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EVENTS 1.15 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: GABI, WITH SPECIAL GUEST SLEEP EXPERIMENTS The Warhol theater Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

1.28 – 11am POP GENERATION For the generation that inspired Warhol, a new program exclusively for older adults, age 65 and over.

Tickets $10/Free Members

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1.30 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: EKMELES The Warhol entrance space Co-presented with the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music.

FREE parking in The Warhol lot Advance Tickets $15/$10 students visit www.music.pitt.edu/tickets or call 412.624.7529

2.6 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: THE RED WESTERN The Warhol entrance space FREE parking in The Warhol lot Tickets $10/$8 Members & students

FREE Admission For a more social experience, the museum is open late with a cash bar in the entrance gallery and FREE regular museum admission.

EVERY FRIDAY, 5-10PM

2.23 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: DISAPPEARS The Warhol theater FREE parking in The Warhol lot Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

PRESENTED BY The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

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This annual award honors lifetime achievement in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Port Authority is proud to present Dorothy I. Height and Dr. Curtis L. Walker as the 2016 Spirit of King honorees.

The ceremony takes place Thursday, January 14th 10:00 am at The Kingsley Center, 6435 Frankstown Avenue.

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“BALLROOM IS OUR BABY. THAT’S WHAT BLACK GAY MEN PUT OUT TO THE WORLD.”

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Local artist James Simon, who created the giant musician statues on Liberty Avenue, shows us his Uptown garage studio full of larger-than-life sculptures. www.pghcitypaper.com

The Pittsburgh Public Market will be moving again, but its doors are open through April.

See a photo slideshow of the vendors at www.pghcitypaper.com.

Read our feature on the move on page 39.

This week: Lose yourself in the annual Galaxy Ball, brunch in drag, or salsa and bachata your weekend away.

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Ready to werk: (from left) John Easter, Summer Elite, Julian McClain and Duane Binion

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queens, butches, butch queens in drag and their fans will converge on the August Wilson Center for the third annual Galaxy Ball.

Channeling witch doctors and the lost daughters of famed voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, the most competitive of these guests will perform duck-walks and dramatic dips hoping to win more than $4,000 in cash prizes.

What does it take to win in ballroom, a decades-old, male/female binary-busting tradition birthed by black gay men in 1960s Harlem? It takes pageantry, imagination and attitude — infinite attitude.

Galaxy Ball: Voodoo is presented by local nonprofit True T Entertainment, part

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of Pittsburgh’s historic underground ballroom community, in partnership with the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force (PATF). Admission to the Galaxy Ball is free with on-site HIV testing or the completion of a PATF survey during the pre-ball mixer.

Pittsburgh’s Galaxy Ball takes center stage {BY DEESHA PHILYAW} Previous Galaxy Balls have been held in December to coincide with World AIDS Day. True T co-founder Duane Binion, 29, says, “This year, we decided to hold the event during Martin Luther King Jr. week-

end, at the August Wilson Center, as a celebration of the black community as well as our annual HIV/AIDS prevention ball.

The new venue makes Galaxy more visible, and we welcome those who have a genuine interest in learning more about ball culture.”

This year’s Galaxy Ball is expected to draw attendees from around the region and from as far away as California and Canada. The pre-ball mixer will feature music, an open bar and more. At the main event, participants will “walk” (compete) in roughly 30 categories. Rules for each category demand high fashion and high drama.

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community,” says Binion. “Some become national and international celebrities in their ballroom career, through pictures and [YouTube] videos.”

Galaxy Ball: Voodoo is the third installment in the Galaxy series, which began in 2013. Binion, whose ball name is Naheen Cavalleri, and True T co-founder John Easter, known as Dezmanian, created The Galaxy, a fantasy world in which the balls are set. The Galaxy narrative unfolds during the balls with each competition category. Voodoo history is woven into this year’s Galaxy narrative.

“Some people say voodoo is evil. It’s not,” Binion says. “Voodoo came from enslaved people in Haiti and America. It was a refuge and sanctuary, but they had to hide it. In that respect, it’s like being gay and having to hide in the closet.”

Galaxy’s grand prize of $1,000 and a trophy will be awarded in the Butch Queen Vogue Fem category. In this category, a gay male — regardless of his usual identification along the scale of masculinity and femininity — dresses and presents in the traditional style of a heterosexual male.

But his dance performance is a highly stylized, exaggerated, contemporary feminine vogue.

Some categories have additional criteria. This year’s Sex Siren competition requires “a pair of boots and a revealing piece that will make jaws hit the floor.”

In “Performance in a Heel,” heels that are four inches or higher are a must.

“houses” that function as families. Houses offer support that some members don’t get from their families of origin, or even from the larger gay community.

Ballroom was brought into the mainstream most recently when the dance group Vogue Evolution competed on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew a few years ago. And thanks to social media, ball vernacular such as “shade” and “werk” have become popular slang.

But the most infamous example of ballroom in the mainstream was 1990’s “Vogue” video by Madonna, a performer who is no stranger to cultural appropriation and fetishization. That same year saw the release of the documentary Paris Is Burning, which captured ball culture in New York City during the mid-tolate 1980s.

“That film was good for us in terms of explaining gender expression, racism and classism,” says True T’s Easter. “But it was more for those who are outside the community, not necessarily a celebration of those on the inside. It would be better if we could tell our own story.”

This kind of ownership is important in Pittsburgh, which is segregated in general, with a gay community that is “very, very segregated,” Easter says. “White, cisgender men run Pittsburgh’s gay community.”

And this impacts everything from gay nightlife to access to funding for HIV-related services.

The unofficial history is a bit fuzzy, but Pittsburgh’s ball community dates to the 1960s and ’70s, with “ki-ki balls” held in someone’s living room. The community waned for a time, but in the new millennium, ballroom is enjoying a renaissance here, growing from one house to three.

Jazmine Brockington (known as both Mama T, and Jazmine Ebony), a longtime glamour drag performer, is sought out for guidance within the community as an elder. A trans woman in her “latter 40s,” Brockington has lived with HIV for 28 years.

“I try to use my life experience as a cautionary tale,” she says, “When we were in our 20s, we thought we were invincible, too. But I always let the kids know that I’m here for them.”

In addition to prizes and status, balls offer participants a safe outlet — much needed in a community that has been marginalized and burdened by staggering statistics.

Jason Herring, PATF’s director of programs and communications, says, “One

“A LOT OF STIGMA CAN BE ERADICATED THROUGH HUMANITY.”

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10 p.m. Sat., Jan. 16. August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25 or free with confidential HIV/STI testing or survey at Pre-Ball Mixer from 8 to 10:30 p.m. truetstaff@gmail.com or tinyurl.com/galaxyball1

“It’s basically our version of the Grammys,” says Summer Elite. Elite, who gives her age as “25 to 35,” has been going to balls since 1998. “Each category has its heavy hitters and favorites. I started off in Big Boys/Girls Performance. Then I took an interest in Runway.”

Ballroom competitors can earn status names based on their wins, reputation, longevity and contributions to the community. Those labels range from Stars, Statements and Legends to Icons, who have competed for 20 years or more.

Ball communities are organized into

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of our main target communities — men who have sex with men, MSM, and transgender women — have the highest rate of HIV infection in the nation, with 1,000 new infections each month among youth ages 13-24. And trans women of color are 50 percent more likely to be HIV-positive than the general public.”

Nationally, transgender women, people of color and gay men face the highest risk of homicide.

DeAndre Gardner, 29, also known as Legendary Havoc Ebony, has been part of the ball scene since he was 15, and is one of three living Legends from Pittsburgh.

“For people who are disenfranchised to have this much courage to make their own fun, to make their own family, that makes me proud to be a black gay man,” Gardner says. “We don’t have a claim to anything but ballroom. Ballroom is our baby. That’s what black gay men put out to the world.”

The Galaxy Ball and True T’s smaller events connect the ball community with the group’s community partners. HIV/ STI testing and prevention information and other resources are made available to attendees from organizations such as

PATF, the Garden of Peace Project, Center for Victims, Prevention Point addictiontreatment center, housing- and job-assistance agencies, Central Outreach Wellness Center and Project Silk.

PATF’s standOUT program specifically serves those most at risk for HIV infection.

“It’s hard for homeless African-American youth to get resources” says Julian McClain, the program’s director, also known as Julian 007. “Through the balls, we bring the resources to them. They come to dance and win money, and they can also find a job or housing. And we’re testing 300 people in one night.

“It’s about getting people to respect the time it takes to learn and execute a ball performance, to respect the craft, to see the community differently. A lot of stigma can be eradicated through humanity.”

Adds PATF’s Herring: “People make riskier choices when they live under stigma. Instead, we want these kids to know how amazing they are. And we want the larger community to stop being afraid of them, stop stigmatizing them. Because when you remove the stigma, you remove barriers to access to information and care that can keep them safe.”

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THE HUNT IS ON. Right now Pittsburghers are searching for a time capsule buried somewhere in the City-County Building when it was constructed, a century ago.

The building was commissioned by thenmayor Joseph Armstrong to commemorate Pittsburgh’s centennial.

“We’re not so desperate that we’ve called in Geraldo [Rivera] to look for it yet,” quips Andy Masich, president and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center.

“But we’ve even considered calling in the bomb squad to use their metal-detecting equipment because we believe it’s buried inside one of the columns in the CityCounty Building.”

The search for the time capsule is just one of the many activities taking place this year to commemorate Pittsburgh’s 200th birthday.

This year’s celebration is distinct from the 250-year anniversary the city commemorated in 2008. That anniversary marked the construction of Fort Pitt in 1758, whereas the bicentennial will celebrate the year Pittsburgh officially became a city and received the right to local elections and self-governance.

And knowing this distinction and learning more about the history of Pittsburgh is what the bicentennial is all about.

“Not knowing your history is like having amnesia,” says Masich, who was chosen as chairman of the volunteer Bicentennial Commission. “A city needs to know its history if it’s going to make good decisions in the present and plans for the future. And that relates to every aspect of our lives, whether that’s transportation decisions, housing decisions, inclusiveness, race diversity. These are all things we need to understand the roots of if we’re going to be effective citizens today.”

One component of the year-long celebration will be highlighting interesting pieces of Pittsburgh history and trivia, such as the fact that Pittsburgh has 523 bridges, the most of any city in America. And indeed, a dedicated bridges committee is currently trying to figure out how to illuminate one of the city’s bridges.

“We’re not sure if we’re going to be able to pull that off in one year’s time.

It’s a pretty ambitious undertaking,” says Masich. “But we are going to focus on the

At press time, the Port Authority of Allegheny County was expected to propose the elimination of fare zones as part of a plan to simplify and expedite the process of riding buses and light-rail cars.

Regardless of where riders travel, all fares will cost $2.50 when using a ConnectCard, the authority’s electronicfare system (or $2.75 for cash fares).

According to PAT’s demographic stats, a fourth of customers will save $1.75 per ride. The changes, if approved, would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2017.

The plan was to be brought before the PAT board on Jan. 13.

“By eliminating the zones and keeping the base rate steady,” wrote PAT CEO Ellen McLean in an email, “we are protecting our most vulnerable customers while giving those who live farther away more incentive to use public transportation.”

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bridges. We love the sort of metaphor of bridges, because we’re bridging both the past and the future and we’re connecting neighborhoods. We’re breaking the restrictions that sometimes tie us.”

Events throughout the year will include a kickoff celebration on March 18, a Bicentennial Parade and a festival in Point State Park, in July. To date, more than 200 neighborhood events have been added to the bicentennial website.

“They range in scale from small, intimate neighborhood event to regional event,” says Masich. “The great thing about it is, the city isn’t coming up with the money to pay for all that. All of the participating groups are really contributing these programs that will have a bicentennial spin. And what it really is, is an opportunity to celebrate what’s good or great about our city.”

And in the end, even if the bicentennial committee isn’t able to recover the time capsule from 100 years ago, this year it will create one to mark the 200-year milestone.

The committee will be accepting suggestions which will be recorded and put on a microchip to be sent into outer space.

“If you were going to build a time capsule today that captured and encapsulated who we are as Pittsburghers, what would you put in there? Maybe you could have 200 things or — this is Pittsburgh for god’s sake — how about 57?” says Masich, referencing the H.J. Heinz Company’s traditional motto. “It would be interesting to hear the people of Pittsburgh say, ‘Ya know what really gets to the heart of who we are is a Terrible Towel or a Primanti’s sandwich, or a bike-lane sign.’”

Throughout the year City Paper will commemorate the bicentennial by sharing stories from the city’s past and how they relate to the changes taking place today.

“NOT KNOWING YOUR HISTORY IS LIKE HAVING AMNESIA.”

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CONNECTCARD USERS WILL PAY LESS While the change will eliminate the more expensive suburban fares, it will also do away with the Downtown free zone.

PAT is also proposing eliminating paper transfers ($1 transfers will be available only for ConnectCard users, while cash riders will have to pay the $2.75 fare again). The Downtown-North Side free zone for the T will remain free thanks to private subsidies, according to PAT spokesperson Anthony Brandolph.

A one-time fee of $2 for ConnectCards is also being proposed to start in 2017. Currently, ConnectCards can be obtained for free at the Downtown PAT service center and more than 70 retail outlets throughout the region.

To speed up stop times, PAT is proposing that all bus riders pay when boarding, and that all exits will be through the buses’ back doors. (Riders unable to use the back door can exit through the front.) For T riders, PAT is proposing an honor system starting on or after July 1, 2017, where riders outside the free zone will tap ConnectCards at receptacles either in car or on station platforms. PAT police will use portable validators to check whether riders have paid. T car riders will be able to enter any door.

Under the new fare system, PAT expects to lose as much as $4 million by 2018. But Brandolph says PAT believes ridership will increase due to cheaper, less confusing rides. A 60-day comment period, if approved, will open Feb. 1, and PAT’s board will decide on changes at the end of April.

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EVEN THOUGH it’s just starting, 2016 is shaping up to be a special year. It’s a leap year, an election year and time again for the summer Olympics. This year the games will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that Pittsburgh will ever get to host the summer games. Although I would love to see water polo at the Dormont pool, beach volleyball in Homestead and table tennis at Games N’At. Instead, we will have to live vicariously through our local Olympic athletes.

This week we look at the best six Olympians with Pittsburgh connections. These superstars have combined for 12 gold medals.

Up first, our best female Olympians.

Lauryn Williams. Rochester’s own

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is one of only six people in the history of the world to win medals in the winter and summer games. Williams is the first American woman to do it. She struck gold in track in Athens in 2004, and again in London in 2012. In 2014, she added a silver in Sochi as part of a bobsled team. Williams used to run with The Wings of Moon Track Club, which wasn’t nearly as popular as The Beatles of Moon Track Club.

