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

2.20 – 2pm EXPOSURES: ARTIST TALK The Warhol theater Elizabeth Rudnick and Jamie Earnest discuss their installations. FREE

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

2.27 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: GEORGE LEWIS The Warhol entrance space Co-presented with the Music on the Edge series and Pitt Jazz Studies of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music. Advance Tickets $15/$10 students; visit www.music.pitt.edu/tickets or call 412.624.7529

3.5 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: NEW MORSE CODE AND JAMIE JORDAN The Warhol theater 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

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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Editor CHARLIE DEITCH Arts & Entertainment Editor BILL O’DRISCOLL Music Editor MARGARET WELSH Associate Editor AL HOFF Multimedia Editor ASHLEY MURRAY Listings Editor CELINE ROBERTS Assistant Listings Editor ALEX GORDON Staff Writers RYAN DETO, REBECCA NUTTALL Interns COURTNEY LINDER, AARON WARNICK, ANDREW WOEHREL

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[NEWS] all of a sudden, now that I was 06 “So carrying a baby with me, there was no way I was a member.” — Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner on how her colleagues treated her when she served in the Pa. House

[NEWS] from the community could join 14 “Anybody the community garden from anywhere in the hilltop.” — Sarah Baxendell on a proposed urban farm for St. Clair

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a lighthouse in a storm, Craig 27 “Like Gillespie’s film shows flashes of being

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T’S BEEN EIGHT years since Lisa

Bennington left her Pennsylvania House of Representatives seat after serving just one term. But there are certain things she’ll never forget. “This is one of my favorite stories,” says Bennington. “The guy’s bathroom on the ﬂoor of the House is like a palace. There is literally a barber sitting in there. There’s a shoe-shine man in there. It’s like a lounge in a bathroom. “And the women’s bathroom in the back of the House is a shoe closet. You have to turn sideways to get into a stall. And the sink is like what you put in a powder room under the stairs in an old Pittsburgh house: this mini Smurf sink.” The bathrooms at the state capitol in Harrisburg are a microcosm of a larger issue. And it’s one of many stories that illustrate what it’s like to be a woman in politics,

not just in Pennsylvania but nationally. Bennington was one of the ﬁrst two women elected to full terms to represent Pittsburgh in the state house. In 2007, she was sworn in alongside Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner.

Two women declared candidacy for the Pa. legislature for the 2016 election. Will more run? {BY REBECCA NUTTALL} Today, neither woman is still in the House, and there are no women representing Allegheny County in the state legislature. Of the House representatives at the state level only 36 are women, equaling about 18 percent. Nine of the 50 state

senators, also 18 percent, are women. “I think it’s staggering, when you look at by numbers, that you have — combined house and senate — 26 seats in Allegheny County and not one female,” says Wagner. “That number should really wake people up.” Former legislators and organizations focused on increasing the number of female elected ofﬁcials say addressing this disparity is a bit of a chicken-or-egg dilemma: Culture in the state legislature can only change if women make up a greater portion of the body, but electing and retaining women is difﬁcult in the current culture where women often don’t feel welcome. “One woman in 26 or 30 isn’t going to make a huge difference until you have more people that look like you also around,” says Wagner. “Even though I had many very good colleagues as individuals, they aren’t CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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as cognizant of the problem. The only thing that’s going to change the environment is if the environment itself changes. You need more women. It’s that simple.” Still, there are local and national organizations working to address the issue. And the upcoming April primary, when house seats are up for grabs, presents an opportunity for more women to get their foot in the door. Already, two have announced their candidacy. “To help people think about why it is important for there to be more women in Pennsylvania elected to office,” Heather Arnet, executive director of the Women and Girls Foundation wrote in an email, “I ask them to close their eyes and imagine a world where the mayor of their city is a woman; the county chief executive is a woman; where the entire county delegation to Harrisburg is female; where all of the members of Congress and Senate representing our state are female. How would that feel? If you were a man, would you feel represented by this group of elected officials? Would you think that perhaps having some men in those groups might help?” WAGNER SERVED as a member of the state legislature for five years. Despite her tenure, she says she could walk into a meeting with a new pair of glasses on and staff who didn’t recognize her would talk to her like she wasn’t a representative. Wagner was also the first Democrat in Pennsylvania to give birth while serving in the House, and this sometimes led to people questioning her presence on the House floor. “I’d bring my son onto the floor because I was also nursing, and I remember people saying, ‘That’s great that your boss lets you bring your child onto the floor.’ So all of a sudden, now that I was carrying a baby with me, there was no way I was a member,” says Wagner. “It’s that you don’t look like you’re a member because they haven’t seen enough women there.” Wagner says another example of when she felt excluded because of her gender was when she expressed interest in getting involved in a House campaign committee, but wasn’t included. “The member who was coordinating it, he looked at me, and I was pregnant at the time, and he said, ‘Well, I just figured with all that you had going on …’ And I just said to him, ‘You have two kids, right?’ And just walked away,” says Wagner. Wagner’s colleague Bennington, who practices divorce, custody and child support litigation at Bennington Law Firm,

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Lisa Bennington (left) and Chelsa Wagner (right) with Teresa Heinz Kerry at the kickoff event for the Run Baby Run women’s candidate-training program in 2005

in Shadyside, echoes the feeling of being unwelcome. “It’s definitely a boys’ club, no question,” says Bennington. “When I was there, out of 203 legislators, there were 27 women. When you’re sitting on the floor of the House and you look out there, all you see are suits.” Two of the most important pieces of legislation Bennington says she tried to get passed during her tenure were a bill to expand the statue of limitations for childhood victims of sexual assault and another to have hospitals inform rape victims about emergency contraception. Neither was passed. “I definitely gave that speech from a man’s perspective because I was speaking to an audience of 180 men,” Bennington says of remarks she made when trying to get the emergency-contraception bill passed. “I put it in terms of ‘you’re a father and your daughter just got raped, you’re a husband and your wife just got raped. You don’t want her to have access to that?’” Bennington is quick to say the issues she tried to address with her legislation aren’t only women’s issues, and she doesn’t automatically attribute their lack of success to the scarcity of women in the legislature. Still, Bennington points to research that suggests increasing the number of women in organizations to 30 percent can have a positive impact. And she says she hopes there are people out there encouraging more women to run. “The idea you hear is women don’t feel like they’re qualified to run. When someone

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said to me, ‘You should run,’ I was like, ‘I’m not qualified to run,’” Bennington says. “So I think it’s like breaking that barrier and saying, ‘There are not qualifications; you can just do this.’” The simple act of having more people telling women to run for election is a major key to increasing diversity in the legislature, experts say, and it could help increase the number of women running in the upcoming April primary. “What we know historically is these political parties are organizations that were created by men for men, many years ago, in order to identify and recruit candidates,” says Dana Brown, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women in Politics at Chatham University. “I think it’s incumbent on the leaders of the party to be purposeful of their recruitment. There’s research out there that indicates that it really was a political party official asking a woman to run that was really a tipping point for her to make that decision.” Chatham runs training sessions for women interested in running for office and recently had a session on Jan. 30 where women learned about topics like political parties and fundraising. The university also inspired Run Baby Run, a non-partisan political action committee established in 2006 that helped Wagner and Bennington get elected. Brown says another barrier that keeps women from running for office is the challenge of facing off against an incumbent, which experts say is difficult for candidates regardless of gender. That’s why Brown says organizations dedicated to getting more women in office should be monitoring seats to keep abreast of when vacancies CONTINUES ON PG. 10

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are going to be available. That’s exactly what led to Arnet, of the Women and Girls Foundation, to run for a state Senate seat in a special election last year when former state Sen. Matt Smith announced he was stepping down. Arnet was ultimately defeated by Republican challenger Guy Reschenthaler in an election that broke fundraising records. “The greatest barriers for women running for state legislature right now are experienced in a partisan fashion,” Arnet said in an email. “The GOP is investing heavily — in our state and across the nation — in buying up legislative seats and legislative chambers. … Until the Democratic party, partners, and national (and local) progressive donors and PACs begin to take state legislatures seriously, the party will continue to lose seats and women will ﬁnd it a continued challenge to oppose heavily ﬁnanced GOP candidates.” According to the National Foundation for Women Legislators, fundraising and a lack of support from political parties are two of the largest barriers women face when getting elected. But another barrier is the gender roles that still exist in society. “I mean, let’s face it, the women in

America, by and large, are still the ones who take care of the children and run the house,” says Jody Thomas, NFWL executive director. “So that’s a big drawback, the difﬁculty of the work-life balance and being able to be out of town for days at a time to go to the state capitol.” And even when women don’t view themselves as responsible for traditional gender roles, Thomas says some of their colleagues are quick to remind them. “There’s still a lot of biases,” says Thomas. “We have a state senator in South Carolina, the only woman senator in South Carolina, and last year one of her male colleagues made the comment that ‘Women should stay home and be barefoot and pregnant.’” Despite setbacks like these, Thomas said progress has been made, and she hopes efforts to get women elected at the national level will begin to trickle down to seats in the state legislature. “When you think about it, it took 72 years of struggle to get the 19th Amendment to the Constitution,” says Thomas. “This year, we already have two women running for president, so we are making major strides. But we just can’t stop.” RN U T TA L L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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LANE CLOSURE Cyclists wonder why streets and sidewalks were plowed, but bike lanes went untouched {BY RYAN DETO} JANUARY’S BIG winter storm crushed cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. with substantial amounts of snow, but Pittsburgh didn’t receive nearly as much. After an extensive clean-up effort during the day on Sat., Jan. 23, most major roads were cleared by the evening. And by the time everyone went back to work on Monday morning, side streets, sidewalks and most all other paths were cleared for everyone. Well, everyone except cyclists. Bike riders took to the streets on Jan. 25 to mostly clear roadways, except when they got to the well-known bike lanes — those were ﬁlled with snow. According to a BikePGH online forum and City Paper ﬁrst-person accounts, at least eight stretches of lane were not cleared by the city’s Department of Public Works; these included major protected routes such as Penn Avenue in Downtown. (Interestingly, the roadway and the sidewalks on the Sixth Street Bridge were cleared by the morning of Jan. 25, but the protected bike lanes were not.) In fairness, some bike trails were cleared, including the Panther Hollow Trail, the Eliza Furnace Trail and the trail along the Allegheny from the Strip District to Downtown. But why were some of the mosttraveled bike lanes left untouched? Tim McNulty, spokesperson for Mayor Bill Peduto, says it was about prioritizing what gets plowed. “Outside of the city’s

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Unplowed snow on the Penn Avenue bike lane remained on Jan. 26.

primary and secondary routes, DPW has to make a judgment call on deploying their resources after storms, balancing of needs of bike lanes with tertiary streets, alleys, sidewalks, city-owned bridges and steps,” wrote McNulty in an email to CP. BikePGH director Scott Bricker believes, priorities or not, the city had the ability to clear snow from bike lanes and other routes, given the amount of time since the snow had stopped falling. “We believe it’s entirely reasonable to expect to have bike lanes plowed and city-owned sidewalks taken care of within 72 hours

of a snowfall,” wrote Bricker in an email. “If not, Pittsburgh’s citizens should be offered an explanation of what is standing in the way of this happening.” Garﬁeld resident and cyclist Randy Nickerson says when he rode down Liberty Avenue on Jan. 26, the bike lane was somewhat passable because some snow had melted, but it was obvious it hadn’t been plowed. “At this point, I come to except that it will not be cleared,” he says. “People always tell me to get in the bike lane, but I can’t if it’s ﬁlled with snow.” Not surprisingly, leaving bike lanes

“IT’S ENTIRELY REASONABLE TO EXPECT BIKE LANES PLOWED WITHIN 72 HOURS OF A SNOWFALL.”

and paths unplowed in the winter can have drastic effects on ridership numbers, according to Timo Perälä, president of the Winter Cycling Federation, an international advocacy group based in Finland. Perälä lives in Oulu, a Finnish city located just below the Arctic Circle, and he says when bike infrastructure isn’t cleared of snow, the city sees a 60 percent drop in ridership, according to automated bike counters. “The biggest obstacle for year-round cycling is not the coldness,” wrote Perälä in an email, “but lack of bike infrastructure suitable for winter conditions and [an] insufﬁcient level of winter maintenance.” Pittsburgh has the equipment to remove snow from all bike lanes, even the protected ones. McNulty says the city uses small pickups and small tractors with plows to get inside the narrow protected bike lanes. And while almost all of the snow has melted thanks to some warm temperatures, another storm is sure to hit Pittsburgh before the winter is out. The roads will most likely be cleared for the cars soon after, and if cyclists want their bike routes cleared too, they may just have to ask. On the afternoon of Jan. 25, Twitter user “@FerranteJason” requested to Pittsburgh’s 311 Twitter account that the Schenley Drive bike lane be plowed. Two hours later, a formal assignment was given to the DPW, and according to BikePGH’s online forums, the Schenley Drive bike lane was later plowed. Forum-user “jonawebb” summed up the current state of Pittsburgh’s winter biking pretty well: “We have to 311 them because they aren’t getting plowed, regularly, yet. ... Right now, bike-lane maintenance is not healthy. We have to keep reminding the city, over and over again, until it is.” RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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URBAN FARM Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood to get a farm and new housing {BY ASHLEY MURRAY} LAST WEEK, nearly 60 people gathered in the Ormsby Avenue Cafe in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood to hear from the Hilltop Alliance about how their neighborhood could be transformed. The Hilltop Alliance is a nonproﬁt that serves St. Clair, as well Allentown, Beltzhoover, Knoxville, Bon Air, St. Clair, Carrick, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Mount Washington, the South Side Slopes and the independent borough of Mount Oliver. It presented its latest version of the Hilltop Farm Master Plan, which would add a number of amenities to a broad section of Pittsburgh, some areas of which are far from grocery stores. Among the assets planned for the site of the former St. Clair Village housing project are several community garden plots; an indoor farmer’s market with a café; an orchard; indoor/outdoor education spaces; and the plan’s most recent addition: an events barn and an adjacent housing development.

