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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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5.14 – 2pm EXPOSURES: ARTIST TALK The Warhol theater Exposures artist Zhiwan Cheung discusses his installation Hanging Fruit with Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s associate curator of art.

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5.26 – 11am POP GENERATION: GROWING UP WARHOL For the generation that inspired Warhol, Pop Generation features educational tours exclusively for older adults, age 65 and over.

Email popgeneration@warhol.org or call Leah Morelli at 412.237.8389.

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

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“WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THESE ANIMALS.”

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Pittsburgh Zoo aquarist Ariella Wiener checks out a resident of the PPG Aquarium.

Wiener is able to use techniques developed at the zoo to communicate with the animals.

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90,000-gallon tank, an aquarist of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium steps forward and begins waving her arms in the air. She’s catching the attention of a 660-pound Queensland grouper dwelling 27 feet below, at the bottom left corner of the tank. But her arm movements aren’t random; she’s calling him for dinner. The massive fish receives his meal.

Next, aquarist Ariella Wiener picks up a yellow PVC pipe with a matching yellow circular cut-out bolted to its end. She waves it under the surface of the water. In the other hand, she holds a long, retractable claw with a squid dangling from the end.

Suddenly, from the depths of the tank, swimming through the coral, come two hungry benthic (bottom-dwelling) zebra sharks. When they reach the surface, though, they don’t lunge for the squid. In-

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stead they touch their noses to the yellow circle and are then rewarded with food.

This technique, called “tactile targettraining,” was a major advancement that is now used at zoos around the country.

And it originated at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium.

Techniques originated at the Pittsburgh Zoo make communicating with the animals a reality {BY MELINDA NANOVSKY} Skylar Snowden, a former aquarist in Pittsburgh (who now works at the Ripley’s Aquarium, in Toronto) began researching this communication technique on sand tiger sharks at the PPG Aquarium, in 2005.

During her time in Pittsburgh, Snowden researched, practiced and perfected the technique on the tiger sharks, teaching them how to move to the target and be rewarded with food. The training is done during the animals’ first 30 days in the aquarium (the “quarantine phase”).

A main part of the training is “approximation,” which is the process of slowly bringing the animals directly and coolly to the trainer for food. Eventually the aquarist is able to place the food directly in the animal’s mouth. This process is extremely important to master, especially when trying to lure bottom-dwelling animals to the surface for feeding.

Over time the technique has been so successful that now many aquarists, including Wiener, are able to call the sharks, and without fear, physically roll them over to draw blood samples while giving a CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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physical examination. “[Before approximation] there was never a baseline blood sample being taken from these species,” says Weiner. The blood tests allow the aquarists to monitor illnesses as well as the mating and feeding habits of the animals.

Approximation and tactile training allow scientists to provide each animal with more individualized and efficient care. The technique has been adapted for animals including moray eels, blacktip reef sharks, zebra sharks and groupers.

The process takes time: Initial results on a given animal aren’t seen for at least two months. But eventually the reward-based routine becomes so normal that it solidifies as a feeding and medical practice.

Despite the benefits of the technique, zookeepers perform a balancing act. It’s a system based on a combination of trust, respect and encouragement. Employees must keep these animals healthy and happy, while also insuring that each animal remains true to its natural instincts.

“When we are in the tank or in the exhibits, we are essentially acting as ambassadors for how to behave around these kinds of animals, especially if one day you see one in the wild,” Wiener says.

Tactile-targeting training begins as soon as the animals arrive at the zoo.

The animals that come to the zoo are carefully selected, to make sure that the new animal is not related genetically to other animals currently at the zoo, says zoo spokesperson Tracy Gray. This is done by consulting the animal’s Species Survival

Ariella Wiener works with one of the aquarium’s inhabitants.

Plan (SSP) provided by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). And while the Pittsburgh Zoo dropped its AZA accreditation last year, Gray says the SSP is vital to continue growing the zoo’s population.

This allows the species to thrive and survive without any “genetic confusion.”

“Someone once said, it’s like a dating agency for animals,” Gray says.

Once the animal arrives, it goes into quarantine, where an assigned aquar ist monitors its health to ensure that it didn’t contract a virus during its journey.

This protects both the new arrival and the existing zoo population.

During quarantine, aquarists monitor

“WE WANT THE ANIMALS TO MAINTAIN A LARGE AMOUNT OF THEIR WILDNESS.”

the animals and keep track of behavioral and physical characteristics. Each time a quality is identified, whether abnormal or not, it is recorded into the aquarium’s “studbook.” A studbook (or breed book) is basically the family tree and bloodline of every registered animal species within that zoo or aquarium. The book allows other zoos and organizations to document research and findings on any specific animal, and then compare that information with institutions across the country.

This documentation both allows for updated care and treatment and opens lines of communication with other organizations. This means that once the Pittsburgh Aquarium published the research in its studbook, aquariums all over the country could start adapting it to their benthic

marine animals.

“We’ve been able to learn so much about these animals and their characteristics through evolving methods such as this,” says Gray. However, despite the success of the ongoing research, the zoo must follow strict protocol and rules of engagement while interacting with the animals, in this case sharks, which are very curious animals.

Sharks have hypersensitive organs of smell and taste located on the fronts of their snouts, which are used to taste their way to prey in the open ocean, as well as in tanks. Their eyes are positioned on the sides of their heads, allowing them to see almost all of the surrounding water.

However, they do have a fairly ironic and unfortunate blind spot, right in front of their snouts, and if something is there, the easiest way for them to sense what it is is to nudge or bite it.

This can cause a problem for caregivers if they’re not paying full attention.

If a keeper does not react properly and quickly to a shark’s natural curiosity or minute acts of aggression, that trainer could be seen as an enemy — or as food.

“If they do something aggressive or rough, you just ignore it. Never punish or discipline them, you simply ignore it,” says Wiener. “We want the animals to maintain a large amount of their wildness. We don’t want them to lose all of their instinctual adaptations just because they’re in captivity.”

Maintaining wildness is important.

Taming a shark, or any other zoo animal for that matter, forces that animal to comply with a mentality that is not natural or true to itself, which has been shown to lessen longevity.

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“This happens all around the zoo,” says Gray. Winding through the exhibits and crowds in a golf cart, Gray points at the lion exhibit. “When we’re feeding animals such as the lions or tigers, we have to remember that those animals are wild by nature, and we want to respect that.

That’s why all feeding and physicals are done at arm’s length and usually with some sort of barrier between us and the animals.”

Other zoo animals — lions, tigers and bears — have also learned the same training technique.

When presented with a reward, a lion, for example, knows to drop its shoulder or move into a specific position so that the trainer is able to draw blood samples or check the animal’s body.

Trainers must constantly be aware and respect that if an animal is not happy or comfortable with any given situation, it is entitled to react. Yet, if the animal does react and possibly turns aggressive, the keeper immediately pulls

away and creates distance, meaning no reward. Therefore it’s in the animal’s best interest to remain calm.

These programs and the techniques at the zoo don’t just happen behind the scenes. Patrons are often included and encouraged to become educated about the zoo’s animals and programs. Courses and camps are available for children, and the zoo hosts overnights, as well as a volunteer diving program aimed at getting people in the tanks and assisting in feeding and maintenance.

“By educating others we are able to not only bring awareness to what’s going on globally within our oceans, but also we are able to bring an experience to people that otherwise might not see these kinds of animals or environments,” says Wiener. “Information in this line of work is constantly evolving and progressing, which is really exciting not just for our sake, but also to ensure the best quality of life for our animals.”

“WE ARE ESSENTIALLY ACTING AS AMBASSADORS FOR HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND THESE KINDS OF ANIMALS.”

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ROBOBURGH Pittsburgh has always been a leader in the robotics revolution {BY REBECCA NUTTALL} Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that celebrates Pittsburgh’s Bicentennial.

IN 1939, Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse

Electric took the World’s Fair by storm.

Weighing in at 265 pounds and clad in brushed aluminum, Westinghouse’s sevenfoot tall humanoid robot, Elektro, was unlike anything attendees had seen.

“It’s 1939 and Westinghouse wants to show off for the World’s Fair in New York City,” says Andy Masich, president and CEO of the Heinz History Center, where a replica of Elektro resides. “So they build this robot called Elektro. He can walk, talk and recognize colors. He can smoke cigarettes like it’s going out of style. He’s the hit of the World’s Fair.”

Elektro wasn’t the first robot out of Pittsburgh. (Another, Herbert Televox, was built in 1927 at Westinghouse’s East Pittsburgh plant.) But his national notoriety cemented Pittsburgh’s standing as a source of technological innovation, a legacy that continued in the 1970s and ’80s with Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics department and has led to CMU’s reputation as a robotics giant. In 1999 the Wall Street Journal named the city “Roboburgh.”

“We were innovative in 1939 and imagined futures that have now come to pass,” says Masich. “Now Pittsburgh is seen as a robotics capital of the world.”

Elektro could walk by voice command, used a record player to speak approximately 700 words, and detected red and green light thanks to photoelectric eyes. And following the success of its endeavor, Westinghouse later gave him a companion.

“The people of America were so enchanted with Elektro, and they said, ‘Oh, he must be lonely because he’s the only one.’ So they said, ‘You have to build him a woman,’” says Masich. “Designs came up and these women robots looked like Madonna in a target bra on steroids, just horrific creations. So the engineers at Westinghouse built him a dog instead: Sparko the Wonder Dog. And Sparko only took commands from Elektro. He wouldn’t listen to anybody else.”

But many have forgotten about this piece of Pittsburgh history. Much more familiar is work at CMU that occurred over the past five decades, especially the work of roboticist William “Red” Whit-

taker. He put CMU on the map, when he and his colleagues built robots to inspect the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island after a near-meltdown in 1979. CMU also developed robots to examine structures at Chernobyl, the site of a nuclear-reactor accident in 1986.

“The great promise of robots is to extend human skills and enhance human lives,” said Matt Mason, director of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, in a 2013 statement when the institute received $7 million in federal funds as part of a national initiative. “The National Robotics Initiative is helping researchers here at Carnegie Mellon and across the country make that promise a reality.”

Today, the Robotics Institute at CMU is regularly in the headlines for its work with transportation company Uber. The two have joined forces to develop self-driving car technology, and CMU reportedly has already created a prototype. Pittsburgh is set to be a testing ground for this technology.

“This technology represents the natural progression of automation and will have a major positive impact on society, since transportation is a hub of modern economies,” said Raj Rajkumar, co-director of the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab, in a 2014 statement.

If the team at CMU is successful, its driverless cars will join a list of technologies that originated in Pittsburgh and spread throughout the world. CMU robots have already traversed the ice fields of Antarctica, active volcanoes in Alaska and the surface of Mars.

“Pittsburgh’s lot in life is that we innovate and come up with ideas, and then those ideas run off on their own, just as our children do. That’s the way the human species works,” says Masich, who currently serves as chairman of the City of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Commission. “We disseminate knowledge. That’s what Pittsburgh has always done. I think we shouldn’t lament the diaspora of our talent or our innovation or our ideas; we should celebrate it. And that’s one of the things we’re doing with the 200th birthday. We’re celebrating how Pittsburgh has made a better world.”

“PITTSBURGH’S LOT IN LIFE IS THAT WE INNOVATE.”

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{BY CHARLIE DEITCH} I NEVER THOUGHT I’d agree with Ted Cruz

on anything, but after his Pittsburgh visit this weekend I realized we’re on the same page on a very important point.

“I can tell you it doesn’t make sense for grown men to be in the bathroom with little girls,” Cruz told the crowd at Gateway High School in Monroeville. Like Cruz, I don’t support strange men in women’s bathrooms.

No pedophiles, either.

But here’s where Ted and I part ways.

No, I don’t believe a man should be allowed in the women’s restroom. And if a man sauntered into a restroom where my nieces or my wife were, I would remove him expeditiously. But that’s not what Cruz is talking about and we know it. Cruz wants to block trans women from using the bathroom that is in line with their gender identity.

Those are the people he’s been referring to as men in dresses in as many crass, sarcastic and condescending ways that he can. Cruz’s argument doesn’t hold water and here’s why: A transgender woman is simply a woman, a transgender man is just a man, and we need to stop thinking about them as anything else. For far too long now, we’ve allowed homophobes and hatemongers to make these untrue, damaging statements. Cruz makes jokes about it.

“If Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he still can’t use the little girls’ restroom,” Cruz told Indiana voters on April 25. Comments like that are unnecessary and irresponsible. The bile being spewed publicly at trans individuals in this country wouldn’t be tolerated if it were targeted at anyone else. It’s hate speech, pure and simple; and by-and-large it’s hate speech that a lot of people either support or turn a blind eye to.

Everybody thinks it’s funny to make a “dude-in-a-dress joke.” But it’s not just a harmless joke. It could be the one thing, the last straw that pushes someone over the breaking point. To a person who is struggling to live as who they truly are — searching for the courage to be themselves — comments from idiots on the street are bad enough. Just imagine if your gender struggle were now front-and-center because some third-rate politicians decided to score points with the most intolerant among their base.

According to stats from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 41 per-

cent of trans individuals have attempted suicide, compared to 4.6 percent of the population as a whole. According to numbers from the Youth Suicide Prevention Program, more than 50 percent of young trans individuals will attempt suicide at least once before age 20.

Do these really seem like numbers we should be making fun of? Because when Ted Cruz or anyone else makes cavalier, offhand statements about trans individuals, that’s exactly what they’re doing. Cruz himself has shown that he doesn’t care about the struggles facing transgender youth. At a Maryland rally on April 22, Cruz staffers reportedly ejected a trans teen and his mother before the event even got under way. The boy, James Van Kuilenburg, was even called “ma’am” on his way out.

And that’s the problem: We need to stop thinking of these people simply by the gender that’s written on their birth certificate.

James Van Kuilenburg isn’t a girl playing dress-up; he’s a 15-year-old boy. There are scientific studies from UCLA, the University of Vienna and many other sources that show that gender isn’t solely based on genitalia; it has to do with a person’s biological makeup. So not only is calling a trans woman a “guy in a dress” wrong socially and morally, it’s also very likely wrong scientifically.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to get into a lot of science here, because science, fact and reason have no place in a discussion about Republican rhetoric. You’d have better luck trying to convince a lion not to eat a gazelle than convincing most right-wingers that gender is based on what’s in our head, not on what’s in our underwear.

We need politicians and leaders who are out there pushing for state and federal anti-discrimination protections for the entire LGBT community. Trans individuals are taking a beating right now in political campaigns and in backward state legislation, like the travesty recently passed in North Carolina. Ted Cruz has called allowing trans individuals into the restroom that they identify with “political correctness on steroids.” It’s sad to me that so many people think standing up for someone’s rights and not belittling them to make a political point is all because of political correctness. It used to be called human decency.

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WENDY BELL IS BACK, AND SHE’S HUNGRY

If you didn’t know, embattled former news anchor Wendy Bell is back on Facebook, sans the WTAE call letters.

For those who may have missed it (although I’m not sure anyone could), Bell was fired from the television station after some viewers and Facebook followers took issue with some racially charged comments the anchor made on her page about the March 9 mass shooting in Wilkinsburg. She has largely been off social media since the controversy kicked up.

Her triumphant return began with an intimate epistolary revealing she hadn’t eaten anything for days, and that it had been more than a week since she’d slept, prompting her well-wishing followers to plead with her to eat and take care of herself. Wilkinsburg be damned, Wendy Bell needs to eat, and salty or umami just won’t do — she needs something sweet.

In a post on April 18 about how her son was growing into a man on a ballfield in Elliott, she wrote of a “sweet smelling hillside [sic],” “sweet smelling grass [sic]” and “caramel brown dirt” and how she planned to “taste the sweetness” of her time off.

April 13, she wrote fondly about her “silly little garden.”

She concluded, “that first plump cherry tomato this summer is going to taste so deliciously satisfying.”

And, as recently as last week, she was still “tossing and turning” most nights, “considering life and all its many endless and delicious possibilities.” On April 15, she tweeted: “A journal just dropped off at my door. I see the signs and hear you, Pgh. It’s finally time to write a book.” But before that, she’s starting a blog.

And what is she going to write about? You guessed it: “Stories we’re HUNGRY to hear,” The big question is, WILL IT BE A COOKBOOK? Bell has posted a public invitation for people to join her at her son’s next baseball game, so now is your chance to have that community dialogue, folks. Just be sure to show up with a delicious covered dish.

