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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

8.20 – 2pm IN DISCUSSION: AI WEIWEI IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA Co-sponsored with the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Join us for a panel discussion about Ai Weiwei in the broader context of contemporary art and politics in China.

Free with museum admission.

9.14 – 8pm SOUND SERIES: YO LA TENGO WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAMBCHOP Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) Co-presented with WYEP. Tickets $20/$15 Members & students

9.16 – 8pm TQ LIVE! The Warhol theater 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

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.

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

Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and Christopher Tsai and André Stockamp. Additional support was provided by the Quentin and Evelyn T. Cunningham, the Hollen Bolmgren, and the W. Paul Spencer Funds of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

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How one battleground state will factor into the upcoming presidential election {BY ASHLEY MURRAY} “It was amazing,” said Ussery, a Bernie Sanders supporter who runs the Burghers for Bernie group in Pittsburgh. “Warren just talked about the rampant income inequality, which is one of the major platform issues of Bernie Sanders.”

Like the RNC, unity was a theme in Philly. On Ussery’s DNC-credential lanyard, hanging over her “Bernie” shirt, was an additional piece of swag — a “Hillary” pin.

“I can’t be nasty to my fellow Democrats,” said Ussery, who now says she’ll vote for Hillary Clinton in November. “We have a lunatic on the other side who is willing to do that all day on Twitter. … Do I like Hillary Clinton? Not especially, but I’m worried about the progressive agenda.

Change takes time.”

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Sidney Crosby jersey, Pennsylvania 12th District delegate Mike McMullen hung around outside of the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland two weeks ago, watching a country-music band perform. McMullen was in town for the Republican National Convention.

“It’s been a very tiring and eventful week. Speaker Paul Ryan spoke to our delegation on Monday to kick things off,” McMullen said, pointing to his Terrible Towel that he said even Ryan waved. He says the delegates spent time talking about “party unity and about moving Pennsylvania into the red section for the first time since 1988.”

About 400 miles east and a week later, Pennsylvania delegate Beth Ussery walked out of Room 118A of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention. She had just left a labor-council meeting, where U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had spoken to delegates.

In the coming months, their ground games in the battleground state of Pennsylvania will be a deciding factor.

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on the books, the Clintons boarded a bus wrapped in blue, “Stronger Together” in giant letters on the side, and began a three-day Rust Belt tour that included Harrisburg, Johnstown and Pittsburgh.

At her stop at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Saturday, Clinton stressed the economy and jobs, and called Pittsburgh a model of success after its industrial collapse. “This great American city has reinvented itself,” she told the crowd.

As for Trump in Pennsylvania, he visited Mechanicsburg, a town just southwest of Harrisburg, this past Monday night.

“We’re going to see a lot of these candidates,” says Kristin Kanthak, a political-science professor at the University of Pittsburgh, whose expertise is American politics. “There aren’t that many votes up for grabs in, say, Philly. But we have a lot of votes up for grabs [in Western Pennsylvania], because while Pittsburgh is Hillary territory, as you get further out, you get into deep Trump country.”

Kanthak also argues that Western Pa. is going to be a popular stop because of its

proximity to another key battleground — Ohio. (Florida is the other must-win.)

“Trump needs to run the table. It’s simply how the math works out this year,” Kanthak says. “He has to win Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, or he won’t get enough votes. So we’re going to get a lot of attention here.”

As for raw numbers, as of July 25, there were about 917,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans among Pennsylvania’s 7.2 million voters.

A Suffolk University poll conducted last week showed Clinton ahead of Trump by nine points in the state. But data-politics website fivethirtyeight.com calculated that Pennsylvania has moved 0.4 percentage points more Republican every four years for the last six presidential election cycles, and argues that it’s surpassed other states to possibly become the “most winnable state for Republicans.”

“I actually think Hillary Clinton has a chance to do better in Western Pennsylvania than the president did in ’12,” David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager and senior adviser, said in a press briefing at the DNC. “Even in a scenario where Trump reaches some [large] goal, this is about actual votes, not percentages in fraudulent public polls. And there’s not enough raw

vote to overcome what she’s going to walk out of this part of the state with.”

Neither the Clinton nor Trump campaigns responded to City Paper’s inquiries about how many workers they have on the ground in Pennsylvania. But while Clinton offices are visible across the state, including in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Republican party officials here have been widely quoted on Trump’s lack of ground game.

(Westmoreland County’s Republican chairman was quoted in Politico at the end of June as saying, “The resources at our disposal are by far the worst I’ve ever seen in any campaign, at least in any presidential campaign.” However, he prefaced that by describing the strong level of enthusiasm for Trump in his county.)

Meanwhile, high-ranking state Democrats are coming to bat for Clinton — Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty both spoke at the DNC. And local Democrats are busy campaigning for Clinton. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, who both attended the DNC as pledged delegates for Clinton, appeared with the nominee in Pittsburgh at an April rally at Carnegie Mellon University. On Saturday, Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, former Sanders supporter,

advocated strongly for Clinton.

“We need investments in transportation and infrastructure,” Fitzgerald said this week by phone, “which she’s talking about as a big part of her campaign.”

At the DNC, both Peduto and Fitzgerald mentioned partnerships with the White House as key to receiving federal grants.

Peduto mentioned money for pilot programs, like driverless-car technology and the social initiative My Brother’s Keeper.

Fitzgerald referenced TIGER — Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery — grants, like the $19 million recently awarded to a street-improvement project to connect Downtown to the Hill District.

“We have a good relationship with Hillary Clinton, and we have for a number of years,” Fitzgerald told CP. And while Clinton has Democratic officials locked up, she’s also doing well with another pretty sizable voting block: women.

“In terms of gender gap, we know that Donald Trump does pretty poorly with women voters. Seven out of 10 women do not support him,” says Dana Brown, the executive director of the nonpartisan Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University. “He needs to do better [with them], and that’s why you saw Ivanka Trump come out and talk about gender CONTINUES ON PG. 08

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Meanwhile Trump’s approval with veterans — and the mothers of veterans, for that matter —recently took a hit. The news cycle last weekend was dominated by the ongoing debate spurred by Khizr Khan’s well-received speech, delivered on the DNC’s closing night. Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who stood with wife, Ghazala, spoke of their son, Humayun, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, and called on Trump to repudiate his earlier comments about banning Muslims. Trump responded over the weekend with several dismissive tweets and a suggestion that Mrs. Khan had remained silent on stage due to religious restrictions imposed on women. Trump’s comments sparked outrage among many,

including Mrs. Kahn, who wrote in an op-ed in the Sunday Washington Post: “What mother could [speak]? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?�

And this past Monday, just hours before Trump’s appearance in Mechanicsburg, the Clinton campaign sent a release saying veterans in Pennsylvania — including former Rep. Chris Carney, who is a former commander of the U.S. Navy Reserve — would publicly demand an apology for Trump’s comments about the Khan family.

Historically, the Republicans have usually taken the majority of the military vote.

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TRANS PROTECTION Advocates are working to address problems facing LGBT prisoners {BY RYAN DETO} ACCORDING TO a 2014 survey compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, about 25 percent of transgender prisoners reported being sexually assaulted by inmates while incarcerated. For all other non-trans prisoners, that number is only 2 percent.

It’s this disparity that has motivated the Illegal Queers Collective to raise awareness about the plight of LGBT people who are, or have been, incarcerated. And it is accomplishing that the best way its members know how: dancing.

On Fri., Aug. 5, the collective is throwing an all-inclusive dance-party fundraiser at Salem’s Event Center (formerly CJ’s) in the Strip District from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.

“It is a fundraiser queer dance party,” says Jayme Jenkins of the Illegal Queers Collective, who identifies as agender. “Our beneficiaries are always trans and queer prisoners who have been disproportionately marginalized by the legal system.”

The party is raising funds for two beneficiaries, Ky Peterson and Ashley Diamond. Peterson, a trans man, is currently serving a 20-year sentence in a women’s prison.

Diamond, a trans woman, was housed for more than three years in a men’s prison and says she was sexually assaulted many times while there, according to The New York Times. Since her release — which came soon after her federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections was backed by the U.S. Department of Justice — Diamond has struggled to adapt to society. She hasn’t been able to find consistent work and can’t afford to pay for her parole fees or hormone injections.

So far, Diamond has only raised $5,000 of her $25,000 goal on crowdfunding site youcaring.com.

The collective’s last party, in March, raised more than $1,000 each for Susie Moon — a local trans woman struggling to get back on her feet after being released from jail — and trans woman Eisha Love, a former prisoner from Chicago. Daniel Grumer, also of the collective, says more than 300 people attended March’s party. He says this month’s party will also be raffling off artwork from LGBT artists to help raise money for Peterson and Diamond.

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An Illegal Queers dance party held in March 2016

But Jenkins says it’s not just about raising money — it’s also about raising awareness. The party will have tables for LGBT- and prisoner-rights groups to inform party-goers. “It’s about getting people to consider their relationship between the state and oppression, particularly gender oppression, racism and violence,” says Jenkins. “... When you throw a trans woman into a men’s prison, she is woman. It leaves people very vulnerable to sexual assault.”

And while this month’s party is highlighting the problems of the Georgia prison system, Pennsylvania has some problems of its own, says Etta Cetera, an activist with Let’s Get Free legal defense, an advocacy group for trans inmates and prisoners in Western Pennsylvania.

“From what I know working with people incarcerated for the last 15 years, trans people are not acknowledged, and [they are] put in prisons that are different than their gender, and often times placed in solitary for their safety,” says Cetera.

But awareness is increasing. The collective’s parties are becoming increasingly popular, and Grumer says they receive a lot of offers to host their parties. Sometimes, however, the group has had to turn down venues that conflict with the collective’s mission of creating safe spaces for LGBT people and allies.

“We are against unwanted sexual contact,” says Grumer. “One of the reasons we are having it at a place that doesn’t already have a dance culture, is that you go to certain spaces and expect certain behavior to be OK. We are creating a new space, and making it a space that is safer for queer and trans people.”

And Jenkins thinks this will only make it better. “We not only want to make it a political thing,” Jenkins says, “but also want it to be the best dance party we have been to.”

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TALKIN’ ABOUT PRACTICE {BY MIKE WYSOCKI} AS THE SWELTERING late-summer sun beats down on the town of Latrobe, many residents seek air-conditioned sanctuaries. The local news gives a heat advisory, warning us to stay inside, wear light, loose-fitting clothing, drink only water, and look after the elderly, children and pets. It’s as if someone were planning to put on dark, tight-fitting clothing and cool off in the attic with a bottle of gin while inviting an old man and a toddler to join him. Nevertheless, the white-hot heat and caloric waves emanating from the pavement do not deter the annual pilgrimage of Steelers Nation.

Every year, thousands of fanatics layer on heavy, black Steelers jerseys in unforgiving 90-degree heat. What’s more, once camp opens, they sprint toward Chuck Noll Field to get the best seats for practice. Some wait in line for hours in the intense heat just for a chance to see players run through tires, play catch, and stretch their hammies, pecs and groins.

Some people might think this ritual sounds crazy, but for Pittsburgh fans it’s as big a part of summer as Ocean City or Lake Erie.

The town of Latrobe has contributed Arnold Palmer, Fred Rogers and the banana split. Not too shabby for a Westmoreland County town of 8,000. St. Vincent College hosts every year; it’s an odd combination of pro football and monks.

That’s the way we like it. Plus the monks are very quiet so as not to disturb the offense. For diehards, the opening day of camp is akin to Christmas morning.

Six months without football is a long time for people with an addiction.

The part of the calendar from February to late July is agonizing in its dearth of Steelers football. Those months contain only the draft, optional practices and the occasional court hearing — hardly enough action to placate the pigskin junkies. Other cities love their teams too, but we are like stalkers.

Steelers fans will fight off heat exhaustion and dehydration just to get a glimpse of their favorite players. Or even to pick out a late-round draftee or freeagent signee who might go on to make the team. Maybe Allen Iverson derided

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Saturday, Aug 13 practice, but in Latrobe it’s taken very seriously. Even with no names on the practice jerseys, fans know who they are, where they went to college, what round they were drafted, the time it takes them to run 40 yards, and their favorite movie.

If the practices were televised, people would cut their vacations short to come home and watch. Fans will watch the Steelers play basketball for charity in the offseason, just to see them play some kind of sport. Fans will even show up en masse to watch a player shave his beard. There’s no way to explain it unless you’re from or live around here.

Almost 100 players enter camp, including players who were stars in college and probably some who were the best players their high schools have ever seen. Those guys are competing for a handful of roster spots. Just to get here, you must have incredible talent. Yet 40 or so spots will go to veterans, leaving maybe 10 for the other 60 to compete over.

One bad practice or an injury can move a player to the back of the line. Those NFL dreams can be crushed in an afternoon.

The best part about Steelers camp, though, is that all the seats are cheap. I could never understand why people pay full price to watch preseason games.

Training camp doesn’t cost a thing except devotion, sunburn and perhaps heat stroke. If you’re a Steelers fan, you know all about this. If you’re a casual fan, you have to check it out. Maybe wear the white away jersey because it doesn’t absorb the heat as much. But everybody knows that real men wear black.

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission has issued 16 citations to a Lancaster County restaurant-owner after an investigation allegedly showed that she had been scavenging, storing and selling deer meat from slaughter-house dumpsters. Investigators told PennLive.com that 54-year-old Shi Eng began approaching deer-processing plants for scraps, purportedly to feed her dogs, in 2013. In the next two years, slaughterhouse employees say they frequently found Eng around their dumpsters. Sometimes, she allegedly offered to pay for the scrap, but employees couldn’t sell it. In one case, late-night workers suspected a raccoon in a dumpster and reportedly found Eng. Last December, New York City police arrested Eng on charges of illegally selling deer meat from her vehicle to Chinatown restaurants. Contacted by the NYPD, Pennsylvania Wildlife Conservation Officer Greg Graham went to the New China House in Lititz, which Eng owns with her husband. Graham says he found 300 to 400 pounds of deer parts in freezers. “It was primarily legs, heads, rib cages, spinal columns, a bowl of deer brains,” he elaborated.

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Barbara Hafer, Pennsylvania’s state treasurer from 1997 to 2004, has been accused of accepting $675,000 from a businessman in a pay-for-play scheme and indicted for lying about it to FBI agents. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Richard Ireland, of Chester County, worked as a middleman connecting companies to government contracts. In 2005, shortly after Hafer left office, he allegedly paid $500,000 to her newly formed consulting firm and shelled out another $175,000 over the next two years — all allegedly in exchange for her help landing his clients contacts while she was state treasurer. Hafer, currently of Indiana County, reportedly told FBI investigators that she did not receive any money from Ireland.

Once financial records showed that she did, her lawyer relayed the Reagan-during-IranContra-esque reasoning that Hafer had “simple lapses in her memory” and had forgotten about the payment while speaking to the FBI. (That $500,000 was three-quarters of her firm’s intake its first year.)

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A lawyer representing six current or former deputies of Westmoreland County Sheriff Jonathan Held says that Held assigned them tasks meant to help his 2015 re-election campaign while they were on duty. The deputies say Held sent them to community events to hand out information packets about topics like gun safety and drug awareness. David Millstein, the attorney for the six deputies, says that Held had them affix tags bearing his name to the candy and snacks that came with the public-safety goody bags. Held pointed out to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that

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none of the tags said “vote for” or “elect.”

