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EVENTS 7.8 – 7pm SENSORY-FRIENDLY EVENT FOR ADULTS (21+) To register please contact Leah Morelli at morellil@warhol.org or call 412.237.8389. FREE
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8.6 – 10am HALF-PINT PRINTS Factory Studio This monthly silkscreen printing activity for families with children ages 1 to 4 years old takes place the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Free with museum admission
9.14 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: YO LA TENGO WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAMBCHOP Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with WYEP. Tickets $20/$15 Members & students
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9.29 – 11am POP GENERATION: ANDY’S ANTIQUITIES 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
Henry Rollins 11.10 – 8pm Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland) | Tickets $25 / $20 Members & students Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art
We welcome back spoken word artist, musician, actor, author, radio talk show host and iconic cultural gadfly, Henry Rollins. Primarily still best known as the lead singer for the intense hardcore Rollins Band and the seminal punk band Black Flag, Rollins has also written more than 20 books, runs his own publishing company and record label 2.13.61., and hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW. His spoken word performances – “talking shows,” as he calls them – are a seamless (yet seemingly extemporaneous) mix of humor and outrage; pop culture, political commentary and personal anecdote; healthy skepticism and rugged optimism.
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Here at City Paper we love your pets. How much? Enough to dedicate this issue to all animals and the humans who love them.
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don’t think of ants as pets. Ditto bees: Apiarists want honey, not cuddles. And even less so for mosquitoes, which in the age of Zika, West Nile and mass malaria might be earth’s most despised creatures. Yet ants, bees and mosquitoes are among the animals that artist Ali Momeni is drawn to — and which he thinks his work can persuade wary humans to appreciate just a bit more. Momeni, 40, is an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. He belongs to a new wave of artists whose work blurs the line between traditional art and scientific inquiry. His works, often collaborations with researchers or other artists, have been shown from New Dehli to Minneapolis, and have received international press attention: He was recently quoted in a Newsweek article about
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computers making art, for instance, and the BBC covered the Glasgow, Scotland, premiere of Truce, his mosquito-based installation with regular collaborator Robin Meier, an artist based in Paris.
Locally based, internationally known artist Ali Momeni wants to change our relationship with insects {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Momeni ranges widely across art, science and technology; high-profile projects include Dranimate, software that lets users turn still images into animations using hand gestures. But some of Momeni’s most striking work has revolved around little-loved critters with six (or eight) legs.
Truce, for instance, was based on a paper Momeni (then working at the University of Minnesota) saw in a scientific journal: Mosquitoes in flight listen to other mosquitoes and then harmonize the pitch of their buzzing wings. For Truce (exhibited in Japan and Paris), Momeni and Meier found a way to harmlessly tether single mosquitoes to a wire and then expose them to the buzz of a “ghost” female mosquito whose pitch rose and fell. With the harmonic addition of a synthesized human voice, the whole thing became “kind of a machine-mosquito love song,” says Momeni. Close-up cameras allowed gallery visitors to watch. The Tragedy of the Commons, also created with Meier, was a large-scale installation incorporating a colony of South American leaf-cutter ants — a “dynamic playground” where the ants could forage for food while navigating obstacles like a spring-loaded
drawbridge. The work, which premiered in Paris in 2011, let visitors (with the help of surveillance cameras and microphones) see and hear for themselves how thousands of ants function as a “superorganism,” or a single entity dedicated to the survival of the colony and its queen. Here in Pittsburgh, Momeni curated All Around Us, an insect-themed exhibit at Wood Street Galleries. The show — which was covered in The Scientist, an Ontario, Canada-based magazine for life-sciences professionals — featured work by artists from around the world. Pieces included: a robot operated by Madagascar hissing cockroaches; an exhibit of live crickets; and Momeni’s own “Observation Hives,” which consisted partly of two beehives encased in clear Plexiglass to make the hive visible, with transparent tubes leading out the Downtown gallery’s fourth-floor windows so visitors could watch bees departing to gather pollen. Momeni’s goal is to get people to see bugs anew, not just as picnic-time nuisances. “These pieces are all about setting up a very human context around these insects,” he says. In Truce (whose very title urges a human-mosquito détente), visitors “can finally stand next to a mosquito and watch it closely.” In Tragedy of the
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Detail of leaf-cutter ants at work in Ali Momeni and Robin Meier’s large-scale installation The Tragedy of the Commons
Commons, audiences can observe ants and “appreciate their talents and learn about their superpowers.” Momeni says his insect-themed shows generate positive feedback from visitors: “They tend to leave with a different experience than they’ve ever had with these organisms that we tend to ignore.” Murray Horne, curator of Wood Street
Galleries, says that visitors to All Around Us were indeed fascinated, especially by “Observation Hives.” At first, Horne says, “Everyone says, ‘It’s a bee! It’s a bee!’” But ultimately, each hive is “a whole ecosystem which is completely independent of ours, and in fact, people would relate to it.” He quips, “The bees were the honey for everything else in the show.”
“People spent sometimes an hour just sitting next to the beehive,” says Momeni. He believes visitors began to grasp that all the bees have different tasks, even different personalities. With ants, he says, it’s even easier to see human analogues: In an ant colony, you can witness activities ranging from the mundane, like garbage disposal, to the complex, like social shunning, altruism and even martyrdom (individuals sacrificing themselves for the good of the group). Leaf-cutter ants even carry off their dead, albeit to use the corpses as fertilizer for the fungus they grow as food. While visitors to such exhibits might not develop the kinds of emotional bonds with insects that we do with conventional pets, researchers and other caretakers Momeni works with often do. “There’s a real kinship between the scientists and these organisms,” he says. The caretakers feed and breed their wee charges, after all. Ant queens, and hence their colonies, can live longer than most dogs, up to 20 years, Momeni says. “They can sometimes outlive generations of lab assistants,” he adds. “People really stress out about them if the conditions [for their well-being] aren’t right.” Even actual petting happens. At the opening reception for All Around Us, CONTINUES ON PG. 08
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Horne watched Canadian researcher Garnet Hertz handle the Madagascar hissing cockroaches that pilot his small robots. (A roach is harnessed in, and light cues prompt it to “run” on a plastic ball that guides the machine around the gallery, effectively substituting a living organism for the computer.) Though audiences were “grossed out,” Horne says, Hertz calmly set an inch-and-a-half-long roach on his hand and stroked its back — as Horne puts it, “a little cockroach massage!” As far as insects might be from your idea of house pets — they’re the very creatures we want out of the house — Momeni believes his projects can also inspire discussion about domesticated animals. He has an unusual cultural perspective on the issue: Though he’s lived in the West for decades, Momeni was raised in Iran, and despite his affection for animals, he often finds Americans’ relationships with their pets bizarre. In the 1980s, when Momeni was growing up, there were pet cats, and his family had a golden retriever named Jimmy (long story). So he understands the appeal of what he calls “our furry, leashed animal friends.” But those cats were really neighborhood cats: Everybody fed them, and they
never came indoors. Even Jimmy stayed outdoors. So Momeni doesn’t understand stuff like American pets sleeping with their owners, or people shelling out “$6,000 for an endoscopy for a cat.” “It’s totally insane to me that we’ve come that far, to investing more in a cat than in a less fortunate human being in your community,” he says. On the other hand, Momeni acknowledges he has learned that this issue is “really not something you can discuss with pet-owners.” Instead, he merely notes that, for their part, ants both vastly outnumber humans and will likely outlast us on Earth. That’s worth considering in terms of The Tragedy of the Commons, which is named for philosopher Garrett Hardin’s famous 1968 essay theorizing that, among humans, individual interests make impossible the sharing of free common resources (like pastureland and ocean fisheries). Yet while the ants in the installation share a common resource, too — the food their keepers supply — their collective behavior allows them to share it effectively. So maybe there’s something we can learn from ants after all. D RI S C OL L @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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In ways that exceeded the duties of her office, Beaver County Treasurer Connie Javens apparently helped sell a county-owned senior home to a private company, Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services. Allegedly, Javens accompanied executives to the assessment office to guide them through lowering their property taxes and wrote a check of $275,000 in county money, without proper authorization, to help the facility pay off bills before CHMS took ownership. Incidentally, the company contracted Javens’ daughter, Renee Javens Zuk, as a beautician to the home’s residents — even though, when it was owned by the county, the facility fired Zuk from the same job after nine days, citing poor attendance. The news website The Beaver Countian has reported extensively on the saga. Javens and Zuk have filed a defamation lawsuit against six of the website’s anonymous commenters. The suit lists as defendants “thebigdigger,” “John Q Taxpayer,” “THE EXECUTIONER,” “Sliver,” “Courthouseconvicts,” and “ConnieintheSlammer” and includes verbatim their incensed, grammatically challenged remarks. Some samples: “Shut up Renee Javens mama is going down wait for it. Your stealing from taxpayer’s is done!!!!!” and “REALLY CONNIE HAVEN’T THEY FUCKIN FIRED YOU ALREADY.” Though not a defendant, The Beaver Countian has enlisted press and digitalfreedom groups to help fight a motion to force it to help identify the commenters.
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A saying goes: When you have a hammer, every problem seems like a nail. So perhaps, when one has a samurai sword, every dispute seems like a blood feud. That might explain what recently happened in Monessen, Westmoreland County. Amelia and Bill Garey confronted Amelia’s brother, Todd Allen Clark, who lives with them, about his supposed habit of smoking marijuana in the house. The Gareys told WPXI that Clark attacked his sister with a cane. When Bill Garey interceded, Clark reportedly whipped out the samurai sword he keeps behind his bed and dragged it across Garey’s face. A third man in the house wrested the sword from him. Clark, 51, faces charges of criminal attempted homicide and assault. Bill Garey had more than two dozen stitches.
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Arzella Stewart-McCauley contacted WTAE, claiming that a Forest Hills nail salon refused her a manicure because she is legally blind. “I kept questioning [the owner] and she kept giving me the same response: ‘Because you’re blind and you can’t see and I’m busy,’” said StewartMcCauley. Surprisingly, Hanh Thi Pham, owner of Le Nails, admitted to the station she turned the woman away and refuses service to anyone too young, too old or
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who otherwise seems time-consuming. In an interview done off-camera, she said she has the right to choose her customers (a claim some civil-rights lawyers may refute).
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Eighteen-year-old Spencer Alceus, employed by a janitorial company, was assigned to clean the Chevrolet GMC Buick dealership in Harmony Township. He apparently did what you might have done at 18 if left alone at night with a parking lot of new cars and a drawer full of their keys. Police told the Beaver County Times that surveillance video shows Alceus taking several cars on joy rides, including a Buick Regal, GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Cruze, even picking up a friend for a ride in the Cruze.
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A customer at the Shop ’n Save on Mount Washington flagged down police, saying he had witnessed a woman stuff a small dog into backpack and zip
it shut before entering the store. Nichole Kahle initially denied en-sacking the animal, police told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, but officers heard growling coming from her bag. Kahle allegedly refused to put her hands behind her back and, in the ensuing scuffle, a 15-pound Chihuahua fell out of the bag. Kahle, 37, faces animal-cruelty charges.
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Pennsylvania’s Least Smooth Criminal: Alex John Benkosky, 24, allegedly swiped a jar of money made at a small candy stand inside a Mexican restaurant in Union Township, Lawrence County. Two employees and a customer chased him and, after Benkosky made a brief attempt to hide in some bushes, they apprehended him and held him until police arrived, police told the New Castle News. According a restaurant employee, Benkosky, who had allegedly made off with $142.98, “apologized and asked to call his mother and his girlfriend.”
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beat the odds.” Because there’s only ONE black boy done gonna make it, right, Miss Wendy? Bell postulated, “Instead of fathers — too many kids have guns.” The only difference between this post and her misguided Wilkinsburg post is that this time, she can’t get fired. “Today is going to be tough for me,” she wrote on her Facebook page June 21, alluding to breaking news of her lawsuit, whereby she immediately received an outpouring of support from across the region. In that post, she also reminisced about the many hardships that she’s endured as a privileged white woman, such as sweating, and touring the Wonder Bread plant. She ends by warning, “like that monster ball pit and the plastic jungle gym — I’m taking off my sneakers and going in. I may not end up with my face splashed across a bus when I’m done — but there’s no question I’ll be the one driving it.” Well, Wendy, it’s good to have something to fall back on.
News-reading, self-righteous and erstwhile WTAE anchor Wendy Bell is suing Hearst Broadcasting in an effort to get her job back. She says she was wrongfully terminated, claiming she was fired because she is white. As reported by Matt Santoni of the Pittsburgh TribuneReview, Bell’s attorney, Samuel J. Cordes, asserted, “Had an AfricanAmerican journalist said the same thing, it wouldn’t have generated the same quoteoutcry-unquote.” Ironically (because there isn’t enough irony here already), shortly {CP FILE PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} after news broke Wendy Bell of her preposterous racial-discrimination lawsuit, she reposted another clueless missive, this one from Sept. 11, 2015, that somehow managed to fly under the radar. In this post she discusses the shooting death of 14-year-old DeSean Young, in East Liberty, with her typical tone-deafness: “He was a winner. The Kid Who Was Going To Make It. He was poised to
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C-Span (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network ) is having a Pittsburgh moment. The station, oft-mocked for boredom induction, covered the #nobillnobreak sit-in by House Democrats, which included our own U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pittsburgh).
U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, of Philadelphia, delivered a compelling speech last Wednesday. “I can’t believe that we have to resort to this,” Boyle said, according to PennLive.com. House Republicans cut camera access to the floor when the sit-in began, and Boyle’s speech was live streamed on C-Span via Twitter’s Periscope app. “I can’t believe that in a place that I was raised to think was the greatest country on earth, we are the country that by far leads the world in gun violence,” Boyle added. It was great to see the Dems taking a stand. Or a sit. I haven’t been this riveted by C-Span since, well … forever.
GONE (PITT)GIRL After a seven-year run, Virginia Montanez, a.k.a. “PittGirl,” writes her last column for Pittsburgh Magazine, and announces she is wrapping up her blog, thatschurch.com. In her column’s coda, she waxes nostalgic: “The thing with Pittsburgh is this: It gets you. “If it doesn’t yet have you, there eventually comes a time when it will reach out ... and get you. “And it will keep you. “No matter how far you wander from it, to the ends of our earth, you will still be gotten.” In 2009, CNN wrote about Montanez’ coming-out story, when PittGirl revealed her real-life identity. “My friends and family call me Ginny,” she wrote on her blog at that time. “But you can continue to call me Your Majesty, because I’ve grown accustomed.” We’ll miss you, your majesty. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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CLEVELAND SUCKS LESS! {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} PITTSBURGHERS LOST a 52-year punchline
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last week when Cleveland won its first world championship since the LBJ administration. The Cleveland Cavaliers finally gave their city the unfamiliar feeling of civic pride when they came back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals to overtake Golden State. I’m sure it took them awhile to figure out what to do next. Nobody had contacted Cleveland’s Victory Parade Planning Committee since December 1964. Crapping on Cleveland always made us feel a little bit better about ourselves. It was fun while it lasted, Cleveland, but now we need new teams to belittle. It shouldn’t be hard to find one. There are plenty of two-horse towns in this country filled with losers. Buffalo springs to mind immediately. The Bills won an AFL title in 1965; since then, there’s been nothing to celebrate. They lost four Super Bowls and came close to a Stanley Cup once, heartbreakingly close actually. But those beef-onweck-eating, O.J- Simpson-jersey-wearing fans know nothing but defeat. Then there’s Cincinnati. Not only have the Bengals never won a Super Bowl, they haven’t won a playoff game in more than 25 years. The Reds’ victory parade in 1990 was the last time the Queen City was on top. Milwaukee has churned out losers for more than 40 straight years. The Bucks won an NBA title in the early 1970s; the Brewers have never won anything, and last appeared in a World Series in 1982. San Diego won an AFL Championship in the early 1960s, when the entire team was on steroids, according to an ESPN report labeling that squad the first “steroid team.” It was the initial proof that, yes, steroids do make you better. The new home of Loserville, USA, has to be a city with more than two teams who together are a collective failure. That’s why I think the clear winner is Washington, D.C. The 1991 NFL season was the last time a team from Washington won anything, when its football team took its turn beating the Bills in a Super Bowl. Since then, Washington has been a complete disaster. It’s been a sea of bad drafts, bad publicrelations gaffes and really bad free-agent signings. It doesn’t help that the teams are horrible at picking coaches. On the baseball side, Washington actually imported a bunch of losers. In 2005, the club lured the Montreal Expos to the city after that team went 36 years with just one playoff series.