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he lived in Windber, just outside of Johnstown. That same town also gave us Alan Freed, the man credited with coining the phrase “rock ’n’ roll.” In 1924, Weissmuller won three golds in Paris for swimming, two more in Amsterdam four years later, and added a bronze in 1924 for water polo.

He even once name-dropped himself in an encounter with Castro-led Cuban rebels in 1958. Weissmuller let out a Tarzan yell, was recognized and let go unharmed. It’s good to be the king of the jungle.

Roger Kingdom. The original plan for Kingdom was to play football at Pitt and be the main target for the great Danny Marino.

Instead, it turned out he was better at the 110-meter hurdles — much better. In 1984, he won gold in Los Angeles — the year the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries boycotted.

In 1988, he won it again in Seoul, even in a field full of commies. Until recently, Kingdom was head coach of the women’s track team at California University of Pennsylvania. He now works for the Arizona Cardinals, a place where a lot of ex-Pittsburgh athletes wind up.

IN 1988 HE WON GOLD AGAIN, EVEN IN A FIELD FULL OF COMMIES.

. Besides two NCAA Division I titles in basketball at UConn and three WNBA titles, this McKeesport native won two gold medals for basketball, in Athens and London. She currently plays for the New York Liberty, but besides that, she really hasn’t done much.

Suzie McConnell-Serio

. Being the current head coach of the Pitt Panthers women’s basketball team is perhaps the sixth-most impressive entry on this lady’s list of accomplishments. The Seton-LaSalle grad is in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, and she coached and played in the WNBA and has two Olympic medals. The bronze in Barcelona in 1992 is a nice complement to the gold medal she won in Seoul in 1988. Her legend continues to grow.

Now, onto the gentlemen.

Johnny Weissmuller. Admittedly, I took some liberties with this one, but how often can you claim Tarzan? Weissmuller was born in Romania and spent his lateteen years in Chicago. In between, however,

Kurt Angle

. Winning a gold medal is an astounding feat when you’re healthy.

Winning a gold medal in wrestling with four pulled muscles and two herniated discs is, well, heroic. That’s what Mount Lebanon’s own did in 1996, in Atlanta. In his gold-medal match, he proved American superiority over Iran by defeating Abbas Jaddidi. It was the amateur equivalent of Hulk Hogan besting the Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden in 1984. Angle turned pro and wound up being a 13-time prowrestling world champion. Pro wrestling is obviously not a real sport, but in Pittsburgh it sure counts.

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COFFEE’S ON

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As a neighborhood with a close-knit layout and sociable residents, the Mexican War Streets is a natural fit for a coffeehouse. Yet the community had gone without since Buena Vista Coffee closed, in mid-2014. Adjoining neighborhoods like Allegheny West had gone even longer.

That changed Dec. 2, when Commonplace Coffeehouse opened its fourth Pittsburgh location in the corner storefront previously occupied by Buena Vista (and before that by Beleza Community Coffeehouse).

If this past Friday was any indication, things are off to a good start. Manager Frank Battista and another barista were dishing out coffee drinks and baked goods (like luscious blueberry muffins) to patrons who already include regulars.

Battista is one of the forces behind the shop. The bearded 10-year-veteran of the local java trade — who lives a block away, with his wife — worked with Commonplace co-owner T.J. Fairchild, building-owner Ryan Costello and Essig Renovation & Design to maximize table space and exploit the big street-level windows.

Commonplace, based in Indiana, Pa., also has locations in Squirrel Hill, Garfield and Larimer. Battista says the new shop’s strategy emphasizes community engagement, and hiring baristas who have people skills as well as coffee-making chops. Its hours are 7 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays; 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturdays; and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays.

The store’s day-long grand opening, this Sat., Jan. 16, is community-minded too: Bring a potluck contribution and get a free cappuccino.

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Eat, dance and be merry for a good cause. The East End Food Co-op presents its annual Winterfest, a seasonal celebration and fundraiser for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Familyfriendly activities and music, light fare and a desserts, and for those over 21, cider, wine and local brews. 1-5 p.m. Sat., Jan. 23. Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg. Tickets at www.showclix.com

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Grilled octopus with radicchio, fennel and preserved lemons

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serving foreign cuisine made a serious play for best restaurant in the city. Not just best food, mind you, but finest dining all-around, with all the ambience, decor, service and prices that implies. For years that sort of thing was the preserve of French restaurants; then Northern Italy had a moment. But since the triumph of “fresh and local” cuisine, the most desirable tables in Pittsburgh have been at a series of American restaurants serving haute comfort food or something more experimental.

Now Yves Carreau, who got established here at Sonoma, and has had buzzworthy success at Seviche and NOLA, is making a play for the prize with a Greek restaurant that spans from Market Square to PPG Plaza. It’s a dazzling, sprawling space that ranges from bright bar and lounge on the Market Square side to dimmer dining

room facing the PPG rink, plus a couple of semi-private rooms behind sliding panels of glass. The decor might be described as “marine modern,” with sophisticated shades of sand-white and deep green-blue

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PRICES: Mezze, salads $5-18; entrees $18-39 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED recalling Aegean shores and sleek, undulating lines set off by rustic touches such as the netting-covered globe light fixtures and glass vases of seashells. There are also extensive decks for outdoor dining.

It’s all very impressive. Facing the lobby, at the helm of the long open kitchen, all of the day’s seafood is on ice in a large display case. Poros’ commitment to fresh seafood is embodied in a “fish market” section of the menu from which various sizes of whole fish, filets and shellfish can be combined with one of three basic preparations: grilled, pan-roasted and tandoor-roasted. Prices are by the pound, ounce or piece, respectively, and customers are encouraged to try an a la carte approach to compose their own mixed plate.

The fish market also includes three chef’s specialties, or complete dishes. Angelique chose the samke harra salmon, grilled on cast iron with olive oil, sea salt, and black pepper. It was served with a Lebanese sauce of tahini, garlic, lemon and pine nuts on a bed of lightly wilted dandelion greens and horta, or Greek greens. The salmon was CONTINUES ON PG. 12

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rosy, tender and flaky; the sauce both nutty and pungent; and the greens themselves a flavorful component to this excellent dish.

The rest of the menu spans the Mediterranean region, adding Middle Eastern and North African flavors to the core Greek offerings in both mezze (small) portions and entrees. In addition to the emphasis on fish and shellfish, there are a significant number of lamb options, plus a respectable array of vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Of the mezze, lamb carpaccio and grilled octopus were both magnificent.

In the first, thin, not-quite papery slices of Jamison Farm lamb were drizzled with a subtly spiced harissa and served with white beans and frisée. In the second, a long, narrow platter arrived topped with smoky, tender tentacles interspersed with grilled fennel and radicchio, all brought together by an herbal parsley sauce and shallot and caper citronette. The one was a relatively simple dish that focused on its main ingredient, the other an elaborate interplay of components, but both wowed us with top-tier ingredients and a confident mastery of flavors.

Turkish borek was more strictly traditional. Borek is pastry rolled around lamb and beef — a bit like a large spring roll, but here the wrapper floated between crispy and crunchy, more substantial than phyllo, but lighter than any dumpling wrapper.

The meat, chopped, not ground, was tender and savory; sultana raisins were subtle, and the whole was fine, if not extraordinary.

Shrimp saganaki, in a roasted-tomato coulis topped with feta, was prepared so that some of the cheese melted into the sauce while leaving some crumbles atop.

This lent extra pleasure to scraping it up with crusty bread, which sadly ran out before the coulis. The three shrimp, generously sized, were plump and firm, continuing the kitchen’s strong meat technique.

That technique faltered, though, in Cretan roasted chicken, where a chicken breast that was neither dry nor succulent sat atop wonderfully roasted potatoes, dark cipollini onions, and a tentative combination of lemon and ricotta.

The kitchen recovered its footing with Jason’s a la carte scallops. Large but not massive dayboats, they were sensibly seared on one side only to prevent overcooking, resulting in flesh that was almost as sweet as sashimi-style scallops, yet warm and richly flavored by the light crust. There’s nowhere to hide subpar ingredients or technique on a plate this spare, and Poros pulled it off with perfection.

Poros’s almost flamboyant elegance and flawless mastery of seafood have elevated Greek cuisine to a level of sophistication previously unknown in our city.

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On the RoCKs

{BY CELINE ROBERTS}

GRAPE EXPECTATIONS CorkGuru helps you seek the perfect wine

First World problem though it might be, struggling through a wine list can be anxiety-provoking. The desire to try new things is often tempered by the fear of spending $15 on a glass of wine you might not love. CorkGuru, a new Pittsburghbased wine-selection app, is here to help. CEO Danielle Gillespie is a software engineer and a wine-lover whose mission is to get people excited about something new. Her app began as an iPad program for restaurateurs and restaurant managers to help them keep their inventory up to date and organized by varietal, vineyard and price. Now the company is launching an app to help consumers develop their palates.

CorkGuru (www. corkguru.com) lets you select wine by establishment, or by color and taste with a tool dubbed SpectraVin. Any establishment that uses the iPad program can make its wine list public and allow you to see an updated version, complete with winemakers’ notes and other details. The app creators consult with the restaurants to build a database of knowledge about the wines as well as going directly to the vineyards. CorkGuru’s board of advisers includes experts like sommelier Christian Tripodi, of Cioppino.

SpectraVin takes a more laissez-faire approach, allowing you to choose from among 10 categories, like Fruity & Crisp and Warm & Toasty, to help you track down something in your wheelhouse. If you’re still stumped, you can implement the fun Spin The Bottle feature, which asks you to pick between three sets of descriptors before recommending some vino.

Let’s be honest: Wasted booze is a bad thing, and if you pick a bad bottle, you’re still going to drink it. This is a lighthearted way to abdicate responsibility for making a choice. If you strike liquid gold, add the bottle to your wine history, allowing the app to learn your preferences. And Android users, never fear: CorkGuru intends to roll out a version for you very soon.

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THE FOLLOWING DINING LISTINGS ARE RESTAURANTS RECOMMENDED BY CITY PAPER FOOD CRITICS

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CAFÉ DES AMIS. 443 Division St., Sewickley. 412-741-2388. A genuine French café — with rustic wooden tables, chalkboard menus and display cases full of sophisticated salads, sandwiches and desserts. A perfect spot for that relaxed, multi-hour meal that is France’s greatest export: Thus, dinner can be anything from croque monsieur to shepherd’s pie or roulades of beef. J 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-of-theborder staples as plantains, refried beans and fried yucca. J 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

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Royal Myanmar {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} rolls), as well as entrées ranging from bulgogi (beef stir-fry) to spicy marinated chicken and Korean pancakes. KF JANICE’S SWEET HARMONY CAFÉ. 2820 Duss Ave., Ambridge.

724-266-8099. A musically themed diner offers tried-andtrue breakfast-and-lunch diner standards (with fun, musical names such as “Slide Trombone”).

This is your stop for French toast, German apple pancake, fruit-filled pancakes, and savory options such as skillet fry-ups (eggs, home fries, cheese, sausage). J

DAPHNE. 5811 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-441-1130. Outside seating is a plus here, but the LA TAVOLA ITALIANA. well-prepared Turkish food is a 1 Boggs Ave., Mount Washington. year-round asset. The menu is 412-481-6627. This family-run familiar — hummus, falafel, gyros, restaurant in Mount Washington shish kebab — but the execution offers Italian favorites in a is notable and the flavors rich. warm, welcoming atmosphere.

Lamb features as sausages, Entrees include classics chops and a burger, and such as parmigiana, grilled chicken breast marsala and piccata, doesn’t get much prepared with better than Daphne’s either chicken or w. w w r shish kebab. KF veal, as well as hearty pape pghcitym surf-and-turf fare. .co DOR-STOP. 1430 Be sure to try to pizza Potomac Ave., Dormont.

Margherita, on the 412-561-9320. This bustling, antipasti list, or the superb homey family-run venue is appetizer eggplant Milanese. KF everything a breakfast-andlunch diner ought to be. The LOLA BISTRO. 1100 Galveston Ave., food is made from scratch: Allegheny West. 412-322-1106.

Alongside standards (eggs, This is a neighborhood bistro pancakes, and hot and cold with an atmosphere you’d like sandwiches) are also distinctive to experience every night, and options, including German food good enough to do the potato pancakes, ham off the same. The menu here offers bone and a sandwich tantalizingly “contemporary comfort cuisine” called a “meatloaf melt.” J — it hews toward the familiar (meat and fish, pot pie, pasta GOLDEN PIG. 3201 Millers Run Bolognese) while applying Road, Cecil. 412-220-7170. up-to-the-minute sensibilities to This little jewel-box of a diner the details: house-cured meats, offers authentic, home-style infused oils, coconut milk in the Korean cuisine, including Moroccan vegetable stew. LF in-house chili sauce and various kimchis. The brief menu includes LOS CHILUDOS. 325 Southpointe traditional appetizers such as Blvd., Suite 300, Canonsburg. dumplings and gimbop (sushi-like 724-745-6791. This casual

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NAKAMA JAPANESE. 1611 E. Carson St., South Side.

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

Presentation is key for customers and restaurant alike: The interior is smart, the chefs entertaining, and the food is good, if pricey. LE PENN AVENUE FISH COMPANY. 2208 Penn Ave., Strip District (412-434-7200) and 308 Forbes Ave., Downtown (412-562-1710).

These two fish restaurants fill the gap between humble lunch counter and snooty 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 higherend dishes, particularly at the Downtown location. KF ROYAL MYANMAR. 644 Center Ave., West View.

412-415-3380. The menu spans the flavors of Southeast Asian, Indian and Himalayan traditions. Start with squash fritters, tea-leaf salad or samosa thoke (slices of deepfried potato samosa tossed with shredded curried chicken, onion, mint and lime). Entrees include pickled mango pork, curried chicken and a small selection of sushi and Thai dishes. KF

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“I FIND IT SO EASY TO SHARE WITH STRANGERS IT’S UNBELIEVABLE.”

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DARK ROAST Until Slayer moves to Pittsburgh and gets into the caffeine business, Black Forge Coffee House, in Allentown, is the most metal café in town. Black is the motif, you’ll find a rune-style shop logo on your way to the espresso bar, and walls are lined with abstract local art not often found in your standard Cultural District gallery.

And the options for using the full-time coffee shop/part-time venue are just about endless. Wanna have an ambient drone show? Done. A bi-monthly BYOB art show? No problem.

A place to hold your pro-marijuanalegalization group’s meetings? You found the place.

“I don’t think there’s something I’m fully against, unless [it’s a] Donald Trump rally,” says Ashley Corts, who co-owns the space with Nick Miller.

