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EVENTS 5.13 – 5-9pm YOUTH INVASION 2016 Teens take over The Warhol. Tickets $5

5.14 – 2pm EXPOSURES: ARTIST TALK The Warhol theater Exposures artist Zhiwan Cheung discusses his installation Hanging Fruit with Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s associate curator of art. FREE and presented in recognition of Art Museum Day.

5.21 – 12pm ACTIVIST PRINT COMMUNITY DIALOGUE AND PROJECT LAUNCH A community dialogue and launch of Activist Print. FREE

Ai Weiwei, At the Museum of Modern Art, 1987, From the New York Photographs series 1983–93, Collection of Ai Weiwei, © Ai Weiwei; Andy Warhol artwork © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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5.26 – 11am POP GENERATION: GROWING UP WARHOL For the generation that inspired Warhol, Pop Generation features educational tours exclusively for older adults, age 65 and over. Email popgeneration@warhol.org or call Leah Morelli at 412.237.8389. Tickets $10/FREE Members

6.3 – 10am-10pm The Andy Warhol Museum 6.4 – 7pm LGBTQ+ YOUTH PROM: DISRUPTION Co-presented with THRIVE of Southwest PA Tickets $10 online/$15 at the door This program is generously supported by American Eagle Outﬁtters, Inc. and The Keith Haring Foundation.

The Warhol offers free general admission to celebrate the opening of Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, a major international exhibition featuring two signiﬁcant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries — Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. Additional public programs include: 6.4 & 6.5 – 12–6pm Three Rivers Arts Festival: Hope, Humanity, and Home Giant Eagle Creativity Zone at Point State Park (Downtown) FREE 6.4 – 8pm Film Screening: The Blue Kite Alphabet City Tent (North Side) Reserve a seat; visit http://cityofasylum.org/events or calling Hannah Waltz at 412.323.0278. FREE 6.5 – 10am Storytelling for Kids Alphabet City Tent (North Side) Reserve a seat; visiting http://cityofasylum.org/events or calling Hannah Waltz at 412.323.0278. FREE N E W S

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Hills neighborhood of Beechview has not really been considered a destination community. But on a recent Saturday, the streets were jammed with parked cars, and dozens of Pittsburghers took in Beechview’s second annual Cinco de Mayo festival. Throughout the day-long celebration, more than 500 people filled the small parking lot next the Las Palmas-IGA grocery store on Broadway Avenue. Lines of revelers spilled onto the sidewalks; families chatted as a band belted out traditional Mexican folk songs; and young girls danced in flowing red, white and green dresses. It was hard to imagine that this fiesta didn’t happen every weekend. Pittsburgh City Councilor Natalia Rudiak,

who represents the neighborhood, enjoyed a taco. And Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto made an appearance.

The growth of the city’s Latino community is contributing to the revitalization of the South Hills neighborhood {BY RYAN DETO} “I just wanted to say thank you to all the people that organized this. This is what makes living in the city special,” said Peduto. “To be here today with everybody is a celebration of what makes the city so great.” While the warm wishes were all around on this day, some Pittsburghers haven’t em-

braced the steady ﬂow of Latinos into the Steel City. The neighborhoods with the highest concentration of Latinos — Brookline and Beechview — have seen at least three incidents of racism-fueled vandalism directed at Latino-owned businesses over the past six months. One of the most blatant involved the words “Go back to Mexico” spray-painted on Brookline’s Las Palmas grocery. The Brookline store recently closed, but according to posts on social media by co-owner Missy Berumen, the reasons were related to rental costs, not intimidation. (The Berumens could not be reached to comment for this story.) There are rumors that the city’s powersthat-be are providing secret funding to bring more Hispanic businesses to the CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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area. City officials say the rumors are false community’s strengths and weaknesses. The northern end of the thoroughfare is and absurd. And while a few dissenting voices have marked by a dozen vacant structures, some undoubtedly made Latinos feel unwel- of which appear unstable. What activity come, a bigger group of Pittsburghers is does occur in this sleepy business district trying to embrace one of the city’s fastest- revolves around the lunchtime taco stand growing demographics. In April, Peduto outside the Las Palmas-IGA grocery. “Latino development has bolstered our and Rudiak criticized the vandalism and issued statements in support of the tar- community; it’s a draw to our neighborgeted businesses. As City Paper reported in hood,” says Rudiak. She defends the Latinos who live in her district and cites the January, residents sent flowers and positive contributions they have candles to the Berumen family, made to Beechview. owners of Las Palmas. See more “We have Latino residents “There are going to be om photos fr ’s renting apartments, buying some loud voices that are not w Beechvie ayo homes, frequenting all the ready to be inclusive,” says M e d co Cin businesses and sending Rudiak. “But on the flip side, at www. aper their kids to Pittsburgh Pubthere are so many people in pghcityp .com lic Schools,” she says. “They the community embracing the are Americans trying to live the Latino community.” American dream.” And now, even more support is The growth of this community has pouring into the community, especially in Beechview. Big plans are in the works: De- attracted some outside interest in Broadvelopers, city officials and business leaders way Avenue. The Pittsburgh Hispanic are working to ensure that the neighbor- Development Corporation, which focuses hood’s potential growth benefits everyone. on bolstering Latino businesses throughout the region, has set up shop in the heart of A QUICK STROLL down Broadway Avenue the neighborhood. PHDC Executive Director Victor Diaz in Beechview offers a snapshot of the CONTINUES ON PG. 10

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says the group is starting a business incubator that is actively targeting Latino entrepreneurs. The incubator, which occupies the second floor of the Brew on Broadway building, has already attracted a startup that builds prosthetics for people with disabilities, a company that exports products to Chile, and some businesses from Miami. “Attracting Hispanic business to that area is going to bring people to the neighborhood,” says Diaz. One of those businesses is a planned beer distributor. Owners Janey Taylor and her husband, Oscar Santiago, moved to Coraopolis a few years ago. Taylor says her husband works as a roofer and has made many Latino friends, who mostly live in Beechview. Because the neighborhood doesn’t have a place to buy beer other than the local bars, Taylor and Santiago, with some help from Rudiak’s office, found a space in the middle of the business district. “A bunch of people are working hard here all day. They want to be able to relax and have a beer,” says Taylor. She says they plan to carry a wide variety of brews, with an emphasis on imports. PHDC’s work goes beyond attracting Latino entrepreneurs. The nonprofit is also forming an all-inclusive community group — the Beechview Revitalization Advisory Group — that aims to unite people who

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Marchers parading down Pauline Avenue in Beechview during May Day

care about the area and want to see it grow. “Diversity is good for the city,” Diaz says. “Just because we are Hispanic does not mean we are excluding anybody.” Diaz believes that attracting Latinos to Pittsburgh is in the region’s best interest, especially considering that the Latino population here, while growing, is still very small. According to U.S. Census ﬁgures, Beechview

has the largest percentage of Latinos in the region at 6 percent (about 500 people); Allegheny County’s Hispanic population is only 1.7 percent (about 21,000 residents). But those small percentages have been inching up. Since 2010, the county has added more than 3,000 Latino residents, and Pittsburgh has added more than 1,000 Latinos in the same time period. (The city’s overall population has continued to decline since 2010.) “Hispanics are the biggest minority [group] in the country, but we don’t exist here,” says Diaz. “It is a small population, but it is growing. Why not take advantage of that momentum?” There appear to be good economic reasons to bring in Latino residents. Remy Arteaga, executive director of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, in California, recently conducted a nationwide study that shows that from 2007-2012, the number of Latino-owned businesses grew 47 percent, while nonLatino businesses grew less than 1 percent. “It is pretty shocking in some ways. We knew the growth was large but did not realize how much larger than non-Latino businesses,” says Arteaga. “For the overall growth of privately held businesses, 86 percent of growth is from Latino businesses.” Arteaga says the growth of Latino entrepreneurs is not the only reason cities should be attracting Hispanics. He says the Latino population is young, growing at a faster rate than any other demographic, and Latino businesses are in the “sweet spot” of growth and community interaction. The study also shows the U.S. economy could

grow by $ 1.4 trillion if Latino businesses were fully supported and thrived at their maximum potential. “It’s a pretty compelling case for wanting Latinos to move into the area.” In fact, one town in central Pennsylvania has already beneﬁtted from of an inﬂux of Latinos. Hazleton, in Luzerne County, received a wave of Latino immigrants in the mid-2000s. Some in the community claimed that crime grew as a result. (Stats show the opposite for most years in the 2000s.) In 2006, the town passed a controversial law aimed at keeping out undocumented immigrants. The law was later repealed, the Latino population kept growing, and according to news accounts the local economy has been buoyed by an increase of Latino-owned businesses. Hazelton’s commercial district has been revitalized, with Latino bakeries sitting next to longtime pizza joints. Arteaga says stories like these are common, and especially surprising given that Latino entrepreneurs don’t receive nearly the same level of capital investment that non-Latino businesses do. SOME SAY Beechview is lucky because

the neighborhood has garnered interest not only from the folks at the PHDC, but also from a major developer like Daniel Berkowitz. As head of Atlas Development, Berkowitz has become one of Beechview’s biggest champions. He, like Councilor Rudiak, sees Beechview’s potential not only in terms of the growth of the Latino community, but also because of its transit access. “You ﬁnd me a neighborhood that is 12 minutes on a light-rail from Downtown in most major cities, and I will show you a vibrant neighborhood,” says Berkowitz. The existing light-rail lines along Broadway Avenue are currently under construction, and Rudiak is somewhat hopeful that Beechview will receive a state grant that will bring a modern, “complete streets” design to the business district. (Latinos ﬁt into the transit plans, too. Port Authority has recently put up billboards and bus-shelter ads in Spanish, with many of them concentrated in the Beechview/Brookline area.) Berkowitz also recognizes that Beechview was already revitalizing before he started focusing on it a year ago. “Hands down there is more [vitality] in the neighborhood because of Latinos,” says Berkowitz. “There’s the taco guy at Las Palmas, patrons at El Milagro [taqueria], and there

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are young kids on the street.” While Berkowitz embraces the Latino businesses in the area (he called the PHDC incubator “the battery” of the community), he says his plans go beyond what Latinos will bring. He says he has plans for an Italian restaurant, a diner, a jazz club, an online media company and an insurance planner, in eight buildings he owns or has options on. Berkowitz also plans to construct 12 new apartment units on Broadway Avenue. Nonetheless, Beechview is rightfully leery of trusting developers. Bernardo Katz, a cellist and investor, once owned 80 percent of the neighborhood’s business district and promised $2.6 million to revitalize the area. Then, in 2007, he defaulted on his loans and ﬂed to his native Brazil; it has taken 10 years to clear the properties for sale and development. Berkowitz says he understands this history and that is why he chose to work out of the Brew on Broadway building. “We spent 12 months getting to know the community; we attended community meetings, and we use their input to inform what we do. … I can do better in the long run if I don’t piss off the neighborhood.” Momentum is building in Pittsburgh’s

Latino community, and support is growing stronger. On May 1, the same day as the Pittsburgh Marathon, more than 100 marchers paraded from Beechview to Brookline in support of immigrant rights. Religious leaders, politicians and Latino families with young children held signs saying “La ciudad de puentas, no fronteras” (The city of bridges, not walls) and “Full rights for all immigrants.” Guillermo Perez, a Latino labor organizer with United Steelworkers, has been leading marches in the community for years and says they continue to grow. He says community members have not been focused on the incidents of vandalism in the neighborhood because they are focused on working and providing for their families. “Scrawling some grafﬁti on the back of a restaurant is not going to deter anybody,” says Perez. During the march, a white Beechview resident was waving a Confederate ﬂag while the marchers passed by. However, Perez says this incident had little effect on crowd, and they carried on. They seemed to have heeded Perez’s earlier line when he said the community is here and not going anywhere: “Aqui estamos, y no nos vamos!” RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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REGISTERING OBJECTIONS Will the city’s rental-permit law be held up in court or be the newest piece of unenforceable legislation? {BY REBECCA NUTTALL}

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LAST YEAR, Pittsburgh City Council passed an ordinance to create a residential rentalpermit program. The ordinance would require landlords to obtain, for a fee, a permit to rent units to tenants, and to be subject to regular inspections. “In my office, calls about building inspection, rental issues are near the top of the list,” says Pittsburgh City Councilor Dan Gilman, who represents District 8. “The challenges we face are often an inability to reach landlords because there’s no local representative. The rental registration is a fair business license, the same way we license other businesses. It would make it easier for us to track and get in contact with landlords as needed.” But the rental registry is one of several pieces of legislation that have been challenged in court recently. Others include laws requiring employers within the city to provide mandatory paid sick leave; a law requiring additional training for security officers; and a measure that adds housingvoucher recipients as a class protected from discrimination. Paid sick leave and the training legislation were struck down last year. Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph James called them “invalid and unenforceable.” And the housing-voucher bill, like the rental-registration law, is still pending. Just as with the pieces of legislation that were struck down, the Landlord Services Bureau, which filed the suit challenging the rental-registry ordinance, claims it is an overreach of the city’s power. But Gilman says it’s exactly the kind of bill council should be enacting. “It’s incredibly frustrating,” Gilman says “These are pieces of legislation that are not overly burdensome, in my opinion. They’re similar to legislation passed not only across Pennsylvania but across the country. They’re largely pieces of legislation that are a part of the national dialogue. Every day that goes by that a law’s not enforced because of a lawsuit, the residents are the ones that are hurt, and that’s unfortunate.” If the measure is defeated, it could call into question whether city council’s recent actions overstep its authority. “Typically when a municipality goes to enact legislation, it does so under the authority it has from the Pennsylvania legislature,” says Josh Rushford, a solicitor for

several local municipalities. The registry program has had a particularly long journey in council since it was first proposed in November 2014. After a public hearing the following month, the legislation sat in committee for an entire year before it was amended and passed in December 2015 by a vote of 7-2. The law is aimed at ensuring the city’s residential rental units meet all codes for buildings, existing structures, fire, health, safety, and zoning. It was also designed to provide a better system for compelling absentee and local landlords to perform regular maintenance on units and correct any violations. “The legislation was endorsed and supported by almost every community group in my district and numerous ones citywide,” says Gilman. “And while many didn’t talk publicly, it was backed by huge numbers of landlords in my district who called me, as they were perfectly happy to be paying a small monthly fee in order to have the industry better regulated and have the ability for building inspection to hold others accountable.” Despite this support, Gilman says he knew the law would be challenged in court. But, he says, “We passed a bill that was perfectly legal. I wouldn’t vote for a bill I didn’t believe would be legal in Pennsylvania.” Landlord Services Bureau head Craig Costilac says the rental registration is beyond the scope of city council’s power. He also says there are already laws in place to protect tenants from absentee landlords. “The city is doing nothing but trying to get revenue to address a budget deficit,” says Costilac. “The City of Pittsburgh is violating citizens’ rights.” Rushford, the current solicitor for Wilkins Township who also does work with Dormont Borough and Brentwood, says the crux of most arguments over municipal legislation is whether they are within the city’s power to legislate. “That’s sort of the $ 64,000 question,” says Rushford. “Generally what the courts say is municipalities have the right to legislate health, safety and welfare within reason. … But it has to be tied to a legitimate governmental interest. It can’t just be because you arbitrarily want to regulate something.” With regard to rental registration, Rushford says he’s seen challenges where fees outweighed administrative costs, and

