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3.12 – 10am SENSORY-FRIENDLY EVENT FOR TEENS Join The Warhol for a sensory-friendly program designed specifically for teens 14 to 18 with autism spectrum disorders and those with sensory sensitivities. To register contact Leah Morelli at morellil@warhol.org or call 412.237.8389. FREE
Son Lux 4.9 – 8pm The Warhol entrance space | FREE parking in The Warhol lot This performance is standing room only | Tickets $15/$12 Members & students | visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
3.24-26 BUNCHER FAMILY FREE DAYS The Jack Buncher Foundation is sponsoring three days of free museum admission during Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Spring Break. FREE admission
The Warhol welcomes back the composer and producer Ryan Lott (aka Son Lux), returning as a trio with guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. His first three albums (on Joyful Noise Records), earned him various year-end awards, including NPR’s Best New Artist in 2008. Lott’s wide range of collaborators include Richard Perry (Arcade Fire), Beyoncé producer Boots, Sufjan Stevens, Vijay Iyer, and Nico Muhly.
4.2 – 10am HALF-PINT PRINTS Silkscreen printing activity for families with children ages 1 to 4 years. Free with museum admission
An Evening with
Dawn of Midi 4.16 – 8pm The Warhol entrance space | This performance is standing room only | Tickets $15/$12 Members & students visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
The Warhol welcomes Dawn of Midi, a Brooklyn-based acoustic ensemble made up of Aakaash Israni from India on double bass, Amino Belyamani from Morocco on piano, and Qasim Naqvi from Pakistan on drums. The trio met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006 and developed a unique musical aesthetic that can sound deceptively electronic and computergenerated, involving repetition of phrases and entrancing rhythms. On the trio’s record Dysnomia (released by Erased Tapes), they favor composition over improvisation and employ rhythms from North and West African folk traditions. N E W S
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3.31 – 8pm BEDROOM COMMUNITY WHALE WATCHING TOUR 2016 FEATURING NICO MUHLY, BEN FROST, SAM AMIDON AND VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music. Tickets $20/$15 Members & students
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4.2 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: ENSEMBLE LINEA The Warhol entrance space Co-presented with the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music. FREE parking in The Warhol lot Advance Tickets: $15/$10 students; visit www.music.pitt.edu/tickets or call 412.624.7529
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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The documentary, Fursonas, premieres in Pittsburgh this week, and we sat down with director and furry Dominic Rodriguez, as well as local furry and film subject Boomer the Dog for a Q&A. Read an excerpt on page 55 and see the full video interview at www.pghcitypaper.com.
We visit the Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, hear from the reporter who broke the Flint water-crisis story and eat lunch with the creator of the Pittsburgh Lenten Fish Fry Map. Listen at bit.ly/citypaperpodcast or subscribe on iTunes.
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Pennsylvania’s medical-marijuana law will finally be decided. Over the past two years, the bill has been debated and stalled; it’s even passed the state Senate twice without ever being brought forward for debate on the state House floor. And while the bill will come up for a debate and probably a vote during the next legislative session, which begins March 14, relief for sick Pennsylvanians could be a long way off even if it passes. As City Paper reported in February, a bipartisan House committee has made recommendations on Senate Bill 3, the medical-cannabis legislation that already cleared the Senate. And last week, Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (RBradford Woods), a staunch opponent of
medical marijuana, told reporters that he is ready to have the bill debated on the House floor on March 14.
Passage of Pennsylvania’s medical-marijuana law won’t mean immediate relief for suffering patients {BY RYAN DETO} However, even if the bill passes, patients could wait two to three years to actually receive Pennsylvania-regulated cannabis medication, according to Patrick Nightingale of Pittsburgh NORML, a marijuana-advocacy organization. And while the current bill has been saddled with hundreds of proposed amend-
ments, none of them includes language that would decriminalize marijuana possession for many of those who would qualify for the medication under any approved law. “We’ve seen this theme all along,” says Nightingale. “For each accomplishment, we have another body of work in front of us. We have so much more work to be done to put together the law.” The path of medical-marijuana legislation in Pennsylvania has been a long and bumpy road. The first attempt to pass a medical-cannabis law came in 2014, when S.B. 1182 cleared the Senate by a 43-7 vote, but was stalled in the House and never reached the floor. Its rewrite, S.B. 3, passed the Senate by a 40-7 margin in May 2015 after three rounds of amendments. Upon entering CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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the House, the bill was transferred, some say miraculously, out of anti-pot Republican Matt Baker’s health committee to Republican House Majority Leader and promedical-cannabis legislator Dave Reed’s rules committee. The bill then underwent 10 months of deliberation in the rules committee, and all told, has had more than 200 amendments added on, with potentially more to come once it hits the House floor. And even if it finally clears these hurdles, S.B. 3 is not a hard-and-fast law that will immediately take effect. Instead, says Nightingale, the law will establish an advisory board that will then work to set up rules and regulations around licensing, implementation, penalties, etc. Then dispensaries need to be built and the plants need to grow. This whole process could take two to three years, which Nightingale says has not been an uncommon amount of time for states with medical marijuana. “Medical cannabis does not magically appear when the bill is signed,” acknowledges Nightingale’s crossstate cohort, Chris Goldstein of Philly NORML. But for some Pennsylvanians, like Jessica Hawkins of Beechview, patiently waiting for the bill to pass and dispensaries to pop up is not an option. Last summer, CP wrote about how the mother of two has decided to provide her daughter Antania with medical-cannabis oil because it has proven to be the best option to help her avoid the debilitating seizures caused by Dravet syndrome. But every time Hawkins administers the oil to her daughter, she is breaking Pennsylvania law. “There are lot of people that don’t understand Dravet syndrome,” says Hawkins. “Any seizure that these children have could be their last.” Luckily for Hawkins, the most current draft of the bill has a provision that says parents or guardians of minors are immune from prosecution if they “lawfully obtain,” out of state, medical marijuana to administer to those minors. However, federal law prohibits marijuana in any form from being transported across state lines. But this provision for minors does not factor in the thousands of adult Pennsylvanians who suffer from cancer, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and a dozen other conditions that would qualify them to receive medical cannabis under
the new law. Nightingale would like to see something in place “where a patient can at least raise a medical defense if they are charged with possession of cannabis.” Democratic state Sen. Daylin Leach of Montgomery County, one of the bill’s sponsors and probably its longest-standing proponent in the state, agrees. “We would like to see some protections for people in the ramp-up period,” says Leach. “If everyone knows it is going to become legal, it would be hard to prosecute some poor guy with cancer.” In 2014, Leach wrote letters to every county district attorney in the state asking them not to prosecute people who use cannabis for medical purposes. He says many of them responded that they were already doing that, but “certainly not all 67 DAs.” Democratic House Rep. Dom Costa, of Stanton Heights, sits on the rules committee that is working on S.B. 3 in its run up to the potential House vote. He says that the committee is considering further decriminalization for Pennsylvanians who would qualify for medication in the period before dispensaries are ready to provide state-regulated cannabis. “I am very hopeful it will pass,” says Costa. “And that should give people some optimism, since I am a former police officer. … [It used to be,] ‘you say marijuana, and I say arrest.’ It was an unfortunate thing.” Costa adds that once it passes, there is room to tweak along the way within the advisory board and implementation process. But Goldstein of Philly NORML, also the marijuana columnist for Philly.com, questions the make-up of the advisory board and whether the state will have the patient’s best interests at heart. He says the advisory board will consist mostly of police officers. “You want to see doctors and patients and families and advocates on the board,” says Goldstein. “Do you want to go to your police chief when you need medication?” Costa says that while police officers will sit on the advisory committee, medical professionals will also be included. Goldstein worries that Pennsylvania is making many of the same mistakes that New York and New Jersey made in passing their medical-marijuana laws. He says overly restrictive legislation has led, in New Jersey, to high costs: a $200 biennial registration fee for patients, and $500 per ounce for cannabinoid oil. And in New York, registration has been low: about
“IF EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS GOING TO BECOME LEGAL, IT WOULD BE HARD TO PROSECUTE SOME POOR GUY WITH CANCER.”
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1,400 patients in a state of 20 million. He says that problems like these can lead patients who qualify to utilize the black market to obtain cannabis, which leaves them vulnerable to prosecution. Goldstein also says Pennsylvania still averages 18,000 marijuana-possession arrests per year, and to “say that all of [the arrested] are looking to get high recreationally is a falsity.” In Bucks County, Michael and Erika Zorn were charged with possessing and manufacturing marijuana in March 2015. Erika Zorn, a mother of two and then a manager of an eyeglass store, suffers from lupus, an autoimmune disorder, and grew and smoked marijuana to treat her disease. The two eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and received a year of probation. Republican Sen. Mike Folmer, of Lebanon County, S.B. 3’s primary sponsor, says that he wants to see more protections for patients who will qualify for medical marijuana, but that on his side it is too late to add such language into
the bill. “I don’t want to do anything that will blow up the eventuality of passing the bill.” He has derided the long process of amending the bill over and over, saying, “We are still trying to treat cannabis as one of the most dangerous medicines in terms of regulations.” Folmer says that if he can support this bill, given his party and his background, then the more conservative members of the House should get behind it too. “I am a Bible-believing adult Presbyterian. This is not about being a stoner,” says Folmer. “It’s about using a plant to help people’s quality of life and adding another arrow in a patient’s quiver.” Goldstein emphasizes that the time the bill spends on the House floor is important, too. He says since the two-year legislative period ends in December, if the bill does not get finalized before end of the year, the entire process will have to start over again.
“WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE WORK TO BE DONE TO PUT TOGETHER THE LAW.”
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EILEEN GRAY: Designer and Architect She designed the Lota Sofa, the famous Adjustable Table, and the Tube Light. Eileen Gray (1878 -1976) was always ahead of her time. Forty years after her death, she is still considered as the very essence of the Modern.
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LIVING WITH THE PAST Directed by Maysoon Pachachi, LIVING WITH THE PAST is a portrait of Darb al –Ahmar, a historic district in Cairo, and a neighborhood in the heart of the Old City. Across the globe monument preservation often means that surrounding neighborhoods are demolished, and people are displaced. Not so in Cairo, where efforts continue to not only rescue endangered monuments but to improve the standard of living of the affected communities, in this case the people of Darb al-Ahmar. ALL PROGRAMMING IS FREE TO PHLF MEMBERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.PHLF.ORG
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toking up during this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities might want to rethink it. Despite the decriminalization of marijuana in the city last year by Pittsburgh City Council, you’ll still get charged with a misdemeanor if you’re caught. Under the ordinance, marijuana possession would be punishable by a civil ďŹ ne of up to $ 100 for less than 30 grams of marijuana or 8 grams of hashish, which has a higher concentration of THC, the psychoactive ingredient responsible for the high. And technically, that law is in effect. However, there’s currently no procedure in place for handling civil citations in the city court system. “ T h er e is an is s u e about how citations under this ordinance will be processed through the local municipal courts system,â€? says Patrick Nightingale, who worked on the legislation and is the executive director of Pittsburgh NORML, a marijuana legalization advocacy group. Until city ofďŹ cials ďŹ gure it out, police will continue charging those in possession of marijuana with a misdemeanor. The ordinance could go back to Pittsburgh City Council for an amendment in the coming weeks. One possible solution would be to change the language of the legislation. Instead of deďŹ ning the possession of a small amount of marijuana as a civil offense, an amendment would change it to a summary offense that doesn’t include jail time, similar to disorderly conduct. But a summary offense could appear on a person’s criminal record because summary offenses must be ďŹ led on the Administrative OfďŹ ce of Pennsylvania court’s dockets. And that’s exactly what supporters of the ordinance were trying to avoid. “If we do that, it implies that the violation is of a criminal nature and not of a civil nature, which is kind of the intent of the legislation,â€? says Nightingale. “If we’re trying to protect people from having collateral negative criminal consequences associated with this, we might be shooting ourselves in the foot.â€?
Now, Nightingale is looking into whether the ordinance can be handled in the same way code violations like building-code violations are handled. He said the details could be worked out by the beginning of April. “In my mind, it would’ve been handled the same way as issuing a parking ticket. But I didn’t speciďŹ cally know how a parking ticket gets processed,â€? says Nightingale. “I came into it with a little naivetĂŠ. I didn’t anticipate there was going to be a difďŹ culty processing it through the courts.â€? Aggie Brose, deputy director of the BloomďŹ eld-GarďŹ eld Corp., who worked on the legislation, cites the case of a local college student arrested for marijuana possession as an example of why these charges can be harmful. “She got arrested, she got ďŹ ngerprinted and the next year she couldn’t get her loans to go back to school,â€? says Brose. “I just knew something had to change.â€? In the past, the punishment for possession was 30 days in jail and a $500 ďŹ ne, but Brose says these charges were usually pleaded down to summary offenses. The problem with summary offenses, she says, is they take ďŹ ve years to be expunged from criminal records. “We don’t want them to end up with an arrest record with ďŹ ngerprints. It stops them from a job; it stops them from getting an apartment; it stops them from getting funds for college.â€? But according to Nightingale and others, making possession a summary offense might be the only option. Ultimately, the city’s power is limited. Complete decriminalization is in the state’s hands. “The city’s ordinance does all it can under existing state law. Pittsburgh cannot go as far as a similar law approved in Philadelphia, as that city has a civilďŹ nes ofďŹ ce that processes such citations outside the criminal-courts system. No such ofďŹ ce exists here,â€? Mayor Bill Peduto said in a statement. “The fact is that full decriminalization of small marijuana offenses must be done at the state level, as must be its approval for medical uses.â€?
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covering the water crisis in Flint, Mich., helped break one of the biggest stories of 2015. That story, in turn, grew out of Guyette’s unusual job description: He’s the lone investigative reporter employed by a branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. His beat for the ACLU of Michigan was issues involving a state law that places financially distressed local governments under the control of stateappointed emergency managers. The crisis began in April 2014, when emergency managers switched Flint to a cheaper source of drinking water to save money. But the new supply corroded the old pipes, inflicting lead poisoning on a town of 100,000 — a mess that’s still far from resolved. Guyette, a native of north-central Pennsylvania and a 1980 University of Pittsburgh graduate, speaks March 15 at Point Park University. The talk is followed by a panel discussion including Kathy Knauer of WESA’s The Allegheny Front; Myron Arnowit, of Clean Water Action; and Brentin Mock, a former City Paper staffer now with The Atlantic’s Citylab.com. Guyette recently spoke to CP by phone from Detroit.
Curt Guyette speaks here March 15.
OFFICIALS SIMPLY ADDED CORROSIONCONTROL CHEMICALS TO THE WATER. That’s what caused this totally preventable, man-made crisis. [Adding the chemicals would have cost] a hundred bucks a day.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT OF LEAD EXPOSURE ON CHILDREN? It’s very, very damaging to infants, toddlers, kids whose brains are still developing. Lead is a very potent neurotoxin. It causes IQ loss, behavioral problems, learning disabilities. And it’s irreversible. … You can do increased services, which are Hear our w ie WHAT HAPPENS v necessary at this point, to r e t in e on WHEN A CITY IN t t help the kids deal with e y u G with r MICHIGAN IS PLACED e the impairments caused, p a P the City UNDER EMERGENCY but once the impairt s podca MANAGEMENT? ment’s there, they’re tragik e e this w You have appointed people cally damaged. with no connection to the Also, it causes miscarriages, city, with no accountability to it’s harmful to adults as well. the people of the city. They’re there It can be harmful to every system for just one reason, which is to balance the in a person’s body, including the central books. And it’s interesting to note that these nervous system. And there’s also some emergency managers are given all these science to indicate that it’s an intervast powers. They can break collective- generational thing, that some of the ill bargaining agreements, abolish existing effects can be passed from one generation ordinances. Create new ordinances. Cut to the next. Very scary stuff. retiree health-care benefits. Sell off assets. The only thing they cannot do is miss a WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING A REPORTER bond payment. So these emergency FOR THE ACLU? managers come in with one mission: When we started in December of ’13, it was Balance the books and make sure the banks considered an experiment. My boss likes to get paid at all costs. … This is the most say that we’re past the experimental stage egregious example of what happens when now. My grant was recently renewed for you take democracy away from people. another two years. The Flint story is an important story, and the fact that we were the YOU’VE NOTED THAT THE CRISIS ones that were responsible for breaking it COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED HAD STATE and bringing it to the attention not just of
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Flint, which was the primary goal, but at this point to the attention of the world — it showed that we did our job and were able to have high-impact reporting. … The hope now is that other people will be looking at what we did, and maybe try to replicate our model here. HOW DOES YOUR JOB FIT INTO THE NEW MODEL OF NONPROFIT JOURNALISM OUTLETS? Nationally you have ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization which does excellent — beyond excellent — work. … Mother Jones is another example nationally. We’re different by yet another step in that we’re an advocacy organization. For example, [other organizations] would be eligible for a Pulitzer Prize … [but] the Pulitzer committee told me I wasn’t eligible because I work for an advocacy organization.
