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EVENTS 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

Yo La Tengo

9.16 – 8pm TQ LIVE! Co-presented with Trans-Q Television, a project of Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts in Society. Produced by Scott Andrew and Suzie Silver.

Tickets $10 / $8 Members & students; visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300 The Warhol theater

with special guest Lambchop 9.14 – 8pm Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) | Tickets $20/$15 Members & students visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300

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

This performance is co-presented with WYEP 91.3.

An Evening with Joan Shelley

10.7 – 7pm SENSORY-FRIENDLY EVENT FOR ADULTS (21+) Join us for a sensory-friendly program designed specifically for adults with autism spectrum disorders and those with sensory sensitivities. To register please contact Leah Morelli at morellil@warhol.org or call 412.237.8389.

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9.30 – 8pm The Warhol theater | Tickets $15/$12 Members & students visit www.warhol.org or call 412.237.8300 The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

This performance is co-presented with Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society.

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07.20/07.27.2016 VOLUME 26 + ISSUE 29

{EDITORIAL} Editor CHARLIE DEITCH News Editor REBECCA ADDISON Arts & Entertainment Editor BILL O’DRISCOLL Music Editor MARGARET WELSH Associate Editor AL HOFF Multimedia Editor ASHLEY MURRAY Web Producer ALEX GORDON Listings Editor CELINE ROBERTS Staff Writer RYAN DETO Interns STEPHEN CARUSO, MEGAN FAIR, TYLER DAGUE, WILLIAM LUDT, LUKE THOR TRAVIS

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While everyone is busy following national politics, it seemed like a good time to remind voters of local legislators who need to clean up their act.

See our inaugural Sh*T List.

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[NEWS] only works when 08 “Democracy you have contested elections.”

— Democrat John Craig Hammond on why he decided to run against state Rep. Mike Turzai

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seems like there’s conflict and 20 “Itdiscord happening all over the world, and it’s hard not to be affected.”

— Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke on how society affects art

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— Al Hoff reviews The Fits

[ARTS] Allison’s ‘Pool’ could be a 31 “Andrew novelty bedsheet for your favorite weird nephew.” — Bill O’Driscoll reviews the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 105th Annual Exhibition

[LAST PAGE] Paper intern Stephen Caruso takes 46 City in the sights, sounds and tastes of Picklesburgh. More photos online at www.pghcitypaper.com

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CITY PAPER WANTS TO REMIND READERS THERE ARE PLENTY OF CRAPTASTIC PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATORS

This past weekend, pickle-lovers made a pickle pilgrimage to the Rachel Carson Bridge for, what else but Picklesburgh.

See our photos on page 46 and at www.pghcitypaper.com.

Faced with steep renovation costs, James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy owners have started to crowdfund.

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State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe

Mike Turzai District 28 (R-Marshall Township)

District 12 (R-Cranberry)

Speaker of the House Turzai is a disrupter of the worst type.

He was the driving force in delaying last year’s state budget and Pennsylvania’s medical-marijuana law. Consistently places bills he dislikes, like the LGBT Fairness Act, in committees run by cronies and sycophants where they will never see a vote.

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No. 2 on our list (get it?), Metcalfe is an outspoken homophobe, xenophobe and anyone-different-a-phobe, who tried to cut off funding to Philadelphia because the city was marketing to gay tourists, and he sponsored a bill to ban same-sex marriage. He also attempted to pass legislation to disallow citizenship for American-born children of undocumented immigrants.

THE SH*T LIST

Our guide to 10 state legislators who need to clean up their act {BY RYAN DETO}

On iTunes and Soundcloud or at www.pghcitypaper.com.

DURING THIS unprecedentedly shitty presidential-election cycle, there has been an unusually high amount of vitriolic dung thrown at two candidates: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. While this election has stolen the spotlight, City Paper wants to remind readers there are plenty of craptastic Pennsylvania state legislators: They are making important decisions that have an impact right here in the Pittsburgh region, and many are in contested races this November, too. For our list — The Sh*t List — we considered the politicians’ support of homophobic, xenophobic, anti-labor and environmentally-unfriendly legislation.

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District 39 (R-Elizabeth Township) Hypocrisy is his thing. He quotes the U.S. Constitution to support gun rights, then attempts to force Biblical doctrine on public schools and government, which violates the document he loves so much. Was critical of Gov. Tom Wolf’s “fiscal irresponsibility” in last year’s debt stalemate and supported a bill to make prisoners pay for their legal fees out of returned bail.

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State Sen. Elder Vogel District 47 (R-New Sewickley Township) Regulations, schmegulations. Vogel is supporting legislation that would free frackers from filing waste reports and co-sponsoring a new bill that would tie up state regulations of any kind. The National Resources Defense Council says the bill “would give small groups of legislators unprecedented power to stall changes to regulations.”

State Rep. Harry Readshaw

State Rep. Jim Christiana District 15 (R-Center Township)

District 36 (D-Carrick)

State Rep. Dom Costa District 21 (D-Stanton Heights)

While he isn’t as full of it as most (he did vote in favor of the state’s medical-marijuana bill), Christiana supported a same-sex marriage ban and co-sponsored a bill to authorize payday loans, which have disproportionately hurt low-income people by “trapping hard-working Americans into a vicious cycle of debt,” according to President Barack Obama.

Lest anyone think only Republicans made our list, here’s the former Pittsburgh Chief of Police. While he has defended LGBT rights and environmental policies, he’s forgotten that immigrants need protecting, too. He recently supported English-only legislation and attacked “sanctuary cities,” which advocates say shield law-abiding undocumented immigrants from being deported after being caught for minor citations like traffic tickets.

The long-time rep has been praised for staunchly supporting his South Hills district. But considering the high level gun violence in his district each year, Readshaw makes the list for co-sponsoring legislation allowing the NRA to sue local municipalities over gun-control efforts. (The law was passed and was eventually struck down in courts.)

State Sen. Don White

State Rep. Pam Snyder

District 41 (R-Indiana)

District 69 (D-Jefferson)

State Sen. Guy Reschenthaler District 31 (R-Jefferson Hills)

While progressive issues are becoming more important to Democrats, Snyder is hanging on to the old guard. She supported bills restricting access to abortions twice in the last three years.

She also co-sponsored a bill making it harder to cap carbon emissions from coal plants.

Freshly elected in last year’s special election, he has moved onto the sh*t list as quickly as cheap fast food moves from mouth to colon.

Reschenthaler has solidified himself as a pro-fracker by sponsoring a bill to cap regulations on methane emissions and supporting legislation to free frackers from filing waste reports.

Strange to see such an anti-labor politician in laborheavy southwestern Pennsylvania, but White is a rebel. He voted in favor of legislation that would block local municipalities from passing laws granting paid sick leave and co-sponsored two bills that the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO says “directly attack the collective-bargaining process for public workers.”

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Democratic write-in candidate John Craig Hammond at the site of a proposed Walmart

CHALLENGING CAMPAIGN Democratic challenger has uphill battle to unseat Republican Mike Turzai {BY REBECCA ADDISON}

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EARLIER THIS YEAR, North Hills resident

John Craig Hammond set out on a hunt.

After years of frustration with the area’s state representative, Mike Turzai, Hammond was ready to put his full support behind Turzai’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.

The problem, he soon learned, was that Turzai didn’t have one.

“Somebody had to run against [him],” says Hammond who launched a writein campaign last winter to get his name on the Democratic ticket. “Part of the reason I’m running is, democracy only works when you have contested elections. This would’ve been the third straight election where Turzai would’ve gone uncontested.

Understanding that 2016 was an opportunity where the Democrats had a real chance of defeating Mike Turzai because nobody was running against him, I thought I’d step forward.”

Hammond needed 300 write-in votes in the April primary to get on the ballot in November. He received 2,336.

This next part, however, will be more difficult.

Turzai is a staunch right-wing conservative who, as speaker of the house, has the power to keep legislation he doesn’t support from ever seeing the light of day. Most notably, he was a leading force in the push against medical marijuana.

Turzai was also one of the lead supporters behind Pennsylvania’s voterID law, which would have required voters to show identification at the polls. (The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has since struck the law down as unconstitutional.)

At the Republican State Committee meeting in June 2012, Turzai touted the law as a means for getting Republican objectives accomplished, which included then-Republican nominee Mitt Romney winning the presidential election.

“We are focused on making sure that we meet our obligations that we’ve talked about for years,” said Turzai, at the time.

“Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.”

For his partisan obstructionism in the house and his opposition stance on social issues like LGBT rights, education funding

and labor, Turzai has earned a negative reputation among progressive across the state.

But defeating him has proven difficult.

As an incumbent Turzai has a lot of factors working in his favor. He represents a heavily gerrymandered district in the North Hills, which includes McCandless, Pine, Marshall, Franklin Park and Bradford Woods. And he’s also amassed an estimated $1 million in his political action committee.

To overcome those barriers Hammond will need funding. He’ll also have to energize voters against Turzai’s actions and on issues of importance to residents of the North Hills and the state as a whole. But finding those lightning-rod issues, experts say, could prove difficult.

“When we look at defeats, we’re always trying to find things that over decades we’ve been able to identify as reasons incumbents lose,” says G. Terry Madonna, political analyst and director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College. “Very few lawmakers get voted out because of their votes. It has to be something that really resonates.”

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CHALLENGING CAMPAIGN, CONTINUED FROM PG. 08

HAMMOND HAS never run for political

office. As a professor at Penn State New Kensington, with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kentucky, his background is in the history of slavery and politics.

But Hammond says his district is in dire need of new leadership.

“The issues at the state level and the local level are combined. There’s a lot of frustration with the lack of transparency in government, the ineffectiveness of government,” says Hammond. “There’s a lot of frustration with the lack of democracy that you see in Pennsylvania. And a good example of that at the local level and the state level is the whole Walmart issue.

There was very little that was open and above board about that process.”

“The whole Walmart issue,” as Hammond calls it, is one of those communityspecific controversies that creates rifts between neighbors on different sides of the fence. In 2014, municipal officials approved a proposal to build a Walmart supercenter in the McCandless area. Citing increased traffic and other concerns, residents filed a lawsuit that year challenging the approval process for the proposed store. That suit has been appealed to the state Supreme Court.

This controversy has been a major fixture of Hammond’s campaign so far, and

it could just be enough to energize voters.

“This is a rapidly growing district.

So how do you handle that growth in this district, maintain the character of the district — what makes it a desirable place to live? And what directly feeds into that is the whole question of whether or not you should have a Walmart at that particular location.”

But it’s difficult to connect Turzai to the debate other than reports that he was supportive of the development. And that wispy connection could hurt Hammond, says political analyst Madonna. Even though micro issues like development are likely to spur voter turnout, Madonna says the connection between Turzai and the issue can’t be tenuous.

“I think he needs to find an issue with some passion and usually it’s those micro issues. Depending where Turzai stands on it and what his involvement was, you can get thrown out in a scandal; you get thrown out when you cast unpopular votes,” says Madonna. “But Turzai’s fingerprints have to be really on it. It can’t be some general statement that’s not supported by Turzai taking some direct role.

And whatever he does, Turzai’s going to have plenty of money to counter it. They have their own pollsters. They’re going to know who’s going to vote and what’s

motivating them.”

Turzai’s critics have done a better job of tying the speaker to statewide controversies like last year’s budget stalemate, when the state didn’t finalize a budget until nine months into the next fiscal year. He’s also been criticized for budget cuts to education under the previous governor Tom Corbett’s administration.

“He’s been there six years; he holds a powerful leadership position, and I think new leadership would be able to solve the state’s problems,” says Granville Kennedy, an employee at UPMC Presbyterian, who last month joined 50 health-care workers, parents and students outside of Turzai’s McCandless office to call for a fair state budget, funding for public schools and a $15-an-hour minimum wage.

But that June 22 event was held a few weeks before Pennsylvania lawmakers surprised many by passing a timely budget just two weeks after the end of the prior fiscal year. That took some of the ammunition away from Turzai’s critics who were hoping to capitalize on another stalemate. And the budget itself wasn’t especially controversial: It includes an increase in education funding without a

general hike on sales or income taxes.

“I just don’t know what it is that would likely move voters to throw Turzai out at this point,” says Madonna. “It’s an uphill battle to accomplish, to unseat an incumbent. It’s pretty rare in politics.”

Unseating an incumbent is such a monumental feat that Madonna says 110 state house representatives up for re-election are currently running unopposed.

And while Hammond has the backing of the Democratic Party, funding has been more difficult to come by. An account he set up for online campaign contribution has only received $4,040 as of press time.

“I don’t know how his campaign’s being funded. You can’t beat somebody with no money, and Turzai will have all the money he needs,” says Madonna. “The reelection rate for incumbent state house members is over 90 percent.”

Regardless of the outcome, Hammond says he hopes this election will give the voters a chance to learn about Turzai’s record and where the speaker stands on the issues: “At minimum, I wanted Mike Turzai to have to face the voters and have to answer for some of things he’s done over the past few years.”

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{BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} IN 2003, Heather Sage, a staffer for envi-

ronmental group PennFuture, was fighting a new proposal to flatten Hays Woods, a 600-plus-acre urban forest in southeastern Pittsburgh. The property-owner, Pittsburgh Development Group II, wanted to build a casino, horse-racing track, 104-acre “town center” and upscale residential development; Pittsburgh City Council had approved the plan. To provide level ground, PDG also sought to strip-mine the site for coal, and fill stream valleys with the leftover soil.

Groups including PennFuture and the Sierra Club joined residents of the lightly populated Hays neighborhood in opposition; artists organized an exhibition Downtown to publicize the little-known site bordered by East Carson Street, Becks Run Road and Baldwin Borough. Sage wrote at the time that Hays Woods, which looms over the Monongahela River just four miles from the Point, was “a haven for wildlife” and “Pittsburgh’s last and largest undeveloped green space.”

Today, she recalls hiking there: “It’s kind of magical to be in a city as densely populated as Pittsburgh and also to be in some deep woods.”

Hays Woods might have been doomed.

But in 2006, PDG lost its bid for Pittsburgh’s lone casino license, scuttling the project.

And that December, the state Department of Environmental Protection denied the mining permit.

For years after, Hays Woods lay dormant. But last month, the story took a surprise twist when, after some 18 months of unpublicized negotiations, PDG principal owner Charles J. Betters sold Hays Woods to the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority for $5 million. The price is a fraction of the land’s value, not even counting the $15 million Betters had invested in the abortive development. (The deal was finalized July 7.)

Thanks to the generosity of the very guy who wanted to pave them, those 660 wooded acres will now become the city’s newest, and largest, public park. Among those working to make that happen is Sage, now director of community projects for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.

That organization, along with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the Allegheny Land Trust and representatives of the local foundation community, will be part of a working group that Mayor Bill Peduto is forming to study the site and plan for its use and preservation.

“The opportunities it poses are really historic,” says Sage.

It’s not unheard-of these days for major

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Inside Hays Woods

cities to receive huge windfalls of green space: In 2007, a quasi-governmental commission paid U.S. Steel $7 million for 1,200 acres of a forested former mining site in the middle of Birmingham, Ala. That land is now part of the 1,500-acre Red Mountain Park. But such transactions are very rare.

“So few cities actually have land left,” says Catherine Nagle, of the Washington, D.C.-based City Parks Alliance. Pittsburgh’s last new large park, Frick Park, opened in 1927.

Hays Woods is surprisingly pristine.

Though laced with dirt paths (and apparently frequented by ATV enthusiasts), it’s minimally accessible, and some parts are too steep for much human use. But follow a deer trail inside and you might find a burbling creek (one of several streams there), a raspberry patch, or a dainty green spider at work. “The birds in the property are amazing,” says Sage.

But while iconic parks like Frick and Schenley are heavily landscaped (in accord with the design philosophy of their times), the plan for Hays Woods seems to be to leave it mostly alone.

“Our current goal is to leave it as pristine and natural as possible,” says Kevin Acklin, URA board chairman and Peduto’s chief of staff. The city will own the mineral rights, and be able to prevent drilling or mining there. Acklin says a small portion of Hays Woods bordering Baldwin might be reserved for new housing.

And in any case, this multi-year parkbirthing process will leave plenty of chances for public input. “Community engagement is critical,” says Sage.