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those ordinances were struck down. “If you charge a fee for rental registration, it has to be reasonable,” says Rushford. “The fee cannot be a tax. The fee has to be reasonably related to whatever the activity is that’s being done.” That’s why City Councilor Corey O’Connor voted against it. “I’m supportive of the idea. I think we should have everyone registered,” says O’Connor. “I didn’t think the numbers came out right. I thought [the proposed] $63 dollars was too high for the job we had to do to get everyone registered. But I do think the policy would be beneﬁcial.” It will eventually be up to the courts to decide whether it’s a good law or just another city ordinance that goes unenforced. One of the most well-known of these is the city’s lost-and-stolen-gun legislation that was passed in 2008 and never enforced. “I’m sure before these things came to the vote they were properly vetted,” says Rushford. “But if one of my municipalities tried to [pass gun legislation], I would probably advise against it. You know the NRA and other organizations would oppose that legislation.” But at the same time, Rushford says unenforceable legislation can still serve a purpose. “When you pass a piece of legislation like that, you’re sending a message to Harrisburg,” Rushford says. “There are arguably easier ways to do this like passing legislation, for example asking for paid sick leave. But part of it, like gun-control legislation, is sending a strong statement that municipalities want to regulate guns. It may not necessarily be within what we’ve been allowed by the legislature to regulate, but it may be something we want to send a message about.” For Gilman’s part, he says council won’t let the threat of court challenges dissuade members from moving forward with other controversial legislation. “You can’t govern if you’re going to back down every time an interest group threatens to ﬁle a lawsuit,” says Gilman. “I don’t think there’s been a controversial bill across America where there aren’t threats of lawsuits on it. That’s why we have city attorneys. That’s why we have a court system, to provide that check and balance. “I’m certainly not going to be pushed away from passing legislation that I believe is in the best interest of city of Pittsburgh residents by the threat of a lawsuit.” RN U T TA L L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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lican Pennsylvania state Rep. Mike Turzai. In 2012, just a few months before the presidential election, Turzai and his fellow Republicans enacted the infamous Pennsylvania voter-ID law. The law required photo identiﬁcation to vote. And while the Republicans tried to spin some tale about it cutting down on voter fraud (which didn’t exist), Turzai told members of a Republican State Committee meeting what we knew all along: “Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.” There is a very small part of me that admired the speaker for admitting what we already knew: The law was designed to keep voters who tended to lean Democratic away from the polls. I despised the law then and knew eventually that it would be overturned as unconstitutional, which it was. But in that moment, Turzai was honest about what drove him as a legislator: passing patently unfair laws that ﬁt his personal agenda regardless of how many people are disenfranchised. And while I may have mild admiration for his display of honesty in that instance, I loathe what drives him as a legislator. Mike Turzai is a self-righteous, power-drunk obstructionist who’s guided by a moral compass that no person who’s ever had an original thought in their head would ever follow.

amendment banning samesex marriage • Consistently sent bills banning discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation to state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe’s government committee, where he knows they will never be seen again This is just a list off the top of my head! Turzai has spent his career blocking legislation that doesn’t match up with his warped sense of what’s right and wrong. And he refuses to consider any opinions to the contrary. Take medical marijuana, for example. Turzai’s own wife is a medical doctor who supports using cannabis for medicinal purposes. If he won’t listen to the advice of his own wife, what hope do we have that House Democrats like Jake Wheatley, Ed Gainey and Dan Frankel will ever be able to get through to him? For years, Turzai has been an immovable object. He rarely faces an election challenger and has prevailed each time. But this year could be a different story. John Craig Hammond, a history professor at Penn State New Kensington, started a last-minute writein campaign to get on the Democratic ticket in November. Hammond’s effort put a scare into Turzai, who asked Democrats to write in Turzai, so he could be on both tickets. Here’s a shocker: It didn’t work. Of course, we’ll need to get to know Hammond in the coming months and you can be sure that City Paper will be talking with him soon. But the fact that he decided to run and got on the ballot the hard way shows some initiative and heart. Hammond will hold his campaign kickoff event at 6 p.m. May 21, at Fresco’s in McCandless. This could be a chance to get rid of a politician who obstructs the business of government every time it runs counter to his personal agenda. I know that the Democratic state party is consumed with removing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey from ofﬁce in the fall, but it needs to get behind Hammond, spend resources on this race and send Turzai packing. It would be foolish of the party not to capitalize on this opportunity. When you have a chance to cut off the head of the snake, you take it because you may not get another one.

WHEN YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE, YOU TAKE IT BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT GET ANOTHER ONE.

Here’s a list of Turzai’s “accomplishments” in recent years: • Blocked the state’s medicalmarijuana legislation for more than two years before House Majority Leader Dave Reed took control and moved it toward its eventual passage • Led the charge for onerous restrictions on women’s health clinics in the wake of the case involving Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell • Served as a key ﬁgure preventing a state budget deal • Pushed legislation that allowed groups like the NRA to sue municipalities over local gun laws • Supported English-only legislation • Voted in favor of Pennsylvania’s Castle Doctrine • Pushed a constitutional

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NAMING RITES {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} EVERYBODY LOVES a good nickname. Here

in Pittsburgh we’ve had a wide array of nicknames for our beloved Steelers, Penguins and Pirates. They range from great names like Jerome “The Bus” Bettis to considerably less stellar monikers like Nyjer “Tony Plush” Morgan. When you don’t know what you’re getting, it’s generally a bad nickname. “Dr. Strangeglove” Dick Stuart is great because it’s a thencurrent reference to a movie, and you can infer he’s not a good fielder — double win. Generic nicknames referring to the player’s name, like “J-Hay” Josh Harrison, or size (“Big” Ben Roethlisberger), or a rhyme (Sid “The Kid” Crosby) are OK in a pinch but not much on the creative side. Before we get to the really good ones, let’s pause and honor the worst nickname of all time. That honor belongs to an unremarkable Pirate outfielder in the late 1930s named Johnny Dickshot. I’m not even sure if we can print the name Dickshot. He was a true blue-collar guy who worked in a steel mill during the off-season. But Johnny Dickshot not only had the stigma of an unforgiving surname; his nickname compounded what must have already been a superior inferiority complex. Yes, Johnny “Ugly” Dickshot was a real person. You think Russell “Rusty” Kuntz had to endure ridicule. Kuntz had nothing on Dickshot. T h e S t e e l e r s h ave always had great nicknames. The best three in team history all tell you everything you need to know about their owners — Chuck Noll, “The Emperor”; Art Rooney, “The Chief”; and “Mean” Joe Greene. From Jack “The Hammer” Ham and “Blonde Bomber” Terry Bradshaw to “Big Snack” Casey Hampton, the Steelers churn out great nicknames like they win Lombardi trophies. Even the players we don’t like get good names. Sure most people hated Kordell Stewart while he was here, but the name “Slash” is pretty awesome. Sure we littered his lawn with garbage and booed him relentlessly, but Tommy “Gun” Maddox is a cool name, too. Hockey is full of nicknames as well. Former Penguins Bob “Battleship” Kelly and Ron “Franchise” Francis are beneficiaries of really good names. And while “Real Deal” James Neal might seem like

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a lazy, rhymey nickname, Pitttsburghese makes it a good one —“Rill Dill James Nill” is just fun to say. Mario Lemieux is the anti-Johnny Dickshot; he’s a great player with a last name that actually means “the best.” But he’s also known as “Le Magniﬁque,” a worldly moniker beﬁtting the greatest player in the team’s half-century history. Over to the Buccos. Willie “Pops” Stargell and Phil “Scrap Iron”’ Garner lead the “We Are Family” era for great nicknames. That was a club with a Cobra (Dave Parker), a Candy Man (John Candelaria), and a Hit Man (Mike Easler) — all good players with equally good names. Pirates teams in the past 10 years have had the odd distinction of having bad players with decent nicknames. “Eye Chart” Doug Mientkiewicz and Casey “Hits” McGehee fall into that category. Jose “Joey Bats” Bautista and “Brock Star” Brock Holt got their names after leaving town. But for every Mike “Spanky” LaValliere, there is a Harvey “Kitten” Haddix to balance it out. Matt Stairs had the honor of having a good nickname and a bad nickname. The all-time leader in pinch home runs in Major League Baseball history was known as “Professional Hitter.” That’s much better than his other alias, “Wonder Hamster.” I’m sure I missed a lot of good ones. If you want, tweet your selections with the hashtag #CPNicknames, and we’ll pick a couple at random to win a City Paper T-shirt.

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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.

SILENCE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD (May 10, 1995)

On May 2, 1995, local actor Don Brockett died of a heart attack at age 65. Although he had dozens of film and television credits to his name, Brockett was best known as Chef Brockett on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. To mark the local legend’s passing, cartoonist Lee Adam Herold dedicated his strip, “Smithfield,” to Brockett. The cartoon depicted a forlorn man sitting on the sidewalk outside of “Chef Brockett’s Bakery.” A sign on the door reads simply: “Closed due to a death in the family” — a touching tribute to Brockett’s most-loved character. But the actor had quite a range, appearing in films like Day of the Dead, Hoffa (starring Jack Nicholson) and the iconic Silence of the Lambs. If you want to find the chef in that film, go to the scene where Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster meet for the first time. After one inmate “unloads” on Foster, our Chef Brockett can be seen screaming one of the film’s most memorable lines: “Miggs, you stupid fuck!”

JACKIE O … DEAR GOD, THAT’S EXPENSIVE (May 9, 1996)

Writer A.J. Caliendo reports on the $2.6 million spent by Heinz Chairman Anthony O’Reilly on a ring formerly owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. O’Reilly bought the ring — valued at $600,000 — as a birthday gift for his wife. To put the cost of the ring in perspective, Caliendo offered this comparison: The ring held the value of 2,184,873 bottles of Heinz ketchup.

The 2013 Pittsburgh mayoral primary between Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Bill Peduto, Michael Lamb and former state Auditor General Jack Wagner was shaping up as one for the ages. But despite a host of new scandals — a slush fund in the police department and a federal investigation of his administration, for starters — many pundits questioned whether Ravensthal could be defeated. After all, he’d been doing stupid crap for years — using a Homeland Security SUV to go see a Toby Keith concert, hanging out with Snoop Dogg at the Super Bowl and playing the do-youknow-who-the-fuck-I-am card to get into a private event featuring Tiger Woods. But in February, the mayor, who wasn’t showing up for work much at this point anyway, announced he wouldn’t be continuing his campaign. CP’s original plan for our May 8 issue was to do a Luke Ravenstahl cover, but now he was gone. Not ones to back down from a challenge, we did it anyway. The result was Vince Dorse’s hilarious illustration featuring Snoop, Luke and that much maligned SUV.

THE DEVIL AND LARRY DUNN (May 8, 1997)

Marilyn Manson played the then-Civic Arena on May 4, 1997, and Allegheny County Commissioner Larry Dunn got a huge case of the red ass over it. Dunn, as well as other protesters, tried to have the show canceled. In this issue, John Hayes reviewed the show in the form of a letter to Commissioner Dunn. Hayes said that despite the “predictable pre-show hoopla … it was a relatively innocuous, lackluster event. Outside, a couple dozen well-behaved Christian activists passed

out leaflets while bored motorcycle cops waited for the apocalypse that didn’t come.”

UNMANNED CHARTER (May 13, 1998)

Nowadays we take our system of Allegheny County governance for granted. We haven’t always had this super-fair system that allows us to elect a 13-member council to make laws for us, and then lets us elect a county executive who ignores the council and does whatever the hell he wants. Eighteen years ago, voters got to go to the polls and decide whether to replace a

three-commissioner system with the executive and council model. Chris Potter’s story on the county’s latest attempt to enact home rule highlighted CP’s election issue. The measure would pass and be enacted two years later, but Potter points out that this attempt was different than the two previous tries in that the county’s council districts wouldn’t be defined until after the charter was approved. That left critics, like Mark Brentley, who had not yet been elected to the Pittsburgh School Board, skeptical. Charter supporters, he says, were telling voters: “Give me a check; I’ll fill in the blanks later.”

THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN, BUT KDKA WON’T SAY SHIT (May 9, 2001)

Local viewers of the second season of the hit CBS show Survivor had an extra reason to watch the show, set that time in Australia. A 22year-old Beaver County resident named Amber Brkich was one of the contestants. To capitalize on the show’s popularity, KDKA reporter David Highfield reported each week from a watch party with Brkich’s friends and family. The problem, as City Paper reported, was that Brkich was also there, even though the KDKA broadcasts didn’t include her or that fact. The show had rules against contestants appearing in public while the show aired, but still, some people were upset at how the station handled it. “The KDKA live shots were wrong,” Mike Dodgson, a journalism professor and former local news producer, told CP. “It goes to the credibility of the station first, but also goes to the reporter’s credibility. Don’t fake it.” Brkich did eventually show her face around the ’Burgh again and even returned to Survivor, where she won the show’s all-star version and met her future husband, “Boston” Mariano. e husband nd,, “ Boston Bos ton” ”R Rob ob Mar Maria

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FRESH AND RETRO TREATS {BY REBECCA NUTTALL} Ice cream, candy, toys and games. The Flying Squirrel in Carnegie is like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory or something out of a childhood fantasy. But it’s also more adult than meets the eye. “Everything we do is green. Everything’s compostable. We don’t do any plastics,” says Melanie Luke, who owns the shop, which will be celebrating its one-year anniversary in July. “We really deliberately wanted to be a green business.” As part of its standing as Sustainable Pittsburgh gold members, the ice-cream cups at this emporium are biodegradable. And the ice cream itself is made locally: Leona’s ice-cream sandwiches and hard dips from the Pittsburgh Ice Cream company. “Everything is locally made, locally sourced, high organics, all-natural goodness and all that stuff,” says Luke. Flying Squirrel’s ice cream is smallbatch with a rotating list of six to eight flavors every week. Past flavors have included Honey Nutter, Sturges Cider and Salty Goat Caramel. The ice-creamsandwich varieties include blueberry/ oatmeal and chocolate/whiskey fudge. And you never know what other treats you’ll find on a visit. For Earth Day, customers could make their own milkshakes using a bicycle-powered blender; Luke says root-beer floats are in the shop’s future. “It’s very fresh,” says Luke. “Every time someone comes in, there’s something new to taste.” And don’t forget the candy. The Flying Squirrel sells retro and nostalgic penny candy, gum and mints. “We have a great selection of pop-culture candy,” says Luke. “It’s really strange out-of-the-box stuff.” RNUTTALL@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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THE DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET AT MARKET SQUARE OPENS FOR THE SEASON ON THU., MAY 12. It features more than 30 vendors, among them 10 new ones, including Freedom Farms, The Pickled Chef, and the rubs and sauces of Two Acre Farm. At the May 12 kick-off, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy will give away 150 trees and thousands of recycled daffodil bulbs. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 27

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PAIRS WELL WITH BEER {BY ANGELIQUE BAMBERG + JASON ROTH}

HE WHISKEY Rebellion is a natural hook for local distillers. Located just a few miles up the road from Western Pennsylvania’s own ﬂashpoint of sedition, Heidelberg’s Insurrection AleWorks pays homage to the great American tradition of tax protests getting a little out of hand. But wait: You don’t have to be a Revolutionary War historian to know that ale isn’t whiskey, it’s beer. No matter, there’s room for brewers, too, in the wake of the Whiskey Rebellion. Mix in the beer-swilling reputation of the town’s German namesake, and you get the inspiration for the establishment’s clever logo: a Teutonic lion rampant with a tassel of hops on its tail. So the branding is on target; what of the beer? Technically that’s above our pay grade, but we sure as shootin’ didn’t drive out to damn-near Canonsburg to eat at a

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in our Brite Tank”) and Yoga Pants (brewed with Himalayan salt and fresh-cracked coriander). Our server cheerfully brought us a veritable ﬂight of samples so we could make an informed choice to accompany

our meals; all were hoppily delicious. But Insurrection’s food is not mere ﬁller, or at least, it isn’t intended to be. The menu is dominated by charcuterie and cheese, with two full pages, closely typed, of a la carte options both local and exotic. This was, in fact, probably the most impressive charcuterie list we’ve ever seen. Our only quibble was that there didn’t seem to be an option for a discount on platters: For an order of one cheese or ﬁve, the price per unit was the same. It would be possible — and pleasurable — to graze for weeks off Insurection’s charcuterie, but since most items on it were brought in, and thus not indicative of the kitchen’s own chops, we reined ourselves in. Mostly. We did succumb to the temptation of pâtés (actually mousses) — three of them, all from a purveyor in

Greenwich Village, made with combinations of pork and poultry livers and flavorings like mushrooms, Sauternes and truffles. We received a generous portion of chicken-liver mousse, albeit with a slightly skimpier helping of sliced baguette (more was brought upon request). Befitting the name, the mousse was silken, the flavor rich and well balanced against some grainy mustard served alongside. All four salads on the menu look pretty good. We ordered the falafel. A pair of the chickpea fritters surmounted a huge platter of chopped romaine studded with pieces of cucumber, tomatoes, red onion and a pour of tzatziki. This was adequately garlicky to hold its own, but everything else was dwarfed by the sheer quantity of lettuce, and the falafel that should have been the star of the show hardly registered in its dry blandness. Unfortunately, this theme — not enough flavor, not enough kick — recurred throughout our meal. Charcuterie aside, the menu leaned heavily on sandwiches, mostly sophisticated ones like muffuletta and prosciutto with buffalo mozzarella and roasted red peppers. We chose the Cuban, which acquitted itself pretty well, considering the impossibility of finding actual Cuban bread outside of Cuba or Florida. Cuban is somewhere between French and Italian breads, but a touch sweeter; perhaps most importantly, its crust isn’t too hearty, but crisps up beautifully in a sandwich press. Insurrection didn’t use a press, but did choose a hoagie roll that toasted up credibly. The meat, cheese and mustard were par, but the housemade pickles stood out. Real Cuban sandwiches use frankly lackluster dill slices, but Insurrection featured thick slices of smaller pickles, their brine full of peppercorns and coriander for a profile that was light but not dull. Buffalo wings were small for the price, but beneath the classic sauce they had a nice fried crust, and the meat was tender and juicy. Wings are also available in a couple sauces made with house ales. A special of “pumpkin flank” swordfish — so named for the color of its crustaceanfed flesh — was simply seasoned with salt and pepper, but a bit on the well done side for our tastes. It came with a side of bland, barely-sauced mac-and-cheese; a full dish of lobster mac-and-cheese featured a sauce more like a creamy bechamel than a cheesy melt and sufficiently succulent lobster bits. Insurrection AleWorks’ name suggests boldness, whether from a rebellious spirit or simply from an impulse toward something zesty to accompany the product of its brewing. The reality is more timid; true to its name, beer is what Insurrection AleWorks does best.

