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EVENTS 5.3 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: THE JULIAN LAGE TRIO The Warhol theater Tickets $15/$12 Members & students

5.4 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: CINESHAPE The Warhol theater Co-presented with the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of the Provost and Humanities Center.

FREE parking in The Warhol lot Advance Tickets: $15/$10 students; Door Tickets $20/$15 students; visit www.music.pitt.edu/tickets or call 412.624.7529

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

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experience Pittsburgh’s diverse music options. Led by music editor Margaret Welsh, we spent a weekend going to live music shows, high school musicals and anything else that carried a tune.

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“Expect more fresh-fruit flavors as the harvests come in.” — Al Hoff on Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream

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“A bombastic action adventure punctuated by specks of tenderness and reflection, with plenty of fights.”

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[ARTS] project reflects not just a changing 52 “The Pittsburgh, but a Pittsburgh with changing goals.” — Charles Rosenblum on the new East Liberty Transit Center

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Thousands converged on Downtown Pittsburgh in protest and support of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

See our video, photo slideshow and extended coverage at www.pghcitypaper.com.

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From left, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Gov. Tom Wolf, state Sen. Jay Costa and state Rep. Dan Frankel at Wigle Whiskey in March

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IGLE WHISKEY was buzzing on

a Thursday morning in March, and not with the normal happyhour crowd of patrons looking to sample some award-winning craft liquor. The Strip District distillery was filled with eight Democratic politicians and their respective entourages. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald, state senators Jay Costa and Wayne Fontana and others were all singing the praises of Wigle for raising its minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Gov. Tom Wolf even showed up to hold a press conference.

“This is a really big deal. … We are trying to send a message that in Pennsylvania, we need to do this,” said Wolf at the press conference, referencing the push to raise the state minimum wage. “It makes good business sense. All Pennsylvanians need this, and examples like Wigle show [this is important].”

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Pittsburgh City Councilor Corey O’Connor said Wigle was the first company to take advantage of his minimum-wage initiative, which provides free advertising at bus shelters for companies that increase their minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

“The city wins, the business wins, and most importantly, the workers win,” said O’Connor.

Has Pittsburgh’s focus on ‘whiz-bang tech startups’ left manufacturing companies out of the big picture? {BY RYAN DETO} But while politicians are eager to politicize the good labor initiatives of small businesses like Wigle, when it comes to helping them and others expand or move into the city, some are feeling left behind.

“Since there is no commitment to manufacturing and certainly no commitment to a sector like food manufacturing in the city, the options get very narrow,” says Joe Bute, of Hollymead Capital, a company that invests in creating locally sourced food companies.

Wigle has felt this pressure, too. The distillery is expanding to a larger facility in North Side’s Spring Garden neighborhood.

And co-owner Meredith Grelli says that while Wigle has gotten some support from city officials, it was a struggle to find a site to expand.

Grelli says Wigle tried many tactics to locate a larger site, including reaching out to community-development corporations, contacting city officials, searching online and meeting with brokers.

“We went to a broker once and told them what we were looking for,” says Grelli. “And they said, ‘Good luck, let us

know if you find it.’”

After more than a year of searching, Grelli says Wigle finally found a place up the street from its barrel house on Spring Garden Avenue, at the site of an old tannery.

Wigle’s difficulty in finding a large facility is not unique. Hitchhiker Brewing needed a year to find a suitable building in the South Side, and founder Gary Olden expressed relief when his plan was OK’d by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh in January. Hollymead’s Bute says he has been looking for a space for a food-manufacturing incubator for about a year but has not come close to finding what he is looking for.

He wrote in an email to City Paper that there is a weak commitment to manufacturing, especially food manufacturing, in the city. He cites the housing boom and loss of manufacturing spaces in Lawrenceville as a prime example.

“The city does not seem to have a proactive policy of any sort to protect areas of the city for light manufacturing,” wrote Bute. “This will push more of that use out of the city.”

In fact, two large food manufacturers looking to expand recently moved outside Pittsburgh city limits. Paragon Foods moved from Lawrenceville to a new $15 million, 88,000-square-foot facility in Warrendale that could accommodate up to 190 jobs.

Alber & Leff Foods, makers of B&L Sour Cream, is moving from Chateau in the North Side to Bridgeville, in the South Hills.

According to the Pittsburgh Business Times, the food distributor had been searching for a new site for more than five years.

Alber & Leff’s owner told the Business Times that “it’s tough to leave the city, but we had nowhere to build there.” The company had been located in Chateau for more than 30 years.

Bute has toured old manufacturing sites in the North Side (including Alber & Leff’s old site), but says that many of them need extensive work to become functional again. He says many city buildings that were once home to manufacturing are being converted to other uses.

Rick Schweikert, a real-estate broker at Keller Williams, says the market is “very tight” for commercial real estate and that a lot of manufacturing buildings are being converted to residential spaces and offices.

Schweikert says this competition is only exaggerated because “manufacturers want to be in places where their workers and management want to live.”

This comes at a time when the region is experiencing a boom in manufacturing investments. Last year, 63 manufacturing expansions were announced, more than in any other sector of the economy. However,

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it appears that many of them were outside of city limits. According to 2014 stats (the most recent CP could ďŹ nd) from the business coalition Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, out of 40 manufacturing-related expansions that year, only six were located in Pittsburgh, and one of those was by soon-to-be-relocated Paragon Foods.

Despite the obstacles and trends, Bute is optimistic that his food-incubator will take off soon, considering the growing desire for locally sourced food and attention to socialjustice issues. Bute says light manufacturing can provide good jobs and address income inequality. However, he feels the city’s economic priorities are misguided. “We will hopefully have good news on this front soon ... [but] Pittsburgh is way in the dark ages and full of itself with whizbang tech startups that don’t add jobs or create long-term value,â€? says Bute. “Clearly there is little effort to deďŹ ne the local food system as an economic unit like we do technology.â€?

IN SUMMER 2014, Pittsburgh Magazine de-

manded that Pittsburgh “needs to be more braggy� in terms of its emerging tech market. Less than two years later, it is hard to imagine that sentiment ever needed to be uttered.

National publications have featured Pittsburgh as one of the next techboom cities, and companies like Apple, Facebook and Google get press coverage when they announce just about anything here. Uber, the ride-hailing giant, received a headline recently in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just for considering moving onto the Almono site in Hazelwood.

When Uber was looking to expand in December, it reached out to the Regional Industrial Development Corporation for help, according to Uber’s Dan Beaven.

Within two months, Uber announced plans to become the ďŹ rst tenant at the Almono site, which is owned by the RIDC. “I can’t tell you how great our relationship with ‌ the mayor is,â€? said Beaven at the February announcement.

Jeh Kazimi of Breezie, a company that makes senior-friendly tablet software, also highlighted the close relationship of tech companies and municipal head honchos during Innovation Week, a city-sponsored event in April to highlight the work of tech companies in the region.

Kazimi says he heard about the tech growth in Pittsburgh from a private-equity partner who was a Pittsburgh native. Kazimi started visiting in March 2015. During one visit he met with representatives from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, and brief-

ly ran into Mayor Bill Peduto. When he ew back to his home, in London, a couple days later, there was already a letter from Peduto waiting for him. “Who does that?!â€? Kazimi told City Paper at the Innovation Week event in the Strip District. Breezie moved to Oakland in August 2015 and will eventually employ 14 to 20 people, according to Kazimi.

URA spokesperson Gigi Saladna says manufacturing expansion can be more complex and expensive than expansion of tech companies, but doesn’t agree with some criticisms of the URA’s involvement. “The URA and city reject the claim that we do not prioritize manufacturing companies in our economic development strategy,� Saldana says. She cites the recent successful expansions of Penn Brewery, J Harris & Sons, Chris’ Candies, the Proud Company, Thread and many others.

Saladna also cites the recent announcement of the URA’s sale of the former Detective’s Building in East Liberty to Schoolhouse Electric, a Portland, Ore.-based light-ďŹ xture company. Schoolhouse plans to use the building as its mid-Atlantic headquarters, and Saladna says that the company “noted Pittsburgh’s access to robust manufacturing supply chains and skilled workforce as critical to their attraction to Pittsburgh for expansion.â€? However, the role the URA played in bringing Schoolhouse to Pittsburgh was limited. At a recent URA meeting, the company’s founder, Brian Faherty, told CP that he discovered the Detective Building on his own while visiting the Ace Hotel, one of his clients.

But not all tech companies looking to move into the city get extra attention from city ofďŹ cials. Avishai Geller of Maven Machines, which creates smart Bluetooth earbuds, said he found space for his company on his own by applying to AlphaLab, a tech incubator in East Liberty.

Pittsburgh has at least seven incubators that can provide spaces for tech companies to start and grow. (One of the city’s few quasi food-incubators, the Pittsburgh Public Market, closed in February and whether it will relocate remains unclear.)

Kenny Chen, a board member at philanthropy ďŹ rm Social Venture Partners, says many tech companies get their start at incubator spaces. He adds that burgeoning tech companies can ďŹ nd temporary space at incubators in as little as one day, and that successful companies bred in incubators take two or three months to ďŹ nd permanent locations. “As a whole, Pittsburgh is driving itself for companies to grow,â€? says Chen of

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the tech industry. “We are absolutely on an upswing.”

And while the upswing is good for improving Pittsburgh’s reputation as a tech hub, the growth of tech companies doesn’t always contribute to a rising tide for the local economy. Some of the tech companies garnering the most attention don’t create that many jobs. For example, Facebook acquired virtual-reality company Oculus (which announced plans to move to Oakland this year) for $2 billion. At the time, Oculus had only 75 employees.

A 2015 study from the University of Oxford highlights some of the problems of over-prioritizing tech: “Because digital businesses require only limited capital investment, employment opportunities created by technological change may continue to stagnate as the U.S. economy is becoming increasingly digitized.”

The study’s author, Carl Benedikt Frey, said in an interview with Forbes magazine last year that tech growth can have harsh implications for regional inequality.

He cites the catch-22 that the San Francisco Bay Area is currently experiencing. “[Tech growth] drives up housing prices

and makes it more and more difficult for workers to move to San Francisco, where the jobs are emerging,” said Frey.

Grelli, of Wigle, is concerned about this issue as well. Wigle currently employs nearly 60 part- and full-time workers, and will grow that when its new facility is completed. Grelli says it makes sense for manufacturers to be located in the city because workers can commute via public transportation and companies can develop positive relationships with the community. Because of these positive effects, Grelli would like to see the city set aside more spaces for light manufacturers. She cites the Strip District as an example of how manufacturing districts are changing.

Since moving to the Strip in 2010, Grelli has seen a “huge transformation” of the neighborhood, including the development of luxury housing, boutique restaurants and hotels.

“If we were looking for a space here now, this [distillery] couldn’t happen,” she says. Last June, Apple signed a lease at a newly constructed building next door to Wigle. The tech giant should be moving in soon.

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but I love the First Amendment. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to work in a profession that I love for the past 23 years.

But I’ve found that even though its stated purpose — to allow free speech and expression — is a simple concept, some people don’t fully grasp it. Early in my life, I don’t think even I understood it completely.

Last week, for example, I wrote a couple of pieces about presidential candidate and “hate visionary” Donald Trump. Those pieces generated a lot of comments from authors who were upset with me for what I had to say about their candidate.

A couple of selections (case, spelling and punctuation are left mostly as was written): “I do have an issue with not being able to use the words ‘colored,’ ‘Oriental’ I’m married to an Oriental woman ... who doesn’t mind being Oriental. … Why should we be so politically correct? ... ” “Your doing exactly what we expected you’d do. You ridicule Mr. Trumb because he speaks what we already know, that the political systems is ridged.”

“Who’s this Charlie Deitch? … clueless.”

“Since when is it hateful to want to keep out those who daily proclaim ‘death to America’?

How can anyone, of any political persuasion, not think that Reagan was the best president of the 20th century.”

And finally, my favorite: “Obvious hard left leaning reporter who thinks Obama is great. With his weight problem he would make a good Micheal Moore twin.”

The individuals who made these comments are absolutely entitled to say whatever they like. In fact, as much as that last guy was trying to tear me down, I agree with everything he wrote. I do lean left; I am fat (although I prefer ‘husky’ or ‘robust’); and the Michael Moore thing, I take as a compliment. But what I think a lot of people fail to realize, and probably the thing I despise most about Trump’s campaign, is that most people think free speech means you can say whatever you want with complete impunity. But just like those old bumper stickers say: Freedom isn’t free.

Free speech comes with costs. Yes, you are free to say whatever you like, but

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Protesters at Donald Trump’s Pittsburgh appearance last week

sometimes that speech comes with consequences. Yes, you can say anything you want, but that doesn’t mean your boss can’t take offense and fire you over it. It doesn’t mean that people can’t write hate mail and take you to task for what you say.

Most people who have written have given me crap for saying that Donald Trump shouldn’t spew all the hateful rhetoric that has been flying out of his mouth for months. In the same breath, they tell me to shut up. It’s contradictory, but it’s the way Donald Trump has been operating and its why he’s successful. He’s playing on the anger of people who don’t feel they’ve been able to exercise their freedom to say hateful things about minorities or other groups who don’t fall in line with their way of thinking. Trump acts like he’s promoting and exercising free speech.

But what he’s doing is exploiting it for his own gains. Donald Trump tells one lie after another and folks, even though they’re told it’s a lie, continue to yell that it’s protected speech. It’s maddening.

The fact is, there are consequences to saying whatever you want publicly. For me, I know that I will receive more hate mail, negative comments and fat jokes. I’m fine with that, and I accept those consequences because the good outweighs the bad. But Donald Trump and his supporters had better be prepared to pay up as well.

At some point, the Trump Train is going to go completely off the tracks. Trump, his wall and all of his nonsense are going to be nothing but a bad memory, and all that will be left are scores of hateful words written in online comments sections and on social media. Or else I’m wrong, and Trump will win, and we’ll have to deal with the consequences of that.

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} BUTLER COUNTY is rolling right now. Of all

the counties touching Allegheny, it’s the only one that’s gaining population. If it weren’t for our neighbors to the north we wouldn’t have jeeps, the Brooklyn Bridge or our current zombie craze. Butler County is clearly asking what it can do for its country. It must have been inspired when John F. Kennedy made a stop at the courthouse in 1960.

The Jeep was developed by the Bantam Company in the early 1940s. John Roebling invented “wire rope” that he used to help construct the Smithfield Street Bridge, in Downtown Pittsburgh, and his more famous bridge in Brooklyn. Evans City was the genesis for our zombie obsession, as George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was famously shot there. It’s also contributed to hair metal. The composer of “Unskinny Bop” and “Talk Dirty to Me,” Bret Michaels, is a Butler county native.

Butler has even produced a secretary of defense; William J. Perry ran that cabinet position under Bill Clinton.

The breadth of athletic contributions is impressive as well. Pro wrestling technically isn’t a real sport, but here in Pittsburgh it is. What would Andre the Giant have been without his rival, the late Big John Studd?

That’s right, Studd came from Butler. It’s not necessarily a football factory like surrounding counties, but having Paul Posluszny is a nice feather in the cap. The Poz, as well as former Notre Dame golden boy and Pittsburgh Steeler Terry Hanratty, are native sons. So is former NFL coach of the year and College Football Hall of Famer Jim Haslett.

Butler County is now in the business of producing hockey players too. Last year’s Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year was Jake Hildebrand.

The Michigan State Spartan is leading the way for future Butler hockey players. Even world-class swimmers, as you might expect, spent some time there. Harry Holiday, a world-record backstroke champion, and two-time Olympic silver medalist Eric Namensik swam in Butler County pools.

Namensik passed away tragically young, at 35. But the county honors his accomplishments with a statue of him outside the Butler County YMCA. There are also well-known pugilists hailing from the

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north. Brian “The Beast” Minto fought 51 professional bouts in the heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions, winning 41.

As for baseball, Matt Clement, a World Series champ with the Red Sox, grew up in the county. So did former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Khalil Greene and Neil Walker’s brother-in-law Don Kelly. Kelly played high school ball at Mount Lebanon, but Butler County still can claim him. MLB umpire Jerry Meals was born in Butler County. His parents moved him to Ohio as a kid. That may be the reason Pirates fans don’t like him. Or it could be the fact that he admitted blowing a call in the 19th inning of a game that was the longest in Bucco history. In 2011, Mike “Fort” McKenry clearly tagged out the Atlanta Braves’ Julio Lugo three feet before he slid into home. Meals called him safe and enraged Pirate fans, who were suffering through their 19th consecutive losing season. That night in Atlanta seemed to mark the meltdown of the at-the-time surging Buccos and forced the Pirates to wait another year to punch their ticket out of Loserville. Pirates fans threatened Meals and his family; it was not the finest hour for anyone involved.

Butler even has a minor-league baseball team, the Butler Blue Sox. They are part of the Tri-state Collegiate Baseball League, and they play their games at Kelly Automotive Field. I can safely assume the seats are very cheap. So thank Butler County for its wide array of contributions.

Check out Blue Sox baseball or visit beautiful Moraine State Park or downtown Butler. See the courthouse where JFK spoke, and downtown still has phone booths. It’s like a staycation in a time machine.

“IT’S LIKE A STAYCATION IN A TIME MACHINE.”

MIK E WYSO C K I IS A STANDU P C O ME DIAN A N D M E M B E R OF T HE Q M ORN I N G S HOW E AC H WE E K DAY MO R NING O N Q 9 2 . 9 F M. F O L L OW HI M ON T W I T T E R: @ I T S M I K E W YS OC K I

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Thursday, April 21–7PM Ecolution Fashion Show at the Fairmont Hotel. Guests will enjoy an evening of music, cocktails, hors d’ourves and a runway fashion show highlighting recycled and reused materials designed exclusively for Pittsburgh Earth Day by local designers.

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Friday, April 22–8AM The official day for Earth Day celebrations worldwide, will begin with a press conference in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

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Pittsburgh Earth Day Business Breakfast 8:00–10:00 AM Following the press conference, the Pittsburgh Earth Day Business Breakfast will take place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The breakfast will feature a panel of innovators discussing the current climate of green industries in Pittsburgh.

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Paint the Square Green 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Pittsburgh Earth Day will Paint the Square Green on April 22nd!

Market Square will feature a world market with a mix of local vendors specializing in Earth-friendly products and services, along with organic and educational vendors and live music.

Food Truck Festival & Lunchtime Concerts 11:00 AM–2:00 PM Downtown Pittsburgh will flourish with activities including the Pittsburgh Earth Day Food Truck Festival on 10th Street along the west wing of the Convention Center, and Lunchtime Concerts in Mellon Square Park featuring local musicians.

Earth Day is about opening people’s eyes and expressing support for protecting the environment.

Art & Local Showcase 5:00–9:00 PM The City will be invited back to the Convention Center for a happy hour event hosting an evening of music, a curated art exhibit featuring local artists, organic and handmade vendors and activities for all ages.

Millions around the world have celebrated Earth Day every April 22 since 1970.

This year, let it inspire you to actually do something.

Art + Artifact Market 5:00–9:00 PM Showcasing 200 artifacts honoring Pittsburgh’s past courtesy of Rivers of Steel.

Here’s one simple low-effort, big-impact thing you can do: Start taking the bus. Every bus on the road takes 40 cars off the road. That’s a lot less carbon dioxide-not to mention a lot less congestion. That’s a difference you can actually see.

All events on April 22nd are free and open to the public.

Saturday, April 23 Steel to Sustainable Festival 7:00–11:00 PM In honor of Pittsburgh’s steel past, Steel to Sustainable Festival will take place on Saturday, April 23rd from 7-11PM at the Carrie Blast Furnaces at the former U. S. Steel Homestead Works. This ticketed event will benefit Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.

So starting this Earth Day, hop on the bus.

And make a difference.

Sunday, April 24 TEDxPittsburgh Brunch–11:00 AM Local TEDx speakers will share talks promoting the future of Pittsburgh and the collaborative ideas that will propel the City into even further green innovation in the years to come, hosted at the newly opened Revel + Roost in Market Square.

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THIS WEEK IN CITY PAPER HISTORY 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.

(April 16, 2003) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Carl Prine has recently become known as the local reporter who broke the story on the Pittsburgh ICA destroying documents.

But 13 years ago, he was a cross between Rambo and Geraldo Rivera. Embedded with U.S. Marines during George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion, Prine reported on the search for biological weapons, but it was something else he said that drew the attention of writer Chris Potter. “I grabbed a rifle because we were ready to rock and roll,” Prine said. But as Potter points out, and a Department of Defense official confirmed, picking up the weapon violated the Geneva Convention. “To pick up arms is something a reporter should do if he wants to be part of the fight … [including] being shot at,” said the official, who also pointed out that non-uniformed combatants picking up arms violates the Geneva Convention — a charge that U.S. officials constantly leveled against Iraqis.

