. 26

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like we were complaining, we just needed to reassess how we spent our time as a band, and regroup.”

For To Your Death, which comes out Sept. 18, the band took things slow in a way that was both intentional and unavoidable.

The members were physically distant during the writing process: Davis moved back to Portland, and would drive to Seattle to meet up with guitarist Oscar Sparbel and bassist Jonny Wulf. Those two eventually joined her in Oregon, and then — along with drummer Reuben Storey and guitarist Tim Diedrich— made a few more transitions across the Pacific Northwest. “I think it adds to the gratitude [that comes with] being able to play music together,” Davis says. “I mean, we still did it pretty much every week, but it always felt like such an epic journey to get to one another.”

At first glean, Possession — with its vaguely witchy artwork and song titles like “Pentagram and Crucifix” — had the trappings of the ’70s-inspired, femalefronted occult rock that was cropping up like magic mushrooms all over the heavymusic scene. But that wasn’t an entirely accurate assessment — Christian Mistress always rocked a little too hard to fit that category. Lately the band has upped the heavy-metal ante. Where Possession was a hooded cloak, To Your Death is a studded jacket. Or, as Davis puts it, “This record feels like driving through the city under neon lights.” Throughout the recording process, the members held to the mental image of a diamond. “We talked about this a lot: accepting all the facets of a diamond and how there are shiny parts and dark parts, [we let that] guide the vibe of the record.”

To Your Death is packed with catchy tunes, and muscle-y guitar harmonies. But Davis’ vocals, which land somewhere between powerhouse Ann Wilson and Paul Di’Anno — Iron Maiden’s original, much punker singer — take the band to another level. Her first experiences singing for an audience were impressively metal: When Davis was a kid, her mom signed her up for a children’s choir which sang complex, multiharmony Eastern European folk songs.

“I was this little kid singing these creepy vocal harmonies with other kids,” Davis says with a laugh. “That’s how I learned to listen to other people, musically.”

From there, it was a short jump to the music Davis is making now. But no matter how much attention Christian Mistress receives, Davis’ goals remain less tangible.

“I feel like we’ve made it when, at the end of the day, we’re all still best friends,” she says. “This music feels vital and true to my deepest guts every time, I never feel bummed on it. That’s a measure of success, completely.”

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MUSIC VIDEO {BY RYAN DETO} If you want to get a small documentary made these days, crowdfunding seems to be the way to go. At least, that is what some film students from Point Park University are thinking.

Their project is called “Our Rhythm” and it seeks to explore the stories of seven musicians who live in seven starkly different countries: Mozambique, Turkey, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, Brazil and the United States.

Director Gabriel Columbo says he wants the film “to recognize humanity through music” and show how “everyone can become united through music.”

By traveling to six foreign countries, Columbo hopes to showcase the native music of each culture and what the music means to its people. So far he has found musicians willing to participate in Turkey, Mozambique, Brazil and Baltimore. Each music style is unique to its region, but not all music is traditional.

While the artists from Mozambique have traditional African sound and background, Columbo wanted to emphasize Shoduke, a beat-boxer from Baltimore, to show music does not need centuries of tradition to represent a culture.

“We want to show how music is evolving, not just show how the music used to be,” says Columbo.

The ultimate goal of the project is to change perspectives through music and to get viewers out of their comfort zones. “If we show that everybody has a particular style of music, we can break through walls,” says Columbo. “I feel everybody gets stuck in what they are used to. This film is trying to promote movement.”

As of Aug. 31, the Kickstarter for the project had raised $4,000 of its $20,000 goal, which must be reached by Sept. 8.

The money would help send a fourmember crew of Point Park students to the aforementioned countries, and toward the rental costs of the film equipment.

“WE WANT TO SHOW HOW MUSIC IS EVOLVING.”

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ROUND AND ROUND {BY IAN THOMAS} THERE ARE MANY aspects of Carousel’s sophomore release, 2113, that feel pulled wholly out of the 1970s, when rock music was more of a decree by its makers than a conversation with its audience. 2113 speaks to the timelessness of the triedand-true rock formula of guitars plus bass plus drums.

Once the dominant genre, Carousel’s hard-rock sound is now niche, though that hardly diminishes the enthusiasm with which its members play it. “With all the people I know who really love and embrace classic rock, you’d actually think there would be more bands that sound like we do. We’re very derivative of that era,” drummer Jake Leger says. Hip or not, the band embraces descriptors that tie it to that era.

“We get it: There aren’t a lot of those kind of revivalist bands out there now.”

2113 captures the band in a transitional moment. Guitarist Chris “Twiz” Tritschler departed amicably in the midst of recording and was replaced by Matt Goldsborough.

The addition of Goldsborough, who resides

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in Philadelphia and also plays in legendary doom outfit Pentagram, forced the band to adjust its work dynamic accordingly. “Honestly, it’s a lot more fragmented since Matt lives in Philly. Whenever Matt is in town, we practice a lot,” Leger says.

Despite that setback, the new album finds Carousel — which also features singer/guitarist Dave Wheeler and bassist Jim Wilson — in great command of its sound. With a successful run of national and international touring under its belt and the support of a label, Tee Pee Records, it’s easy to wonder whether a move to a hipper market might better serve the band’s ambitions. Carousel doesn’t see it that way. The title of the album, 2113, refers to the address of band’s longtime headquarters. It hints at Carousel’s desire to stay rooted in Pittsburgh, while courting

the wider world.

“It’s fun to be both a musical lifer and someone who’s stayed in Pittsburgh. I get to see all the different incarnations of the scene over the years and how music has an arc and all these different great artists come out of Pittsburgh. Some stay, some don’t,” says Leger.

Carousel couldn’t have chosen a better place to set up shop. The band members know how good they have it here. Perhaps due to the city’s blue-collar roots, classic rock has long been synonymous with the Pittsburgh area. The popularity of classicrock radio stations like WDVE has ensured that hard rock remains ubiquitous across generations. In promoting 2113, the band will realize a longstanding dream of being guests on the WDVE morning show with Randy Baumann. “I’m a huge WDVE dork, and I listen to that every morning, so for us to be on the show is a really big deal for me,” Leger says.

Still, what-ifs will always linger, and successful ventures to places like California give the band an inkling of what life outside of Pittsburgh could mean. “I’ve considered going out there,” says Wheeler. “It’s just so hard to beat Pittsburgh for living, though.

You don’t have to murder yourself to have a decent standard of living.”

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Swervedriver has always fallen under the umbrella of shoegaze, but approaches the genre from a louder, more confrontational place than many of its contemporaries. Vocalist Adam Franklin never gets lost in the dizzying layers of guitars and feedback, and the band has mastered the fusion of American alt-rock and British shoegaze. After emerging in 2008 from the vague hiatus-purgatory that most ’90s acts endure, the band finally released its comeback album, I Wasn’t Born to Lose You, this year.

And after all this time, it sounds like the band hasn’t forgotten any of its signature tricks.

Swervedriver performs Albert tonight at Club Café Hammond with support from Jr. Dearly Beloved. Shawn Cooke 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $25. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

12th St., South Side. $14-15. 412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

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Do you hear a healthy dose of Whitney, Mariah and Janet in the bar or club? Probably not.

Luckily, Spirit intends to right that wrong with DIVAS NITE, a donation-based two-hour DJ set led by DJ Diana Boss and DJ QUEEN YAS QUEEN. They’ll be spinning immortal classics from the disco era up through Adele and Beyoncé.

By moving the event to Spirit’s upstairs hall, organizers promise ample room to get your groove on. A portion of the proceeds will be headed to Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania. SC 10 p.m. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $3 suggested donation.

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As his primary band and its singer teeter further and further off the rails (have you listened to Julian Casablancas + The Voidz?), Albert Hammond Jr. grows more confident and assured over time. This summer’s Momentary Masters is the best Strokes album in years, even though it came under the moniker of only its guitarist. Songs like opener “Born Slippy” and “Caught By My Shadow” chug along with a danceable swagger and feel hopefully alive.

The triumphant luster of Momentary Masters matches that of his personal life — it’s the first full-length since Hammond shed an addiction to heroin, cocaine and ketamine. This isn’t a victory lap, but a gleaming relief. He performs tonight at Brillobox with Prinze George. SC 9:30 p.m.

4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $15. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

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CLUB CAFE. Swervedriver w/ Dearly Beloved. South Side.

412-431-4950.

REX THEATER. Terrapin Flyer.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Tal National w/ Mathew Tembo.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

FRI 04 31ST STREET PUB. The Turbosonics & The Otis Wolves.

CD release. Strip District.

412-391-8334.

BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. The Accidentals & Love Letters. Strip District.

412-251-6058.