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COLD COMFORT The right ice makes or breaks a drink At a recent celebratory dinner, my girlfriend and I tore our way through the menu at one of Pittsburgh’s hottest new restaurants. The food lived up to the hype, each course more enchanting than the one before. The cocktails were just as lovely, meticulously garnished and presented in elegant glassware. And they tasted great — at first. A few sips in, however, and they were totally diluted, mere husks of their former glory.

THE WORLD’S BEST BARS EVEN EMPLOY “ICE CHEFS.” This is not a terrible tragedy. (A watery gin and tonic has to be the First World-iest problem one can have.) But it did get me thinking about the importance of ice in modern drinking. Once it was an unthinkable luxury, but in the early 19th century, Frederic “Ice King” Tudor changed the way the world drinks when he figured out how to harvest blocks of ice and ship them all over the world. Today, nearly every cocktail we love relies on ice in some form, and the world’s best bars even employ “ice chefs” to craft the perfect cubes, spheres and spears for each drink. The science of ice is fascinating but complex. Just know that your drink will be greatly influenced by the size, shape and temperature of the ice it’s mixed and served with. Good cocktail ice should be very cold and very dry; if you’ve ever grabbed ice from the picnic cooler you know the horrors of warm, wet cubes. And the greater the surface area, the more quickly the ice will melt. Serve an old-fashioned over a bunch of those crescents from your icemaker and it will quickly lose its bite. But the exact same weight of ice in the form of one large cube will keep it good to the last drop. Thankfully, ice is a lot easier to find than it was in the 1800s. But we still shouldn’t take it for granted. Pay attention to the ice you use, and help make weak G&Ts as outdated as Tudor’s icehouses. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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BLUE. Duncan Manor Plaza, McCandless. 412-369-9050. Blue may be located in a strip mall, but it makes up points with an urbane, lively, clublike interior and a sophisticated, contemporary menu that runs the gamut from the de rigueur (chicken satay) to the refreshing (gorgonzola hummus). And that’s just the appetizers. LE BRGR. 5997 Centre Ave., East Liberty (412-362-2333) and 20111 Rt. 19, Cranberry Township (724-742-2333). This casual restaurant celebrates — and in many cases, imaginatively re-creates — America’s signature contribution to global cuisine. BRGR keeps its patties to a reasonable size, which allows for a variety of gourmet toppings — plus room for excellent fried sides (French fries, onion rings, pickles), or milkshakes (traditional or spiked). JE CENTRAL DINER. 6408 Steubenville Pike, Robinson. 412-275-3243. This spot offers a winning hybrid of American diner fare and Greek specialties. Breakfast and lunch favorites (giant pancakes, omelets, pork souvlaki, spanakopita) give way to entrées such as stuffed peppers, shrimp santorini and Roumanian tenderloin steak. KE

La Palapa {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} bridges retro and au courant in a now-familiar way, with grownup comfort food and big burgers on brioche buns with fancy toppings. Try the excellent mac-and-cheese, accented with bacon and truffle oil, or the donut-sized onion rings drizzled with balsamic vinegar. KE DISH OSTERIA. 128 S. 17th St., South Side. 412-390-2012. This South Side venue offers excellent, authentic, regional Italian fare and serious cocktails in an alluring, intimate setting. There is antipasti (from land and sea), then a half-dozen pastas, a couple of meat dishes and seafood items comprise the entrees. Except some seasonal variation. LE

THE CHELSEA GRILLE. 515 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont. 412-828-0570. The menu here covers mostly familiar ground, DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. with red-sauce pasta, chops and 2339 E. Carson St., South Side an unusual predilection for (412-390-1111) and 100 Adams Mornay sauce. But that’s Shoppes, Route 288, not to say that dinner Mars (724-553-5212). here is rote. From You may cringe at the fritto baguette the “white trash” to the rarebit-ish theme, or feel www. per Chicken Wisconsin, bemused at ordering a p ty pghci m the classics prove sautéed shrimp .co quite surprising. JE and wood-grilled portabella on a faux COCA CAFÉ. 3811 Butler St., TV-dinner tray. But there’s Lawrenceville. 412-621-3171. plenty of good vegan fare, beer This café is somehow hip and a fun filling-station-turnedbut not pretentious. Variety restaurant ambience. KE predominates: The omelets alone include smoked salmon, JAMES STREET GASTROPUB wild mushroom, roasted & SPEAKEASY. 422 Foreland St., vegetable, sun-dried tomato North Side. 412-904-3335. pesto and four-cheese. (Coca This venue offers a nicely also caters to vegans, with up-to-date selection of refined options like scrambled tofu in pub grub, including inventively place of eggs.) JF dressed burgers (corn chips, salsa and ranch dressing), DIAMOND MARKET. meatloaf and fried chicken. 430 Market St., Downtown. A relaxed gastropub, with 412-325-2000. The tavern-like fun appetizers, such as steak décor provides a comfortable, “pipe bombs,” live music on unpretentious setting for one floor and menus housed in socializing, and the menu old LP covers. KE

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Last month, jazz returned to the Pittsburgh airwaves, in a limited capacity. On April 2, Pittsburgh Public Media, a volunteer organization made of former employees of WDUQ-FM, purchased WZUM-AM 1550 and changed its format from R&B oldies to jazz. Bill Hillgrove, best known as the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pitt Panthers, introduced the music. He’s also the host of a six-hour weekend show featuring popular jazz that broadcasts three times over the weekend. While the AM radio band with spotty coverage might not be an ideal setting for the music, the station serves as a stepping stone in PPM’s plan to get jazz back on the FM dial. After Duquesne University sold WDUQ in 2011, jazz radio was restricted to a few hours a week on the rebranded WESA-FM. But Chuck Leavens, president of PPM, began broadcasting online at the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel (www.pghjazz.net). By 2013, PPM purchased Bethany College’s station, which became WYZR-FM 88.1. Its broadcast range “covers the Ohio Valley and gets pretty well into the South Hills and west areas of Pittsburgh. You can listen to it around Wexford, the Parkway North,” says Leavens. PPM hopes to expand the programming and coverage, and migrate to the FM band. (Toward that end, it has purchased an FM frequency; a recent ruling by the FCC allows WZUM’s signal to broadcast over the FM dial through an FM translator.) But PPM needs funds to build out, which its members are attempting to raise online and over the air, much like public radio. “We don’t know if it’s possible, but we would like to be on the air before the summer jazz festivals because we’d like to be on the air live from them,” Leavens says. He adds that if the funds come through, they could have it built in time. (Donations can be made at the aforementioned website.) Hillgrove, once an occasional guest host on WDUQ, loves jazz almost as much as sports. During the ’60s, he hosted Jazz Beat, a program on WQED-TV that featured performances by local musicians. He believes this radio station is a necessity. “Pittsburgh is such a great producer of jazz talents. Of all cities to lose a full-time jazz station, it was embarrassing,” he says. In the meantime, there’s a reason to crank up the AM dial. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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SAVAGE LOVE {BY CARALYN GREEN}

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’M NOT GOING to hurt you ’cause I’m ﬂirting with you,” Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth confronts listeners on “Sad Person,” a track that equates love with disease, an addiction, a rush of cocaine. A song later, she’s crooning, “I adore life … Do you adore life?” It becomes an anthem, a blatantly positive affirmation, contrasted with joltingly intense, jagged post-punk crescendos. Savages’ Adore Life is every bit as ferocious as 2013’s inescapably hyped Silence Yourself (Savages were called “saviors of rock ’n’ roll” based on that release), but it replaces their earlier nihilism with a surprisingly sweet vulnerability. It’s a shift that bassist Ayse Hassan says is intentional. “For our second record, we wanted it to be a progression of what we are as a band. We had been touring for three years and [were] shaped by all the experiences we had on tour. We felt more open toward audiences.

We felt like we could talk about a subject matter like love, and explore that in a way that Savages would,” says Hassan. And how is it that Savages, a London four-piece in which everyone wears black and a don’t-mess-with-this expression, explores love? “Contrast. To have a beautiful lyric supported by dissonant guitar sounds or feedback.” For Silence Yourself, Savages recorded almost entirely live, creating a “snapshot of the band at that moment in time,” says Hassan. She describes that output as “raw, slightly chaotic in the sense that tempos aren’t perfect, but they’re not supposed to be. It’s very natural.” But for Adore Life, which was recorded at RAK Studios in London last April, each member put down her tracks individually to “ﬁnd exactly the right sounds and have time to focus on our instruments separately,” says Hassan. “We’re so passionate about what we do. Each person inﬂuences where a song will go. We are a band that makes the music we want to make, and we do that with very little compromise.”

Kinney after that band toured with Pearl Jam and started playing big, broad and relentless jams. It can be hard to listen to. The opposite of background music, Savages demands attention. Their sound is frequently called “aggressive,” but that feels dismissive and imprecise. Men throw their bodies at one another, draw blood and cause concussions. That’s called “sport.” But when women play instruments and use their voices in a way that’s not entirely passive, they are regarded as an anomaly. The press has treated Savages as such, asking them questions about being “women in music,” and calling them out for rejecting earlier management who tried to shape their sound into something Savages didn’t want it to be. “Saying ‘they’re strong women’ because we’re playing musical instruments — it’s a bit patronizing, isn’t it?” drummer Fay Milton chastised U.K.’s The Independent. The concept of “strong women” is redundant, journalist Ann Friedman recently wrote in the Washington Post. “I struggle to name a single weak woman I know. And yet when ‘strong women’ are singled out as exceptional, weakness is the implied norm,” Friedman writes. “‘Strong’ is synonymous with ‘woman.’ We know them. We are them. We raise them.” Savages are not “strong women.” They are not “aggressive women.” They are women who make music that touches on the brutality and kindness and contrast in life. They adore life. And they hope you will, too.

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This calculated approach fits with the entire process of Adore Life, which was workshopped through a three-week residency in New York last year. Though Adore Life may be focused and deliberate, the sound is still naturalistic and perhaps even more exposed. “You can hear the slides, and hear that it’s not perfect,” Hassan explains of her bass-playing. “What I want to represent is the fact that as long as you love what you do, and enjoy your instrument and making music, it’s fine to find your own way in terms of how you play. There’s not a wrong or right way.” This statement of self-acceptance and belief in one’s art is incredibly important to Hassan, who identified as “exceptionally shy” when she first started playing with Savages. “I used to close my eyes a lot more than I do now. It was my way of dealing with, in my mind, not imagining that I was the focus in terms of being on stage,” she says. Equal parts Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and PJ Harvey, Savages channels — at times — The Woods-era SleaterN E W S

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The Obsessed (Left to right: Scott Weinrich, Brian Constantino, Dave Sherman)

WEIN-DING UP {BY JASON BRACELIN} SCOTT “WINO” Weinrich, of The Obsessed, possesses the air of a man built to withstand time: His face looks like it was chipped from stone, perpetually stern, with a jaw that juts out like a locomotive’s cattle catcher; his hair, long, silvery and wild, would be the scourge of any barber’s shears, and about the only time he’s not covered in leather or denim is when he’s in the shower—presumably. If Weinrich has the appearance of a dude whom time forgot, well, maybe it’s for the best. Time hasn’t always been so good to him — he’s frequently found himself ahead of it, earning plenty of accolades as a doom-metal forebear in his long-running bands like The Obsessed, St. Vitus and Spirit Caravan, if not a lot of record sales.

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Incubated in conflict in the late-’70s Washington, D.C. punk ranks, the members of The Obsessed were shaggy-haired square pegs in a scene where rocking a flowing mane could lead to fist fights. But the band stood out in the right ways with Weinrich’s seismic riffing; soulful, bloodletting vocals; and equally hard-boiled and searching lyrics — all of which prefaced the late’90s stoner-rock boom by two decades. The music was heavy yet emotive, forceful, but underscored with a hint of vulnerability. And while their punk and metal peers were preoccupied with blazing speed, The Obsessed were content to play slow.

Yet, The Obsessed’s luck has been as hard as their tunes: The band has broken up multiple times; it last put out a record in 1994; and, on a financial level, it never did much more than survive. Now, Weinrich has reconvened The Obsessed with a fresh line-up for its first fullfledged tour this century. “I must say, I wasn’t really into playing these Obsessed songs anymore,” Weinrich acknowledges over the phone before a recent band rehearsal. “The reunion was floated quite a bit over the past couple of years, but it just never felt right.” Enter bassist Dave Sherman, who also plays in Spirit Caravan, and drummer Brian Constantino, who once served as The Obsessed’s drum tech in the early ’80s. After joining the phone call, both Sherman and Constantino acknowledge being longtime Obsessed diehards. “It’s a dream come true,” says Sherman. “I’m in my favorite band.” “Most people are just writing words just to write them. His words are so deep,” Constantino says of Weinrich. “You can put parts of your life into the lyrics and say, ‘Yeah, I was feeling like that then, and I’m feeling like that now.’” Currently, the group is three-quarters of the way through writing a new record, The Obsessed’s first since its one major-label release, 1994’s seminal The Church Within. “Obviously, the stoner-rock thing hadn’t hit back in the ’90s when The Obsessed was signed, and even though we had some good people working for us back then, we did that one record, and then the record company fell asleep really quickly,” Weinrich says. “That whole situation kind of put a bad taste in my mouth. It was a big letdown.” That finally changed when some old friends helped breathe new life into The Obsessed. “Now, things are beautiful,” Weinrich says. “I finally heard the songs the way they were supposed to sound.” I N F O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M

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Large Professor is all about repping his fellow Queens, New York-based hip-hop artists. As the hook to his track “In the Scrolls” goes, “Nobody does it better than Nas.” But Nas couldn’t have done it without Large Professor, who was part of the production team responsible for that rapper’s 1994 masterpiece, Illmatic. The Prof has also worked with Mobb Deep, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and many others, and when you listen to his hook-filled, funk-based solo records, it’s easy to see why these influential artists would seek him out. Tonight, Large Professor will play a DJ/emcee set at Culture Restaurant and Lounge. Count Bass D also appears. Margaret Welsh 9 p.m. Sat., May 14. 130 Seventh St., Downtown. $8. 412-338-2222 or www.facebook.com/ ClassicMaterialFam

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Sometimes eerie and ambient, sometimes appropriating elements of power electronics (albeit in an admittedly more accessible context), Chelsea Wolfe’s music never fails to create an atmosphere of dread and isolation, while maintaining a certain icy dignity. Not quite rock, electronica or neo-folk, a simple description of the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter might place her halfway between the ethereal, witchy side of Kate Bush and the oppressive noise of Swans. In her dark and cinematic music videos, she’s wearing so much eyeliner that the viewer may begin to question if she even has eyes: Are those just empty sockets? Creepy! So it seems appropriate to just call her “goth.” Tonight, Wolfe plays at Mr. Smalls with special guest A Dead Forest Index. Andrew Woehrel 8 p.m. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $18-20. All ages. 412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

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Droney Brooklyn metallers Tombs seem to be part of a certain zeitgeist of New Yorkbased heavy rock that combines shoegaze, post-punk and black metal. I won’t name names, but Tombs isn’t the only band mixing Loveless-style guitar tones with Darkthroneinspired tremelo-picking. Tombs has something unique going for it, though, in the band’s more restrained moments. At times, vocalist/guitarist Mike Hill’s doomy baritone almost sounds like … Leonard Cohen? Perhaps Ian Curtis is a more apt comparison, and there’s definitely a stray Joy Division-esque bassline that pops up occasionally in Tombs’ murky atmospherics. Tonight, the band plays at the Mr. Roboto Project, with Hivelords, Disgruntled Anthropophagi, and Post Mortal Possession. AW 7 p.m. 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $1012. All ages. www. therobotoproject.org

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Youngstown, Ohio, power-pop band Blue Ash is not a retro revival act — it’s the Chelsea Wolfe real deal. The band formed in 1969 and has become something of a local legend. Contemporaries of the more famous Big Star, the members could have become culty superstars just like Alex Chilton and Co., but it just wasn’t in the cards. Actually, Blue Ash might be the Rolling Stones to Big Star’s Beatles; indeed, the 1977 track “Tired of Pushin’” recalls the guitar riff from the Stones’ “Angie.” Unfortunately, none of the original members are with us anymore. But the surviving members are gearing up for a tour of Spain, and first they’ll stop at Get Hip Records tonight, with Nox Boys and Deadbeat Poets. AW 8 p.m. 1800 Columbus Ave., North Side. $10. All ages. 412-231-4766 or www.gethip.com

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BEACH HOUSE RESTAURANT. The Dave Iglar Band. Washington. 724-348-7022. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Natalie Cressman, Elyse Louise, Leslie Vonner w/ MVT. North Side. 412-904-3335. MONESSEN HIGH SCHOOL. Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers w/ Hear Tonight. Monessen. 724-212-6159. MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Jayhawks w/ Folk Uke. Millvale. 412-821-4447. THE R BAR. Billy The Kid, Shari Richards. Dormont. 412-942-0882. ROCKS LANDING BAR & GRILLE. Tony Campbell & the Jazz Surgery. McKees Rocks. 412-875-5809.