Meantime, Shannon Perrine, a solid veteran reporter who’s been with the station since 1999, and Jackie Cain, who’s been with WTAE for three years, have been splitting Bell’s shifts at the p.m. anchor desk.

Cain said she is a temporary replacement until June, but neither Perrine nor WTAE confirmed whether Perrine is temporary or permanent.

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GETTING SOCIAL IN PERSON

While the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s SEEN section features huge galas that bring in huuuuuuge dollars, The South Pittsburgh Reporter (sopghreporter.com) features the weekly gem “The South Pittsburgh SCENE” with Brad Palmisiano, a more modest approach to the offline social scene.

Palmisiano, an architectural engineer for CannonDesign by day, covers community-building events like the recent South Side Spring Social, which drew a mix of long-time South Siders and “weeks-new” residents, to benefit South Side and Armstrong parks. He also recently covered the Carrick Business Association’s second annual “Shred It Day.” Glamour is in the eye of the beholder.

UP WITH GRŪV

Upgrūv promises to “scour the web so you don’t have to,” making it the scrubbing bubbles of news. Except while scrubbing bubbles clean bathrooms, Upgrūv gives you news you can read in the length of time it takes to go to the bathroom.

It’s the latest local content-provider contender, a project of 535 Media — an affiliate of Trib Total Media. The Pittsburgh TribuneReview reported that Upgrūv is “news, features, video and other content created for Pittsburgh millennials.”

Lindsay Patross, a social-media professional who has been blogging about Pittsburgh for 10 years at iheartpgh.com, is adamantly opposed to news created solely for millennials. “Pittsburgh is desperate for better news delivery, both in terms of content and website design/usability. It is concerning to me that Upgrūv is focusing on news for millennials. I don’t think one demographic needs, or necessarily wants, a different type of news than another demographic,” she says.

But, Patross does think Upgrūv offers an excellent user experience and could be a model for other local news publications. “I hope that the focus from Upgrūv and any other media outlet is better local stories and more local reporting,” she says.

Jim Kubus, the manager of Upgrūv and a Tribune-Review deputy managing editor, says that while Upgrūv’s content is created for millennials, it’s not necessarily limited to them.

“Upgrūv is curated content for busy people,” he says. “We believe that many of the items we present have a broad generational appeal. …

Delivering content with a mobile-first mentality is a high priority.”

SPEAKING OF THE MOBILE-FIRST MENTALITY

There’s nothing that says “mobile-first mentality” more than the f-bomb.

Which brings us to KDKA’s Ross Guidotti, an award-winning journalist who was featured on an Upgrūv “NSFW” story for recently dropped the f-bomb on KDKA-TV during a live remote from Fayette County. If there’s one thing we know, people of all ages can appreciate that. When you scour the web, you’re bound to pick up some dirt.

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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} WHAT DOES A month in the Cordillera Vilcabamba get you? If you’re herpetologist Jose Padial and his team, an expedition to this Peruvian mountain range lets you find more than a dozen new species of reptiles and amphibians — even if, technically, you’re unable to reach your ultimate goal.

Padial, chief herpetologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, had serious research time already logged in the rainforests of Peru. But the Vilcabamba is something else: As Green Light noted when profiling Padial back in December, it’s a national park, but so remote that it had never been visited by scientists, nor indeed by any outsiders for more than a half-century.

(The last visitors parachuted in.) Padial says the Peruvian government considers the area a war zone, historically disputed by the military, cocaine-traffickers and leftist rebels. Special government permission was required even to visit; an OK was needed also from the indigenous Ashaninka people — who themselves have had no reason to ascend the mountain range to anywhere near the 12,000 feet Padial hoped to reach (let alone the 13,400-foot high point).

The team included six biologists (most of them Peruvian), a park ranger, a cook, a filmmaker, and a journalist working for the California Academy of Sciences museum.

While a newer paved road got them to their base village, the actual trek was more arduous, even with help from up to half a dozen Ashaninka aides.

The terrain is spectacular: cliffs, waterfall, lakes, most still unnamed. “It’s the most amazing landscape I have seen in Peru,” says Padial. “It’s completely unexplored.” To traverse it, the expeditioners had to trailblaze, hacking their way through dense vegetation, scrambling up steep slopes, even weaving through the roots of big trees, all while laden with gear — and under frequent soaking rains, with temperatures that dropped to 40 degrees F at night. In some spots, Ashaninka helpers crafted log bridges to permit river crossings.

The party’s mission was to survey wildlife at different altitudes, to see how species changed with temperature and humidity — partly as a baseline for future conservation efforts, partly to begin learning how climate change is affecting this part of the world. Padial wanted to reach 10,000 feet

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Pristimantis sp., one of the frog species recently found in Peru

because that’s where the forest is replaced by grasslands, the last significant change in habitat on the way up. But at about 9,300 feet, the trek stalled: The path was so rough it would have taken two or three days to climb the final 700 feet of altitude, and already “we were very tired,” says Padial. The crew descended, planning to get a military helicopter to take them to the higher altitude. But the chopper couldn’t land because of excessive cloud cover.

That was a disappointment. But the trip (which was supported by the Carnegie Discoverers funders’ group) was hardly a failure. While past Padial-led teams had found about 10 reptiles or amphibians previously unknown to science, this trip alone added as many as 14 to that total. “We had never found so many new species in a single trip,” he says. “It was very productive scientifically.”

As before, many of the finds were frogs, including new examples of species that develop directly from eggs, with no tadpole stage.

There were also two high-altitude snakes and “several beautiful new lizards,” Padial says. He hopes to have a scientific paper ready by year’s end.

Remote as it is, the Vilcabamba is threatened by agriculture — coca cultivation and other kinds of farming that strip the forest and devastate its biodiversity.

In any case, Padial knows there’s much left to learn there.

“I have to go back,” he says. Perhaps as soon as next year — except maybe this time in the dry season, when animals might be less active, but a helicopter ride would have a better chance of getting researchers a little further up the mountain.

“WE HAD NEVER FOUND SO MANY NEW SPECIES IN A SINGLE TRIP.”

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SCHOOL TALENT SHOW {BY MIKE WYSOCKI}

SOME 16-YEAR-OLDS are awkward, immature and just hoping to get through high school. Others, like Phil Jurkovec, of PineRichland High School, are fielding full-ride collegiate offers from Pitt, Penn State, Ohio State (sorry THE Ohio State), Notre Dame, Michigan State, UCLA, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Temple. OK, so it won’t be Temple.

But most other kids aren’t like Jurkovec.

Right now the Gibsonia teen is in 10th grade, but in 2018, he will be on the national stage.

He is the most highly sought football recruit in Western Pennsylvania since Jeannette’s Terrell Pryor (who went to, and was later kicked out of, THE Ohio State University for swapping autographs for tattoos).

Just imagine that many people being interested in you. At 16, I had only two offers.

One was a job mowing the neighbor’s lawn for 10 dollars in beer money. The other was to find another job if I refused the first offer.

But I wasn’t a high school quarterback who threw for 2,560 yards and 20 touchdowns.

Jurkovec also ran for 1,250 yards and 10 more touchdowns. He now has sleazy college recruiters hanging all over him trying to out-scheme their rivals for a piece of him.

He is already 6’5” and 195 pounds and, presumably, still growing. Plus he’s a pretty good power forward on the Pine-Richland Rams hoops team. I bet he’s also smart, funny, handsome and a good dancer.

Talent, hard work and environment also contribute to this phenomenon. PineRichland is a breeding ground for success.

The school is just one of those institutions that is good at everything. In 2006, it won state titles in women’s soccer, volleyball and gymnastics. The men chipped in with state titles in baseball and doubles tennis.

The 2006 women’s soccer team featured a junior named Meghan Klingenberg. She went on to play at the University of North Carolina and was drafted straight into the pros. In 2015, she was a key member of the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team that won the World Cup. Klingenberg played every game in the tournament. Eight years after eating her lunch in the school cafeteria, she was in New York City riding in a ticker-tape parade. The women’s team broke the tradition of having big parades only for men’s teams. After that, the former Ram found herself being honored with her teammates at the White House and meeting President Obama.

Two superstars would be enough acclaim for Pine-Richland, but as you proba-

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bly know, Neil Walker went there too — the good “Pittsburgh Kid,” as opposed to the other one, Paul Spadafora. Unlike Spadafora, Walker has never been caught on camera allegedly throwing a 63-year-old woman to the ground. The former Pirate and current Met is making almost $11 million this year to play a game. Walker is a solid majorleague player and is rapidly closing in on 100 career home runs. I know, it still hurts; we all miss him.

Pine-Richland also has produced a Tony Award-winning choreographer in Jeff Calhoun, and sent a man into space. Stephen Frick, a 1982 graduate, is the Howard Wolowitz of Pine-Richland. If I were him, I’d mention being in space every opportunity I got. Besides being a captain in the U.S. Navy, Frick was an F/A-18 Fighter pilot (that sounds so cool) and has flown two spaceshuttle missions. Thanks to Frick, PineRichland has even been represented on the International Space Station.

Even Lord Stanley himself has a connection to the school. Brandon Saad has had his name on the Stanley Cup twice.

Saad played a key role in two Cup-winning teams with the Chicago Blackhawks. He recently participated in his first NHL All-Star game, and now plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets. He is currently experiencing culture shock going from Chicago to the center of Ohio. But his big fat contract probably eases the pain.

The nation’s top football recruit, a worldchampion soccer player, a Silver Slugger, a Tony-award winner, an astronaut and a hockey all-star. Even more impressive, there are 77 other high schools in Pennsylvania with more students than Pine-Richland.

Check out any of Pine-Richland’s sporting events currently going on now. I don’t know what they are, but I’m sure they are good.

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In celebration of City Paper’s 25th Anniversary, each week we’re looking back at the headlines, pictures and people who graced our pages over the years.

YOUR DREAM MAN AND GOWN … CAN YOU HAVE BOTH? (April 22, 1992) This was an actual headline in 1992’s Spring Fashion Issue. All we can do with this is apologize for the sins of our CP ancestors. We are really, really, really sorry.

ANOTHER FIRST FOR PITTSBURGH (April 26, 1995) In 1995, a company going on the internet was a big deal, right up there with landing on the moon. A piece in this week’s CP brags about the voyage into cyberspace by concert promoter DiCesare-Engler. “While you’re zooming down the information highway, be sure and stop in at the DiCesare-Engler Storefront to see if one of your favorite bands is coming to town.” D-E was the first concert promoter in the country to be online. “This means that concertgoers can not only purchase tickets through the Net, but choose the actual seat they want. Imagine not having to argue with the person behind the counter when you get bad seats.” This moment probably went down as the most important day in internet history; at least until the first video of a cat falling off a windowsill came out.

YOU CAN’T HAVE PITTSBURGH HISTORY WITHOUT HEINZ (March 25, 1996) Writer Heather Baran offers readers a glimpse inside the brand-new, seven-story, packedto-the-brim Heinz History Center. The city’s newest museum took several years and $36 million to build. Writes Baran: “Consider it a time capsule containing the history of Western

It seems strange to go back just one year for an item to not only include, but feature in our history section. But April 22, 2015, marked a first for City Paper. The main feature was on kids’ rock camps, and the plan was to recreate an iconic album cover using kids. Not satisfied with one cover, art director Lisa Cunningham pushed for multiples, and two were initially approved. However, after the four possible cover shots ER MULL, LEFT, BY HEATH came in from photographers Sarah SE FROM TOP H WILSON) OS, CLOCKWI EL AND SARA {COVER PHOT EE ROSENSTE REN O, MB Wilson, John Colombo, Renee JOHN COLO Rosensteel and Heather Mull, we made a last-minute push, just a few days before the paper was printed, to include all of them. While it was a bit of a logistical nightmare for our circulation manager and drivers, the end result was one for the ages.

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THE EAST LIBERTY OF TOMORROW, TODAY! (April 24, 1997) While it seems in some ways like the renewal of East Liberty popped up overnight (and while some, meaning us, might call it

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gentrification), the plans that brought us Target, Home Depot and Bakery Square go back quite a ways. In an article entitled “The ’Slibberty Slope,” Bill O’Driscoll looked at the work being done by several task forces set up by East Liberty Development Inc. to suggest how to bring recovery to the area.

And although much of the redevelopment was still more than a decade away, the writing about the change was on the walls of the Penn Circle Apartments, which then straddled Penn Avenue. Remarked one developer: “It’s the

biggest ‘Keep Out’ sign that could ever be erected. If it could ever be removed, it could make such a statement that East Liberty could come back.” Twelve years later, the apartments were imploded, and redevelopment followed, along with the neighborhood’s shortage of affordable housing.

YOU CAN’T GET MORE PITTSBURGH THAN THIS (May 6, 1998) Everyone in the tri-state area knows The Jaggerz, the local Donnie Iris-fronted band that had a big hit in 1970 with “The Rapper.” The group broke up in 1985, and reunited with Iris in 1989. This week, however, CP reported that the band was back with its first new record in 23 years (still Iris-less) and was celebrating with an outdoor show at the most Pittsburgh venue possible — The Moon Township Giant Eagle.

EARLY WARNINGS (April 24, 2008) Everyone is familiar with the fallout and protests from last year’s Pittsburgh Pride events.

Several groups and scores of individuals took the Delta Foundation to task for putting on a festival that wasn’t inclusive of the entire community. The year 2008 marked the first year that the Delta Foundation took over the organization of Pride events and even back then, not everyone was happy. Writer Melissa Meinzer wrote about the organizers of the annual Dyke March and their unhappiness over being forced to buy an ad in the Pride magazine if they wanted to be an official part of Pride. The group also took issue with some of the event sponsorships saying: “Pride is corporate enough.”

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SHREDDED {BY RYAN DETO}

We are in the midst of Passover, so why not enjoy one of the holiday’s well-known offerings: potato pancakes. Sure, the shredded-potato disks aren’t exclusively Jewish, but they are a pretty popular side dish in Western Pennsylvania.

And if you want to enjoy them at their freshest, crispiest and fluffiest, Dari-Villa, in Bellevue, has you covered.

The old-style diner has been a mainstreet bastion on Lincoln Avenue since the 1970s.

Domenic Schepis has been the owner for 35 years. He says he added potato pancakes to the menu two years ago after requests from customers. Schepis keeps the recipe simple, using just flour, eggs, butter and garlic and onion powders.

But the real difference lies in the freshly shredded Russet potatoes.

“I personally don’t like them, but people tell me they like them,” says Schepis with a chuckle.

The cake’s interior is light and fluffy, with a significant crunch to the outer edges. Schepis says that most potato pancakes are cooked from frozen patties, but he takes pride in making the batter fresh every day. The pancakes come three to an order and are served with sour cream or applesauce. (You can ask for both.)

The rest of the menu offers all the standard diner specials, including a burger that is the restaurant’s best-seller. And while Dari-Villa has not changed much over the years, Schepis says that it has started accepting credit cards for the first time.

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has always had a mixed character. It’s close enough to the view that it strives for tourist dollars, but at heart it’s the neighborhood main street, with a venerable sports bar and unabashedly oldschool Chinese-American restaurant.

The Summit opened in the wake of a Cuban place that closed before we could even get there. Its view-evoking name and cocktail-forward menu led us to believe it was aimed more at visitors to the Mount than at locals. But we were wrong.

First, what The Summit isn’t. It isn’t for those who want to watch the game while they’re eating; its one TV is usually off, a rare blessing if you want eye contact with your companions. Nor does it suffer from trendy affectations. Despite Edison light bulbs in the fixtures, the decor’s main attraction is the well-preserved bones of the

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old space: brick walls, high ceilings and tincovered beams. In warm weather, garage doors open to the sidewalk, but on a chilly spring night, it felt cozy and almost quaint.

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CP APPROVED But our favorite things about The Summit — aside from the excellent food — was the hospitality. Tuesday is Bingo Night, and when we walked in with our kids, local comedian Ed Bailey instantly shifted modes, playfully interacting with them even as he kept up his patter with the tables that had already been playing. Our server was

equally welcoming and attentive and delivered the happy news that Tuesday is also taco night.

This gave us good reason to try a couple of brisket tacos on the cheap. Like the smoked-lamb taco on the regular menu, these were topped with salsa verde, queso blanco, pickled onion, lettuce and creme fraiche, all nestled in fresh, light flour tortillas. If they were lacking a certain zest — perhaps the salsa was too mild, or the onions scarcely pickled — they were solid for a non-Mexican restaurant.