Among their ecological benefits, woodlands clean the air and water and manage stormwater. And opportunities for Pittsburghers to get outdoors will grow with the new park. So if the only changes at Hays Woods are some parking, toilets, signage and improved hiking trails, we’ll still come out ahead.

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MONUMENT MEN {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} THE ROCK ON the side of Mount Wash-

ington is getting blasted away, but that would be the perfect place to put a Pittsburgh Mount Rushmore. My nominees for all-time contributions would be Fred Rogers, Jonas Salk, Rachel Carson and Andrew Carnegie. Because of those four, we can go to free libraries in an environmentally safe, friendly neighborhood with no polio. Take that every other city.

Our contribution to sports is almost as great. For instance, an all-Penguin Mount Rushmore is easy: Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Sidney Crosby and Yvgeni Malkin.

Since sports is so ingrained in this town, here are my other Mount Rushmores for Pittsburgh sports. For parity’s sake, these players are from the last 50 years, the length of time the Penguins have been around.

The Steelers: Joe Greene, Franco Harris, Jack Lambert and Jerome Bettis. Of course I am omitting around 20 or more other Hall of Famers. The Steelers themselves could construct about seven more Rushmores, including guys who are on the way to the Hall. In contrast, Cincinnati would have to carve the face of its only Hall of Famer, Anthony Munoz, four times.

The Pirates: Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Barry Bonds and Andrew McCutchen. This one is basically inarguable. Also, it’s pre-steroid-era Bonds, so the shape of his head would be normal-sized.

College Coaches: Johnny Majors, Jamie Dixon, Bob Rager and Dan Burt. Majors and Dixon are shoo-ins, while Bob Rager has more wins than any other college coach in town and deserves his due. And Dan Burt just signed an eight-year — yes, eight — contract. His tenure of greatness at the helm of the Duquesne women’s basketball is just beginning.

Mullets: Sadly enough, I agonized over this category the longest. My final four are Jaromir Jagr, Doug Drabek, Zane Smith and Darius Kasparaitis. DK’s was a little wispy, but solid. Zane Smith’s was good, but not as good as Drabek’s. Drabek actually pulled it off nicely, but Jagr’s is legendary. Aerodynamic and full of volume, I would go so far as to say that I would put his on the all-time list with Andre Agassi, Billy Ray Cyrus and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. It’s the finest Camaro Crash Helmet you may ever have seen.

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Pro Wrestlers: Bruno Sammartino, Kurt Angle, Larry Zbyszko and Shane Douglas.

Sorry to all the Dominic DeNucci and Big John Studd fans. Zbyszko and Bruno wrestled in the era when it was hairy overweight men in Speedos, nothing weird or flashy. Today’s kids just don’t appreciate the era of no-frills wrestling.

Play-By-Play Announcers: Bob Prince, Bill Hillgrove, Mike Lange and Greg Brown. Brown just made the list with his call of rookie Josh Bell’s grand slam in his second big-league at-bat against the Cubs. Plus, he gets points for longevity; the other guys announced for good teams. For those 20 long years after you and I turned off the game, when the Pirates were perpetually down by seven, Brown had to stay and witness it all.

Plus, he is pretty good.

Worst Free-Agent Signings: Derek Bell, Ziggy Palffy, Jay Riemersma and Jeromy Burnitz. This is a bust of busts to be sure. Bell is the king after getting paid $4.5 million by the Pirates just to leave. Before that he took in another $5 million for hitting .173. Burnitz had eight seasons of 25 or more home runs, including a combined 61 in the two years prior to signing with the Pirates in 2006. He hit just 16 in PNC Park and took $6 million for his effort. In two years with the Steelers, Riemersma got $45 million for catching 17 passes (that’s $265,000 per catch). Palffy signed with the Penguins for more than $13 million and left after just one year. So, if you’re adding it up, that’s $33 million for 17 catches, a .173 batting average, 16 home runs and 42 points. All of these monuments could be sculpted for far less than that and they would provide far more entertainment.

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Citing “safety concerns,” the Penn Hills School District has banned hoodies. Superintendent Nancy Hines told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “The district’s larger goal is to maintain safety and to promote a focused learning environment,” a goal somehow thwarted by sweatshirts with added pieces of cloth that can be pulled over the head in case of rain or cold. School-board member Erin Vecchio added, “I’ve had cops tell me they couldn’t identify kids because they had their hoodies closed.” Which is relevant because going to school in Penn Hills is now like being in a continual police lineup or something? In fairness, the school district has had a brush with potentially shady activity: In a report last May, the state auditor general found a “long-term lack of oversight” of the district, “permitted stunning financial mismanagement and illogical business decisions resulting in an outstanding debt of $167 million and multiple criminal investigations.”

The auditor says a former business manager sucked money out of the district for years, in possibly illegal ways, as the school board and administrators “turned a blind eye.” Perhaps if the employee had been wearing a hoodie, school officials could have identified him as a criminal.

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Swissvale Police Chief Greg Geppert saw a Facebook post he disagreed with, and he wants an official investigation into it. Saying that she was in tears, Dapree Thompson, a 911 dispatcher for Allegheny County, posted about the recent deaths of black men at the hands of police. Thompson implored “Blue Lives Matter” supporters to “imagine being afraid not because of the job one chose or the lifestyle others may have, but simply because he was born with brown, beautiful skin.” She added, “See here’s the difference, you[’re] afraid to do your job the[n] quit. You want to help society, then do the right thing.” Geppert inferred that Thompson might sabotage a 911 response out of spite for the police, telling WTAE, “When somebody has these feelings about the police, are the officers going to get that information and the attention they should have?” Matt Brown, the county’s chief of emergency services, stated that dispatchers are trained to put aside personal feelings in their work and there is no evidence a dispatcher has broken that standard recently. Still, Geppert (the only police chief in Allegheny County making this an issue to the media) is calling for an investigation into just how angry Thompson is or something.

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“OFFICE OF PUBLIC ART SEEKS KLINGON, ELVISH, OR DOTHRAKI SPEAKER,” announced a recent Craigslist post. When the Wizard World convention comes to Pittsburgh in November, the office wants to offer walking tours of Downtown art landmarks in the three fictional languages, created for Star Trek, the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and HBO’s Game of Thrones respectively. An art expert

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would accompany the nerd-for-hire, who would translate information like “Sculptor James Simon created these 15-foot musicians as a tribute to Pittsburgh’s music scene” into his or her fantastical language of study. The group’s director told the Trib he’s received one application, from a man in the Washington, D.C., area who has translated Shakespeare plays into Klingon.

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On his way to allegedly sell a stolen rifle at a flea market, Thomas J. Leapline probably should have taken into account the fact that a man toting a gun in public might upset some people. With the rifle uncased, Leapline stopped by a supermarket in Fayette County en route to the Laurel Mall market where he hoped to sell the rifle to a gun dealer, police told the Herald-Standard of Uniontown. Onlookers called police, who cleared 150 people out of the grocery store and flea market, and detained Leapline.

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Michael Deeds, of Uniontown, has been arrested in connection with a series of arson fires. He’s accused of setting four fires in the town. While reporting on the arrest, WPXI found footage from 2013 of Deeds claiming to have helped save an 80-year-old woman from a burning home (one of the locations he’s now accused of igniting). “I seen the flame and called 911 on my iPhone,” Deeds told station reporters. “So when I heard her holler ‘help,’ I figured I’d go in and save her and then they [firefighters] did.”

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A 30-year-old woman in Woodward Township, Clinton County, answered a knock on her door and found Patrick R. Marsh standing naked with his genitals in his hands, police told PennLive.com. In the words of the State Police report, Marsh, 59, had come over “in an attempt to obtain courtship,” but was denied and charged with indecent exposure.

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But at this time, both those daily papers were in the middle of a heated strike that had already lasted eight weeks and would continue for six more months. Like any startup, CP took the opportunity to prove its usefulness to the community by printing a “newspaper strike survival guide.” The first topic? Where to spend those ad dollars that are burning a hole in your pocket. “Weekly newspapers, such as the one you’re reading, reach the coveted 18-to-35-year-old market. If you want to capture your audience’s attention, you owe it to yourself and your clients to consider weeklies as a key element in your successful media buy.”

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But back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, everyone in the country knew about plans to build the plant; it was set to be near the water in a residential neighborhood and a stone’s throw from an elementary school. The protests were ferocious. Picketers came from dozens of miles away or more to express their dissatisfaction. Actor Martin Sheen came to protest and even got arrested. This week, writer Don Beaulieu wrote about the ongoing campaign against the plant and about the protesters’ disgust with the new Clinton-Gore administration that had promised to shut the plant down. Instead, the EPA permitted the plant, and it’s been burning hazardous waste ever since. Beaulieu’s story outlined the connections between former President Bill Clinton and the project’s founder, Jackson Stephens, who was one of Clinton’s largest campaign donors.

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entertainment that has passed through the city. The following artists played Pittsburgh this week: Kansas, Electric Light Orchestra, Molly Hatchet, BachmanTurner Overdrive and Donnie Iris live during the Rib Fest at Three Rivers Stadium; Humble Pie, at The Boardwalk; The Village People, at I.C. Light Amphitheatre; Mojo Nixon, at Graffiti; Tom Jones, at the I.C. Light Amphitheatre; and Sorry About Your Daughter, at the Electric Banana. Most of these bands are still around, but none of these venues still exist.

BREAST PRACTICES (July 19, 2000) Writer Frances Rupp contributed a personal story to a cover piece entitled “Adventures in Breastfeeding.” The twostory package told the tale of some local mothers and the reaction they received for breastfeeding their children in public.

For her part, Rupp relayed a story about feeling “dirty” while breastfeeding her baby at a restaurant. A woman was “watching my every move with scolding eyes. I might as well have been standing on their table wearing pasties, shaking my tits and saying ‘lookie here,’” she wrote. “All day people are telling me I need bigger breasts to be more of a woman. … You’re supposed to make them bigger so more people will look at them.

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SUMMER OF BEANS {BY AL HOFF} People often think of sturdy beans — pintos, black, kidneys — as a hearty winter food. But the humble, inexpensive bean should be a primary food during the long, hot summer months, too. Not only are beans easy to prepare without a lot of cooking or time spent in a steamy kitchen, but they lend themselves well to the bounty of fresh vegetables and herbs available during the sunny season.

PRE-COOKED. Canned beans are done! You can even eat them cold. Dried beans are cheaper, but weigh the time (and heat) you’ll need to cook them.

Beans from the can make a great addition to cold salads, or assorted soups and chilis.

EASY COOKING. No food is happier in one pot than beans.

CLEAR OUT THE FRIDGE. Beans are an excellent blank canvas. You can follow recipes galore – or just use up some leftovers. (Recent beans I made: pintos, garlic scapes, a sad tomato, onion, Thai hot pepper, poblano pepper, chicken leg and celery.)

MAIN DISH, SIDE OR FILLER. Add rice for the classic protein combo. Adapt flavor — spicy, sweet — for ideal side.

Roll up in at tortilla for handheld meal.

Also, breakfast, lunch or dinner; huevos rancheros with a classic side of pintos is a powerful morning fuel-up.

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LOOMFIELD MAY be Pittsburgh’s self-proclaimed Little Italy, but it doesn’t have a lock on the city’s best Italian dining. It did incubate what we considered, six years ago, to be Pittsburgh’s best Italian restaurant, Stagioni.

That restaurant has since decamped to more spacious digs on East Carson Street, on the South Side. To be specific (and very Pittsburgh), Stagioni now occupies the elegant storefront that was long home to Le Pommier, the last of Pittsburgh’s fine French restaurants. We were eager to relive one of our most memorable Italian dining experiences in this setting, layered with other delicious memories.

Le Pommier’s small downstairs dining room and smaller bar were always some of the city’s most romantic locations, and Stagioni’s owners wisely left well enough

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alone. The décor has been updated with attractive new artwork and, as a reminder of the kitchen’s curiosity and range, a bookcase full of an eclectic array

STAGIONI 2104 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-586-4738 HOURS: Lunch Tue.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dinner Sun.-Thu. 5-9:30 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5-10:30 p.m.

PRICES: Small plates, soup, polenta, half-portions of pasta $7-12; full portions and entrees $17-27 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED of cookbooks. The dining room can be a bit noisy — or you can choose to regard it as convivial, in which case it feels very authentically Italian.

Stagioni means “seasons” in Italian, and chef-owner Stephen Felder’s seasonal approach still governs the menu. Cold zucchini soup tasted of early summer, when quick-growing vegetables arrive in markets, but the full bounty of August remains ahead. A sort of tiny salad of crab, sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes and basil was arrayed on one side of the bowl, allowing diners to compose spoonfuls of “toppings” with soup as they wished, or to imbibe the pure vibrancy of the velvety, vivid-green liquid, deceptively light yet full flavored.

With more room to work in, the menu has also grown a bit, most notably to accommodate a section dedicated to polentas, with toppings ranging from elemental sautéed mushrooms to bravura olive-oilpoached octopus with romesco and grilled scallions. We ordered the latter, and were

agog at the way in which it was served: Three plump tentacles were presented on a small wooden cutting board, and then, at the table, the polenta was poured directly from a saucepan onto the board, touching but not covering the octopus and its garnishes. For this to be effective, the polenta was relatively thin, like porridge, but the mouthfeel was heavier and richer, and it had a true corn taste. The octopus, too, was excellent thanks to a two-part cooking, braised in olive oil and then quickly grilled for color and smoke.

Another distinctive preparation was made-to-order mozzarella, in which a curd was warmed and worked by hand into a large, flat, elastic slab served, again, on a cutting board drizzled with olive oil and balsamic and topped with a few grains of gray salt. The pleasure in this dish was gradual exploration: pulling a nibble off the top for a pure, mild, still-warm taste, then scraping a little salt onto the next bite. Next, cutting all the way through for cheese dressed with oil and vinegar, before adding shaved prosciutto, diced roasted red pepper and a couple of cracked olives of each color from the miniantipasti served alongside.

The half-dozen meat dishes ranged from steak and potatoes to soft-shell crab with purple cabbage, sea asparagus and croutons. We split the difference with a grilled pork chop served atop wild rice with roasted fennel, plus broccoli and pepperonata. The chop could have stood on its own — smoky, tender and deeply flavorful, although perhaps not perfectly succulent. The fennel threatened to overwhelm the meat, but the sweet pepperonata and crunchy-chewy rice balanced things out a bit, and the slightly blackened broccoli added color as well as another dimension.

An Italian meal would hardly be complete without pasta, and we tried two halfportions: pappardelle with lamb ragout, peas, mint and parmesan, and cavatelli with ramps, cured yolk and crispy pork. The former was surprisingly light, herbal and summery for having a stewed meat sauce.

But the cavatelli stood out for sheer irresistibility: rich and savory, yet not exactly creamy like a traditional alfredo sauce. The yolks held the flavors close to each noodle, and we savored every one.

Returning to Stagioni in its new situation was like revisiting an old friend and finding them doing well, thriving even.

The move across the river has allowed the kitchen to get better at everything it was already good at, while Stagioni’s decor and service — highlights of its Bloomfield presence, as well — easily rises to the occasion of the venerable space.

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She wrote it slowly in her signature, slanted cursive on an index card. It felt like she was sharing a slice of her history, of herself.

I had never made fudgies myself until recently, for Mother’s Day. We all hung out in Grandma Ruthie’s room at her nursing home, chatting, laughing and eating corned-beef sandwiches on rye. For dessert, I handed my grandma a fudgie. She said with seriousness, “They look right,” and took a bite. Then she looked at me, flashed a little smile, and nodded, as if to say, “They taste right, too.”

This recipe is short and sweet, and doesn’t require special equipment. My grandma’s recipe calls for “4 Squares Choc,” referring to the Baker’s brand chocolate squares that used to weigh an ounce each. These days, the Baker’s chocolate bar is thinner with more grid lines, and an ounce equals four rectangles.

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INGREDIENTS • 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate, chopped • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into cubes • 1 cup flour • 2 cups sugar • ½ tsp. salt • 4 large eggs • 2 tsp. vanilla • 1 cup finely chopped walnuts INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare a 9-by-13inch pan by buttering it, lining with parchment and buttering the parchment.