MON 16

MR. SMALLS THEATER. The Looking. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

TUE 17

CLUB CAFE. Plants & Animals w/ Different Places in Space, Red Room Effect. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Daryl Hance Powerhouse, Misaligned Mind. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Savages w/ Head Wound City. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

WED 18

ALTAR BAR. Highly Suspect. Strip District. 412-263-2877. CLUB CAFE. David Liebe Hart w/ Jonah Th’Mole Mociun, w/ Amoeba Knievel, Eric S. Donaldson. South Side. 412-431-4950. HARD ROCK CAFE. The Shrine. Station Square. 412-481-7625. HOWLERS. Sister Grotto, CJ Boyd, White Reeves, O Heidrun, Snwv. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. MR. SMALLS THEATER. Nahko & Medicine For The People w/ Cas Haley. Millvale. 412-821-4447. PITTSBURGH WINERY. The Still Tide w/ Cali. Strip District. 412-566-1000. REX THEATER. Terrapin Flyer, Melvin Seals & Mark Karan. South Side. 412-381-6811. STAGE AE. Sixx:A.M., Cliver. North Side. 412-229-5483.

DJS THU 12

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

FRI 13

ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900. ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. RIVERS CASINO. DJ NIN. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.

SAT 14

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Kraxx. Album release. North Side. 412-904-3335. LAVA LOUNGE. Top 40 Dance Party. South Side. 412-431-5282. MIXTAPE. DJ Can’t Even. I’m So Excited. 80’s Dance Party. Garfield. 412-661-1727. REMEDY. Feeling Without Touching. Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771. RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Millz. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.

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THUNDERBIRD CAFE. TBird Allstars w/ Glenn Strother. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177. VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. Moose Tracks. West End. 412-458-0417.

SUN 15

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. Sounds Upstairs: Ken Waldman w/ Mark Tamsula. A-style string-band music w/ original poetry & Alaska-set storytelling. Oakland. 412-622-3108. HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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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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Mr. Smalls Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave.

HIP HOP/R&B FRI 13

1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.

THE SPACE UPSTAIRS. Second Saturdays. Jazz-happening series feat. live music, multimedia experimentations, more. Hosted by The Pillow Project. Point Breeze. 412-225-9269.

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Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side. 412-904-3335. RILEY’S POUR HOUSE. Lucarelli Brothers w/ Phil Salvato. Carnegie. 412-279-0770. RIVERS CASINO. Etta Cox Trio. North Side. 412-231-7777. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown. 412-394-3400.

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1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254.

LOGAN’S PUB. Jukehouse Bombers. Oakland. 412-578-8483. MEADOWS CASINO. Tony Janﬂone Jr. Washington. 724-503-1200. MIKE’S NEW MOON SALOON. Jack of Diamonds. Gibsonia. 724-265-8188.

565 LIVE. Bethany James. Bellevue. 412-522-7556. ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani. Downtown. 412-773-8884. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Lee Robinson. North Side. 412-322-5058. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. www. per Tony Campbell & Howie pa pghcitym .co Alexander. Downtown. GREENHOUSE WINERY. 412-391-1004. The Witchdoctors. North LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Huntingdon. 724-446-5000. Maria Sargent. Mt. Washington. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB 412-431-3100. & SPEAKEASY. Soul Raydio. REVEL + ROOST. Funk + Soul Blues Youth Jam. Sweaty Betty. Fridays. Downtown. 412281-1134. North Side. 412-904-3335. SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Max Leake. Greensburg. MOONDOG’S. Blues Trail. 724-691-0536. A musical journey down the evolutionary path of The Blues. Blawnox. 724-888-6183. ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs. Downtown. 412-773-8884. LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Rick Gilbert. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. ANDYS WINE BAR. Trudy Holler. THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET Downtown. 412-773-8884. CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & Saturday, a different band. Monroeville. 412-728-4155. SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries

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The Troubadour. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. VILLAGE TAVERN & TRATTORIA. Bill Couch. West End. 412-458-0417.

SUN 15

CLUB CAFE. The Blue-Hots, Fidor Brayd. South Side. 718-687-8374. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Lucarelli Brothers & Peg Wilson. North Side. 412-904-3335.

WED 18

ANDYS WINE BAR. Joe Negri. Downtown. 412-773-8884. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. The Rainbow End. North Side. 412-904-3335. NOLA ON THE SQUARE. RML Jazz. Downtown. 412-370-9621.

ACOUSTIC THU 12

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Jay Wiley. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

FRI 13

ELWOOD’S PUB. Marshall Street ‘Rents. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. HAMBONE’S. David Nemo & Friends. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Morgan Erina. CD Release. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

SAT 14

ELWOOD’S PUB. Martin

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 13

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

SAT 14

CABARET. The Flow Band. Homewood. 412-241-1523.

COUNTRY FRI 13

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Dierks Bentley w/ Randy Houser & Cam. Burgettstown. 716-855-4100. GOOD TIME BAR. Cledus & the Cadillacs. Millvale. 412-266-5778.

CLASSICAL THU 12

THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PITTSBURGH. Campbell Memorial Chapel Chatham. W/ Jeffrey Turner, Soloist, performing Vanhal, Copland, & Haydn. Chatham University, Shadyside. 412-477-9842. 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 13

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Two different Strauss operas, Elektra & Der Rosenkavalier, plus Martin Grubinger makes his stateside debut w/ Bruno Hartl’s Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.

SAT 14

PITTSBURGH CIVIC ORCHESTRA. Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair. 412-854-1389. PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Two different Strauss operas, Elektra & Der Rosenkavalier, plus Martin

Grubinger makes his stateside debut w/ Bruno Hartl’s Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. RENAISSANCE CITY WINDS. At St. Agnes Center. Carlow University, Oakland. 412-681-7111.

SUN 15

ORGANIST KENNETH DANCHIK. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland. 412-621-6082. PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Two different Strauss operas, Elektra & Der Rosenkavalier, plus Martin Grubinger makes his stateside debut w/ Bruno Hartl’s Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900. WESTMORELAND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Wendover Middle School, Greensburg. 724-837-1850.

OTHER MUSIC THU 12

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 13

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Play. North Side. 412-904-3335. ORIGINAL OYSTER HOUSE. Frankie Capri. Downtown. 412-566-7925.

SAT 14

BENEDUM CENTER. The Gipsy Kings. Downtown. 412-456-6666. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Three Rivers Ringers. Great hits from popular movies, musicals & television shows. North Side. 412-322-5058. PITTSBURGH WINERY. Those Sensible Shoes & Mark Dignam w/ Nathan Zoob. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

SUN 15

HOWLERS. Roots Rebellion Jamboree w/ The Turpentiners & Grant Street Grifters. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320.

MON 16

HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318. PITTSBURGH WINERY. BEARD w/ Jeremy Colbert & Lone Wolf Club. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

TUE 17

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Joseph w/ Liza Anne. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

WED 18

PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, ﬂamenco guitarist. Shadyside. 412-621-2919.

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

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ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH East Liberty. Tickets: chambermusicpittsburgh.org or 412-624-4129. 7p.m.

STAGE AE North Side. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Doors open at 6:30p.m.

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The Gipsy Kings

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org. 8p.m.

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

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

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, CULTURAL DISTRICT. 412-456-6666. Tickets: trustarts.org/pghkids. Through May 15.

CITY THEATRE MAINSTAGE South Side. 412-431-2489. Tickets: citytheatrecompany.org. Through June 5.

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The Lion

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown. Tickets: livenation.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7p.m.

CARNEGIE OF HOMESTEAD MUSIC HALL Munhall. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.

Say Anything

Tickets: thepalacetheatre.org. 7:30p.m.

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Jack Hanna’s Into The Wild LIVE!

ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. Over 18 show.

THE PALACE THEATRE Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

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The Obsessed ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8:30p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE Station Square. 412-481-ROCK. Over 21 show. Chelsea Wolfe Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or MR. SMALLS THEATRE

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Two Tales of Terror HENRY HEYMANN THEATRE Oakland. 412-561-6000. Tickets: picttheatre.org. Through May 20.

MONDAY 16

Stray from the Path CATTIVO Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. All ages show. Tickets: ticketﬂy.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.

TUESDAY 17

Plants and Animals CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOOD GUYS FIGHT EACH OTHER?

BOYS IN THE BAND {BY AL HOFF} The coming-of-age Irish comedy Sing Street is as simple as a pop song: Sensitive teenage boy forms a band hoping to impress a pretty girl. Spoiler alert: It works. Cosmo (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) charms Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and he’ll win you over too.

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Too cool for school: Cosmo (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) and Eamon (Mark McKenna)

Writer-director John Carney struck gold in 2007 with the offbeat musical rom-com Once, and after an awkward dally to New York City with stars (2013’s Begin Again), he’s returned to fine form with this smaller, more winsome outing. It’s set in 1985 Dublin, and features a great collection of adorably goony teenagers. Cosmo and his writing partner Eamon (Mark McKenna) deliver some oh-so-’80s tunes, including “The Riddle of the Model.” The band cycles through musical influences — Duran Duran, the “happy-sad” Cure, Spandau Ballet and Hall & Oates — each with hilariously appropriate thrift-shop costume changes and appropriately stylized if low-low-budget videos. Luckily, Cosmo has an older brother with a good record collection and seriously useful advice, both musical (“you need to know how not to play … and that takes practice”) and romantic (“no woman can truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins”). Sing Street is sweet and heartwarming, but like any great Irish tale, it is not without steady undercurrents of misery: dysfunctional families, brutal schools, the prospect of a bleak future. This film doesn’t open with news footage of the Irish youth diaspora for nothing, nor end in such an uplifting but bittersweet fashion. Manor AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Independent Lens on PBS continues to keep it real. Check out the new doc Dogtown Redemption, which profiles street recyclers (including a former member of punk band Polkacide) in Oakland, Calif. 10 p.m. Mon., May 16, on WQED

Fighting the good ﬁght: Captain America (Chris Evans)

RIGHT VS. MIGHT {BY CHARLIE DEITCH}

DON’T WANT to be that guy who loves every superhero movie that hits the multiplex because he loved them as a child and is trying to recapture his boyhood by announcing that Captain America: Civil War is the best comic-book movie to come out in a very long time. But I do believe that Civil War is one of the best comic-book movies to come out in a very long time, despite the fact that I’ve said the same thing about both Avengers movies, the last Captain America ﬁlm and Ant-Man. Here are my reasons:

The plot is straightforward, but not simple. Normally, in the Marvel films, the big climactic city-destroying fight scene happens at the end of the film. Here, it happens at the beginning. In previous outings, the Avengers destroyed city after city in an effort to get the bad guy. Now the government is requiring all Avengers to sign an agreement saying

they will not act without United Nations approval. Two opposing sides form: Captain America (Chris Evans) rejects the directive, while Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) agrees. Then, Cap’s old friend Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. The Winter Soldier, is suspected of a terrorist act, and Cap and his team ﬁght to keep Barnes free and go after the real enemy.

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DIRECTED BY: Anthony and Joe Russo STARRING: Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. In 3-D, in select theaters

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3-D is sweet. The use of the third dimension in this ﬁlm is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not used as a gimmick here. The ﬁlm’s action sequences are many, and thanks to the proper use of

3-D, they pop off the screen. The ﬁght sequences between Captain America and Iron Man really come to life.

Superheroes fight other superheroes. Normally, our heroes fight villains, and when the good guy takes on a bad guy in a comic book, the good guy always wins. But what happens when good guys fight each other? It’s a wildcard, a toss-up that nobody knows how it’s going to end. And that’s the great thing about directors Joe and Anthony Russo’s film: There’s a lot of talk about Team Cap and Team Iron Man, but the film doesn’t force you to choose between clearly drawn good guys and bad guys. There are simply differences of opinion on how to go about doing the right things. You pick a team here because the issue at hand — security at the expense of civil liberty — is one that we can all identify with. Of course, you can always pick a side based on my criteria that Ant-Man is freaking awesome. C D E I T C H @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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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. Also screening: Chapter 2 (1:40 p.m.) and Chapter 1 (2:10 p.m.). Noon, Sun., May 15. Row House. $10. www.foodsystemsfilm.com (Celine Roberts)

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THE DARKN ESS. Greg McLean directs this thriller about a family whose trip to the Grand Canyon comes with a terrible souvenir: a supernatural presence. Kevin Bacon stars. Starts Fri., May 13 ELSTREE 1976. Jon Spira’s documentary catches up with 10 extras and bit players who worked on George Lucas’ Star Wars. (The film takes its title from the studio outside London where much of the film was shot, and the year of its production.) These nine men and one woman portrayed stormtroopers, pilots, cantina patrons and various assorted background people and creatures. Speaking today in talking-head interviews, interspersed with some archival footage and photographs, they recount: the random ways they were hired; the on-set fun; the surprise of what a massive hit Star Wars was; and the long-term effects of having been a tiny part of a film whose popularity continues to this day. It’s all fodder for Star Wars completists, though the material — most of it only mildly interesting— is stretched too thin. Starts Fri., May 13. Harris (Al Hoff) THE MAN WHO KN EW IN FIN ITY. This British biographical drama from Matthew Brown fills in a long-ago chapter in the history of advanced mathematics. In the years immediately before World War I, a young self-educated math whiz from Madras, India, is grudgingly invited to Cambridge University on the strength of theories he submitted. Once there, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is mentored by professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), but the path to academic enlightenment is rocky. There is the war, of course, and Ramanujan remains a fish out of water culturally. Nonetheless, he develops brilliant new theories on heretofore mysterious “partions,” and this earnest film seeks to ensconce his achievements in their rightful place. The work, despite a good cast and handsome production values, retains the feel of a quality TV movie, with deeper issues around race, class and the often crippling tension between academic brilliance and social skills dutifully checked off, but not explored in depth. Starts Fri., May 13. Regent Square (AH)

The Man Who Knew Inﬁnity ROAR. In this cult 1981 film, dozens of big cats (lions, tigers, cheetahs) live with a naturalist (director Noel Marshall), and get testy when his wife (then reallife wife Tippi Hedren) and children come to visit. A glorious mess filmed over 11 years at the couple’s California ranch, with their own kids and more than 100 of their own animals. There’s virtually no plot and the acting is abysmal, but you cannot look away from scene after scene of actors being attacked (somewhat playfully, but there’s blood) by lions, tigers and elephants. To top it off, the film, with its deluded lions-are-pets premise, is supposed to foster world-wide animal conservation. Um, that lion just ripped that guy’s shirt off. This film is bat-shit crazy, even if bats are about the only wild animal not in it. May 13-14 and May 16-18. Row House (AH)

MONEY MONSTER. A disgruntled man threatens to blow up the studio of a cable-TV money show. Jodie Foster directs this thriller starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Starts Fri., May 13.