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The Hilltop Alliance Hilltop Farm Master Plan

“Anybody from the community could join the community garden from anywhere in the hilltop,” Sarah Baxendell of the Hilltop Alliance told the crowd. “The houses themselves will have spaces where they can do their own gardening. This is really going to be a public garden for the broader community.” At its peak, St. Clair Village housed

thousands, but the Pittsburgh Housing Authority, which managed the housing project, gradually closed the development and ﬁnally dissolved it in 2010. (The Housing Authority did not return media inquiries from City Paper, but according to a 2009 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report, the housing project was to be completely razed due to budgetary concerns.) Pending approval — the Housing Authority will need to transition ownership of the land to the Urban Redevelopment Authority — the Hilltop Alliance (with local contractors) will begin converting the 40-acre site into 17 acres for farming and 23 for housing. An additional 60 acres of wooded hillside will be owned and maintained by the conservation nonproﬁt Allegheny Land Trust. The URA did not respond to a City Paper inquiry on the status of the transition. The farming portion will include 16 quarter-acre plots for farmer incubation. “It’s a big issue that people who want to start farming, the cost of doing so is so high and very prohibitive,” said Baxendell. There will be 60 community gardening plots, as well as bigger lots for larger crops, such as corn. All spaces will require applications from community members. An orchard of 176 fruit trees is planned for the site. Gardeners can sell their produce at a year-round farmer’s market; an on-site community-supported-agriculture (CSA) farm would also sell goods. The education areas will include a 76tree youth orchard and an edible forest full of paw-paws, persimmons and quinces. (Pittsburgh Public Schools has decided to re-open the Philip Murray School adjacent to the site.) “I know some of you in the room talked

about how there used to be apple orchards on this site, and elderberry trees, and grapevines, and I heard you, and we have fruit trees,” Baxendell said, recounting the several community meetings that led up to the master plan. Community members at the recent meeting still expressed concerns, including those about parking, deer, construction hours and mosquitoes (in the rain-water collection and the ponds that will manage stormwater runoff). However, most of the concern was focused on one thing: the housing. In order to subsidize the initial nearly $400,000 price tag of the nonproﬁt farm operations, the projected 120 single-family homes and 200-person events barn (think weddings) will provide the revenue, says Aaron Sukenik of the Hilltop Alliance. Half of the two- and three-bedroom homes would rent for about $1,100 per month — Sukenik says that’s 80 percent of the area median income. The other half would be available for purchase with prices ranging from $235,000 to $285,000. But residents expressed concerns about the rental units — citing violence and drug activity in the former St. Clair Village. “When you say it’s open to whoever can afford it, that concerns me,” Beatrice Bush, of South Side, said during the meeting to some applause from the crowd. “The housing project that was there, we as residents do not want a duplicate of that in our neighborhood.” Sukenik says the plan right now is not to accept housing vouchers from low-income residents. (The city is currently being sued by the Apartment Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh for a recently passed law that would require landlords to accept vouchers.) When asked if the selling price for the new houses would be unaffordable for area residents, Sukenik said that considering the cost of building new housing, the price is fair. Tax abatements will most likely apply for residents for the ﬁrst 10 years, he said during the meeting. Other residents are excited about the entrepreneurial opportunities. Elisa Beck, owner of Schwartz Living Market in South Side, said she’s looking forward to a farm and enterprise opportunities so close to her business. “I would love to cross-pollinate the Hilltop with the South Side through what we’re doing. It’s like a dream come true,” she said. At the meeting, Sukenik said if all goes well with the Housing Authority, soil rebuilding and re-seeding could begin as soon as this spring, with any building construction waiting until next spring. However, he made it clear that a solid timeline is not in place yet. A M URRAY @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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That’s the slogan of the new American Basketball Association’s Steel City Yellow Jackets. Pittsburgh has always had an odd relationship with professional basketball. We used to have the Condors, so named because the owners knew the franchise was doomed. Plus, pro hoops is our city’s 17th favorite sport. So it’s a tough road for the Yellow Jackets to go down. The new ABA is a massive and confusing league made up of 97 teams in 12 divisions. It’s one of those leagues where franchises disappear overnight, and some games are cancelled because they don’t have enough money for the team bus. All you need to get your own franchise is a $20,000 entry fee. But coach Averill “Ace” Pippens hopes to stay here for awhile. He bought the team last year after a pretty successful inaugural season in which it compiled a 15-2 record. The season ended with half a second left on the clock as the stupid Philadelphia Spirit squashed the buzz with a one-point victory. The Jackets play in the ABA’s south-central division along with the West Virginia Wildcats, the Columbus Buckeyes, the Bowling Green Bandits and the very non-speciﬁc Mid-South Echoes. This isn’t the ABA of the 1970s glory years, although they still have the iconic red-white-and-blue basketballs. However, this incarnation of the league doesn’t have a Dr. J, or a George Gervins, or a Connie Hawkins to showcase. It’s also unlikely to merge with the NBA anytime soon, but it is trying to establish itself. The league does have a handful of former NBA players, as well as some Division I and II college ballers. Former Pitt star Carl Krauser was a Yellow Jacket last season. Coach Ace, as Pippens is known, is the toughest coach here, or anywhere for that matter. If you know of any other head coach who was shot six times and still has a bullet lodged in their body, let me know. He led Penn State-McKeesport to a college title in 2006, so he’s tough and knows what he’s doing. The Yellow Jackets are led by

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guard Tone Reddic, who is worth the price of admission alone. The team also has players from local colleges, including Lawrence Baker, a former Indiana University of Pennsylvania star; Slippery Rock’s Gerald Brooks; Point Park’s Alan Heter; and Matt McKenna from Penn State-Fayette. I’m sure it’s obvious, but I’ll tell you anyway: The Yellow Jackets play their games at the Greentree Racquetball Club just off the Parkway West. That’s inside the Greentree Sportsplex on Iron City Drive. Adult tickets are just 10 bucks and kids get in for half of that. The Yellow Jackets also have a pretty cool logo for their merchandise, if you’re looking to splurge. It’s a jacked-up yellow jacket on HGH ﬂying through the air with one hand proclaiming to be No. 1, while the other hand prepares for a slam dunk. So, of course, you’ll want to nab one for your kids since you’re saving on the ticket price. The team only has a few games left in the 2015-16 season, so time is running out. On Feb. 21, the Jackets welcome their intrastate rivals, the York Buccaneers. I hate them so much. Feb. 28 is the day the Grand Rapids Danger comes to town. Both games begin at 5 p.m., so it’s like an early-bird basketball special. After you catch the buzz at the racquet club, you still have time to catch a buzz at a bar down the road. You’re on Iron City Drive after all.

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More than a decade ago, Ron Herbinko was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute, where he taught soups, sauces and stocks. Today, he’s making fresh soups daily as the head chef at Sal’s City Deli, which sits in a space that once served as a Culinary Institute classroom. “We take a lot of pride, and we take our time,” says Herbinko. “We use nothing but the finest ingredients, nothing but the fresh ingredients every day. We make [soups] not from bases, but from stocks. I was trained by a lot of great chefs.” To fight the winter chill, customers can order Sal’s chicken and dumpling soup any day of the week. Other varieties include cream of broccoli, gumbo, lobster bisque and beef barley. Herbinko’s favorite is the Manhattan clam chowder, which includes fresh chopped clams, potatoes, celery, onions, tomatoes and peppers. “Probably my favorite soups to make are the ones with a lot of color,” says Herbinko. Other unique soups include oxtail, borscht and “pepper pot.” In the hotter months, Sal’s offers vichyssoise, a chilled soup which combines puréed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream and chicken stock. Herbinko also makes cold melon soups and a strawberry soup topped with chocolate and whipped cream “I try to get a feel for what people really like depending on the weather,” says Herbinko. “If I’m walking through the dining room and a customer says, ‘Hey Ron, can you make cream potato soup?,’ I’ll do that.” RNUTTALL@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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HOME-STYLE ITALIAN {BY ANGELIQUE BAMBERG + JASON ROTH}

OR A MINUTE there, it looked like

the traditional dominance of the local restaurant market by redsauce Italian joints might be fading. Old stalwarts were closing, and in their place, a new generation of Asian and upscale American restaurants have begun offering chicken banh mi in place of chicken parm, ﬂatbread instead of pizza, and the thoroughly modern guilty pleasure of short-rib mac-and-cheese rather than stodgy old fettuccine alfredo. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, Pittsburghers aren’t letting go of spaghetti and meatballs quite so easily. From high end to humble, Italian restaurants have resurged, and many of the new crop are throwbacks: to the family-run neighborhood pizza-and-pasta joints of the 1950s

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and ’60s, or even to the more formal Continental-style places of the late ’80s. We can think of a lot of reasons Italian-American dining never goes out of style. Robust Italian-American cooking is

MIA MADRE TRATTORIA Kennmawr Plaza, 200 Pine Hollow Road, Kennedy. 412-331-4000 HOURS: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Fri. 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sat. 3:30-9:30 p.m. PRICES: Appetizers $5-10; pasta and entrees $14-23 LIQUOR: Full bar

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ily and friends. Indeed, the deeply intertwined values of food and family in Italian culture seem key components to most traditional Italian-American recipes. In Kennedy Township, Mia Madre Trattoria is more dedicated to family than most. Not only is owner Al Nicholas’ mother honored in the name, but his wife and son have contributed menu items as well. And when he comes out to check on your table mid-meal, the pride in la famiglia is evident. Personal touches aside, the menu is resolutely traditional, from bruschetta to baked ziti. We ﬁlled our table with a combination of classic Italian dishes and family specialties. Meatballs tend to fall into two categories: tender, ﬁne ones and tough, coarse

ones. But Mia Madre found a middle path, with relatively coarsely-ground meat rolled and served still tender. Adding to these meatballs’ appeal was their presentation: They were served in a distinctive fashion, amid cylinders of fluffy, sweet ricotta, all in a shallow dish of marinara. The temperature contrast between warm meat and cool cheese was pleasing, and the creamy taste and texture of the cheese added greatly to the satisfaction of the dish. The menu description of “linguine clam” was coy: “Tender clams sautéed in olive oil, garlic, parsley, and that’s all the recipe I’m telling you …” This secrecy was all the more intriguing because it was, in fact, a very unusual version of the classic dish. Instead of a light sauce to coat the noodles and the clams taking center stage, this sauce was thick, with a creamy texture but a flavor that betrayed no dairy. It was hard to argue with the plentiful clams, which were indeed tender, but it was also hard to decide whether the sauce’s hearty character was too insistent, or if it was simply unorthodox. Shari’s chicken, named for Nicholas’ wife, was sautéed with northern beans, banana peppers and garlic. The pungency of the peppers and garlic, tempered by the earthy beans, made for an excellent complement to mild chicken breast. Unfortunately, this chicken was so mild as to be almost flavorless, and its texture was dry. In fact, the best part of this dish might have been the simple side of pasta marinara. Nicholas credits his marinara to his mom, and it did them both proud. Good enough to be enjoyed, unembellished, on linguini, it also shone in other contexts: the sweet giving way to savory notes when combined with peppers and Ricci’s sausage, or as an unobtrusive, yet almost fruity, background to the marvelously cheesy lasagna. The marinara’s effect was harder to discern in Junior’s linguini, where it was combined with marsala sauce, that sweet, slightly boozy accompaniment to veal. But this dish contained no meat, just the reduced wine sauce that lent a burgundy tint and some tangy zip to the straight marinara’s more straightforwardly tomato profile. If not exactly revelatory, the combination was a worthwhile innovation. Some Italian restaurants strive to bring diners an experience akin to an authentic meal in Italy. But dining alla famiglia at an Italian-American table is a different kind of authentic experience, one that’s brought to you by Mia Madre Trattoria. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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SQUIRREL HILL GOES TROPICAL Tiki bar Hidden Harbor debuts Tiki gets a bad rap. For years, chain restaurants and seaside shacks across America have passed off cups of syrupy blue slush as proper tropical cocktails. True tiki drinks, the kind that rely on secret rum blends and fresh fruit juice, fell out of favor in the 1970s. But thanks to a dedicated handful of obsessives, tiki is in the midst of a bona fide renaissance, with puffer-fish-decked bars popping up in spades.

RUM IS KING, BUT THERE ARE ALSO GIN AND BOURBON DRINKS. Hidden Harbor is the latest place to take tiki seriously — or as seriously as you can take a drink adorned with a tiny umbrella. “Tiki is such a great medium,” says Pete Kurzweg, who co-owns both Hidden Harbor and the beer-focused Independent Brewing Company next door. “You can have a lot of fun with cocktails, but the quality doesn’t have to suffer.” That sense of fun fills the new Squirrel Hill bar. The signature cocktail is a bright-blue rum drink with a crushed-ice “wave” that rises from the glass. A painting of Bill Murray as Steve Zissou hangs in the men’s room. There’s even a slushie machine churning on the backbar. The drink that comes out of that machine, however, is a heavy hitter. The concoction (dubbed Josie’s Faraway Vacation) has nearly a dozen ingredients including basil, chili, coconut and arrack, a funky rum from Indonesia. Elaborately garnished and served in a ridged glass called a Pearl Diver, the drink is everything tiki should be: beautiful, balanced and a little bit silly. It’s clear that the team at Hidden Harbor respects the classic tiki playbook. But it isn’t afraid to add some notes in the margins. Rum is king, but there are also gin and bourbon drinks. For decor, the bar decided against floor-to-ceiling bamboo and instead let the bones of the space shine, accenting with striking palm carvings and nautical knick-knacks. Hidden Harbor proves that serious cocktails don’t require waxed moustaches and suspenders. Flowery prints work just fine. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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ALI BABA. 404 S. Craig St., Oakland. 412-682-2829. Service is quick at this Middle Eastern restaurant, designed to feed students and nearby museumstaff lunchers. It can get loud and close during busy times, but the atmosphere is always convivial. A wide-raging menu ensures that carnivores and herbivores alike leave satisfied. JE BIG JIM’S. 201 Saline St., Greenfield. 412-421-0532. Pittsburgh has seen a massive expansion of high-end dining. This cozy eatery — with bar and separate dining area — isn’t part of that trend. It’s old-school Pittsburgh: good food in huge portions, with waitresses who call you “hon.” The place you go to remember where you’re from. JE BOCKTOWN BEER AND GRILL. 690 Chauvet Drive, The Pointe, North Fayette (412-788-2333) and 500 Beaver Valley Mall Blvd., Monaca (724-728-7200). Beer is the essence of Bocktown. Many of the dishes are less than $10, and designed to complement beer. The friendly staff creates a neighborhood atmosphere. JE CAFÉ DU JOUR. 1107 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-488-9695. This Euro-style bistro is “openkitchen cozy” with a quaint courtyard for intimate outdoor dining. A modestly sized yet thoughtful menu offers smallto-large plates, highlighting Mediterranean- and Europeaninfluenced California cooking with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal produce and excellently prepared meats. KF COLE CAFÉ. 1718 Mount Royal Blvd., Glenshaw. 412-486-5513. This breakfast-lunch spot exemplifies the appeal of a typical diner in nearly every way: basic, familiar food, cooked well and served fast and hot. The menu leans toward breakfast (eggs, pancakes), as well as a selection of mixed grills, combining meats, veggies, eggs and home fries. J

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CUCINA BELLA. 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Bridgeville. 412-257-5150. This casual eatery offers an unassuming menu of pizzas and pasta that are prepared with a commitment to fresh ingredients and an open-minded, thoughtful approach to flavor profiles. For instance, pizzas range from traditional tomato and cheese to arugula and prosciutto to the adventurous rosemary and

Leon’s Caribbean Restaurant {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} pistachios, ricotta, sausage, and green olives. KF DINETTE. 5996 Centre Ave., East Liberty. 412-362-0202. This refined California-inspired pizzeria and wine bar offers a small menu mostly featuring gourmet thin-crust pizzas. The focus here is on fresh, local and sustainable. Inventive pizzas include toppings such as wilted greens, littleneck clams, goat cheese and Brussels sprouts. Guests at the wine-bar counter get a front-row seat for the pizza-making. KE