In a double boiler or microwave, melt chocolate and butter together. Let cool slightly. Whisk flour, sugar and salt together in a large bowl. Beat eggs in a separate bowl and add vanilla. Add the melted-chocolate mixture and the egg mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix until combined. Add ½ cup chopped walnuts and spread into prepared pan. Sprinkle remaining ½ cup chopped walnuts over top. Bake for 22-26 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. When cool, lift parchment to remove fudgies from pan.

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Bill Larkin, of Arsenal Cider, with his bees

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BUSY LIKE BEES {BY CELINE ROBERTS} BILL LARKIN, co-owner of Arsenal Cider, has

become fascinated with bees. After taking a class last year with renowned Pittsburgh beekeeper, Joe Zgurzynski of Country Barn Farm, he decided to start a small apiary as part of Arsenal’s business plan. His goal was to use the honey produced to make mead, adding a local touch to Arsenal’s many offerings. Traditional mead is simply honey, water and yeast, which ferments in a few weeks.

Depending on the style of mead and desired alcohol content, it’s then clarified and aged before drinking.

Larkin is now six months in on the renovations to Arsenal’s new production facility in Penn Hills. Purchased last year, the building is a former school, complete with the old school bell tower. He is also five weeks into his first year of beekeeping there. The school sits on 2.7 acres and abuts another 100 acres, which are ideal foraging ground for the bees. Larkin hopes to fill his acreage with berry bushes, so Arsenal can make melomel: mead made with any fruit other than apples or grapes.

Five of the 10 hives house Russian honeybees, which are cold-hardy; the other five are home to Italian honeybees, which produce more honey than other varieties. Larkin’s efforts are helped along by Andy Rich, of Penn Brewery, and Ashley Fersch, a technician at Cornell University’s McArt Lab, which is dedicated to the study of plant-

pollinator interactions. Fersch comes in every few weeks to check on the hives and teach Larkin more about honeybees. Larkin hopes to harvest 50 pounds of honey from each hive. With that yield, Larkin will get about 300 gallons of mead a year out of his bees alone. Harvest times are in fall and spring, but the first year will likely be experimental as Larkin and the staff learn more about beekeeping.

Also on the horizon are more changes for Arsenal as work finishes up on the production building. Over the coming months, showers, a laundry room, an exercise room, a break room and offices will be added.

“We’ll be Google before you know it,” jokes Larkin. A new 30-barrel system is on the way which will hugely increase the amount of cider Arsenal can produce. (It is currently using a three-anda-half barrel system.) Larkin is hopeful to have everything in place by late fall.

In the meantime, production continues at the original Lawrenceville location.

After the Penn Hills facility is up and running, Larkin plans to produce just vinegars and sour ciders at the Lawrenceville spot. Arsenal has also started fermenting some scrumpies, a traditionally made, often pulpy, dry cider that originated in the West Country of England. Keep an eye out for the first batch in the coming year at Soergel Orchards and at the Lawrenceville location.

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BOOZE BATTLES {BY CELINE ROBERTS}

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Go to the bars, taste them both and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and use #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage writer Celine Roberts, at celine@pghcitypaper.com.

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Kurt Gainfort bought a TASCAM four-track cassette recorder in 1996, and in the years that followed, the device grew to define his sound. Recording on only four tracks can be constricting, but it was that limitation that shaped the way he made music, whether for his label, Mirkwood Recordings, as K.M. Gainfort, or under the moniker, Stands in Lightning.

Now, the TASCAM’s kaput and Gainfort’s marking the occasion with a compilation of his work called A Chronology of Survival: The Lo-Fi of K.M. Gainfort.

The 20 songs are lo-fi for sure, but far from the airy buzz of Daniel Johnston-era lo-fi. This sound is closer to Guided By Voices or Les Savy Fav: The recording isn’t fancy, but its unfanciness doesn’t feel particularly stylized; it just is. This is the kind of recording that makes noise when no music is playing.

“When you’re recording on a fourtrack, no matter how good you get it, it’s always gonna sound like a four-track,” says Gainfort, who also played guitar in Surrounded by Mice. “There’s always this real human element involved.”

That human element is more than apparent as soon as the compilation lifts off with its opener “H.I. McDonaugh Thoughts” (“sometimes it’s a hard world for small things”). Whatever unconscious distrust swells up when you hear Auto-Tune or other tools of tooperfect production, this song inspires the opposite. The whole album does.

Gainfort founded Mirkwood Amateur Recordings in the mid-2000s as an outlet for his music and other local artists working in American postpunk. In the years since, he cut “amateur” from the name while keeping the concept, releasing records by regional bands like STEVE and Ruined by Worlds. Now that he’s married with a full-time job, and many of his label’s bands are defunct or near-defunct, it seemed like a good time to say goodbye.

With A Chronology of Survival, Gainfort simply wants to get this music out there. It’s available for free on Bandcamp, as are all Mirkwood Recordings releases.

He just wants people to hear it, and to know what obsolete recording technology can achieve.

“This is what a four-track can do,” says Gainfort. “This is what it can be.”

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Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke says he was in “utter disbelief” when he heard the results of Brexit, a recent referendum where the British voted to leave the European Union. Critics have said the decision was tied to growing xenophobic sentiments in the U.K., and the vote has already had dire economic consequences, including the British pound falling to its lowest level in decades.

“It was quite a heartbreaking day,” Okereke said in a phone interview with City Paper. “My initial reaction was quickly followed by a sense of panic about what was actually going to happen; we still don’t really know. It’s been discussed every day, but I feel like in a very short time, the entire status of British politics has changed, and no one really seems to know what’s coming next.”

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Bloc Party has been a staple of English indie rock for nearly two decades. At the peak of its fame in the mid-2000s, the band’s brand of frenetic angst appealed to teens and twentysomethings. Today, a few hiatuses and several different band members later, Okereke says he hopes Bloc Party provides an escape from all of the outside noise and unrest around the globe.

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“I think we definitely are living in a very charged time. It seems like there’s conflict and discord happening all over the world, and with that as a backdrop,

it’s hard not to be affected. I feel that,” says Okereke. “I’ve written in the past about the current social mood, but I also feel there are certain records that we’ve made that have been an attempt to shut all that stuff out and express what’s happening internally.”

Internal examination and spiritual reflection are noticeable themes of Bloc Party’s new album Hymns, released this past June.

“Hymns is a very different album in terms of the mood,” says Okereke. “We really wanted to capture something that had a sense of stillness about it, whereas in the past, lots of our records have been about expending energy.

This is the first time we wanted to make something that felt gentle. So, to me, it feels like a very different record, but it’s still us.”

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On the new album, Okereke and lead guitarist Russell Lissack are joined by new band members Justin Harris (bass guitar, keyboards, saxophones, backing vocals) and Louise Bartle (drums).

“This is the first record that we’ve made with our new lineup,” says Okereke. “It was a very interesting process making this album because on one hand, it felt very familiar, but on the other hand, it felt completely new. So it’s been fun learning how to be a band, and listen to each other, and experiencing all of that stuff again. It’s been fun getting a new perspective on things.”

It’s clear Hymns is an evolution. With titles like “Only He Can Heal Me” and “The Good News,” the album is dealing with some different themes than Bloc Party’s previous offerings. Other songs like “Different Drugs” — which Okereke says is his favorite song to play live right now — are more familiar, with lyrics like “I’m tryna broach the distance / That’s growing in our lives / From the night until the morning / Like we’re on different drugs.”

“We started the band in our 20s, a very formative sort of time. I feel that we’ve evolved as human beings as much as we have as musicians. It feels like we’re in different places in our lives now than we were when we started the band, and I think our music reflects that,” says Okereke. “I think, over the course of your life, the things that inspire you don’t really change that much, but as an artist, you find different ways of expressing them. I’ve always personally written about what’s been going on in my head and in my life. All the records we’ve made, to me they feel like documents of where I was as a human being at the time of the making of that record. When I think of each of our records, they take me back to a certain place: I can remember the conversations I was having, and the music that was inspiring me, and where I was in the world.”

Right now, Okereke says he’s been kind of removed from music coming out from other artists. Instead, he’s been listening to older records, like the vocal group The Ink Spots and 1990s musician Elliot Smith.

“I have absolutely no idea what is going to inspire me next,” says Okereke.

“But that’s kind of the joy of making music, making records and making art.

It’s the challenge and not knowing what’s going to come next that’s thrilling in the process. There isn’t a prescribed formula when it comes to making music.

“You just have to be open and responsive to what’s happening in the universe and what’s happening in your life.”

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Jimmy Knepper’s name might not reside in the upper pantheon of jazz musicians, but aficionados know the late trombonist was a gifted soloist and a strong support player.

He played with Charles Mingus on several albums, including the landmark Mingus Ah Um, often considered the bassist’s definitive work. Avid Admirer proves that Knepper was also a top-flight composer, but the album’s backstory reveals it to be more than simply a tribute album. It’s a literal passing of the torch.

Trombonist Reggie Watkins only met Knepper in passing. Shortly before Knepper died in 2003, he attended a concert by Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band, of which Watkins was a member. A decade later, Watkins’ mother and Knepper’s widow got to know each other through their church in Wheeling, W.Va. Eventually the Knepper family gave Watkins the set of instruments that belonged to the late trombonist, including his beloved Bach Stradivarius 36, which he uses on this album.

With such historical equipment at his disposal, Watkins infuses the music with an authority that shows off both his skills as a leader and Knepper’s advanced approach to composing.

Saxophonist Matt Parker, alternating pianists Orrin Evans and Tuomo Uusitalo, bassist Steve Whipple and drummer Reggie Quinerly play with an urgency that recalls late-’50s jazz, when musicians were bringing new structures to bear on the music. Knepper’s compositions do that, never forsaking a hard swinging feel, such as when blues patterns are being extended. In the breakdown in “Figment Fragment,” Watkins tips its hat to Mingus and Knepper. Strong on its own merit, Avid Admirer also inspires a search for the source material, to discover what other gems might have been overlooked.

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South Park July 22 Summer of Love Experience celebrating the songs of the Woodstock generation July 29 The Cactus Blossoms with Molly Alphabet (Rockabilly/Country/Americana)

Hartwood acres Park July 24 Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band with Ferdinand the Bull (Folk Rock) July 31 Randall Baumann’s Ramble (Roots Rock)

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albums since 2011, Quilt has been together since late 2008. Formed in Boston by Shane Butler and Anna Fox Rochinski — then students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts — the group grew out of the city’s do-it-yourself musical scene. “There was a very free-form DIY network,” says Butler. “It was so open that you could play with tons of different kinds of bands all the time.”

That wide-open approach informed Quilt’s own musical aesthetic. “It’s not that we were improvisational like a jazz group,” Butler emphasizes. “There was no intention behind our music. We just wanted to be a band.” They began to write songs, but with no particular style or musical approach in mind. “There was no need to tell ourselves what we were, what we were going to be, or what our songs were going to sound like,” he recalls. “We were able to figure that out, half at home and half in front of people.”

Butler remarks on the uniqueness of that DIY scene. “There will be nothing like it again,” he says, “and I feel very thankful for being around it.” The foundation of those early days allowed Quilt to develop a musical approach that has served it well, as displayed on the band’s third album, Plaza, released this year.

A collaborative mindset might be one secret to the band’s longevity. Butler believes the approach “fully embrace[s] the nature of each member of the group as a member and as an individual. That’s a very, very cool thing,” he says. “And I’m happy to

be in a band that has that.”

He notes that in their time together, the band members have become and remained really good friends. “Being together for seven years now, everyone’s become much more talented musicians, and better writers,” he says. “And in a group situation, you acknowledge that and ask yourselves, ‘OK, so how can we honor and use those things?’”

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Butler believes that Quilt’s touring has helped his own songwriting. “Whether it’s the thankfulness you have for being home and appreciating the simple things in life — cooking, seeing friends — or whether it’s the literal experience of being somewhere else, I find that touring has a really great effect on the creative process.

When you put yourself around different people, places and scenarios, you’re going to learn about things that you would have never known.”

Pittsburgh audiences have earned a special place in the hearts of Quilt’s musicians. The last time the band played locally, it was in the midst of a serious snowstorm. Butler recalls, “We were thinking, ‘Nobody’s gonna come to the show.’ But a bunch of kids came! They drove through the freakin’ snow where you could die. And they had a blast. And this does not happen in every city. There’s something really special about the dedication of our group of fans in Pittsburgh.

And I hope that we see them again.”

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[ROCK ’N’ ROLL] + THU., JULY 21 When I was little, my mother and I used kitchen utensils as microphones to sing along with the likes of Heart, Joan Jett and Cheap Trick as we made food together. Now you have a chance to see and hear all that impeccable classic rock ’n’ roll goodness in the flesh at First Niagara Pavilion; no kitchen utensils required. You’re sure to hear hits like Heart’s “Crazy on You” and “Barracuda,” as well as Jett’s ubiquitous “Bad Reputation.”

Don’t forget Cheap Trick’s family-reunion singalong anthem “Surrender” or “I Want You To Want Me.” Meg Fair Jeff 6:30 p.m. PA Route 18, Rosenstock Burgettstown. All ages. $18-230. 724- 947-7400 or www.livenation.com

[AGGRO] + SAT., JULY 23 Steel City Fest is upon us. Cattivo will be home to the heavy-hitting lineup, featuring seven bands who will deliver the shred, the stomp and the smash.

Headliners include metalcore act Full Blown Chaos, as well as one-time reunion of the beat-down home-towners in End of Humanity. Two heavy bands, Inconsolable Wretch and Acolyte, will be playing their first show. Steel Nation, No Reason to Live, Ante Up, Last Breath of Man and xRepresentx will also be holding it down, so prep your body for hella breakdowns and hometown pride. MF 3 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. $13-15. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com

[INDIE FOLK] + MON., JULY 25 MTVu Woodie-award-winning college-rock station WPTS cannot and will not stop booking killer gigs. This time the station presents Daughter and Julien Baker at Mr. Smalls. You already know the youthful wonder of Baker’s somber, haunting music, so it’s probably time to

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412-821-4447 or www.mrsmalls.com

[ROCK] + TUE., JULY 26 Jeff Rosenstock is the punk-rock dad of your dreams. He looks so normal, so inviting. He’s not actually a dad, for the record, but he is a master of creating brilliantly arranged punk music with relatable lyrics about being old but still doin’ the rock thing. He just put out “Festival Song,” an outrageously dreamy pop-banger.

Touring with Rosenstock is The Sidekicks. I once drunkenly tweeted that The Sidekicks were THE rock band; I stand by it. Joining the lineup are delightful BBQ-rock locals The Otis Wolves.

You’d be a fool to miss this evening of fun at Cattivo. MF 7 p.m. 146 44th St., Lawrenceville. All ages. $12-14. 412-687-2157 or www.cattivopgh.com

[MULTI-GENRE] + WED., JULY 27 Another Jam on Walnut is on tap. It’s part of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s concert fundraising series. This Shadyside celebration will feature Spinning Jenny and Chris Higbee. Higbee is a country violinist with charm, and Spinning Jenny is a trio of rock musicians making catchy, high-energy and heartwarming rock. The gathering will also feature free yoga in the street, booze trucks and plenty of opportunities to roam around Walnut Street’s restaurants and shops. MF 7:30 p.m. Walnut Street, Shadyside. $5 for a wristband. 412-586-4441 or www.spiritpgh.com

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ROCK/POP THU 21 CLUB CAFE. The Paper Kites w/ Larkin Poe. South Side.

412-431-4950.

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cheap Trick. Burgettstown.

724-947-7400.

REX THEATER. John Kadlecik of Further & Dark Star Orchestra.

South Side. 412-381-6811.

RIVERS CASINO. Jeff Jimerson Duo. North Side. 412-231-7777.

STAGE AE. The Show. North Side.

412-229-5483.

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BADO’S PIZZA GRILL & ALE HOUSE. Lenny Smith.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-563-5300.

BAYARDSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB. Bayardstown Happy Hours: Truth & Rights. Strip District. www.bayardstown.com BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Tartarus, Video Tapes, Castle Freak.

Bloomfield. 412-682-8611.

CLUB CAFE. Quilt w/ Hoops.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

7/14/16 9:32 AM HEINZ HALL. Music of David Bowie w/ the Pittsburgh Symphony. Downtown.