To rent out the intimate, 49-capacity room, whether for a lineup of high school pop-punkers or blackmetal bands, the fee is $50 for the night.

If you need someone to run sound, a friend of Black Forge will do that and record the show for another $50. (This weekend, for example, the space will host local folk-punk artist Homeless Gospel Choir).

“We love giving opportunities to people that need [them] because we are the same way. No one gave us the opportunity until now, and to give that to other people and share what we’ve been through is fucking awesome,” Corts says.

Corts has been working at coffeeshops and doing concert lighting design for years, and Miller has toured in bands. When they opened Black Forge last August, they wanted the space to reflect their personalities.

“Music is our life,” Corts says. “We’ve always done it. We’ve always been in it.”

Corts has history in Allentown, having lived there while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for digital media and filmmaking. A café seemed like just what the neighborhood needed. The shop is still finding its feet, but Corts and Miller are doing all they can to keep Black Forge going for years to come.

“I am the most broke I have ever been in my entire life,” Corts says. “But it’s so worth it, to do this and be happy.”

“MUSIC IS OUR LIFE.”

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HOMELESS GOSPEL CHOIR, JEDIDIAH CROOK, more. 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 16. Black Forge Coffee House, 1206 Arlington Ave., Allentown. $7. www.blackforgecoffee.com

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New Skin: Mackenzie Scott, a.k.a. Torres

BRUTAL GRACE {BY CARALYN GREEN}

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PRINTER FEELS like a benediction,

an invocation of the sacred and exhalation of the profane. The careermaking sophomore album by Brooklyn artist Mackenzie Scott, who performs as Torres, is a thing of fierce beauty — confessional poetry at its most carnal and unflinching. In it, Torres probes at her Southern Baptist upbringing, and what it means to be a “child of God” and a “tired woman,” a cosmic traveler on the path of loss, longing and redemption.

Named one of the best albums of 2015

by NPR, Sprinter was produced with frequent PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis.

Harvey is an obvious point of reference for Torres, but so is Kraftwerk’s spacey experimentalism, Nabokov’s luscious literary glee, and the stark grandeur of the Swiss alps, which literally took away Torres’s breath on her European tour this past year.

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“I’m no martyr,” sings Torres on Sprinter’s profound, unnerving closing track, “The Exchange.” But in her Sunday best and brutal grace, she’s a damn-near righteous revelation.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT “NEW SKIN.” HOW DID YOU END UP WORKING WITH SHARON VAN ETTEN AND THE FOLKS FROM WAR ON DRUGS? That song, we did together for the nonprofit organization Weathervane Music, in Philadelphia. It was really special because I was just starting out then, and I think that was Sharon’s attempt at introducing me to

people. She took me under her wing and brought me into her circle.

HOW DO YOU USUALLY WRITE SONGS? IS THAT LEVEL OF COLLABORATION PART OF YOUR PROCESS? Well, I didn’t write with them. I wrote the song and I brought it to Philadelphia, but they played on it. They made it come to life. That was the first time I’ve really been collaborative with anyone creatively. I had to trust all the people involved because, to me, it’s a sacred process, songwriting, revealing yourself in that way. And the good news is that they all are really good at what they do, and they made me feel really good about what we were doing. They didn’t make me feel small.

YOUR SONGS ARE VERY PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MADE PUBLIC. WHAT’S

THAT LIKE, SHARING SUCH INTIMACIES WITH NOT JUST THE WORLD, BUT WITH THE PEOPLE IN YOUR OWN LIFE? Believe it or not, that’s the scariest part, having people I know hear songs. I don’t know if I’m a psychopath or what, but I feel completely able to release my songs into the world. I find it so easy to share with strangers it’s unbelievable. But when it comes to sharing my personal thoughts with friends and family, it’s the most painstaking thing.

It’s really hard for me to get to that point where I’m able to articulate those thoughts, much less share them with other people.

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I DON’T THINK THAT MAKES YOU A PSYCHOPATH AT ALL. I THINK THAT MAKES YOU HUMAN. [Laughs.] Well, the psychopathic part is that I have no issue sharing any of that with the world.

BUT THOSE ARE FACELESS PEOPLE YOU MAY NEVER SEE. IT’S EASIER. I don’t envision people’s faces. I just envision the Internet, envision songs on “the Internet.”

IT CAN SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE SPIRITUALITY IS HIP, BUT IDENTIFYING AS PART OF A FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY IS STIGMATIZED. HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED THAT ATTITUDE IN YOUR YEARS OF PERFORMING? I’m not surrounded by that many people who think it’s cool to be a Christ-follower.

That being said, I don’t care. I really don’t.

My spirituality is sacred and it’s the biggest part of me. It is me. I’m a spirit. We’re all spirits. And I don’t talk about it unless someone wants to talk about it. I like to let people get to know me and form their opinions before ever knowing whatever it is I believe, whether they give a shit about it or not. And then if they want to talk about it, I’m open to it. But it’s not a dogma, it’s not a structure. It’s just a way that I live my life and I don’t care if people don’t think it’s cool, ’cause I’m cool. [Laughs.] I know I’m cool.

LISTENING TO YOUR MUSIC, IT DOES FEEL SACRED, LIKE YOU’RE HAVING DIALOGUE WITH YOUR FAITH. DO YOU SEE YOURSELF AS CREATING “CHRISTIAN MUSIC”?

God no, I hope no one ever says I make Christian music. No. I mean, it’s so funny.

My spirituality and my faith are a big part of me, but I think that to talk about it like it’s a genre or something marginalizes it, trivializes it. It’s not a thing in and of itself, it’s just me. I am a faithful person, I am a spiritual person. But we all are. We all have something we believe in, even if it’s nothing. There are people who believe in nothing, and that’s something, too.

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Beedie (left) with DJ Bamboo

This weekend, the Strip District Music Festival will bring some of the area’s best up-and-coming rappers and DJs to one place. The Taylor Gang/Daily Bread Beats Stage will feature artists who are just starting to gather buzz, a few who have performed in multiple cities and a couple who have already toured the country.

Breaking into the hip-hop scene isn’t easy, but a large-scale festival like this gives artists from across the city an opportunity to shine.

Gaining attention outside of the city is a goal of all the artists and DJs who will take the stage, and some of them have already tasted that kind of success. Opening the stage at 4 p.m. is DJ Afterthought, who certainly knows what it takes to be an engaging performer and has been riding across the country alongside Houston rapper Riff Raff, as his tour DJ. Other festival performers who have taken their shows nationwide are Beedie and his DJ, Bamboo. Beedie recently dropped his highly anticipated mixtape Counter Culture but says he still understands the importance of local shows like this.

“I think it’s a good opportunity for young artists to find a new crowd they may have not otherwise reached,” Beedie says.

“When you’re up-and-coming, you have to be hitting them from every angle.”

The festival will also feature DJ Spillz, who will not only be on stage for his own two sets, but also spinning for artists Palermo Stone, JKJ and B Mattie. DJ Spillz understands the power of collaboration and has been taking full advantage of it, helping to provide sounds for many artists and events this past year.

“We’re all from Pittsburgh, and we all love music. We need to work together to build an even stronger music scene in our city,” DJ Spillz said. “This is a great festival to add to any résumé — the exposure always helps.”

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

Every time you click “reload,” the saints cry.

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

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

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Andre Costello and the Cool Minors

STRIP SHOW {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} TO SAY THAT promoter Josh Bakaitus was

surprised by the turnout of last year’s Strip District Music Festival would be an understatement.

“It was insane,” Bakaitus says of the show’s freshman year, which is sponsored

by City Paper and Pabst Blue Ribbon. “I thought we would be successful if we got 2,000 people tops. We got at least 8,000 people.”

The festival returns Jan. 16 and will provide a much expanded program, even compared to last year’s massive lineup. Last year’s show featured 70 performers at 11 venues.

This year’s incarnation will have 170 artists at 21 venues. In addition to the live bands, there will also be live painting displays and a comedy venue.

“The main thing we learned after last year is that this show is about local music and the community over regional and national acts,” Bakaitus says. “Last year felt magical because everyone knew each other.

It was entirely local and was impactful because of that.”

The show provides an opportunity for bands of all experience levels to get exposure because of its unique “pay what you want” format. There is no admission fee at the various venues, but patrons can donate to the artists on site. Donations can also be made ahead of time and during the event by downloading an app called Square Cash.

With the app, you can donate directly to an individual act or to a general fund to be distributed to all artists.

Bakaitus says modernizing and expanding the means of donating was one of the

improvements made after last year’s show.

Online donations were shut off at 2 a.m. when the festival ended in 2015. This year, the window will be expanded to Jan. 18 at noon.

The full slate of performers can be found online at www.stripdistrictmusicfest.com and on page 20 of this issue. This year’s festival will offer a wide range of music — from indie-rock acts like Pet Clinic and Andre Costello and the Cool Minors and pop-punk acts like Mace Ballard to metal bands like Lady Beast and Greywalker. A handful of former bands including Once Nothing, Voice in the Wire, Tabula Rasa and Teddy Duchamp’s Army are reuniting for the event, several of which will be playing at the Enrico Biscotti Warehouse.

“LAST YEAR FELT MAGICAL BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW EACH OTHER.”

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In addition, the festival will feature the Electronic Basement at Altar Bar, which will host performances from Lavier, DVPR, Velo and Lumariia. There will also be an outdoor hip-hop stage at Altar Bar (see story page 15), featuring acts like Palermo Stone, Taylor Gang, Beedie and Tairey. Hip-hop artist Shad Ali will also be playing at Casa Reyna.

“I’m really excited about the outdoorstage concept,” Bakaitus says. “We’ve really worked hard to expand the reach of the festival in terms of diversity. We’ve got a lot of great talent coming to this show from indie rock to Shad Ali. We want the vibe to be pretty free-flowing.”

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JANUARY 15, 8 P.M. CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL

Traditional and Contemporary Persian and Turkish Music

[ELECTRONIC] + THU., JAN. 14 Eschewing standard song formats for the experimental, local artist 0h85 crafts hour-long collages of EDM and hip hop. 0h85 is a dizzying journey through modern music, spanning drum and bass, piano-driven R&B and heavily sampled vocal tracks. You can experience this in person at Brillobox tonight, for free! 0h85 is putting out a new EP, Feel Cold, and special guests Naeem and DJ Babyteeth will also be attending this release party, presented by La Squadra records.

Andrew Woehrel 9 p.m. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net

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Described to us by “sonic curator” Brian Hecht as an experimental fusion of an “earlyRenaissance free improv ensemble” and a jam band, locals In Arthur’s Court bring performance art, post-post-postmodern humor and antiquated classical scales to a public that just may not be ready. The group, which includes members of Radon Chong, KMFD and Slime Heads, encourages audience participation, and though the sound and vision can be baffling, it is handily saved by a genial sense of humor.

In Arthur’s Court supports Microwaves tonight at Lava Lounge with Aaron Myers-Brooks and more. AW 10 p.m. 2204 E. Carson St., South Side. $5. 412-431-5282 or www.lavaloungepgh.com

[ROCK] + SAT., JAN. 16 What is there to say that hasn’t already been said about Bruce Springsteen? The Boss is embarking on a world tour where he will perform the entirety of his 1980 double album The River, coinciding with the release of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, a massive

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Tonight, Bruce kicks off the tour at the Consol Energy Center. AW 7:30 p.m. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $55-150. 412-642-1800

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JANUARY 16, 5:30 P.M. ALUMNI CONCERT HALL

Showcase Concert of Persian and Turkish Instruments with the festival soloists For ticket reservation & festival information:

724-799-2067 . 919-348-7744

www.segahfestival.com Email: segahfestival@gmail.com The Segah Festival page

This weekend, local producer Stevie B joins up with Drusky Entertainment to present Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: MLK Weekend Takeover. Stevie B is by now well known to hip-hop fans for his work on recent tracks by Asco, Owey and Lua Pro. All three of those rappers perform tonight at the Rex Theater, along with Black Jay, Born Ready, G.I., Jimmy Wopo and Reese YoungN. Don’t miss your chance to see some of the city’s most buzz-garnering MCs, all in one place.

Margaret Welsh 9 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $15-20.

412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

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To participate, you must have symptoms of the disorder, which may include: troubled personal relationships, chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom, difficulty controlling anger or frustration, mood swings, self-destructive or impulsive behaviors, or history of self-inflicted pain or injury.

Participants are interviewed about their moods, behaviors, and personality traits and will be compensated up to $125 upon completion of the interviews.

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Even for someone under legal drinking age, Julien Baker is pretty new to the solo-artist game.

Middle Tennessee State University took her away from Memphis and her shoegazy band Forrister, but the urge to make music remained. On her own, Baker is a precise and stark presence; her spare, guitar-driven record Sprained Ankle is full of both youthful angst and unflinching beyond-her-years insight. Tonight, she’ll appear at Club Café with locals Cold Weather. MW 8 p.m.

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ROCK/POP THU 14 CLUB CAFE. Shiner w/ Nice Cars.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

LAVA LOUNGE. Microwaves, Joey Molinaro, Aaron MyersBrooks, In Arthur’s Court.

South Side. 412-431-5282.

FRI 15

Benefit Concert. Featuring Don Bistarkey, “Uptowne” Steve Browne, DJ Trainwreck, Phat Man Dee, Evan Knauer, Duane Jones, Melissa Ippolito, Chrissy Carnevali, John Miller, Marshall Goodwin, Meet the Beatless, Sex-Tet Offensive, & The Impositions.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

CLUB CAFE. Torres w/ Palehound.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

HOWLERS. Evan Blocker, Sofa Brown, Crunk Witch, Fortified Phonetx, Joey Smooth.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler Street Sessions. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Sound Series: GABI w/ Sleep Experiments. North Side.

412-237-8300.

CLUB CAFE. Scott & Rosanna w/ Arlo Aldo. South Side.

412-431-4950.

LINDEN GROVE. Jukebox Band. Castle CLUB CAFE. Julien Shannon. 412-882-8687.

Baker w/ Cold Weather. www. per a p ty ci MEADOWS pgh m South Side. 412-431-4950. o .c CASINO. Good Guys HOWLERS. Cal Folger Band. Washington.

Day, Benjamin Shepherd, 724-503-1200.

Dan Koshute, Ghost Guts.

MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Ike McCoy Band w/ Howard Thompson’s REX THEATER. Stephen Kellogg Suiside Burnz. Strip District.

Band. South Side. 412-381-6811.

412-566-1000.

ROCHESTER INN HARDWOOD GRILLE. Eagles Tribute. Ross.

412-364-8166.