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I understand that distinction. … People are going to be skeptical about work coming out of an advocacy organization. … We just have to be scrupulous to make sure that our work is accurate, credible and able to stand up to the most intense kind of scrutiny. And if we do that, whatever other people might want to label it, as far as I’m concerned, I’m still a reporter, doing what a reporter does. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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The Center for Mindfulness and Consciousness Studies at the University of Pittsburgh presents
STORMING THE CASTLE {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}
Mindfulness Fair
THE SCENE outside UPMC’s Downtown
headquarters on March 3, 2014, resembled something out of medieval times. The US Steel Tower was like a castle rising out of the pavement, with sentinels guarding the entrance. At the base of the structure, thousands of villagers had assembled because they’d had enough of the king’s tyranny. They wanted better treatment. The villagers on this day were thousands of protesters and the king was UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff. Often around here, Romoff, is envisioned as an evil monarch in his throne room, sitting upon bags and bags of silver and gold, blissfully unaware of or intentionally apathetic toward the problems of the peasants below. But this was no 16th-century uprising. It happened on Grant Street, and was one of the largest labor protests this city had seen in years. The protest began March 3 with about 2,000 people marching to and then piling in front of UPMC headquarters, snarling traffic and closing streets. Hundreds more returned the next day and refused to leave until there was progress toward things like higher wages and better benefits. At the time, these two days felt like a huge momentum shift in the ongoing battle to unionize service workers at UPMC. By then, UPMC employees and members of the Service Employees International Union had been staging protests and sit-ins for at least two years. At their largest, these protests would get a couple hundred people and would mainly make life miserable for the building’s security staff. Additionally, community groups joined the protests in an effort to make UPMC “pay their fair share” for the billions in tax-exempt property they own around the county. The massive protest followed the arrests of 10 clergy at a protest a month earlier. Protesters stayed all day, into rush hour, pissing off drivers. They vowed to return the next morning and they did — a crowd of a few hundred and that was growing by the minute. After nearly two years of speeches and complaints to the National Labor Relations Board, this was the tipping point. I had no doubt that this action was going to swing the momentum of this class war from the haves to the have-nots. But as the March 4 protest began, Kevin Acklin, chief of staff for Mayor Bill Peduto, read the crowd a message from the mayor, who was at a conference in Washington, D.C. Peduto stated: “Our entire city has N E W S
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heard your concerns, and I believe it is time to disband this assembly and return home to your families.” Shortly after the protest, Peduto met with UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff. The city and UPMC had begun negotiating. Then, in August, UPMC and the city agreed to drop lawsuits against each other over UPMC’s tax-exempt status. Some argued that the lawsuit was the city’s best leverage against UPMC, but Peduto wanted to negotiate without “guns pointed at each others’ heads.” But what exactly has Peduto been negotiating? Is he in there fighting for a union? Is he in there fighting to lift UPMC workers out of poverty by negotiating higher wages? While I don’t know for sure, I don’t think so. It’s become obvious that Peduto’s main concern is to ink a long-term agreement to force all nonprofits, not just UPMC, to make payments in lieu of taxes. Last August, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that negotiations were still ongoing, and that Peduto said he had demanded “a [payment-in-lieu-of-taxes] plan in place by the end of this year.” But here we sit in March 2016 without an agreement for payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT). Last week, the mayor’s office told me those negotiations remain ongoing. But does that really matter to the 3,500 UPMC service workers still sitting without a union and without a significant increase in wages? SEIU officials and workers tell us they’re still fighting. But it’s hard to see much proof. Last August, a couple of hundred folks came to a rally at the City-County Building. City Paper was the only media outlet to show. We came because workers have a right to vote on whether they want a union. But as I sit here now, two years removed from
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TOURNAMENT TIME {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} MARCH MADNESS is about to descend upon us. It’s the time of year when everyone becomes an expert on college hoops. The worst part about the Madness is people talking about their brackets. Brackets are like opinions — everybody has one. But I’m here to tell you: Nobody cares about your brackets! Please stop posting on social media that your bracket is busted three games into the tournament. Of course it’s busted: Nobody in the history of the world has ever predicted a perfect bracket. With the 68-team format, there are 147.57 quintillion possibilities — yes, that’s the actual number. Yet all of us secretly think we will be the ďŹ rst person to do it. My other complaint is about the colleges that always gripe about getting snubbed. If you weren’t good enough to make a ďŹ eld of 68, there’s very little chance you had a shot anyway. I’m not a bracketologist, so my only advice is to never pick a 16 seed. No seed with that number has ever won a game in the men’s tournament. 16 seeds are the Cleveland Browns of March Madness. Since the NCAA Tournament began in 1939, the Panthers have made 25 appearances, with seven trips to the Sweet 16 and three to the Elite Eight. Pitt’s only Final Four appearance was in 1941 and who can forget Pitt losing that 36-30 barn-burner against Wisconsin? More recently, the 2009 team almost made it, only to have its dreams crushed by a last-second layup by Villanova. The very next year, Robert Morris took those Wildcats to overtime, only to surrender to the same fate. Stupid Villanova, I strongly dislike them so much. RMU has made the tournament eight times — a very respectable number. Duquesne hasn’t fared as well; its last appearance was during the Carter administration. Overall, the Dukes have been to the tournament ďŹ ve times and have as many Final Four appearances as Pitt. That was in 1940, so Pitt’s appearance is fresher in everyone’s memory. It’s completely understandable that smaller colleges are excited just to get into the tournament. It’s a chance to be on national television and to be happy
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for a few days before getting crushed by a powerhouse school like Duke or Kansas. Of course, upsets do happen and when they do, some player will always tell the cameras how they “shocked the world.â€? Slow down there, junior — that’s a bit of an overstatement. There’s very little chance that someone living in a war-torn country is saying, “This genocide and famine were deďŹ nitely a little shocking, but what’s really shocking is that 14 th-ranked Alabama-Birmingham beat third-ranked Vanderbilt on a buzzer-beater to move to the round of 32. I’m so shocked, and damn you Alabama-Birmingham, you busted my bracket.â€? This year, Robert Morris has a losing record; Duquesne was on its way but was derailed after a season-ending injury to Jeremiah Jones. Pitt might get in, though; a recent walloping of the Duke Blue Devils at the Pete deďŹ nitely helped Jamie Dixon’s chances. Please get in, Pitt, or we might have to root for West Virginia based on proximity alone. Coach Bob “Huggy Bearâ€? Huggins will be ready with his Mountaineers. Dixon looks like he’s a suit model for Brooks Brothers, while Huggins, in his track suit, looks like a guy being brought up on racketeering charges. But despite my issues with March Madness, it is a great time of year for sports. The tournament starts next week, so get those brackets ready. Maybe you can shock the world by getting them all right. But you won’t. No one has ever received a Ph.D. in bracketology.
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On the move?
New to town, or just a new neighborhood? If you haven’t tried transit before maybe now is the time. Port Authority has convenient and frequent service to and from the urban areas of Pittsburgh. East Liberty is the heart of the East End’s transit service. Many Port Authority bus routes use the East Busway to bypass local traffic including the P1 and P3 from East Liberty’s busway station which offer quick rides to Downtown and Oakland. Various other routes have stops on Penn Ave. and serve just about anywhere in the East End of the city. Living Downtown? You CAN get anywhere from here. You can catch a bus or T to almost anywhere in Allegheny County. Groceries in the Strip District, take the 88. For all the flavor of Lawrenceville the 91 works. Nearly all of Port Authority's 100 routes travel in and out of Downtown. For more neighborhoods go to onthemove.portauthority.org and make this town your own.
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In celebration of City Paper’s 25th Anniversary, each week we’re looking back at the headlines, pictures and people who graced our pages over the years.
FIGHTING FIRE WITH NOTHING (March 9, 1994) John Hayes writes about the alarming shortage of volunteer firefighters in towns and municipalities across Allegheny County. “Dozens of operating departments cannot guarantee that even a single firefighter will be available to extinguish fires,” Hayes writes.
THIS HIGH-PRICED COFFEE CRAZE WILL NEVER LAST (March 8, 1995)
CP’s David Bothner jumps on the specialty-coffee trend in a story called “Sipsters Rule.” “There’s a movement growing, a coffee culture on the rise, and in Pittsburgh a specialty-coffee industry is percolating.” Of note: “Starbucks Coffee, also of Seattle, is building its first local store in Squirrel Hill.” Needless to say, there’s more than one now.
THIS INTERNET IS ONE CRAZY PLACE!
I think enough time has passed that I can finally say what a lot of media types around here were thinking between 2006 and 2014: Luke Ravenstahl was an asshole. But this was the week that we all had waited for. Plagued by scandals and just plain tired of being mayor, Ravenstahl decided not to run for re-election. He still sat around his office — or somewhere, he actually wasn’t in the office much — until his term expired. In the March 6, 2013, issue, Lauren Daley and Chris Potter looked at what the upcoming mayor’s race would look like without Luke in the picture. Me? I got to recount the eight hours I stood in the hallway outside the mayor’s office waiting for an announcement that the media thought was coming. So did all that wasted time make me bitter? I guess so. But in my defense, I’m pretty sure I thought he was a dick long before that. — C H AR L IE DE IT C H
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Writer Bill Waddell dives into the “dark side of the Internet,” and is shocked at what you can find “with common search engines and link pages.” Now, any third-grader who knows how to spell the word “boobies” can find porn on the Internet. But back then, all the “sex and perversions,” “government conspiracies” and people posting things that weren’t true was a whole new world. In 1997, the Internet contained fabrications that could never come true, such as Donald Trump running for president.
AN INVESTMENT FOR THE FUTURE … OR AT LEAST UNTIL 2010 (March 5, 1997) The aging Civic Arena needed an overhaul, according to Chuck Greenberg, the head of the Igloo Development Corp., a consortium formed to decide whether the arena needed to be replaced or refurbished. “We’ve been studying this in the long run,” Greenberg said,
“and it’s possible the arena could be transformed rather than replaced.” We all know how this story ends.
BILL PEDUTO BECOMES THE BILL PEDUTO (March 6, 2002) Before he was Mayor Peduto, he was Pittsburgh City Councilor Peduto. In 2002, he was a freshman councilor and a new appointee to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission. Peduto
has always been a guy to speak up when he objects to something and apparently has been so since the beginning. He was one of 50 board members on the committee and drew the ire of his colleagues when he dared to vote “no” on a plan to fund the legendary Mon-Fayette Expressway because an environmental impact study wasn’t complete. “It was like, ‘Hey, how you guys doing? I’m Bill, I’m the troublemaker.” A reputation that has proudly stayed with him.
GOODBYE, NEIGHBOR (March 5, 2003)
You didn’t have to be a child to be a bit brokenhearted on Feb. 27, 2003. That’s the day one of Pittsburgh’s most iconic figures, Fred Rogers, lost his short battle with stomach cancer at age 74. Like most media outlets, CP produced tributes to the man. “The Neighborhood was a make-believe land in which the distinction between black, white, rich and poor didn’t hold sway,” wrote writer Justin Hopper. Former editor Chris Potter wrote: “Mister Rogers wasn’t trying to sell us something — which is another way of saying that he, unlike almost everyone else, let kids be kids.”
THE U.S. HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM HAS SUCKED A LONG TIME (March 9, 2005) Staff writer Rich Lord profiles individuals suffering from HIV and AIDS who were worried that state and federal budget cuts would keep them from receiving their necessary, but very expensive medications. Lord writes, “Among the most frightened are those with HIV, which has a devilish proclivity for making people both sick and poor.”
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DAIRY AND{BYDOGS RYAN DETO} Kip’s Ice Cream, in Coraopolis, has not gone to the dogs; in fact it’s thriving. Sure, dog-themed memorabilia is scattered throughout the small space off Thorn Run Road, but this ice-cream parlor provides more than 30 homemade flavors for humans. “The original owner had a dog named Kip and they started the dog theme,” says current owner Teresa Ware. “It was such a neat idea, so why change it? In the summer, we will have a few dogs out on the porch at any time.” Kip’s theme might be hound-inspired, but its focus is on fresh ingredients. For example, its strawberry and raspberry ice creams use a fresh-fruit purée that provides a bright non-syrupy taste. The comically named PennDOT Road (the shop’s take on rocky road) is filled with moist chopped almonds and fluffy mini-marshmallows. Ware says what makes the difference is that Kip’s makes fresh batches, from original recipes, three to four times a week; the high butter-fat content of the dairy doesn’t hurt either. The names of some flavors echo the playful canine theme: Try the German Shepherd Chocolate Cake or the Better Pecanese. And bring your Pekingese, too — Kip’s makes a special low-fat ice cream that is safer for pooches, complete with a dog bone to cleanse their puppy palates. Many suburban ice-cream spots are outdoor venues and close for the winter. But Kip’s is open year-round and offers a buy-one-get-one-half-off special on pints through March. RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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Oysters are the centerpiece of the menu.
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AW BARS are great — at least if the shellfish are great — but it’s rare that one sustains an entire restaurant. Even if the raw bar is a restaurant’s raison d’etre, it tends to costar with another, fully cooked concept, most frequently fine dining or a beach-themed bar. And, save for serious oyster aficionados, those other concepts are likely to be the reason customers return. Muddy Waters Oyster Bar, near East Liberty’s dining epicenter at the corner of Centre and South Highland avenues, combines a connoisseur’s approach to oysters with Southern, primarily Cajun, cuisine. The deep, narrow space evoked both bayou shack and urbane bar, with corrugated tin and barn wood coexisting alongside subway tile. The soundtrack was what you’d guess from the name, and beer was served only in cans, but the
bright lighting and well-informed servers didn’t exactly suggest a juke joint. Instead, the good-time vibe stopped just short of party time.
MUDDY WATERS OYSTER BAR 130 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. 412-361-0555 HOURS: Mon., Wed., Fri. 4:30-11 p.m.; Fri. 4:30 p.m.-midnight; Sat. 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.-midnight; Sun. 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m. PRICES: Snacks and sides $4-7; small plates and sandwiches $8-20; large plates $22-29 LIQUOR: Full bar
CP APPROVED From deviled eggs and fried green tomatoes to po’ boys and gumbo, the menu was so Southern it practically drawled. Almost without exception, even non-Southern
dishes, such as oysters Rockefeller or Reuben, were given the Southern treatment. Since Muddy Waters puts oysters first, so did we. Our taste for oysters is far from refined, but there was no mistaking the quality, and more importantly the distinctiveness, of the selection. It went beyond the familiar divide between larger, brinier East Coast oysters and smaller, sweeter West Coast ones to highlight the subtle distinctions even within these regions. (The oyster menu changes daily.) Even casual oysterfolk like us found it easy to pick out gradations of vegetal and mineral notes, while the liquor ranged from background to bold. Assuming the quality is consistent, there should be no disappointments at the raw bar here. For the most part, we can say the same thing about the cooked items, as long as you’re not a stickler for tradition. The menu CONTINUES ON PG. 20
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may read traditional — there’s very little in the way of surprise ingredients — but the kitchen experimented in ways small and large. There was the whole-kernel corn in the fluffy — not dense — hush puppies, and spicy pickle relish atop smoked deviled eggs, rounding out to a full range of flavors, perfectly balanced. Seafood gumbo lends itself well to this kind of innovation, being a dish with as many variations as there are chefs who proclaim theirs the best. Muddy Waters’ contained a lush mix of lobster, shrimp, crawfish and fried oysters, along with the traditional rice, okra and andouille sausage. Most distinctive was the broth, dark as stout beer and heady with the commingled flavors of shellfish, smoked pork, spices and deeply browned roux. Served in a large, shallow bowl, this was a supremely satisfying all-inone supper. But Muddy Waters is not all seafood. Hot fried chicken is a Nashville thing, but here the breading was assertively seasoned with herbs whose flavor persisted through the heat (which, to be honest, could have been a bit more decisive). The chicken itself was succulent and fall-offthe-bone tender, and the bed of dirty rice and creamed collard greens played a supporting role without fading into the background. In fact, we loved the creamed collards as a Southern variation on creamed spinach. True to their character, the collards had more substance than spinach, even cooked and creamed, retaining a satisfying texture and a not-unpleasantly bitter flavor, more akin to cruciferous vegetables like broccoli than to leafy ones. Cajun crab-boil Reuben didn’t work quite as well, though it was hard to figure out why. (There’s no crab in this sandwich; “crab boil” refers to the spices in the water in which the meat, in this case, is boiled.) The pastrami was a bit lean and tough, perhaps from the round, not brisket, but even accepting that, the wonderful accompaniments of collards and pickles never came together in this context the way they had in others. Fried green tomatoes was something of a misnomer. Slices of green tomato, unbreaded or fried, alternated with slices of fried tomato, which appeared actually to be red, in a sort of toppled stack. Their flavors were wan, surely a casualty of the dead of winter, and could not stand up to the bold roasted-corn salsa spread over and around them. These flaws notwithstanding, Muddy Waters does an admirable job of re-envisioning Southern coastal cuisine for this landlocked city up north. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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WHISKEY WEDNESDAYS Prairie launches a tasting class
Last time I was in Oregon visiting a much-beloved hippie uncle, I was invited along to Whiskey Wednesdays. This tradition is a weekly gathering of seventysomething men where the titular drink is imbibed while they laugh at their own jokes and poke fun at each other’s expense. After more than a few whiskeys, I’ve wanted to transport the tradition back to Pittsburgh. However, Prairie, the bourbon bar in Garfield that rose from the ashes of Verde last November, has beaten me to it with the recent introduction of the bar’s very own Whiskey Wednesdays.