CLUB CAFE. The Speed Bumps w/ Morgan Erina.

Early. Moon Hooch. Late.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

LINDEN GROVE. Totally 80s.

Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

MEADOWS CASINO. Radio Tokyo. Washington.

724-503-1200.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Evergrey w/ Voyager, Borealis, Oceans of Slumber, Vermithrax. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Joy Ike. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

SMILING MOOSE. Let’s Become Monsters, Divine Tragedy.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

SOUTH PARK AMPHITHEATER. Dancing Queen. South Park.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Chris Rattie & the Brush Valley Rumblers & Raven & the Wren. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WOOLEY BULLY’S. The Dave Iglar Band. New Brighton. 724-494-1578.

SMILING MOOSE. Crimson Shadows, SolarBurn, w/ The Dimlite. Early. Tera Chain Sky, Loins in America, Conflict Cycle, The Classifieds. Late. South Side.

412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Joan Shelley w/ Daniel Marcus & Pairdown. Lawrenceville.

412-422-0710.

SUN 06 HARTWOOD ACRES. Rusted Root w/ Beauty Slap, J.D. Eicher & The Goodnights & Donora.

Part of the 16th Annual Allegheny County Music Festival. Allison Park.

412-767-9200.

MEADOWS CASINO. Lyndsey Smith & Soul Distribution.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

THE R BAR. Midnite Horns.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Beagle Brothers, Mathew Tembo, Working Breed.

Shadyside. 412-251-6058.

SMILING MOOSE. Mutoid Man, Indian Handcrafts, KHeeS, Supervoid. Early. Bat, Dendritic Arbor, MĂśwer & Blood Pressure.

Late. South Side. 412-431-4668.

THURSDAY’S. Matthew Ryan & the Northern Wires.

Beaver. 724-728-2229.

TIKI BAR. The Dave Iglar Band.

Washington. 724-348-7022.

MON 07 SMILING MOOSE. Toxic Holocaust, Lord Dying, Lady Beast. South Side.

412-431-4668.

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SAT 05 CLUB CAFE. Whitney Ann Jenkins & Her Platonic Guy Friends w/ JontiTrot.

Early. Turnpike Gardens, Super Shaker, Easy Roscoe. Late.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Billy Price.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

THE FALLOUT SHELTER. Children of October, By the Graveyard Tree, Nervous Aggression. Swissvale.

740-424-0302.

GOOSKI’S. The Long Knives, The Purps, Come Out Fighting, Aurora. Polish Hill. 412-681-1658.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Sofia Talvik w/ The DuPont Brothers.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

ROCK ROOM. JE double F. Polish Hill. 412-683-4418.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler St. Sessions. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

TUE 08 CLUB CAFE. The Appleseed Collective w/ The Hollow Oaks, Daryl Shawn. South Side.

412-431-4950.

SMILING MOOSE. CHON, Sikes and the New Violence, Delusions of Grandeur. Early. High Spirits, Christian Mistress, Savage Master.

Late. South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Fishbone, Downtown Brown. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 09 BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Tuba Skinny. Strip District. 412-251-6058.

BRILLOBOX. Albert Hammond Jr. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. The Cry, Lost Element w/ Johnny & the Razorblades. South Side.

412-431-4950.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. The Doubleclicks. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

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SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

Leon Reynolds

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SAT 05 CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

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

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Sean Thomas Gerard. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

“Coffee”

Narue Pearson

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FRI 04 ANDYS WINE BAR. Kathy Conner. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Opek Plays Strayhorn.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

LEMONT. Mark Pipas.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

THE WOODEN NICKEL. Jazz Express. Monroeville.

412-372-9750.

SAT 05 ANDYS WINE BAR. Lisa Bleil.

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North Side. 412-231-7777.

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BOCKTOWN BEER & GRILL. Sweaty Betty.

Monaca. 724-728-7200.

MOONDOG’S. John Nemeth w/ Gracie Curran. Blawnox.

412-828-2040.

TAMBELLINI BRIDGEVILLE RESTAURANT. The Witchdoctors.

Bridgeville. 412-221-5202.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Christine Laitta. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side.

412-904-3335.

RIVERS CASINO. Kenny Blake Trio. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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THE R BAR. Tom & Katie Show.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

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

412-621-4900.

LAVA LOUNGE. D.J. Samarai.

80s night. South Side.

412-431-5282.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Kingfish.

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.

SMILING MOOSE. DJ Joe Costa.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

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CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side.

412-381-4800.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Doc & Tina.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

THE HOP HOUSE. Bradley Malone. Green Tree.

412-922-9560.

SAT 05 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Lil Durk w/ Gunplay, Hypno Carlito, Norman Dean, Komplex, DJ Afterthought. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

celebrating the arts w/ the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

A symphony performance, a new exhibit in the Kaufmann Gallery feat. artists Tina Williams Brewer & Bill Double. African Dance & Drumming & students from the “Life Stages in Pages” writing program, will present their works at the concert. Hill House Kaufmann Center, Hill District. www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

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412-489-5631.

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

724-265-1181.

OLIVE OR TWIST. Tom & Katie Show. Downtown.

412-255-0525.

SPOONWOOD BREWING COMPANY. Adam Jacobs.

Bethel Park. 412-833-0333.

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LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance Party. South Side. 412-431-5282.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Rambo.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

SMILING MOOSE. DJ Adam Social. Late. South Side.

412-431-4668.

LIVE BAND THURSDAYS!

THU 03 UNCLE JIMMY’S. Funkle Aaron Project. Oakland. 412-681-7480.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Lucarelli Brothers w/ Peg Wilson.

Strip District. 412-281-6593.

JOHNNY’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE. Southside Jerry & Friends. Wilmerding. 412-824-6642.

LEMONT. NightStar.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Neon Swing X-Perience. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

SUN 06 HIGHLAND PARK. Etta Cox. Reservoir of Jazz series.

Highland Park. 412-255-2493.

Night w/ the Howie Alexander Trio.

Lawrenceville. 412-251-0097.

TUE 08 KATZ PLAZA. Poogie Bell Jam Session. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

WED 09 ALPHABET CITY TENT. Roger Humphries & RH Factor.

North Side. 412-323-0278.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

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

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Sept 2 - 8 WEDNESDAY 2 Della Mae CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

Lenny Cooper

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square.

412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

Terrapin Flyer REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

Free show. 8p.m.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

7p.m.

Laser EDM CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side.

Visit carnegiesciencecenter.org for shows and times.

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Lil Durk

Della Mae SEPTEMBER 2 CLUB CAFE, SOUTH SIDE

WEST NEWTON. All ages event.

Tickets: pittsburghrenfest.com.

Through Sept. 27.

SUNDAY 6 Patti LaBelle Hill District. 412-281-1026.

Tickets: showclix.com. 7p.m.

The Sounds of Summer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Neighborhood Week: Classical Standards

ELSIE H. HILMAN AUDITORIUM

Toxic Holocaust SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

TUESDAY 8 Mac Sabbath

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival

The Country House RAUH THEATRE, PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE Oakland.

Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse.com or 412-392-8000.

Through Sept. 20.

MONDAY 7

412-322-0800.

Tickets: mcgjazz.org or ticketmaster.com. 8p.m.

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MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD North Side.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale.

412-821-4447. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

6:30p.m.

THE MEADOWS CASINO Washington.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. 8p.m.

SATURDAY 5 Crimson Shadows SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

Where to live

Fishbone w/ Downtown Brown THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 8p.m.

Agnostic Front

The Appleseed Collective

CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:15p.m.

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

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ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

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“BEING A BEACON OF HOPE FOR LESSER PEOPLE IS A LONELY BUSINESS.”

THE PEOPLE VS. {BY AL HOFF} Having escaped various dramas in his native Ireland ten years earlier, socialist activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) returns in 1932 to his elderly mother’s farm. Once home, some of the locals beg him to re-open the community hall. Ken Loach’s drama, Jimmy’s Hall, is based on real events, and recounts what happens when the hall is unshuttered.

Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward)

As expected, others don’t welcome what finds space in the hall, such as the dancing to the jazz records Hall has brought from America, or the meetings among tenant farmers. Complicating it all is a new political reality following Ireland’s independence, and of course, the omnipresent Catholic Church, represented locally by the sniffy Father Sheridan (Jim Norton).

The specifics and nuances of some of the story’s conflicts are rooted in Ireland’s messy politics, and may be lost to contemporary viewers despite various on-screen explanations. But it won’t matter that much: The main heroes and villains are drawn broadly enough.