SHELBY’S STATION. Dave & BRILLOBOX. 0h85. Record Andrea Iglar Duo. Bridgeville. release party for up-and-coming 724-319-7938. producer 0h85 on PittsburghSTAGE AE. Lamb Of God, based & focused label La Squadra.

Deafheaven, Anthrax, Powertrip.

Bloomfield. 412-527-8137.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

TERRACE GARDENS. Daniels & McClain. Clairton. 412-233-2626.

ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Jill Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

Simmons Band. Lawrenceville.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, 412-682-0177.

DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Kingfish.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

BROTHERS GRIMM. Daniels & ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

McClain. Coraopolis. 412-788-0890.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. RPG’s.

RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Robinson. 412-489-5631.

Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

GOOSKI’S. The Gotobeds, CHILLER, Weird Corners. Polish Hill.

412-681-1658.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

KNUCKLEHEAD’S BAR. 412-431-8800.

Tobacco Road. Ross. 412-366-7468.

LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance MEADOWS CASINO. No Bad Ju Party The Night Shift DJs. Obsidian: Ju. Washington. 724-503-1200. gothic/industrial dancing.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Steel South Side. 412-431-5282.

City Ruins, Rainbow Machine, REMEDY. Push It! DJ Huck Finn, Blackbird Bullet, Opposite Day, DJ Kelly Fasterchild. Lawrenceville.

The Annajames Band. Millvale.

412-781-6771.

412-821-4447.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Rambo.

THE R BAR. The Bo’Hog Brothers.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Rumpke South Side. 412-431-2825.

Mountain Boys. Lawrenceville.

SPIRIT HALL & LOUNGE. DJ Kelly.

412-682-0177.

Tracksploitation. Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441.

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HIP HOP/R&B FRI 15 SMILING MOOSE. Will Rap For Cash. Featuring Truth Be Told, Common Wealth Family, Barz Blackman, Lazy JP, Cory Eaux, ungn Voorheez, Tek Bennet, & Joel Kellem. Hosted by Billy Pilgrim.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

BLUES THU 14 SLOPPY JOE’S. Fingerz & Friends.

Jazz Judi, Dr J, Twizzy & Fingerz.

Mt. Washington. 412-381-4300.

SAT 16 1810 TAVERN. Jimmy Adler w/ Charlie Barath. Beaver.

724-371-0732.

ARCH’S COUNTRY SALOON. Chemtrail Blues Band, w/ Gil Snyder. Washington. 724-747-4303.

BOBBY P’S INN THE RUFF. The Witchdoctors. Penn Hills.

412-704-5843.

NIED’S HOTEL. Boulevard of the Blues. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

THE R BAR. The Stevie Wellon Band. Dormont. 412 942-0882.

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THE R BAR. Midnite Horns.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

MON 18 BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Duncan & Porter Homeless Shelter

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WED 20 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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JAZZ THU 14 ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs.

Downtown. 412-773-8800.

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

412-904-3335.

FRI 15 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls.

412-773-8800. Kathy Connor.

Downtown. 412-773-8800.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Rachel B. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. RML Jazz. Greensburg. 412-370-9621.

SAT 16 ANDYS WINE BAR. Spanky Wilson. Downtown. 412-773-8800.

THE CLUB BAR & GRILL. Tubby Daniels. Monroeville.

412-728-4155.

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BLUSH SPORTS BAR. Shari Richards. Jam session. Downtown.

412-281-7703.

LEMONT. Dave Crisci.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live.

Every Saturday, a different band.

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Billy The Kid & The Regulators. Downtown.

412-471-9100.

TUE 19 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange w/ Harper, Grubbs, Throckmorton. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

WED 20 ANDYS WINE BAR. Maura Minteer. Downtown.

412-773-8800.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Charles Wallace. Downtown. 412-71-9100.

ACOUSTIC THU 14 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. John Wiatrak. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRI 15 CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side.

412-381-4800.

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THE R BAR. Tom Lagi & Katie Simone. Dormont. 412 942-0882.

TUE 19 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG. Brad Yoder & Jason Rafalak. Exchange Coffeehouse. Greensburg.

724-836-7191.

WED 20 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

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

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Andreas Kapsalis, Daryl Shawn, Pairdown.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

WORLD THU 14 HILL HOUSE. On Ensemble.

Hill District. 412-433-5021.

REGGAE FRI 15 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

Each week we bring you a new song by CLASSICAL a local artist. This week’s track comes from Stutter Steps; stream or download “Fog,” THU 14 QUARTET. from the self-titled record, for free at FFW>>, ROSEWOOD Music by Mendelssohn, Gershwin & Golijov. The Livermore, the music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

East Liberty. 412-361-0600.

FRI 15 - SUN 17 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. German conductor Christoph König & American violinist Tim Fain join PSO for a program featuring the local premiere of Philip Glass’s “The American Four Seasons,” Respighi’s “Overture to Belfagor,” & Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral.” Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

SAT 16 JEWISH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL. Campana Chapel.

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E-flat-major, Op. 12, Oswaldo Golijov - Tenebrae, George Gershwin, Lullaby for Strings.

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg.

412-397-6870.

OTHER MUSIC THU 14 RIVERS CASINO. Michael Christopher Trio. North Side.

412-231-7777.

FRI 15 ATLAS BOTTLE WORKS. Haygood Paisleys, Casual Hobos, Lone Pine String Band. Lawrenceville.

412-904-4248.

RIVERS CASINO. Antoinette Trio. North Side.

412-231-7777.

SAT 16 EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH. Let Freedom Sing Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Performances by The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, spoken-word artist Vanessa German, Family & Friends Choir, Etta Cox, & the MLK Festival Choir.

Donations are accepted to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank & the Westmoreland County Food Bank. Hill District.

412-441-7677.

PNC RECITAL HALL, DUQUESNE UNIV. Pittsburgh Song Collaborative. Uptown.

412-396-6083.

RIVERS CASINO. Shelley Duff Duo. North Side. 412-231-7777.

MON 18 FRANKLIN REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. Let Freedom Sing Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring Vanessa German, The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, & the MLK Festival Choir--comprised of combined high school, community & church choirs from city & suburb. Also w/ the Family & Friends Choir, & jazz vocalist Etta Cox. Murrysville.

412-441-7677.

LIFE AND DEATH

TODD HAYNES’ MELLOW DRAMA IS A PLEASURE TO WATCH AND ENGAGE

{BY AL HOFF} It’s mostly death on the mind of artist, musician and filmmaker Laurie Anderson in her new film essay, Heart of a Dog. Death and its tributaries such as memory, grief and moving on. Her work isn’t gloomy or depressing, but rather a gentler reminder to give death some consideration.

The film incorporates music, home movies, illustrations, doctored film, spoken word and whatever else catches Anderson’s fancy (a painting by Goya, philosophical quotes). One thread concerns the life and death of her rat terrier Lolabelle, rescued from a broken home and well integrated into Anderson’s emotional and creative life. (When Lola goes blind, her trainer works with her to learn painting, sculpture and piano.)

A shot from Lolabelle’s musical holiday card

The work isn’t specifically about Lola’s death, but also the death of Anderson’s mother, an artist friend and seemingly many unnamed others.

(Anderson’s well-known husband, musician Lou Reed, died in 2013. His unmentioned absence hangs over the work, until a moment of resolution late in the film.) Anderson ruminates on what death means, how to process the loss it creates, how to mark its meaning.

The easy emotional bond that people have with their pets is good entry point.

We stipulate the mutual devotion between man and beast, so that the loss can be examined without the complications the deaths of humans bring.

(Compare Lola’s peaceful at-home death with Anderson’s mother, expiring in a hospital with words left unsaid.)

Anderson also ruminates on the impact of 9/11 on lower Manhattan (again, without specifically noting the deaths), and the new normals in surveillance the event initiated. She links 9/11 with an episode in which her dog was targeted by a hawk, noting the shift to now fearing death from the sky. She consults with Buddhists and finds solace in the teachings, imaging the spirited Lola traversing the Tibetan bardo. In the end, Anderson likely has no better answers than the rest of us, but decides that “the purpose of death is the release of love.”

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While out shopping: Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett

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the one Todd Haynes tells in Carol feels like ancient history, not so much because LGBTQIA rights have burgeoned — America’s closets are still pretty crowded — but because people like the story’s two women in love have an easier time finding community and each other.

Haynes’ mellow drama is a pleasure to watch and engage, although he does seem to think his clichés will deconstruct themselves. Spoiler alert: They don’t. No doubt Haynes (Far From Heaven) and screenwriter Phyllis Nagy remained true to the furtiveness of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel. But I wonder: When things like this happened to people half a century ago, did they really not talk about it, even in their most private moments?

The reticence that can produce tense drama can also leave us frustrated, and Carol often feels like a story from its era, which it is, rather than one about its era, which I would rather it be. It gently blud-

geons us with its ideas about society’s postwar shroud of conformity and the havoc it wreaks on those who can’t conform.

The titular Carol (Cate Blanchett) — blond, elegant, reserved — is married to a man (Kyle Chandler) from a privileged family, and they have a young daughter. Some years earlier, Carol had a relationship with

CAROL DIRECTED BY: Todd Haynes STARRING: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacey

CP APPROVED a woman whom she’d known since childhood, and with whom she still maintains a close friendship. Her husband knows what happened, and he’s generally (but not completely) satisfied that it’s over.

Then, while shopping at Christmas, Carol meets Therese (Rooney Mara, suitably somber, as always), a diffident young mannequin-like department-store sales

clerk with an affable boyfriend (Jake Lacy).

You know what happens after that.

Haynes tends to favor the extremes of his visual options — ponderous long shots or emotional close-ups — and a few times, he plays with our desire to hear things said.

When Carol weeps in a bedroom, Therese puts a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Cut to the roof: “Is there any sense in fighting it?” Therese asks. And we think: At last, they’re going to talk about desire. But Therese means the restraining order that stops Carol from seeing her daughter.

The acting in Carol absorbs our attention, although like Nagy’s dialogue, and Haynes’ coy (mis)direction, the performances sometimes feel too sophisticated.

And while the men might not seem especially worth thinking about, Haynes constructs them well: They’re not bad people, and they’re struggling to understand things themselves. The reliable Chandler has rarely been better, and Lacy is as charming as he is clueless.

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13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI. If you’re still interested in this much-debated incident, action-director Michael Bay presents a “what really happened” dramatic account of the deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Libya in 2012. Starts Fri., Jan. 15

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NEW THIS WEEK MOONWALKERS. Antoine Bardou-Jacquet’s comedy riffs on the popular conspiracy theory that the Apollo 11 moon-landing was faked, with the famed footage of men walking on the moon created in a studio by 2001: A Space Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick. Here, a special-ops guy named Kidman (Ron Perlman) is tasked by the CIA to go to London and hire Kubick for this secret production. But in a series of farcical mishaps, Kidman enlists a struggling band manager (Rupert Grint); a stoner who kind of looks like Kubrick; and a German filmmaker who makes art films. (Also in the mix, a crew of London villains, looking for some cash.)

It’s an amusing enough shaggy-dog story, with some good bits (Perlman does stoically funny quite well; super art direction and set dressing). For a tale about a faked moonlanding, it’s more bloody than you’d expect — and in its last moments, more wistful and sentimental. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 15; 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 16; 7 p.m. Sun., Jan. 17; and 7:30 p.m.

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MUSTANG. After school, five teenage sisters innocently goof around with some boys at the beach. But in their small, conservative Turkish village, this transgression earns them a staggering punishment: Their guardians — an uncle and a grandmother — lock them up in the house. For good — or at least until their arranged marriages “free” them.

REPERTORY DEATH BECOMES HER. Robert Zemeckis directs this 1992 comedy about a pair of rival women who break up for good over a man. But revenge is in the cards, as is a mysterious “rejuvenating” potion. Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis star. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 13.

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Moonwalkers This coming-of-age film is the first feature from actress-turned-director Deniz Gamze Ergüven. It’s a contemporary and feminist adaptation of the classic fairy tale in which a young princess is imprisoned in a high castle, and its sunny moodiness also recalls the similarly themed work The Virgin Suicides. It’s a pointed critique of a patriarchal culture that denies these young women agency, replete with “traditional” restrictions like wearing dowdy clothing and indignities such

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It sounds like depressing subject matter, but the film, in spite of its serious themes, is surprisingly light and even joyful. The sisters are highspirited and unbroken (like the titular wild horse).

They often act as a group, and Ergüven films them in scenes of easy intimacy underscoring both their closeness and their shared ordeal. The film stumbles a bit in the final reel, where plot devices trump the looser narrative vibe. Your head may squawk a bit, but your heart will root for these free-spirited girls. In Turkish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Jan. 15. Regent Square (AH) NORM OF THE NORTH. Trevor Wall directs this animated family film about a polar bear who winds up in New York City and gets a job as a brand ambassador. Rob Schneider provides the voice of the bear. Starts Fri., Jan. 15 RIDE ALONG 2. The mismatched cop duo portrayed by Kevin Hart and Ice Cube relocate the action to Miami in order to take down a druglord.

Tim Story directs this sequel to the hit 2014 comedy. Starts Fri., Jan. 15

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An evening of short films by local filmmakers, featuring the premiere of a film directed by Billy “Al” Ingham and written by John Seibel.

_________________________________________________ Elvis Costello: Detour (2016) 1/14 @ 8:00pm, 1/15 @ 10pm, 1/16 @ 9:30pm, 1/20 @ 7:30pm A live concert recorded in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.

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1/15 @ 7:30pm, 1/16 @ 7pm, 1/17 @ 7pm, 1/21 @ 7:30pm In 1969 London, a CIA agent (Ron Perlman) and the manager (Rupert Grint) of a rock band must find a way to fake the moon landing.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Tennis pro Farley Granger meets a rich, obsessed manboy (Robert Walker) aboard a train. While sharing a smoke, Granger whines about his stifling wife and Walker offers a your-wife-for-my-dad murder trade. Granger detrains, bemused. He stops laughing when his wife turns up dead, and scary Walker starts hounding him for his half of the murder bargain. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel and co-penned by Raymond Chandler, this 1951 drama is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finer films — a sharp script with few superfluous scenes, the good-evil duality motifs and the marvelous Suspense 101 tennis-match-to-carnival end. 7 p.m. Thu., Jan. 14.