OUTGUNNED (April 21, 2004) Writer Marty Levine did a post-mortem, no pun intended, on the National Rifle Association Convention that took place in Pittsburgh the week before. While it was the first conference in years not to feature actor and NRA President Charlton Heston shouting about somebody taking his gun “from my cold dead hands,” plenty of celebrities, from rocker/moron Ted Nugent to

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After a fast start, the 2016 Pirates have cooled off a little. But remember, everything’s going to be fine.

Or at least, it won’t be as horrible as the bad ol’ days between 1992 and 2013.

To remind you of that, we go back to April 17, 2007, and a story written by John Enrietto, a regular guru of Pirates baseball, about the team’s new strategy.

Unfortunately, the plan had little to nothing to do with improving the baseball team. The club had a $9 million payroll ($7 million less than the next lowest franchise) and a bunch of names — except maybe Jason Kendall and Al Martin — that few could recall at this point. Despite the Pirates marketing director’s claims that the team was “selling baseball, not gimmicks,” it was obvious that the focus was on non-baseball premiums instead of actual players. That year, the team gave away fishing rods, mouse pads and dog tags, and held events like senior bingo day. Hell, it even introduced a fancy red-billed cap. If only they would have introduced a starting pitcher who we could remember today.

Vice President/moron Dick Cheney were there.

It also featured “four acres of guns and gear.”

Included in that gear were T-shirts targeted at children and others that were just plain scary: “My pistol and my rifle are only tools. I am the weapon.” See, even the T-shirt says that guns don’t kill people.

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LAST CALL (April 20, 2005) Chiodo’s Tavern, located at the end of the bridge in Homestead, was closing its doors after 58 years. The tavern was known for its Mystery Sandwich and countless pieces of memorabilia hanging from the ceiling and otherwise

displayed in the small establishment. A few days after this story ran, several hundred people would show up for an auction of the bar’s contents, including the recipe to that sandwich, which sold for $450. The heartburn that followed … priceless.

RAY OF HOPE (April 19, 2006) Staff writer Brentin Mock takes a look at the struggles of African-American males trying to reconcile their homosexuality with the stigma that the church places on those in the LGBT community. The story focuses on Raymond Smith, a devout Christian looking for acceptance from the church. “Sexual desires don’t come from somebody else,” says the Rev. Deryck Tines, who is also gay.

“They come from God.”

LIFELONG FIGHT (April 22, 2010) Staff writer Lauren Daley (who still gets calls to the office from sources, by the way) does her first CP cover story on Lauren Fisher, a female boxer living and training in Indiana County.

While the story dealt with Fisher’s athletic career, it was more a story about a woman coming to grips with her sexuality in the face of strong familial objections. Daley deftly took readers on a journey through Fisher’s struggle with her family, her romantic relationships and, most importantly, her sexuality, which had led to thoughts of suicide. At the time of the story, Fisher was working on her boxing career and trying to get to the Olympics. But, as Daley wrote, that was nothing compared to the battle she’d already gone through: “She’s fought for something that big before, but it was when her identity — not a title belt or medal — lay on the line.”

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ICE CREAM SEASON {BY AL HOFF} First there was the ice-cream CSA for the lucky few. Then, pre-packed pints available at select merchants around town. Now, fans of locally based Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream — and all lovers of quality ice cream — can get their scoop on seven days a week: Millie’s has opened an ice-cream shop in Shadyside, just in time for the warm weather.

Millie’s, the brainchild of chef Chad Townsend and his wife and business partner, Lauren, has taken over the former Oh Yeah! space, and freshened it up with pink-and-white striped walls, a mural depicting the enterprise’s farm-to-cone process and a selection of seating options, including outdoor picnic tables. The cheerful staff wears matching aprons, and encourages taste-testing.

(It slows down the line a bit, but you’ll appreciate it when it’s your turn.) The place smells delicious from the freshly pressed waffle cones.

There is small selection of flavors that rotates every three or four weeks. You can count on stalwarts such as “The BEST Chocolate” and “Chad’s Vanilla,” as well as the shop’s most popular flavor — a relative newcomer to the dessert scene — salted caramel. The adventurous can branch out with more exotic flavors such as Thai tea, five-spice honey, lavender vanilla or Vietnamese coffee. Expect more fresh-fruit flavors as the harvests come in; already there is a rhubarb sorbet.

It’s rich, fancy ice cream that’s worth a trip, and served at Pittsburgh prices: A single scoop is $3, a double is $4 (add $1 for a waffle cone). Big spenders can go for floats, sundaes or a gelato-and-brioche “sandwich.”

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AN ACE RESTAURANT {BY ANGELIQUE BAMBERG + JASON ROTH}

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Ace Hotel in the long-empty East Liberty YMCA is a milestone in the city’s meteoric rise from Rust Belt has-been.

Like a beard on a hipster, its particular combination of authentic historicism and 21st-century savvy is so of the moment, we can almost hear it tick. As East Liberty residents, we have no need to partake of Ace’s boutique lodgings. But we’ve joined the throngs congregating in the bar and restaurant in the old Y’s first-floor lobby and reading room, where young men once engaged in more abstemious pursuits.

While the high ceilings, ornate plaster moldings and other bones of these grand old public spaces have been carefully preserved, their formality has been softened with comfortable furnishings, casual curtains and plenty of houseplants. Nothing

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quite matches, conveying the feeling of a home where people have acquired and combined favorite pieces over the years, rather than a unified work of interior design. In the lounge, you might sit on a stool

WHITFIELD 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty. 412-626-3090 HOURS: Breakfast Mon.-Sun. 7-10:30 a.m.; brunch Mon.-Sun. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; dinner Mon.-Thu. 5-11 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5 p.m.-midnight, Sun. 5-10 p.m.

PRICES: Appetizers $8-15; entrees $15-28 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED or a bench, in an armchair or even a rocking chair. In the restaurant, named Whitfield after Ace’s street address, the mismatched dishes have a thrifted vibe.

As part of Ace’s overall curatorial ap-

proach, it is the venue’s practice to source local goods and hire local professionals whenever possible in each of the company’s locations. Whitfield has been placed in the hands of Brent Young, a ’Burgh boy made good as a butcher in Brooklyn. The executive and pastry chefs are both women: Bethany Zozula, until recently at Eleven, and Casey Shively, another local boomeranging back from New York.

Ace’s website describes Whitfield as a “neighborhood tavern,” but this is no gastropub. Instead of dandified bar food, Whitfield offers something more like refined country food with recipes inspired by the cultural, and agricultural, traditions of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania: braised rabbit with semolina gnocchi, roasted duck with spätzle, and steak. And plenty of steak.

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Region’s biggest hops farm starts a second season One windy March day at Keystone Hops Farm, bunches of tiny purple shoots are springing from the ground.

By harvest season, in August, these plants will tower at heights of 18 to 22 feet and produce the cone-like green flowers known as hops. Rows of poles and high wire stand ready to support the vines that will climb them, and owner Mark Verez and farmer Noah Petronic are ready for the Slippery Rock farm’s second growing season as the region’s largest hops farm.

Petronic and Verez met at Soergel Orchards two years ago and started planning a hops farm. By April 2015, they signed on 3.5 acres, bought equipment and put in their first plants.

While the majority of U.S. hops are grown in the Pacific Northwest, pre-Prohibition hop production existed in New York and Pennsylvania. The plant needs a dormancy period of 90 to 100 days, so cooler climates are ideal.

“It’s not that it’s been forgotten, we’re just starting to bring it back. We’re resurrecting a crop,” says Petronic.

Hops are the component in beer that stabilizes and flavors it. Specifically, it’s the resin and essential oils underneath the leaves of the cone — called the bracks — that are the true harvest. As a member of the cannabaceae family (along with cannabis), hops are also used for medicines and teas for stomach ailments and insomnia. Verez and Petronic surveyed local brewers on the types of hops they’d be interested in buying and decided on four popular varieties: Chinook, Nugget and Cascade as well as one aroma hop, called Teamaker. They also have a few experimental varieties in the works.

Verez and Petronic value community involvement and, with more equipment on the way, they want to co-op with other small farmers to give them access to it. They keep up with other hopgrowers, universities and local brewers — some of whom, by late August, might be able to make their most hyper-local beers yet.

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signature steak frites with a modestly sized cut and a list of larger — and much more expensive — cuts intended for sharing.

Our dinner began with focaccia and lardo, each traditional and yet distinctive in its own way. The bread, baked in house, was almost double the thickness of typical focaccia. It was hearty, but that tall crumb was also light and almost pillowy, with an unmistakable yeasty flavor. The lardo — which is roughly what it sounds like, whipped lard in place of whipped butter — was pure white and fluffy, mildly flavored with undertones of umami. So mild, in fact, that it was overshadowed by the (not unpleasantly) salty bread.

Cheeseburgers being delivered to neighboring tables were so delectably aromatic, Angelique could not resist ordering one of her own. Made from local grass-fed beef, served on a buttery brioche bun, and dressed with pickled jalapeño, fried onions and mustard-mayo as well as melted cheddar, this was an excellent burger. The patty was simply juicy and robustly meaty, leaving the toppings to perform a complex interplay of piquant, even pungent, and sweetly creamy complementary notes.

Roasted duck breast, too, was nearly perfect, the meat rich and succulent, the skin crisp. We enjoyed the sides almost as much as the main event. Red cabbage, often served sweet and mushy, was here crisp and zingy. Tender, lovably lumpy spaetzle were topped with deeply flavored shreds of confit leg for a dish that was entrée-worthy in itself. A perfectly good helping of beets seemed ordinary by comparison.

The chicken in chicken and dumplings — one boneless breast and one joint of wing — maintained this high standard.

Not only was the meat cooked to near-perfection, but its rich, subtly-smoked flavor was extraordinary in a thick gravy, wisely seasoned simply with herbs. Carrots served with this dish were nice and tender-firm.

But a shredded Brussels sprout salad didn’t add much except roughage, and the biscuits were frankly disappointing lumps of mush.

Unlike the poultry, “The Steak” — an eight-ounce cut of the butcher’s choice, sirloin on the night we were there — was imperfectly cooked, with a near-raw center and a thick gray band. This was really a shame, since it was a great cut, with a great béarnaise sauce that was rich yet subtle. Fingerling potatoes, a bit mealy, were nevertheless terrific dipped in this sauce or stacked with the steak. Instead of the traditional salad, this steak-and-potatoes meal was served with a side of sweet, soft cooked peppers.

Hipster culture’s obsession with the artisanal and the authentic finds full expression at the Ace Hotel’s Whitfield.

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DINING LISTINGS KEY J = Cheap K = Night Out L = Splurge E = Alcohol Served F = BYOB

424 WALNUT. 424 Walnut St., Sewickley. 412-741-7143. Offering “fine Italian and American cuisine in a casual, relaxed atmosphere,” diners can expect faves such as chicken Romano, crab Hoelzel, chops and pasta, but with careful and sophisticated touches. Thus a linguine special might offer diced ham and spring vegetables, and beans-and-greens, combined with sausage and pasta, are upgraded to a meal. LE ATRIA’S. Multiple locations. www. atrias.com. A local chain, Atria’s locations offer distinctly different atmospheres but the same quality steaks, chops and pasta menu.

Suburban spots are for quiet casual dining while the North Side location is pure sports pub.

Regardless of the ambience, the sherry crab bisque and the pasta fra diablo are superb. kE

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BADO’S CUCINA. 3825 Washington Road, Peters Township. 724-942-3904. The menu at this cozy venue is a focused exploration of authentic Italian cuisine: homemade pasta and sauces, pizza and, instead of full-on entrées, tapassize portions of heartier fare such as lamb chops and spareribs.

Almost everything is cooked in a 625-degree wood-fired oven in the open cucina. JF BOB’S DINER. 211 Mansfield Blvd., Carnegie. 412-429-7400.

Well-prepared fare and a warm atmosphere distinguish this local diner chain. Bob’s serves the classic diner array of all-day breakfast fare, hot and cold sandwiches and stick-toyour-ribs dinner platters. The fried chicken is a winner, with a skin that is deep goldenbrown and shatteringly crisp. J BURGATORY. Multiple locations. www.burgatorybar.com.

Nestled in an off-the-path corner of The Waterworks strip mall, Burgatory is in the running for best burgers in town. It starts with its own blend of ground sirloin, chuck, brisket and short rib, and buttery buns — then piles on the toppings. (There are prefab combinations and checklists for custom orders.)

Add shakes, fries — or perhaps an extra-ordinary salad. JE

puree, grilled escarole and lemonverbena panna cotta. LE LEON’S CARIBBEAN RESTAURANT. 823 E. Warrington Ave., Allentown. 412-431-5366.

This modest storefront venue — just a couple tables, a take-out counter and a matter-of-fact menu board — offers the usual Caribbean array of curried and jerked meats and seafood, peas and rice, and fried plantains.

There is also less common fare such as steamed fish in pumpkin sauce. Portions are large, so prepare for leftovers. KF Kavsar {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} fresh, seasonal produce and excellently prepared meats. KF

DINETTE. 5996 Centre Ave., HARTWOOD RESTAURANT. East Liberty. 412-362-0202.

3400 Harts Run Road, Glenshaw.

This refined California-inspired 412-767-3500. This restaurant, pizzeria and wine bar offers a situated in a charming reclaimed small menu mostly featuring Victorian building, pulls off gourmet thin-crust pizzas. The being both upscale and casual, focus here is on fresh, local and with a fresh and original seasonal sustainable. Inventive pizzas menu. Appetizers are as varied include toppings such as wilted as Chinese-style pot stickers greens, littleneck clams, and scallop tacos, while goat cheese and Brussels entrees include pastas, sprouts. Guests at the fish and chops. There wine-bar counter get a is also a selection front-row seat for the of burgers and . www per pizza-making. KE sandwiches. KE a p ty ci pgh m .co EVEREST. 4042 Saw KAVSAR. 16 Southern Mill Run Blvd., Brentwood.

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877-650-2694. At this Nepalese 412-488-8708 or 412-488-8709. restaurant, diners can expect The varied cuisine of the old momos, the region’s characteristic Silk Road is available at this dumplings, here filled with Uzbekistan restaurant. The menu chicken or vegetables, and served reflects the country’s time as a with dipping sauces. Also on the Soviet Socialist republic, with beef menu, variations on dishes stroganoff and blini-like crepes associated with Indian cuisines, rolled around savory fillings, and such samosas, sambar soup, rice its proximity to China, evident in pilafs and curries. JF many dishes based upon noodles and dumplings. K

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PARIS 66. 6018 Centre Ave., East Liberty. 412-404-8166. This charming bistro is both less pretentious and every bit as impressive as the frou-frou French fine dining of yore, offering both light lunch fare (croques and crepes) and serious dinners. Expects classics such as salade Niçoise, frog legs and exquisitely prepared meats, plus a cocktail list. KF

TAN LAC VIEN. 2114 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8888.

This Vietnamese restaurant offers the popular pho and bun entrees, but also lesscommon dishes. The menu has a section of com tam (“broken rice”) dishes, including some topped with a fried egg; there is also a jellyfish salad with pickled carrot and daikon.

Another worthy entrée was banh xeo, savory crepes filled with shrimp, sautéed pork and

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LAS VELAS. 21 Market Square, 2nd floor, Downtown. 412-251-0031.

Authentic “family favorite” dishes are the standout at this Mexican restaurant, offering a vibrant antidote to Mexican “cuisine” mired in tired clichés. Trade a taco for cochinita pibil (vinegarmarinated pork), chilaquiles (tortilla casserole) or alambres (meat smothered with peppers, onions and cheese). Also notable: above-average sides, including rice, beans and potatoes. KE {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL}

Bob’s Diner CAFÉ DU JOUR. 1107 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-488-9695. This Euro-style bistro is “open-kitchen cozy” with a quaint courtyard for intimate outdoor dining. A modestly sized yet thoughtful menu offers small-to-large plates, highlighting Mediterranean- and European-influenced California cooking with an emphasis on

sustainable, with meats, veg and grains from nearby sources. JE

THE SLIPPERY MERMAID. 613 Beaver St., Sewickley.

412-741-2459. With a lengthy menu of creative rolls and a tropical atmosphere, this spot makes sushi fun and exciting.

The choices and combinations are myriad and have names like Psycho Mermaid, Crabby Sailor and Triton’s Triple Tuna; ingredients range from familiar (seafood, avocado) to unusual (bacon, steak). Non-sushi selections are extremely limited, and there are no hot entrees. KF

FRANKTUARY. 3810 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-7224. The longtime Downtown hot-doggery expands its menu here in an attractive sit-down space, with creatively dressed hot dogs, a variety of poutines (loaded French fries) and hand-crafted cocktails. The focus is on local and

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

The former Regent Square bistro now has a more urbane Oakland location. To its inspired cuisine based on fresh, seasonal and local, Legume has also added a full bar and in-house butchering. The expanded menu might include: steaks, lamb kielbasa with celeriac

Hartwood Restaurant {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} ROBBIE’S SUPER-STUFF SUPER-LICIOUS BBQ. 1000 Ardmore Blvd., Forest Hills.

412-823-4003. This Forest Hills venue offers straight-up Southern barbecue of chicken, beef and pork, with all the sides you’d expect, such as greens (cooked in pork broth), mac-and-cheese and corn-filled corn bread. Get the sauce on the side to savor the smokiness of the meat. KF SEWICKLEY HOTEL. 509 Beaver St., Sewickley.

412-741-9457. At this revamped hotel, the offerings reflect a balance between time-honored dishes such as turtle soup and more modern fare, like a crabmeat-stuffed quesadilla.

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vegetables, or try the make-yourown summer roll option. FK THAI GOURMET. 4505 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-681-4373.

Located in a narrow former lunchroom, Thai Gourmet is the casual, no-nonsense and no-frills member of Pittsburgh’s Thai restaurant club. The prices are on the low end, but the food quality is high and the portions are huge. The decor mixes Asian themes with diner kitsch in a delightful way. JF VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. 220 Fifth Ave., Downtown.

412-394-3400. The venerable Italian restaurant from Greensburg now has a Downtown outpost. In this elegant space, some classic dishes are updated; a few favorites, like turtle soup are retained; and the fresh mozzarella bar deserves to become a classic.

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From rock bands in basements to high school musicals, we survey Pittsburgh’s diverse music scene

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Hey, Pittsburgh. You don’t know me.

This is my first — and probably last — piece for this fine publication, seeing as I live way the hell over in Philly.

You know what? Since I was old enough to pull on a Ron Hextall jersey I was raised to despise your city in a casual, underinformed, us-versus-you sort of way. But right now I’m a Pittsburgh fan.

See, until last October, I was the music editor for Philadelphia City Paper, and I had a dream. I called it “One Night in Philly.” The idea was to pick a date and send every writer I could out to every show each of them could get to, and report back. We were all set to do it when the paper went under. Folded. Sold for scrap.

In a final issue already overflowing with lamentations, I made sure to lament the premature demise of the “One Night” idea. Somebody, somewhere, I suggested, should pick up that flag and run with it.

So far, only Margaret Welsh, Charlie Deitch and the rest of the Pittsburgh City Paper crew have answered the call.

The result is the issue you’re reading now. Twelve writers and photographers covering

more than 20 shows in Pittsburgh all in one weekend — a mad dash to take literal and kinda literary snapshots of the city circa right now. I’m amazed and humbled by this.

Ideas are easy. It’s hard work that really impresses me. Welsh and company did the work.

Contrary to common sense, the City Papers of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia share no direct lineage. None of the same founders or owners or anything. Just two newspapers with the same name on the same mission, the mission all alt weeklies have: to tell the stories nobody else is telling.

People of Pittsburgh, I hope you know what a good thing you’ve got here. Alt weeklies are kind of an endangered species these days. When they’re not going out of business, they’re shrinking and trying adapt to an online existence where the possibilities seem endless but the ad revenue is hard to come by.

Still, the alt-weekly mission remains critical, and their work is as relevant as ever. Very few publications have the moxie and the motivation to take on a story like “Three Days in the Life.” It’s a fun, weird project that relies heavily on group effort and lots of legwork.

It’s what alt weeklies do best. It’s a good thing you’ve got one of those.

Good night, Pittsburgh. — PATRICK RAPA

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FRI., NOON .CHILDREN’S MUSEUM,. .NORTH SIDE.

Lee Robinson Jazz musician Lee Robinson strolls around the Children’s Museum like someone out of The Music Man, or the Pied Piper (without the sinister undertones). Toddlers and tweens alike are mesmerized by the notes emanating from the clarinet and saxophone. He alternates between jazz versions of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” the Flintstones theme song, and Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”; the music drowns out the tears and happy shrieks of the children. In the nursery, an unsteady baby stands bobbing to the beat.

