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Shane Taylor grew up in a small town. He says the only other transgender person he knew didn’t come out until age 25 or so.

Today, you can’t tune into the news without hearing debates about transgender men and women having the right to use the bathroom of their choice. But Taylor says when he was in high school, he did his best to avoid the subject.

“I pretty much just tried not to go to the bathroom when I was at school,” Taylor says. “That’s pretty much how I got through it in high school — just tried to avoid it.”

But Taylor says the issue doesn’t go away when you become an adult. For trans men and women, unequal access to bathrooms can have dire health consequences. A 2013 study by the Williams Institute found that bathroom

discrimination can lead to health issues such as dehydration, urinary-tract infections, kidney infections and other kidney problems.

“A lot of us just avoid using bathrooms in public, which can lead to a lot of health problems,” says Taylor. “If we felt more

Pittsburgh schools’ proposed policies to protect transgender students go beyond the bathroom debate {BY REBECCA NUTTALL} comfortable going to a bathroom in a public place, that could be easily avoided.

Especially if you’re in high school, you’re in school seven or eight hours a day, that’s not healthy.”

But while lawmakers around the coun-

try are fighting to punish transgender men and women who use the bathroom aligning with their gender identity, some school districts are crafting policies to protect the rights of their trans students. Pittsburgh Public Schools is one of many districts in Pennsylvania working to prevent students from having experiences like Taylor’s.

“We’ve been really telling school districts, it’s important to get in front of this,” says Aimee Zundel, an attorney who is working with the city school system. “We think of it as beneficial to have a set of guidelines in writing so everyone in the community knows what’s going to happen. Just because this has come to the forefront — it’s in the national news — there’s a need right now for districts to take a stand and put that in writing.”

Unlike the debate that’s raging on news broadcasts and headlines nationally, PPS officials realize that the issue is much CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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broader than that. That understanding is obvious from their proposed transgenderstudent policy, which includes training for school staff and directives to create an all-around safer learning environment for trans students.

“This is a very critical moment that is ripe for us to address these issues. Hopefully we’ll see more school districts like Pittsburgh take the lead and enact policies and education to make sure their school is open to all students,” says Jason Landau Goodman, executive director of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, an LGBT youth organization. “The national conversation seems fixated on bathrooms and locker rooms. But this is about so much more.”

The district’s nondiscrimination policy was modeled after a policy implemented at Brashear High School two years ago.

It includes directives for respecting trans students’ preferred names and pronouns and allowing them to dress and use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities.

“It’s been implemented successfully over at Brashear,” says Zundel, who’s been working with the district’s policy committee since February. “The written guidelines Brashear has had in place for two school years align with what we believe the [U.S. Department of Education] Office of Civil Rights is telling schools across the country we really need to do to protect the rights of transgender students.”

Despite initial concerns from trans advocates, the district says it’s received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the policy. The school-board office has received more than 250 letters about the policy, and district spokesperson Ebony Pugh says the majority have been positive.

At the district’s public hearing last month, four people spoke in support of the policy and one spoke against it.

“Given the topic, we knew we were going to have to account for the rights of transgender students, but also the students who might present a challenge to the policy,” says Zundel. “One of the challenges we tackled was how do we write the policy for everyone and keep everyone in mind.”

The proposed policy includes training for school staff and education for students.

It also mandates that transgender students be allowed to participate in physical-education classes and sports that align with their gender identity. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc.’s

policy leaves decisions about what teams students can play on up to the school’s principal, based on district policies.

In addition, the policy also includes privacy provisions that protect student records and a student’s transgender status.

“If a student is seeking help from a counselor, those kinds of things should be kept private,” says Goodman. “If a student doesn’t feel like they have support at home, it’s important for students to feel like they can be themselves in school if they’re going to learn. Having a layer of privacy and confidentiality between school life and home life is important.

As long as it doesn’t cause any issues, there shouldn’t be any concern with a student being able to use certain pronouns in schools or a preferred name in school and not have that get back to a family that may not be supportive.”

Similar efforts are occurring around the state.

Last month, Great Valley and Springfield Township school boards, both near Philadelphia, were the first to adopt transgenderstudent policies in Pennsylvania. This week PPS and Pine Richland School District held meetings on their policies.

Philadelphia is also working on a policy.

“It’s absolutely critical to codify the support systems for trans students,” says Goodman. “We need the policy to ensure transgender students are in a position to assert their rights, and it establishes a baseline for support and affirmation from the school district. We can say we support trans students in the district, but if it’s not written down in policy, it’s hard to exactly say what that is. This gives guidance to teachers and school staff about all kinds of different areas of school life that are important to qualify.”

Pine Richland’s efforts have placed the district at the center of controversy. Even though schools in the district had maintained a practice of letting trans students use the bathrooms of their choosing, the recent decision to put the policy in writing drew the ire of conservative organizations nationally.

“No child should be forced into an intimate setting like a restroom or locker room with a person of the opposite sex,” said Alliance for Defending Freedom legal counsel Kellie Fiedorek in an April 26 news release. “Letting boys into girls’ restrooms is an invasion of privacy and a threat to children’s safety. The school district is subjecting itself to potential

“WE NEED THE POLICY TO ENSURE TRANSGENDER STUDENTS ARE IN A POSITION TO ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS.”

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But Katie Horowitz, vice president for education at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, says policies like the one being proposed in Pittsburgh are important for ensuring trans students have the same learning opportunities as other students.

“It puts in place system-level protections for these youth. Everybody deserves to feel safe and everybody deserves to have a learning environment where they feel comfortable and where they’re able to learn,” says Horowitz. “The more visible the support is in the school for these students, the more adults they know they can safely go to to discuss any issues they might be having, the more effective the policy is going to be and the more comfortable and safe those students are going to feel.”

These policies, Horowitz says, also help districts meet the requirements of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title IX civilrights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs and activities.

“Title IX protects transgender students,” says Horowitz. “The Office of Civil Rights made a very clear statement on that. I think it’s really important to be in compliance with that and to make it very clear our district supports all youth. We support all students, and we want a safe learning environment for everyone.”

Horowitz was especially impressed that Pittsburgh’s policy begins by outlining definitions useful for discussing gender identity and that it includes provisions mandating training for school staff.

“This is something that requires training. It requires people to understand the difference between biological sex and gender identity. People need a little help to come to a place where they can understand how to be respectful of trans students,” says Horowitz. “This is an issue I think people are starting to have more language around, but it’s something not everybody’s comfortable with, not everybody knows how to talk about it. So I think it’s great the way they really laid out gender identity and gender expression and really did a good job of explaining all of that terminology.”

Advocates say more education about the effects of trans discrimination is necessary. A recently released Georgia State University study found that a high pro-

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portion of the transgender individuals participating in this study — 46.5 percent — had a history of attempted suicide.

And that number jumped to 60.5 percent for those denied access to bathrooms.

“The research has been pretty clear that transgender students, in particular, experience negative health outcomes that we don’t see in other youth,” says Horowitz.

“And it’s pretty clear that a lot of these problems — suicide, anxiety, depression, substance abuse — are likely the result of the disproportionate stress they feel from being discriminated against in various environments: school, community, by peers.”

Pitt student Taylor has experienced the negative effects of discrimination at school first-hand. He says he wishes there were a transgender protection policy in place when he was in high school.

“I probably would’ve been a lot less dehydrated,” says Taylor. “I’d just avoid drinking anything until I got home from

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But Taylor also says district-wide policies are just the first step in helping transgender individuals feel safe and comfortable. And he says the national bathroom debate is a clear example of the work that still needs to be done.

“I’m still a student, and I have the experience of going to school every day and avoiding bathrooms if I can because it’s still a really uncomfortable situation,” says Taylor.

And while the national spotlight might cast him and other members of the trans community in a negative light, Taylor says he hopes the debate will ultimately lead to acceptance.

“Most people who oppose it just assume transgender people are child predators or that people who are child predators are going to pretend to be transgender to get to little girls. That’s just not the issue. Those people are going to do it either way,” Taylor says. “For kids in school, it’s a health and safety issue. Eventually I think people are going to realize it’s not as big a deal as people think it is.”

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What’s holding up Pennsylvania’s LGBT Fairness Act? {BY RYAN DETO} MOIRA MYERS IS a transgender woman

living in Beaver County and working in Butler County. From a love of the Steelers and Pirates to Lenten fish fries, these two counties to the north share many similarities to Allegheny County.

But there’s one big difference. In Allegheny County, Myers can’t be fired for being a trans woman.

“Working in Butler County means I don’t have the protection,” writes Myers in an email to City Paper. “Luckily I have a stable place of residence, [but] living in Beaver County means it’s legal to deny me a job because my gender presentation and ID don’t match.”

Allegheny County passed LGBT nondiscrimination laws in 2009, but the vast majority of Pennsylvania offers no such protections. Various forms of nondiscrimination legislation have stalled for more than a decade in the commonwealth.

Last summer, the state House and Senate introduced their own versions of legislation known as the Pennsylvania Fairness Act. The bills included co-sponsorship from 17 Republican legislators and would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Gov. Tom Wolf says he supports the bill, and he recently signed an executive order that provides LGBT protections to all state employees. The Pennsylvania Human Rights Campaign reports that recent surveys show more than 75 percent of Pennsylvanians support the bill. However, both bills have sat idle.

When HB 1510 was introduced in August 2015, state House Speaker Mike Turzai placed the bill in Butler County Republican state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe’s state-government committee. Metcalfe has long been an inflexible opponent of LGBT rights. In fact, several iterations of past nondiscrimination bills have died in his committee.

“It is clear to many people that if it gets to the floor, it will pass,” says Allegheny County Democratic Rep. Dan Frankel. “It has dawned on the opponents that it will pass, and they are acting on that.”

Metcalfe did not return calls for comment.

Frankel is somewhat optimistic about this bill’s future but says, “We need to find a way around Rep. Metcalfe.”

Frankel hopes the Senate bill fares better. The bill, SB 974, was placed in Dauphin County Republican Sen. Mike Folmer’s

state-government committee. (Folmer was instrumental in getting bipartisan support for the state’s newly passed medical-marijuana bill.)

Folmer says “no one should be fired because they are gay,” but says he is concerned that people’s religious liberties could be violated and wants to hold a public hearing before considering the bill.

The Fairness Act and medical-marijuana bill both had bipartisan support and overwhelming public support, and both stalled because Turzai directed them to house committees that he knew wouldn’t move them.

When asked about such similarities, Folmer says the Fairness Act does not have the same sense of urgency.

“I don’t see the urgency here, at least not the same compared to medical-marijuana bill,” says Folmer. “No one is dying.”

Ted Martin, director of Equality Pennsylvania, a statewide LGBT-advocacy group, disagrees. He says that the state has been trying to pass some version of the Fairness Act for 13 years, seven years longer than the medical-marijuana bill. And he adds that thousands of Pennsylvanians might disagree that there is no urgency to get the Fairness Act passed.

“I understand where [Sen. Folmer] is coming from, but he should also pay attention to the thousands of people who have spoken to legislators,” says Martin. “I don’t know what more urgency the senator would like.”

Local LGBT activist and blogger Sue Kerr has been documenting the stories of LGBT individuals from across the state.

She says she has received more than 150 responses and that “almost every person lists statewide non-discrimination among their top priorities.”

Frankel emphasizes the bill’s importance not only as a human-rights issue, but also an economic one. He says all Fortune 500 companies in the state have LGBT nondiscrimination protections and adds that Pennsylvania is missing an opportunity to stand out compared to other states. “That is what attracts investments and interest from young people.”

Martin agrees and says the law could also boost economic development in the state: “At a time when other state legislators are making wrong-spirited decisions that hurt citizens like in North Carolina, why wouldn’t we want to do this?”

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don is the Pirates general manager and not me. In an earlier column, I heavily questioned the Bucs’ offseason moves, but it turns out that, like with countless other things, I was wrong. Who would’ve thought that John Jaso, Jonathon Niese and Ryan Voglesong would be good moves? Neal Huntingdon did.

John Jaso Jingleheimer Schmidt (as I call him) is the most successful white guy in dreadlocks since the singer of the Counting Crows. It’s still early, but the career .266 hitter with 15 lifetime stolen bases has flourished as the team’s leadoff hitter. Jaso is also a defensive upgrade from Pedro Alvarez. (I’m hoping that some fan will emerge as “Fake Jaso” because we all miss “Fake Pedro.”) The guy hitting behind Jaso is the only guy not hitting so far, and that’s Andrew McCutchen. Cutch has achieved the status of being angry-fan-bulletproof, a feat matched only

by Sidney Crosby. We have booed greats like Barry Bonds, Evgeni Malkin and Jaromir Jagr when they’ve struggled, but not McCutchen. But deservedly so, because there’s nothing to worry about here. One night last week, against the Rockies, Cutch blasted three homers. He might just be secretly jealous of Jaso’s dreads, since he shaved off his braids a couple seasons ago.

Johnathon Niese was almost set up to fail. He’s the guy we received in the Neil Walker trade. Walker was beloved, and nobody was happy to see Niese don the black and gold. As of writing this, though, Niese leads the entire staff in wins. Sure Neil is having an almost steroid-era surge of power in New York, but pitching is always more important. Last year, Niese was relegated to bullpen duty with the defending National League champion Metropolitans, but then he caught a dose of some Ray Searage magic.

Searage — the Pitch Doctor (awesome nickname) — managed to have a journeyman’s career in the bigs, compiling a less-than-stellar 11-13 record.

Perhaps if Searage would have had himself for a pitching coach, he could have fixed himself. Thank God we have him

now. Searage came to the Pirates before the start of the 2010 season. Back then you were either desperate to be in the big leagues or a masochist if you signed on to be part of the Pirates organization. The West Liberty University grad was just glad to be in a major-league park after spending time in Indianapolis with the team’s AAA affiliate. He has resurrected the careers of A.J. Burnett, Francisco Liriano, Edinson Volquez, J.A. Happ and now Niese. Searage is so good I’m afraid someone is going to take him away from us.

Management threw a lot of work his way. His other projects include Ryan Voglesong, Juan Nicasio and Neftali Feliz. None of those pitchers have underperformed in the early going. Now if he could just solve the mystery that is Jeff Locke. If not, Jameson Taillon and Tyler Glasnow are waiting to take Locke’s spot in the rotation.

The offensive additions of Matt Joyce and David Freese have proven to be upgrades over Travis Snyder and the recently departed utility man Michael Morse. At one point late in the first month of the season, 10 of the 12 position players were hitting more than .300. The only two exceptions were Chris Stewart and McCutchen. Good problem to have, because Cutch always slumps in the first month, then comes storming back the next five. Once Jung Ho Kang returns, this is a deep and talented offensive unit.

In fact, the only thing standing in the way of a division title is the stupid Chicago Cubs. The Bucs have made three straight postseason appearances but have yet to hang a division-title banner.

I’m glad the Pirates don’t put up wildcard banners in their stadium like some teams do. Those teams are losers. Speaking of losers, the Cubs are extremely overconfident for a team that hasn’t had a pennant since early in the Harry S. Truman administration. They’re off to a hot start, but not all their phenoms can work out; it’s just impossible. Somewhere along the road the ghost of Steve Bartman or the Billy Goat will get them.

I think 2016 could very well be the year the Pirates finally put up that banner.

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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.

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FIFTEEN MINUTES AND THEN SOME (May 4, 1994)

At this point, The Andy Warhol Museum is as much a part of the city’s cultural scene as Heinz Hall or the Carnegie Natural History Museum. But it had to start somewhere and that date would be May 13, 1994. To mark the occasion, CP featured Warhol on the cover and produced a slate of stories on the new museum, as well as Warhol’s net worth, his legacy and even his relationship with music: “He couldn’t be said to love music. It was more an infatuation, marked by brief, intense affairs.”