District Attorney John Peck said his office has started an investigation.

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Joshua McKelvey was apparently “tired” of a vacant motel in North Versailles being used as refuge for sex and drug use, so he filled up a gas can at a Get-Go, torched the place and drove off, police told WTAE. In another instance, McKelvey, 18, allegedly took out his car’s spare tire and ignited it (for an unknown reason), causing a brush fire in the borough of Wall. McKelvey’s arrest on arson charges came as a surprise to Shane Spielvogle, chief of the East McKeesport volunteer fire department, where McKelvey had been training for two months. Spielvogle called the actions “disgusting.”

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Shawn Paul Powell of Mercer County was arrested after the bottle “shakeand-bake” meth cooker he was allegedly

transporting in his car ignited, forcing him to toss it out a window. Police told the Meadville Tribune that Powell, 44, was driving through Meadville and threw the bottle, containing methamphetamine-making material. He retrieved it and apparently got the reaction under control, say police, but then had to chuck it again, at which point it landed in a yard and caught fire.

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Two robbers entered a Honey Bear convenience store in Armstrong County late at night. One covered his face with a gas mask and carried a baseball bat, reports the Tribune-Review, while the other obscured his identity with a bandana and hooded sweatshirt and displayed a semiautomatic pistol. As ordered, the clerk emptied the cash register, but when these two Suicide Squad rejects saw that their haul would be mere pocket change, they left, stealing only a two-liter bottle of soda.

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THE REAL STARS ARE THE COOKED DISHES, MANY INSPIRED BY STREET FOOD

SOUL SURVIVOR {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL} Carleen King counts 14 restaurants within two blocks of Carmi Soul Food Restaurant, the place she opened in 2011 with her husband, Michael King.

That’s if you include fast-food joints — but Carmi’s is hardly fast food. In fact, the stewing and smoking of its ribs and other delicacies takes long enough that since the kitchen staff is there anyway, Carmi’s (pronounced car-mees) opens for breakfast at 8 a.m. six days a week.

The welcoming family restaurant grew out of the Kings’ full-service catering menu, but went full-on soul food because that’s what sold best.

Its most popular dishes include such Southern fare as chicken and waffles, fried chicken, mac-and-cheese, shrimp and grits, greens, candied yams and chicken-and-dumpling soup. I’d also recommend the fish and grits (the grits are cheesy) and the smothered pork chops in pepper-onion gravy. The mixed greens are savory, and the slightly sweet, cakey cornbread complements most everything.

Carleen King, who’s a North Side native, says that 70 percent of Carmi’s patrons for dinner and on weekends come from outside the neighborhood.

And in a rapidly changing restaurant landscape that includes plenty of options more nouveau or more exotic, those patrons run Allegheny West’s gauntlet of restaurants to do it.

“When people come here, they make a choice,” she says, “so we have to be eternally grateful to each customer.”

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Zaru soba: chilled buckwheat noodles, ponzu dipping sauce and sesame seed, with assorted nigiri and a Fuji Slushee

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As Pittsburgh gets trendier, food gets later.

Now on Fridays and Saturdays, if you’re Downtown between midnight and 2 a.m., you can sate yourself with economically priced snacks from täkō. Look for tacos ($2-3), chili con queso ($4), chips and salsa ($2) and loaded nachos ($6). 214 Sixth St.

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was the mind behind Tamari, where the Asian fusion cuisine and polished interior evoked the sophisticated style of a global city. Last year, he moved across Butler Street to create his own restaurant.

Umami — named for the elusive, pleasantly savory “fifth taste” — is a Japanese-style izakaya, a term that now describes a broad style of pub featuring a full bar and an array of informal foods.

Located above the popular Round Corner Cantina, Umami’s decor eschews the sleekly modern for a sort of hipster take on traditional Japanese pattern and texture. It is festooned with the red lanterns that are synonymous with izakaya and offers a small tatami room for dining at low tables. It also brings an almost campy sensibility with custom wallpaper

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that uses the kanji-esque Umami logo as a graphic pattern. The third floor space is cheerfully dim and noisy, if slightly warmer temperature-wise.

UMAMI

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PRICES: $2-16 LIQUOR: Full bar

CP APPROVED Izakaya dining is a bit like tapas, with ongoing ordering and delivery of small plates for sampling and sharing. Much of the menu is inexpensive, encouraging exploration, which was rewarded by an array of styles, from familiar sushi and dumplings to grilled skewers from the robatay-

aki (grill) to “yatai,” a section of the menu named after food carts, featuring ramen, soba, tempura and more.

In contrast to Li’s previous fusion of Asian and Western cuisines, here nearly every dish and ingredient was one that would be familiar to Japanese diners. But Umami doesn’t merely replicate traditional Japanese food. Perhaps the best example of the kitchen’s liberal-authentic approach was the nasa shigiyaki: Nasubi, a long, narrow Japanese eggplant, was delicately pan-fried and topped with ground chicken and a miso sauce. The surface of the halved eggplant became golden, shading to deep brown at the edges, while the interior was creamy, almost custardy. On top, the tender chicken was bathed in savory sauce that packed a surprising — for Japanese cooking — heat, a nod to the

preferences of Li’s American clientele.

Not that Umami’s recipes are Americanized: A skewer of chicken hearts from the robatayaki tasted intensely of dark meat, with just a hint of extra chew. Our other skewers, chicken skin and meatball, were delightful as well; the former was crispy but still a little chewy, not brittle, while the latter was subtly seasoned and glazed to highlight the meaty taste.

The sushi and sashimi offerings were classic, with no overstuffed stunt rolls. In fact, the only form of maki was conical hand rolls, simply filled with sweet sticky rice, one or two varieties of fish and a bit of vegetable. The fish was high-quality, with the tuna standing out for its deepred color.

But the real stars at Umami are the cooked dishes, most of them inspired by yatai, or Japanese street food. Pork and cabbage gyoza, bursting with — yes — umami flavor, were pan-fried in the classic technique that created a paper-thin pancake connecting the dumplings, and the wrappers were wonderfully light and crisp.

Fried kaki (oysters) were a delectable combination of succulence and crunch accompanied by a judicious drizzle of soy-based sauce and a creamy dollop of Kewpie brand Japanese mayonnaise.

Two ramen variations are available, with an additional menu of add-ons making for a plethora of personalized possibilities. Sounded great, but on a hot night, we took our noodles cold in the form of zaru soba, chilled buckwheat noodles with a ponzu dipping sauce. The hearty noodles and salty, citrusy sauce were elemental and satisfying and, when we mixed a little bit of grated ginger into the ponzu, even more refreshing.

Onigiri — filled rice balls — are another common Japanese street food that, at Umami, overlap with sushi, at least in the option filled with spicy tuna, scallion and nori. Further variations include one filled with pickled ginger and another with bamboo shoots and king trumpet mushroom.

All come with a plastic dropper of soy sauce so that this can be injected directly into the filling, rather than applied merely to the outside of the rice — a novel, if unnecessary, presentation.

Another tiny dropper, this one filled with hibiscus syrup, came with Angelique’s “Falling Petal,” a shot of draft sake which she chose over the more robust and, frankly, Western desserts of fried ice cream and macarons. The combination of sweet, potent syrup and cool fermented rice wine was sublime. It was a fitting coda to our meal at Umami, a feast of flavors and textures showcasing the everyday art of Japanese cuisine.

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CARBONARA, FOR ONE {BY TAYLOR GRIESHOBER} Cooking for one can be frustrating. First are the serving sizes, which imply that I have four to six mouths to feed. But I’m the only one relying on me, which is, mostly, pretty great! (I can eat chocolate ice cream for breakfast because I’m a grown-ass woman.)

Sometimes having a week’s worth of leftovers can make life easier for a single gal, but it can also make life boring. I also don’t like spending hours in the kitchen. I don’t need to impress anyone — I just need to satiate myself. I tend to cook simple meals with basic ingredients. Butter, cheese, eggs and pasta are staples that I always have and are also the quintessential elements for vegetarian spaghetti carbonara. It’s perfect for the creative single: quick, easy and adaptable, so you can get back to whatever it is you do.

I’M THE ONLY ONE RELYING ON ME, WHICH IS, MOSTLY, PRETTY GREAT! INGREDIENTS • 8 oz. spaghetti • 2 tbsp. olive oil or butter • 2 cloves of garlic, minced • 1 cup grated Parmesan or Pecorino • 2 eggs • Lots of salt and pepper • Optional: peas, spinach or asparagus

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INSTRUCTIONS Bring a pot of salted water to boil. Beat eggs in a bowl with ½ cup of the cheese.

Add salt and pepper to the egg mixture to taste. (I go heavy on pepper, since the cheese is already pretty salty.) Add pasta to boiling water. Reserve one cup of starchy cooking water. Drain pasta when just a bit firmer than al dente. Meanwhile, heat oil or butter in heavy-bottomed skillet.

Add the minced garlic. Cook for a minute, stirring, until garlic becomes fragrant. You can add the optional veggies with extra butter or oil here. Cook for a few minutes over low heat. Add pasta to skillet and ½ of the starchy water. Pour egg and cheese mixture over top. Stir immediately so the egg doesn’t scramble. Add more starchy water in increments for desired creaminess.

Once mixed thoroughly, remove pasta from heat and sprinkle remaining cheese on top. Serve immediately.

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Brewing Company finally opened its East End Taproom late in June. “We’ve been searching for a spot for a long time and we’re happy we’ve landed here. We’ve always focused on what’s in the glass and worked our way out,” says owner Scott Smith.

Located in the Strip District, the space offers a different atmosphere than the Brewery in Larimer (which will remain in operation). “Here we get foot traffic, which we never get at the brewery,” says Smith. The new space comes on the heels of Pittsburgh Public Market’s February 2016 closing. East End had a growler shop there, the ambiance of which Smith affectionately likened to “drinking in your high school hallway.” Even so, he says it helped show him there was a market in the Strip for a taproom.

The building is divided into several retail spaces. The Taproom occupies one while Olive Tap and John Moran Woodworking, their former neighbors at the Public Market, are in adjacent rooms. A few others are expected to join. The building was once a nightclub, but that vibe has been completely washed away. The Taproom has clean lines, lots of wood, exposed brick and charming lamps that look exactly like hop flowers hanging over the bar. Another 6,000 square feet of outdoor courtyard space is in the works for café seating that will be shared with the other vendors.

In order to assure excellent-tasting beer, Smith replaced the nightclub’s entire tap

system. The taproom boasts a completely stainless-steel draft tower and an oxygen barrier to preserve the quality of the beer from tank to tap. “We’ve actually gotten complaints that the beer is too cold,” says Smith, laughing. Twelve taps including a nitro tap guarantee a wide variety of East End beers. For non-beer drinkers, there is also cider, homemade ginger beer and root beer on tap. Size options run the gamut, with taster flights, half growlers, growlers and “crowlers.” At 32 ounces, a crowler is a double-sized “pounder” that the bartender will fill and then seal to make one, giant portable can.

A few more things to love: The establishment is kid-friendly (and, for outdoor seating, dog-friendly).

It’s also instituted a BYOF (“Bring Your Own Food”) program, seconding Smith’s assertion he’s dedicated to sticking to beer and “leaving the food to the experts.” “The Strip community has been really supportive,” he says. Nearby Thin Man Sandwich Shop, he says, has recommended on social media that customers check out the new taproom equipped with one of its sandwiches. In the near future, look forward to Sunday beer brunches, which will include two beverages and breakfast. Until East End settles into the space, the hours will be subject to change, but it currently serves Thursday through Sunday.

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102 19th St., Strip District. www.eastendbrewing.com

BOOZE BATTLES {BY CELINE ROBERTS}

Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle.

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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Le Mardi Gras

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731 Copeland St., Shadyside

DRINK: 3911 Greyhound INGREDIENTS: Captain Morgan Grapefruit Rum, Smirnoff Sourced Grapefruit Vodka, sours, Sierra Mist, candy-necklace garnish OUR TAKE: If you want a good representation of flavored vodka, this would be it. The drink is like a fun, candy-flavored soda that, at 20 ounces, you could share with your friends. It’s got college charm, while still tasting good and being dangerously drinkable. Since it’s on the sweeter side, maybe save the candy necklace for later and enjoy a bubbly, sour swig.

DRINK: Greyhound INGREDIENTS: Tito’s Handmade vodka, freshsqueezed grapefruit juice OUR TAKE: Le Mardi Gras is known for making a strong drink and its classic, barebones Greyhound is no exception. Because the bar uses 288410_4.75_x_4.75.indd 1 fresh grapefruit juice (made in front of you, using one of the giant metal juicers bolted to the bar), the drink is unsweetened and full of pure, citrus tang. Using quality vodka like Tito’s makes the drink so well balanced that the acidity and the heat of the alcohol are barely noticeable.

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HERMANN J. WIEMER WINES ARE AVAILABLE AT: PA Fine Wine & Good Spirit Stores. www.finewineandgoodspirits.com

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{BY ALEX GORDON}

LOCAL INVESTMENT If you’re a local artist trying to get paid to practice your art, applying for a grant might not be your first thought.

The application process can be insular, political and complicated. But a new grant for musicians from Ace Hotel, Martin Guitars and The Good Peoples Group (which deals in “creative and cultural problem-solving”) aims to change that.

Up and Comin’ will award $10,000 in mini-grants to an undecided number of recipients to help with the business side of music. But this money isn’t to buy 808s or even Martin guitars: Up and Comin’ is for services that can be sourced locally, whether that’s flyers, legal counseling or website design.

“It’s so hard to support yourself in a city that says they love art so much, but most of the artists here are suffering,” says Liana Maneese of The Good Peoples Group. “They’re not able to make a living at their art.”

Up and Comin’ is atypical in a few ways.

For starters, the grant stipulates that the money must be spent on local businesses to keep the money in Pittsburgh. Secondly, there are very few restrictions on who can apply. An applicant must live in Pittsburgh, be a musician and be at least 15 years old — but that’s about it.

Justin Strong — who joined Maneese and The Good Peoples Group in partnering with Ace Hotel and Martin Guitars to organize Up and Comin’ — says there’s significance in accepting musicians that young. After years working in the scene at his former venues Shadow Lounge and AVA Lounge, Strong says he knows when it’s time to invest in the next generation of artists.

“Right now, there’s some 15-, 16year-olds that are weirdos, sitting at the lunchroom table that nobody wants to sit at,” he says. “They’re gonna define the scene in five years.”

As of July 29, Maneese and Strong say they’ve received about 20 submissions but are optimistic about who they’re hearing from so far. The application deadline is Aug. 15.

“There’s a lot of privilege involved in being able to get a grant,” says Maneese. “[Up and Comin’] really opens it up.”

For more details and to apply, email thegoodpeoplesgroup@gmail.com.

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James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy in operation?

That’s the amount Kevin Saftner, the venue’s owner and manager, estimates it will cost to soundproof and refurbish the popular North Side spot’s upstairs ballroom to comply with Pennsylvania’s liquor laws.

If not, and if complaints keep coming in, the bar faces the loss of its amusement permit and/or liquor license.

“It would be easier to shut the doors, and my mom could retire and I could move on to my next venture,” says Saftner. “But we love this place, and we love the Pittsburgh music community and all the employees here.”