“Awesome,” cheers a girl in a purple-andsilver sparkly sweater. — REBECCA NUTTALL

FRI., 9:10 P.M. .CITY GROWS,. .LAWRENCEVILLE.

Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts, Roaring Spring Girlfriend, The Otis Wolves

When you’re in a band, sometimes the only people who show up are in the other bands (along with maybe a friend or two).

That’s the scene when Kalamazoo’s Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts kick off in the

dark, unfinished basement of City Grows.

Upstairs, fresh green plants, seed packets and potting soil line the shelves; below, the band plays Ted Leo-esque soulful folk rock as though the crowd is eight times bigger than it is. — MARGARET WELSH

host of the event, steps center-stage to start the show. About 30 artists will battle over the next several hours to see who’s the king of the city’s hip-hop scene — at least for one night. They each have a different approach to their eight-minute sets. Some will step to the mic, drop their rhymes, take their applause and leave.

Others, like Munhall native Louie Petrone, do more to play to the crowd, like when he joins the crowd in a back-and-forth chant of the always popular line: “Fuck Donald Trump.” — AARON WARNICK

FRI., 10:50 P.M. .SPIRIT, LAWRENCEVILLE.

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FRI., 9:20 P.M. .REX THEATRE, SOUTH SIDE.

King of the Burgh Standing by the stage, the low hiss of the fog machine is clearly audible. Until, that is, the DJ drops his next beat. The cement floor of the Rex vibrates just a little. The all-ages attendees stop their conversations dead when DJ Afterthought, the promoter and

With a lineup of nine musical acts, free (real) tattoos, a dance party and lots of booze, Spirit is celebrating its first year in business on a scale usually reserved for a 10th anniversary. This is an event to see and be seen; a noisy, disco-light-filled party that provides just the right amount of sensory overload.

Jazz singer Phat Man Dee pops out of a brightly lit plastic cake, while her husband Tommy Amoeba, dressed in silver lamé, looks on. Headliners Grand Buffet take the stage and super-fans crowd to the front to rap along with the hip-hop duo, who instruct the audience to chant the current events-inspired (yet probably always apropos) words “fuck Vince Neil / Nicolas Cage stand up.” — MARGARET WELSH CONTINUES ON PG. 28

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Title Town

The new home for Pittsburgh’s longrunning, 45s-only soul and funk dance party is the former YMCA gym. High ceilings, wooden floor, dark corners barely illuminated by a disco ball, red-hot jams — this is truly the best high school dance you never went to. Get your smooth groove on to rare Northern Soul tunes, or wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care for a floor-filler like Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September.” — AL HOFF

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This event is an unofficial after- party for the first day of the Tekko Conference, which celebrates Japanese culture. The dress code is, let’s say eclectic, with outfits ranging from costumes typically worn at the furry convention to outfits with a strong Pokémon/anime vibe and everything in between. Hell, even Jesus is here. Billed as a pajama-themed party, the revelers start out slow — taking advantage of the “chill” part of the program. As the music picks up, the serious dancing begins. Status Jackers (Matthew Hiber and Michael Morgavo) spin some drum-and-bass followed by DJs Sammy P and Kenetic taking over with some dubstep. Lasers move around the room as people dance with hula hoops, yo-yos and lighted pendant balls — and this is just on the main floor. More DJs spin in the lower level room, which hosted a bar for the over-21 crowd. — JOHN COLOMBO

Rave and Chill Tekko After-Party The mostly twentysomething crowd is finally coming to life in this no-frills building.

A safe night out often requires the use of the city’s ride-hailing services. But the music doesn’t have to stop as you travel from spot to spot. The night starts with SiriusXM radio’s “FLY” channel airing hip hop and R&B hits from the 1990s and 2000s, like Faith Evans’ “Love Like This Before,” and Ini Kamoze’s “Here Comes the Hotstepper.” By 9 p.m., another driver mellows the mood with SiriusXM’s Coffeehouse station, playing Ruth B’s “Lost Boy.” New location, new car and no radio this time, it’s the driver’s personal playlist, featuring Hole and the Rolling Stones. Hours later, the trip home

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ends with the soulful sounds of American Idol winner Ruben Studdard on I Heart Radio’s gospel station. — REBECCA NUTTALL

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Carrie Newcomer, Jenn Gooch

Music in any church setting, even this warm, welcoming space, can feel solemn.

But traditionalist folk/country artist Jenn Gooch keeps it light as she opens for (and outplays) Carrie Newcomer with her wildfire of a set, playing songs on fiddle, guitar and piano. “Where I come from, if you played piano that was your ticket to marrying a preacher,” she says in her Texas accent, after charmingly flubbing a piano line. “But I knew I couldn’t get through a set without saying, ‘Oh crap!’” — MARGARET WELSH

A crowd of more than 100 is tightly packed into the dimly lit entryway of The Warhol for post-rock/electronic/hip-hop/pop artist Son Lux. Son Lux, also known as Ryan Lott, leads drummer Ian Chang and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia in a set that includes “This Time,” “You Don’t Know Me” and “Your Day Will Come.” In between songs you can hear a pin drop, but when the music starts, the sound explodes through the building. Lott adds to the cacophony with tambourine and cowbell. The crowd’s energy reaches its peak during the show’s final song, the commercial success “Lost It to Trying,” from the Paper Towns soundtrack. — REBECCA NUTTALL

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SAT., 8 P.M. .FRICK FINE ARTS BUILDING, .OAKLAND.

SECOND SATURDAY, THE SPACE UPSTAIRS

Gamelan Fusion: New and Traditional Music of West Java, Indonesia Led by two professional Indonesian musicians, composer Ismet Ruchimat and vocalist Masyuning, University of Pittsburgh music students sit cross-legged in front of traditional West Java instruments — gongs, metal-keys, drums and a bamboo flute.

Students play hypnotic pre-independence melodies. Ruchimat’s effortless flute playing follows Masyuning’s vocals — an instrument itself. Then, Ruchimat presents fusion compositions, the best of which incorporate local musicians on guitar, djembe, baritone sax, and Ruchimat on bass. The piece “Sahara Sunda mix” — introduced as “West meets West [Java]” — results in a funky African beat, psychedelic guitar and Masyuning’s rapping in the Sundanese language, complemented by her expressive face and body language. — ASHLEY MURRAY

SAT., 8:30 P.M. .SMILING MOOSE, SOUTH SIDE

Sunflower Bean

There’s an official ’90s Bar Crawl taking place on the streets of the South Side.

Upstairs at the Smiling Moose, Brooklyn’s Sunflower Bean is channeling the era, a pure amalgamation of its members’ influences — dreamy Belly, sludgy Throwing Muses, jangly The Sundays. The musicians and audience are young, barely humans during the era they’re emulating. Lead singer Julia Cumming, an androgynous bassist with a charming falsetto, croons, “You’re getting old, so act your age.” A girl who’s standing in front of me suddenly passes out. She’s unconscious on the floor.

I dial 911 and feel my age. — CARALYN GREEN

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at the door of this bohemian venue.

The high-ceilinged, open space above Construction Junction is renowned for being a home to modern (well, post-modern) artistic performances. Formerly known as the Pillow Project, the Ellipses Condition hosts new-jazz movement performances on the second Saturday of each month. This month, Slow Danger commands the floor with an auditory and visual performance.

In squashy armchairs or on the floor, the crowd sits on the periphery of the large room while the duo performs.

The only words to describe it: eerie and sensual. — AARON WARNICK

SAT., 9:15 P.M. .HOWLERS, BLOOMFIELD.

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SAT., 9 P.M. .HAMBONES, LAWRENCEVILLE.

Stephanie Nilles, Midge Crickett, LRAD, UkuLizzy — Brash, Bawdy & Bold Hugs and hellos are big through the first hour at Hambone’s tonight. There are reunions and first-time introductions. Once things kick off with “Mama Jo” Coll as emcee, ukuleles take center stage. UkuLizzy and Midge Crickett, both ukers with a taste for dark, funny, sometimes-silly songs, team up for a number called “That’s What She Said,” with lyrics culled exclusively from

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bathroom graffiti at Howlers. There’s also an Emily Dickinson poem set to the Gilligan’s Island theme, but you probably knew that.

The sets from guitarist LRAD and New Orleans-based pianist Stephanie Nilles lean towards slightly heavier subject matter, but the in-between-song stuff is just as funny all night long. Everything smells like Buffalo wings and everybody is nice. — ALEX GORDON

SAT., 9:10 P.M. .THE SPACE UPSTAIRS, .POINT BREEZE.

Second Saturday at the Space Upstairs Donations, not tickets, are collected

The backroom show space at Howlers is halfway full as Pittsburgh-based Lone Wolf Club opens the show. The Americana band is running through songs from its Many Moons EP: “Making an Exit,” “Mantis” and “I Went Walking.” Members’ hands move swift and deftly from chord to chord as cigarette smoke wafts in, almost rhythmically from the adjoining room. — REBECCA NUTTALL

SAT., 10 P.M. .SPIRIT, LAWRENCEVILLE.

JENESIS Presents: Wiz Khalifa Appreciation Party The official Wiz Khalifa Day in Pittsburgh is Dec. 12, but there’s never a bad time to show appreciation for someone you love, even when he’s not around. That’s exactly what’s happening tonight at Spirit.

There are DJs, a disco ball and pizza — which describes somewhere around 100 percent of nights at Spirit — but it’s

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a disgusted “Jesus!” from one listener.

Not really my humor, but damn, these ladies are charming — I skip Liquor Store and head home with a grin on my face. — MARGARET WELSH

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It’s noisy, smoky and crowded, but you get a welcoming crowd here. The room is cheering for the guy who sang Collin Raye’s “The Gift,” but with words of his own choosing. Popular songs quickly become sing-alongs: The whole bar is chanting “one time, one time” as a gal lays out “Killing Me Softly” in “the style of The Fugees”; some baby boomers may be singing in “the style of Roberta Flack,” but it’s all good (“two time, two time”).

Everybody is a star. — AL HOFF

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pretty crowded nonetheless. People drink and dance not only to Wiz’s tracks, but to tracks in which he’s featured. But when the Wiz-less “Hey Ma,” by Cam’ron, comes on, no one seems to mind. They keep dancing.

The disco ball keeps spinning. There’s pizza.

It’s a party. — ALEX GORDON

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SAT., 10:30 P.M. .GOOSKI’S, POLISH HILL.

Reign Check, The Lopez, Birdcloud, Liquor Store I immediately run into a friend who comments that the crowd is more colorfully dressed than she’s used to seeing at Gooski’s. That’s at least true of the members of riot-grrrl-inspired punk/dance duo The Lopez, who take the stage in red flannel and tie-dye, respectively. As always, they play with high intensity and enthusiasm: A couple o’ seasoned pros, they are.

Foul-mouthed, non-PC, mandolin/guitar duo Birdcloud is up next, and elicit mixed reactions — mostly laughter, though a joke about getting roofied at Bonnaroo spurs

Feeling Without Touching Remedy feels like college house party.

In the haze of smoke, everyone is beautiful and no one is over 35. A jog up the back steps brings the darkness of the livingroom bar, which is packed with people dancing tightly and mouthing the words to favorite late-’90s and early-2000s jams.

This ritual repeats every second Saturday with Dave Zak’s dance party, Feeling Without Touching. Touching is certainly happening between strangers, lovers and friends but when you feel the camaraderie that the music creates, it’s easy to understand why he chose the name. — CELINE ROBERTS

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treat. I set my mat down directly next to the bar, which is decorated with such jazz-age imagery as top hats and canes. CJ Hoffman begins filling the high-ceilinged room with ambient electric guitar. The room is chilly but it’s also full of possibly hung-over yogis, so things warm up fast. Hoffman’s music evokes the post-rock of Explosions in the Sky, but I’m too focused on planking to really take it in, which is probably how it’s supposed to be. — MARGARET WELSH

hours straight, hosting Jazz Corner and One to One/H Dread. He arrives with a backpack of CDs but no playlist: “I’m going by the way I’m feeling the music as it’s flowing.” With jazz ranging from Duke Ellington to brand-new Esperanza Spalding, Amos is keen to educate listeners.

“Try to give everybody an even look at the music,” he says. “Everybody that listens aren’t the jazz diehards.”

(For more on Amos, see “Rare Airwaves,” page 70.) — BILL O’DRISCOLL

SUN., 11:45 A.M. .MOUNT ARARAT .BAPTIST CHURCH, LARIMER.

Sunday Morning Worship A six-piece band accompanies a nearly 40-person — mostly male — choir, whose voices, pitched at varying degrees of deep and wise, fill the sanctuary.

Trini Lopez Massi, who says his energy comes “straight from heaven,” leads the ensemble. While he sings up and down the musical scale, he claps, raises his arms and even incorporates footwork.

Parishioners embrace this space where they can sing out loud without judgment.

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tears away; and everyone raises voices and hands to the sky in a collective release of the week’s tension. — ASHLEY MURRAY

SUN., NOON .JAMES STREET .SPEAKEASY AND .GASTROPUB, NORTH SIDE.

Live Music Yoga with CJ Hoffman

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The Wiz

Sitting in the auditorium a few minutes before the show starts, it becomes obvious that this isn’t just another high school musical. This is a community event and the community is proud to be here. Even for the last show of the four-day run, the auditorium is more than three-fourths full. Folks shake hands, laugh and, when it comes time for the show’s signature song, “Ease on Down the Road,” some even sing along. Sophomore Mariah Fowlkes plays Dorothy, and her strong voice and charismatic stage presence clearly leads this ensemble cast. But there are many strong, talented musicians, singers and performers in this show. What others lack in natural

ability, they made up for with hard work, charm and personality. After all, the purpose here isn’t to win a Tony Award, it’s to bring the community together through music, and The Wiz does that 10 times over. — CHARLIE DEITCH

SUN. 8:45ISH, MAYBE 9 P.M. .THUNDERBIRD CAFÉ, .LAWRENCEVILLE.

The Scratch n’ Sniffs, The Jasons, Weird Paul

It’s a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, at approximately 8:15, a chord rings out. The Scratch ‘n Sniffs begin their set. Where am I? Leaving my house. I miss them entirely. I’d gotten home from work about 7 and then cooked and ate dinner. I arrive in time for The Jasons. I’m impressed by their songs, energy and willingness to remain anonymous by wearing hockey masks. Unfortunately, my amp’s power cord is misplaced so I can’t pay full attention.

Finally, The Weird Paul Rock Band goes on. I exclaim, “It’s a Sunday night in Pittsburgh!”

— meaning that on a Sunday night, you’re lucky just to have your friends there.

Afterward, I stand outside in the rain, talking to them. — WEIRD PAUL PETROSKEY

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AndrĂŠs Franco, conductor An outdoor concert at Point State Park featuring popular classics!

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Saturday, June 11 at 8:05 p.m.

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Saturday, June 25 at 2:30 p.m.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Howard Shore, special guest Jon Burlingame, interviewer

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND MORE:

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Friday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m. / Saturday, June 25 at 8:00 p.m. / Sunday, June 26 at 2:30 p.m.

Manfred Honeck, conductor Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin

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Sunday, June 12 at 2:30 p.m.

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Friday, June 10 at 8:00 p.m.

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AndrĂŠs Franco, conductor An outdoor concert at South Park featuring popular classics!

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Sunday, July 3 at 8:15 p.m.

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Friday, July 1 at 7:00 p.m.

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Thursday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m.

WITH THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY Arnie Roth, conductor More than two dozen top 20 hits.

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Forever infamous: Prodigy (left) and Havoc

Mars Jackson signs with Misra. {PHOTO COURTESY OF CHANCELOR HUMPHREY}

Mars Jackson is the first hip-hop artist to sign with Misra Records in the label’s 17-year run. But no good has ever come from being uptight about genre, so let’s just say Misra Records has added a talented, distinctive, dynamic new voice to its roster, and he makes hip hop.

“I didn’t wake up one morning and decide Misra needs to have a hip-hop artist,” says Jeff Betten, general manager at Misra, which also represents Phosphorescent and Great Lake Swimmers.

“I reached out, got a conversation going … pretty much the same as any other artist I’ve ever signed.”

Jackson, 29, expected a record deal to happen for him at some point, whether Pittsburgh-based or national, on a mostly indie-rock label or not.

Learning the violin and singing in church choirs played an important role in his appreciation of different musical styles growing up, and by the time he reached Slippery Rock University, he began thinking of music as a career.

After a difficult 2015 in which he faced family problems and a frustrating stretch of joblessness, Jackson began work on what will be his Misra debut, a full-length called Unemployed Faith slated for August. It’s a chronicle of a rough patch — personal, local and relatable. It’s also the logical next step to follow his early singles while bringing his fans something new and unexpected.

“It’s nothing like you’ve ever heard from a Pittsburgh artist, on this level, being a local artist. Nothing like what you’re hearing out in the city now,” says Jackson.

In addition to his forthcoming fulllength, Jackson is busy this month working on a new EP, I’m Just Being Nice, with local producer Nice Rec. There are also shows to book and an album to finish, but mostly Jackson just seems happy to be doing what he’s doing in his hometown.

“Pittsburgh plays a big role in everything that I do. I’m here. I’m still here,” says Jackson. “At the end of the day, if I can do my music and live here at the same time and touch people, that’s what I’m gonna do.”

Mars Jackson performs alongside The Garment District and Meeting Of Important People at the Carnegie Museum of Art on May 19.

TO HELL AND BACK {BY MARGARET WELSH}

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N NOVEMBER 1996, Mobb Deep released Hell on Earth, the follow-up to the duo’s breakthrough second record, The Infamous. Still considered a touchstone of New York hardcore hip hop, The Infamous was a lot to live up to, but rappers Prodigy and Havoc had plenty of material to draw from. Hell on Earth is a heavy, haunting look at the violent streets of Queensbridge, New York. Now, Mobb Deep is promoting a forthcoming reissue of the record, which will include unreleased tracks and some new material. “It’s like a time capsule that was just sitting there, waiting for us,” says Prodigy, who spoke with CP over the phone during a sound check at the Blue Note in Manhattan.

WHAT MEMORIES COME UP WHEN YOU LISTEN TO HELL ON EARTH NOW? When we were working on that album, we were going through a lot of deaths and

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murders and a lot of craziness in our life. ...

So, just going back and listening to it … you know, it definitely brings back a lot of those bad memories. But at the same time, we [took] something bad and made something good — we made an album and made history with it. So, you know, you just try to look at the good side as much as possible.

MOBB DEEP

WITH SMIF-N-WESSUN, HUBBS, JON QUEST, INTALEK, MORE 8 p.m. Thu., April 21. Spirit, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $25. 412-586-4441 or www.mobbdeeppgh.com

THAT RECORD IS VERY CINEMATIC, WHICH MAKES ME WONDER: WILL THERE EVER BE A MOBB DEEP MOVIE? Yeah, we’ve definitely been talking about it, but it’s hard to find the right team and director and producers, and get the right

money behind it because … the story is so important because it’s a story of ’90s hip hop. … We were coming up with Biggie, Nas, Jay, fucking Wu Tang … it was a special era. We been throwing around ideas of doing movies, but we’re not trying to do no low-budget, corny-ass b-movie.

HELL ON EARTH CAME OUT DURING THE EAST COAST-WEST COAST HIP-HOP RIVALRY. WHAT ARE YOU MEMORIES OF THAT ERA? When you young, you just like … all about your team. You not tryna hear nobody, you not trying to take advice, you’re real hard-headed, taking things to the extreme. And that’s how we were. We were defending Mobb Deep, we were defending New York, that’s how we felt. When I look back at that, it just reminds me of being young and foolish, you know what I’m saying? Because a lot of those people CONTINUES ON PG. 40

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that we was beefin’ with, we cool with now. We all understand that we were all young. ... That’s just how it is. And hopefully you grow up one day and you can move on to better things.

YOU PUT OUT YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A FEW YEARS AGO, AND IN IT YOU SAY THAT YOU NEVER LIKED HAVING ANYONE IN YOUR BUSINESS. DO YOU HAVE REGRETS ABOUT PUTTING ALL THAT PERSONAL STUFF INTO THE WORLD? I’m definitely glad I wrote it … I wanted to tell the story of how it is, what really happened from my perspective. I don’t want nobody to tell my story for me, they don’t understand why things happened or why I made the choices I made. … I think it [was] perfect timing because when I went to jail, I did three years and then when I came home I decided … that book is my entire youth. A lot of people were like, “Why would you write a book?