“WE WANT TO TRY TO GET A TASTING VIBE BACK INTO THE SERVICE.” While slightly grumpy uncles might be absent from this iteration, Prairie has begun hosting whiskey tastings on Wednesdays once every couple of weeks. Each 15-person class is hosted by a liquor-company representative and Prairie’s own bartenders. “The reps have an expertise in how the products were distilled,” says Prairie general manager Matt Fischer. “It helps not just the public but our staff to learn from them.” Each 60-to-90-minute session features three or four tastings, a bar snack, group discussion, questions and notes from the representative. “We want to try to get a tasting vibe back into the service,” says Fischer. For those who want a more selfdirected whiskey education, you can count on a large and varied whiskey selection to mull over. In addition to the classes, Wednesdays promise a list of American bourbons and whiskeys, served either neat or on the rocks, at a 25 percent discount. “We want people to sit down, sip bourbon and have the chance to try something new. It’s a nice way to try things you haven’t had before and not have to invest $50 in something you may not like,” says Fischer. Whether you’re drinking independently or thirsting for knowledge, Prairie is set to deliver. For a schedule of upcoming classes, visit www.prairiepgh.com. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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THE FOLLOWING DINING LISTINGS ARE RESTAURANTS RECOMMENDED BY CITY PAPER FOOD CRITICS
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1844 RESTAURANT. 690 State Route 66, Leechburg. 724-845-1844. This restored 19th-century farmhouse offers a classic fine-dining menu with intriguing updates suited to 21st-century tastes. Thus, prime rib sits alongside tempura shrimp with orange cayenne, cucumbers and bleu cheese, and the stalwart shrimp cocktail is now dressed with sofrito lemon sauce. LE APSARA CAFÉ. 1703 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-251-0664. This storefront restaurant offers primarily Cambodian food alongside Thai and a limited Chinese selection, with a menu balanced between unfamiliar and familiar dishes. For less common fare, try Cambodian puffed rice squares, or saramann, cubes of chuck slow-simmered in a thick, warmly spiced coconut-milk sauce. KF BANGAL KEBAB. 320 Atwood St., Oakland. 412-605-0521. This Indian restaurant isn’t limited to kebabs, but offers fairly typical Northern Indian selection, including some newer-to-menus items such as meat samosas and the streetsnack chaat. There is also a sizable vegetarian list and, from the tandoor, an unusually large selection of Indian breads. KF
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BISTRO 19. 711 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-306-1919. Bistro 19 fits within the upper echelon of the region’s dining scene, while keeping its cozy neighborhood feel. It offers a broad range of surf and turf, pastas and poultry. Its inventive preparations, and the kitchen’s attention to detail, make even now-familiar items such as pot-stickers and flatbreads exciting. LE THE CAMBOD-ICAN KITCHEN. 1701 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-381-6199. Having made the jump from street truck to modest sit-down venue, the owners retained their menu, so popular with the late-night crowd, of freshcooked Cambodian cuisine. Kabobs, fried wontons, chicken, shrimp cakes, curried vegetable bowls and fried noodles are among the restaurant’s staples, as is its distinctive in-house “moon sauce” and fresh limeade. JF CARMI’S. 917 Western Ave., North Side. 412-231-0100. A soulfood restaurant offers traditional home-style Southern cooking on
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ELEVEN. 1150 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-201-5656. This multi-leveled venue (with balcony) perched on the edge of The Strip is noted for its innovative, contemporary American cuisine. Dishes are prepared with fresh, local ingredients and served in a classy modern space, to be complemented with an amazing wine selection. LE
HOKKAIDO SEAFOOD BUFFET. 4536 Browns Hill Road, Squirrel Hill. 412-421-1422. This buffet-style restaurant rises above the scourge of the steam table to offer some true gems among its panoply of East Asian offerings. There’s standard Chinese-American fare, but also sushi, hibachi-style Japanese cooked to order, popular offerings such as crab legs and roast Peking duck, and even frog legs. KF ISTANBUL SOFRA. 7600 Forbes Ave., Regent Square. 412-727-6693. This restaurant offers a variety of Turkish specialties, from appetizers (falafel, mucver zucchini cakes) and bean salads to grilled meats (lamb, chicken). Try the Adana kebab, made of spiced ground meat, smoked Turkish peppers and sumac, or the small but worthy vegetarian section of falafel, grilled vegetables and manti dumplings. KF JAMISON’S. 3113 W. Liberty Ave., Dormont. 412-561-3088. A former cozy watering hole is reborn as a sport bar, but with commendable beer-friendly burgers, wings and Bacon Stix (extra-thick slices of hickorysmoked bacon, fried and balsamic-glazed). Also of note: a variety of dressed burgers in two sizes, incliding one made from kielbasa.KE LUCCA. 317 S. Craig St., Oakland. 412-682-3310. This long-standing Oakland restaurant features an updated, pan-Italian selection focused on pastas and seafood, with very little in the way of red-sauce standards or the Northern Italian clichés of the ’80s. Salads are big enough to share, pasta is made in house, and in season, there is a charming outdoor patio. LE CONTINUES ON PG. 22
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and wraps, as well as salads and homemade soups. Originality is a hallmark: “Green fries” are shoestrings tossed with pesto, artichoke hearts and bits of brie. FJ TAVERN 245. 245 Fourth Ave., Downtown. 412-281-4345. Step into this Downtown fancy-casual pub, with smart looks and tasty, updated bar fare. “The Farm” entree featured sliders made with chicken, pulled BBQ pork and steak fillet, on a potato roll with red pepper and goat cheese. The fried calamari come with a basil-garlic aioli, and the robust Yuengling beer-cheese sauce was the perfect complement to “Pittsburgh potatoes.” JE
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TEPPANYAKI KYOTO. 5808 Bryant St., Highland Park. w 412-441-1610. This paper pghcitym NINE ON NINE. 900 .co Japanese restaurant Penn Ave., Downtown. offers fare drawn from 412-338-6463. This elegant the menus of lunch restaurant and lounge offers a counters, train stations and maturation of contemporary family kitchens. From salads American cuisine, effortlessly containing burdock root and rice shifting from refined Continental balls to cabbage pancakes and to Asian fusion to ingredientstir-fried noodles, this diner-style focused invention. Instead of venue lets casual eaters expand showy creations, the kitchen beyond sushi. KE produces dishes that instantly seem right, such as miso cod or TSUKI JAPANESE RESTAURANT. thyme-roasted Amish chicken 11655 Frankstown Road, Penn with asparagus flan. LE Hills. 412-242-0188. Most of the myriad sushi rolls on offer center THE PORCH. Schenley Plaza, on just a handful of raw options, Forbes Avenue and Schenley rounded out with traditional Drive, Oakland. 412-687-6724. cooked ingredients such as eel An attractive wood-and-stone and shrimp. The menu offers the structure set in the verdant heart full gamut of maki, from classics of Oakland, The Porch offers like cucumber or tuna to truly cuisine that is modern without original creations, some of them being stark, homey without just short of gimmickry. KF being heavy. Consider a pizza dressed with butternut squash, WILLOW. 634 Camp Horne pork belly atop roasted pumpkin, Road, North Hills. 412-847-1007. or lasagne with house-made This stalwart of the North Hills chive pasta. KE fine-dining scene has revamped itself, now with a one-page STOKE’S GRILL. 4771 menu, divided among snacks McKnight Road, Ross Township. and salads, small plates and 412-369-5380. There is an art to large, that is almost universally making a really good sandwich, appealing. Choose from and the technique has been simple (spiced mixed nuts) mastered here. The lengthy menu or a carefully prepared salad, spans traditional sandwiches to entrees including pastas, but also burgers, quesadillas burgers and chops. KE
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In November, Lights La Soul gave Pittsburgh his latest project, Elevator Music. On the album, he explores the existence of his own soul, the current status of pop music, the social realities of black people and what it means to be a hip-hop artist in the light of those realities. With all those themes, one certainly finds a sense of purpose in his music, something Lights doesn’t shy away from. “I believe strongly that my purpose is to make music,” he explains. “It’s in my family. My mom sings, my uncle played guitar and toured with Ray Charles and Little Richard.” That purpose has evolved and become more acutely focused since 2012’s Fade to Black, Lights’ criminally overlooked debut. “At first I just went by Lights,” he explains, “and it was a competitive thing, like, ‘I’m brighter than you.’ But,” he adds, “I added ‘La Soul’ as a way to show how I’m trying to keep everything soulful — either my own personal soul, the soul of my city, the soul of hip hop.” Along with a sharper perspective comes new content, which seeks to elevate social awareness in hip hop: “Made a movie for Eazy-E but what about Chuck D / guns, drugs, and gangsters never did nothing to me,” he raps on “Black Sheep,” the sixth track on Elevator Music. But Lights is aware that there is some need for fun and lightheartedness in hip hop as well. “I like the message of spittin’ knowledge,” he admits, “but not everyone is trying to hear that all the time.” And that lighter approach is illuminated on tracks like “Bowl Hits and Chill” and “Smoke Partner.” “I definitely want to speak on social issues, I just don’t want to preach on them,” he adds. Whether it’s exposing the realities of his own life, the disagreement he may have with the approach of contemporary hip-hop artists, or simply providing something to bob your head to, Lights La Soul sees himself as an integral part of the trajectory of the genre. “I feel like I’m fighting for the soul of hip hop,” he says.
Pittsburgh it was opening for Justin Bieber at the Consol Energy Center. She was riding the “Call Me Maybe” wave then — a video that’s been viewed nearly 800 million times on YouTube, though its parent album, Kiss, sold barely 300,000 copies in the U.S. This time around, Jepsen is doing a club tour, hitting up Mr. Smalls, which has a maximum capacity of 650. It may seem surprising that the most memeworthy act of the century (remember the lip dubs?) is playing a stage recently populated by indie darlings Neko Case and Kurt Vile, while Jepsen’s contemporaries, like Halsey and Ellie Goulding, are hitting up the 5,500-capacity Stage AE. But Jepsen has always been a little more accessible than the average pop diva.
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Where Beyoncé, for example, is a living, breathing perfume ad — a radiant, flawless blur with a Mona Lisa smile I’ll never embody, never know as my own — Jepsen is my wide-eyed girl next door. Inspirational as opposed to aspirational. Of note: Between 2012’s Kiss and 2015’s Emotion, Jepsen’s most memorable move was starring in Cinderella on Broadway, which seems like something perpetual people-pleaser Anne Hathaway would both want to do, and never
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be caught dead doing. Jepsen feels like someone who doesn’t belong out of reach. She seems like she belongs on my sofa, gabbing about the latest episode of Broad City over a box of wine and a bag of Cheetos. But instead, Jepsen is in the New York Times promoting her gobsmackingly good ’80s throwback album Emotion, which topped a not-surprising number of bestof-2015 lists. She’s on SNL showcasing her sly, Prince-lite sensuality with “All That.” She’s in Grease: Live. Her character is not tough Rizzo or malleable Sandy, though. Her Frenchie is fallible and sweet and fun, and knows what she wants out of life, which is to make other girls feel beautiful. And, perhaps most importantly, Jepsen is singing the theme song to Netflix’s Full House reboot, which is corny and wholesome and delightful, a fitting nostalgia trip from a chick whose album sounds like it would’ve been on heavy rotation in D.J. Tanner’s Walkman. Emotion is Debbie Gibson mall-pop. Pure, open-hearted Kids Incorporated glitz and swag to Roundhouse’s smack of ironic grunge. It opens with a sultry, noir sax riff, then follows with 12 to 18 tracks of divine pop perfection, depending on your edition — I went with the 18-track Japanese bonus release, which is worth it for the resilient ear-worm “Love Again,” a very T. Swiftian way to end an album, a la 1989’s “Clean” or Red’s “Begin Again.” Emotion is throwback ham, but with assured depth, and a warm embrace of hope, optimism and ladies-doing-it-forourselves. Yes, it’s preoccupied with romance, but “Making the Most of the Night,” which Jepsen co-wrote with Sia, feels like what Thelma and Louise would pre-party to before hitting the open road. And the getting-over-it anthem “When I Needed You” evokes the tender defiance of Sky Ferreira, whose frequent collaborator Daniel Nigro worked with Jepsen on that very track. Jepsen is not political like Yoncé, nor is she consumed with assembling a glamazon squad like Taylor Swift. She’s not an icon. I don’t know who her famous friends are, or if she even has any. Perennial nice guy Tom Hanks was in her “I Really Like You” video, so maybe they’re pals who practice the Big rap on lazy Sundays. In fact, it’s really important to me that this be true. Jepsen is not the bad girl, or the innocent girl. She’s neither the virgin nor the whore. She’s none of the above, and all of the above. Like Gwen Stefani once proclaimed, when it still might have been true, she’s “just a girl” whose one-hit-wonder follow-up has gotten critical acclaim … accompanied by mediocre-at-best sales. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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NEW RELEASES {BY ANDREW WOEHREL}
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Listen to many of today’s indie-folk acts, and you’ll note the tendency to romanticize the early 20th century, an era that few people today were alive to experience. Local four-piece As Ladders, on the other hand, looks no further than a decade or so back, to the hazy days of the mid-2000s. The shiny, clear production of this three-song EP — as well as the very modern-sounding electric guitars and frontman Mike Berginc’s reedy vocals — most readily recalls I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morningera Bright Eyes. As Ladders might sound like a band caught in the not-so-distant past, but in contrast to the old-time nostalgia of much of today’s popular folk music, that’s not a bad thing.
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Even though it’s only for brief moments, Standard Broadcast’s vocalist/ pianist Nathan Jay’s voice reminds me of the ’90s, when gruff grunting and odd vocal tics were accepted hooks. (Think Better Than Ezra’s “wah-how!,” Collective Soul’s “yeah,” and countless others.) On “Me Without You,” the standout track on Standard Broadcast’s debut EP, All Comes Back to You, Jay’s growling resembles something from a parallel universe where Eddie Vedder is the vocalist of Coldplay. “Me Without You” is buoyed by a rough cello riff, probably the best moment on this brief EP. This bass-less group mixes angst with piano and cello-driven grooves, and although it’s refreshing to hear groaning vocals over something other than crunchy nu-metal guitars, in this case I have to admit that I sort of miss them. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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SWEET SURRENDER {BY MIKE SHANLEY} LIZZ WRIGHT has a voice that grabs listeners within the first few notes. Her albums bear this out. Dreaming Wide Awake opens with a spare, arresting version of the normally fluffy pop song “A Taste of Honey.” “Coming Home” kicks off The Orchard with a slow, bluesy feeling and a testament of strength in the lyrics. Wright’s low smoky alto fills these songs with a depth not normally associated with someone in her mid-20s. (Both albums came out in the mid-’00s.) Now 36, she recently released Freedom and Surrender. While the title could imply two contradictory ideas, the 13 songs prove otherwise. Likewise, the album doesn’t fit easily into any musical genre. It crafts a personal portrait by blending gospel, folk, blues and jazz in a set ranging from originals to covers by English troubadour Nick Drake and the Bee Gees. Wright’s longtime friend and collaborator Toshi Reagon penned the two songs that give the album its name and bookend the set. And once again, that voice stands at the forefront of the songs. In conversation, Wright casually mentions a recent “compliment” she received about the new album: The board members of the Grammy awards were arguing over where it should be filed. She isn’t fazed. “I think I fall more into the being-an-individual category than the being-a-personality category,” she says. “My approach to all of this [music] is much like that of a painter — and I also write essays. I am constantly
taking pieces of different stories and drawing my own theories and conclusions about them.” Wright’s father is a preacher, and she became their church’s music director at the age of 16. Her Fellowship album included a medley of spirituals (along with interpretations of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton). But her faith offers inspiration for all of her music, whether it’s secular or religious. “I have an incredibly deep reverence for the make and the story and the styles of everybody,” she says. “I truly love the canopy of humanity and all the different kinds of people it takes to make it up. I make music from a place of looking at all of us and deeply loving us.”