Put simply, Section 493(34) of the liquor code states that a licensee may not use a loudspeaker or similar device to project music or noise beyond that venue’s property line. The law is separate from local and municipal noise ordinances, and pertains only to venues that possess a liquor license. This and all parts of the liquor code are enforced by the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement, a branch of the

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James Street owner and manager Kevin Saftner in the venue’s upstairs ballroom

Pennsylvania State Police.

For decades a fixture for jazz, James Street opened in its current form in late 2011 and quickly re-established its reputation as a go-to spot for live music. “Jazz and blues are our heart and soul,” says Saftner, “but anyone and everything is welcome here.” He notes that the venue hosts 200 to 300 events annually, including burlesque shows, local music showcases, and everything in between.

According to BLCE data, the first noise complaint came last October, during Layer Cake Festival, and resulted in a $250 fine.

The most recent occurred July 9, during the free Deutschtown Music Festival, when two plainclothes BLCE officers visited James Street and found the music from the upstairs ballroom traveling outside, beyond the property line, in violation of state law.

This complaint happened despite the presence of a large, city-sanctioned outdoor festival stage one block away.

Rather than risk additional noise complaints, Saftner pulled the plug on the ballroom stage at about 8:40 p.m. during a

performance by The Garment District. The remaining three bands either relocated to a different festival venue or had their sets cancelled entirely.

Eric Swartzwelder, supervisor for the BLCE Pittsburgh office, says that he cannot comment on an open investigation other than to say that undercover officers were sent to James Street in regard to a complaint made specifically against the venue, and not for a routine inspection.

Saftner says that he has “no clue” who made the two complaints. He might never know; personal information need not be provided to register a complaint with the BLCE, and even if a venue owner appeals a violation to an administrative-law judge, the accuser before the court would be the officer from the BLCE who went to the venue to investigate, not the original complainant.

Stanley Wolowski, an attorney with the Law Offices of Flaherty and O’Hara, which specializes in liquor-control matters, is adamant that BLCE officers use discretion and common sense when enforcing the law, and that officers will not cite a owner

simply because they hear music right over the property line.

Nevertheless, he says, under the liquor code, it is “strict liability,” meaning that fault or negligence need not be proven by the authorities. “It’s not like the BLCE has to prove there have been many complaints, or show that the music was unreasonably loud. All they have to prove is they were standing off the property line and heard amplified music coming from the premises.”

Wolowski, a former lead prosecutor for the BLCE in Western Pennsylvania, says it’s “almost impossible” to win an appeal against a BLCE complaint. Aside from arguing that the music wasn’t amplified, or that it came from elsewhere, Wolowski says there is essentially no defense that a venue can mount.

One person familiar with James Street’s plight is Justin Strong, former owner of East Liberty’s Shadow Lounge, which closed in 2013 largely because of the potential costs ownership faced to soundproof the venue to prevent further noise-complaint investigations by the BLCE. “It’s frustrating,” says Strong. “It’s discouraging when you feel like you’re doing something good for the local culture and region to move forward, and people start to pay attention to Pittsburgh as a vibrant place to live, and then to have people fight you.”

Pittsburgh Police Commander Lavonnie Bickerstaff says there was a single municipal 311 noise complaint against James Street in the past 18 months, as well as a “small handful” of noise complaints to 911, none of which resulted in a fine or sanction from the city. And a spokesperson with the District Attorney’s office states that James Street is not on the DA’s radar as a “nuisance bar.”

A few days after Deutschtown, James Street launched an Indiegogo campaign seeking $5,000 to help pay for renovations to the 140-year-old building, including soundproofing and affiliated costs. Saftner says he was initially uncomfortable asking for money from the public, but felt like he had few other options. In two days, the campaign exceeded its goal, raising $6,541.

“It’s a difficult position for everybody, trying to find that balance between the needs of the business and the residents of the neighborhood,” says Mark Fatla, executive director of the Northside Leadership Conference. “I’m confident that James Street and the neighborhood will work to find that balance.”

“We’ve had architects and soundproofing specialists in,” says Saftner.

“Everybody agrees that we should be OK once it gets done.

“I think we’ll be OK.” INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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machine and get a lot of expectation built up around the release. For us, that didn’t feel like a good idea with this collection of songs. Because it’s not exactly a traditional full-length for us, and it’s more just a way for us to sort of examine process. We wanted to take stuff that was sitting around and look at it through a different lens and see what happened. … [W]e knew that we had a base of people who would be excited to hear it, but it didn’t require a crazy amount of forethought and marketing.

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Not-so-awkward phase: Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak

ROOM TO GROW {BY SHAWN COOKE} WYE OAK WANTS to manage your expecta-

tions. Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have maintained that their latest release, Tween, isn’t the band’s fifth full-length, despite its eight tracks and 35-minute run-time matching what many bands present as a proper LP these days. They’ve instead opted to call it a “mini album” or “new not-album,” even though it contains some of the band’s most expansive and accomplished songs to date.

The duo’s last proper full-length, 2014’s Shriek, was notable for a few reasons.

Wasner and Stack traded the elemental, rustic feel of their 2011 breakout, Civilian, for songs they could email back and forth across the country. Gone were the guitars; in were the bass and synthesizers. Tween contains tracks that were culled from the years between Civilian and Shriek, but didn’t seem to fit on either album.

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either of those records. The group traverses skyscraping dream-pop on “If You Should See,” and “Better (For Esther)” contains some of the most triumphant left-turns and misdirection I’ve heard on a record this year. During a phone call with Stack, he tells me that the band feels as much freedom as it’s ever had to tweak its existing playbook into new and compelling songs.

“We have all these different colors on the palette right now, and we can pick and choose depending on what seems to suit the ideas that we’re having,” Stack says.

SURPRISE RELEASES, AT LEAST RECENTLY, HAVE SEEMED LIKE A WAY FOR HIGH-PROFILE ARTISTS TO CONTROL THE CONVERSATION FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS OR A WEEK. SINCE WYE OAK OBVIOUSLY EXISTS IN A DIFFERENT SPACE THAN, SAY, CHANCE THE RAPPER OR BEYONCÉ, WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO SURPRISE RELEASE TWEEN? It’s interesting that you say “control the conversation,” because even with our diminished stature compared to some of the other people who are doing surprise releases, I think it was also for us a means of control. The goal was that we didn’t want to approach this release as we would a full-length record; certainly as we’ve done those in the past, where it’s like you make some announcement far out, and then you’re basically working this hype

THE TITLE TWEEN REPRESENTS A BRIEF TRANSITIONAL PERIOD IN OUR LIVES, AND THIS RECORD DOES REALLY FEEL LIKE THAT. We approached it separately from a record — where if you want to use that tween analogy — you think of the record as an album, capital A, as the fully formed adult or something like that. The tween, or inbetween state, you’re kind of in a position where you’re playing with a lot of different ideas and you’re not totally committing to who you are yet. For us, it was a really fun part of the process, to be able to hop around and not worry too much about having some fully formed cohesive statement.

It was more about having a chance to play with different sides of our creative selves.

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BY ALL ACCOUNTS SEEMED LIKE A PRODUCT OF ISOLATION AND SEPARATION FOR YOU BOTH [STACK CURRENTLY LIVES IN TEXAS, WASNER IN NORTH CAROLINA]. DO YOU WANT TO KEEP RECORDING FUTURE ALBUMS IN THAT METHOD, BY BOUNCING IDEAS LONG-DISTANCE, OR DO YOU PREFER TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM? It’s worked really well for us that way.

And I think ultimately [it ends up being] a combination of those two tactics. It’s not computer-based music, so it’s not so simple as sending files back and forth. Even with Shriek, which was experimenting with technology a little bit more than we had in the past … there’s still an organic quality to it, and there’s still a feeling of two people together in a space that we try to get with this music. So I think it creates a fun challenge to write remotely, but we usually enjoyed it. Furthermore, it’s just where our lives have gone at this point. It’s really important for us both to have our lives and pursue things that we want to do, so we let our collaboration sort of bend to that.

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[GRRRL PWR] + SAT., AUG. 06 Every year, a team of amazing non-maleidentified mentors organizes a camp for girls to learn how to play instruments, write music and express themselves through performance and collaboration. After a week of workshops celebrating the power of being loud and taking up space, campers get to show off their new chops at the Girls Rock! Pittsburgh Showcase, at the Winchester Thurston School. It’s open to the public, so this is your chance to say you saw these bad-ass kids before they were famous. Meg Fair 4 p.m. 555 Morewood Ave., Shadyside. Free for kids, $5 for 18+. www.girlsrock Girls pittsburgh.org Rock!

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Elizabeth Cook has been through a lot since her last record, Welder, was released in 2010. She got divorced, lost her father in 2012, and her sister dealt with heroin addiction.

Despite not using drugs herself, Cook went to rehab at the urging of her management team (where she was diagnosed with a “personality disorder,” she told Rolling Stone). But out of that chaos comes an edgy, poignant record, Exodus of Venus, about getting through the shit life drops in front of you and doing the best you can on the other side. Cook brings her traditional country twang to Club Café tonight with special guest Derek Hoke. Charlie Deitch 8 p.m. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $15.

412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com

[INDIE PUNK] + MON., AUG. 08 What’s good in the indie-punk world?

Everything happening at the Smiling Moose tonight. The gig will showcase Looming, Donovan Wolfington and Drug Church.

Donovan Wolfington is the kind of gloomy punk you can bob around to, which works well with the atmospheric riffage of Looming.

(To know what real bliss is, ride your bike on a cloudy day alongside a river to Looming’s “Onward.”) Drug Church supplies the heavy, while local openers Same and YRS’s supply the rock. Sick! MF 6 p.m. 1306 E. Carson St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4668 or www.smiling-moose.com

[HIP HOP] + WED., AUG. 10 Hometown hip-hop hero Wiz Khalifa will return to (almost) Pittsburgh with movie co-star and rap legend Snoop Dogg. Festivities take place at First Niagara, and event organizer and online cannabis resource Merry Jane have carefully crafted a night of celebration with a stacked lineup of openers featuring L.A. rapper Casey Veggies, Baton Rouge, La.’s Kevin Gates and R&B angel Jhene Aiko. Is the lawn foggy, or is that {PHOTO COURTESY OF just me? MF 7 p.m.

STEPH DEFELICE} 65 Pennsylvania 18, Burgettstown. All ages. $20-175. 724-947-7400 or livenation.com

[MATH ROCK] + WED., AUG. 10 You probably played The Fall of Troy’s “F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.” on Guitar Hero 3, but have you ever had TFOT’s mathy riffage, wailing vocals and weird time signatures melt your face in person? The Rex Theater is going to overflow with six-string madness as the band teams up with ’68, the noisy rock project of ex-Chariot vocalist Josh Scogin. Find a nice trash can to throw to the heavy-as-HECK opening act, Illustrations. Don’t actually throw a trash can though, that’d be very rude. MF 8 p.m. 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $17-20. 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com

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ROCK/POP THU 04 CLUB CAFE. Adrien Reju w/ Michael Lindner from 28 North, Vit DeBacco. South Side.

412-431-4950.

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER. Coldplay, Foxes, Alessia Cara.

Uptown. 412-642-1800.

PALACE THEATRE. Neon Swing X-Perience. Greensburg.

724-836-8000.

FRI 05 BRILLOBOX. Pandemic: What Cheer Brigade, TransSaharan Ensemble & Pandemic Pete.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

CLUB CAFE. The Empty Pockets w/ Matt Aquiline & the Dead End Streets. early. Karma To Burn w/ Solarburn. late. South Side.

412-431-4950.

HEADLINERS. The Dave Iglar Band. Washington.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. A.T.S., The Knauer Brothers & The Mike Marcinko Jazz Trio. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

MOONDOG’S. John Nemeth.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Elipsus, Ugly Blondes, The YJJ’s, Mama’s Madness, Subsonic Blue. Millvale.

412-821-4447.

RIVERS CASINO. Right TurnClyde.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

STAGE AE. O.A.R. North Side. 412-229-5483.

THE MCKEESPORT PALISADES. Pamela Bick & The Railroad Jones Band, Mama’s Madness, Sound Servent. McKeesport.

412-672-2001.

NIED’S HOTEL. Nied’s Hotel Band.

Lawrenceville. 412-781-9853.

OAKS THEATER. Simon & Garfunkel Tribute Show.

Oakmont. 412-828-6311.

THE R BAR. 3 Car Garage. Dormont.

412-942-0882.

BAKERY SQUARE. REX THEATER. Right TurnClyde. www. per Steeltown Horns Band pa Larimer. pghcitym & The Clock Reads. South .co BEE’Z BISTRO & PUB. Side. 412-381-6811.

The Dave Iglar Trio.

SMILING MOOSE. Bridgeville.

Melissa Brooks & the Aquadolls.

CLUB CAFE. Wye Oak w/ Tuskha.

South Side. 412-431-4668.

South Side. 412-431-4950.

TIKI BAR. Right TurnClyde.

DIESEL. Adelaide In Autumn, Washington. 724-348-7022.

Terachain Sky, 51. South Side.

412-431-8800.

DOUBLE WIDE GRILL. East Coast BRILLOBOX. Rhyton w/ Matt Turnaround. North Huntingdon.

McDowell, Landmark Tongues.

724-863-8181.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

DOWNEY’S HOUSE. CLUB CAFE. Elizabeth Cook Nicky Mo & The Mamalukes. w/ Derek Hoke. South Side.

Robinson. 412-489-5631.

412-431-4950.

LEMONT. Dave Crisci & SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Judi Figel. Mt. Washington.

Molly Alphabet, The WReckids, 412-431-3100.

Brewer’s Row. Weather Permitting.

Shadyside. 412-363-5845.

STAGE AE. The Hush Sound.

North Side. 412-229-5483.

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MON 08 HAMBONE’S. Lenny Smith & The Instant Gators. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

HOWLERS. TyLean Polley, Skeletonized, O Heidrun, Doors in the Labyrinth. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

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Sponsor and VIP Reception $75 5:00 pm to 7:30pm Sherwood Event Center (near WTAE) 400 Sherwood Rd. Wilkinsburg, PA 15221

CLUB CAFE. Broncho w/ Billy Changer, Nevada Color. South Side.

412-431-4950.

PALACE THEATRE. The Happy Together Tour. Including The Turtles ft. Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, Mark Lindsay, formerly of Paul Revere & the Raiders, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap; The Cowsills & The Spencer Davis Group. Greensburg. 724-836-8000.

STAGE AE. Halsey w/ Oh Wonder Halsey. North Side. 412-229-5483.

TREASURE LAKE SKI LODGE. Nick Moss Band. Du Bois.

814-375-1806.

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BELVEDERE’S. The Spiritual Bat, Agnes Wired For Sound, Silence, DJ Erica Scary. Lawrenceville.

412-687-2555.

CLUB CAFE. Sarah Potenza w/ Diego, The Betting House. South

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HOWLERS. Rum Rebellion, Scratch N Sniffs, Trollkicker. Bloomfield.

412-682-0320.

MR. SMALLS THEATER. Kesha, The Creepies. Millvale. 412-821-4447.

DJS THU 04 MR. SMALLS THEATER. Centrifuge Thursdays. At the Funhouse. Millvale. 603-321-0277.

PERLE CHAMPAGNE BAR. Bobby D Bachata. Downtown.

412-471-2058.

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

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

412-621-4900.

ANDYS WINE BAR. DJ Malls Spins Vinyl. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

BRILLOBOX. Pandemic : Global Dancehall, Cumbia, Bhangra, Balkan Bass.