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Subba Asian Restaurant DISH OSTERIA. 128 S. 17th St., South Side. 412-390-2012. This South Side venue offers excellent, authentic, regional Italian fare and serious cocktails in an alluring, intimate setting. There is antipasti (from land and sea), then a half-dozen pastas, a couple of meat dishes and seafood items comprise the entrees. Except some seasonal variation. LE DIVE BAR AND GRILLE. 5147 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-408-2015. The kitchen at

this unpretentious venue is a sort of freewheeling laboratory for a “what if” approach to re-imagining classic bar fare: sliders, quesadillas, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, specialty burgers, entrees and “I Hate Vegetables” (meals built atop French fries). KE EIGHTY ACRES KITCHEN AND BAR. 1910 New Texas Road, Plum. 724-519-7304. Diners at this rustic-chic restaurant will find wellprepared contemporary American cuisine, with an emphasis on seasonal and local. Most dishes involve a classic main ingredient — salmon, say, or pork chops — set off by just one or two distinctive flourishes, such as piquillo chimichurri or pineapple salsa. KE GIA VISTO. 4366 Old William Penn Highway, Monroeville. 412-374-1800. The menu at this welcoming Italian restaurant ranges from simple classics to elegant inventions. Whether it’s a fried risotto appetizer enlivened with a elemental but sublime red sauce, or a perfectly cooked salmon on a Mediterranean-inspired bed of beans and vegetables, the fare exhibits the kitchen’s attention to detail. KF HYEHOLDE. 1516 Coraopolis Heights Road, Moon Township. 412-264-3116. Half cottage, half castle, Hyeholde is housed in a little fantasy building dating to the 1930s. The splendidly landscaped grounds host outdoor pig roasts, clambakes and picnics in the summer. Unusual meats — elk, ostrich — are combined with fresh, local ingredients in preparations that join classic and contemporary … and offer the exquisitely rare experience of eating art. LE

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(sliders and fish tacos) and Southern comfort (chicken with black-eyed peas and greens, watermelon salad). LE SENTI RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR. 3473 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-4347. This sleek venue offers fine-dining contemporary Italian — not Italian-American — fare. The menu is brief, but is supplemented with daily specials. Included are meat and fish dishes, pastas and salads, presented artfully and executed with modern updating. The wine list is noteworthy, though its prices are far dearer than the food. KE

SONOMA GRILLE. 947 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-697-1336. The menu here groups food and selected wines (mostly Californian, of course) under such oenophilic summaries as “jammy” and “muscular,” LEON’S CARIBBEAN www. per encouraging an entirely RESTAURANT. 823 pa pghcitym new approach to food E. Warrington Ave., .co selection. The restaurant’s Allentown. 412-431-5366. offerings include tapas, This modest storefront hearty meat dishes with an array venue — just a couple tables, of international seasonings, and a take-out counter and a a mix-n-match, create-your-own matter-of-fact menu board — section for mixed grill. KE offers the usual Caribbean array of curried and jerked SUBBA ASIAN RESTAURANT. meats and seafood, peas and 700 Cedar Ave. (second floor), rice, and fried plantains. There North Side. 412-586-5764 or is also less common fare such as 412-853-1070. A humble steamed fish in pumpkin sauce. restaurant offers a broad menu. Portions are large, so prepare Among the more common, but for leftovers. KF well-prepared, Chinese stir-fries and Indian curries are such PAMELA’S. Multiple locations. Nepalese specialties as momo www.pamelasdiner.com. dumplings (meat and vegetarian); There are many reasons to sadako, a sort of sauceless stirrecommend this popular local fry; and curries, served on a large diner mini-chain: the cheery platter filled with many tasty and atmosphere; the old-fashioned complementary components. JF breakfasts featuring raisin French toast, fried potatoes and WAI WAI. 4717 Liberty Ave., corned-beef hash; and light, Bloomfield. 412-621-0133. crispy-edged pancakes so good Eschewing the epic list of that President Obama had them dishes most Chinese-American served at the White House. J restaurants proffer, this attractively decorated storeSAVOY. 2623 Penn Ave., Strip front venue sticks to a modest District. 412-281-0660. The Strip District now has a swanky spot for number of basics with a few less-typical dishes, such as brunch and dinner. The artfully Singapore mai fun (a dish of prepared cuisine suggests a cross stir-fried rice noodles) or sha cha between current fine-dining (a meat-and-vegetable dish from culture (locally sourced foods, China’s Gansu province) JF sous vide meats), lounge favorites

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{BY MARGARET WELSH} The Red Western {PHOTO COURTESY OF BENJIE HEASLEY}

Conventional wisdom says the CD is a dying format. But playing in a band means bucking most conventions, which explains why The Red Western took the bold leap of releasing two CDs — Arrows and Sirens — simultaneously. If that wasn’t daring enough, both discs feature just five songs, which all could have easily fit on a single disc. It looks crazy on the surface, but it’s actually a savvy move to get the band’s music heard. “Musicians and avid music listeners will sit down and listen to an entire album,” says guitarist/vocalist Jonathan Gunnell. “But most people don’t. They listen to streaming, so tracks five though 10 all get lost. On Bandcamp, [we’ve seen that] the first three tracks on the previous albums got way more plays than the rest of the songs. This [releasing two EPs] is kind of a way to get around that. Maybe people will pay more attention to all 10 songs instead of just the first couple.” While recording, the members noticed that nature factored into the lyrics of half the songs, while the rest seemed to deal with love, or the lack thereof. That made it easier to place songs like “Sycamore Tree” and “Mountain Air” on Arrows, while Sirens features “Away Too Long” and “16.” Originally a quintet when formed in 2007, The Red Western faced a challenge with the departure of guitarist and songwriter Sean Soisson. Rather than replacing him, the remaining band members (Gunnell, vocalist/guitarist Lauren DeLorenze, bassist Jay Leon, drummer Sean Finn) buckled down, writing more as a group and moving farther from their alt-country origins toward heavy pop. While “group compositions” can often mean basic grooves with vocals on top, the band meticulously arranged its songs to emphasize the nuances of DeLorenze’s vocals, the layers of guitars and the dynamics. The title track to Arrows in particular bears this out. It changes key in the chorus and adds harmony vocals that have the lushness of a top-shelf ’70s AM-radio production.

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his early Pittsburgh gigs with a lot of fondness. By his recollection, the scene was full of talented artists. But for Haynes — who performs as DJ Afterthought — it was cliquey and difficult to break into, and lacked support from major promotions companies. “It was, like, these crappy little local shows … with terrible sound and 10 other artists,” says the New Jersey native who moved here by way of Morgantown in 2010. To make matters worse, the events usually felt like opportunities to hand money over to promoters. “It sucked, it was terrible.” Frustrated, he started booking shows in Butler. “Once I started getting traction and bringing Pittsburgh people out there, [venue owners and promoters] were like, ‘OK, we’ll give you a shot.’” Haynes says that things have changed in the scene since then, and for him personally. After multiple national tours with ﬂashy Houston-born rapper Riff Raff, and a more recent tour with Mac Miller, DJ Afterthought (who also headlines his own EDM

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Ryan Haynes, a.k.a. DJ Afterthought, at ID Labs in Etna

events) is quickly becoming one of the most recognizable names in Pittsburgh music — even if Pittsburghers themselves are slow to catch on. Haynes has always been careful to make his own way, and initially maintained relationships with Mac and Wiz Khalifa from a distance. “I never wanted to over-do my welcome, or be perceived as trying to do anything off of them,” Haynes says. “But

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that kind of catapulted my image with them, like, ‘Oh wow, here’s another person in Pittsburgh who we didn’t put on who’s doing something cool.’ So we kind of naturally gravitated toward each other.” It was that mutual respect that led to one of Haynes’ biggest breaks. In 2014, on the recommendation of one of Miller’s as-

sociates, Riff Raff unexpectedly contacted Haynes. At first, Riff asked if Haynes could help find a decent hair-braider before his upcoming Pittsburgh show. “Then at the end of [the conversation], he said, ‘And I’m about to send you my tracks for the night,’” Haynes recalls. “‘I’m like, wait what?’ And he says, ‘If someone from Mac’s camp gave me your number, you’re a good DJ. If you want to spin my tracks, then come out.’” Haynes now helps run Riff Raff’s tours and does other managerial work for the rapper. “When we get to the venues I’m the first one in … I’m talking to the promoters, I’m talking to the agents,” he says. “It really helped connecting with those types of people who are booking shows outside this area, and [who] have their finger on the pulse in different cities.” While DJing might seem conceptually uncomplicated, it’s an art that takes patience, confidence and diplomacy. “I work with a lot of bigger artists … so they already have what they want in their head … even though that might not work for the situation.” But his primary strength as a DJ lies

in his ability to work a room. “I want to connect to the crowd more than anything,” he says, adding that historically DJs acted more as MCs. “The DJ’s voice got smaller and smaller, to the point where most DJs are comfortable being that guy … in the back, just playing music. For me, it’s more personal,” he says. “It’s a lot more [about] wanting to build that relationship, and really have those people have a good time and really connect … instead of just standing there pressing play.” Despite his national success, Haynes — who’ll release his first EP in March — is still invested in the local scene. He’s heavily involved in the locally-based clothing company Daily Bread and works with area promoters to bring major artists to town. He also started King of the Burgh, a monthly event at the Rex Theatre, where local rappers perform and compete for cash prizes. “We damn near sell out every time,” he says. “It’s exciting to see.” Haynes also recently opened an office and studio space in ID Labs, the Etna studio which serves as the home base for Taylor Gang Records. As with everything else, Haynes, who started as a studio client, earned that spot by developing a personal relationship with the owners. “There were a lot of people recording out of their basements,” he says. In trying to grow the scene, “The No. 1 question is, ‘Hey, what’s something we can do right now to dramatically increase our chances?’ One [thing] is that we need to have a solid sound and not some janky recording. So I’d kind of push [artists] toward ID Labs.” In turn, studio owner E. Dan and house producer Big Jerm started recommending Haynes to anyone who needed a DJ or a manager. “They helped me, obviously, but I never really asked them for anything,” Haynes says. “And they kind of respected that.” When space opened in the studio, Haynes seemed like the obvious choice. While Haynes says the scene has come a long way since 2010 — he namechecks Norman Dean, Choo Jackson and Joel Kellem as just a few artists worthy of attention — Pittsburgh hip hop faces challenges. It’s still tough to find support from the major bookers, especially those who mostly bring in rock bands. Plus, he says, “It’s not like L.A. or New York … there just [aren’t] the people here who are going to pull you into the industry.” More than anything, Haynes would like to see the local scene take a more unified position, and work harder to be seen as a positive force. “I’d love to see more people get out of here and get the spotlight,” he says. “But it’s also kind of a crabin-a-bucket mentality — nobody wants to support the next person because they want to be it.” M WE LS H@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

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on responsibility and short on resources, growing older has a way of pushing practicality to the forefront. It’s here that the mettle of the creative type is truly tested. When push comes to shove, it is easy to neglect any pursuits that don’t bear immediate and concrete results. But Montreal’s Young Galaxy would argue that those acts are worth preserving. “There’s idealism in the early part of your adulthood that’s so concrete and so tangible in your day-to-day life,” vocalist Catherine McCandless says, getting at the heart of Falsework, the band’s ﬁfth album and the follow-up to 2013’s criticallyacclaimed Ultramarine. “We are people … who are trying to feel a sense of inspiration to maintain an unconventional lifestyle or creative direction,” says McCandless. “I would call it feeding that kernel of idealism. Something you continue to nurture.” The recording process took place during a time when Young Galaxy’s members were reassessing their resources and priorities. “We saw this kind of change occurring where we realized that this [was] going to be hard to do year in, year out, going into the studio and paying a lot of money … to make our records,” explains singer/guitarist Stephen Ramsay, who is also McCandless’ husband. (Keyboardist Matt Shapiro and touring drummer Andrea Silver round out the lineup). “So, we started to look at whether or not we could do it in our own studio more.” Then, as

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luck would have it, Ramsay says, “I came into a windfall of old ’70s and ’80s analog synths in this very bizarre way.” The gear was not acquired through industry connections, but via the building superintendent of the band’s rehearsal space. He mentioned that he owned a few synths and Ramsay began to pester him for a closer look. “Eventually, he just walked into my space with a Roland Juno 60 — which is a very sought-after, classic piece of gear — and I kind of … said to myself, ‘OK, this is going to be crazy,’” Ramsay says. More equipment followed.

YOUNG GALAXY

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The resulting record shimmers, hums and throbs in the ways one would expect of synth-driven dance music. Lyrically, Falsework’s existential musings seem to contemplate the trade-off inherent to creative pursuits, elevating the songs beyond the realm of mere pop. “I ﬁnally see what you’re looking for / a little piece of me, to take away from me,” McCandless sings on “We’re No Good.” Sonically, there is a multi-dimensionality that makes it distinctive, without the thinness that often stiﬂes this genre. McCandless’ voice mingles among the beats and melodies without hovering above or burrowing beneath a foundational backing track. It is a ghost in the machine, obfuscated and obfuscating, vying to make itself heard. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

Year to year, and track to track, you never really know what you’re going to get with the Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle’s annual release. The long-running group, sponsored by Calliope, provides a forum for folk-oriented musicians who don’t play out often, and this collection features tracks by 25 artists associated with the Circle. Historically, these releases have been a mixed bag in terms of both style and quality, but overall this edition is stronger than most. Not everything works, but clunkers are minimal. Standouts include Haley Rohlf’s “The Darkest Places,” which sounds like Julie Doran covering the Carpenters; Aram Julian’s off-kilter “Happy Selective Memories”; and Roy Aiken’s ‘70s-style folk/R&B jam “I’m Over Here.” BY MARGARET WELSH

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This collection of polished indie pop, the brainchild of singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Khaled Tabbara, is all smooth, sing-song-y melodies, crisp harmonies and mouthfuls of oh-so-clever wordplay. The technicolor production and skronky, bubbly synthesizers bring to mind post-Yoshimi Flaming Lips. The flat monotone of Tabbara’s rap on the standout track “Ooglie Booglie,” which boasts a genuinely heavy guitar riff, aspires to the heights of Mellow Gold-era Beck — but ultimately ends up sounding more like Cake. Kills Part Two is at its best when the Youngstown-based band tries breaking away stylistically from the mold of indie rock, like on the funky “Holy Moses,” where Tabbara’s gospelinspired shouting actually sounds like Andre 3000 for a brief moment. This is an immaculately produced record, but it’s kind of a bummer that “indie rock” doesn’t sound like Dinosaur Jr. anymore, but more like The Barenaked Ladies taking themselves much more seriously. BY ANDREW WOEHREL

Voivod

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By now, Cleveland’s Kid Cudi has garnered enough fame to need (almost) no introduction. Back in 2008, his debut single “Day ’N’ Nite” was practically inescapable. He’s since branched out into acting; served as bandleader on the IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang!; and has more than flirted with alternative rock, even forming a rock band called WZRD. Cudi’s music has always blurred the lines between rap and rock, and his new double album, Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven, forgoes all synthesizers and electronic elements, focusing entirely on guitars and live drums. Cudi calls the album “alternative music,” and though it has received mixed reviews, it has even been likened to Nirvana. Form your own opinion tonight when Cudi plays at Stage AE. Andrew Woehrel 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $39.50-42. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