412-392-4900.

LINDEN GROVE. Dancing Queen Totally 80s. Castle Shannon.

412-882-8687.

THE MEADOWS. Airborne feat Jeff Jimerson. West Mifflin.

412-650-9000.

NIED’S HOTEL. Cody’s Band.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. JDA farewell show w/ KOA. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

THE R BAR. Kare-e-o-kee.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

RIVERS CASINO. On the Level.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

SMILING MOOSE. Holy White Hounds. South Side. 412-431-4668.

STAGE AE. Walk The Moon.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Blue Steel, Paul Luc. Lawrenceville.

412-682-0177.

CLUB CAFE. The Mutiny w/ Radio Lark. South Side. 412-431-4950.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. Flying Blind. North Huntingdon.

724-863-8181.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Chad Squires.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

OAKDALE STREET FAIR. The Dave Iglar Band. Oakdale.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Mike Dillon plays Elliott Smith, Neil Young, & more. Strip District.

412-566-1000.

THE R BAR. Shannon & the Merger. Dormont. 412-942-0882.

RIVERS CASINO. Kevin Howard Trio. North Side. 412-231-7777.

SMILING MOOSE. One-Eyed Doll Tribal Vibes, HEROS & TERRORISTS, Kai Roberts, Clara Kent. South Side.

412-431-4668.

SONNY’S TAVERN. Unfinished Symphonies, Valerie Kuehne.

Bloomfield. 412-683-5844.

TABLE 86 BY HINES WARD. Right TurnClyde. Mars. 724-741-0860.

WALNUT STREET. Chris Higbee. Shadyside. www.thinkshadyside.com.

SUN 24 BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE TAVERN. Shepherds, Weird Corners, Tambouri. Bloomfield.

412-682-8611.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Josh Ritter.

Allison Park. 412-767-9200.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Frightened Rabbit, Avers.

Millvale. 412-821-4447.

SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Meeting of Important People, The Mavens & Paddy the Wanderer. Weather Permitting.

Shadyside. 412-363-5845.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. Wet Brain, Derider & Empty Beings. Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441.

STAGE AE. Melanie Martinez.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

MON 25 EXCUSES BAR & GRILL. Bill Toms & Hard Rain. South Side.

412-431-4090.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Army, Bad Custer,

MP 3 MONDAY UNCLE FRESH & SHEM THE PEN

SAT 23 ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Still Not Sober.

Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968.

BAHAMA BREEZE ISLAND GRILLE. Ras Prophet. Robinson.

412-788-5790.

BALTIMORE HOUSE. Midlife Crisis.

Pleasant Hills. 412-653-3800.

CATTIVO. Sykosis, Prime 8, BlackBird Bullet, Sound Servent, Boomsitck, The Classifieds.

Lawrenceville. 412-687-2157.

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TUE 26 CLUB CAFE. All Them Witches w/ King Buffalo. South Side.

412-431-4950.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. Janet Jackson. Uptown. 412-642-1800.

DIESEL. Gemini Syndrome.

South Side. 412-431-8800.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Parachute, Brynn Elliott, Jerad Finck. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

PITTSBURGH ART HOUSE. Cloud Becomes Your Hand.

Highland Park.

STAGE AE. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats w/ Amasa Hines.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

EARLY WARNINGS

HOWLERS. Gleasons Drift & the Backroad Burners. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

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THU 21 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. Millvale. 603-321-0277.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY. Roger Humphries & RH Factor. Uptown.

412-396-6000.

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Trivium Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side

FRI 22

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

Lawrenceville. 412-688-8820.

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

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

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ANDYS WINE BAR. Tania Grubbs.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CRAFTON PARK. RML Jazz. Crafton.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB 1LIVE STUDIO. DJ Goodnight: & SPEAKEASY. Roger Open Elements. Avalon.

Humphries Jam Session.

Ballroom. North Side.

412-424-9254.

412-904-3335.

SPIRIT HALL & LODGE. VALLOZZI’S Finesse: EYEJAY & PITTSBURGH. Eric Tim “Paizley” Powell.

Johnson. Downtown.

Lawrenceville.

412-394-3400.

412-586-4441. . w w WALLACE’S TAP w aper p ty ci h g p ROOM. Roger Barbour .com Jazz Trio. East Liberty.

DIESEL. Mobley & 412-665-0555.

The Peach Kings. South Side. 412-431-8800.

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

412-424-9254.

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GETAWAY CAFE. Strange Brew.

Brookline. 412-343-1333.

MOONDOG’S. Norman Nardini’s “We Miss the Blues Festival” Show.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Kenia.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

REVEL + ROOST. Funk + Soul Fridays. Downtown. 412281-1134.

SENTI ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR. Trio + Mariko Reid. Lawrenceville. 412-586-4347.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters w/ Max Leake. Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

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THE R BAR. BTK. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Kathy Connor. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

FRI 22 MOONDOG’S. Doug Deming & the Jewel Tones, ft. Dennis Grueling. Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

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THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYING THE EAGLES. Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

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DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

REMEDY. Dance Crush.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-6771.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

THU 21

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY. PJO Little Big Band. Uptown.

412-396-6000.

Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall

SAT 23

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OTHER MUSIC

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch. Burgettstown.

724-947-7400.

THE MEADOWS. Morgan White.

West Mifflin. 412-650-9000.

NIED’S HOTEL. Moonshine Steel.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

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The Handsome Family

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SAT 23

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY. Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra ft. Sean Jones. Uptown. 412-396-6000.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Vanessa Collier.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

PANDORA. Harry Cardillo & Charlie Sanders. Shadyside. www.harrycardillo.net.

The Handsome Family

COUNTRY

School, Shadyside. 412-587-7500.

ORGANIST ELNA JOHNSON. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland.

412-621-4951.

FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch. Burgettstown.

724-947-7400.

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WED 27

ACE HOTEL PITTSBURGH. TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party. Rare Soul, Funk & wild R&B 45s feat.

DJ Gordy G. & J.Malls. East Liberty.

412-621-4900.

ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side.

412-586-7644.

ONE 10 LOUNGE. DJ Goodnight, DJ Rojo. Downtown. 412-874-4582.

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

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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

412-381-1330.

SMILING MOOSE. Moose Electronic. South Side.

412-431-4668.

Claat w/ VYBZ Machine Intl Sound System. East Liberty. 412-362-1250.

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

412-431-3100.

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

Monroeville. 412-728-4155.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Reggie Watkins. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Frank Cunimondo w/ Patricia Skala.

Greensburg. 724-850-7245.

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The Remainders & Mike Frazier.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Daughter, Julien Baker. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

STAGE AE. Bloc Party w/ The Gotobeds, Shade. North Side.

412-229-5483.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Paul Constantino. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

CITY OF ASYLUM. Roger Humphries & RH Factor.

North Side. 412-321-2190.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY. Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra featuring Don Aliquo, Jr.. Uptown.

412-396-6000.

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

THU 21 PITTSBURGH CAPA. TOMODACHI Ties Through Taiko. Taiko drumming. Downtown.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Paul Sanchez. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

FRI 22 PALACE THEATRE. Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

SAT 23 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Employees of Funk.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

THUNDERBIRD CAFE. Brockett 360. Lawrenceville. 412-682-0177.

SUN 24 CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OAKLAND. PGH Tango Trio PGH Tango Trio.

Oakland. 412-622-3114.

WEST PARK. Billy Price. North Side.

SAT 23

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THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. A classical mixer.

Heinz Hall, Downtown.

412-392-4900.

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

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

SUN 24

PALLANTIA. Jon Bañuelos, flamenco guitarist. Shadyside.

412-621-2919.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SUITE. Winchester Thurston, Upper

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ACOUSTIC THU 21 DOWNEY’S HOUSE. John Wiatrak. Robinson. 412-489-5631.

HOP FARM BREWING. The Shameless Hex. Lawrenceville.

412-726-7912.

FRI 22 ARSENAL CIDER HOUSE & WINE CELLAR. Midnight Rooster.

Lawrenceville. 412-260-6968.

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BAKERY SQUARE. Acoustical Bruce. Larimer. www.bakery-square.com.

Hosted by @mikedean_ + Music by @DJsolodolo

TUE 26 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Ron Wilson.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

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WED 27 ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

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

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CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157. All ages show.

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

THURSDAY 21 Pups-n-Pints Yappy Hour

SOCIAL Bakery Square.

412-362-1234. Over 21 event.

Free event. 5p.m.

Live at the Fillmore BESSEMER COURT STAGE Station Square. With special guest Jill West & Blues Attack.

Free show. 7:30p.m.

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org /summer. 7:30p.m.

2016 Summer Concert Series: Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band

The Silent Woman

HARTWOOD ACRES Hampton.

Free event. 7:30p.m.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER Downtown.

Tickets: ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. 8p.m.

2016 Summer Concert Series: Summer of Love Experience

FRIDAY 22 225 Station Square Summer Jam:

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Music of David Bowie

Jim Gaffigan

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org /summer. 7:30p.m

SUNDAY 24 MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

FALK AUDITORIUM Shadyside.

Tickets: otsummerfest.org.

Through July 24.

Music of the Eagles

MUSIC OF DAVID BOWIE GUEST VOCALIST, BRODY DOLYNIUK HEINZ HALL JULY 22

MONDAY 25 Daughter

SOUTH PARK South Park Township. Free event.

7:30p.m.

Luke Bryan FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown.

Tickets: livenation.com or 800-745-3000.

Through July 23.

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SATURDAY 23 Jam On Walnut

WALNUT STREET Shadyside.

With special guests Spinning Jenny and Chris Higbee.

Free event. 7p.m.

Classical Mixer “1812 Overture” & More!

HEINZ HALL Downtown.

412-392-4900. Tickets: pittsburghsymphony.org /summer. 7:30p.m.

One Whirl Yoga Fest POINT STATE PARK Downtown. Tickets: whirlmagazine.com/yogafest.

6a.m.

Reggie Watkins CD

Release Show PITTSBURGH WINERY Strip District. 412-566-1000.

Over 21 show.

Tickets: showclix.com. 9p.m.

MR. SMALLS THEATRE Millvale. 412-821-4447.

All ages show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

TUESDAY 26

Little Red Riding Hood

Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA

HILDA WILLIS ROOM Shadyside.

Tickets: otsummerfest.org.

11a.m.

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghclo.org.

Through July 31.

FANS WILL FIND PLENTY OF NODS TO THE ORIGINAL WORK

STILL BOOZY {BY HARRY KLOMAN} Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie fits right into a popular entertainment genre.

Because, let’s face it, Edina (writer/star Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) were walking corpses even back in their TV days, preserved only by copious amounts of alcohol.

More champagne: Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley

Nothing has changed for their colorful-cum-gaudy cinema debut (and doubtless farewell) after 24 years. They drink and insult people, and no one is harder on the ever-more-corpulent PR exec Eddy (top client: the singer Lulu) than Eddy herself. Their adventures involve all the old gang and lots of cameos — from Jon Hamm to a flash of Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries, who also has a juicy male part, i.e., role) — along with myriad acerbic quips and a few inventive set pieces (Patsy and a Taser on a plane, Eddy’s daughter singing “At Seventeen” in a drag club).

Not that it matters, but there is a plot.

Eddy kills Kate Moss (spoiler alert: she turns up alive), then flees with Patsy to the south of France, where they contrive new ways to keep drinking and stay rich.

(Some still like it hot.) So this is one for the fans — a way (and gay) over-the-top farce that skewers the fashion and PR industries, along with celebrity egos. Plus ça change, darling. As they say in Cannes. Starts Fri., July 22. Manor

“Ain’t no bitches gonna hunt no ghosts”: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon

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Plenty of time still to jump into HBO’s eightpart procedural about a young PakistaniAmerican student arrested for murder in New York City, and what happens to him in the criminaljustice and legal systems. Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler) and John Turturro star. 9 p.m.

Sundays, and on demand

HERE HAVE BEEN 10,000 or so remakes and reboots of movies good and bad. And in a summer chockfull of tedious re-dos and sequels, Paul Feig’s new take on Ghostbusters turned out to be the hill that a noisy batch of internet commenters wanted to die on. Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters is a shaggy comedy about … well, busting ghosts; it’s not some sacred cultural text. I’m too worn out from raging about the upcoming Ice Age 5 to sort out why so many folks lost their mind behind this remake: Suffice to say, if you’re apoplectic that the original Ghostbusters had been remade in any way, shape or fashion, just stay home.

However, if you’re looking for some mindless entertainment in an air-conditioned room, a two-hour respite from smart-phone notifications endlessly chirping out news of fresh real-life horrors, the new Ghostbusters should fit the bill. It’s not a great movie (neither was the original,

in my opinion), but it’s amusing in a lowimpact, silly way, mostly due to the charisma of its actors (ditto, the original).

As you may have heard — thanks internet! — this current batch of spook-chasers are ladies. There are two childhood pals and science nerds (Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig), a kooky gadget-maker (Kate McKinnon) and a transit worker who just

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wants to help (Leslie Jones). Truly, not much of this film’s budget was spent developing characters: These thinly sketched gals face off against a generic weird-guyin-the-basement villain (Neil Casey), who is unleashing ectoplasm-spewing ghosts on New York City. Everything unfolds as expected, and not in an ideal fashion: Ghost-

busters has a slow, creaky start (though it features the sad-eyed Zach Woods, who I’ll watch do anything), a flabby middle and a rushed conclusion.

But there are some laughs. These are four great comedic actresses and all get at least a few good jokes. (Plenty fall flat, but slide by like so much green slime.) McKinnon, with her off-kilter delivery and bendy physicality, may be beamed in from a truly weird maybe-not-even-funny movie; you’ll love it or hate it. And Chris Hemsworth is a good sport about playing the ditzy blond secretary in the tight shirt.

Fans of the first film (who have sold out their very souls to watch this, ahem) will find plenty of nods to the original work, including cameos by actors from the 1984 outing. Other cameos are contemporary, and a few are tragically wasted: Why book Matt Walsh (Veep) and the great Michael K. Williams just do a perfunctory cop scene?

That’s a failing worth griping about.

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JACKIE BROWN. Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 crime flick adapts Elmore Leonard’s novel about a stewardess (Pam Grier) who, while smuggling cash, gets caught between cops and gangsters. 7:30 p.m. Wed., July 20.

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NEW THE FITS. Anna Rose Holmer’s debut feature is a coming-of-age story unlike most.

For starters, it zeroes in on girls, and AfricanAmerican ones at that. It eschews conventional plotting and dialogue for an almost dreamlike examination of one girl’s uneasy transition from tomboy to adolescent woman.

Eleven-year-old Toni (Royalty Hightower) spends her free time at the community center, where her older brother leads her through boxing training. (The film was shot at the Lincoln Community Center, in Cincinnati’s West End.) Then Toni becomes entranced by a squad of drill dancers practicing down the hall, and joins the team of teenage girls. Soon after, members of the dance crew suffer “fits” — episodes of shaking and fainting — which become the source of speculation among the girls: Is it the center’s water, the intensity of the dancing, or some sort of psychosomatic viral trend (one girl posits it might be a “boyfriend disease”).

Meanwhile, Toni struggles to find a balance between the easy athletic-oriented camaraderie of the boys and the fraught but intense relationships of the girls; she flirts with “girl” things like ear piercings and giggling episodes of dress-up.

The film — just 70 minutes — is provocative and even haunting in its presentation. There is very little dialogue — the first third of the film has almost none — and like the old Peanuts TV cartoons, there are virtually no adults (and then we only hear their muted voices). The building — and its empty halls and rooms which Toni roams — is as much a character: Which room holds the future? And Holmer films Toni engaged in trance-like behaviors which speak to those disorienting years between childhood and adolescence.

The film will be too oblique and openended for those who like tales to be direct and tidy; the metaphor of the fits themselves is fairly fluid, though I read them easily enough as markers of both transition and a desire to belong.