Bloomfield. 412-621-4900.

THE FLATS ON CARSON. Pete Butta. South Side. 412-586-7644.

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

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Jack Millz.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

Lawrenceville.412-687-2157.

DIESEL. DJ CK. South Side.

412-431-8800.

RIVERS CASINO. VDJ Rambo.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

ROWDY BUCK. Top 40 Dance.

South Side. 412-431-2825.

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FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa.

Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.

Elvis Costello and the Imposters

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Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown

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FRI 05 BISTRO 9101. The Blues Orphans.

McCandless. 412-635-2300.

HOTEL SAXONBURG. Strange Brew. Saxonburg.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Billy Price Band.

North Side. 412-904-3335.

MOONDOG’S. Selwyn Birchwood.

Blawnox. 412-828-2040.

NOLA ON THE SQUARE. Sweaty Betty. Downtown. 412-471-9100.

PEOPLES NATURAL GAS PARK. Jimmy Adler. Flood City Music Festival.

SUN 07 THE R BAR. BTK & Bill Henry.

Dormont. 412-942-0882.

WED 10 PITTSBURGH WINERY. Kandace Springs. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

JAZZ THU 04 JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. Roger Humphries Jam Session. Ballroom. North Side.

412-904-3335.

VALLOZZI’S PITTSBURGH. Eric Johnson. Downtown.

412-394-3400.

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CATTIVO. Illusions. w/ Funerals & Arvin Clay.

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

412-424-9254.

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

FRI 05

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

412-424-9254.

ANDORA RESTAURANT - FOX CHAPEL. Pianist Harry Cardillo & vocalist Charlie Sanders.

Fox Chapel. 412-967-1900.

ANDYS WINE BAR. Etta Cox. Downtown. 412-773-8884.

ALLEGHENY ELKS LODGE #339.

Pittsburgh Banjo Club. Wednesdays.

North Side. 412-321-1834.

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

FRI 05

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

412-431-4668.

SPOON. Spoon Fed. East Liberty.

412-362-6001.

HIP HOP/R&B

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MOUNT LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Christopher Mark Jones Christopher Mark Jones.

Mt. Lebanon. 412-531-1912.

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GRILLE ON SEVENTH. Tony Campbell & Howie Alexander.

Downtown. 412-391-1004.

OAKS THEATER. The Tuesday Night Big Band.

Oakmont. 412-828-6311.

SAT 06

WEST PARK. The Stickers.

North Side.

CLASSICAL FRI 05 BEL SUONO ENSEMBLE. St. John Fisher Church, Ligonier.

412-241-4722.

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FRI 05

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SUN 07

ANDYS WINE BAR. James McClellan. Downtown.

412-773-8884.

SUN 07

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FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION. Brad Paisley, Tyler Farr, Maddie Taye.

Burgettstown. 724-947-7400.

SUN 07

THU 04

BREW ON BROADWAY. Reggie Watkins. Beechview.

412-563-6456.

FRI 05

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Lee Robinson & Iska.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

CITY OF ASYLUM. Roger Humphries & RH Factor.

North Side. 412-321-2190.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & SPEAKEASY. All Star Jazz Fundraiser. North Side.

412-904-3335.

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

ANDYS WINE BAR. Clare Ascani.

Downtown. 412-773-8884.

CIOPPINO SEAFOOD CHOPHOUSE BAR. Jerry & Louis Lucarelli, Sunny Sunseri, Ron Scholl w/ Peg Wilson. Strip District.

412-281-6593.

JAMES STREET GASTROPUB & DOWNEY’S HOUSE. Scott SPEAKEASY. Jessica Lee, Mark & Roseanna. Robinson.

Strickland, George Jones & 412-489-5631.

Eric Defade. North Side.

ELWOOD’S PUB. 412-904-3335.

West Deer Bluegrass THE MONROEVILLE Review. Rural Ridge.

RACQUET CLUB. Jazz 724-265-1181. www. per Bean Live. Monroeville. pa pghcitym 412-728-4155. .co REVEL + ROOST. ELWOOD’S PUB. Doc & Tina.

Jazz Upstairs w/ Jessica Lee. Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

Downtown. 412-281-1134.

SUPPER CLUB RESTAURANT. Erin Burkett & Virgil Walters ACOUSTIC MUSIC WORKS. w/ Eric Susoeff. Greensburg.

Renshaw Davies, The Grant Street 724-850-7245.

Grifters, Dan Getkin. Squirrel Hill.

412-422-0710.

KOLLAR CLUB. Ike Reilly, Patrick JAMES STREET GASTROPUB Maloney & comedian Mike & SPEAKEASY. Michael Malis Wysocki. South Side. 412-431-2002.

Trio, Patrick Whitehead Trio, PITTSBURGH WINERY. George Heid III & Miles Jackson.

Songwriters in the Cellar. Strip North Side. 412-904-3335.

District. 412-566-1000.

MON 08

ELWOOD’S PUB. The Fiddlers.

Rural Ridge. 724-265-1181.

SUN 07 HAMBONE’S. Calliope Old Time Appalachian Jam. Lawrenceville.

412-681-4318.

SHADYSIDE NURSERY. Molly Alphabet, The Wreckids, Brewer’s Row. Weather Permitting.

Shadyside. 412-363-5845.

ORGANIST DON FELLOWS. St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland.

412-621-4951.

OTHER MUSIC THU 04 RIVERS CASINO. Rebecca Kaufman & the Groove Doctors.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER. Monobloco. East Liberty.

412-363-3000.

PITTSBURGH WINERY. Jasmine Tate. Strip District. 412-566-1000.

POINTBREEZEWAY. Devilish Merry. Point Breeze. 412-770-7830.

SAT 06 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. What Cheer Brigade. North Side. 412-322-5058.

HAZELWOOD COMMUNITY STAGE. 4th River Music Fest 2016.

Music, poetry, food, art, zines, sideshows & fire performances by the 4th River Flame Throwers. www.4thrivermusiccollective. bandcamp.com. Hazelwood.

RIVERS CASINO. Antoinette Trio.

North Side. 412-231-7777.

SUN 07 HAZELWOOD COMMUNITY STAGE. 4th River Music Fest 2016.

Music, poetry, food, art, zines, sideshows & fire performances by the 4th River Flame Throwers. www.4thrivermusiccollective. bandcamp.com. Hazelwood.

MON 08 HAMBONE’S. Ian Kane. Jazz Standards, showtunes & blues.

Lawrenceville. 412-681-4318.

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21+ Night: Science of Beer

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. All ages show.

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

CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER North Side. 412-237-3400.

Over 21 event. Tickets: carnegiesciencecenter.org.

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White Lung

Brad Paisley

The Plot in You

CLUB CAFE South Side.

412-431-4950.

Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

THURSDAY 4

Pouya: Underground Underdog Tour

Nothing CATTIVO Lawrenceville.

412-687-2157. All ages show. Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 7p.m.

Station Square Summer Jam: Green River

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FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION Burgettstown.

Tickets: livenation.com or 1-800-745-3000. 7:30p.m.

BESSEMER COURT STAGE Station Square. With special guest Traffic Jam. Free show.

7:30p.m.

POINT STATE PARK Downtown. Free event.

For more info visit yougottaregatta.com.

Through Aug. 7.

BENEDUM CENTER Downtown. 412-456-6666.

Tickets: pittsburghclo.org.

Through Aug. 14.

MONDAY 8 quantumtheatre.com or 412-362-1713.

Through Aug. 28.

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Free event. For more info visit pghfeastival.com. 2:30p.m.

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HARTWOOD ACRES Hampton.

Free show. 7:30p.m.

REX THEATER South Side.

412-381-6811. All ages show.

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

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412-431-4950.

Over 21 show. Tickets: ticketweb.com/opusone. 8p.m.

Melissa Brooks & The Aquadolls

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SMILING MOOSE South Side.

412-431-4668. All ages show.

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SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT Seven Springs.

Over 21 event.

Tickets: 7springs.com or 1-888-718-4253.

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The Ghost Wolves SPIRIT Lawrenceville.

412-586-4441. Over 21 show.

Tickets: ticketfly.com or 1-877-4-FLY-TIX. 9:30p.m.

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PRESS {BY PLAY AL HOFF} There are some good and bad things about Eat That Question, Thorsten Schutte’s new documentary about iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa. If you’re a fan, it’s a lively collection of archival footage, all featuring Zappa talking about himself, the entertainment industry, his creative processes and so on. But if you don’t already know much about Zappa, you’re gonna struggle: The clips run more or less in chronological order, but they aren’t identified, and context is yours to fill in. That’s pretty daunting for a newbie: Zappa’s career stretched over several decades, and ran the gamut from serious to silly, with no shortage of influences and impacts.

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But Zappa is an entertaining interview, even as he clearly expresses disdain for the process (“two steps beyond the Spanish Inquisition”). Things get weird fast as a clean-cut Zappa appears on The Steve Allen Show in 1963 to show Allen how “play” a bicycle, while the house band is encouraged to make any sound at all; it’s a glorious cacophonous mess. From there we move through the years with Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention; the 1971 film 200 Motels; various media outrages; his increasing popularity overseas; and his late-career pivot to experimental classical composition.

Zappa lives up to his reputation as a thoughtful weirdo; he is articulate, quick-witted and provocative. He relishes the role of cultural critic, and it’s fascinating to see how media-savvy and self-aware he is long before that was something we expected of entertainers.

These are skills that were especially useful in his testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1985, where he brooked no fools in dismantling the arguments of the Parents Music Resource Center, which advocated for commercially restricting music with sexual or violent content.

Zappa died of cancer in 1993. Watching him tear into the assorted hypocrisy, corporate bullshit and sheeple of his times is amusing in a retroactive way, and one can’t help but wonder what he would have made of today’s cultural foibles.

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Bourne is back. The reluctant spy chronicled in The Bourne Identity/ Supremacy/Ultimatum trilogy is still out there brooding. Now he’s crashing at an Athens flophouse, and doing some unsanctioned fist-fighting to tamp down his psychic pain. (Wherever he’s been hiding, it’s near a gym — that upper body is some prime beef.)

Paul Greengrass’ re-visit — the starkly named Jason Bourne — is unnecessary: Ultimatum was a tidy enough wrap-up.

This latest offers the same old stuff — hacking, car chases, gadgetry, European capitals and a betrayal from Bourne’s erstwhile boss, the CIA. It teases Bourne’s origin story, but when the big reveal comes, it’s perfunctory and unexplored, despite obvious “daddy issues.” One of the better parts of the series has been Bourne’s struggle to sort out who he is vis-à-vis a moral code, but here he is resigned to eluding capture and killing the bad guys. Just another day at the Bourne Franchise.

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Back at Langley, CIA Director Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) and up-and-comer Heather (Alicia Vikander) track Bourne to prevent him from data-dumping about various secret ops. One project involves Deep Dream, a Facebookish powerhouse, whose head (Riz Ahmed) has been making deals with the CIA. The plot flirts with

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real-life internet data-mining concerns, but it goes nowhere … unless you count a later shoot-out at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas to be a thoughtful resolution between tech and privacy. (By the way, tech is ruining action movies: Everybody is just looking at screens all the time!)

Back in Athens, Bourne — like the film — ignores intriguing anti-government street riots and gets chased around nar-

row streets by CIA teams. We see a bit of Greek “Tokyo Drift,” but the vehicular action is a yawn. It doesn’t even hit its marks: Where is the destruction of a marketplace? The “big moment” is a motorcycle bouncing down some stairs — was the Parthenon booked?! Later, the film’s marquee chase is a high-speed wreck-orama that takes place on the Vegas Strip, apparently all on one block: It’s obvious these cars are just looping past the same vividly signed casinos.

Sigh. It’s as if Greengrass, Damon, the special-effect guys, everybody, are just going through the motions without any purpose or élan. Throughout, Jason Bourne is devoid of tension: no knucklebiting peril, no narrative mystery, no twist on Bourne himself (spoiler: he used to be somebody else). The best tension comes from watching Vikander deploy her Scandinavian cool in the face of Tommy Lee Jones’ breezy mansplaining.

There’s a ticking time-bomb I could get behind.

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CONTAINMENT. This new film from Peter Galison and Robb Moss examines what can be done to protect living things from the 100 million gallons of radioactive sludge left over from decades of nuclear energy and weapons-producing. The work is part documentary essay and part graphic-novel-type visualizations depicting how future generations, tens of thousands of years in the future, will still be dealing with these toxic substances. The film screens to commemorate the Hiroshima bombing (Aug. 6, 1945), and is presented by Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace. A Skype discussion with peace activists and students in Japan and Guam will follow. 6 p.m. Fri., Aug. 5. Melwood

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NEW LIFE, ANIMATED. This new documentary from Roger Ross Williams (who won an Oscar in 2010 for short documentary film) adapts journalist Ron Suskind’s eponymous memoir about raising his autistic son, Owen. At first, everything was great, Suskind explains, but when Owen was 3, he “disappeared,” regressing into silence and behavioral problems.

There is no one way to engage an autistic child, but for Owen and his family, the necessary tools were extraordinarily accessible: the animated Disney movies the family watched on video all the time. The exaggerated characters (the hero, villain, sidekick), broadly drawn emotions and colorful visual cues enabled Owen and his family to construct a “Disney language.”

Initially, it drew Owen out of his nonresponsive state, but even as Owen progressed with language and other skills, the Disney language still served as a framework for Owen to understand and process new experiences.

Ultimately, Owen does well enough that, at age 23, he is preparing to leave the family home and set up in an independent-living facility. Much of the film focuses on this transition, in which Owen moves through familiar life benchmarks — leaving home, getting a job, breaking up with a girlfriend — but in his own fashion.

Owen still uses Disney as a compass, even running a Disney-video-watching group for other developmentally disabled youths and facilitating post-screening discussions.

To tell the history, the film also offers extended interviews with Owen’s family (he has an older brother, Walter) and with Owen himself, who is an engaging narrator, bubbly and funny.

Williams incorporates family videos, as well as animated sequences that illustrate Owen’s interior life, such as dreams or the superhero-ish fairy tale he created as a coping mechanism.

The film is the story of a single family and doesn’t offer any broader perspectives on the issues it raises: how autism affects a family, how to mitigate its effects, transitioning an autistic child into adulthood, anxiety about the future. Yet there is much to take away from Williams’ film, even if it’s just an understanding of one family’s unique journey, and one young man’s inspirational embrace of life. Starts Fri., Aug. 5. (There are two scheduled sensory-friendly screenings: 4 p.m. Sun., Aug. 14, and 7 p.m. Thu., Aug. 18.)

Hollywood (Al Hoff) NERVE. A young woman from Staten Island named Vee (Emma Roberts) joins a socialmedia-driven, truth-or-dare-style game where online “watchers” keep ramping up the intensity of dares (there is no truth option). It starts amusingly enough — for a few bucks, Vee has to kiss a stranger in a diner. Fortunately, he’s the rakishly handsome Ian (Dave Franco), who is also playing the game. The two set off for Manhattan to pursue more dares, racking up more cash and followers as they go. It’s all loads of laughs until things gets crazy and weird and scary. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s thriller is pretty junky — it’s adapted from a youngadult novel and the ludicrous plot might read better on paper — but some junk, like a bag of orange-dusted tortilla chips, is weirdly compelling. It moves fast, and the nuttiness of it — the Nerve game is a reputed worldwide phenomenon, a mash-up of Hunger Games and social media that also seems to involve only six people — keeps it buoyant. It kinda sorta tries to be a cautionary tale about the influence of social media, especially on impressionable and imma-

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Life, Animated ture youth, but Nerve is simply giddy about all the glowing screens and all the affirmation (however hollow) they deliver. (AH) NINE LIVES. An uptight businessman (Kevin Spacey) winds up in the body of a cat and becomes his family’s pet. Barry Sonnenfeld directs this comedy, which also features Christopher Walken, because how can it not.