The West African country of Mauritania has a long tradition of folk troubadours called griots, who are seen as spiritual leaders and poets. Noura Mint Seymali comes from a line of griots: Her stepmother, Dimi Mint Abba, is an internationally famous griot. The young Mauritanian combines traditional Moorish music with psychedelic rock. Her husband, Jeiche Ould Chighalys, plays droning guitar riffs that recall George Harrison’s sitar work in The Beatles’ more Eastern-influenced tunes, while Seymali has mastered the ardine, a nine-string harp that is generally reserved for women. {PHOTO COURTESY Seymali plays tonight OF JOE PENNEY} at Thunderbird Cafe, with A.T.S., a band that has been making music in Pittsburgh for three decades. AW 8 p.m. 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $12-15. 412-682-0177 or www. thunderbirdcafe.net

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In the ’90s, indie-rock Seymali band Grant Lee Buffalo was a critics’ darling; it released singles on Bob Mould’s exclusive Singles Only label and won the acclaim of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. These days, frontman Grant-Lee Phillips has embarked upon a folksy solo career, his smooth voice and striking lyrics lending comparisons to contemporaries like Mark Kozelek, of Sun Kil Moon, or the late Jason Molina, of Magnolia Electric Company. Tonight, Phillips will entertain at the Pittsburgh Winery with support from Steve Poltz, best known for co-writing Jewel’s smash hit, “You Were Meant for Me.” AW 8 p.m. 2815 Penn Ave., Strip District. $16-20. 412-566-1000 or www.pittsburghwinery.com

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[METAL] + WED., FEB. 10 Though hardly a household name, Voivod is legendary in progressive and thrash-metal circles. Formed in Montreal in 1982, Voivod became known for its often political, post-apocalyptic science-fictionthemed lyrics, as well as the experimental and avant-garde guitar work of Denis “Piggy” D’Amour. Sadly, Piggy died of cancer in 2005. But Voivod continues to tour and record new albums, with the addition of jazz guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain, whose own unconventional take on metal guitar carries on the spirit of D’Amour. Voivod plays tonight at Altar Bar with Vektor, Eight Bells and MICROWAVES. AW 8 p.m. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $18-20. 412-206-9719 or www.thealtarbar.com

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ROCK/POP

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Tropidelic. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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BRILLOBOX. Young Galaxy w/ Chalk Dinosaur. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Telephone Line, Scott & Rosanna & MVT. North Side. 412-904-3335. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Hawkeyes. Warrendale. 724-799-8333.

FRI 05 BLACK FORGE COFFEE HOUSE. Galaxxu, Skeletonized, Echo Lightwave Unspeakable, Birthie, Old Dream. Knoxville. 412-291-8994. CLUB CAFE. Viola Formica w/ As Ladders. South Side. 412-431-4950. HAMBONE’S. Francesca Blanchard, Morgan Erina, Andre Costello, Nathan Zoob. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. MEADOWS CASINO. Finally Free. Washington. 724-503-1200. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Glenn Strother Project w/ Brash Teeth. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

THE R BAR. Midnite Horns. Dormont. 412-942-0882. SPIRIT HALL & LOUNGE. REC ROOM: Essential Machine & DJ Selecta. Lawrenceville. 412-251-6058.

MON 08 JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Balcony Big Band. W/ special guest. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Grant-Lee Phillips w/ Steve Poltz. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

TUE 09 CLUB CAFE. Dylan LeBlanc w/ Jordan McLaughlin. South Side. 412-431-4950. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Funky Miracle: Celebrating the music of the Meters. North Side. 412-904-3335.

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JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. Gene Stovall. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Noura Mint Seymali, A.T.S. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

DJS FRI 05 ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BRILLOBOX. Pandemic : Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. 10th anniversary party. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SAT 06 CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

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ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. The Red Western. North Side. 412-237-8300. BROTHERS GRIMM. The GRID. Coraopolis. 412-788-0890. CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. Janet Jackson. Uptown. 412-642-1800. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. US3 The Essence. Robinson. 412-489-5631. HOWLERS. Tera Chain Sky, Prime 8, It Is Written, God Hates Unicorns. Blackbird Bullet. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. My Hero Zero, Velveeta. Fundraiser for Pediatric Cancer. Warrendale. 724-799-8333. KNUCKLEHEAD’S BAR. Tobacco Road. Ross. 412-366-7468. MEADOWS CASINO. Radio Tokyo. Washington. 724-503-1200. MOONDOG’S. 8th Street Rox. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. MOUSETRAP. The Dave Iglar Band. Beaver. 724-796-5955. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Marianas Trench w/ Mainland. Millvale. 412-821-4447. PAYNE HILL GRILLE. Daniels & McClain. Clairton. 412-405-8561. RIVERS CASINO. On the Level. North Side. 412-231-7777. SECRETS. King’s Ransom. West Mifflin. 412-896-6772. SMILING MOOSE. Horehound, King Dead, Foghound, Midnight Chaser. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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Each week we bring you a song from a local musician. This week’s track comes from hip-hop artist Lights La Soul. Stream or download “Faithful” from the new EP Elevator Music, at FFW>>, our music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance Party The Night Shift DJs. Obsidian: gothic/industrial dancing. South Side. 412-431-5282. RIVERS CASINO. DJ Rambo. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.

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WED 10 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.

Son Lux

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ALTAR BAR. ORieL & The Revoluters, Ras Maisha, Neil Amos, Truth & Rites, Jah Ques, Ayana, Zapollogy & Banga, African Dance & Drum Ensemble, Joe Bischoff. Pittsburgh’s premier Reggae Festival. Strip District. 412-263-2877. SERBIAN CLUB. The Flow Band. South Side. 412-431-9351.

COUNTRY THU 04 ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

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STAGE AE. Kid Cudi. North Side. 412-229-5483.

NIED’S HOTEL. Slim Forsythe w/ Cledus & the Cadillacs. Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

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FRI 05 NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Jim Adler w/ John Gresh’s Gris Gris. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

SAT 06 TUGBOAT’S. Jason Born Trio. East Pittsburgh. 412-829-1992.

The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side

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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PITTSBURGH. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-477-9842.

Savages

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Jim Adler w/ Gris Gris. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

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

FRI 05 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Ultimate Oscars. Music from films like “Titanic,” “Schindler’s List,” “The Godfather,” “Avatar,” “Star Wars” & more, w/ guest conductor Lawrence Loh & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Student Chorale. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

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Brand New

THU 04 ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani. Downtown. 412-773-8800.

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Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side

THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every Saturday, a different band. Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Spanky Wilson. Downtown. 412-773-8800. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander. Downtown. 412-391-1004. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. New View Trio w/ George Jones, Max Leake & Anton Defade. North Side. 412-904-3335. PARLAY LOUNGE. RML Jazz. Washington. 412-370-9621. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. The Cadillac Club. Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

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Son Lux

ELWOOD’S PUB. Bob Nethen. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. THE LAMP THEATRE. Dallas Marks. Irwin. 724-367-4000.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Ben Goldberg’s Invisible Guy Trio. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

CLADDAGH IRISH PUB. Weekend at Blarneys. South Side. 412-381-4800. ELWOOD’S PUB. Doc & Tina. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. MIXTAPE. Katie Zeak & Chris Ehrenberger of Juniper Six. Garfield. 724-366-2539.

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OAKS THEATER. RML Jazz. Oakmont. 412-370-9621. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange w/ Thoth Trio. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. ANDYS WINE Judi Figel. Downtown. BAR. Tania Grubbs. . w ww per 412-773-8884. Downtown. a p ty ci h pg NOLA ON THE 412-773-8800. .com SQUARE. RML Jazz. CIOPPINO SEAFOOD Downtown. 412-370-9621. CHOPHOUSE BAR. Jerry & Louis Lucarelli, Sunny Sunseri, Ron Scholl w/ Samantha St. John. Strip District. 412-281-6593. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. THE CLUB BAR & GRILL. Scott & Rosanna. Robinson. Tubby Daniels. Monroeville. 412-489-5631. 412-728-4155. ELWOOD’S PUB. West Deer JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Bluegrass Review. Rural Ridge. & SPEAKEASY. Nevada Color, 724-265-1181. The Commonheart, Balloon Ride RIVERS CASINO. No Bad JuJu. Fantasy & Chase The Monkey. North Side. 412-904-3335. North Side. 412-231-7777.

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WED 10 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays. North Side. 412-321-1834. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

REGGAE THU 04 ATRIA’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN. The Flow Band Reggae Rockers. North Side. 412-322-1850.

FRI 05 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo

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OTHER MUSIC THU 04 CHATHAM UNIVERSITY EDEN HALL CAMPUS. Eden Hall Bluegrass Jam. All acoustic instruments and ability levels welcome. Eden Hall Lodge dining area. Gibsonia. 412-365-1450. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. The Way Down Wanderers. Shadyside. 412-361-0873.

FRI 05 ATLAS BOTTLE WORKS. Haygood Paisleys, Casual Hobos, Lone Pine String Band. Lawrenceville. 412-904-4248. RIVERS CASINO. Backseat Driver. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SAT 06 BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER. Grand Bon Rien. West Homestead. 412-247-6604. PITTSBURGH CAPA. River City Brass plays Bollywood & Hollywood. Downtown. 800-292-7222.

WED 10 WILLIAM PITT UNION. Donald Sosin. Oakland. 412-624-8519.

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SAT 06 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Fiddlesticks & dancers from Attack Theatre join w/ PSO to move to music from Piazzola’s Tango & Prokofiev’s Cinderella, along w/ many others. Heinz Hall, Downtown. Ultimate Oscars. Music from films like “Titanic,” “Schindler’s List,” “The Godfather,” “Avatar,” “Star Wars” & more, w/ guest conductor Lawrence Loh & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Student Chorale. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. THE SEBASTIANS. Synod Hall, Oakland. 412-361-2048.

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SUN 07 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Ultimate Oscars. Music from films like “Titanic,” “Schindler’s List,” “The Godfather,” “Avatar,” “Star Wars” & more, w/ guest conductor Lawrence Loh & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Student Chorale. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

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HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 4 Cabaret

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-4800. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through Feb. 7.

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MONDAY 8 Reel Big Fish

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

First Date

CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: pittsburghclo.org. Through April 24.

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HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. Through Feb. 7.

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Instead of Sleeping

SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

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CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side.

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HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9p.m.

Kid Cudi

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

Viola Formica CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 6:30p.m.

SATURDAY 6 Stomp

THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 5p.m. & 9p.m.

Tropidelic

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

Caspian

CATTIVO Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Marianas Trench - The Hey You Guys!! Tour

Skizzy Mars “Alone Together Tour”

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447. All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

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THE FILMS TYPICALLY COVER TOUGH TOPICS

ROUGH SEAS {BY AL HOFF} In real life, the U.S. Coast Guard does a lot of useful and even heroic stuff, but rarely do its exploits garner the bigscreen treatment. Its last big cinematic splash was a decade ago, with The Guardian. But here comes The Finest Hours, a based-on-real-events actioner featuring a handful of hardy, salty men. In the winter of 1952, a powerful storm hits near Cape Cod, with seas so powerful that two nearby oil tankers split in half. Our tale concerns the Pendelton and the 30-some men left in the half of the ship containing the engine; the other half, with the captain and the radio, sinks.

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Dispatched from the Coast Guard station in a truly tiny rescue craft are: plucky (and newly engaged) Webber (Chris Pine), his right-hand man (Ben Foster) and two other able bodies. Meanwhile, the men on the Pendelton grudgingly rally behind crewman Sybert (Casey Affleck), whose plan is to run the half-ship into a sand bar and hope for the best. If you’ve seen the movie poster, you already know that despite darkness, lack of navigation and communication tools, gigantic waves and hellacious weather, these two sets of square-jawed, can-do men find each other. Like a lighthouse in a storm, Craig Gillespie’s film shows flashes of being decent entertainment. Affleck and Pine bring sturdiness to their largely pro-form roles. The digitally created wild weather has its moments of awe, though in other scenes, it is quite ridiculous. And there are hints of what might have been dramatic material better fleshed out, such as the fraught lives of those left on land, and the dynamics of the hierarchical organizations when circumstances upend the playbook. Finest Hours also has a big, emotional symphonic score which is distracting; why not go with the freaky and tensionbuilding sounds of howling storm and a sinking ship buffeted by waves? But if you need a film the whole family can see and feel good about, this Coast Guard rescue was one for the history books. Be sure to sit through the credits to see the archival photos of the real-life rescuers and rescued. In 3-D, in select theaters

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Clockwise, from upper left: “Body Team 12,” “Last Day of Freedom,” “Chau, Beyond the Lines” and “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah”

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makers presents the Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Films. These typically cover tough topics, and this year is no exception — though it should be noted these films seek out the positive side of humanity as much as they document its tragedies. The documentary shorts will screen weekends in February at the Melwood. (You can still catch the other two Oscars shorts programs: The live-action and animated films play at Regent Square through Feb. 11, then move to the Harris, for a run through Feb. 18.) The total running time is 162 minutes, to be screened with an intermission. Chau, Beyond the Lines (USA/Vietnam, 34 min.). Chau is a Vietnamese teenager, living in a care home for children, who were born with deformities as a result of Agent Orange. His dream is to be an artist, but with his twisted limbs, even the simplest drawing takes him days to accomplish. Courtney March’s film follows Chau through his early adult years, as he leaves the home and tries to fulfill his goal. Last Day of Freedom (USA, 32 min.). Dee

Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman’s ﬁlm takes the form of an animated work, as Bill Babbitt narrates the life story of his brother, Manny, who returned from Vietnam with PTSD. Manny later killed a woman, was convicted and executed by the state. Babbitt’s deeply personal narrative illuminates broader and still contentious issues, such as veterans in crisis, an unequal justice system and capital punishment.

OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS In English, and various languages, with subtitles Feb. 5-7, Feb. 12-14 and Feb. 19-20. Melwood

CP APPROVED Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (USA, 40 min.) Adam Benzine interviews the French ﬁlmmaker about the process of making Shoah, Lanzmann’s landmark 10hour 1985 documentary about the Holocaust. There is some interesting behind-thescenes material (how the crew used hidden cameras, and the process of tracking down scattered survivors). Lanzmann also reﬂects

on the gargantuan undertaking, and its painful impact on him: “It didn’t relieve me from anguish.” A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Pakistan, 40 min.). Sharmen ObaidChinoy’s work examines “honor killings” through the case of one young Pakistani girl, who was shot and dumped in a river by her father and uncle. Her crime: marrying a boy deemed beneath the family’s standing, thus besmirching the reputation of her father. She’s lucky in that she survives, but less so in seeking justice, where cultural mores trump criminal laws. Body Team 12 (Liberia, 13 min.) The worst part about collecting the bodies claimed by the Ebola virus isn’t the transporting of the dead, but the comforting of the living. A team of Red Cross workers plead with grieving relatives to give up the body, so it can be safely disposed of and prevent more infections. It is unimaginably tough work, but the young Liberian woman proﬁled by director David Darg shoulders the burden as a patriotic duty — an investment in a better, stronger future for her country.