WHAT FAKE YOUNG PEOPLE WANT

Broadway, film and television actor Anthony Rapp isn’t a Pittsburgher. But the talented actor — a star from the original cast of the musical and film version of Rent (and who played Daryl Coopersmith in Adventures in Babysitting, a film beloved

by Gen-Xers everywhere) — is no stranger to performing here, particularly at City Theatre. Rapp turned heads in 2003 when he took on the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and turned in a nationally acclaimed performance. A year later, he returned to the venue to work on his brother Adam’s play Gompers. Then in 2012, Rapp returned to City Theatre to portray Andy Warhol in Pop!, a musical about the day Warhol was shot. All great credentials, but why is this a moment in CP history? Because he was featured on the cover of Issue 18 in 2004 and then again in issue 18 in 2012. Need more proof of the stars aligning? Further research shows that Adam Rapp debuted his new play, Blackbird, at City Theatre in 2002.

No Rapp on the cover this time, but the theatre’s artistic director, Tracy Brigden, was.

Wanna take a wild guess what issue number that was? Consider your mind blown!

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Writer William Loeffler III relayed the tales of several orchestral musicians who made their living traveling the country playing events. One of those stories involves trombonist Bob Moir, who once played a campaign event for Sen. Teddy Kennedy, in Boston. Kennedy stiffed Moir and the rest of the quartet out of $300 bucks. “I wrote a letter to Sen. Kennedy. I even told him I voted for him and I still didn’t get paid.”

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There was a time when the burning question on everyone’s mind was: “How do we keep young people in Pittsburgh?”

Leaders would constantly ask the question and there would be focus groups of young people to find out what they desired from

Pittsburgh. Well, CP was no different, and this issue featured a panel of young residents under the headline: “What Young People Want.” The young professionals were pointed and very frank. “As an artist, I don’t vote.

I don’t need to. It’s my job to comment on society, not participate in it,” said Philip Wight, a 27-year-old who recently moved back to the area. And what set our panel discussion apart from all the others? We

made it up. Every bit of it was concocted by editor Andy Newman and several staffers, including current staffers Al Hoff and Bill O’Driscoll. Hoff recalls the issue garnered a lot of angry letters — half from people pissed off by the shallow comments made by the panelists and the other half pissed off because the shallow panelists weren’t real.

DOGGONE RIDICULOUS (May 3, 2006)

In 2005, during the protest of a military recruitment center, Carole Wiedmann, of Sewickley, was bitten on the rear by a police dog as she tried to disperse as officers ordered. She was then arrested and charged with failure to disperse. Later that year, a city magistrate bounced the charges from court, and Wiedmann prepared to file a federal lawsuit. In this issue, Marty Levine wrote about the police, who in a nearly unprecedented move, re-filed charges against Wiedmann. Her attorney says it was in retaliation for the lawsuit. The charges would again be dismissed, and Wiedmann would reach a financial settlement with the city.

BREAKFAST WITH DENUCCI (May 2, 2012)

Charlie Deitch, who’s always had a penchant for writing about professional wrestling, sat down with Pittsburgh wrestling legend Dominic DeNucci, now 84, a week before he was to be inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. The piece told the story of a frenetic 90-minute breakfast at a suburban Denny’s and gave insight into an Italian immigrant and furniture upholsterer who found fame in professional wrestling and a quiet life in the area.

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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Some 400,000 pounds is a lot of weight for a 1-year-old to carry. But in March, 412 Food Rescue marked its anniversary with that tonnage of edible food saved from landfills and distributed to the needy, says CEO Leah Lizarondo, who co-founded the nonprofit with Gisele Fetterman.

Donors provide the food, whether it’s been mislabeled, misdelivered or is simply nearing its sell-by date. 412 Food Rescue quickly matches donations to recipients nearby, from food pantries to public-housing complexes. Deliveries are made (usually within 24 hours) by the group’s 200 active volunteer drivers.

The nonprofit, which is funded by foundations and individual donors, keeps growing. Recently, it announced a partnership with Giant Eagle, the region’s largest food retailer. Three Giant Eagles in Pittsburgh’s East End are currently among the group’s 75 donor sites, along with food distributors like Gordon Food Services and Paragon Foods.

The recipients, all nonprofits, number 100, says Lizarondo.

New donors are always welcome, she says — bakeries are currently wanted — as are volunteers. Even Zipcar is helping: The alternative car-rental network will shortly begin offering usage credits to volunteer food-rescuers who lack their own vehicles. (Most donations fit in a passenger car.)

All the rescued food is fresh — the kind that’s hardest for needy folks to access. More than half is fresh fruits and vegetables, a disproportionate amount being short-lived salad greens. As Lizarondo quips, “I can never look at mesclun mix the same way again.”

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From its authentic origins in Spanish cuisine, the concept soon broadened to become near-synonymous with appetizer-size portions of anything. Meanwhile, appetizers themselves morphed into “small plates,” designed — like their Spanish antecedents — to encourage a more informal, flexible and adventurous style of dining. And with that, the word tapas has more or less shrunk back to its original, specifically Spanish meaning.

So it is at Morcilla, the new Butler Street venture of charcuterie hero Justin Severino. In a city that had scarcely heard of tapas 10 years ago, Severino goes all in to create the kind of urban tapas experience one might have in Seville or Madrid, where an evening out entails roaming

from bar to bar and grazing on a tapa or two at each stop. To encourage this kind of sophisticated snacking, the front of the restaurant features a pintoso, a

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CP APPROVED standing-room-only bar topped with a display case of prepared pintxos. These are small snacks on toast that uncannily resemble sushi or, even more fancifully, petit-fours in their artful bite-sized-ness.

But that’s a mere starting point. On the menu we received when seated at our table, there were more than a dozen pintxo options ranging from classic jamon-wrapped tortilla to oyster escabeche with pickled grapes. All were grounded in classic Spanish preparations and ingredients — jamon, bacalao (salt cod), nuts. But touches like ramp aioli speak to both local produce and Severino’s own Italian background, while bold flavor combinations, such as white asparagus with vanilla, sherry, chervil and orange blossom, brought adventurousness without ever abandoning the essence of the tapas form.

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crab-and-tarragon churro was long and coiled upon itself like a friendly dough serpent. Soft and succulent, it was irresistible dipped in the accompanying idiazadal fondue sauce, made from a smoky sheep-milk cheese.

In addition to pintxos, the menu includes montaditos (little sandwiches on rolls), croquetas (savory fried cakes) and plates (small entrees), as well as platters (more suitable for sharing). But even the smallest morsels seemed designed for sharing and nibbling, in part because the flavors were so varied and interesting that it was near-impossible to keep them for ourselves, or to resist sampling off another’s plate.

Croquetas were comprised mostly of traditional ingredients — goat cheese, salt cod, jamon — with upscale flourishes such as rhubarb and rosemary or lemon-honey. Pig’s feet and cheeks, though, was a Severino special. Not only was the filling untraditional and the pork meltingly, lusciously tender, but the whole approach, more like a pastry than a fried cake, was amazing.

Montadito Matrimonio was indeed a great marriage of punchy salted black anchovies and vinegary, freshly marinated white ones dressed in lemony olive oil. But the Morcilla sausage montadito was Angelique’s favorite: big, soft, mild yet robust blood sausage, served with a delectable dollop of spinach bechamel and tiny, sweet piquillo peppers.

A plate of pulpo escabeche was also extraordinary. Firm yet tender marinated octopus tentacles kept harmonious company with creamy pieces of boiled potato, piquant rings of pepper and, wondrously, potato espuma, or potato foam. Essentially mashed potatoes whipped to a consistency as light and fluffy as whipped cream, it lent this dish an otherworldly richness. On a more poetic menu, this dish might be called “Octopus in the Clouds.”

A final plate, conserva de cerdo a la plancha, was a final triumph, a symphonic harmony of sweet pepper piperade enriched with supple confit pork. Strips of juicy griddled pork doubled down on the porcine succulence, while firm morsels of garbanzo and strips of faintly bitter rapini cut any excess richness.

All of this was enjoyed in an atmosphere unmistakably Spanish, with Moorish accents and laser-cut plywood lanterns projecting geometric patterns on the walls. These gorgeous lanterns, simultaneously traditional and modern, casual and sophisticated, were a perfect emblem of Morcilla’s approach to tapas.

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{BY CELINE ROBERTS}

DEAR ABBEY New Butler Street venue has a corner on atmosphere

Who says you can’t drink in church ... or in a bronze, brass and aluminum foundry ... or in a funeral home?

Those are the previous incarnations of what is now the The Abbey on Butler Street, a new bar, coffee house and restaurant. After three years of preparation, The Abbey opened for business at the beginning of April.

The footprint of the indoor space is vast and cruciform. Underneath the vaulted ceilings are two bars, a dining room and a cozy-feeling coffee bar. Little nooks are tucked throughout, offering corners for quiet conversation. The decor is modern-meets-Old-England, with large windows, dark wood and several couches. A stained-glass window that hangs above the coffee bar is a reclaimed treasure from Construction Junction. Golden calligraphy of the

“WE WANT TO KEEP IT APPROACHABLE AND FUN.” lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody” wraps around the molding of the main hall.

The 2,500-square-foot outdoor patio is complete with a fireplace, and its centerpiece is a decorative fountain.

The Lawrenceville venue manages to be both cavernous and inviting, with a focus on retaining some of the charm of its previous lives.

The drink menu mirrors the space.

“We want to keep it approachable and fun,” says bar manager Melissa Schafer. Wine is available by the glass and bottle, with a few offerings from Pittsburgh Winery. All the cocktails come with a reasonable $10 price tag. Most of the recipes riff on the classics, with a little added flair. The Alma de Jalisco and the Old Pal were refreshing, balanced and booze-forward. Plans are in the works to feature different cocktail menus at both bars. The front bar features 20 taps with local and national craft brews as well as PBR. The coffee shop is equipped with a nitro system and plans to dedicate two taps to beer as well for afternoon drinking.

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AMEL’S. 435 McNeilly Road, Baldwin. 412-563-3466. This South Hills institution serves up a broad selection of Mediterranean favorites, from kabobs and pilafs to lemony salads, as well as staples of the American and Italian comfort cuisine. Amel’s atmosphere is lively with seating in the restaurant’s amusing and lavishly decorated warrens. KE BIGELOW GRILLE: REGIONAL COOKING AND BAR. Doubletree Hotel, One Bigelow Square, Downtown.

412-281-5013. This upscale restaurant offers fine foods with Steeltown flair, like “Pittsburgh rare” seared tuna (an innovation borrowed from steelworkers cooking meat on a blast furnace).

The menu is loaded with similar ingenious combinations and preparations. KE BISTRO 9101. 9101 Perry Highway, McCandless.

412-318-4871. This North Hills bistro offers a fresh take on familiar fare, in a white-tablecloth-casual setting, such as: pig wings,” salmon cakes, a brisket burger on a pretzel bun and “Jambalini” — a riff on jambalya in which shrimp, mussels and scallops were served over fetticini in a “spicy” tomato broth. LE

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412-241-4666. This established venue is known for its revered pub fries and the classic wiener with kraut (plus plenty of beer to wash it down). But don’t miss the pizza, with a top-notch crust. D’s continues to raise the preparation of salty, cheesy, fatty comfort food to an art. JE

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DELUCA’S. 2015 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-566-2195.

DeLuca’s doesn’t have the White House cachet of Pamela’s, but the portions are large and the quarters are close. On weekends,

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THE CAPITAL GRILLE. 301 Fifth Ave., Downtown. 412-338-9100.

This dark, clubby restaurant excels at VIP service, and offers a menu highlighted by steaks, chops and seafood, with sophisticated but straightforward preparations such as crab cakes with added lobster, or steak encrusted in Kona coffee beans.

Also, the Grille employs its own butcher (for cutting and dry-aging), and desserts are made on site. LE CHICKEN LATINO. 155 21st St., Strip District. 412-246-0974.

This quick-serve chicken joint serves up Peruvian-style, wood-fired and deliciously seasoned rotisserie chicken.

Besides the bird, hamburgers and the occasional special (pork, ceviche), sides include such south-of-the-border staples as plantains, refried beans and fried yucca. J

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412-262-2920. This stylish and cheery diner offers a variety of pancakes, as well as sandwiches and combo platters of breakfast foods. The “Mama Evans” pancakes are filled with blueberries and bacon, a combination that is smoky, sweet and savory all at once.

Also on offer: muffuleta, a New Orleans-style multi-layered and pressed sandwich. J FRANKTUARY. 3810 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-7224. The

longtime Downtown hotdoggery expands its menu here in an attractive sit-down space, with creatively dressed hot dogs, a variety of poutines (loaded French fries) and hand-crafted cocktails. The focus is on local and sustainable, with meats, veg and grains from nearby sources. JE

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GAUCHO PARRILLA. 1607 Penn Ave., Strip District.

412-709-6622. Wood-fired meat and vegetables, paired with delectable sauces, make this Argentine-barbecue eatery worth stopping at. The beef, chicken, sausage and seafood is all infused with flavor from the wood grill. Add-on sauces include: chimichurri; ajo (garlic and herbs in olive oil); cebolla, with caramelized onions; and the charred-pepper pimenton. KF

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JG’S TARENTUM STATION GRILLE. 101 Station Drive, Tarentum. 724-226-3301. An old-school continental menu and a well-restored train station make this restaurant a destination. The menu leans toward Italian fine dining, plus steaks and chops. But well-charred chicken Louisiana and dishes featuring habañero and poblano peppers denote some contemporary American updating. LE LULA. 515 Broad St., Sewickley.

412-749-1200. Seating at this informal tapas bar is lounge-style indoors, and in warm weather, along the sidewalk at café tables.

The menu, which also offers a few entrees, is eclectic, and suggestive of Mediterranean cafés, with plenty of seafood, cured meats, cheeses and seasonal produce. Portions are adequate for sharing, if you can bear to part with, say, asparagus spears wrapped in ham. KE

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Piacquadio’s {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} PAPAYA. 210 McHolme Drive, Robinson. 412-494-3366. Papaya offers a fairly typical Thai menu — from pad Thai to panang curry — augmented by sushi and a few generic Chinese dishes. The selection may have erred more on the side of reliability than excitement, but the presentations show that the kitchen is making an impression. KE PASTITSIO. 3716 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-7656.

This tiny storefront café boasts a Greek deli, complete with a steam table and a display cooler with salads. Its namesake baked-noodle casserole is a winner, but much of the menu changes daily according to what’s fresh. J

ROYAL MYANMAR. 644 Center Ave., West View. 412-415-3380.

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

SOUTH SIDE BARBECUE COMPANY. 75 S. 17th St. South Side. 412-381-4566. Graduating from a food truck, this venue offers barbecued meat — enormous wings, St. Louis-style ribs, and pulled pork and chicken, also available as sandwiches.