You’re only thirtysomething … people don’t write autobiographies until they old ore and they career is done Read m e onlin . and all that.” But I was at wwwy wrapping up my youth. pghcit m paper.co DO YOU THINK YOU’LL WRITE A PART TWO? Oh for certain. That’s certainly going to happen. I started a publishing company … I do a lot of novellas. … I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Donald Goines.

He would make these hood novellas that were like 80-90 pages, and when I was a young kid, it was more appealing to read a book like that than to see some big, thick intimidating thousand-page book. I wanted to inspire other kids to read, so I made these novellas that just tell little short stories, and I can get the work out there fast. … I also got a cookbook coming out — it’s a prison cookbook of all the stuff we used to make in jail using a microwave and a toaster oven.

DO YOU WRITE A LOT ON THE ROAD? I definitely try to write whenever I get time … just get it out my system, get it in my laptop and get it out there. Cause I got so many stories. A lot of stories I can’t tell because, you know, it’s incriminating. … But in a certain way, I can put it into fiction and twist names around and change things around and get away with it.

THAT SOUNDS THERAPEUTIC, ACTUALLY. Yeah, it is. It definitely is.

YOU MUST HAVE EXCELLENT MENTAL HEALTH. Ah, man [laughs]. I try.

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NEW RELEASES

A.T.S. WATERING THE PLANTS (ANOTHER TRUE STORY PUBL.) WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ANOTHERTRUESTORY

The members of this long-running Pittsburgh institution, which has existed since 1985, have developed a reputation as wiseass iconoclasts, and on its newest release, Watering the Plants, the group stays true to its classic sound: cow-punk drumming, mournful sing-alongs and frank, often literary lyrics. (On the track “Dusty Roads,” singer Mike Marcinko namedrops both Hemingway and Faulkner.) A.T.S. combines classic country and folk with a post-punk sensibility.

Though I wouldn’t exactly compare the band to the Meat Puppets (A.T.S. is a little more solemn, a little less scraggly), perhaps a better comparison, due to the haunting harmonicas and tales of working-class heartbreak and economic hardship, would be if Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska was instead called Pennsylvania.

BY ANDREW WOEHREL

A.T.S. CD-RELEASE SHOW 9:30 p.m.

Sat., April 23. The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. Free for over 21, $2 for under 21. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

BREWER’S ROW THERE WAS A TIME WE WERE KIDS (SELF-RELEASED) WWW.BREWERSROW.COM

As a quasi-family affair — guitarist Mark Hohman is the father of frontman Nicholas Hohman and singer/pianist Leah Hohman-Esser — five-piece Brewer’s Row has familial comfort (and a decade of experience) on its side. That comes through in the technical competence and easy feel of There Was a Time We Were Kids. The songs touch on a surprisingly wide breadth of Americanaflavored rock, from the Tom Petty-esque opener “Jimmy” to the gospelish shuffle of “Own Way Home” to “Do You Believe (in That Now),” which closes the record with some surprising Bowie-style drama. It feels less like a record than a career retrospective: a little too long, with a few out-of-place tracks, but ultimately a solid offering.

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Howlin’ Wolf meets Rick Astley: Parker Millsap

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP MILLSAP {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

April is Fair Housing Month Discrimination is rarely this obvious, but it is just as real and just as Illegal. Know your rights.

National Origin, Sex, Religion, Source of Income, Disability, Race, Color, Gender Identity, Expression, Age, Place of Birth, Sexual Orientation, Ancestry, Place of Birth, National Origin, Ancestry These are not valid reasons for denying you housing. If you have been discriminated against on the basis of any of these, your rights may have been violated.

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Blues” on his new record, The Very Last Day, and then Google his picture. The two things are very different.

How different? Think Howlin’ Wolf inside the body of Rick Astley. Think the low growl of Tom Waits crossed with the face and falsetto of a young Chris Isaak. Yes, the two are that different.

But it’s not an odd combo for Millsap, an Oklahoma native raised in a strict Pentecostal church. He wasn’t trying to sing the way he does, it’s just who he is.

Even at 23, Millsap has already proven he’s not “just” anything. When his 2014 self-titled debut came out of nowhere grabbing critical acclaim, his talents as a singer-songwriter were immediately apparent. His first single, “Truckstop Gospel,” introduced fans of Americana/roots/folk/country to the singer’s unique stylings, his strength as a songwriter and the impact that growing up in a devout household had on his life.

“I think musically, church had a lot to do with where I am now,” Millsap says.

“They would let me sit down in front of the church and sing and play guitar. It allowed

me to grow vocally because sometimes when you sing, you can become very selfconscious. In congregational singing, you can just sing and no one is judging how well you sing. Now they might talk about you later over at Libby’s [a café in Goldsby, Okla.], but in church you were safe.”

Religion plays a big role in Millsap’s music, but that’s what happens when you’re at church Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday evening every week for the better part of 20 years. But don’t go into Millsap’s music expecting gospel standards. Religion, warts and all, is one of the topics he writes about because it’s what he knows.

“Lyrically, growing up in the church gave me the vocabulary to write about religion,” Millsap says, and although his lyrics question what he was taught, he says he doesn’t “have a beef with religion.”

But, he explains, some of those teachings stopped making sense. “I just had a lot of logical concerns. I tried to be good and read the Bible, but it would confuse me. Like, the God of the Old Testament is completely different than the God of the New Testament. It’s like they’re not even the same guy. It was little things like that.

“I guess I think there’s probably something out there bigger than us. But I don’t think we’re designed to really know for sure. Let the mystery be.”

Several songs on Millsap’s new record are based in his experiences growing up

“I TRIED TO BE GOOD AND READ THE BIBLE, BUT IT WOULD CONFUSE ME.”

in the church. One of the best is “Heaven Sent.” It tells the story of a young man, the son of a preacher, pleading for his father’s acceptance after the boy comes out of the closet.

“Torn apart, my spirit spent. I fell in love on accident. I wonder just what Jesus meant when he said all love was heaven sent,” Millsap sings in a growl. “Papa, I don’t need a preacher. I ain’t some kind of creature from some old double-feature. I just wanna make you proud with the kind of love I found, but you say it ain’t allowed. You say that it’s a sin, but it’s how I’ve always been. Did you love me when, he was just my friend?”

The story has a personal, gut-wrenching feel to it. Millsap draws on the emotion you’d expect in telling such a personal story, but this isn’t his tale. He isn’t gay, but he had gay friends who grew up in the church.

This is where his strength as a songwriter shows: Millsap isn’t so much a poet as he is a novelist. While his songs often have some basis in his personal experiences, he largely creates characters and tells their stories, but with a musical narrative.

“Some of the songs have personal touches. That’s just part of the creative process, you can’t escape yourself,” says Millsap. “Certain songs are more personal than others. ‘A Little Fire,’ for example, was the last song I wrote for this record as time was winding down before we were set to record. I just sat in this little room, the plaster and paint coming off the walls. I was fresh out of a relationship, and I was thinking about that and this room that felt like a box. I felt trapped.”

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412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

But Millsap says inspiration doesn’t have to come from life experiences. He says he’s been “remarkably privileged” and hasn’t suffered many traumatic experiences. In spite of that and his young age, his music, which is hard to pigeonhole in one genre or another, seems to come from a performer who’s been doing this for decades rather than a 23-year-old just embarking on his musical career. That’s something even Millsap can’t explain.

“I don’t know,” he says. “I’ve been here as long as I’ve been here.”

“I think the way things are going in music,” he continues, “I think genre is dead.

With the internet, I’ve had the ability to be influenced by anything. I never set out to be a country artist or an Americana artist or a folk singer. In the end, it’s just me.”

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Known for his extremely fast (sometimes called “chopper”) style and his rap-rock-influenced beats, Kansas City-born rapper Tech N9ne has been rapping since he was a small child. He has performed with many different groups, including Black Mafia and The Regime. Tonight, he returns to Pittsburgh, and will be performing with special guests Krizz Kaliko, Rittz, Mayday!, Stevie Stone and Ces Cru at Stage AE. Andrew Woehrel 6:30 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $27. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com

[NEW WAVE] + FRI., APRIL 22 Though best known for hits like “Rock Lobster” and “Love Shack,” Athens, Ga.’s The B-52s are far more than a novelty act. The band’s campy, kinda queer surf rock earned it accolades and record sales in the late 1970s and ’80s.

Though the group was lumped in with the nascent new-wave scene, its combination of ’60s-style pop, post-punk, dance, winking humor and the alternating yelping of idiosyncratic vocalists Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson was, and still is, totally unique. You can see these alternative-music legends tonight at the Palace Theatre. AW 8 p.m. 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg. $38-85. 724-836-8000 or www.thepalacetheatre.org p g

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Evan Greer is a trans/genderqueer political activist and singer/songwriter whose simple but optimistic songs are lyrical portraits of lost but hopeful American youth, and straddle the line between hippie and punk. AW 7 p.m. 5438 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10-25. 412-781-9853 or www.niedshotel.myfastsite.com

[POWER POP] + SAT., APRIL 23 The witty and catchy guitar-pop of Los Angeles singer/songwriter Colleen Green is at once summery and filled with ennui. Her songs have a Ramones-like simplicity, and it’s clear that she has studied her pop-punk records, with cheeky album titles like Milo Goes to Compton and I Want To Grow Up. Though I wouldn’t call Colleen Green pop punk, she is opening for pop-punk band Basement tonight at Altar Bar, with Turnstile and Defeater. And while Green’s music might not be groundbreaking (“pop melodies + fuzzy guitars = a good time” is a tried-and-true equation), it’s well crafted and addictive. AW 8 p.m. 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $15-18. All ages. 412-263-2877 or www.thealtarbar.com

[[SLUDGE [SLU [S SL LU UDGE METAL] + TUE., APRIL 26 New Orleans’ Eyehategod is known as a crushing and brutal heavy-metal band with throat-shredding vocals, but is just as well ways. known for the band members’ hard-living w Though nihilism and substance abuse have long lifestyle, been associated with the rock ’n’ roll lifesty Eyehategod takes things to almost parodic levels, levvels, with album alb titles like Dopesick Dop and Take as Needed for Pain.

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Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

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412-882-8687.

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412-821-4447.

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Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

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412-566-1000.

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South Side. 412-381-6811.

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412-231-7777.

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South Side. 412-431-4668.

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MON 25 CLUB AE. Wild Belle, James Supercave. North Side.

412-229-5493.

SMILING MOOSE. Bobby Meader Music, Young Lungs, Under Indictment.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Butler Street Sessions. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

TUE 26 CLUB CAFE. Acid Dad w/ Spadefish, Bat Zuppel.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

HOWLERS. Drunken Cuddle, Mickey & The Snake Oil Boys, Bryan McQuaid. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Kim Richey w/ Jessy Tomsko.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

WED 27

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B STAGE AE. Tech N9ne w/ Krizz Kaliko. w/ Rittz, Mayday!, Stevie Stone, & Ces Cru. North Side.

412-229-5483.

FRI 22 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

SAT 23 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon.

412-424-9254.

TUE 26 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. T-Zank w/ Trio +.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

NIED’S HOTEL. The Jimmy Adler Band w/ Charlie Barath.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

SHELBY’S STATION. Anderson-Vosel. Bridgeville.

412-319-7938.

THU 21 PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

FRI 22 ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900.

ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-586-7644.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo.

Downtown. 412-874-4582.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. DJ Bamboo. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

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

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

412-381-1330.

SAT 23 DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

MIXTAPE. DJ Can’t Even.

I’m So Excited. 80’s Dance Party.

Garfield. 412-661-1727.

REMEDY. Dance Crush.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Kingfish.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

WED 27 THE GOLDMARK. Pete Butta & Preslav. Reggae & dancehall.

Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side. 412-431-4668.

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412-325-6769.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Space Exchange w/ Colter Harper.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SAT 23 GETAWAY CAFE. The Witchdoctors. Brookline.

412-343-1333.

THE R BAR. Jimmy Adler w/ John Gresh’s Gris Gris.

Dormont. 412-781-9853.

THE VALLEY HOTEL. Ron & the RumpShakers. Clairton.

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SCHENLEY PLAZA. Billy Price, Hourglass. www.peoplesoakland. org. Oakland. 412-682-7275.

JAZZ THU 21 ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani.

Downtown. 412-773-8800.

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

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson Trio. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

FRI 22 ANDYS WINE BAR. Kenia.

Downtown. 412-773-8800.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Jeremy Fisher, Jr. w/ Justin Bendel, Kai Ballard. Downtown.

412-325-6769.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. 9th Street Stompers Swing Band. Speakeasy. Reggie Watkins Quintet. Ballroom.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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Downtown. 412-773-8800.

BISTRO 9101. Jazz at the Bistro.

McCandless. 412-318-4871.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, HOMEWOOD. Jon Faddis.

Homewood. 724-506-2556.

LEMONT. Groove Doctors.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live.

Every Saturday, a different band.

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

PARK HOUSE. The Rocky Youhon band. North Side. 412-224-2273.

PENN HILLS LIBRARY. Frank Cunimondo. Penn Hills.

412-795-3507.

HILLMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS. Neon Swing X-Perience.

Fox Chapel. 412-968-3040.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE. RML Jazz. Warrendale. 412-370-9621.

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WED 27 ANDYS WINE BAR. Bronwyn Wyatt-Higgins. Downtown.

412-773-8800.

RIVERS CASINO. Jessica Lee & Friends. North Side. 412-231-7777.

ACOUSTIC THU 21 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Three Dogs.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRI 22 565 LIVE. Brian Belonzi. Bellevue.

412-522-7556.

BOTTLEBRUSH GALLERY & SHOP. Eric Brace & Peter Cooper.

Harmony. 724-452-0539.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Tony Germaine.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

PARK HOUSE. Someone & The Something. North Side.

412-224-2273.

POINTBREEZEWAY. Devilish Merry. Earth Day Concert: Sustainable Food & Music.

Point Breeze. 412-770-7830.

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412-361-6051.

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ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339. Pittsburgh Banjo Club.

Wednesdays. North Side.

412-321-1834.

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

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FRI 22 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

KATZ PLAZA. The Flow Band Reggae Rockers. www.trustarts. org. Downtown. 412-456-6666.

SAT 23 RIVERTOWNE BREWING COMPANY. The Flow Band.

Feat. Uzell, Debbie Star, Sam Fingers, Joe Spliff & D. Lane. www.rivertowne.com.

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724-265-1181.

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FRI 22 ORGANIST CHRISTIAN LANE. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland.

412-621-4951.

RESONANCE WORKS. Performing Massenet’s Cinderella. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-501-3330.

SAT 23 ARSENAL DUO & POINT PARK UNIVERSITY DANCE DEPT. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty.

412-441-3800.

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412 781-9853.

RESONANCE WORKS. Performing Massenet’s Cinderella. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-501-3330.

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ELWOOD’S PUB. The Rustbelters.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Kraft Heinz Audience of the Future & EQT Student Side-by-Side. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

CLASSICAL THU 21 OVREARTS. The resident ensemble of the Heinz Memorial Chapel presents “Ancient Modern,” w/ works for brass quintet by Bach & Gabrielli, & new

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Bluegrass Jam. All acoustic instruments and ability levels welcome. Eden Hall Lodge dining area. Gibsonia. 412-365-1450.

LINDEN GROVE. Uptown Rhythm & Brass. Castle Shannon.

412-882-8687.

FRI 22 BELLEFIELD AUDITORIUM. Esma Redžepova, Queen of the Gypsies.

Global star of Romani music for more than 50 years. www.music. pitt.edu. Oakland.

SAT 23 565 LIVE. Hermie & Harry’s Dueling Pianos. Bellevue.

412-522-7556.

CHARTIERS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. The Harmony Singers.

Bridgeville. 412 655-1668.

PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE COGIC. Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh. East Liberty.

412-613-5825.

SUN 24 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Indira Corales Latin Music.

Oakland. 412-622-3151.

MON 25 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 27 PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside.

412-621-2919.

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PEARS / Such Gold SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668. All ages show.

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

The Spill Canvas presents “REQUESTOUR” ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7:30p.m.

Kiefer Sutherland HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square.

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

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Tribal Seeds “Spring Harvest Tour” ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

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

THURSDAY 21 The Illusionists

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900.

Tickets: trustarts.org.

Through April 24.

MONDAY 25 The Roomsounds

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

Grease BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghmusicals.com.

Through May 1.

Dopapod REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 18 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

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FRIDAY 22 Musiq Soulchild

AUGUST WILSON CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

Twiddle

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. Over 21 event.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9:30p.m.

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

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Laws of Attraction

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CREATURE COMFORTS {BY HARRY KLOMAN} Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book resembles Rudyard Kipling’s fin-desiècle collection of stories about as much as its 1967 animated version did, which is to say, virtually not at all. The older film is charming, the new one is extravagant, and both ignore Kipling’s belief that the law of the jungle, despite its necessary Circle of Life brutalities, is still more just than the laws of man.

Mowgli (Neel Sethi) and Bagheera

To those who know this tale, all your friends are here, voiced by Ben Kingsley, Giancarlo Esposito, Lupita Nyong’o, Idris Elba, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Christopher Walken as King Louie, an orangutan created by Disney in 1967, even though there are none in India (a word not spoken in this new film). Neel Sethi, a charismatic newcomer, portrays the “man cub” Mowgli. They mix it up in a bombastic action adventure punctuated by specks of tenderness and reflection, with plenty of fights, and a conflagration to climax it all.

And two songs. Yes, Disney steals from itself and twice turns its new Jungle Book (directed by Jon Favreau) into a fleeting musical. I loved these songs in the ’60s film, but they’re so out of place here that it’s almost embarrassing. Still, the stop-motion and CGI technology is beguiling, and you will believe a wolf can talk. In 3-D, in select theaters.

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Celebrate Earth Day on April 22 with a classic environmental film, Douglass Trumbull’s moody sci-fi thriller

Silent Running (1972).

In the future, Earth has lost all its vegetation. But on a group of spaceships orbiting Saturn, botanists are nurturing the last of our plants, hoping to one day return them to Earth. Bruce Dern and three robots star.

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unironically make your entrance in an Olds 442 blasting “My Sharona,” before stepping out of that ride and hoisting a milk crate of vinyl records onto the hip of your high-waisted jeans. That time was 1980, and one kinda-lazy, kinda-busy weekend of that year is the focus of Richard Linklater’s ensemble comedy Everybody Wants Some!!

Jake (Blake Jenner) is a freshman at Southeast Texas University, and makes his aforementioned arrival on the Friday before school starts. He moves into one of two adjacent houses set aside for members of the school’s baseball team. He’s more or less our guide in this loose-limbed tale.

We meet the rest of the guys (so many that you’ll be distinguishing them by moustache style); take in a few dances; mack on girls; competitively engage in all manner of sports (from baseball to table tennis to mud-wrestling); drink and smoke; and thoroughly enjoy a carefree interlude between adolescence and adulthood.

The dudes of Everybody Wants Some!! out walkin’ and talkin’

Like its spiritual ancestor Dazed and Confused, Linklater’s ode to 1970s high school good times, most of Everybody’s pleasures are in just hanging out: the guys play records, play pranks and banter, argue and stoner-philosophize. (The importance of really listening to rock is “finding yourself in the space between the notes they’re offering.”)

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Once again, Linklater is focused on time and its passages, themes he explored in the everyday non-time of Slacker, the precise windows of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and the 12-year chronology Boyhood.

Everybody sports the joke of a countdown clock, marking the minutes left until school begins. (The story also ends at a beginning, the first class.) The guys in the houses are an assortment of ages; if they stood still long enough, you could plot them on a continuum of early manhood from boyish noob to almost adult.

Like most college films, this one is all about the dudes, and it reputedly draws its inspiration from Linklater’s own experiences. There’s a rosy nostalgia to it, a halcyon weekend before personal disappointments, terrifying school exams and the various crises of the 1980s settle in. These baseball bros are funnier, looser and less entitled jerks than one would expect (or remember from one’s own life), but the trade- off in verisimilitude makes them far more enjoyable to hang out with.

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KING KONG. Merrian C. Cooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1933 film revealed to the world the heretofore-unknown giant beasts of Skull island, including King Kong. The stopmotion animation and matte photography effects hold up surprisingly well. Poor Kong does not. April 22-25 and April 27-28. Row House Cinema

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TREMORS. Something is living underground and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to make life tough in one isolated Nevada town. Kevin Bacon stars in Ron Underwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1990 comedic horror film. April 23-26 and April 28. Row House Cinema

CRIMINAL. In Ariel Vromenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action thriller, Kevin Costner stars as an ex-con whose brain is implanted with the memories of a dead CIA agent and tasked with averting a worldwide catastrophe. The plan hits a snag when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confronted with memories of the agentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and family. The all-star lineup (Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds) is the main draw here. Costner plays the rugged, but sometimes tender, character heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honed over his career. There are the typical car chases, explosions and plot twists, but the film also hints at questions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not necessarily novel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about human consciousness. (Rebecca Nuttall) ELVIS AND NIXON. The 1970 White House photo of Elvis and Nixon is the most requested photo in the National Archives. This bizarrobut-actual meeting between the president of the United States (Kevin Spacey) and the King of Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll (Michael Shannon) is recreated in this comedy from Liza Jackson. Starts Fri., April 22 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. Tom Twyker adapts Dave Eggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel about an American businessman (Tom Hanks) who travels to Saudi Arabia to pitch an idea to a royal investor.