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THE CHOICE. This year’s Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation finds a pair of young lovers (Teresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker) living in a small coastal town (natch) and facing some of life’s challenges (natch). Ross Katz directs. Starts Fri., Feb. 5 HAIL, CAESAR! An ensemble cast, including Josh Brolin, George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, romps through this Coen brothers comedy, set in the 1950s and following the travails of a Hollywood studio “fixer.” Starts Fri., Feb. 5 45 YEARS. Just five days before an English couple will host a party to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, a small occurrence casts worrisome shadows over the seemingly sunny relationship. Geoff (Tom Courtenay) receives a letter stating that the body of his long-ago German girlfriend has been found; she had fallen into a crevasse during an Alpine hike. Inconsequential news, perhaps — his wife, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) already knew of the accident. But the arrival of the letter causes Geoff to root around in his memory (and his stored-away boxes in the attic), and then behave rather peevishly. Kate carries on party-planning (brave face to the world, and all that), while Geoff’s manner causes her to recalibrate their relationship — specifically, whether she meant as much to Geoff as she had once assumed. It’s a slow burn of a domestic crisis, less an unraveling of a relationship, than one that suffers an injury. But it’s no less heartbreaking and perhaps even more devastating. Director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, HBO’s Looking) has a gift for illuminating the nuances of human behavior with small everyday moments and casual conversation. And for his leads, he has two pros, with Rampling doing fantastic work here. Starts Fri., Feb. 5 (Al Hoff)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. Burr Sears directs this adaptation of the 2009 parodic novel, which finds the ladies of the classic Jane Austen comedy of manners dealing with bigger problems than courtship. Inconveniently, there is an army of undead stalking the countryside. Lily James, Sam Riley and Lena Hedley star. Starts Fri., Feb. 5

ONGOING OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS. A 91-minute program, with the five films in contention, plus four others. Standouts include: the Russian tale of a friendship between aspiring cosmonauts, “We Can’t Live Without the Cosmos”; the bittersweet and gorgeously animated meta-text on cinema and storytelling, “Bear Story”; and “World of Tomorrow,” Don Hertzfeld’s simply drawn genre-buster that taps sci-fi, dark comedy and existential reflection. Regent Square OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE-ACTION SHORTS. This is an 107-minute program of five films. Included is a pair of gentle comedies: the rom-com-like “Stutterer” and “Ave Maria,” which explores quirks of a multi-religious area in the West Bank. “Everything Will Be OK” is a fraught domestic drama, and two films — “Shok” and

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REPERTORY DIRTY DANCING. The much-loved 1987 romance from Emile Ardolino is back on the big screen, for one night. Swoon anew as Baby (Jennifer Grey) learns about dance, love and heartbreak from local dirtyboogier Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) while vacationing in the Catskills. You just might have … the time of your life. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 3. AMC Loews. $5 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Once maligned as a “disco film,” John Badham’s 1977 work is the bittersweet story of a young man from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta). The itchy paint-salesman has a fleeting moment of transcendent joy when his dancing ability lifts him just inches out of his dull workingclass life. What lingers at the end of this film isn’t the phony shine of some typical Hollywood rags-to-riches fantasy but Tony’s dawning realization that he may have already had his one great time. Feb. 5-7 and Feb. 9-10. Row House Cinema (AH)

PURPLE RAIN. If you’ve never seen this deliriously demented autobiographical vanity production about the Rise of Prince on the big screen, consider making a date. All his purple majesty’s highlights — riding his motorcycle, pitching a hissy fit, bleating out the title song and getting upstaged by Morris Day deserve to be writ large. Albert Magnoli directs this 1984 cheeseo-classic. Feb. 5-11. Row House Cinema ROAD HOUSE. Sure, Patrick Swayze can dance, but he can also kick ass, as evidenced by this cult-fave about a bouncer working to keep order at a rough

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45 Years bar. Like the poster said: “The dancing is over. Now it gets dirty.” Rowdy Herrington directs this 1989 brawlo-rama. Feb. 5-9 and Feb. 11 (RiffTrax screenings: 9:45 p.m. Fri., Feb. 5, and 8 p.m. Sun., Feb. 7). Row House Cinema LABYRINTH. This cultish 1986 film from Muppetmaster Jim Henson spins a fairy-tale-ish yarn about a teenage girl (Jennifer Connelly) who must navigate a strange world in order to rescue her baby brother from a goblin king (David Bowie). Featuring one of the Thin White Duke’s worst hair-dos ever. Feb. 6-8 and Feb. 10-11. Row House Cinema LITTLE GIRL BLUE. This new documenCP JANIS: tary from Amy Berg looks at the life and career of rock star Janis Joplin, who died in 1970, just weeks before the release of her solo LP Pearl. It’s an intimate and moving portrait, told through interviews with family, bandmates and friends (including Dick Cavett); archival footage; and Joplin’s own words (as read by singer Cat Power from her many letters sent home to family). The film shows a remarkable talent who came up through the Austin folk scene before finding her niche in San Francisco’s bluesy, psychedelic-rock freefor-all. But there was trouble with men, trouble with drugs and, most poignantly, trouble with herself: Joplin, infamously bullied and harassed in her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, remained needy and insecure despite the fame and fortune. Whatever outlet the stage provided for her unhappiness, there was no analog in the real world. There is some remarkable TV-news footage of every teenage loser’s dream — once-mocked Joplin attends her 10-year high school reunion as a rich, famous person — but the unfulfilled promise of this redemption is glaringly obvious, even behind Joplin’s feathered headdress and brave smile. Starts Feb. 5. Harris (Al Hoff) CAROL. Todd Haynes’ mellow drama about a relationship between two women in the 1950s is a pleasure to watch and engage, although he does seem to think his clichés will deconstruct themselves. No doubt Haynes 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. It gently bludgeons us with its ideas about society’s postwar shroud of conformity and the havoc it wreaks on those who can’t conform. Starts Fri., Feb. 5. Hollywood (Harry Kloman)

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SEX AND THE CITY. Michael Patrick King’s 2008 film catches up with the four fashionable best gal-pals, who are now variously married, settled and sort-of looking. The big news is: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) are getting hitched. At its best, Sex and the City is funny and touching, just like the HBO TV series, and pleasingly familiar to its fans. At its worst, it’s five episodes strung together, like a holiday-weekend “marathon.” The acting is uniformly strong, and each supporting star has a moment or two. Parker, of course, gets many more. She runs the gamut beautifully, and Noth, so often without charm or depth as Big on TV, finally gives us reason to see why Carrie loves him. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 10. AMC Loews. $5 (Harry Kloman)

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CHARACTERS

“HERE I HAVE NO MASTER.”

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The full text of Dave Newman’s “Johnstown, Pennsylvania” reads: “The chief of police / tasered his son / at Thanksgiving dinner.” Quirkiness aside, those seeking creative line-breaks, elevated language or experimental forms might be disappointed in his 173-page collection The Poem Factory (White Gorilla Press, $11.99). But if it’s a big-hearted speaker, a cast of raggedy characters and a celebration of blue-collar bacchanalia they’re after, this is the book for them. Newman, who lives in Trafford, has been on a roll recently. He’s published two novels (Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children and Two Small Birds) and one of this reviewer’s local favorites, The Slaughterhouse Poems. While The Poem Factory doesn’t feel as well-crafted and insightful as previous works, there’s still good fun to be had. Newman’s speaker is both realist and romantic. A diploma-holding factotum, he confronts this duality in “Carpenter,” saying, “I’ve been to college / and fallen in love with language / and gone back to college / and gone back again / and still I lack good work. / My father was an electrician / with an 8th-grade education / who believed degrees / would make his children rich / and I am the opposite of rich.” It’s a career path most literary types will recognize: Bewitched by the written word, you must hustle to make ends meet. The Poem Factory is peopled with warts-and-all working-class heroes rarely encountered in poetry, and maybe that’s the point. To paraphrase a line of Newman’s from another book, “Poetry should have people in it.” Often found at jobs, bars or strip clubs, his characters can be fascinating or frightening (depending on your worldview), but they’re always human. They range from Nurse Bob, a caregiver who “forgives everyone / even those who do not ask” to Kimberly, a young widow in “The Wrong Side of the Bed,” who sleeps there “to be close to the memory / of her dead husband / … she watches / terrible movies just to see the couples dance.” Poetic empathy soars in these poems, while others approach bar-stool philosophizing. Surprisingly, the speaker’s vitriol isn’t aimed at capitalism but at ivorytowered academics who have reduced poetry to a sideshow, embodied here by a ukulele-playing Robert Bly. Instead, Newman champions the common men Whitman embraced, stating, “it’s the God in Whitman who saves us all and scares the weak and the rich and the powerful.” Amen to that.

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CAPTIVITIES {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}

dramatic if accurate title of an exhibit at the Fort Pitt Museum about Europeans taken captive by Native Americans in these parts in the 18th century. But if the show explores the fears (really, the primal terrors) that the title implies, it also sketches the context that made such captivity not only likely, but inevitable — and its outcome not always what you’d expect. Captivity was a traditional practice for members of warring Native tribes; if men were often killed, women and children were typically “adopted” by the victors. But by the 1700s, the world that European and African outsiders were entering in greater numbers was no longer an entirely traditional one. Across North America, diseases imported by earlier newcomers, from smallpox to malaria, had reduced Native American populations to an estimated 10 percent of the pre-contact level.

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Between disease and deadly battles with Euro armies (and other tribes), the Natives needed to replenish their numbers. “Thousands of Europeans” were captured, according to exhibit text. The captives’ fate depended partly on how easily the captors believe they could be assimilated. As tradition dictated, men were often

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killed — even tortured, and burned at the stake — with women and children more likely spared. Some practices were ritualized, including the binding of prisoners; the exhibit’s trove of compelling artifacts includes a rare and beautiful example of a

colorful “prisoner cord.” Among woodland Indians, adoption of captives included a sort of baptismal rite. Some adoptees were named after Indian children lost to disease or warfare. “Captivity narratives” were popular books in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Captured by Indians likewise includes a range of stories. James Smith, a laborer, was 18 when he was captured near Bedford in July 1755; he lived with Indians for four years and later became a militia ofﬁcer in the Revolutionary War. The exhibit’s three life-sized vignettes depict ﬁgures including Massy Harbison, whose children were killed by her Native captors, whom she then escaped to save her remaining child. Artifacts include an original pencil sketch by Mary Jemison, who during the French & Indian War was captured by Indians in western New York, and chose to live out her days with them. (She died in 1833.)

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Jemison’s experience was not unique. “It was a constant crying scandal that Europeans who were adopted by Indians frequently preferred to remain with their Indian ‘families’ when offered an opportunity to return to their genetic kinsmen,” wrote Francis Jennings in his important 1975 revisionist history The Invasion of America. The attractions of Indian society included a more central role for women, relative social democracy and a lack of distinction by skin color. The exhibit, for instance, tells of a female servant who fled to the Indians, saying, “Here I have no master.” Runaway enslaved Africans often felt the same. Captured by Indians, subtitled “Warfare and Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier,” emphasizes the complexity of this period’s culture. For instance, AngloAmericans who lived in the distant woods, outside an increasingly urban society, were themselves socially marginalized. Indian “adoptees” who returned to Anglo society sometimes became interpreters or guides, but were often viewed with suspicion and never fully reintegrated. And the warping influence of imperial warfare permeates all: The natives allied with the French against the British, and then with the British against the colonists. The Revolutionary War, the exhibit asserts, was “a war against Native Americans.” As a circa-1750s tomahawk spiked with iron and steel attests, those times could be brutal, and cultural exchanges weren’t limited to wampum and textiles. But the exhibit also reflects an unavoidable artifact bias: More objects survive that testify to Indian raids than to smallpox epidemics or broken treaties. Indeed, though European diseases and bullets nearly wiped out Native Americans, what stands before us — to make Europeans’ endemic fear of Indians concrete — is the Ulery family’s cabin door, riddled with bullets the father fired to protect his daughters from an Indian raid near Ligonier, in 1775. “The American land was more like a widow than a virgin,” wrote Jennings, the historian. “Europeans did not find a wilderness here; rather, however involuntarily, they made one.” Though Captured by Indians is appropriately sensitive to the Native perspective, like most of us it still uses terms like “settlers” and “frontier” to refer to intruders in a peopled land. Indian captivity is a fascinating subject, but to zero in on it ultimately puts us in cobblered shoes rather than moccasins. From a wider perspective, this can feel like focusing on street crime when there’s rampant inequality: worthy of attention, but hardly the root of the matter. Captured by Indians is good, but a more provocative exhibit might have been titled Invaded by Europeans.

As Pittsburgh continues to rack up accolades for “livability” and its food scene from sources such as The Economist and Travel+Leisure, there remains a distinct fascination with its past. Both insiders and outsiders revel in its history, and artists, in particular, continue to mine that past. Like a Body Without Skin, an exhibition of work by Fiona Amundsen at Neu Kirche Contemporary Art, takes its title from a description of a blast furnace by German conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. As the only non-working blast furnaces left standing in the area, Swissvale’s Carrie Furnaces have garnered considerable attention from artists. Amundsen, an artist from New Zealand who last year received Neu Kirche’s BACH PGH residency, uses photographs and video taken at the historic site mixed with archival images to explore “ideologically driven narratives” and the way remnants “might operate as a form of memorial.” With a background in social anthropology, Amundsen is interested in sociopolitical perspectives, sites of trauma and the role of memorials, particularly those related to World War II’s Asia-Pacific theater. Her small exhibition includes the two-channel video “To Each Other,” which combines footage of steel plants/industry with an audio recording of a woman describing her experiences as a child during the bombing of Tokyo. Having been sent to the countryside for her safety, she was reunited with her brother, who arrived badly burned, the family’s only other survivor. A comparison is made between the blast furnace with its “insides … visible from the outside” and human bodies exposed to incendiaries. Five large photographs taken at the blast furnace and four smaller photographs that reproduce pages from US Steel Magazine complete the narrative. In one vintage image, a large molten V surrounded by airplanes, ships, tanks and jeeps is underscored by the phrase “production for victory.” Amundsen makes understated connections between industry in the U.S. and bodies from a region of the world that includes New Zealand. An interesting comparison could be made to the work of an artist much closer to home, LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose very personal account of the intersection of the steel industry, the environment and the impact on bodies plays out in her community just down the road, in Braddock. Two perspectives from opposite sides of the globe, yet the narratives are similarly evocative.

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ROCKET MAN {BY TED HOOVER}

I T’S TRUE they have forever stained humanity with horror, but I’ll say this about the Nazis — they certainly spawned an awful lot of theater. City Theatre presents one of the newest entries in the canon, with the world premiere of Keith Reddin’s Some Brighter Distance. A return visitor to City (which has previously staged his The Missionary Position and Human Error), Reddin’s written a docudrama of sorts about Arthur Rudolph. You might not have heard of him, but he was one of the key engineers who created the Saturn V rocket, which took us to the moon and back. Oh yeah, he was also a member of the Nazi party and an early member of the Sturmabteilung paramilitary group. In 1984, Rudolph was outed for his Nazi past, renounced his American citizenship and went to live in Germany. Good riddance to bad news, right?