Jimmy’s Hall is prettily filmed, and just mildly interesting, provocative and entertaining. It never finds its footing as a rousing work of righteous populism, a historical political drama or a more palatable underdog tale with heartwarming musical numbers. Like a fruitcake, viewers get bits of all of it, but like a fruitcake, it’s a bit bland and unsatisfying. Starts Fri., Sept. 4. Harris

New besties: Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke

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Before We Go Chris Evans and Alice Eve star in this new romantic dramedy about two strangers in New York City who get stuck spending the night together. Expect secrets to be shared!

7:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 4; 4 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 5; 4 p.m. Sun., Sept. 6; and 9:15 p.m.

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T HASN’T BEEN a bad season for mainstream and indie comedies headed by the ladies — from Trainwreck to Diary of a Teenage Girl. By offering actresses more than the standard one-note supporting roles, many of these films have opened the door to messier female characters who are infinitely more interesting — and amusing. Rounding out the summer where on-screen women could be as infuriating as men often are is the latest comedy-of-millennial-manners from Noah Baumbach, Mistress America.

Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a freshman at a college in New York City and isn’t fitting in very well. But the guy her mom is marrying has a daughter who also lives in New York, so Tracy agrees to meet her new almost-step-sister. Brooke (Greta Gerwig) is 30 and, at least at first, Tracy is bowled over by her fabulousness. Brooke is a prattling whirlwind who takes Tracy to all the cool places, and outlines her burgeoning venture: a super-hip restau-

rant for which she just needs money and everything else.

Much of the material in Mistress is oh-so-slightly exaggerated for comic effect. It’s an arch comedy, full of funny, sharp dialogue, not one word of which is how people really talk. It all builds to a lengthy set piece in which Tracy and Brooke, plus two other students, spend

MISTRESS AMERICA DIRECTED BY: Noah Baumbach STARRING: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke Starts Fri., Sept. 4.

much of the afternoon in the chic suburban home of Brooke’s former friend, Mamie Claire (Heather Lind), trying to solicit money for the restaurant. Also on hand is Mamie Claire’s very pregnant friend, serving as a Greek chorus, and Mamie Claire’s husband (Michael Chernus), who scrambles for Brooke’s hip urbanity like

it’s a life preserver. It’s a scene of banter, argument and revelation not unlike a door-slamming stage farce.

The film is partly an undoing of Brooke — the manic pixie dream girl who ages out — and Tracy’s ultimate betrayal of her. (The student becomes the master and so on …). In a broader sense, it’s another, and obvious, critique of that self-entitled generation obsessed with achievement (particularly of the cool arty sort) that can’t ever seem to actually do anything. (But why just pick on the kids: The title suggests there’s plenty of blame to go around in a nation whose denizens believe we are exceptional simply because we say we are.)

Late in the film, Brooke delivers a monologue espousing her philosophy, which offers some of her hard-earned, if still myopic, self-awareness: “Being a beacon of hope for lesser people is a lonely business.” Truer false words have never been spoken.

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NEW THIS WEEK LISTEN TO ME, MARLON. Hear actor Marlon Brando tell his own story, in his own words, in Stevan Riley’s new bio-doc. Using archival material, including exclusive access to Brando’s personal archive (including hours of audio), the film recounts Brando’s notable professional and personal lives. 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 4, and 4 and 6 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 5. Parkway

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NO ESCAPE. “Dad, are people trying to kill us?”

Well, sweetie, corporate colonialism can create violent blowback. But whatever — John Erick Dowdle’s thriller, set in an unnamed Southeast Asian country that resembles Thailand, isn’t concerned with global economics. It’s got a more old-fashioned angle to plumb: emasculated American man who gets his mojo back by saving his wife and children from foreign savages!

(Honestly, there’s even an opium den.)

After an insta-coup — it’s not a joke to say “just add water,” because water privatization is the source of the problem — our hero (Owen Wilson), his wife (Lake Bell) and two daughters run around town, just barely escaping the usual horrors (and cinematic clichés) of violent uprisings. Thankfully, our man in Troubletown has befriended a “British CIA” fella (Pierce Brosnan), who is gifted at shooting dozens of people before breakfast. Brosnan’s ham-scented handsomeness is most welcome here. He makes a cheeky game of the pulpy material, and I wish the rest of the tedious cast, who never stopped hugging and crying, had navigated to the same wink-and-smile B-movie level Brosnan was playing on. (Al Hoff) THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED. The Transporter has been refueled, and also recast: The iconic Jason Statham role of Frank Martin is now played by Ed Skrein. Same goings-on, though: heists, fast cars, dangerous women, bad Russians.

Camille Delamarre directs. Starts Fri., Sept. 4.

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We Are Your Friends lenge, where search-and-rescue robots “compete” in mock disaster scenarios. Starts Fri., Sept. 4. Rangos Omnimax, Carnegie Science Center A WALK IN THE WOODS. Ken Kwapis directs this adaptation of the best-selling Bill Bryson memoir about hiking the Appalachian Trail with his friend; Robert Redford and Nick Nolte star. Manor WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS. Based on its trailer, Max Joseph’s dramedy appears to ask: “What if Entourage were about DJs?” In execution, though, the story is more Tony Montana than Vinnie Chase, at least in the characters’ minds and those of the filmmakers. For the party people in this film, the stakes couldn’t be any higher: Electronic Dance Music is serious business.

Zac Efron plays Cole, an aspiring DJ living in the San Fernando Valley with his three buddies. The fellas love to throw parties and smoke blunts and jump into pools via montage, as friends do. But Cole wonders, “Is that all there is?”

Enter James Reed (Wes Bentley), a big-name international DJ past his prime who takes Cole under his wing and lets him hang out in his mansion, alongside Reed’s assistant/girlfriend Sophie (Emily Ratajkowski).

Your memory of Scarface can probably take it from here. First you get the side room 9 p.m. slot, then you get the Summerfest ...

Despite its overwhelming pleas to be made fun of, #WAYF (as the hashtag goes) is not truly terrible.

Efron, Bentley and Ratajkowski are capable actors, and there are some genuinely funny parts. Like the songs on its soundtrack, Friends is big, loud and dumb.

But like other things big, loud and dumb, it’s kinda fun. (Alex Gordon) Z FOR ZACHARIAH. If you prefer your End Times tales to be more thoughtful and less gory, you might want to visit this quiet corner of the postapocalyptic world. The story takes place in an unidentified part of the United States, which has been contaminated by some form of deadly radiation. But through some geographic quirk, one rural valley has been spared, and in it lives a young woman named Ann (Margot Robbie) and her dog. All alone, until the day she comes across another survivor, a former engineer named John (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Still later, another man (Chris Pine) finds the valley.

Craig Zobel’s drama is adapted from the eponymous 1970s sci-fi novel, and he brings to it some of the pervasive unease that marked his earlier feature, Compliance. But the film defies most genre expectations, at least in execution; viewers will still find this feature a tense experience.

The film takes its title from a Bible-themed ABCs book, and religion and faith play a large role in the story. There’s a direct conflict between science and

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Z for Zachariah faith concerning a religious building, as well as an exploration of some of faith’s trickier questions: How critical are its physical manifestations; what dire circumstances absolve the believer; and can there even be hope?

None of these questions is necessarily discussed out loud, but they are there for the pondering, as these three people sort out how to keep living, and how to live with each other. It is a provocative work, both optimistic and pessimistic about humanity. Starts Fri., Sept. 4. Hollywood (AH)

REPERTORY ROW HOUSE CINEMA. Those Darn Kids series. Battle Royale (2000 Japanese dark comedy in which teenage schoolgirls fight to the death), Sept. 2-3. Rebel Without a Cause (disaffected teens spend a memorable night in the 1955 drama starring James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood), Sept. 2-3. The Outsiders (1983 teen drama about a rivalry that turns deadly), Sept. 2-3. Matilda (in this 1996 comedy, it’s fun to be a naughty little girl when you have telekinetic powers), Sept. 3. Paul Thomas Anderson series. Boogie Nights (1997 dramedy depicts crazy times in the Los Angeles porn biz in the late 1970s), Sept. 4-10. Magnolia (1999 ensemble drama weaves together the stories of several Southern Californians), Sept. 4-7 and Sept. 9-10.

Punch-Drunk Love (2002 drama about a troubled, lonely man starring Adam Sandler), Sept. 4-7 and Sept. 9-10. There Will Be Blood (in this period drama from 2007, a man finds oil, and loses his soul), Sept.

4-5, Sept. 7-8 and Sept. 10. Call or see website for times and complete listings. 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville.

412-904-3225 or www.rowhousecinema.com. $5-9 CLUELESS. Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen comedy is a clever adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Now set in Beverly Hills, it features a heroine named Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and kickier fashion. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept.

2. AMC Waterfront. $5 THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T. It’s hands-down one of the weirdest children’s movies ever made.