Melwood (AH) ELVIS COSTELLO: DETOUR LIVE AT LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC HALL. Costello, flying mostly solo, is in fine voice for these 20 songs performed live in 2013. Occupying a set done up like a tatty mid-century parlor — albeit with a mockup of a giant console TV, a dozen guitars and a grand piano — a genial, behatted Costello ranges throughout his rich catalogue, from “Alison” to “Church Underground.” For several songs, he’s backed instrumentally and vocally by Megan Lovell and Rebeca Lovell, of Larkin Poe; other highlights include solo piano takes of “45,” an impassioned “Shipbuilding” and a gospel-tinged “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down.” The 105-minute film is unobtrusively directed by Joss Crowley; fans will also enjoy the occasional curiosity — the chestnut “Walking My Baby Back Home” — and Costello’s charming between-songs patter about growing up, his mum (who’s in the audience), his late father (a dance-band singer) and the stories behind a few numbers. 8 p.m. Thu., Jan. 14; 10 p.m. Fri., Jan. 15; 9:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 16; and 7:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 20.

Hollywood (BO) GONE WITH THE WIND. Sure, you know the story: Those damn Yankees burn the South; Ashley can’t man up; Scarlett pouts all over Tara; and Rhett Butler doesn’t give a damn. But sure as some Southern belles will never go hungry again, Victor Fleming’s epic 1939 historical melodrama holds up to repeated viewings. See it on a big screen. 11 a.m. Sun., Jan. 17. Hollywood

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FIRST SIGHTS

RUGGED CHARACTERS STRIDE ACROSS EQUALLY RUGGED ENVIRONS

In the 15 years since Maria Caruso founded Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, she has created numerous works for the company, including rock-scored and medical-themed ballets. For Bodiography’s latest program, Unseen, Jan. 15 and 16 at the Byham Theater, Caruso culled works largely new to area dance-goers.

“I was curious what some of my works created on other companies and for other projects would look like on the company dancers I have now,” says Caruso.

The all-female company and several guest artists will perform seven diverse works including two premieres, beginning with Caruso’s “The Lending g Heart.” The 25-minute ballet, set et to music by the Blue Man Group, was inspired d by the stories of eight cancer patients, ages 7 to 26, from Pittsburgh’s ’s Lending Hearts organization, who will also perform in the work.

Unlike her similar Whispers of Light (2013), Caruso says, “Lending Heart” “doesn’t touch on grief, anger or sadness.

Rather, it’s an uplifting, hopeful ballet focused on these children’s stories and how they relate to the Lending Hearts organization.”

“Bonsoir,” set to music by French musician Ludovic Navarre (a.k.a. St. Germain), was created in 2013 for a Bodiography Center for Movement children’s concert. The work touches on the classical ballet roots of the neo-classical movement.

Next, former Bodiography company members Kelly Basil and Kirstie Corso perform “Intimate Liaisons,” which premiered at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival in 2009. Then the full company performs the newly revamped “Led by Light,” last performed at 2013’s SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day. Commissioned by Warped Dance Company, “Curious Spirals” (2015) will be performed by the Milwaukee-based troupe in its Pittsburgh debut. Set to music

by German composer Nils Frahm, the ballet takes its inspiration from a child’s drawings of spirals.

Rounding out the program are two recent works by Caruso. One is the premiere of her new pas de deux, “Uncharted Grace,” set to an original piano score by Carnegie Mellon student composer Theo Teris, played live by him and danced by Misa Pascarella and guest dancer Jayson Douglas, of Boston’s Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre. “Within the Confines,” commissioned by the Charlotte Dance Festival in 2015, explores themes of confinement.

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“Mo Ho (the horses died but the wagon rolled on)” (foreground), a work by Chele Isaac and BA Harrington in The Mountain and the Bumble Bee

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Mountain and the Bumblebee, at SPACE Gallery, that it’s difficult to know where to begin. The observer might find herself briefly rooted to the gallery floor, unsure how to proceed through an exhibition that collects video, audio, spoken and printed text, sculpture, painting, photography and poetry. All are autonomous pieces, each worthy in its own right, brought together to produce a single, singular work. Observing it all is such an adventure that even starting the journey might be daunting. But the only wrong direction is one that’s rushed, as a slow and steady pace is required to fully appreciate this monumental work.

The traveling exhibition is a production of KIPP Gallery at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its focus, generally, is the American landscape, from both a geographical and social perspective. Curated

by Chris McGinnis, an assistant professor of art at IUP as well as KIPP’s director, it’s composed of pieces credited to individuals as well as collaborative works. The scope, like the American landscape itself, is vast, sweeping, sometimes majestic and sometimes terrible, consistently impressive (both positively and negatively) and always affecting.

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE BUMBLE BEE continues through Jan. 24. SPACE Gallery, 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org

The works most immediately commanding of attention are those by Chele Isaac and BA Harrington, in part because they demand it physically. The largest

single work in The Mountain and the Bumblebee is “Mo Ho (the horses died, but the wagons rolled on),” a plywood and mixedmedia cart dominating the midsection of the gallery, the unfinished plywood joined with carved and painted rungs, designed for motion but stationary, filled with possibility but currently impotent. (A version of the work was recently exhibited at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.) In one gallery window rests a smaller cart, and in another sit coffin-like crates, seemingly unadorned and plain but with monitors with looping video inside. A kneeler like those found in houses of worship holds a screen with segments of rodeo, with long shots of cowboys and close-ups of cows.

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battered suitcase across deserts equally abused, littered with stained mattresses and plastic tumbleweeds, empty bottles and overflowing trash bags. The scene is disappointing and disquieting but interrupted by skies and sands of such majesty they restore hope. In the show’s other video work, Josh Reiman’s “A Brief Inquiry,” rugged characters stride across equally rugged environs, investigating the concept of “the sublime,” along with its misinterpretation and corruption.

Works by McGinnis incorporate graphite as media with gorgeous results. Solo pieces include compact thick slabs of the mineral, dense and glistening, the jeweltoned paper underfacing them reflecting off the white pedestals over which they hover; abstract ink and graphite drawings of the natural world, sometimes beset by its manmade counterpart, are vivid and filled with movement. McGinnis partners with Meg Shevenock and Todd Davis on text-based, wall-mounted works that start up high and stagger downward to disintegrate onto the floor. Heather Green’s “Pinpoints of Perception” gathers numerous tiny portraits of bees painted from specimens borrowed from university collections, supplemented with a key to the provenance of each. Several paintings by Erika Osborne, realistic documentations of grand vistas, might make your heart beat faster, as do Gwyneth Scally’s imaginative oils. Matthew Conboy’s archival prints are a fascinating study, via census, of population movement and concentration, factually documenting how unexplored terrain becomes overrun. Poems written and spoken by Rick Barot, Robin Clarke, Todd Davis and Wes Dunning resonate from both an old-time radio on a pedestal and overhead speakers, ripe and rich with lush, visceral imagery.

The exhibition’s title references an encounter of the geologist and surveyor John C. Fremont, who led an exploration of the Rocky Mountain territory in 1842. In his journal he wrote of finding a bumblebee at an unexpected altitude, and his perception that it must have been a trailblazer of the apian world. Fremont implicitly defines himself as the same for his own species, his curious bravery and brave curiosity leading him to heights previously unscaled.

The work Fremont inspires here hits a summit of its own, one intriguingly confronting our desire to seek and conquer untouched regions, and the consequence that our presence has on such untrampled ground. McGinnis and crew capture, flawlessly, the desire for virgin territory, the quest for the new, and the conundrum of whether we can discover it without destroying it.

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THE SISTERS continues through Jan. 16.

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ONE OF THE more striking poetry books out of Pittsburgh last year was On Generation & Corruption, the debut collection from Terrence Chiusano. With their unusual, often multi-parted forms, sprawling lengths and dense word-play, these are poems that push language to an edge.

That Chiusano isn’t dallying is announced by one of the collection’s epigraphs, from Arisitotle’s On Generation and Corruption: “The question might be raised whether substance (i.e. the ‘this’) comes-to-be at all. Is it not rather the ‘such,’ the ‘so great’ or the ‘somewhere,’ which comes to be?” In the poem “finishing work on the face, left arm and foot,” Chiusano coyly suggests that his own mission is as much existential as aesthetic:

Here’s my contribution, here they are — the if nots, the why withs, the why nots, the ifs, the whos — furry little ferrets of verse rooting through your ears.

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rolled rubs. Two silver Christmas trees. A butter churn.”

In “stunts and forfeits,” he compellingly combines the abstract with the tactile: “I repeat: the gesture (still / and

again) is a hog nosing / its slop-trough, a wet knot worked free, an ointured / thumb pressed into / an open sore, a crescent of discord spread as wide / as the web a giant spider / weaves over its treasured island.”

As always, the music of Chiusano’s lines is gorgeous. (It must be great to hear him read.) But in many poems, he also pulls readers through by playing with narrative. For instance, “sally ho! a vexing journey, landfall at last” consists of three vignettes whose stories are at once crystal-clear and mysterious: We know exactly what’s happening, but not why. One thread connecting diverse poems is a crypto- (or is it pseudo-?) narrative built around the notion of a “town,” as set in opposition to a town’s outskirts.

And many of his catalogues of objects suggest crime scenes, full of bloodied cloth and broken furniture.

On Generation & Corruption is a book to which lovers of pure language can return again and again.

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In “stunts and forfeits,” he repeats his concern with the nature of language itself: “Imagine / that if I write I repeat: / that if there are limits / they’re screened; that if “it” follows / “that if,” “follows” follows …”

The poem’s forms, meanwhile, range from journal entry (“daybook”) to the page-flipping challenge of “rondo”: nine long sentences, grouped in sets of three, all begun jointly, on a single page, and then spooled out together over the next eight.

THESE ARE POEMS THAT PUSH LANGUAGE TO AN EDGE. Yet while Chiusano’s poems are far from conventional, overall they’re at least as grounded in real objects as anyone else’s. Many of them alternate surreal wordflows with long catalogues of the physical, as in “daybook”: “Cobwebs. Bat droppings. Mothballs. A stack of overturned washtubs. A mound of

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From left: Gayle Pazerski, Jenny Malarkey and Joanna Lowe in Cup-A-Jo’s The Sisters {PHOTO COURTESY OF BRUCE STORY-CAMP}

Trios of powerful female siblings resonate deeply in Western culture: The Graces; The Furies; and the Prozorovas from the imagination of theater giant Anton Chekhov, in 1901. Over the past century, his Three Sisters has been multiply produced, adapted, mocked, referenced in any number of films and books, and — notably for Cup-A-Jo Productions here — re-imagined

by American playwright Richard Alfieri in 1995 as The Sisters.

Set in modern Manhattan, Sisters digs out the secrets of the title characters. None of that Chekhovian subtle ambiguity here.

Olga, Marcia and Irene (yes, the names are pretty much the same as in the original) also draw heavily from those aforementioned sets of sisters, with an extra dollop of the nastier ones. The company bills the show as a modern retelling “with live music, wine and naked aggression.” Cellist Maighread Southard-Wray delivers the first item, and director Art Deconciliis the last.

The intimate but non-theatrical venue (the second-floor gallery of Carnegie’s Andrew Carnegie Free Library) provides some challenges, but nothing the cast can’t handle.

The spotlight is on the women. Company founder/artistic director Joanna Lowe fires up the passion and witty vitriol of the middle sister (“the pretty one”) while winning sympathy. Gayle Pazerski maintains the coldness of the eldest (“the smart one”) with hints of her pains and loves. As “the baby” and the most different from Chekhov’s creation, Jenny Malarkey strips down innocence to a manipulated ignorance. In a surprising move, the outsider/sister-in-law Nancy (originally Natasha) is sluttish but smart, a combination that Jessie Goodman makes credible.

The men support the ladies well: Stanley Graham as the preppy cuckolded brother; Jason Spider Matthews as Marcia’s illicit squeeze; George Saulnier as the faithful old family friend; and fight choreographer Michael Petyak navigating the escalating violence between Olga’s rival lovers, the moody, hot-tempered Sokol (Everett Lowe) and the self-deprecating Terzin (Parag S. Gohel). For those keeping score at home, they’re respectively Andrey, Vershinin, Dr. Chebutykin, Solyony and the Baron.

Three Sisters was about a family trapped in the provinces and longing for cosmopolitan Moscow. Instead, The Sisters in the Upper East Side dream of a perfect life in Charleston. (Really? Charleston?)

Which goes to show that it is character, not geography, that ensnares and imprisons the soul.

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family, We can do this. We’re not losers. After two weeks, I was like, ‘I think I proved my point.’” Fresh off his Showtime special, Give ’Em Hell, Kid, the fast-rising young comic’s North American tour brings him to Club Café. Also on the bill are local comics Norlex Belma and John Dick Winters. BO 7 p.m. 56 12th St.,

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This week’s BNY Mellon Grand Classics program marks the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra debut of renowned

American violinist Tim Fain, whose playing has been heard on stages around the world and in films including Black Swan and 12 Years a Slave. It’s also the PSO’s reprise of a perennial favorite — Beethoven’s Pastoral — and the Pittsburgh premiere of Philip Glass’ violin concerto The American Four Seasons, featuring Fain. The program is led by German conductor Christoph König. The first of three performances is tonight.

BO 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 16, and 2:30 p.m. Sun., Jan. 17. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $20-94.

412-392-4900 or www. pittsburghsymphony.org

+ SAT., JAN. 16 {EXHIBIT} Trade the winter blues for a palette of pastel pinks and yellows at Phipps Conservatory’s Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show, opening today. Inside the glasshouse, the Sunken Garden room displays selections of vibrant orchids spilling from their baskets, while the Serpentine room offers a spread of ancient-looking bonsai plants.

Avid growers: Get tips on raising orchids and shaping delicate bonsai branches.

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sp otlight In 1995, aspiring actor David Lee White — who’d recently completed the University of Pittsburgh’s graduate acting program — found a dead body near his home in Panther Hollow, that isolated neighborhood where Oakland meets Schenley Park. The body was hanging from a tree, an apparent suicide. White, 25, was already in what he now calls “a very deep depression,” and began having suicidal thoughts himself. Eventually, he undertook therapy, and prescription anti-depressants; met the woman he’d later marry; and left town. He’s now a playwright and educator, and associate artistic director at Trenton, N.J.’s Passage Theatre. But after rediscovering his journal from that time (“I write the worst poems,” he acknowledges), White realized that those dark days were his life’s turning point, when he confronted the difference between his self-image and reality. The result, from the writer of plays including Blood: A Comedy and Slippery as Sin, was Panther Hollow, a solo dark comedy. Speaking by phone, White says the play was inspired by work he’s seen that “acknowledges the cringey, embarrassing aspects” of life without being sentimental. In November, Panther Hollow, performed by White, premiered to strong reviews at New York’s United Solo Festival. On Jan. 15, White brings the play home, in a sense, staging its Pittsburgh premiere at Arcade Comedy Theater. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 15. 811 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10. 412-339-0608 or www.arcadecomedytheater.com

{ART} A circa-1900 bathroom, rendered in luminous shades of gray; a supermarket aisle with a lone shopper, the shelved merchandise abstracted into intriguing patches of mottled color. The paintings of Pittsburgh-based Tony Havrilla explore the contemporary world in a style reminiscent of classic impressionism. A show of Havrilla’s work opens tonight with a reception at Christine Frechard Gallery.