SOME BRIGHTER DISTANCE continues through Feb. 14. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $18-56. 412-431-2489 or www.citytheatrecompany.org

It’s not that simple. In the 1940s, American military and politicians knew that German engineers where light years ahead in rocket technology. They also knew that, at the end of World War II, those engineers and scientists could very easily end up in the Soviet Union. So we willingly, if not enthusiastically, brought scores of Nazis to America so we could win the outer-space race and show those dirty Ruskies who had the biggest rocket! The U.S. government always knew about

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Rudolph’s past, but only went after him when, in 1982, someone threatened to go to the press. But this is an issue that’s been debated for years (usually centered around Wernher von Braun). And that’s the problem with Reddin’s play — it’s all been covered, numerous times, in numerous plays and movies. Additionally, Reddin’s version of Rudolph is of an emotionally frozen man with no passion except for science, and making such a character the center of a play is as problematic as you’d think. Tracey Bridgen directs a jittery production that, though energetic, maybe lacks cohesion. Leroy McClain, Matthew Stocke and David Whalen provide strong support in secondary roles. Elizabeth Rich, as Rudolph’s wife, movingly conveys the disparate emotions battling in her head. And Jonathan Tindle, playing the cipher Rudolph, remains marvelously elusive and emotionally hidden throughout. I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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GIVEN THAT Pittsburgh was founded and, for a long time, run by Scottish-Irish immigrants, it’s not a stretch to imagine a link with the Glasgow depicted in Quantum Theatre’s latest production — David Harrower’s 2013 Ciara, in its North American premiere. One-time gritty industrial hubs going through the throes of gentriﬁcation are personiﬁed in the title character, a woman whose present and past are fragmented, and her future shattered. The only daughter of a Glaswegian career criminal, Ciara claims success and respectability through the redemptive power of art. Except that it doesn’t work. She is not redeemed, nor repentant, but in the end transformed. Through the 85-minute monologue, we learn of how she has been used, and how she herself

used others. It’s a fascinating evolution of character. And it requires a consummate actor: Mary Rawson in a superlative-ﬁlled performance. Her Ciara by turns is fragile, cunning, clever, vengeful, entrepreneurial and strong, even in defeat. Rawson easily evokes the off-stage characters, most of them sharply drawn men, not by mimicry but by force of memory. No offense meant, but this is not really a one-woman show. Directed by Quantum founder and artistic director Karla Boos, Ciara is a multimedia production, as dazzling visually as dramatically. The scene design by Robert Qualters (himself a superlative-ﬁlled Pittsburgh artist) is enhanced and manipulated by media/ projection designer Joseph Seamans. Together with a talented production team, they bring light, color and detail to Ciara’s narrative dream-cum-nightmare. A hand, please, for stage manager Caitlin Roper; technical director David Levine; director of production Britton Mauk; assistant director Shannon Knapp; and designers Julianne D’Errico (costume), C. Todd Brown (lighting) and Anthony Stultz (sound).

CIARA continues through Feb. 4. Javo Studios, 5137 Holmes St., Lawrenceville. $18-51. 412-362-1713 or quantumtheatre.com

As is often the case with both Harrower and Quantum — and even more so when they meet — Ciara is dense with meaning as well as difﬁculty. Dialect coach Don Wadsworth is so successful that the Weegie accent is occasionally incomprehensible. (It recalls the ﬁlm Trainspotting, another work set in Scotland that required subtitles for American audiences.) Accept and explore the challenges of Ciara, in all its humor and violence and depth. Not for the delicate-minded. I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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+ THU., FEB. 04 {STAGE} A Chicago kid named Emmett Till was 14 when, visiting relatives in Mississippi, in 1955, he reportedly whistled at a white woman. His subsequent horrific lynching helped spark the Civil Rights movement. Ifa Bayeza’s 2008 play The Ballad of Emmett Till, which premiered at Chicago’s famed Goodman Theatre, won the national Edgar Award for best play. New Horizon Theater stages the Pittsburgh premiere of this “part history and part ghost story,” directed by veteran Louisville, Ky.based theater artist Lundeana M. Thomas. Bill O’Driscoll 7:30 p.m. Continues through Feb. 14. 4060 Allequippa St., Oakland. $15-20. 412-431-0773 or newhorizontheater. yahoo.com

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calls its biggest show of the year. Five, a collaboration between Kiesha Lalama and Point Park dance-department chair Rubén Graciani, is a world-premiere contemporary work about resilience and perseverance, performed to classical music live by the Bach Choir. Veteran choreographer Graciani danced with troupes including the Mark Morris Dance Group. The nationally known Lalama, whose credits include 2009’s acclaimed The Bench, is resident choreographer

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of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. BO 8 p.m. Continues through Feb. 14. 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $20-24. 412-392-8000 or www. pittsburghplayhouse.com

{EXHIBIT} Swing your partner ’round and woo them with scientific knowledge on courtship rituals at The Birds & the Bees … After Dark, at the Carnegie Natural History Museum. The night features a squaredancing tutorial from Steel City Squares, plus exhibits on animal mating habits and “dating” in ancient civilizations. There are also opportunities to learn about natural aphrodisiacs and taste-test different types of honey. Admission includes access to the museum’s regular exhibits. There’s no better way to get it on than with science and drinks. Courtney Linder 6 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $13.50-15. 412-622-3131 or www. afterdark.carnegiemnh.org

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resorts (from the Riveria to the Alps) and the heady world of automobile racing. See for yourself at the Frick Art & Historical Center’s new exhibition, Fast Cars and Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue, opening today. Al Hoff Through May 15. 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. 412-371-0600 or www.thefrickpittsburgh.org

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{VARIETY} Once upon a time, musician Liss Victory and comedian Krish Mohan had their first date, at Hambone’s Pub. Then they fell in love — and took their talents elsewhere. But tonight, this selfdescribed “interracial, cross-genre, mixedmedia couple,” now based in Washington, D.C., return with their Transcontinental Variety Show. The evening includes the nationally touring Mohan’s comedic observations on race, religion and immigration (he was born in India) and Victory’s acoustic protest songs. Also on the bill are Midge Crickett on cello, and standup comedy by Zach Funk. Ian Insect hosts. BO 9 p.m. 4207 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5. 412-681-4318

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Fri., Feb. 5, is a good night for gallery-crawling the eastern neighborhoods, with Unblurred on Penn Avenue and, just minutes away, Shadyside’s First Fridays Artwalk. But aficionados of glass art get a special two-fer, with new shows opening at both Pittsburgh Glass Center and Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Each exhibit is a sequel of sorts. PGC opens Lifeforms 2016, reprising the concept of its 2013 show inspired by the thousands of glass biological models that Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka made for Harvard University starting in 1886. The juried show (organized with help from Florida-based glass artist Robert Mickelson) features 55 works drawn from nearly 200 entries from the U.S. and 15 other countries, with artistic but scientifically accurate renderings of animals, insects, plants and micro-organisms. Morgan Contemporary, meanwhile, offers 3d@mgg2, the sequel to last year’s winter show for local artists working in any 3-D medium, whether glass, metal, fiber, wood or ceramic. There’s even crossover appeal between the two galleries: The eight artists in 3d@mgg2, chosen by gallery director Amy Morgan, include Pittsburgh Glass Center education and creative projects coordinator Jason Forck. Bill O’Driscoll 3d@mgg2 reception: 5:30-8:30 p.m. (exhibit continues through March 26; 5833 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside; free; www.morganglassgallery.com). Lifeforms reception: 6-9 p.m. Fri., Feb. 5 (exhibit continues through May 15; 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship; free; www.pittsburghglasscenter.org).

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+ TUE., FEB. 09 {MUSIC} Celebrate Mardi Gras with sultry tangos and Latin jazz, courtesy of Resonance Works’ performance of CARNIVAL! Within the cozy confines of The Cloakroom, intimately experience the harmony of the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. Along with the music, treat yourself to a Fat Tuesdayinspired menu, including a king’s cake. Add a little spice to this special Tuesday. CL 7 p.m. 124 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. $10. 412-501-3330 or www.ResonanceWorks.org

+ THU., FEB. 11 {WORDS} What do meditations, memoir, poetry and essay hold in common? All are part of Rachel Zucker’s recipe for storytelling. As a part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, Zucker will host a free talk at Pitt. Zucker’s style typically blends expansive, lyrical lines into commentary — most recently, she published MOTHERs, which tells the story of her many surrogate mothers. Among her accomplishments, Publishers Weekly named Museum of Accidents one of the five best poetry books of 2009. Share in profound narrative and insight at the Frick Fine Arts Building tonight. CL 8:30 p.m. 650 Schenley Drive, Oakland. Free. 412-624-6508 or www.pghwriterseries. wordpress.com

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THEATER ALEXANDER & THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY. Presented by Stage 62. Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 6, 12 & 4 p.m., Sat., Feb. 13, 2 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 14, 2 p.m. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-429-6262. ASSASSINS. A musical about the lives of 9 individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States. Presented by Split Stage Productions. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru Feb. 6. Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, Greensburg. 724-836-1757. THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL. The story of the life of Emmett Till. Thu, Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat, 3 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 3 p.m. Thru Feb. 14. Falk School, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland. http://www. newhorizontheater.org. CABARET. Cliff Bradshaw, an American author working on a novel in Berlin, encounters Sally Bowles at the Kit Kat Klub where

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from growing up in the 50s & 60s, married life, raising kids, to the changes that he has seen in American life from his vantage point as a first rate comic. 5:30 p.m. South Hills Bible Chapel, McMurray. 412-937-1500. SPEECH IMPEDIMENT MAN, HIGH REGISTER SEAN, ZACK HUDAK, W/ MEDICATED PETE. 10 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-431- 4668. TOM ANZALONE, MARK RICCADONNA, DAVID KAYE. 7:30 p.m. St. Gregory Byzantine Catholic Church, Upper St. Clair. www.slapstickproductions.com.

SAT 06 HARI KONDABOLU. 6:30 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Building, Oakland. 626-390-2538. MARK RICCADONNA, TOM MUSIAL, MIKE SASSON. 7:30 p.m. Port Vue Fire Hall, McKeesport. www.slapstickproductions.com. TOM ANZALONE, KENNY MILLER, DAVID KAYE. 8:30 p.m. Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School, Cranberry. www.slapstickproductions.com. TRANSCONTINENTAL VARIETY SHOW. Mohan’s comedic observations on race, religion & immigration. Liss Victory’s acoustic protest songs. Midge Crickett on cello & standup comedy by Zach Funk. 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

MON 08 COMEDY SAUCE SHOWCASE. Local & out-of-town comedians. Mon, 9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield. 412-682-9603. OPEN MIC COMEDY NIGHT. Mon, 10 p.m. Lava Lounge, South Side. 412-431-5282.

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WED 10 BROOKLINE COMMUNITY OPEN MIC. A community run open mic. Wed, 7-10 p.m. Brookline Pub, Brookline. 412-531-0899.

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A really good drum beat can be felt right at the center of your chest. STOMP, a band of body percussionists, make music using their bodies and non-traditional objects like brooms, chairs, pipes and even paint cans. This long-running show adds new pieces as it grows, striving to blend sounds with dance for an athletic, ear-pleasing performance. 5 and 9 p.m. Sat., Feb. 6. The Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg. $33-49. www.palacetheatre.org

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 & CONTINUES ON PG. 38

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VISUALART “Bridges: Untitled I” (oil, watercolor, graphite, 2015), by Ramon Riley. From the exhibition, The 15th Annual Art Inter/National Exhibition, at BoxHeart Gallery, Bloomfield.

NEW THIS WEEK FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Fast Cars & Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue. A 125 photos that document the life in the Belle-Époque & early-20th-century France. Opening reception Feb. 10. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. MONROEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Close to Home. An exhibition by Murrysville resident & artist Bob Bickers. Opening reception Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m. Monroeville. 412-372-0500. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. 3d@mgg2. Local glass artists will be joined by artists working in various 3d media –metal, fiber, wood & ceramic. The artists include brian engel, edric florence, jason forck, glen gardner, rae gold, laura beth konopinski, kevin o’toole, michael smithhammer & laura tabakman. Opening reception Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. MOST WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Power(ed) by Grace: The Sankofa Series. The event is part of the Unblurred: First Fridays Gallery Crawl on Penn Ave., Feb. 5. Garfield. 412-328-4737. NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Winter Blues Art Show. W by local amateur & professional artists in oil, pastel, watercolor, fiber, stoneware & other media. Opening reception Feb. 6, 7 p.m. Ross. 412-364-3622. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Lifeforms. Opening reception Feb. 5, 6 p.m. An exhibition of the best biological glass models made in the spirit of the famous 19th & 20th century models of

invertebrates & plants made by Rudolf & Leopold Blaschka for the Harvard University’s Botanical Museum. Friendship. 412-365-2145.