The adventurous can PIACQUADIO’S. www. per try the “bar-b-cone,” a a p 300 Mount Lebanon pghcitym waffle cone filled with o .c Blvd., Mount Lebanon. mac-and-cheese, pulled 412-745-3663. There’s pork and slaw, topped still pleasure to be had in with sauce. KE old-fashioned breaded chicken and veal, served up at this SUN PENANG. 5829 Forbes Ave., classic Italian-American Squirrel Hill. 412-421-7600. Sun restaurant. Indulge in oldPenang’s aesthetic is Asian — school comfort foods, such as simple but not austere — and to manicotti (made with crepes) peruse its menu is to explore the and beans and greens (with cuisines of Thailand, Malaysia and sausage), as well as chicken Singapore. The Pangan ikan is a and pastas specials. KE house specialty, and the Malaysian kway teow (practically the PINO’S CONTEMPORARY country’s national dish) may be ITALIAN. 6738 Reynolds St., the best you ever have without Point Breeze. 412-361-1336. The a tourist visa. JE menu at this Italian eatery spans from sandwiches that hearken TIN FRONT CAFÉ. 216 E. Eighth back to its pizzeria days, through Ave., Homestead. 412-461-4615. pastas of varying sophistication, to Though the menu is brief, inventive, modern entrees. Some inventive vegetarian meals push dishes pull out the stops, including past the familiar at this charming seafood Newburg lasagna and Homestead café. The emphasis is veal with artichokes, peppers, on fresh, local and unexpected, olives and wild mushrooms over such as asparagus slaw or beet risotto. But don’t forgo the risotto. In season, there’s a flatbread pizzas, many with charming rear patio. JE gourmet options. KE UNION PIG AND CHICKEN. 220 ROOT 174. 1113 S. Braddock Ave., N. Highland Ave., East Liberty.

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412-363-7675. This lively familyThe foundation of the menu style BBQ venue hews closely is also a basic formula: fresh, to tradition. The smoked meats local and seasonal ingredients. (ribs, brisket, pork shoulder and To this, add an adventurous chicken) are “dry” (with sauces selection of meat products, at table), and the sides are wellsuch as bone-marrow brûlée and prepared classics: mac-and-cheese, smoked salmon sausage. Dishes baked beans, collard greens and have lengthy ingredient lists, but coleslaw. Prices are higher than a it all comes together in satisfying roadside stand, but the quality is and surprising ways. LE top-notch. KE

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THINKING SMALL With so many venues in Pittsburgh showcasing touring national acts, it’s easy to forget the depth and breadth of the local scene. Liz Berlin and Mike Speranzo, owners of Mr. Smalls Theatre, hope to change that with their new venue, the Funhouse, which held a slew of kickoff events beginning on April 15.

“The need for the new space was recognized over the last 10 years, 15 years.

We realized that it was hard to include local, original artists into the mix because of the way national campaigns and national touring artists want to handle their business,” Speranzo says. “They use their opening slots to their advantage and sometimes helping Pittsburgh locals is not in their best interest.”

Utilizing the space formerly occupied by Mr. Smalls Skatepark, the Funhouse, situated adjacent to the theater, will serve as an intimate alternative to the theater and will host local, regional and national acts. Shows will be booked simultaneously at the two venues, so that artists performing at the Funhouse can be discovered by patrons of the larger venue. “The Theater guests are allowed to go into the Funhouse any time that they want and it’s in the local artists’ benefit that they do so,” Speranzo says.

“What we try to do is book an act in the Funhouse that would be like genres, so we can help them get in front of audiences that might not already know about them.”

The Funhouse booking will be built around weekly open-stage, artist-showcase events. On Monday nights, the longrunning AcoustiCafe event (formerly held at Club Café) will provide an open stage for artists to network and perform in a casual, low-stakes environment. On Thursday nights, the Funhouse will host Centrifuge: a Cross-Genre EDM Showcase Night, which is billed as an open stage for local and regional DJs and producers.

Without the success of Mr. Smalls Theatre, the Funhouse wouldn’t exist.

Berlin and Speranzo view it as an investment in the community. “Because we have Smalls the theater, it gives us the opportunity to allow the bands to get paid a little bit more,” Sperzano says. “[T]he patronage that people give to Smalls Theater allows us to have this opportunity for our local community.”

WITHOUT THE SUCCESS OF MR. SMALLS THEATRE, THE FUNHOUSE WOULDN’T EXIST.

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Purple haze: Baroness (John Baizley, second from left)

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OHN BAIZLEY doesn’t seem to believe

in small undertakings. After the last Baroness record, 2012’s 75-minute double album Yellow and Green, his follow-up with the band had to be filled with outsized ambition — “a monstrous project,” as he calls it. Since it’d be challenging to top the band’s third album in length or relative accessibility, Baizley found new ways to make the latest release, Purple, a massive endeavor.

Baizley’s approach to work, which he describes to me as both “manic” and “obsessive compulsive,” extends far beyond what comes through the headphones. His instantly recognizable artwork graces the cover of every Baroness record, along with those of other bands, such as Kvelertak and Pig Destroyer. When it came time to start thinking about the cover, he knew he wanted Purple’s art to be the most am-

bitious and detailed piece of his career. “If I tried to calculate the actual man-hours spent on this, I may not ever make another painting,” Baizley writes in an email.

He spent months prepping, sketching, photographing, researching and getting his thoughts on scraps of paper before starting

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to paint. Baizley sought to create a mighty work that could be split into quadrants, with each retaining meaning when viewed on its own. The finished product keeps good on that promise: it’s an enthralling painting that shows four women surrounded by

animals, with each woman augmented by dozens of a certain item: nails, swarming bees, flowers and seed pods. Its level of detail continues to reveal itself even after a ninth or 10th glance — a fact that Baizley refined to a specific point. “I refuse to stop working on something until I feel it’s at the point where any addition would be superfluous, and any subtraction would dilute the meaning,” Baizley writes.

The album art nods to finding beauty and triumph in pain, which is completely of a piece with Purple’s themes and the narrative surrounding it. Soon after the release of Yellow and Green, Baroness very publicly recovered from a devastating bus accident in England. Fortunate to be alive, Baizley and the band had to slowly rebuild in the aftermath.

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and guitarist Peter Adams to recruit a new rhythm section. They lucked into the current incarnation of Baroness, by way of stellar recommendations from friends: Bassist Nick Jost and drummer Sebastian Thomson were the only replacements they considered. In the new lineup, Baizley is careful to counterbalance holding memory of the accident in reverence and looking to the future with open eyes.

“We had life before that moment, and we will continue to have life now that it’s in the past,” Baizley says. “So the tricky thing is being respectful without being negligent, while simultaneously trying to move ourselves forward and create whatever comes next.”

As the first musical reaction to the accident, Baroness was especially cognizant of the context in which Purple would be viewed. “The initial consensus was to write a very high-energy album, to avoid the potential pitfall of writing something too obviously mired in the wake of our accident,” Baizley says. Purple contains some of the most beautiful, melodic and triumphant moments of the band’s career — all without compromising its essential heaviness.

Without addressing the accident directly, there are songs explicitly concerned with the jolt of survival and the trying mental costs of physical pain. And, somehow, Baroness further abandoned its sludge metal roots with some of the biggest riffs, hooks and choruses packaged into enormous rock songs. “Shock Me” and “The Iron Bell” deserve to be played in spaces 10 times larger than Baroness will be performing on this current tour.

To realize this propulsive and life-affirming vision, Baroness sought out a producer who’d been at the top of Baizley’s list since the beginning: Dave Fridmann. The super-producer, whom Baizley dubs equal parts “engineering genius” and “mad scientist,” has molded most of the Flaming Lips’ discography and pushed indie acts like Low and Spoon to warped, louder places. His method was to subtly dismantle pristine Baroness recordings. “The first part of that equation is to get a nice clean and technically perfect recording, so that when we destroy the sounds, we can mangle them in any direction we like,” Baizley writes.

He tells me that this is how Baroness has always worked, and how it plans to continue its work. Baizley’s obsessive artistic tendencies are unlikely to slow in the future, and he’s already looking ahead to wider horizons for the band’s next (and likely color-coded) record.

“I’m driven to make an attempt to outdo myself with every subsequent project, and I am excited and terrified to see what happens next.”

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with Gary Louris of the Jayhawks {BY TROY MICHAEL}

The Jayhawks (Gary Louris, second from right)

Three decades in, The Jayhawks are still best known for the 1995 single “Blue,” from the record, Tomorrow the Green Grass. The band never reached superstar status, but the Jayhawks remains a relevant force in Americana. Lead singer/songwriter Gary Louris talked to CP ahead of a May 15 show at Mr. Smalls.

WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THE BAND’S LONGEVITY TO? I think our music has no particular time and place. Our music is the music you can grow older with. It seems to be reaching different generations. We have fans now who bring their kids to our shows. I think, also, our failures as a band have worked in our favor in terms of longevity.

WAS THERE A LETDOWN AFTER THAT SUCCESS OF TOMORROW THE GREEN GRASS? I wouldn’t consider that album a huge hit, not by label standards. … [It was] more of a cult hit. The perception of the Jayhawks was bigger than the reality because of READ L L U THE F W that song and album.

IE V R INTE We’ve always felt we E IN L N O . were on the cusp of at wwwp pa er something bigger, but pghcitym .co never got there. It was frustrating at the time.

I wasn’t appreciative of … everything we accomplished. I am older; I am proud of our history.

THE BAND’S ORIGINAL CORE IS BACK, BUT IT STILL SEEMS LIKE A NEW INCARNATION. I went through drug and alcohol treatment, and it changed my whole life personally and musically. I feel like this is the first time I am fully engaged with the band. It’s more rewarding now.

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Playing like a five-person band: The Lopez

IN FOR THE KILL {BY CARALYN GREEN} FOR A BAND that identifies as “bratty

snot rock,” the Lopez sure covers some seriously deep, dark stuff. The local husband-wife duo’s new 7-inch EP, brilliantly titled Kill Yr Selfie, sounds like a kegger in your parents’ basement, but feels like waking up.

Steph and Jesse Flati, who’ve been playing music together for the 10-ish years they’ve also been a couple, say that the fun part is trying to get serious messages into melodic, synth-punk tunes.

THE LOPEZ/COTOPAXI CO-RELEASE SHOW

WITH THE VILLAGE BICYCLE, BLOD MAUD 9 p.m. Fri., May 6. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $7. 412-682-0320 or www.howlerspittsburgh.com

Kill Yr Selfie opens with “Cubito Aequat,” a fuzzed-out sing-along about how social media destroys us all, then moves into the crusty, spiraling “Slaughterhouse” (takeaway: hospitals really suck), and “What I Say” which makes pointed jabs at a transphobic Pittsburgh PostGazette column from last year. Steph sings, yelps and demands, “Call me by

my name, call what I said / Call me by my name, is it so hard to relate?,” and directly lifts language from the op-ed, which repeatedly referred to Caitlyn Jenner as a “he” and, yup, a “bearded lady.”

There’s also a cover of the 1988 Beat Happening and Screaming Trees collaboration “Sea Babies,” for which Steph got direct approval from Beat Happening frontman and K Records founder Calvin Harris. She recalls dialing a number she found on the K Records website at 3 p.m. on some random Thursday. “Hello,” a familiar voice answered the phone.

“Is this K Records?” Steph asked. Slowly, it dawned on her that she was speaking with one of her biggest creative inspirations. Johnson told Steph to cover as many of his songs, as many times as she’d like.

“Best day ever,” says Steph.

Kill Yr Selfie is the Lopez’s third release. It follows the three-song 7-inch “Fur,” which the duo released in 2013, and a full-length cassette, Travel Fast, which came out in 2014. The Lopez recorded Kill Yr Selfie last year with locally based audio engineer Madeleine Campbell, who they met through Girls Rock Pittsburgh. “They are just so connected and locked in to what the other one is

thinking and feeling,” says Campbell.

“They’re two people playing like a fiveperson band.”

At one point, years ago, the Lopez played with a live drummer and bassist, but now they’re committed to a drum machine with synthesized bass and multiple guitar tracks. The sound is layered and loud with touches of riot grrrl and prog rock. Vocals are intentionally buried — just another texture in the distorted, dingy collage that Jesse calls a “sonic clusterfuck.” Steph references the Breeders and Babes in Toyland, which she discovered as a kid thanks to Beavis and ButtHead. “We learned more from Beavis and Butt-Head than we ever learned from school,” agrees Jesse.

Speaking of school, Steph is an art teacher at one, so the upcoming summer break is prime time for touring. The Lopez is planning two separate tours — one to New England, one around the Midwest. Other warmer-weather plans include getting back into the studio with Campbell as soon as possible. They plan to put out a new single by the end of the year, and will be releasing a video for Kill Yr Selfie’s “What I Say” this spring.

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[GARAGE PUNK] + FRI., MAY 05 The fuzzy, fussy ’tude of local garage-punks Murder For Girls is at times surfy, reverby and dreamy, and other times screechy and frustrated. It brings to mind a mixture of ’90s Pacific Northwest riot grrrl and modern Best Coaststyle pop. Two legendary alt-rock Kims are clear influences on Murder For Girls: Gordon, of Sonic Youth, and specifically her blurry, druggy, “say it, don’t spray it” vocals; and Deal, of The Breeders and The Pixies. This gives MFG’s work an almost sinister and brooding understated tone. Tonight, at the Thunderbird Café, the band releases a new record, All the Wishes, with Sun Hound and Reign Check opening. Andrew Woehrel 9 p.m.

4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5.

412-682-0177 or www.thunder birdcafe.net

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the expectations of what the label “punk” means. (And really, what’s more punk than that?) Veteran drummer Sam Pace is easily one of the best and most creative percussionists in Pittsburgh, and vocalist/bassist Gina Favano’s mystical wailing sounds like the tormented ghost of Grace Slick (but wait, isn’t she still alive?). And that’s not to downplay the scratchy and ethereal guitar-playing of Aaron Lindberg.

Come Holy Spirit is just one of several outstanding acts playing tonight at the Women in Sound #2 Zine Release, at Babyland (not the empty storefront at the corner of Penn and Negley, but the warehouse in Polish Hill run by the art collective). Others on the bill include: Philly two-piece Trophy Wife, locals Vostok and Minneapolis’ RONiiA. This event benefits Decarcerate PA, a grassroots campaign which seeks to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.

AW 8 p.m. 3577 Bethoven St., Polish B Boys Hill. $5. All ages. www.women insound.com

If I had to compare the sound of rough-and-tumble Brooklyn countryrock five-piece Mail the Horse to a particular song, I’d point to The Rolling [ALT ROCK] + Stones’ snarky 1971 {PHOTO COURTESY OF HEATHER STRANGE} TUE., MAY 10 lament “Dead Brooklyn alt-rock Flowers.” This kind three-piece B Boys are homies with fellow of sly approximation of country authenticity delivered by sophisticated big-city boys is a good Brooklyn dudes Parquet Courts, and it shows: The similarities between them and Parquet touchstone for what Mail the Horse represents.

Courts’ early work are numerous, particularly In a world where you can’t throw a lasso in the martial guitar rhythms and deadpanwithout roundin’ up a barrel of moustachio’d yet-caffeinated vocals. B Boys use more Americana-os, Mail the Horse is a refreshing synthesizers, though — or at least what sounds sip of cheap American beer. See for yourself like synthesizers. Either way, B Boys aren’t a tonight when the band plays Diesel Lounge, Parquet Courts ripoff, despite the ties. There’s with guests The Mixus Brothers. AW more of a new-wave vibe (think XTC, The Cars 7:30 p.m. 1601 E. Carson St., South Side. $10-12. or even Wire’s more cerebral moments). You can 412-651-4713 or www.dieselclublounge.com see B Boys tonight at Black Forge Coffee House, with locals Driver and Bat Zuppel. AW 7 p.m.

[PUNK] + SAT., MAY 07 1206 Arlington Ave., Allentown. $10. All ages.

Pittsburgh trio Come Holy Spirit is certainly 412-291-8994 or www.blackforgecoffee.com “punk” in its ethos, but the band’s sound defies

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412.316.3388 (FAX) + 412.316.3342 X165 (PHONE)

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CLUB CAFE. A Silver Lining, Side. 412-229-5493.