And you double the weirdness factor when you realize that it was made during the height of bland, happy-families conformity. Roy Rowland’s anti-authoritarian 1953 Technicolor musical fantasy was written by Dr. Seuss, who also helped design the film’s gloriously surreal sets and costumes. A young boy (Tommy Rettig), who understandably doesn’t want to practice piano, finds himself in an alternate world ruled by a madman named Dr. T., who has enslaved 500 boys to perform on his enormous piano. Don’t miss this nifty bit of weirdness in a rare big-screen outing. 8 p.m.

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Wed., Sept. 9. Top of Theatre Square Garage, Seventh Street and Penn Avenue, Downtown. Free and bringyour-own-chair.

GALAXY QUEST. The infinite nature of Star Trek spinoffs is its own self-parody, but the topic is still ripe for skewering and has been done so with great affection in Dean Parisot’s 1999 comedy. The aging, bickering stars of TV space drama Galaxy Quest find themselves whisked into outer space by their adoring fans from planet Thermia, who have intercepted earth’s TV’s transmissions. These aliens think the hack actors are real (they have re-built the Quest ship for their use), and now in this comedic house of mirrors, the crew must “act” to save the Thermians from invading aliens.

It’s all a delicious send-up of the sci-fi-con fanatic world taken to its most ridiculous, yet logical, extreme. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 9. AMC Waterfront. $5 (AH)

Turbo Kid (2015) - 9/2 @ 7:30pm, 9/3 @ 7:30pm The orphaned Kid survives a drought-ridden nuclear winter, traversing the Wasteland on his BMX. Don’t miss this cult classic in the making! _________________________________________________

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HE DIDN’T WANT NOSTALGIA, HE DIDN’T WANT CHEERLEADING, AND HE DIDN’T WANT SPORTS

LIFE WITH BECKETT Ponderings about human existence have underscored the recent dance-theater works of Beth Corning. The latest from the dancer and choreographer’s Glue Factory Project, BECKETT & beyond, delves even deeper into both existentialism and the marriage of movement and theater. The 70-minute work includes two short physical-theater pieces by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett.

Concluding CorningWorks’ fifthanniversary season, BECKETT & beyond receives five performances, Sept. 9-13 at the New Hazlett Theater. It is choreographed by Corning and will be performed by her and two stage veterans: acclaimed French dancer/actress Franciose Fournier, and Yvan Auzely, a former dancer with Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet.

The show incorporates theatrical lessons Corning learned in creating her 2013 solo work Remains, developed with Tony-winning physical-theater director Dominique Serrand. It is bookended by two one-acts by the Waiting for Godot playwright. Beckett’s “Act Without Words” follows two performers who emerge from sacks on stage, as if awakening, to carry on very different daily routines. And “Rockaby,” directed by Pittsburgh’s Melissa Grande, is about a woman (Corning) in a rocking chair recounting details from her life and that of her dead mother.

Danced to an eclectic mix of music including Meredith Monk and classical pieces, BECKETT & beyond features a “floating landscape” set design by Point Park University associate professor Stephanie Mayer-Staley, and incorporates Corning’s penchant for metaphor and props, including 200 feet of bungee cord.

“I like making worlds,” says Corning.

In this world, three individuals take a journey through life to comment on the very nature of existence.

While on those journeys, says Corning, audiences should expect a few surprises.

But what has not been a surprise over the past five years of CorningWorks’ Glue Factory Projects has been the quality dance-theater from the artistic director Corning and her company. Works like At Once There Was a House and Parallel Lives have consistently stood among each dance season’s very best. Corning has found that magic elixir of thought-provoking subject matter, expert performers and polished production values that both challenges and entertains audiences.

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ries about how people became Pittsburghers. Eric Boyd’s starts in North Carolina. That’s where his Pittsburgh-native father moved when he couldn’t find work here, and where he met Boyd’s mother. In 1998, when Boyd was 9, the family came north, and he grew up partly in West Mifflin and Homestead. Now 26, Boyd lives in Lincoln Place; he writes for literary publications, sells his plasma and serves as a paid subject in medical research.

Boyd’s bio doesn’t reflect the New Pittsburgh of eds and meds, high tech and hipsters, that civic boosters and national-media list-makers like to tout. But Boyd has made his own contribution to how the city is portrayed: He’s editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology, a new book compiling nonfiction, poetry, visual art and photography about the city. The book is the fifth in Cleveland-based Belt Publishing’s series of anthologies about Rust Belt cities, and it’s good, sometimes great, stuff. The 38 contributors range from 15-year-old Nico Chiodo (writing about the Pittsburgh Banjo Club) to nationally recognized talents like poets Terrance Hayes and Robert Gibb, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and memoirist Lori Jakiela.

Boyd is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in publications including Prison Noir (Akashic Books), an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates. When he issued a call for submissions for Pittsburgh Anthology, Boyd knew less what he wanted

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The Pittsburgh Anthology editor Eric Boyd

than what he didn’t. He didn’t want sports (too obvious, and so ubiquitous it shows up anyway); he didn’t want nostalgia; and he didn’t want cheerleading. Even so, “The book was becoming way too much of a pep rally at one point,” he acknowledges.

THE PITTSBURGH ANTHOLOGY BOOK LAUNCH 7 p.m. Thu., Sept. 10. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. Free.

412-621-4900 or www.facebook.com (search “Pittsburgh Anthology Book Launch”)

Essays that made the cut do celebrate things like Pittsburgh’s film culture, geek/ con gatherings, the revival of Dormont’s Hollywood Lanes bowling alley and, yes,

sports (though the latter is an historically minded piece on women’s football, by occasional CP contributor Jody DiPerna).

However, many of the book’s most memorable pieces reflect Pittsburgh’s more sobering realities. Frazier’s searing photos depict African-American life in her hometown of Braddock. Journalist Cody McDevitt explores the perils of casino gambling. Boyd himself illuminates the strange world of a human guinea pig involved in a psychological experiment. Matthew Newton offers a potent character sketch of his uncle, an alcoholic Vietnam vet, set in the depressed, post-Big Steel Mon Valley of the 1980s.

Ben Gwin, himself a recovering alcoholic, recounts a painful custody battle with a heroin-addicted ex. And Dave Newman recounts his experience as a social-work intern, plumbing with an angry poignancy

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Fracked up: D-Fuse’s “Small Global”

the underside of an economy where society’s losers are left to fend for themselves.

Boyd says he’s upset that he was unable to attract any submissions on local queer culture. But the anthology accommodates diversity of various kinds. Yona Harvey probes race in Pittsburgh through the photos of Teenie Harris. J.J. Lendl’s graphicnovel-style “The T to Nowhere” is a tonguein-cheek look at life in the outlying neighborhood of Beechview. In “Is Pittsburgh America’s Most Livable City?,” Sean Posey highlights telling ironies by juxtaposing Bon Appetit plaudits for Pittsburgh’s restaurant scene with the city’s widespread food deserts.

For variety of tone, there’s Melanie Cox McCluskey’s sharply limned series of insider’s vignettes from the Mount Washington real-estate market; a colorful selection of Robert Qualters’ iconic paintings; and comically disturbing character studies in oil paint

by Rebecca Morgan. And if you’re going to meditate on the status of Pittsburgh’s past in its present, you could scarcely have Pittsburgh Anthology a better guide than cover art by Dave DiCello Robert Gibb, whose five poems reprinted here include “Steelworkers’ Lockers, Pittsburgh History Center”: “The Forlornness of Metal they might as well / Be titled, these salvaged relics, props from a set / Long struck …”

Regarding the Pittsburgh Anthology’s purpose, Boyd says, “I was really hoping we could do something where the city doesn’t know what it is any more. … The city is definitely changing, but we don’t know at what cost.”

Poet Ann Curran’s amusing homage to Pittsburghese notwithstanding, there’s little to nothing in Pittsburgh Anthology about such time-honored tourist staples as incline rides, Primanti’s and the Kaufmann’s clock.

On the other hand, neither is there much about such current shibboleths as $300,000 condos, artisanal cocktails and Google.

Boyd agrees a New Pittsburgh is upon us. “That’s the way that I feel, and the way I think many of the contributors felt,” he says. Indeed, the book’s Sept. 10 launch party is taking place at Brillobox, a hip, decadeold joint that nicely bridges Pittsburgh past and present. But Boyd adds that while he doesn’t think the book needed to explicitly address this sea change, “I think it’s a feeling that ended up being in the book because it’s so ingrained in many of us.”

This is not your ordinary light show.

Pattern and Noise, at Wood Street Galleries, is a multimedia installation created by British artist collective D-Fuse that challenges viewers to get involved with their environment, both electronic and natural.