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The Nationals are keeping that tradition alive by going to the playoffs, but choking when it matters. Overall, Washington’s teams have 47 years of history with nothing to show for it. The Washington Wizards, formerly known as the Bullets, are such a terrible organization that even Michael Jordan couldn’t help them. Washington is also a good choice because Pittsburgh has contributed mightily to its futility. The Stanley Cup Champion Penguins have knocked the underachieving Capitals out of the playoffs seven times. The Capitals had the best record in hockey this year, but once again got home in time to watch other teams play for a trophy. A quarter-century of nothing but losers is D.C.’s contribution to the sports world. Throw in Congress, which has an approval rating of 7 percent, and it all comes together nicely. By the way, the Wizards wish they had a 7 percent approval rating. Coming in a close second is Atlanta. Atlanta has one world championship since 1995 and none before that. It also has the indignity of losing a hockey team to Canada — twice. The Falcons have never won a Super Bowl. The NBA’s Hawks are one of those teams that nobody would notice if they just suddenly ceased to exist. And, the Braves won a World Series only because they played against Cleveland. We’ll miss making fun of you, Cleveland. We had a good 52-year run, but nothing lasts forever. It’s a loss for us that we don’t have you to kick around anymore. Don’t get too excited; you’re still losers: The Browns have never been to a Super Bowl, and the Indians haven’t won a World Series since 1948. But while you’re still 67 percent loser, we’ll give you a pass for awhile.
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THIS WEEK IN CITY PAPER HISTORY In celebration of City Paper’s 25th Anniversary, each week we’re looking back at the headlines, pictures and people who graced our pages over the years.
THE FIGHT GAME (June 30, 1993) Writer Todd Roberts remembered the golden days of Pittsburgh boxing by talking to local fight fans and former fighters, including boxer-turned-trainer “Big” Jack Godfray. Pittsburgh’s boxing heyday, in the 1930s and ’40s, was filled with legends like Billy Conn, Teddy Yarosz, Fritzie Zivic, Billy Soose, Harry Greb and Sammy “The Clutch” Angott. After that, the city’s fight scene would close up until the 1990s, when Michael Moorer captured the heavyweight championship. But the scene would never be like it was back then. “I don’t think it will ever be like that again,” said former boxing manager Jack Henry. “Nowadays, you might have one or two good fighters coming up.”
GOODNIGHT SWEET PRINCE, OR SPOT OR FIDO (July 8, 1998) Al Hoff and her dog, Googie, took a trip through four pet cemeteries to visit the gravesites of beloved pets, and ponder why these facilities reflected a growing trend. “Just knowing exactly where the pet is — a numbered slot in a park-like setting, and not pressed up against a busted radiator or other decaying animals in a landfill — is a comfort worth paying for,” Hoff suggested. She also appreciated pet owners who leave grave-markers and memorials that spoke to what the pets meant to their humans. “It’s a given that interred pets were loved and are missed, and such standard sentiments are duly noted,” Hoff writes. “Yet, as a visitor I am grateful to the owners who chose some unique aspect of their pets to immortalize in bronze.”
corrections officers. One even filed a complaint with the state’s Equal Opportunity Employment Commission because he was passed over for promotion. In his complaint, the officer wrote that he had received “highly acceptable employee evaluations since hire” — and that, what’s more, “I have not been terminated for misconduct.”
It’s funny that this week in City Paper history features a gambling story on the heels of a Pennsylvania House of Representatives vote approving expanded gambling in the state. The new bill, if passed by the Senate, would allow online gambling as well as daily fantasy-sports betting, but stops short of allowing video-poker machines in bars, firehalls, social clubs and restaurants. That part of the bill especially was fought by casinos, who don’t want to see {COVER PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} money taken from their properties, and by horse-racing advocates, who get money only when people play slots in casinos. On July 1, 2010, Charlie Deitch looked at how the racing business was booming at Meadows Casino. A good part of that success, however, was due to the state’s Horse Race Development Fund. Money from slots revenue was dumped into the industry to allow for breeding programs, higher race purses, and the establishment of insurance and pension funds for members of the state horsemen’s association. However, in 2009, the state started reducing the amount the industry received, and directed the money elsewhere in the state budget. This story examined not only the resurgence of the industry but also the need for it to begin attracting regular fans to make the industry self-supporting. While racing prizes increased, the amount wagered by gamblers has steadily decreased along with the fan base, and that has made for an uncertain future. As Daniel Tufano of the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission put it, “If we don’t start appealing to a younger demographic, this sport is going to die through attrition.”
WORK RELEASE (June 30, 2011) Contributing writer Matt Stroud reported on prison guards in the state system who had been fired for allegations of inmate abuse only to be put back on the job, and in some cases into positions of power, just a few years later. In one case, Stroud found out
A JAGOFF BY ANY OTHER NAME (June 27, 2012)
through state right-to-know requests that not only had the officers been rehired, but they were making more money than ever before. Upon rehiring, one of them had been demoted to the lowest rank, that of corrections officer, by order of a state arbitrator — only to then receive a huge promotion to administrative captain. Another officer fired as a result of the same investigation also received a promotion. The rehiring and promotions had upset other
One of the most highly picked-up issues of CP over the years wasn’t a hardhitting investigative story or warm, touching feature. No, it was one whose cover prominently featured two of this city’s favorite words: “jag” and “off.” Put together, of course, they’re pronounced jagoff (from the Latin Jagis-Offcis, meaning he who acts like a tremendous dick). The story inside was by then-editor Chris Potter (who loved the word with all his heart), about the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s decision to ban the use of the word by its writers on its pages. According to Potter, P-G executive editor David Schribman wrote in an email to his staff: “The word ‘jagoff’ has no place in the PostGazette. No jagoffs in the newsroom, none in the paper and none online, please. Yes, I know I didn’t grow up here; and yes, I know it doesn’t mean what some people think it means. Even so, the ruling stands. Have fun making fun of this.” Everyone did have fun making fun of it, actually. But CP had the last laugh: Potter, a frequent user of the phrase, has surely been using “jagoff” all through the P-G newsroom since he went to work there nearly two years ago. After all, you can take the boy away from the jagoffs, but you can’t take the jagoff out of the boy. Actually, maybe it is dirty.
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THE PET ISSUE
FURRY FRIENDS It probably comes as no surprise, but furries love their pets {BY RYAN DETO}
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URRIES LOVE their fursonas and they
love their community, but they may love their pets even more. Some furries say that getting involved in the community that celebrates anthropomorphized animal personas has helped them become more aware of the needs of shelter animals; understand the emotions of their pets; and strengthen their love of our four-legged friends. In fact, every Anthrocon, the big furry festival held each year Downtown (this year from June 30-July 3), chooses a main donation recipient. Last year’s beneficiary was the Western PA Humane Society on the North Side; this year’s recipient is the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium.
was made an “honorary furry” last year. And while pets love their owners, too, each reacts differently when confronted with an owner dressed in a furry costume. Some embrace the costumes while others are a bit hesitant. But the world of furries and their pets shows that, just like the non-furries of the world, the relationship between pets and their human counterparts is a complex one.
Rika Keener Keener lives in Pittsburgh and her fursona is a blue Arctic fox, which she created about 10 years ago. Keener also has many other characters, including a cat-deer hybrid, a red panda and various monsters.
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Rika Keener and Rusty
Caitlin Lasky, spokesperson for the Western PA Humane Society, says that furries have become close friends with the animal shelter. In fact, the agency’s mascot, Barkley the dog, was involved in the convention last year. Dee Ryan, a fiveyear volunteer with the Humane Society who wears the Barkley costume, says she
And she has three cats: Candy, a gray shorthair tabby; Rusty, an orange tabby; and Zorro, a young all-black cat. “My cats are not fazed by my fursuit at all,” Keener writes in an email to City Paper. “They are pretty indifferent and don’t treat me any differently in or out of suit. My boyfriend’s dog, however, has CONTINUES ON PG. 16
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PUPS AND PINTS {BY CELINE ROBERTS} All dog-owners know that postworkday guilt of wanting to go out for a drink after a long day, but not wanting to leave their canine friends at home without companionship (or a trip to the bathroom). Luckily, there are several great bars in Pittsburgh where dog-lovers can have a beer and their beast all in the same place. Clip on those leashes and bring those wagging tails to these establishments. FOR A LITTLE PATIO TIME, HEAD TO:
Arsenal Cider House & Wine Cellar (IN THE CIDER GARDEN) 300 39th St., Lawrenceville
D’s Six Pax and Dogz 1118 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square
Double Wide Grill 2339 E. Carson St., South Side
Park Place Pub 5719 Bryant St., Highland Park
Prairie 5491 Penn Ave., Garfield
Täko 214 Sixth St., Downtown HEAD INDOORS AT:
Ace Hotel lobby bar 120 S. Whitfield St., East Liberty
Bierport 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville
Brew Gentlemen Beer Company 512 Braddock Ave., Braddock
Grist House Craft Brewery 10 E. Sherman St., Millvale
Wallace’s Tap Room at the Indigo Hotel 123 N. Highland Ave., East Liberty
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A furry checks out adoptable kittens at Anthrocon.
had mixed reactions. The dog gets very excited and wound up when I have the suit on. It’s really fun and adorable until he tries to eat my suit.” She says all her cats see her a little differently, but she loves them all equally. She says Candy is the queen of the house, while Rusty adores her and follows her throughout the house. And Zorro is really all about whoever gives him some food. Keener believes that furries are united by their adoration of pets and animals. “Many furries have joined the community because of their undying love for animals,” writes Keener. “The majority of us want to create a better world for animals and people alike. We find that using conventions to donate money to organizations for animals really helps to reach that goal.”
cool about [our dogs],” says Freya. “We took them to a convention in Columbus, and they were a big hit. The hotel was petfriendly and we were able to take around them lobby; they loved it. They were never scared of the suits; they enjoyed it.”
a 7-year-old domestic-longhair cat (and also some fish). Siergiej’s fursona is also a cat, but of the Siamese variety. “He is really smart,” she says of her cat. “He kind of trained me. One day he licked my nose and I put him down, and now he has learned to lick my nose when he wants to be let down.” While her cat is very smart, Siergiej says that he does not like it when she puts on her fur suit in his presence. “I tried once, and he was not having it.” She says that her cat will stretch out his front paws and push them against her face while she is wearing a cat costume. Siergiej says this combative relationship is just as common as the ones where pets love their owners’ fursonas. She says people might not see furries out in the fur suits with pets because it can make it a bit more complicated for both pet and owner. “A lot of these people really respect animals,” says Siergiej. “So you don’t want to walk your dog with your costume on if you don’t have control
Freya and Kato Freya and Kato live in New Castle and prefer to be called by their fursona names. Freya is an all-white Arctic fox and Kato is a lion. Both were featured in Fursonas, the film about furries that was directed by local filmmaker and furry Dominic Rodriguez. The couple has two red-and-white shiba inus dogs: Yoshiko, a 4-year-old male and Hitomi, a 5-year-old female. Freya says she likes to think of them as the cartoon mice from Pinky and the Brain. (One is a doofus and the other an egomaniacal genius.) “Hitomi is bright, but for lack of a better word, kind of a bitch,” says Kato. “Yoshi is friendly, but kinda dumb. When we met, I couldn’t stand them; they require special attention. But now, they have wormed their way into my heart.” Freya says the shiba inus, a Japanese breed that looks like a miniature husky, are extremely popular in the furry community. “Most furries we know are pretty
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Western PA Humane Society’s mascot Barkley the dog with furries at Anthrocon 2015
Freya and Kato believe their dogs have become very close members of their family. “We like to call them members of our pack; they are pack animals,” says Freya. “For us, they are just integrated into our family.” “Being a furry and owning pet, I wouldn’t say that we love pets more,” says Kato. “But we probably anthropomorphize our pets more.”
Ellen Siergiej Siergiej is a South Hills resident and has
of that animal.” But regardless of whether or not pets like fur suits, Siergiej says that becoming a furry has brought her closer to animalrights issues. “Ever since joining the furry fandom, I have been more aware of animal rights,” she says. “Yeah, people that own the costumes will do stuff at charity events at animal shelters all the time. I have a friend that has a black-cat costume, and he goes to charity events and they love him. It’s another fun excuse to put on the costume.” RYA N D E TO@ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Indigo Baloch poses in a cat café in Japan (left); Olivia Ciotoli at home with her cat, Tilly
PURRFECT BUSINESS Pittsburgh getting ready for its first cat café {BY MARGARET WELSH} INDIGO BALOCH and Olivia Ciotoli’s first
awareness of cat cafés came when one of them stumbled upon an article about the popularity of such establishments in Japan. “We were like, ‘Oh my gosh, that is the coolest thing. Hopefully we can visit it someday,’” recalls Ciotoli. The concept is all in the name: a theme café where visitors can spend time with cats while enjoying a beverage. While the idea originated in Taiwan, cat cafés have flourished in Japan, where finding petfriendly housing is often a challenge. As similar cafés started cropping up around the U.S., Baloch and Ciotoli joked about opening one in Pittsburgh. “Then we [thought], ‘Wait, no, we could actually do this.’ So we started working on a business plan,” says Ciotoli. A n d t h e y ’ ve f o u n d plenty of enthusiastic support. On May 3, the two launched a Kickstarter to help fund what they’re calling the Black Cat Market. By May 24, they’d exceeded their $20,000 goal. A location for the café has yet to be finalized — Lawrenceville looks likely, though they’re open to other areas — but an opening is planned for this fall. “When you walk in, it’s going to be pretty much your basic coffee shop,” with seating and a coffee bar, says Ciotoli. The cats will be in a separate room where “there will be some chairs, tables, places you can
hang out and cuddle the cats if you want. But they’ll also have their own little cat towers where they can sit and relax,” she says. The Black Cat Market is partnering with the Animal Rescue League which will provide the cats, and will train café staff to do adoptions. “Theoretically, if someone came in, they could adopt the cat that day,” Ciotoli says. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement for cats and humans — socializing with people helps adopted cats transition to their new “fur-ever homes,” and studies have shown that spending time with kitties reduces anxiety in humans. And, much like in Japan, the idea appeals to locals who can’t have pets of their own. “A lot of college students … seem really excited to get some cat cuddles in while they’re studying,” says Ciotoli. Baloch, who is currently studying in Kyoto, is looking forward to bringing a bit of Japanese culture to Pittsburgh, and plans to introduce items like onigiri (rice balls) and taiyaki (a fish-shaped cake) to the menu, in addition to more typically Western pastries. “I love Japan and Japanese culture very much,” she says via email. “I want stepping into the café to transport our customers straight to Tokyo or Kyoto.”