There is bittersweetness and joy in Toni’s journey, navigating uneasily from Team Boy to Team Girl. Life in Team Girl has its terrible costs and compromises for a bright self-assured tomboy,

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THE BLUES BROTHERS. Jake and Elwood Blues are on a mission from God — and no blues riff, neo-Nazi or cop car is safe. Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi take their SNL skit to the big screen in John Landis’ madcap 1980 musical romp. Guest musicians include: James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker. July 22-27. Row House Cinema

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THE ROYAL TENNEBAUMS. A splintered family of assorted oddballs — including three child geniuses now neurotic adults (Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Platrow, Luke Wilson) — struggle together in Wes Anderson’s 2001 film. Anderson explores their pain with a sensitivity that’s somehow abetted by his deadpan absurdist humor. July 22-25 and July 27-28. Row House Cinema STEP BROTHERS. In Adam McKay’s 2008 comedy, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly portray a pair of 39-year-olds who still live at home and act like life is a perpetually bad day in ninth grade. Cue 90-plus minutes of bodyslamming, witless profanity, unattractive pouting and bad T-shirts from the stars. July 22-24 and July 26-28.

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The Infiltrator but also offers meaningful rewards like friendship and shared emotional experiences. Starts Fri., July 22.

Harris (Al Hoff) ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE. The latest challenge for the critters of the Ice Age franchise is a doozy: a giant meteor headed for Earth. Galen T. Chu and Mike Thurmeier direct this animated family comedy. Starts Fri., July 22

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7:30pm, 7/21 @ 9:30pm, 7/23 @ 4:00pm & 7:00pm, 7/24 @ 7:00pm, 7/25 @ 7:30pm, 7/26 @ 7:30pm - A boy and his foster father (Sam Neill) become the subjects of a manhunt after they get stranded in the New Zealand wilderness. Come see why audiences applaud after every screening!

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ON THE WATERFRONT. Elia Kazan’s 1954 dark drama is often seen as thinly veiled justification for Kazan’s naming names for the HUAC anti-Communist hearings. Regardless, this gripping story of a washed-up boxer forced to confront his shaky ethics features a cluster of fine method actors, including the young Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger, plus gritty location shooting at the New Jersey docks. July 22-26 and July 28. Row House Cinema

THE INFILTRATOR. “One wrong word, one slip.”

That, says Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) — an undercover U.S. Customs officer, circa mid-1980s, working to break up drug lord Pablo Escobar’s money-laundering ring — is all it takes to blow an operation and get yourself killed.

Of course, we’ve heard that before, and we’ve seen The Infiltrator many times. But director Brad Furman’s procedural, based on the real-life Mazur’s autobiography, is a tense and entertaining version of the genre — that would have been much stronger as a miniseries. It’s a little more than two hours long, yet it still feels truncated, especially in the development of some crucial relationships.

Although the moody film looks good, the emphasis is less on docu and more on drama. Can undercover agents really be such gifted actors? Obviously so, because they pulled it off. (Most of the accented bad guys — except for Yul Vazquez as a sexually fluid Colombian dealer — seem to have watched too many movies about themselves.) Cranston is nuanced and absorbing, but the acting in The Infiltrator still needs to relax. That’s what eight hours on TV would have

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allowed. The film’s best moments are the ones where Mazur, a gentle family man in “real life,” persuades some of the world’s most dangerous people that he’s one of them. (Harry Kloman) LIGHTS OUT. David F. Sandberg directs this horror thriller about a woman still haunted by spooky things from her childhood. Now it’s happening to her little brother. Annnd the lights just went OUT! Starts Fri., July 22 NERVE. A young woman joins a social-media-driven, truth-or-dare-style game, where online “watchers” keep ramping up the intensity. Emma Roberts and Dave Franco star in this thriller from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Starts Wed., July 27 STAR TREK BEYOND. The continuing adventures of young Capt. Kirk and his crew, as a lengthy mission compromises their spaceship and strands them on a remote planet. Justin Lin directs. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., July 22

REPETORY DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Wed., July 20 (Schenley) and Sat., July 23 (Riverview). Inside Out, Thu., July 21 (Brookline); Fri., July 22 (Arsenal); and Sat., July 23 (Grandview). The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Sun., July 24 (Schenley); Tue., July 26 (West End/ Elliott Overlook); and Thu., July 28 (Brookline). My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Mon., July 25 (Mellon Square,

INCREDIBLY STRANGE VIDEO 20TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION. Celebrate Dormont’s long-running cultfilm video store (opened in 1996, closed in 2008) with a night of memories. Mix and mingle with former patrons and store-owner Bruce Lentz; shop the ISV dollar store; and watch three ISV-type films on the big screen.

First up is Invisible Invaders (1959), in which a small crew works to prevent Earth from being taken over by aliens; directed by Edward Cahn and featuring notable actor John Carradine. Then catch the 1966 Ray Dennis Steckler “classic” Rat Phink a Boo Boo, a comedic riff on crime-fighting superheroes. Close the evening out with Blood Feast (1963), an early feature from goremeister Hershell Gordon Lewis about a man assembling body parts to reconstruct an Egyptian deity. 7 p.m. doors open; movies at 8 p.m. Fri., July 22. Hollywood. $8 DRESSED TO KILL. Michael Caine, Nancy Allen and Angie Dickinson star in Brian DePalma’s 1980 thriller which combines adultery, psychiatry, murder and mysterious blondes. Screens as part of a month-long, Sunday-night series of De Palma classics. 8 p.m. Sun., July 24. Regent Square KILL BILL — VOL. 1 and VOL. 2. Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 two-parter follows bad-ass heroine The Bride (Uma Thurman) as she seeks revenge on a handful of assassins who tried to leave her dead at the altar.

Chock full of action, repartee, and nods to kung-fu actioners and spaghetti Westerns. Vol. 1: 6:30 p.m.; Vol. 2: 8:30 p.m. Wed., July 27. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. This recent POV documentary profiles activist Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American woman who worked for more than 70 years among the African-American community in Detroit. Boggs died last year at the age of 100. The film screens as part of a monthly series of films highlighting labor and social-justice issues. 7:30 p.m. Thu., July 28.

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STREET SONGS {BY TYLER DAGUE}

< “Twitter Over Fracking,” by Don Dugal

Streetside Karoake in action {PHOTO COURTESY OF JUDD POESKE}

You’re walking down a busy street when someone hands you a microphone. With a 20-inch electronic tablet hanging from the side of a car as your lyrics sheet, and a speaker for the music, you belt out your favorite karaoke tune, amplified as people go about their errands.

No, it’s not the latest skit from James Corden. Rather, it’s Street Side Karaoke.

Judd Poeske, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate in opera performance and decision sciences, was inspired to create Street Side Karaoke after seeing CMU students’ success with Bus Stop Opera, a pop-up group that performed original operatic works at bus stops and train stations.

Poeske wanted to let others join in song.

“Traditionally, [karaoke is] at a bar,” Poeske says. “It’s less family-friendly. I wanted it to be out in the open. Everybody has favorite songs that they like to sing and know the words to by heart. Why not try to give that to people?”

Enter Awesome Pittsburgh, a local chapter of global philanthropy community The Awesome Foundation. Each chapter’s volunteer trustees provide grants each month for innovative ways to engage city residents. May’s $1,000 grant allowed Poeske to purchase all his equipment and to rent karaoke software.

“This concept really stuck out because it felt like something that was all about fun, but in the most acceptable and inclusive way,” says Awesome Pittsburgh trustee Soraya Alexander.

“We thought it would bring people together to spark some spontaneous experiences with other Pittsburghers.

There’s something about karaoke that makes people really vulnerable. It’s actually great for fostering community.”

Within one month, about 75 people have lent their voices to random Street Side Karaoke events, including several children.

“Sometimes it starts off really well with little kids,” Poeske says. “I’ve probably heard little girls sing ‘Let It Go’ [from Frozen] a million times.”

Asked about Street Side’s long-term prospects, Poeske is bullish, but admits he’ll have to get creative with partnerships to sustain this outdoor project in winter.

He has also talked with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and remains open to private fundraisers.

“I’d like to keep it going,” Poeske said. “Street Side Karaoke is only getting bigger at this point. Part of what’s really cool about the project is it makes Pittsburgh a cooler place to be. We’re going out to different communities and bringing people together through music.

That’s exciting.”

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105th Annual Exhibition, featuring 63 works by 56 artists, is a solid show.

And while the exhibit doesn’t break a ton of new ground, it’s good to have it back at the Carnegie Museum of Art, its spiritual home.

In her juror’s statement, Sarah LehrerGraiwer acknowledges that this Annual isn’t a survey of the AAP’s membership, but rather a “small selection” from among some 650 submissions by regional artists.

Still, some motifs emerge, namely an agreeably (pre)historic concern with animals and nature. Admittedly, a few of these creatures seem products of the GMO age: Susan Kemenyffy’s porcelain work “Waiting” — part of one animal-themed grouping — depicts a hybrid of leopard head, bearish body and insect legs. And the title of Ben Matthews’ nearby ink drawing “Gene Assassin” suggests a lab-induced function for its winged, eyeless little monster. In “Portal — Mossy,” Atticus Adams cleverly

works green aluminum mesh into a mutant wreath that look like it might eat you.

Also unnatural are the nightmarish cartoons of Andrew Allison’s “Pool” — hundreds of imaginary sea creatures, no two alike, displayed on the floor on what could be a novelty bedsheet for your favorite

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weird nephew. And while Ed Parrish’s “Sublime Neuron” might be organically inspired, this work in hand-painted cast iron (a rare artist’s medium) is at once fearsome and whimsical, like a Mongol warshield crossed with a doily.

Meanwhile, Bob Ziller’s “William Blake”

is a charming portrait of the visionary poet as an old sheep, though it feels less like science fiction and more like the Paleolithic practice of blending shamans with animals. Close by is Carole Stemple’s “I Got All My Sisters in Me”; this standout work is a ceramic woman, seated crosslegged and split in half to reveal miniatures of iconic female forms, like the Willendorf Venus, and hand-drawn tableaux referencing cave paintings — a powerful evocation of sorority across millennia.

Nature is sublimely summoned in Clayton Merrell’s oil painting “Everything All At Once”: a line of pinwheeling celestial bodies separating two dusky, near-mirrorimage forest landscapes. Jennifer Nagle Myers asks us to find ourselves in nature with “Waterfall Vision”: Its 84 slate panels cascade in two streams down the Scaife Galleries wall and onto the floor, adorned with painted forms suggesting roots or ribcages (or both). Judi Rosen’s “I Know

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EPISTOLARY {BY DANIELLE LEVSKY} Mary-Louise Parker’s critically acclaimed debut book, Dear Mr. You (Scribner), is a collction of (fictional and nonfictional) letters to the men in her life — relatives, mentors, lovers and more — in which the actress (Weeds) explores a variety of literary styles. In advance of her July 27 visit to Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (in conversation with WESA’s Josh Raulerson), she spoke with City Paper by phone.

Mary-Louise Parker {PHOTO COURTESY OF TINA TURNBOW}

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You Are But What Am I?” also toys with organic forms: a witty mashup of a walnut, a stone, flippers, sex parts and other concupisciently curved shapes immortalized in bronze. Sharon Massey’s “Precious” asks that we reconsider value judgments by rendering a large diamond in the dull hues of galvanized steel. And Don Dugal’s large painting/drawing “Twitter Over Fracking” expresses anxiety over nature’s prospects with two similar cubes: The upper is colorful and criss-crossed with “trending” line graphs, while the lower, shale-gray, is riven by a single lightning-bolt-shaped crack. It’s like an emotional info-graphic.

Domestic concerns get their due. For “Hand-Typed Checked Shirt,” Lenka Clayton continues her exploration of maternal devotion by disassembling a child’s dress shirt, carefully patterning it with 30,000 strokes of a typewriter’s “=” key, then handsewing it back together. Pati Beachley’s “16 Yarns: We Never Even Talk Any More” will induce a knowing chuckle: It spells out its title in cursive, in sparkly chromed yarn.

(Imagine it hung in the kitchen.) “Fairground #8” is another of the inimitable Ryder Henry’s urban landscapes reimagining home in oil, here a neighborhood of miniature farms and 13-story moated (!) high-rises, the gravel streets traversed by bikes and cars.

Notable abstract work includes Mia Tarducci’s “Floor (Detail),” a painting on eight 3-foot-square panels that concisely plays a few near-geometric elements against other shapes that rhyme across the canvas in splashes of bold, bright colors on the tan linen. Curtis Reaves’ two “Intradialogue” pieces look like graphic illustrations but they’re actually clever assemblages incorporating what look like hair rollers, in hues of DayGlo and metal.

In recent years, under executive director Juliana Morris, AAP has done a good job bringing in new and younger artists: At least 11 of the Annual’s 56 participants were born in 1980 or after, and a similar number in the 1970s. (Ten or so were born before 1950.) Yet if the exhibit is oddly devoid of more contemporary media — there’s zero video, zero sound art — one can note that absence without feeling deprived.

The Annual, after all, does showcase a few newfangled techniques, as in Carolyn Frischling’s “Appstraction”: The 3-D-printed sculpture in PLA plastic with a polymer ceramic coating suggests a microorganism by way of Henry Moore. Nor have more venerable formats lost the power to move us: Exhibit highlights include David Stanger’s still life in oil “Pillow,” with the depression in the cushion where a head once lay as haunting as the head-shaped shadow cast over it.

ARTISTS ARE OFTEN QUESTIONED WHEN THEY TRY A NEW MEDIUM. DID YOU GET ANY SUCH FEEDBACK? I wrote for Esquire under David Granger. A very close friend of mine once said they’d seen a piece and asked who wrote it for me. Another friend of mine gave me a backhanded compliment around the time that I sold Dear Mr. You. I didn’t want it to inhibit my writing confidence.

People think they can identify and classify others.

If I was going to write the book everyone expected me to write, there would have been things in [it] that I found salacious. I wanted to put something out there that informed me or haunted me. In this one, there are heroic, everyday men doing this or that. I have a son and I want him to read about these kind of men. As a woman, if you speak with any sort of clarity or passion, you’re basically screaming. I feel like I let people walk all over me sometimes.

READING THESE LETTERS, I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE YOU WERE BEING WALKED ON. IT’S LIKE YOU’RE TAKING OWNERSHIP FOR EACH RELATIONSHIP. I wanted these letters to be about the people. In deciding to write “Dear Cerberus” with a mythical creature and in that fairy-tale-like style, I made myself this perfect little heroine-protagonist and made him a monster. I took it to cartoon levels so it wouldn’t be something that was asking for sympathy.

WHILE THE MEMORIES WERE PERSONAL, IT SEEMS EASY FOR READERS TO PROJECT THEIR OWN MEMORIES AND THOUGHTS INTO EACH LETTER. I want the reader to be able to project and inspire. They can go over the topography of experience with the person they think of. There’s so much forgotten sweetness.

You get back into the minutia of the actual experience, finding little things in the sand.

It’s surprising when you go back for the second whirl.

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Entering its sixth season, Texture Contemporary Ballet reunites with Pittsburgh’s Cello Fury for Interfusion, July 21-24 at the New Hazlett Theater.

Texture artistic director Alan Obuzor sees the chamber-music group with rock ’n’ roll grit as a kindred spirit: Both groups work from classical foundations but have broadened into other areas to change the dynamic of their work.

Interfusion — with five performances, including a July 23 children’s matinee — opens with a reprise of the groups’ 2014 collaboration, “Symphony of Shadows.”

Choreographed by Obuzor and Texture associate artistic director Kelsey Bartman, the ballet is set to selections from Cello Fury’s 2013 album of the same name, which the group will play live. Obuzor describes the ballet on pointe as having “the feeling of teetering out of control.”

Hip hop is a term not associated with Texture, but choreographer Gabriel Ash, founder of local hip-hop dance troupe KG Dynasty, adds that new “texture” with his first work for the company, “Release.”

Meshing hip hop and contemporary dance and performed to music by Kleerup featuring Lykke Li, the piece is lyrical, says Obuzor.

Another premiere will be Obuzor’s “Unbroken,” a pas de deux he will dance with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Diana Yohe to music by composer Wim Mertens.

Obuzor says that the piece is about two individuals who think much alike but cannot communicate with each other.

Two more Obuzor ballets follow: “Japura” (2008), a solo set to jungleinspired music by Philip Glass and danced by Point Park University grad Henry Steele, and “Regreso al Realidad” (2011), a tango-esque group ballet set to music by Astor Piazzolla that Obuzor created for a Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School production.