Starts Fri., Aug. 5 SUICIDE SQUAD. David Ayer directs this comics-based actioner about a crew of imprisoned supervillians released to perform black-ops missions. Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie head the ensemble cast. In 3-D, in select theaters. Starts Fri., Aug. 3

in this beloved 1986 comedy from John Hughes.

Continues the monthly series of Rooftop Shindigs.

Live music from Brightside at 7 p.m.; film at sundown.

Wed., Aug. 3. Theater Square Garage roof, 667 Penn Ave., Downtown. Bring your own chair (or buy one on site). Food and beverage vendors on site (no outside food/drink allowed). www.downtownpittsburgh. com. Free THE TERMINATOR. James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi actioner put some real kick into time travel, when a cyborg from the future is sent back to now to essentially save himself. The film made a bona fide star of Arnold Schwarzenegger. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 3. AMC Loews. $5

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. These hills are alive … with the sound of music. Julie Andrews stars in Robert Wise’s 1965 musical dramedy about the singing Von Trapp family. Aug. 5-11. Row House Cinema WATERWORLD. Kevin Reynolds’ water-logged 1995 disaster of a film about a water-logged dystopia just about sank under the weight of its own seriousness. Two decades later, it’s now a hilarious cult classic, full of bad acting, crazy sets and costumes, and scenery-chewing from Dennis Hopper. Aug. 5-11. Row House Cinema FIGHT CLUB. David Fincher’s darkly comic 1999 mindbender follows a depressed young man (Edward Norton) as he finds a savior in a new buddy, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and a new hobby in the secretive underground world of bare-knuckles fighting. (Remember, if anybody asks — there is no Fight Club screening.)

7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 10. AMC Loews Waterfront. $5

REPETORY DOLLAR BANK CINEMA IN THE PARK. Race, Wed., Aug. 3 (Schenley) and Sat., Aug. 6 (Riverview).

Miracle, Thu., Aug. 4 (Brookline); Fri., Aug. 5 (Arsenal); and Sat., Aug. 6 (Grandview). Cinderella, Sun., Aug. 7 (Schenley); Mon., Aug. 8 (Highland Park); Tue., Aug. 9 (West End/Elliott Overlook); and Thu., Aug. 11 (Brookline). Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Wed., Aug. 10 (Schenley). Films begin at dusk. 412-255-2493 or www.citiparks.net. Free FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF. A teen bunks off school; crazy stuff happens. Matthew Broderick stars

Breaking a Monster (2016) 8/3 @ 7:30pm, 8/4 @ 7:00pm Chronicles the break-out year of the teenage metal band Unlocking The Truth.

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THAT ALONE IS A HEAD RUSH.

On July 27, shortly before dusk, Frank Hightower, a priest of Yemaja, the Yoruban deity of creativity, gathered in a circle the cast and crew of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co.’s new production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.

Playwrights has staged Seven Guitars before, but this time is special: The venue is the backyard of Wilson’s childhood home in the Hill District. It’s the very yard in which the play — which takes place in 1948 — is set.

This is already sacred theatrical ground.

But prior to the show’s very first rehearsal here, Hightower (by day a photographer) poured water on the bare dirt and blessed the space further, in a traditional ceremony naming and honoring Wilson’s ancestors.

Honorees included Wilson’s mother, Daisy, namesake of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community, Inc., the nonprofit that is restoring the long-vacant house as an arts center.

August Wilson, born in 1945, lived in the threestory red-brick house on Bedford Avenue until 1958.

Seven Guitars is part of the late playwright’s famed cycle of plays, most set in the Hill, depicting AfricanAmerican life in each decade of the 20th century. Seven Guitars hit Broadway in 1996 — just two years before Wilson met Mark Clayton Southers, the Pittsburgh-based actor and mill-worker who went on to found Playwrights and become a nationally recognized interpreter of his mentor’s work for the stage.

Southers, who birthed the idea to stage Seven Guitars at what’s called the August Wilson House, is directing. The lyrical, critically acclaimed ensemble piece for seven characters revolves around the murder of Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, an aspiring bluesman recently sprung from prison. The show stars such Playwrights stalwarts and Wilson veterans as Wali Jamal, Kevin Brown, Jonathan Berry and Teri Bridgett.

“This is gonna be sweet,” said Paul A. Ellis, Wilson’s nephew and president of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community, whose restoration efforts on the building itself are well begun.

But just as the production will give the Wilson House back to Seven Guitars, so will it give Wilson himself — so long now on Broadway, and in Pittsburgh’s own Downtown theaters — back to the Hill. That became evident before rehearsal, when Southers introduced a next-door neighbor to the cast and crew. When Southers invited him to the show, the man joked, “I can see you all from my bedroom window!”

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Hey, it’s that guy: installation view of John Riegert, at SPACE

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T JOHN RIEGERT, an exhibit at SPACE gallery, expect the unexpected. Conceived and curated by Brett Yasko, the show features work by about 250 local artists. A variety of media and styles convey the complexity of portraying a single subject: a guy named John Riegert. Riegert is also the exhibit’s full-time docent, seated comfortably among his portraits, ready and willing to answer a patron’s question with a story or friendly conversation.

A detailed four-page guide leads the viewer through each artwork, with brief descriptions of some artists’ processes. At first, this suggests a behind-the-scenes tour: gazing at a seemingly ordinary acrylic portrait on canvas, admiring the skill and the essence captured. But then you notice with a jolt that this particular art-

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ist, Judy Tulley, inspired the whole show. In 2013, Yasko saw Tulley give her grandson a painting that reminded him of Joseph Yoakum, whose work Yasko had seen in the Carnegie International. Yasko wondered why Tulley’s painting might be seen

JOHN RIEGERT continues through Sept. 4.

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by only a dozen people, while thousands would view Yoakum’s work. He imagined asking many artists — known and unknown — to each create a portrait of the same subject.

Yasko’s first and only choice of subject was his old friend Riegert. John Riegert is a

warm, fascinating person who loves to tell gallery visitors stories from his own life — and also from his adventures in creating this exhibit.

The artworks themselves range from works on canvas, installations, traditional sculptures and photography to videos, essays and even quilt mosaic. The viewer feels a bit like an archaeologist: Reading several artistic interpretations of Riegert’s self-published poem “I Never Built an Atom Bomb,” or listening to recordings of Riegert’s Facebook posts read aloud (by Jennifer Baron and Greg Langel), it’s like you’re digging through memorabilia of an ancient person. Except he is standing right beside you.

That alone is a head rush. Yasko’s numbered compilation almost tells a story; “Here’s a little bit about John. Oh, you

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think you know him? Now let’s turn that perception on its head.” When you hit portrait No. 85, and realize you’re headed into a dark room to watch video, it’s weird to realize you’ve barely scratched the surface.

Other portraits range from Jack Pugilisi’s pointillist close-up and Eric Lidji’s 264,819word essay to Dee Briggs’ salvaged steel I-beam. Considering the diversity of talent in SPACE, while hearing Riegert’s voice in the background, the viewer is struck by the overwhelming realization that no matter how hard an artist tries, he or she can never fit all of one person into a finite portrait. This epiphany is mitigated by Yasko’s permeating desire to bring the viewer closer to the art, and the art closer to the viewer.

Including Riegert as a guide, however, is what actually completes the experience. Together, all of the artists, Yasko, and Riegert form an objective investigation on performativity. Riegert’s presence both comments on your mind’s perception of your experience in the gallery and almost serves as its own piece of art within, thereby incorporating you and your reaction into the exhibit. How well a patron enjoys John Riegert often reflects how she interacts with John Riegert.

The exhibition’s success first speaks to his approachability. The experience is surprisingly personal, usually making the unsuspecting, or perhaps more traditional, art patron a little self-conscious. Once introductions have been made, and Riegert

breaks the ice with an anecdote about how a given piece was made, a patron can find herself, for example, candidly discussing mental illness — a topic well-represented in this exhibit — and how her own distressing human issues parallel his. Riegert’s discussion with me communicated the humbling notion that once Riegert became comfortable with himself in adulthood, he discovered that introversion and depression were not parts of a personality in stasis, but components of an illness. This perspective helped make sense of his willingness to talk so openly, and explained why all of the representations of him didn’t feel like an intrusion, or make him selfconscious in the least.

Galleries are usually a haven, where the shy can go and get lost in their own minds. Space allows you do to that, because what is there will speak differently to everyone. The various mediums and styles afford multiple entrypoints. However, the participating artists all share the ability to excise extraneous detail. Combined with Riegert’s ability, or knack, for “staying attached to life” (as one piece in the exhibit puts it), the viewer is left with a new ability to witness the truth of the moment and the beauty in the everyday. The journey through John Riegert helps the viewer develop his or her own artist’s eye. Ultimately, viewers are taken deeper into themselves, constantly drawn into the present. It’s a powerful way to live.

Just ask John Riegert.

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FILM SCREENING: PHILIP JOHNSON DIARY OF AN ECCENTRIC ARCHITECT In Pittsburgh, Johnson is best known for designing PPG Place, which was completed in 1984 at the peak of his rise as a postmodern architect. The glass style of PPG Place was meant to evoke an aesthetic of the British House of Commons and the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning.

This film screening is free to PHLF Members. Non-members: $5 For more information about membership, www.phlf.org

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM RSVPS ARE APPRECIATED. CONTACT MARY LU DENNY AT 412-471-5808 EXT. 527 744 REBECCA AVENUE

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Marcel Walker’s Hero Corp. character The Pro; Marcel Walker

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shows. But Marcel Walker’s a bit different. He’s an African-American artist in an overwhelmingly white field, and much of his work addresses social issues in one way or another.

Take Hero Corp., International, the indie comic-book series that’s among the works featured in To Tell the Troof, Walker’s upcoming show at Most Wanted Fine Art. Hero Corp’s premise is that if there were superpowered beings, they’d work for corporations. The Pittsburgh-based super troop, which debuted in 2010, is led by The Pro, a Superman-like character whom Walker modeled after … himself. “Black people responded to that,” Walker says, citing a need for more diversity in comics. “If that can inspire black people to do whatever, that’s what I want to do.”

Others are taking notice. Walker recently received an award from the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Fund. The money from the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments will help him complete the third issue of Hero Corp., due out in January.

Walker’s work also features in ChutzPow!: Superheroes of the Holocaust, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s comics series about ordinary people who saved lives threatened by the Nazis. In volume two, released in April, Walker potently wrote and drew “Secret Identities,” the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who worked with a group that rescued and sheltered Jewish children. Walker designs and letters the books, too.

Walker also supplied original artwork for Comic-Tanium, a touring exhibit commissioned by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society’s to explore actual science via

the world of superheroes. Other clients have included the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank, for which Walker created superheroes out of fresh produce, like kale and avocados.

Of his artistic influences, Walker says, “I’ve got as much Richie Rich in me as I do Superman and Spider-Man.” The Pittsburgh native, now 45, graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh at 19.

“I always knew I wanted to make comics,” he says. He went on to teach cartooning at both Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh; his students included a young Ed Piskor, whose résumé includes the internationally best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree series.

TO TELL THE TROOF opening reception: 7-10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 5 (free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 31.

Most Wanted Fine Art, 5015 Penn Ave., Garfield. www.marcelwalker.com

After losing a 2001 lawsuit against DC Comics (Walker claimed that a Superman storyline he pitched showed up uncredited years later), Walker turned to more personal, independent work to complement his commercial clients.

Walker is a big part of a local comics scene that includes names like Piskor and Jim Rugg. Chutz-Pow lead writer and artist Wayne Wise calls Walker “an amazing cheerleader for comics in general, and other people’s work.”

Troof — “it’s like the truth, with proof,” quips Walker — is his first solo show. “Marcel’s work highlights diverse cultures and touches on social issues while creating a familiar subject matter and inviting participation with real-world neighbors,” says Most Wanted’s Nina Sauer.

Or, as Walker himself puts it, “I’m trying to produce work that everybody can see themselves in.”

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April Dauscha’s “Custody of the Tongue: Veiling”

With a new school year just around the corner, there might not be a more apt show to see than The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, now playing at Little Lake Theatre.

Based on the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, this adaptation by Jay Presson Allen is itself a venerable classic, though the tale is arguably best remembered as the 1969 Oscar-winning film starring Dame Maggie Smith.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the cusp of World War II, the play follows the eponymous laissez-faire teacher, played with a balance of devilish glee and little-girl-lost pathos by the always-arresting Jennifer Sinatra. Jean is a force of nature at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. Not even dual affairs with married artist Teddy (the consistently on-point Eric Leslie) and inexperienced music teacher Gordon (a hapless yet lovable Ned Salopek) can hinder Jean’s reign. However, she soon learns that no prime can last forever when her life begins to unravel thanks to her fascist ideology and her manipulations of both faculty and students alike.

Among her cohort of students — the “Brodie girls” — the performances are topnotch. Melodramatic Monica (Lily Lauver), elegant dancer Jenny (Carly DeCock) and sweet outcast Mary MacGregor (Grace Lingerfelt) all shine on stage, delivering a unique mix of innocence and sly charm.

At the forefront, Elizabeth Bennett gives a standout performance as Sandy, Miss Brodie’s most “dependable” student, who is the first to see the cracks of hypocrisy in her beloved teacher’s façade.

Behind the impressive cast of 15 is Ponny Conomos Jahn, in her directorial debut. An actress herself, Jahn shows great restraint, steering the production clear of any potential missteps. In particular, a framing device features an American journalist (played by Joe Eberle) interviewing Sister Helena (Joyce Miller), a former Brodie girl who penned a blockbuster book inspired by her time at the Marcia Blaine School. This rather familiar flashback technique could have easily been tiresome or even gimmicky, but under Jahn’s direction, Eberle and Miller make the most of their roles and imbue the production with a down-to-earth appeal that the flighty Miss Brodie herself sorely lacks.

A winning production, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is ultimately everything you want in a play — and everything you probably don’t want in your child’s teacher.

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Jennifer Sinatra in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Little Lake {PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES ORR}

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Fiberart International 2016 defines its medium as anything “made of flexible, linear materials and/or constructed using textile techniques such as stitching, weaving, dying and embroidering.” The half of this venerable triennial that was housed at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts has closed, but the half at the Society for Contemporary Craft (comprising three dozen works) might go even further in its elastic understanding of that definition.

To be sure, some of the best work is pretty traditional. Rena Wood’s “Unravelled” is an abstract precisely hand-embroidered on silk, its sinuous forms in black, white and gray. In Dawn Williams Boyd’s “The Artist’s Muse,” a naked brown woman’s limbs are rudely grasped by three disembodied hands, each part of the crazy-quilted pattern around her. Elizabeth Mackie’s lovely “Ortler Kettles, #2” consists of three window-sized panels of off-white handmade paper, ceiling-hung one in front of the other, with leaflike shapes excised so as to dapple the work’s interior with light.