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KIM SLATER has always liked working with living and breathing subjects — it’s just the number of legs has doubled. A groomer at The Dog Stop on Perry Highway in Wexford, she guides dogs through their spa days — including a wash, brush, nail-trimming, ear-cleaning and a haircut. “Growing up, my best friend was a St. Bernard,” Slater says with a laugh. Slater can remember sitting on her bed upset during “those teenage angst years” and having the dog, named Heidi, cheer her up “with those big eyes.” That early impression carried over when Slater looked for a new start. Before her canine-serving career, Slater was a medical assistant, but a change in management made her feel she “was about to become a number.” So, she traded her stethoscope for shears. “It was the best thing I ever did,” Slater says, as she trims Leah, a 3-yearold teddy-bear puppy, that is one of
her furry customers today. Leah was dropped off by her owner, Laura Jenkins. Leah’s sister, Lily, waits in a cage nearby for her turn on the dressing table. A typical appointment takes two to three hours, though time varies depending on the dog. Sometimes, however, the finished product doesn’t last as long as the appointment. “People say, ‘Yeah, I brought them home, but they found a mud puddle in five minutes,’” she says, as white and gray fur piles up beneath a happily panting Leah. Slater is the owner of three “fur babies” herself — Dauber, Sunny and Jesse, all former canine clients she adopted. In fact, Dauber and Sunny lounge just a few feet away as she works. While the hours she puts in pay her bills, they also let her join the pooches’ lives. “They have such little personalities,” she says. “It’s great when you can be part of that.”
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DOWNWARD-FACING CAT {BY ASHLEY MURRAY} DRESSED IN yoga pants, gym shorts and T-
shirts, with water bottles in tow, 40 eager people sat on rubber mats facing a blank beige partition wall. At a minute to 6 p.m., a switch flipped, and with a loud hum, the wall slowly slid away to reveal what these yogis had come to see — kittens. In unison, the crowd squealed, sighed a collective “Awwwwwwwww,” and whispers of “This is the best idea ever” could be heard. “I just want one to crawl on me so bad,” said Neha Abraham, who fosters several cats at her home. Animal Friends, a rescue and adoption nonprofit in Pittsburgh’s North Hills, hosted the event — simply called “Kitten Yoga” — to call attention to the influx of kittens brought to the shelter in late spring. “It’s a way to get people here who normally don’t come,” said Erica Keith, event and adoption assistant at the shelter. “It’s like a sneak-attack way to raise awareness. Also, it’s good for the kittens to socialize with so many people. At first they’re overwhelmed, but by the end of the night, you
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see them cuddling with people. Even if they instructed. “Because let’s be real. Seeing the don’t get adopted tonight, it helps them to cats is why we’re all here.” get adopted easier in the future.” Everyone burst out laughing when one The instructor, Marguerite White, of kitten decided to hang out under Joe GieVital Glow Yoga, who was teachdel, a first-time yogi, in plank pose. ing this class for the third time, “Lower down slowly, watching for asked everyone to put their kitties,” became White’s refrain. E R O SEE M S prayer hands at heart center After class, several kitO PHOT and send “good, home-findtens fell asleep in the arms of E IN L N O ing vibes to these little creaparticipants. “The cats made at www. er ap pghcityp tures we’re here for.” it a pleasant experience,” .com During the class, Keith and Geidel said. volunteers carried While balancing a kitten on the kittens throughher back in a halfway-lift pose, White out the crowd and set them said, “Yoga and cats go together. Whenever next to participants. Other I do yoga at home, my cats want to be near volunteers employed feath- me. Two weeks ago in this class, one kitten er toys and laser pointers went to sleep on my mat and stayed there to get the kittens moving. the entire time.” Giggles grew so loud at points that White As Abraham lovingly cradled one of could barely be heard. the animals, she expressed a sentiment on Kittens ran on the concrete floor, slid- many participants’ minds, “I want to take ing and crashing into yoga mats. Some all of them home.” kneaded the mats with their little paws. Meanwhile, the volunteers began to It wasn’t uncommon to see participants clean up. completely skipping an asana to snuggle “The hard part is, now we have to corral a kitty. them all and try to figure out who they are,” “This is like pigeon pose, except this said Valerie Schreiber, a volunteer. “But [modification] keeps your head up,” White they’re all microchipped, so that’s good.”
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‘BIRDS ARE OUR FAMILY’ {BY REBECCA ADDISON} FOR RESIDENTS of Apollo, a borough in
Armstrong County 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, the late John Lege and his birds were a common sight. Affectionately known as “That Guy With the Birds,” Lege rescued more than 100 of the animals during his lifetime. “He started his rescue back in 1980,” says Kenny Sprouse, Lege’s longtime friend. “People would buy a bird and not realize how long a parrot lives and how much care they need. They’re a lot of work. And after the honeymoon sort of wears off, they’d say, ‘I can’t do this,’ so John would take the bird in.” Birds aren’t low-maintenance pets. Some species of parrots can live for as long as 100 years, making them a life-long commitment. Parrots are loud and prone to screaming; they bite when they feel threatened, have unique nutritional needs, require extensive training and can be destructive. While little data exists, avian experts say thousands of companionable parrots are abandoned every year. Lege started That Guy With The Birds, an educational entertainment show, to help better teach the world about the actual responsibility of owning a parrot in an effort to stem the tide of the winged creatures being abused and abandoned every day. Fifteen years ago, Sprouse was one of the uninitiated. He’d owned parrots as a child and thought it would be a great idea to have one as a pet again. “I bought Captain Morgan, who is
an umbrella cockatoo, and I brought him home and was scared to death,” says Sprouse. But then Sprouse met Lege, who showed him the ropes of parrot pet-care. The two became friends, and Lege hired Sprouse to work on the shows behind the scenes. Unfortunately, last June, Lege was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He died of the disease on March 13. “He asked if I would carry on his legacy as well as his programs and the educational portion of it,” says Sprouse. “And I agreed to it.” Now Sprouse has taken up Lege’s mantle, performing shows for local schools, festivals, community days and pet expos. He hopes the shows will steer irresponsible owners away from buying birds. “No matter how many times you tell someone how loud [parrots] are, how messy they are, it’s like they just don’t understand it until they experience it,” says Sprouse. “The pet store doesn’t tell you these things, and we always try to be upfront with people.” Sprouse has also taken in 80 of Lege’s birds. The largest room in his house has been converted into an aviary, but the birds are free to roam every room of the house. “Birds aren’t just meant to be put in a room, and you don’t see them, or you just pass by them. They need that interaction. They need that attention. We have birds in our kitchen, birds in our dining room, birds in our living rooms. Birds are our family.”
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John Adduci, along with his daughter and son-in-law, Jessica and Tony Leikhram, take in the game with the couple’s dog Butterz.
Renee Felix, left with her Chihuahua, Francesca, and her mother, Linda Toth with her Chiweenie, Heather, got the dogs all dressed up for Pup Night at PNC Park.
A DOGGONE GOOD NIGHT {BY CHARLIE DEITCH} USHERS AT PNC Park aren’t allowed to ballgame on the Miller Lite Rooftop Deck talk to the media, but this particular em- with their best four-legged friends. It’s ployee just had to tell her favorite story also a chance to help out local animal about “Pup Nightâ€? at PNC Park. shelters and advocacy groups, as a por“Last year, a huge storm rolled tion of the $32 ticket price — for in on Pup Night; it was bad,â€? one human and one canine said the unnamed usher, her fan — goes to E R O SEE M S voice building like that ina charity. On O PHOT coming storm. “Everybody, this night, the E IN L N O . w the workers, the people and We s te rn P a. w w t a aper all the dogs crammed unHumane Socipghcityp .com der these bleachers to wait ety was the benout the storm. And you know eďŹ ciary and even what? There wasn’t one problem. had an animal there All of these different people and all of for instant adoption. The these different sizes and breeds of dogs Pirates host nearly a dozen jammed into one spot and everybody of these events every seagot along. son. The dates for the rest “It was really hot, though.â€? of the season are: July 9, Aug. 19, Aug. 23, Over the past several years, the Pitts- Sept. 6 and Sept. 22. burgh Pirates-sponsored Pup Night has Walking into the designated Pupgiven pet owners the chance to take in a Night area, the usher’s story became even
more remarkable. There were dogs here of all shapes and sizes. There were giant specimens like Mikaela, a 160-pound Newfoundland landseer. There were also tinier dogs like Butterz, the Papillion sitting in the lap of his owner’s father John Adduci; and Francesca, a Chihuahua, and Heather, a Chiweenie, owned respectively by Renee Felix, of Atlanta, and her mother, Linda Toth of Austintown, Ohio. But despite the various breeds, everybody got along. There were bulldogs sniffing Yorkies, babies petting bulldogs, dogs splashing together in a plastic pool. There were smiles and laughter, and the ballgame hadn’t even started yet. For Adduci, of Punxsutawney, the
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game was a perfect chance to visit with his daughter and son-in-law, Jessica and Tony Leikhram of Yonkers, N.Y. The Leikhrams were in town, and Adduci drove in because he knew Pup Night was the perfect place to take in a traditional Pittsburgh activity where the dog would also be welcome. “I really think it’s great that the Pirates put this, on and it helps local shelters,â€? Adduci said. Laura Halsey and her dog, Trella (an American ďŹ eld Labrador that she rescued from a shelter), were thrilled to be at the ballgame together. “This is our ďŹ rst time at Pup Night, and oh my god, is it fantastic,â€? Halsey exclaimed. “There are so many types of dogs, and everyone is getting along. It’s just a great social occasion, and we’re helping a good cause, so how can it be a bad night?â€? C D E I T C H@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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PET PROJECT OJECT {BY AL HOFF}
WHY SHOULDN’T your Pittsburgh burgh cat have a regionally appropriate toy? Here’s how you can make a catnip-fi lled bit off sewing, and i fill d pierogie. i i It’s ’ a simple i l bi i d remember: Handmade food-filled pierogies are misshapen, so don’t sweat perfection. Likewise, your cat “sees” only CATNIP.
You’ll need to buy only three inexpensive items: craft felt (sold in 9-by12-inch sheets at craft stores such as Michaels, Pat Catan’s and Jo-Ann); embroidery floss (also at craft stores); and dried catnip (at any pet store). We chose pierogie-colored YOU WILL NEED: felt, but you can use any color. Using a pen, trace a circle about 4 to 4½ inches in diameter on the felt. (You can print out a circle on paper, or just find a can, saucer or other round object around the house.) Cut out the circle, fold in E H T SEE OW half and pin flat. Use the scisSLIDESHIAL sors to scallop the circular edge. TUTOR ONLINE at www. er ap g p hcityp .com
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Using needle and thread, begin at one end to sew the pierogi shut, making small stitches just below the scalloped edge. When about two-thirds is sewn, fill pierogi with catnip and stuffing. Pin and sew final edge, knotting the thread and tucking into the flap. Apply to cat. A H OF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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BREAD OF LIFE {BY REBECCA ADDISON} In the 1960s, Pitaland Mediterranean Bakery owners Joe and Jocelyne Chahine were visiting Pittsburgh on their honeymoon when a war broke out in their native Lebanon. They applied for asylum, emigrated to America, and the rest, they say, is history. The Chahines got their start at Chahine’s Bakery, which was owned by Joe’s brother, George Chahine. Over the years, they assumed ownership of the shop, which later morphed into Pitaland, in Brookline. The bakery, which sells a variety of pitas, along with tannour and zaatar bread, now employs the couple’s four children. Pitaland’s offerings also include cheeses, deli meats, olives and a variety of imported specialty foods. “It’s really been a great time in Brookline. New businesses are moving in,” says Donna Twardy, the Chahines’ daughter. “It’s such a nice community and we’ve always tried to give back.” Three years ago, when Brookline was poised for the resurgence it’s seeing today, the Chahine family renovated the building and opened a café. Carrying on the family tradition, the chef is Twardy’s husband, Greg. “Our menu is based on all the things [my husband] ate at my mom’s and loved,” says Twardy. The breakfast menu includes foul, the national breakfast dish of Lebanon (chickpeas and fava beans simmered in garlic and lemon, with parsley, more lemon, tomatoes and olive oil on a fresh pita). For lunch and dinner, Pitaland offers traditional Lebanese fare like gyro and shawarma sandwiches. But the new favorite isn’t so traditional: It’s a burger made from lamb, freshly ground with rosemary, mint and garlic, then topped with creamy feta, pickled red onions, arugula and herbed mayo on a toasted ciabatta bun.
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upscale entrees like beef stroganoff and sesame ahi tuna. Brown has created an ideal neighborhood place, casual enough for watching the game at the small bar or catching up over a friendly dinner, and formal enough for a celebratory family meal. But the execution at both ends was spotty. Kale Caesar salad in a Cajun dressing with cornbread croutons featured insufficiently tender kale, a dressing more pasty than creamy, and crumbly, bland croutons. Lobster potstickers had thin, wonton-like wrappers that didn’t have enough heft to withstand panfrying. They ended up a bit tough and dry, while the lemongrass aioli, while it tasted good, was a bit coarse. The tater tots in the poutine were excellent, but the duck demi-glace was too subtle to have much effect, and the duck confit wasn’t as meltingly tender as it should be. It was not a failed dish — the smoked cheddar was a nice counterpoint to thin slices of raw serrano pepper — but neither was it a ringing success. The same could be said of the stuffed meatloaf, where a promising blend of buffalo, beef and pork surrounded that same smoked cheddar, and which was glazed with orange and chipotle. But the meat ran a bit lean and the cheese a bit scant, and while the glaze was pleasingly subtle — far better than a heavy glop — there was not quite enough to make a firm impression. The accompaniments of garlic mashed potatoes, a veggie medley, and garnish of wild mushroom and frizzled onion simply overwhelmed the faint flavors of the loaf. The meatloaf also made a cameo appearance in mac-and-cheese along with roasted chicken breast, beer-braised short ribs and a sriracha crust. The combination of smoked cheddar, fontina and parmesan cheeses was mild and not overly rich, perhaps in attempted deference to the meat, and the sriracha so restrained as to be not really detectable in the bread-crumb crust. Shrimp and polenta had the lusciously creamy, succulently meaty quality of shrimp and grits, accentuated with jumbolump crab meat, grilled broccolini and garlic-herb butter. These additions were fine, but the essential dish would have been great without them: the shrimp plump and lightly, deliciously charred, the polenta porridgey and richly swirled with smokedcheddar cheese. By Ease’s standards, this was a simple dish, and it was the most successful we ordered. In others, a lot of effort seemed to go into amping up recipes that didn’t repay it. Perhaps it is time again for chefs to interrogate their ingredient lists and figure out where to go for broke, and where to hold back. INF O @PGH C IT YPAPE R . C O M
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BREW BITES {BY JAKE BIER} Working at a brewery means I have tons of used grain to get rid of. What better way to use spent beer grains than to make dog treats for our fourlegged friends? I make these treats for my best friend, Vida. I found Vida in the woods outside Santa Fe, N.M., on a hiking trip in October 2011. She had been abandoned and was raising five puppies in the wild, for who knows how long, before I stumbled upon her. She was almost 2 years old at this time. All five of her puppies were adopted, and I took Vida home to live with me.
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Life has changed drastically for Vida, moving from the spacious landscapes of New Mexico to the cityscapes of Pittsburgh. However, she has adapted well to the change. Now she helps me every day, working at the brewery. Whether it’s cleaning up spilled grains, testing products, or supervising, I can count on Vida to be there for me. Wherever Vida is, she will be happy as long g as there are some fresh Brew Bites close by! INGREDIENTS • 4 cups spent beer grains ns • 2 cups flour • 1 cup peanut butter • 2 eggs
INSTRUCTIONS Mix all ingredients together in a large t bowl until it forms a thick dough. Roll flat with a rolling pin until about ¼ inch thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the treats into shapes. Spread on a cookie sheet and bake at 420 degrees for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 250 degrees and bake for 1 hour to dry out the treats and preserve them. Let cool. Yields 40 to 50 treats for your four-legged friends. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
Bier is the co-owner and head brewer at War Streets Brewery, in the North Side. Your pooch can sample these treats on July 1 at the National Aviary at its event entitled The Birds and the Beers. WE WANT YOUR PERSONAL RECIPES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM. EMAIL THEM TO CELINE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM.