“Tekton One Three” is the most visually captivating work in the exhibit. The towering sculpture on the second floor is made up of two LED bars sliding up and down. As the viewer sits on a bench to watch, small squares of lights dance hypnotically across the bars.

Mylar-covered walls on each side of the sculpture will resonate with local audiences familiar with Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds.

The walls reflect a fuzzy image of the viewer, who is no longer simply a witness to the art but a part of it.

Other works include “Tekton,” a projection of digitally constructed cyclones continually swirling and shifting colors, and “Tekton Two Zero,” a series of computer monitors with smaller cyclones and new-age soundscapes. But both pale in comparison to “Tekton One Three.” In fact, the repetition here is dull, making the visuals look more like screensavers than art.

But it’s “Small Global,” on the third floor, that really defines Pattern and Noise.

D-Fuse has long been passionate about environmental conservation, and here the artists create an interactive work exploring the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and deforestation.

Pittsburghers are no strangers to fracking, which has long been a concern in Pennsylvania. Many local art exhibits have tackled the subject, and — unfortunately for D-Fuse — have done so far more poignantly.

At first, the images projected onto paper-thin screens in “Small Global” seem subtle. Facts and quotations from experts and leaders appear alongside statistics one after another, like a PowerPoint presentation. It is logical and convincing.

But when flashing images of smiling models and McDonald’s signs remind us of the dangers of commercialization, D-Fuse exchanges the cool, logical tone of the other screens for an apocalyptic message that is more obnoxious than eerie.

“Small Global”’s contrast to the wide-eyed wonder of “Tekton” emphasizes caution, and advises the viewer to dig deeper rather than accepting so-called “progress” at face value. Still, while the exhibit is a bit underwhelming, its intentions are admirable.

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RYAN BLACKETTER has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest, in Oregon and Idaho, but never much felt like he belonged there. “I’m from Boise, and I go back to there every once in a while … but culturally it’s not really my thing,” he says. “It’s like all the liberals are conservatives. The hipsters are conservatives talking about their 401K plans. Not a lot of creative stuff going on in Boise.”

Blacketter, 46, and his wife and son recently moved to Pittsburgh. He is the author of the critically wellreceived 2014 novel Down in the River (Slant Books).

Like that book’s protagonist, 16-year-old Lyle Rettew, Blacketter had a strongly Christian upbringing in rural Lewiston, Idaho — “watching the 700 Club and trying to speak in tongues” — before moving to Eugene, Ore. He spent much of his youth as a hell-raiser, he says, moving from city to city and working odd jobs before discovering writing in his mid20s. He got serious right away and would work for up to 10 hours a day, but learned that developing a voice takes time.

“It took me 10 years to finish my first book,” he says. “It sounds like a long

time, but it’s pretty standard. It took me five years to learn how to write and then five years to write the book.”

Down in the River became Blacketter’s first published novel. Lyle, like Blacketter, has a mild case of bipolar disorder; he tries to fit into his new surroundings following the suicide of his twin sister, eventually committing a misunderstood crime that shocks the community.

Fiction Writer’s Review called Down in the River “[d]ark and grisly … a novel that holds both popular appeal and deeper intellectual pleasures, one you can recommend to friends who read only an occasional Stephen King novel or those who read the most lauded literary fiction.”

Blacketter’s move to Pittsburgh, however, had less to do with the success of his first novel than with friction in his last job out West. He had been teaching an advanced-fiction workshop at Boise State University but acknowledges that he didn’t make many friends amongst his students. “I went to [Iowa Writer’s Workshop], which is an intense program, and I was nowhere near to being as intense [as a teacher] as Iowa was,” he says. “It’s advanced fiction, so it’s going to be intense … but it never got personal like it did at Iowa.”

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“People of that age in [Boise] don’t want to be told they have any flaws,” Blacketter says. “They want to feel affirmed.”

Dissatisfied, Blacketter and his wife, Becca, an award-winning painter, began throwing darts at the map to find a new home for themselves and their 15-monthold son. Having exhausted much of the Northwest, they looked eastward, landing on Pittsburgh due to its artistic community and opportunities, affordability and literary history.

The wheels were already in motion when Blacketter was suddenly fired from his position at Boise State in March — in the middle of the semester — for undisclosed reasons.

According to an article in The Aribiter, Boise State’s student newspaper, the firing might have been related to Blacketter teaching Chris Offutt’s “My Dad, the Pornographer,” a controversial essay first published in The New York Times Magazine, as well as to complaints about Blacketter from students. Blacketter says that many of his advanced fiction students took his criticisms the wrong way, one even going as far as to bring a therapy dog to class.

The Arbiter reported, however, that some students considered his teaching style constructive and helpful. (Officials from the Boise State English Department declined to comment on Blacketter’s firing.)

This past May, the family settled in Beechview, and since then Blacketter has been doing freelance work editing novels and memoirs as well as writing for the lifestyle magazine A Taste of Pittsburgh. His family likes Pittsburgh, he says, frequently visiting museums, the Carnegie Museum of Art being a current favorite.

Blacketter is enjoying the steady pace of his life here. Whereas much of his early inspiration came from negativity — feeling like he had to be “pissed off all the time” — the new father now favors a more balanced emotional approach to working.

“I work two to three hours, and I feel like it’s more efficient,” he says. “I’m not so intense about it. I just go up to my writing desk and think about the words and wait for it. It’s more mellow, not all that ‘whip myself into a painful state’ stuff.”

He’s currently writing a new novel set in Portland, but Blacketter expects his next project will be set in Pittsburgh, “once I get this experience inside of me.”

The premise for Out of the Archives and Into the Gallery is a phenomenal one. In a collaboration between the Pittsburgh Glass Center and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 15 regional glass artists were invited to view ancient pieces from the collection of the latter, then use these as inspiration for creating work for an exhibition at the former. Artists selected pieces and then utilized them as springboards when fashioning a minimum of two new works. The first was a replication of the fragment of antiquity, the second (and sometimes third or more) prompted by the archaeological scores.

The result is often phenomenal as well, both in the skillful execution of the reproductions — sometimes slightly interpretative, sometimes exact — and in the inspired works and the myriad directions they take. Dana Laskowski began with a 17th-century Islamic pedestal, duplicated flawlessly. Her next step is a trio of painted, flat glass pieces recreating images from the Breviary of Renaud de Bar, a 14th-century manuscript, focusing on rabbits heroic and bloodthirsty. A third- or fouth-century vessel shaped like what appears to be a pig was chosen by Gillian Preston. She began by rendering a cleaner, more polished interpretation, then went further by depicting what she describes as “urban pigs,” frolicking in the corner of a fusedglass panel lit by LED: pot-bellied and happy and luminous in a sea of darkness.

Chris Holmann reinvents a clear lantern as an opaque hanging fixture, black and solid and gothic. Jason Forck selects and twins a pair of Roman bowls, then multiplies them in stacks, starting at transparent and gradually adding hue and shade to render them darker and darker. Zack Mayhew’s very interesting take on a Roman vessel envisions it surrounded by the shards of its peers, then plays on color and shape to craft a carafe and glasses both functional and lovely. Glass bottles etched with maps of land and water are John Sharvin’s entry, bearing doors within them, in a meditation on the transformative nature of travel and movement. They’re delicate and intricate, evocative and compelling.

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Dance and drumming by the Legacy Dance Project, and student poets from the Life Stages in Pages program preface an hour-long Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert featuring works by C.P.E. Bach, Samuel Barber, Vivaldi and more.

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who defies her husband to enroll in a university English program. The show, starring local favorites Martin Giles and Karen Baum, is directed by PICT’s Alan Stanford. Joseph Peiser 8 p.m. Continues through Sept. 19. 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $30-54. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org

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At Pittsburgh Glass Center, there’s Out of the Archives and Into the Gallery, a unique presentation of works inspired by ancient glass from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History; the show closes Sept. 13. Bill O’Driscoll 7-10 p.m. Fri., Sept. 4. 4800-5400 Penn Ave., Bloomfield/Friendship/Garfield. Most events are free. www.pennavenue.org

tonight with Program A, including: “Prodigal Returns,” a drama by La Crescenta, Calif.-based television writer Garry Kluger (staged by CCAC South); “Empty Plots,” about a pregnant couple making a pilgrimage to the past, by Lexington, Va., novelist Chris Gavaler (Stage Right Boyd); and “Two,” about a pair of rag dolls, one suicidal, by Carnegie Mellon graduate student Eugenie Carabatsos (Thoreau, N.M.). Program B premieres on Fri., Sept. 4. BO 8 p.m.

Program A runs through Sept. 12; festival continues through Sept. 27. 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $12 (festival passes: $40). 800-718-4253 or www.pittsburgh newworks.org

so, maybe you’re ready for tonight’s Food Words adult spelling bee, at Brillobox. With Root 174 chef Keith Fuller hosting, contestants compete for gift cards to local restaurants. There are also prize raffles for spectators.