Northern Gold, Fry Jones, Someone TERRACE GARDENS. Daniels & McClain. Clairton. 412-233-2626. & the Somethings. Early. Jimbo & THUNDERBIRD CAFE. the Soupbones. Late. South Side.

CLUB CAFE. Marshall Crenshaw.

Scratch N’ Sniffs, Flamingo 412-431-4950.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

Nosebleed, Playoff Beard.

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

Rachael Sage w/ Sun Hound. & SPEAKEASY. East End Mile & TRUNDLE MANOR. Frenchy Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

MVT. North Side. 412-904-3335. & the Punk, The Men That Will HARD ROCK CAFE. Cracker.

LINDEN GROVE. Functional Chaos. Station Square. 412-481-7625.

Not Be Blamed For Nothing, Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687.

Nathaniel Johnstone Band.

LINDEN GROVE. Street Level.

MIXTAPE. Goldfeather. Garfield.

Swissvale. 412-916-5544.

Castle Shannon. 412-882412-661-1727.

8687.

RIVERS CASINO. Mario Rivera.

MEADOWS CASINO. North Side. 412-231-7777.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Results May Vary.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Murder Fools Errand & Washington. w. w w Zone 8. Pleasant Hills.

For Girls, Sun Hound, Reign Check. er 724-503-1200. hcitypap g p 412-653-3800.

CD release show. Lawrenceville.

MOONDOG’S. 13 .com CARNEGIE LECTURE 412-682-0177.

Saints. Blawnox. 412-828HALL. Leo Kottke: Calliope’s 2040.

40th Anniversary Kick Off PITTSBURGH WINERY. The End Concert. Oakland. 412-361-1915.

BACKDRAFT BAR & of America, Ghost of Paul Revere, CATTIVO. Horehound, Monolith GRILLE. King’s Ransom. Baldwin.

The Speedbumps. Strip District.

Wielder, Holy Rivals, Cavern 412-885-1239.

412-566-1000.

Dee Calhoun. Lawrenceville.

BADO’S PIZZA GRILL & RIVERS CASINO. Rick Purcall 412-687-2157.

ALE HOUSE. Lenny Smith. & Shari Richards. North Side.

CLUB CAFE. The Show w/ Ethan Mt. Lebanon. 412-563-5300.

412-231-7777.

Jano, The Old Hats. Early. The BALTIMORE HOUSE. The Indecision. SONNY’S TAVERN. Mad Doctors, Show w/ Funky Dojo, Big Time Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800.

Franny Moon, Ghost Guts, & Zak Machine. Late. South Side.

CATTIVO. Ridgemont High.

Kane. Bloomfield. 412-780-6995.

412-431-4950.

STAGE AE. Half Moon Run. North Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

CORAOPOLIS VFW POST 402.

Daniels & McClain. Coraopolis.

CRAFTY JACKALOPE. Blackwater Mojo. Bridgeville. 412-220-9785.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Sweaty Betty. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

GETAWAY CAFE. The Dave Iglar Trio. Brookline. 412-343-1333.

HAMBONE’S. Jack’s Shadow, Dadirri, Ian Insect. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Crusaders, Weather Report Tribute Show.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

MEADOWS CASINO. Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers.

Washington. 724-503-1200.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Thy Art Is Murder w/ Rings Of Saturn, Fit For An Autopsy, Dark Sermon, Signs Of The Swarm. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

OAKS THEATER. The Nieds Hotel Band. Oakmont. 412-828-6311.

REX THEATER. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. South Side. 412-381-6811.

RIVERS CASINO. On the Level.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROCHESTER INN HARDWOOD GRILLE. Waiting for Ray. Ross.

412-364-8166.

SCHENLEY PARK. Pittonkatonk.

At the Vietnam Veterans Pavilion.

Each week we bring you a new song from What Cheer Brigade, Detroit Party a local artist. This week’s offering comes from Marching Band, Environmental Cyrus Gold; stream or download the ominously Encroachment, West Philly Orchestra, Detroit Pleasure disjointed (and strangely catchy) track Society, Raya Brass Band, May for free at FFW>>, our music blog Day Marching Band, Timbeleza & at www.pghcitypaper.com. more. Oakland. 412-251-6058.

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What does your child buy at convenience stores?

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The RAND Corporation, in Pittsburgh, is conducting a research study to learn about what children, ages 11–17, purchase at convenience stores. Participation requires one 20 minute phone/internet survey and one 90 minute visit to the RAND study center.

Children who complete the study will be compensated for their time and effort with $50 in gift certificates. Parking and travel compensation is provided.

If you are interested and want to learn more about the study, please call 412-545-3005, e-mail c-storestudy@rand.org or visit us at www.rand.org/storestudy.

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RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SUN 08

CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance Party The Night Shift DJs. Obsidian: gothic/industrial dancing. South Side. 412-431-5282.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Jack Millz.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

ALTAR BAR. Avatar, Sunflower Dead, Mekanism, Autotopsy, sacrifice nothing. Strip District.

412-263-2877.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. Snarky Puppy. Homestead.

412-381-6811.

CLUB CAFE. Hey Marseilles w/ Josh Herbert. South Side. 412-431-4950.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Baroness w/ Youth Code. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Jeremiah Daly, Jack Lucy. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

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

McKees Rocks. 412-875-5809.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Pony Time. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441.

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

412-424-9254.

MOONDOG’S. Trailer Park Pimps.

Blawnox. 412-88-2040.

TUE 10

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

412-424-9254.

CLUB CAFE. Jamie Kilstein & The Agenda w/ The Homeless Gospel Choir, Evad & the Ominous Squad.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

HOWLERS. Grubby Little Hands.

Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Horse Feathers w/ The Sweeplings.

Strip District. 412-566-1000.

STAGE AE. Say Anything, mewithoutyou, Teen Suicide, Museum Mouth. North Side.

412-229-5483.

DJS PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown. 412-471-2058.

FRI 06 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.

BRILLOBOX. Prettonkatonk w/ Juan Diego, Bamboo, & Pandemic Pete. Bloomfield. 412-215-6058.

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 Digital Dave.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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Beth Orton Three Rivers Arts Festival, Point State Park, Downtown

The Hotelier

Cattivo, 146 44th St., Lawrenceville {WED., AUG. 17}

Drake Consol Energy Center, 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown

SAT 07

BLUES FRI 06 NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Jim Adler w/ John Gresh’s Gris Gris.

Downtown. 412-471-9100.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Rick Gilbert. Mt. Washington.

412-431-3100.

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

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ANDYS WINE BAR. Mark Pipas.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CHAZ AND ODETTE. Eric Susoeff.

Shadyside. 412- 683-8300.

BULGARIAN MACEDONIAN CIOPPINO SEAFOOD NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL & CHOPHOUSE BAR. Jerry & Louis CULTURAL CENTER. Gringo Lucarelli, Sunny Sunseri, Rich Zydeco. Homestead. 614-296-2655.

Scampone, Peg Wilson.

MOONDOG’S. Ron Yarosz & the Strip District. 412-281-6593.

Vehicle. Blawnox. 412-88-2040.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & STARLITE LOUNGE. SPEAKEASY. Jessica Lee & Jack of Diamonds.

Mark Strickland. North Blawnox. 412-828-9842.

Side. 412-904-3335.

LEMONT. Dr. Zoot.

Mt. Washington.

412-431-3100. www. per a p THE MONROEVILLE pghcitym o .c ANDORA RESTAURANT RACQUET CLUB. Jazz - FOX CHAPEL. Harry Bean Live. Every Saturday, Cardillo & Charlie Sanders. Fox a different band. Monroeville.

Chapel. 412-967-1900.

412-728-4155.

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

CHAZ AND ODETTE. Eric Susoeff.

412-904-3335.

Shadyside. 412- 683-8300.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL Johnson. Downtown. 412-394-3400.

CHURCH. Dr. James Johnson, Jr, Pamela Johnson, Tony DePaolis, Lou Schreiber & James Johnson III. 565 LIVE. The Jazzed Owls.

North Side. 412-231-0405.

Bellevue. 412-522-7556.

PNC PARK. The Ashby Family ANDYS WINE BAR. Peg Wilson.

Band. North Side. 412-322-1850.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Colter Downtown. 412-391-1004.

Harper Ghana band. Downtown.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB 412-773-8884. & SPEAKEASY. Ian Gordon, JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Poogie Bell, John Howard, & SPEAKEASY. George Jones’ Howie Alexandar, & Larry Estes.

New View Trio. North Side.

Ballroom. Sam Brooks. Speakeasy.

412-904-3335.

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CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL. The Rides. Homestead. 412-462-3444.

HOWLERS. Last Good Tooth, Arlo Aldo, Zach Schmidt. Bloomfield.

412-251-6058.

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CABARET. The Flow Band.

Homewood. 412-241-1523.

TIKI BAR. Freedom Band.

Washington. 724-348-7022.

WED 11 SMILING MOOSE. Rock Star Karaoke w/ T-MONEY. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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ALTAR BAR. The Struts, Made Violent. Strip District. 412-263-2877.

CLUB CAFE. Day Wave w/ The Velcro Shoes. South Side.

412-431-4950.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. The Verve Pipe. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Evil Sword, Mortis, Assembly Of, In Arthur’s Court. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

WED 11

ACOUSTIC DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Chad Squires.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

ELWOOD’S PUB. West Deer Bluegrass Review. Rural Ridge.

724-265-1181.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Elephant Revival, Ben Sollee, The Unknown String Band. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

SAT 07 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. Tish Hinojosa w/ Christopher Mark Jones. SongSpace concert series.

Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Maddie Georgi, Mike Cali, Danielle Miragila & Julia Devine. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH. Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra.

Ambridge. 412-364-1606.

SUN 08 HAMBONE’S. Ukulele Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 11 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

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

REGGAE FRI 06 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

THU 05 RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

FRI 06 DANIIL TRIFONOV, PIANIST. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Music from Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Liszt, more. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

SAT 07 DANIIL TRIFONOV, PIANIST. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Music from Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Liszt, more. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Trinity High School, Washington.

888-71-TICKETS.

SUN 08 DANIIL TRIFONOV, PIANIST. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Music from Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Liszt, more. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson

Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

MON 09 EDGAR MOREAU, JESSICA XYLINA OSBORNE. Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland.

412-621-6566.

RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

TUE 10 RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

WED 11 RIVER CITY BRASS PRESENTS CLASSIC ROCK. Performances at Linton Middle School, Carson Middle School, Palace Theatre, Upper St. Clair High School, Carnegie Music Hall. Tunes from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Buddy Holly, BB King, Earth, Wind & Fire & Blood, Sweat & Tears.

412-434-7222.

OTHER MUSIC THU 05 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.

FRI 06 FRIDAY FAITH CAFE. Heart & Soul. Washington. 724-222-1563.

ORIGINAL OYSTER HOUSE. Frankie Capri. Downtown.

412-566-7925.

SAT 07 NEW HORIZON THEATER. The Dramatics. East Liberty.

412-431-0773.

SUN 08 INGOMAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Pittsburgh Concert Chorale. Ingomar. 412-635-7654.

MON 09 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

WED 11 PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside.

412-621-2919.

What to do IN PITTSBURGH

May 4-10 WEDNESDAY 4 SOUND SERIES: Cineshape

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM North Side.

Tickets: warhol.org.

7p.m. & 8:30p.m.

SoMo ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

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

Holly Bowling PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. Over 21 event.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

8p.m.

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HEINZ FIELD North Side.

Over 21 event. Tickets: pittsburghwinefestival.com.

VIP 5p.m. Grand Tasting 7p.m.

Marlon Wayans: Scandal-less

Through May 8.

FREEDOM FOREVER: Rage Against The Machine & Wu-Tang Clan Tributes

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

MARLON WAYANS CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL MAY 5

Baroness / Youth Code MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

8p.m.

ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall.

All ages show.

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

MONDAY 9

Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown with P.O.D.

Stephen Petronio Company

Devil You Know ALTAR BAR Strip District.

412-263-2877. All ages show.

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

BYHAM THEATER Downtown.

412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER Downtown.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 7p.m.

Cracker HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show.

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

An Evening with Marshall Crenshaw

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950. Over 21 Show.

CLUB CAFE South Side.

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

412-431-4950.

8p.m.

Tchaikovsky!

Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone.

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

8p.m.

FRIDAY 412-392-4900.

Mother’s Day Weekend Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.

THURSDAY org. Through May 8.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Pittsburgh Wine Lawrenceville. For more info SATURDAY visit lvpgh.com/mom.

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

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. Over 21 show.

Tickets: greyareaprod.com.

9p.m.

SUNDAY 8

Shen Yun

Snarky Puppy

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall All ages show.

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: trustarts.org.

Through May 11.

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RUSSIAN RE-WORKS

KITTENS MAKE EVERYTHING ADORABLE

{BY AL HOFF} Especially heading into the summer months, it can seem like everything playing at the American cineplex is a sequel or remake. This year, the 18th annual Russian Film Symposium, themed “Recycle, Restage, Rewind,” looks at the relatively new practice of re-visiting films, whether as sequels or remakes, in contemporary Russian cinema. Among its quirks is the practice of updating or re-doing popular late-Soviet-era films, but set in today’s markedly different political, cultural and economic times.

FIVE TRUTHS {BY AL HOFF}

Keanu offers a standard comedic premise — two nice guys pose as gangsters — with a twist: They’re rescuing a stolen kitten named Keanu.

The Land of Oz

The film benefits from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s nimble work and a steady pace of throw-away jokes and pop-culture references. Prepare for an enthusiastic embrace of all the words they can’t say on their TV sketch-comedy show.

Selected works screen through Sat., May 7: four during the day on the University of Pittsburgh campus (Posvar Hall, room 1500), and four nighttime screenings at Melwood Screening Room, in Oakland. All films are introduced by film scholars and critics, and include post-screening discussions. The evening screenings are: FORBIDDEN EMPIRE. Oleg Stepchenko’s 2014 work is an adaptation of Gogol’s 1835 novella Viy, and also a remake of the 1967 film, Vii. In it, an English cartographer travels deep into Eastern Europe, encountering various monsters, odd folk and mysterious doings. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 4 ANGELS OF THE REVOLUTION. Avant-garde artists are dispatched to the Siberian tundra to help the ethnic groups there align with Stalinist nationalism, in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s 2014 film.7:30 p.m. Thu., May 5 THE DAWNS ARE QUIET HERE. Renat Davletiarov’s remake of the popular 1972 film depicts a small group of women soldiers during World War II assigned to capture some German scouts. 7:30 p.m.

Fri., May 6 THE LAND OF OZ. The Wizard of Oz is just the starting point for this allegorical film from Vasilii Sigarev, which follows a young woman’s journey through a snowy contemporary Russia. 7:30 p.m. Sat., May 7

At 98 minutes, it’s still stretched too thin.

KEANU DIRECTED BY: Peter Atencio STARRING: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele

Kittens make everything adorable.

We meet Keanu during a brutal drug-den shoot-out, and how cute is it to see a little furball tripping over bricks of drugs or bloodied corpses? Not as epic as seeing Keanu on the run in the Los Angeles river basin. Best use of hackneyed location ever.

“George Michael is the shit.”

AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

In Russian, with subtitles. $8 ($7 students and seniors; $5 Pitt students). More information and complete schedule at www.rusfilm.pitt.edu.

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Nine lives, three names: Keanu, a.k.a. Iglesias, a.k.a. New Jack

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 8. Regent Square (AH)

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GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES. Howard Hawks’ delightful 1953 comedy, adapted from the Anita Loos novel, stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, as a pair of women out to land some worthy suitors. Monroe portrays the seemingly dim-witted Lorelei, who, as her name suggests, knows how to ensnare men. 11 a.m.