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NOISE OF THE CROWD The money and the material for Rainbow Kitten’s forthcoming album, Gumbotron, came from his fans. The Pittsburgh-based artist, real name Mike Traficante, set up a Kickstarter campaign inviting people to send him audio recordings of everyday noises and donate the funds to make the album. The bigger the donation, the bigger the role of the sample on Gumbotron. “I had the idea that I could do something really large-scale-collaborative if I got a bunch of people to send me sound clips. I thought that if I did it on Kickstarter, it would be a fun way to get people interested and involved,” says Traficante. “It would give me a limited palette, and I’d have to come up with something based off what people sent me.” At the $35 pledge level, backers could send him a sample from which he would create an entire song. They’d also get to name it, as is the case with one of Traficante’s favorites, “You Only Live Eighteen Times.” One-dollar donations yielded a hug or high-five by request; $500 donations would buy a second album. As he explains it on the Kickstarter page, “You just paid for the whole thing!! So I’ll make two.” So far, he’s received somewhere between 20 and 30 samples, including tracks from Italy and the U.K. The sounds range from parking lots to giggling children to pairs of agitated cats. “For some people, it would be fun to send me something awful and see what I can do with it,” says Traficante. “I was up to the challenge.” One of the first tracks completed for the album was “Supermarket Sweep,” culled from a checkout line at a grocery store. It’s pretty hypnotic on the front end, and gets oddly funky by the second minute. It’d sound right at home on Aphex Twin’s Soundcloud or on pretty much any Ricky Eat Acid record. The Gumbotron Kickstarter launched in late September 2015 and was fully funded in six days. Traficante’s been accepting samples since that time and will close submissions on July 1, at which time the last step of production and composition begins. ALEXGORDON@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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“The pear is my favorite fruit,” Delay explains a few days later, over the phone. “It’s one of the most energizing fruits, and I bring a lot of energy to the game when I perform, when I record; even when I’m
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than smoking cigarettes. “I would rather promote healthy eating than anything else. ’Cause there’s a lot of negative stuff out there.” Delay, who released Dad on Father’s Day, is all about bettering the world. He considers himself a father figure of sorts to the people around him: He discourages his friends from littering and encourages them to drink more water. He also embraces what could be called a normcore aesthetic: “The style of hat I wear is a ‘dad hat,’” he says, referencing the wellcurved bill of his aforementioned cap, which wouldn’t look out of place on a golf course.
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But Dad isn’t strictly paternal. The name also serves as an acronym for Doing All Deeds. “That’s my movement,” Delay says. “I want to add a positive aspect to the music.” This might sound like the description of an artist you’d see performing for bored tweens at a middle-school assembly. But Dad doesn’t shy away from expressions of life’s grimmer moments (or NSFW rhymes about hot girls), and the record isn’t so much Rah Rah, Hooray for Everything as it is Take Things As They Come. Track one, ultra-chill slow jam “Dad Year,” lays out what he’s about. “I know that I’m weird / I know that I’m rare / but you don’t have to say it to me / there’s a million different ways you could have played it to me,” he shrugs, making it clear that those “bringing all that bullshit” can take their negativity elsewhere. Delay — a.k.a. William Hawkins IV — first decided that he wanted to become a rapper at age 8 or 9 after seeing teenage rapper Bow Wow in concert. “I saw him onstage running around and all the girls were screaming for him,” Delay, now 22, recalls with a laugh. “And I’m like, ‘Man, I gotta get girls screaming for me like this too.’” By that point he’d already experimented with freestyling, and remembers recording himself rapping over background beats on his dad’s tape player. As a teenager, he and his long-time friend and fellow rapper Joel Kellem started getting involved in the Pittsburgh hip-hop scene, which was then centered around Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa and Beedie, and the now-closed Shadow Lounge. “That was the place to be,” he recalls, adding that, as underagers, it was often a struggle to get shows elsewhere.
Delay agrees with many local hip-hop artists that the scene is currently lacking an obvious core. But from where he and rappers like Kellem and Choo Jackson (who is signed to Mac Miller’s label, Remember Music) stand, things are thriving. “I feel like we’re at that spot that we were trying to get to [as teenagers],” he says. “Now I feel like we’re going to go way beyond this, too.” Such predictions don’t feel like a stretch, especially since Dad shows the prolific Delay growing as an artist, even in comparison to a release like the #100Retweets mixtape, which he put out less than a year ago. That is thanks, in large part, to the help of another young artist, Florida-based producer dirtbag, who provided Dad with its subtle electronic backbone. It was dirtbag who initially made contact after Delay put out a call on Twitter for producers to send him beats. “That’s how I knew I wanted to do the EP with him, ’cause all the beats that he sent, I was like, I could really get on these and keep it true and keep it honest.” dirtbag’s shimmery beats provide pensive grooves for Delay’s reliably laid-back flow, while astringent guest spots from Kellem, Jackson, Slicky Williams and Deem Trill add balance. For Delay, who draws inspiration from prolific artists like Curren$y and Lil B, a consistent output is a crucial part of maintaining his energy. “I feel like you gotta keep creating in order to have a new style or a new wave,” he says. “This [record] is definitely a whole new experience for me, a whole new style, but I know it’s not, like, the one I’m going to be stuck on forever. And that’s the good part about it.” M W E L S H @ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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the band’s pre-show ritual completely sorted out. According to guitarist Bobby Bare Jr., “When we go to sound check, he goes to record stores.” Since its 1983 start in Dayton, Ohio, through myriad lineup changes, across more than 20 albums and countless live shows, Guided by Voices has earned a reputation for unpredictability. But newly recruited guitarist Bare explains that a good deal of preparation goes into the group’s high-energy performances. “The morning of the gig, Bob has the set list written and in his pocket. When we get done with sound check and he gets back from the record store, we have a twohour hang that’s pretty much just the band. We sit around and wait for him to pull the set list out of his pocket. Then we all take a picture of it on our iPhones.” At that point, each member makes his own annotated set list in preparation for the show. “It’s 50 songs every night,” Bare says. “And we go for it.” But because this is Guided by Voices, there’s always an element of uncertainty. Bare recalls a night not long ago, when the new lineup was onstage in St. Louis, near the end of its second-ever show. “As we were walking out onto stage for the second encore, Bob said to us, ‘We’re gonna play “Baba O’Riley!”’” The thing is, bassist Mark Shue didn’t know the chords to The Who’s 1971 classic. “But I know it,” says Bare, “and Nick [Mitchell, guitar] and Kevin [March, drums] know it. So I stood with my back facing the audience, just screaming the chords at the bass player. It was a blast!” But in general, Pollard expects the band to be prepared. For this tour, that meant learning dozens of songs, including some that no GBV lineup has ever played live onstage. “I’ve never been in someone else’s band before,” says Bare, who has a thriving career of his own. He’s released eight albums under his own name, carrying on the family tradition begun by his country-singer father in the 1950s. “I’ve never had to learn other people’s music, except for a couple covers,” says Bare. “So I had a lot of learning. We got our set list of things to learn in Janu-
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ary, and I had gigs [of my own] up until March. We had our first rehearsal the end of April or [beginning of] May. I had learned half of the songs, but for the other half I had to take a trip to Ohio just to learn and chart the songs. Then I went to New York to rehearse them with the bass player and drummer.” As a songwriter himself, Bare holds other composers to a high standard. And he ranks Bob Pollard among his favorites. Pollard is said to have written more than 1,600 songs, more than 500 of those with Guided by Voices. And Bare rates Pollard’s melodic sense as his greatest asset. “The hardest thing to do in a band is to have a sense of melody and phrasing,” he explains. “It’s the thing you can’t learn or teach; it’s just this innate thing. And Bob’s so good at it.”
crazy to walk into such a beautiful work environment and try to change things around; that would be just stupid. I’m a fan of the band; why would I try to mess with things?” If all this makes it sound as if Bobby Bare Jr. is a Guided by Voices superfan, he readily admits that’s the case. “When you stumble upon Guided by Voices, it just
blows your mind,” he says. Since discovering the band in the late ’90s, “I’ve gone to every show I can get to.” As a solo artist, Bare was invited to open for GBV on its most recent tour. “When I found out, I started screaming and jumping up and down,” he laughs. “My kids thought I was crazy!” The tour went well, and Bare and Pollard became good friends. “So when they needed a guitar-player, they just thought, ‘Why don’t we ask Bobby?’” Bob Pollard recorded the most recent GBV album, 2016’s Please Be Honest, completely on his own. He’s on record as saying that Guided by Voices is Bob Pollard. With the frequent lineup changes — there are now more than 16 ex-members— one can never be sure what tomorrow will bring for the band. “I keep my fingers crossed all the time,” admits Bare. “You never know. But I also know that if we just keep giving Bob a safe area to do his thing, everything’s gonna be fine. Because he wants to play; he wants to rock. He loves to do his thing; we’re just lucky enough to be there providing it. I’m just one of the audience who happens to be lucky enough to be onstage. Because if I wasn’t onstage, I’d be in the audience ... singing along to every song.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
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Superstar collaborators Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will be joining the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Arnie Roth at Heinz Hall for an evening of symphonic rock. The married couple has been working together for decades, and they’ve been responsible for enormous rock hits like “Love Is a Battlefield.” While it may seem like a big leap to take “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and turn it into a piece that can be performed with a full orchestra, the concept is not out of character for Benatar who, before becoming a rock icon, was trained as a classical musician. This will be way classier than getting wine-drunk and belting out “We Belong” in your kitchen. Meg Fair 7:30 p.m. 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $29-129. 412-392-4900 or www.pitsburgh symphony.org
Locals Chet Vincent & the Big Bend are throwing a party to ring in their latest record, Celebrate, at Allegheny Elks Lodge No. 339. The album reflects the heart of the Big Bend’s sound: bluesy rock with a fuzzed-ut edge. At times the music leans into the folky vibes of other indie-rock bands like Dr. Dog, showcasing a nice depth of sound under the vocals of Chet Vincent. In addition to performing the new record in its entirety, the group will be selling vinyl copies of the album, which is being released by Misra Records. Joining the party are the dark, jangly goofballs of Ghost Guts and bluesdrenched rock Hailey entertainers The Wojcik Commonheart. It’s an evening of locally grown rock music for the soul. MF 8 p.m. 400 Cedar Ave., North Side. All ages. $10. 412-321-1834 or www.thebigbend.net
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Queercore indierock musician Hailey Wojcik creates music that is spooky, witty and biting. Her most recent release, Book of Beasts, is the soundtrack to living out a day of spontaneity and debauchery in an unfamiliar city. It’s both weird and strangely familiar, and distinctly its own. Wojcik engineers and produces her music with warmth and charm that surrounds the listener like a large swatch of black satin. She’ll be performing at Howlers with Wisconsin singer-songwriter Kirby Jayes. Locals Distant Futures, who play bright alt-emo, and experimental indie-folk artist Vireo also appear. MF 9 p.m. 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. 412-682-0320 or www.howlerspittsburgh.com
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[NOSTALGIA POP] + SUN., JULY 03 Pittsburgh radio station 105.9 The X presents XFEST, also known as the festival that teenage me would have sold her soul to see. Weezer and Panic! At the Disco headline the event with support from pop-punk heartthrob/cutest dad ever Andrew McMahon. The fest is rounded out by the larger-than-life, fuzzed-out rock of Dorothy, as well as the feel-good punk ’tude of indie act SWMRS. Come spend the evening at Stage AE, even though it may mean drowning in nostalgia and feeling very old the next morning. MF 7 p.m. 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. All ages. $49.50. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com
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ROCK/POP THU 30 CLUB CAFE. One Eye, Howie D, Marcus Cox, Boo Jones, The Duration & DJ Goodnight. South Side. 412-431-4950. HEINZ HALL. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo w/ the Pittsburgh Symphony. Downtown. 412-392-4900. THE LAMP THEATRE. Pasedena w/ Brahctopus. Irwin. 724-367-4000. LINDEN GROVE. Ridgemont High. Castle Shannon. 412-882-8687. RIVERS CASINO. Right TurnClyde. North Side. 412-231-7777.
FRI 01 CELEBRATIONS BAR & GRILL. Right TurnClyde. Robinson. 724-695-4333. CLUB CAFE. Pere Ubu w/ Obnox. South Side. 412-431-4950. HOWLERS. Children Of October,
VAGORA, Robby Bloodshed, DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Billy Price. Mindless Chaos. Bloomfield. Robinson. 412-489-5631. 412-682-0320. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB MOONDOG’S. Deluded Youth. & SPEAKEASY. Jimmy Adler. Blawnox. 412-828-2040. North Side. 412-904-3335. MR. SMALLS THEATER. THE MEADOWS. Jay & George Hollow, Greenhouse the Americans. West Mifflin. Hooligans, Javed and Serene, 412-650-9000. PK Delay, Billy Pilgrim, NIED’S HOTEL. The LAZYBLACKMAN. Millvale. GRID. Lawrenceville. 412-821-4447. 412-781-9853. NIED’S HOTEL. Mojo NOLA ON THE Hand. Lawrenceville. SQUARE. Neon Swing 412-781-9853. X-Perience. Downtown. www. per a p PNC PARK. Billy Joel 412-471-9100. pghcitym o .c Billy Joel. North Side. RIVERS CASINO. 412-323-5000. Stevee Wellons Band Trio. RIVERS CASINO. Lava Game North Side. 412-231-7777. Duo. North Side. SMILING MOOSE. Define Irony, 412-231-7777. VictoriaDrive, A Friendly Gesture. SMILING MOOSE. Child Bite, CD release party. South Side. Night Vapor. South Side. 412-431-4668. 412-431-4668.
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SAT 02 CLUB CAFE. Civil Twilight w/ Heather Maloney. Early. The Talkers w/ Dentist, Derider. Late. South Side. 412-431-4950.
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102 W. CRAWFORD AVE. Right TurnClyde. Connellsville. HOWLERS. Electric Grandmother, Pond Hockey, The Lopez, Dumplings. Bloomfield. 412-682-0320. RIVERS CASINO. Green River. Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band. North Side. 412-231-7777. STAGE AE. Weezer, Panic! At The Disco. North Side. 412-229-5483. TUGBOAT’S. EZ Action. East Pittsburgh. 412-829-1992.
MON 04 RIVERS CASINO. Bon Journey. North Side. 412-231-7777.
TUE 05 SMILING MOOSE. Abandoned By Bears, Save The Lost Boys, Forever At Last. South Side. 412-431-4668. STAGE AE. Brand New, Modest Mouse. North Side. 412-229-5483.
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Each week, we bring you a new song from a local artist. This week’s track comes from LoFi Delphi; stream or download “Goodbye” from the band’s new record, Always the Quiet Ones, for free at FFW>>, our music blog at www.pghcitypaper.com.
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ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat. DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty. 412-621-4900. ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884. BRILLOBOX. Pandemic: Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass. Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644. ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582. RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Jack Millz. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825. RUGGER’S PUB. 80s Night w/ DJ Connor. South Side. 412-381-1330.
SAT 02 CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay. Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157. DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side. 412-431-8800. RIVERS CASINO. DJ NIN. North Side. 412-231-7777. ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance. South Side. 412-431-2825.
WED 06 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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FRI 01 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254. DIESEL. Oxymorrons, Jordan York, B Rad & A1 Tyco. South Side. 412-431-8800.
SAT 02 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: Open Elements. Avalon. 412-424-9254. SMILING MOOSE. PMS vol 4. All female rap showcase. South Side. 412-431-4668.
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SAT 02 BAHAMA BREEZE ISLAND GRILLE. Freedom Band. Robinson. 412-788-5790. KELLY’S RIVERSIDE SALOON. The Flow Band. Beaver. 724-728-0222.