Starts Fri., April 22. Manor THE HUNTSMAN: WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WAR. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to the fantastical woods for this sort of sequel to 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s re-work of the Snow White fairy tale.

This outing concerns battling witchy queen sisters; Cedric Nicolas-Troyan directs and Jessica Chastain, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth star. Starts Fri., April 22 MILES AHEAD. Don Cheadleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engaging bio-pic of jazz great Miles Davis manages to rise above the usual tropes of musical bio-pic.

The film is set in 1980, when Davis (Cheadle) is marking five years of isolation in his New York City home, depressed, mean and coked up. Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; encounter with a reporter (Ewan McGregor) spurs hot takes on his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work (â&#x20AC;&#x153;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call my music jazz â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social musicâ&#x20AC;?), and there are snapshots â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a fertile recording session, a domestic scuffle, a moment of personal crisis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that fill in Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; extensive history without leaning too heavily on the standard format of tortured-artist bio-pic. There is also a wacky caper involving a pilfered master tape, guns and a car chase. Like Davis cautions: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna tell a story, come with some attitude. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be all corny and shit.â&#x20AC;? Starts Fri., April 22 (Al Hoff) REMEMBER. Canadian director Atom Egoyan directs this contemporary drama about a pair of Auschwitz survivors seeking revenge. Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer), who has dementia, escapes from his nursing home, under the explicit written instructions of another resident, Max (Martin Landau). The men reunited there after having been at Auschwitz together.

They have made a pact to hunt down and kill a Nazi concentration-camp guard, a man who killed their families and has long lived in the United States as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rudy Kurlander.â&#x20AC;? Zevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search takes him across the country to meet various â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rudy Kurlanders,â&#x20AC;? even as his shortand long-term memories fade in and out. The quest seems doomed: Though Max assures Zev he will recognize Kurlander, can he? And who would admit to being such a monster?

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ANOTHER PLANET. Ferenc Moldovanyiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 documentary visits four continents to depict the lives of extremely poor children. For them, childhood means dangerous work, going to war and scavenging to survive. In association with Robert Morris University, director Moldovanyi will present the film in person.

2:15 p.m. Sat., April 23. Harris. Free CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. Orson Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1966 masterpiece, only now getting its U.S. theatrical release, is a trove of cinematic riches, from the forceful black-and-white visuals and musically precise editing to Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own performance as Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dissolute knight. This collation of five plays, which turns on Falstaffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the young Prince Hall, is hailed by some as the finest Shakespeare on screen, and is arguably the most poignant film of Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; remarkable career. With Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter and John Gielgud. 8 p.m. Sun., April 24. Regent Square (Bill Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Driscoll)

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They Will Have to Kill Us First critical to surviving trauma, and Zev, in his twilight, shifts uneasily from state to state. Eighty-six-year-old Plummer isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resting on his laurels here, delivering a performance that feels more heartbreaking by the minute. In English, and some German, with subtitles.

Starts Fri., April 22. Manor (AH) THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST. Johanna Schwartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s informative documentary follows several Malian musicians, who have been forced to flee Timbuktu and regions in the north after instability leads to an Islamist takeover. There, under newly imposed Sharia law, all forms of entertainment are banned. The performers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which include a group of young men with a more modern sound and older women who perform traditional music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; bemoan the state of things (â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you take away music, Mali is deadâ&#x20AC;?), while refusing to give up. Some performers travel to the U.K. to raise awareness; others lead songs in refugee camps. An eventual return to Timbuktu is bittersweet: The city has been hard hit, but a hastily arranged street concert underscores how deeply music is felt in this culture. In French and other languages, with subtitles. Starts Fri., April 22.

Harris (AH) TOO LATE. Dennis Hauckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neo-noir follows a rumpled Los Angeles private detective named Mel Sampson (John Hawkes) on a missing-person case.

A familiar story, but juiced up with some gimmicks: The story, shot on 35 mm, plays in five out-of-order, 20-minute continuous takes. The jigsawed story has enough clues and markers (mostly injuries to bodies and cars) to help sort out the timeline. The script â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a jumble of strippers, estranged relatives, nightclubs and criminals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tries to make its various femmes fatale interesting, but the strain shows, and most of the actresses remain barely dressed. Too Late has a 1970s smog-and-sunlight vibe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is an L.A. full of broken souls and poetic degenerates, and the PIs who sort through them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the knifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge between taking itself seriously and parodying countless similar works. Your mileage may vary, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have preferred a fresher story over a clever but self-conscious presentation. Starts Fri., April 22.

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REPERTORY THE RIVER RAN RED. Before it was a shopping center, the land along the Monongahela River in Homestead was the site of the Carnegie Works. In 1892, the company sent in armed private guards to quell a labor uprising. Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteuxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hour-long 1993 documentary uses historical first-person sources, related songs and poetry, and dramatic recreations to retell the story of the his-

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THE BIRDS. Lest you forget that birds have a darker side â&#x20AC;Ś thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1963 domestic-horror classic. Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren hope to spend a quiet weekend in the country, but as soon as they arrive, the local birds start acting nasty. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 27. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 (AH)

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ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN. Nathan Juran directs this 1958 cult classic about a scorned socialite who, after an alien attack, grows very, very tall.

Then, she goes after her cheating husband. April 2227. Row House Cinema GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK. Shusuke Kanekoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2001 film finds Godzilla returning to threaten Japan, but fortunately some guardian monsters are on hand to fight back. April 22-24 and April 26-28. Row House Cinema

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EXPERIMENTS Dancers were sometimes musicians, the musician was sometimes a painter, and the space itself used to be an autorepair garage in Uptown. It was now expertly transformed into a theater for three weekends for Attack Theatre’s multimedia contemporary dance work Laws of Attraction. Chairs climbed the wall, boxes sat stacked, a climbing net hung; also occupying the several levels of stage space were a huge rope and a magnetic shape board.

But while the show by Attack co-artistic directors Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza is inspired by laws of science, it’s rooted, as is everything in life, in a love story. As humans we love to dissect and analyze, but down deep we just want to be happy and in love.

At this past Friday’s premiere, the evening began with spoken word, introducing the audience to the relationship we were to navigate throughout the evening.

The concept of gravity’s pull provided an apt metaphor for a couple trying to decide “what to do now.” Dancer Dane Toney came careening out on stage on a hover board, pulling a rolling cart of typewriters, a literal representation of the narration we were hearing. (Who better to use a hover board than a dancer? In fact, the whole company later mounted boards for a touching ensemble piece.)

The audience is taken through the tumultuous and emotional time in this relationship, set to a wide variety of music including classical, jazz, funk, rock, Spanish and live percussion (and painting) by long-time Attack Theatre collaborator Ian Green. All this while the company explored different scientific concepts using such props as a sphere, a lever and magnets. One section featured a human-sized fulcrum (think adult see-saw), which made for a stunning onstage vignette.

While there was a lot of cool “stuff” to look at, most of all you should go to see Laws of Attraction for the dancing.

The beautifully trained company of Toney, Kaitlin Dann, Nile Alicia Ruff, Anthony Williams and Ashley Williams offered interesting duets and trios, and juicy ensemble dances. Throughout this evening-long piece the dancers take a journey that is at times loud and energetic, and then quiet and thoughtful.

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LAWS OF ATTRACTION continues through April 30. Attack Theatre at 300 Gist St., Uptown. $15-30.

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Attack Theatre’s Laws of Attraction {PHOTO COURTESY OF CRAIG THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHY}

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The new East Liberty Transit Center

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HALFWAY THERE {BY CHARLES ROSENBLUM}

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T THE OPENING of the East Liberty Transit Center in November, Mayor Bill Peduto described a process that had taken 14 years from inception to nearcompletion. Alleghney County Executive Rich Fitzgerald commented that, at the beginning, “We had problems of blight; now we have problems of growth.” The longsimmering project at Penn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. Busway reflects not just a changing Pittsburgh, but a Pittsburgh with changing goals.

The transit station itself constitutes the reorganized traffic intersections and transit stops at Penn Avenue, the busway and Ellsworth Avenue, extending to Highland Avenue. Numerous sources of public funding, culminating in a $15 million federal TIGER grant, subsidized the transit infrastructure, which also includes the lengthy parking garages wedged along the East Liberty side

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of the busway. These provide capacity to encourage the mixed use, housing and retail construction by Mosites, Inc., which is nearing completion above the garages, in precisely the kind of public-private partnership that such federal and state funds aim to encourage.

THE BUSWAY STOP, WHILE MUCH IMPROVED, RETAINS THE WHIFF OF A FREEWAY EXIT. The widely touted Transit Oriented Development aims to place residences and retail closer to mass transit to encourage more traditional urban density and decrease automobile use, but it still apparently takes an enormous amount of parking to

make such a thing work.

And the project is still not complete.

Some of the connecting streets between the new residential units and the busway are still under construction. Some of the housing is occupied, but the retail and parking apparently are not.

Thus far, the project’s transit component incorporates some important successes for the car-free world. The bus stop used to be a confusing swirl of isolated concrete, connecting to the busway in a forbidding, multilevel divide. The new project adds a clever connecting platform between road and a sheltered area at Penn Avenue so that the space is more accessible, but also buffered by a landscaped element. It is also served by a bike shed (the complex’s most visually appealing component). The transition to the busway below now comes via gently sloped paths

through a pleasantly park-like (though incongruously suburban) designed greenspace that will only improve as its plants grow in.

Urban designer Jonathan Kline, from the Studio for Spatial Practice, who developed the overall initial design scheme and worked on numerous phases of design and construction of the project, describes a process of reconciling required dimensions and costs. Both PAT and PennDOT were clients on the project, and their institutionalized design standards for roadways dictated much of its character. “The busway as designed is basically a four-lane highway, so [many elements were] unchangeable,” he comments.

Still, the busway stop, while much improved, retains the whiff of a freeway exit.

It seems much longer than it needs to be. It still has Jersey barriers down the middle, and that new pedestrian bridge from Ellsworth spanning the busway, though necessary and welcome as a connector, looks like something from a border crossing, not a city (and even a street) of artistic and historic bridges.

Too much of the sprawl of automobileoriented construction here is present where it is not needed or welcome. Someone with political pull should strong-arm PAT and PennDOT into relaxing their design standards to make works of this kind better in the city. This should blend better with the traditional and tight residential urbanism of Ellsworth Avenue, which it abuts.

The garages across the busway might just be the inverse. They will house many cars, but will hide them effectively, at least until they leave, when the already tightly clogged streets will get a fresh infusion of cars.

It’s a very delicate proposition to level criticism at this project. It has particularly broad political support, partly because the funding comes from many foundations, as well as every level of government. Likewise, because one component is an improved transit station, almost everyone is in favor of some significant portion of it.

And it’s a project that includes many significant improvements. But it still incorporates too much of either the values or the actual presence of too many automobiles.

In the underserved East Liberty of 2002, or the Great Recession of 2009, this might not have mattered much. But in 2016, with sustainability initiatives like the p4 program, the 2030 District and areas such as the Uptown Sustainability zone, we have honed our values significantly.

We don’t have to criticize anyone for the shortcomings of this project if we can thank them for the clarity with which we can now improve the next ones.

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WATCH WORDS {BY FRED SHAW} Rubbernecking, as defined by MerriamWebster, is “to look about or stare with exaggerated curiosity.” It’s a phenomenon that typically accompanies the aftermath of automobile collisions. In Molly Prosser’s solid debut poetry collection, the keenly titled Rubbernecking (Word Poetry) instead refers to insightful exploration of external landscapes and her speaker’s observant inner world.

Prosser, a graduate of Carlow University’s master-of-fine-arts creativewriting program, is a northern Pennsylvania native who now lives in Oakland, Calif. A travel buff, she’s left footprints all over the world, writing of local and far-off locations with a sharp wit that shows traces of powerful writers like Jan Beatty and Marion Winik. And while Rubbernecking seeks out worldly experience, it pays special attention to life’s small yet significant moments.

In “Topography of a Body,” she writes of the slice and singe that accompany learning practical domesticity, saying, “If the truth of our childhood is hidden in our bodies, then mine / lives in the tips of my fingers, from canning tomatoes and / salt-packing pickles.” The visceral imagery continues when she moves on to highlight “my wrist where the scar still smiles up at me from when my / father’s quick slash at a venison roast caught my hand inside the / carcass, holding back the entrails.” Questionable line breaks aside, it’s a poignant evocation of what it means to be alive and accumulate knowledge.

Educational moments abound, as in “What I Know About Being a Man,” which begins: “I kept bringing home rabid animals,” and concludes, “a drooling / rabbit in the sandbox, / my father ended the game. Shovel in hand, blow after blow, / he kept hitting until I stopped crying.”

Prosser’s powerful realism here will surely resonate with readers in different ways.

Youthful enlightenment also plays out in “The Bears of Hershey Park,” where “My older cousin Pat / showed me how to snake / my arm in to the claw machine at the Hershey Park arcade.” The poem finishes with the speaker watching Pat with his girlfriend as he’d “tuck in his thumb and snake his / fingers up the back of her/ Billy Idol tee shirt.” The physicality of the work throughout the collection is often vivid, yet unsentimental. Indeed, Rubbernecking is a book full of perception, seeking out what’s impossible to look away from.

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{BY STUART SHEPPARD} THE BEAUTY OF minimalism is that it

can make the abstract more tangible.

Quantum Theatre’s modernization of the standard Ibsen mise-en-scène allows its production of The Master Builder to convey the freshness and symbolism of this 1893 play, which the original audiences must have felt.

Scenic designer Tony Ferrieri took an empty floor at the top of a North Side office tower the size of a city block, carefully placing only the most essential objects on stage — kind of like an IKEA Zen garden — and rooted this concrete-and-glass space in the late 1950s.

John Shepard, as Solness, the middleaged Master Builder, is such a powerful actor that he could carry the show on his own. But instead he adapts his performance to the other actors like warm putty joining stones of various shapes and sizes, so that they interact in the most natural manner.

Hayley Nielsen has the difficult task of playing the predatory ingénue Hilda, and she succeeds in making both the coquettish and symbolic parts of her character believable, when a lesser actress might have played it safe and gone for one or the other.

Director Martin Giles has the performers making some esoteric stage crosses — as if they are tracing a mystical design underneath them — often ending up on marks stretched so far apart that it adds another dimension of drama.

THE MASTER BUILDER continues through May 1. Quantum Theatre at Nova Place, 100 S. Commons St., North Side. $38-50. 412-362-1713 or www.quantumtheatre.com

In the space’s thrust arrangement, the seating is raised above the stage, which allows the lights hanging from the low ceiling to shine directly in your eyes, and they are hot. In fact, members of the audience disrobed during the show like a slow game of strip poker.

The two intermissions (usually welcome) were actually intrusive, like awkward cuts to commercial during an intense football game. They also seemed to confuse the audience, which had no idea when an act was ending, or even when to clap.

But these were small distractions in an otherwise brilliant evocation of a masterful work by one of the first modern

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Danny Binstock as Tim Porter (with Robin Abramson and Daina Michelle Griffith, left to right, in the background), in City Theatre’s The Last Match

playwrights, where the minimalist style helped bring the abstract qualities of this play to a profound sense of reality.

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NET GAIN {BY TED HOOVER} ONE OF THE great pleasures of Pittsburgh theater is seeing Robin Abramson or Daina Michelle Griffith on stage. So you’re in for a double dose of fun with Anne Ziegler’s 2016 tennis drama The Last Match, at City Theatre, featuring Abramson and Griffith as two members of a four-person company. Out-of-towners Danny Binstock and JD Taylor round out the cast.

You noticed I slipped the phrase “tennis drama” in there, didn’t you? Offhand, I’d say there are few plays as terrifically concerned with the game of tennis as is Ziegler’s. But considering the quality of the writing and the relatively low cost of production (one set, four actors, 100 minutes), it’ll probably be the go-to tennis play of the next few theatrical seasons.

Tim Porter (Binstock) is a six-time U.S. Open champeen about to take part in what may be his last match, since he is nearing the tennis-ancient age of 33. His opponent is the circuit’s enfant terrible, Sergei Sergeyev (Taylor), a brash Russian youngster who grew up worshipping Porter.

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match — with occasional digressions and flashbacks showing us how Tim and Sergei got there and who’s with them on the journey: Tim’s wife, former tennis pro Mallory, and Sergei’s fiancée, the Russian émigré Galina.

Mallory is struggling to be more than just the wife-of-a-superstar while, at the same time, trying to have a child; Griffith brings her fierce intelligence to the role and can play sublimated heartbreak like nobody’s business. Abramson takes the slightly clichéd role of the Galina (she’s sort of written like Bullwinkle’s Natasha) and plays both the brittle humor and driving ambition. Binstock and Taylor attack their roles at warp speed, and both men turn in compelling and complex performances.

IF YOU LIKE your plagues staged with gorgeous sets, lighting and costumes, then this is the plague for you.

Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s production of The Plague in Venice reminded me of once seeing a Ferrari on a Caribbean road pass a local woman, who began chuckling. When I asked why, she said, “The speed limit on this island is 35 mph.” That car is kind of like this show, which never really gets up to the speed of its satiric billing, but is still scintillating to watch.

Scenic designer Dahlia Al-Habieli, lighting designer Keith Truax, and costume designer Marla Parker have conspired to create a 17th-century Venetian phantasmagoria worthy of any Terry Gilliam film. You feel Baron Munchausen could enter Al-Habieli’s set at any moment, especially when Death, a 12-foot puppet inhabited by Clay Singer, appears.

Truax’s lighting is ethereal, and there is an instance in the show when he thickens the air and actually makes time stand still — under a huge, quivering, baroque moon.

THE PLAGUE IN VENICE continues through Sat., April 23. Philip Chosky Theater, 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-37.

412-268-2407 or www.drama.cmu.edu

City artistic director Tracy Brigden’s direction of this Pittsburgh premiere is pointed and breezy and of such a caliber you might not notice the slight thinness of the material. Ziegler’s writing is compact and swift, but her characters aren’t especially interesting and their stories are rather expected.

But, really, it’s hardly a problem, and Brigden has overseen an entertaining evening. After all, it’s Daina and Robin, how could it not be?

The way Parker melds the costumes to the actors — creating hybrid beings with mystical capabilities — is brilliant. Caroline Pluta, as Plague, sizzles in her queenly red attire, yet is so cool she could just as easily pose for a fashion shoot in Vogue as hurl pestilence. And the harem pants worn by Sam McInerney as Pantalone would make MC Hammer jealous.

However, director Sasha Iliev’s adaptation of this Renaissance play by Flaminio Scala is simply overwhelmed by the slickness of the production. While certain actors did try to outshine the dazzling effects, more often they were swallowed by them.

Cara Ronzetti, as Lucretia, does punch through when she says, “It’s sad to be a tragic character stuck inside a comedy,” and gets a good laugh — not because it’s true, but because it’s ironic. Unfortunately, there are few such laughs during the performance, which is long, especially without an intermission.

Usually I love dazzling theater, but the flamboyant staging dulled the sting of this political satire — even the last line, which invoked the current presidential race. A more balanced production would not have trumped itself.

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UPCS K-5 students use art to explore an array of artists and mediums.

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601 Wood Street

All Around Us: Installations, Experiences and Explorations Inspired by Bugs Curated by Ali Momeni Participating artists: Matthijs Munnik (Netherlands), Stephanie Ross and Ali Momeni (USA), Garnet Hertz (Canada), Jennifer Angus (USA), Ivana Adaime Makac (France), Robin Meier (Switzerland), Andre Gwerder (Switzerland), Nathan Morehouse, Daniel Zurek, and Sebastian Echeverri (USA), Susana Soares (UK), Illah Nourbakhsh, Randy Sargent, and CREATE Lab (USA) This exhibition beholds the beauty of the insect form.

The artists celebrate the insect as an educator and present work that exhibits an awareness of the skills and lessons these tiny species have bestowed upon the human race. As a collection, it begs an examination of our prejudices and a conclusion of our relationship to the insect world as one of mutual beneďŹ t.

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Come enjoy art made by local high school students.