And three boxy woolen men’s suits from the former Yugoslavia, screenprinted with battered, unpeopled urban buildings, comprise “In Memoriam,” Maja Gecic’s reminder of civil war.

But jurors Chunghie Lee, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval and Tali Wienberg also have a sharp eye for new kinds of “flexible, linear materials.” Peter Clouse’s “Redirect” is a wallhanging of woven, mostly black electronic cords, USBs and RCAs alike, a postmodern quilt if there ever was one. Perhaps it’s a comment on consumer excess — something you could easily read into Steve Totin’s “Plasterra (White),” with its found plastic bottle-caps wired together, sprawling across the gallery floor like an amoeba. Indeed, the show has its share of social commentary, including Patricia Kennedy-Zafred’s photo-quilt commemorating the Nisei relocations and Dafna Rehavia’s mixedmedia work “Cutting,” which wrenchingly references female genital mutilation.

Somewhere in between the traditional and the avant garde are Amber O’Hara’s “Intestine Necklace” and April Dauscha’s “Custody of the Tongue: Veiling.” The former, dark-humored, is a crocheted art scarf, draped on a stylish mannequin, a dozen or more false-toothed red mouths erupting from its folds. And the latter includes a brief video of a woman inserting her tongue into a fitted, white handmade-lace sheath, then keeping her tongue stuck out; the pink organ writhes with the effort and drips saliva. It’s discomfiting, in a good way.

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{STAGE} When Alfred Hitchcock finds a story inspiring, you know you’ve got a suspense classic. Daphne Du Maurier’s unsettling short story The Birds has been adapted for the stage by acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer). The tale of three hostages trapped by vicious birds outside their door makes its Pittsburgh stage premiere at the Studio Theatre in Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning tonight thanks to 12 Peers Theater. Tyler Dague 8 p.m. Continues through Aug. 21. 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Admission is pay-what-you-desire.

412-626-6784 or www.12peerstheater.org

Fun, free Friday night concerts at Schenley Plaza

skydives. The Proud Boat Parade invites locals to deck out their boats in black and gold (best decorated wins $500). Music headliners include ’90s radio staples Better Than Ezra and Gin Blossoms, pop hit-makers American Authors and country star Rodney Atkins. Purple Rain Fireworks

“Before there were pictures, there were stories” goes the tagline for the Three Rivers Storytelling Festival, which kicks off today at Schenley Plaza. Award-winning storytellers Kim Weitkamp, Adam Booth and Antonio Sacre will begin with a competition to see who can tell the most outrageous yet believable lie, judged by a national teller, with the Biggest Liar trophy on the line. An array of colorful accounts and ghost stories will follow through the twoday festival. TD 6-9:30 p.m.

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There’s never a shortage of things to do at the EQT Three Rivers Regatta, which begins today at Point State Park. In addition to the F1 powerboat races, expect stunts from BMX bikers, extreme pogostick-riders Xpogo and jet-ski specialists throughout the three-day event. The Red Bull Air Force performs daily

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sp otlight Regan Linton is an accomplished stage actress, with national credits including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the roles she’s offered cluster around characters like Laura from The Glass Menagerie: Laura limps, and Linton uses a wheelchair. So with all due respect, Linton (pictured) thinks Tennessee Williams’ 1944 classic needs updating — and that’s what she’ll do Aug. 4 in her portion of Imminent Movement: Ability in Action (part of the 16th annual Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference, hosted by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust). “What if Laura was actually the way I see people with disabilities nowadays?” asks Linton by phone from her home in Bozeman, Mont. “We need something more new and fresh and accurate in terms of the breadth of experiences.” Linton and a fellow actor will perform a Menagerie monologue, with Laura’s half rewritten. The evening, co-presented by the Trust and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, also includes a performance by New York City-based rap duo 4 Wheel City. Namel “Tapwaterz” Norris and Ricardo “Rickfire” Velasquez, who both use wheelchairs due to gun-related injuries, have performed at the White House and the United Nations; they bring their message of inspiration, disability awareness and anti-gun-violence. Also on the August Wilson Center program is internationally known dance, theater and performance artist Barak adé Soleil. Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m.

Thu., Aug. 4 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or $25. www.trustarts.org

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BO 7 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $34. 412-622-8866 or www.pittsburghlectures.org

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permission slips.) TD 10 a.m.4 p.m. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. 412-622-3114 or www.carnegielibrary.org

{MUSIC} Prepare for a day of jazzy powerhouse concerts and food trucks galore at the 2016 FEASTival in McKees Rocks.

Nationally touring bands The Naughty Professor, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Dumpstaphunk and Turkuaz will bring the funk; DJ Mike Canton will keep the groove flowing; and 12 food trucks will serve crepes, brunch,

of Cvetic’s new performance space in (of all places) Monroeville Mall doubles as the book-release for Scales of Just Us, his play/screenplay exploring the moral questions and human cost of a single murder case. Excerpts will be performed by local actors including David Conrad and Patrick Jordan. The evening, which includes a performance by vocalist Casaundra Williams, is a fundraiser for the Western Pennsylvania Police Athletic Association. BO 7 p.m. 200 Mall Circle Drive, Monroeville. $20 (or a

gourmet meatballs, mac-andcheese, ice cream and more.

You better not leave hungry.

TD 2:30-9:30 p.m. McKees Rocks Municipal Lot, Route 51 and Furnace Street, McKees Rocks. Free. 412-331-9900 or www.pghfeastival.com

{WORDS} Retired undercover cop, boxing trainer, poet — Jimmy Cvetic is among Pittsburgh’s most distinctive characters. But he’s completely serious about the need to stop police-related violence, no matter who the victim. Tonight, the launch

“sad story”). globalglorious productions@gmail.com

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O.J. Simpson) comes acclaimed author Jeffrey Toobin’s latest book. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Doubleday) tells an iconic 1970s story about a rich college

The three rivers get a lot of attention — and deservedly so — but when was the last time you went fishing inside city limits? To celebrate ongoing cleanup efforts, outdoor-recreation advocate Venture Outdoors hosts a weekly lunch-time Allegheny River fishing session on the North Side. At TriAnglers, bait and equipment are provided, and registration for limited spots is requested. Anglers 16 and older need a Pennsylvania fishing license. TD 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Continues weekly through Sept. 28.

Roberto Clemente Bridge, North Side. Free. 412-255-0564 or www.ventureoutdoors.org

+ THU., AUG. 04 Megan Monaghan Rivas and Tlaloc Rivas married five years ago but have often been apart: She teaches drama at Carnegie Mellon University, while he teaches at the University of Iowa and makes theater internationally, specializing in Latino theater. When Quantum Theatre asked them to create a show, they were drawn to a comedic drama about an imperiled marriage. Renaissance playwright Lope de Vega’s Peribañez depicts a newlywed rural peasant couple, Peribañez and Casilda, whose happiness is threatened by a military officer’s obsession with Casilda. “That pulled us in personally,” says Megan Rivas. She and her husband co-direct this rarely produced two-act, which stars CMU drama students Siddiq Saunderson, Isabel Pask (both pictured) and Freddy Miyares. Peribañez is staged outdoors at a favorite Quantum spot, Mellon Park’s woodsy Jennie King Rose Garden, on a unique, three-platform stage partly enclosed with chicken wire meant to evoke both garden plots and animal pens. Tanya Ronder’s translation trades the original verse for lyrical prose, and Quantum’s ensemble wrote their own music for the script’s several folk songs. Megan Rivas emphasizes that this 1613 play’s stalking motif remains sadly relevant: “What happens to Casilda in this play is still happening.”

Bill O’Driscoll 8 p.m. Continues through Aug. 28. Mellon Park, Shadyside. $18-51. 412-362-1713 or www.quantumtheatre.com

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Summer’s penultimate Unblurred is a busy one. In addition to a solo show by comics artist Marcel Walker, at Most Wanted Fine Art (see page 34), Boom Concepts hosts Major Heavy, an exhibit of art and music

by Reese Brown, including tonight’s Afrobeat dance party. And the Irma Freeman Center holds the opening reception for The Robert W. Knauer Family Exhibit.

The show features work by the late Pittsburgh-based artist and teacher — including paintings and drawings from his days as an Army chaplain in the 1950s — alongside the paintings and mixed-media work of his children, Evan Knauer and Bryann Gminder. The evening includes sets by Evan Knauer’s longtime band A.T.S. and related acts. BO 7-10 p.m.

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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.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND. A musical based on the book by Lewis Carroll presented by The Heritage Players. www.bphp.org.

Sun, 2 p.m. and Fri, Sat, 7 p.m. Thru Aug. 14. Seton Center, Brookline.

412-561-5511.

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. Thru Aug. 6. Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

THE BIRDS. In an isolated house, strangers take shelter from relentless masses of attacking birds.

Sun, 2 p.m., Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Mon., Aug. 8, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 21.

Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning, Oakland.

CHICAGO. Presented by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

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

Mellon Park, Shadyside.

Downtown. 412-456-6666.

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN THE DINNER DETECTIVE BRODIE. Miss Brodie, an INTERACTIVE MURDER unorthodox teacher at the MYSTERY DINNER SHOW. traditional Marcia Blaine School Sat, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh Marriot for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, is City Center, Downtown. determined to instill in her students 866-496-0535. a passion for independence, THE HOUND OF THE ambition, truth & beauty. Thu-Sat, BASKERVILLES. Adapted from 8 p.m. and Sun., Aug. 7, 2 p.m. Thru the book by Sir Arthur Conan Aug. 14. Little Lake Theatre, Doyle. Thu-Sat, 8 p.m. and Sun, Canonsburg. 724-745-6300.

2 p.m. Thru Aug. 7. Pittsburgh SEVEN GUITARS. A Playwrights Theatre, tragicomedy by August Downtown.

Wilson about aspiring JULIUS CAESAR. blues musician Floyd Presented by Poor “Schoolboy” Barton.

Yorick’s Players. www. www. per www.pghplaywrights. pooryoricksplayers.org. a p pghcitym com. Fri-Sun, 8 p.m.

Fri-Sun, 7 p.m. Thru .co Thru Aug. 28. 1727 Aug. 6. Tall Trees Bedford Ave., Hill District.

Amphitheater, Monroeville.

THE SPITFIRE GRILL. A mix of LOOKING GLASS LAND. Tue, country, bluegrass & Broadway Thu, Sat, 11 a.m. Thru Aug. 5. styled pop ballads. Thu-Sat, Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont.

7:30 p.m. Thru Aug. 6. Apple Hill 724-468-5050.

Playhouse, Delmont. 724-468-5050.

PERIBAÑEZ. The story of a newly married couple, Peribañez & Casilda - young farmers in a strongly connected rural community where they are embraced & respected by their COMEDY OPEN MIC. Hosted people presented by Quantum

by Derick Minto. Thu, 9 p.m.

Theatre. Jennie King Rose Garden.

Hambone’s, Lawrenceville.

Wed-Sun, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 28.

412-681-4318.

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PITTSBURGH COMEDY FESTIVAL. 3 rounds of improv. Thu, 8 p.m.

Thru Aug. 11 Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

PITTSBURGH IMPROV JAM. Thu, 10 p.m. Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown. 412-325-6769.

FRI 05 COMEDY NIGHT. 7 p.m.

Morningside VFW, Morningside.

JUSTIN & JEROME EXPERIENCE. The surreal comic duo of Justin Vetter & Jerome Fitzgerald begin their monthly midnight sketch & improv show. BYOB. First Fri of every month, 11:55 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 412-339-0608.

SAT 06 DINNER W/ THE NOLENS. An improv show features Jethro & Kristy Nolen performing w/ guests.

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

LOOKING FOR LAUGHS. 10 p.m.

Looking For Group, Brookline.

774-482-1264.

T-ROBE, DAVID KAYE, SHAUN BLACKHAM. 7:30 p.m. The Lamp Theatre, irwin. 724-367-4000.

MON 08 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.

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Come Downtown for some free fun at the DreamOn Festival 2016. There will be 20 live musical acts (from rock and electronic to soul), visual artists, local vendors and, of course, ice cream from Dream Cream Ice Cream. This is a festival about celebrating creativity and positivity. It was founded by Joshua Pollard, the chairman of Omicelo Cares, a nonprofit that works to advance education for young adults. Noon-10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 5, and noon-10 p.m. Sat., Aug. 6. Market Square, Downtown. Free. www.dreamonfest.com

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.

BOST BUILDING. Collectors.

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

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

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 50 Greatest Photos of National Geographic Dinosaurs in Their Time. Displaying immersive environments spanning the Mesozoic Era & original fossil specimens. Permanent. Hall of CONTINUES ON PG. 39

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“Lay At Your Feet” (oil on paper, 2014), by Fidalis Buehler.

From the exhibition Hiding/Seeking: Roads Traveled, at Gallerie Chiz, Shadyside.

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of portholes. North Side.

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.

Artist talk August 5, 6 p.m.

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.

BACKSTAGE BAR AT THEATRE SQUARE. Colors of Summer.

BANTHA TEA BAR. Stream of Consciousness. Original ink illustrations & abstract paintings

by Ashley Cornwall. Garfield.

412-404-8359.

GALLERIE CHIZ. Hiding/Seeking: Roads Traveled. Work by Michel Tsouris & Fidalis Buehler.

Opening reception August 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Shadyside.

412-441-6005.

HOYT INSTITUTE OF FINE ART. Shaping Ceramics: Daniel Rhodes. Opening reception August 5, 6 - 8 p.m. Daniel Rhodes Solo Show. Ceramics work by Daniel Rhodes. Opening reception August 5, 6 - 8 p.m. New Castle. 724-652-2882.

IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION. Knauer Art Exhibit. Works from the Knauer family. Opening reception August 5, 7 p.m. Garfield.

412-924-0634.

MOST WANTED FINE ART GALLERY. Boris BalsindesUrquiola & Marcel Lamont Walker. Unblurred Art Opening.

August 5, 6 - 11 p.m. Garfield.

412-328-4737.

SPINNING PLATE GALLERY. IUP/Pgh Connection. The show features alumni of the IUP Art program now residing in the Burgh. Opening reception August 6, 6 - 9 p.m. Friendship.

ONGOING 707 PENN GALLERY. Caroline Record: Forever Overhead.

Downtown. 412-325-7017.

709 PENN GALLERY. We ART Here. An exhibit curated by artist Fran Flaherty for the Festival & for arts managers attending the Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disabilities Conference. All artists exhibiting have self-identified as artists w/ disabilities. Downtown.

412-471-6070.

824 CHESTNUT STREET. Roadside Attraction. Sculpture

by Amy Masters. Outwardly nondescript, the sculpture’s interior landscape can be experienced through a series

Work by Zivi Aviraz. Downtown.

412-456-6666.

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. Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups. This exhibition explores how photographers throughout history have used multiple images to create narratives or explore subjects more deeply than is possible w/ a single picture. Oakland.

412-622-3131.

CHRISTINE FRECHARD GALLERY. Ethno Mythologies.

New works on slate by Jennifer Nagle Myers & selected pieces from an African art collection.

Squirrel Hill. 412-421-8888.

CREATIVE REUSE GALLERY. Altered Art. Work by Cynthia Andujar, Darnell Chambers, Naomi Chambers, Akia Cyrus, Joy KMT, Katie Rearick, Rachel Saul Rearick & Sam Thorpe.