SUN 03 SOUTH SIDE RIVERFRONT PARK. The Flow Band w/ Joe Spliff Finneydredlox, Deb Star, Sam Fingers & Doug Lane. South Side.
MON 04 BAJA BAR AND GRILL. The Flow Band. Fox Chapel. 412-963-0640.
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FRI 01 BISTRO 9101. The Blues Orphans. McCandless. 412-635-2300.
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DOWNEY’S HOUSE. The Blues Bombers w/ Pat Scanga & Amanda. Robinson. 412-489-5631.
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Ghostface Killah & Raekwon
GRANDVIEW GOLF CLUB. The Witchdoctors. Braddock. www.facebook.com.
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ANDYS WINE BAR. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Daniel May. Downtown. 412-773-8884. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side. 412-904-3335. KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Etta Cox. East Liberty. 412-363-3000. VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown. 412-394-3400.
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Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side
THE MONROEVILLE RACQUET CLUB. Jazz Bean Live. Every Saturday, a different band. Monroeville. 412-728-4155.
SUN 03 ANDORA RESTAURANT. Harry Cardillo & Charlie Sanders. Mars. www.andorarestaurant.com.
MON 04 LEMONT. Dave Crisci & Judi Figel. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.
ANDORA RESTAURANT. Harry Cardillo. Mars. www.andorarestaurant.com. ANDYS WINE BAR. Bronwyn Wyatt ANDYS WINE BAR. Higgins. Downtown. Tania Grubbs. 412-773-8884. Downtown. GRILLE ON SEVENTH. 412-773-8884. www. per a p Tony Campbell & Howie THE BLIND pghcitym o .c Alexander. Downtown. PIG SALOON. 412-391-1004. Erin Burkett & Virgil JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Walters w/ Eric Susoeff, & SPEAKEASY. Jimmy Sapienza Eric DeFade. New Kensington. & 5 Guys Named Moe. North Side. 724-337-7008. 412-904-3335. CITY OF ASYLUM. Roger LEMONT. Mark Pipas. Humphries & RH Factor. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100. North Side. 412-321-2190. REVEL + ROOST. JAMES STREET Funk + Soul Fridays. Downtown. GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. 412281-1134. Mark Strickland Duo. North Side. 412-904-3335.
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ANDYS WINE BAR. Trudy Holler. Downtown. 412-773-8884. JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Jessica Lee & Mark Strickland. North Side. 412-904-3335. LEMONT. Vida. Mt. Washington. 412-431-3100.
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ACOUSTIC THU 30 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Aaron from The Lava Game. Robinson. 412-489-5631. ELWOOD’S PUB. MSR & Fiddler Dave. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.
FRI 01 ELWOOD’S PUB. Doc & Tina. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181. MARKET SQUARE. Mark Williams, Dan Getkin & The Sparks. Downtown. 412-471-1511.
SAT 02 COACH’S BOTTLESHOP AND GRILLE. Weekend at Blarneys. Dormont. 412-207-9397.
SUN 03 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 06 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 01 CAPRI PIZZA AND BAR. Bombo Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250. MIXTAPE. Freedom Band. Garfield. 412-661-1727. TWIN LAKES PARK. The Flow Band w/ Joe Spliff Finneydredlox, Deb Star, Sam Fingers & Doug Lane. Latrobe.
MON 04 HEINZ FIELD. Craig Campbell, Gabby Barrett, The Stickers. North Side.
CLASSICAL THU 30 THE DUQUESNE PIANO TRIO. Unity Chapel, Latrobe.
FRI 01 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. An American Celebration: In Honor of our Service Men & Women Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Oakland. 412-621-4253.
SAT 02 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. South Park Amphitheater, South Park. www.pittsburghsymphony.org. WESTMORELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Summer Sparklers. St. Clair Park, Greensburg. www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
SUN 03 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. 412-767-9200.
WED 06 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Back to the Future” in HD w/ the Pittsburgh Symphony performing the musical score live. Heinz Hall, Downtown. 412-392-4900.
OTHER MUSIC FRI 01 ROBERTSHAW AMPHITHEATER. Peter Mawanga & The Amaravi Movement. Greensburg.
MON 04 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues. Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
WED 06 PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside. 412-621-2919.
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WEDNESDAY 29 FRIDAY 15 Andrew Leahey & The Homestead
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PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000. Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 8p.m.
alleghenycounty.us/summer. 8:15p.m.
BILLY JOEL PNC PARK JULY 1
PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000. Over 21 show. Tickets: showclix.com. 9p.m.
Live on the River: Green River CCR Tribute RIVERS CASINO AMPHITHEATER North Side. Over 21 show. Free event. 7p.m.
Kutt Calhoun / Whitney Billy Joel Peyton PNC PARK North Side. SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6:30p.m.
THURSDAY 30 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
HEINZ HALL Downtown. 412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org /summer. 7:30p.m.
Just Summer Series Etta Cox KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER East Liberty. 412-624-4129. Tickets: chambermusicpittsburgh.org. 7:30p.m.
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412-321-2827. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 8p.m.
Live on the River: Bon Journey RIVERS CASINO AMPHITHEATER North Side. Over 21 show. Free event. 7p.m.
Child Bite SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 10:15p.m.
Station Square Summer Jam Ten: A Tribute to Pearl Jam BESSEMER COURT STAGE Station Square. With special guest RATM2. Free show. 7:30p.m.
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Miranda Lambert, and Old Dominion. Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 5p.m.
1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
Upchurch the Redneck ALTAR BAR Strip District. 412-263-2877. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 8p.m.
Firepower Records Showcase REX THEATER South Side. 412-381-6811. Over 18 show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or
Civil Twilight / Heather Maloney CLUB CAFE South Side. 412-431-4950. Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com /opusone. 6:30p.m.
EQT Flashes of Freedom Fireworks POINT STATE PARK Downtown. Free event. 9:35p.m.
SUNDAY 3
Kenny Chesney Spread The Love Tour
County Parks Summer Concert Series: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
HEINZ FIELD North Side. With special guests Sam Hunt,
HARTWOOD ACRES. Free show. For more info visit
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Abandoned by Bears SMILING MOOSE South Side. 412-431-4668. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 6p.m.
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ANIMAL INSIGHT {BY AL HOFF} Fursonas, a new documentary from Pittsburgh-based director Dominic Rodriguez, delves into the semi-secret world of furries, or humans who feel kinship with anthropomorphic animals. Locally, the furries are well known for the annual Anthrocon convention (this year, June 30-July 3), which fills Downtown’s streets with foxes, wolves, dragons and more (that is, folks in full “fur suits”).
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Rodriguez, himself a furry, interviews a number of participants, who explain their varying attractions to furrydom. Some interviewees are “out” as humans, while others speak from within their suits. They discuss the power of “transforming” into an animal; the embrace of a community where they can be themselves; and the ongoing stigmas attached by outsiders. Chief among these seems to be the obsession among furries that outsiders equate furrydom with freaky sex. Furries in the film counter this prevailing myth with responses ranging from “no way” to “sure,” establishing that as with any group of people, there is no one answer. But some people, like Anthrocon’s PR maven Uncle Kage, seem committed to presenting a media-friendly version of furries to the world. And this tension between the public and private side of furrydom offers some provocative material. So too does the suggestion of a hierarchy, where commitment might be measured by an expensive, elaborate suit, or an adherence to suggested guidelines. But even dressed as a fox or a raccoon, people are people, in all their messy, heartwarming and infuriating glory. AHOFF@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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after the war, with the messiness of Reconstruction: emancipation, issues of sovereignty, individuals’ rights, voter intimidation, the return of power to the landed folks, the rise of the KKK-type groups — and well, still being dirt-ass poor in rural Mississippi.
FREE STATE OF JONES DIRECTED BY: Gary Ross STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The film tries to cover a lot. When about the 10th historical thread opened up (one set in the 1950s!), I was thinking: This would fare better as a mini-series. And with some thought, it could be a smart one, examining some of the roots of cultural, racial and socio-economic tensions we’re still sorting out today. More time could also solve the film’s other problem: its focus on Knight, which, combined with McConaughey’s earnest
performance, gives Free State a “white savior” vibe. There are a lot of characters in this film, but they are mostly minor and presented only in their relationship to Knight; this is not an ensemble piece about people working collectively, but a portrait of that group’s de facto leader. As it is, Free State is mostly a sobering drama that doesn’t shy away from the ugliness of war, slavery, race-based terrorism and other assorted miseries that disenfranchised folks have to put up with. Its tacit approval of populism defended through armed uprising against the state is provocative and a timely discussion topic. That is, for viewers who have two-and-half-hours to carve out for a “summer” film that revisits one of America’s grimmest periods. And speaking of grimness and grime, here’s a hat-tip to the costume designer who took the extra effort to render all the clothing appropriately dirty, frayed, patched and haphazardly assembled. These are poor people during war time, after all — nobody’s popping down to the general store for a fresh waistcoat. A HOF F @ P G HC I T Y PA P E R. C OM
THE DARK CRYSTAL. Here’s a chance to catch this oddball 1982 fantasy adventure from Jim Henson and his character factory (see also: The Muppets) on the big screen. A thousand years ago, on another planet, a group of peaceful wizards hope to locate a magical crystal, the source of power for their evil birdlike dragon overlords. July 1-5 and July 7. Row House Cinema
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NEW THIS WEEK THE BFG. Steven Spielberg is back in the realm of wonder and whimsy with this new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s novel The BFG. The film combines digital animation with live action, inevitable when one is covering events that occur in both ordinary London and a place called Giant Country. Spunky Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is plucked one night from an orphanage by a spindly giant moving stealthily through London’s streets. She winds up in a seemingly terrifying place — Giant Country, an attractive highlands community populated by brutes with names like Bloodblotter and Fleshlumpeater. But her abductor (Mark Rylance, digitally enhanced) turns out to be a sweet fellow, a sentimentalist who collects children’s dreams in jars. Sophie nicknames him “BFG,” for “big friendly giant.” To cement their friendship, BFG takes her to the magical Dream Country, where he catches dreams — and the occasional nightmare — with a butterfly net. But the bad giants prove bothersome, and Sophie hatches a plan to neutralize them once and for all. It involves, among other things, a quite hilarious visit to Buckingham Palace, where the ever-polite queen (Penelope Wilton) makes a real effort to accommodate a giant-sized guest. The BFG is a solid piece of entertainment, sure to charm adults and children alike. The screenplay, by the late Melissa Mathison, retains plenty of Dahl’s clever wordplay, in which BFG speaks in an amusing stream of childlike malapropisms. (Spielberg and Mathison previously collaborated on another kid-befriends-oddity heartwarmer, 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.) The star player here appears to be Rylance, who really makes BFG delightful and engaging, in spite of, I’d like to think, all the digital wizardry applied to his human form. Starts Fri., July 1. (Al Hoff)
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THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. David Yates directs this action adventure about gorilla-raised Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgard), now living in London, who returns to the jungle to help thwart a troublesome mining company. Margot Robbie and Christoph Walz also star. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., July 1 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR. You think this election cycle is hate-filled and brutal, wait until you see the goings-on in the near future. In this third iteration of the horror thriller about one night of sanctioned free-for-all murder, the evening is especially fraught for a presidential candidate who has promised to eliminate the purge. James DeMonaco directs. Starts Fri., July 1 SWISS ARMY MAN. This film, like one of its two characters, floats into theaters on a wave of critical WTFs from its premiere at Sundance. There, it was quickly pegged “the farting corpse movie starring the guy from Harry Potter,” and that’s not inaccurate; it was polarizing, finding both viewers who loved it and detractors who found it ridiculous. Nonetheless, it took the Jury Prize for Best Directing. That award went to Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who co-wrote and co-directed. The film begins on deserted island, where its sole inhabitant, Hank (Paul Dano) is setting up a rope to hang himself. Just then, he spies a body washing up in the surf and investigates. It’s a dead man (Daniel Radcliffe), but one who won’t stop farting. This … um … feature turns out to be beneficial to Hank’s survival, and he decides to take the body with him. In time, he teaches the dead man to speak, names it Manny and cul-
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ANCHORMAN. In the mid-’70s, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is the star of a local news team — a boozy, brawling boy’s club that’s about to be re-arranged when a newly hired female newscaster, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), sets her sights on the anchor’s chair. This 2012 sendup of local news refracted through the prism of the 1970s and its public battles of the sexes shouldn’t look like such hard work as it does here: The film is littered with jokes that don’t work. Anchorman ends up being one of those messy hybrids between slapstick, parody and mockumentary. Ferrell is a likable actor who isn’t afraid to be the butt of his own jokes. But here, a one-joke idea stretched too wide, and a film helmed by first-timer Adam McKay, who hasn’t much experience pacing comedy, serve only to make Ferrell look embarrassingly unfunny. Continues the monthly series of Rooftop Shindigs. Live music from Donora and Meeting of Important People at 7 p.m.; film at sundown. Wed., July 6. Theater Square Garage roof, 667 Penn Ave., Downtown. Bring your own chair (or buy one on site). Food and beverage vendors on site (no outside food/drink allowed). Free (AH) RESERVOIR DOGS. Quentin Tarantino’s stylish 1992 debut charts the failure of a heist in a nonlinear fashion. Riffing on dozens of earlier crime thrillers and their conventions; making shoot’em-ups safe for languorous passages of dialogue as well as hyper-violence; unleashing a new cast of character actors — Chris Penn, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth; and somehow making a throwaway Stealer’s Wheel tune downright menacing: Tarantino’s film still stands as an idiosyncratic blast that re-wrote the genre. 7:30 p.m. Wed., July 6. AMC Loews. $5 (AH)
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tivates a provocative relationship with him. Manny turns out to be a better castaway companion than Tom Hanks’ volleyball; among other things, he’s a bit of a naïf, asking Hank all sorts of questions about life, love and how things work. This not only precipitates the film’s amazing middle section (the less said about it the better), but also lets Hank (and us) work through all the problems that led to his almostsuicide. Both actors totally commit to these roles, with Radcliffe doing some fantastic physical work to be believable as a body awkwardly inhabiting the space between life and death. Swiss Army Man is an original work, even as it is comprised of familiar pieces: It’s a buddy comedy; a drama exploring some deeply sad places in the human condition; a fantasy (with some set pieces that recall Michel Gondry’s work); an extended allegory; an existential rumination; a descent into madness (or out of it); and a how-to guide for the usefulness of a corpse. It’s totally bizarre, but also makes perfect sense; it’s silly but serious. And it is, unsurprisingly, another movie to be filed under “not for everyone.” But if you dig absurdist tales, would appreciate a fresh work over another summer sequel and, like it or loathe it, can respect the filmmakers’ singular vision, then don’t miss this one. Starts Fri., July 1. (AH)
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ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH. Pratibha Parmar’s 2013 documentary is a portrait of the wellknown African-American writer who rose from a sharecropping farm in Georgia to winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. The film recounts her life in letters (novels, poetry) as well as her lifelong civil-rights activism and her myriad personal relationships, with both men and women. Walker is extensively interviewed, and helps draw parallels between her own experiences and her work. Screening co-sponsored by Reel Q and Pittsburgh Black Pride. 8 p.m. Fri., July 1. City of Asylum tent, 318 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free with RSVP at www.cityofasylum.org LEGEND. Ridley Scott directs this 1985 fantasy actioner about a young man (Tom Cruise) who leads a fight against the Lord of Darkness, who wants to destroy the last unicorns. July 1-4 and July 6-7. Row House Cinema
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Reviews of the first 50 page of recent fiction {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} The figures of the foreigner and the immigrant, long staples of fable and literature, have a special resonance in the era of refugees, Trumpism and the Brexit vote. Two new novels with local connections explore the theme. The Bowl With Gold Seams (Apprentice House Press), by Ellen Prentiss Campbell, has a foot in two time periods. A long prologue revolves around a 1985 scandal at the posh boarding school where Hazel Shaw is headmistress. Then a chance encounter sends her memory — and the narrative — four decades into the past, when, as a young war widow, Hazel worked in Western Pennsylvania’s Bedford Springs Hotel when it served as the post-war detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff and their families. (That detainment really happened.) In both eras, Campbell — an author, critic and practicing psychotherapist who still summers near Bedford Springs — tackles xenophobia, privilege and the moral dilemmas of everyday life, all from the rare vantage point of Hazel’s roots as a small-town Quaker. Campbell is a lively writer with a keen eye for the details of both small-town life and boarding-school politics. And the 215-page novel’s titular symbol is especially rich: a half-forgotten work of kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery in such a way as to valorize the breakage, rather than hiding it. Good stuff. Madhu Bazaz Wangu’s The Immigrant Wife also covers a lot of ground chronologically, and geographically ranges even further: The self-published novel opens in 1959, in India’s Valley of Kashmir, where the daughter of Brahmin family is intent on escaping a life built around the arranged marriage her parents want; rather, Shanti is set on attending art school. While this 513-page novel ultimately takes its protagonist to America, and to Pittsburgh in the 1980s, its early pages focus on Shanti’s struggle for self-determination. The conflict between tradition and modernity is a familiar theme, and some of Wangu’s characters are familiar, too, from Shanti’s liberal older brother to their hidebound if loving father. But the Pittsburgh-based Wangu (herself an artistturned-academic who taught at Pitt and elsewhere) renders these scenes in engaging cinematic detail, and it’s hard not to pull for her idealistic young protagonist. After all, Campbell’s Hazel Shaw learns about people from other cultures; Shanti is herself an outsider, even in her own home.