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She continues, “I also think it’s important as an African American, as a black woman, that I reveal the depth and the breadth of our humanity for all of us. I think we have our own way of touching it, speaking of it and showing it. And there’s something disarming that can happen, by just being authentic without really trying.” “Surrender,” a slow-burning love song, concludes the recent album with a devotional feeling, thanks to a backing chorus and rich B-3 organ flourishes. When asked if she can replicate that richness in performance without a full choir, she laughs and replies, “Good question,” before praising her bandmates’ vocal skills. In talking to her, though, one gets the impression that her pipes could have the same impact even if she did it alone. I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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One can easily draw parallels between ’70s Los Angeles soft-rockers Three Dog Night [ROCK] + SUN., MARCH 13 and modern Philly indie-popsters Dr. Dog. No, In the ’70s, the Jersey Shore Sound was a they’re not playing a concert together: That would be too perfect to be true. But both bands theatrical fusion of classic R&B, rock ’n’ roll and have a rootsy backbeat, charmingly idiosyncratic doo-wop. Since 1976, Southside Johnny (a.k.a. John Lyon) and his backing band, the Asbury vocalists and a McCartney-esque optimism that Jukes, have released bombastic Stax-influenced has made them cult favorites. Within a week of anthems that romanticize the boardwalks of each other, both of these canine-titled groups New Jersey. Honestly, Southside Johnny & The are playing the Pittsburgh area —Three Dog Asbury Jukes sound like Bruce Springsteen Night on Fri., March 11, at the Palace Theater, would if he’d never left and Dr. Dog at Stage the Garden State to AE on Wed., March 16. {PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANK UDAVAK} become a superstar. In Andrew Woehrel Three: fact, only a true snob 8 p.m. 21 W. Otterman would blame you if you St., Greensburg. $35-55. heard Southside Johnny 724-836-8000 or www. and swore it was early thepalacetheatre.org. Springsteen. See the Dr. Dog: 7 p.m. 400 band tonight at the North Shore Drive, Rex Theater. AW North Side. $23-25. 8 p.m. 1602 E. Carson 412-229-5483 or St., South Side. $45-50. www.stageae.com 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com [HIP HOP] +
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[JAZZ FUSION] + It’s not a coincidence WED., MARCH 16 that Moemaw Naedon’s Plenty has been written stage name is similar Moemaw Naedon about The Who, which to the Star Wars and Billy Hoyle is embarking on its 50thcharacter Momaw anniversary tour. (So Nadon (remember the much for “I hope I die alien that looks like before I get old.”) So a hammerhead shark instead, let’s talk about the opener for tonight’s who has about a second of screen time in A show at the Consol Energy Center. Australian New Hope?). It’s a sly reference from the local bassist and singer Tal Wilkenfeld released her rapper, because you’d have to be a huge nerd first jazz-fusion album at 20, and was subseto get it (the kind of nerd who writes previews quently chosen by Chick Corea to accompany for the City Paper). Thankfully, it’s hip to be him on his 2007 tour. Since then, Tal has played square these days, and Naedon’s heady lyrics with Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock and Ryan Adams, and futuristic beats betray a sort of all-too-real among others. Wilkenfeld not only has chops in post-apocalyptic sci-fi modernity, with nods the vein of Jaco Pastorius, but the vocals on her to alternative hip-hoppers like El-P, Company cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel #2” Flow and Aesop Rock. Tonight, Surface Level shows that her talents extend beyond the bass. Records presents a release party for Naedon AW 8 pm. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. $39.50-140. and producer Billy Hoyle’s new album Travel 412-642-1800 or www.consolenergycenter.com Through, at Boom Concepts, with guest
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ROCK/POP THU 10 CLUB CAFE. California Guitar Trio. South Side. 412-431-4950. LINDEN GROVE. Brad Bendis. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Abacus Jones Duo. North Side. 412-231-7777. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Dale & The Zdubs, The Fritz. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
FRI 11 ARENA SPORTS GRILL. Lenny Smith & The Instant Gators. North Huntingdon. 724-382-4915. BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Amoeba Knievel, Robin Vote, DRU & Amy Mmhmm, Slippy the Clown. Bloomfield. 412-682-8611. CLUB CAFE. Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin w/ The Guilty Ones, Sarah Borges. South Side. 412-431-4950.
HAMBONE’S. EgoMyth, Lunatics. Too Close to Touch, Picturesque. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. Strip District. 412-206-9719. LINDEN GROVE. No Bad JuJu. BACKDRAFT BAR & GRILLE. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. King’s Ransom. Baldwin. MEADOWS CASINO. Jukebox. 412-885-1239. Washington. 724-503-1200. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Mike OAKS THEATER. The Gathering Flaherty & Jack Puskar. Field. Oakmont. 412-828-6322. Robinson. 412-489-5631. PALACE THEATRE. Three HOWLERS. Hepcat Dog Night. Greensburg. Dilemma, The Wayside 724-836-8000. Exchange, Flamin’ PITTSBURGH WINERY. Nora. Bloomfield. Doctor Millar, Keenan 412-682-0320. . www per O’Meara, Ben KNUCKLEHEAD’S a p ty pghci m Shannon. Strip District. BAR. Tobacco Road. .co 412-566-1000. Ross. 412-366-7468. RIVERS CASINO. THE LOOSE MOOSE. Rebecca Kaufman & the Groove Gone South. Baldwin. Doctors. North Side. 412-655-3553. 412-231-7777. MEADOWS CASINO. Mirage. SUB ALPINE CLUB. The Shiners. Washington. 724-503-1200. Turtle Creek. 412-823-6661. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Jim THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Slothrust, Donovan & Sun King Warriors The Lopez, Mr. Clit & The Pink Album Release Bash w/ Tupelo Cigarettes, Margo Van Hoy. Donovan & Jeremy Levin. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Millvale. 412-821-4447. OAKS THEATER. Venus Monolith, Glory Arose & ALTAR BAR. Secrets, Palisades, the Street Pigeons. Oakmont. 412-828-4253. PALACE THEATRE. Lou Christie w/ Barbara Harris & The Toys & Ladd Vance. Greensburg. 724-836-8000. PAYNE HILL GRILLE. Daniels & McClain. Clairton. 412-405-8561. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Chris Trapper. Strip District. 412-566-1000. THE R BAR. Dave Iglar Band. Dormont. 412 942-0882. RIVERS CASINO. On the Level. North Side. 412-231-7777. SPIRIT HALL & LOUNGE. Oneida, Terry & the Cops, Come Holy Spirit. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441. ST. HENRY LYCEUM. Moose Tracks. South Side. 412-431-9545. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Beagle Brothers w/ Star & Micey. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. WINCHESTER THURSTON, UPPER SCHOOL. The Amish Monkeys. Shadyside. 412-243-6464.
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SUN 13 CLUB CAFE. Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place w/ The Velcro Shoes, The Lampshades, Bill Merante. South Side. 412-431-4950. ELWOOD’S PUB. Barbary Wine. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Enter The Haggis. Strip District. 412-566-1000. ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell & the Jazz Surgery. McKees Rocks. 412-875-5809.
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MON 14 HOWLERS. James Linck, MicWrite, Mister, Jaws That Bite, Pop Thief, Full Circle Time Machine. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler Street Sessions. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
TUE 15 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Rachel Platten w/ Eric Hutchinson, Christina Grimmie. Millvale. 412-821-4447. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Nolatet. Strip District. 412-566-1000. SMILING MOOSE. SWMRS, The Frights, Rainbow Machine. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPIRIT HALL & LOUNGE. Fire Talk. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441.
WED 16 CLUB CAFE. Shearwater w/ Laura Gibson. South Side. 412-431-4950. CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. The Who. Uptown. 412-642-1800. STAGE AE. Dr. Dog w/ The Districts. North Side. 412-229-5483.
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SAVOY RESTAURANT. Pete Butta. Strip District. 412-281-0660.
TUE 15 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta. W/ rotating guest DJs. Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.
WED 16 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668. SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty. 412-362-6001.
HIP HOP/R&B FRI 11 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.
SAT 12 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254. BOOM CONCEPTS. Moemaw Naedon & Billy Hoyle, Beedie, Idasa Tariq, Hubbs, Joey Smooth, Dj Blacklisted, Ronnie Hicks. Garfield. 724-496-9876.
TUE 15 STAGE AE. Logic. North Side. 412-229-5483.
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PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown. 412-471-2058. www. per MOONDOG’S. pa SPIRIT HALL & pghcitym Gina Sicilia. Blawnox. .co LOUNGE. Night Warp 412-828-2040. w/ DJs TFS & Futurism. Darkwave Night. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441. MOONDOG’S. Miss Freddye’s Blues Band. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. SPEAL’S TAVERN. Boulevard ANDYS WINE BAR. of the Blues. New Alexandria. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 724-433-1322. 412-773-8884. TUGBOAT’S. Mark Cyler & Lost BRILLOBOX. LAZERCRUNK Coins. East Pittsburgh. 412-829-1992. w/ Traxman. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. ONE 10 LOUNGE. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. The Squirrel Hillbillies. Oakland. Downtown. 412-874-4582. 412-622-3151. RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Jack Millz. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night AL AN’ RUBENS. Eric Johnson w/ DJ Connor. South Side. Trio. Washington. 724-223-1038. 412-381-1330. ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs. Downtown. 412-773-8800. RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Lucarelli ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE Brothers w/ Samantha St John. TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. Carnegie. 412-279-0770. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. ANDYS WINE BAR. 412-431-8800. Spanky Wilson. Downtown. LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance 412-773-8800. Party. South Side. 412-431-5282. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM REMEDY. Touching OF PITTSBURGH. Lee Robinson. Without Feeling. Lawrenceville. North Side. 412-322-5058. 412-781-6771. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony RIVERS CASINO. DJ Kingfish. Campbell & Howie Alexander. North Side. 412-231-7777. Downtown. 412-391-1004. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB South Side. 412-431-2825. & SPEAKEASY. RML Jazz. North Side. 412-370-9621. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete GUILD. The Hot Sardines. Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. North Side. 412-323-4000.
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SAT 12 ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani. Downtown. 412-773-8800. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff. Downtown. 412-325-6769. LEMONT. Dave Crisci. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every Saturday, a different band. Monroeville. 412-728-4155. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Lindsay Smith. Downtown. 412-471-9100. THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Second Saturdays. Jazz-happening series feat. live music, multimedia experimentations, more. Hosted by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze. 412-225-9269. WICKED FOX. Eric Johnson Trio. Fox Chapel. 412-794-8255.
SUN 13 BLUE MOON. Phat Man Dee, Carlos Pena. ‘Masterpiece N’at Theater. Lawrenceville. 412-781-1119. EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Dr. James Johnson, Pamela Johnson, Tony DePaolis, Lou Schreiber and James Johnson III. North Side. 412-231-0454. MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD. Philip Catherine & Martin Wind. North Side. 412-322-0800.
TUE 15 THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange w/ DTC Trio. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.
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ANDYS WINE BAR. Zero Ted Presents: Joe Negri. Downtown. 412-773-8800. JUNIPER GRILL. Boilermaker Jazz Band. McMurray. 724-260-7999. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Strange Brew. Downtown. 412-471-9100.
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NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Benny Benack. Downtown. 412-471-9100. THE SPOT, ETC. Teresa Hawthorne Band. Penn Hills. 412-727-2141.
ACOUSTIC MUSIC WORKS. The Howling Kettles w/ Jenn Gooch. Squirrel Hill. 412-422-0710. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. John Wiatrak. Robinson. 412-489-5631.
SAT 12 COACH’S BOTTLESHOP AND GRILLE. Weekend at Blarneys. Dormont. 412-207-9397. MARKET SQUARE. Weekend at Blarneys. Downtown. 412-471-1511. PUB & PIZZA. Weekend at Blarneys. Mt. Lebanon. 412-344-5566. ST. HENRY LYCEUM. Bill Couch. South Side. 412-431-9545.
SUN 13 HAMBONE’S. Ukulele Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
MON 14 WIGLE WHISKEY. Weekend at Blarneys. Strip District. 412-224-2827.
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Another Butterfly” by Charles Davidson. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-267-7707. PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Finland’s leading conductor, Osmo Vänskä, conducts a program filled w/ the music of his country’s most esteemed composer, Jean Sibelius. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.
Here are the tracks Jim Price, of Radon Chong and the May Day Marching Band, has been digging this week:
Kamasi Washington
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“Askim”
RENAISSANCE CITY WINDS. St. Agnes Center. Carlow University, Oakland. 412-681-7111.
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RIVER CITY BRASS: CELTIC CONNECTIONS. Featuring music from Ireland, Scotland & other Celtic nations w/ Irish dancing & members of the Carnegie Mellon University Pipes & Drums. Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair. 412-434-7222. WOMEN’S ADVISORY BOARD CONCERT. www.duq.edu/ musicevents. PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne Univ., Uptown. 412-396-6080.
“Mon Cherie Babe Creole”
Mestizo Marinera Ayacuchana
“Arza Huamanguina”
OTHER MUSIC Blind Mamie Forehand
THU 10 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.
“Honey in the Rock”
WED 16 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays. North Side. 412-321-1834. PARK HOUSE. Shelf Life String Band. North Side. 412-224-2273.
REGGAE FRI 11 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.
COUNTRY FRI 11 STAGE AE. Chris Young. North Side. 412-229-5483.
SAT 12 HARVEY WILNER’S. Steeltown. West Mifflin. 412-466-1331. NIED’S HOTEL. Slim’s Irish Band. Lawrenceville. 412 781-9853.
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Community College, Butler. 412-223-7501. PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Finland’s leading conductor, Osmo Vänskä, conducts a program filled w/ the music of his country’s most esteemed composer, Jean Sibelius. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.
SAT 12 AN EVENING OF CLARINET CHAMBER MUSIC. www.duq. edu/musicevents. PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne Univ., Uptown. 412-396-6080. PITTSBURGH CONCERT CHORALE. Performing Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” Ingomar United Methodist Church, Ingomar. 412-635-7654. PITTSBURGH PHILHARMONIC. Mount Alvernia, Millvale. 412-223-7501. RENAISSANCE CITY WINDS. Twentieth Century Club, Oakland. 412-681-7111.
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THU 10 RIVER CITY BRASS: CELTIC CONNECTIONS. Featuring music from Ireland, Scotland & other Celtic nations w/ Irish dancing & members of the Carnegie Mellon University Pipes & Drums. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 412-434-7222.
FRI 11 PITTSBURGH PHILHARMONIC. Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Symphony No. 6. Succop Theater, Butler
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SAT 12 CLUB CAFE. A Night of Irish Traditional Music & Song w/ Mark Dignam & Friends. South Side. 412-431-4950. EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Renaissance City Choir. Enjoy songs from award-winning films on this musical journey through cinema history, presented by Pittsburgh’s LGBTQA choir. East Liberty. 412-345-1722.
SUN 13 ANDYS WINE BAR. Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Downtown. 412-773-8800. EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Renaissance City Choir. Enjoy songs from award-winning films on this musical journey through cinema history, presented by Pittsburgh’s LGBTQA choir. East Liberty. 412-345-1722.
MON 14 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
TUE 15 PALACE THEATRE. Gaelic Storm. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.
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FUSE@PSO: Stravinsky’s Firebird: Remix | Response
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org. 5p.m.
Citizen / Turnover
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
THURSDAY 10 5th Annual B*tches Ball
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Secrets
Dale & ZDubs and The Fritz
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:25p.m.
THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000. Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 8p.m.