Bookending the program will be the premiere of Texture’s new ballet in collaboration with Cello Fury, “Ambulantes Mortem” (Walking Death). Choreographed

by Bartman and Obuzor, the group work for 15 dancers in socks will be danced to six as-yet-unreleased songs by Cello Fury that the group will perform live. Contrary to its ominous title, Obuzor says the ballet is not a scene from the zombie apocalypse, but an effort to create grounded dance movement that would be markedly different from the program’s opener, “Symphony of Shadows.”

Summer Company’s production of Come Back, Little Sheba, even in the play’s daytime scenes. With this simple conceit, director Justin Sines brilliantly evokes the intimate, crepuscular despair that has engulfed the Delaney family, leading to the riveting events of William Inge’s 1950 work.

This is America just before the influx of television, and radio is the only lifeline of imaginary escape in the home of Doc and Lola, played with remarkable depth

by Mark Yochum and Susan McGregorLaine. They live inward-looking existences, like figures inhabiting Baroque paintings that fear to gaze beyond the darkness surrounding them.

In the first moment of the first scene, Yochum reduces the ethos of the entire drama into the micro-gesture of his hand reaching past a whiskey bottle for something in the cupboard. This minute hesitation presages horrendous actions later on.

The gifted McGregor-Laine is Doc’s wife, as hopelessly lost in the past as she is lost from her own future. The acuity of her near-stuttering speech during stressful episodes is utterly convincing and masterful.

Lauren Brendel plays the student boarder Marie like the ingénue she is, and manages to string along two love interests, as well as Doc – no easy task. Heather Clark, as the nosy neighbor Mrs. Coffman, becomes a strong recurring presence even in a minor role.

COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA continues through Sun., July 24.

Genesius Theater, 600 Forbes Ave., Duquesne University. $5-15. www.thesummercompany.com

John E. Lane Jr.’s set brings us not just into the Delaney home, but into the occupants’ psyches. You can almost smell the dirty wax on the linoleum floors of this seedy house. Instead of being portrayed cramped as in many productions, the set spreads out so near the audience that those who are faint of heart are advised not to sit in the front row — especially during Doc’s drunken rage when he carves up the room with a hatchet.

Lighting designer Christina Levi often tunes the illumination mid-scene as if to embellish certain dramatic beats the way a musical score usually does.

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From left to right: Tom Kolos, Mark Yochum and Eric Mathews in The Summer Company’s Come Back, Little Sheba

The creative risks this production takes are all the more rewarding for their subtlety. How rare to encounter a performance so immediate that you feel like you’ve become trapped in the chiaroscuro of its world.

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Musical, now at Pittsburgh CLO, found its way to the stage at the Benedum. In 1990, William Steig published the children’s picture book Shrek! about an ugly green ogre who sets off on a quest to save a princess and discovers he’s beautiful in his own way.

In 2001, a whole passel of writers turned it into an animated film produced by the newish Spielberg/Katzenberg/ Geffen studio DreamWorks SKG, and it became the first movie to win an Oscar for Best Animated Film.

In 2008, composer Jeanine Tesori and book/lyric writer David Lindsay-Abaire opened a musical version on Broadway, which ran for about a year. And now CLO presents the show as part of their summer season.

The movie had a welcome strain of sarcasm running through it, leavening the whole “children’s fairytale” thing.

Katzenberg, who had earlier been fired from Disney, used the movie to make some quite pointed digs at his old employer and, rumor has it, modeled the

villain, Lord Farquaad, on his ex-boss Michael Eisner.

Tesori and Lindsay-Abaire have thankfully kept a lot of that bitchery while also lampooning a number of very famous children’s movies and books; it’s still a kid’s show, but at least you don’t leave feeling like you were dipped head-first into a cotton-candy machine.

The CLO production features a cast of top-quality performers plowing their way through the material; though enjoyable, I’m not sure we really need to endure 21 musical numbers.

Rory Donovan is doing yeoman’s work as Shrek, buried as he is under pounds of makeup, prosthetics and an enormous fat suit. That he manages to create such a touching and humane character inside all that is nothing short of a miracle.

SHREK THE MUSICAL continues through Sun., July 24.

Benedum Center, 237 Seventh St., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or www.trustarts.org

Haven Burton plays the princess with a terrifically entertaining blend of schoolgirl romanticism and hard-headed determination. Andre Jordan has all the laughs as Donkey and knows precisely how to hit them to the back of theater.

And Benjamin Howes’ Farquaad is a delirious blend of lounge lizard, dizzy diva and showboating egomaniac.

I saw the production opening night, and there were technical mishaps aplenty.

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JULY 23 Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups

+ THU., JULY 21 {EXHIBIT} As the Pirates’ mystifying on-field ups and downs have demonstrated, baseball remains more art than science.

But as with everything in the physical world, science can help explain hardball. This summer’s baseball-themed programming at Carnegie Science Center is in full swing. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, see the live demonstration-theater show Grand Slam Science, exploring a bat’s sweet spot and the unhittable pitch.

Starting today, Highmark SportsWorks offers daily demos, including a new one to check the speed and power of your swing. And tomorrow (July 22) and Aug. 5, any kid wearing a youth baseball- or softball-league jersey gets free Science Center admission.

Bill O’Driscoll 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

North Side. $11.95-19.95.

412-237-3400 or www. carnegiesciencecenter.org

Company. The cast of Pittsburgh favorites includes David Whalen (as Sherlock), James FitzGerald and Connor McCanlus. The first performance, at Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Downtown space, is tonight. BO 8 p.m.

Continues through Aug. 7.

937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-40. 412-225-9145 or www.kinetictheatre.org

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first-hand, as Venture Outdoors hosts a Bat Walk in Wingfield Pines, an Allegheny Land Trust conservation area in Upper St. Clair. The easy, two-hour trek — which takes place as the bats begin their nightly foray — is led by Land Trust naturalists, who’ll help you to identify local bat species and explain how they use echolocation to

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{STAGE} In 2007, Steven Canny and John Nicholson, of British troupe Peepolykus, had a big hit with their farcical adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which The Guardian called “unfailing hilarious.” This Holmesian comedy for three multitasking actors has come stateside; Andrew Paul, who recently directed a sold-out extended run at Nevada Conservatory Theater, now offers the Pittsburgh premiere courtesy of his Kinetic Theatre

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+ FRI., JULY 22 {OUTDOORS} You’ve probably heard that bats are in trouble, dying by the thousands in their caves because of white-nose syndrome. Tonight’s your chance to learn more about these fascinating creatures

navigate and feed. BO 7 p.m.

Mayview Road, Upper St. Clair. $6-12. Register at www.ventureoutdoors.org.

{SCREEN} In 1996, at the height of home video, Bruce Lentz opened Incredibly Strange Video in Dormont for aficionados of cult films. Well, video stores are

sp otlight In the wake of the June 12 nightclub shootings in Orlando, Arts Out Loud hosts The Lotus, a free night of LGBT storytelling at Shadyside’s Undercroft Gallery. Writer and filmmaker Robert Hensley, known for his young-adult novella Leo’s Love Story, will share his own story of growing up on a 1,500-acre family farm in Fayette County, coming out, and forging a remarkably varied career in Hollywood. In 20 years in the industry, he has written screenplays, designed costumes, produced, directed and become a celebrity makeup artist. He titles his talk “From Farm Boy to Fabulous.” “I hope that people understand that you can come from a very small place or a very rough place and find success and find a willing audience for your work,” Hensley tells CP by phone. “The social climate right now in our country — I think we hear more negative stories than we do positive. There is good news. There are people that are following their dreams and doing what they love.” Hensley hopes to encourage young people to follow their passions and share their own stories to strengthen the bonds of community. Also featured is rising YouTube musician Logan McHenry, a.k.a. Logan Mashups, whose seamless combinations of pop hits have garnered hundreds of thousands of views. McHenry will discuss growing up LGBT in small-town Kansas. Tyler Dague 6-10 p.m. Sun., July 24. 605 Morewood Ave., Shadyside. Free. 412-816-6437 or www.artsoutloud.org

the single image that says it all. But the new Carnegie Museum of Art exhibit Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups explores how photographers throughout history have employed multiple images.

Some 100 photos from the collections of all four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh range from German photographer August Sander’s series People of the 20th Century and Zanele Muholi’s documentation of South Africa’s LGBT community to portraits of Paris and Pittsburgh, and the intimate work of both Braddock’s own MacArthur genius-grant winner LaToya Ruby Frazier and Iran’s Newsha Tavakolia, who documents her trip to Mecca. BO 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $11.95-19.95 (free for children 2 and under). 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org

pretty dead — ISV lasted until 2008 — but Lentz remains.

And tonight, for the store’s fans, the Hollywood Theater hosts the Incredibly Strange Video 20th Anniversary Reunion. The reception includes the ISV dollar store and a talk by Lentz. Then, of course, come the incredibly strange movies: Invisible Invaders (1959); 1966 superhero parody Rat Phink A Boo Boo; and Herschell Gordon Lewis’ pioneering 1963 splatter film Blood Feast.

BO 7 p.m.; films at 8 p.m.

1449 Potomac Ave., Dormont. $8. 412-563-0368 or www. thehollywooddormont.org

{STAGE} The endurance of the human spirit is truly stretched to its limits in the Pulitzer Prizewinning 2008 play Ruined.

Written by acclaimed American playwright Lynn Nottage, Ruined focuses on three Congolese women, forever scarred from ongoing civil war and rejected by loved ones, who work in Mama Nadi’s “small business.” The offBroadway run at Manhattan Theatre Club was extended nine times and received the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding play.

A local production staged by The Entertainment Consortium Inc.’s African American Conservatory gets two performances this weekend at the August Wilson Center, including tonight’s. Tyler Dague 8 p.m. Also 4 p.m.

Sun., July 24. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $32-42. 412-4566666 or www.trustarts.org

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Burlesque is a familiar sight around here, but tonight’s Steel City Kitty Burlesque & Variety Show features several nationally and internationally touring acts never before or seldom seen on local stages. At the Rex Theater, producer (and performer) Kat de Lac presents luminaries including: U.K.based Eliza Delite, chosen Best International Burlesque Performer at the 2014 World Burlesque Games; San Francisco’s Sgt. Die Wies (pictured); New York Citybased contortionist and burlesque artist Apathy Angel; and Chicago favorite Red Hot Annie. Local talents include drag queen Bambi Deerest and boylesque dancer Smokin’

JULY 22 Bat Walk

publishing. Three area authors, Siobhan Vivian (pictured; The Last Boy and Girl in the World), Jonathan Auxier (Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard),

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{MUSIC} The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra wraps for the summer with a packed evening, dubbed a Classical Mixer. Live chamber music and a trivia contest precede the main concert filled with highlights from its upcoming season including Brahms, Bernstein and PSO composer of the year Sir James MacMillan.

During the concert, musicians will share behind-the-scenes stories from the Heinz Hall stage. The concert concludes with that perennial crowd-pleaser, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. The evening will be capped by jazz in the Heinz Hall Garden.

TD 7:30 p.m. (pre-concert activities: 6 p.m.). 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. $30.

412-392-4900 or www. pittsburghsymphony.org

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by Kristoffer Collins and featuring him, Angele Ellis, Celeste Gainey, Richard Gegick, John Grochalski, John Korn, Jason Mendez and Don Wentworth. Just wend your way past the Hemingway’s Café bar into the back room, and you’re there. BO 8 p.m.

3911 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

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and Littsburgh founder Nick Courage (The Loudness), will discuss writing for children and young adults tonight courtesy of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. A Q&A and booksigning will follow. TD 6 p.m.

4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Free. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org

McQueen. BO 8 p.m. 1605 E. Carson St., South Side. $20-25 (VIP: $50-100). www.facebook. com (search “Steel City Kitty”)

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In most libraries, activities are aimed at children or teens to expose them to the exciting worlds hidden in books.

However, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is not most libraries. Its latest activity series, The Den, is specifically focused on young adults and features board games, book discussions and easy drop-in art projects.

The Den is planned for every second and fourth Thursday of the month, including tonight.

TD 6-7:30 p.m. Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-622-3114 or www.carnegielibrary.org

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THEATER THE 39 STEPS. A madcap comic thriller featuring a juicy spy story mixed w/ a dash of Monty Python mayhem. Wed-Fri, 7:30 p.m., Sat, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m.

Thru Aug. 14. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

ANNA IN THE TROPICS. Tropical heat & the American Dream.

Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru July 23.

Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg.

724-745-6300.

ANYTHING GOES. Cole Porter’s musical. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, 2 p.m. Thru July 24. The Theatre Factory, Trafford. 412-374-9200.

BAR SEX. An original play By Dan Wald. Wed., July 27, 8 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST. A twist to the popular fairy tale, not only does the mysterious crone transform the prince into a beast, but his servant becomes a silly puppy. Fri, Sat, 1:30 p.m. and Wed, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 6.

Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg.

724-745-6300.

CHICAGO. Presented by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Benedum Center,

Winchester Thurston, Upper Downtown. 412-456-6666.

School, Shadyside. 412-587-7500.

COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA. The LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. A show is set in American Midwest twist on a classic. Tickets at at in the early 50’s, and focuses on otsummerfest.org, or call the Doc & Lola Delaney, a childless Box Office at 412-326-9687. Sat, couple. Presented by the Summer 11 a.m. Thru July 23. Winchester Company. Sun, 2 p.m. and Thu-Sat, Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside.

8 p.m. Thru July 24. Duquesne 412-587-7500.

University, Uptown. 412-396-6000.

LOOKING GLASS LAND. For THE DINNER DETECTIVE reservations & information INTERACTIVE MURDER call 724-468-5050 or visit MYSTERY DINNER the website at www.

SHOW. Sat, 6 p.m. applehillplayhouse.org Pittsburgh Marriot City Tue, Thu, Sat, 11 a.m.

Center, Downtown. w. w w Thru Aug. 5. Apple Hill 866-496-0535. er hcitypap g p Playhouse, Delmont.

JESUS CHRIST .com 724-468-5050.

SUPERSTAR. Sun, 2 p.m.

A MIDSOMMER NIGHTS and Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. Thru DREAME. Presented by The New July 31. Andrew Carnegie Free Renaissance Theatre Company.

Library Music Hall, Carnegie.

Fri., July 22, 6 p.m. Settler’s Cabin 412-276-3456.

Park, Robinson. 412-787-2750.

JULIUS CAESAR. Presented by Presented by The New Renaissance Opera Theater SummerFest. Sat., Theatre Company. Sat., July 23, July 23, 7:30 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. 4 p.m. Hartwood Acres, Allison 412-587-7500. Shakespeare’s classic. Park. 412-767-9200.

NIGHT CAPS. Five short comic Sat, 2 & 8 p.m. and Thu, Fri, 8 p.m.

Thru July 30. The Grey Box Theatre, operas tell stories of hilarious antics in hotel bedrooms. Thu., Lawrenceville. 412-586-7744.

July 21, 7:30 p.m. Winchester KISS ME KATE. Cole Porter’s take Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside. on Shakespeare’s The Taming of 412-587-7500. the Shrew.” Sat., July 23, 2 p.m.

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A PIRATE’S TALE. A swashbuckling pirate musical. Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 8 p.m. Thru July 31. Carnegie Stage, Carnegie. www.offthewall.com.

RUINED. Set in war-torn Congo, this stirring play by Lynn Nottage revolves around Mama Nadi – a club owner who shelters young women considered to be “ruined” – that is, young women who have been raped & their bodies mutilated & thus have been rejected by their families and communities. www.trustarts.org.

Fri., July 22, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 24, 4 p.m. August Wilson Center, Downtown. 412-258-2700.

THE SILENT WOMAN. Retired sea captain, Dr. Morosus marries a quiet young woman who finds her own voice in this frothy romantic comedy sung in English, based on a story by Ben Jonson.

Fri., July 22, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 24, 2 p.m. Winchester Thurston, Upper School, Shadyside.

412-587-7500.

SPAMALOT. Monty Python’s musical by the Center Theatre Players. July 21-22, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., July 23, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Rochester Theater, Rochester.

724-468-5050.

THE TRAGEDIE OF ROMEO AND JULIET. Presented by The New Renaissance Theatre Company.

Thu., July 21, 6 p.m. Boyce Park, Monroeville & Sun., July 24, 4 p.m.