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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs — proof that growing up in post-World War II America wasn’t as rosy as the Greatest Generation made it seem. These writers revolutionized literature, and their bohemian lifestyles influenced many. Tonight, the National Beat Poetry Festival hosts the first of two Pittsburgh events this weekend: “beat paths,” at

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{STAGE} The REP, Point Park’s professional theater company, opens its season with The Country House, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies (Dinner With Friends).

Cary Anne Spear plays Anna Patterson, a former Broadway titan turned summer-stock star who’s hosting a houseful of weekend guests whose personalities collide before rehearsals begin at a local theater festival. John Amplas directs; Country House, an homage to such Chekhov classics as The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, debuted on Broadway last year. The first REP performance is tonight. JP 8 p.m. Continues through Sept. 20. 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $25-30.

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Food Bank, is the latest in a long-running series of themed bees conceived by writer Cara Gillotti. Contestants should register on Food Words’ Facebook page. BO 8 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $10 donation. foodwordspgh@gmail.com

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in your home. Would you ever leave? Tonight, the Penn State Extension, which offers the university’s resources to regular citizens through specialized programs, holds a winemaking class at the Penn State Center in the Hill District as part of its Urban Homesteading program. Learn from a master gardener how to ferment fresh juice from a vineyard to make your very own wine.

Next stop: renaming your kitchen “the chateau.”

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The week-long festival begins tonight with a Proper British Dinner at Gaynor’s School of Cooking. Other events around the region feature music, food, libations and Sept. 13’s free Sports Extravaganza, at Highmark Stadium, with soccer, cricket, live music and a Queen Elizabeth look-alike contest. BO Festival continues through Sept. 14. Venues and prices vary (some events are free). www.bacpgh.com

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Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

World War II & the war affected New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters our region. Explore the 412-320-4610. of the Sky. Explore the power & development of the Jeep, grace of the birds who rule the produced in Butler, PA & the stories sky. Majestic eagles, impressive behind real-life “Rosie the condors, stealthy falcons and their Riveters” & local Tuskegee Airmen friends take center stage! Home to whose contributions made an FOOD WORDS: SPELLING BEE. more than 600 birds from over 200 unquestionable impact on the war Cocktails & spelling for a good species. W/ classes, lectures, demos effort. From Slavery to Freedom. cause, w/ host Chef Keith Fuller of & more. North Side. 412-323-7235.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the ROOT 174. Win prizes + raffles NATIONALITY ROOMS. 26 anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: of gift cards to city’s finest rooms helping to tell the story of Western PA Sports Museum, restaurants. 8 p.m. Brillobox, Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

Clash of Empires, & exhibits on Bloomfield. 412-925-2537.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. local history, more. Strip District.

412-624-6000.

412-454-6000.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS PITTSBURGH ARUNA features 1823 pipe organ, HISTORY CENTER. Museum RUN FOR THEIR FREEDOM. Revolutionary War graves. Scott. commemorates Pittsburgh Benefits the Aruna Project 412-851-9212. industrialists, local history. which fights for the freedom OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. Sewickley. 412-741-4487. of women who have been This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion SOLDIERS & SAILORS exploited in the sex-trafficking site features log house, blacksmith MEMORIAL HALL. War in the industry. 9 a.m. North Park, shop & gardens. South Park.

Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

412-835-1554. of military artifacts showcasing UNITY FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY photographs, uniforms, shells COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.

MUSEUM. Trolley rides & exhibits. & other related items. Military Includes displays, walking tours, Dearborn & Pacific Street, museum dedicated to honoring gift shop, picnic area & Trolley Garfield. 412-638-6202. military service members since Theatre. Washington. 724-228-9256. the Civil War through artifacts PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & & personal mementos. Oakland.

BOTANICAL GARDEN. Butterfly EVENING W/ YEMAYA. 412-621-4253.

Forest. Watch butterflies emerge Afro-Cuban dance performances, ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. from their chrysalises to flutter Cuban food, children’s bingo, silent Features 5,000 relics of among tropical blooms. Summer action, more. 4-8 p.m. Hill House Catholic saints. North Side.

Flower Show. Watch as model Kaufmann Center, Hill District.

412-323-9504. trains chug through living www.hillhouse.org.

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Three Rivers Stadium T-shirt Digging this locally made throwback to the Steelers’ old home. www.steelcitycottonworks.com

Steelers Standpipe Because there is nothing that cannot be improved by adding the Steelers logo.

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Bone up for next year’s 50th anniversary of George Plimpton’s famed book about “trying out” for the 1963 Detroit Lions.

The hilarious and insightful work (later a film starring Alan Alda) launched the late literary man’s second career as an amateur documenting his forays into professional sports.

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Western Avenue Peppi’s Sandwich Shop Bettis HOF Crunch This box isn’t going to win any design prizes, but you know what these honey nut toasted oats taste like? Victory!

Just a quick walk from Heinz Field, this friendly joint has old-school steak sandwiches, sides of fries, and walls laden with photos memorializing visiting Steelers and other celebs.

All the Right Moves Need some relief from all the gloomy news about real-life football? This 1983 Tom Cruise film follows one outstanding high school football player from a dying Western Pa. mill town (filmed in Johnstown).

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“Dashain� (handmade paper collage with block print on Lokta, 2015), by Garja Darjee.

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BOULEVARD GALLERY. Donald Wonderling & Mara Rago. Works in acrylics & photography. Opening reception September 5, 6-9 p.m. Verona. 412-828-1031.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Brenda Stumpf & Daria Sandburg.

Multimedia works by the artists.

Opening reception September 5.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

THE GALLERY 4. Stranded in the Underworld. New works

by Brian Holderman & Jeremy Beightol. Reception September 5, 7-11 p.m.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Behind the Curtain. Work by Elizabeth Fortunato & Susan Middleman. Opening reception September 4, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Shadyside. 412-441-6005.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Art & Soul.

An exhibit of spiritual & socially conscious art by Benjamin Creme, artist, author & founder of Share International. Opening reception September 4, 710 p.m. Garfield. 412-952-7974.

PERCOLATE. Lighting the Cave Wall. New works by acclaimed artist John Sokol. Opening

September 5. Wilkinsburg.

201-791-3878.

TRUNDLE MANOR. The Dark Dreams of Shawn Beeks. Works of eerie imagery w/ a bit more than a few hints of wonder.

Opening September 4, 7 p.m.

Swissvale. 412-916-5544.

ONGOING ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York. Work from these artists from their time as students at Carnegie Tech to their early days in New York. Treasure/Trash. Works by local artist Elizabeth A. Rudnick.

Andy’s Toybox. A playful installation of Warhol’s paintings, prints, & photographs from the late 1970s & 1980s.

Glycerine & Rosewater. A site specific artwork by the German/ Dutch artist Stefan Hoffmann, using his unique process of vertical silkscreen printing.

Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

ART INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH. Landmarks.

Pen & ink by Mary Jean Stabile.

Downtown. 412-263-6600.

ART SPACE 616. Summer Group Show. Features work by Atticus Adams, Kevin O’Toole, & Peter Mandradjieff. 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.

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. 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.

CMOA Collects Edward Hopper.

Collected works of Edward Hopper & prints by Rembrandt & Charles Meryron, Hopper’s influences.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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

by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003).

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

Collectors Showcase. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

FRAMEHOUSE. As Good As the Guys: Women Photographers in Pittsburgh. 15 local artists practicing photography in the region w/ a small group of their forebears in the city, at a time when the medium was dominated by men.

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Bird’s Eye View of Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Environs. Showing James T. Palmatary’s 1859 print.

Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FUTURE TENANT. Traffic Lights.

A light-and-sound exhibition

by Jakob Marsico. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

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.

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

Factory Installed. Artists Anne Lindberg, John Morris, Julie Schenkelberg, Jacob Douenias & Ethan Frier created new room-sized installations that demonstrate a uniquely different approach to the creative process. North Side.

412-231-3169.

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ENGLISH LEARNERS’ BOOK CLUB. For advanced ESL students.

Presented in cooperation w/ the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council.

Thu, 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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

THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Ice rick parking lot.

10 a.m.-12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

SAT 05 CAROLYN MENKE. Book Signing w/ the local author of “Return to Me.� 12 p.m. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 412-741-3838.

SUN 06 AMANDA OAKS, GEORGE WALLACE, LORI HOWSARE, RUSS GREEN, WILLIAM F. DEVAULT. Presented by the National Beat Poetry Festival.

Poetry from these readers w/ electronia by allinaline 7 p.m. Brillobox, Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

TUE 08 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.