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Butcher Babies
RAUH THEATRE, PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE Oakland. Tickets: pittsburghplayhouse.com.
MCKEESPORT LITTLE THEATER Mckeesport. 412-673-1100. Tickets: mckeesportlittletheater.com. Through March 20.
Three Dog Night
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: trustarts.org. Through March 13.
The Bluest Eye
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PITTSBURGH OPERA Strip District. Tickets: animalresuce.org/b-ball-tickets. 6p.m. ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
SUNDAY 13
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.
21+ Night: Food Science with Wigle Whiskey CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side.
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BUTCHER BABIES ALTAR BAR MARCH 10 Over 21 event. To register, visit carnegiesciencecenter.org. 6p.m.
Urban Bush Women AUGUST WILSON CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org/dance. 8p.m.
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Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.
CITY THEATRE MAINSTAGE South Side. 412-431-2489. Tickets: citytheatrecompany.org. Through April 3.
The Beagle Bros.
Sex With Strangers
Lizz Wright
AUGUST WILSON CENTER
THUNDERBIRD CAFE Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. Over 21 show. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.
JOHN 5 and the Creatures
HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
TUESDAY 15 Jackyl
ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
HOUSE ARREST {BY AL HOFF}
SERPENT IS AN ELEGY FOR LOST PEOPLE, PLACES, CULTURE, FLORA AND FAUNA
The Chilean drama The Club, from Pablo Larraín (2012’s No), might be spare, but it packs a lot into its loosely plotted and deceptively low-key spaces. In a small seaside town, four men and a woman — four former Catholic priests and a former nun — share a house. They are intentionally isolated, having committed some sin and now living in an on-earth purgatory, caught between the oversight of the Church and the potential dangers and temptations of the secular world. They are a companionably cranky lot who share the unsanctioned hobby of greyhound racing.
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But a new resident, a disgraced priest, arrives and precipitates a disruption severe enough to bring an investigative priest from Church headquarters, in Santiago. As he questions the very role of the house — “this is not a spa” — and the disposition of its members, long-buried secrets, torments and desires come to the surface. And nothing is helped by the stranger who hangs around the house, shouting a horrifying litany about a priest sexually abusing a boy. The story is a microcosm of what has occurred in the institutional Catholic Church: how crimes within it have been hidden and “dealt with” internally; the anguish of those harmed; and how the persistence of cover-up has simply caused the poison of unresolved pain to seep deeper into the cracks of the Church. The Club is angry and not always easy to watch, but it is clear-eyed and unflinching. In Spanish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., March 11. Harris AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN A young girl with a rare illness appears miraculously cured after suffering a freak accident. Jennifer Garner stars in this drama based on a true story; Patricia Riggen directs. Starts Wed., March 16
Last of his tribe: Karamakate (Nilbio Torres)
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IRO GUERRA’S beautifully filmed
black-and-white drama Embrace of the Serpent drops us deep into the Amazonian jungle of Colombia, at the beginning of the last century. There, a shaman named Karamakate lives alone, the last survivor of his tribe. Then the river brings him visitors — a German explorer named Theo (Jan Bivot) and his native guide. They are searching for a rare plant, the yakruna, reputed to have healing properties. Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) agrees to take them on a river journey to search for it. Then, as easily as the river slips by, the story shifts to the 1940s, when an older Karamakate (Antonio Bolivar Salvador) is approached by another white outsider, an American named Evan (Brionne Davis), who also seeks the yakruna. The same journey is commenced, and the film continues to slide between the two time-frames. Director Guerra found inspiration from the real-life Amazon explorations of two men, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evan Schultes, undertaken respectively during the film’s two time periods. But no-
tably, the story is told not from the perspective of the explorers, but from that of the indigenous people. Central to this are nonWestern storytelling aspects such as a fluid sense of time and space, mystical interpretations and a reliance on natural order.
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT DIRECTED BY: Ciro Guerra STARRING: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar Salvador, Jan Bivot, Brionne Davis In various languages, with subtitles Starts Fri., March 11. Regent Square
CP APPROVED There is an element of adventure to the film, as the men encounter other groups along the river and navigate some fraught situations, all while negotiating an uneasy cooperation across cultures. And always, Serpent is an elegy for lost people, places, culture, flora and fauna. The younger Karamakate tries to preserve what he can, pleading with forcibly converted native children at a monastery, “Don’t let
our song fade away.” Later, the older Karamakate bemoans, “I forgot mambe exists. And now I don’t know how to make it.” It falls to the outsider Evan, who has studied Amazonian culture in books complied by white explorers, to teach him. The destruction of Karamakate’s world comes from two particularly devastating colonial forces — the Catholic Church and rubber plantations, both represented here in quietly horrifying scenes. (The mid-century return to the monastery where the younger Karamakate met the children is a nightmarish jumble of Catholicism and atavistic savagery.) Serpent tells of a time, world and way of life now lost, ironically preserved only in pieces, on documents recorded by outsiders. Today, in the jungles, there are only the ghosts of extinct tribes, like that of Karamakate’s people, killed off by the rubber industry. But troubling forces — the exploitation of resources, the homogenizing of cultures, the primacy of urbanization — continues, as does man’s struggle to embrace and find harmony with the natural world. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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a scattering of military episodes (losses include: one colleague, one soldier’s legs, and America’s interest in the conflict); and a woman’s journey of self-discovery. WTF remains entertaining, but it’s simply too scattered to pull together effectively. Billy Bob Thornton does some nice scene-stealing as a profane U.S. general, and Margot Robbie and Martin Freeman are good as Baker’s lively international colleagues. The only two Afghan characters are played by white actors, Alfred Molina and Christopher Abbott; that’s just not funny, and it’s painful watching Molina turn in such a cartoonish portrayal of a well-placed politician, all fright wig, silly accent and leering looks. The work dabbles in the gallows humor you’d expect from living and working in a war zone, but whether by the nature of the conflict or the set-up of this film, the hard realities of the war and life in Afghanistan are distant. It’s a “place” that gets visited before everybody returns to the Kabubble for more beers. The filmmakers pull their punches politically, but you know what might have made a good grim joke at the film’s end? Noting that this WTF of a military action is still ongoing some 10 years after this story that nods to its futility wraps up. (AH)
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NEW THIS WEEK COCO: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO RHYME. RZA directs this feature film about a hip-hop artist who discovers the world of slam poetry. Starts Fri., March 11 FACES OF WORK. The 10th annual Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival returns, running March 17 through April 3. The festival, themed Faces of Conflict, opens with the recent Danish film A War, Tobias Lindholm’s drama about a solider serving in Afghanistan, and the effect his deployment has on his family back home. 7 p.m. Thu., March 17. McConomy Auditorium, CMU campus, Oakland. www.cmu.edu/faces. $15 ($10 students/ seniors), includes opening-night reception. FURSONAS. This new documentary from Pittsburgh director Dominic Rodriguez delves into the semi-secret world of furries, or those humans who feel kinship with anthropomorphic animals. Locally, of course, the furries are well known for the annual Anthrocon convention, which fills Downtown’s streets with foxes, wolves, dragons and more (that is, folks in full “fur suits”). Rodriguez, himself a furry, interviews a number of participants, who explain their varying attractions to furrydom. Some interviewees are “out” as humans, while others speak from within their suits. They discuss the power of “transforming” into an animal; the embrace of a community where they can be themselves; and the ongoing stigmas attached by outsiders. Chief among these seems to be the obsession among furries that outsiders equate furrydom with freaky sex. Furries in the film counter this prevailing myth with responses ranging from “no way” to “sure,” establishing that as with any group of people, there is no one answer. But some people, like Anthrocon’s PR maven Uncle Kage, seem committed to presenting a media-friendly version of furries to the world. And this tension between the public and private side of furrydom offers some provocative material. So too does the suggestion of a hierarchy, where commit-
Theory Of Obscurity (2015) - 3/10 @ 7:30pm New doc tells the story of the renegade sound and
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Shaft (1971) - 3/11 @ 8:00pm Classic blaxploitation film. Doors open at 7pm with
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Noir Night Out
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London Has Fallen ment might be measured by an expensive elaborate suit, or an adherence to suggested guidelines. But even dressed as a fox or a raccoon, people are people, in all their messy, heartwarming and infuriating glory. (See CP’s interview with Rodriguez and Boomer the Dog on page 55.) 7 p.m. Thu., March 10. Regent Square. $10 (tickets at www. eventbrite.com) (Al Hoff) THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON. The titular Barney (Robert Carlyle) is a hapless, friendless barber working in a shop in Glasgow, Scotland. He has no patter for the customers and his co-workers say he “looks like a haunted tree.” But on the brink of being fired, Thomson accidentally kills a man, and in the way of darkly comic shaggy-dog tales, he’s soon mixed up with an active serial killer. (This killer mails victims’ body parts, including what may be a cinema first — a severed ass.) The film is Carlyle’s directorial debut, and it’s a good bet for fans of black comedies, especially those that emphasize funny dialogue over realistic plotting. The film was shot on location in Carlyle’s native Glasgow, with an eye toward that city’s quirky, hard-edged characters and their deliriously profane tongues. Carlyle has rounded up a top-notch cast, including: Ray Winstone, as the blustering Cockney copper still angry about having been trapped up north two decades earlier; Tom Courtenay, as the prissy top cop; and Emma Thompson (hilariously buried under bad makeup), as Thomson’s boozy, blowsy, bingo-mad mum. Starts Fri., March 11. SouthSide Works (AH) LONDON HAS FALLEN. I don’t want to sound like a bad person who enjoys a good media-friendly disaster, but I thought a situation where a major world capital is utterly paralyzed by a band of terrorists and at least a dozen world leaders are assassinated would be a lot more interesting. Instead, Babak Najafi’s sequel to Olympus Has Fallen is a tedious exercise in American exceptionalism by way of a video game, and when I say “American,” I only mean two: the indestructible president (Aaron Eckhart) and his super-duper Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler), who handily shoots every bad guy. There’s so little plot that it’s hardly worth complaining. But it’s a state funeral in London that gathers all the leaders, and this prologue to the gun battle provided my two favorite moments: Despite the Most Intense Security of All Time, two leaders are blithely ignoring calls to get to the funeral on time: The French president is sulking in a vintage motorboat docked on the Thames, and
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the Italian prime minister is canoodling with a sweet young thing on the roof of Westminster Abbey. Nobody cried when they got blown up. (AH) 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. Dan Trachtenberg directs this thriller, in which a young woman wakes up in a basement with a man who claims to have saved her from a chemical attack, which has made the outside world perilous. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman star. Starts Fri., March 11
REPERTORY 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 hairdos ever. 7:30 p.m. Wed., March 9. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 CEDDO. Ousmane Sembene’s 1977 drama takes place in the 17th century, when an African tribe tries to preserve its traditional heritage in the face of forced religious conversion (Christianity and Islam) and the slave trade. The film will be followed by a Q&A and discussion led by Samba Gadjigo, Sembene’s biographer. In Wolof and Arabic, with subtitles. 6 p.m. Fri., March 11. Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $2 donation. www.sembenefilmfestival.org E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. See this muchloved, feel-good alien story, about the greenishbrown intergalactic traveler who befriends some suburban kids, on the big screen. Steven Spielberg directed the 1982 film starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and a wrinkly, long-fingered dude from space. March 11-13, and March 15-17. Row House Cinema GALAXY QUEST. In Dean Parisot’s 1999 comedy, the aging, bickering stars of the TV space drama Galaxy Quest find themselves whisked into outer space by their adoring fans from planet Thermia, who have intercepted earth’s TV’s transmissions. It’s all a delicious send-up of the sci-fi con fanatic world taken to its most ridiculous, yet logical, extreme. March 11-15 and March 17. Row House Cinema (AH)
The Legend of Barney Thomson WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT. Finally! A feel-good movie about our misadventures in Afghanistan. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s comedy adapts American journalist Kim Barker’s memoir The Taliban Shuffle, which recounts the time she spent in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2006. Barker is re-named Baker for the film, and portrayed with typical semi-detached brio by Tina Fey. Viewers get a Tina Fey movie, full of sassy put-downs and wry asides, but also: a fish-out-of-water tale; a neutered press-meets-war comedy; a rom-com;
SERENITY. The crew of the Serenity probes the secret carried by a fugitive passenger, who boasts superhuman powers. Josh Whedon’s sprightly script and direction lend the cast an amusing rapport, peppered with solid but unspectacular special effects and dizzying martial-arts sequences. March 11-12, March 14 and March 16-17. Row House Cinema (Chris Potter) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. Aliens land in Washington, D.C., with an important message for the people of Earth. Will mankind heed it? Robert Wise’s 1951 film is one of the more thoughtful scifi films of the era, with a great performance by Michael Rennie as Klaatu, the ambassador from outer space. March 11-16. Row House Cinema
SUMMER INTERNS WANTED Whiskey Tango Foxtrot SHAFT. “Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? … Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? … Who’s the cat that won’t cop out, when there’s danger all about?” Find out in Gordon Parks’ classic blacksploitation gangster actioner from 1971. Richard Roundtree and Moses Gunn star. You can dig it. 8 p.m. Fri., March 11. Hollywood YEELEN. Souleymane Cissé 1987 work (a.k.a. Brightness) adapts an ancient Mali legend about a young man with magical powers who travels to find his father, now a corrupt wizard. The film will be followed by a Q&A and discussion. In Bambara and Fulah, with subtitles. 2 p.m. Sat., March 12. Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Homewood. $2 donation. www.sembenefilmfestival.org
CASABLANCA. In this 1942 classic directed by Michael Curtiz, an American guy has a café in Casablanca, Rick’s, where everybody goes. It all takes place in one room; the love story is hokey, based on ridiculous coincidence and interrupted by complicated war details, cheesy patriotism and one-liners; and there are dozens of bit players. Yet it’s as close to perfect as a Hollywood film ever was. 11 a.m. Sun., March 13. Hollywood (AH)
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A War from Faces of Work OF THE PAST. “Build my gallows high, CP OUT baby,” Robert Mitchum tells man-eater Jane Greer in one of this film’s rare moments of lightness. Still, she complies, in collusion with her lover, gangster Kirk Douglas, as the two of them twist Mitchum’s private eye into knots and doublecrosses from the mountains of Lake Tahoe to the beaches at Acapulco. This flashback-filled tale of wrong turns is a quintessential film noir, directed with plenty of dark brilliance by one of the genre’s masters, Jacques Tourneur. 7:30 p.m. Sat., March 12. Hollywood. $8 movie only; $12 movie, chili and beer/soda (AH)
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The music intern will have a working knowledge of the local music scene and assist the music editor by writing new-release reviews and previews of upcoming shows, as well as artist features. Apply to music editor Margaret Welsh, mwelsh@pghcitypaper.com.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INTERN The position is focused on reporting and writing about local people, performances, artworks and events, in fields including but not limited to theater, visual art, literature, dance, comedy, and film and video. Send a cover letter, résumé and three writing samples to arts editor Bill O’Driscoll, driscoll@pghcitypaper.com.
PHOTO INTERN
We are looking for a photographer with an artistic eye who can tell a story through images. Editorial work will include shooting assignments to supplement the paper’s news and arts coverage, both in print and online. Weekend availability is required. Send a résumé and a link to an online portfolio to art director Lisa Cunningham, lcunning@pghcitypaper.com.
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MIXING IT UP {BY STEVE SUCATO}
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WHISKEY, ETC. BY SHERRIE FLICK Queen’s Ferry Press, 207 pp., $13.56
Alejandro Diaz in James Kudelka’s “The Man in Black” at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater {PHOTO COURTESY OF DUANE RIEDER}
Personal connections inform Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre artistic director Terrence S. Orr’s choice of works on the company’s Mixed Repertory #2 program, with four performances March 10-13 at the Byham Theater. Orr says he chose Canadian choreographer James Kudelka’s “The Man in Black” partly because it is unique, but mostly because he is a fan of Kudelka. “I have known him for over 30 years and he is a very creative choreographer whose work takes off on different tangents,” says Orr. “The Man in Black,” set to cover songs recorded by a gravel-voiced Johnny Cash at the end of his career, including Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” The Beatles’ “In My Life” and Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” is perhaps the most foreign in movement language of any ballet PBT has ever done. At the ballet’s premiere, in 2010 at Columbus’ BalletMet, I found it a quiet, distinctive work. The dancers, in Western attire, shuffle along in movement structured like a country-and-western line dance “only taken to much more intricate and poetic ends by Kudelka,” I wrote in my review for Dance Magazine. Also new to PBT, but very familiar to Orr, is Emmy- and Tony-winning choreographer Michael Smuin’s “The Eternal Idol” (1969). A tribute to sculptor Auguste Rodin, the 10-minute pas de deux, danced partly atop a large fake boulder, was originally created for Orr’s first wife, American Ballet Theatre star Cynthia Gregory, and dancer Ivan Nagy. Set to Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, the elegant neoclassical ballet unfolds like the sculpted figures of two lovers come to life. PBT principal dancer Yoshiaki Nakano’s newly expanded version of “A Fellow Feeling” (2015) will be the first main-stage ballet created by a company dancer that the PBT has performed during Orr’s 19year tenure. (It’s part of Orr’s initiative to give his dancers choreographic opportunities.) Set to music by Mozart, a portion of the abstract, neoclassical ballet debuted at last summer’s Ballet Under the Stars program at Hartwood Acres. Completing the program is a reprise of an Orr favorite, Antony Tudor’s 1936 masterpiece “Jardin Aux Lilas” (“Lilac Garden”). The heartbreaking mini-story ballet, last performed by PBT in 2013, depicts a young woman engaged to marry a man she does not love.