Sun., May 8. Hollywood

NEW THIS WEEK BORN TO BE BLUE. Hot on the heels of another sort-of bio-pic about a wrecked jazz legend finding his mojo (Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead, about Miles Davis) comes Robert Budreau’s take on Chet Baker. The drama is set in the early 1960s, when Baker (Ethan Hawke) washes up in Los Angeles and, with the help of a new girlfriend (Carmen Ejogo), tries to rebuild his career. A street fight has left him with false teeth — real trouble for a trumpeter — and his efforts to stay off drugs are fraught. It’s more of a character study than a music pic, and Hawke does a good job showing the often unpleasant and continually self-destructive musician’s insecurities. Budreau expands on the contemporary scenes with critical scenes from Baker’s past, often illustrated with outtakes from a never-completed biographical film (fictional) about Baker. Like the Miles Ahead film, Born doesn’t aim for documentary veracity so much as a “feels right” life chapter that illustrates the whole. Starts Fri., May 6. Harris (Al Hoff)

Mad Tiger CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR. Aggressive crime-fighting has its price, as the Avengers confront internal dissension over collateral damage caused by their actions. Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. reprise their roles as Captain America and Iron Man, respectively. Anthony and Joe Russo direct. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., May 6.

THE FAMILY FANG. Jason Bateman directs this adaptation of Kevin Wilson’s 2011 novel about a family of performance artists, and the fault lines and subsequent earthquakes that occur when the boundaries between art and life get blurred.

The two Fang children have grown up as participants in their parents’ works — chiefly, outrageous scenarios acted out in public and captured on videotape. But the film mostly finds them in the present, as troubled adults — Annie (Nicole Kidman) is a movie actress, and Baxter (Bateman) a struggling writer. But when their parents (Christopher Walken, Maryann Plunkett) disappear, Annie and Baxter are forced to confront what is real in a lifetime of “performance.” Fang is a dark comedy, and there are easy laughs in depicting the frequently slippery nature of performance art. (Walken is a treasure portraying the éminence grise of public spectacle.) The art side is fun, and while the interpersonal stuff isn’t bad — Bateman keeps everything well modulated — its emotional payoff isn’t as satisfying. Starts Fri., May 6. Hollywood (AH) MAD TIGER. The heart of the long-running band Peelander-Z, a punk-rock, art and assortedstage-spectacle outfit, is members Yellow and Red. The band is from outer space, and each member adopts a color as an identifier. Alternately, the band comprises Japanese artists, musicians and performers who met in New York City in the late 1990s. Regardless, as depicted in Michael Haertlein and Jonathan Yi’s loose, fly-onthe-wall documentary, when Red announces he will leave the group at the end of 2012, the fun stops. The film mostly focuses on de facto band leader Yellow and how badly Red’s departure affects him, both professionally and personally.

Unsurprisingly, men who present themselves in public as, say, a squid from another planet, have trouble expressing their real feelings. But the shaggy film grows surprisingly poignant, as the two old friends negotiate what is an amicable but painful separation. In English, and some Japanese, with subtitles. Starts Fri., May 6.

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REPERTORY 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 afterward, winners will be announced, followed by a reception. 7:30 p.m.

Wed., May 4. SouthSide Works. $12 ($6 for students).

412-992-5203 or www.JFilmPgh.org

Food Systems, Chapter 3: The Ecosystem MOTHER’S DAY. I didn’t like Valentine’s Day, and I checked out of the tedious New Year’s Eve to think about the pros and cons of owning a lemur.

But both of those holiday-themed ensemble comedy misfires were better than the pile of crumpled Hallmark cards that is Garry Marshall’s latest. Set in an Atlanta suburb where white ladies just do yoga when they’re not having sit-com-level conflicts with their children, there is a truly not one storyline you can’t see coming. (Dad buying tampons — will there be a price-check blared over the PA? Hahahahahaha.) Not one bromide about mothers and family that hasn’t already been turned into a long-distance calling-plan advertisement. Not one “star” (Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Anniston) with any spark. Not one reason to have cartoonish goober characters (RVers from Texas, natch) just so the film can get laughs from having them say racist things.

Not any explanation why Julia Roberts’ character — a QVC-esque hawker who pushes crap jewelry on unhappy women — sports a shit show of a frump wig. (Marshall made Roberts a mega-star with Pretty Woman, and as truly awful as that film’s gender politics are, we still adore her big, fluffy hair in it.) If you love your momma, do not take her to see this movie.

She may cry, because she loves Julia Roberts movies, but your tough love, sparing her this horror, will be the real gift. (AH) SING STREET. John Carney (Once) directs this comingof-age movie, set in 1980s Dublin, in which a lad starts

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FOOD SYSTEMS, CHAPTER 3: THE ECOSYSTEM. This third chapter of local filmmaker David Bernabo’s series about the local food scene examines the ecosystem in which food production occurs. Continuing the style of previous chapters — documentary meets art film — this installment jumps between long shots of Pennsylvania countryside and subject interviews, cut with montages of dancing foods or explanatory illustrations. Bernabo focuses on the impact of industrial farming’s monoculture crops, as well as other issues faced by small Pennsylvania growers, such as land cost, climate change and nearby fracking. This well-researched work presents the voices of the people who dedicate their lives to maintaining a healthy and sustainable food system. (On Sun., May 15, chapters 1 and 2 also screen.) 7:30 p.m. Tue., May 10 ($12) and noon, Sun., May 15 ($10). Row House. www.foodsystemsfilm.com (Celine Roberts) FILM KITCHEN. The monthly series for local and independent artists features “There’s Nobody at the Bridge,” Arie Lombardozzi’s half-hour documentary about paranormal investigators in Erie County, focusing on the legendary Gudgeonville Bridge. Also screening are several shorts featuring writer, actor and comedian Tristan Reid; three selected episodes of filmmaker Alistair McQueen’s “The Nomi Darling Show,” featuring Reid’s drag persona, combine a look at Pittsburgh’s burlesque scene with sketch comedy about Nomi attempting to learn burlesque. The May 12 program, curated by Matthew R. Day, also features two slickly produced shorts by veteran filmmaker Steve Parys.

“Breakage,” with Tressa Glover, recounts a love affair; the romantic comedy “Lightheaded,” written by and starring Caroline Collins, depicts a depressed woman who acquires an especially nebby guardian angel. 8 p.m. Wed., May 10 (7 p.m. reception).

Melwood. $5. www.pfpca.org (Bill O’Driscoll) TWISTER. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt chase tornadoes in Jan de Bont’s 1996 actioner. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 11.

AMC Loews Waterfront. $5

BIG FISH. A life is examined for fact and fiction in Tim Burton’s 2003 film, starring Ewan MacGregor. May 6-9 and May 11-12. Row House BROKEN FLOWERS. Bill Murray stars in Jim Jarmusch’s 2005 drama about a man in search of his past.

May 6-11. Row House LAST TANGO IN PARIS. A older man and a younger woman negotiate their relationship over a weekend, in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 drama. May 6-9 and May 11-12. Row House DARK SIDE OF OZ. Watch The Wizard of Oz while Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon plays, and have your mind blown by the synchronicity. Midnight, Fri., May 6, and midnight, Sat., May 7. Row House Cinema PURPLE RAIN. Look, it’s not a great film, but it is very entertaining. And to celebrate the late Prince’s career, you could do worse than with this deliriously demented autobiographical vanity production about the Rise of Prince. (And truthfully, this film and its LP did catapult him to mega-stardom.)

If you’ve seen it only on video, don’t miss this bigscreen outing. All his Purple Majesty’s dramatic highlights — riding his motorcycle, pitching a hissy fit,

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(2016) - 5/5 @ 7:30pm While attending a dinner party at his former house, a man starts to believe that his ex-wife and her new husband have sinister plans for the guests. __________________________________________________

The Family Fang

(2016) - 5/6 @ 7:30pm, 5/7 @ 7pm, 5/8 @ 7pm, 5/9 @ 7:30pm - An actress (Nicole Kidman) and her brother (Jason Bateman) investigate the mysterious disappearance of their parents, two performance artists known for their elaborate hoaxes. __________________________________________________

Mad Tiger (2015) - 5/6 @ 10pm, 5/7 @ 9:30pm, 5/8 @ 4:30pm, 5/10 @ 7:30pm - Two best friends spent the

last fifteen years touring the country in their performance art punk band. When one of them decides to quit, they both face deeper challenges than expected. __________________________________________________

Rocky Horror Picture Show - 5/6 @ Midnight - Special Friday screening with live shadowcast by the JCCP! __________________________________________________

Breakfast and a Movie - 5/8 @ 10:30am Featuring the movie Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953). Buy

tickets by 5/5 for delicious catered brunch. Treat your mom! __________________________________________________

Dou kyu sei (Classmates)

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“IT IS THE THING THAT HAS GOTTEN US NATIONAL ATTENTION.”

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MAGGIE LEFFLER BOOK-LAUNCH PARTY 7 p.m. Fri., May 6. Mystery Lovers Bookshop, 514 Allegheny River Blvd., Oakmont. Free. 412-828-4877 or www.mysterylovers.com

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Maggie Leffler

You’d never expect it after meeting the confident and collected Maggie Leffler, but it took three arduous rounds of “no’s” from publishers and four full drafts for the local author to get her third book into print.

After Leffler’s first two novels went unnoticed, it was hard to prove that her newest, The Secrets of Flight, would dart off the shelves. But eventually, she persuaded William Morrow Paperbacks, a division of HarperCollins, that the book had a wide, multi-generational appeal.

Secrets of Flight depicts an unlikely friendship between a teenage writer named Elyse, who joins an adults’ writing group, and Mary Browning, an 87-yearold woman who was a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. Through alternating viewpoints, their relationship flourishes as Elyse helps to write Mary’s long-hidden story.

Leffler has a knack for her characters’ voices. Still, before completing her final draft, she felt something was missing in representing the time period during which her aviatrix would have lived.

So she searched for a real-life WASP and found Florence Shutsy Reynolds. Leffler says that the Pennsylvania native, now 93, was irreplaceable in the research process.

“She was incredibly helpful to me because I had so many questions about what it was like to fly planes during a war and what it felt like as a woman breaking into a field where more men were dominating at the time,” says Leffler.

Leffler also knows what it’s like to thrive in a male-dominated field. After completing an English degree at the University of Maryland, she attended St. George’s University School of Medicine.

“It was a long road to becoming a doctor,” said Leffler, now a family physician. “But I like having the balance of both in my life. I enjoy connecting with people face-to-face when I’m practicing medicine, and it’s also great to live inside my own head and imagine things.”

In between taking care of her two children and working, the ambiverted doctor and author carves out time during the evenings and weekends to write.

Her favorite spot is the Coffee Tree in Fox Chapel.

Leffler is a firm believer that writing is about finding the time to polish your skills.

Above all, she says, “Writing this book has taught me persistence and perseverance.”

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N ITS seventh year, the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival remains one of Pittsburgh’s most important annual dance events.

“It is the thing that has gotten us national attention,” says Kelly-Strayhorn executive director Janera Solomon. “We have access to great artists, and we have audiences who really care about we are doing.”

Artists remain enthused, as well. This year, says Solomon, there were more than 70 applications from artists around the country for the three-day event, May 12-14 at KST and its Alloy Studios. Yet while the festival has continued to grow, funding remains a challenge. So far, for instance, budget constraints have meant limiting participation mostly to local artists and national acts from the Northeast and Midwest.

Headlining this year’s festival is New York City-based dancer/choreographer Marjani Forté, whose being Here/…this time runs May 13 and 14 at the Alloy Studios.

The hour-long multimedia piece, partially

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Artist Alisha B. Wormsley and dancer and choreographer Jil Stifel are collaborators on “the secret of hiding,” part of the newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival.

developed during a 2014 residency at KST, is the third in a trilogy of works themed on the intersection of mental illness, addiction and systemic poverty. The thought-provoking trio, with dancers including Pittsburghbased Jasmine Hearn, is set to a surroundsound-style score by Everett Saunders.

NEWMOVES CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL Thu., May 12-Sat., May 14 (Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty; pre-show mixers nightly). Marjani Forte’s being Here/ … this time: 7 p.m. Fri., May 13, and 7 p.m. Sat., May 14 (5530 Penn Ave., Friendship; pre-show mixers nightly).

All pricing is pay-what-makes-you-happy.

412-363-3000 or www.kelly-strayhorn.org

The festival also includes three separate one-night showcases, each featuring short works by multiple artists.

In addition to these nightly performances, newMoves will offer dance workshops and master classes, as well as pre-show mixers

and a closing party on Sun., May 15. (See www.kelly-strayhorn.org for details.)

Moreover, this is the first festival to use KST’s new pay-what-makes-you-happy pricing: Audiences literally set their own admission charge.

Here’s a rundown of the other performances:

Program A (8 p.m. Thu., May 12) Pittsburgh-based dancer/choreographer Jil Stifel teams with interdisciplinary artist Alisha B. Wormsley on her new work-inprogress solo “the secret of hiding.” Says Stifel, “It looks at the way that humans conceal their authentic selves and deepest desires.” Another local collaboration pairs modern dancer Moriah Ella Mason with hip-hop artist Mario Quinn Lyles in “Frayed Harmonies.” The duet explores the similarities and differences in the movement aesthetics of both.

Set to an original score by Rob Traugh, choreographer Brady Sanders’ “On the Other Side of Fear,” he says, “exposes the counterintuitive relationship between the cour-

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Christal Brown in “What We Ask of Flesh”

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Gabrielle Revlock’s “I replaced him with a lamp”

Alexandra Bodnarchuk’s “take your skin off and put it on the floor”

age needed to embrace failure and daring for success.” Completing the program is returning New York-based dancer/choreographer Gabrielle Revlock’s “I replaced him with a lamp.” The self-portrait in dance reflects on Revlock’s strong feelings over the ending of a professional relationship.

dancers feel trying to live up to unattainable body-image ideals.

This program is loaded with festival firsttimers, including Cherish Morgan, who will present her new group work “running,” which is about facing one’s fears.

Program B also features a fellow firsttimer, New York-based dancer/choreographer Kensaku Shinohara, whose contemporary-dance group work “monster” is a movement response to a score by Slovak composer Viera Janárceková.

The festival’s lone international participant, Toronto-based dancer/choreographer Jasmyn Fyffe, makes her newMoves debut in “corridor,” a solo exploring claustrophobic feelings that relate everyday life to the confines of a hallway. Back for her third time at newMoves, Alexandra Bodnarchuk’s trio “take your skin off and put it on the floor” is about the pressures female

Program C (9 p.m. Sat., May. 14) PROJECT 44 artistic director Gierre J. Godley, based in New York, returns to newMoves with “Gandy Dancer.” The trio for three male dancers was inspired by AfricanAmerican railroad workers of the early 1900s who used songs and rhythms to coordinate movement.

Vermont-based Christal Brown makes her festival debut in “What We Ask of Flesh,” set to music by Farai Malianga. The former Urban Bush Women dancer says that this “solo draft,” in collaboration with poet Remica Bingham, “is about how the body is perceived in and out of time.”

Rounding out Program C are festival newcomer Jean-Paul Weaver’s solo work “Gri” (Creole for “gray”), which examines the intersection of queerness and spirituality through the lens of voodoo culture, and newMoves regular Jamie Murphy’s group work “Words on Lost.” Murphy says she “created a movement alphabet that the dancers use to spell out phrases indicating feelings of being lost or trapped.”

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GOSSIP BOY {BY TED HOOVER}

FOR REASONS not made entirely clear, the

Pittsburgh Public Theater has exhumed Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 one-man show Tru, based on the work and words of Truman Capote — who was, at one time, the most famous writer in America.