Point Breeze. 412-473-0100.

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.

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.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH. Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit.

Step into Daniel Tiger’s world & join him to explore some favorite places. Work together to solve problems, engage the imagination to transform surroundings & play along w/ Daniel’s sing-able strategies to better understand & navigate everyday emotions.

North Side. 412-322-5058.

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

Allison Park. 412-486-0563.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tours of 13 Tiffany stained-glass windows. Downtown. 412-471-3436.

FORT PITT MUSEUM. Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier. During the mid-18th century, thousands

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NATIONALITY ROOMS. 29 rooms helping to tell the story of Pittsburgh’s immigrant past.

University of Pittsburgh. Oakland.

412-624-6000.

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

412-835-1554.

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. Displaying 660 different movie cameras, showing pictures on glass, many hand-painted. The largest display of 19th Century photographs in America. North Side. 412-231-7881.

PINBALL PERFECTION. Pinball museum & players club. West View.

412-931-4425.

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of settlers of European & African descent were captured by Native Americans. Using documentary evidence from 18th & early 19th century sources, period imagery, & artifacts from public & private collections in the U.S. and Canada, the exhibit examines the practice of captivity from its prehistoric roots to its reverberations in modern Native-, African- & Euro-American communities.

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

Downtown. 412-281-9285.

HARTWOOD ACRES. Tour this Tudor mansion & stable complex.

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

412-767-9200.

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

412-826-9295.

NATIONAL AVIARY. Butterfly Gardens. Mingle w/ butterfly species native to the region, including Painted Ladies, Monarchs, Black Swallowtails, Red Spotted Purples, Viceroys & Giant Swallowtails.

Species in the exhibit will vary over the summer months. Soar! Masters of the Sky. Explore the power & grace of the birds who rule the sky.

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Lili Café Punk Toast Avocado, Earth Balance and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast on perfectly toasted bread: You could make it at home, but somehow it just tastes better here. 3138 Dobson St., Polish Hill

Clemente David Maraniss’ acclaimed 2008 bio of Pirates great Roberto Clemente is the perfect primer on Clemente’s athletic prowess, role as a pioneering Latino star and off-the-field activist and role model.

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 18811986. 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.

SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. Museum commemorates Pittsburgh industrialists, local history. Sewickley. 412-741-4487.

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

412-621-4253.

ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL. Features 5,000 relics of Catholic saints. North Side. 412-323-9504.

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

Millvale. 412-407-2570.

WEST OVERTON MUSEUMS. Learn about distilling & cokemaking in this pre-Civil War industrial village. 724-887-7910.

DANCE THU 04 IMMINENT MOVEMENT: ABILITY IN ACTION. 8 p.m. August Wilson Center, Downtown. 412-258-2700.

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SAT 06 ROSY SIMAS DANSE. Choreographer Rosy Simas examines the contradictions that arise out of the many dimensions of identity. 8 p.m. The Alloy Studios, Friendship. 412-363-4321.

FUNDRAISERS FRI 05 THE ILLEGAL QUEERS COLLECTIVE. The Illegal Queers Collective is a volunteer organization that throws dance parties to benefit queer & trans people currently/formerly incarcerated & have immediate financial needs. DJs will be Tracksploitation Keeb$ of LazerCrunk, CtheMC & Divas Nite DJs. On the Side will be cooking food to sell at the party. 9 p.m.

Salem’s Event Center, Strip District.

Kinsey Rye Whiskey Drinking local is good, but surely we can stretch the definition slightly to include this revived, classic Pennsylvania whiskey. It’s a spicy, malty treat blended and bottled in Philadelphia and available at selected area state stores.

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SAT 06 KIDS TRIATHLON. www.kids triathlon.org. 8 a.m. North Park Swimming Pool, McCandless.

MOTORCYCLE RIDE TO FIGHT SUICIDE. AFSP fundraiser for

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC EVENT: First Annual Jazz Festival at the Afro-American Music Institute in Homewood CRITIC: Morgan B., 31, an assisted-care worker and nursing student from Clairton WHEN: Sat.,

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I got here toward the end, around 7 o’clock. But I really enjoyed the music. There’s nothing like live music. The [Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra] musicians were excellent. I enjoyed the improvisation, the clarity of the horns — the bassist’s solo in the blues song. He was playing with his bow like a cello. And I also enjoyed the saxophonist’s solo in the same song. I like to play keyboard myself. At one time, I was thinking about coming here, learning a little bit and maybe taking some lessons to sharpen up.

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suicide prevention. All bikes welcome. 9:30 p.m. Steel City Motorcycles, Washington.

ST. BARNABAS FREE CARE 5K. Proceeds benefit the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. Register online at www.FreeCare5K.com or call 724-625-3770. 9 a.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

LITERARY THU 04 THE HOUR AFTER HAPPY HOUR WRITER’S WORKSHOP. Young writers & recent graduates looking for additional feedback on their work. thehourafterhappy hour.wordpress.com Thu, 7-9 p.m. Lot 17, Bloomfield.

412-687-8117.

SAT 06 JIMMY CVETIC, PATRICK JORDAN, DAVID CONRAD. 7 p.m. Monroeville Mall, Monroeville. 412-243-8511.

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THU 04 - FRI 05 CITIPARKS ROVING ART CART. Art activities & crafts that travel to different parks throughout the summer. For a full schedule v isit www.citiparks.net. Thru Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-255-2539.

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TUE 09 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.

POETRY & PROSE READING.

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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. per www.mtpisgah pa pghcitym greentree.com. Every .co other Fri, 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 19 Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church, Green Tree.

412-921-8444.

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.

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Poetry, prose or original songs. All ages & stages welcome. Second Wed of every month, 7-9 p.m. Te Cafe, Squirrel Hill. 412-422-8888.

SUN 07 CREATION STATION. Stop by the Children’s Library anytime during the weekend & contribute to our collaborative art project.

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

MON 08 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 09 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.

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

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

412-322-5058.

OUTSIDE THU 04 THURSDAY ADULT NATURE WALK. Free & open to ages 18 & older. Meets rain or shine every Thursday of the year. Naturalists guide these walks. Thu, 10 a.m.12 p.m. North Park, Allison Park.

724-935-1766.

SAT 06 BIKE AROUND THE BOMB PITTSBURGH. A free biking event sponsored by Global Zero, the international movement to eliminate nuclear weapons, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. www.babpgh.org.

9:30 p.m. Schenley Plaza, Oakland. 412-682-7275.

YINZER 5K. 8-11 a.m. North Park Boathouse, Allison Park.

TUE 09 YOUNG NATURE EXPLORERS CLASS. Getting kids outside, exploring nature. Pre-registration required, 724-935-2170. Latodami Nature Center. Second Tue of every month, 9:30-11 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m. North Park, Allison Park. 724-935-1766.

WED 10 WEDNESDAY MORNING WALK. Naturalist-led, rain or shine. Wed Beechwood Farms, Fox Chapel.

412-963-6100.

OTHER STUFF THU 04 A SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST SITTING GROUP. http://citydharma.wordpress.com/ schedule/ Tue, Thu Church of the Redeemer, Squirrel Hill.

412-965-9903.

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

Come discuss an enviromental topic & share ideas. First Thu of every month, 5:30 p.m. Phipps

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Conservatory & Botanical Garden, Oakland. 412-622-6914.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL. Mary Lou Townsend, president of the Latrobe Area Historical Society (LAHS), will present an illustrated look at the early days of football in Westmoreland County.

7 p.m. Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg.

724-532-1935.

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

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.

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

412-391-2060.

GREENSBURG GARDEN AND CIVIC CENTER. Starseed. Work

by Moira Richardson. Artist

FRI 05 FRIDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE. A social, traditional American dance. No partner needed, beginners welcome, lesson at 7:30. Fri, 8 p.m. Swisshelm Park Community Center, Swissvale.

412-945-0554.

PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS VS. LOUISVILLE CITY. 7 p.m.

Highmark Stadium, Station Square.

SUMMER FRIDAYS AT THE FRICK. Bands, food trucks, performances, more. For the lineup of bands, visit www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

Fri. Thru Sept. 2 Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze.

412-371-0600.

FRI 05 - SAT 06 DREAMON FESTIVAL 2016. www.dreamonfest.com. Aug. 5-6, 12-10 p.m. Market Square, Downtown. 412-471-1511.

SAT 06 ARE YOU IN A LAWSUIT? Are you in a lawsuit? Getting a divorce? Master the challenges associated w/ being in a lawsuit.

Lower legal fees. Call 724-875-4111 for more info. 1 p.m. Carnegie Library, Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill.

412-422-9650.

AUGUST WILSON PARK COMMUNITY CELEBRATION. Celebrate the reopening of August Wilson Park after a complete renovation. Ribboncutting, family-friendly activities, food trucks, more. 2-4 p.m. August Wilson Park, Hill District.

CONTACT - TEEN POP CULTURE CONVENTION. Can’t make it to Comic-Con International this year?

Don’t miss this teen pop culture convention! 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3114.

FEASTIVAL FOOD, MUSIC AND ART FESTIVAL 2016. www. pghfeastival.com. McKees Rocks Municipal Lot, McKees Rocks.

412-331-9900.

HORROR FAN CRAFT FAIR & FLEA MARKET. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Castle Shannon Memorial Hall, Castle Shannon.

MEAD DAY 2016. Mead making, samples, sales, honey tasting.

12-7 p.m. Laurel Highlands Meadery. 724-249-6323.

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HEAD. Join us for an Evening bonfire & hands-on material culture display w/ Ghost in the Head, a Huron Native American re-enactor.

6:30 p.m. Woodville Plantation, Bridgeville. 412-221-0348.

NORTHSIDE GHOST WALK. For a reservation call 724-880-6528.

9 p.m. Brownsville Fire Company #1, Brownsville. 724-785-3311.

THE PITTSBURGH CIGAR FESTIVAL. www.pittsburghcigarfestival.com.

Carrie Furnace, Rankin.

SHADYSIDE FARMERS MARKET. http://thinkshadyside.com/. Sat, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Thru Sept. 24 Liberty Elementary School, Shadyside.

SOUTH HILLS SCRABBLE CLUB. Free Scrabble games, all levels.

Sat, 1-3 p.m. Mount Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon.

412-531-1912.

THE STEEL CITY PIZZAFEST. Pizza shops, craft brews & live music from The Spectres, The Jim Dandies, Those Gorgeous Bastards & The Bloody Seamen. 12-6 p.m.

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

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

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MUSHROOM CLUB. Experts from WPMC will present two classes: Mushroom Basics & Jelly, Club & Coral Fungi. A free mushroom walk at Salamander Park will follow at 3:30 pm. To register for classes, visit: www.wpamushroomclub.org.

10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cooper-Siegel Community Library, Fox Chapel.

SAT 06 - SUN 07 253RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN.

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

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

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reception August 11, 6 - 8 pm.

Greensburg. 724-836-1757.

HILLMAN LIBRARY. 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition: Reflections. Materials from the archive of Gao Minglu, research professor, Pitt Department of History of Art & Architecture & a leading scholar of Chinese contemporary art. Thornburgh Room. www.humanities.pitt. edu. Oakland. 412-648-3330.

MATTRESS FACTORY. Ongoing Installations. Works by Turrell, Lutz, Shiota, Kusama, Anastasi, Highstein, Wexler & Woodrow.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MATTRESS FACTORY SATELLITE GALLERY. Factory Installed. Work by David Bowen, Kevin Clancy, Wendy Judge & Lauren Kalman.

North Side. 412-231-3169.

MORGAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS GALLERY. bound by glass. Work by Jen Blazina, Gregory Grenon, Jon Goldberg, Owen Johnson, Weston Lambert, Carol Milne, David Patchen & Steven Weinberg / KASTAL. Shadyside. 412-441-5200.

See all the colors of war in the vibrant recreations of the two-day battle of Bushy Run that the various reenactors bring to life. www.bushyrunbattlefield.com.

Aug. 6-7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette.

724-527-5584.

SUN 07 DIGITOUR SUMMER. 4 p.m. Altar Bar, Strip District. 412-263-2877.

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.

NEU KIRCHE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. Dear Volunteers & Projection Theory Slant Rhyme Institute. An immersive multimedia installation featuring California-based artist Tra Bouscaren & John Schlesinger.

North Side. 412-322-2224.

PENN AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT. Unblurred Gallery Crawl. Garfield.

412-441-6147 ext.-7.

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.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Practices of Listening.

Recording stories from the public & working w/ ceramics

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

412-965-9903.

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

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FRIDAY COMPUTER RECYCLING

Computer Reach is seeking volunteers to help it evaluate and refurbish computer donations. Assist in testing, cleaning and packaging computers for shipments to clients. No experience needed. For more information, visit www.computerreach.org or contact volunteer@ ComputerReach.org.

MON 08 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH MEETING. Monthly meeting. Second Mon of every month, 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Shadyside. 412-621-8008.

MINOR CHANGES/MAJOR RESULTS: STRATEGIES TO GET FIT AND STAY FIT. 7 p.m.

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

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SALLIE BOGGS TOASTMASTERS CLUB. Helping people from all walks of life to improve their communication & leadership skills. For any questions email

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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.

TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP. Tugboat Printshop Showroom.

Open showroom w/ the artists.

By appt. only. Lawrenceville.

412-980-0884.

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.

WOOD STREET GALLERIES. PÊLE-MÊLE + BOÎTE NOIRE. Two, immersive deep-space installations by Olivier Ratsi & Martin Messier. Downtown.

412-471-5605.

AUDITIONS COMMUNITY MEN’S CHOIR.

Sallieboggstm@gmail.com or call 412-365-5803. Tue, 6:30-8 p.m.

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

WED 10 ARE YOU IN A LAWSUIT? Master the challenges associated w/ being in a lawsuit. Lower legal fees.

Call 724-875-4111 for more info.

6:30 p.m. Carnegie Library, East Liberty, East Liberty. 412-363-8232.

CONVERSATION SALON. A forum for active participation in the discussion of the meaningful & interesting events of our time.

Large Print Room. Second Wed of every month, 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m.

Carnegie Library, Oakland.

412-622-3151.

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

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.

OPEN CRITIQUE W/ STEVE GURYSH. Get advice on current projects your working on, discuss germinating ideas, or just come & be part of the conversation!

6:30 p.m. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, North Side. 412-322-2224.

PGH SELF-INQUIRY GROUP: CONFRONTATION SESSION. Startegies examined for those seeking answers to Life’s big questions. Friends Meeting House, Oakland. 412-683-2669.

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First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oakland.

412-683-4121.

THE JUNIOR MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Young singers from 8th through 12th grades are invited to participate.

More information at www. themendelssohn.org. Thru Aug. 23. Third Presbyterian Church, Oakland.

LITTLE LAKE THEATRE. Auditions for men (age 20-35) & women (age 20-50) for a paid touring production of “Letters to Sala.”

August 7, 12 - 2 p.m. Cold readings, appointment recommended, email jena@littlelake.org for more information & to schedule a time. www.littlelake.org. Canonsburg.

724-745-6300.

THE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH. Professional Core & volunteer singer auditions in the tenor & bass sections for the 2016/2017 season. August 24 & 25. To schedule an audition, please review the audition criteria on our website: www.themendelssohn.org & call MaryColleen Seip at 724-263-5259. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Upper St. Clair. 412-835-6630.