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BRIEFINGS
Sherrie Flick
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ryphally credited to Hemingway, reads, “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” But while this might be the most famous example of flash fiction (narratives employing usually less than 1,000 words), concise literary forms like fable and haiku have been used for centuries. The genre seems tailor-made for today’s time-pressed reader, and Sherrie Flick’s new short-shortstory collection Whiskey, Etc. packs her 207 easy-turning pages with punchy writing that centers on themes of love and loss. Flick, author of the 2009 novel Reconsidering Happiness, lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in Chatham University’s master’s of fine arts and food studies programs. She is widely anthologized; she co-organized the acclaimed, now-defunct Gist Street Reading Series; and she writes a garden-to-
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table food column for Pittsburgh Quarterly. Given her complementary background in professional baking, it’s unsurprising that many of the collection’s 57 brief stories linger on food and drink in evocative ways.
WHISKEY, ETC. HAPPY HOUR WITH SHERRIE FLICK 5-7 p.m. Fri., March 18. Wigle Whiskey, 2401 Smallman St., Strip District. www.wiglewhiskey.com
In “Heidi Is Dead,” a Christmas buffet plays metaphor for the bloody demise of a runaway family pet. Contrasting this scene of domestic tragedy, Flick writes, “The shrimp’s naked bodies looked obscene compared to everything else, heaped together
in a rubbery, cold mess with their cocktail sauce shimmering in the center of the display.” The story is told through the character of Jessica, who provides a sharp eye and sense of irony, but struggles to fit in as her in-laws grieve for a dog she never met. It’s also one of many stories that include pets. In “The Paperboy,” a glass of milk sets the stage for a woman’s seduction of a neighborhood teen. The liquid’s whiteness signals purity that seems both fitting and at odds with the loss of innocence. After the deed, the narrator adds, “I imagined the boy as he got older. I knew someday he too would be unkind. Perhaps he would start to understand how unkindnesses can be helpful, how people can be complex, how life can surprise you unless you tell it what to do.” While the stories’ brevity means that most other characters
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throughout the collection remain unnecessarily developed, Flick’s first-person narrators cut compelling figures with their honesty and perspective. In an interview in lit mag Ploughshares, Flick shares the insight “that writing about food has helped me tremendously in rendering setting. Because taste is so hard to describe, food writers often have to evoke context in order to relay a sense of an eating experience. This has made me pay attention to setting in a new way. Sounds, smells and detail help create the world in which we eat. It’s a way to take a reader into an experience. This easily translates into all experience in fiction.” This strategy works well in Whiskey, Etc., balancing the short form’s literary use of compression and distillation with the descriptive needs of story development. One of many strong pieces that echo Flick’s sentiments on setting is “Learning to Drink Coffee in Idaho,” which follows a down-on-his-luck salesman who finds his brash attitude getting him nowhere, especially in this unnamed town with sidewalks “stuck together like a long string of Band-Aids.” Looking for caffeine, he’s directed to Darlene’s Diner, “a warm pink neon light perched in the window. It whispered open.” Seated in a booth, country music on the kitchen’s radio, he’s schooled in the art of sales by waitress Betty, who leaves “a faint smell of vanilla in her wake” as she goes to bring him her recommended pecan roll to go with his cup of java “dark and beautiful.” These accreted details, sensory and appealing, render the scene as genuine, almost alive. Flick often imbues her work with an acute awareness of the dynamics surrounding couples and families. Between characters Sarah and Walt navigating a boozy night out with the elder Big Walt in “Unlocking,” or a mother and daughter making the best of a Thanksgiving meal in “Family Dinner,” conflict easily rises to the surface. This is perhaps best expressed by Martha in the latter story when she throws her hands up, thinking, “Fuck Family. Fuck love,” after her sister Louise balks at family gettogethers now that their father has died. These complicated emotions get effortlessly expressed and are easily relatable. While Flick’s stories trade in the troubled emotional landscapes of characters, her own humorous voice remains steady. And much as Flick’s newcomer-to-Detroit in “Get Up” seeks friends by unwittingly joining a “heavy metal” yoga class, reader expectations about this literary style get challenged then embraced. As if dining on small plates of delicious food, doubters of brevity’s value will leave Whiskey, Etc. feeling pleasantly full.
Given Pittsburgh’s rich history of jazz, it’s perhaps fitting that the internationally acclaimed Urban Bush Women return with a program celebrating John William Coltrane. On their last visit, in 2008, UBW presented the Afrocentric Scales of Memory in collaboration with Senegal’s Compagnie Jant-Bi. With the 70-minute Walking With ’Trane (2015), March 11 at the August Wilson Center, the seven-member, New York-based company shows another side of itself, one more akin to how jazz musicians perform together and step out from the group to shine in improvised solos. Co-choreographed by UBW founder/ artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and associate artistic director/dancer Samantha Speis, the multi-styled dance work, presented by the Pittsburgh Dance Council, is performed in two “sides,” as with a record album. “It isn’t about trying to imitate or be John Coltrane, but find the individual and collective voice inside him,” says Speis by phone from New York. Set to an original electronic sound score by Phillip White that references Coltrane’s music, Side A, “JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH ’TRANE,” conjures the legendary saxophonist/composer’s essence. “It’s internal,” says Speis. “There are heightened solo states — cool and hot — in which the dancers riff to the blues, bebop, hard bop, gospel and free jazz.” Side B, “FREED(OM),” with original music by composer/pianist George O. Caldwell played live, takes inspiration from Coltrane’s 1965 album A Love Supreme. Part 3 of that album, “Pursuance,” acted as a jumping off point for some of the movement, says Speis. “There is a lot of falling and diagonal pulls, with the dancers giving the impression of being in pursuit of something yet settled and content in what they are doing.” In creating the work, Speis says she, Zollar, and the dancers researched Coltrane’s music, digging into it to explore how we hear music and are affected by it. One conclusion that they incorporated into the piece was “your body becomes the instrument and works in relationship to what you are hearing,” says Speis. Whether or not you have a connection with Coltrane and his music, Walking With ‘Trane is sure to be a stroll worth experiencing.
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A comedy by Jeff Daniels. RATED A STRONG PG 13!
MARCH 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 2016
Friday and Saturday performances at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS ARE $15.00, $10.00 FOR STUDENTS - GROUP RATES AVAILABLE. HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE. 1614 COURSIN STREET • McKEESPORT • (412) 673-1100 FOR RESERVATIONS INFO@MCKEESPORTLITTLETHEATER.COM
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Left to right: Wali Jamal, Lamont Walker II, Tracey D. Turner and LaMar Darnell Fields in A Lesson Before Dying, at Prime Stage
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HARD LESSON {BY TED HOOVER} THERE I WAS at Prime Stage Theatre’s
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Laws of Attraction Advance Tickets $25 general admission $15 students/teachers www.attacktheatre.com/laws
Sparks and bodies will fly in this world premiere performance exploring the complexities of relationships through modern dance inspired by the physical sciences. Attack Theatre’s Season 21 is made possible in part by:
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production of Ernest J. Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying, swimming in tears, thinking that the last time I’d cried so painfully was the 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. It wasn’t until I visited the web I discovered that Gaines wrote that, too. What did I ever do to him?
A LESSON BEFORE DYING continues through Sun., March 13. Prime Stage Theatre at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-25. www.primestage.com
Lesson is based on a 1993 novel set in the Deep South. It’s 1948 and a young black man, Jefferson, an innocent bystander at a murder scene, is arrested, charged and sentenced to death. His court-appointed lawyer, in a very backward attempt to spare Jefferson’s life, asks what justice would there be in killing him? “I would as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this,” he tells the jury. His godmother, Emma, is determined to help Jefferson reclaim his dignity and
arranges to have Grant Wiggins, a black teacher, talk with him in the weeks leading to his execution. The interaction between the two men forms the bulk of the action. Playwright Romulus Linney has crafted a very strong adaptation of Gaines’ novel, which plays out theatrically, rather than just a book-on-stage. And Richard Keitel has directed the Prime Stage production with a gripping feel for the material and the storytelling. Avoiding the trap of Presenting Big Themes, his actors instead play their roles with a simple naturalism that, ultimately, illuminates those themes. A Lesson Before Dying is an inexorable, almost relentless, journey to a staggering, heartbreaking ending; Keitel and company make that journey as human as possible. Lamont Walker II, as Jefferson, gives an amazing performance as a boy on the verge of manhood discovering a world that, cruelly, is just about to be taken away. LaMar Darnell Fields makes us understand the hugely conflicted emotions pulling at Wiggins. Tracey D. Turner and Wali Jamal powerfully portray adults seeking to save Jefferson, and Hope Marie Anthony is a clear-headed presence as Wiggins’ girlfriend. Everett Lowe and Erik Martin find subtlety and nuance in two characters which, in lesser hands, could have been cartoons. Go … and take Kleenex. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Sullivan canon, The Pirates of Penzance is the perfect operetta for purists and newcomers alike. The story is simple: It’s the 21st birthday of pirate apprentice Frederic (Alec Donaldson), which means his tenure to the pirates has come to a close. Due to his abiding sense of duty, he’s now committed to exterminating his former comrades for their errant ways, though the men are far too raucous and jubilant to worry about any impending doom. While the merry cast of pirates chew the scenery with glee, the show gains its footing with the arrival of General Stanley’s daughters. Led by the brazen Mabel (Elizabeth Rishel), the sheltered girls hold their own alongside the roustabouts, adding a much needed zing of charm and wit to an occasionally predictable production. The Pittsburgh Savoyards last performed this perennial favorite in 2012 with some of the same actors in the roles. In this rotating cast, opening night featured standout performances from Leon S. Zionts as the manically honorable Major-General Stanley, and Bob Herold as the craven Sergeant of Police. Candice Shaughnessy also shines as Ruth, Frederic’s incompetent yet lovable nursemaid, who accidentally apprenticed her charge as a pirate instead of a pilot.
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Behind the scenes, stage director and choreographer Sean Lenhart does a capable job at corralling the sizable cast in his first show with Pittsburgh Savoyards. Likewise, music director Guy Russo conducts the pitch-perfect Pittsburgh Savoyards Orchestra in inspired renditions of more than two dozen songs. Overall, the production takes few chances with the tried-and-true material, but the result is a show that hits all the right notes. There’s not a weak voice in the house, and although the huge cast does at times muddy a few stray lyrics, the surtitles projected above the stage buoy the audience through any ambiguous choruses. Perhaps it’s not the very model of a modern theatrical interpretation, but this Pittsburgh Savoyards production provides a highly entertaining evening nonetheless. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
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Like many actors of color, Fajer Kaisi often finds his opportunities on stage and screen limited in number and range. “It’s usually falafel guy, cabbie or terrorist,” quips the Iraq-born Kaisi, who grew up a Canadian citizen. “Maybe counterterrorist, if we’re lucky.” There are exceptions. So in addition to spots on Nurse Jackie, Law and Order and 30 Rock, Kaisi’s done Shakespeare, for instance. And once, he says, “I got to play a character named ‘Graham,’ who was a husband and a children’s-book author, and I was ecstatic about that.” Kaisi has another complex role in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new production of Disgraced. Since winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Ayad Akhtar’s play about identity, assimilation and Islamophobia has only become more relevant. Kaisi plays Amir, a PakistaniAmerican corporate lawyer living in Manhattan who becomes entangled in controversy over his relationship with an imam at a local mosque — a relationship catalyzed by Amir’s Pakistan-born nephew. The play’s themes boil over during a dinner scene at the apartment Amir shares with his wife, Emily, a white artist whose interest in Islamic art counterpoints Amir’s apparent distance from his ethnic roots. Their guests are an African-American attorney and her Jewish husband, who happens to be a museum curator with an interest in Emily’s work. The Public’s production is directed by Tracy Brigden (of City Theatre); the cast includes Lisa Velten Smith, Justin Ahdoot, Nafeesa Monroe and Ryan McCarthy. Previous productions — from offBroadway to London — have garnered strong reviews and praise for the sharp, witty writing of Akhtar, also known for his 2012 novel American Dervish. The questions of identity echo perhaps most strongly in Amir. “Amir is … very self-aware, almost self-conscious about it,” said Kaisi, speaking at the Public before rehearsal one day last week. But Amir also feels compelled to voice his opinion. “He’s kind of a Greek-tragic character in that way. That’s the flaw — he can’t help himself.” Kaisi himself was raised in a secular Muslim family, and grew up speaking French in multicultural Montreal. But cultural identity is as complex as prejudice itself. “I think it’s so complex that even Amir doesn’t know that he’s expressed the answer,” says Kaisi. He adds, “I think people are going to be talking about it when they leave the theater.” DRISCOLL@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
DISGRACED March 10-April 10. Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown. $15.75-60. 412-316-1600 or www.ppt.org
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Sunstar, the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s annual celebration of the creative contributions of women in the arts, entrepreneurship and community, begins today. Sunstar includes everything from a talk about career development to a Beyoncé Karaoke & Dance Party. The three-day festival concludes Sat., March 12, with an evening screening of BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, a documentary about the iconic poet, and a music showcase featuring such local talents as Be Steadwell, Christiane D, Jacquea Mae and Anqwenique Wingfield. Bill O’Driscoll 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. All events are “pay what makes you happy.” 412-363-3000 or www.kelly-strayhorn.org
{TALK} Celebrate Women’s History Month and the bravery of exiled artists at a talk by poet Sabreen Kadhim at Duquesne University’s Berger Gallery. To Be a Woman, Journalist and Poet in Baghdad Today features a discussion with Kadhim, who resides at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. Kadhim has worked as a television reporter and was a winner of the third UNESCO poetry contest. In her poetry (originally in Arabic), Kadhim confronts the horror she experienced during the rise of militias in Baghdad. As she puts it, “Deeply, my soul was writing something.” Courtney Linder 6 p.m. 600 Forbes Ave., Downtown. Free. wsgs@duq.edu
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at a writers’ retreat. The cast features City alumni Megan Byrne (pictured) and Nick Ducassi. This provocative comedy will leave you no stranger to the complicated relationship between sex, fame and cyber-identity. The first performance is tonight. CL 5:30 p.m. Show continues through April 3. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-56. 412-431-2489 or www.city theatrecompany.org
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What happens when a sea witch throws you into the future and your only way home is to perform the greatest pirate epic ever seen? You improvise. The Greatest Pirate Story Never Told!, a nationally touring musical presented by the Hillman Performing Arts Series at Shady Side Academy, contains “more laughs than there are
she “builds a relationship with space that draws within while extending beyond, creating a spatial partnership with both the internal and external self.” See Skylling’s “deconstructed compositions” at tonight’s opening reception. BO 6-9 p.m. Exhibit continues through April 30. 2216 Penn Ave., Strip District. Free. 412-471-1900
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Playwright Mark Clayton Southers is known for contemporary-set works like Ma Noah and James McBride. But his latest play looks backward. Miss Julie, Clarissa and John was inspired by Miss Julie, August Strindberg’s classic 1888 drama about an aristocrat’s affair with her father’s valet. Southers moves the action to a tobacco plantation in 1888 Virginia — during Reconstruction — where the attraction involves the daughter of a former slave-owner and her father’s top servant, who’s African American; the third onstage character is the mulatto daughter of a slave woman. Southers wrote the play for the actors starring in the premiere production at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co.: local favorites Tami Dixon (as Julie), Chrystal Bates (Clarissa) and Kevin Brown (John). The show, directed by Monteze Freeland, is “pretty steamy, pretty racy,” says Southers — “jungle-fever action,” he quips. It explores the dynamics of attraction not through Strindberg’s lens of social class, but through race. And Southers does so in an historical context where the consequences of such an attraction could be deadly. To make sure he got the play’s setting and feel right, he even visited a preserved Virginia plantation. But while Southers’ plays often engage race and other contemporary social issues, he views Miss Julie as a true period piece. “I didn’t write it to resonate with today,” he says. Bill O’Driscoll March 12-27. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-35. www.pghplaywrights.com