Hummus also took on a Southwestern flavor with black beans, not garbanzos, as its main ingredient, sprinkled with crumbly, tangy cotija cheese and topped with a juicy relish of cactus paddle. But it was served with warm, pillowy pita wedges, not chips. The Mexican-Mediterranean fusion worked deliciously.

Another simple success was the popcorn with browned butter and smoked salt.

The difference between this and ordinary salted-and-buttered popcorn was nothing short of revelatory. Browned butter has been an underappreciated star of current cuisine, adding depth of flavor to sweet and savory dishes alike. Here, it evoked subtle sweetness without pushing into kettle-corn territory, while the smoked salt gave this fluffy food a depth we didn’t know it had.

Wings at The Summit come in one flavor — Thai green curry — and the preparation is braised, not fried or baked. As a result, the tender meat melted off the bones and into the puddle of spicy, richly flavored sauce, thickened by the collagen from the joints. Accompanying mango tzatziki and a baton of pickled daikon were fine, but the chicken itself was addictive.

The roasted-meat platter is on the menu under Light Fare, but we found it a pretty substantial meal for one, with a couple of small but thick slices of pork belly, three rounds of a blood sausage and two lollipop lamb chops, plus condiments and bread.

Frankly, the dish would be worth it for the chops alone: perfectly tender, beautifully medium rare, and tasting of flame and mild lamb. The sausage was rich but not too intense, while the pork belly had a meltingly rich center but with faintly crisp edges.

The burger featured a well-seasoned, juicy patty and a suite of bold toppings: funky manchego cheese, peppery arugula, smoky bacon and charred but sweet red onion rounded out the flavor profile in an extraordinary way. Fries were also superb.

Hand-cut thin, they were a deep russet but not overdone, and the texture was neither greasy nor typically dry and fluffy, but somehow … juicy? Angelique couldn’t stop grabbing them and dipping them in the tomato-chipotle aioli, whose fruity smokiness made an appreciable upgrade from ketchup.

Where other dishes went bold, the smoked-gouda mac-and-cheese — which, according to the menu, included four additional cheeses — was a fairly restrained example of its type. Beautifully toasted panko crumbs lay atop ditali noodles (short tubes), which were thoroughly suffused with the mild yet creamy mixture of cheese.

Spring-vegetable risotto may have also been mild, but it wasn’t boring by a long shot. Sweet red pepper, zingy green onions, enoki mushrooms and slivers of fried garlic that had an almost bacony savor enlivened every bite of this perfectly creamy dish.

The Summit hews to the gastropub spirit while avoiding most of its clichés by departing from the American-comfort-food theme and roaming the world a bit. But the best thing about the food is that it is, quite simply, great.

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THE PERFECT MINT JULEP Mastering “the first true American drink” {BY DREW CRANISKY}

The Kentucky Derby is around the corner, and while jockey statistics and fancy hats are well and good, I am most looking forward to the season’s first mint julep. The julep is a study in balance: refreshing yet powerful, simple yet complex, beautiful yet dangerous. It symbolizes not just the Derby but America itself; in fact, cocktail historian David Wondrich dubs it “the first true American drink.”

So why is it so hard to find a good one? For starters, a perfect julep requires things that most bars don’t have on hand: a silver cup, crushed ice and plenty of fresh, perky mint.

There is also widespread confusion about what the drink is. Since its introduction some 200 years ago, the recipe has been bastardized innumerable times. (One notorious video from an online bartending school calls for Sprite and sours mix.)

A proper mint julep is elegantly simple, with just four ingredients marrying to create a frosty sip of springtime. Begin by dropping a generous portion of spearmint leaves into your cup. If you don’t have a silver julep cup, a highball glass will do just fine. Add to that a teaspoon of sugar or half an ounce of simple syrup. Lightly crush the mint with a muddler or other blunt object, then add a healthy pour (2½ to 3 ounces) of bourbon. Cognac and Jamaican rum make for excellent variations.

The final ingredient is ice. The most satisfying way to obtain crushed ice, I’ve found, is to place ice cubes in a clean canvas bag and whack it repeatedly with a mallet. Partially fill your glass with crushed ice, give a few vigorous stirs, then mound the ice to the brim. Garnish with a straw and a bouquet of fresh mint. The resulting drink should be fragrant and potent. It will taste sharp, but that’s the idea: Sip slowly, letting it dilute as you sit rocking on the porch or cheering on your favorite horse.

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Japanese Cuisine

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BAR MARCO. 2216 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-471-1900.

At this former firehouse-turnedrestaurant, a small but wellcurated menu makes a perfect complement to this venue’s wine and cocktail list. The tapas-inspired roster ranges from charcuterie plates and classics, like patatas bravas, to smoked-pork tamales and grilled radicchio and endive salad. KE CARIBÉANA. 6022 Saltsburg Road, Penn Hills. 412-793-9937.

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

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CHENGDU GOURMET. 5840 Forward Ave., Squirrel Hill.

412-521-2088. An extensive menu at this unassuming venue lets diners explore the breadth of complex and spicy Sichuan cuisine, everything from silken tofu and sea cucumber to spare ribs and spicy rabbit. Try a simple starter, like delicately dressed cucumber strips or steamed dumplings, before more adventurous entrees such as hot pots, flaming pans and sizzling rice crusts. KF

Twisted Thistle {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} with red-pepper flakes, or as elaborate as seared scallops with butternut-squash mash, fried leeks and Portobello, and truffled pumpkin seeds. KF HABITAT. 510 Market St., Downtown. 412-773-8800.

Located in the handsome Fairmont Hotel, this restaurant — with a marvelously open kitchen — utilizes local and seasonal ingredients. The emphasis is on the kitchen’s ability to adapt and update traditional dishes from around the world, such as tandoori chicken tacos and rare-tuna-andavocado spring rolls. LE

E2. 5904 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-441-1200. The popular, cozy brunch spot has expanded, adding a dinner menu that refracts traditional, Old World recipes through the prism of the contemporary American kitchen (fresh, local, seasonal). It’s as elemental as cannellini beans

LUKE WHOLEY’S WILD ALASKAN GRILLE. 2106 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-904-4509.

Expect fresh fish from this finedining but casual establishment.

There’s a well-curated selection of mostly grilled fish with various sauces. Appetizers include favorites such as calamari, mussels and crab cakes, but also grilled corn with feta cheese. KE MEDITERRANO. 2193 Babcock Blvd., North Hills. 412-822-8888.

This Greek estiatorio offers hearty, homestyle fresh fare in a casual, yet refined, setting.

Salads, appetizers (many of them less-familiar) and casseroles are on offer as well as heartier fare like kalamarakia (octopus), roasted leg of lamb and stuffed tomatoes. LF

CORNERSTONE. 301 Freeport Road, Aspinwall. 412-408-3258.

The contemporary American fare at this warm and welcoming venue offers a creative take on a traditional menu. Every dish is served with a twist, but none — such as fancified mac-n-cheese, slow-roasted brisket sliders, grilled lamb burger or pulled-pork nachos — is too twisted. KE CURE. 5336 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-252-2595.

Charcuterie specialties are just part of the locally inspired menu at this rustic-chic Lawrenceville restaurant. A short menu offers seasonal specialties (wild onions in spring), often combined with pork, but vegetables get a spotlight in dishes such as risotto with local mushrooms. LE

well-executed menu of surf-andturf favorites, including broiled shrimp appetizer, langostinos and prime rib. The menu’s emphasis on steak and seafood rises to special occasions, while plenty of pasta dishes, sandwiches and pub-style appetizers accommodate regulars. LE

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Chengdu Gourmet HARRIS GRILL. 5747 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. 412-362-5273.

A neighborhood bar and grill (with two outdoor patios) where fun is as important as the fresh food and the cold beer. What else to make of a place that serves “Britney Spears” (chicken tenders on a stick), Cheeses of Nazareth and The Wrongest Dessert Ever, and offers free bacon at the bar on Tuesdays? JE J.W. HALL’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD INN. 2284 Broadhead Road, Aliquippa. 724-375-6860.

This old-fashioned, family-style steakhouse offers a satisfying,

NEW HOW LEE. 5888 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-422-1888.

It’s an oddly signed storefront restaurant, but this is Sichuan cuisine that rises above its peers with food that’s well cooked, expertly seasoned and fearlessly spicy. The less-typical entrees include cumin mutton, dan dan noodles, tea-smoked duck and Chendu fried dry hot chicken. JF NOLA ON THE SQUARE. 24 Market Square, Downtown.

412-471-9100. Offering a boldly refined take on straight-up, traditional New Orleans food, NOLA’s menu is an invitation to kick back, relax and savor the flavors: cheesy griddle grits with a chunky tomato sauce and green beans; oyster stew; and catfish strips paired with spicy papaya. KE

Chengdu Gourmet {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} PLUM PAN-ASIAN KITCHEN. 5996 Penn Circle South, East Liberty. 412-363-7586. The swanky space incorporates a dining room, sushi bar and cocktail nook. The pan-Asian menu consists mostly of well-known — and elegantly presented — dishes such as lo mein, seafood hot pot, Thai curries and basil stir-fries.

Entrées are reasonably priced, so splurge on a signature cocktail or house-made dessert. KE POINT BRUGGE CAFÉ.

401 Hastings St., Point Breeze.

412-441-3334. This cozy neighborhood bistro reflects a concerted effort to translate the European neighborhood café — warm, welcoming, unpretentious yet delicious — to Pittsburgh.

Despite bits of Asian fusion, the selections are classic Low Country fare such as Belgian beef stewed with beer, and Italian influences in risotto, sausage and polenta. KE

and other meat in almost equal proportion, the soups and starters are dominated by the former, with old favorites like jumbo shrimp cocktail matched with more contemporary offerings. LE TRAM’S KITCHEN. 4050 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-2688.

This tiny family-run storefront café packs in the regulars.

Most begin their meal with an order of fresh spring rolls, before moving on to authentic preparations of pho, noodle bowls and fried-rice dishes. The menu is small, but the atmosphere is lively and inviting. JF

TWISTED THISTLE. 127 Market St., Leechburg. 724-236-0450.

This cozy restaurant, set in a restored 1902 hotel, offers above-average fare, reasonably priced. Alongside the contemporary American flavors are numerous Asian-inspired dishes, such as soup made from kabocha pumpkin. . w w w From po’boy oyster RED ORCHID. 5439 er hcitypap g p appetizers to crab Babcock Blvd., West .com cakes and over-sized short View. 412-837-2527. ribs, each dish is carefully This cozy, family-run Thai conceived and prepared. KE restaurant offers a selection of mostly tried-and-true cuisine WAFFLES, INCAFFEINATED. (salads, rice and noodle dishes, 1224 Third Ave., New Brighton and curries), as well as chef’s (724-359-4841) and 2517 specials, many involving tilapia E. Carson St., South Side filets. “Tulip dumplings” and (412-301-1763). The fresh-made Thai toast make for excellent waffles here are a marvelous starters, and the kitchen shows foil for sweet and savory skill in balancing the flavors toppings. Sweet options of more complex curries and include the Funky Monkey meat entrees. KF (chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter and chocolate sauce).

SPAK BROS. 5107 Penn Ave., The Breakfast Magic has bacon, Garfield. 412-362-7725. A pizza, cheddar and green onions inside, sub and snack joint with fare topped with a fried egg and sour for all: vegetarians, vegans and cream. Or customize your waffles carnivores. You’ll find vegan pizza with a dizzying array of mix-ins. J with soy cheese, seitan wings, steak sandwiches, pierogies — YAMA. 538 Third St., Beaver. much of it made from locally 724-774-5998. This Japanese sourced ingredients. J restaurant offers familiar favorites such as tempura, STEELHEAD BRASSERIE sushi and teriyaki, but takes AND WINE BAR. Marriott City an artistic approach to Center, 112 Washington Ave., authentic cuisine. Thus fried Downtown. 412-394-3474. In gyoza dumplings are garnished this upscale hotel restaurant, with a small tumbleweed of the straightforward menu finely grated carrot, and an promises that the aquatic name octopus salad is graced with holds more than brand value. cucumber matchsticks. KF While entrées include seafood

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“WRITING THIS ALBUM WAS AN EMOTIONAL TURNING POINT FOR ME.”

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{BY MARGARET WELSH}

The first thing Cyrus Gold frontman Keith Bryner notes about the band is that it’s made up of “old dudes.” Three of the four members are parents, and they’ve even played shows with drummer Gregg Weber’s son’s band. I joke that this technically makes them dad rock.

“We’re very Steely Dan-influenced,” Bryner says with a laugh.

Actually, Cyrus Gold, releasing a split 10-inch with T-Tops this week, is more likely to draw comparisons to noisy, aggressive, off-kilter bands like Ken MODE, Drive Like Jehu or Shellac. And, really, these guys aren’t that old, even if familial responsibilities do restrict band time. But Bryner sees artistic value in that restriction.

“It’s almost a distillation,” he says, explaining that limited time allows the band to produce more efficiently. “It almost has to be [a] concentrated blast.”

Cyrus Gold formed about three years ago when Weber and bassist Justin Pelissero, who had played together in bands like Miracle Worker, joined Erik Wynn, former guitarist of Complete Failure. “Justin’s pedigree goes back to late-’90s emo bands like Davenport … where Gregg and Eric [had] more a heavyrock, hardcore perspective. So … what they were going for was an aggressive blend of those elements.” Bryner, whose last project was a solo electronic-drone act, joined last, rounding out the band’s sound with urgent, blown-out vocals.

Cyrus Gold doesn’t totally fit into any particular faction of the music scene, but Bryner says the members feel a kinship with bands like T-Tops, Night Vapor and Broughton’s Rules — that is, bands made up of Pittsburgh music veterans who share the “ability to keep pace despite our age [and] responsibilities.”

Which is why putting out a record with sludgy trio T-Tops seemed like an especially fitting choice. “T-Tops are kind of the closest brothers from a different mother that we have musically,” Bryner says.

“We have a sound that resonates with kids who are 17 or old punkers who are in their 40s, but the whole endeavor has a kind of gravity to it because … what we’re doing is kind of informed by a lot of interesting life experiences.”

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Fun rock: Greta Kline

EMOTIONAL SPACE {BY SHAWN COOKE}

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RETA KLINE writes songs that could fit on the back of a postcard. It’s not that they’re transmissions from a more alluring venue; they just scan as concise thoughts that suggest further conversation instead of clean resolution.

The brevity of her songs is noteworthy — and could be one of the first things you notice while listening — but it isn’t meant to be a defining quality. For Kline, who performs as Frankie Cosmos, the track lengths, which rarely flirt with the three-minute mark, serve more of a utilitarian purpose than anything.

“I just write the songs as long as I feel they need to be to get my idea across,” she writes in an email.

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like a quaint retreat from the spotlight. She has a pair of acting credits, including a brief part in Noah Baumbach’s 2003 film The Squid and the Whale, but she assures me that acting never threatened songwriting or

FRANKIE COSMOS

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poetry to become her top creative interest.

Kline’s pint-sized indie-pop songs are a gloriously twee rebuke to Hollywood glitz, and a recent MTV News piece lumped Frankie Cosmos in with “the new wave of fun rock.”

Although 2014’s Zentropy, last year’s Fit Me In EP and her recent sophomore album, Next Thing, introduced Kline’s music to many, she’s been working in this mode for a while. Kline has released an astonishing amount of music for an artist of any age, but she’s managed this prolific run at just 22. As a teenager, she released more than a dozen collections to her Bandcamp page under the name Ingrid Superstar. In late 2011, when she met current partner Aaron Maine, of Porches, Kline assumed the alias of Frankie Cosmos, and continued to crank out these efficient songs at the same rate.

Since the initial breakthrough of Zentropy, Kline has slowed things down for Frankie Cosmos. The Bandcamp page isn’t as brimming with new content as it used

to be, which elevates the anticipation for each new studio album. On the surface, Next Thing is an album that playfully deflects expectations. The hand-drawn album artwork suggests that it’s just another stop along the highway of her career, but the record sure feels like an impressive destination.

On Zentropy, her first proper album, Kline laid the groundwork for airtight moments of profundity and humor — sometimes fusing the two into a minute-long track. She sang about her dearly departed dog, featured on the record’s cover; pushing back against growing up; and art-school malaise. Next Thing doesn’t abandon this approach, but covers an even wider spectrum of emotion.

Whether she’s simply aging, maturing or revamping songs from her Bandcamp days with more hi-def arrangements — “Too Dark,” “On the Lips” and “Embody” come from some of her earliest collections as Frankie Cosmos — Kline approaches similar themes from new angles.

“I feel like there are often consistent themes, but my attitudes and perspectives move throughout the album,” Kline writes.