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE SCHOOL. Auditions for children, ages 5 to 8, to audition to receive a full scholarship to study classical ballet. August 7, 1:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Strip District. 412-281-0360.

SUBMISSIONS THE 6TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH ZINE FAIR. This event is free to all ages & promises an afternoon of art, literature & hands-on activities. Registration is open from June 21 to August 12 at http://goo.gl/forms/TXKhy C8dcqyFlPvs1. Thru Aug. 12.

Union Project, Highland Park.

412-363-4550.

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

Booking for both galleries for 2017. Exhibits run from 1 to 2 months. Ongoing. 412-721-0943.

THE POET BAND COMPANY. Seeking various types of poetry. Contact wewuvpoetry@hotmail.com Ongoing.

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I can’t believe this is why I’m finally writing you. My husband is using Pokémon Go as an excuse to stay out until 5 a.m. with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome.

Our work schedules don’t match up, and he always wants me to meet him in the wee hours of the morning after I’ve worked a full day shift and done all the work looking after our pets. I can give him the benefit of the doubt and be totally fine with him wanting to stay out after work for a few drinks with friends, even though I’m too tired to join them, but Pokémon Go until 5 a.m. alone with a twentysomething for four straight weeks?! It’s driving me crazy. I told him how I feel, and he says it’s my fault for “never wanting to do anything.”

(I don’t consider walking around staring at a phone “doing something.”) I told him I feel like he doesn’t even like me anymore, and he didn’t even acknowledge my feelings with a response. With the craze this has become, we can’t be the only couple with this problem. I don’t think me enabling his actions by joining the game is the answer, but I’d be absolutely gutted if this game was the straw that broke up our 10-year relationship. Please help.

loves facials. So that sealed my decision to not sleep with them again, which I told them about. I consider a load in my face against my will to be a big violation of my trust/friendship. The couple thinks I’m overreacting and that a load in your face should be a forgivable offense. I’m not going to change my mind, but I am curious what you think about sneaky facials.

POKÉMON GO MEANS NO

I have two questions. (1) I saw a sex worker for a legit sensual massage that turned into fooling around. Once that happened, he mentioned “making” straight guys have sex with him, wanting to give massages to teenagers, and he talked dirty about younger boys. I know this could all be provocative fantasy talk, but I had a weird feeling about him before meeting. Who would I even disclose this to if that were the right thing to do, and how would I do so while protecting his (should be legal) right to trade ass for cash? (2) Furthermore, I’m a thirsty genderqueer girl plotting her escape from a suburban town. I’m not going to be here long enough to look for an LTR. How can I satisfy my lust safely? It seems like every time I hook up with someone, they disclose intense drug use or other risky behavior after the fact.

UNWANTED SEMEN ANGERS! UNICORN SEEKING ADVICE!

Sneaky facials are sneaky, and I don’t approve of sneakiness in the sack. People should be straightforward and direct; they should communicate their wants, needs and limits clearly; and we should all err on the side of solicitousness, i.e., drawing new sex partners out about their wants, needs and limits, because some folks have a hard time using their words where sex is concerned.

You used your words, and this dude violated your clearly communicated wants, needs and limits. I’m glad you let them know you were upset and why you weren’t going to see them again.

Single women who want to hook up with married couples are hard to come by and in — that’s why you’re called unicorns — and his selfish disregard for your limits, his clear violation of your trust, cost them a unicorn.

“POKÉMON GO ISN’T DESTROYING YOUR MARRIAGE.”

Second Life, SimCity, Quake, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft, Minecraft — it’s always something.

By which I mean to say, PGMN, Pokémon Go isn’t destroying your marriage now, just as SimCity wasn’t destroying marriages 15 years ago. Your husband is destroying your marriage. He’s being selfish and inconsiderate and cruel. He doesn’t care enough about you to prioritize your feelings — or even acknowledge them, it seems.

When a partner’s actions are clearly saying, “I’m choosing this thing — this video game, this bowling league, this whatever — over you,” they’re almost always saying this, as well: “I don’t want to be with you anymore, but I don’t have the courage or the decency to leave, so I’m going to neglect you until you get fed up and leave me.”

Let him have his ridiculous obsessions — with this game, with this girl — and when he comes to his senses and abandons Pokémon Go, just like people came to their senses and walked away from Second Life a decade ago, you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to leave him.

I hooked up with this hot married couple.

We’d done it before, and my expectations were shaped by previous (fun) experiences with them. But the sex wasn’t good this time. That would be fine — sometimes it just doesn’t work, and I am an adult about it — but for the specific reason it wasn’t good: The husband came on my face after I specifically told him not to do that. I used my words. He still blew a load in my face and then sheepishly kinda apologized afterward. He said he didn’t mean to do it and that he was aiming at my boobs. I do not believe it for a second. It was an “ask for forgiveness, not for permission” kind of thing — I could see that on his face. He

FANTASIZING LECHEROUSLY ABOUT GOOD SEX

(1) There’s no licensing board for sex workers — there’s no accrediting organization, no sexwork equivalent of the legal profession’s bar association (and most sex workers would oppose the establishment of one) — so there’s nowhere you can go to report this guy. If he confessed to an actual crime, FLAGS, you could go to the police, and they might even do something about it. But the police are unlikely to get involved if he was just fantasizing; it’s not against the law to engage in dirty talk, even extremely fucked-up/ ickily transgressive/not-OK dirty talk.

(2) Masturbation is the safest way to satisfy your lust until you get your ass out of that druggy suburb full of risky-sex junkies and to the big city, where we urbanites drink only hot tea, snort only in derision and use only condoms religiously.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re not doing a baby chick a favor by helping it hatch. For the sake of its well-being, the bird needs to peck its way out of the egg. It’s got to exert all of its vigor and willpower in starting its new life. That’s a good metaphor for you to meditate on. As you escape from your comfortable womb-jail and launch yourself toward inspiration, it’s best to rely as much as possible on your own instincts. Friendly people who would like to provide assistance might inadvertently cloud your access to your primal wisdom. Trust yourself deeply and wildly.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I hear you’re growing weary of wrestling with ghosts. Is that true? I hope so. The moment you give up the fruitless struggle, you’ll become eligible for a unique kind of freedom that you have not previously imagined. Here’s another rumor I’ve caught wind of: You’re getting bored with an old source of sadness that you’ve used to motivate yourself for a long time. I hope that’s true, too. As soon as you shed your allegiance to the sadness, you will awaken to a sparkling font of comfort you’ve been blind to. Here’s one more story I’ve picked up through the grapevine: You’re close to realizing that your attention to a mediocre treasure has diverted you from a more pleasurable treasure. Hallelujah!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Could it be true that the way out is the same as the way in? And that the so-called “wrong” answer is almost indistinguishable from the right answer? And that success, at least the kind of success that really matters, can only happen if you adopt an upside-down, inside-out perspective? In my opinion, the righteous answer to all these questions is “YESSS???!!!” — at least for now. I suspect that the most helpful approach will never be as simple or as hard as you might be inclined to believe.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your strength seems to make some people uncomfortable. I don’t want that to become a problem for you. Maybe you could get away with toning down your potency at other times, but not now. It would be sinful to act as if you’re not as competent and committed to excellence as you are. But having said that, I also urge you to monitor your behavior for excess pride. Some of the resistance you face when you express your true glory may be due to the shadows cast by your true glory. You could be tempted to believe that your honorable intentions excuse secretive manipulations. So please work on wielding your clout with maximum compassion and responsibility.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Did you honestly imagine that there would eventually come a future when you’d have your loved ones fully “trained”? Did you fantasize that sooner or later you could get them under control, purged of their imperfections and telepathically responsive to your every mood? If so, now is a good time to face the fact that those longings will never be fulfilled. You finally have the equanimity to accept your loved ones exactly as they are. Uncoincidentally, this adjustment will make you smarter about how to stir up soulful joy in your intimate relationships.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may experience a divine visitation as you

clean a toilet in the coming weeks. You might get a glimpse of a solution to a nagging problem while you’re petting a donkey or paying your bills or waiting in a long line at the bank. Catch my drift, Capricorn? I might or might not be speaking metaphorically here. You could meditate up a perfect storm as you devour a doughnut. While flying high over the earth in a dream, you might spy a treasure hidden in a pile of trash down below. If I were going to give your immediate future a mythic title, it might be “Finding the Sacred in the Midst of the Profane.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve worked hard for many years to dismantle my prejudices. To my credit, I have even managed to cultivate compassion for people I previously demonized, like evangelical Christians, drunken jocks, arrogant gurus and career politicians. But I must confess that there’s still one group toward which I’m bigoted: super-rich bankers. I wish I could extend to them at least a modicum of amiable impartiality. How about you, Aquarius?

Do you harbor any hidebound biases that shrink your ability to see life as it truly is? Have you so thoroughly rationalized certain narrow-minded perspectives and judgmental preconceptions that your mind is permanently closed? If so, now is a favorable time to dissolve the barriers and stretch your imagination way beyond its previous limits.

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August is Adopt-a-Taurus month. It’s for all of your tribe, not just the orphans and exiles and disowned rebels. Even if you have exemplary parents, the current astrological omens suggest that you require additional support and guidance from wise elders. So I urge you to be audacious in rounding up trustworthy guardians and benefactors. Go in search of mentors and fairy godmothers. Ask for advice from heroes who are further along the path that you’d like to follow.

You are ready to receive teachings and direction you weren’t receptive to before.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When a parasite or other irritant slips inside an oyster’s shell, the mollusk’s immune system besieges the intruder with successive layers of calcium carbonate. Eventually, a pearl may form.

I suspect that this is a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming days as you deal with the salt in your wound or the splinter in your skin. Before you jump to any conclusions, though, let me clarify. This is not a case of the

platitude, “Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.” Keep in mind that the pearl is a symbol of beauty and value, not strength.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s your lucky day! Spiritual counsel comparable to what you’re reading here usually sells for $99.95. But because you’re showing signs that you’re primed to outwit bad habits, I’m offering it at no cost. I want to encourage you! Below are my ideas for what you should focus on. (But keep in mind that I don’t expect you to achieve absolute perfection.) 1. Wean yourself from indulging in self-pity and romanticized pessimism.

2. Withdraw from connections with people who harbor negative images of you. 3. Transcend low expectations wherever you see them in play.

4. Don’t give your precious life energy to demoralizing ideas and sour opinions.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you lingering at the crossroads, restless to move on but unsure of which direction will lead you to your sweet destiny? Are there too many theories swimming around in your brain, clogging up your intuition? Have you absorbed the opinions of so many “experts” that you’ve lost contact with your own core values? It’s time to change all that. You’re ready to quietly explode in a calm burst of practical lucidity. First steps: Tune out all the noise. Shed all the rationalizations. Purge all the worries. Ask yourself, “What is the path with heart?”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I apologize in advance for the seemingly excessive abundance of good news I’m about to report. If you find it hard to believe, I won’t hold your skepticism against you. But I do want you to know that every prediction is warranted by the astrological omens. Ready for the onslaught?

1. In the coming weeks, you could fall forever out of love with a wasteful obsession. 2. You might also start falling in love with a healthy obsession. 3. You can half-accidentally snag a blessing you have been half-afraid to want. 4.

You could recall a catalytic truth whose absence has been causing you a problem ever since you forgot it. 5. You could reclaim the mojo that you squandered when you pushed yourself too hard a few months ago.

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41. Maker of the iComfort mattress 43. Gives half a star, say 44. Sp. address 45. Jamaica, por ejemplo 47. Put in the jury 49. Brown device?

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EXPLORING INSTABILITY {BY KIM LYONS}

HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted reads like a novel, but tells the true and heartbreaking stories of tenants and landlords dealing with eviction and its effects on their lives.

He’ll discuss the book at a lecture at Carnegie Music Hall on Thu., Aug. 4, hosted by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. Eviction (Crown) is set in a poor section of Milwaukee in 2008 and 2009, and includes a cast of characters struggling to survive that includes women with children, an amputee in a wheelchair, and a nurse-turned-heroin addict, as well as a landlord and a trailer-park owner who alternate between trying to help their destitute tenants and working to stay afloat themselves.

“I had no idea when I started [the book] that eviction was such a common, critical experience,” Desmond says in a phone interview, “and no idea how directly it was contributing to poverty.”

Desmond says that part of the book’s mission is to acquaint readers with the texture of poverty. “We sometimes talk about poverty in America in a really simple way,” he says. “But poverty is complicated.”

Eviction, Desmond found, is more often a cause of poverty than it is a condition of being poor, and once it starts, the cycle of living in substandard, unaffordable housing is extremely difficult to break.

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choose.” He points to Boston, Seattle and New York as examples of cities working toward solutions, and organizations like Right to the City, for raising awareness of America’s affordable-housing crisis.

One of the more high-profile evictions in Pittsburgh is still playing out. Last summer, LG Realty Advisors issued 90-day eviction notices to residents of the Penn Plaza apartment complex, one of the few remaining below-market housing options in the neighborhood. City officials arranged agreements between LG and the tenants to provide relocation

“THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN CITY IS OFTEN WRITTEN AT THE MARGINS.” Many of the situations Desmond writes about in Milwaukee apply in a lot of American cities, he adds.

“The story of the American city is often written at the margins; we have a lot of books about New York and Los Angeles and Detroit.

But writing a book about Milwaukee, or Indianapolis or Cleveland or Pittsburgh, you have a shot at representing the broader experiences of housing insecurity being felt all over the country.”

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He notes that within the Rust Belt, most poor renting families spend half of their incomes or more on housing. Many families who qualify for housing assistance must wait years, in some cities decades, before they can get placed because the wait lists are just too long.

Here in the Pittsburgh area, roughly 30 percent of the population lives below 200 percent of the federal poverty level of $24,250 for a family of four, according to the Pittsburgh Foundation. The organization is sponsoring Desmond’s visit to Pittsburgh.

“While our city is certainly on the rise, nearly one-third of the people who live and work here cannot get access to the improved economic and cultural life of Pittsburgh,” says Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

And cities can have that economic prosperity and success and still address affordable housing, Desmond says: “They don’t have to

help, delayed move-out dates and other assistance, and a fund was created to pay for other affordable-housing projects in the future.

As of this writing, one of the buildings is half-demolished, and residents in the other building have until March to find alternate housing. About 60 tenants remain.

Last week, Whole Foods announced it had signed a lease to build a 50,000-square-foot store on the site of the mixed-use East Liberty Marketplace complex that will replace the apartment buildings.

But Sherman says the general pattern for evictions nationally doesn’t show all of them happening in gentrified neighborhoods.

“They tend to happen in poor neighborhoods, where there isn’t a Whole Foods, or a juice bar,” he says. These are neighborhoods where the cycle of poverty is nonstop, whose residents are largely forgotten, he adds, and who have little influence or voice.

In Eviction, Desmond advocates for a universal housing-voucher program, which would cover all families under a given income level. He says vouchers are a more feasible and cost-effective option than developer incentives to build affordable housing, or new construction.

Since doing the research for Eviction, Desmond says little has been done to change the plight of poor people on the verge of homelessness.

And for those living in poor neighborhoods where eviction rates are highest, the cost of eviction is community, he says; there’s no stability, and no trust among neighbors who move in and out every few months.

That translates into very little political capital or ability to effect change from within.

“It’s important for these neighborhoods to become communities instead of places people churn in and out of,” he says.

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