bones in Davy Jones’ locker,” according to The New York Times. The audience will suggest ideas for the pirates’ lost script as the actors improvise. The ship sets sail tonight at The Hillman Center for Performing Arts. CL 7:30 p.m. 423 Fox Chapel Road, Fox Chapel. $16-30. 412-968-3040 or www.thehillman.org
production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah. The Pittsburgh Concert Chorale will perform this classic with baritone John Dooley as the prophet Elijah alongside soprano Katy Williams and mezzo-soprano Eva Rainforth. Moments of intense drama
Methodist Church, 1501 W. Ingomar Road, McCandless). Also 4 p.m. Sun., March 13 (Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, 384 Fox Chapel Road, Fox Chapel). $8-22 (children under 12 enter free). 412-635-7654 or www.PCCSing.org
take the workday edge off, even if the spheroids are soft foam rather than the ouchy rubber kind from grade school. The monthly co-ed night, at Ace Hotel Pittsburgh’s gym, includes two hours of open games followed by an hour-long bracket tourney. It’s all just for fun (“We’re more Average Joe’s than Globo-Gym,” notes the press release) and spectating is allowed. BO 7-10 p.m. 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty. $5 for all you can play. www.cityofplay.org
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and dynamic choruses complement sobering moments featuring lyrical solos. You have two chances this weekend to worship the orchestral masterpiece. CL 7:30 p.m. (Ingomar United
The plight of migrants worldwide is news daily. Tonight and tomorrow, the University of Pittsburgh hosts the first U.S. readings of a new play putting a human face on the issue. Lampedusa Beach, which dramatizes an African migrant woman’s death at sea, is part one of internationally known Italian playwright Lina Prosa’s Trilogia del naufragio (Trilogy of the Shipwrecked). Viviana Altieri, director of Pittsburgh’s Mondo Italiano cultural center, reads the play in Italian, followed by tomorrow’s reading in English,
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City of Play is touting its latest grownup-rec initiative, Monday Night Dodgeball, as a stress-reliever. And you gotta admit, hurling projectiles at friends and strangers should
In 1936, nine working-class boys on the University of Washington’s crew team sought gold at the Berlin Olympics. Their quest sparked Daniel James Brown into writing the 2013 best-seller The Boys in the Boat. As a part of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Literary Evenings series, Brown discusses his Depression-era nonfiction novel. While the show is sold out, there a waiting list and partial-view seats are still available. CL 7:30 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $15-35. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org
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John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is that rare textbook based on a TV program: Berger’s own eponymous 1972 BBC series about art criticism. Lorna Mills read the now-venerable British critic’s iconic book in art school; now she’s curated Ways of Something, an ambitious project for which she recruited 114 artists or artist teams from around the world, each to supply new video for a single minute of the series’ original audio. “I wanted each clip to really have a discontinuity to it,” says Mills, a Toronto-based new-media artist specializing in GIFs (one of which is showing nightly this month on 18 Jumbotrons in Time Square). The wild, digital-age, web-savvy artwork in Ways of Something ironically illustrates, updates or critiques Berger’s measured if often prescient comments about topics including women as art subjects — a measure of the cultural distance between 1972 and today. Episodes of Ways of Something have screened internationally. On March 17, the entire two-hour project screens as part of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Third Thursday series, programmed by VIA. The evening includes live music in the galleries and a cash bar. Bill O’Driscoll 8-11 p.m. Thu., March 17. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $5-10. 412-622-3212 or www.cmoa.org
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THEATER THE 13TH TEN MIN PLAY FEST. Wed., March 16, 6 p.m. Brillobox, Bloomfield. 412-956-6468. ALADDIN JR. A sensory-friendly production. Sun., March 13, 2 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000. THE BLUEST EYE. Pecola thinks she’s ugly. And in post-Depression Lorain, Ohio, a sad life gives her no reason to believe otherwise. Which is why the young African American girl longs for the pale skin and blue eyes of her doll. Thru March 11, 8 p.m., Sat., March 12, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., March 13, 2 p.m. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. A musical of the classic love story. Sun, 1 & 6:30 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m., Fri, 8 p.m. and Tue-Thu, 7:30 p.m. Thru March 13. Benedum Center, Downtown. 412-456-6666. DISGRACED. Black, White, Muslim & Jewish persons share
GODSPELL. Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. the same idea of the good life, Thru March 27. Comtra Theatre, until ingrained prejudices get Cranberry. 724-591-8727. the best of them. Sun, 2 & 7 p.m., HUNCHES IN BUNCHES. Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. and Tue, 7 p.m. A mini-musical of based on Thru April 10. Pittsburgh Public Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. Dr. Seuss’ book presented by Stage Right! 724-832-7464. FAIRY TALE COURTROOM. Sat., March 12, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Classic Fairy Tale villains The Lamp Theatre, get their day in court to Elizabeth. 724-367-4000. prove their innocence. THE IMPORTANCE OF Sat, Sun, 2 p.m. and BEING EARNEST. Oscar Fri., March 18, 7:30 p.m. Wilde’s classic comedy. Thru March 20. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, The Theatre Factory, www. per pa pghcitym 8 p.m. Thru March 20. Trafford. 412-374-9200. o .c Seton Center, Brookline. FENCES. A staged 412-254-4633. reading of August Wilson’s LAMPEDUSA BEACH. play. Mon., March 14, The first U.S. readings of Lina 11 a.m.-12 p.m. and Wed., Prosa’s play about an African March 16, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. migrant woman’s death at sea. Frick Fine Arts Building, Oakland. March 14 in Italian & March 15 in www.humanities.pitt.edu. English. Mon., March 14, 7 p.m. FIRST DATE. Boy meets girl ... Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Oakland. on a blind date ... in a musical. www.humanities.pitt.edu. Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat, A LESSON BEFORE DYING. 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Jefferson, an African-American Thru April 24. Cabaret at young man, is condemned to Theater Square, Downtown. death in small-town Louisiana 412-325-6769.
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for a murder he didn’t commit. His godmother persuades a teacher to visit Jefferson & teach him to die w/ dignity as a man. Thru March 13, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru March 13. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 724-773-0700. MISS JULIE, CLARISSA & JOHN. The dangerous attraction between a landowner’s daughter & his top servant takes on new shades as its taboo nature expands from crossing boundaries of social class to also encompass racial lines. Presented by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre. Sun, 3 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Thu, Fri, 8 p.m. Thru March 27. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown. www.pghplaywrights.com. THE ODD COUPLE. Recently separated from his wife, Felix Unger seems suicidal. But as the action unfolds his friend Oscar Madison becomes the one w/ murder on his mind when the clean-freak & the slob ultimately decide to room together w/ hilarious results. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru March 20. Grand Theatre, Elizabeth. 412-384-0504. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera presented by the Pittsburgh Savoyards. Sun, 2:30 p.m. and Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru March 13. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-734-8476. SISTER’S EASTER CATECHISM: WILL MY BUNNY GO TO HEAVEN? Celebrate the Easter Season w/ Sister as she answers the time-worn questions of the season like “Why isn’t Easter the same day every year like Christmas?” & “Will My Bunny Go To Heaven?” Thu, Fri, 8 p.m. Thru March 13. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-4400 x 286.
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Flowers bloom to create classic works of art in Spring Flower Show: Masterpieces in Bloom, at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Edmund Leighton’s “Lady in a Garden” and others will be brought to life by blooms that recreate the paint strokes of these masters. March 12–April 10. 1 Schenley Drive, Oakland. $11-15 (free for children under 2). www.phipps.conservatory.org
COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Derick Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. COMEDY ROYALE: IMPROV MADNESS TOURNAMENT. A group of four improvisers face off in an elimination tournament, which culminates in a championship showdown on March 25. BYOB. Thu, 8 p.m. Thru March 17 Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. CONTINUES ON PG. 42
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ART “Millvale Tree Family” (oil on panel, 2015), by Ron Donoughe. From the exhibition En Plein Air, at FrameHouse & Jask Gallery, Lawrenceville.
NEW THIS WEEK BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 7 Artists. A collection of works by Brandy Bock Tott, Jeffrey Phelps, Tom Mosser, Yelena Lamm, Nick Santillo, Will White & Joyce Werwie Perry. Opening reception March 11, 5 - 9 p.m. Sewickley. 412-519-3377. FRICK FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM. Strange Beauty: Autoradiography from Fukushima. The first U.S. exhibition of this work by Japanese photographer Takashi Morizumi, marking the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Opening reception March 15, 5 - 6 p.m. including panel discussion w/ Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D., Zeba Ahmed & Takashi Morizumi. https:// rememberinghiroshima.org/. Oakland. 412-354-0021. GALLERIA MALL. Joe Winkler. Exhibiting new oil paintings. Opening reception March 12, 6:30 - 8 p.m. Mt. Lebanon. www.joewinklerart.com. GREENSBURG ART CENTER. 2+2+2. New work by 3 couples making art together: Deborah Kollar & George Kollar, Mark Panza & Maryann Parker, David Sparks & Susan Sparks. Opening reception March 12, 6 - 8 p.m. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. PERCOLATE. Regeneration. New artwork by Samir Elsabee, Jacob McCauley, Jenn Wertz & Bob Ziller. Opening reception March 12, 6 - 9 p.m. Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220. PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. Group Show. Work by Ed Murray, Denise Bell, Debra Phillips, Bob Olson, Jennifer Sanchez, Jake Reinhart &
Dan Quigley. Opening reception March 11, 6 - 8:30 pm. Oakland. 412-681-5449. PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Faith & Environment/Climate Justice Film & discussion. East Liberty. 740-360-0420. SHAW GALLERIES. Ashley Garner: FLUX. A two day exhibition of original figurative oil paintings by Ashley Garner. Reception March 12, 5-8 p.m. Downtown. 412-281-4884.
ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. Jennifer Nagle Myers: Waterfall Vision. Drawings, waterfall cascades, projection & performance that explore the female body as earth body, where all trauma, joy & reincarnation exist. Downtown. 412-325-7017. 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. Exposures: Jamie Earnest: Private Spaces / Public Personas. 3 new large-scale paintings that incorporate details from the private, residential spaces of both Andy Warhol & Michael Chow. Michael Chow aka Zhou Yinghua: Voice for My Father. 3 main bodies of work which include new paintings completed expressly for The Warhol show, vintage photographs of the artist’s father Zhou Xinfang, a grand master of the Beijing Opera & a collection of portraits of Chow painted by his contemporaries, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat
& Ed Ruscha, linking his practice w/ the contemporary art communities of London, New York & Los Angeles. 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. Spring Lurks Like Snakes Under the Flowers. Work inspired by vintage clothing & spring by Gavin Benjamin. North Side. 412-321-8664. AUGUST WILSON CENTER. The Other Side of Pop. In this alternative examination of pop art & pop culture, artists depict relevant & influential cultures that are either unappreciated or unrecognized by mainstream media. Downtown. 412-258-2700. BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Oracles & Vesicles, Drawings & Prints by Michael Walter. Oakland. 412-648-1376. 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. CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Waxed Abstraction. Work by Marlene Boas inspired by the psyche. Lawrenceville. 412-477-4540.
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SAT 12 THE AMISH MONKEYS. 8 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 412-243-6464.
SUN 13 THAT’S A BINGO: STAND UP COMEDY BINGO. Bingo w/ words instead of numbers. 9:30 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-610-2052.
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Arnold’s Tea This North Side café offers a variety of teas, small bites and Wi-Fi. Tables face large windows, an optimal set-up for people-watching. 502 E. Ohio St.
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. UNPLANNED COMEDY JAMBONE’S IMPROV. Hosted by Woody Drenen. Mon, 9:30 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
EXHIBITS ALLEGHENY CITY HISTORIC Arnold Palmer Regional Airport
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This smaller airport in Latrobe offers short security lines, an old-school Italian restaurant and low-cost flights to fun destinations like Florida and Las Vegas.
Whale Bone in the Carnegie Yard This large remnant of marine life is behind the Carnegie Library Main Branch, in Oakland.
The Invention of Nature This biography, by Andrea Wulf, details the adventures and accomplishments of Alexander von Humboldt, who first published ideas about connected ecosystems and climate change, rather than sorting plants and animals into strict categories of rigid disciplines.
GALLERY. Historical images & items forcusing on the North Side of Pittsburgh. North Side. 412-321-3940. ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts & exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666. ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour. The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie. 412-276-3456. BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments & music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment. O’Hara. 412-782-4231. BOST BUILDING. Collectors. Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020. BRADDOCK’S BATTLEFIELD HISTORY CENTER. French & Indian War. The history of the French & Indian War w/ over 250 artifacts & more. Braddock. 412-271-0800. 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.
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CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. In The Jungle: New & Recent Works by Lizzee Solomon. Bloomfield. 412-404-8117. DELANIE’S COFFEE. Double Mirror. 40+ artists displaying their works. 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). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FRAMEHOUSE. En Plein Air. Feating work by Barbra K. Bush, Ron Donoughe, Sondra Rose Hart, Patrick Lee, Constance Merriman, William Pfahl & Barry Shields. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Permanent collection of European Art. Fast Cars & Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue. A 125 photos that document the life in the Belle-Époque & early-20thcentury France. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. THE GALLERY 4. Busy Signal. New works from Soviet & Curve. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Cheryl Ryan Harshman. Acrylics, clay monoprints & encaustics by the artist. Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. 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. IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Witness Aleppo: Photographs, Stories & Sound from Pre-war Syria. Photographs by
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.
Jason Hamacher. Garfield. 412-924-0634. MAGGIE’S FARM DISTILLERY. Around Tahn. Work by Peter Leeman. Strip District. 724-322-5415. 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. 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. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. 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. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 10 Solo Exhibitions. Work by Sarika Goulatia, Patrick Schmidt, John Tronsor, Elise Wells, Dafna Rehavia, Katie Rearick & Rachel Saul, Scott Hunter, Robert Howsare, Nicole Crock & Anna Boyle. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Lifeforms. 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. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Fellowship 16: Projects by Ka-Man Tse & Aaron
CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature & biotechnology. Sundays 12-4. Garfield. 412-223-7698. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. TapeScape 2.0. A play exhibit/art installation, designed by Eric Lennartson, that uses more than 10 miles of tape stretched over steel
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. 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. Closing reception March 12, 11 a.m. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. Causal Loop. Sculptural work, video pieces & wall pieces by Blaine Siegel & David Bernabo, who transform & join material things like wood, glass, metal, bone & non-things like sound & light into new significant forms. Artist talk by David Bernabo & Blaine Siegel on March 16, 6 p.m. Downtown. 412-325-7723. 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. UNDERCROFT GALLERY, FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. Notions: Western PA Women Artists Explore Legacy. A varied collection of pieces by accomplished women artists & photographers from Western PA. In honor of Women’s History Month. Shadyside. 412-727-6870. WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. Telling Tales: Stories & Legends in 19th Century American Art. 53 pieces that portray themes of American ambition, pride & the spiritual elements of American life. Greensburg. 724-837-1500.
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MON 14 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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GRATITUDE & FORGIVENESS. Activities focusing on emotional health. 1-2 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. RUN4FUN. Train kids to participate & complete a 5K run/ race by equipping them with the physical training & goal-setting mentality. Open to beginners & experienced runners ages 7-14. Pre-registration is required at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. Sun, 4:45-6 p.m. Thru April 17. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.
WED 16 ANNA ZIEGLER. Playwright of The Last Match. 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-8866. DIANE GLANCY. Madwomen Reading Series. Reception & book signing after reading. 7 p.m. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland. 412-578-6346.