WHITE GOD. Like the mixed-breed dog that is its star, Kornel Mundruczo’s 2014 film combines several genres — coming of age, crime, dog adventure and cultural allegory — into one heady work. Viewers will surely be captivated by the film’s cold open: a girl bicycling through a deserted Budapest followed by a pack of dozens of charging dogs. (Mundruczo cast 274 shelter dogs, trained them and used no CGI for the pack scenes.) Teenage Lilli and her pet dog, Hagen, must spend a month with her divorced dad, who is already angry and disconnected from his daughter. After refusing to pay a newly imposed tax on mixedbreed dogs, he dumps Hagen on the roadside. Abandoned, Hagen roams the streets, first meeting a friendly pack of similarly homeless mutts, before getting swept up in a brutal dog-fighting ring. (Sensitive viewers have been warned.) Lilli’s despair turns to anger and, not surprisingly, so does Hagen’s, and both girl and dog lash out. The dog’s actions recall the eco-terror films of the 1970s, when the natural world — with some justification — rose up against the “superior” humans controlling it. And while you can view Mundruczo’s film as just an offbeat animal tale, its critique of institutions categorizing humans as “better” and “lesser” and treating them accordingly is explicit. As even recent events in this country have shown, such ingrained forms of cultural control often have unintended, and violent, consequences. In Hungarian, with subtitles. May 13-17 and May 19. Row House (AH)

THE VERY BEST OF THE RURAL ROUTE FESTIVAL. The 11th annual Rural Route Film Festival swings through town. The festival, showcasing 10 international short films that “take the road less traveled,” this year features independent women behind and in front of the camera. 7 p.m. Sun., May 15. Hollywood SINGING IN THE RAIN. Hollywood’s transition from silent film to talkies is lovingly skewered in this rousing musical from Stanley Donen. The 1952 film stars Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Pittsburgh’s own Gene Kelly and a very important lamppost. 8 p.m. Sun., May 15. Regent Square IN DIAN A JON ES AN D THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. It’s whip-crackin’ adventure in India as the be-hatted Jones (Harrison Ford) searches for a mystical stone. Steven Spielberg directs this 1984 hit, the sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 18. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5

THE THIRD MAN . In Carol Reed’s beautifully shot 1949 adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, American pulp novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) visits post-World War II Vienna at the request of his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But Lime’s just been killed in a mysterious accident, prompting Martins to poke about in the underbelly of a city still struggling after the war and rife with corruption, where he soon discovers that some horrors didn’t end with the ceasefire. As the writer of Western pulps, Martins becomes Greene’s stand-in for that faraway nation untouched by the ravages of a homefront; he is the naïve American who makes a living marketing simplistic hero-versus-villain fictions, and who cannot grasp the many shades of gray morality that living in post-war Europe demands. The film screens as part of the Hollywood Theater’s 90th birthday celebration; there will be music from Tom Roberts and Friends, food and beverages, and a raffle. Pittsburgh actor David Conrad chose the film and will present it. 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.) Sat., May 14. Hollywood. $20-25 (AH)

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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 POVERTY IN C. This 2014 documentary from Michael Matheson Miller examines whether do-gooding in the developing world by wealthy nations ultimately benefits the West more than struggling countries. Mark Weber, who worked on the film, will host a Q&A session after the screening. 7 p.m. Fri., May 13. Northgate Church, 238 West View Ave., North Hills. $5. www.povertyinc.org AN AMERICAN TAIL. In Don Bluth’s animated 1986 film, a Russian mouse gets separated from his family while emigrating to America. May 13-16 and May 18-19. Row House

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Money Monster HARVEY. In Henry Koster’s classic 1950 comedy (with the occasional dark undercurrent), James Stewart plays an ordinary man who just happens to spend time with a large, and largely invisible, rabbit named Harvey. May 13-15 and May 17-19. Row House

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Mad Tiger

(2015) - 5/12 @ 9:30pm 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. __________________________________________________

Hollywood Theater 90th Birthday Party 5/14 @ 7:00pm - Special guest David Conrad presents the newly restored The Third Man (1949). Food, rafﬂes, live music and more! __________________________________________________

Silents, Please! Sunrise

(1927) F.W. Murnau’s epic romantic drama with live accompaniment by Leslie Amper. __________________________________________________

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CHO TIME {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Margaret Cho’s current Psycho Tour — “There’s No ‘I’ in Team, But There’s ‘Cho’ in Psycho” — coincides with the release of her new album, American Myth. The 12 songs co-written by Cho cover characteristically provocative terrain — an elegy for Anna Nicole Smith to “Fat Pussy” and “I Wanna Kill My Rapist” (whose video depicts girls practicing martial arts). The veteran, often raunchy comic and activist known as an advocate for LGBTQ rights returns to Pittsburgh for the first time since 2012, for five shows at the Pittsburgh Improv. She spoke with CP by phone from Nashville about music, politics and women in comedy. DOES MUSIC LET YOU SAY THINGS COMEDY CAN’T? You can address difficult topics, such as sexual abuse, like with “I Wanna Kill My Rapist,” which is a really magnificent video, too. … In comedy, there’s so far you can go, and then people get very upset or defensive. With music it’s a little easier.

WHAT’S BAFFLING? There is a presumptive nominee for the Republican Party that the speaker of the House can’t even see himself endorsing. … It’s a kind of apocalyptic moment for the Republicans. It’s really intense to watch it, because even Fox News can’t bring themselves to endorse Trump. WHOM DO YOU BACK? I like Bernie but I will vote for Hillary — in order to not vote for Trump. I hate that when you have to sort of decide when you are voting against somebody. IS IT REALLY EASIER TODAY FOR WOMEN TO DO RAUNCHY COMEDY? I think it’s definitely broader, the landscape of what we see in comedy in general. There’s a lot more women now that are well known. … I think people today, like Amy Schumer and those wonderful girls from Broad City, there’s a lot happening for women. This is coming out from Sarah Silverman, from me, Kathy Griffin, our generation — and mostly Janeane Garofalo, I think was really influential in my sort of class of comedy. DRISCOLL@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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WAY(S) FORWARD Margaret Cho {PHOTO COURTESY OF MARY TAYLOR}

DOES YOUR CURRENT SHOW COVER TOPICAL GROUND? A lot about the election too, which is really baffling. And my own history talking about politics over time, and about how different elections have affected me personally.

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T’S A TIME of cultural plenitude — multiplexes of movies, binge-able television, ziggurats of books, crashing waves of music. It’s now pretty much impossible to be a completist in any ﬁeld unless one has a narrow focus. But that also means that there’s plenty of whatever you’re looking for in quantity as well as variety. Along those lines, the local art scene has in many ways matured and expanded, with new institutions icing the cake of established favorites which, like obsolete laws and ancient grudges, never seem to go away. Nor do I want them to! With an effort, one can still see most of what’s on display, but it takes increased persistence and planning.

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View of The Other Side of Pop, at the August Wilson Center

Art-wise, there’s a wealth of the attractive, the slack, the ﬁnely crafted, the expressive, the quirky and the just-plain-weirdmaybe-trying-a-little-too-hard. Bring it all on. And on top of all that, I’ve noticed an increase in projects that do more than decorate or delight or depict or annoy — i.e., fresh, ambitious projects that focus on persistent, unresolved issues or grapple with the new challenges coming at our collective head like so many fastballs. “The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music” (The Propeller Group, Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oct. 23-April 25). Conjoining passages of clear narrative cinematic realism with artful fabrication and evocative symbolism, this video is exotic without demeaning its primary subject,

namely, Vietnamese funerary customs and the attitudes underpinning them. Flawlessly produced by the Los Angeles-Ho Chi Minh City (formerly, Saigon) collective, it’s enlightening without being tendentious and overﬂows with visual and dramatic pleasure, and some discomfort-making, too. Ultimately, it eluded my grasp much as my space limitation here precludes my ability to describe its multitudinous contents. I learned something without quite understanding it, and if I’m not mistaken, that’s intentional. The Other Side of Pop (August Wilson Center, Jan. 22-March 25). Sean Beauford’s curatorial concept was less than clearly stated but — what counts — the exhibit cohered around the theme of popular culture

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as seen in the work of young artists influenced by hip hop, with the exhibit often foregrounding its African-American roots. The show featured artists from Pittsburgh and points beyond whose work bears some affinity with officially sanctioned Pop Art but which speaks in their own individual voices. It was an immersion in youth culture with emojis, cartoons and logos celebrated as icons, but also often employed to raise topics such as racism and the tragedy of Bill Cosby. It’s good to have you back, AWC. In the Air (Filmmakers Galleries, Sept. 17-Feb. 28). Following in the footsteps of 2013’s Marcellus Shale Documentary Project at Filmmakers, this exhibit tracked the presence and toll of air pollution on numerous levels, making visible the sometimes unseen threat and presenting concise and often quite affecting information and insight. Four local treasures with beyond-local reputations — Annie O’Neill, Brian Cohen, Lynn Johnson and Brian Goldsmith — each presented a very different take on air pollution in our region, which admittedly isn’t as bad as it used to be but remains a persistent problem that continues to cost people their health and their lives. Photography’s descriptive potential was a natural for this issue while some of the more artful and unexpected twists added depth and feeling. While there are lots of worthwhile arts and education programs, it can be hard to strike a balance between making art and looking/learning/thinking, a.k.a. art appreciation. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center has found a sweet spot or two with its Fallow Grounds for Sculpture and Neu City initiatives, which combine urban farming and engaged public art, with both projects sited in vacant lots around Neu Kirche’s Deutschtown neighborhood. Artists selected from an open call are tapped to make or perform something and receive an honorarium to boot, along with the explicit requirement that the project must actively involve the community. Neu Kirche has now embarked on its second round of spring and summer projects in which the audience assists and/or affects the outcome, crowdsourcing at a meaningful level. Given the fact that women do not have parity in either the art world or the wiki world — not to mention elsewhere — there’s work to be done. One aspect of that effort was the recent Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Thons, actually, with one at Carnegie Mellon University and one at the University of Pittsburgh along with many other cities. Since I, like so many people, habitually turn to Wikipedia for initial research, this is an aptly targeted effort that considers how we live now.

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I first saw Rick Bach’s work as a college student sitting on a Mad Mex barstool in Oakland. During the long journey to the bottom of an oversized margarita, I noticed bug-eyed faces leering from the paintings on the wall — part Día de los Muertos and part surrealist comic strip. I remember thinking that the art was at once lighthearted and, well, mildly disturbed. Like an adult cartoon. Bach, formerly based in Pittsburgh, now lives in Washington, D.C. You Only Live Twice, at Percolate Art Space, is his first solo show here in nine years, and his work still makes me feel like I’m guiltily laughing at someone’s self-deprecating joke. The show includes new pieces and reworked older ones, in sculpture, sketch and paint — more than 130 works, many made at a frenetic pace in the past few months. And indeed there is a definite cartoonish inspiration to some pieces, like his huge sculpture “Mr. Sphinxy,” which was born of a giant piece of metal that Bach started sculpting back in 2008. It sits atop of a tailor-made go-kart, retrofitted for the sculpture’s massive head. “Whatever I feel like doing is what I’m supposed to be doing,” he said in an interview. Other pieces are noticeably darker, albeit still playful. “ChoosyChoicey” is a painting depicting a group of men with hooves for hands and skulls for heads dressed in herringbone-patterned suits. They huddle together on the white of the canvas nervously watching a meaningless pink dot in the corner. In “Not For Sale,” similar creatures watch voyeuristically as one of their own sits trapped inside a bottle. No doubt, Washington, D.C., has had its influence on Bach. Asked about living there, he says, “There’s a lot of the ‘same circus, different clowns’ mentality.” The exhibit is best explored room-toroom, as groups of unrelated works, rather than as one big thematic show. (The title is more about the passing of influential artist Ellsworth Kelly than it is about Bach’s own work.) Regardless, the whole show possesses a sense of humor that connects directly to Bach’s own sublimated sense of irony, tragedy and comedy. It’s a bit as if Gary Larson and Luis Buñuel met at a bar. And then over a couple of margaritas decided to collaborate. But with Buñuel insisting on not using any captions.

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PARODY TIME {BY TED HOOVER} PEOPLE WHO retain incredibly arcane sports statistics always amaze me. In my charmingly smug way I always wonder what sort of empty lives they have. Never mind that I know the replacement cast for the first production of Carousel. Or get into fights about the best Mama Rose: Ethel Merman or Angela Lansbury. And I’m prone to rattle off the lyric differences between the stage version and cast recording of Sweeney Todd. So The Musicals of Musicals (The Musical)! — now playing at Off the Wall Productions — is my Super Bowl. Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart wrote the book, music and lyrics to this 2003 musical comedy that’s a marvelous send-up of musical comedies. The concept is five versions of the same plot (“You must pay the rent!” “I can’t pay the rent!”), each as if written by Rogers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman or Kander & Ebb. There’s genuine wit in the lampooning of the composers’ styles, and the parodies of the lyric writing are clever and knowing. But, really, it’s just an excuse for an avalanche of musicaltheater jokes. Rockwell and Bogart have created a sort of show-biz machine gun, spraying the audience with puns, inside shtick, sight gags, obscure references … There are more jokes per mile in this show than could be inventoried. I, naturally, had a blast. But not just because of the script. If you put Patti LuPone, Hal Prince, Mary Martin, Stubby Kaye and Audra MacDonald into a microwave for about seven hours, what

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you’d end up with would be Robyne Parrish and Gavan Pamer, the director and choreographer of this Off the Wall production. The speciﬁcity of their jokes, the lightning-quick referencing — these two explode the material on the stage with their unbounded knowledge of show-business legends and traditions.

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!)

continues through May 21. Off the Wall Productions at Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main Street. Carnegie. $25-40. 724-837-3576 or www.insideoffthewall.com

Both also appear in the show, along with protean talents Elizabeth Boyke, Elizabeth Flemming, Brittany Graham and Ryan Patrick Kearney, and it’s impossible to overstate how tremendously funny and gloriously loony they all are. And a big tip of the hat to Nancy Gordon Galluzzo, who, miraculously, makes a single piano sound like a great big Broadway orchestra. I N F O@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

WASTED POE-TENTIAL {BY STUART SHEPPARD} PICT CLASSIC Theatre’s production of Two Tales of Terror, based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, should really be called One Tale of Fear, and One Tale of Somnolence. The ﬁrst piece, based on “The Tell-Tale Heart,” is — despite the corny special effects — an arresting monologue performed by Justin Lonesome. PICT’s Alan Stanford

(who also directs) adapted Poe’s story into a narrative of murder, reminiscent of confessions like that of Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov, from Crime and Punishment. With only a single chair on a bare stage, Lonesome successfully condenses all the roles and action of this story into his persona. Like a Shakespearean character, he listens to himself, and executes his choices organically out of the act of speaking. In recounting the murder he commits, he slides like a tai chi master into the imaginary bedroom of his victim, convincing us of the darkness, of what he sees, of his fear, and his motivation. It is a difﬁcult task to pull off, especially as he is burdened with an awkward period costume that seems at odds with the modernity of his performance.