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Carnegie Library Peruse and purchase beautiful gently used books, talk with friendly librarians and make a keepsake pop culture button to take home.

Degrees of Seperation Guest Curated by Kristen Letts Kovak Participating Artists: Tamara CedrĂŠ, Nicole Herbert, Michael Dax Iacovone, Nate Larson, Carlene MuĂąoz, Daniel Pillis, Derek Reese, Scott Turri, Barbara Weissberger Degrees of Separation is a meditation on distance.

These works span spiritual, mental, and physical distanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; drawing attention to the moments where we are simultaneously connected yet remain distinct.

Music with DJ Tara Dactyl Port Authority | Making it Simple.

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Jacob Finch | Arbytrary A local 3D artist processes why sometimes we do things for no particular reason at all.

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Mimi Lipczer Lerner Cubist paintings and portraits by the late Mimi Lipczer Lerner (1945-2007), a Polish-American opera singer and one-time head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University.

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More than media, Mute the Stereo(type) This exhibition of photography showcases and celebrates same gender loving men of African descent in Pittsburgh, their positive achievements, images, and self-identities as portrayed by photographer Curtis Reaves.

809 Liberty Avenue

The Harris Theater will be screening regionally produced short ďŹ lms.

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Every half hour catch a brand new improv show at the Cultural Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning comedy theater!

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Photography Showcase Students from MCG Youth & Arts showcase their digital and traditional photography.

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Paper cuttings by Theodora Bolha Tonicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upstairs gallery is host to artist Theodora Bolha accompanied with live acoustic music by Riley Alexander.

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Great Performances: Teenie Harris Archive Presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art Veteran ďŹ lm and television actor Bill Nunn curates the Great Performances Teenie Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exhibit.

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Nathaniel Donnett: Dancing in the End Zone is a Sine Qua Non for In-External Spaces Curated by Kilolo Luckett A Pittsburgh premiere and solo exhibition of new work featuring Houston-based artist Nathaniel Donnett. Donnett will exhibit works that address the sociopolitical conditions and cultural expressions of African Americans.

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Scott A. Turri | Inside Out The concept of private vs public.

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Alumni Show: â&#x20AC;&#x153;DeadNecksâ&#x20AC;?

Jordan Patton used special effects to create the show. Joseph W. Brown shot all of the photography to promote the project.

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By day, Mix-N-Match, an art installation in Market Square, is not much to look at. But by night, the workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LED lights clearly mimic a huge turntable, complete with tonearm and spinning record. The silver cylinder at its center is shaped like a record-player spindle and functions as a sort of â&#x20AC;&#x153;interactive jukebox.â&#x20AC;? This sound installation plays eight audio tracks created by the Dutch performance, sound and installation artist Allard van Hoorn in collaboration with several Pittsburgh organizations.

Mix-N-Match was commissioned through the City of Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market Square Public Art Program by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. Van Hoorn saw Market Square from above and envisioned a record player. Inspired by Bruce Chatwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book The Songlines, in which the author sought to interpret the invisible pathways, or Australian Aboriginal dreaming-tracks, that cover the landscape like musical scores, van Hoorn seeks to map public space.

For Market Square, he has created urban songlines, an acoustical map that also introduces a new experience of it.

Each track has its own particular rhythm, but relies on repetitive and almost chant-like phrases, manipulations, amplifications and stretching of sounds. There are some clearly recognizable sounds, like sweeping, tapdancing and poetry-reading, but the rest are the bleeps and blips of electronic music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;1099 on Fifth and Woodâ&#x20AC;? was created with members of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnershipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clean Team; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flower Bedsâ&#x20AC;? was created with artist-in-residence Edith Abeyta of the Artist in the Public Realm Residency Program at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Hazelwood, with library staff and Hazelwood residents; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Revlon!â&#x20AC;? was created with Project Silk, an organization that supports minority gay men and transgender individuals; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Miss the Beesâ&#x20AC;? was created with Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA) poetry students and their teachers; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Now Thy Gatesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Long Callingâ&#x20AC;? were created with organist Cynthia Pock and the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steel Bridge Bluesâ&#x20AC;? was created with the steel-drum players from Urban Pathways Charter School; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tapping Down the Roadâ&#x20AC;? was created with tap-dancers from Point Park University.

Visitors can select songs to play.

However, you need to get up close to hear them. After hours, you can use headphones or access the tracks free on SoundCloud.

The program includes occasional live performances. You can even watch the Square remotely through the app Anyscene, and contemplate public space all alone.

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MIX-N-MATCH continues through April 30. Market Square, Downtown. Free. www.MarketSquarePublicArt.com

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Me s s i a n i c Fa i t h

As gentiles we are to be grafted in as a branch in the olive tree meaning we must become Israelites and Jewish in our worship.

PAGAN TITLES AND WORDS: “God” sourced in Indo Germanic Culture from “Ghodh” which means “Union” maybe “Sexual Union”. Correct translation is the Name “Elohim” which can be singular or plural and means “Strong One(s)”. The Name when used in the plural form is both “The Father” and “The Messiah”, when singular it is “The Father” or “The Messiah”. Elohim also can be applied to rulers, messengers and persons.

“LORD” is from a pagan source “LORDO” a deity.“LORD” has replaced The Father’s Tetragrammaton Name “YHWH” over 6500 times. The god Baal became a Title meaning “My Lord” “CHRIST” is sourced in paganism, most likely the Hindu Deity Khrishna. “Christ” should be translated as Messiah meaning “Anointed One” “Holy” is from the pagan source “Heil” and should be translated as “Set-Apart” or “Separate”.

Angel should be translated as “Messenger” “Salvation” is from a Latin pagan source “Salvus” and should be translated as “Deliverance”

THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES Jesus is a pagan name derived from the Greek Name Iesous which comes from The Greek Goddess of Healing called Iaso. The Greeks used Iaso as their Messiah to better encourage their culture to convert to the Messianic Faith. The other reason they used a Goddess Iaso is because The Jewish Messiah was a female.

The Image of Elohim is “Male and Female” Genesis 1:26-27: And Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So Elohim created man in their own image, in the image of Elohim created he them; male and female created he them.

Father = “Male” Messiah=“Female” One of The Father’s Names is “I Am”. He said to Mosheh “I Am who I Am” and tell the people that “I Am” sent you.

The Messiah used “I Am” before many titles including “I Am the bread of life”, ”I Am the light of the world”, “I Am from above”, “I Am the door of the sheep”, “I Am the good shepherd”, “I Am your fellow servant”, “I Am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star” and “Before Abraham, I AM” Thus the title “I Am is important” There are two end time prophecies. The Rose Prophecy (Isaiah 35) and The Lily Prophecy (Hosea 14). The Song of Songs is a love song with the male being “The Father” & the female being “the Messiah”. The woman says “I AM the Rose of Sharon, The Lily of NEWS

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forever. In six days EUEI made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

the Valley, as the Lily Among the thorns”. She takes possession of both prophecies and we know She was crowned by thorns at the impalement. She is called “Perfect” and “Without Blemish”. She is twice shown to be at “The Right Hand Side of the Father”. She is linked to David and She has a flock of perfect sheep that bear twins and none is lost symbolizing Her as a Shepherdess. There are verses for The Resurrection, The Second Coming and Judgment. Also the watchmen struck and bruised Her and lifted Her Veil causing Her to be naked just like at the day of Her Impalement on a Stake. The Father also ignores Her advances symbolizing Her cry “My El, My El why have you forsaken me.” Doves symbolizing the Set-Apart Spirit are used six times. Moving on from the Song, The Messiah said Her Wisdom is greater than Shelomohs. In Proverbs Wisdom is personified by a female. Rachel was a Shepherdess whose name prophesized The Messiah. Her name Rachel means “to journey as an ewe (Female Lamb) that is a good traveller”. Psalm 22 is a Prophecy of the impalement and is titled “The Doe or Hind of the Morning” – both “Doe” and “Hind” are female. In the Psalm She says “I am a worm, and no man”. The word “paps” meaning female breasts is used three times in The Messianic Scriptures. The third time is used in Revelations to describe The Messiah’s breasts being girdled with a golden band. The Messiah’s mother Miryamwas impregnated by the Set-Apart Spirit. No semen was present so she couldn’t get a “Y” chromosome from the man in order to have a son. She only had two “X” chromosomes meaning genetically she could only give birth to a “Daughter”. The Father knew Satan the Deceiver would corrupt The Scriptures so He hid The Messiah’s Name in The Pre-Messianic Scriptures. The Messiah came in the Father’s Name “I AM” from the statement “Before Abraham, I Am”.

The female noun “Yeshua” appears 77 times in the Pre-Messianic Scriptures but only once in the entire Scriptures (Psalm 35) is the Name “I AM Your Deliverance” found as a derivative of “Yeshua”.

In Hebrew The Name Above All Names is YE-SU-A-TEK-A-NI (YESUATEKANI)

After The Messiah had discussed the end times and Second Coming She gave us the Fig Tree Parable. “And learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves you know that the summer is near. So you also when you see all these know that She is near, at the doors. Truly, I say to you, this generation shall no means pass away until all this takes place.”

The Fig Tree represents Israel. Israel put forth new leaves when it returned as a country in 1948. We know from Mosheh’s prayer that a generation is “The days of our lives are seventy years, or if due to strength eighty years (surviving the three and half year tribulation).

So the End Times Summer period is from 2018 to 2028.

FATHER’S MEMORIAL NAME FOREVER

MAN OF LAWLESSNESS

The Tetragrammaton letters “YHWH” map 100% into the Ancient Hebrew Pictorial Alphabet as “IEUE”. (Yehweh.org). His Memorial Hebrew Name should read right to left. “EUEI” and is pronounced. [eeh-eh-ooh-eh]

THE EVERLASTING COVENANT Exodus 31:12-17 And EUEI spoke unto Mosheh, saying and you, speak to the children of Israel saying, “My Sabbaths you are to guard by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, EUEI, am setting you apart and you shall guard The Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people. Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, Set-apart to EUEI. Anyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death. The children of Israel shall guard the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. Between Me and the children of Israel it is a sign

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THE END TIMES

(A CREATION OF SATAN)

This man changes the Torah and Appointed Times. The Roman Catholic Assemblies Popes have deleted The Second Commandment and created their own Sabbaths. Deleting the Second Command “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I EUEI thy Elohim am a jealous El, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Deleting the Commandment allowed Roman Catholics to create images and statues of “Jesus” and “Mary” which is the Image of the Beast. The Mark of the Beast is the Sabbaths kept by the Roman Catholic Assembly and other Sunday based Assemblies. The Messiah said “No one is to be called Father for your only Father is in heaven.” Pope = Latin Papa = “Father” and all priests are called “Father” ARTS

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The Carnegie Museum of Art’s Double Exposure series offers contemporary perspectives on avant-garde film pioneers. In the 1960s, longtime Pittsburgh resident Victor Grauer, a composer and musicologist, made innovative, camera-less abstract films like the vibrantly colored “Voices” (1967) and the flicker film “Archangel” (1966). Tonight, those works screen in their original 16 mm format along with “‘Book of the Year’ 3000” (1974/2013), a video version of Grauer’s concrete poem and sound piece. (Warning: Expect strobe effects.) A free screening is followed by a discussion with Grauer and local writer and filmmaker Brett Kashmere.

Bill O’Driscoll 6:30-8 p.m.

4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Free. www.cmoa.org

{STAGE} By the early 1970s, Truman Capote was acclaimed for books including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. He unintentionally blew up his status as a society darling in 1975, when Esquire excerpted his forthcoming novel Answered Prayers, which dished dirt about jet-setting

buds like Babe Paley and Gloria Vanderbilt. Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 play Tru captures Capote just after, in a witty one-man show crafted from his own writings. Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Ted Pappas directs Broadway actor Eddie Korbich

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With its pastel-lime-green wings, and a lifespan of just one week, the rare and elusive luna moth awaits at Phipps Conservatory’s Butterfly Forest. The annual exhibition, where visitors can interact with butterflies fresh out of their chrysalises, opens today. Housed inside Phipps’ Stove Room — full of tropical plants — 21 different species of butterflies, from the common monarch to the white peacock, will fly overhead and possibly land on you. The fluttery fun is best observed on hot days, when the butterflies are most active. Courtney Linder 9:30 a.m-10 p.m. Exhibit continues through Sept. 5.

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Ken Kesey’s 1962 countercultural-bellwether novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is best known through its 1975 film adaptation.

But before that, in 1963, it became a Dale Wasserman stage play that more closely followed the book than did Milos Forman’s famous Jack Nicholson vehicle (which Kesey himself disdained). Pittsburgh gets its first production of this comedic drama in years — and first professional staging in more than two decades — courtesy of barebones productions. Barebones artistic director Patrick Jordan plays Randle R. McMurphy, the spirited ne’er-do-well whose power struggle with autocratic Nurse Ratched (Kimberly Parker Green, pictured with Jordan) changes the dynamic in a mental hospital. But unlike the film, which forefronts McMurphy, the play, like the novel, is narrated by the Native American inmate Chief Bromden (Leandro Cano). In all its incarnations, Cuckoo’s Nest has been criticized as misogynistic, and Jordan acknowledges that the play is “a boy’s club” and not exactly woman-positive. But at the New Hazlett Theater, with Melissa Martin directing the 16-person cast, Jordan promises “a different dynamic,” including a Ratched who’s not a caricatured villain but a real person. Moreover, on revisiting this work about a free spirit’s struggles in a closed system, Jordan says, “I was really surprised by how relevant … and how timely the play is.” Bill O’Driscoll April 21-May 7. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $30-35. www.barebonesproductions.com

$11-15. 412-622-6914 or www.phipps.conservatory.org

{ART} Tonight, it’s really a Gallery Crawl: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s quarterly multi-venue showcase includes All Around Us: Installations and Experiences Inspired by Bugs, at Wood Street Galleries.

Tonight’s opening reception for this group show includes performances built around three of the installations: one documenting the experimental interaction of fireflies and computercontrolled LEDs; Garnet Hertz’s cockroach-controlled mobile robot; and live courtship in Habronattus jumping spiders.

The crawl also includes the opening reception for SPACE Gallery’s Degrees of Separation, a meditation on distance, with work by five national and four local artists, plus live music, comedy and more. BO 5:30-10 p.m.

Downtown. Free. 412-325-7723 or www.spacepittsburgh.org

{ART} Recent street-art highlights in Pittsburgh have included the gorgeous woodcut-style wheatpastes of Swoon. The internationally exhibited artist (a.k.a. Caledonia Curry) actually lives part time in Braddock. In 2009, she founded Braddock Tiles, a visionary project to hire and train local young adults to handmake 20,000 colored ceramic tiles — each an original artwork, and together meant to re-tile the roof of an old North Braddock church she plans as a community art center. Tonight is the opening reception of Pittsburgh’s first public exhibit of these tiles, and prints of them, at The Rum Room gallery at Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery. Sales of the prints, and prints by 70-some other artists including Swoon herself and Shepard Fairey, benefit Swoon’s Heliotrope Foundation. BO 6 p.m. (7 p.m. artist talk). Show continues through May 28. 3212A Smallman St., Strip District.

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{SCREEN} If the thought of eating popcorn with chopsticks gives you a pang of nostalgia, head to the Hollywood Theater to indulge in this classic movie snack along with the martial-arts cult favorite The

Last Dragon. The 1985 film’s star, Taimak, makes a special appearance to sign copies of his new book, Taimak: The Last Dragon. A Q&A follows the screening. “The Glow” VIP tickets include a meetand-greet photo opportunity

{CRAFTS} Creating eco-friendly lasercut jewelry and downing free brews seems like a productive way to spend an evening — just ask Assemble, which hosts tonight’s Spring Bling.

The 21-and-over crafting party includes artist-led demonstrations and two or three “making stations” for creating eco-friendly wearables, with support from Green Mountain Energy.

Featured maker Nisha Blackwell founded Knotzland, a local start-up in ethical fashion. Drinks are on the house at Assemble’s maker space — and there’ll even be an organic vegan food truck.

CL 6 p.m. 5125 Penn Ave., Garfield. $5-20. 412-254-4230 or www.assemblepgh.org

with Taimak — chopsticks included. CL Screenings at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. 1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont. $12. 412-563-0368 or www. thehollywooddormont.com

Long before Disney’s Cinderella, and even before the gruesome Brothers Grimm rendition of the tale, came Charles Perrault’s “Cendrillon,” in 1698. An adaptation of that classic story of pumpkin carriages, glass slippers and a strict midnight curfew hits the stage at Kelly-Strayhorn Theater tonight and tomorrow with Resonance Works’ staging of Jules Massenet’s 1899 opera Cinderella, complete with French libretto, and English supertitles projected over the stage.

The production of this rarely performed work features soprano Rachele Schmiege as Cinderella and mezzo-soprano Barbara LeMay as Prince Charming. CL 8 p.m. Also 3 p.m. Sun., April 24. 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. $15-50. 412-363-3000 or www.resonanceworks.org

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The 1990s in Pittsburgh were partly defined by the artwork of Rick Bach, whose distinctively warped, often bug-eyed businessmen, preachers, musicians, monsters and horses populated many a concert poster, and even the walls of Mad Mex restaurants.

Bach’s since moved to Washington, D.C.; tonight, Percolate Art Space hosts his first exhibition here in nine years. You Only Live Twice features new steel sculptures, and paintings on paper and steel. The reception doubles as a release party for Bach’s All You Need: Black & White Works (Lascaux Editions). BO 6 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through May 21. 317 Trenton Ave., Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220

+ SUN., APRIL 24 {OUTDOORS} In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recognized Duff Park as a Wild Plant Sanctuary, meaning the area contains habitatsupporting plants of special concern. This morning, Venture Outdoors leads a two- to three-mile guided Wildflower Hike through the heavily wooded park. The moderately challenging trek throughout the 148-acre sanctuary will also include information about the park’s history. Expect to see beautiful blooms like trillium and trout lilies along the way. CL 10 a.m. 4500 School Road South, Murrysville. $10. 412-255-0564 or www.ventureoutdoors.org

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THEATER THE DINNER DETECTIVE INTERACTIVE MURDER MYSTERY DINNER SHOW. Sat, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriot City Center, Downtown.

720-271-2996.

FIRST DATE. Boy meets girl ... on a blind date...in a musical.

Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru April 24. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

THE FLICK. A comedy about 3 employees of a rundown Massachusetts movie house presented by The REP. Thu, Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru April 24. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000.

THE LAST MATCH. Rising Russian star Sergei Sergeyev is pitted against American great Tim Porter in an epic showdown that follows two tennis titans through pivotal moments in their lives both on–and–off the court.

Sun, 2 p.m., Sat., April 23, 9 p.m., Tue., May 3, 7 p.m., Fri., May 6, 8 p.m., Sat., May 7, 9 p.m. and

the closed system of a psych Sun., May 15, 2 p.m. Thru ward. Presented by barebones April 24. City Theatre, South Side. productions. Sun, 2 p.m. and 412-431-2489.

Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru May 7.

THE LITTLE MERMAID. New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

Based on the fairytale by Hans PICASSO AT THE LAPIN Christian Anderson & presented AGILE. A new theater company

by Carnegie Performing Arts debuts with one part of a Center. Fri., April 22, 8 p.m., play cycle that comedian Steve Sat., April 23, 8 p.m. and Sun., Martin wrote specifically for the April 24, 2 p.m. Carnegie stage. The story takes place Music Hall, Oakland. at a bar called the Lapin 412-622-3131.

Agile in Paris in the year THE MASTER 1904, where famous BUILDER. Performing historical figures Henrik Ibsen’s play. www. per such as Albert Einstein Thru May 1, 7 p.m. and pa pghcitym .co & Pablo Picasso meet Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru to talk about art, science May 1. Nova Place, & of course, women.

North Side. 412-231-6688.

April 21-24, 7 p.m. and April 28-30, MAYHEM & MURDER. It’s Vito’s 7 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. birthday & you’re invited to the 23 412-681-4318.

Skidoo Club, a 1920’s speakeasy, PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE for a night of Murder & Mayhem.

IN THE PARKS: WEEK OF Presented by R-ACT Theatre. Fri, WILL. Week long festivities to Sat, 7 p.m. Thru April 30. The celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday.

Avenue Theater, Rochester.

April 23-29. 412-404-8531. www.ractproductions.com.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S TRU. A one-man play based on Capote’s words and works NEST. A exploration of the beauty presented by Pittsburgh Public & danger of being a free spirit in

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TWELVE ANGRY MEN. A drama by Reginald Rose presented by The Bobcat Players.

Thu-Sat, 7 p.m. Thru April 23.

Beaver Area High School, Beaver. Call 724-494-1680 or visit www.bobcatplayers.com.

WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT. Presented by 12 Peers Theater.

W/ no director, no set, & a different guest performer each night, this play is performed by distinct local actors reading a script they see for the first time as they grapple w/ the social phenomena of power, obedience, & manipulation. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru April 25.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown. 412-626-6784.

COMEDY THU 21 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Derick Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

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IMPROV POP-UP NIGHT. Try out improv comedy without making a commitment to a 8-week class. Third Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m.

Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

FRI 22 CMOA’S CRAWLSPACE. Art-inspired improv comedy show featuring improvised art historians, dubbing paintings, & more.

10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

THE DRAFT IMPROV. 8 p.m.

Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

FAST & SLOW PROV. 10 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside.

412-404-2695.

MIKE STANKIEWICZ, DAVID KAYE. 7:30 p.m. Hillcrest Country Club. 724-337-6361.

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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is taking four days to celebrate Earth Day. There will be presentations, activities like potting plants for kids, an environmental film festival and a family yoga class with Let’s Move Pittsburgh.

Fri., April 22-Mon., April 25. 1 Schenley Drive, Oakland. Free with price of admission ($11-15; free for children under age 2). www.phipps.conservatory.org

MAKE NICE BOOM. A team improv competition presented by Unplanned Comedy. Fourth Sat of every month, 8 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

MIKE STANKIEWCZ, MATT STANTON, DEREK MINTO. 8 p.m.

The Rose Bar, McKeesport.

TRANSISTOR: IMPROVISED RADIO SHOW. A night of pulpy comedy, featuring the debut of an improvised radio serial.

10 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

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“Mijoa Toyo” (mixed media on cardboard, 2016), by Patricia Barefoot. From the exhibition FUTURE/PRESENT at Panza Gallery, Millvale.

VISUALART NEW THIS WEEK AUGUST WILSON CENTER. Vanessa German, Introspective. An ambitious hybrid of multidisciplinary work curated to highlight the dimensions of German’s life & work as a citizen artist & activist. Opening April 22.

Downtown. 412-258-2700.

FUTURE TENANT. Creative Byproducts. A dual exhibition

by Anna Brewer & Sam Berner.

Opening April 22. Downtown.

412-325-7037.

MAGGIE’S FARM DISTILLERY. Braddock Tiles.

New work in artists prints & ceramics by Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon. Opening reception April 22, 6 - 9 p.m. Strip District.

724-322-5415.

PERCOLATE. You Only Live Twice: New Work by Rick Bach. Opening reception April 23, 6 - 9 p.m. Wilkinsburg.

412-606-1220.

SPACE. Degrees of Seperation.

Works by Tamara Cedré, Nicole Herbert, Michael Dax Iacovone, Nate Larson, Carlene Muñoz, Daniel Pillis, Derek Reese, Scott Turri & Barbara Weissberger span spiritual, mental & physical distance. Opening reception April 22, 5:30 - 10 p.m.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. All Around Us: Installations & Experiences Inspired by Bugs.

Works by Jennifer Angus, Daniel Campos, Garnet Hertz, Ivana Adaime Makac, Robin Meier & Andre Gwerder,

Nathan Morehouse, Daniel Zurek& Sebastian Echeverri, Matthijs Munnik, Stephanie Ross, Jeff Shaw, Susana Soares, Bingrui Tang & CMU CREATE Lab. Opening April 22.

Downtown. 412-471-5605.

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

Downtown. 412-338-8742.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. 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. 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. 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. dontsaythatshitoutloud.

New work by resident artist, Vanessa German. North Side.

412-321-8664.

THE ARTSMITHS OF PITTSBURGH. Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors’ Member Exhibit.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-341-2299.

BANTHA TEA BAR. By Any Materials Necessary. Artwork

by Samm Fuchs. Garfield.

412-404-8359.

BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Oracles & Vesicles, Drawings & Prints

by Michael Walter. Oakland.

412-648-1376.

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. Sewickley.

412-519-3377.

BOOM CONCEPTS. Yes, and... An educational exhibit about consent. Garfield. www.boomconcepts.com.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Kal Mansur: New Valkyries. Acrylic Construction by BoxHeart’s 2016 Artist of the Year.

Intersection - Dissection Connection: Michael Walsh.

Bloomfield. 412-687-8858.

CAPRISTO SALON. Works in Watercolor. Displaying the works of Phiris Sickels, one of the most celebrated watercolor artists in the area. Shadyside.

412-361-8722.

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.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Mirrors. Oil paintings

by Alejandro Fiez. Artist talk April 23, 5 p.m. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Exposures: A Photo Montage

by Artist Ruthanne Bauerle.

Capturing the past w/ haunting black & white imagery.

Lawrenceville. 412-477-4540.

CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. A Retrospective: Artwork by Jake Galm.

Works in color pencil over the past 15 years from a Bubblegum Cubist Surrealist. Bloomfield.

412-681-5225.

EAST OF EASTSIDE GALLERY. Carol Brode & Kathleen Dlugos.

Work from two university arts

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Singing “In The Rain” “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” “Hey You! Get Off My Mountain” and their new single “Victoria”

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*Stuff We Like MUSIC BOOK EDITION

Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians This fine collection of Peter Guralnick’s 1970s magazine pieces about country, blues and rockabilly musicians from the famous to the obscure is especially timely for his trenchant portrait of the late Merle Haggard at his commercial peak.

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life Laurence Bergreen’s 1997 bio is thoroughly engaging and notably enlightening about everything from early-1900s New Orleans and the jazz giant’s complicated relationships with women to how Armstrong basically invented the solo as we know it.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession Music-obsessed psychologist Daniel Levitin investigates music on a neurological level.

Why do major chords sound happy, and minor chords sad? Find out how nature and nurture interact to define our experience of music.

Where Dead Voices Gather The singular Nick Tosches’ 2001 book documents his singular attempts to unearth the lost history of Emmett Miller, one of the last of the blackface minstrels, and a pioneer of yodeling in American popular song. It’s an obsessive and compelling personal essay disguised as a detective story.

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MON 25 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 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.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.

Rare fossils, life-size models & hands-on interactives to immerse visitors in the winged reptiles’ Jurassic world. Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens. Permanent. Hall of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, gems & precious stones from all over the world. Population Impact.

How humans are affecting the environment. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

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

North Side. 412-237-3400.

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 frames to create twisting tunnels & curving walls for children to crawl through & explore. North Side.

412-322-5058.

DEPRECIATION LANDS MUSEUM. Small living history museum celebrating the settlement & history of the Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

412-486-0563.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier.. During the mid-18th century, thousands of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans.

Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Broken World Fest 2 at Spirit Lodge, Lawrenceville CRITIC: Anissa Harcarik, 20, a student from North Versailles WHEN: Fri.,

April 15

It’s a bunch of sick bands that come together who don’t usually get a chance to in one place all the time. They’re not all local bands, some are from outside. It’s really awesome that they got to do this again for a second year and play really awesome music. [The music includes] droney, rock-y stuff and some emo-punk, then the more poppy stuff. There’s a little bit of everything. I came for The World Is a Beautiful Place, Rozwell Kid and Brightside. Brightside just went on and they were really good — they interact with the crowd a lot and talked about their merch table a bit. Their music — this is going to sound cheesy — really speaks to you if you listen.

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gardens feature exotic plants & examines the practice of captivity floral displays from around the from its prehistoric roots to world. The Butterfly Forest. An its reverberations in modern interactive exhibit w/ 21 species Native-, African- & Euro-American of butterfly & the elusive Luna communities. Reconstructed fort moth. Tropical Forest Congo. houses museum of Pittsburgh An exhibit highlighting some history circa French & Indian War & of Africa’s lushest landscapes.

American Revolution. Downtown.

Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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PHOTO ANTIQUITIES FRICK ART & HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER. Ongoing: tours of HISTORY. Glass Lantern Slides.

Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ Glass lantern slides from 1890 to classes & programs for all ages.

1920. Displaying 660 different Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. movie cameras, showing pictures HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour on glass, many hand-painted. this Tudor mansion & stable The largest display of 19th complex. Enjoy hikes & Century photographs in outdoor activities in the America. North Side. surrounding park. Allison 412-231-7881.

Park. 412-767-9200.

PITTSBURGH ZOO KENTUCK KNOB. Tour & PPG AQUARIUM. the other Frank Lloyd ww. r w Home to 4,000 Wright house. Mill Run. pe ghcitypa p animals, including 724-329-8501. .com many endangered NATIONAL AVIARY. species. Highland Park.

Masters of the Sky. Explore 412-665-3639. the power & grace of the birds SENATOR JOHN HEINZ who rule the sky. Majestic eagles, impressive condors, stealthy falcons HISTORY CENTER. Toys of the and their friends take center stage! ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. More than 500 toys. From Slavery to Freedom.

Home to more than 600 birds Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in from over 200 species. W/ the anti-slavery movement. classes, lectures, demos & more.

Ongoing: Western PA Sports North Side. 412-323-7235.

Museum, Clash of Empires, & NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 exhibits on local history, more. rooms helping to tell the story Strip District. 412-454-6000. of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

HISTORY CENTER. Museum 412-624-6000. commemorates Pittsburgh PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & industrialists, local history.

BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 Sewickley. 412-741-4487. indoor rooms & 3 outdoor

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SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland.

412-621-4253.

FUNDRAISERS FRI 22 PULSEATIONS 2016: RED. A night of cocktails, hors d’ouevres, silent auction, friends & fun, benefiting PULSE. 7 p.m.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-361-0124.

SAT 23 2016 SUPERHERO RUN 1K/ 5K RUN/WALK. Benefits Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Allegheny County.

Visit http://www.thesuperhero foundation.org/ for more info & to register. North Park, Allison Park.

WALDORF SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH GALA. Auction packages, music from the Beagle Brothers, food, benefiting the Waldorf School of Pittsburgh.

7 p.m. Smallman Galley, Strip District. 412-441-5792.

WALK FOR OUR WARRIORS. All proceeds will be going to Juvenile Diabetes. Register at walkforourwarriors.eventbrite. com. 7 a.m. Penn-Trafford High School, Jeannette.

SUN 24 MAKING SAFER SPACES PART 2: DANCE PARTY. Benefit dance party for Pittsburgh Action Against Rape. 9 p.m.

Spirit Hall & Lodge, Lawrenceville.

724-388-6467.

LITERARY FRI 22 YONA HARVEY, RICARDO IAMUURI ROBINSON. Music & poetry as part of the Bonfire Reading Series. 5-8 p.m.

Borland Garden, East Liberty.

SAT 23 LORI JAKIELA. Launching of ‘Big Fish’, a chapbook of poetry. 5:30 p.m. UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock. www.unsmokeartspace.com.

SHARON G. FLAKE. 1 p.m.

Half Price Books, Monroeville.

412-856-1949.

SHERRIE FLICK. Launch Party for Whiskey, Etc. 7 p.m. East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield.

412-224-2847.

TUE 26 STEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m.

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

STORYTELLING @ RILEY’S. Story

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Last Tue of every month, 8 p.m.

Riley’s Pour House, Carnegie.

412-279-0770.

educators working in a variety of media. Forest Hills.

412-465-0140.

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. Small Works Juried Show. Presented by The Pittsburgh Society of Artists.

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Fast Cars & Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue. A 125 photos that document the life in the Belle-Époque & early-20thcentury France. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

FRICK FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM. Studio Arts Student Exhibition. The creative work of graduating seniors & of majors & nonmajors from studio arts. University Art Gallery. www.studioarts.pitt.edu.

Oakland. 412-624-4125.

GALLERIE CHIZ. State-of-theArt Inconveniences. Work by Dyer Fieldsa & Rodney Allen Trice. Shadyside. 412-441-6005.

THE GALLERY 4. 2016 Salon Show. Work from Jeff Aziz, Jennifer Brinkle, Tony Cavalline, Larry Cuddy, Dino Deluliis, Sara Diesel, Sam Foreman, Gerardo Garduño, TA Gray, Gary Henzler, Lauren Jo, Kid Gazelle, Zhenya Koreshkoff, Lesla, Michael Lies, Lena Loshonkohl, MouseBones, Dawn Pogany, Sarah Schneider, Seth Storck, LJ Swiech, Patty Tran, Theodore Bolha, Marion Di Quinzio, Shervin Iranshahr & Ben Patterson. Shadyside.

412-363-5050.

GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene.

Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent

WED 27 PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Book discussion hosted by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. This month’s meeting focuses on John Updike’s “Selected Poems.” Fourth Wed of every month, 7:30 p.m.

Coffee Tree Roasters, Shadyside.

412-928-9891.

KIDSTUFF THU 21 ALEXANDRA BODNARCHUK, DANCER & CHOREOGRAPHER. Learn the art of translating words & ideas into full body movements or small intricate gestures & collaborate w/ one another to form a unique dance. Thru April 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sat., April 23, 1-3:30 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

SAT 23 ALEXANDRA BODNARCHUK, DANCER & CHOREOGRAPHER. Learn the art of translating words & ideas into full body movements or small intricate gestures & collaborate w/ one another to form a unique dance.

Thru April 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sat., April 23, 1-3:30 p.m.

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

READING W/ RABBITS. Visit & read to our Animal Friends rabbits! We will give you tips on caring for & feeding rabbits as well as other helpful information. There will also be stories & an activity. 11 a.m.

Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin. 412-885-2255.

SUN 24 GUEST ARTIST: JEFFREY KRSUL. Learn how to make cyanotype prints, also known as sun prints. 12-3 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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

OUTSIDE THU 21 THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Free & open to ages 18 & older. Meets rain or shine every Thursday of the year. Naturalists guide these walks. Thu, 10 a.m.12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park.

724-935-1766.

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SAT 23 ARMCHAIR BIRDWATCHING. Pre-registration is required at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. 1-3 p.m. Latodami Environmental Education Center, Wexford. 724-935-2170.

MOONLIGHT NIGHT HIKE. Pre-registration is recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. Carpenter Log House. 8 p.m. Boyce Park, Monroeville. 724-327-0338.

SCAVENGER HUNT/NATURE WALK. Free and suitable for all children from preschool+.

Test your investigative skills to find all 20 items found in nature, or for younger children, take a

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Square. 412-243-2772.

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.

Greensburg. 724-837-6791.

GREENSBURG GARDEN AND CIVIC CENTER. Oak Grove Art Club Show. Paintings & other works of art produced by members of the Ligonier Oak Grove Art Club. Greensburg.

724-836-1757.

HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reflections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt. edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330.

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.

HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Great Expectations. There is great expectation in the promise & energy held within a bud or a seed, & phases of this continuous cycle of plant development are beautifully illustrated w/ collection items.

Oakland. 412-268-2434.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Witness Aleppo: Photographs, Stories & Sound from Pre-war Syria.

An exhibition of Syrian music & photography from Jason Hamacher’s archives of pre-war Syria. Garfield. 412-924-0634.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE SOUTH HILLS. Pittsburgh 10 + Friends. The exhibit includes 12 professional artists w/ extensive exhibition experience. The works are contemporary in character & run the gamut from abstract expressionism to realism &

color walk & find something of each color. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Maple Springs Pond Gazebo, South Park.

YOGA & MINDFULNESS HIKE. Pre-registration is required at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. Lilac Shelter.

10-11 a.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

SUN 24 WILDFLOWER HIKE. Preregistration is recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. Disco Golf Course. 2-4 p.m. Deer Lakes Park, Tarentum. 724-265-3520.

represent unique perspectives, including painting, photography, fiber, mixed media & more. Scott. 412-278-1975.

MARKET SQUARE. Mix-N-Matching. Work by Allard van Hoorn. Market Square Public Art Program. www.DowntownPittsburgh. com. Downtown. 412-471-1511.

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

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MERRICK ART GALLERY. Beaver Valley Artists Juried Exhibition. Works by local artists in oil paintings, watercolor, pastels, jewelry, pottery, more. New Brighton.

724-846-1130.

MINE FACTORY. Controlled Chaos. Mixed media work

by Jesse Best. Homewood. www.minefactory.tumblr.com.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. teapots!10.

Celebrating 10 years of sculptural teapots w/ its largest exhibition to date 13 regional plus 50 international artists.

Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. The Seen & The Unseen. New works by local artists Matthew Conboy, Lori Hepner & Jimmy Riordan.

North Side. 412-322-2224.

PANZA GALLERY. FUTURE/ PRESENT. Member artists & invited guests were asked to create one or two pieces of art in any medium, including 3-D & film/video, that expresses their individual impressions, interpretations or reactions to the concept of FUTURE/PRESENT. Millvale. 412-821-0959.

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.

WED 27 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 21 BIRDS IN YOUR BACKYARD. Knox Brown of Wild Birds will discuss the fundamentals of bird feeding. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF HOMESTEAD. Music & readings by students from Steel Valley High School,

THE ILLUSIONISTS. Magic tricks, stunts & acts of wonder from five illusionists. Thru April 21, 7:30 p.m., Fri., April 22, 8 p.m., Sat., April 23, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., April 24, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

REVISION SPACE. For The Win / Fare Thee Well. For two & a half years, Revision Space has held 16 exhibitions & presented dozens of artists through solo & group shows. The time has come to close our storefront space in upper Lawrenceville. Let’s celebrate the accomplishments & reputation we developed in the contemporary art scene in Pittsburgh. Lawrenceville.

412-735-3201.

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.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. WaterWorks 2016. New works in watercolor & other water media presented by Pittsburgh Watercolor Society. Friendship. www.richardclaraval.com.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Interwoven States Exhibition. Juried exhibition highlighting the diverse textile practices of our regional fiber arts community & the creativity in which artists express contemporary aesthetics & concepts. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom.

Open showroom w/ the artists.

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

412-980-0884.

THE UNION HALL. Being In. Work by Kara Skylling.

Strip District. 412-471-1900.

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.

THU 21 - TUE 26 FULLTIME FESTIVAL. A 5 day, city wide collection of individually planned events from Pittsburgh-based creative people including a Lawrenceville Pop-Up tour, a Creative/Maker panel discussion, Spring open house at Radiant Hall & a music series at East End Book Exchange.

For a full schedule, visit www.fulltimepgh.com.

THU 21 - WED 27 ALLEGHENY COUNTY MARBLES PROGRAM. Tournaments, game play & learning to play marbles. Free to children ages 14 & under. Various locations. Thru June 1. For a full schedule, visit www.allegheny county.us/parks/about/programs/ marbles-program.aspx.

FRI 22 BRADDOCK TILES BENEFIT SHOW. Affordable prints by over 70 artists including Shepard Fairey, Retna, Dustin Yellin, Ricky Powell, & Swoon. 6 p.m.

Maggie’s Farm Distillery, Strip District. 724-884-3261.

GAME OF THRONES: AN EVENING IN WESTEROS. Celebrate Game of Thrones with period-appropriate music, dancing & sword fighting. Also roasted pig, food, wine & mead. 7 p.m.

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

PITTSBURGH CONTRA FAMILY DANCE. 6 p.m. Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale.

412-680-8600.

WHY WASHINGTON WON’T WORK. Lecture from Marc Hetherington, professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University. Rm. 2500.

RSVP at http://polisci.pitt.edu/ rockman2016. 3 p.m. Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Oakland.

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presentations from local dignitaries & a reception.

1-2:30 p.m. Homestead Pump House. 412-464-4020.

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 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.

ROBOT NARRATIVES. Baker Hall A-5. 1 - 4:30 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 412-268-2813.

PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY’S EARTH DAY CELEBRATION. Family-friendly outdoor activities designed for fun, learning & service. More information at pittsburghparks. org/earthday. April 22-24 Frick Park, Regent Square.

REINHEITSGEBOT: 500TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. Live music daily, food booths, beer wagons & more. 4 p.m., Sat., April 23, 11 a.m. and Sun., April 24, 11 a.m.

Teutonia Mannerchor, North Side. 412-231-9141.

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green living. 9:30 a.m., Sat., April 23, 9:30 a.m., Sun., April 24, 9:30 a.m. and Mon., April 25, 9:30 a.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland.

412-622-6915.

SAT 23 THE BALLROOM DANCE AT CRANBERRY. Quickstep lesson & open dancing. 7 p.m.

2525 Rochester Road, Cranberry.

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

FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY DAY. Sift through dirt from the park w/ professional archaeologists.

10 a.m. Point State Park, Downtown. 724-565-2850.

KID CITY ROCKERS DANCE PARTY. DJ Kelly Mom spinning her massive vinyl collection.

1 p.m. Market Square, Downtown. 412-361-2040.

LITTLE CHICAGO: A HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN NEW KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Lecture

by Dennis Marsili. Reserve a spot at 724-532-1935 ext. 210. 10:30 a.m. Calvin E. Pollins Library, Greensburg.

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.

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.