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FRI 04 ORIENTEERING, NAVIGATION & MAP READING. Learn about navigation skills. Free & open to all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Preregistration recommended at www. alleghenycounty.us/parks. Lodge parking lot. 6-7:30 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

SAT 05 STAR PARTY. Join the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh to view the celestial skies. Weather Permitting.

7:50 p.m. Wagman Observatory, Tarentum. 724-224-2510.

MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE WITH A RANGER. Free & open to all ages. The ride will be of an intermediate skill & intermediate physical difficulty. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Pre-registration recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/parks 2-4 p.m. North Park, Allison Park.

724-935-1766.

TUE 08 WISE WALKS. 30 to 45 minute walks to enjoy fall. Water & snack provided. Meet at the Pie Traynor Field in North Park. Tue, 9:30 p.m.

Thru Nov. 3 Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100.

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.

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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.

BIRD WALK W/ 3 RIVERS BIRDING CLUB. Meet leader Jim Valimont to look for a nice variety of fall migrants, including warblers & vireos. Dress for wet grass & mud. Meet at the Rachel Carson Shelter. 8 a.m.-12 p.m.

Harrison Hills Park, Natrona Heights. 724-295-3570.

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WED 09 POETRY & PROSE READING. Poetry, prose or original songs.

All ages & stages welcome.

Second Wed of every month, 7-9 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-8888.

KIDSTUFF THU 03 - WED 09 VERY ERIC CARLE. A play & learn exhibit featuring activities inspired by five of Eric Carle’s classic books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Quiet Cricket, The Very Lonely Firefly, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle & The Very Busy Spider. Thru Sept. 20 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

SUN 06 STORYTIME ARTS & CRAFTS. ‘Monarch & Milkweed,’ by Helen Frost & Leonid Gore, a beautifully-illustrated story tells of the “friendship� between Monarch butterflies & Milkweed plants over the course of one year.

Powdermill Nature Reserve, Rector 724-593-6105.

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

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OTHER STUFF THU 03 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http:// citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

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.

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

MINDFULNESS FOR EDUCATORS. Learn how to start integrating mindfulness in your work. Held by We-PEACE. 7 p.m.

Shambhala Meditation Center, Highland Park. 412-925-1062.

FRI 04 FIRSTFRIDAY ARTWALKS. Art, live music, shopping at local businesses & food trucks along the route on Ellsworth Ave. 5:30-8:30 p.m. www.thinkshadyside.com.

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American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m.

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

GARFIELD NIGHT MARKET. Outdoor market that seeks to foster entrepreneurs, give families a place to spend a Friday night together, highlight Garfield’s creativity & energy, & to increase Garfield’s visibility. 6 p.m.

Dearborn & Pacific Street, Garfield. 412-441-6950.

THE MECHANICS OF STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS. 7:30 p.m.

Mervis Hall at Pitt, Oakland.

412-648-1542.

NORTHSIDE VS. OUTSIDE BOXING EVENT. Amateur Boxing Event Presented by Steel City Boxing. 7 p.m. The Priory, North Side. 412-759-6680.

PARTY IN THE TROPICS. Dine, drink & dance the night away in Phipps’ tropical paradise. 7 p.m.

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center opening, in Deutschtown CRITIC: David Leyden, 21, a student from North Oakland WHEN: Sat., Aug. 29 I heard about [the Neu Kirche opening] on social media.

The North Side [where I work] is pretty connected in Facebook groups, so if there’s an event it will get shared.

I try to stay involved in the Pittsburgh art scene and go to events and new gallery openings. I like the space that [Neu Kirche] is in because it’s an old church, but they were able to turn it into a really modern, clean gallery space where you can still see all the old features of the church. I also like how it blends a gallery with [a] community organization, so they’ll have interactive things in the community garden and elsewhere. It’s definitely one of the more accessible galleries. It’s nice to have a place where it’s not just “pay $14 to look at art and feel pretentious,” but more handson and community-oriented.

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

FESTIVAL OF COMBUSTION. A family-friendly event highlights hot art making processes like glass flameworking, ceramics, molten lava, bronze casting & cast iron.

Live music, local eats. 12-5 p.m.

Carrie Furnace, Rankin.

Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. www.riversofsteel.com.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

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PENNSYLVANIA & THE WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE WHISKEY REBELLION. Learn TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. about frontier life in Pennsylvania Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, in the mid- to late-1700s. Then North Side. 412-224-2827. our Park Rangers will tell the story of the Whiskey Rebellion. The program will culminate with RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia game a demonstration of flint and steel hosted by DJ Jared Evans. Come fire-making. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. & alone or bring a team. Sun, 7 p.m.

2-3 p.m. Oliver Miller Homestead, Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

South Park. 412-835-1554.

412-828-6322.

LAWRENCEVILLE STEEL VALLEY BREW FARMERS’ MARKET. TOUR. 11 a.m. Station Near Allegheny Valley Square. 412-323-4709.

Bank. Sat, 1-4 p.m.

SUNDAY MARKET. Thru Oct. 31 A gathering of local www. per 412-802-7220. a p pghcitym crafters & dealers selling ONE HELLOFA BREW .co unique items, from TOUR. Visits to Bloom home made foodstuffs Brew, Four Seasons Brewing to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m. The Company & Helltown Brewing.

Night Gallery, Lawrenceville.

11 a.m. Pittsburgh Public Market, 724-417-0223.

Strip District. 412-323-4709.

PITTSBURGH FILM OFFICE MOVIE TOUR. Tour through SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. city backdrops of movies such as Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing The Dark Knight Rises, Flashdance, follows. No partner needed.

Jack Reacher & more. 10 a.m.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Station Square. 412-323-4709.

Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. 412-683-5670.

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

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m.

A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST Grace Episcopal Church, SITTING GROUP. http://city Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670. dharma.wordpress.com/schedule/ SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, CLUB. Free Scrabble games, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903. all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount CAPOEIRA ANGOLA. Tue, Lebanon Public Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Thru Oct. 6 Irma Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

Freeman Center for Imagination, SWING CITY. Learn & practice Garfield. 412-924-0634. swing dancing skills w/ the

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SPEAK W/ REPRESENTATIVE HAL ENGLISH. Representative of the 30th legislative district in the PA House will speak. 10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

URBAN HOMESTEADING: WINEMAKING. Learn how to make wine by fermenting fresh juice & basic winemaking principles. 6 p.m. Penn State Center Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-482-3464.

WED 09 CONVERSATION SALON. A forum for active participation in the discussion of the meaningful & interesting events of our time.

Large Print Room. Second Wed of every month, 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

EXECUTIVE WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF GREATER PITTSBURGH 40TH ANNIVERSARY. Best-selling author Claire Shipman will discuss her latest book, The Confidence Code. 5 p.m. Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University, Downtown. 412-589-9393.

OPEN CRITIQUE. Constructive feedback on in-progress or recent work, network w/ other artists & practice public speaking skills.

Artists of all mediums are welcome.

Second Wed of every month Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224.

THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners.

All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

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be human. Homewood. www.theminefactory.com.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. glassweekend ‘15. Work

by Japanese Master Hiroshi Yamano, Robert Bender, Jeremy Lepisto, Chad Holliday, Matthew Day Perez, Wesley Rasko, Nathan Sandberg, Dolores Barrett, Lucy Bergamini, Jen Blazina, Jane Bruce, Melanie Feerst, Erica Rosenfeld, Melissa Schmidt & Beth Williams.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

NEMACOLIN GALLERY. A Midsummers Night. A solo exhibition w/ work by Paul McMillan. Farmington.

412-337-4976.

NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. In the Making. An exhibition highlighting the creative processes used by ten local, national & international artists participating in Neu Kirche’s public art programs.

North Side. 412-322-2224.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield.

412-441-6147-ext.-7.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES. Pittsburgh’s Point. Showing the first photo of Pittsburgh’s “Point” taken from atop Mt. Washington in 1896. See the low level city, antique bridges & river commerce. Many other historic photos & cameras.

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AUDITIONS AMERICAN GIRL FASHION SHOW 2015 MODEL SEARCH. More information on modeling requirements at www.jlpgh.org, September 12, 11 a.m. -3 p.m. at Learning Express Toys. Galleria Mall, Mt. Lebanon. 781-640-7933.

CARNEGIE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Auditions for dancers, boys & girls, for the Nutcracker.

Audition slots on September 26 at for 5-12 year olds at 1 p.m. & 13 years old + at 2 p.m. Carnegie.

412-279-8887.

GREENSBURG CIVIC THEATRE. Accepting applications for directors for its winter & spring productions.