After several noteworthy successes, Capote shot to stratospheric heights with the 1966 publication of his “nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood. Also in 1966, Capote hosted the Black and White Ball at New York City’s Plaza, since recognized as the most significant social event of the 1960s.

Then began his slide into a sad, if utterly predictable, waste of alcohol, drugs and betrayed-friends-turned-enemies.

Allen’s play takes place over two nights in 1975. That year Capote published in Esquire a few chapters from an unfinished novel in which he, roman á clef style, revealed intimate secrets of the society dames he counted as close friends. Afterward, well-polished doors were slammed in his face all over Manhattan (and the world). The two acts of Tru find Capote defending his actions to himself and us.

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Eddie Korbich in Tru at Pittsburgh Public Theater

TRU continues through May 22.

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Two Tales of Terror

From the pen of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart & The Fall of the House of Usher World Premiere adapted by Alan Stanford

May 5- 20

Directed by Alan Stanford The Henry Heymann Theatre Stephen Foster Memorial

Since Act I is the same as Act II, there’s not much here in the way of drama.

Allen’s script is just Capote recounting a bunch of anecdotes. He knew everyone (or at least said he did), and Allen never strays too far from dirt-dishing.

But I’m not sure Allen was actually trying to write a play. Tru was created as a star vehicle for Broadway veteran Robert Morse, who won a boatload of awards for his performance … while Allen came up empty-handed.

The Public Theater has the good fortune to find another New York theatrical veteran, Eddie Korbich, to play the part. Under the tight direction of Ted Pappas, Korbich attacks the role with a showman’s flair, and there isn’t a second that he doesn’t enchant.

Of course “enchant” wasn’t a word often associated with Capote’s personality.

Allen’s version is notable for its lack of the man’s documented vile unpleasantness.

Her Capote is more of a middle-aged drunk Peter Pan. But while I have my doubts about the play itself, there’s no question that Korbich and Pappas have given it as entertaining a life as you’re likely to find.

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most austere and uncomfortable of social occasions. Dilemmas With Dinner, a domestic farce currently playing at South Park Theatre, shows just how awkward such affairs can get. In its localpremiere production, this 1991 play has modern sensibilities with the screwball appeal of classic 1930s comedies. Think Dinner at Eight for the high-strung postReagan generation.

From the start, the setup is rife with slapstick potential: Ambitious junior executive Brooke (the manic yet charming Carley Adams) wants a promotion from her oafish boss, Will (Philip Bower). A week before Will announces his choice for the position, Brooke holds an impromptu dinner at her home to ask him for the corner office she deserves.

To assist her, she hires bumbling caterer Caren (played by the always pitch-perfect Danette Marie Levers). Unbeknown to Brooke, Caren just happens to be Will’s much loathed ex-daughter-in-law.

Consequently, before the night is over, dinner isn’t the only thing that might be ruined.

Unfolding in real time, Dilemmas With Dinner hardly permits the audience to catch a breath between comical disasters, and director Helga Terre manages the frantic action with incredible finesse. The entire cast is more than capable, with standout performances from David Craft as Brooke’s beleaguered husband, Donny, and Elizabeth Glyptis as Brooke’s overworked but fiercely loyal assistant, Julia.

PLATE TECTONICS {BY GWENDOLYN KISTE} FORMAL DINNER parties are possibly the

DILEMMAS WITH DINNER continues through May 14.

South Park Theatre, Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road, South Park. $12. 412-831-8552 or www.southparktheatre.com

At times, playwright Robin Roberts relies on a few too many tropes and stock characters to keep the plot moving.

However, the strength of this show lies in its razor-sharp dialogue, and fortunately, the actors are up to the task, delivering the lines with such timing and conviction that any shortcomings in the well-worn premise are easy to overlook.

Ultimately, though the audience might know from the opening scene where the farcical story is headed, the invitation to this dinner is one most certainly worth accepting.

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Sets and costumes by David Hockney

LOCOMOTIONS Last in Pittsburgh in 2011, New York Citybased Stephen Petronio Company returns to the Byham Theater on May 7 with a program featuring local connections.

The first of the program’s two works is famed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s “RainForest� (1968), as revived by SPC artistic director/choreographer Stephen Petronio. “[I]t is an iconic one in my mind,� says Petronio, by phone from Philadelphia. “I really consider [Cunningham] as sort of the source of shifting in modern dance up until the postmodern moment,� adds Petronio, himself a former dancer who worked with postmodern pioneers Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown. “He really opened the doors that made my career possible.�

The 18-minute work, which will close the May 7 Pittsburgh Dance Council program, is set to composer David Tudor’s sound score of the same name, to be performed live. It is the first in Petronio’s BLOODLINES initiative, honoring a lineage of American postmodern masters.

The work for six dancers, which evokes the sounds and images of nature, is in Cunningham’s signature minimalist yet technical style. It features set dĂŠcor by Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol in the form of pillow-shaped balloons Warhol called “Silver Clouds.â€? The free-floating balloons, originally made from 3M Scotchpak, are filled with a mixture of air and pure helium that allows them to hover near the floor.

(An exhibit of them is part of The Andy Warhol Museum’s permanent collection.)

The program’s other work, Petronio’s 50-minute Locomotor/Non Locomotor (2015), is set to original music by Petronio’s cousin Michael Volpe (a.k.a. Clams Casino) and will be performed by eight dancers including 2012 Point Park graduate Tess Montoya. Its first part, “Locomotor,� is a retrospective of sorts, says Petronio. “It was coming up on the 30th anniversary of the company when I was conceiving the piece, so I was thinking about the idea of traveling back to revisit past works and then traveling forward to make something new,� says Petronio. “It was a simple metaphor we made physical.�

Where “Locomotor,� as its name implies, explores moving back and forth on stage, “Non Locomotor� looks inward, says Petronio: “Think of the body being the stage and energy being the dancer.

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{STAGE} Starting tonight, PICT Classic Theatre tackles one of America’s most well-known writers. For Two Tales of Terror, artistic director Alan Stanford has adapted “The Tell-Tale Heart” using Edgar Allen Poe’s exact text, while “The Fall of the House of Usher” has been adapted to include parts for three characters. Even the show’s setting, the gothicrevival Stephen Foster Memorial, evokes Poe’s sensibilities. Courtney Linder 8 p.m. Continues through May 20. 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $7-50. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org

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harbingers of spring. They also heralded Fiberart International 2016’s 22nd Triennial, hosted by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh. This massive juried show, featuring 81 new works by 79 artists from 14 countries, opens with receptions tonight at two venues, the Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Tomorrow, those venues host the Fiberart Forum, with a keynote lecture, and presentations by featured artists. BO 7-9 p.m. (2100 Smallman St., Strip District, and 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside; free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 21. www.fiberartspgh.org

{STAGE} June can’t pay her rent and her evil landlord, Jitter, demands either her money or her hand in marriage. You’ve heard this archetypal tale before; Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell’s 2003 off-Broadway favorite The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) spoofs this narrative five times through, in five acts satirizing the works of composers like Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Weber. Off the Wall Productions opens its new staging tonight. CL 8 p.m.

Continues through May 21.

Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. 724-873-3576 or www.insideoffthewall.com

FreeEvent Penn Avenue’s gallery crawl Unblurred gets bigger this month by teaming with the Geek Art/Green Innovators Festival. It’s the seventh annual incarnation of this interactive, multidisciplinary showcase of art, technology, ecology and performances curated by Passports: The Art Diversity Project. Highlights include a demonstration and exhibit by the venerable Pittsburgh Bonsai Society (you know, those tiny trees), and representatives from local neighborhood gardens talking urban gardening. GA/GI director Christine Bethea says you’ll also find eco tech, art and dance combined for the evening at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, and elsewhere an appearance by prolific local comic-book artist Daniel McCloskey. Other Unblurred galleries will be busy, too. As part of its Café Con Leche series, Most Wanted Fine Art features work by Latino artists including Gregory Garay, Jason Mendez and Hosey Carona. Alisha B. Wormsley offers “This Here,” a two-week pop-up gallery, with visual art inspired by a film about jazz visionary Ornette Coleman.

Assemble has electronic-sound artist Jonathan Hodges. Kelly Malone debuts Workshop PGH, her DIY crafts and skills shop. And over at Local 412, there’s an ’80s/’90s throwback music night, with both live hip-hop remixes and karaoke. The Local 412 event has a $10 cover, but otherwise Unblurred, like GA/GI, is free. Bill O’Driscoll 6-11 p.m. Fri., May 6. 4800-5500 Penn Ave., Bloomfield/Friendship/ Garfield. Free. gagifest7.blogspot.com

Playhouse Jr., Point Park University’s children’s-theater company, presents two new productions for its summer season. Stone Soup, a musical

by Damon Brown and Allen Robinson, retells the classic folk tale about sharing, with a catchy rock beat. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (pictured) is Bruce Mason’s adaptation of the beloved Judy Blume story about Peter and his irritating brother, Fudge.

Both shows open today; for Mothers’ Day, tickets for both are free this weekend for all mothers. CL 2 p.m. Shows continue through May 22.

222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $5-10. 412-392-8000 or www. pittsburghplayhouse.com

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Jennipher Satterly has explored her deep-rooted fascination with plastic products since the 1990s. But in her exhibition at BoxHeart Gallery, Floodgates for Hydra, the internationally recognized painter ups the ante through brushstrokes that question the fate of the byproducts of a growing

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50 vendors of everything from housewares, vintage goods, clothing and art to food and juice. Crafting workshops and a DJ round things out.

Neighborhood Flea continues on second Sundays through the summer. BO 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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consumer culture. Opening simultaneously at BoxHeart today is That was the River, This is the Sea, with paintings by local artist Joshua Hogan, sculpture by James Shipman and a window installation by Daria Sandburg. A reception with the artists takes place May 21. CL 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Kayak Pittsburgh is open for the season, and for those who haven’t yet mastered the art of the paddle, Venture Outdoors offers an evening outing for beginners to illustrate just how enjoyable kayaking can be. Equipment, guides and instruction will be provided. CL 6 p.m. Under the Sixth Street Bridge, North Side. $29. 412-969-9090 or www.ventureoutdoors.org

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4905 Fifth Ave., Oakland.

Free. 412-621-6566 or www.rodefshalom.org

MAY 07 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

The seeds of Pittonkatonk and its May Day Brass BBQ and Festival were sown in 2012, when about 100 revelers saw 18-piece Providence, R.I.-based brass-band punks What Cheer? Brigade play a Highland Park garage. In 2013, 300 watched an expanded lineup, and a year later Pittonkatonk was born as an all-volunteer, day-long, picnic-style fest at Schenley Park’s Vietnam Veterans Pavilion. The 2015 edition drew 3,000 people, says Pete Spynda, the DJ and promoter who co-founded Pittonkatonk with Carnegie Mellon University music professor Rich Randall. Such growth reflects the past decade’s rebirth of the brass band as a source of jubilant musical defiance (or defiant jubilation): Stageless, and typically unamplified, the raucous shows blur the line between audience and performer. Styles range from high school marching bands to traditional Balkan brass bands and hip-hop/jazz groups. This year’s lineup of a dozen or more acts includes perennial faves like What Cheer? and New York’s Raya Brass Band, newcomers like the West Philadelphia Orchestra (traditional Balkan) and Detroit Pleasure Society (old-time New Orleans brass), and local fixtures Timbeleza and Col. Eagleburger’s Goodtime Highstepping Band.

Special guest, as part of Pittonkatonk’s fledgling Young Musicians Collaborative: the University Prep High School Marching Band. Finally, in an era when “free” often means “corporate-branded,” the May Day Brass BBQ — which in part honors International Workers Day — is community-funded and noncommercial. (Nobody will try to sell you anything.) There’s free food — including homemade Serbian sausage — and the ethic is potluck and BYOB. Bill O’Driscoll 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., May 7.

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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. 412-831-8552.

THE DINNER DETECTIVE INTERACTIVE MURDER MYSTERY DINNER SHOW. Sat, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriot City Center, Downtown. 720-271-2996.

JEEVES INTERVENES. Adapted

by Margaret Raether from the stories of P.G. Wodehouse.

May 5-7, May 12-15 and May 19-21.

Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg.

724-745-6300.

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 a free spirit in the closed system on–and–off the court. Fri., May 6, of a psych ward. Presented by 8 p.m., Sat., May 7, 9 p.m. and barebones productions. Wed-Sat, Sun., May 15, 2 p.m. City Theatre, 8 p.m. Thru May 7. New Hazlett South Side. 412-431-2489.

Theater, North Side.

LEGALLY BLONDE THE THE RAKE’S PROGRESS. MUSICAL. Harvard’s beloved The plot follows Tom Rakewell, blonde in story of self-discovery who squanders his large presented by Mon River inheritance on women, drinking Arts. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, & gambling. Presented Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru by the Pittsburgh May 15. Grand Theatre, Opera. Fri., May 6, Elizabeth. 412-384-0504.

7:30 p.m. and Sun., MIDLIFE! THE CRISIS May 8, 2 p.m. Benedum . w ww per MUSICAL. A romp Center, Downtown. a p ty ci h pg w/ an honest humor 412-456-6666. .com about the trials & TRU. A one-man tribulations of the play based on Capote’s unavoidable aging process. words and works presented Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m.

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Thru May 8. The Theatre Factory, Wed-Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m.

Trafford. 412-374-9200. and Sun, 2 & 7 p.m. Thru May 22.

THE ODD COUPLE. Based on O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. the classic comedy. May 6-7, 412-316-1600.

8 p.m. and Sun., May 8, 2 p.m.

Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, Greensburg. 724-836-1757.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. A exploration COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted of the beauty & danger of being

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Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

MARLON WAYANS. 7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library Of Homestead Music Hall, Homestead.

412-368-5225.

FRI 06 JUSTIN & JEROME EXPERIENCE. The surreal comic duo of Justin Vetter & Jerome Fitzgerald begin their monthly midnight sketch & improv show. BYOB. First Fri of every month, 11:55 p.m.

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

SAT 07 DAVID KAYE, TOM MUSIAL, MIKE SASSO. 8 p.m. Peters Township Public Library, Peters Twp. 724-941-9430.

DINNER W/ THE NOLENS. An improv show features Jethro & Kristy Nolen performing w/ guests.

BYOB. First Sat of every month, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

TY MAC. A fundraiser for Mothers Against Cancer. 7 p.m.

The Club Bar & Grill, Monroeville.

412-728-4155.

MON 09 COMEDY SAUCE SHOWCASE. Local & out-of-town comedians.

Mon, 9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield. 412-682-9603.

UNPLANNED COMEDY JAMBONE’S IMPROV. Hosted by Woody Drenen.

Mon, 9:30 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

EXHIBITS ALLEGHENY CITY HISTORIC

Writing Away the Stigma is a Creative Nonfiction Foundation project that explores the stories of people surviving mental illness. At this Graduation Reading, the program’s fellows from this spring will read their personal stories. Arrive early for free access to the Mattress Factory galleries. 6:45 p.m. Fri., May 6. Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free admission. www.creativenonfiction.org

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

412-321-3940.

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

724-224-7666.

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

The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie. 412-276-3456.

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

Call for appointment. O’Hara.

412-782-4231.

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NEW THIS WEEK ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Exposures: Hanging Fruit.

An original installation by Zhiwan Cheung. North Side.

412-237-8300.

BULGARIAN MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER. Georgi Tsenov. Oil paintings by renowned Bulgarian painter. One night only, May 6, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Homestead. 412-461-6188.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Summer Series.

Work from Artur Vasilevich.

Michael Lies, painter/ filmmaker will exhibit a few paintings.Opening reception May 7, 5 - 8 p.m. Squirrel Hill.