ONGOING 937 LIBERTY AVE. Humanae/ I AM AUGUST. A series of photographs of everyday Pittsburghers by Angelica Dass. Downtown. 412-338-8742. 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. 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. BOXHEART GALLERY. 15th Annual Art Inter/National Exhibition. Twenty-two powerful visual storytellers that are changing our world w/ imaginative imagery of wisdom,

beauty, & truth. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. 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. Paintings utilizing high contrast & perspective to create images that blur the line between realism & abstraction. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CONCEPT ART GALLERY. Douglas Cooper: Graphic Pittsburgh. 11 panoramic charcoal drawings of Pittsburgh. Regent Square. 412-242-9200. CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL BUILDING. The Cranberry Artists Network Members Show. Work from over 70 members of the Cranberry Artists Network. Cranberry. www.cranberry artistsnetwork.com. DELANIE’S COFFEE. Double Mirror. 40+ artists displaying their works. Delanie’s Coffee, South Side. 412-927-4030. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). CONTINUES ON PG. 39

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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. Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. Rare fossils, life-size models & hands-on interactives to immerse visitors in the winged reptiles’ Jurassic world. 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? Ongoing: 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. Garfield. 412-223-7698. COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ costumed guides feat. this restored stagecoach stop. North Versailles. 724-238-4983. DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement & history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park. 412-486-0563. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436. FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier.. During the mid-18th century, thousands of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans. Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit examines the practice of captivity from its prehistoric roots to its reverberations in modern

Native-, African- & Euro-American display of 19th Century communities. Reconstructed fort photographs in America. houses museum of Pittsburgh North Side. 412-231-7881. history circa French & Indian War & PINBALL PERFECTION. American Revolution. Downtown. Pinball museum & players club. 412-281-9285. West View. 412-931-4425. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG CENTER. Ongoing: tours of AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ animals, including many classes & programs for all ages. endangered species. Highland Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. Park. 412-665-3639. HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. Tudor mansion & stable complex. A Reverence for Life. Photos Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities & artifacts of her life & work. in the surrounding park. Springdale. 724-274-5459. Allison Park. 412-767-9200. RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits other Frank Lloyd Wright house. on the Homestead Mill. Steel Mill Run. 724-329-8501. industry & community artifacts KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. from 1881-1986. Homestead. Tours of a restored 19th-century, 412-464-4020. middle-class home. Oakmont. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ 412-826-9295. HISTORY CENTER. From MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s includes jade & ivory statues from Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery China & Japan, as well as Meissen movement. Ongoing: Western PA porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123. Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, MCGINLEY HOUSE & & exhibits on local history, more. MCCULLY LOG HOUSE. Historic Strip District. 412-454-6000. homes open for tours, lectures & SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS more. Monroeville. 412-373-7794. HISTORY CENTER. Museum NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters of commemorates Pittsburgh the Sky. Explore the power & industrialists, local history. grace of the birds who rule Sewickley. 412-741-4487. the sky. Majestic eagles, SOLDIERS & SAILORS impressive condors, MEMORIAL HALL. stealthy falcons and War in the Pacific their friends take center 1941-1945. Feat. a www. per pa stage! Home to more collection of military pghcitym o .c than 600 birds from over artifacts showcasing 200 species. W/ classes, photographs, uniforms, lectures, demos & more. shells & other related items. North Side. 412-323-7235. Military museum dedicated to NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 honoring military service members rooms helping to tell the story since the Civil War through of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. artifacts & personal mementos. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. Oakland. 412-621-4253. 412-624-6000. ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church Features 5,000 relics of features 1823 pipe organ, Catholic saints. North Side. Revolutionary War graves. Scott. 412-323-9504. 412-851-9212. ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion Murals. Mid-20th century murals site features log house, blacksmith depicting war, social justice & the shop & gardens. South Park. immigrant experience in America. 412-835-1554. Millvale. 412-407-2570. PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. MUSEUM. Trolley rides & Learn about distilling & exhibits. Includes displays, coke-making in this pre-Civil War walking tours, gift shop, industrial village. West Overton. picnic area & Trolley Theatre. 724-887-7910. Washington. 724-228-9256. WILLIAM PITT UNION. Erroll PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & Garner Exhibition. The display BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 indoor will feature materials from the rooms & 3 outdoor gardens Erroll Garner archive. Oakland. feature exotic plants & floral 412-648-7814. displays from around the world. Orchid & Tropical Bonsai Show. A display of orchids & bonsai. Garden Railroad. Model trains chug through miniature landFIVE. Five takes us inside the scapes populated w/ living plants, minds & senses of the dancers whimsical props & fun interactive to reflect on the difficult buttons. Runs through Feb. 28. choices we make every day. Tropical Forest Congo. An exhibit Performed w/ a live choir. Sat, highlighting some of Africa’s Sun, 2 & 8 p.m. and Fri, 8 p.m. lushest landscapes. Oakland. Thru Feb. 14 Pittsburgh Playhouse, 412-622-6914. Oakland. 412-392-8000. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. FIESTA FLAMENCA. Music, Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on glass, dance, singing, food & wine. Presented by Flamenco Pittsburgh. many hand-painted. The largest

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Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FRICK FINE ARTS BUILDING. Studio Arts Summer 2015 Creative Research Exhibition. Artwork by five studio arts majors. Oakland. www.haa.pitt.edu. GALLERIE CHIZ. Not Enough Time. Inside The Artists’ Studios. Artist/Owner Ellen Chisdes Neuberg moves her studio into the gallery for six weeks & paints live during regular business hours. Shadyside. 412-441-6005. THE GALLERY 4. Redfishbowl Collective Artists’ Showcase. Recent Works from the Redfishbowl Collective. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. HOLOCAUST CENTER OF PITTSBURGH. In Celebration of Life: Living Legacy Project. A photographic/ multimedia exhibit honoring & commemorating local Holocaust survivors. North Side. 412-421-1500. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. Jane Haskell: Drawing in Light. An exhibition of 30 sculptures, paintings & drawings by the artist. Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010. MARTHA GAULT ART GALLERY. A Collaboration of Creativity, Two Masters: David C. Driskell Master Artist & Curlee R. Holton Master Printmaker. Works on paper from their collaboration over 10 years, artistic careers, in mediums including aquatint, collage, drawing, etching, lithograph & serigraph. Slippery Rock. 724-738-2020. MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works

by Turrell, Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. Factory Installed. Artists Anne Lindberg, John Morris, Julie Schenkelberg, Jacob Douenias, Ethan Frier, Rob Voerman, Bill Smith, Lisa Sigal & Marnie Weber created new room-sized installations that demonstrate a uniquely different approach to the creative process. North Side. 412-231-3169. MILLER GALLERY AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Maximum Minimum In Unum. Exhibiting artists whose work eludes maximalist or minimalist classification. Oakland. 412-268-3618. NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Like a Body Without Skin. Work by Fiona Amundsen addressing the relationships between steel manufacturing industries & their mobilization into a united national front that produced everything from planes to bombs during WWII. North Side. 412-322-2224. PANZA GALLERY. Verse Envisioned. Poems from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & works of art they have inspired. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield. 412-441-6147 ext. 7. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. Shantytown. Twelve pictures & the only ones in existence from the Great Depression in 1930s of what is now the Strip District. See touching middle-class people living in poor shacks, but taking great steps to keep their style & cleanliness intact. Plus 30,000 other photos of History. North Side. 412-231-7881. PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. In the Air: Visualizing what we breath. Photographs that show the effects of western PA’s air quality. Oakland. 412-681-5449. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Fellowship 16:

8 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000. STOMP. The 8 troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments to fill the stage w/ magnificent rhythms. 5 & 9 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

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FRI 05 CHATHAM UNIVERSITY RELAY FOR LIFE. Raising money for the American Cancer Society. 12 p.m. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-365-1519.

Projects by Ka-Man Tse & Aaron Blum. Two solo exhibitions from our International Award & Keystone Award winners, selected from an open call for entries in mid-2015. South Side. 412-431-1810. SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY. A Collaboration of Creativity, Two Masters: David C. Driskell Master Artist & Curlee R. Holton. Exhibition will feature works on paper from their collaboration over the past ten years, in diverse mediums including aquatint, collage, drawing, etching, lithograph & serigraph. Slippery Rock. 760-533-1057. SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SATELLITE GALLERY. The Invisible One. Insight into the loneliness & confusion felt by stigmatized individuals. The three artists on display present hope for awareness, action & understanding through a variety of works composed of wood, fiber, clay & mixed media. Downtown. 412-261-7003. 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. SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Poetic Logic: Collage & Assemblage. This national juried exhibition will showcase 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. 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.

4:30 p.m. Butterjoint, Oakland. 412-621-2700.

DILLA, DONUTS, & DONATIONS. Celebrate J Dilla’s birthday & help raise funds for the dessert lounge 9:30 p.m. Boom Concepts, Garfield. 412-589-1377.

LITERARY THU 04 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

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for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour. wordpress.com Thu, 7-9 p.m. Lot 17, Bloomfield. 412-687-8117.

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British spies just seem more troubled, and thus more interesting. Check out this latest import, a five-episode series on BBC America with a top cast (Ben Wishaw, Charlotte Rampling, Jim Broadbent). Catch up online at www.bbcamerica.com.

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.

POETRY & PROSE READING. Poetry, prose or original songs. All ages & stages welcome. Second Wed of every month, 7-9 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-8888.

This special bread is for sale just four times a year. Place an order for a loaf by Fri., Feb. 12, for store pick-up on Sun., Feb. 14, for your Valentine. It’s the perfect alternative to a box of chocolates. 2110 Brighton Road, North Side. 412-231-7555

“New Koch” The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer goes behind the billionaire Koch brothers’ rebranding effort to show what it’s really about: not actual criminal-justice reform or other benevolent ends, but dismantling the regulatory state and making life easier for white-collar criminals. See Jan. 25, 2016 issue at www.newyorker.com.

FREE FAMILY MOVIE MATINEE. Family movie complete w/ popcorn & lemonade. Kids can bring their own pillow, sleeping bag, blanket or stuffed friend! Registration required. 1 p.m. Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255. TINKER BELL IN THE TROPICS. Learn classic steps for each character and enjoy photo opportunities w/ the ballerina, explore Phipps’ lush Tropical Forest Congo & the rest of the Orchid & Tropical Bonsai Show. 11 a.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6915.

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CREATIVE INK TEEN WRITING WORKSHOP. No writing experience necessary. Registration required. Mon, 6-7:15 p.m. Thru March 7 Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes

topic & share ideas. First Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. RADICAL TRIVIA. Thu, 9 p.m. Smiling Moose, South Side. 412-431-4668. TRIVIA NIGHT. Thu, 7 p.m. The BeerHive, Strip District. 412-904-4502.

FRI 05 [Webs] showed the struggles I go through at home and at school. It was cool to see teenagers using music and art — drawing, acting and singing — to tell their stories. It feels so good to actually see people going through the same things that I do. It made me feel more comfortable about going on the journey to finding myself, my orientation. I was happy at one point, then I was sad, then I was laughing. I felt several tears; I didn’t want to cry, but it was so amazing. I never expected this — it was very well put-together with the puppet show and the cut-out art. I even like the name of the show because it showed [the relationship between] connection and technology.

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5-2-1-0 DAY. Games & activities. Discover a simple & fun new way to stay healthy. 11 a.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6915. CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION: YEAR OF THE MONKEY. Make art, enjoy live music & join the Steel Dragon Lion Dance Team for a parade. 1 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

How about a new furry friend? Check out the rescued and adoptable felines looking for homes, and available from this local “Cat Adoption Team.” www.facebook.com/pittsburghcat

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LARRY E. DAVIS. Book signing w/ the author of Why Are They Angry With Us? Essays on Race. 12 p.m. The University Store on Fifth, Oakland. 412-648-1455. WHAT’S YOUR STORY? An adult writing group for light-hearted stories. Second and Fourth Mon of every month, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

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TUE 09 SENSORY FRIENDLY AFTERNOON. Individuals w/ Autism Spectrum Disorders & Sensory Processing Disorders can enjoy a friendly experience in a comfortable & accepting environment. Announcement & exhibit sound volume will be reduced & sound reducing headphones will be available. Second Tue of every month, 1-5 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

WED 10 ONCE UPON A WEDNESDAY. Each week, a new fairy tale will be introduced as well as an accompanying craft. This creative program is geared for ages 4 & under, but all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Wed, 10:30 a.m. Thru April 27 Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255.

OUTSIDE SAT 06 WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND SNOWSHOE HIKE. Open to all ages. Register at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

TUE 09 YOUNG NATURE EXPLORERS CLASS. Getting kids outside, exploring nature. Pre-registration required, 724-935-2170. Latodami Nature Center. Second Tue of every month, 9:30-11 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

WED 10 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 04 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http:// citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY & THE ANXIETY OF PERSUASION. Colloquium feat. Susan Wells, Temple University, w/ responses by Jennifer Waldron, University of Pittsburgh, & Peggy Knapp, Carnegie Mellon University. 12:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-2000. BIOPHILIA: PITTSBURGH. A meet-up group dedicated to strengthening the bond between people & the natural world. Come discuss an enviromental

THE BIRDS & THE BEES… AFTER DARK. 6 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131. CRAFTS & DRAFTS: PUT A RING ON IT. Craft a copper or brass ring for yourself or your sweetheart using a unique paper template. 6 p.m. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-261-7003. 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. “I THOUGHT I HEARD”: THE ORIGINS OF JAZZ & THE ENDS OF JAZZ WRITING. Lecture by Brent Hayes Edwards, professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Rm. 501. 3 p.m. Cathedral of Learning, Oakland. 412-621-9339. IN SEARCH OF THE CLITORIS: WRITING & THE BODY IN OUR BODIES, OURSELVES. Lecture by Susan Wells, professor, Department of English, Temple University. 3 p.m. William Pitt Union, Oakland. 412-648-7814. PARTY IN THE TROPICS. Dance the night away at Phipps. 7-11 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

SAT 06 ACT 48 WORKSHOPS: ANIMAL ADAPTIONS & MORE — PTEROSAURS: FLIGHT IN THE AGE OF DINOSAURS. Workshop focusing on the amazing adaptations that enable flight in diverse animal species from prehistoric reptiles to modern birds, insects & mammals. 9 a.m. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland. 412-622-3131. BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669. I MADE IT! MINE. Shop from 65+ local artists. www.imadeitmarket. com. 12-5 p.m. Waterfront Town Center, Homestead. 412-476-8889. LOVING MY CAT. Topics will include health concerns, vaccinations, grooming, to declaw or not declaw, litter box issues & more. Registration

up. Temple Sinai, Squirrel Hill. required. 9 a.m. Conneaut 412-315-6776. Lake Bark Park, Conneaut. CALMING COZY COLORING 814-382-2478. PROGRAM. Coloring sessions LUNAR NEW YEAR KICK-OFF. for adults. Sun, 2-4 p.m. Shaler Live performances, martial arts, North Hills Library, Glenshaw. dance, music, the crowd-favorite 412-486-0211. Steel Dragons acrobatic lion RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia game dancers & more. 1 p.m. Jewish hosted by DJ Jared Evans. Come Community Center, Squirrel Hill. alone or bring a team. Sun, 412-422-7200. 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont. NFL PLAY 60 TRAINING 412-828-6322. CAMP. Parents & children REC ROOM: WINTER GAMES. of all ages will enjoy 5 floors Active & passive participation of fun football-related activities. games, live bands, DJs, more. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Senator John 3-8 p.m., Sun., Feb. 21, 3-8 p.m., Heinz History Center, Strip District. Sun., March 6, 3-8 p.m. and Sun., 412-454-6000. March 20, 3-8 p.m. Spirit Hall SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. & Lounge, Lawrenceville. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing 412-586-4441. follows. No partner needed. RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace GROUP. Exchange experiences Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. & ideas in order to gain insight 412-683-5670. & understanding of the SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE wonderful mystery of relationships. CLUB. Free Scrabble games, Come to support & be supported all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount by others like yourself in similar Lebanon Public Library, circumstances. First and Third Sun Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. of every month, 4:30 p.m. Messiah STUDIO SATURDAYS W/ Lutheran Church,West Mifflin. PATTI GALLANGER. The artist 412-853-3189. speaks to her techniques. STORYTIME ARTS & CRAFTS. 2:30 p.m. Gallerie Chiz, Shadyside. Reading ‘Over & Under the 412-441-6005. Snow’ by Kate Messner. SWING CITY. Learn & practice Powdermill Nature Reserve, swing dancing skills w/ the Rector. 724-593-4070. Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. SUNDAY MARKET. A gathering Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. of local crafters & dealers selling 412-759-1569. unique items, from home made VOICECATCH WORKSHOP foodstuffs to art. Sun, 6-10 p.m. W/ KATHY AYRES. A community The Night Gallery, Lawrenceville. writing workshop & writing 724-417-0223. space provided by Chatham’s Words Without Walls program. Sat, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Carnegie AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Library, East Liberty. 412-363-8232. PITTSBURGH MEETING. WHEN I’M NOT RIDING. Monthly meeting. Second Mon Look into the worlds of local of every month, 7 p.m. First riders off the bike w/ designs Unitarian Church, Shadyside. & artwork inspired by The 412-621-8008. Wheel Mill & other artwork THE COMPASSIONATE PRACTICE from each artist. The night will OF THICH NHAT HANH. Deborah include a gallery of the art, music, Brooks & Martha O’Grady, food, refreshments & is free members of the Order to the public. 8 p.m. The of Interbeing, a Wheel Mill, Homewood. community of 412-362-3693. monastics & lay WIGLE WHISKEY people established by BARRELHOUSE www. per pa Vietnamese Zen Master TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & pghcitym .co Thich Nhat Hanh--will 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey introduce attendees to Barrel House, North Side. several basic Plum Village 412-224-2827. mindfulness practices, lead a guided meditation on compassion & answer questions 16TH ANNUAL ALTERNATIVE about how mindfulness can SOUPER BOWL. Food & donation nurture our inherent capacity drive for Hearth, featuring Jim of healing & renewal. 7 p.m. Donovan, City Dwelling Nature Mount Lebanon Public Library, Seekers & Lofi Delphi. 12 p.m. Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. Carnegie Library, Oakland. THE GLOW OF THE SUN KING: 412-315-6776. ARTISANS & THE ASCENDANCY ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES. OF LOUIS XIV. Lecture by Learn Argentine Tango w/ the Chandra Mukerji, professor Pittsburgh Tangueros. Classes for emerita, Department of all levels. Beginners from 5-7pm. Communication, University of No partner required. Sun, 5 p.m. California, San Diego. 6 p.m. Thru Feb. 22 Wilkins School Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. Community Center, Swissvale. 412-622-3131. 412-661-2480. SCOTTISH COUNTRY BEREISHEET: MAKING DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., SHABBAT AT HOME SERIES. social dancing follows. No The genesis of a new series offered partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. by Cantor Berman for those who and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal want to learn from the ground

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TUE 09 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http://city dharma.wordpress.com/schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon. 412-851-9100. OPEN CRITIQUE W/ ALEX YOUNG. Constructive feedback on in-progress or recent work, network w/ other artists & practice public speaking skills. Artists of all mediums are welcome. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners.