I am the first in line. And I’m not dickering around. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel that operated from the 1840s to 1973. Boasting a sharp, sassy book by Peter Masterson and Larry L. King and a poignant, rollicking score by Carol Hall, Whorehouse somehow remains an underrated work. Whenever a community theater mounts the show, I figure the company has the talent, tenacity and, in the lingo of a whore, the balls to make the show work. But a new production at the McKeesport Little Theater has too much working against its ambition. At 15 members (plus a four-member band), the cast is too small, spoiling attempts at double- and triple-casting. One song is sung by the wrong character; and “The Aggie Song,” in which a football team gathers at the Chicken Ranch to celebrate, is performed by four actors, all of whom we see too many times. Confusion reigns and the suspension of disbelief dips lower than most ladies’ cleavage. The no-nonsense madam Miss Mona is played by Hope Anthony, here in her only role. She’s fine, but we’re in trouble when she sings “The Bus From Amarillo.” By placing the song as the show’s finale instead of the first-act closing song, director Catherine Gallagher throws the musical off-center, since Whorehouse must end with Hall’s “Hard Candy Christmas.”

TIM TOLBERT IS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.

TWO TALES OF TERROR

continues through May 20. PICT Classic Theatre at Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Avenue, Oakland. $15-50. 412-561-6000 or www.picttheatre.org

However, the second (longer) piece, based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” — also adapted by Stanford — evolves like a lugubrious Vincent Price movie. The three fine actors trying to push the plot forward are forced to alternate between narration and action, which kills the kinetic energy of the drama. It becomes the kind of production that Peter Brook famously labeled Deadly Theatre: using old forms in old ways to tell an old story. The murdered characters don’t have to play dead; they already are. The gifted James FitzGerald (Guest) makes the most of the part written for him, as does Jonathan Visser (Usher), who glides across the stage dressed like an anachronistic cousin to The Twins in The Matrix Reloaded. Karen Baum has no lines, but embodies the sleepwalking Madeline ghoulishly well. I wish PICT had found a way to vivify these tales, but despite the strong performances, the same old costumes, the same old amplified beating heart and the same old smoke machine are all numbingly clichéd, and left me sleepy, not terrified. INFO@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M

SHORTHANDED {BY ALAN W. PETRUCELLI} WHENEVER A whorehouse opens in town,

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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

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May 5- 20

Directed by Alan Stanford

continues through May 22. McKeesport Little Theater, 1614 Coursin St., McKeesport. $18. 412-673-1100 or www.mckeesportlittletheater.com

However, the show has are two major plusses. Though forced to play multiple roles, Jeremy Kuharcik is rock-solid as Miss Mona’s lover, Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd. I guarantee he will tug at your heartstrings as he says a ﬁnal goodbye to Miss Mona, remembering her as a “Good Old Girl.” Also a plus: Tim Tolbert. Despite playing several roles, he is zesty as Melvin P. Thorpe, the TV crusader who ends up shutting the pleasure palace for good. The show’s program left out Tolbert’s bio — a move so unconscionable that if this were Broadway, ﬁnes would be levied. So we praise him: Tolbert is worth the price of admission. You can be cocksure about that.

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Allegheny City Market • Atria’s • Chateau Cafe & Cakery • Hog’s Head Bar and Grill • Huszar • James St. Gastropub and Speakeasy • Legends of the North Shore • Max’s Allegheny Tavern • Nana’s Hot Dogs • North Shore Deli • Penn Brewery • Rivers Casino • Scratch • Young Brother’s Bar

Food trucks, balloon art and young theater-goers will populate Downtown this weekend for the 30th annual EQT Children’s Theater Festival. The international festival, presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, features eight productions from six countries (including Scotland and Peru) suitable for children of all ages — including a display of incredible air sculptures called “AirPlay” and a production of the beloved tales “Goodnight Moon” and “The Runaway Bunny.” The festival encompasses four venues (Byham Theater, August Wilson Center, Trust Arts Education Center and Bricolage Productions) and the outdoor live installation “The Sheep (Les Moutons),” at Seventh Street and Penn Ave. The program includes sensory-friendly shows for children on the autism spectrum (see Spotlight, above) or sensory sensitivities. Courtney Linder May 12-15. Various venues, Downtown. $9 (multi-show discount available). 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

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have collaborated with him; and that’s just part of Chicago-based Hebru Brantley’s international success. Brantley’s Pittsburgh debut, at the August Wilson Center, features a selection of his pop-infused contemporary work, including a depiction of Superman as black. I Wish

More than 35 local and regional sellers will meet this weekend at Teamsters Local Union 249, in Lawrenceville, to blend community, arts and nostalgia in a cocktail known as the Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer. Books, vinyl, décor art, comics and more will be sold, with sounds from DJs like Jim Lingo and Anthony Badamo and food from Pgh Po’boy and Berlin Street Food. The Mixer begins with this evening’s Night Owl event, with pre-sale shopping to jazz by the Josh Dunlevy Quartet. CL Night Owl: 6-9 p.m. Main event: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., May 14. 4701 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5-15. www.pghvintagemixer.com

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MAY 14 Dicey & Paprika

I Knew How It Felt to Be Free is a collection of multimedia murals examining themes of oppression, often through his cartoonish characters The Fly Boy & Girl. CL 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Exhibit continues through July 8. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. 412-471-6070 or www.trustarts.org

and a grandfather who was besieged on the island of Malta. Handwritten letters from this courtship led Cleave to write his newest book, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Simon & Schuster). According to London’s Daily Mail, the novel “breathes fresh life into an often brutal

sp otlight Many stage productions these days offer special sensory-friendly performances for folks on the autism spectrum — without bright lights, loud noises and such. Now Bricolage Productions is premiering the first local work of immersive theater designed specifically for children on the spectrum. Welcome to Here is a 45-minute linear adventure, staged in Bricolage’s Downtown space, in which one or two kids and an adult at a time journey through a series of environments (enchanted forest, etc.), encountering different characters — live actors as well as puppets — who help and need help in return. “It’s about belonging and being who you are,” says Bricolage’s Tami Dixon. The show was commissioned by, and is part of, the EQT Children’s Theater Festival (see page 42). Dixon wrote and directed Welcome to Here, which was developed with groups including Arts for Autism and Firefly Arts. Other collaborators included Vanya Rumsey, a local 17-year-old with autism who in press materials calls the show a rare opportunity “to articulate my everyday experiences as Autistic and use that knowledge to help create something specifically designed to accommodate … the needs of my community.” Rumsey is also part of the show’s six-member cast. Welcome to Here is meant for kids ages 3 and older. A visual guide to the show is available on the Bricolage website. Bill O’Driscoll Thu., May 12-Sun., May 15. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $9.75. 412-471-0999 or www.bricolagepgh.org

today. Admission is free to the fair, which also features photographic books and photo-based magazines and a special 10X10 Photobooks exhibition, with 100 Latin American photobooks selected by

“Our fans were demanding it.” So says Eve Goodman of the return of Dicey & Paprika, the inimitable local cabaret duo who last performed here in early 2014. New-age chanteuse Dicey Stewart and instinctive interpretative dancer Paprika LaRue (the alter egos of Goodman and Janet Ingram) turn rock and pop hits into lounge-comedy gold. Their new show, Bring on the Funk!, at Club Café, promises covers from Parliament to Nirvana, from The Carpenters MAY 13 to U2, and even a fresh take on Adele’s Chris Cleave “Hello” video. Backing the gals is keyboardist Mr. Pringle, on his last go-round with the act. BO 7 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $15. www.clubcafelive.com

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John loves M, a guy. But he also loves W, a woman. In Mike Bartlett’s Cock, it all comes down to a dinner party where the menu includes identity and sexuality. Kinetic Theatre Company has the Pittsburgh premiere of this 2009 work by one of the U.K.’s hottest young playwrights. Andrew Paul directs a cast including Thomas Constantine Moore, Ethan Hova, Erika Straburg and Sam Tsoutsouvas; the play is staged without props or scenery. The first performance at Pittsburgh Playwrights’ space is tonight. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Continues through May 27. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-40. 412-225-9145 or www.kinetictheatre.org

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A dozen exhibitors from Berlin, London, Toronto and the U.S. are the main attraction at the fourth annual PGH Photo Fair, a two-day event held in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture. The fair, which focuses on contemporary and fine-art photography, ranges from museum-quality prints to photo-based art, and from the 19th century to

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10 experts. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Also noon-5 p.m. Sun., May 15. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. www.pghphotofair.com

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scenario.” Cleave reads from his World War II narrative tonight, at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, courtesy of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. A book-signing follows. CL 7 p.m. 4440 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org

MAY 13 Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer Conrad, presents Carol Reed’s The Third Man. A new digital restoration of the 1949 thriller with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles will screen, with Tom Roberts and Friends playing live jazz before and after. Tickets include refreshments. BO 8 p.m.

The Hollywood closed for a while, but five years ago reopened as a nonprofit with a repertory program ranging from cult favorites to classics. Now it’s turning 90, and tonight it celebrates with an all-time favorite. The guest curator, actor David

The nation’s longest-running continuing survey of regional art returns to the Carnegie Museum of Art. The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 105th annual exhibition, juried by Los Angeles-based writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, includes 63 works of painting, sculpture, installation, photography and drawing. The 56 participating artists include such names as Lenka Clayton, Corey Escoto, Sarika Goulatia, Ryder Henry, Clayton Merrell, Curtis Reaves, Mia Tarducci and Adam Welch. A free public reception kicks things off tonight. BO 6-9 p.m. (free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 15. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

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Morose and Macabre’s annual The Atrocity Exhibition goes Carrolling: Jabberwocky, titled for the Victorian author’s mythical beast, engages the darker sides of cabaret, sideshow and burlesque to tell a story of Alice heading through the looking-glass. Perennial Atrocity faves like Lilith Deville, Cherri Baum and co-founder Macabre Noir are joined by a slew of performers from Pittsburgh and beyond to amuse, delight and disturb, complemented at the Rex Theater tonight by a bazaar of original artwork and other hand-crafted goods. BO 9 p.m. (performance at 10 p.m.). 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $15 (21 and over). www.moroseandmacabre.com

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You’re not laughing at David Liebe Hart — you’re laughing with him, though admittedly it can be hard to tell the difference. The slyly innocent musician and performer — internationally touring, best known from Adult Swim’s Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — brings his many puppets, his videos, and his songs about Betty White, staying in school, Christian Science, space aliens and more to Club Café tonight, backed by electronic musician Jonah Th’ Mole Mociun. The opening acts are comedian Eric S. Donaldson and the prop-loving Hart kindred spirits of rock band Amoeba Knievel. BO 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $12-14. www.clubcafelive.com

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THEATER 15 MINUTES OF FAME. Contestants will perform on stage on the set of Prime Stage’s The Giver in the categories of singing & dramatic monologues. Featuring judges from Pittsburgh’s professional arts community, & a special Guest Emcee. Mon., May 16, 7 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 724-773-0700. ASSASSINS. Presented by Stage 62. Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru May 24. Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, Carnegie. 412-429-6262. ATROCITY EXHIBITION VIII: JABERWOCKY. An immersive theater experience that tells one horribly wonderful story through the art of nationally recognized sideshow, burlesque & cabaret entertainers. Sat., May 14, 10 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side. 412-381-6811.

CHILDREN OF EDEN. A joyous & inspirational musical about parents, children & faith. Adam, Eve, Noah & the “Father” who created them deal w/ the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m., Sun., May 15, 3 p.m. and Sun., May 22, 3 p.m. Thru May 22. Old Schoolhouse Players, Hickory. 724-344-7467. DILEMMAS W/ DINNER. Junior executive Brooke invites her boss & his wife over for dinner in hopes of securing a promotion. While frantically getting ready, Brooke & her husband discover that the hired help is coincidentally the boss’ ex-daughter-in-law. Presented by South Park Theatre. 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. EQT CHILDREN’S THEATER FESTIVAL. Over 40 free things to see & do, including hands-on activities, public art & music at a variety of outdoor pop-up green

spaces & indoor lobbies located through the Cultural District. For a full schedule, visit www.TrustArts. org/PGHKIDS. May 12-15. Cultural District, Downtown. 412-456-6666. THE GIVER. Presented by Prime Stage. 12 year old Jonas discovers his special gifts & his special purpose w/ the aid of the Giver in a world of Sameness. Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2:30 p.m. Thru May 23. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 724-773-0700. INTO THE WILD LIVE! In this live show, prepare to be fascinated as Jungle Jack Hanna shares stories & footage from his adventures all around the world from Africa, to the Amazon, to Antarctica & beyond. Fri., May 13, 7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 724-836-8000. JEEVES INTERVENES. Adapted by Margaret Raether from the stories of P.G. Wodehouse. Thru May 15 and Thru May 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

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The Giver to life. When 12-year-old Jonas starts to question the world of Sameness

around him, he is introduced to The Giver to help develop his special gifts. Will Jonas be able to bear the burden set upon him by his powers? May 13-22. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $5-20. www.newhazletttheater.org

two tennis titans through pivotal moments in their lives both on–and–off the court. Sun., May 15, 2 p.m. City Theatre, South Side. 412-431-2489. LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL. Harvard’s beloved blonde in story of self-discovery presented by Mon River Arts. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 7:30 p.m. Thru May 15. Grand Theatre, Elizabeth. 412-384-0504. LOVE, BETRAYAL & DYING: THE WOOL STORY. An original circus story set in 1400 Florence, Italy. Fri., May 13, 8 p.m. Bloomcraft, Oakland. 724-699-2613. MURPHY’S LAW. A musical about an ill-fated cross country road trip. May 13-14, 8 p.m. and Sun., May 15, 2 p.m. Strand Theater, Zelienople. 724-742-0400. THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL). One story becomes five musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Kander & Ebb. Presented by Off the Wall Productions. Sun, 3 p.m. and Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru May 21. Carnegie Stage, Carnegie. www.insideoffthewall.com. PICNIC. The Pulitzer-prize winning play by William Inge presented by the Heritage Players. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru May 22. Seton Center, Brookline. 412-561-5511. POINT PARK UNIVERSITY FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK. At George Rowland White Theater. Readings from 2016 inaugural MFA Writing for the Screen & Stage class & Q&A w/ the writers. May 17-21. Point Park University, Downtown. 412-392-4216. STONE SOUP. Retells the classic children’s story about sharing. Sun, 2 p.m. and Sat, 2 & 7 p.m. Thru May 22. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000. TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. Sun, 2 p.m. and Sat, 2 & 7 p.m. Thru May 22. Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. 412-392-8000. TRU. A one-man play based on Capote’s words and works presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater. Wed-Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 & 7 p.m. Thru May 22. O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. 412-316-1600. TWO TALES OF TERROR. Two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe presented by Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre. Sun, 2 p.m., Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Tue., May 17, 7 p.m. Thru May 20. Stephen Foster Memorial, Oakland. 412-624-7529. CONTINUES ON PG. 45

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28 WEST SECOND GALLERY & STUDIO SPACE. The 6th Annual Women’s Exhibition. Exhibiting works will include mixed media, painting, photography & sculpture by Suzanne Andrews, Saige Baxter, Stacy Butera, Christine Davis, Sarah Hunter, Nicolena Loshonkohl, Megan Merz, Roberta Myers, Moira Richardson, Hudson Rush, Sue Seyak, Lauren Stanley, Bequie Soike & Sandra Zulawinski. Opening reception May 13, 7 - 10 p.m. Greensburg. 724-205-9033. AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUM. Sanctuary & Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. A multimedia presentation by Julia Rendleman w/ images & music & a photography exhibition offering a glimpse into the lives of refugees from around the world. Reception May 18, 7 - 9 p.m. Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8011 x105. AUGUST WILSON CENTER. With I Wish I Knew How It Felt to Be Free. Work by Hebru Brantley. Opening reception May 12, 7 -10 p.m. Downtown. 412-258-2700. EAST OF EASTSIDE GALLERY. Creative Journeys. Work from Jerome D’Angelo, Alexis Dillon & Maura Keeney. Opening reception May 15, 2 - 5 p.m. Forest Hills. 412-465-0140. 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. HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. His Stories & Her Stories. The work of illustrators John Manders

“Light Trap” (gouache, ink, collage, spray paint on paper, 2016), by Katie Ford. From the exhibition You Are Warming Weather, at UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock.

& Stacey Hogue. Opening reception May 13, 6 -8 p.m. Kathleen Zimbicki. A solo exhibition of watercolors. Opening reception May 13, 6 - 8 p.m. New Castle. 724-652-2882.