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OTHER STUFF THU 10 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http:// citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH. Social, cultural club of American/ international women. Thu First Baptist Church, Oakland. iwap. pittsburgh@gmail.com. PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. Experienced screen printers can utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints. A
volunteer-driven environment by Rin Park & Naomi Edmark, designed for short-run projects two queer womyn of color. Thru that can be completed in one April 2 Black Forge Coffee House, evening for a small materials Knoxville. 412-291-8994. fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, 21+ FOOD SCIENCE W/ North Side. 412-321-8664. WIGLE WHISKEY. An evening SALSA NIGHT. Free dancing of scientific libations exploring lessons w/ host & instructor the chemistry of malting & DJ Bobby D from 9:30-10 p.m. fermentation. http://www. Thu, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Perle carnegiesciencecenter.org/ Champagne Bar, Downtown. programs/adult-programs412-471-2058. 21-plus-night/ for more TAX LAB. Two hours information. 6-10 p.m. of uninterrupted Carnegie Science computer time to Center, North Side. complete your taxes 412-237-3400. using an online AFRICAN DANCE platform from CLASS. Second and the IRS’ website. www. per pa Third Fri of every 12:15 p.m. Carnegie pghcitym o .c month and Fourth Library, Downtown. and Last Fri of every 412-281-7141. month Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield. 412-924-0634. SUNSTAR. A 3 day festival CRAFTS & DRAFTS: THREADS celebrating the creative & DOODLES. Come pair a contributions of women in pint glass w/ a needle & thread the arts, entrepreneurship & to “doodle” on fabric! All community. Performances, talks, participants can enjoy a beer & workshops, parties, more, serving create an embroidered story to as a visionary convening of take home. 6 p.m. The Society for inspiring women from across Contemporary Craft, Strip District. disciplines & fields. Kelly412-261-7003. Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA 412-363-3000. DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner DEBRIS STITCH TIDE. An needed, beginners welcome, exhibition, screening & spoken lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m. word performance performed Swisshelm Park Community
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Center, Swissvale. 412-945-0554. LIFE & MUSIC OF DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH. Dr. Cleon Cornes presents this six-week exploration of the musical genius Dmitri Shostakovich. Fri, 10 a.m. and Fri. Thru April 15. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. LIGHTLAB PERFORMANCE SERIES. Celebrating over two years of events that aim to push local boundaries for dance & performance, while showcasing exciting music, lecture, art & video work. 7 p.m. Space, Downtown. 412-325-7723.
SAT 12 3RD ANNUAL ANTIQUE FAIR. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. 412-767-9200. ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION RED TIE GALA. Celebrating 35 years as “the heart of Pittsburgh’s legal community.” Includes dinner, dancing & live music by No Bad Juju. 6 p.m. Circuit Center and Ballroom, South Side. 412-261-6161. BABYSITTER TRAINING COURSE. The American Red Cross presents an opportunity to become a certified babysitter for children ages 11 & up. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255. THE BALLROOM DANCE AT CRANBERRY. Cha cha lesson & open dancing. 7 p.m. 2525 Rochester Road, Cranberry. 724-612-3226. BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669. GET CRAFTY W/ THE MATTRESS FACTORY. free interactive craft session w/ art instructors from the Mattress Factory. 2:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Downtown. 412-281-7141. MAPLE MADNESS. Pancakes, real maple syrup, & a hike through the history of maple sugaring. 10 a.m. Succop Conservancy, Butler. 412-963-6100. MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL. Pioneer, Native American & modern methods of maple sugaring will be discussed, demonstrated & sampled. For more information, call 724-733-4618. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Boyce Park, Monroeville. 724-327-0338. MEET, LEARN, PLAY: A GAMING MEET UP. All-ages board gaming session, playing & learning about new games w/ an instructor. Quiet Reading Room. Second and Fourth Sat of every month, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. SECOND SATURDAY ART WORKSHOPS. Classes in jewelry making, painting, cartooning, puppet making, quilting, more. Second Sat of every month Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown. 412-471-6079.
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SENSORY-FRIENDLY EVENT FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS. Program designed specifically for teens & young adults 14 to 21 years old w/ autism spectrum disorders & those w/ sensory sensitivities. 10 a.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300. SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels. Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. UKRAINIAN EASTER EGG WORKSHOP. 12 p.m. St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Carnegie. 412-527-5359. VOICECATCH WORKSHOP W/ KATHY AYRES. A community writing workshop & writing space provided by Chatham’s Words Without Walls program. Sat, 10 a.m.12 p.m. Carnegie Library, East Liberty. 412-363-8232. WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827.
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archival films, classic features & international works by artists from Ethiopia, Kenya, the UK, more. Visit http://kelly-strayhorn. org/ for a full schedule. Sun. Thru April 3. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000. CALMING COZY COLORING PROGRAM. Coloring sessions for adults. Sun, 2-4 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. FAMILY/FRIENDS OF SUBSTANCE USERS/ ABUSERS SUPPORT GROUP. Non 12-step support group exchanging experiences & ideas as a means to provide resources & suggestions that can help those struggling to support the recovery journey of a close relative or friend. Second and Fourth Sun of every month, 4:30 p.m. Bethany Lutheran Church, Bethel Park. 412-853-3189. FAN FEST. Riverhounds’ preseason game against the University of Michigan. 10:30 a.m. Highmark Stadium, Station Square. 412-325-7225. GUEST SPINNER JULIANNA HEIBY. Julianna Heiby introduces the age-old practice spinning yarn. 12-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THE RIGHT SIZE. Powdermill director John Wenzel discusses why ants are small but CONTINUES ON PG. 48
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MON 14 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly meeting. Second Mon of every month, 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008. CHAMPION EDITION COCKTAIL COMPETITION. 9 p.m. The Summit, Mt. Washington. 412-918-1647.
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IMPROV ACTING CLASS. Mon, 7 p.m. Thru March 22 Percolate, Wilkinsburg. 412-607-4297. MONDAY NIGHT DODGEBALL. Win fabulous prizes, have a drink, get some exercise, & pummel your friends. 7 p.m. Ace Hotel Pittsburgh, East Liberty. 412-467-9590. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.
utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints. A volunteerdriven environment designed for short-run projects that can be completed in one evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Meeting topic: Expanding the Rachel Carson Trail. 7 p.m. Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.
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I’m your average straight 42-year-old white guy. Married for a little less than a year (second marriage for both). We have an active sex life and are both GGG. My wife wants to be forcibly fucked — held down and raped. Normally I’d be all over this because I do love me some rough sex. My issue: She told me she was traumatically raped by a man she was dating prior to me. All I know is that it involved a hotel room and him not stopping when she said “no.” So for now, I play along, but I know I’m not taking things as far as she’d like. I’m over here wondering if her previous trauma was a result of her encouraging forceful sex and regretting it later, and I worry the same thing could happen to me. Or is she trying to relive the experience? Should I fear her motivation and the potential consequences? Am I overthinking things? TREMULOUS HUSBAND IS NEEDING KNOWLEDGE
When it comes to rough sex, overthinking is preferable to underthinking. But before we think through your specific issues, THINK, a few points of clarification. A woman who’s into rough sex, even forced-sex/ rape-role-play scenarios, can still have been raped by a partner — and a rape can occur during what was supposed to be a consensual forced-sex/rape-role-play scene. If your wife withdrew her consent and her former partner continued, it was rape. Also, THINK, lots of women fantasize about “rape,” which I’m putting in quotes here because these fantasies typically involve a woman being “taken” by someone she’s attracted to, and lots and lots and lots of women are victims of rape. Obviously there’s going to be overlap between these two groups. Your wife’s forcedsex fantasies could have nothing to do with her rape, or your wife might be one of those people (not all of them women) who have eroticized a past sexual trauma (not always rape), and playing with a partner she trusts provides her with feelings of control and catharsis, empowerment and pleasure. But what about you, THINK? You worry “the same thing could happen to me.” By that you don’t mean, “I could be raped!” You mean, “I could be falsely accused of rape.” That’s a pretty big and disrespectful leap. What you’re saying is, “I think my wife is lying when she says this other man raped her — and I don’t want her to do the same to me.” I’m not sure what to do with that. I mean, I don’t think your wife is lying, THINK, and I don’t know or love your wife. You presumably know and love your wife, and yet you’re worried she might be setting you up for a false rape accusation. That’s some dark shit — that’s some Gone Girl shit, that’s the plot of some horrible Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas shit movie from the 1980s. Finally, THINK, this isn’t something your wife will wanna do just once. So take baby steps: Increase the intensity gradually, from scene to scene, check in afterward, Google “sexual aftercare” and read the piece on Curve that pops up (it’s a lesbian website, but the les-
sons/advice/insight are generally applicable) and keep having long conversations — via email or face to face — about what’s working for her and what isn’t. Good luck. I had given up on relationships after a failed marriage and another partner trying to kill me (no joke). Then, after five years single, abstinent and lonely, I met a man who frustrated me, turned me on and was understanding about my trust issues. I’m excited about a future with him — except for two things. First, he says he loves me but he’s not sure yet if he wants to spend the rest of his life with me — he’s not sure if I’m “The One.” He also has needs I’m not able to fulfill. It may not seem like a big deal to most people, but swallowing is out for me, as I was orally raped when I was a teenager. I’ve worked my way up to enjoying giving head, but come in my mouth makes me cry. And I can’t give head after anal. He says these are the things that make him come the hardest. I’ve asked him if my inability to provide these things are a “dealbreaker” for him and he says no, but when we get into bed, he talks about me doing them the entire time we’re having sex. He will also have sex only in the positions he likes, and if I ask for something different, he’ll just stop having sex with me, leaving me frustrated. If letting him go so he can find the right person to fulfill his needs makes him happier, then I feel it’s the right thing to do, as much as it would hurt.
WHEN IT COMES TO ROUGH SEX, OVERTHINKING IS PREFERABLE TO UNDERTHINKING.
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You need to let this guy go for your own happiness and sanity. I know you were alone for a long time — alone and lonely — and you know who else knows that? Your shitty boyfriend, FAIL, and he’s leveraging your desire to be with someone against your right to sexual autonomy and your need for emotional safety. You have an absolute right to set your own limits, to rule things in and out, and to slap “not open for discussion” labels on some things. Ruling two things out — swallowing and ATM — particularly for the reasons you cite, is perfectly reasonable. If he can’t accept that, if he’s going to hammer away at those two things endlessly, that should be a “deal-breaker” for you. The issue here isn’t whether he’s “sure” you’re the one, or the sex acts that make him come the hardest. This is about him controlling and degrading you. DTMFA. Please ignore KISSES and write as much as you want! I read your column because I like what you write! DAN SHOULD GO ON AT LENGTH
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I wish I knew what I desire,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope. The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever — EVER! — for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for. Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart and your soul want more than anything else in this life.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days. The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Quoting poet W.H. Auden, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: argumentmakers and beauty-makers. I think that’s an interesting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beauty-maker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at least temporarily,
a great beauty-maker. One more thing: As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makers as your companions.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To have any hope of becoming an expert in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills — the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six-and-a-half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you not to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I sit before flowers, hoping they will train me
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The marathon is a long-distance footrace with an official length of over 26 miles. Adults who are physically fit and well trained can finish the course in five hours. But I want to call your attention to a much longer running event: the Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race. It begins every June in Queens, a borough of New York, and lasts until August. Those who participate do 3,100 miles’ worth of laps around a single city block, or about 100 laps per day. I think that this is an apt metaphor for the work you now have ahead of you. You must cover a lot of ground as you accomplish a big project, but without traveling far and wide. Your task is to be dogged and persistent as you do a little at a time, never risking exhaustion, always pacing yourself.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Look at yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury. “Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years. Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In old Vietnamese folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol. They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures. But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult. In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo — for all of the above reasons. Your task is to overcome the boring stories and messages so as to accomplish your lively transformations.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
“Your anger is a gift.” So proclaims musician and activist Zack de la Rocha, singer in the band Rage Against the Machine. That statement is true for him on at least two levels. His fury about the systemic corruption that infects American politics has roused him to create many successful songs and enabled him to earn a very good living. I don’t think anger is always a gift for all of us, however. Too often, especially when it’s motivated by petty issues, it’s a self-indulgent waste of energy that can literally make us sick. Having said that, I do suspect that your anger in the coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, clarifying, healthy.
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“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence of her declaration, Scorpio. You may generate an unprecedented number of novel emotions — complex flutters and flows and gyrations that have never before been experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I think it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate them as being unique — that you refrain from comparing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.
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According to a report in the journal Science, most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in. We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now. One of the legal financial scams that shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared. It was sold widely, even though noted economist HaJoon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it. In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that — with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now. What’s the single thing you could do right now that would change your life for the better? Freewillastrology.com.
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ANIMAL TALE {BY ASHLEY MURRAY AND AARON WARNICK}
EACH SUMMER IN PITTSBURGH, bipedal foxes, wolves, horses and the like can
be seen waving from the Downtown streets outside of the Westin Convention Center hotel, on Liberty Avenue. These anthropomorphic-enamored folks are gathered for the annual Anthrocon, the largest meeting of the furry community. Local TV stations flock to capture the visuals. Passersby stop for a highfive and a selfie, and maybe they walk away with questions about furries or gossip about their sexual fetishes. On Thu., March 10, the Pittsburgh premiere of the documentary Fursonas provides the chance to learn about furry fandom — the humans behind the costumes, artwork and dance scene. The {PHOTO BY JOHN COLOMBO} film also addresses the sexual aspects of the community. We caught up with Boomer the Dog (left) and Dominic “Video the Wolf” FURSONAS Fursonas director Dominic Rodriguez and a local furry featured in the film, Rodriguez at the Regent Square Theater 7 p.m. Thu., March 10. Boomer the Dog, who lost a local 2010 court case to legally change his name. Regent Square Theater, HOW DID YOU BECOME BOOMER? 1035 S. Braddock Ave., TELL US ABOUT THE FILM. Boomer: I had seen a movie called the Regent Square. $10. Tickets at www.eventbrite.com Dominic Rodriguez: Fursonas is a four-year exploration into the furry commu- Shaggy D.A.; my dad took me to it way nity. Furry, in the broadest sense, is anybody interested in anthropomorphic back in 1976. It really kind of showed me animals, so that’s like cartoon animals. You see people who wear the costumes, that somebody could transform into a that’s a very visual part of the community. Our film is about getting to know dog, and I was already a dog fanatic at the time. … I was like, “Wow, I could people who are very involved, and then it also goes deeper into furries’ relation- actually dream of being a dog. I would love that to happen.” It seemed like an ship with the media and themes of community and identity. exciting life for me.
“OUR FILM IS ABOUT GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY INVOLVED.” WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO DO THIS PROJECT? Rodriguez: The producer of the film [Olivia Vaughn] and I were [at] Point Park University together, so this was our senior-thesis film. The original project we wanted to do ended up falling through, and this was right around the time that Anthrocon was going on. I had always been interested in furry [fandom]. I am a furry and have identified as that for 10 years, but my [film] crew didn’t know it. So I was like, “Maybe we can go to Anthrocon. Maybe there could be a movie there.” It was sort of my excuse to get more involved with the community. DO YOU IDENTIFY AS YOUR ANIMAL? Rodriguez: I personally don’t. I feel more like a person than anything else. When I introduce myself to people, I prefer the name Dominic. It’s different [for] everybody, and I think a lot of furries want to look at it as more of a hobby than a lifestyle. But I also think that calling it a hobby is doing it a disservice because I think there is something deeper to it for a lot of people, and for me, as well, in almost a way I can’t explain. You look at furry art for example. It hits me in an emotional way that’s hard to define.
WHY DO YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE FEEL THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK ABOUT YOUR SEX LIVES? Rodriguez: That’s also a really good question because when I started this documentary, one of the questions was, “How do you approach the sexual angle of the fandom?” If you go online and you look up “furry,” you’re going to find lots of porn and sexual things, so it’s obviously a part of it. That was something I struggled with early on, like, “Is it my right to ask people? And do they owe me an answer?” I guess it’s easy to say you shouldn’t ask people about their sex lives, but I mean, I think where it gets tricky is because from the outll fu r u See o side this looks very much like Disneyland. But it’s not acw ie rv te in video tually. It’s a bunch of different people with their different z e u rig with Rod er interests. For some people it’s sexual, and for some people m o and Bo it’s not. y ghcit
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Boomer: I think it’s something in the public consciousness because of the different media [coverage] over the years. When furry was not that well known, the sex part of it was something that media would focus on closely, like, “Oh look!” So it became seen as the biggest thing of what furries were about. I’ve been Boomer: I guess [I identify] more than some other furries. I thought I’ve been a asked that question when people find out I’m a furry. They’ll say somedog for many years, since I was in elementary school. I think it grew over time, thing like, “Does everybody have sex in those costumes?”... I think the open and I found the furry community, which is a chance for [expressing] something nature of the furry scene allows people to openly talk about sex and other that’s kind of weird out in the public world. topics that are seen as more private in other places. A M U RRAY @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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