BO 5-8 p.m. Exhibit continues through Feb. 25. 5871 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill.

Free. 412-421-8888 or www. christinefrechardgallery.com

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Jonathan Moody returns to Pittsburgh with his second poetry collection, Olympic Butter Gold (Northwestern University Press), which looks at life through the lens of hip

hop’s golden age. In “Dear 2Pac,” for instance, Moody writes about connecting to his high school English students through the poems of Tupac Shakur: “Dear 2Pac, Daniel, who yesterday refused / to copy notes on enjambment / & end-stopped lines, handwrites your longest / poem word for word.” Moody, who earned his master’s of fine arts at Pitt, now lives in Houston. Tonight at Versify, at East End Book Exchange, he reads with Kristofer Collins and Angele Ellis. BO 7 p.m. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. www. eastendbookexchange.com

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Community-based celebrations honoring King and his legacy include: the day-long Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, at the Children’s Museum (10 a.m.-5 p.m.; free with museum admission; www.pittsburghkids.org), activities and performances at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater

“one of Mexico’s best-known novelists,” according to a recent New Yorker profile that dubbed him “Mexico’s literary prankster.” The award-winning author of more than 40 books translated into 15 languages visits City of Asylum tonight with his latest. The Large Glass: Three Autobiographies (Phoneme Media) explores the complexity of stories we tell about ourselves. Joining Bellatin is the book’s publisher and translator, David Shook, of San Francisco-based Phoneme. BO 7:30 p.m. (7 p.m. reception). 330 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free.

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Courtney Linder 9:30 a.m.5 p.m. Exhibit continues through Feb. 28. 1 Schenley Drive, Oakland. $11-15 (children under 2 free).

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Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show (noon-4 p.m.; free; www. kelly-strayhorn.org); the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Bash, at the Mattress Factory, with art activities, birthday cake, DJ Pandemic Pete and give-whatyou-can museum admission (noon-4 p.m.; www.mattress. org); and the Ninth Annual Let Freedom Sing! concerts (www. letfreedomsing.net), featuring gospel choirs from around the region. The 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 16, concert at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in the Hill District, is followed by one at 7 p.m. tonight, at Franklin Regional

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The Steel City Slam, Pittsburgh’s pipeline to the National Poetry Slam and regional tourneys, is live every Tuesday at Capri Pizzeria and Bar. At this all-ages event, grab a slice and a drink, and hear local spoken-poetry talent vie for prizes (first place = cash) and a chance to qualify for the nationally competing Steel City Slam Team. To participate, prepare three three-minute poems and be one of the first eight poets to sign up.

There’s also an open mic.

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can try Nature Play, with activities built around clay.

On Wed., Jan. 27, East Liberty Presbyterian Church hosts Violet’s Opera, an interactive music performance based on the popular children’s book (reservations required). BO Nature Play: 6-7 p.m. (7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood; free).

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transforming the entire space into an instrument. Discover how architecture coalesces with the ethereal sound of the world’s largest stringed instrument. CL 7:30 p.m.

101 Sixth St., Downtown. $30-45. 412-456-6666 or www.TrustArts.org

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by Jacob Wadsworth, this event is a fundraiser w/ all proceeds benefiting the Theatre Factory. Fri., Jan. 15, 8 p.m., Sat., Jan. 16, 8 p.m., Sun., Jan. 17, 2 p.m., Fri., Jan. 22, 8 p.m. & Sat., Jan. 23, 8 p.m. The Theatre Factory, Trafford. 412-374-9200.

BROADWAY, TRANSPOSED: AN EVENING OF DOLLS & GUYS. Sat., Jan. 16, 6 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side.

412-431-4950.

THE SISTERS. Presented by Cup-A-Jo Productions w/ Pittsburgh Fringe. A modern retelling of Chekhov’s classic w/ live music, wine, & naked aggression. Thu-Sun 8 p.m., thru Jan. 16. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

412-334-3126.

COMEDY FRI 15 JERMAINE FOWLER W/ NORLEX

BELMA, JOHN DICK WINTERS. 6 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side.

412-431-4950.

PANTHER HOLLOW. A comedic one-man show written & starring David Lee White. 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown.

412-339-0608.

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Lose yourself in the annual Galaxy Ball, brunch in drag or salsa and bachata your weekend away.

Podcast goes live every Thursday at www.pghcitypaper.com

KNOCH WRESTLING 4TH ANNUAL FUNNY FUNDRAISER. Mike Jones, Matt Stanton, & David Kaye. 6:30 p.m.

Saxonburg Fire Hall, Saxonburg.

724-448-9222.

MARK RICCADONNA, MISSY GRNYKIEWICZ, MIKE SASSON. 7:30 p.m.

Rostraver Ice Garden, Belle Vernon. 724-379-7100.

AARON KLEIBER. 7:30 p.m.

Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

ARCADE HOOTENANNY. COMEDY SAUCE True stories from a SHOWCASE. Local guest monologist & out-of-town inspire longform comedians. Mon, improv comedy scenes.

9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, www. per pa 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Bloomfield. pghcitym .co Theater, Downtown.

412-682-9603.

412-339-0608.

OPEN MIC COMEDY THE CURIOUS THEATER. Two NIGHT. Mon,10 p.m. improvisers, equipped w/ wireless Lava Lounge, South Side. mics roam the bar performing 412-431-5282. a completely improvised show.

Third Sat of every month, 8 p.m.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

BROOKLINE COMMUNITY 412-212-7061.

OPEN MIC. A community run KENNY ZIMLINGHAUS. open mic. Wed, 7-10 p.m.

10 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side.

Brookline Pub, Brookline.

412-431-4950.

412-531-0899.

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Does a food scene make noise even if no blogs are there to call it the Next Big Whatever?

Yes, but all the attention is nice anyway. Restaurant Week highlights Pittsburgh’s food culture with seven days of special dishes and special prices, spanning as many cuisines and neighborhoods as we can offer. Most of these restaurants are also open the other 51 weeks of the year, so don’t beat yourself up if you miss a few. Continues through Sun., Jan. 17.

Participating restaurants and details at pittsburghrestaurantweek.com. 412-586-4727

EXHIBITS ALLEGHENY CITY HISTORIC GALLERY. Historical images & items forcusing on the North Side of Pittsburgh.

North Side. 412-321-3940.

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

724-224-7666.

ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour. The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States.

Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments & music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment.

O’Hara. 412-782-4231.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead.

412-464-4020.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. The Propeller Group: The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music. A video based exhibition that looks at colorful, spirited funeral traditions in Vietnam & New Orleans. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens.

Permanent. Hall of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, gems & precious stones from all over the world.

Population Impact. How humans are affecting the environment.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. H2Oh!. Experience kinetic water-driven motion & discover the relations between water, land & habitat. How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, USS Requin submarine & more.

North Side. 412-237-3400.

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

Sundays 12-4 p.m. Garfield.

412-223-7698.

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“Fairground #7” (2014), by Ryder Henry. From the exhibition The Futuristic Art Work of Ryder Henry, at Percolate Gallery, Wilkinsburg.

NEW THIS WEEK BOXHEART GALLERY. The 15th Annual Art Inter/ National, Here & Abroad...

A juried group exhibition.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Tony Landolina. Using pigmented beeswax, a propane torch & other materials, Landolina demonstrates the ancient art of encaustic painting into the gallery to create a one-of-a-kind piece you can purchase afterward. Part of Studio Saturdays. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

PANZA GALLERY. Verse Envisioned. Poems from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & works of art they have inspired. Opening Jan. 16, 6-9 p.m. Millvale.

412-821-0959.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Poetic Logic: Collage & Assemblage.

Opening reception Jan. 16, 7 p.m., w/ music by Jim Powell. This national juried exhibition showcases artists working in collage, assemblage & other processes of incorporating elements of repurposed materials as a way of expressing our contemporary experience.

Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

ONGOING 709 PENN GALLERY. Post Erotica: The Anthropology of Motherhood. A visual diary of being a mom w/ works by Fran Flaherty.

Downtown. 412-471-6070.

937 LIBERTY AVE. Humanae/ I AM AUGUST. A series of photographs of everyday Pittsburghers by Angelica Dass.

Downtown. 412-338-8742.

ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. East Liberty In Focus: The Photographs of Teenie Harris.

An exhibit of a few curated photographs from CMOA collection. East Liberty.

412-361-3300.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Permanent collection.

Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. North Side.

412-237-8300.

ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery.

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

724-797-3302.

ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE. Printwork 2015. Feat. prints created by 22 artists from around the country, the exhibition features innovative techniques combined w/ solid conceptual thinking. North Side.

412-321-8664.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Fibers Fiction. Encaustic handmade papers w/ embellished stitching

by Katy DeMent. Downtown.

412-325-6768.

BANTHA TEA BAR. Benevolent Creatures. An exhibition of 18 Stormtrooper helmets reimagined by artists across The Walt Disney Company, including Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Marvel & Pixar. The iconic Star Wars helmets began as 6 inch white

vinyl derived from the original CG animation file & have been redesigned into new benevolent creatures. Penn Hills.

412-404-8359.

BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 5 Artists: A Collection of Works. Works in various mediums by Brandy Bock-Tott, Jeffrey Phelps, Linda Breen, Joyce Werwie Perry & Cindy Engler. Sewickley. 412-519-3377.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. HACLab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern.

An exhibition of over, under architecture highlighting successive histories of pioneering architectural successes, disrupted neighborhoods & the utopian aspirations & ideals of public officials & business leaders. Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk. Displaying the work of 60s German emigre & Pittsburgh industrial design Peter Muller-Munk, who started as a silversmith at Tiffany’s.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Tony Havrilla.

Opening reception Jan. 16, 5 p.m. Paintings utilizing high contrast & perspective to create images that blur the line between realism & abstraction. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Steel Mills Past & Present: Lithography

by Keith Clouse. Black & white imagery of both working & decaying mills & the people who worked in them translated through lithography printing.

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Games N’At The South Side’s old-school arcade — mostly analog treats, from pinball to air hockey, with some FPG thrown in — is a great place to take a kid, or nostalgic adults. 2010 Josephine St. 412-481-2002

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Lea Thau’s project is a collection of first-person narratives about the strangers in our lives, and it’s as moving and personal as a conversation between you and your device can get. www.kcrw.com/news-culture/ shows/strangers

W/ Bob and David This four-episode (and one special) Netflix series reunites Bob Odenkirk, David Cross and the rest of the cast of HBO’s Mr. Show.

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coate’s 2015 book was on all the year’s-best lists, and with good reason: His urgent yet nuanced exploration of the criminalization of black bodies and other aspects of America’s racial pathology remains all too relevant.

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Carolyn Pierotti of Purple MALL AT ROBINSON. An immersive exhibit celebrating Room Fine Arts. Lawrenceville.

Digital Designs: Showcase of the Vietnamese Tet Festival.

412-477-4540.

Student Design Work. Robinson.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS 412-788-0816.

COMPASS INN. Demos & tours GALLERY. 19th century MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing w/ costumed guides feat. this American & European paintings Installations. Works by Turrell, restored stagecoach stop. combined w/ contemporary Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, North Versailles. 724-238-4983. artists & their artwork. The Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

DEPRECIATION LANDS Hidden Collection. Watercolors Factory Installed. Artists Anne MUSEUM. Small living history

by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003).

Lindberg, John Morris, Julie museum celebrating the Hiromi Traditional Japanese Schenkelberg, Jacob Douenias, settlement & history of the Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of Ethan Frier, Rob Voerman, Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. the 1893 Chicago Exhibition.

Bill Smith, Lisa Sigal & Marnie 412-486-0563.

Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. Weber created new room-sized FALLINGWATER. Tour the 412-734-2099. installations that demonstrate a famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

FRAMEHOUSE. Except uniquely different approach to Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

For The Sound of my Voice: the creative process. North Side.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Photogravures by Leslie A. 412-231-3169.

CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany Golomb. Feat. selections from MORGAN CONTEMPORARY stained-glass windows.

Wielding the Knife, woodcuts GLASS GALLERY. parallelDowntown. 412-471-3436. genres. Christine Barney, John

by Master Chinese Printmaker, FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured Li Kang. Lawrenceville.

Burton, Granite Calimpong,

by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation 412-586-4559.

Bernie D’Onofrio, Jen Elek, on the 18th Century Frontier...

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Saman Kalantari, David During the mid-18th century, CENTER. Permanent Lewin, David Royce, Margaret thousands of settlers of European collection of European Art. Spacapan & Cheryl Wilson Smith & African descent were captured Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. exploring an interconnected

by Native Americans. Using GALLERIE CHIZ. Not Enough set of parameters through documentary evidence from 18th Time..Inside The Artists’ Studios. different genres. Shadyside. & early 19th century sources, Artist/Owner Ellen Chisdes 412-441-5200. period imagery, & artifacts from Neuberg moves her studio NEU KIRCHE public & private collections in into the gallery for six weeks CONTEMPORARY ART the U.S. & Canada, the exhibit & paints live during regular CENTER. Like a Body Without examines the practice of captivity business hours. Shadyside.

Skin. Work by Fiona Amundsen from its prehistoric roots to 412-441-6005. addressing the relationships its reverberations in modern THE GALLERY 4. Redfishbowl between steel manufacturing Native-, African- & Euro-American Collective Artists’ Showcase. industries & their mobilization communities. Reconstructed fort Recent Works from the into a united national front houses museum of Pittsburgh Redfishbowl Collective. that produced everything from history circa French & Indian War & Shadyside. 412-363-5050. planes to bombs during WWII. American Revolution. Downtown.

GLENN GREENE STAINED North Side. 412-322-2224.

412-281-9285.

GLASS STUDIO INC. Original PERCOLATE. The Futuristic FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Glass Art by Glenn Greene.

Art Works of Ryder Henry.

CENTER. Tours of Clayton, Exhibition of new work, recent Runs through Jan. 31. Open the Frick estate, w/ classes & work & older work. Regent Saturdays 12-4 p.m. or by programs for all ages. Point Breeze.

Square. 412-243-2772. appointment. If the future looks 412-371-0600.

HOLOCAUST CENTER OF like Ryder Henry envisions it, HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this PITTSBURGH. In Celebration we’ll all be happy there. Henry’s Tudor mansion & stable complex. of Life: Living Legacy Project. organic, cybernetic urban Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in A photographic/multimedia landscapes portray a lush & the surrounding park. Allison Park. exhibit honoring & stylish new world that the 412-767-9200. commemorating local Jetsons would be proud of.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the Holocaust survivors.

Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220. other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

North Side. 412-421-1500.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES Dunbar. 724-329-8501.

JAMES GALLERY. KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC Tours of a restored 19th-century, James Gallery Select. An HISTORY. Shantytown. Twelve middle-class home. Oakmont. eclectic mix of style. West End. pictures & the only ones in 412-826-9295.

412-922-9800. existence from the Great MARIDON MUSEUM. JEWISH COMMUNITY Depression in 1930s of what Collection includes jade & ivory CENTER. Jane Haskell: Drawing is now the Strip District. See statues from China & Japan, as in Light. An exhibition of 30 touching middle-class people well as Meissen porcelain. Butler. sculptures, paintings & drawings living in poor shacks, but taking 724-282-0123. by the artist. Squirrel Hill. great steps to keep their style MCGINLEY HOUSE & 412-521-8010. & cleanliness intact. Plus 30,000 MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open for tours, lectures & more. Monroeville. friends take center stage. Home OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. 412-373-7794. to more than 600 birds from over This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion MOUNT PLEASANT 200 species. W/ classes, lectures, site features log house, blacksmith GLASS MUSEUM. demos & more. North Side. shop & gardens. South Park.

Bells, Bells, Bells: 412-323-7235.

412-835-1554.

A Lenox Holiday.

NATIONALITY ROOMS. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY A collection of 29 rooms helping to tell MUSEUM. Trolley rides & Lennox Christmas bells. the story of Pittsburgh’s exhibits. Includes displays, Mount Pleasant. . www per immigrant past. walking tours, gift shop, 724-547-5929. a p ty ci pgh m University of Pittsburgh. picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

NATIONAL AVIARY. .co Oakland. 412-624-6000.

Washington. 724-228-9256.

Masters of the Sky. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & Explore the power & grace church features 1823 pipe organ, BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 indoor of the birds who rule the sky.

Revolutionary War graves. Scott. rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature Majestic eagles, impressive 412-851-9212. exotic plants & floral displays from condors, stealthy falcons & their

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North Side. 412-231-7881.

PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 50th Anniversary Annual Exhibition.

A non-themed juried exhibition showcasing the best work of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists in all mediums. Guild Exhibitions from the Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Society of Sculptors & Group A. Work from guild members. Shadyside.

412-361-0873.

PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. In the Air: Visualizing what we breath. Photographs that show the effects of western PA’s air quality. Oakland. 412-681-5449.

PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Indagare. Work by Therman Statom. Friendship.

412-365-2145.

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Golden Hour: Thoughts on the Contemporary Photo Book. An exhibition of images from recent or upcoming publications, experimental installations & thoughtful & evocative sequences that add a new perspective to existing book-based projects.

South Side. 412-431-1810.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art. More than 30 works created by 14 contemporary artists explore the impact that mental illness is having on society & the role the arts can play in helping to address these issues.

Strip District. 412-261-7003.

SPACE. The Mountain & the Bumblebee. An multi-artist, multimedia exhibition exploring our ideas about landscapes.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. Transactions: Art & Poetry Exchange. A discourse between visual & literary artists.

Friendship. 412-559-4804.

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.

around the world. Garden Railroad. Model trains chug through miniature landscapes populated w/ living plants, whimsical props & fun interactive buttons. Runs through Feb. 28.

Tropical Forest Congo. An exhibit highlighting some of Africa’s lushest landscapes. Oakland.

412-622-6914.

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1. Wood Street Galleries Pastoral Noir: New English landscapes Guest curated by Justin Hopper.

Artists: Tessa Farmer, Jem Finer, Ghost Box Records, Tony Heywood & Alison Condie, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton and Semiconductor Through their visual, sonic and sculptural investigations into the English landscape, the artists in Pastoral Noir have discovered a dark and eerie place. Using science and language, memory and myth, these works immerse the viewer in uncanny landscapes both real and imagined.

Showing from January 22–April 3, 2016.

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805-807 Liberty Avenue Peirce Studio (Basement)

AMOR FATI – Uncommon Songs for Uncommon Hearts Christiane Leach Amor Fati musical release by Christiane Dolores featuring fellow musicians Chris Belin, Justin Brown, Paul Cunningham, Phat Man Dee, Geña and Steevie Wellons.

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Carnegie Library Button Making and Books We supply the materials, you supply the creativity. Want books? Buy them (for next to nothing).

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The Mountain and the Bumblebee Curated by Chris McGinnis Participating visual artists and poets: Rick Barot, Patrick Bizarro, Robin Clarke, Mathew Conboy, Todd Davis, Wesley Dunning, Heather Green, BA Harrington, Chele Isaac, Chris McGinnis, Erika Osborne, Josh Reiman, Gwyneth Scally and Meg Shevenock The Mountain and the Bumble Bee brings together selected works by contemporary artists and poets who confront broadly defined notions of landscape as both cultural icon and raw material. Working in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, painting, digital media and poetic verse, featured artists maneuver the complex web of references contributing to our understanding of landscape. Scenes from Hollywood westerns abut survey photographs and miniature paintings to highlight America’s often contradictory role as both steward and exploiter of the land. Music with DJ Dave Zak Party Time

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh AAP will be showing its newest members juried into the organization in 2015. This exhibit features sculpture, paintings and prints by 30 talented AAP member artists.

Fourth Floor

BOOM Concepts Presents: Hang With the Creatives BOOM Concepts will provide a pop up experience, Hang with the Creatives, that gives gallery crawl attendees an introduction to the creatives of BOOM Concepts. The evening will include interactive live painting, a #hashtag photo booth, musical performances with Jordan Montgomery & Norman Dean, and a small artist market.

6. Harris Theater The Harris Theater will be screening regionally produced short films. 5:30–9pm (Free)

7. Arcade Comedy Theater

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4. Shaw Galleries

8. Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center

805 Liberty Avenue

Live Improv comedy every half hour!

Every half hour catch a brand new improv show at the Cultural District’s award-winning comedy theater!

6th Annual Bad Art Sale!

Come see the Best of The Worst at Shaw Galleries’ 6th Annual Bad Art Sale!

212 Ninth Street

Process Masters Exemplary high school students, dubbed Process Masters, from the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Youth & Arts program will exhibit visual art from various mediums and several will give artist talks.

9. Winter Night Market The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership presents the 2016 Winter Night Market – an indoor market featuring some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent vendors.

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Great Performances: Teenie Harris Archive Presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art Veteran film and television actor Bill Nunn curates the Great Performances Teenie Harris exhibit. The archive documents notable events and Black daily life for over six decades through Harris’ photography for the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper.

The other Side of Pop Guest Curated by Sean Beauford (Gallery II, Claude Worthington Benedum Gallery) The Other Side of Pop gives voice to those who observe pop culture but cannot relate to its mass media gatekeepers. This group exhibition illuminates creativity that, despite its influence, isn’t always given the recognition it deserves. This collection also serves as an updated take on a cultural genre that defies standards and rose to prominence over 50 years ago.

Fiber – Fiction Katy DeMent Encaustic paperworks. Jevon Rushton & Terrence Vaughn Group will perform from 5–7pm.

980 Liberty

12. Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery 914 Penn Avenue

Beginnings Experience middle school art while enjoying The Sounds of Steel steelpan band. Create art of your own!

13. Future Tenant Description of Encapsulation: CFA Group Show 2016 In Future Tenant’s 2016 CFA Group Show, the students from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Fine Art share their art and their stories with you. This year’s featured artists are Carolina Vogt, Max Emiliano Gonzales, Daniel Kim, John Choi, Miranda Jacoby, Swetha Kannan, Hannah Gaskill, and Audrey Banks.

14. 709 Penn Gallery 709 Penn Avenue

Post Erotica: The Anthropology of Motherhood Fran Flaherty Post Erotica is an artistic scrapbook, a collection of moments, a visual diary of valuable experiences of being a mom.

15. 707 Penn Gallery 707 Penn Avenue

925 Liberty Avenue

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Memento Mori | Mary Mazziotti Cell Phone Disco | Information Lab

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Photography by Zach Funk “A Pittsburgh Local” Seating is for those dining or purchasing at the bar.

971 Liberty Ave

5. Trust Arts Education Center

601 Wood Street

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You’re not real, I’m real.

Elizabeth Rudnick The work in this show asks what it means to a curator of one’s own life. Using a combination of new and traditional media, the artist explores anxiety and desire in the digital age.

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18. Boutique 208 208 Sixth Street

Handmade Arcade is excited to host a make-and-take herbal infusion demonstration at Boutique 208. While at Boutique 208, shop their selection of local art and crafts and pick up a copy of Handmade Arcade’s coloring book “Things Making Things: A DIY Coloring Book.”

19. Verve 360 142 Sixth Street

bombyx collective presents Beautiful Nightmare Back by popular demand, bombyx collective dancers and aerialists move through a surreal dreamscape in a beautiful nightmare of the erotic and uncanny. Rated PG-13. Twentyminute performances at 8:30 and 9:30pm.

20. Braddock’s American Brasserie 107 Sixth Street

Braddock’s will be offering a deconstructed plate to Crawl participants.

crawl after dark The Decline of Western Civilization III 9:30pm, All Tickets $5 Harris Theater, 807 Liberty Avenue

Penelope Spheeris' third installment in the Decline trilogy chronicles the "gutter punk" lifestyle of LA teenagers who take the anti-establishment message with extreme seriousness, and tune out society completely. (Penelope Spheeris, USA, 1998, 86 mins) #CRAWLSPACE 10pm, $5

Arcade Comedy Theater, 811 Liberty Avenue

Join Carnegie Museum of Art and Arcade Comedy Theater for #CRAWLSPACE, an improv comedy show based on art and social media. www.showclix.com/event/crawlspace1509 Karaoke with Rock ‘n Ray the DJ and YOU 10pm-2am

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North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View.

412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species.

Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

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

724-274-5459.

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

412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From Slavery to Freedom.

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

Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

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

412-741-4487.

SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat.

a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos.

Oakland. 412-621-4253.

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

412-323-9504.

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

412-407-2570.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling & coke-making in this pre-Civil War industrial village. Scottdale.

724-887-7910.

FUNDRAISERS SAT 16 EMPTY BOWLS 2016 FUNDRAISER. Anyone can attend these studio sessions & help in the fight against hunger by producing bowls to donate to the 20th Anniversary of these two organizations’ Empty Bowls dinner fundraiser. 11 a.m. & Sat., Feb. 13, 11 a.m. Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

POLITICS THU 14 GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Meetings of group devoted to LGBT issues in electoral politics. Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh, Oakland. 412-521-2504.

Cattivo, Lawrenceville CRITIC: Greg Acton, 39, a business consultant from Lawrenceville WHEN: Fri.,

THU 14 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.

SAT 16 ANGELE ELLIS, KRIS COLLINS & JONATHAN MOODY. Presented by Versify. 5 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

BRYAN STEVENSON. A community panel discussion on his book. 1-3 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Homewood, Homewood. 412-731-3080.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY. Seventeen Pittsburgh-area high school & college students will be recognized for their poetry & prose at CMU 2016 MLK Writing Awards. The students will present their personal narratives dealing w/ racial prejudice & discrimination. 4 p.m. Rangos Ballroom - University Center, Oakland. 412-268-4384.

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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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KEITH REDDIN. Lecture by the playwright. 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3116.

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MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turnedTeaching Artist Molly. Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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Harold is structured, long-form improv. It’s people practicing bantering. I remember Ashley’s monologue [from the group One Hand Luke] was funny. The skits about Facebook and chewing in the baseball dugout were awesome. It was actually me who yelled out “sycophant” [to inspire the group’s performance]. I picked the word because Kieran [from One Hand Luke] was acting uppity.

As far as embodying “sycophant,” I think the guy who opened the scene did an “A to the B to the C” and thought “well, sycophant is like sucking up to somebody so I’m going to be the guy who everybody sucks up to,” which is why he acted as CEO [Mark Zuckerberg]. At one point, the group even had to assist [the actor playing Zuckerberg] with physically walking since it was too grueling for him — which was hilarious, it kept escalating.

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OUTSIDE WED 20 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 14 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http:// citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

THE ART OF PASTA. Prepare 3 courses, eat & drink wine.

6 p.m. Pittsburgh Public Market, Strip District. 412-281-4505.

DIETS DECODED. Learn the truth behind some of today’s most popular diets & whether or not they’re worthy of the hype w/ registered dietitian Cassandra Wert. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

FINE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: CRYSTAL WORL. Multimedia art drawing inspiration from traditions & storytelling of her native Alaska. Her work explores the relationships & bonds between her people, the land, & the animals.

Thru Jan. 26 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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

RADICAL TRIVIA. Thu, 9 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-431-4668.

TAME THE SUGAR MONSTER. Join Kathy Parry, food coach & corporate workshop speaker as she reveals the dangers & addictive nature of sugar.

7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless.

412-366-8100.

WINE 101: WINE BASICS SERIES. This introductory level course is great for both hospitality professionals & avid consumers alike & is a great foundation for further study. 6 p.m. & Thu., Jan. 21, 6 p.m. Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-1709.

FRI 15 AFRICAN DANCE CLASS. Second & Third Fri of every month, Fourth & Last Fri of every month. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634.

COOKING W/ CRICKETS. The International Culinary School at AI & academic director Chef Shawn Culp host Big Cricket Farms. Students will learn more about this trendy new protein. 10 a.m. Art Institute

of Pittsburgh, Downtown.

412-897-6177.

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

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

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: INVESTIGATION, SCREENING & VICTIM SERVICES. Featured presenters include Judy Hale Reed, Dr. Elizabeth Miller, & Jessica Smolar.

Africa Room. 1-4:30 p.m.

Duquesne University, Uptown.

412-396-1330.

JUST DANCE PARTY. 7 p.m.

Looking For Group, Brookline.

774-482-1264.

PITTSBURGH SALSA FUEGO. 2 day dance congress/festival w/ two nights of dancing & a full day of workshops, performances from Jimmy Jorge & the Latin Express from Philadelphia, more.

9 p.m. & Sat., Jan. 16, 8 a.m.

Twentieth Century Club, Oakland. 774-310-1744.

SAT 16 BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m.

Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669.

BLACK YOGA. Free class!

Part of Strip District Music Fest.

3 p.m. Pittsburgh Public Market, Strip District. 412-281-4505.

PITTSBURGH SALSA FUEGO. 2 day dance congress/ festival w/ two nights of dancing & a full day of workshops, performances from Jimmy Jorge & the Latin Express from Philadelphia, more.

9 p.m. & Sat., Jan. 16, 8 a.m.