She’s still concerned with the passage of time and her career; on “I’m 20,” she slyly observes, “I’m 20, washed up already.”

But many of these tracks assume different points of view and cover darker territory than heard on Zentropy. Kline often grimly explores the messiness of being in love on Next Thing. There are the tiresome feelings of waiting around for someone; lovelorn thoughts about missed opportunities; discarding toxic relationships; and nearly everything in between.

It’s not all gloom and doom, though, as she finds inspiration and warmth in those closest to her. On “Embody,” Kline namechecks several friends who “embody all the grace and lightness,” even if we’re to think it’s something she’s still reaching toward.

But even when these songs are at their bleakest, there’s a quiet hopefulness behind how quickly they come and go. On “Sinister,” she sings, “my soul is not like a waterpark, it’s big but surprisingly dark,” before she refers to the music of Arthur Russell as a cure for her sadness. One track later, on “Is It Possible / Sleep Song,” she contemplates the idea of sleeping off her sorrows and dropping partners who treat her like shit. At various points on the record, whenever Kline seems especially depressed, there’s a pervading sense that things will get better.

“I think because writing this album was an emotional turning point for me,” Kline says, “you can pick up on that positivity in the songs, despite some of them being sad, too.”

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ON THE RECORD

WINNING SIDE {BY BILL KOPP}

with Julian Lage

THOUGH AWARD-WINNING blues vocal-

ist Janiva Magness has recorded a dozen albums to date (her latest, Love Wins Again, was released April 8), she came to songwriting long after her career began. “I did not want to be a writer,” the Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based artist explains over the phone. “It made me nervous; I didn’t like the idea. I wanted that idea to go away.”

But what Magness describes as “messages from the universe” didn’t stop whispering in her ear. “I finally had to surrender to that,” she says. On her 2012 album Stronger for It, she co-wrote three songs with producer Dave Darling. The Blues Music Awards recognized one of those tracks, “I Won’t Cry,” as Song of the Year. (That year, Magness also won her fourth award for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year.)

Magness has faced many challenges in her life; an upcoming memoir will explore those in detail. Opening up about the struggles she’s faced and conquered has provided grist for her songwriting efforts. But it wasn’t easy. “The fact of the matter is, I’m an extremely private person,” she says. But by sharing her stories, Magness believes that she provides some measure of help to listeners who face challenges of their own. “It provides this thing called ‘connection.’ It brings about forward motion, and in that there is a healing that occurs.”

Magness’ conversation is peppered with the language of recovery. As a result, she’s in a much happier place than she once was. “My therapist has assured me that I will have challenges pretty much all of my days,” she laughs. “But one of them will never be that my head is too big to fit through the door.”

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Julian Lage

At 28, guitarist Julian Lage has a wealth of experience, playing bluegrass and jazz with people like Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and vibist Gary Burton. His new record, Arclight, features a mix of pre-bebop jazz and originals inspired by everything from folk to John Zorn. His trio performs Tuesday at The Warhol.

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Ready for another round: Janiva Magness

her work (“I know it’s illegal,” she jokes, “but I do”), but is careful not to put too much stock into the positive notices.

Magness observes that “how we see ourselves and how the world sees us are two different points; what’s accurate is somewhere in the middle.”

Magness’ current tour has already taken her to Australia for a major blues festival, but it’s clear she enjoys playing to smaller audiences as well. “One of the wonderful things about an intimate setting like Jergel’s Rhythm Grille is that it allows an opportunity to play some material that wouldn’t necessarily translate on a larger stage,” she says. “It allows for a different level of intimacy, the exchange between the band and the audience.”

On Love Wins Again, Magness continues to expand her repertoire. She says that the record encompasses the branches of the musical tree. “And I do see them as branches,” she explains. “Without blues in its most traditional, tap-rooted form, soul music, R&B, folk, Southern rock ... none of that would exist.”

“I DID NOT WANT TO BE A WRITER.”

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“I take it to heart that the American roots community decides that they herald what I am doing as an artist,” she says. “But it absolutely puts more pressure on me. It’s very, very real: ‘OK, that’s great. Now whaddya got?’”

She confesses to reading reviews of

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HOW DID ARCLIGHT COME TOGETHER? Jazz-guitar trios — there are so many great ones. Up until now, I always avoided the context, thinking maybe I’d be better suited to nontraditional formats, like my chamber group that I had for a while, and duos. [But I thought,] now’s the time to give it a shot and not let the lineage of it weigh me down.

WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT USING A TELECASTER? I knew that it would kick my butt if I had to play a guitar that’s so direct and honest. And it’s considered the most brutally honest guitar as far as giving you feedback. Is your time good?

Do you get to places too soon? Is your touch too heavy?

IS IT HARD TO HAVE AN IDENTITY WHEN PLAYING VARIOUS STYLES OF MUSIC? I can’t say there’s any system to it, but there are very practical things that help me switch between projects.

If I’m playing bluegrass, it’s not so much that I go into my bluegrass archive — because I don’t even know that much about bluegrass. If I consider the person I’m playing bluegrass music with, then any decision I make is more for the sake of us and not so much because of the bluegrass archive.

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JULIAN LAGE TRIO 8 p.m. Tue., May 3.

The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $12-15. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org

CRITICS’ PICKS

True Widow

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If I found out that the members of True Widow spend their time holed up in a haunted mansion listening to Earth and My Bloody Valentine, I wouldn’t be very surprised. The Dallas-based “stonegaze” band has always sounded like a trio of ghosts — ghosts with a low-key attitude and a thing for heavy, down-tuned instrumentation. The band’s last release, 2013’s Circumambulation, embraced mystery in an often very literal way — several of the song titles were unexplained initials and, musically, the whole thing was awash in swirly, cobweb-ish reverb. A new full-length is slated for release this summer, though the band, unsurprisingly, isn’t saying much about that yet. But fans can get a sneak preview when True Widow stops by the Smiling Moose tonight, with Drab Majesty and Broughton’s Rules.

Margaret Welsh 7 p.m. 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. $10. 412431-4668 or www. smiling-moose.com

[FOLK] + SAT., APRIL 30 If I was going for a joke to lead into an item about Darlingside, I might go with something like “Four Guys, One Mic.” But this four-piece folk band is too good to suffer through a joke like that. They take the stage at Club Café tonight along with headliner David Wax Museum and Brooklyn-based folk outfit Twain. The melodies produced by Dave Senft, Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji and Harris Paseltiner are rich and solid when accompanied by some combination of guitar, banjo, mandolin, cello, violin and bass, all crowded around one condenser mic. The songs, including the catchy “Harrison Ford,” have a traditional folk vibe, but still seem fresh … unlike the joke that started this piece. Charlie Deitch 7 p.m.

56 S. 12th St., South Side. $15. 412431-4950 or www. clubcafelive.com

[INDIE ROCK] + SUN., MAY 01

In high school and college, I was a big fan of the Portland, Ore., indie-rock [HIP HOP] + The Thermals trio The Thermals.

FRI., APRIL 29 The band’s direct Gary, Ind., has a simplicity and reputation for being Springsteen-esque dramatics really spoke to a violent city, and rapper Freddie Gibbs, a me as an angsty teen. The guitar riffs, though native of Gary, crafts hardcore hip hop that is at familiar, were played so fast and frantically that once cinematic and all too real. The 33-year-old the band seemed to have trouble keeping up Gibbs does not shy away from the dark realities with itself, which was extremely appealing to of drug-dealing; he shows the addiction, the a young me, who couldn’t keep up with my violence, the remorse and the consequences. own life. A decade later, guitarist/vocalist Hutch The music video for his single, “Fuckin Up the Harris still sings in that nasal, out-of-breath Count,” has a disturbing ending, yet the song way, and his guitar-playing straddles the line itself, with its frank lyrics and mournful piano between power pop and classic hard rock. sample, makes it hard to look away. Tonight, Tonight, The Thermals play at Club Café, with Freddie Gibbs performs at Mr. Smalls with special guest Summer Cannibals. AW 8 p.m.

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LANCE sw LADUKE An Inco Incomplete ompllettte and Highly Biased Biaseed History Histtory of the Greatest Comedy Songs Ever Written Ever

New Malcontents plus: improv comedy from Arcade Comedy Theater

MAY 11, 7:00 PM 120 S. Whitfield St. PGH, PA 15206

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

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

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

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ROCK/POP THU 28 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Jewel, JD & The Straight Shot.

Homestead. 412-462-3444.

CLUB CAFE. Small Black w/ Ennui. South Side. 412-431-4950.

ELWOOD’S PUB. Soul Circle.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

HOWLERS. Bonzo Terks, The Tortillas, Trio De Belchson.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Deerhunter. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

REX THEATER. The Mersey Beatles. South Side. 412-381-6811.

RIVERS CASINO. On the Level.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

FRI 29 565 LIVE. ‘Lectric Larry. Bellevue.

412-522-7556.

BRILLOBOX. The Red Western, Slugss, Mystic Seers. Bloomfield.

412-621-4900.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Raven THE CENTER OF HARMONY. & The Wren w/ Chelsey Nicole The Rough & Tumble. Harmony. & the North Side Vamps, Scott 724-272-3901. & Rosanna. Lawrenceville.

CLUB AE. Crash City & Cali AC 412-682-0177. w/ My Cardboard Spaceship Adventure, Go Analog.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Distant CLUB CAFE. Jackson Howard w/ Signals. Rush tribute. Pleasant Hills.

Nina Sainato. Early. Church Girls, 412-653-3800.

Denzell, Scrap Kids. Late.

BRILLOBOX. T-Tops/Cyrus South Side. 484-437-9454.

Gold Split Release w/ J.CLARK’S. Lady Beast. Bloomfield.

Tom Bell. McCandless.

412-621-4900.

412-366-4990.

CLUB CAFE. David Wax MOONDOG’S. . w ww per Museum, Darlingside 28 North. Blawnox. a p ty ci pgh m w/ Twain. South Side.

412-828-2040. .co 412-431-4950.

PINBALL PERFECTION. DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Deluded Youth. West View.

The Good Guys. Robinson.

412-931-4425.

412-489-5631.

REX THEATER. Andy McKee. EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. South Side. 412-381-6811.

Dead River, Murder For Girls, RIVERS CASINO. Darryl & Kim Bill Jasper Acoustics. South Side.

Duo. North Side. 412-231-7777.

412-431-4090.

SMILING MOOSE. Over My Dead Body, Dog Day Sunrise, LS Hellbore, THE HOP HOUSE. King’s Ransom.

Green Tree. 412-922-9560.

Lunatics. South Side. 412-431-4668.

MANOR TWP FIRE SPACE. Ricky Valente, Arlo Aldo.

DEPARTMENT. Totally 80s.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

Manor. 866-967-8167.

THE MCKEESPORT PALISADES. Times Squared, 3 Sides Live & Slim Pickins. McKeesport. 724-553-0530.

MONESSEN CITY PARK AMPHITHEATER. Raise Your Voice Music & Arts Festival. Featuring Sue Gartland, Hear Tonight, Scott & Rosanna, Jonathan Bass, Vertigo, Fry Jones, Gregg Johnson, more.

Monessen. 724-212-6159.

MOUSETRAP. The Dave Iglar Band. Beaver. 724-796-5955.

THE MR. ROBOTO PROJECT. Abjection Ritual, Hexweapon, Doors In The Labyrinth.

Bloomfield. 412-345-1059.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Joe Grushecky w/ Ed Manion.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

RIVERS CASINO. Shelley Duff.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, Locks & Dams. Richey & Rosey w/ Locks & Dams. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

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ASYLGÄRTEN PARK. Delicious Pastries, Brewer’s Row, The Get Down Gang. Spring Garden.

412-231-0303.

CLUB CAFE. The Thermals w/ Summer Cannibals. South Side.

412-431-4950.

ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell & the Jazz Surgery.

McKees Rocks. 412-875-5809.

TUE 03 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. The Julian Lage Trio. North Side.

412-237-8300.

CLUB CAFE. Gurf Morlix w/ Joe Zelek. South Side. 412-431-4950.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Michale Graves, Children Of October, Latecomer, the Jasons.

Lawrenceville. 740-424-0302.

dance party. Garfield.

412-661-1727.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Jack Millz.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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CLUB CAFE. Matthew Logan Vasquez w/ Reverend Baron, Dustin Lovelis. South Side. 412-431-4950.

KEYSTONE BAR. The Bo’Hog Brothers. Elwood City. 724-758-4217.

REX THEATER. Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons. South Side.

412-381-6811.

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

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

DJS

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 29

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

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

412-424-9254.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Freddie Gibbs w/ Jay IDK, Dutch Capital.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

FRI 29

SAT 30

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.

RIVERS CASINO. DJ Rambo.

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.

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

412-424-9254.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Comancheria, Pk Delay, Grandadchilds & Choo Jackson.

Lawrenceville. 412-716-0061.

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SAT 30 DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

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

MIXTAPE. DJ Antithesis.

‘The 1990s (& a bag of chips)’

BLUES SAT 30 COACH’S BOTTLESHOP AND GRILLE. Ron & the RumpShakers.

Dormont. 412-207-9397.

THE DOUBLE L. Still Not Sober.

Millvale. 412-821-2647.

MOONDOG’S. Billy Price.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

JAZZ THU 28 ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs. Downtown.

412-773-8800.

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

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

FRI 29 ANDYS WINE BAR. Maria Becoates-Bey. Downtown.

412-773-8800.

BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Adam Meckler Quintet, John Petrucelli Trio. Bloomfield.

412-682-8611.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

SAT 30 ANDYS WINE BAR. Anqwenique Wingfield.

Downtown. 412-773-8800.

AUGUST WILSON CENTER. Rhythm & Groove. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Flying Dutchmen.

Downtown. 412-325-6769.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Roger Barbour Jazz Quartet.

Strip District. 412-281-6593.

LEMONT. Judi Figel & Dave Crisci.

Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.

THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every Saturday, a different band.

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

WED 04 ANDYS WINE BAR. Lisa Bleil.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

THE BLIND PIG SALOON. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Eric Susoeff & Eric DeFade. New Kensington. 742-337-7008.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Mark Strickland.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. Robinson.

412-489-5631.

FRI 29 ELWOOD’S PUB. Jeff Pogas.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

SYNOD HALL. Allegheny Drifters, Border Ride, Brush Creek, Echo Valley, Fern Hollow. Oakland.

412-471-0666.

SAT 30 BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Brad Yoder.

Regent Square. 412-999-9009.

SUN 01 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

Each week we bring you a new song by a local artist. This week’s offering comes from long-running Pittsburgh rock institution A.T.S. Stream or download “The System” from the new record Watering the Plants, for free at FFW>>, the music blog at www.pghtcitypaper.com.

WED 04 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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Here are the songs Pam Hanlin of Dumplings can’t get enough of:

FRI 29 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

COUNTRY

Absolutely Not

THU 28

“Die in California”

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Cash’d Out (Johnny Cash tribute), Jayke Orvis.

Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

FRI 29 BALTIMORE HOUSE. Mary Lou Scherder. Pleasant Hills.

412-653-3800.

PRESIDENT’S PUB. Ben Donovan.

Washington. 724-206-0918.

Sparks

“I Like Girls”

SAT 30 ELWOOD’S PUB. The Lost Boys.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

Talking Heads

CLASSICAL

“The Book I Read”

THU 28 COLOUR OF MUSIC VIRTUOSI. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

866 811-4111.

The Pointer Sisters

FRI 29 COLOUR OF MUSIC VIRTUOSI. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland.

866 811-4111.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Fusing the power & majesty of the PSO w/ aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers & strongmen.

Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH YOUTH CONCERT ORCHESTRA. Symphony No. 1 in D “Titan” - IV Movement by Mahler, Dance of the Comedians

by Smetana, & Mondo Rondo by Daniel May. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland.

412-600-5369.

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“Jump (For My Love)” selected by the musicians themselves. Pittsburgh Winery, Strip District. 412-391-4900.

steel workers who built this city & much of the country. Rankin.

412-241-4044.

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CARRIE FURNACE. Smoke & Steel: Bach Choir of Pittsburgh.

The world premiere performances of a newly commissioned work from composer Nancy Galbraith about the steel industry & the steel workers who built this city & much of the country. Rankin.

412-241-4044.

COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY. Michael Griska. Indian Classic Music on Sitar & Surbahar by Michael Griska a disciple of world renowned sarod player K. Sridhar.

Fox Chapel. 412-828-9520.