412-421-8888.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Narratives: Reveries of Reality. Work

by Lindsay Feuer, Elizabeth Fortunato & Brian Sesack.

Reception May 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Domestic Detritus. Watercolors & acrylic paintings by Joseph Shepler. Opening reception May 6, 7 p.m. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Expired Mills: Inspired Landscapes. Oil paintings by Claire Hardy.

Greensburg. 724-837-6791.

ROBIN HILL CENTER. West Hills Art League 49th Annual Art Exhibit. Work from WHAL members. Opening reception w/ live music May 8, 1-4 p.m.

www.westhillsart.org. Moon.

412-264-2630.

SHAW GALLERIES. Christie Biber: A Print Retrospective.

Opening reception May 6, 5 p.m.

Downtown. 412-281-4884.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Fiberart International 2016.

The 22nd in a series of triennial juried exhibitions sponsored by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc, featuring works by established & emerging artists the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see current trends & innovations in this constantly evolving medium.

Opening reception May 6, 5:30 p.m. Pattern & Place: Art Quilts by Valerie Goodwin.

Strip District. 412-261-7003.

UNSMOKE SYSTEMS ARTSPACE. You Are Warming Weather. A solo show by Katie Ford. Opening reception May 6, 6-9 p.m. Braddock.

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

Downtown. 412-338-8742.

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. 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

KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER 5941 Penn Avenue | Pittsburgh PA 15206 Tickets on sale newhorizontheater.org, (412) 431-0773 and Dorsey’s on Frankstown

& a collection of portraits of Chow painted by his contemporaries, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Ed Ruscha, linking his practice w/ the contemporary art communities of London, New York & Los Angeles. North Side.

412-237-8300.

ARTDFACT. Artdfact Gallery.

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

724-797-3302.

ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE. dontsaythatshitoutloud. New work by resident artist, Vanessa German. Taller 99: Exhibition.

Artists: Ximena Lecaros & Fernanda Gaete for a residency involving studio research, exploration of new work & cultural exchange. Pittsburgh based artists Maritza Mosquera & Tresa Varner will travel to Chile in June 2016. North Side.

412-321-8664.

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.

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Pittsburghers Cheering on Marathoners If you can’t run, then get out and holler encouraging words to those who can.

It’s the run that’s fun for everyone.

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After Prince died, many commentators cited this 1987 double LP as his creative peak. From sexy come-ons (“U Got the Look”) and searching pop (“I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man”) to the brooding title track, it’s got a range, depth and, of course, a funkiness few artists could match.

Parma Sausage Mortadella This Italian sandwich meat is smoky, peppery, fatty and mild — plus it’s locally produced.

1734 Penn Ave., Strip District

Roxane Gay The author of Bad Feminist, a collection of essays covering topics like politics, feminism and race, Roxane Gay is a refreshing alternative to male politicians spewing about “the woman card.” She tweets @rgay; follow for her politics and stay for her live tweets while watching HGTV’s Tiny House Hunters.

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BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

Preserved materials reflecting the industrial heritage of Southwestern PA. Homestead. 412-464-4020.

BRADDOCK’S BATTLEFIELD HISTORY CENTER. French & Indian War. The history of the French & Indian War w/ over 250 artifacts & more. Braddock. 412-271-0800.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. Rare fossils, life-size models & hands-on interactives to immerse visitors in the winged reptiles’ Jurassic world. Dinosaurs in Their Time.

Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens.

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

Population Impact. How humans are affecting the environment.

Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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

North Side. 412-237-3400.

CENTER FOR POSTNATURAL HISTORY. Explore the complex interplay between culture, nature & biotechnology. Sundays 12-4.

Garfield. 412-223-7698.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. TapeScape 2.0.

A play exhibit/art installation, designed by Eric Lennartson, that uses more than 10 miles of tape stretched over steel frames to create twisting tunnels & curving walls for children to crawl through & explore. North Side.

412-322-5058.

COMPASS INN. Demos & tours w/ costumed guides feat. this restored stagecoach stop.

North Versailles. 724-238-4983.

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

412-486-0563.

FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stainedglass windows. Downtown.

412-471-3436.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier. During the mid-18th century, thousands of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans. Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit examines the practice of captivity from its prehistoric roots to its reverberations in modern Native-, African- & Euro-American communities.

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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.

ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors

by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003).

Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition.

Collectors Showcase. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

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

Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Fast Cars & Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue.

A 125 photos that document the life in the Belle-Époque & early-20th-century France.

Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FUTURE TENANT. Creative Byproducts. A dual exhibition

by Anna Brewer & Sam Berner.

Downtown. 412-325-7037.

GALLERIE CHIZ. State-ofthe-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.

HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reflections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of

Reconstructed fort houses museum of Pittsburgh history circa French & Indian War & American Revolution. Downtown.

412-281-9285.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Ongoing: tours of Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ classes & programs for all ages.

History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt. edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330.

HOLOCAUST CENTER OF PITTSBURGH. In Celebration of Life: Living Legacy Project.

A photographic/multimedia exhibit honoring & commemorating local Holocaust survivors.

Hazelwood. 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.

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.

Point Breeze. 412-371-0600.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion & stable complex.

Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in the surrounding park. Allison Park.

412-767-9200.

KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

North Side. 412-322-2224.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield.

412-441-6147-ext.-7.

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.

SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY. Giselle Potter.

The art work of a well known children’s book & editorial illustrator. Original artwork produced for children’s books, as well as sketches & unfinished art that will highlight the illustrator’s process. Sewickley.

412-741-6920.

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.

By appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

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.

412-471-5605.

KERR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Tours of a restored 19th-century, middle-class home. Oakmont.

412-826-9295.

MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection includes jade & ivory statues from China & Japan, as well as Meissen porcelain. Butler.

724-282-0123.

MCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY movement. Ongoing: Western PA LOG HOUSE. Historic homes Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, open for tours, lectures & more. & exhibits on local history, more.

Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

Strip District. 412-454-6000.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS of the Sky. Explore the power & HISTORY CENTER. Museum grace of the birds who rule the commemorates Pittsburgh sky. Majestic eagles, impressive industrialists, local history. condors, stealthy falcons and their Sewickley. 412-741-4487. friends take center stage! Home to SOLDIERS & SAILORS more than 600 birds from over 200 MEMORIAL HALL. War in the species. W/ classes, lectures, demos Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection & more. North Side. 412-323-7235. of military artifacts showcasing NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 photographs, uniforms, shells rooms helping to tell the story & other related items. Military of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. museum dedicated to honoring University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. military service members since 412-624-6000. the Civil War through artifacts OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church & personal mementos. features 1823 pipe organ, Oakland. 412-621-4253.

Revolutionary War graves.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Scott. 412-851-9212.

Features 5,000 relics of OLIVER MILLER Catholic saints. North HOMESTEAD. This Side. 412-323-9504. pioneer/Whiskey ST. NICHOLAS . w w w Rebellion site features CROATIAN paper ty ci h g p log house, blacksmith CATHOLIC CHURCH. .com shop & gardens.

Maxo Vanka Murals.

South Park. 412-835-1554.

Mid-20th century murals PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY depicting war, social justice & the MUSEUM. Trolley rides & immigrant experience in America. exhibits. Includes displays, Millvale. 412-407-2570. walking tours, gift shop, WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. picnic area & Trolley Theatre.

Learn about distilling & Washington. 724-228-9256. coke-making in this pre-Civil War PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & industrial village. West Overton.

BOTANICAL GARDEN. The 724-887-7910.

Butterfly Forest. An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Summer Flower Show. From whirligigs & water fountains to rotundas MILLENNIAL MOVEMENT. & Rube Goldberg machines, Millennial Movement features Playgardens for guests of all ages the world premiere of works w/ interactive elements. 14 indoor choreographed by Pittsburgh rooms & 3 outdoor gardens Ballet Theatre dancers feature exotic plants & floral Alejandro Diaz, Cooper displays from around the world.

Verona & William Moore.

Tropical Forest Congo. An exhibit 7 p.m. Seton Hill University highlighting some of Africa’s Performing Arts Center, lushest landscapes. Oakland.

Greensburg. 724-552-2929.

412-622-6914.

RAINFOREST & LOCOMOTOR/ PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM NON LOCOMOTOR. Music, OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. visual art & fashion collide to Glass Lantern Slides. Glass lantern heighten bold & engaging slides from 1890 to 1920. modern dance landscapes.

Displaying 660 different movie Presented by the Stephen cameras, showing pictures on Petronio Company. 8 p.m. glass, many hand-painted. The Byham Theater, Downtown. largest display of 19th Century 412-456-6666. photographs in America.

North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. SHEN YUN. Classical Chinese Pinball museum & players club. dance. May 10-11, 7:30 p.m.

West View. 412-931-4425.

Benedum Center, Downtown.

PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG 412-456-6666.

AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland NEWMOVES CONTEMPORARY Park. 412-665-3639.

DANCE FESTIVAL. Local RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. contemporary dancers & A Reverence for Life. Photos choreographers share the stage & artifacts of her life & work. w/ visiting guest artists. Artists Springdale. 724-274-5459. include: Alexandra Bodnarchuk, RIVERS OF STEEL NATIONAL Christal Brown, Jasmyn Fyffe, HERITAGE AREA. Exhibits on the Gierre J. Godley, Ella Mason, Homestead Mill. Steel industry & Cherish Morgan, Jamie Murphy, community artifacts from 1881Mario Quinn, Gabrielle Revlock, 1986. Homestead. 412-464-4020.

Brady Sanders, Kensaku Shinohara, SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY Jil Stifel, Jean-Paul Weaver & CENTER. Toys of the ‘50s, ‘60s and Alisha Wormsley. May 11-14.

‘70s. More than 500 toys. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

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FUNDRAISERS THU 05 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS PGH. CHAPTER GOLF FUNDRAISER FOR CURINGUE ECUADOR. Supports EWB-PPC clean water project.

10 a.m. Grandview Golf Club, Braddock. 415-515-2973.

OAKLAND RAMP CRAWL. Attendees will enjoy beverage specials & food from various Oakland food & beverage establishments. All ticket proceeds benefit the Oakland For All – Beyond Accessible program & its initiatives.

4 p.m. Schenley Plaza, Oakland. 412-683-6243.

FRI 06 CELEBRATING SURVIVORS. Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh will “Celebrate Survivors” of intimate partner violence. Attendees will remember the many lives that have been lost to IPV & honor those who have survived its devastation.

6:30 p.m. J. Verno Studios, South Side. 412-687-8017.

DANCING W/ THE CELEBRITIES. Food stations & a dancing competition featuring local celebrities. Benefits Animal Friends of Westmoreland. 7 p.m.

Palace Theatre, Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

RIGHTS TO REALITIES. To honor Cathy Raphael, a woman whose courage, kindness, generosity, & wicked humor are fueling the struggle for dignity & justice for women in Pittsburgh & beyond. Reception, food, auction, entertainment. 5:30 p.m.

Fairmont Pittsburgh, Downtown.

412-281-2892.

SAT 07 DERBY DAY FOR A CURE. Join The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for the area’s best Kentucky Derby party. 3 p.m.

Silver Crest Equestrian Center, Valencia. 412-395-2889.

GEAR & CHEER SPRING FESTIVAL 5K RACE/RUN/WALK. Benefits the Ohio River Trail Council. Memorial Park, New Kensington. Register at www. membership.ohiorivertrail.org.

TROPHY WIFE, RONIIA, VOSTOK, COME HOLY SPIRIT. Women in Sound #2 Zine Release A Benefit For Decarcerate PA. All ages. Childcare provided. www.womeninsound.com 8 p.m. Babyland, Polish Hill.

LITERARY THU 05 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.

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RAZA RUMI. 7 p.m.

City of Asylum, North Side.

412-321-2190.

EVENT: Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi

FRI 06 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CONFERENCE. Keynote speakers: Newbery medalist & Norvelt native Jack Gantos & Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg. More info at www.library.pitt.edu.

WRITING AWAY THE STIGMA GRADUATION READING. 6:45 p.m.

Mattress Factory, North Side.

412-404-2975.

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MON 09 WHAT’S YOUR STORY? An adult writing group for light-hearted stories. Second and Fourth Mon of every month, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw.

412-486-0211.

Tonight is all about classical African-American music. It’s a very, very fine thing, and it’s unusual, to say the least, to see a chamber of all black musicians playing music by all black composers that most people would have never heard. It’s a wonderful thing, introducing people to music of historical value. It’s educational for people who assume that everything having to do with black music falls under the category of rap — it teaches history as related to the arts and specifically, black music.

There is more to black music than what happened in the 20th century.

TUE 10 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES. Reading from Pittsburgh Poetry Society writers: Jeen Shang Lin, Christine Doriean Michaels, Randy Minnich, Christine Pasinski, Fred Peterson, Joanne Samraney, Shirley Stevens, Christine Aikens Wolfe & Judy Yogman. 8 p.m.

Hemingway’s Cafe, Oakland.

412-621-4100.

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

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

WED 11 POETRY & PROSE READING. Poetry, prose or original songs.

All ages & stages welcome.

Second Wed of every month, 7-9 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-8888.

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OUTSIDE THU 05 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.

FRI 06 FOREST BATHING OUTING. Enjoy a leisurely, meditative, restorative amble through the woods. Bring a camp chair. Pre-registration is required at www.allegheny county.us/parkprograms. 7-9 p.m.

Hartwood Acres, Allison Park.

412-767-9200.

MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turnedTeaching Artist Molly.

Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. www. per a 412-322-5058. pghcityp

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TUE 10 SENSORY FRIENDLY AFTERNOON. Individuals w/ Autism Spectrum Disorders & Sensory Processing Disorders can enjoy a friendly experience in a comfortable & accepting environment. Announcement & exhibit sound volume will be reduced & sound reducing headphones will be available.

Second Tue of every month, 1-5 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side.

412-322-5058.

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STORIES IN FLOWERS. Learn the history & folklore of .com wildflowers & weeds in this fun, springtime excursion through field & forest. Latodami Nature Center. Pre-registration is required at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

North Park, Allison Park.

724-935-1766.

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Meet WPMC Mycologist John Plischke III in the gravel parking area at the Walking Trail Entrance to look for morels. 10 a.m. Washington Park, Washington.

WILDFLOWER HIKE. Pre-registration is recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. 2-4 p.m.

White Oak Park.

TUE 10 YOUNG NATURE EXPLORERS CLASS. Getting kids outside, exploring nature. Latodami Nature Center. Second Tue of every month, 9:30-11 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

WED 11 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 05 BIOPHILIA: PITTSBURGH. A meet-up group dedicated to strengthening the bond between people & the natural world.

Come discuss an enviromental topic & share ideas. First Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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

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

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. Music, readings, prayer & a candle-lighting ceremony 8:45 p.m. Community Day School, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-1100.

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

PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. Experienced screen printers can utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints.

A volunteer-driven environment 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.

SALSA NIGHT. Free dancing lessons w/ host & instructor DJ Bobby D from 9:30-10 p.m. Thu, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Perle Champagne Bar, Downtown. 412-471-2058.

THU 05 - FRI 06 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. alleghenycounty.us/parks/about/ programs/marbles-program.aspx.

FRI 06 FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m.

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

MARK & JOHATHAN FAMILY FRIENDLY COMEDY & TRICKS. 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

PARTY IN THE TROPICS. Delicious morsels, sip specialty cocktails & groove to the beats of a live DJ, all while surrounded by lush greenery, rushing waterfalls & exotic plants. 7 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6915.