Candidates should send a theatre resume including directorial references by September 14 to info@gctheatre.org or by mail to: Greensburg Civic Theatre, 951 Old Salem Road, Greensburg PA 15601. 724-836-1757.

HARMONY SINGERS. All voices are needed. Performance experience & the ability to read music are preferred but not required. Thru Sept. 20.

412-833-6341.

HOPE ACADEMY TEEN THEATER COMPANY & ROCK BAND. Theater & band auditions for students grades 6 -12. For more info, visit hopeacademyarts.com.

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Mortem Photographs & Vintage Mug Shots. From the Victorian Era. North Side. 412-231-7881.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Age-Specific. An exhibit by the Artist of the Year showing the aging of the 1960s generation.

Printmaking 2015. An exhibit of new work by regional artists represents a wide variety of printmaking processes including intaglio, photogravure, wood cut, linoleum cut relief, silkscreen, collagraph & monotype.

Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. PhAb Now! Photography by Corey Escoto, April Friges, Lori Hepner, Jesse Kauppila, Todd Keyser & Barbara Weissberger.

Oakland. 412-681-5449.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Out of the Archives & Into the Gallery. An exploration of history & historic artistic technique in glass. Friendship.

412-365-2145.

POINTBREEZEWAY. Kamili.

An exhibition of work by Hannibal Hopson & Amani Davis that reflects their mission to use recycled materials & let the objects determine the form & message. Point Breeze.

412-770-7830.

REVISION SPACE. Great Waves II. A juried exhibition of works by local artists based in Pittsburgh. Lawrenceville.

412-735-3201.

September 5, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800.

THERAPY DOG TESTING. Therapy dog testing. Dog must be at least one year of age. Information on our testing procedure can be found on the web at www.therapydogs. com. Testing date September 19, beginning at 9:30 a.m. To schedule an appt. call Robin Peterson at 814-425-7185.

Conneaut Lake Bark Park.

SUBMISSIONS 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.

CRANBERRY ARTIST’S NETWORK. All regional artists are invited to enter up to two pieces of original art that answer the question: “What are you thankful for?” This can be anything from loved ones or possessions to more abstract concepts like nature or health. For more information, visit www.cranberryartistsnetwork.com.

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412-431-1810.

THE TOONSEUM. Slinging Satire: Political Cartoons & the First Amendment. A collection of political cartoons from more than a dozen Pulitzer-winner & work from magazines, websites & newspapers. Downtown.

412-232-0199.

TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS. Bill Pfahl: A Retrospective. Oil & pastel paintings that will include urban landscapes, figures & portraits by Bill Pfahl. Glass Entomology. An array of glass insects & marbles by Michael Mangiafico w/ collaborative work w/ Ed Pinto. Iron Gate Gallery. Farmington.

800-721-0177.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom.

Open showroom w/ the artists.

Fridays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. & by appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

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I’m confused about my sexuality. For many years, I thought I preferred hetero-romantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material — thanks to my genderstudies classes — has me convinced I’m an asexual t-type (i.e., “top,” but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men. I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sexual situations that comely young gentlemen will consensually enter: restraints, CBT, whippings, play piercings, fisting. To make matters worse, I’ve never been in a sexual situation or romantic relationship. I am 23 years old. Extremely low self-esteem and a lack of trust in other people — especially men who are attracted to women — prevented me from reaching out to others, let alone informing a potential partner about my unusual interests. Fortunately, extensive therapy sessions have improved my self-image and willingness to take risks. Developing a romantic friendship with a potential partner is essential. I doubt I will have much luck on the Internet or at munches given that so many men doubt the existence of exclusively t-type females. I also don’t fit or wish to fit the stereotypical Bettie Page– esque image of a t-type female. Dressing up in PVC and playing Mistress is not my thing.

Do you have any recommended how-to guides or communities for t-type females?

your experience level (nonexistent). Ask about classes, don’t do anyone/anything that makes you uncomfortable, and do the reading. (Check out Greenery Press for titles on female dominance, CBT, flogging and other varsity kinks.)

You know whom else you’ll meet in the kink scene? Women who don’t fit stereotypical Bettie Page–esque images, don’t dress up in PVC, and don’t play Mistress games — but you’ll also meet women who enjoy doing all of those things, BEAST, as well as women who could take or leave Bettie Page, Mistress games, etc., but who dress up because it turns on their partners and/or attracts the kind of men/women/SOPATGS (some other point along the gender spectrum) they’re interested in restraining and torturing. When someone is indulging your thing (a slight and feminine guy is giving you his cock and balls to torture), it’s simply good manners to indulge his things (letting him call you “Mistress,” if that’s something he enjoys, or pulling on a little PVC).

And give yourself permission to grow — or to continue growing. You used to think you were one thing (a hetero-romantic asexual), and now you realize you might be another thing entirely (an asexual t-type/Dominant female who is attracted to slight and feminine men). Who knows what you’ll learn about yourself once you actually start having IRL experiences? (Also … most guys into hardcore BDSM — particularly hardcore masochists — regard CBT and whippings and piercings as sex. Not foreplay, not a substitute for sex, but sex.

Something to think through before you have a slight and feminine guy’s balls in your hands: Your “victim” may experience your play as sexual even if you’re experiencing it differently, i.e., you may not feel like you’re having sex with them, BEAST, but they’re going to feel like they’re having sex with you. Is that OK with your particular flavor of/ theories about asexuality?)

P.S. You’re not trapped in the closet — that door locks from the inside. You can open it whenever you’re ready.

“YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO ENTER KINKY PLACES TO MEET KINKY GUYS.”

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You should go to munches and put yourself out there on the Internet, BEAST, because in both those places/spaces you’ll meet — I promise — other t-type/Dominant women and the men who want to worship them and suffer at their hands.

Your knowledge of the BDSM/kink/fetish community seems pretty distorted — it sounds like your exposure has been limited to reading materials distributed in your gender-studies classes — but I can assure you that there are men out there, some of them slight and feminine, who not only don’t doubt the existence of exclusively t-type/Dominant females but are actively seeking them. But you’re not going to find them under the rocks in your garden or at the back of your fridge. You’re going to have to enter kinky places/ spaces to meet kinky guys.

There’s another type of person in those kinky places/spaces you need to meet: mentors. It’s particularly important for someone with your interests — CBT, whippings, piercings and fisting are not JV kinks — to meet, speak with, and be mentored by knowledgeable players. These are varsitylevel kinks — they are skill sets that take time to acquire. You’re going to need instruction from people with experience before you start torturing a guy’s balls or sticking (clean and sterile) needles through the head of his cock or his nipples, BEAST, as you could do serious and lasting damage to someone if you’re winging it. Munches are your best bet for meeting the players and educators in your area who take mentorship seriously. Be open about who you are (an asexual t-type female/ Dominant woman), your ideal partners (slight and feminine sub guys who are into SM, not sex), and

I had an Ashley Madison account. But I did not create “my” account. Anyone can register an account using anyone’s email address, and deleting fake accounts costs money. Now my email address is on a public database of AM users. People with accounts on AM are victims of the hackers, which you thankfully addressed in your last column. But members — actual and fake — were first victims of Ashley Madison. Shitty security aside, AM is a hub of extortion: no email verification, pay-to-delete (not that your account is actually deleted!) and tons of fake accounts purporting to be women (to balance the real, paying accounts from men). My happily monogamish wife and I use OkCupid and FetLife, which helped us find our way to local swinger and BDSM clubs. There are websites that aren’t reliant on fake users and extortion to build and then entrap a user base.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.” So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it’s a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let’s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release.

Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul’s code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic.

(1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. (2) Identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. (3) Forgive everyone, including yourself. (4) Play a joke on your fear.

(5) Discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope you’re not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I’m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens. Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I’m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can’t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams.

This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting. You’re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for more than 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life.

Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm. 1. What are your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them?

2. Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? 3. What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he died at the age of 77, in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books.

You’ve probably heard of his science-fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J.R.R. Tolkien and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it, in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I enjoy using the comedy technique of selfdeprecation,” says standup comic Arnold Brown, “but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t — especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing.

Inundate yourself with approval, praise and naked flattery.

male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus’ first kicks. You’re not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Since U Been Gone” is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it, and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot.

The people who wrote the tune offered it first to Pink and then to Hillary Duff, but neither accepted. Don’t be like those two singers, Gemini.

Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Going with the flow” sounds easy and relaxing, but here’s another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you’re floating on might swell into a boisterous wave.

The surge of the stream might get so hard and

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Excess is the common substitute for energy,” said poet Marianne Moore. That’s a problem you should watch out for in the coming weeks. According to my astrological projections, you’re a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you might be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force. Please don’t! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lay low and take extra good care of yourself. Get high-quality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love and relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For a pregnant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering. It’s small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are

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