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Ai Weiwei’s “Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo (silver)” (2007)
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That question looms (literally) large in Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. On display in the Hall of Architecture, 12 sculptures representing the heads of the traditional Chinese zodiac — Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig — stand in a circle. On stands over 10 feet tall, and each weighing approximately 2,000 pounds, the bronze figures are reproductions of characters that once adorned the fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, or The Garden of Perfect Brightness, an early 18th-century retreat made for the Qing emperors. Now an extensive public park and one of China’s most iconic monuments and tourist destinations, Yuanming Yuan has great cultural and political significance because it was destroyed and plundered in 1860 by French and British soldiers during the Sec-
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ond Opium War. Although it was originally made for the exclusive use of the imperial family, this historical site holds cultural significance in China, as a “national ruin” and a touchstone for discourses surrounding heritage, preservation and national identity.
AI WEIWEI: CIRCLE OF ANIMALS/ZODIAC HEADS continues through Aug. 29. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org
ANDY WARHOL/ AI WEIWEI continues through Aug. 28. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org
The looting of cultural treasures is a contentious issue worldwide. Ethical standards are supposed to dictate museum collections, but the repatriation of objects is not
always a straightforward process. There are questions of ownership, acquisition, provenance, legality and care of objects. Even if something was acquired legally, does it ultimately belong to its country of origin? According to a video that accompanies Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Chinese antiquities that go to auction are the cause of much consternation in China, but the original zodiac was most likely designed by an Italian. By creating a replica, Ai questions purity, authenticity, mass production and kitsch. Like many of Ai’s pieces, it is a commentary on lost cultural heritage at the hands of foreigners, but also internally, during the Cultural Revolution. In the West, we are most familiar with the Chinese zodiac as kitsch, often reading our personality qualities on our restaurant placemats. But set amidst the plaster-cast reproductions of iconic Western facades and fragments from antiquity to the
Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (detail, pig) {IMAGE COURTESY OF AI WEIWEI; PHOTO BY TIM NIGHSWANDER}
Renaissance in the Carnegie’s Hall of Architecture, the zodiac adds an intriguing layer of complexity. The casts themselves verge on kitsch, and yet when Andrew Carnegie gave them to the museum it was so that people who did not have ave the means to travel could see these ancient ent things for themselves. These fakes are also a reminder of the hierarchies chies of art history, which, until recently, favored Western cultural production over all others. thers. Similar issues are addressed in Andy Warhol/Ai arhol/Ai Weiwei, a partner exhibition hibition at The Andy Warholl Museum. On the seventh floor is a neolithic pot emblazoned lazoned with a Coca-Cola logo go and, on the floor below, a group of Han dynasty pots painted ainted over in vibrant colors. Ai acquired quired these antiquities and then altered them. Here, too, he questions authenticity, uthenticity, authorship, cultural heritage ge and ownership. By using pre-existing ng objects, Ai pays tribute to Duchamp’ss readymades. And by employing antiquities, uities, the dissident artist further critiques es the cultural and historical rupture caused by an authoritarian state thatt limits freedom of expression and sanctions only certain types of art. In a video on the sixth floor, Ai smashes a Han dynasty vase in a notorious gesture that speaks to his role as an iconoclast but also to his feelings about politics and history. The Han dynasty lasted four centuries and was considered the golden age of Chinese arts, politics and technology. It was contemporaneous to the Roman Empire. With this violent action, Ai breaks with artistic tradition but also provokes questions about the value of traditional Chinese arts and the role of the craftsmanship in an age of mass production and commodification. As a much more overtly political artist, Ai’s work is more critical of capitalism, whereas Warhol was clearly fascinated by it. Surrounding the “Neolithic Pottery with Coca-Cola Logo” are examples of Warhol’s earliest paintings, in which he began to use comics, ads, brands and icons. There are images of Coke, Campbell’s, S&H stamps and the American flag. A Warhol quote here gives insight into why it was a compelling subject for him. He explains that no matter whether you are rich or poor in America, a Coke is a Coke and “no amount of money can get you a better Coke.” It is these types of shared interests, styles and experimentations that form the foundation of the exhibition, which is bro-
ken up into themes or “dialogues.” For the most part, it is striking to see the similarities. But ultimately Warhol and Ai are very different artists, and some of the groupings are more successful than others. On the sixth floor is a dynamic dynam pairing silkscreen print of Warhol’s early silksc “Elvis 11 Times” and a triptych based on photos of Ai dropdynasty vase, ping the Han dy here interprete interpreted in black, white and g grey Legos, having updated Ai havin the series of photographs 1995 to refrom 1 the pixilated flect th techlook of digital dig nologies. T This is significant because digital media has of Ai’s work been a crucial aspect o and political activism. In 2009, his due to blog of five years was shut down d his criticism of Chinese govern government policies. Ai has, nonetheless, con continued his commentaries through Twitter Twitt and Instagram. It is interesting to not note that Lego refused a bulk order for his sshow at the National Gallery of Victoria, a partner with The Warhol in developin developing this exhibition, stating that it could n not approve the use of its product for political art. Ai’s use of media to chronicle his life and work is very much like Warhol’s, albeit with slightly different tools. This shared proclivity for documentation is spectacularly displayed through countless photographs and films. Ai lived in New York in the 1980s and early ’90s, and though he did catch a glimpse of Warhol, they were living in quite different circles. While Warhol was focused on celebrity and socialites, Ai was documenting his ex-pat friends as well as protests and demonstrations in places like Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park. But like Warhol, he photographed street scenes and interiors and intimate moments, perhaps laying the groundwork for his future agility with social media. Both savvy and prescient, Warhol and Ai share an uncanny ability to both absorb and create culture. Warhol responded to modernity and the American century, while Ai addressed an authoritarian government and the ascendance of China and globalism post-Cultural Revolution. While Warhol’s politics were rarely overt, Ai’s dissidence is inseparable from his art and his persona. Yet these two artists, through their creativity and experimentation, were and are cultural arbiters and keen observers of everyday life.
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FAST CARMEN {BY TED HOOVER} SOME PEOPLE I know spend a lot of time thinking about how to keep theater relevant in the new millennium. That’s kid stuff compared to opera. Opera Theater of Pittsburgh gives it a try by remounting its 2012 Carmen the Gypsy. This is a lean, mean version of the famous work by Georges Bizet: a cast of 11, an orchestra of eight, a minimal set and a production that gets right to the point. The title character is a hard-bitten woman who drives men insane with desire; her latest conquest the soldier Don José. Their relationship is the embodiment of “toxic” and, well, it’s opera, so some people are going to end up dead.
nating nights. And that’s what Opera Theater is presenting at various venues around town as part of its annual SummerFest. This Carmen is touring to some off-beat locales: a hookah bar, an orientalrug showroom, a horse barn and a regular (i.e. boring) theater. Contact the company for exact info. I’m not what you’d call an opera fan, but I enjoyed much of this performance; if I’m seeing Carmen, this is most definitely the version I want. Brook and Opera Theater director Jonathan Eaton have stripped away all that overripe, extravagant folderol, which can overwhelm a story (never mind the audience). Here, the focus on the performers is unobstructed. Kara Cornell and James Flora are the self-destructive Carmen and Don José, and both sing with rich, beautiful voices. Soprano Katie Manukyan’s got some top notes that raise the roof as Micaëla, and Christopher Scott plays toreador Escamillo like the rock star he is. Conductor Robert Frankenberry, who along with Eaton created a new orchestration, draws from the orchestra a whole host of musical colors and moods. It does get a bit “operatic” toward the end — overblown emotions and ludicrous actions — but those few moments hardly detract from the rest of this fresh and vibrant evening.
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This version has a bit of history. In 1984, British superstar director Peter Brook created an 80-minute theater piece called La Tragedie de Carmen. Five months into the Broadway run, he had lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) write an English translation that played on alter-
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Hebru Brantley’s “Midnight Marauders”
{BY NATALIE SPANNER} Hebru Brantley, the self-taught Chicagobased artist, makes his Pittsburgh premiere with I Wish I Knew (How It Felt to Be Free), an exhibit at the August Wilson Center. Brantley’s work is worn on T-shirts and can seen along Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive or viewed on his website, but it perhaps best translates into a gallery setting, where patrons can engage headfirst with his slightly larger-than-life sculptures and paintings. I Wish I Knew is both a hopeful and haunting commentary on the emotional state of our times. His signature characters are curious children styled in Kermit the Frog hats, Batman masks and aviator goggles. Painted in exuberant color, they take on the heaviness of their painted environments with a contagious degree of whimsy. Imagining Brantley flowing through these pieces in his studio — multimedia style, with acrylic, oil, fiberglass, coffee and tea — brings a surprising smile. Surprising, because this Brantley experience, curated by Marqui Lyons, brings darkness, too. One canvas, “A Life Less Attractive,” set apart in the room, captures central concepts of the collection. Most of the piece is full of tiny line drawings of disturbing components of contemporary culture. It’s a dismal Easteregg hunt, to be sure: Christopher Reeves’ Superman in a deteriorating state; a McDonald’s sign, subtitled “BULLSHIT”; an equation declaring “Rap – Lies = Hip-Hop”; naked women violated by a hand that looks mysteriously like Mickey Mouse’s. However, at the core of all this, Brantley paints a vibrant collage of his own signature pop-culture-clad juvenile heroes, bursting from the Keith Haringlike noise with intense gazes. It is at first challenging, and then confusing: Is this perspective negative or positive? But that’s the wrong question. As with all of Brantley’s work, innocence comes at you from the position of strength. Through his young characters, the viewer witnesses how Brantley’s spirit interacts with danger, and is left with the pervading wisdom of youth. Take advantage of Brantley’s thoughtful embrace of consumerism and shop online for items depicting heroes Fly Boy and Fly Girl. Look for his video collaborations with Chance the Rapper and the like. But don’t miss the chance to discover Hebru Brantley’s work in person. INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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+ FRI., JULY 01 {ARTMAKING} Have you ever broken a world record? Artists Katy Dement, Albert Pantone and Amy Masters plan to construct the largest paper quilt in the world this weekend in the Society for Contemporary Craft parking lot, and they need your help. To join the World’s Largest Paper Quilt project, bring
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your shredded paper and learn how to create new handmade paper from trash. (You might get a little wet.) Using scraps reduces waste and keeps the material out of even the recycle bin. Talk about going green. Tyler Dague 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Also 11 a.m.-3 p.m. daily Sat., July 2, and Sun., July 3. 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. Free. 412-261-7003 or www.contemporarycraft.org
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{SCREEN} Born in 1944, to a family of Georgia sharecroppers, Alice Walker became a writer, poet and activist whose signature work, the Pulitzer-winning novel The Color Purple, was adapted into a celebrated film and hit Broadway musical. Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar’s acclaimed 2013 feature-length documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth tracks Walker’s extraordinary life in literature, civil rights, anti-war causes and more, with interviews of Walker and friends and collaborators including
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Come July, the local arts scene quiets down, but you wouldn’t know it this weekend: There’s plenty going on, not least tonight, at the Penn Avenue Arts District’s monthly gallery crawl, Unblurred. A few galleries have notable openings, including Bunker Projects, which holds a reception for Overgrowth & Underbrush, a group show for 12 local artists using personal stories to explore “memories, nightmares and fantasies from the forest of Pennsylvania.” At Most Wanted Fine Art, the Café Con Leche series for Latino artists continues with new work by Maggie Negrete and Alison Zapata. BOOM Concepts hosts artist and illustrator Tim “Paizley” Powell’s (pictured) No Fate, a solo show exploring self-determination in a world where humanity often goes disregarded. The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, meanwhile, holds the closing reception for a show of recent works by Sarah Zeffiro, who makes drawings and mixed-media paintings, and Tom Mosser, who is pursuing the novel technique of painting with tennis balls. Still, come to think of it, and despite all this activity, Unblurred might seem a little quieter than usual: The typically packed Assemble Artspace has closed to facilitate its move to bigger digs a few blocks down Penn, and to prepare for its reopening, in September. Bill O’Driscoll Most events run 6-10 p.m. Fri., July 1. 4800-5500 Penn Ave., Bloomfield/Friendship/Garfield. Free. www.pennavenue.org
Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover and Sapphire. Tonight, ReelQ, Pittsburgh’s International LGBTQ film festival, in partnership with Pittsburgh Black Pride, holds a free screening at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s big tent on the North Side. BO 8 p.m. 318 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Free with RSVP at www.cityofasylum.org
+ SAT., JULY 02 {FESTIVAL} What better way to celebrate Independence Day then by going back in American history? Today and tomorrow at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, oldfashioned summer games, a pie-eating contest (nothing says “holiday” like overindulgence) and a recitation of the Declaration of Independence transport visitors to the 1800s for a rural Fourth of July celebration. TD Noon-5 p.m. Also 1-5 p.m. Sun,. July 3. 401 Meadowcroft Road, Avella. $6-14 (free for children under 5). 724-587-3412 or www. heinzhistorycenter.org
Hodgman and Jen Kirkman, and performed locally and nationally as half of the anti-bullying musical duo Josh & Gab. But tonight is Bonesso’s first show ever in the Rocks. Also on the bill at the Parkway Theater (best known as a moviehouse) are comics John McIntire and Michael Buzzelli. BO 8 p.m. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. $8-10 (21 and over). www.gabbonesso.com
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+ MON., JULY 04 {EXHIBITS} The National Aviary showcases new wings all summer long at its Butterfly Gardens, a great chance to hand-feed butterflies and take photos. Also, the ancient art of falconry is demonstrated in Soar!, which takes place twice daily this summer on the Aviary’s SkyDeck rooftop theater. Hawks, falcons and Dillon, the massive martial eagle, will demonstrate their hunting abilities, flying high over the heads of the crowd. And yes, the Aviary is open most holidays, including today. TD 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Sept. 5. 700 Arch St.,
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It’s a homecoming of sorts for one of Pittsburgh’s favorite locally based comedians. Gab Bonesso: Human Explosive finds Bonesso performing in McKees Rocks, the town where she spent the first three years of her life. (Her parents, Beanie and Starr, owned Michael’s Lounge, a neighborhood bar.) Bonesso went on to study theater at Duquesne University and build a career in comedy that’s taken her around the country and off-Broadway; she’s featured for headliners like John
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patterned fabric and translucent vellum, to name a few) in his exhibit, Childhood Feedback. A free reception with both artists takes place at the gallery on July 16 from 5 to 8 p.m. TD 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Exhibit continues through Aug. 12. 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-687-8858 or www.boxheartgallery.com
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Pirates fans contemplating deals with the devil to aid the flailing Bucs can check out Damn Yankees. Pittsburgh CLO’s new take on this classic Adler & Ross musical comedy stars John Ridley as Joe Hardy, the everyman who sells his soul to become the slugger who leads his favorite team against the hated Yanks. Broadway vet John Bolton plays the Mephistophelian Applegate, with CLO favorite Sarrah Strimel as the temptress who sings “Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets.” The first of eight performances at the Benedum Center is tonight. BO 8 p.m. Continues through July 10. 237 Seventh Ave., Downtown. $25.75-80.75. 412-456-6666 or www.pittsburghclo.org
{WORDS} “The old Italian touched my lover’s arm / in front of the church on Liberty / and sung some Italian gibberish / so beautiful and deserving / it made me want to punch him in the mouth.” The venerable Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series continues tonight, and “plain-spoken” will be the byword: The readers include Bob Pajich (that’s an excerpt from his “Bloomfield Driver”) and the similarly down-to-earth Lori Jakiela, Dave Newman, Heather McNaugher and Adam Matcho. The free Tuesday readings at Hemingway’s Café, with new local readers weekly, continue through July 26. BO 8 p.m. 391 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. Jbauer103w@aol.com
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CELEBRATION: AMERICA. LIGHT UP THE SKY. A rock musical about American What happens when a music. July 1-2, 8 p.m. and Sun., superstitious leading lady, July 3, 2 p.m. Strand Theater, her outspoken mother, a Zelienople. 724-742-0400. temperamental director, an CHICAGO. Presented by the enthusiastic producer & his Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. wife, a star struck Shriner & a Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Benedum Center, truck-driver-turned-playwright Downtown. 412-456-6666. all converge for the opening CHURCH BASEMENT of a new play? Presented by LADIES. A celebration of Little Lake Theatre Company. the church basement Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru kitchen & the women July 2. Little Lake who work there, Theatre, Canonsburg. this musical 724-745-6300. comedy features ww. r w 4 distinct characters pape pghcitym & their relationships as .co they organize the food & solve the problems of a COMEDY OPEN MIC. rural Minnesota church about Hosted by Derick Minto. Thu, to undergo changes in 1965. 9 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-831-8552 for reservations. 412-681-4318. Sun, 2 p.m. and Thu-Sat, 7:30 p.m. PITTSBURGH IMPROV Thru July 10. South Park Theatre, JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Bethel Park. Theater Square, Downtown. THE DINNER DETECTIVE 412-325-6769. INTERACTIVE MURDER MYSTERY DINNER SHOW. Sat, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriot JUSTIN & JEROME City Center, Downtown. EXPERIENCE. The surreal 720-271-2996. comic duo of Justin Vetter &
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Hear our interview with local artist, dancer and musician David Bernabo. On iTunes and Soundcloud or at www.pghcitypaper.com.