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937 LIBERTY AVE. Humanae/ I AM AUGUST. A series of photographs of everyday Pittsburghers by Angelica Dass. Downtown. 412-338-8742. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. Exposures: Hanging Fruit. An original installation by Zhiwan Cheung. 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. BARCO LAW LIBRARY. Oracles

& Vesicles, Drawings & Prints by Michael Walter. Oakland. 412-648-1376. BOXHEART GALLERY. Floodgates for Hydra. Paintings by Jennipher Satterly. Reception w/ the artist on May 21, 5 - 8 p.m. That was the River, This is the Sea. Paintings by Joshua Hogan, sculpture by James Shipman & a window installation by Daria Sandburg. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Summer Series. Work from Artur Vasilevich. Michael Lies, painter/filmmaker will exhibit a few paintings. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Exposures: A Photo Montage by Artist Ruthanne Bauerle. Capturing the past w/ haunting black & white imagery. Lawrenceville. 412-477-4540. CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. Human Nature: Portraits of Animals Making Bad Decisions. Work by T. Wesley Snead. Bloomfield. 412-681-5225. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FRAMEHOUSE. Small Works Juried Show. Presented by The Pittsburgh Society of Artists. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Fast Cars & Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue. A 125 photos that document the life in the Belle-Époque & early-20thcentury France. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FUTURE TENANT. Creative Byproducts. A dual exhibition by Anna Brewer & Sam Berner. Downtown. 412-325-7037. 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. CONTINUES ON PG. 47

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WELCOME TO HERE. A sensory-sensitive, adventure that provides a space for friends & families to celebrate, explore & belong. Various times throughout the weekend as part of the EQT Children’s Theater Festival. Thu., May 12. Bricolage, Downtown. 412-471-0999.

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, COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted land & habitat. How do everyday by Derick Minto. Thu, 9 p.m. decisions impact water supply & Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. the environment? Ongoing: Buhl 412-681-4318. Digital Dome (planetarium), WIDE OPEN STAGE. 8 p.m. Miniature Railroad & Cattivo, Lawrenceville. Village, USS Requin 412-687-2157. submarine & more. North Side. 412-237-3400. w. w w MARK EDDIE W/ er CHILDREN’S hcitypap g p JIM KRENN. 8 p.m. .com MUSEUM OF Oaks Theater, Oakmont. PITTSBURGH. TapeScape 412-828-6322. 2.0. A play exhibit/art installation, designed by Eric Lennartson, that uses more than AMISH MONKEYS IMPROV 10 miles of tape stretched over SHOW. A series of outrageous steel frames to create twisting sketches, songs & games based tunnels & curving walls for children on audience suggestion. For to crawl through & explore. reservations, call 412-243-6464. North Side. 412-322-5058. Father Ryan Arts Center, FALLINGWATER. Tour the McKees Rocks. famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. BUDDY FLIP, MATT STANTON, Mill Run. 724-329-8501. RAY ZAWODNI. 8 p.m. Lincoln FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Borough VFD Station, Clairton. Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on JOHN EVANS, MIKE WYSOCKI, the 18th Century Frontier. During MIKE SASSON. 8 p.m. Gill Hall Volunteer Fire Company. 412- 655-2929. LARRY REEB, CHRIS DUBAIL, DAVID KAYE. 7:30 p.m. Rostraver Ice Garden, Belle Vernon. 724-379-7100. TECHNICALLY SUNDAY: STAND UP SHOW. Third Sat of every month, 12 a.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

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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. 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

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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. 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. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the other Frank Lloyd Wright house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501. NATIONAL AVIARY. Masters of the Sky. Explore the power & grace of the birds who rule the sky. Majestic eagles, impressive condors, stealthy falcons and their friends take center stage! Home to more than 600 birds from over 200 species. W/ classes, lectures, demos & more. North Side. 412-323-7235. NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past. University of Pittsburgh. Oakland. 412-624-6000.

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PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. The Butterﬂy Forest. An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Summer EVENT: Flower Show. From whirligigs at the & water fountains to rotundas Russian Film Symposium, & Rube Goldberg machines, at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Playgardens for guests of all ages Melwood Screening w/ interactive elements. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens Room, Oakland feature exotic plants & floral CRITIC: displays from around the world. Tropical Forest Congo. An , 41, a exhibit highlighting some of doctoral student at Pitt Africa’s lushest landscapes. Oakland. 412-622-6914. WHEN: PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. Glass Lantern Slides. Glass lantern [The symposium is] a week-long event with films slides from 1890 to 1920. in the morning and at night, and the topic of this Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on year’s symposium is related to recycling and remaking glass, many hand-painted. The movies — what it means to make a remake and largest display of 19th Century why it is so popular in Russia right now. [Angels of photographs in America. Revolution] shows a very new perspective in how we North Side. 412-231-7881. can relate to the Russian Revolution right now because PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 it’s so controversial. When Polina, the main character, animals, including many put on the decorations for the goddess, it symbolized endangered species. Highland her connection between nature and civilization. For Park. 412-665-3639. me, the main question for this [symposium] is the RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD. A Reverence for Life. Photos relationship between empire and peoples of those & artifacts of her life & work. empires and how they connect and relate to each Springdale. 724-274-5459. other — the violence, tension and beauty. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY BY COURTNEY LINDER CENTER. Toys of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. More than 500 toys. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s UPMC St. Margaret, Sharpsburg. Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery 412-784-5160. movement. Ongoing: Western PA BEING HERE…/THIS TIME. CRAFT & VENDOR SHOW FOR Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, Physical performances & a CYSTIC FIBROSIS. Come get & exhibits on local history, more. three-dimensional audio design by unique one-of-a-kind gifts & Strip District. 412-454-6000. choreographer Marjani Forté that meet the artists. 11 a.m. Thompson SOLDIERS & SAILORS traverses complex intersections of Run Athletic Association, MEMORIAL HALL. War in the mental illness, addiction & systemic West Mifflin. 412-398-6074. Paciﬁc 1941-1945. Feat. a collection poverty. 7 p.m. and Sat., May 14, HEATHSIDE COTTAGE: of military artifacts showcasing 7 p.m. The Alloy Studios, A PECULIAR BRUNCH. photographs, uniforms, shells Friendship. 412-363-4321. Fundraising for future arts events & other related items. Military at the cottage. Every other Sun, museum dedicated to honoring 10 a.m. Thru June 12 Heathside military service members since PRE-PROFESSIONAL Cottage, North Side. the Civil War through artifacts SHOWCASES. Pittburgh Ballet MELINDA COLAIZZI, & personal mementos. Oakland. Theater graduate & high school KRISTIAN HABENICHT & 412-621-4253. students performing George MARC REISMAN, JUAN ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN Balanchine’s “Serenade” VASQUEZ, ERIKA VASQUEZ, CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo as well as excerpts & JAMES JOHNSON III. Vanka Murals. Mid-20th from other full Magee Womens Research century murals depicting length ballets & war, social justice & the original contemporary Benefit Showcase. 100% of . w w proceeds goes directly to w immigrant experience works. 7 p.m., paper pghcitym Magee & each ticket includes in America. Millvale. Sat., May 14, 2 & .co one glass of wine & food. 5 p.m. 412-407-2570. 7 p.m. and Sun., Pittsburgh Winery, Strip District. May 15, 2 p.m. George 412-566-1000. Roland White Performance WALK WITH ME PITTSBURGH Studio, Point Park Univ., 2016. National fundraising event Downtown. 412-621-4445. NEWMOVES CONTEMPORARY to raise awareness & support DANCE FESTIVAL. Local for families living w/ disabilities. contemporary dancers & 8:30 p.m. Kennywood Park, choreographers share the stage West Mifflin. 412-281-7244. w/ visiting guest artists. Artists SILVER EYE 2016 BENEFIT include: Alexandra Bodnarchuk, AUCTION. Featuring a wide range Christal Brown, Jasmyn Fyffe, of contemporary photographs by Gierre J. Godley, Ella Mason, local & national artists. 6 p.m. The GERTRUDE STEIN POLITICAL Cherish Morgan, Jamie Murphy, Society for Contemporary Craft, CLUB OF GREATER PITTSBURGH. Mario Quinn, Gabrielle Revlock, Strip District. 412-431-1810. Meetings of group devoted to Brady Sanders, Kensaku Shinohara, LGBT issues in electoral politics. Jil Stifel, Jean-Paul Weaver & Second Thu of every month, 7 p.m. Alisha Wormsley. Thru May 14 ANNUAL FITNESS CLASSIC United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5K RUN/WALK. Benefits the St. East Liberty. 412-363-3000. Oakland. 412-521-2504. Margaret Foundation. 8:30 a.m.

Angels of Revolution

Olga Mukhortova

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Unexpected views

The top of California Avenue in Brighton Heights provides stunning views of the Ohio River through a smoke stack and an industrial complex; classic Pittsburgh.

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This novel by Jamaican author Marlon James explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and takes the reader through decades of tumultuous Jamaican politics. It won the prestigious 2015 Man Booker prize for fiction.

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Spinach and ricotta ravioli at Girasole

Served with a creamy tomato sauce, and in one of the coziest restaurants in Pittsburgh. 733 Copeland St., Shadyside

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Chapo Trap House

“Minor Twitter celebs” Will Menaker, Felix Biederman and Matt Christman’s discussions of politics and the media are informative, hilarious and highly irreverent. Listen at soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house.

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LITERARY THU 12

CHARLIE BRICE, ARLENE WEINER & BOB WALICKI. Poetry reading. 7:30 p.m. Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. 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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CHRIS CLEAVE. Lecture & book signing w/ the author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven. 7 p.m. Carnegie Lecture Hall, Oakland. 412-622-8866.

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ARTISTS & AUTHORS FESTIVAL. Meet & hear from 20 authors & see works from over 30 artists. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. PITTSBURGH WRITERS PROJECT - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS. Second Sat of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Green Tree Public Library, Green Tree. 412-921-9292.

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POETRY WORKSHOP W/ DR. SAM HAZO. Dr. Samuel Hazo for a two-part poetry workshop. For this first session participants will be introduced to several works of poetry that have the ability to replicate the immediacy of our senses through language. Participants are asked to bring a poem of their own to this class to be reviewed by Dr. Hazo in the following session. Mon, 2:30 p.m. Thru May 23 Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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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.

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WEDO ROBOTICS. A robotics class using LEGOs. Thu, 7-8:15 p.m. Thru May 19 Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

FRI 13

YOUTH MAKER NIGHT. Create electronic instruments that make weirdly fun noises. 5 p.m. Assemble, Garfield. 618-521-7569.

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SPECTRUM CHARTER SCHOOL’S TOUCH-A-TRUCK. Kids of all ages will be able to learn about, discover and explore their favorite big trucks & vehicles including fire trucks & emergency response vehicles, a dump truck, recycle truck, tow truck, bucket truck, construction vehicles, an Army Humvee, more.

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GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Domestic Detritus. Watercolors & acrylic paintings by Joseph Shepler. Lawrenceville. 412-683-6488. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. GREENSBURG ART CENTER. Expired Mills: Inspired Landscapes. Oil paintings by Claire Hardy. Greensburg. 724-837-6791. HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reﬂections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt. edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330. HOLOCAUST CENTER OF PITTSBURGH. In Celebration of Life: Living Legacy Project. A photographic/multimedia exhibit honoring & commemorating local Holocaust survivors. 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. 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.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monroeville VFD Station 194, Monroeville.

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CULTURAL TRADITIONS: TORMA MAKING. Learn the art of sculpting tormas & listen to Tibetan Folktales w/ members of the Buddhist Society of Pittsburgh. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058. FIBER, FABRIC & FASHION. Tours are self-guided. Watch sheep shearing, spinning, weaving, dying & linen processing. The children’s book “Charlie Needs a Cloak” will be read during the afternoon

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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. MOST WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Jason Mendez, Hoesy Corona & Greg Garay. Garfield. 412-328-4737. NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. The Seen & The Unseen. New works by local artists Matthew Conboy, Lori Hepner & Jimmy Riordan. North Side. 412-322-2224. PANZA GALLERY. James P. Nelson: paintings & works on paper. Millvale. 412-821-0959. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Lifeforms. An exhibition of the best biological glass models made in the spirit of the famous 19th & 20th century models of invertebrates & plants made by Rudolf & Leopold Blaschka for the Harvard University’s Botanical Museum. Friendship. 412-365-2145. ROBIN HILL CENTER. West Hills Art League 49th Annual Art Exhibit. Work from WHAL members. www.westhillsart. org. Moon. 412-264-2630. 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. 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

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& an 18th Century fashion show will take place at 3:00 p.m. 1:30-4:30 p.m. South Side Riverfront Park, South Side. For more information, visit olivermillerhomestead.org.

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FAMILY BINGO NIGHT. 7 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. MAKER STORY TIME. Explore tools, materials & processes inspired by books. Listen to stories read by librarian-turned-Teaching Artist Molly. Mon, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. 412-322-5058.

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current trends & innovations in this constantly evolving medium. Pattern & Place: Art Quilts by Valerie Goodwin. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART. The Light in Nature & Time: Paintings by Fred Danziger. Johnstown. 724-238-6015. 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. UNSMOKE SYSTEMS ARTSPACE. You Are Warming Weather. A solo show by Katie Ford. Braddock. www.unsmokeartspace.com. 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.

THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Free & open to ages 18 & older. Meets rain or shine every Thursday of the year. Naturalists guide these walks. Thu, 10 a.m.12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

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MAY STAR PARTY. View the planet Jupiter & the First Quarter Moon w/ Amateur Astronomers Association. May 13-14, 8:30 p.m. Wagman Observatory, Tarentum. 724-224-2510.

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w/ Jessica Beck. 2 p.m. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300. GAP RIVER TRAIL BICYCLE RIDE. 10 a.m. Point State Park, Downtown. 412-565-2850. GARDEN TALKS & CONVERSATIONS W/ THE COURTYARD GARDEN EXPERTS. Meet in the courtyard garden for a talk about pollinators in the garden w/ speaker Nancy Smith. 10 a.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. MEET, LEARN, PLAY: A GAMING MEET UP. All-ages board gaming session, playing & learning about new games w/ an instructor. Quiet Reading Room. Second and Fourth Sat of every month, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. SECOND SATURDAY ART WORKSHOPS. Classes in jewelry making, painting, cartooning, puppet making, quilting, more. Second Sat of every month Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown. 412-471-6079. THE STEEL CITY PIZZAFEST. 15 pizza shops, bands, contests, more. 12-6 p.m. Arsenal Park, Lawrenceville. THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. WPMC Mycologist La Monte Yarroll & the Allegheny Land Trust for the Spring survey of Sycamore Island. Accessible only by boat; meet at

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

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A TASTE OF JUDAISM. Three 1 hour-plus sessions, hosted by Senior Rabbi Mark Mahler. Each session is equal parts instruction & conversation, question & answer, engagement & connection. Topics include Jewish ethics, spirituality, rituals, practice & Torah. The first section will be at Panera, followed by Mt. Lebanon Main Park & Temple Emanuel of South Hills. Thu, 7 p.m. RSVP to Temple Emanuel at 412-279-7600.

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

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CRAFTS & DRAFTS: PAPER CLAY SPIRIT ANIMALS. Channel your inner spirit animal while enjoying a beer in this wild Crafts & Drafts. Using paper fibers & low fire clay, come create a hollow clay figure & fill it w/ fuzzy green plant life. 6 p.m. The Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-261-7003. PINBALL GAME NIGHT. Unlimited play on more than 50 vintage games, including pinball machines from the 1950s through the 1980s along with iconic arcade games such as PAC-MAN, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Punch-Out! Age 21 +. 7-11 p.m. Senator John Heinz History Center, Strip District. 412-454-6000.

SUN 15

DOROTHY DUNNETT READING GROUP. House of Niccolò discussion. 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill. 724-934-2922. K9 TRAILBLAZERS HIKES. Hit the trails of Western Pennsylvania w/ your dog. 12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 412-228-5812. MAY ASSEMBLY. Secular congregation that celebrates life. 10 a.m. Repair the World’s Workshop, East Liberty. 412-254-6533.

The first hit is free. Actually, so are all the others.

SAT 14

2016 MEMORIAL WALK. Ingomar Church commemorates loved ones with a familyoriented walk. 9 a.m. North Park, Allison Park. 412-364-3613. EXPOSURES: ARTIST TALK. Zhiwan Cheung discusses his installation Hanging Fruit

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PGH PHOTO FAIR. 12 internationally known dealers, who will exhibit museum-quality prints & photo-based art spanning the history of the medium, from 19th Century vintage prints to contemporary photography. These experts will also be offering photographic books & photobased magazines. May 14-15 Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland. 412-622-3131.