SHITAKE INOCULATION WORKSHOP. 1 p.m. Chatham University Eden Hall Campus, Gibsonia. 802-318-1041.

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

STEEL TO SUSTAINABLE FESTIVAL. Featuring performances by Barrels to Beethoven, Red Room Effect, Colonel Eagleburger’s Highstepping Goodtime Band, Daily Grind, plus a Hard Hat Art Show w/ local Pittsburgh artists in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the hard hat, also food trucks. 7 p.m. Carrie Furnace, Rankin. 412-464-4020.

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

VOICECATCH WORKSHOP W/ KATHY AYRES. A community writing workshop & writing space provided by Chatham’s Words Without Walls program. Sat, 10 a.m.12 p.m. Carnegie Library, East Liberty. 412-363-8232.

WIGLE VODKA RELEASE. Earth Day celebration & release of Trope Vodka. 6 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side.

412-224-2827.

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

412-224-2827.

SAT 23 - SUN 24 ART ALL NIGHT LAWRENCEVILLE. April 23-24, 4 p.m. Arsenal Terminal Building, Lawrenceville. 412-235-1950.

as the guide. 9-11 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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.

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St. Barnabas Hospice is hosting free hospice-volunteer training. The training will include an introduction to hospice care and its responsibilities, as well as best practices and communication skills on grief. It will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Thu., April 21, at the Woodlands Lodge at the Arbors Valencia Woods campus. For more information, call St. Barnabas Hospice at 724-444-5541.

SUN 24 ACTING & ACTIVISM CLASS. Sun, 5:30 p.m. Thru May 9 Percolate, Wilkinsburg. 412-607-4297.

BIRDS IN BIRD PARK WALK. Jim Phillips of the Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy will serve

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THE WATSON INSTITUTE’S SPECIAL KICK CLINIC. Children w/ special needs & their families are invited to participate in an afternoon of free soccer fun, learning & playing alongside the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer players. 1 p.m. Highmark Stadium, Station Square. 412-749-2851.

MON 25

night of family art using various techniques. We will provide all of the supplies & art smocks. No age limit requirements. A “how to draw” segment will be included in each program. Registration requested. 6:30 p.m. Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin.

412-885-2255.

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

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

Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon.

412-851-9100.

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

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

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

TRIVIA NIGHT. Hosted by Pittsburgh Bar Trivia. Wed, 8 p.m.

Aliquippa American Serbian Club, Aliquippa. 724-378-4393.

THEATRE COMPANY. Auditions for the Theatre Festival in Black & White Festival. Please bring a headshot & resume. Non-Equity only. May 1, 2 - 6 p.m. & May 2, 6 - 9 p.m. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown.

SPLIT STAGE PRODUCTIONS. Holding auditions for “Spring Awakening.” Please prepare two contrasting 32 bar selections. You may be asked to read/sing from the script/score at the audition.

April 24, 2 - 5 p.m. in Murrysville & April 25, 6 - 9 p.m. in Moon Twp. Visit www.splitstage.com for more info. R-ACT Theatre Productions.

IMPROV ACTING CLASS. Mon, 7 p.m. Thru May 10 Percolate, Wilkinsburg. 412-607-4297.

LAUGH FOR THE HEALTH OF IT! Julie Ann Sullivan, certified laughter leader, will transform 28 WEST SECOND GALLERY you w/ her energetic & engaging & STUDIO SPACE. Accepting style. The audience participates submissions for PURE: in interactive activities The 6th Annual Women’s which instill a sense Exhibition. All of connection for submissions can everyone. 7 p.m. Mount be sent to 28west Lebanon Public Library, secondgallery@gmail. www. per a p Mt. Lebanon. ty pghci m com. Please include 5 .co 412-531-1912. jpg. file samples, artist SCOTTISH COUNTRY statement & bio/resume.

DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., Deadline: April 25. Greensburg. social dancing follows. No partner 724-205-9033. needed. Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, BOULEVARD GALLERY & 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

Searching for glass artists, fiber artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016.

SALLIE BOGGS TOASTMASTERS Booking for both galleries for CLUB. Helping people from all 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 walks of life to improve their months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. communication & leadership CRANBERRY ARTISTS NETskills. For any questions email WORK. This is an Open show for Sallieboggstm@gmail.com or call artists within at 75 mile radius of 412-365-5803. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m.

Cranberry Township. Artists are C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, invited to enter up to two pieces Edgewood. 412-731-0909. of art ( any medium except film SHALER PEDESTRIAN & or video & installations) in this BICYCLIST COMMITTEE. show. Artists must pre-register at 7 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, www.cranberryartistsnetwork.com Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

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INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. Submit your film, 10 minutes or less. Screenings held on the second Thursday of every month.

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

MT. LEBANON ARTISTS’ MARKET. Seeking applications for the market from artists working in jewelry, wood, sculpture, glass, ceramics, fiber, wearables, mixed media, leather, metal & 2D art. For more info or to apply, visit http:// www.mtlebanonartistsmarket.com.

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THE NEW YINZER. Seeking original essays about literature, music, TV or film, & also essays generally about Pittsburgh. To see some examples, visit www. newyinzer.com & view the current issue. Email all pitches, submissions & inquiries to newyinzer@gmail. com. Ongoing.

PITTSBURGH POETRY REVIEW. Seeking poetry submissions.

For guidelines, visit www. pittsburghpoetryreview.com.

Thru April 30. Seeking poetry submissions. For guidelines, visit www.pittsburghpoetryreview.com.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry.

Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. com Ongoing.

PURE: THE 6TH ANNUAL WOMEN’S EXHIBITION. Please include 5 jpg. file samples, artist statement & bio/resume. 2D & 3D work will be accepted.

All submissions can be sent to 28westsecondgallery@gmail.com.

Thru April 25. 28 West Second Gallery & Studio Space, Greensburg. 724-205-9033.

RE:NEW FESTIVAL CALL FOR ARTISTS- PROJECT PROPOSALS. Open to any artist or performer living in the U. S., working in any medium or genre. Work should address festival themes of creative reuse, transformation & sustainability. Performance, video, outdoor artworks, costumes, mobile sculpture, social practice work...what would you like to do at Re:NEW? Maximum project budget: $3,000. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Proposals will be accepted until May 31, 2016. To apply, visit renewfestival.com.

RE:NEW FESTIVAL JURIED EXHIBITION. Seeking painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation from Southwestern PA artists that address creative reuse, transformation, or sustainability.

Deadline to apply is May 31, or when 300 entries are received. To apply visit www.renewfestival.com.

412-391-2060 x248.

SIDEWALL: A MURAL PROJECT. A for artists to submit proposals for a public mural exhibition space hosted on the side wall of a residential building. sidewallproject.wordpress.com.

Thru May 1. sidewall, Bloomfield.

Savage Love

“every day at Scratch we are reminded of how complicated a topic sustainability actually is.”

{BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’ve been aware of my emetophilia since a very young age and have always kept it private. No need to tell me about the health risks, I’m aware, and I’ve only ever indulged this kink through videos online. The actual substance doesn’t turn me on — I have no desire to be puked on.

For me, the fantasy involves being with someone as they begin to feel sick, and then taking care of them as they puke.

It has something to do with the buildup and release. Who knows? I’m married, and I told my husband about my kink exactly once, a few years ago. He wasn’t judgmental, but he never brought it up again. Recently, on a whim, I posted a message on a kink site. A few weeks later, a guy reached out to say the description exactly mirrored his own kink.

We’ve been texting for a few weeks. He makes me feel like less of a freak, it’s been super hot, and we’ve talked about meeting up and role-playing for each other. This would be a one-time thing. Do I have to tell my husband? I don’t want to have sex with this person; I just want to live out my fantasy for one night, which doesn’t necessarily involve getting naked. My husband’s not a “strictly monogamous” guy, but it is new for me to strike out on my own. But more than that, I’m mortified at the thought of him knowing about the kind of night I’m having, asking me about it later, etc. I would just rather him not know. But is that cheating?

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ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off your kidney-dish list!); meet up with your VB in public first; and let someone know where you are and who you’re with on the big night.

I met a man two-and-a-half years ago on Tinder. Our relationship was built on lies from the start. I lied to him about having a child so I could put a wedge between us. I came clean after we slept together a few times — the most mind-blowing sex I’ve ever had — because I was afraid he might want to meet my made-up child. I caught feelings. But Tinder man is married and lives in France. I see him only three times a year. Fast-forward to now. He pursues other people. Women throw themselves at him. We were at the mall, and he picked up a girl while I was getting my hair done. He’s not my boyfriend. He hurts me. I am terrified of losing him. Here comes the tricky part: My doctor found a tumor on my lymph nodes. I go in for tests on Friday. I’m ready to pick out my coffin at this point.

I contacted my lover’s ex-wife and asked why they divorced, and she said because he cheated all the time. I know what he’s capable of. I don’t want to change him. I love him. I go insane when we don’t talk.

He told me he doesn’t respect me any more than he respects his current wife. I’m so scared.

“WHEN YOUR HEALTH IS RESTORED, THERE ARE PLENTY OF SELFISH GUYS ON THE PLANET WHO’LL TREAT YOU BADLY.”

The answer to your last question is obvious. If that wasn’t cheating, ALEMHM, or if you thought your husband wouldn’t regard it as cheating, you would be asking him for permission to meet up with your vomit buddy.

So do you have to tell your husband? You could tell your husband, but I’m sitting here, in this Starbucks on Lex and 78th, wondering if your husband would rather not be told.

You shared your kink with your husband once, and he never brought it up again. We can reasonably assume that your husband isn’t interested in discussing, much less indulging, this very particular sexual interest of yours. Another reasonable assumption: Your kink may not be something your husband wants to think about. If your husband worked at stuffing your disclosure down the memory hole, because it interferes with his ability to connect with you sexually, asking permission to spend an evening with your VB could come as an unwelcome reminder.

So you could make — as I’ve just made — an argument for sparing your husband the reminder, and sparing yourself the discomfort, by not telling and/or asking him, and then discreetly meeting up with your VB just this once.

(The counterargument is also easily made: He never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame, he didn’t want to distress you, etc.) But if you decide to meet your VB,

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Um … you won’t find the help you need wedged between escort ads at the back of a weekly newspaper, HMP, or on a website underneath pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-but-possibly-premature fears for your health (let’s wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffin, OK?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn’t your boyfriend, isn’t your husband, isn’t around much, and has told you he doesn’t respect you. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to come through for you during a health crisis — that guy couldn’t come through for you during a haircut.

Don’t get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit. But you can’t depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you’re seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers and concentrate on getting healthy. And take comfort: If/ when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who’ll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly and get you off spectacularly.

I’m sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I’m sorry you’re scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional and sexual recovery.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias told a story about how the famous poet Pindar got his start. One summer day, young Pindar decided to walk from his home in Thebes to a city 20 miles away. During his trek, he got tired and lay down to take a nap by the side of the road. As he slept, bees swarmed around him and coated his lips with wax. He didn’t wake up until one of the bees stung him. For anyone else, this might have been a bother.

But Pindar took it as an omen that he should become a lyric poet, a composer of honeyed verses. And that’s exactly what he did in the ensuing years.

I foresee you having an experience comparable to Pindar’s sometime soon, Taurus. How you interpret it will be crucial.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Measured by that standard, your strength of spirit has been growing — and may be poised to reach an all-time high. In my estimation, you now have an unusually expansive capacity to hold surprising, effervescent, catalytic truths. Do you dare invite all these insights and revelations to come pouring toward you? I hope so. I’ll be cheering you on, praying for you to be brave enough to ask for as much as you can possibly accommodate.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Göbekli Tepe was a monumental religious sanctuary built 11,600 years ago in the place we now call Turkey. Modern archaeologists are confounded by the skill and artistry with which its massive stone pillars were arranged and carved.

According to conventional wisdom, humans of that era were primitive nomads who hunted animals and foraged for plants. So it’s hard to

understand how they could have constructed such an impressive structure 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Writing in National Geographic, science journalist Charles C. Mann said, “Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.” In that spirit, Cancerian, I make the following prediction: In the coming months, you can accomplish a marvel that may have seemed beyond your capacity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In myths and folklore, the ember is a symbol of coiled-up power. The fire within it is controlled.

It provides warmth and glow even as its raw force is contained. There are no unruly flames.

How much energy is stored within? It’s a reservoir of untapped light, a promise of verve and radiance. Now please ruminate further about the ember, Leo. According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s your core motif right now.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Uh-oh. Or maybe I should instead say “Hooray!”

You are slipping into the Raw Hearty Vivid Untamed Phase of your astrological cycle. The universe is nudging you in the direction of high adventure, sweet intensity and rigorous stimulation.

If you choose to resist the nudges, odds are that you’ll have more of an “uh-oh” experience. If you decide to play along, “hooray!” is the likely outcome. To help you get in the proper mood, make the following declaration: “I like to think that my bones are made from oak, my blood from a waterfall, and my heart from wild daisies.” (That’s a quote from the poet McKenzie Stauffer.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In many cultures, the butterfly is a symbol of transformation and rebirth. In its original state as a caterpillar, it is homely and slow-moving. After its resurrection time in the chrysalis, it becomes a lithe and lovely creature capable of flight. The mythic meaning of the moth is quite different, however.

Enchanted by the flame, it’s driven so strongly toward the light that it risks burning its wings. So it’s a symbol of intense longing that may go too far.

In the coming weeks, Libra, your life could turn either way. You may even vacillate between being moth-like and butterfly-like. For best results, set an intention. What exactly do you want?

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“I gladly abandon dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings imposed by the world,” wrote Scorpio philosopher Roland Barthes. Why did he do this? For the sake of love, he said — even though he knew it might cause him to act like a lunatic as it freed up tremendous energy.

Would you consider pursuing a course like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio? In my astrological opinion, you have earned some time off from the grind. You need a break from the numbing procession of the usual daily rhythms. Is there any captivating person, animal, adventure or idea that might so thoroughly incite your imagination that you’d be open to acting like a lunatic lover with boundless vigor?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Difficulties illuminate existence,” says novelist Tom Robbins, “but they must be fresh and of high quality.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to go out in search of the freshest and highestquality difficulties you can track down. You’re slipping into a magical phase of your astrological cycle when you will have exceptional skill at rounding up useful dilemmas and exciting riddles. Please take full advantage! Welcome this rich opportunity to outgrow and escape boring old problems.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When I grow up, I want to be a little boy,”

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wrote novelist Joseph Heller in his book Something Happened. You have cosmic permission to make a comparable declaration in the coming days. In fact, you have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to utter battle cries like that as often as the mood strikes. Feel free to embellish and improvise, as well: “When I grow up, I want to be a riot grrrl with a big brash attitude,” for example, or “When I grow up, I want to be a beautiful playful monster with lots of toys and fascinating friends who constantly amaze me.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In one of his diaries, author Franz Kafka made this declaration: “Life’s splendor forever lies in wait around each one of us in all of its fullness — but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.” I’m bringing this promise to your attention, Aquarius, because you have more power than usual to call forth a command performance of life’s hidden splendor. You can coax it to the surface and bid it to spill over into your daily rhythm.

For best results, be magnificent as you invoke the magnificence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve got a controversial message for you, Pisces. If you’re addicted to your problems or if you’re convinced that cynicism is a supreme mark of intelligence, what I’ll say may be offensive. Nevertheless, it’s my duty as your oracle to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, and so I will proceed. For the sake of your mental health and the future of your relationship with love, consider the possibility that the following counsel from French author André Gide is just what you need to hear right now: “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The writer should never be ashamed of staring,” said Aries writer Flannery O’Connor. “There is nothing that does not require his attention.”

This is also true for all of you Aries folks, not just the writers among you. And the coming weeks will be an especially important time for you to cultivate a piercing gaze that sees deeply and shrewdly. You will thrive to the degree that you notice details you might normally miss or regard as unimportant. What you believe and what you think won’t be as important as what you perceive. Trust your eyes.

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RARE AIRWAVES Sunday morning with veteran free-form DJ Kevin Amos {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}

AT 5:40 A.M. on a frigid Sunday in April, a passenger van pulls into the parking garage at Carnegie Mellon University and out steps Kevin Amos.

He’s wearing a backpack full of jazz CDs; accompanying him from Observatory Hill are granddaughters Nykeah, 10, and Promis, 8. In the darkness — the girls clutching iPads and two boxes of doughnuts — they walk to the school’s sprawling, still-slumbering university center and take the elevator to the basement.

The studios at CMU’s WRCT 88.3 FM are empty, on overnight autopilot; the PA blasts indie rock. Amos unpacks the CDs and mounts a stool at the control board. At 6 a.m., the squalling electric guitars yield to the pianoand-sax swing of The Yellowjackets’ “When the Lady Dances.” It’s track one of Amos’ six-hour shift — a spot he’s held down at free-form, volunteer-run RCT for more than three decades. In an era of broadcast conglomerates and niche-marketed playlists, he’s among Pittsburgh’s longest-serving radio DJs and perhaps its most eclectic.

These days, Amos’ Sunday services encompass two three-hour shows: Jazz Corner and One to One/H Dread. By 9 a.m., Jazz Corner will have ranged from the Yellowjackets’ smooth sounds to jittery new rock/funk from

currently, he’s a full-time student in ethnic-diversity studies at CCAC. But his Sunday-morning show’s been a constant. While RCT is relatively low-wattage, Amos estimates he gets “at least a thousand listeners live” each week, and many more online. (Cue on-air shout-outs to Washington, D.C., and Florida.) Loyal listeners include veteran local TV and radio host Chris Moore, who loves how the ever-curious Amos has introduced him to talents like 1990s zydeco innovator Beau Jocques. Amos is “not mainstream. But he’s good, he’s rich and he’s deep into music,” says Moore. “If I owned a radio station, I might hire him to program it.”

Off-air, Amos’ educational mission includes Each One Teach One, a free day-long music, technology and radio conference with presentations from musicians, arts advocates, media representatives and more. The fourth EOTO is Sat., April 23, in Garfield.

“Kevin is incredible,” says Berger. “He’s always focused on the community. He’s innovative. He’s fought the good fight.”

Amos is a popular emcee at local jazz events; longtime journalist and public-relations specialist Tene Croom says Amos engrosses guests with his encyclopedic knowledge of the musicians.

“I MAKE PEOPLE LATE FOR CHURCH AND STUFF.” Esperanza Spalding, and from Duke Ellington’s “Swingin’ on the Campus” to Maysa’s polished contemporary R&B. Every few songs, the soft-spoken Amos chats on-air about the artists and the tunes. No satellite feed here: Amos arrived without a playlist, picks tracks on the fly and frequently departs the booth to mine discs from RCT’s well-thumbed record library.

One to One/H Dread is reggae-themed, but also ranges wide: Véronneau’s Jazz Samba Project, dancehall artist Gappy Ranks, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals. It all satisfies Amos’ on-air catch phrase “great black music from the ancient to the future”: blues, gospel, classic bebop, avantgarde work. And with both Top 40 to Pandora promising you more of what you’ve just heard, Amos’ palette is startlingly diverse.

“A lot of people would stick to one genre of music or one time period or one particular rhythm or beat. But in a good kind of way, he’s all over the place,” says Larry Berger, a longtime friend of Amos’ who hosts WRCT’s long-running The Saturday Light Brigade.

Amos considers himself a musical educator. “Being able to share information with the community is very important to me,” he says. But he’s happy to entertain. “I make people late for church and stuff,” he quips.

AMOS, 61, grew up in Homewood. In the early ’70s he joined a scruffy,

fledgling volunteer-run radio station called WYEP. He ended up on-air, later serving as program director and station manager until YEP cleaned house in the mid-’80s. Since then, among other gigs, Amos has been a producer on commercial radio, a program coordinator for Citiparks, and communications director for peace-and-justice nonprofit the Thomas Merton Center;

Amos takes music education seriously. “Most people don’t know about the music because you don’t hear it on the radio most of the time,” he says.

For instance, he contends, if you’re talking the history of rock ’n’ roll, “You gotta talk about Ike Turner and his days at Sun Records” and the influence of black artists on Elvis Presley.

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“He’s a person who is very good at helping to set the context for the conversation,” says longtime friend Bob Davis, co-founder of online blackmusic resource Soul Patrol. For example, where some listeners might pigeonhole the blues as a product of Jim Crow, Amos discovers both that music’s intersections with hip hop and the African roots that bind the genres — where Ice Cube meets Muddy Waters. “Kevin is good at connecting those things together that on the surface might not appear to be connected together.”

“For somebody who’s pretty laid-back on the air, his energy level at constantly seeking out new stuff and presenting it interwoven with the old stuff is amazing,” says Berger. “A lot of people get worn down. He never stops paying attention.”

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