North Park Boathouse, Allison Park. www.newrentheatre.com.

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IMPROV POP-UP NIGHT. Try improv, drink boxed wine & see a show. Open to everyone & tailored for those new to comedy. Third Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m.

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

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This weekend brings Dance Africa: Pittsburgh 2016. The line-up for the fifth annual incarnation includes dance and drum workshops, conversations with the artists, film screenings and performances. While the workshops have suggested fees, KST is continuing its Pay What Makes You Happy policy. 6-9 p.m. Fri., July 22, and 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

Sat., July 23. Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave., Friendship, and Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Admission is pay-what-makes-you-happy. www.kelly-strayhorn.org

THE DRAFT IMPROV SHOW. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

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

412-404-2695.

JULIE GOLDMAN, LORI NEMEC & WHITLEY BAKER. 8:15 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157.

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“The Puffin Birds” (pastel, 2016), by Sheryl Yeager. From the exhibition Inspired by Animals, at Gallery on 43rd Street, Lawrenceville.

NEW THIS WEEK ON THE SKIDS. SKIDS - The annual bicycle themed art show.

A diverse cast of makers & artists, from varied riding styles & artistic disciplines to celebrate everything bicycles. Only July 23.

Knoxville. www.ontheskids galleryandstudio.tumblr.com.

SHAW GALLERIES. Krystina Thomas: Peeping Perceptions.

An exhibition of drawing & photography. Only July 22 & 23.

Downtown. 412-281-4884.

ONGOING 937 LIBERTY AVE. Humanae/ I AM AUGUST. A series of photographs of everyday Pittsburghers by Angelica Dass. The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden. This exhibit chronicles the careers & influence of Wolfgang Oehme & James van Sweden & feat. 52 contemporary & newly commissioned photographs of important residential, civic & commercial landscape architecture projects. Downtown.

ALREADY FAMOUS ON PENN GALLERY. Cuba on the Verge.

Photography exhibit by Polly Mills Whitehorn. Documentation of what is now Cuba - Havana is a city of contradictions while you see great efforts to restore buildings there are many more from colonial times in shabby decay or have completely collapsed leaving residents displaced. Downtown.

412-377-5619.

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.

BOCK-TOTT GALLERY. 10 Artists: a Collection of Works.

Sewickley. 412-519-3377.

BOXHEART GALLERY. Childhood Feedback: Mixed Media Collage. Work by Shawn Watrous. Long Songs: Symphonic Paintings. Work by Susan Constanse. Bloomfield.

412-687-8858.

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. The summer I left Pittsburgh to fall in love with

somewhere else & came back loving it more. Bloomfield.

412-681-5225.

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

by Robert N. Blair (1912- 2003).

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

Collectors Showcase. Emsworth.

412-734-2099.

FILMMAKERS GALLERIES. Recent Works. Photographs by Ruthanne Bauerle. Oakland.

412-681-5449.

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.

THE GALLERY 4. Full Spectrum Ahead. New work by Marion Di Quinzio & Carolyn Frischling.

Shadyside. 412-363-5050.

GALLERY ON 43RD STREET. Inspired by Animals. Work by Sheryl Yeager. Lawrenceville.

412-683-6488.

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

Exhibition of new work, recent work & older work. Regent Square. 412-243-2772.

GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL. mateRE:AL. Work by

Fri, July22nd & Sat, July23rd CHEERLEADERS PITTSBURGH 3100 LIBERTY AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA 15201 412-281-3110

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SAT 23 GENE COLLIER, T-ROBE, CHUCK KRUEGER, COLLIN CHAMBERLIN, BLAIR PARKER, JESSE IRVIN, JAMES J. HAMILTON, HOSTED BY SEAN COLLIER. 10:30 p.m. Club Cafe, South Side. 412-431-4950.

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

NOODLE TRAIN IMPROV SHOW. 8 p.m. Steel City Improv Theater, Shadyside. 412-404-2695.

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: Dream City Art event in Wilkinsburg CRITIC: Julie King, 51, public school teacher from Verona WHEN: Sat.,

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This miniature golf course on Neville Island is well landscaped, open until 9:30 p.m. and is super fun — don’t miss hole 10 for a surprise water feature.

7600 Grand Ave., Neville Island

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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A classic fish-out-of-water story about moving to New York City, except that Kimmy has also just escaped the bunker of an apocalyptic cult. Full of underscored jokes, it’s prime for summer binge-watching. On Netflix

Local Pasta Sauce Two South Hills Italian restaurants now distribute their authentic gravies to grocers across the region.

Sure, they are more expensive than mass-produced ragù, but the rich flavors are worth the price. www.allafamiglia.com and www.pasta-too.com

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COFFEE BUDDHA HA-HA. 8 p.m. Coffee Buddha, Ross.

412-837-2595.

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

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

UNPLANNED COMEDY JAMBONE’S IMPROV. Hosted by Woody Drenen. Mon, 9:30 p.m.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

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

412-321-3940.

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 water, land & habitat. How do everyday decisions impact water supply & the environment?

North Side. 412-237-3400.

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

Garfield. 412-223-7698.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Daniel Tiger’s

I think it’s great. We were just talking about how this is really a blighted little town, and this may give [it] more attention. Even this venue [801 Rebecca St.] — there’s lots of potential here. I think this really highlights the city, having this event. It’s cool. There are all kinds of things you wouldn’t normally see.

The sculpture garden was really cool. There’s a lot of variety. [But] there needs to be better signage. You’re supposed to walk [to the various locations], but we don’t know where we’re going. The map is somewhat helpful. You have people to talk to, telling us where to go — that friendly Pittsburgh thing.

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Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit.

Clayton, the Frick estate, w/ Step into Daniel Tiger’s world classes & programs for all ages. & join him to explore some Point Breeze. 412-371-0600. favorite places. Work together HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this to solve problems, engage Tudor mansion & stable complex. the imagination to transform Enjoy hikes & outdoor activities in surroundings & play along w/ the surrounding park. Allison Park.

Daniel’s sing-able strategies to 412-767-9200. better understand & navigate KENTUCK KNOB. Tour the everyday emotions. North Side. other Frank Lloyd Wright house.

412-322-5058.

Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

FALLINGWATER. Tour MARIDON MUSEUM. Collection the famed Frank Lloyd Wright includes jade & ivory statues from house. Mill Run. 724-329-8501.

China & Japan, as well as Meissen FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. porcelain. Butler. 724-282-0123.

Tours of 13 Tiffany stainedMCGINLEY HOUSE & MCCULLY glass windows. Downtown.

LOG HOUSE. Historic homes open 412-471-3436. for tours, lectures & more.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Monroeville. 412-373-7794.

Captured by Indians: NATIONAL AVIARY. Warfare & Assimilation Butterfly Gardens. on the 18th Century Mingle w/ butterfly Frontier. During the species native to the www. per a p ty mid-18th century, region, including pghci m o .c thousands of settlers Painted Ladies, Monarchs, of European & African Black Swallowtails, Red descent were captured by Spotted Purples, Viceroys & Native Americans. Using Giant Swallowtails. Species in the documentary evidence from exhibit will vary over the summer 18th & early 19th century sources, months. Soar! Masters of the Sky. period imagery, & artifacts from Explore the power & grace of the public & private collections in birds who rule the sky. Majestic the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit eagles, impressive condors, stealthy examines the practice of captivity falcons and their friends take from its prehistoric roots to center stage! Home to more than its reverberations in modern 600 birds from over 200 species.

Native-, African- & Euro-American W/ classes, lectures, demos & more. communities. Reconstructed fort North Side. 412-323-7235. houses museum of Pittsburgh NATIONALITY ROOMS. history circa French & Indian War & 29 rooms helping to tell the American Revolution. Downtown. story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant 412-281-9285. past. University of Pittsburgh.

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL Oakland. 412-624-6000.

CENTER. Ongoing: tours of OLD ST. LUKE’S. Pioneer church

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features 1823 pipe organ, Revolutionary War graves. Scott.

412-851-9212.

OLIVER MILLER HOMESTEAD. This pioneer/Whiskey Rebellion site features log house, blacksmith shop & gardens. South Park.

412-835-1554.

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM. Trolley rides & exhibits. Includes displays, walking tours, gift shop, picnic area & Trolley Theatre. Washington.

724-228-9256.

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDEN. The Butterfly Forest. An interactive exhibit w/ 21 species of butterfly & the elusive Luna moth. Summer Flower Show.

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 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 HISTORY. Pictorialist Photography Photography As Fine Art. Pictorialist photography of the 19th & early 20th centuries made 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.

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

Springdale. 724-274-5459.

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

412-464-4020.

SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. From Slavery to Freedom.

Highlight’s Pittsburgh’s role in the anti-slavery movement. Ongoing: Western PA Sports Museum, Clash of Empires, & exhibits on local history, more. Strip District.

412-454-6000.

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.

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artists Christine Bethea, Blaine Siegel, Christina Springer & Suzanne Werder. Downtown.

412-391-2060.

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.

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.

MINE FACTORY. not actually.

A survey of recent work

by Dan Reidy. Homewood. www.minefactory.tumblr.com.

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.

NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Dear Volunteers & Projection Theory Slant Rhyme Institute. An immersive multimedia installation featuring

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

412-323-9504.

ST. NICHOLAS CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Maxo Vanka Murals. Mid-20th century murals depicting war, social justice & the immigrant experience in America. Millvale. 412-407-2570.

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

724-887-7910.

DANCE THU 21 - SUN 24 INTERFUSION. A fusion of dance & music, Texture Contemporary Ballet collaborates w/ cello rock trio, Cello Fury.

7:30 p.m., July 22-23, 8 p.m. and

California-based artist Tra Bouscaren & John Schlesinger.

North Side. 412-322-2224.

PANZA GALLERY. Artist’s Choice Exhibition. An exhibit of the work of the members of PSA. This show will feature a variety of styles, subjects & mediums rarely seen in a traditionally curated exhibition.

Millvale. 412-821-0959.

PERCOLATE. In Their Own World: Norman Brown, Gabe Felice, Masha Vereshchenko & Tommy Bones Werner.

Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220.

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 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. Practices of Listening.

Recording stories from the public & working w/ ceramics by Christian Morris. 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.

Downtown. 412-325-7723.

SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Standing in No Place: A New Landscape of Motherhood. Work by Martyna Matusiak. Sewickley.

412-741-4405.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom.

Open showroom w/ the artists.

By appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

UNSMOKE SYSTEMS ARTSPACE. Non-Material Effects of Material Processes.

Work by Kara Skylling, Jeremy Tarr & Robert Weaver. Braddock. www. unsmokeartspace.com.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. A Shared Legacy. More than 60 works of sculpture, paintings & furniture, exemplifying the variety of media given life during the late 19th & early 20th centuries in America. Greensburg.

724-837-1500.

Sun., July 24, 2 p.m. New Hazlett Theater, North Side.

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BURLESQUE & BELLY DANCE SHOW. 8 p.m. James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, North Side. 412-904-3335.

FRI 22 - SAT 23 DANCE AFRICA: PITTSBURGH 2016. Two days of performances, screenings, workshops, discussions & more at the Alloy Studios & Kelly-Strayhorn Theater.

July 22-23 Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. 412-363-3000.

SAT 23 STEEL CITY KITTY BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHOW. 8 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side.

412-381-6811.

BLIND PIG PARTY. Raising money for a new distillery in West Overton. Drinks, games, food, more. 6 p.m. West Overton Barn & Museum, Etna.

724-887-7910.

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SAT 23 KIDS TRIATHLON. 8 a.m. and Sat., Aug. 6, 8 a.m. North Park Swimming Pool, McCandless. www.kidstriathlon.org.

PAINT & MUNCH. Micaela Cottman of DLG Tatoo will provide step by step instructions for creating a one-of-a-kind painted creation. From 10 a.m - 12 p.m., children ages 8 +. Adult sipping and painting from 5 - 7 p.m. www. applehillplayhouse.org. 10 a.m.-

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LITERARY THU 21 THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappyhour. wordpress.com Thu, 7-9 p.m.

Lot 17, Bloomfield. 412-687-8117.

SAT 23 ALLY MALINENKO, JASON IRWIN, & JOHN GROCHALSKI. Book release & reading. 7 p.m.

East End Book Exchange, Bloomfield. 412-224-2847.

SUN 24 LOTUS: LGBT STORYTELLERS. www.artsoutloud.org. 6 p.m.

First Unitarian Church, Shadyside.

412-621-8008.

MON 25 A.M. RYCROFT READING & SIGNING. 7 p.m. City Books, North Side. 412-481-7555.

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

Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw. 412-486-0211.

MOVIE NIGHTS ON THE LAWN. Family friendly movies (Rated PG or lower). Feel free to bring your dinner, a lawn chair & a blanket.

No alcohol permitted. www. mtpisgahgreentree.com. Every other Fri, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 19 Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church, Green Tree. 412-921-8444.

SAT 23 STAR WARS DAY. A Star Wars day for kids. 1 p.m.

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

MON 25 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.

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

Capri Pizza and Bar, East Liberty.

412-362-1250.

STORYTELLING @ RILEY’S. Story telling on a theme every month.

Last Tue of every month, 8 p.m.

Riley’s Pour House, Carnegie.

412-279-0770.

YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION. Authors Siobhan Vivian, Jonathan Auxier & Nick Courage all have new books to celebrate & will discuss writing for children, what inspires them & their latest projects. A Q & A & book signing to follow. 6 p.m.

Carnegie Lecture Hall, Oakland.

WED 27 NEW & NOTED: MARY-LOUISE PARKER. 7 p.m. Carnegie Lecture Hall, Oakland.

PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE. Book discussion hosted by the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. This month’s meeting focuses on Geoffrey Hill’s “Without Title.” Author will be present.

Fourth Wed of every month, 7:30 p.m. Coffee Tree Roasters, Shadyside. 412-928-9891.

KIDSTUFF THU 21 - WED 27 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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THU 21 THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Free & open to ages 18 & older. Meets rain or shine every Thursday of the year. Naturalists guide these walks. Thu, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

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

MARKET SQUARE FARMERS MARKET. Thu. Thru Oct. 27 Market Square, Downtown.

412-471-1511.

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

A volunteer-driven environment designed for short-run projects that can be completed in one evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664.

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OpenStreetsPGH needs help creating 3½ miles of safe, car-free streets for everyone to enjoy on Sun., July 31. The event coordinators are seeking volunteers to hang signs, set up, staff intersections, collect data and more. For more information, visit www. openstreetspgh.org.

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

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AFRICAN DANCE CLASS. Second and Third Fri of every month and Fourth and Last Fri of every month Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Garfield.

412-924-0634.

CRAFTS & DRAFTS: THE WESTERN TIN CAN COLLAGE. PENNSYLVANIA A cold beer, a MUSHROOM CLUB. hammer & some lovely www. per pa WPMC President old tins. Students will pghcitym .co Richard Jacob at the create unique tin parking lot for the indoor collages on salvaged ice rink. 10 a.m. Brady’s Run wood. 6-9 p.m. The Society Park Lodge, Beaver Falls. for Contemporary Craft, Strip District. 412-261-7003.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. A social, traditional American Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed dance. No partner needed, Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel. beginners welcome, lesson at 412-963-6100.

7:30. Fri, 8 p.m. Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale.

412-945-0554.

SUMMER FRIDAYS AT THE FRICK. Music from ElectroBelly Dance & Music, Mac & Gold & 2 MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL. Proper food trucks, Vintage Valet 8 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Art, fashion truck. 6:30 p.m. Frick Art Oakland. 412-622-3131. & Historical Center, Point Breeze.

BEATS N’ EATS. Midday 412-371-0600.

East-End community mixer w/ music & food trucks. 12-2 p.m. and Thu., Aug. 18, 12-2 p.m.

BRAWL UNDER THE BRIDGE 2.

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East 100% solar powered pro-wrestling Liberty. 412-363-3000. event will feature legend Nikolai DAISIES. Part of the Silenced Volkoff in a 6-man tag team Films Series. 8 p.m. Alphabet match! Craft beer, food trucks, City Tent, North Side. activities. 7 p.m. Homestead Grays DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT Bridge, Homestead.