Jerome Fitzgerald begin their monthly midnight sketch & improv show. BYOB. First Fri of every month, 11:55 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608. LESLIE BATTLE, WILL NESS, KEVIN REIDY. 10 p.m. Looking For Group, Brookline. 774-482-1264.
SAT 02 DINNER W/ THE NOLENS. An improv show features Jethro & Kristy Nolen performing w/ guests. BYOB. First Sat of every month, 8 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.
MON 04 COMEDY SAUCE SHOWCASE. Local & out-oftown comedians. Mon, 9 p.m. Pleasure Bar, Bloomfield. 412-682-9603. UNPLANNED COMEDY JAMBONE’S IMPROV. Hosted by Woody Drenen. Mon, 9:30 p.m. Hambone’s, Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.
EXHIBITS ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY MUSIC HALL. Capt. Thomas Espy Room Tour. The Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic served local Civil War veterans for over 54 years & is the best preserved & most intact GAR post in the United States. Carnegie. 412-276-3456. BAYERNHOF MUSEUM. Large collection of automatic roll-played musical instruments & music boxes in a mansion setting. Call for appointment. O’Hara. 412-782-4231. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 50 Greatest Photos of National Geographic Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens. Permanent. Hall of Minerals & Gems. Crystal, gems & precious stones from all over the world. Population Impact. How humans are affecting the environment. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER. Ongoing: Buhl Digital Dome (planetarium), Miniature Railroad & Village, USS Requin submarine & more. H2Oh! Experience kinetic water-driven motion & discover the relations between CONTINUES ON PG. 46
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VISUALART “Distortion and Distraction/Ratataskr” (colored pencil, acrylic and gouache on birch, 2014), by Patricia Bellan-Gillen. From the exhibition Willful Wondering/Drawing from 2010-2016, at Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.
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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. Exposures: Hanging Fruit. An original installation by Zhiwan Cheung. Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei. A major international exhibition feat. two significant artists of the 20th & 21st centuries — Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei. Permanent collection. Artwork & artifacts by the famed Pop Artist. What They Say, What They Said. A collaboration between The Andy Warhol Museum, BOOM Concepts & Artists Image Resource (AIR). D.S. Kinsel’s mural is the project’s introductory iteration of prints installed on the Rosa Villa, a shuttered building across the street from The Warhol. 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. AUGUST WILSON CENTER. With I Wish I Knew How It Felt to Be Free. Work by Hebru Brantley. 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. BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. SOUND: a solo reuse art exhibition. Work by Martin Thomas Smyczek II. Downtown. 412-456-6666.
BIDDLE’S ESCAPE. Strange Beauty: Autoradiography from Fukushima. The work of Japanese photojournalist Takashi Morizumi explores the affect of radiation from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant disaster on everyday objects. Regent Square. 412-247-1870. BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 10 Artists: a Collection of Works. Sewickley. 412-519-3377. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Work from 56 regional artists. Celebration Red. Conceptual artist, Allison Knowles reprises her 1962 work by asking visitors to bring in a red item to contribute to a large grid. Oakland. 412-622-3131. CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. OFF the wall Gallery Collection. Art from local, national & international artists. Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888. CHROMOS EYEWEAR. Images in Watercolor. Work by Natiq Jalil. Lawrenceville. 412-772-1473. CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE COMPANY. New & Recent Paintings by Seth Stork. Bloomfield. 412-681-5225. EAST OF EASTSIDE GALLERY. Creative Journeys. Work from Jerome D’Angelo, Alexis Dillon & Maura Keeney. Forest Hills. 412-465-0140. ECLECTIC ART & OBJECTS GALLERY. 19th century American & European paintings combined w/ contemporary artists & their artwork. The Hidden Collection. Watercolors by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003). Hiromi Traditional Japanese Oil Paintings The Lost Artists of the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. CONTINUES ON PG. 46
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Cicada Invasion 2016 These red-eyed flying “monsters” are interesting to observe every 17 or so years.
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My Cat From Hell Sure, this Animal Planet TV show is supposed to help you improve relations with your cat, as you see how host and cat-whisperer Jackson Galaxy works his magic. But admit it: It’s fun watching cats misbehave.
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water, land & habitat. How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment? North Side. 412-237-3400. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit. Step into Daniel Tiger’s world & join him to explore some favorite places. Work together to solve problems, engage the imagination to transform surroundings & play along w/ Daniel’s sing-able strategies to better understand & navigate everyday emotions. North Side. 412-322-5058. FALLINGWATER. Tour the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501. FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier. During the mid-18th century, thousands of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans. Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit 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. Butterfly Garden. Mingle w/ butterfly species native to the region, including Painted Ladies, Monarchs, Black Swallowtails, Red Spotted Purples, Viceroys & Giant Swallowtails. Species in the exhibit will vary over the summer months. 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. PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. The Butterfly Forest. An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Summer Flower Show.
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Collectors Showcase. Emsworth. 412-734-2099. FORT PITT MUSEUM. History Inspires. Works by 10 local, contemporary artists who have drawn inspiration from the 18th century history of Western PA. Downtown. 412-281-9284. FRAMEHOUSE. Impressions. Exhibit showcases Pittsburgh Print Group members & regional artists working in prinmaking media. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4559. FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER. Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heeled Shoe. Deadly sharp stilettos, architecturally inspired wedges & platforms & a number of artfully crafted shoes that defy categorization are featured in this diverse presentation of style & design. Permanent collection of European Art. Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. FUTURE TENANT. Collage Now. A show about creating new meanings through juxtapositions by finding relationships & contrasts in the world around them to form ideas. Work by Crystala Armagost, Stephanie Armbruster, Matthew Buchholz, Seth Clark, Ron Copeland, Kim Fox & Mary Dorfner Hay. Downtown. 412-325-7037. THE GALLERY 4. Full Spectrum Ahead. New work by Marion Di Quinzio & Carolyn Frischling. Shadyside. 412-363-5050. GLENN GREENE STAINED GLASS STUDIO INC. Original Glass Art by Glenn Greene. Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772. HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reflections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt. edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330. HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. His Stories & Her Stories. The work of illustrators John Manders & Stacey Hogue. Kathleen Zimbicki. A solo exhibition of watercolors. New Castle. 724-652-2882. HUNT INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL DOCUMENTATION. Great Expectations. There is great expectation in the promise
From whirligigs & water fountains to rotundas & Rube Goldberg machines, Playgardens for guests of all ages w/ interactive elements. 14 indoor rooms & 3 outdoor gardens feature exotic plants & floral
& 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. JAMES GALLERY. Transformation. An evolving collection. West End. 412-922-9800. MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow. North Side. 412-231-3169. MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Factory Installed. Work by David Bowen, Kevin Clancy, Wendy Judge & Lauren Kalman. North Side. 412-231-3169. MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. bound by glass. Work by Jen Blazina, Gregory Grenon, Jon Goldberg, Owen Johnson, Weston Lambert, Carol Milne, David Patchen & Steven Weinberg / KASTAL. Shadyside. 412-441-5200. MOST WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Elizabeth Barreto Ortiz & Justin Waltenbaugh. Garfield. 412-328-4737. NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Dear Volunteers & Projection Theory Slant Rhyme Institute. An immersive multimedia installation featuring California-based artist Tra Bouscaren & John Schlesinger. North Side. 412-322-2224. NORTH HILLS ART CENTER. Regional Show – Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibit. Artworks featured in the show were submitted by local amateur & professional artists. Highlights of the show include works in oil, pastel, watercolor, fiber, stoneware & other media. Ross. 412-364-3622. PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield. 412-441-6147-ext.-7. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Arts in Education. Large scale fiber art works by students. Marcellus Shale Documentary Project: An Expanded View. New photography & video works by Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson, Martha Rial, and Joe Seamans & graphics by FracTracker Alliance that document the social & environmental effects
displays from around the world. Tropical Forest Congo. An exhibit highlighting some of Africa’s lushest landscapes. Oakland. 412-622-6914. PHOTO ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
of natural gas drilling in the region. Shadyside. 412-361-0873. PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER. Turned On: Lighting Hooks Up with Sculpture. Work by Rik Allen, Christina Bothwell & Robert Bender, Amber Cowan, Jean Fernandes, Evan Kolker, Carmen Lozar & Matthew Urban, Adam Holtzinger & Susan Spiranovich Julian Maturino, Janis Miltenberger, Corey Pemberton, Susan Taylor Glasgow & Leo Tecosky. Friendship. 412-365-2145. SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. The Hereditary Estate: Daniel Coburn. The solo exhibition explores the dark undercurrent of the artist’s family history through a series of lyrical & mysterious photographs. Homo Bulla: Megan Ledbetter. The solo exhibition is a study of surfaces & life cycles in the American South. South Side. 412-431-1810. THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Fiberart International 2016. The 22nd in a series of triennial juried exhibitions sponsored by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc, featuring works by established & emerging artists the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see current trends & innovations in this constantly evolving medium. Pattern & Place: Art Quilts by Valerie Goodwin. Strip District. 412-261-7003. SPACE. John Riegert. 250 portraits of John Riegert by different artists. The exhibit ranges from paintings to sculptures to conceptual pieces to performances to photographs to films & videos. Opening reception July 8, 5:30 - 10 p.m. Downtown. 412-325-7723. TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom. Open showroom w/ the artists. By appt. only. Lawrenceville. 412-980-0884. WOOD STREET, WILKINSBURG. Storefront Art Strolls. Pittsburgh artists, Mark Panza, James Shipman, Katy DeMent, Joe Witzel, Bob Ziller, The Wilkinsburg Historical Society & Milestone Health Center artists have their art forms exhibited primarily in vacant storefront windows on Wood St. & a vacant lot. Wilkinsburg.
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American Paintings of the Mid-20th Century Includes portraits and landscapes from the 1940s through the 1970s.
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Chatham Baroque Pittsburgh’s resident early music ensemble of 25 years plays some of its favorite music. Third Floor
The American Society of Media Photographers Members will be exhibiting photographs they have selected from their personal or commercial work. Fourth Floor
Take a Journey Curator of Paintings: Alison Babusci, Emily McMahon Photography by Renee Rosensteel Curator of Photography: Mara Mignogna Graphic Designer: Dustin Wickett The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the Buzzword Pittsburgh Gallery Exhibition, “Take a Journey”. Families that attended Buzzword Pittsburgh programs this past spring contributed to community canvas paintings that are exhibited.
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The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden This exhibition includes 52 contemporary and newly commissioned photographs by Wolfgang Oehme (1930–2011) and James van Sweden (1935–2013).
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We ART Here Curated by Fran Flaherty We ART Here is an exhibit curated for the Three Rivers Art Festival and for arts managers attending the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disabilities Conference.
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Forever Overhead | Caroline Record Forever Overhead is collection of new work by Caroline Record that is simultaneously from the perspective of the ground and the sky.
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Introspective| Vanessa German This exhibition is an ambitious hybrid of multidisciplinary work curated to highlight the dimensions of German’s life and work as a citizen artist and activist. Second Floor, Claude Worthington Benedum Gallery
I Wish I Knew (How It Felt To Be Free) Hebru Brantley This exhibition is slated to be an objective exploration into the human experience of emotion. In his Pennsylvania debut, Hebru Brantley portrays the effects of every day triumphs and tribulations, while exploring the ideas of growth and change.
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Pele-Mele | Olivier Ratsi Boite Noire | Martin Messier Investigating notions of the infinite, the immaterial and the transcendent, Olivier Rasti and Martin Messier present US premiers of two deep space multi-media installations.
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Right On! What civil rights do you have in the US? China? The Netherlands? Take a world tour right here in Pittsburgh!
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DJ illeso spinning John Riegert Curated by Brett Yasko In February, 2015, Brett Yasko asked 250 Pittsburgh artists to each do a portrait of the same person: John Riegert. johnriegert.tumblr.com
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7pm VIP, 9pm General Admission Tickets $30-$95; Must be 21 or older August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Avenue
Live music, dance, art, libations, and mischief! Visit TrustArts.org/cosmo for details.
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What starts with a giggle, ends as an alarming cautionary tale. (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve; New Zealand; 2016; 93 min)
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Ferla-Marcinizyn Guitar Duo Performing music from Renaissance to Jazz! Sound – If Trash Could Talk Artwork by Martin Thomas Smyczek II.
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All of Port Authority’s buses are now equipped with bike racks. Whether it’s your everyday commute or a weekend ride we’re ready to help you get your bike on. Bikes may now be taken on Port Authority’s Light Rail System [T] and the Monongahela Incline seven days a week without time restrictions. There are no bike racks on the T or incline. Bikes must be stowed in the designated wheelchair spaces on the T and incline. Persons in wheelchairs have priority over bicycles.