Twentieth Century Club, Oakland. 774-310-1744.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PA. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & THE CURRENT CRISIS IN STATE GOVERNMENT. Room 203, School of Law. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program, examining where PA law & government are right now, including recent cases & controversies in state constitutional law.

7:30 p.m. Duquesne University, Uptown. 412-396-6300.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows.

No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. & Sat, 7 p.m.

Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m.

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

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569.

VOICECATCH WORKSHOP W/ KATHY AYRES. A community writing workshop & writing

space provided by Chatham’s Words Without Walls program.

Sat, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Carnegie Library, East Liberty, East Liberty.

412-363-8232.

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

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w/ a community of parents & caregivers. Mon, 10:30 a.m.

Thru March 1 Baldwin Borough Public Library, . 412-885-2255.

OAKLAND RESTAURANT WEEK. Jan. 18-24. Oakland.

412-683-6243.

ROBOTO MONTHLY MEETING. Meet w/ the Roboto board of directors to find out what’s happening at the space & help guide it’s future. Third Mon of every month, 7 p.m. The Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield.

412-853-0518.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows.

No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. & Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

7TH ANNUAL ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLE IDENTIFICATION. Teams of appraisers from The Historical Glass Club of Pittsburgh will attempt to verbally identify all types of antiques & collectibles, including pottery, china, glass, toys, coins, furniture, primitives, & ephemera.

1:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST 412-531-1912.

SITTING GROUP. http:// ARGENTINE TANGO citydharma.wordpress.com/ CLASSES. Learn Argentine schedule/ Tue, Thu Church Tango w/ the Pittsburgh of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

Tangueros. Classes for all 412-965-9903. levels. Beginners from 5-7pm.

THE FIRST STEP: BUSINESS No partner required. Sun, 5 p.m.

STARTUP ESSENTIALS. Thru Feb. 22 Wilkins School Room 108, Rockwell Hall.

Community Center, Swissvale.

Designed for new business 412-661-2480. startups & entrepreneurs, RADICAL TRIVIA. attendees will learn about Trivia game hosted by DJ Jared business structure & formation, Evans. Come alone or bring insurance, government a team. Sun, 7 p.m. procurement, financing Oaks Theater, Oakmont. options, major components 412-828-6322. of the business plan, taxation RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT requirements & more. 9:30 a.m.

GROUP. Exchange experiences Duquesne University, Uptown. & ideas in order to gain 412-396-1633. insight & understanding A NIGHT W/ RIVERTOWNE of the wonderful BREWERS. Beer, mystery of relationships. conversation, food, Come to support & a tour of the brewery. be supported by 5 p.m. Rivertowne others like yourself in Brewing Company, . w w w similar circumstances.

Export. 724-519-2145. aper p ty ci h g p First & Third Sun RETRO GAMING .com of every month, 4:30 p.m.

NIGHT. Play classic Messiah Lutheran Church, video games from iconic Munhall. 412-853-3189.

Nintendo, Sony, & Sega SUNDAY MARKET. A consoles. Classic Mac computer gathering of local crafters games, such as the Oregon & dealers selling unique Trail, will also be available to items, from home made play. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon foodstuffs to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m.

Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

The Night Gallery, Lawrenceville.

412-531-1912.

724-417-0223.

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MON 18 THE 3RD ANNUAL GALAXY BALL. A voodoo themed ball in support of HIV prevention.

Participants from the East coast, Midwest, DMV, NYC, LA, Canada & others will come to display unique talents in friendly competition.

8 p.m. August Wilson House, Hill District. 412-454-6000.

DINING WITH DIABETES. Helping people w/ type 2 diabetes identify & understand important information about managing & preventing this disease. Mon, 5:30 p.m.

Thru Feb. 2 Energy Innovation Center, Hill District. 412-263-1000.

ITSY BITSY YOGA. Begin a healthy new year, share yoga practice w/ your child & connect

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CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session w/ literary conversation. First & Third Wed of every month, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

ELECTRIC CHOICE INFORMATION SESSION. A representative from the Pennsylvania Utility Commission will provide answers to your questions about shopping for an electric supplier. Learn how to start, what to ask, & what to watch out for. Hosted by State Rep. Dan Miller. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

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FLEET FEET SPEED SQUAD. At the track. Coach Alex from Fleet Feet Sports Pittsburgh hosts weekly Wednesday night speed workouts.

The workouts are free & open to the public. Anyone who wants to improve their speed & form are encouraged to join. Wed, 7 p.m.

Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon.

412-851-9100.

information. Thru Jan. 16. Prime Stage Theatre Rehearsal Studio, West End. 724-773-0700.

Feb. 21, 4 p.m. All applicants must register online at http:// frontporchpgh.com/auditionform. Thru Feb. 19. Pittsburgh Musical Theater, West End. 412-551-4027.

GREENSBURG CIVIC THEATRE. Auditions for Curiosity Cat. Sat., Jan. 16, 10 a.m.

Seeking to fill parts for children & adults ages 8 & up, w/ cold readings from the script.

Thru Jan. 16. Greensburg Garden & Civic Center, Greensburg.

724-836-7529.

PRIME STAGE STUDIO. Auditions for The Giver. Jan. 16 &

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.

412-721-0943.

EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY. Request for proposals for artwork to hang in chapel of new building.

Available funds of $2500 for materials & labor. Contact grumetjf@mac.com for more detailed information.

Thru Feb. 15. Request for proposals for artwork to hang in chapel of new building. Available funds of $2500 for materials & labor.

Contact grumetjf@mac.com for more detailed information.

Thru Feb. 15. 412-361-5549.

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

INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. Submit your film, 10 minutes or

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INTRODUCTION TO BODY PRACTICE & MEDITATION. Discover the health benefits of integrated mind/body practice w/ practitioner, scholar, & Master of Tai Chi & Chi Kung, Dr. David Clippinger. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

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

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

17, 12-4 p.m. Actors between ages 6-80, for all roles except Father.

Prepare one minute monologue.

Bring a resume & headshot.

Auditions are by appointment.

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less. Screenings held on the second Thursday of every month.

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

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

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

PITTSBURGH POETRY REVIEW. Seeking submissions of no less than 3 & no more than 5 poems. Interested in series’ & linked poems.

For more information, visit www.pittsburghpoetry review.com. Thru Jan. 15.

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

WINTER BLUES. Call for artists for Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibit. Artists can submit recent work (from the last two years) that has not been in a previous juried show at the North Hills Art Center.

Each piece must be ready for display or hanging w/ picture wire. Artwork may be delivered to the center between 10 a.m. & 3 p.m., Jan. 2530. Maximum of three pieces.

Thru Jan. 30. 412-364-3622.

AUDITIONS BEAUTIFUL CADAVER PROJECT. The Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh is accepting résumés for their upcoming world premiere of ‘northeastsouthwest’, an experimental surrealist work by a group of Pittsburgh playwrights. Inquiries & résumés for consideration can be sent to beautifulcadaverprojectpgh@ gmail.com. Thru Jan. 18.

412-335-0978.

CARNEGIE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STUDIOS. Auditions for the children’s ballet, Beauty & the Beast.

Jan. 16. Ages 5-12 at 1 p.m., ages 13 & up at 2 p.m.

Thru Jan. 16. Carnegie Performing Arts Center, Carnegie. 412-279-8887.

FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS. Auditions for ‘The Spitfire Grill’, & ‘Floyd Collins’.

Seeking trained male & female singers/actors w/ strong singing abilities in folk-rock & contemporary musical theater styles, in addition to strong acting capabilities.

Open calls Feb. 19, 5 p.m. & Feb. 20, 5 p.m. Dance call

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As a queer man of color — I’m Asian — I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community?

I’m 6’1”, 160 pounds, fit and very goodlooking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk.

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“I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here,” said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn writer and comedian. “The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it.”

Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: “Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society,” said Chu. “Many of us who are Asian-American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we’re either fetishized or ignored. Many times I’d go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads — with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay. Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam.”

Chu feels there’s plenty of blame to go around for this sad state of affairs. “It’s the gay media,” said Chu. “It’s Hollywood. (Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of AsianAmerican ones?) It’s that LGBT-rights organizations still haven’t diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it’s all of us, when we’re lazy and don’t confront our own prejudices.”

Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within it are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices.

Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!) and looks (VGL!) as proof you’ve faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, average-looking/unconventionally attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean or conventionally hot, just as you’ve faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys, is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys — duh, obviously.)

“As a stereotypically short Chinese guy, my first reaction to reading EDDIE’s letter? Damn, he’s 6’1”! I’m jealous,” said Chu. “And that’s also part of the problem. I, like many others,

have internalized an ideal: tall, gym-perfected, blah blah blah — and, above all, white.”

Booster was also struck by your stats.

“It’s hard for me to wrap my head around any 6’1”, fit, VGL guy having trouble getting laid,” said Booster. “On paper, this is the gay ideal! I don’t really consider myself any of those things — and I have a perfectly respectable amount of sex.”

Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York’s “white-painted gay community,” had some practical tips for you. “EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative,” Booster said. “If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great. There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league — truly where gay Asian men thrive — or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city. They’re out there.”

Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. “I’ve been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit and less goodlooking, and somehow I found a husband,” said Chu. “The monastery wasn’t my calling, and I suspect it’s not EDDIE’s either.”

A quick word to gay white men: It’s fine to have “preferences.” But we need to examine our preferences and give some thought to the cultural forces that might have shaped them. It’s a good idea to make sure your preferences are actually yours and not some limited and limiting racist crap pounded into your head by TV, movies and porn.

But while preferences are allowed (and gay men of color have them, too), there’s no excuse for littering Grindr or Tinder or Recon — or your conversations in bars — with dehumanizing garbage like “no Asians,” “no Blacks,” “no femmes,” “no fatties,” etc.

And while racism is a problem in the gay community (sometimes thoughtless, sometimes malicious, always unacceptable), according to 2010 U.S. Census data, as crunched by the Williams Institute at UCLA, same-sex couples are far likelier to be interracial (20.6 percent) than are opposite-sex couples (13.9 percent). So there’s hope — and I don’t mean “hope that EDDIE will one day land a magic white boyfriend,” but hope for less racism in the gay community generally, and fewer racist Grindr profiles specifically.

The last word goes to Booster: “A note to the rice queens who will undoubtedly write in about this man: We like that you like us. But liking us solely because of our race can be uncomfortable at best, and creepy as hell at worst. In my experience, it’s perfectly OK to keep some of those preferences behind the curtain while you get to know us a bit as humans first.”

Jeff Chu is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Follow him on Twitter @jeffchu. Follow Joel Kim Booster on Twitter @ihatejoelkim.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form — maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you.

Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence. The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work.

In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy or outof-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experi-

mental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them

will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual.

Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.

Find, create, or arrange to be in the path of an experience that makes you cry for joy. Report results to FreeWillAstrology.com.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use.

One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can

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You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual.

Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

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PRICED OUT OF THE MARKET? {BY ASHLEY MURRAY}

IN THE PITTSBURGH PUBLIC MARKET, there’s a stall called Steve’s Deli, but

call the man behind the counter “Steve” and he probably won’t respond.

That’s because the couple who owns the small operation are named Ed and Maggie. Neither is a trained chef, and “Steve” is a family friend who bought Ed his first oven when he was a kid. The couple — trained in math and industrial design — wanted to try their dream of running a food business, and the public market offered a laboratory for their experiment.

“This was a good place for us to start out, figure out what we’re doing and work out some of the problems,” said Ed Hyp, from behind the walnut countertops that he and his father custom-built.

But when the market, which has been in its current location since 2013, announced last month that it would be relocating after its lease ends on April 29, Hyp was shocked.

“I mean, it’s been a nice time here,” Hyp says. “We really put a lot into building our space. Some of this was here from the previous guy, but we painted everything.”

{PHOTO BY AARON WARNICK}

“You don’t want to be waiting for 12 to 18 months to commit to the Terminal building or any building that’s going to take a year-and-a-half to two years to be ready,” says Westerfield.

The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh is still negotiating a proposal with the terminal’s developer, McCaffrey Interests. Possible new locations are not being revealed.

“A number of our vendors would love to be in Strip,” Westerfield says.

“Staying here realistically, given the fact that we’re being essentially closed

“IT’S BEEN A NICE TIME HERE.” The lease on the market’s current building — its second location in five down due to increasing real-estate prices makes finding a place in the years — is not being renewed by the building owner, Horton Corporation of Strip challenging.”

Don Orkoskey, president of Neighbors in the Strip, which advises on PA. The market council and staff say they don’t know why.

“We were taken aback” by the news, says market-council member Kit development in the area, says Westerfield’s assessment of increasing real Mueller. “We went through this entire process renewing at a longer term. estate is accurate, but still says: “For me, personally, I wish the market could stay in the Strip.”

Now we’re at a loss.”

Neighbors in the Strip secured a nearly $800,000 grant for the market’s Nora Coffey, the building’s owner and Horton president, says the buildcommunal kitchen; he says the kitchen in some form will go where ing will not be sold, but rather leased to an undetermined future the market goes. tenant. She would not reveal details about the public market’s Currently some vendors — including Hyp — need more lease ending. However, she says, “I think [the market coundetails before they decide to move with the market. oto cil] should be more forthcoming with you, since they know h p a e e S Issues of foot traffic — a concern for many of the w of exactly what the reason is. An attempt to characterize it slidesho ting ra e market vendors — combined with the impending as something they have no idea about is absurd.” She dep o rs vendo move, influenced longtime vendor Clarion River Orclined to elaborate further. tsburgh it P e th at arket ganics’ decision to leave. Clarion River had been with Now, the council is tasked with finding a new location Public M ghcity the market since its inception. .p — whether that means the Strip or not. w w w at m “We have been struggling to make that market work “The ideal space is awfully hard to come by,” says marpaper.co all along, so it just gave me the final reason to leave,” Zeb ket general manager Rich Westerfield. “Rent has to be low Bartels, of Clarion River Organics, wrote in an email to CP. enough for us to be able to pass on [a low rent to tenants] so For another longtime vendor, Family Farm Creameries, the that we can continue to be an incubator. Once you cross a certain market is more than a retail space. The company rents extra space for threshold, it doesn’t make sense to be in the market.”

Westerfield wouldn’t give a specific figure, but he says the goal is not to production and storage.

“So as long as we’ve got somewhere to churn and have cold storage, go above $10 per square foot. Market staff and vendors visited a potential location last week, and another idea being kicked around is a return to the we’ll be cruising,” Family Farm Creameries manager Megan Whitmer says of a potential new space. market’s original location — the Produce Terminal building.

Westerfield says he wants people to know one thing for sure: “We’re But Westerfield says the Public Market would rather not have a long going to be open [until April]. We’re not dead.” hiatus in operations.

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