FRI 06 - SAT 07 MAY MARKET. More than 40 vendors, including staff horticulturists, garden clubs, nonprofits, nurseries, farms & local artisans. May 6-7 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

SAT 07 ESSENTIAL OILS SEMINAR. How to use essential oils w/ your pets to increase health, reduce stress & increase the bond of trust between you & your pet. Call 814-382-2267 for a spot. 10 a.m.12 p.m. Conneaut Lake Bark Park.

814-382-2267.

EUROPE DAY FESTIVAL. Celebration of European culture, cuisine, & heritage. 12 p.m.

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Oakland.

412-648-8517.

FRIENDSHIP FLOWER & FOLK FESTIVAL. Performers, exhibitors, food, flowers, children’s activities.

11 a.m. Baum Grove, Friendship.

412-271-0857.

HIGHLAND PARK 2016 HOUSE TOUR. 10 a.m. St. Andrew’s

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Episcopal Church, Highland Park.

412-661-1245.

IMAGINE THAT. Jim Busch teaches hands-on workshop, sponsored

by Ligonier Valley Writers, will show you how to tap into your subconscious mind & your natural creativity using techniques drawn from psychology & advertising and the methods used by artists & writers. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. St. Michael’s of the Valley. 724-238-9411.

PITTSBURGH CONCERT CHORALE. I Could Have Danced All Night: Celebrating Dance through Music. 7:30 p.m.

Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Fox Chapel. 412-635-7654.

KOMBUCHA W/ JILL. Hands-On Workshop Series.

Second Sun of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3114.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD FLEA. Vintage treasures, mid-century finds, local food & handmade wares. Second Sun of every month, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Strip District, Strip District.

PFLAG PITTSBURGH. Support, education & advocacy for the LGBTQ community, family & friends. http://pflagpgh.weebly. com/. Second Sun of every month, 2-4:30 p.m. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland.

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Family House helps to provide a “home away from home” for families traveling to Pittsburgh seeking specialized medical care. Individual and group volunteers are needed to assist with facilitating activities, answering phones, preparing dinners and more. For more information or to sign up, visit www.pittsburghfamilyhouse.org.

PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS VS. NEW YORK RED BULLS II. 7 p.m.

Highmark Stadium, Station Square.

STEEL CITY BOOGIE CLUB “CAROLINA SHAG/SWING DANCE”. 8 p.m. Cranberry Elks, Cranberry. 724-728-7222.

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

WALDORF SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH MAY FAIR. Live Music by Mark Dignam, May Pole, May Crowns, Fairy Garden Making, Plant Sale, Face Painting, Bamboo Structure Building, Bean Bag Toss, Children’s Raffle, Delicious Lunch from Local Farmers & Prairie Restaurant, Bake Sale. 11 a.m. Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, Bloomfield.

412-441-5792.

WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m.

Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827.

WILKINSBURG VACANT HOME TOUR. 11 a.m. South Avenue United Methodist Church, Wilkinsburg. 412-727-7855.

RADICAL TRIVIA. Trivia game hosted by DJ Jared Evans. Come alone or bring a team. Sun, 7 p.m. Oaks Theater, Oakmont.

412-828-6322.

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ACTING & ACTIVISM CLASS. Sun, 5:30 p.m. Thru May 9 Percolate, Wilkinsburg.

412-607-4297.

FAMILY/FRIENDS OF SUBSTANCE USERS/ABUSERS SUPPORT GROUP. Non 12-step support group exchanging experiences & ideas as a means to provide resources & suggestions that can help those struggling to support the recovery journey of a close relative or friend.

Second and Fourth Sun of every month, 4:30 p.m.

Bethany Lutheran Church, Bethel Park. 412-853-3189.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOGA. Kate Kill from the Himalayan Institute explains the philosophy behind the different yoga poses.

7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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.

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MON 09 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly meeting. Second Mon of every month, 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

DISCOVER SAKE. We will cover the basics of production, key styles, tasting technique & food & sake pairing. Mon, 6 p.m. Thru May 16 Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-8502.

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

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.

TRIVIA NIGHT. Hosted by Pittsburgh Bar Trivia. Mon, 7 p.m.

Carnivore’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, Oakmont. 412-820-7427.

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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.

SQUIRREL HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The Evolution of Bridges in Pittsburgh, speaker: Todd Wilson, Engineer and Author 7:30 p.m.

Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

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

VINO & VINYASA. 10 a.m.12 p.m. Dreadnought Wines, Lawrenceville. 412-391-8502.

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

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

Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon.

412-851-9100.

GROWING TODAY’S ROSES. Adding roses to your garden landscape need not be labor intensive. American Rose Society Consulting Rosarian David McKibben will guide you through proper plant selection & growing techniques. 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

MAKING THE CONNECTION: AIR POLLUTION & BRAIN HEALTH. Botany Hall. Sponsored by the Group Against Smog & Pollution. 5 p.m. Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-924-0604.

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

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

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

SPRING IN THE WOODS. Gabi Hughes of the Western Pennsylvania Audubon Society in a talk about local spring woodland wildflowers, not only how to identify them, but also how to meet their needs & interact w/ the rest of the woodland community. 7 p.m.

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

Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months.

Ongoing. 412-721-0943.

CRANBERRY ARTISTS NETWORK. This is an Open show for artists within at 75 mile radius of Cranberry Township. Artists are invited to enter up to two pieces of art ( any medium except film or video & installations) in this show.

Artists must pre-register at www. cranberryartistsnetwork.com by May 16th.

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

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

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

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 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 XHIBITION. 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.

AUDITIONS APPLE HILL PLAYHOUSE. Applications to audition for plays in the Johnny Appleseed Children’s Theatre Season for individuals ages 9 - 99. Prepare a 24 bar song excerpt & provide accompaniment.

Cold reading from script. May 7, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. www.applehill playhouse.org. 724-468-5050.

SUBMISSIONS BOULEVARD GALLERY & DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Searching for glass artists, fiber artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016.

Booking for both galleries for 2017.

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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

I’m a 31-year-old straight woman. I have a good job, great friends and average attractiveness. I’ve dated close to 30 men at this point, and I can’t wrap my head around this: I’ve never had a boyfriend or dated anyone for more than a couple months. It’s really starting to wear on my self-esteem.

I don’t believe anything is wrong with me, but the more time goes on, the more I think I have to be doing something wrong. The guys ghost me or things fizzle out or we’re not at the same point in our lives. This is particularly true for one guy I’ve remained friends with (common social circle) who is struggling with his career, though things are still awkward because it’s clear there’s still something there. Another area of concern: I’m still a virgin. Catholic guilt resulted in me being a late bloomer, with my first kiss at 21. Once I got more into dating, my low self-esteem coupled with the fact that I’ve basically decided I want to be in a monogamous committed relationship with a guy before having sex, relationships just never happened. I don’t have unrealistic expectations that I’ll marry the first dick that sticks itself into me — but I’ve waited this long, so I’m not going to jump into the sack with just anyone without knowing that I can at least trust them. The only guy I really do trust is Somewhat Depressed Guy, but propositioning him could further complicate our already awkward friendship. What the hell should I do?

WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

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cares about me. We had a brief conversation about my lack of sexperience when we first started dating, and she was very cool about it. I really like this girl, but I’m not sure yet if she’s the future Mrs. I am a worrier (thanks, mom!), and I find myself thinking that if I share this with her and somewhere down the road we end up breaking up, she’s going to be even more devastated because I shared my first time with her. Am I just having silly virgin worries? Not only am I concerned about her feelings if things don’t work out, but I’m also concerned that I might become vagina-blinded — that I might immediately tell this girl I want to spend my life with her just because she’s having sex with me only to find myself a few years down the road feeling trapped. What should I do?

VERY INDECISIVE, REALLY GETTIN’ NAUGHTY

You should fuck this girl already — provided, of course, that this girl wants to fuck you. Stop freaking out about the risk that you’ll imprint, ducklinglike, on the first vagina your pee-pee sees the inside of.

You must also eliminate “sexperience” from your vocabulary, VIRGN, as it’s equal parts cloying and annoying.

YOU MUST ALSO ELIMINATE “SEXPERIENCE” FROM YOUR VOCABULARY, AS IT’S EQUAL PARTS CLOYING AND ANNOYING.

What the hell should you do?

Well, gee. What you’ve been doing hasn’t worked, so maybe it’s time to do something else. Like fuck some dude on the first date. Or if that’s too drastic, fuck some dude on the second date. Or better yet, go to Somewhat Depressed Guy and say: “I don’t think you want a relationship right now, and I’m not sure I do either. But I like you and trust you, and I could really use your help with something …”

While the commitment-and-monogamy-first approach has worked for some, it hasn’t worked for you. And being a virgin at 31 isn’t boosting your self-esteem. There are lots of people out there who jumped in the sack with people they barely knew but had a good feeling about. This approach doesn’t always lead to committed and/ or monogamous relationships, but it can and it has and it does.

Somewhat Depressed Guy might be somewhat less depressed if he was getting some, you might have higher self-esteem if you finally got some, and dispensing with your virginity might make dating after you part ways seem a lot less fraught.

I’m a virgin in my late 20s. I’m not waiting until marriage, just for the right person. I’ve dated enough and had enough fun to continue being a happy, normal, socially competent guy, much to the disbelief of my various knuckle-dragging, vagina-blinded pals. I’ve been dating this gal for a few months. She’s special — we have tons of chemistry and she

I’ve been with my boyfriend for more than a year. He’s the first person I’ve had sex with. Four times now while we were having passionate sex, he has slipped out of my vagina and accidentally penetrated me anally. That shit hurts, and I can’t help but cry. I know he feels super guilty each time. I love sex, but I’m kind of scared every time we have it now. We’ve engaged in a little anal play before, and I wasn’t really a fan. But I’m not adverse to the idea of using a butt plug. Do you think this would work? Surely other people have this problem too, right?

WRONG HOLE, ANAL TORMENT

My own personal sexperience with anal led me to doubt claims of accidental anal penetration, WHAT, as anal penetration always required focus, precision and proper breathing techniques — in my own sexperience. But listeners of the Savage Lovecast schooled me in Episode 340, and I’m now convinced that accidental anal penetration is something too many women have sexperienced.

(Do you see how annoying that is?)

A strategically deployed butt plug sounds like a sexcellent solution to the problem, but get yourself a plug with a wider-than-usual base to prevent your boyfriend’s misdirected cock from pushing the plug, base and all, all the way in you or his misdirected cock from sliding in alongside the plug. (If you hate single penetration, you’ll really hate double penetration.) If the problem persists even with a plug, a thumbtack glued to the base of the plug will inspire your boyfriend to be more focused and precise.

And speaking of the Savage Lovecast, we’re coming up on our 500th episode, which is a significant milestone for this relatively new genre/platform/ doohickey.

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

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FOR THE WEEK OF

Free Will Astrology

05.04-05.11

{BY ROB BREZSNY}

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your ability to accomplish magic is at a peak, and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And when I use that word “magic,” I’m not referring to the hocus-pocus performed by illusionists like Criss Angel or Harry Houdini. I’m talking about real feats of transformation that will generate practical benefits in your day-to-day life. Now study the following definitions by writer Somerset Maugham, and have faith in your ability to embody them: “Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to author Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian word toska means “a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness.” Linguist Anna Wierzbicka says it conveys an emotion that blends melancholy, boredom and yearning. Journalist Nick Ashdown suggests that for someone experiencing toska, the thing that’s yearned for may be “intangible and impossible to actually obtain.”

How are doing with your own toska, Gemini? Is it conceivable that you could escape it — maybe even heal it? I think you can. I think you will.

Before you do, though, I hope you’ll take time to explore it further. Toska has more to teach you about the previously hidden meaning of your life.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Gandhi’s autobiography is on my pillow,” writes Cancerian poet Buddy Wakefield. “I put it there every morning after making my bed so I’ll remember to read it before falling asleep.

I’ve been reading it for 6 years. I’m on Chapter 2.” What’s the equivalent phenomenon in your world, my fellow Crab? What good deed or righteous activity have you been pursuing with glacial diligence? Is there a healthy change you’ve been thinking about forever, but not making much progress on? The mood and the sway of the coming days will bring you a good chance to expedite the process. In Wakefield’s case, he could get up to Chapter 17.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): th

In the 16 century, European explorers searched South America in quest of a mythical city of gold known as El Dorado. Tibetan Buddhist tradition speaks of Shambhala, a magical holy kingdom where only enlightened beings live. In the legends of ancient Greece, Hyperborea was a sunny paradise where the average human life span was a thousand years and happiness was normal.

Now is an excellent time for you to fantasize about your own version of utopia, Leo. Why? First, your imagination is primed to expand. Second, dreaming big will be good for your mental and physical health. There’s another reason, too: By envisioning the most beautiful world possible, you will mobilize your idealism and boost your ability to create the best life for yourself in the coming months.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something,” said psychologist James Hillman.

“You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.” I nominate these thoughts to serve as your words of wisdom in the coming weeks, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, you are in a phase when luxuriant growth is possible. To harvest the fullness of the

lush opportunities, you should be willing to shed outworn stuff that might interfere.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On Cracked.com, Auntie Meme tells us that many commonly-held ideas about history are wrong.

There were no such things as chastity belts in the Middle Ages, for example. Napoleon’s soldiers didn’t shoot off the nose of the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, “Let them eat cake.” And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome’s Colosseum.

(More: tinyurl.com/historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme’s exposé, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables and lies about your own past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Charles Wright marvels at the hummingbird, “who has to eat 60 times his own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that’s a life on the edge.” In the coming weeks, Scorpio, your modus operandi might have resemblances to the hummingbird’s approach. I don’t mean to suggest that you will be in a manic survival mode. Rather, I expect you’ll feel called to nourish your soul with more intensity than usual. You’ll need to continuously fill yourself up with experiences that inspire, teach and transform you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Anybody can become angry,” said Greek philosopher Aristotle. “That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” I’m pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle’s high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honor and learn all you can from your finely honed and wellexpressed anger. Make it work wonders for you.

Use it so constructively that no one can complain.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant detail reveals a whole world,” says artist Pierre Cordier.

“Like the messages hidden by spies in the dot of an i.” These are precisely the minutiae that you should be extra-alert for in the coming days, Pisces.

Major revelations might emerge from what at first seems trivial. Generous insights could ignite in response to small acts of beauty and subtle

shifts of tone. Do you want glimpses of the big picture and the long-range future? Then be reverent toward the fine points and modest specifics.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Everything Has Two Endings.” This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you’re not registering and catalytic influences you can’t detect. But their apparent absence is due to a blank spot in your awareness, or maybe a willful ignorance left over from the old days. Now here’s the good news: You are primed to expand your listening field. You have an enhanced ability to open certain doors of perception that have been closed. If you capitalize on this opportunity, silence will give way to revelation.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To celebrate your arrival at the height of your sex appeal, I’m resurrecting the old-fashioned word “vavoom.” Feel free to use it as your nickname. Pepper it into your conversations in place of terms like “awesome,” “wow” or “yikes.” Use a felt-tip marker to make a temporary VAVOOM tattoo on your beautiful body. Here are other enchanted words you should take charge of and make an intimate part of your daily presentation: verve, vim, vivid, vitality, vigor, voracious, vivacious, visceral, valor, victory and VIVA!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he was a boy, Mayan poet Humberto Ak’ab’al asked his mother, “What are those

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things that shine in the sky?” “Bees,” she answered mischievously. “Every night since then,” Humberto writes, “my eyes eat honey.” In response to this lyrical play, the logical part of our brains might rise up and say, “What a load of nonsense!” But I will ask you to set aside the logical part of your brain for now, Aquarius.

According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the coming days will be a time when you need a big dose of sweet fantasies, dreamy stories and maybe even beautiful nonsense.

What are your equivalents of seeing bees making honey in the night sky’s pinpoints of light?

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