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use of alternative film developing processes, such as gum bichromate - a printing process that involves multiple layers of light sensitive chemicals on watercolor or printmaking paper, yielding a painterly quality to the image. Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on glass, many hand-painted. The largest display of 19th Century photographs in America. North Side. 412-231-7881. PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM. Home to 4,000 animals, including many endangered species. Highland Park. 412-665-3639. SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From Slavery to Freedom. Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the antislavery movement. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more. Strip District. 412-454-6000. SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL. War in the Pacific 1941-1945. Feat. a collection of military artifacts showcasing photographs, uniforms, shells & other related items. Military museum dedicated to honoring military service members since the Civil War through artifacts & personal mementos. Oakland. 412-621-4253. ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale. 412-407-2570.
EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Sebak to Back screenings at Bayardstown Social Club, Strip District CRITIC: Julia Gorman, 27, a geologist from Troy Hill WHEN: Thu.,
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FUNDRAISERS KIDSTUFF FRI 01 COMEDY OPEN HOUSE. Improv & stand-up comedy acts from local theaters, raffles for the chance to participate in interactive improv games & food provided by the Franktuary food truck. Benefits the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival. 6-9 p.m. Wigle Whiskey, Strip District. 412-224-2827.
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THU 30 - WED 06 CITIPARKS ROVING ART CART. Art activities & crafts that travel to different parks throughout the summer. For a full schedule visit www.citiparks. net. Thru Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-255-2539.
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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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MON 04 STORYSWAP. An open forum to swap stories. First Mon of every month, 7 p.m. Northland Public Library, McCandless. 412-366-8100.
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KIDSPLAY. Free happenings each week, often including visits by local personalities & activities presented by local performing arts groups & non-profit organizations. For a full schedule, visit www.downtownpittsburgh. com. Tue, 10-11:30 a.m. Thru Aug. 30 Market Square, Downtown. 412-471-1511.
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THE BIRDS & THE BEERS. Live bird exhibits, two bird encounters & a penguin painting, local brews, food & live music from The Groove Academy. 6:30-10 p.m. National Aviary, North Side. 412-323-7235. FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m. Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale. 412-945-0554.
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It’s a bunch of neighbors learning about Pittsburgh, having a good time. This is my first time here. [My friend] is a big Rick Sebak [of WQED] fan. He’s probably the biggest one in Pittsburgh. I like it. The food was good. It’s close. I can bike here. I like watching the films with everyone and Rick. I liked the trivia. [It] was awesome. The pie was delicious. I would come back. I’m definitely coming back for next week.
about the storyteller & be told w/o notes. Every show has a theme. First Tue of every month, 8 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side. 412-381-6811. 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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WED 06 CHEF IN THE KITCHEN. Learn the basics of cooking for grades K - 3. 12:15-1:15 p.m. and Wed., July 20, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.
SWING CITY. Learn & practice swing dancing skills w/ the Jim Adler Band. Sat, 8 p.m. Wightman School, Squirrel Hill. 412-759-1569. WIGLE WHISKEY BARRELHOUSE TOURS. Sat, 12:30 & 2 p.m. Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. 412-224-2827.
SUN 03 SONNTAG: SUNDAYS IN DEUTSCHTOWN. Beer from Northside breweries, Wigle spirits, German food from Berlin Street Foods & German activities. Sun, 2-5 p.m. Thru Oct. 23 Wigle Whiskey Barrel House, North Side. www.wiglewhiskey.com.
MON 04 PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS VS. HARRISBURG CITY ISLANDERS. 7 p.m. Highmark Stadium, Station Square.
yourself, or just want to be a better friend to the bees, this program will show you why bees are so amazing. 7 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912. CARNEGIE KNITS & READS. Informal knitting session w/literary conversation. First and Third Wed of every month, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3151. FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 26 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914. THE PITTSBURGH SHOW OFFS. A meeting of jugglers & spinners. All levels welcome. Wed, 7:30 p.m. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550.
AUDITIONS COMMUNITY MEN’S CHOIR. Looking for maleidentified singers interested in joining community men’s choral ensemble. Volunteer role, 1 2.5 hr rehearsal/week, 2 concerts a year. For more information, visit www. steelcitymenschorale.org. Thru Aug. 6. First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oakland. 412-683-4121. JULY PGH. BICENTENNIAL COMEDY/VARIETY REVIEW. Seeking 2 males & 2 females. Singers, actors & improv. All Ages. Thru June 30. Phipps
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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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WED 06 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. 412-963-6100.
OTHER STUFF THU 30 ART & INSPIRATION. Guest mural artist Bernie Wilkie will speak about “Making Socially Conscious Public Art.” Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211. MARKET SQUARE FARMERS MARKET. Thu. Thru Oct. 27 Market Square, Downtown. 412-471-1511. SEBAK FILM SERIES. Back-to-back showings of some of Rick Sebak’s favorite documentaries, w/ accompanying trivia, food, music & appearances by Sebak himself. Thu, 7 p.m. Thru June 30 Bayardstown Social Club, Strip District.
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TUE 05 BRAZILIAN COOKING W/ KEYLA. Brazilian flavors & learn to make corn fritters, black-eyed pea salad & fresh pineapple & mint juice. No registration is necessary for these sessions. Seating for all workshops is available to 20 participants on a firstcome, first-served basis. 6 p.m., Tue., Aug. 2, 6 p.m., Tue., Sept. 6, 6 p.m. and Tue., Oct. 4, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland. 412-622-3114.
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SUBMISSIONS THE 6TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH ZINE FAIR. This event is free to all ages & promises an afternoon of art, literature & hands-on activities. Registration is open from June 21 to August 12 at http://goo.gl/forms/ TXKhyC8dcqyFlPvs1. Union Project, Highland Park. 412-363-4550. BOULEVARD GALLERY & DIFFERENT STROKES GALLERY. Searching for glass artists, fiber artists, potters, etc. to compliment the exhibits for 2015 & 2016. Booking for both galleries for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943.
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Savage Love {BY DAN SAVAGE}
Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I’m a straight single woman in my mid-30s and a very plausible lesbian in terms of sartorial stereotypes. Occasionally a guy will hit on me in an awkward or creepy way, and I’ll trot out a line about “not being into men.” Most recently I used this pose when a courier broke down in my driveway and I invited him in for a glass of water while he waited for the tow truck. It was really uncomfortable and a little threatening when — after establishing that I lived alone — he asked me out. I guess I use this as an excuse so as not to hurt their feelings, but also to shut the conversation down as quickly as possible if I’m feeling vulnerable. Is this a harmless white lie, or a major cop-out that would offend actual lesbians? Can you suggest some better strategies for when you’re feeling cornered by a dude you’re not interested in? LADY’S ENTIRELY ZANY IDENTITY ENQUIRY
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“I’m not offended by this,” said someone I thought was an actual lesbian. I shared your question with this person — a woman I thought was an actual lesbian — because I wasn’t offended by it either, but wanted to check with an actual lesbian just to be safe. Turns out my friend doesn’t identify as a lesbian, but as a woman-who-loves-womenbut-does-not-identify-as-a-lesbian-becauseshe-sometimes-finds-the-odd-dude-hot. So for the record: My friend is speaking for the WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH community here — which often intersects/sexts with the lesbian community — and not the lesbian community. “But even though I’m not offended by it, I have to say I’ve found the ‘I’m into women’ line to be totally ineffective,” said my not-alesbian friend. “The creeps I’ve used it on get even more riled up after hearing that line. Sometimes I check out and start ignoring these creeps as if they’re wallpaper, but that can rile them up, too. Same with a polite ‘I’m not interested.’ The only success I’ve had with warding off creeps is by actually yelling at them, asking them if they’d like to be treated the way they’re treating me, and if their mothers, sisters, et cetera, would appreciate that treatment.” My not-a-lesbian friend — who, as it turns out, identifies more strongly with the term “bisexual” — has also had some luck with the lose-your-shit strategy. “You kind of have to treat these people like bears at a campsite,” said my not-a-lesbian friend. “You have to make yourself big and loud and scary so they don’t get closer. Because they will get closer.”
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I suspect she’s handling it better than you are, MEL. And I would recommend minding your own business, backing the fuck off and Googling “white knight syndrome.” But if your conscience requires you to say something, say something that opens up a conversation, rather than something so larded with shame, fear and judgment that it shuts the conversation down. Instead of saying something like: “Oh my God! What were you thinking?! You’ll be shredded emotionally and sexually!”, try something like, “Stripping isn’t something I would feel comfortable doing myself. But I’m your friend, and if you need to talk with someone about your new job I’m here for you.” I’ve been lying to myself. I told myself that stability and friendship were more important to me than sex. I’ve been with my husband for 12 years, and we’ve been married for five of those. We were best friends, and I was already in love before we started dating and before we ever had sex. I should have known in the beginning that we weren’t sexually compatible, but I chose to ignore it (or I chose stability and friendship). I chose my best friend, and have been suffering ever since. Luckily, I listen to your advice on a regular basis, and I’ve started having more open conversations about my feelings and my wants and needs. About a year ago, my husband and I decided to open our relationship. This was all my idea, and I’m not sure he’s fully into it. We agreed to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and a month ago we finally acted on it. I met someone in an open relationship and had sex with them. It was amazing — everything about it. In the end, I didn’t feel guilty, but I did want to tell my husband. Are there baby steps I can take to tell my husband these things, or do I just keep them to myself? I feel like this is saving our marriage, but society probably just looks at me like a cheating whore.
“HONOR THE COMMITMENT YOU MADE BY KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT.”
I have a difficult question. A dear young friend has recently started being a stripper for work. I won’t lie: It tears me up. All I feel is sadness and worry — such a nice soul for what I feel is a not-so-nice environment. I really hope I’m wrong. Is there any way in which this can be OK? My thoughts are that no matter how strong a woman is, no one can forget what
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they see or have to deal with. I worry for the sake of a nice person getting her ass handed to her too often and potentially breaking beyond repair. My gut emotion is that it doesn’t matter how well you handle these situations — what matters is the fact that you see too much ugliness, too often, and get to a point where you forget that there are actually nice humans out there. I guess my question is: How well can anyone handle this?
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Honor the commitment you made to your husband by keeping your mouth shut. You’ll doubtless have conversations in the future about your relationship, and about monogamy, and you can ask him if he wants to stick with “don’t ask, don’t tell.” If he says yes, continue to keep your mouth shut. On the Lovecast, dating historian Moira Weigel. savagelovecast.com
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Free Will Astrology
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Once upon a time, weren’t you the master builder who never finished building your castle? Weren’t you the exile who wandered aimlessly while fantasizing about the perfect sanctuary of the past or the sweet safety zone of the future? Didn’t you perversely nurture the ache that arose from your sense of not feeling at home in the world? I hope that by now you have renounced all of those kinky inclinations. If you haven’t, now would be an excellent time to do so. How might you reinvest the mojo that will be liberated by the demise of those bad habits?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I have selected three aphorisms by poet James Richardson to guide you. Aphorism No. 1: “The worst helplessness is forgetting there is help.” My commentary: You have the power to avoid that fate. Start by identifying the sources of healing and assistance that are available to you. Aphorism No. 2: “You do not have to be a fire to keep one burning.” My commentary: Generate all the heat and light you can, yes, but don’t torch yourself. Aphorism No. 3: “Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.” My commentary: But it may not take a whole lot longer.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may not know this, but I am the founder and CEO of Proud To Be Humble, an acclaimed organization devoted to minimizing vanity. It is my sworn duty to protest any ego that exceeds the acceptable limits as defined by the Geneva Convention on Narcissism. However, I now find myself conflicted. Because of the lyrical beauty and bighearted charisma that are currently emanating from your ego, I am unable, in good conscience, to ask you to tone yourself down. In fact, I hereby grant you a license to expand your self-love to unprecedented proportions. You may also feel free to unleash a series of lovely brags.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next 28 days will not be a favorable period to sit around passively wishing to be noticed. Nor will it be a good time to wait to be rescued or to trust in others to instigate desirable actions. On the other hand, it will be an excellent phase to be an initiator: to decide what needs to be done, to state your intentions concisely and to carry out your master plan with alacrity and efficiency. To help ensure your success during the next 28 days, make this declaration each morning before breakfast: “I don’t want to OBSERVE the show. I want to BE the show.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “In life, as in bicycling, pedal when you have to, coast when you can.” So says author James Lough, and now I’m passing on his advice to you — just in time for your transition from the heavypedaling season to the coasting-is-fun phase. I suspect that at this juncture in your life story you may be a bit addicted to the heavy pedaling. You could be so accustomed to the intensity that you’re inclined to be suspicious of an opportunity to enjoy ease and grace. Don’t be like that. Accept the gift with innocent gratitude.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When a jet flies low overhead, every glass in the cupboard sings,” writes aphorist James Richardson. “Feelings are like that: choral, not single; mixed, never pure.” That’s always true, but it will
be intensely true for you in the coming weeks. I hope you can find a way to tolerate, even thrive on, the flood of ambiguous complexity. I hope you won’t chicken out and try to pretend that your feelings are one-dimensional and easily understandable. In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase “nine days’ wonder,” which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public’s fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight. Between now and September 2017, I bet you’ll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim or stardom — perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up? Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One of my readers, Jay O’Dell, told me this story: “After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, ‘You may as well try magical thinking. Regular thinking hasn’t helped.’ I said to the nurse, ‘Well, why the hell not?’ That was seven years ago.” In bringing O’Dell’s testimony to your attention, I don’t mean to suggest you will have any health problems that warrant a strong dose of magical thinking. Not at all. But you may get wrapped up in a psychological twist or a spiritual riddle that would benefit from magical thinking. And what exactly is magical thinking? Here’s one definition: The stories that unfold in your imagination have important effects on what actually happens to you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let’s talk about X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors. By their very nature, they are unpredictable and ephemeral, even when they offer benevolent breakthroughs. So you may not even notice their arrival if you’re entranced by your expectations and stuck in your habitual ways. But here’s the good news, Pisces: Right now you are not unduly entranced by your expectations or stuck in your habits. Odds are high that you will spy the sweet twists of fate — the X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors — as they float into view. You will pounce on them and put them to work while they’re still fresh. And then they will help you hike your ratings or get the funding you need or animate the kind of love that heals.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Dr. Brezsny: A psychic predicted that sometime this year I will fall in love with a convenience-store clerk who’s secretly a down-on-hisluck prince of a small African country. She said that he and I have a unique destiny. Together we will break the world’s record for dancing without getting bitten in a pit of cobras while drunk on absinthe on our honeymoon. But there’s a problem. I didn’t have time to ask the psychic how I’ll meet my soulmate, and I can’t afford to pay $250 for another reading. Can you help? — Mopey Taurus.” Dear Mopey: The psychic lied. Neither
she nor anyone else can see what the future will bring you. Why? Because what happens will be largely determined by your own actions. I suggest you celebrate this fact. It’s the perfect time to do so: July is Feed Your Willpower Month.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the concert pianos in the world, 80 percent of them are made by Steinway. A former president of the company once remarked that in each piano, “243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.” He said it was “proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.” That will be a potential talent of yours in the coming weeks, Gemini. Like a Steinway piano, you will have the power to turn tension into beauty. But will you actually accomplish this noble goal, or will your efforts be less melodious? It all depends on how much poised self-discipline you summon. For one week, pretend to already be something you’re on your way to becoming. Report results to Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): During winter, some bears spend months hibernating. Their body temperatures and heart rates drop. They breathe drowsily. Their movements
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are minimal. Many hummingbirds engage in a similar slow-down — but they do it every single night. By day they are among the most manic creatures on earth, flapping their wings and gathering sustenance with heroic zeal. When the sun slips below the horizon, they rest with equal intensity. In my estimation, Aries, you don’t need a full-on immersion in idleness like the bears. But you’d benefit from a shorter stint, akin to the hummingbird’s period of dormancy.
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