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THE 2016 SEWICKLEY HOUSE TOUR. Featuring six Sewickley homes, including three historic homes, two homes w/extensive renovations & a newly built “green” home w/ the latest in technology. 5-9 p.m. and Sat., May 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. PITTSBURGH VINTAGE MIXER. More than 35 regional, authentic vintage sellers of men’s and women’s fashion, accessories, books, housewares, vinyl, décor, art, comics & furniture. Teamsters Hall Local 249, Lawrenceville. 412-682-3700.

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the dock at 101 Arch Street in Verona. 10 a.m. WHAT’S IN THE WATER? Learn about the aquatic life in & around North Park’s waterways. Pre-registration is recommended at www.alleghenycounty.us/ parkprograms. 2 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

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PRISON NATION –THE PRISONINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. The panel will explore the reasons for & consequences of mass incarceration. Panelists include Martha Conley, Jules Lobel & Tiffany Sizemore-Johnson 2 p.m. The Pump House. RETROSPECTIVE OF “THE FAMOUS FIRE” OF 1976. Reminisce about the fire that forever changed the city & hear how Firefighters from all over the Mon Valley came together to battle this historic blaze. Part of the 2016 Summer Speaker Program. 2 p.m. McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center, McKeesport. 412-678-1832.

MON 16

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. MT. LEBANON GENEALOGY SOCIETY. Jim Stuber will demonstrate how he used the tools & techniques presented in March’s meeting “Getting Started in Genealogy”. 1 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. ROBOTO MONTHLY MEETING. Meet w/ the Roboto board of directors to find out what’s happening at the space & help guide its future. Third Mon of every month, 7 p.m. The Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield. 412-853-0518.

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Mushrooms. Bring your WPMC membership card & a clean plastic shopping bag. You must be a current WPMC member to receive a mushroom kit. 7 p.m. Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100. WHERE CAN I TAKE IT? Q&A ON WASTE DIVERSION. 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, Homewood. 412-473-0100.

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THE PIONEER LIFE: A JOURNEY IN CORRESPONDENCE. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550. QI GONG CLASS. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Angora Gardens. 412-675-8556.

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FOURTH ANNUAL HARVEY MILK DAY OF SERVICE Gay for Good: Pittsburgh is seeking volunteers to join them, along with Lawrenceville United, Friends of Arsenal Park and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, to honor the life of LGBT icon, activist and politician Harvey Milk. Help plant trees and beautify Arsenal Park starting at 9 a.m. on May 21. For more information or to register, email gayforgoodpgh@gmail.com.

SANCTUARY & SUSTENANCE: THE STORY OF MANY JOURNEYS. A multimedia projection of photography, film, music, & words. May 18-June 20, 7 p.m. American Jewish Museum, Squirrel Hill. 412-521-8010.

ART & INSPIRATION. Special guest is creative writing professor, poet, mother & humorist Deena November. 7 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. FUTUREMAKERS. A series THE HERITAGE PLAYERS. of salons, live performances, Auditions for “Alice in fishbowl conversations, interactive Wonderland.” Seeking children maker sessions & more w/ keynote & adults from ages 7 +. Please speaker F. Javier Torres. 10 a.m.prepare a one minute dialogue & 32 7 p.m. The Alloy Studios, bars of a song. Cold readings Friendship. 412-363-4321. from the script available on request. PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. May 22 & 23 6 - 9 p.m. For more Experienced screen printers can info, visit www.bphp.org or call utilize studio equipment to 412-254-4633. Seton Center, make films, burn screens Brookline. 412-561-5511. & complete a run of THE LAMP THEATRE. posters, t-shirts or prints. Auditions for Footloose. A volunteer-driven May 11 & 16, by appt. www. per environment designed pa Prepare a 32 bar up pghcitym for short-run projects .co tempo sample. Thru that can be completed May 16. Larry Cervi’s in one evening for a small School of Performing Arts, materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Monroeville. 412-418-0797. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664. SALLIE BOGGS TOASTMASTERS BOULEVARD GALLERY & CLUB. Helping people from all DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. walks of life to improve their Searching for glass artists, fiber communication & leadership artists, potters, etc. to compliment skills. For any questions email the exhibits for 2015 & 2016. Sallieboggstm@gmail.com or call Booking for both galleries for 412-365-5803. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m. 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 C.C. Mellor Memorial Library, months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943. Edgewood. 412-731-0909. CRANBERRY ARTISTS THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA NETWORK. This is an Open show MUSHROOM CLUB. WPMC for artists within at 75 mile radius Mycologist Jim Tunney & friends of Cranberry Township. Artists are will show WPMC members how to grow their own Oyster invited to enter up to two pieces

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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. 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 www. pittsburghwatercolorsociety.com. Thru July 11. Spinning Plate Gallery, Friendship. THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail. com Ongoing. RE:NEW FESTIVAL CALL FOR ARTISTS- PROJECT PROPOSALS. Open to any artist or performer living in the U. S., working in any medium or genre. Work should address festival themes of creative reuse, transformation & sustainability. Performance, video, outdoor artworks, costumes, mobile sculpture, social practice work..what would you like to do at Re:NEW? Maximum project budget: $3,000. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Proposals will be accepted until May 31, 2016. To apply, visit renewfestival.com. RE:NEW FESTIVAL JURIED EXHIBITION. Seeking painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation from Southwestern PA artists that address creative reuse, transformation, or sustainability. Deadline to apply is May 31, or when 300 entries are received. To apply visit www.renewfestival.com. 412-391-2060 x248.

Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}

Straight male, 48, married 14 years, three kids under age 10. N eedless to say, life is busy at our house. My wife and I have stopped having sex. It was my decision. I get the obligation vibe combined with a vanilla sex life, and it just turns me off. For the past two months, I’ve tried to just push sex out of my mind. We live mostly as parenting roommates. We used to be pretty kinky — dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc. — but all those things wear her out now, and her interest has disappeared. My guess is that she was just playing along with my kinks to keep me happy and is now over it. Is this just life as a 48-year-old married father of three? HARD UP HUSBAND

In answer to your question: Infrequent and underwhelming sex, sometimes with an obligatory vibe, is not only the sex life a 48-year-old married father of three can expect, it’s the sex life he signed up for. My advice: masturbate more, masturbate together more, lower your expectations so you’ll be pleasantly surprised when a joint masturbation session blows up into something bigger and better, carve out enough time for quality sex, discuss other accommodations/contingencies as needed, and take turns reminding each other that small kids aren’t small forever.

on a site like OkCupid and approaching bisexual women there. You may have better luck with women if your initial interactions are over email. And ﬁnally, UPITT, there are gay and bi men out there who desire stability, too — and stability and “promiscuity” aren’t mutually exclusive. About your answer to WHAT, the lady whose boyfriend “accidentally” ass-fucked her. I am a queer lady with a number of men in my sexual history, and I have many straight women friends who get around. “I didn’t mean to stick my dick in your ass” is a lie that men tell — men who are embarrassed to ask for anal, men who want it so bad they’re prepared to hurt their partner, or men who think their partner will say no if asked and just don’t care. In all cases, these are men who do not even begin to understand how anal sex works. As you say, it’s not an accident. But what you don’t say is that these men are telling lies in order to get out of taking responsibility for their desires and the fact that they’ve hurt their partners. Men who want to have anal sex need to talk that through with their partners and then either ﬁgure out how to do it safely and pleasurably or break up if it’s a deal-breaker. I have had way too many conversations with women friends about the pain and anger and sometimes shame that they’ve felt when male partners have just stuck it in abruptly, unlubricated and without permission. It makes me really angry that this is something that men can describe as an “accident” without any pushback, and honestly it was kind of gross and disappointing when your answer was just jokes about butt plugs.

MEN AREN’T SUBJECTED TO MALE SEXUAL VIOLENCE AT THE SAME RATES THAT WOMEN ARE.

I’m one of those bi guys. I had trouble dating girls in high school and, at 18, I found guys so much darn easier. And as sexual promiscuity in the gay world goes, I got around there easily. Fast-forward a few years. I’m in college now and desiring women and stability more. But women ﬁnd me weird and awkward — I admit I am — something I was never judged for in the gay world. This has been going on for a few years now, and it just gets worse when I’m supposed to be parading around presenting as a horny straight guy. Lately I’ve just been sitting on my hands in social situations, afraid to even interact with women. Is this therapy-worthy? UPSET PITTSBURGHER IN TROUBLING TIMES

Therapy couldn’t hurt … unless you get a terrible therapist … in which case it could. Start your therapist hunt at the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and you’re likelier to find a good/sex-positive one. As for why your “weird and awkward” first impression seemed to be less of an impediment when you were sleeping with men: Men aren’t subjected to male sexual violence at the same rates that women are. Women have a lot more to fear than men do, UPITT, and a weird-andawkward first impression is far likelier to turn off a woman into dudes than it is to turn off a man into dudes. The man you flirt with at a party might think, “Dude’s weird and awkward but he’s hot,” and jump into bed with you. But the woman you flirt with at a party is likely to think, “Dude’s weird and awkward and he’s hot, but he’s just too weird to risk it.” Something else that couldn’t hurt: getting

WHATEVER ACRONYM STRONGLY STRESSES UNDERLYING POINT

I’m with you, WASSUP. I don’t think anal happens by accident. Anal has always, in my vast experience, required lube, focus, precision and deep breathing. But on the two occasions when I’ve urged straight female callers on the Savage Lovecast to dump boyfriends who “accidentally” penetrated them anally, scores of people called in to insist that anal can and does happen by accident. WHAT’s boyfriend has accidentally penetrated her anally four times in a year. That raises a red ﬂag. But WHAT was convinced it was an accident (all four times) and seemed to think her boyfriend felt genuinely terrible about it (all four times), and I deferred to a reader’s POV (just one time). And here’s a detail that was cut from WHAT’s letter for space: “People have suggested going slow, but I like it a little rough.” Perhaps I should’ve come down harder on WHAT’s boyfriend — OK, I should’ve come down harder — but it seemed possible, at least in WHAT’s case, that anal might’ve been an accident (all four times?!?). I still believe “accidental anal” is much more likely to be “intentional, nonconsensual anal,” a.k.a. not an accident at all.

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FOR THE WEEK OF

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Approximately 30,000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn’t matter. For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be “creativity is intelligence having fun.” Second, it’s not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it’s not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity. When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it’s lovely, but may also mutter, “What a show-off.” But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“Clear moments are so short,” opines poet Adam Zagajewski. “There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra ﬁrma. More shadow than form.” Here’s what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to

you. On the contrary. You’re in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“Some things need to be ﬁxed, others to be left broken,” writes poet James Richardson. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to make ﬁnal decisions about which are which in your own life. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are either too damaged to salvage or undeserving of your hard labor? Consider the possibility that you will abandon them for good. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are cracked but possible to repair and worthy of your diligent love? Make a plan to revive or reinvent them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Once every year, it is healthy and wise to make an ultimate confession — to express everything you regret and bemoan in one cathartic swoop, and then be free of its subliminal nagging for another year. The coming days will be a perfect time to do this. For inspiration, read an excerpt from Jeanann Vernee’s “Genetics of Regret”: “I’m sorry I lied. Sorry I drew the picture of the dead cat. I’m sorry about the stolen tampons and the nest of mice in the stove. I’m sorry about the slashed window screens. I’m sorry it took 36 years to say this. Sorry that all I can do is worry what happens next. Sorry for the weevils and the dead grass. Sorry I vomited in the wash drain. Sorry I left. Sorry I came back. I’m sorry it comes like this. Flood and undertow.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

According to the British podcast series “No Such Thing as a Fish,” there were only a few satisfying connubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country’s 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth,” says a character in Raymond Chandler’s short story “Trouble Is My Business,” “and some days I feel like playing it like a wafﬂe iron.” I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won’t be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You’ll be better able to take advantage of fate’s fabulous farces if you’re geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Author Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, “I see ﬂames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.” Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. N ow is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear.” The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I’m passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you’ll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” That’s from a Coleman Barks’ translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacriﬁce the mediocre in service to the sublime?

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. “I now have a mania for shortness,” he wrote. “Whatever I read — my own work, or other people’s — it all seems to me not short enough.” I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efﬁciency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter. Whether or not we believe in gods, we all worship something. What idea, person, thing, or emotion do you bow down to? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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MUSICAL JOURNEY {BY DANIELLE LEVSKY}

IN 1988, when Mikhail Istomin was studying to be a cellist at the

St. Petersburg Conservatory, Yo-Yo Ma was scheduled to perform at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Tickets were sold out within a day, so Istomin and his classmates concocted an elaborate plan. An acquaintance who actually had tickets would enter the women’s restroom and open the windows, so that the schemers could jump inside the window from a nearby building. They joined the standing-room audience … just to hear, not even see, Yo-Yo Ma perform. In 1989, Istomin would make an even bigger leap. Isomin is now a principal cellist at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He is also the founder of the Pittsburgh Piano Trio; a faculty member at the City Music Center at Duquesne University; and artistic director of the Music Business and Advanced Chamber Music Seminar. And he runs a marketing agency. But none of these professional endeavors would have been possible if Istomin had not defected from the Soviet Union in 1989.

Before Istomin could comprehend what was happening, he was packing his cello and music and stuffing his belongings into hand luggage. A young Russian-speaking American man and a young American woman accompanied them to the immigration bureau in Baltimore. The four of them sat in the bureau for roughly seven hours. While Istomin waited for the Russian-speaking student to translate the government officials’ questions about the Soviet Union, he couldn’t help but think about what he was leaving behind. He was only 24 years old. His entire family was in the Soviet Union. At the end of the investigation, the immigration officers dismissed the group and said they would consider the case. They were released from the bureau at 9 p.m. Istomin stepped outside just as a guard shut the door behind them. “It was an old metal door, with a chain that locked from the inside,” Istomin. “The sound of that clanging metal made my back

“MUSIC BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER.” In 1987, Istomin, 24, became the cellist for the Leningrad Conservatory String Quartet. In 1989, that group went on two trips out of the Soviet Union: one to Paris for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, and later that same year, a tour through the U.S. In September 1989, his quartet ended its American tour with a stop at Towson University, in Baltimore. Though Tufts students hosted the quartet, the members were also supervised by Soviet ofﬁcials. Still, Istomin felt different in the U.S. “Something came into our minds,” Istomin says. “Everything seemed very right in America. We were breathing differently, but we still knew we were Soviet people.” Two nights before their departure, Istomin and a fellow quartet member, Yuri Alexov, sat with Towson students, discussing their U.S. experiences. The Tufts students pressed the musicians to stay, but both Istomin and Alexov didn’t know how to do it or if it was even a possibility. On their ﬁnal day in the U.S., the quartet was to be escorted to a nearby shopping mall. “I had this feeling that I should not be going,” Istomin says. “Plus, I did not know where my friend Yuri went. I decided to stay in the hotel.” After the rest of the quartet left, Alexov returned to their shared room and told Istomin, “Let’s go.”

completely wet from sweat. In that moment I realized: I can’t go back. I can’t go anywhere. I’m not even fully allowed to stay here.” A month later, both men were granted political asylum. Since his defection and the fall of the Soviet Union, Istomin has performed all over the world. Among the memorable trips: the Pittsburgh Piano Trio’s tour of the Ukraine in 2004 during the end of the Orange Revolution. Following a run-off vote in the November 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which many claimed was tainted by corruption, thousands participated in a campaign of civil resistance through January 2005. The supporters of populist candidate Viktor Yushchenko wore orange; supporters of the government’s favored candidate wore blue. The trio’s Kiev performance was scheduled on the same day as the re-vote, Dec. 26, 2004; Yushchenko won that vote. Istomin says it was one of the most memorable concerts he has ever played and wishes he had had a camera on stage to take a picture of the audience, to capture this “historic moment.” “We walked on stage and the hall was full of people, half wearing orange, half wearing blue,” Istomin says. “There was such a mix of energy that I didn’t know what to think at ﬁrst. What an amazing feeling. “But here they were, all sitting together. They were all so exhausted emotionally. They sat in silence but cheered at the end of every piece. Music brings people together.” INF O @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM

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