GROUP. Thu, 6 p.m. C.C. Mellor HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DAY. Memorial Library, Edgewood.

12 p.m. Frick Park, Regent Square.

412-708-9423.

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IN A LAWSUIT? Are you in a lawsuit? Getting a Divorce? Be empowered with the tools you need to gain the upper edge & win your case. Master the challenges associated with being in a lawsuit.

Lower legal fees. Gail Fiore, 724-875-4111. 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-9650.

MEET, LEARN, PLAY: A GAMING MEET UP. All-ages board gaming session, playing & learning about new games w/ an instructor.

Quiet Reading Room. Second and Fourth Sat of every month, 11 a.m.5 p.m. Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS VS. CHARLOTTE INDEPENDENCE. 7 p.m. Highmark Stadium, Station Square.

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

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

TRY OUT DOCK DIVING. A free seminar & participation day for owners & their dogs to learn about Dock Diving. To pre-register or if you need additional information, contact Sherry at 814-336-9442 or sherry3miller@hotmail.com.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Conneaut Lake Bark Park, Conneaut. 814-382-2267.

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

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

SUN 24 OPEN KITCHEN- KIWI BBQ EDITION. Merging art w/ food. 4-6 p.m. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224.

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.

TRUNDLE MANOR BAD GIRL YARD SALE. 1 p.m. Trundle Manor, Swissvale. 412-916-5544.

MON 25 SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING. Lessons 7-8 p.m., social dancing follows. No partner needed.

Mon, 7 p.m. and Sat, 7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington.

412-683-5670.

TUE 26 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http://city dharma.wordpress.com/schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-965-9903.

IN A LAWSUIT? Are you in a lawsuit? Getting a Divorce?

Be empowered with the tools you need to gain the upper edge & win your case. Master the challenges associated with being in a lawsuit. Lower legal fees.

Gail Fiore, 724-875-4111. 6:30 p.m.

Carnegie Library, South Side.

412-431-0505.

PRESERVING THE HARVEST. Preserving is easy & satisfying.

Come to this class & learn the basics of canning, drying & freezing.

Recipes included. 7 p.m.

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

PRINTMAKING OPEN STUDIO. Experienced screen printers can utilize studio equipment to make films, burn screens & complete a run of posters, t-shirts or prints. A volunteer-driven environment designed for short-run projects that can be completed in one evening for a small materials fee. Tue, Thu, 6-10 p.m. Artists Image Resource, North Side. 412-321-8664.

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

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

SQUIRREL HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Speaker: Linda Nyman, co-owner of Penn Brewery on “150 Years of Beer at Penn Brewery.” 7:30 p.m. Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-7100.

WED 27 ANNUAL ACLU PICNIC. Food, drink, live music 5:30 p.m. Vietnam Veteran’s Pavillion, Oakland.

FARMERS AT PHIPPS. Wed, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thru Oct. 26 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

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

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

Jefferson Elementary, Mt. Lebanon.

412-851-9100.

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

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

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL. Parade, live music, activities, more. www. ukiefestrox.com. July 27-30 St. Mary’s Ukranian Orthodox Church, McKees Rocks. 412-331-9288.

AUDITIONS COMMUNITY MEN’S CHOIR. Looking for male-identified 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.steel citymenschorale.org. Thru Aug. 6. First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oakland.

412-683-4121.

PENDEMER PRODUCTIONS. A one-to-two-minute comic monologue is preferred but not necessary. There will also be cold readings from the script.

July 24, 1 p.m. Thru July 24.

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I’m sorry if my English is wrong. I’m writing from Germany, where I am being heartbroken and not knowing how to go on. I’ve been seeing a guy for a couple of months and slowly falling in love with him. “Peter” has always been very open to me about himself, his failed relationships and his commitment issues. He talks frequently about his ex-boyfriend from five years ago and how being left created a deep fear of being left once again. He also had a relationship that ended a year ago. Yesterday he told me he’s still in love with the guy from one year ago but that his love is unrequited.

He also told me that he values what we have but he can’t stop loving this other guy. And he can’t promise me that this will change. Should I stay and wait for Peter to get better even if it hurts to know he’s in love with someone other than me? Or should I leave him as so many others have and hurt him?

HEALING EROTIC LOVE PROBLEM MEANS EVERYTHING

Peter could be lying to you.

That’s probably not what you wanted or expected to hear, HELPME, and you’ll find some more hopeful/less cynical advice further down, I promise. But when a guy with “commitment issues” tells you he’s struggling with the emotional fallout of a relationship that ended five years ago and still hopelessly in love with someone he hasn’t seen for a year … you have to entertain the possibility that he could be lying to you.

You always have to entertain that possibility — with new loves, old loves, blue loves.

When someone tells us they have “commitment issues,” we’re primed to hear this: “This boy is incapable of committing until healed (by a therapist, by a new love, by the passage of time).” But sometimes what they mean is this: “I have no interest in committing — not to you, not to anyone, not now, not ever.” But instead of owning up to that (because people who want to remain single are viewed as damaged?) or telling you he’s not seeking anything serious (because you might leave him, and he’s not done with your ass?), Peter invents/inflates a pair of past loves that render him incapable of loving you the way you deserve to be loved and blah blah blah and off the hook. Not a child-man who won’t commit, but a victim who would commit if he could commit but — sob! — he can’t commit.

But, hey, maybe he’s telling you the truth.

Maybe he’s in love with Mr. One Year Ago. So tell him he can love you and love the other guy at the same time. Give Peter permission to love his ex while loving you too and you might be able to love a commitment out of him.

— and I don’t have a problem with my bi brother-in-law being bi. More importantly, my sister doesn’t have a problem with it. But whenever I’m alone with Peter, however briefly, he starts telling me how much he misses dick. He wants to hear about the last “really great dick” I sucked and tells me he misses sucking dick. I smile and say dick is great for sure and make a halfhearted attempt to change the subject. The last time it happened was after my grandfather’s funeral. I’m pretty sure Peter wants to suck my dick, and I’m tempted to let him. I know it’s a bad idea, but Peter is hot. This is torture.

What should I do?

BOY IS LOST

Stop smiling, work harder to change the subject, avoid being alone in a room with Peter and repeat after me: “My sister might be able to forgive her husband for sucking a dick, but she’ll never forgive him — or me — if that dick is mine.”

I’m a gay guy in an open relationship and I’m on Recon, a gay hookup/dating site for guys into leather/fetish/BDSM. My partner, who isn’t kinky, knows I have a profile there and it’s not a problem. Today I got a message from a new guy, and when we exchanged face pics, I saw that he looks exactly like “Peter,” my boyfriend’s best friend’s fiancé! I asked him if that was him, and he stopped responding. What should I do? My BF doesn’t want to know much about my extracurricular activities, but this could make our next double date extremely awkward.

TELL HIM HE CAN LOVE YOU AND LOVE THE OTHER GUY AT THE SAME TIME.

I’m a gay male in my late 20s. My little sister’s husband, “Peter,” is my age and bisexual. I’m not one of those gay men who think bi guys don’t exist. And I know bi guys are just as capable of being monogamous as other guys — which isn’t that comforting when you think about it

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Going silent after you asked, “Is that you, Peter?!?” is a pretty good indication that it was indeed Peter you were talking to. But while you know Peter was on Recon, RECONS, you don’t know exactly what he was doing there. Maybe he goes online to fantasize, swap pics and jack off. Maybe Peter is on Recon with his fiancé’s blessing, just as you’re on Recon with your partner’s blessing (but, like you, he’s not comfortable discussing his kinks with friends).

Maybe their relationship/engagement is on the verge of collapse and your partner’s best friend’s fiancé is trying to line up a new relationship before pulling the plug on the one he’s in now.

Since you don’t know what’s going on in their relationship, RECONS, keep your mouth shut and refrain from making assumptions or judgments. And the next time you have to interact with Peter and his fiancé socially, slap a smile on your face and talk about the weather, the election, the estrogen-enhanced, betterthan-the-original Ghostbusters reboot, the new season of Difficult People, Zika, the Olympics — basically anything other than Recon, kinks and wedding plans.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf about Bernie and Hillary and love and hate: savagelovecast.com.

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Free Will Astrology

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{BY ROB BREZSNY}

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Capricorns may be the hardest workers of the zodiac, and Tauruses the most dogged. But in the coming weeks, I suspect you Cancerians will be the smartest workers. You will efficiently surmise the precise nature of the tasks at hand, and do what’s necessary to accomplish them.

There’ll be no false starts or reliance on iffy data or slapdash trial-and-error experiments. You’ll have a light touch as you find innovative shortcuts that produce better results than would be possible via the grind-it-out approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My friend’s 12-year-old daughter Brianna got a “B” on her summer-school math test. She might have earned an “A” if it weren’t for a problem her teacher had with some of her work. “You got the right answer by making two mistakes that happened to cancel each other out,” he wrote on her paper next to question No. 7. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience. Leo. But the difference between you and Brianna is that I’m giving you an “A.” All that matters in the end is that you succeed. I don’t care if your strategy is a bit funky.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have ever fantasized about being a different gender or race or astrological sign? Do you suspect it might be fun and liberating to completely change your wardrobe or your hairstyle or your body language? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to experiment with these variables, and with any others that would enable you to play with your identity and mutate your self-image. You have a cosmic exemption from

imitating what you have done in the past. In this spirit, feel free to read all the other signs’ horoscopes, and act on the one you like best. Your word of power is “shapeshifter.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Golden Goose Award is given annually to “scientists whose work may have been considered silly, odd, or obscure when first conducted,” but which ultimately produced dramatic advances. Entomologists Raymond Bushland and Edward Knipling were this year’s winners. More than 60 years ago they started tinkering with the sex life of the screwworm fly in an effort to stop the pest from killing livestock and wildlife throughout the American South. At first their ideas were laughed at, even ridiculed. In time they were lauded for their pioneering breakthroughs. I suspect you’ll be blessed with a vindication of your own in the coming weeks, Libra. It may not be as monumental as Bushland’s and Knipling’s, but I bet it’ll be deeply meaningful for you.

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urge you to intensify your commitment to relaxation. I will love it, and more importantly your guardian angel will love it, if you become a fierce devotee of slowing down and chilling out.

Get looser and cozier and more spacious, damn it! Snuggle more. Cut back on overthinking and trying too hard. Vow to become a high master of the mystic art of I-don’t-give-a-fuck. It’s your sacred duty to steal more slack from the soulanesthetizing grind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I regularly travel back through time from the year 2036 so as to be here with you. It’s tough to be away from the thrilling transformations that are underway there. But it’s in a good cause. The bedraggled era that you live in needs frequent doses of the vigorous optimism that’s so widespread in 2036, and I’m happy to disseminate it.

Why am I confessing this? Because I suspect you now have an extra talent for gazing into the unknown and exploring undiscovered possibilities.

You also have an unprecedented power to set definite intentions about the life you want to be living in the future. Who will you be five years from today? Ten years? Twenty years? Be brave.

Be visionary. Be precise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

I’m composing your horoscope on my iPhone after midnight on a crowded bus that’s crammed with sweaty revelers. We’re being transported back to civilization from a rural hideaway where we spent the last 12 hours at a raging party. I still feel ec-

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You now have more luxuriant access to divine luck than you’ve had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semimiraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your capacities. But here’s a caveat: The good fortune swirling in your vicinity may be odd or irregular or hard to understand. To harvest it, you will have to expand your ideas about what constitutes good fortune. It may bestow powers you didn’t even realize it was possible to have. For example, what if you temporarily have an acute talent for gravitating toward situations where smart love is in full play?

Here’s one strategy you could pursue, I guess: You could spank the Devil with a feather duster as you try to coax him to promise that he will never again trick you with a bogus temptation.

But I don’t think that would work, frankly. It may have minor shock value, in which case the Devil might leave you in peace for a short time. Here’s what I suggest instead: Work at raising your discernment so high that you can quickly identify, in the future, which temptations will deliver you unto evil confusion, and which will feed and hone your most noble desires.

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A directory published by the U.S. Department of Labor says that my gig as an astrologer shares a category with jugglers, rodeo clowns, acrobats, carnival barkers and stuntpersons. Am I, therefore, just a charming buffoon? An amusing goofball who provides diversion from life’s serious matters? I’m fine with that. I may prefer to regard myself as a sly oracle inflamed with holy madness, but the service I provide is probably more effective if my ego doesn’t get the specific glory it yearns for. In this way, I have certain resemblances to the Taurus tribe during the next four weeks. Is it OK if you achieve success without receiving all of the credit you think you deserve?

After a cool, dry period, you’ll soon be slipping into a hot, wet phase. The reasonable explanations that generated so much apathy are about to get turned inside-out. The seemingly good excuses that provided cover for your timidity will be exposed as impractical lies. Are you ready for your passion to roar back into fashion? Will you know what to do when suppressed yearnings erupt and the chemicals of love start rampaging through your soft, warm animal body? I hereby warn you about the oncoming surge of weird delight — and sing “Hallelujah!” for the revelatory fun it will bring.

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static from the recent bacchanal, but the ride is uncomfortable. I’m pinned against a window by a sleepy, drunken dude who’s not in full control of his body. But do I allow my predicament to interfere with my holy meditation on your destiny? I do not — just as I trust you will keep stoking the fires of your own inspiration in the face of comparable irritations. You have been on a hot streak, my dear.

Don’t let anything tamp it down!

Over the course of a 57-year career, Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa won 78 major awards for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars. Among the filmmakers who’ve named him as an inspirational influence are heavyweights like Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. But Kurosawa wasn’t too haughty to create lighter fare. At age 86, he departed from his epic dramas to create a 30-second commercial for a yogurt drink. Did that compromise his artistic integrity? I say no. Even a genius can’t be expected to create non-stop masterpieces. Be inspired by Kurosawa, Gemini. In the coming weeks, give your best to even the most modest projects.

Homework: Which actor or actress would be the best choice to play you in a film about your life?

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Picklesburgh’s giant inflatable pickle hangs over the Rachel Carson Bridge.

IN A PICKLE {BY STEPHEN CARUSO}

DON’T BE CONFUSED by the name. While a big inflatable pickle announces it’s time again for Picklesburgh, it doesn’t mean everything you find is green and dill.

In its second year, the festival featured all manner of things to make your mouth burn, eyes squint and lips pucker, but still keep you coming back for more. Besides the obligatory fried pickles, hot-pepper relishes and pickle lemonade, there were also hot sauces, vinegars, mustards and IPAs, all featured along the Rachel Carson Bridge on July 16 and 17.

Randy’s Pickles, founded by Andrew Rainey in 2014, served up the eponymous nibble to festival-goers. However, the pickles plied here were far from the average dill. Just ask his mom, Karen Graham.

Randy’s Pickles “He just wakes up in the middle of the night with these ideas,” Graham said.

Some of those ideas include pickling cucumbers after grilling them, which leaves behind a “bitter, kind of savory char-grilled flavor,” as Rainey describes it. They also had a black-pepper pickle and “Mustache-on-Fire” pickles with hot peppers.

Along with Rainey and Graham were Pat Routa and Ryan Snyder. Rainey, Routa and Snyder all met as freshmen at Kent State University, and when Rainey decided to enter the pickling business, they followed.

“None of us went to school to work with food, so it’s been a learning curve,” Routa said.

How did the brining start? Well, of course, it starts with a girl.

“I was dating a girl in college and we broke up, so I needed a comfort food,” Rainey said. “[So] I went to the local grocery store. I looked at the pickle shelf and thought, ‘This is all garbage.’”

Further down the bridge, Pittsburgher Tom Motta sells his brand of hot sauce. It’s made entirely from ingredients he grows himself, without pesticides and artificial fertilizers, at three locations around town.

“It all began with a passion for spicy food,” Motta said.

After feasting on Indian and Thai foods, Motta realized that food “wasn’t spicy enough for me.” So, in typical do-it-yourself fashion, he started his own company.

However, Motta is inspired by more than a burning tongue. After losing both his parents to cancer, Motta was intrigued when he read studies that report capsaicin — the active component in peppers that makes them hot and spicy — can kill cancer cells.

Perhaps that helps explain the wallop of his “Pittsburghstyle” hot sauce.

Just like his hometown, “It’s intense, it’s in your face, it’s bold, and if you double-cross it, you’re screwed,” Motta said.

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