AUDITIONS 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. If called back, dance call Feb. 21, 4-6 p.m. All applicants must register online at http://frontporchpgh.com/ audition-form. Pittsburgh Musical Theater, West End. 412-551-4027.

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THE CHAKRAS: WHEELS OF LIFE. Learn more about the subtle energy centers in your body & how they influence our emotions, thought processes & even the physical body. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. #FERGUSONSYLLABUS: SOCIAL MEDIA BRING THE HUMANITIES INTO PUBLIC DEBATE. Marcia Chatelain, associate professor, Department of History, Georgetown University. Rm. 602. 5 p.m. Cathedral of Learning, Oakland. 412-621-9339. A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE SYRAH/SHIRAZ. Examining a single grape varietal from a global perspective. 6 p.m. Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-8502. HISTORY OF CITY THEATRE: 40 YEARS OF DEVELOPING NEW PLAYS. Lecture w/ speakers from the City Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. www.squirrelhillhistory.org.

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A large crowd braved a snowstorm to come out to Savage Love Live at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre in January. Questions were submitted on index cards, which allowed questioners to remain anonymous and forced them to be succinct. I got to as many of them as I could over two long, raucous, boozy hours. Here are some of the questions I didn’t have time for in Boston.

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What exactly causes relationships to end? Relationships end for all sorts of different reasons — boredom, neglect, contempt, betrayal, abuse — but all relationships that don’t end survive for the same reason: the people in them just keep not breaking up. Sometimes people in relationships that need to end never get around to breaking up. I was in an open relationship once and was heartbroken in the end because my partner broke the rules we made. My current partner wants to make our monogamous relationship open, but I am hesitant because of my previous burn. How do I get over this and become comfortable with an open relationship again? Rejecting nonmonogamy because your last nonmonogamous relationship failed makes about as much sense as rejecting monogamy because your last monogamous relationship failed. If people applied the same standard to closed relationships that they apply to open ones (“I was in one that failed so I can never enter into another one!”), most of us would’ve had two relationships in our lives — one open, one closed — and then either taken a vow of celibacy or pledged to stick to NSA sex for the rest of our lives. Our choices are informed by our experience, of course, and you had a bad experience with an open relationship. Open relationships might not be for you. But it’s also possible that the problem with your last relationship wasn’t the openness but the partner. Advice for happily child-free people in a baby- and parent-worshipping world? You could take comfort in your free time, your disposable income and your vomit-free wardrobe. You could also see baby and parent worship for what it is: a desperate attempt on the part of the busy, broke and vomit-spackled (and the people trying to sell stuff to us) to make ourselves feel better about the consequential and irrevocable choice we made to have kids. I accidentally told my dad about your podcast when teaching him how to use iTunes. I called home a couple of weeks later, and Dad told me he’s been listening and Mom yells, “I’m not gonna pee on you!” It could’ve been worse. Mom could’ve yelled: “We can’t talk right now! I’m peeing on your father!” My husband and I (30s, M/F, two kids) found out our best friends of 20 years were secretly poly. And we didn’t know! Well, we all fucked. Now our relationship/friendship is fucked, too. How do we move on from this mess? People who are poly say they want more love, sex and joy in their lives — but some poly people seem to want more chaos, drama and hurt in their lives. Unless you know a couple well, or unless you’ve noticed the trail of destruction they’ve left in their wake, there’s just no way to tell what they’re really after until after you’ve

slept with them. Anyway, how do you move on? You send a note, you apologize for your part in the chaos, drama and hurt, and you express a desire to mend the friendship. Hopefully you’ll hear from them. What is the deal with a “blumkin”? Like, honestly, why? Why? WHY? They freak me out and confuse me. Take it away, Urban Dictionary: “When a man is sitting on the toilet taking a shit and has his woman come in and give him head during the act of shitting.” I’ve been writing this dumb sex-advice column for a long time, and while I’ve received a few questions like yours over the years (“What’s the deal with blumkins?!?”), I’ve never once received a question about an IRL blumkin session gone wrong. So blumkins aren’t for real, and they’re not really about sex. As you can see from the UD definition, it’s not about sex or kink; it’s about misogyny and implied violence, i.e., the man takes a shit and orders “his woman” to come in and give him head. Consensual degradation and power play can be hot, of course, but blumkins and donkey punching and dirty sanchezes — and the scared little boys who talk about them — are bullshit. Sexist bullshit. Like most gay men in their early 30s, I enjoy chatting and sending pics of my nether regions via dating apps. My conflict is that I am a public-school teacher. While I believe I have a right to a sex life, what if someone I send a pic to disagrees? Do you think I should stop? We need to pick a day for everyone on earth to intentionally release a pic of their nether regions online. It should be an annual holiday — just to get it over with and to prevent moralizing scolds from going after people whose pics go unintentionally astray. But school teachers have been fired for sexting. So … whether you stop or not depends on the degree of risk you’re comfortable with and the faith you have in the discretion of the folks you’re meeting on apps. Why is the term “monogamy” and not “monoamory”? Monogamy comes from the Greek “monos” for “single” and “gamos” for “marriage.” So the term literally means “one marriage” not “one love.” Since you can be monogamous without being married, and married without being monogamous, perhaps the term really should be “monoamory,” meaning “one love at a time, married or not.” But meaning follows usage, and an effort to get people to use monoamory would be just as futile as efforts to stop people from using polyamory because it mixes Greek (“poly”) and Latin (“amory”). We’re both over 40, married 10 years. He wants a threesome, and I’m ambivalent. He says +1 girl, I say +1 boy. What do we do? Upgrade to a foursome with +1 oppositesex couple. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Wilbur! I had a blast! On the Lovecast, Dan and The Gist’s Mike Pesca “tackle” a football relationship question: savagelovecast.com.

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books, that one has for 20 years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after 20 years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: It is like a revelation.” I foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Leaning Tower of Pisa is eight stories high, including its belfry, and tilts sideways at a fourdegree angle. When builders started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the top 10 in Italy. Its flaw is the source of its fame and glory. What’s the equivalent in your world, Pisces? Now is a favorable time to take new or extra advantage of something you consider imperfect or blemished.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Bible’s Book of Exodus tells the story of the time Moses almost met God. “Show me your glory, please,” the prophet says to his deity, who’s hiding. “You cannot see my face,” God replies, “but I will show you my back parts.” That’s good enough for Moses. He agrees. I hope that you, too, will be satisfied with a tantalizingly partial epiphany, Aries. I’m pretty sure that if you ask nicely, you can get a glimpse of a splendor that’s as meaningful to you as God was to Moses. It may only be the “back parts,” but that should still stir you and enrich you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The archaic English word “quaintrelle” refers to a woman who treats her life as a work of art. She is passionate about cultivating beauty and pleasure and wit in everything she is and does. But she’s not a narcissistic socialite. She’s not a snooty slave to elitist notions of style. Her aim is higher and sweeter: to be an impeccable, well-crafted fount of inspiration and blessings. I propose that we resuscitate and tinker with this term, and make it available to you. In 2016, you Tauruses of all genders will be inclined to incorporate elements of the quaintrelle, and you will also be skilled at doing so. If you have not yet dived in to this fun work, start now!

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wish they had time to pursue. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can harness the chronic ache. In fact, it’s your birthright as a Cancerian to do so. If you summon the willpower to pull yourself up out of the melancholy, you can turn its mild poison into a fuel that drives you to get at least some of what you’ve been missing. Now is a favorable time to do just that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How will the next chapter of your story unfold? I suspect there are two possible scenarios. In one version, the abundance of choices overwhelms you. You get bogged down in an exciting but debilitating muddle, and become frazzled, frenetic and overwrought. In the other possible scenario, you navigate your way through the lavish freedom with finesse. Your intuition reveals exactly how to make good use of the fertile contradictions. You’re crafty, adaptable and effective. So which way will you go? How will the tale unfold? I think it’s completely up to you. Blind fate will have little to do with it. For best results, all you have to do is stay in close touch with the shining vision of what you really want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To hell with my suffering,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud in his poem “May Banners.” I suggest you make that your mantra for now. Anytime you feel a sour thought impinging on your perceptions, say, “To hell with my suffering.” And then immediately follow it up with an expostulation from another Rimbaud poem, “It’s all too beautiful.” Be ruthless about this, Virgo. If you sense an imminent outbreak of pettiness, or if a critical voice in your head blurts out a curse, or if a pesky ghost nags you, simply say, “To hell with my suffering,” and then, “It’s all too beautiful.” In this way, you can take advantage of the fact that you now have more power over your emotional pain than usual. “I like people who unbalance me,” says Irish writer Colum McCann. Normally I wouldn’t dream of encouraging you to make the same declaration, Libra. My instinct is to help you do everything necessary to maintain harmony. But now is one of those rare times when you can thrive on what happens when you become a bit tilted or uneven or irregular. That’s because the influences that unbalance you will be the same influences that tickle your fancy and charge your batteries and ring your bell and sizzle your bacon.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Richard P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics. He also played the bongo drums and was a competent artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic reminders that

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuisine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, S.C., he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga. “Frankly,” he told his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.” Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting super-intense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop short of taking extreme measures. You know why. Brag about your flaws and weaknesses and mistakes. Send your boast to Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Sufi teacher (and Gemini) Idries Shah offered this teaching: “They say that when Fortune knocks, you should open the door. But why should you make Fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?” Let’s make this your featured meditation, Gemini. If there is anywhere in your life where proverbial doors are shut — either in the world outside of you or the world inside of you — unlock them and open them wide. Make it easy for Fortune to reach you. Many Cancerians harbor a chronic ache of melancholy about what they’re missing. The unavailable experience in question could be an adventure they wish they were having or an absent ally they long to be near or a goal they

sioned an adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to chart the course of the legendary Niger River. Nicholls and his crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have already found.

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SWEET AS PIE {BY CHUCK SYPULA}

THERE ARE TONS of reasons you might go to Girasole’s Italian restaurant. You can go for the savory, southern-Italian sauces or the freshly made pastas. You can go for the creative and beautifully presented meat and fish dishes, or the unpretentious but worldly wine offerings. And some go just for that distinctively Pittsburgh neighborhood buzz that fills the place night after night. While I love all of those things, I head to Girasole — the Italian word for sunflower — whenever I’m in town for “Pie.” I’m not talking about a pizza pie or a fruit-filled dessert; I mean “pie” as in paisano, the familiar Italian word for “friend.” More specifically, I’m referring to Jimmy “Pie” Gerasole, the seventy-something patriarch of the family-owned and -operated restaurant that has graced 733 Copeland St., in Shadyside, for the past 16 years.

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Jimmy “Pie” Gerasole

morphs into someone vaguely familiar. Perhaps he reminds you of your grandfather — with that playful glimmer in his eye — whose wisdom you so always admired. Perhaps you think about your father who always had a ﬁrm but kind demeanor. Or maybe it is that buddy from school who was forever getting himself and you into trouble. Or maybe he’s like that “goombah” whom you play cards with every

YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE YOU’RE ENTERING A RESTAURANT — YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE COMING HOME FOR SUPPER. Pie doesn’t chef. Those duties are in the remarkably capable hands of Jennifer Hagar Gerasole, wife of his son, Gino. Pie doesn’t serve. Those challenging duties are ably performed by his son, Vito, and a vibrant and loyal professional wait staff. Nor is Pie even remotely responsible for the inviting ambiance of this long-established eatery. That’s the domain of his ebullient wife of 41 years, Patti Caracciolo Gerasole. Pie serves as Girasole’s ever-present maître d’, although that title doesn’t quite cover the duties he performs. For example, when you walk in, you’re not greeted with the obligatory “May I help you,” but rather Pie’s distinctive: “Hey comp,” — which is short for compare, a friend or neighbor in southern Italian dialects — “how yinz doin’?” More regular customers may get a “Where yinz been?,” a sincere expression of Pie’s genuine concern for their well-being. He makes you feel like he’s been up countless sleepless nights worrying about you since your last visit. And honestly, he just may have been. He is a caring man; you want to hug him as if he were that beloved uncle you haven’t seen in years. And if you do ever get that hug, consider yourself family. I think what draws me and others to Pie Gerasole are his boyish good looks and his kind, expressive face. He seemingly

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Tuesday night. You’re not related to Pie, but it still feels like family. You don’t feel like you’re entering a restaurant — you feel like you’re coming home for supper. Pie comes from a different era of Pittsburgh. His Pittsburgh had Harold Bettor’s jazz club on Walnut, Walt Harper’s Attic in Market Square, the Crawford Grill in the Hill District and Bob Prince on the radio. He’s of an era of “dolled-up” women, as Pie says, and of men with shiny hair, shiny suits and spitshined shoes. And while it appears he’d be more comfortable in another era, time has not passed him by. Indeed, Pie is timeless, a character that transcends every era; a man dedicated to his work and who is passionate about his family. For Pie, Girasole is both. So, sure, you may ﬁrst go to the restaurant for the unique cavatelli in a brown-butter sauce with lamb meatballs, or the sumptuous spinach-and-ricotta ravioli adorned with a tomato cream sauce, but it will be Pie who will always bring you back. INF O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

Chuck Sypula is a Mon Valley native and entrepreneur who has spent the past 40 years working in Washington, D.C.

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