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

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Sierra Hull.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Olive Or Twist, Downtown. 412-926-2488.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Fusing the power & majesty of the PSO w/ APPLE HILL PLAYHOUSE. aerial flyers, acrobats, John Noble & the Murphy contortionists, dancers, Music Center Big Band. jugglers, balancers John Noble & the & strongmen. Heinz Murphy’s Music Center Hall, Downtown.

Big Band & performers .

412-392-4900. www per from Split Stage a p ty pghci m Productions will present .co Mr. Noble’s original PITTSBURGH show: Sinatra- A Centennial SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Celebration. 724-468-5050.

Fusing the power & majesty of PITTSBURGH WINERY. Trio+ & the PSO w/ aerial flyers, acrobats, Boom Concepts: “Cool Like Dat” contortionists, dancers, jugglers, Strip District. 412-566-1000. balancers & strongmen. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. C Street PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY Brass. Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

ORCHESTRA. Play N’at, returns.

CARRIE FURNACE. Smoke & Comprised of chamber groups Steel: Bach Choir of Pittsburgh. formed by musicians of the The world premiere performances Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, of a newly commissioned work from composer Nancy Galbraith this series presents these about the steel industry & the ensembles performing music

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MON 02 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 04 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Cineshape. Original music by Amy Williams & video by Aaron Henderson performed by an all-star lineup of JACK Quartet, flutist Lindsey Goodman, percussionist Scott Christian, & the composer at the piano.

North Side. 412-237-8300.

PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside.

412-621-2919.

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Tickets: colourofmusic.org or 866-811-4111. 7:30p.m.

THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org.

7:30p.m.

Nekrogoblikon

Barrage 8

Laws of Attraction 300 GIST STREET Uptown.

Tickets: attacktheatre.com/laws.

8p.m. Through April 30.

Penny and Sparrow CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

THURSDAY 28 Jewel

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

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

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi KRESGE RECITAL HALL Carnegie Mellon University.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

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

Andy McKee

JEWEL CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL APRIL 28

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Tickets: greyareaprod.com. 9p.m.

Grease BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghmusicals.com.

Through May 1.

FRIDAY 29

Brewski Festival SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT Seven Springs.

Over 21 event.

Tickets: 7springs.com.

Through April 30.

SATURDAY 30

The Rake’s Progress

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghopera.org/rake.

Through May 8.

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH East Liberty.

Tickets: colourofmusic.org or 866-811-4111. 7:30p.m.

Sebastian Maniscalco CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m. & 10p.m.

Primal Fear / Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

All ages show.

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

Rhythm & Groove AUGUST WILSON CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666 Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

SUNDAY 1 Buckethead

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877.

All ages show.

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

MONDAY 2 Vital Remains

CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.Over 21 show.

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

TUESDAY 3 TRAVLIN’

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATER SQUARE Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Free and open to the public.

5p.m.

Gurf Morlix CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

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DRESS UP DAZE {BY AL HOFF} Monday night I watched RuPaul’s Drag Race; Tuesday night I saw The Huntsman: Winter’s War. The former understands the appeal of smartly subverting stale entertainment tropes (the queens were making political campaign videos) and werqing wigs, side eye and over-the-top dresses. Sadly, the same cannot be said of the latter.

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s film is part prequel and sequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, but mostly just “additional material in the form of a dark fairy tale.” (You’ll also recognize parts of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Frozen and the melting metal from Terminator.)

DIY OR DIE

Freya (Emily Blunt) and Ravenna (Charlize Theron)

Essentially, there are two feuding, epically bewigged royal sisters — Ravenna (Charlize Theron) and Freya (Emily Blunt).

There’s the matter of a dead baby, and an object of desire — a mirror of unclear properties, except it’s better to have than not. (Like Gollum’s infamous ring, it must be kept under wraps lest staring at it bring out darker tendencies.) There are also two humans — Jessica Chastain and Chris Hemsworth — fighting for love and happiness; they are grubby, but rocking their own good hair.

Most of the production budget went to Freya’s winterland palace (its floors are icy slush!), and Blunt does deliver emotionally bruised ice-queen realness, with silvery headpieces and a chain-mail cape that tinkles ominously. Ravenna gets tackier looks — cosplay talons and a dress made from gold feathers — but Theron gives it some amusing slither. It’s a paycheck, ladies, though you gotta feel for Blunt struggling to maintain her dignity while riding whatever furry animal they harvest bathroom rugs from.

Winter’s War is not without humor, mostly delivered by Hemsworth (who has the insouciance of somebody who didn’t have anything better to do that weekend) and four full-sized actors digitally shrunk into sniping dwarves. But it lacks selfawareness about its campier elements.

We’re supposed to fear the mirror, not laugh when it oozes gold drapery. And like Drag Race, the film essentially boils down to a battle between two extravagant ballgowns — here, one silver, the other gold — but without Ru’s snappy patter.

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ANS OF BLOODY siege flicks will dig

Jeremy Saulnier’s new suspense thriller Green Room, about a punk band trapped by killers. But the more you know about punk and DIY culture, the more fun you will have.

It starts where all great DIY tragedies begin: in a crappy van en route to that night’s couch-surf. The four members of The Ain’t Rights (Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Joe Cole, Callum Turner) are winding up a tour in the Pacific Northwest. Their host interviews them for his radio show, and the band takes strong stands on desert-island bands (Misfits, natch) and anti-success (“booking more shows, selling more records would blow”). Needing gas money to get back to Arlington, Va., the band agrees to a gig its host suggests, even though the venue is way out in the woods and attracts a “boots and braces” crowd.

The joint is a big shack with a straightup white-supremacist bent, but seems efficiently run. The band is sorta bratty,

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opening its set with the Dead Kennedys classic “Nazi Punks (Fuck Off).” It’s a nice bit of misdirection as the camera cuts to some agitated folks in the crowd. Turns out they’re freaking out about something else. Something bad. Something a bunch of outsiders aren’t supposed to see. The band is quickly hustled into the now not-so-safe green room.

GREEN ROOM DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Saulnier STARRING: Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots Starts Fri., April 29

One of the film’s meta jokes is that being DIY really matters. After being trapped and hunted, the band members are forced to improvise weapons, strategize on the fly and break out of the club by any means necessary. (A sub-joke finds the band members adjusting some of their punk ethos in the face of death: A second round of desert-is-

land bands are picked, and one group member offers inspirational moments from an uncool paintball game he once attended.)

In-jokes aside, Green Room is a pretty decent thriller, replete with genre faves like gruesome assaults, a one-location lockdown and colorful villains. Chief among them is the club’s steely-eyed, ruthlessly efficient and malevolently droll owner, Darcy (Patrick Stewart). It also offers solid roles for its two actresses (Shawkat and Imogen Poots), who get to be angry and resourceful, and not merely imperiled and rescued.

Also in its favor: Green Room is a lean 90 minutes and the plot, while a bit muddled, makes sense. Too many similar siege thrillers simply rely on innocents accidentally intersecting with a psychopathic killer in an isolated location. The Ain’t Rights are going to get killed. They don’t deserve to, and it’s a negative end to what’s already been a bummer tour. But it is a positive solution for somebody else. Unless they can, as the punks say, “Fight back!”

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NEW THIS WEEK APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD. Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci’s engaging animated adventure takes place in an alternative timeline, in which 1940s Paris is a polluted, plantless dystopia, run haphazardly by coal and steam. The world got into such a bleak state after scientists were kidnapped (thus, electricity, internal-combustion engines and so on never got invented). Among those disappeared were the parents and grandfather of April, a scienceoriented teenager who, along with her talking cat, Darwin (a scene-stealer), initiates a search for her family. It all leads to a very strange place that viewers should just discover on their own; suffice to say, if the first half of the film is a familiar steampunk affair, replete with lots of grimy Victoriana and standard villains, the second half is more of a loopy sci-fi romp. Should be fun for older kids, especially those who like gadgets, discovery and lizards. Afternoon screenings are dubbed in English; otherwise the film is in French, with subtitles. Starts Fri., April 29. Regent Square (Al Hoff)

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BLUE VELVET. The pretty little town of Lumberton; Bobby Vinton crooning; and a severed ear lying on the lawn. David Lynch’s melodramatic 1986 thriller probed beneath the veneer of charming Americana to reveal a dark, sexually violent underbelly that both repulses and attracts (themes Lynch would revisit in 1989 on TV’s Twin Peaks). Blue Velvet is gorgeously shot, twisted, hallucinatory and, given Lynch’s occasionally maddening style, highly watchable.

Kyle MacLachlan is our wide-eyed guide; the film also stars Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dean Jones and, indelibly, Dennis Hopper as the sadistic, drug-fueled Frank Booth. Screens in a new 30th-anniversary digital restoration. Starts Fri., April 29. Harris (AH) THE INVITATION. Everybody has likely attended one of those “duty” dinner parties where, for whatever reason, you just hope to lay low and leave early. That’s the case for Will (Logan Marshall-Green), who attends a get-together at the Los Angeles-hills home of his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and her new man, David (Michiel Huisman). The dozen or so guests include mutual friends of Will and Eden, and it’s established that nobody has seen each other in a while. There are hints of a shared traumatic event. And then there are other unsettling aspects: Cell-phone coverage is nonexistent, drugs are proffered, and somebody starts one of those dreadful “have-I-never” parlor games.

The evening seems to hold an agenda, driven by Eden and David’s recent discovery of a new philosophy. Karyn Kusama’s thriller ratchets up the tension quite effectively, dropping clues and establishing relationships as the evening unfolds, and it has something to say about modern social movements in a time of increasingly disconnected communities. I did so want the last reel to be better, but while it works, Kusama’s film is an interesting take on the locked-room freakout genre. Starts Fri., April 29. Hollywood (AH) KEANU. You had me at “gangster comedy starring a kitten,” but Peter Atencio’s film also features funnymen Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Starts Fri., April 29 MOTHER’S DAY. Director Garry Marshall has been carving out a new niche making predictable ensemble comedies tied to holidays (Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve). Jennifer Anniston, Ju-

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If you’ve only seen it on video, don’t miss this bigscreen outing. All his purple majesty’s dramatic highlights — riding his motorcycle, pitching a hissy fit, bleating out the title song and getting upstaged by Morris Day — deserve to be writ large.

Albert Magnoli directs this 1984 cheese-o-classic.

8 p.m. Sun., May, and 8 p.m. Sun., May 8. Regent Square (AH)

April and the Extraordinary World lia Roberts, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis headline the latest. Starts Fri., April 29 RATCHET & CLANK. Animated action adventure, adapted from the video game, about a mechanic and a robot who have to save the universe. Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland direct. Starts Fri., April 29 RUSSIAN FILM SYMPOSIUM. The 18th annual film festival kicks off Mon., May 2, and runs through Sat., May 7. There are screenings of recent Russian films (during the day at Posvar Hall, at Pitt) and in evenings (May 4-9), at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room. This year’s theme is “Recycle, Restage, Rewind,” and accompanying discussions will address the unique nature of such retreads in contemporary Russian cinema. More information and complete schedule at www.rusfilm.pitt.edu.

baby vampire who requires his mother’s blood. Leave your questions about biology at the door. 7:30 p.m.

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BLOW UP. In some aspects, Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 arty thriller is dated, particularly its setting in Mod London at the birth of the sexual revolution. But this provocative tale of a selfabsorbed fashion photographer (David Hemmings) who becomes obsessed with unraveling the “truth” of a randomly snapped photograph still offers lots of style and intrigue. And if the plot seems familiar, recall that later films, such as Coppola’s The Conversation and DePalma’s Blow Out, are tipping their hats to Antonioni. April 29-May 3 and May 5. Row House Cinema (AH) MASCULINE FEMININE. Jean-Luc Godard’s provocative-cum-pedantic 1966 sub-masterpiece doesn’t date very well. This story of four young Parisians, emerging from their solipsistic haze into the light of political day, feels like a black comedy now, which is not to say it didn’t also feel like one then. Masculine Feminine is cinema as essay and essay as cinema.

Godard seems to be both inside and outside of the film, and his art presages another cultural trend: deconstruction, which he does to himself, commenting on the work as it unfolds, and underscoring his ideas with bullet points (and sometimes with real bullets).

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HAIRSPRAY. John Waters’ affectionate 1988 look at the Baltimore of his ’60s youth mixes a social message about racial integration with lots of campy goings-on at a teen-dance television program. Ricki Lake stars as big-hearted heroine Tracy Turnblad; Divine is her big-everywhere mother; and look out for Sonny Bono, Pia Zadora, Debbie Harry and Waters himself. Everybody form a big strong line and get ready to do “The Madison”! 7 p.m.

Wed., May 4. Hollywood (AH) SPACEBALLS. In Mel Brooks’ 1987 spoof of Star Wars, Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and Barf the Mawg (a furry John Candy) set their intergalactic RV to hyperspeed in order to save the Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and her robot, Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers), from the evil clutches of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis). Brooks is on board as both President Skroob and Yogurt, a wizard wise in the ways of the Schwartz. May the puns be with you. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 4. AMC Waterfront. $5 ROBINSON INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION. This fifth annual screening of short films is presented by JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum. Six films will be screened, and after, winners will be announced and there will be a reception. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 4. SouthSide Works. $12 ($6 for students). 412-992-5203 or www.JFilmPgh.org

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THERE IS NO WAY TO AVOID A BIT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

RUST FUND Paul Hertneky’s new book Rust Belt Boy (Bauhan Publishing, $21.95) is a nostalgic account of growing up in Ambridge even as the narrator senses its coming decline.

Before even opening the book, the reader is struck with what one hopes is an intentional metaphor: The grinning face of Hertneky as a child graces the front cover, while the back of his head is on the reverse. This evokes the two-faced Roman god Janus, ever gazing into the future while simultaneously looking to the past.

That theme is key to Rust Belt Boy. Hertneky delves into the historical significance of events he had no inkling about as a kid, sometimes going on tangents that lead a little far afield, but making us appreciate why he’s heading there.

Hertnecky uses one of the hardest-hit cities in Western Pennsylvania to tell the familiar story of the baby boomers, who left cities in droves as manufacturing jobs declined only to return with a better appreciation for their hometowns.

Hertneky offers wistful, almost reverent descriptions of the people and places of his Beaver County hometown, from the smell and noise of the hot mill at Armco Steel to the mysteries of the Laughlin Memorial Library.

And the chapter on pierogies — or as he refers to them, pirohi — is as vivid an example of food porn as you’ll find. At the same time, the adult narrator acknowledges the cultural significance of the buttery treat the child protagonist is devouring: “I cut the firm potato pillow in half, exposing the fine filling placed there by ancient hands, refined through generations of argument, fulfilled by sunlight, pitchforks and cauldrons of boiling water … the first bite made me close my eyes.”

This hindsight appreciation of history and the importance of preserving ethnic identity is woven throughout. The writer, now a lecturer at Chatham University, tells of his failed attempts at football, law school, even as a steel worker. None of his defeats are for lack of trying, but are informed by a kind of ennui that represents the mood of what was soon to become the Rust Belt. Getting the work done was never the problem.

By the end of Rust Belt Boy, as Hertneky turns his gaze toward the future of Ambridge and the region, we have a greater appreciation of their industrial past, a place Hertneky left but never really left behind.

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Whether you brand yourself as an actor/director/musician or artist/filmmaker/vintner or barista/poet/furnituremaker, clearly one talent is no longer adequate. It used to be that mostly only creative types had composite careers, sometimes to support themselves in their artistic endeavors and sometimes, as Primo Levi explained in an interview with Philip Roth, to keep “in touch with the world of real things.”

Generally it’s the economy that dictates the need for multiple jobs, but it is also quite the trend. For celebrities, in particular, it offers both diversified revenue and a certain cachet. There are actors, musicians and directors who are also visual artists and visual artists who are also film directors. Some of them are enviously proficient at their multiple crafts. But others, no doubt, are lauded simply because they already have some kind of recognition.

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Beijing, and then the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, the exhibition is Chow’s first solo show in the U.S. since he began painting again after a 50-year hiatus as a successful celebrity restaurateur. Like Warhol, Chow’s personal story is mythic and he has cultivated a persona that is inseparable from his brand.

As a friend and patron to many artists, Chow amassed a collection of portraits of himself. One by Warhol from 1984, a blackand-white silkscreen diptych, sits at the entrance to the exhibition. Designed in three parts, the exhibition includes a section of portraits of Chow by several other artists including Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Peter Blake and Ed

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Nature is sufficient unto itself. However, the Pittsburgh Glass Center exhibit Lifeforms 2016 suggests that art about nature demands something notably beyond mimesis.

The show, a sequel to a 2013 PGC exhibit, includes 55 works by artists from 15 countries. A third of the works are close likenesses of plants and animals: mallard, spruce branch, lizards, cherries. But even the best of this subset risks suggesting lovely stunningly crafted (if rather spendy) gift-shop finds.

There are exceptions. Lisa Demagall’s “Radiolaria” giant-sizes a marine protozoa in flame-worked glass — a fantastical representation from a nearly invisible world, all the more apt because radiolaria’s own “skeletons” (as signage informs us) consist of glasslike crystalized silica. Carina Cheung’s delicate “Common Wheat,” complete with threadlike roots, mystifies a familiar organism by displaying it like jewelry. “Autumn Lantern Pods,” by Kathleen Elliot, are gorgeous in flameworked borosilicate glass, and Evan Kolker’s carnivorous Borean plant dazzles with its complex shape and delicate hues.

A tendency toward mimesis is surely an artifact of the show’s concept: Five jurors including PGC executive director Heather McElwee and Florida-based artist Robert Mickelson sifted 200 works inspired by glass biological models created in the 19th and 20th centuries by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka.

Yet the show’s most effective pieces transcend representation. John Sharvin’s “English Walnut Seed,” for instance, its translucent, foot-tall shell just parted, turns a common object into a sacral one. The insects in Kumiko Sano’s “Suzumushi Cricket” have impossibly long antenna, and come with text telling how the Japanese cage and feed them in summer for their song; the pedestal-top mirrors remind us of human interaction with nature.

And the best work in Lifeforms feels visionary. “He’e on Cora,” by Kait Rhoads and Jennifer Humphress, suggests an alternate universe by perching a multi-hued octopus on a sphere made of multi-colored glass discs bound together by copper wire.

Alicia Comne’s páte de verre “Blooming Sleep, with Turkey Tail” invokes our ultimate oneness with nature with the front half of a hollow human bust, mossy green, patched with mold and sprouting a spectacular fungus. Best of all, there’s Christopher Ahalt’s “White Rhinoceros”: The bulky beast is bound at the feet and floats, balloonlike, from a tether tied to an anvil, surreally evoking on multiple levels the fragility of this very real endangered species.

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Ruscha. The other two parts are large-scale paintings by Chow in dialogue with 111 vintage photographs of his father, Zhou Xinfang, a grand master of Beijing Opera who performed and also took on roles as director, screenwriter and theater manager over his 60-year career.

Chow led a cultured and pampered life in Shanghai before his parents sent him to boarding school in England, at the age of 12. He never saw his father again because despite his celebrity in China, Zhou was imprisoned in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution and remained under house arrest until his death, in 1975.

The exhibition is a tribute and a gift from son to father, and it is impossible to appreciate it without an understanding of their remarkable stories. In her catalogue essay, Christina Yu Yu writes, “While it is tempting to investigate the psychological causes of this unusual phenomenon — the late blooming — we would be ill-advised to do so, as Michael Chow is very much in charge of this effusion of challenging paintings.” But there is no way to avoid a bit of psychoanalysis. In 2012, after a nudge from his friend Jeffrey Deitch, the art-dealer and one-time director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Chow began painting again, “obsessively,” according to an interview with his wife Eva. Like his restaurants, the paintings play out as a latent quest for paternal approval born of the trauma of separation. In wall text, Chow explains: “My whole life has been trying to create something that could recreate the extraordinary world I knew as a child. And I have done all of this in order to prove to my father that it could be done.”

And much like his restaurants, his paintings, all abstracts, are a mélange of orchestrated theatrics. Pretty much anything you can imagine has found its way onto his out-sized canvases — burnt plastic wrap, gold foil, money, rubber gloves, sponges, leaves, tires and even raw eggs share frenetic space with pours, washes, and drips of mostly white house paint. The paintings combine aspects of East and West and grapple with the feelings of rupture common among exiles. In conversation with his father’s photographs they speak of loss, mourning and death, but they also celebrate the creative collage that is his life, the pain and the joy.

Surrounded by creativity at an early age, Chow had the uncanny ability to be at the epicenter of art, fashion, film and celebrity in London in the 1960s, and then later in Los Angeles and New York. In the process he became famous for being famous among the famous, and over the decades he soaked it in and poured it back into a painting career cut short in 1962.

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portrayal of Hemingway’s Harry Morgan as “Nietzsche in dungarees,” and you get a similar sense of ironic grandeur with Patrick Jordan’s portrayal of Ken Kesey’s Randle McMurphy — another madman in blue jeans.

What barebones productions’ cast and crew achieve with Dale Wasserman’s 1963 adaptation of Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is stunning on every level.

The drama about life in a psychiatric ward is slick, lyrical and raw: Imagine a Living Theatre production performed on Broadway. The entire cast is so strong, even the minor roles seem big.

We enter the ward — surrounded by barbed wire — and are addressed not as the audience but as patients. Tony Ferrieri’s set in the New Hazlett Theater is like an art installation, except better. With its surreal vanishing point focused on a single, ominous door, you feel like you’re sitting inside a Renaissance perspective painting

by Brunelleschi.

Director Melissa Martin’s blocking has the actors moving so organically you lose the impression of a proscenium stage. The energy created from this — and the crisp pacing — becomes palpable. Elevating the catatonic Ruckly (John Gresh) like a crucified Christ during the mock wedding scene is divine.

The combustion of Jordan’s fiery McMurphy and Kim Parker Green’s icy Nurse Ratched is portended by the acrid smoke filling the theater, preshow. Green lets

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Ratched’s diabolic soul emerge through her crisp, uniformed persona like the horns growing slowly under her hair as the play evolves.

Leandro Cano’s mesmerizing poetic interludes as Chief Bromden counterbalance the parts of the action ready to tear loose, with an extraordinary sense of pathos.

Sound designer Dave Bjornson’s contribution to the power of this production is enormous, as is Andrew Ostrowski’s lighting. Synergistically their efforts create the presence of a force as demonstrable as any character on the stage.

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continues through May 7. barebones productions at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $29.99. 888-718-4253 or www.barebonesproductions.com

Randy Kovitz’s Harding is exquisitely paranoid, and he rocks the house with the line, “We are psycho-ceramics, the crackpots of humanity.” Nick Lehane plays the stuttering Billy with a relaxed sensitivity, absolutely avoiding the clichéd pitfalls of this doomed character.

To barebones’ credit, we leave this performance with more questions than answers, and the suspicion that anyone can be a madman in dungarees.

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WHATEVER ELSE you can say about

Grease, you have to admit it has an identity problem.

GREASE

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That’s very clear in the new Pittsburgh Musical Theater production: You never know whether the show is ridiculing or rejoicing, and to call the results disjointed is putting it mildly. It’s an exercise in artistic whiplash.

But exactly none of that matters at PMT. Director Trey Compton, choreographer Lisa Elliott and musical director Brent Alexander have no interest in making sense of the dramaturgical jumble.

All they want to do is entertain — and they’ve succeeded immeasurably.

Jeff Perri’s cartoony, colorful set is the perfect backdrop for the big, fun performances happening in front of it. With a huge assist from Kim Brown’s costumes and Christopher Patrick’s hair designs, this highly enthusiastic cast couldn’t be more entertaining.

Ricky Gee and Lara Hayhurst use their exceptionally strong voices to bring the roles of Danny and Sandy to singin’ life. Audra Qualley and Quinn Patrick Shannon are thoroughly adorable as Jan and Roger, and their duet “Mooning� is a charming hoot. Larissa Overholt and Kevin Daniel O’Leary add needed grit as Rizzo and Kenickie, with Erin Lindsey Krom, Hannah Fairman, Katie Marie Jones and Nathan Sudie scoring in supporting roles.

While Compton’s staging of the group scenes is a bit muddled, he’s charged the production with pace and energy. It’s not his fault the script’s a mess, but it’s to his credit it’s so watchable.

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In 1971, Chicagoans Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey wrote music, lyrics and book for a down-and-dirty satire about high school in the late ’50s. The show ended up in New York, and between its off-Broadway and Broadway runs became one of musical theater’s longestrunning hits.

In 1978, it was made into a movie (do Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta spring to mind?) that broke box-ofďŹ ce records. But while the theatrical incarnation mocked the period, the movie celebrated it.

Since then, Broadway revivals (and a recent live TV broadcast) have attempted, to various degrees, to recreate the movie.

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+ THU., APRIL 28 {MUSIC} If you imagine classical music as a purely white picture, let the Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi color it in. This 20-piece group based in Charleston, S.C., features an international array of top musicians of African descent performing Baroque, classical and 20thcentury music by composers of African descent alongside traditional classical works.

The group’s first Pittsburgh visit (also courtesy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) takes it to Carnegie Mellon University tonight, and tomorrow to East Liberty Presbyterian Church.

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(Kresge Hall, CMU campus; $10-25 and free for CMU faculty and students).

Also Fri., April 29 (116 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty; $10-35). 866-811-4111 or ww.colourofmusic.org

{COMEDY} “I’m not petty,” contends Davon Magwood, “but I’m only eating healthy to outlive people I hate.” If that comment’s not random tonight’ss enough for you, tonight Random Comedy Show, w at James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, y features the acerbic comedian whose “God Hates Jags” T-shirts still get play.

Jordan Weeks hosts a bill that also includes Howard Lester, Marcus Mick, Amanda Averell and Stoph Edison. BO 8 p.m. 422 Foreland St., North Side. $5.

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Cirque de la Symphonie {COMEDY} If he were mayor, he’d put bumpers along the HOV lanes after 11 p.m. as designated drunk-driver lanes. So begins the joke that Matt Light says that The Onion recently stole from him. Always one to make light of a situation, the 26-year-old comedian chalks the theft up to his success, including his two-time title as Pittsburgh Magazine’s Best Comedian in Pittsburgh. It all began in 2013, when WDVE’s

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man-in-the-street interviewer was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. “I didn’t know how much time I had left,” Light tells City Paper. “So I wanted to make this a career, not a hobby.” Catch this no-nonsense but charming comedian at what he calls his final show at Pittsburgh Improv, Matt Light: The Curtain Call. Courtney Linder 8 p.m. 166 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, Homestead. $20. 412-462-5233 or www.pittsburghimprov.com

+ FRI., APRIL 29 {MUSIC} Pittsburghers of a certain age recall that for 15 years, the South Side’s Liberty Belle Tavern and its successor, the Lava Lounge, hosted the unique talents of Frankie Capri. The one-man band in black muttonchops belted out Elvis,

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jugglers and strongmen perform to live music by the likes of Shostakovich, Williams, Bizet and Tchaikovsky. Cirque de la Symphonie is a worldtouring production designed to bring the magic of cirque to music halls. The show blends the talents of former Olympians and world-recordholding athletes with those of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for four shows this weekend under the direction of nationally known pops conductor Jack Everly. CL 8 p.m. Continues through Sun., May 1. 600 Penn Ave.,

{COMEDY} “People still hate gay people,” noted Suzanne Westenhoefer a few years back. “Isn’t it boring? It’s so last millennium.” The nationally touring comic will surely have a few thoughts about current events at Cruze Bar tonight. But this Lancaster County native — considered the first openly gay comic to perform for straight audiences, starting more than 25 years ago — mostly deals in everyday matters like relationships, or waking up achey after age 50: “You went to sleep and you got so fuckin’ old you don’t know how to sleep without hurting yourself.” BO 8:15 p.m. 1600 Smallman St., Strip District. $25-40 (18 and up). www. brownpapertickets.com

+ SAT., APRIL 30 {EXHIBIT} Beautiful blooms in summery shades of crimson, like the brilliant red hibiscus, await at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden’s Summer Flower Show: Playgardens.

Beside the floral displays and elegant garden décor, the features interactive exhibit feat Goldberg-inspired Rube Goldb machines — complicated that perform simple gadgets tha convoluted ways — tasks in conv complement the winding that comple Room. And in Serpentine R Room, you’ll find the East Roo electronic instrument the electron theremin and an called the th opportunity to conduct your while overlooking own opera w arbor. CL 9:30 a.m. an Italian ar Show runs tthrough Oct. 2.

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August, in Atlanta. The Steel City Grand Slam is at the Union Project. The event is BYOB. BO 7-10 p.m. 801 N. Negley Ave., Highland Park. $8-15. www.pghpoetry.org

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{WORDS} In March 2014, Pakistani journalist and policy analyst Raza Rumi survived an attempt on his life. Now he explores the concept of “home” in a complex way in his book Delhi by Heart: Impressions

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Sinatra and Johnny Cash tunes accompanied by an array of mechanical monkeys, while revelers donned the rubber masks he provided and danced wildly. That gig ended in 1999.

But even though the Lava Lounge itself is now going away, Frankie remains, as evidenced by his successful March gig at the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s Night Market. Tonight, this local icon begins Frankie Fridays, a run of four Fridays at the equally iconic Original Oyster House, also courtesy of the PDP. Capri tells CP he anticipates seeing faces both old and new. “I’ll be happy to see all them people,” he says. “And we’ll have a happy crowd.” BO 5-10 p.m. Also May 6, 13 and 20. 20 Market Square, Downtown. Free. www. downtownpittsburgh.com

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A series of 18th-century works by British painter William Hogarth, depicting a morality tale about a dissolute heir, inspired musical titan Igor Stravinsky to compose The Rake’s Progress. The opera, with its libretto by Chester Kallman and famed poet W.H. Auden, debuted in 1951; a 1975 British revival featured a striking new set by influential British artist David Hockney. Two years ago, those iconic production materials were inherited by Pittsburgh Opera. With the black crosshatching on its backdrops and costumes, and a cartoony palette of red, blue and green, the production “looks like it could be a dollhouse,” says Opera director Christopher Hahn. On April 30, the Opera premieres its first-ever staging of Rake’s Progress. The show stars tenor Alek Shrader, soprano Layla Claire (both pictured) and bass-baritone David Pittsinger as, respectively, Tom Rakewell, the heir; Anne Trulove, his betrothed; and Nick Shadow, the Mephistophelian emissary who tempts Rakewell to his undoing. Despite its premise, says Hahn, the show is satirical rather than pious: “It’s tongue-in-cheek, it’s playful.” The music, meanwhile, belies Stravinsky’s status as a revolutionary of dissonance. With its callbacks to Mozart, Monteverdi and Rossini, says Hahn, “It’s full of the most beautiful arias and duets, little trios.” Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Sat., April 30. Also 7 p.m. Tue., May 3, and May 6 and 8.

Benedum Center, 237 Seventh St., Downtown. $12-157. 412-456-6666 or www.pittsburghopera.org

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of a Pakistani Traveler. “How is it that a man from Pakistan can cross the border into ‘hostile’ territory and yet not feel ‘foreign’?” he asks. Rumi, a writer in residence at Ithaca, N.Y.’s City of Asylum, will read from Delhi by Heart at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh tonight.

CL 7 p.m. 330 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free with reservation. 412-323-0278 or www.cityofasylum.org

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Marlon Wayans can do drama, as he proved in Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, but he’s a comedian first. The writer, producer and director has starred in films like White Chicks and Norbit, but still does standup, selling out venues nationwide. Earlier this year, Wayans starred in and co-produced the Fifty Shades of Grey spoof Fifty Shades of Black. Tonight, Wayans’ Scandal-Less Tour hits the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall for an all-ages show. CL 7:30 p.m. 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $42.50-150.

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THEATER DILEMMAS W/ DINNER. Junior executive Brooke invites her boss & his wife over for dinner in hopes of securing a promotion. While frantically getting ready, Brooke & her husband discover that the hired help is coincidentally the boss’ ex-daughter-in-law. Presented

by South Park Theatre. Call 412-831-8552 for reservations.

Sun, 2 p.m. and Thu-Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru May 14. South Park Theatre, Bethel Park.

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

720-271-2996.

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. Tue., May 3, 7 p.m., Fri., May 6, 8 p.m., Sat., May 7, 9 p.m. and Sun., May 15,

2 p.m. City Theatre, South Side.

412-431-2489.

THE MASTER BUILDER. Performing Henrik Ibsen’s play.

Thru May 1, 7 p.m. and WedSat, 8 p.m. Thru May 1. Nova Place, North Side. 412-231-6688.

MAYHEM & MURDER. It’s Vito’s birthday & you’re invited to the 23 Skidoo Club, a 1920’s speakeasy, for a night of Murder & Mayhem. Presented

by R-ACT Theatre. Fri, Sat, 7 p.m. Thru April 30. The Avenue Theater, Rochester. www.ractprductions.com.

MIDLIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL. A romp w/ an honest humor about the trials & tribulations of the unavoidable aging process. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 8.

The Theatre Factory, Trafford.

412-374-9200.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. A exploration of the beauty & danger of being a free spirit in the closed system of a psych ward.

Presented by barebones productions. Sun, 2 p.m. and WedSat, 8 p.m. Thru May 7.

New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE. A new theater company debuts with one part of a play cycle that comedian Steve Martin wrote specifically for the stage. The story takes place at a bar called the Lapin Agile in Paris in the year 1904, where famous historical figures such as Albert Einstein & Pablo Picasso meet to talk about art, science & of course, women.

Thru April 30. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS: WEEK OF WILL. Week long festivities to celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday. 7p.m. Thru April 29.

412-404-8531.

THE RAKE’S PROGRESS. The plot follows Tom Rakewell, who squanders his large inheritance on women, drinking & gambling. Presented by the Pittsburgh Opera. Sat., April 30, 8 p.m., Tue., May 3, 7 p.m., Fri., May 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 8, 2 p.m.

Benedum Center, Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Our panel breaks down election results TRU. A one-man play based on Capote’s words and works presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater. Wed-Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 & 7 p.m.

Thru May 22. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600.

COMEDY THU 28 COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted by Derick Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

DAVON MAGWOOD’S RANDOM COMEDY SHOW. 8 p.m. James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, North Side.

412-904-3335.

FRI 29 JOHN MCINTIRE. 8 p.m.

Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

WHEEL OF BITS: AUDIENCE-DRIVEN COMEDY. Audience driven comedy presented by Iguanatron.

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

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412-368-5225.

MON 02 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.

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Approaching its 20th year, the next installment of the Pittsburgh Record & CD Convention will have everything from records — LPs, 45s, CDs — to memorabilia and posters for sale all day. There’s an “early bird” pass for the truly committed vinyl enthusiasts who might want first pickings in the stacks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., April 30.

Bridgeville VFD Chartiers Room, 370 Commercial St., Bridgeville. Free; earlybird pass: $10.

412-331-5021 or www.facebook.com (search “Pittsburgh Record & CD”)

GALLERY. Historical images & items forcusing on the North Side of Pittsburgh. North Side.

412-321-3940.

ALLEGHENY-KISKI VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM. Military artifacts & exhibits on the Allegheny Valley’s industrial heritage. Tarentum. 724-224-7666.

ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour.

The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie.

412-276-3456.

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VISUALART “three” (handout paper, chalk, pebble, 2016), by Theodore Bolha.

From the exhibition Salon Show 2016, at Gallery 4, Shadyside.

NEW THIS WEEK THE ARTISTS’ GALLERY. Interactive Exhibition. A new series of work by seven local artists: John Krachinski, Luke Travis, Tyler (Ty) Carins, Nino Oliastro, Arne Hansen, Noah Rectenwald & Gordon Sarti. Opening reception April 29, 5:30 p.m. Bellevue.

412-339-8943.

ON THE SKIDS. EYESORE. Art & illustrations by Keith Caves & Jordon Milchak.

Reception April 30. Knoxville.

814-937-3563.

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.

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.

Downtown. 412-258-2700.

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.

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.

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.

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BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. century, thousands of settlers of Large collection of automatic European & African descent were roll-played musical instruments & captured by Native Americans. music boxes in a mansion setting.

Using documentary evidence Call for appointment. O’Hara. from 18th & early 19th century 412-782-4231. sources, period imagery, & BOST BUILDING. Collectors. artifacts from public & private Preserved materials reflecting collections in the U.S. and the industrial heritage of Canada, the exhibit examines Southwestern PA. Homestead. the practice of captivity from 412-464-4020. its prehistoric roots to its BRADDOCK’S BATTLEFIELD reverberations in modern HISTORY CENTER. French Native-, African- & Euro-American & Indian War. The history of communities. Reconstructed fort the French & Indian War w/ over houses museum of Pittsburgh 250 artifacts & more. Braddock. history circa French & Indian 412-271-0800.

War & American Revolution.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF Downtown. 412-281-9285.

NATURAL HISTORY. Pterosaurs: FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.

CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Rare fossils, life-size models & Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ hands-on interactives to immerse classes & programs for all ages. visitors in the winged reptiles’ Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

Jurassic world. Dinosaurs in HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour Their Time. Displaying immersive this Tudor mansion & stable environments spanning the complex. Enjoy hikes & outdoor Mesozoic Era & original fossil activities in the surrounding park. specimens. Permanent. Hall Allison Park. 412-767-9200. of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the gems & precious stones from other Frank Lloyd Wright house. all over the world. Population Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

Impact. How humans are KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. affecting the environment.

Tours of a restored 19th-century, Oakland. 412-622-3131. middle-class home. Oakmont.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. 412-826-9295.

H2Oh! Experience kinetic MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection water-driven motion & includes jade & ivory statues discover the relations from China & Japan, between water, land as well as Meissen & habitat. How do porcelain. Butler. everyday decisions 724-282-0123. . w ww per impact water supply MCGINLEY a p ty ci h pg & the environment?

HOUSE & MCCULLY .com Ongoing: Buhl Digital LOG HOUSE. Dome (planetarium), Historic homes open Miniature Railroad & Village, for tours, lectures & more.

USS Requin submarine & more.

Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

North Side. 412-237-3400.

NATIONAL AVIARY. CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL Masters of the Sky. Explore the HISTORY. Explore the complex power & grace of the birds who interplay between culture, nature rule the sky. Majestic eagles, & biotechnology. Sundays 12-4. impressive condors, stealthy falcons Garfield. 412-223-7698. and their friends take center CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF stage! Home to more than 600 PITTSBURGH. TapeScape 2.0. birds from over 200 species. W/ A play exhibit/art installation, classes, lectures, demos & more. designed by Eric Lennartson, North Side. 412-323-7235. that uses more than 10 miles NATIONALITY ROOMS. of tape stretched over steel frames 29 rooms helping to tell the to create twisting tunnels & story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant curving walls for children to crawl past. University of Pittsburgh. through & explore. North Side.

Oakland. 412-624-6000.

412-322-5058.

OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church COMPASS INN. Demos & tours features 1823 pipe organ, w/ costumed guides feat. this Revolutionary War graves. Scott. restored stagecoach stop.

412-851-9212.

North Versailles. 724-238-4983.

OLIVER MILLER DEPRECIATION LANDS HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/ MUSEUM. Small living history Whiskey Rebellion site features museum celebrating the log house, blacksmith shop settlement & history of the & gardens. South Park.

Depreciation Lands. Allison Park.

412-835-1554.

412-486-0563.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY FALLINGWATER. Tour the MUSEUM. Trolley rides & famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. exhibits. Includes displays, Mill Run. 724-329-8501. walking tours, gift shop, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany Washington. 724-228-9256. stained-glass windows.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & Downtown. 412-471-3436.

BOTANICAL GARDEN. 14 FORT PITT MUSEUM. indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens Captured by Indians: Warfare feature exotic plants & floral & Assimilation on the 18th Century displays from around the world.

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whirligigs & water fountains to rotundas & Rube Goldberg machines, Playgardens for guests of all ages w/ interactive elements. The Butterfly Forest.

An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Tropical Forest Congo.

An exhibit highlighting some of Africa’s lushest landscapes.

Oakland. 412-622-6914.

PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. Glass Lantern Slides. Glass lantern slides from 1890 to 1920. Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on glass, many hand-painted. The largest display of 19th Century photographs in America.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club.

West View. 412-931-4425.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639.

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

724-274-5459.

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

412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. Toys of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. More than 500 toys. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement.

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

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

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

Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

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

412-621-4253.

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

412-323-9504.

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

412-407-2570.

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

724-887-7910.

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THU 28 - SAT 30 LAWS OF ATTRACTION. Presented by Attack Theatre.

Wed-Sat. Thru April 30 Attack Theatre, Strip District.

412-281-3305.

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PROJECT SILK PERFORMANCE. Voguers showed-off their dance skills for Allard van Hoorn, & the sounds produced by their dancing & chanting inspired the track, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Revlon 6:30 p.m.

Market Square, Downtown.

412-391-2060.

FUNDRAISERS THU 28 ST. BARNABAS FOUNDER’S DAY. Guest speaker Paul O’Neill.

Proceeds benefit the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund, which supports nursing home patients who cannot afford their care.

Pittsburgh Marriott North, Cranberry. 724-625-3770.

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23RD ANNUAL HEARTS & HOPES CHARITY EVENT. Live entertainment, silent & chance auctions, food & drink, more.

Benefits Girls of Hope. 6-9 p.m.

U.S. Steel Tower, Downtown. www.girlshope.org.

3RD ANNUAL STEEL CITY BICYCLE TOUR. 16 or 26 mile round trip from Homestead to Clairton.

Proceeds benefit the Steel Valley Trail Council trail maintenance program. 8:30 p.m.

Waterfront Town Center, Homestead. 412-476-8889.

CORAOPOLIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER. Catered by Anthony Jr.s Restaurant. 4 p.m. Coraopolis VFW Post 402, Coraopolis.

412-264-2502.

LET THEM EAT CAKE. The Midwife Center’s 11th annual rock-themed fundraiser party & cake contest. 7:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh Opera, Strip District.

412-321-6880.

MACC ‘N CHEESE BAKE-OFF. Music, drinks, mac & cheese raising money for The Morningside Area Community Council. 7 p.m. Morningside VFW, Morningside. 412-407-7264.

WED 04 CRYSTAL OWL GALA. Food, drink, a silent auction, exciting raffles, & the announcement of The Challenge Program’s Student of the Year 2016. 5 p.m. Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. 814-533-7401.

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SAT 30 LET’S MOVE! FAMILY DANCE PARTY. Dancing, hands-on art activities, more.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty.

412-363-3000.

“SAVE THE FROGS DAY” AMPHIBIAN WALK. A walk in the woods to learn about amphibians, frog-calls and habitat preservation/construction, as well as what you can do to help these important species survive. Latodami Nature Center.

4-6 p.m. North Park, Allison Park.

724-935-1766.

MON 02 It’s a fun night filled with arts and crafts. I’ve never been here until tonight but Assemble seems very focused on getting kids to learn about science and technology to make cool stuff in a community effort. Tonight is for adults, though, which is great because it was only $5. I’ve done the laser-cutting station where you pick out your initials or a little symbol and they burn it into the wood. It was cool to actually watch them do it on the machine. It only lasted about 10 seconds, though — you have to pay attention or it’s done. I’m also excited about the bowmaking station. The space is kinda small, but it’s a nice area and I love the artwork all over the walls and I definitely want to come back here again.

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SOLARCZYK. 7:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw.

412-486-0211.

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

in the Attic readers will include: Tess Barry, Julie Cecchini, Amy Lee Heinlen, Michelle Maher, Emily Mohn-Slate, Marilyn Marsh Noll & Michelle Stoner. www.hemingways poetryseries.blogspot.com.

Tue, 8 p.m. Hemingway’s Cafe, Oakland. 412-621-4100.

KID’S BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS BOOKCLUB. First Tue of every month, 10 a.m.

Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley.

LILLIE LEONARDI. 412-741-3838.

Meet the Author of THE MOTH. A White Light of Grace. themed story-telling 2:30 p.m. Carnegie series where all Library, Downtown. the stories must 412-281-7141. . www per be true, be about a MOLLY PROSSER, p ty ci pgh m the storyteller & .co TIMONS ESAIAS & be told w/o notes.

LORI JAKIELA. Prose Every show has a & poetry reading. 4 p.m. theme. First Tue of every Staghorn Garden Cafe, month, 8 p.m. Rex Theater, Greenfield. 412-315-7298.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

STEEL CITY GRAND STEEL CITY SLAM. Open mic SLAM. Pittsburgh will poets & slam poets. 3 rounds of choose its team for the 3 minute poems. Tue, 7:45 p.m.

National Poetry Slam. 7 p.m.

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-362-1250.

814-229-3393.

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Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100.

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KIDSTUFF THU 28 TALES FOR 2S & 3S. A story time specifically geared for toddlers who are 24-36 months old w/ a caregiver. Thu, 10:30 a.m. Thru April 28 Baldwin Borough Public Library, Baldwin.

412-885-2255.

MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books.

Listen to stories read by librarianturned-Teaching Artist Molly.

Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

TUE 03 CHESS CLUB. For students in grades K-7. First Tue of every month, 6:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

OUTSIDE THU 28 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.

SAT 30 WILDFLOWER HIKE. Pre-registration is recommended at www. alleghenycounty.us/park programs. Grant Shelter. 2-4 p.m.

South Park, South Park.

WED 04 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 28 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http:// citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

BASEBALL’S ITALIANAMERICAN HERITAGE: THE PIRATES & BEYOND. Pittsburgh native Richard “Pete” Peterson, author of Growing Up With Clemente and Pops: The Willie Stargell Story, will discuss the contributions that Italian-Americans have made to baseball not only in Pittsburgh but throughout the major leagues. 7 p.m.

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

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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.

FUTURE TENANT. Creative Byproducts. A dual exhibition

by Anna Brewer & Sam Berner.

Downtown. 412-325-7037.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Stateof-the-Art 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 Square. 412-243-2772.

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

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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 & represent unique perspectives, including painting, photography, fiber, mixed media & more. Scott.

412-278-1975.

MAGGIE’S FARM DISTILLERY. Braddock Tiles.

New work in artists prints & ceramics by Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon. Strip District.

724-322-5415.

MARKET SQUARE. Mix-N-Match. 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.

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.

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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.

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.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

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.

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. Downtown.

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

BOARD GAMES NIGHT. Fourth Thu of every month, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151.

DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP. Thu, 6 p.m.

C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, Edgewood. 412-708-9423.

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

POETRY & PINTS. Fourth Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m.

East End Brewing Company, Larimer. 412-537-2337.

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.

RADICAL TRIVIA. Thu, 9 p.m.

Smiling Moose, South Side.

412-431-4668.

STEEL CITY SQUARES MONTHLY SQUARE DANCE. Live music, family friendly, BYOB. 8 p.m. Pittsburgh Association for the Deaf, Downtown. 412-532-4542.

TECHCONNECT: GOOGLE LAB. Learn the basics of using Gmail, Google Drive, & its multiple functions using hands-on activities. 12:15 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Downtown.

412-281-7141.

SAT 30 BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASSES. Sat, 9 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669.

BLESSING OF THE BIKES. 1:30 p.m. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. 412-441-3800.

DUNCAN ORCHARD PLANTING. Join Tree Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville United, & the Lawrenceville Tree Tenders as we plant fruit trees. No experience necessary. 1 p.m. Duncan Park, Lawrenceville. 412-781-8733.

THE PITTSBURGH RECORD CONVENTION XLII. Free admission, 20 year Anniversary Show Vinyl Records, CDs, memorabilia. 10 a.m. Bridgeville VFD, Bridgeville. 412-331-5021.

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.

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

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

SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim

Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m.

Wightman School, Squirrel Hill.

412-759-1569.

TECHSHOP OPEN HOUSE. Art Gallery, Maker Market, Maker Expo, FREE Admission.

1 p.m. TechShop, East Liberty.

412-345-8271.

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB WALK & PRESENTATION. WPMC member Bob Sleigh will give a presentation on Morels & lead a walk at the Pine Ridge Lodge. Pre-registration is required at 724-463-8636.

12-3 p.m. Pine Ridge County Park, Pine Ridge.

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

SUN 01 ACTING & ACTIVISM CLASS. Sun, 5:30 p.m.

Thru May 9 Percolate, Wilkinsburg. 412-607-4297.

LIGONIER VALLEY FREE MUSEUM DAY. Antiochian Heritage Museum, Compass Inn Museum, Fort Ligonier, Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum, Lincoln Highway Experience, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. 10 a.m. 724-689-3397.

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THU 28 - WED 04 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 29 AFRICAN DANCE CLASS. Second and Third Fri of every month and Fourth and Last Fri of every month Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield.

412-924-0634.

ARBOR DAY. Pre-registration required at www.alleghenycounty. us/parkprograms. Tree-planting techniques, ID uses, history & lore.

1-3 p.m. Boyce Park, Monroeville.

724-327-0338.

ARBREW DAYS. Portion of sales go to growing and protecting Lawrenceville’s urban forest. Purchase tree-themed drinks at participating restaurants.

4 p.m. 412-781-8733.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome,

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Evans. Come alone or bring a team. Sun, 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont. 412-828-6322.

RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT GROUP. Exchange experiences & ideas in order to gain insight & understanding of the wonderful mystery of relationships.

Come to support & be supported by others like yourself in similar circumstances. First and Third Sun of every month, 4:30 p.m.

Messiah Lutheran Church, Munhall. 412-853-3189.

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Fake yard signs touting “Zoe for President in 2064” posted outside of YMCAs to promote its youth development: “Today’s toddlers are tomorrow’s presidents.” Cute and refreshing in the midst of a heated presidential election.

evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m.

Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664.

SALLIE BOGGS TOASTMASTERS CLUB. Helping people from all walks of life to improve their communication & leadership skills. For any questions email Sallieboggstm@gmail.com or call 412-365-5803. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m.

C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, Edgewood. 412-731-0909.

TOM ROBERTS ON LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Tue. Thru May 10 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE. Discuss today’s science issues w/ experts & ask your own questions. 7-9 p.m. and [VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY] Mon., June 6, 7-9 p.m. Carnegie Science Center, North Side.

412-237-3400.

DISCOVER SAKE. We will Tree Pittsburgh is seeking volunteers to help plant 25 cover the basics of production, fruit trees for a future orchard. No experience is required: key styles, tasting technique The organization will show volunteers the correct way & food & sake pairing. to plant, and gloves and shovels will be provided.

Mon, 6 p.m. Thru May 16 Tree-planting is 1-4 p.m. Sat., April 30, at Duncan Park Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-8502. in Lawrenceville. For more information or to register, IMPROV ACTING visit www.treepittsburgh.org.

CLASS. Mon, 7 p.m. Thru May 10 Percolate, Wilkinsburg.

412-607-4297.

WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCOTTISH COUNTRY THEATRE SUMMER 2016.

CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., For more information, Informal knitting session w/ social dancing follows. visit wvpublictheatre.appointy.com. literary conversation. First and No partner needed. Mon, Thru April 30. Benedum Center, Third Wed of every month, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m.

Downtown. 304-381-2382.

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Carnegie Library, Grace Episcopal Church, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

Mt. Washington. 412-683-5670.

FLEET FEET SPEED SQUAD. SLOVAK HERITAGE. Religious BOULEVARD GALLERY At the track. Coach Alex from Persecution in Slovakia: & DIFFERENT STROKES Fleet Feet Sports Pittsburgh After the 1948 coup, GALLERY. Searching for glass hosts weekly Wednesday night Communist ideology artists, fiber artists, potters, etc. to speed workouts.

The workouts permeated citizens’ lives & compliment the exhibits for 2015 are free & open to the public. dominated all aspects & 2016. Booking for both galleries Anyone who wants to of society in former for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 improve their speed & Czechoslovakia. The months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. form are encouraged greatest rival for the CRANBERRY ARTISTS to join.

Wed, 7 p.m. new regime was NETWORK. This is an Open Jefferson Elementary, the church. Father show for artists within at 75 mile www. per Mt. Lebanon.

Valarian Milchik, pastor pa radius of Cranberry Township. pghcitym 412-851-9100. .co of St. Gregory Byzantine Artists are invited to enter up to THE PITTSBURGH Church, will focus on the two pieces of art ( any medium SHOW OFFS. A religious persecution during except film or video & installations) meeting of jugglers & spinners. the totalitarian rule in Slovakia in this show. Artists must All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. from 1948-1989. 7 p.m. pre-register at www.cranberry Union Project, Highland Park.

Mount Lebanon Public Library, artistsnetwork.com by May 16th.

412-363-4550.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

CRANBERRY ARTISTS TRIVIA NIGHT. Hosted by NETWORK NEW MEMBER Pittsburgh Bar Trivia. Wed, 8 p.m.

SCREENING. Any artist 18 years Aliquippa American Serbian Club.

A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST of age or older is able to be 724-378-4393.

SITTING GROUP. http:// considered for membership. To be citydharma.wordpress.com/ considered for membership, an schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of applicant will have to be screened APPLE HILL PLAYHOUSE. the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. in by the sitting board of directors Applications to audition for 412-965-9903. using 3 of the applicant’s best plays in the Johnny Appleseed MT. LEBANON CONVERSATION pieces of art. Thru May 4, 4-6 p.m.

Children’s Theatre Season for SALON. Discuss current events Cranberry Township Municipal individuals ages 9 - 99. Prepare w/ friends & neighbors.

Center, Cranberry. 724-776-4806. a 24 bar song excerpt & provide For seniors. First Tue of every THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY accompaniment. Cold reading month, 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon HOUR REVIEW. Seeking from script. May 7, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. submissions in all genres for www.applehillplayhouse.org.

412-531-1912. fledgling literary magazine Delmont. 724-468-5050.

PRINTMAKING OPEN curated by members of the THE ENTERTAINMENT STUDIO. Experienced screen Hour After Happy Hour Writing CONSORTIUM. Auditions printers can utilize studio Workshop. afterhappyhourreview. for ‘Ruined.’ April 28 & 29, equipment to make films, com Ongoing.

6 p.m. Prepare a brief, burn screens & complete a run INDEPENDENT FILM NIGHT. contemporary monologue of posters, t-shirts or prints. A Submit your film, 10 minutes (5 min max). Bring a resume & volunteer-driven environment or less. Screenings held on headshot. Thru April 29. Hill designed for short-run projects the second Thursday of every that can be completed in one House, Hill District. 412-969-7714. month. Ongoing. DV8 Espresso

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Draai Laag Bottles The Millvale brewery that specializes in Belgianstyle suds now has bottles for sale at its taproom, and also at some bars and bottle shops throughout the county. www.draailaag.com

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Serial Season 2 Not a did-he-or-didn’t-he murder mystery like the first season, but a deep exploration of why and how U.S. Army Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl deserted his unit in Afghanistan, and the aftermath. Recently wrapped, hear it all at serialpodcast.org. {PHOTO BY ASHLEY MURRAY}

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Overloaded Fries at Consol Energy Center If you’re headed to a Pens playoff game or another event, try the loaded fries behind Section 108. Several options are available, including steak and cheese or the “Pittsburgh fries,” topped with pork belly, cheddar cheese and ranch dressing.

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PITTSBURGH PLAYWRIGHTS 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. www.pghplaywrights.com.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Sweetwater invites emerging & established artists who reside w/in 200 miles of Pittsburgh to submit artwork for an opportunity to have an 8 week solo exhibition in the gallery. Thru May 2. Sewickley. 412-741-4405.

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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.mtlebanonartists market.com. Thru May 1.

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.

PITTSBURGH WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AQUEOUS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Open to any artist 18 or older working in water-based media.

Works submitted for consideration to PWS Aqueous Open must be primarily water based media on an unvarnished paper surface. Work must have been completed within the last two years & not previously shown in a PWS exhibit.

For more information visit ww.pittsburghwatercolorsociety. com. Thru July 11. Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry.

Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. com Ongoing.

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. sidewall project.wordpress.com. Thru May 1. sidewall, Bloomfield.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I am a trans man and I have no love life.

But I did just hook up with a friend two nights ago. It was the first time I’ve had sex in more than a year. My problem is that it was a “one-time thing.” I was hoping to be FWB at least. I’m furious with myself for giving that away for what amounted to a hookup, and thoroughly sorry for myself for it being a “one-time thing,” because it nearly always is. I feel thoroughly unlovable and dejected right now. I was raised a Boston Irish Catholic, and I have PTSD from my parents being difficult. In a backward way, I hope the issue for others is tied to the fallout from my upbringing — because that’s something everyone has problems with, and those things, while not entirely fixable, are manageable and not so visible. I worry it’s not that, though. I worry my being trans is the first problem a potential partner sees.

I am a man with a twat — a forlorn, underused twat at that.

NOT OFTEN PICKED, EVERYONE NOT INTERESTED SEXUALLY

Buck Angel is a public speaker, a filmmaker, an activist and a trans man who famously and fearlessly bills himself as “the man with a pussy.” I passed your letter on to him because who better to answer a question from a man with a twat than the man with a pussy?

“Anyone who hasn’t had sex in more than a year is going to find it scary to get back out there and start again,” says Buck. “And starting again with a body that you might not be 100 percent comfortable with yet? That’s even scarier. The first thing that NOPENIS needs to hear — and really believe — is that he is lovable. And he is, even if he doesn’t know it yet.”

The second order of business: You gotta stop beating yourself up over that onenight stand. Take it from Buck, your fellow trans man, and take it from me, your fellow Irish Catholic queer: You didn’t do anything wrong, you didn’t give anything away — hell, you were doing something right.

“Hookups can be important for understanding your body sexually,” says Buck. Finally, you’ve got to stop seeing your body as a problem. It’s the only body you’ll ever have, and it’s a body some will find attractive and some won’t. Some guys will be attracted to your body (and to you, ideally) for its differences — or not attracted to your body (ditto) despite its differences.

“NOPENIS absolutely shouldn’t count himself out just because he’s trans,” says Buck. “The world is different now, and many people are attracted to trans men sexually. He just needs to learn to love himself and to have sexual confidence, because people find that attractive. And he should continue to experiment and continue to embrace new experiences!”

For more Buck, go to buckangel.com.

ously a sex fiend, but she’s not kinky. And here’s the punch line: I found her fiancé’s profile on Fetlife, and he has some hardcore fetishes — even by my standards! I’m sure his kinks are going unexplored within their relationship/engagement and that they will go unexplored once they’re married, as my friend has been horrified during discussions of my attendance at BDSM events. I know your rule is generally to “stay the fuck out of it,” but I have a rule that goes like this: “I would like to know that the person I’m dating is a serial cheater who’s probably after me for my money.” So do I warn the guy?

FUCKED REGARDING IMPERILING ENSUING NUPTIALS, DAN

Mind your own business and do so with a clear conscience. He’s on Fetlife looking for someone to diaper him, and she’s probably cheating on him already.

Watching these two walk down the aisle will be like watching two drunk drivers speed around a closed racetrack. Maybe they’ll crash, maybe they won’t; maybe they’ll die in a fire, maybe they’ll get out alive. But so long as no one else is gonna get hurt, why risk your own neck trying to pull these fuckers over?

My father is a friendly, kind, all-around good guy. We get along well and always have. But I now have to avoid all political discussions with him. He was always a bit socially conservative, but now he gets a lot of batshit crazy and simply dumb ideas from the scourge of our nation today: Fox News. How can we stop the dumbing down of our society by Fox News, Dan? We have to do something about this malady!

“HE’S ON FETLIFE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DIAPER HIM, AND SHE’S PROBABLY CHEATING ON HIM ALREADY.”

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I have a friend who is getting married. She’s cheated on every guy she’s been with, including her last three husbands. This will be her fourth marriage. I’m sure she’s fed the new guy a million reasons why her first three marriages didn’t work out. She’s obvi-

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“Anonymous is right — Fox News is a malady, one that I’ve often joked is worse than Ebola,” says documentary filmmaker Jen Senko. “It destroys families and has torn apart the country. That’s pretty powerful.”

Here’s what Senko did about it: She made The Brainwashing of My Dad, a terrific documentary exploring how Fox News and other rightwing media turned her mild-mannered, nonpolitical father into ranting, raving, right-wing fanatic.

But how do you get your own dad to turn off Fox News?

“Speaking to loved ones is important but it’s difficult,” says Senko. “You have to approach them in a calm way, starting the conversation on neutral ground. Sometimes just getting them out of the house and away from the TV helps. There is a group called Hear Yourself Think (hearyourselfthink.org) that focuses on deprogramming Fox News viewers. You will find plenty of advice there.

But if you can sit down with your loved one and tell them you are concerned about their anger and their worry and you feel that Fox News is helping to generate that, it can be a conversation-opener.”

Go to thebrainwashingofmydad.com and watch the trailer to learn more about Senko’s terrific film.

On the Lovecast, a cavalcade of sex-toy questions: savagelovecast.com.

SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET AND FIND THE SAVAGE LOVECAST (DAN’S WEEKLY PODCAST) AT SAVAGELOVECAST.COM

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re in a phase of your cycle when you’ll be rewarded for your freshness and originality. The more you cultivate a “beginner’s mind,” the smarter you will be. What you want will become more possible to the degree that you shed everything you think you know about what you want. As the artist Henri Matisse said, if a truly creative painter hopes to paint a rose, he or she “first has to forget all the roses that were ever painted.” What would be the equivalent type of forgetting in your own life?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself?” asks poet B. Damani. If you posed that question to me right now, I would reply, “Yes, Gemini. You are still a hero if the only person you save is yourself.”

If you asked me to elaborate, I’d say, “In fact, saving yourself is the only way you can be a hero right now. You can’t rescue or fix or rehabilitate anyone else unless and until you can rescue and fix and rehabilitate yourself.” If you pushed me to provide you with a hint about how you should approach this challenge, I’d be bold and finish with a flourish: “Now I dare you to be the kind of hero you have always feared was beyond your capacity.”

“Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell.”

That noble truth was uttered by Libran philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and I bet it will be especially meaningful for most of you during the rest of 2016. The bad news is that in the past few months you’ve had to reconnoiter your own hell a little more than you would have liked, even if it has been pretty damn interesting. The good news is that these explorations will soon be winding down. The fantastic news is that you are already getting glimpses of how to use what you’ve been learning. You’ll be well prepared when the time comes to start constructing a new heaven.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible,” declares psychotherapist Thomas Moore. I agree. Our mental health thrives when we can have candid conversations with free spirits who don’t censor themselves and don’t expect us to water down what we say. This is always true, of course, but it will be an absolute necessity for you in the coming weeks. So I suggest that you do everything you can to put yourself in the company of curious minds that love to hear and tell the truth.

Look for opportunities to express yourself with extra clarity and depth. “To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion,” says Moore, “but it involves courage and risk.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I watched a video of a helicopter pilot as he descended from the sky and tried to land his vehicle on the small deck of a Danish ship patrolling the North Sea. The weather was blustery and the seas were choppy. The task looked at best strenuous, at worst impossible. The pilot hovered patiently as the ship pitched wildly. Finally there was a brief calm, and he seized on that moment to settle down safely. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may have a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming days. To be successful, all you have to do is be alert for the brief calm, and then act with swift, relaxed decisiveness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Show me a man who isn’t a slave,” wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca. “One is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.” Commenting on Seneca’s thought, blogger Ryan Holiday says, “I’m disappointed in my enslavement to self-doubt, to my resentment towards those that I dislike, to the power that the favor and approval of certain people hold over me.” What about you, Virgo? Are there any emotional states or bedeviling thoughts or addictive desires that you’re a slave to? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to emancipate yourself. As you do, remember this: There’s a difference between being compulsively driven by a delusion and lovingly devoted to a worthy goal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Zugzwang” is a German-derived word used in chess and other games. It refers to a predicament in which a player cannot possible make a good move. Every available option will weaken his or her position. I propose that we coin a new word that means the opposite of zugzwang: “zugfrei,” which shall hereafter signify a situation in which every choice you have in front of you is a positive or constructive one; you cannot make a wrong move. I think this captures the essence of the coming days for you, Scorpio.

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trick you into thinking you are smarter than you really are. Or they could cause you to miss simple and seemingly obvious truths that your sophisticated perspective is too proud to notice. Be a humble student, my dear.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The oracle I’m about to present may be controversial. It contains advice that most astrologers would never dare to offer an Aries. But I believe you are more receptive than usual to this challenge, and I am also convinced that you especially need it right now. Are you ready to be pushed further than I have ever pushed you? Study this quote from novelist Mark Z. Danielewski: “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience.

It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance.

Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We have to learn how to live with our frailties,” poet Stanley Kunitz told The Paris Review.

“The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.” That’s the keynote I hope you will adopt in the coming weeks. No matter how strong and capable you are, no matter how hard you try to be your best, there are ways you fall short of perfection. And now is a special phase of your astrological cycle when you can learn a lot about how to feel at peace with that fact.

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How do plants reproduce? They generate seeds that are designed to travel. Dandelion and orchid seeds are so light they can drift long distances through the air. Milkweed seeds are a bit heavier, but are easily carried by the wind. Foxglove and sycamore seeds are so buoyant they can float on flowing water. Birds and other animals serve as transportation for burdock seeds, which hook onto feather and fur. Fruit seeds may be eaten by animals and later excreted, fully intact, far from their original homes. I hope this meditation stimulates you to think creatively about dispersing your own metaphorical seeds, Capricorn. It’s time for you to vividly express your essence, make your mark, spread your influence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,”

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